Why does it always seem like the one weekend I’m going out of town/unavailable is the weekend where EVERYTHING WONDERFUL IS HAPPENING?!
Like the weekend we got married and went on our honeymoon? The So You Think You Can Dance tour came to Boston AND so did Regina Spektor too. This is my luck. And of course I couldn’t complain back then because I had “more important things to do” but months have passed and it’s NaBloPoMo and damn it, I’m going to complain now.
And this weekend, par exemple, Boston Bowl is having its 50th anniversary party with 50 cent games and not that I would even really go to that but the fact that I can’t kind of makes me want to. Oh, and. And! John Krasinski, as in Jim from The Office, as in “Hi, I kind of love you,” is coming to my favorite bookstore to talk about his new movie, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, that he directed.
Yeah.
Not that I’m not terribly excited for this weekend because I am. Terribly. As I mentioned, the hubby and I are traveling down to our hometown in Maryland for an Ethiopian celebration of our wedding. A “wedding reception part deux,” if you will. And let me know you, A’s family knows how to throw a party.
There will be food, there will be dancing, there will be family, there will be more food. (I’m really looking forward to the food, if you couldn’t tell.)
But also, for the first time we’ll be in our hometown as a married couple and the significance of that isn’t lost on me. This is where we met. This is where we fell in love. And as tiresome as figuring out things like where will we sleep can be (“his” house? “my” house?), it only reminds me that I have a person now. I have someone that will sleep next to me, every night.
You know, just before and just after the wedding, getting married didn’t feel any different. The wedding was simply, in my mind, a celebration of our love, but it didn’t change anything. But now that some time has passed and especially with this trip home, I’m realizing that something has changed. It does feel different. It feels… warm. All-encompassing. It feels wonderful.
So I am, really, looking forward to this weekend. I just wish Jim (John) could re-schedule.
That happens to me all the time. The weekends when I have nothing planned, there’s zero fun things happening. The weekends that are jam-packed with plans I can’t change like going out of town or wedding to dos that just have to be done because it’s been on the schedule for months, there’s something going on all over the frakkin’ place. So unfair.
Oh man that stinks! Same thing always happens to me. I will say that the SYTYCD and Regina Spektor weekend would have been particularly painful for me to miss! Good luck with NaBloPoMo! I am finding some great new bloggers to follow and encourage!
Have a wonderful wedding weekend. It does sound like a ton of fun!