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.
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