New Life in Full Swing

Apparently I started a blog when I was fifteen years old. I had no recollection of such a blog, however when I went to create this one, the "About Me" and other info was already filled out. I was brought back to the awkwardness of early high school and the fun care free times of a teenager.

The "randomly generated question" I had been given was:

Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?

To which I responded:

"oohoo look, chicken wings!"

I cannot recall, nor can I imagine what could have possibly been rattling around in my fifteen year old brain that would possess me to reply with such an answer. Thankfully I've come a long was in the past half dozen years. What still gets me is I don't even like chicken wings...nor have I ever.

Today I find myself in a merging, or perhaps a crossroads of my person-who I was in the past, who I want to be in the future, which leads me to who I am today.

On one hand I am very much that fifteen year old girl that loved adventure, spontaneity, and had a particular hankering for creativity and whimsy. On the other hand I recently got married, packed up all my worldly possessions, and moved to a new place with new faces. My life is in a grand transition. Life can change so fast. Just one month ago I lived in the same house I'd lived in for years, I woke up each morning to french press coffee with my parents and spent my days between two jobs, school, coffee, and socializing. I went to bed each night surrounded by relics of my childhood and early adolescence. Then in one day, December 16th 2011, my life shifted in an extraordinary fashion. I got to marry Sean O'Brien. I closed one very big chapter of my life and opened a new one, only this one has two main characters.

I now have a new name (which I am incredibly fond of), live in a brand new town (in a darling 1930s studio apartment), am currently taking hiatus from the working world (the first time ever since I was fifteen), am only taking one class online, and I get to fall asleep and wake up next to the love of my life.

Indeed new life is in full swing with the best adventure having just commenced: life being married... and to an incredible, comedic and courageous man at that. Getting to traverse through the everyday with my kindred spirit, my love--my husband, is the most marvelous experience. Cheers to this new chapter in life, here we go!

*These pictures were taken on our honeymoon. We stayed up on this cabin in the woods on Mount Hood-the setting was that of a fairy tale, mysterious, romanic, and venturesome.