Napa Wedding

Kris and I finished up my visit to SF with a wedding in Napa of our best friends from UCSB, Tara & Chris. It was a gorgeous wedding full of love, laughs and fun. The bride's brother joked in his speech that we were at the wedding of Ken & Barbie... but seriously, I have to steal a line from Zoolander here, but aren't they "ridiculously good looking"?

I was a bit nervous as I had the big responsibility of reading from the Old Testament in their Catholic Ceremony. I think my knees were knocking in nervousness as I read, but thankfully I had a podium to hide behind. I also had Kris' smiling face to look to in the crowd. Despite my insecurities in public speaking it was a huge honor to be included in the ceremony.


The bride's family is from Ireland so a traditional Irish Jig was performed at the reception by her cousin and then the bride herself joined in! Amazing.

It was a great way to spend our last day together for a few weeks. And we had a wonderful time catching up with old friends and new. We even met some U of M alumni!

Unfortunately we had to drive separately back to SF at 10:30pm as we each had rental cars. Then I was lucky enough to leave for the airport at 4:30am to catch my flight back to Ann Arbor. I have never slept so hard on a flight, seriously, the lights were out and nobody was home!

So there's just 4 weeks left of Kris' internship and then he'll join me in Ann Arbor. It's been a pretty intense work schedule for him, often working until 11pm or even 2am and then waking up and doing it again, with no weekends off (hence the separate rental cars at the wedding). Needless to say we are both really looking forward to the Fall, for football, walks, and adventures. Just 29 days to go!

Reunited and it Feels So Good

How could it not when you have this guys around? Special, right?

So happy to be back in the City... My City... Our City!

A Fish Named Frank

A few months ago I offered to fish sit for some friends who were headed to Chicago for the summer.

Meet FrankKris and Frank took a liking to each other after spending 2 weeks of quality time together once school ended. I didn't quite have the same luck with Frank. While I was admiring him the first week that he was with us he freaked out and lodged himself between the side on the tank and his filter. This resulted in me yelling, "Frank's Stuck, Frank's Stuck!" Until Kris came running and freed his little buddy.

Then Kris left for SF, and it was just me and Frank. He did OK for the first few weeks, then last week things got bad. He spent most of his time barely floating at the top of his tank and was not interested in food. I thought he was going to the big Fish Tank in the Sky for sure and even contacted his owners. They told me not to worry, I was a good fish sitter no matter what happened.

That's when I decided to take action. I found a place called the Fish Doctor, zipped over there, told them Frank's symptoms, purchased some fish items, followed their advice (including some gross things I don't care to repeat), left for a walk, and returned an hour later to a brand new Frank. I'm not kidding, this was not the same fish that had barely moved for days.

Moral of the story? Watch it Frank... I saved your life!

Missing this

24 more days. Guess who is counting?

One of the Reasons I Love My Job

Just one of the cute little munchkins staying at Alpha House right now. She turned 6 the very next day.

My lovely friend Kate snapped this photo for me.

Summertime

Well, it's official... Kris is in CA and I am in Michigan for the summer. Kris starts his internship at UBS in just a little over a week and will be there through August. In the meantime I'll be holding down the fort in MI, working and willing the time to pass by quickly.

Whenever I feel sorry for myself I am going to just look at this photo I came across on the web, then I won't be able to do anything but smile.

I head out to SF for a 2 week visit in July in just 37 days, let the count down begin.

Umm, I think they may be related

How cute is this?