In case you didn't realize...last post is my attempt at restarting this blog. Lately I've been finding myself reading a lot of other people's blogs and thinking it would be kind of cool to have a record of what is going on in my life...I am not a good "diary" keeper, so maybe the blog thing will be better. I've also been feeling kind of out of touch with my friends (this means YOU!) these days so perhaps this will also remedy to that. And I have quiet some time to spare in the evenings considering i am here by myself (and soon MC will not even be here to entertain me one night a week :-))
So, let's hope this blog thing sticks...who knows!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
More than one year already
Yes, it's already been a year that Zach and I got married. How crazy is that? And what a year! To celebrate our one year anniversary all I wanted was the one thing I didn't get to do much this year: spent time with my husband! As some (many? all?) of you know, we've had a pretty hectic lifestyle this past year. I work in Scotts Valley, a little town right outside Santa Cruz in Northern California and Zach works in Lompoc, where we "live" or better where he and the cats live and where I visit on the weekends. Lompoc - Scotts Valley one-way is about 230 miles (or 350km for the Europeans)...which takes about 4 hrs if you don't hit traffic. For the past year my life has looked like this: Wake up on monday morning between 4 and 5 am, quietly sneak out of the bedroom in order not to wake Zach, make coffee (in order not to fall asleep on the road) and hit the road by 5:30am in order to be able to get to work by 9am - 9:30am. Work a full day at work, sometimes hit the gym if I have the energy to get there, drive to my little studio, eat dinner and fall asleep by 9pm.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays are regular days: gym, work, dinner, procrastinate, sleep...about once a week or once every other week I would drive out to Woodside (about an hour away) where Marie-Catherine (one of my best friends out here) lives with her little family and spent the evening/night at their place...that would always be the highlight of my week! On Thursdays I usually drive home (Lompoc) after work (leave around 7pm and get to Lompoc around 11-11:30pm), just on time to crawl in bed with Zach and the kittens...and then Friday I get to work from home.
The weekend would always be the best part of my week...on Saturday Zach would usually have to work at least half a day, which allowed me to "take care of business": clean, do laundry, do groceries, skype with the home front, etc... so everything would be ready for Zach&Sylvie time by the time Zach would get home on Saturday afternoon. Our Sundays are the best: we hike, drive to Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo, hang around coffee shops or just walk around town...pretty much every week we plan our future from the comfy chair of a coffee shop, espresso in hand (I have turned Zach into a coffee-gourmand ;-)...of course all those plans change as soon as reality sets in on Monday morning. Anyway...eventhough we don't get to spend much time together, the time that we do share makes it all worth...and this past year has been by far the best year of my life.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays are regular days: gym, work, dinner, procrastinate, sleep...about once a week or once every other week I would drive out to Woodside (about an hour away) where Marie-Catherine (one of my best friends out here) lives with her little family and spent the evening/night at their place...that would always be the highlight of my week! On Thursdays I usually drive home (Lompoc) after work (leave around 7pm and get to Lompoc around 11-11:30pm), just on time to crawl in bed with Zach and the kittens...and then Friday I get to work from home.
The weekend would always be the best part of my week...on Saturday Zach would usually have to work at least half a day, which allowed me to "take care of business": clean, do laundry, do groceries, skype with the home front, etc... so everything would be ready for Zach&Sylvie time by the time Zach would get home on Saturday afternoon. Our Sundays are the best: we hike, drive to Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo, hang around coffee shops or just walk around town...pretty much every week we plan our future from the comfy chair of a coffee shop, espresso in hand (I have turned Zach into a coffee-gourmand ;-)...of course all those plans change as soon as reality sets in on Monday morning. Anyway...eventhough we don't get to spend much time together, the time that we do share makes it all worth...and this past year has been by far the best year of my life.
Friday, June 29, 2012
So, I am not sure if anyone is following this blog anymore...but oh well, I might as well try.
The wedding is over, the honeymoon is over, the trip to Belgium is over and now it is back to the grind: work, work, work. But before i start complaining, firs the happy thoughts: The wedding was wonderful!! My mom (and dad, but really mom did most of it) did an amazing job at preparing, stressing, coordinating, stressing, deciding, stressing, planning, stressing...and in the end even enjoying the night itself!! Well done, maman!! Thank you so much for the most beautiful wedding i could have imagined...I know it sounds cliche, but it was really perfect...
For some of you who would like to know some post-wedding details: Zach and I got kicked out of our hotel room by the cleaning staff (we had overslept), and as we rushed to get going I realized I didn't have any pants! What a way to start married life :-) I could already see myself walk around the streets of Hotton in a wedding skirt with a casual T-shirt on top, now that would have been funny! Luckily for me, Zach came to the rescue...he had brought his pair of sturdy working pants (with a build-in hammer holder) in addition to his shorts...so I got to walk around old day in those perfectly fitting carthard working pants...so if this summer you see the new trend of women wearing working pants, you know who started this fashion trend!
I promise the pics will be up soon...next week I am working from home for a weekend as Zach got the 4th of July week off from Space-X for their successful launch (that happened 2 days before the wedding)...go space-x, go!!
See you all soon, and thank you to all of you who made it to the wedding!!
The wedding is over, the honeymoon is over, the trip to Belgium is over and now it is back to the grind: work, work, work. But before i start complaining, firs the happy thoughts: The wedding was wonderful!! My mom (and dad, but really mom did most of it) did an amazing job at preparing, stressing, coordinating, stressing, deciding, stressing, planning, stressing...and in the end even enjoying the night itself!! Well done, maman!! Thank you so much for the most beautiful wedding i could have imagined...I know it sounds cliche, but it was really perfect...
For some of you who would like to know some post-wedding details: Zach and I got kicked out of our hotel room by the cleaning staff (we had overslept), and as we rushed to get going I realized I didn't have any pants! What a way to start married life :-) I could already see myself walk around the streets of Hotton in a wedding skirt with a casual T-shirt on top, now that would have been funny! Luckily for me, Zach came to the rescue...he had brought his pair of sturdy working pants (with a build-in hammer holder) in addition to his shorts...so I got to walk around old day in those perfectly fitting carthard working pants...so if this summer you see the new trend of women wearing working pants, you know who started this fashion trend!
I promise the pics will be up soon...next week I am working from home for a weekend as Zach got the 4th of July week off from Space-X for their successful launch (that happened 2 days before the wedding)...go space-x, go!!
See you all soon, and thank you to all of you who made it to the wedding!!
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