Guilt Cycle

You know how when you don't do something for a really long time, and then you feel guilty about not doing it for a long time but it's now been so long that it seems weird and you feel more guilty and it's a vicious cycle? Yeah, that's how I feel about journaling right now. When we got back from CA (more on that in a minute) I wanted to write a big old thing about it because I had a great time and it was exciting....and then I never did it.

So anyway, no more guilt. Let's talk about CA! We went down for Brittany's wedding and made a thing of it (and no I have no pictures bc our camera ate our SD card and I'm very angry about it) We stayed in Koreatown in LA (we did an airb'n'b - so we had a whole apartment - this one: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2540292) - which was really fun. I obviously haven't been down there since I was younger and I never really went into LA. So it was a whole new experience. So anyway, we ate tons of mexican food (Jeff was all "why do you want mexican so much?" and then I fed it to him and he got on the bandwagon), went to the Observatory, and of course Disneyland. Now here's what I learned - when goign to Disneyland, take a gimpy person with you. Jeff got us a cut-in-front-of-line pass for the whole day. Now this was helpful since we had to stop and take a 30 minute rest about three times and halfway through the day we were taking twice as long to walk between rides. But we did get to do a lot of rides. We did Space Mountain five times - but in our defense Matterhorn was closed for "sprint cleaning." Actually about halfway through the day we realized we should have done the park-hopper pass, but it was a great day. I got Jeff to stop and watch the little bits that they do around the park and we sat and watched the whole parade. The parade really got us talking. We sat next to a very cute girl who was about five and dressed head to toe in Belle and she got SO excited at everything and when Belle noticed her and waved, she freaked out. So the discussion Jeff and I were having is when do you bring your kids to Disneyland. Do you take them when they're five and still super excited about imagination and the Disney spirit but most likely wont remember, or wait until they're eight so they remember but they're more excited about Space Mountain than the imagination side of things? I'm for taking them early and Jeff is more for taking them later. Then there was a discussion about Disneyland young, Disney World later.

So the wedding was amazing. We got to see everyone and Jeff and I got complexes about being short. Even Joel - who is 11! - is taller than me. It was great to see everyone and Kristen was having a very entertaining mind-being-blown moments throughout the night. Anytime she caught me swearing or drinking or when we compared tattoos, she would say "You can't do that. You're ten!" But it was great to see everyone. I kept making everyone tell me their favorite things about life and most exciting things about life. My favorite pictures are below - family ho-ho (seriously, everyone is taller than me, but i am crouching slightly in that photo, but judge based on Jeff), my new favorite "this is our relationship in a photo", and my favorite candid from the night. 

So since CA, I've gotten back into sewing for real. Nani turned me onto watching a specific lady on PBS - Fit 2 Stitch - and she's all about making patterns fit exactly for you and how to make patterns out of existing clothes and using a french curve. So I have a favorite pair of sweats that I've had for ten years and are falling apart, so I tried to make a pattern. And it worked! And then I made an Easter shirt. And I'm in love. I love that I used the fabric to wrap the pattern around and then the arms match. I love it. Jeff thinks it "makes a statement" which is perfectly fine by me :]

Anyway, that's the latest going ons in my life. And I'll try to update the blog now that I'm over my guilt cycle. :]