Happy ramblings for once!
I really love this LJ background... it makes me feel so nice and peaceful! Which is always good. Things have been busy here... yesterday was my 25th birthday, so I had a pretty good day with lots of calls and love from family and friends. Tim surprised me on Sunday by taking me to the ocean as a birthday present, which was just the best present I could have asked for. This year has been super stressful, so taking a day to go sit on the beach, play in the sand, wander around the shops, and just relax was priceless. I loved it so much I asked him if we could go there for our mini-honeymoon after the wedding! Which reminds me, I need to make reservations...
So the week started out really well :) What I REALLY wanted to do on my actual birthday was take some "me" time and paint. Which I finally got to do last night! And all day today hehe. I know I'm supposed to be finishing Summer Dreams, but there's this certain sketch/painting I had started that for some reason I pulled out and started working on. It's almost done! I'd show a WIP, but I'm too excited to not wait and unveil it at once lol. I'm having so much fun with it-- instead of being work, as my more complex paintings usually are, it's been really relaxing. It evolved in a way I hadn't anticipated, and now it's going to be an anniversary present for my parents. It's their 30th anniversary today, June 18th! I'm blessed to have parents who have had such a strong and happy marriage, and I'm grateful to both of them for the many wonderful things that sprung from that marriage.
Speaking of marriage, I feel like the wedding is mostly falling into place as well. Now instead of being stressed out about planning all the different aspects of the wedding, I'm just plain excited. A lot of my family and friends are going to make it despite it being far for them, which has just touched me immensely. It's hard to believe it's less than two months away now! Yikes. My stomach just jumped with butterflies when I realized that lol. Excited as I am, I still can't really wrap my mind around the fact that I'm going to be someone's wife (in a good way!). Well I'd like to be off to bed, but I'm still really awake... maybe if I read some HP I'll drift off? Paint more, you say? Well, if you insist...
So the week started out really well :) What I REALLY wanted to do on my actual birthday was take some "me" time and paint. Which I finally got to do last night! And all day today hehe. I know I'm supposed to be finishing Summer Dreams, but there's this certain sketch/painting I had started that for some reason I pulled out and started working on. It's almost done! I'd show a WIP, but I'm too excited to not wait and unveil it at once lol. I'm having so much fun with it-- instead of being work, as my more complex paintings usually are, it's been really relaxing. It evolved in a way I hadn't anticipated, and now it's going to be an anniversary present for my parents. It's their 30th anniversary today, June 18th! I'm blessed to have parents who have had such a strong and happy marriage, and I'm grateful to both of them for the many wonderful things that sprung from that marriage.
Speaking of marriage, I feel like the wedding is mostly falling into place as well. Now instead of being stressed out about planning all the different aspects of the wedding, I'm just plain excited. A lot of my family and friends are going to make it despite it being far for them, which has just touched me immensely. It's hard to believe it's less than two months away now! Yikes. My stomach just jumped with butterflies when I realized that lol. Excited as I am, I still can't really wrap my mind around the fact that I'm going to be someone's wife (in a good way!). Well I'd like to be off to bed, but I'm still really awake... maybe if I read some HP I'll drift off? Paint more, you say? Well, if you insist...