If you are connected to me via facebook or instagram you have already had your fair share of this media frenzy. BUT I also have this bliggity blog so I can continue to enthrall you all.

First thing's first: wedding photos. We got ours. All 23498984 of them. They aren't that many, but seriously there might as well be.

So my question is, to all y'all married peeps/people who want to commemorate events: do I print them and stick them in an album? Do I make a photo book? Do I do both? Halp.

Did you want to see some? Well I didn't hear a "no" so here you gooooo...

priests for days

How cute is Hannah?

Did you guys know that my friend Hannah is famous? CRAZY. For nostalgia's sake here is an old pic of us in our youth.





She tagged me for some kind of something (and I love those) so here we goooooo!



1. If you were any TV character, who would you be and why?
Question, can I be Jimmy Fallon? I feel like he has the best job. Sit at a desk, talk to famous people, play ridiculous games, make funny jokes, hang out with the Roots. I pick Jimmy Fallon

 
2. What are you really really good at? Like, your superpower if you were a superhero...
I'm pretty dang good at making pancakes. And fried eggs. So breakfast. My super power is breakfast. Which is pretty important, the most important meal of the day. I don't know how I would harness that power and translate it into saving the world buuut...I could make it work.
  3. What got you into blogging? How did you feel about it when you started?
I had a Livejournal (what) and I loved being able to type out my feelings and what happened during the day and post it for an anonymous audience. It was easier than physically writing in a journal all the time. Then I graduated to tumblr and then Marc Barnes became really popular and Hannah and I thought, we could do that. So we did. I felt only a little weird about it and then I got over it because I love writing. For any reason. Then I wanted to start my own (boring) daily(ish) blog and here we are!
  4. What's your favorite quote? 
Uggggggh. Okay.

Biblical: And the Word became Flesh and dwelt among us.

Literary: "And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.” J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King

Movie: "This is my hat now" --Hot Rod

Badass: The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach is --Flannery O'Connor 
  5. How often do you do the laundry? Dishes? Other household chores?
Geez. Okay, I do laundry like maybe once a week. I have a lot of underwear and I'm a dirty grunge 90s child and wear my clothes multiple times before I wash them.

I do dishes ALL THE TIME. I hate dishes in the sink, near the sink, etc. 

Other chores I do when I see how gross it looks. Like, oh, spiderwebs in the corners? Let's get those. Enough hair to make a wig from the bathroom floor? Time to sweep. You get the picture. 
  6. What's your guilty pleasure? 
 Taylor Swift's new album. Not proud.

   7. Do you like to take naps? How often do you get to nap?
Naps are my love language. I studied Spanish Language and Culture in college and I'm 100% on board with siestas. If I could, I would nap everyday. Now it depends on the week and how busy we are with ministry. Being a FOCUS missionary rocks because our hours are so weird that we often have afternoon hours free (since students are in class) AKA prime nap time.
  8. What's your favorite alcoholic drink? 
I like alcohol brown, my wine red, and my beer stout-y. I don't do clear alcohol. If I had to pick one, I would pick whiskey. If I had to pick more than that I would pick Maker's Mark.

9. What time do you usually go to bed? Are you a night owl or a morning person?
I like to be in bed around 11pm. If I had it my way I would be in bed at 9pm. I used to be a night owl but now my body protests that behavior in a very aggressive sort of way. John is a night owl and most college students are night people so I try really hard to stay up. Hence, napping.
  10. Do you vote/get into political things? What interests you the most about politics?
I need to get into political things. I normally wait until something really bad happens before I get involved in politics. So, that's not responsible. 

A priest friend just posted this on his facebook: I am too old to be paying this little attention to the national political scene, and yet too young to be this violently disenchanted by it.

I relate to that strongly.

Thanks for tagging me, Hannah!

eating: so much kale. You guys. My teammates are so healthy and I'm lazy so I just eat what they put in front of me. Most of which is kale.  

drinking: Water and water and water. Also coffee. And wine.  

listening to: The Brilliance. I highly recommend. It's moody and artsy and calming and about Our Lord. It's legit.  

watching: I'm watching Leanne hang art up on the walls. I do not have a gift in spacial awareness and being aware of what to hang up where. But Leanne kills it. Our house looks like a home.  

reading: Scripture #nerd. Gospel of John, Isaiah, Corinthians.  

wearing: Sweatpants and a hoodie, which is never my get up, but Tuesday has been rowdy.  

realizing: How incredibly blessed I am. So sappy. Let's not dwell on it or I might cry.  

working on: I made some art today, that was pretty fun. I also submitted an article to Eye of the Tiber (hilarious). So today was pretty artistic. Also a Bible Study.  

enduring: Okay, I dig Berkeley. But I get so sweaty in the afternoon. Like, it's chili-dogs in the morning and the evening and then I'm roasting in the afternoon.  

smelling: It smells like wood stain and some weird burning tool because Leanne is making art like it's her job.  

sewing: Sewing? I don't sew. Hannah so made this list.

wanting: To go to bed. Roommates are great but they keep me awake waaaay longer than I intend to.  

disliking: How smelly my feet get after wearing my birks.  

cheering for: AVETT BROS CONCERT ON SATURDAY

I'm back in Ave Maria, FL at Ave Maria University (which is situated on Ave Maria Blvd) for my second round of FOCUS training.

Have you heard of SoulCore? One post I wrote about it and thought about buying it and then I did and today I did it with my mom and we loved it. Let me be clear, I hate working out. Hate, hate, hate. But the beautiful women who do SoulCore combine something I've always wanted to do (yoga) with something I always need to do (pray the rosary). I highly recommend it. It's no nonsense yoga (like, my core is quivering, sweat all over, etc) and she provides beautiful meditations and some scripture. I'm all about it. I'll probably write a whole post about it...


I have loved being in Lincoln and it makes me realize how much I miss it. I miss my friends and family so much, so I'm going to do a better job at staying connected. Like, I might even use the phone and call people, yikes.
The next time I see Hannah, bebe Almanzo might be born. Also the bebe might not be a boy and probably won't be named Almanzo, but I like it...so...there's that.
I had dinner last night with Hannah (see #3) and our friend Katie and most of the dinner conversation was about birthing stories (other people's) and tub births and placentas anddddddd....
...A cow given birth c-section style. Katie had photos on her phone and we looked at them, at dinner, in a restaurant, in public. Lincoln, Nebraska.
I went to Whole Foods today for the first time (!!) and got Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels and I won't take a pictures because the container is basically empty.
There are no pictures in this post because I'm blazing through it so I can enjoy a glass of red wine with my mother and sit in the sun with my dad. Thanks, Lincoln, you've been real.

 Prayers as I head back to Pittsburgh would be great.

 Thanks, Jen, for hosting!