Update! Our new bedroom looks great all put together!

Bed and bookshelf



Closet Curtain and a chair and bed again.



Yo! He's the fishy, I'm the human!

We have such an adult looking room now(except for the stuffed animals)!
-This is a first for us-

Mary and Kelli

I love this picture of Kelli and me. It was taken at Kelli's wedding reception last year by her cousin, Reagan, who photographed my wedding, too.

I miss Kelli. We live too far apart, in my opinion. :(

And now our room is painted!

Before:


In between:


After:



Finally we can have nice walls!

Two down one to go!

Now that we have Sara's room done there is only ours left to go!

Here is the before of Sara's room...



...and here is one in the middle!



This is the after picture.

A Hawk in our neighbor's front yard!

And it looks like it is eating something.


Pretty cool eh?

We have all sorts of animals around here. Owls, Hawks, um other birds and of course racoons and cats and bunnies and pigs. What a neighborhood!

I Must Get a Job Soon :(

The first year of law school is all about figuring out if you really want to be there, and if you do, how to organize your time and write your exams well. The second year is all about figuring out if you want to concentrate in any one area of law, and about trying to get an internship, externship, or summer job. And the third year is all about finding a job once you graduate. That's MY take on it, anyway.

I'm in my third year now. *Sigh.*

I've been really lucky to get lots of interviews... I just need to figure out once and for all what I want to do with my degree. There are so many things to consider: salary, benefits, the kind of work I'll do, flex time, travel requirements, location. I know that these are things that every person considers when they are looking for a job-- but I feel like I'm setting the tone of my career with this first job out of law school, so it's kind of scary.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Clotilda Is Sneering At Me

Today is blog about the environment day!

So everybody should consider buying compact florescent bulbs to replace their aging conventional bulbs and try to use less disposable plastic bags and all that stuff! Mary and I have been making a conscious effort to lessen our impact on the enviornment and we may even one day become carbon neutral. We also regularly make sure to make trips to the special hazardous waste disposal site at the dump for electronics, batteries, chemicals, and if we ever manage to burn out a compact fluorescent light that is where we will take it too because it has mercury in it or something.

Good luck everybody!

Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan

Exception: The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Both the book and the movie are excellent.

The Princess Bride is the last book that Elliot and I have finished reading together, and I just want to take the time to recommend this book to our friends and family. It was really fun and Elliot and I both enjoyed it a lot.



I keep a list of the books Elliot and I read together and I also write down when we finish reading them. My records reveal that we average 1 book each month. Not bad, huh? We've been reading together for just over 2 years and we're on our 25th book right now.

New Carpet!!!

At long last, we have replaced the disgusting carpet that was in our house when we bought it. (I'm talking SERIOUSLY gross.) And we're re-painting all of the bedrooms, too. The computer room (our 3rd bedroom) has been freshly painted, but we still need to get the other two bedrooms finished.

Here are some before and after pictures of the computer room:


Look at this nasty carpet! It was at least 15 years old because that's how long the people who owned the house before us had lived here and they said they'd never replaced the carpet.


And here is our new carpet. It's brown and white berber.


The last owners of our home painted AROUND their furniture when they painted their walls. Can you believe that? I hated the color they had painted the computer room anyway. Elliot and I found a match for the old color in the Home Depot paint department and it was called "Salty Tear," which was exactly what I was crying when we finally painted over this terrible color. Salty tears of joy.


Here's our new carpet and new paint job. We picked a darker blue and I LOVE it.


Another before...


...and after.

My Husband

Taken 1/3/04 at Mary's parent's house.

Asian Festival

Last Saturday Elliot, John, Sheila, and I went to the annual Asian Festival held in downtown Tallahassee. It was really cool-- there were lots of booths set up by vendors selling food, clothing, arts, and crafts. There were some informational booths, and there were also two stages exhibiting dance, music, and martial arts performances. We tried samosas and persimmons for the first time and heard Hawaiian music on an instrument we've never seen before.

Here are a few pictures:



A belly dancer.



Elliot and John.



A lady fan-dancing.

Driving on I-75

Here's a picture that Elliot took in December 2003, after he got his first digital camera for Christmas:

We're on the mental_floss magazine website!

Our friend Randy blogs for mental_floss and one of his recent posts, "Your Own Personal Yellow Submarine," features a picture from our honeymoon!

Here's the link: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8228#more-8228

Yay!

Hey, Vern! Ernest is on my blog...

In honor of Elliot's profound love for Jim Varney and his Ernest character, here are a few funny shorts that I found on youtube.com:

New Recipes

There are a few new recipes up on our recipe blog, souperduper.blogspot.com. Taryn and Brendan sent us instructions for how to make homemade yogurt and Honey Granola, and Jen sent us the recipe for Pumpkin Curry Soup.

Yum!

I Heart Beethoven

On Friday night, our friend John invited us to go with him to see FSU's University Symphony Orchestra perform "Frenergy" by Estacio, "Songs of the Wayfarer" by Mahler, and "Symphony No. 5" by Beethoven. It was wonderful. Elliot and I both like classical music a lot, even though we don't know much about it.

We saw one other orchestral performance together several years ago when Kelli gave us tickets to see the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Reflecting on both of these experiences, Elliot and I realized how much we enjoy seeing live performances of classical music. We've made a decision to see AT LEAST one symphony orchestra performance every year.

Here's a performance of "Symphony No. 5" that I found on youtube.com:

September 2004

Here are two pictures taken on September 13, 2004, right before Elliot proposed to me. Look at how short my hair is... and I have braces!

The Rest of Our Honeymoon Pictures

Here are the rest of our honeymoon pictures, most of them from underwater cameras. On Saturday we got to go snorkeling (I saw a shark!) and rent PERSONAL SUBMARINES!!! It was sooooo cool and you'll see how strange they looked-- like underwater scooters with a big bubble over our heads that traps air so we could breathe normally. On Sunday we went snorkeling again and saw more cool fish and an airplane wreck off the coast of Cococay. We also went kayaking.

Elliot's Underwater Pics

Above-water Pics

Mary's Submarine Pics

Mary's Snorkeling and Kayaking Pics

5 Years Down, Infinity More To Go!

Last weekend Elliot and I not only had our honeymoon, but we also celebrated 5 years together as a couple. Yay!

Elliot and I had a WONDERFUL honeymoon. We spent Thursday night at Sweetwater Branch Inn in Gainesville, where Elliot had proposed to me exactly 3 years prior. Then on Friday we went to Port Canaveral and sailed off to the Bahamas on Royal Caribbean's Sovereign of the Seas. We spent Saturday in Nassau (and driving across New Providence) and Sunday in Cococay (Royal Caribbean's personal island).

There's really just too much to tell you about all at once. We have more pictures on the way, but here are the first batch-- the ones we took with our digital camera. Most of these pictures were taken on the cruise ship, since we didn't want to take our digital camera where it could get ruined by the ocean.

The first few pictures are of our cabin, which I had decorated as a little surprise to Elliot. Then there are some pictures of the boat, then a bunch of pictures I took of Elliot rock climbing. The next pictures are of or taken in Nassau. The only time we took the camera off the boat was when we went into Nassau Saturday night to have dinner at a local restaurant. The last few pictures are of our towels folded into a stingray (one of the perks of taking a cruise to the Bahamas, I guess) and then a few more pictures on the ship.

There are about 140 photos. Enjoy!

Bahamas