Hello again
So, this time last year, I was participating in National Blog Posting Month, attempting to write a post every day. That was a fun exercise, but these days I feel like I need better reasons to post. Granted, I've gone through a lot of transition these past couple months:
(quick summary, for those of you who don't follow along with me on my Flickr stream, or my LiveJournal, or wherever else I play around on the internet these days)
June: left the Bay Area, moved back to Georgia
August: got married (!!!), went on our honeymoon to Costa Rica
September: moved to Washington, DC
I guess my excuse is that I'm too busy "transitioning" to post anything here, but at the same time, aren't transitions usually GOOD reasons to post? I'm sad I never wrote a sentimental "Goodbye, Bay Area" post, because certainly, there are things I miss about it -- the weather and accessible farmers' markets are only the first things that spring to mind.
And getting married, of all things, definitely should have deserved some reflection. Although, I must tell you, being married is pretty much a non-event. The wedding itself was, and I remember it as a happy blur, a joyous celebration, a relief (I didn't sleep a wink the night before). But if you asked me how life has changed since Alan and I got married, I would be hard put to give you an answer. In fact, when Alan and I went on a weekend trip to New Orleans a couple weeks ago with some friends of his from Georgia, at first I would introduce myself as Jennifer and then qualify that with "Alan's wife" -- but that always felt rather strange, and I stopped doing it after a while. I suppose one day I'll get used to it.
I feel like there should be more, a reflective thought, a clever conclusion, but I think this'll have to be it for now. Baby steps, I guess.