Wrangler Dani

So I know I’m a bit of a broken record. I’ve probably lost half my readership, because all I do anymore is talk about how in love I am with my husband and how we live together now and how everything in my life outside of job-hunting is just peachy and you are all thinking “we KNOW, blissful girl! Enough, already, with the lovey-dovey shtuff.”

But if you want to read this blog, you’ll have to indulge me.  Because every trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond is another trip to improve on my married house, which is my home WITH MY HUSBAND.  Every trip to the grocery store for dinner fixin’s is yet another way of showing my love by keeping him fed, which we all know is a sure-fire way to make him feel special as can be.  Normal things have a freshly-scrubbed glow in this new life. I love waking up and making coffee together. I love watching Jack Bauer go beautifully insane together. I love getting sleepy on the couch and realizing that I’m already home, and my bed is just in the next room, with grown-up sheets and comforter and everything.  I love lighting candles in the evenings, going for walks on the beach hand-in-hand, running dozens of post-wedding errands together.

Speaking of post-wedding errands, we ran several of the aforementioned dozens yesterday.  We got up late and made breakfast, the good old-fashioned Weekend Kind: pancakes, eggs and all the trimmings. Once we were adequately full, (rather than lapse into a food coma) we took off for REI.  On the way there, we had several more boring stops, but we were very successful at each one, spending gift cards and store credits and feeling so proud of ourselves for our Immense Bang for our Collective Buck.

Once we got REI, though, it was euphoria. Not only did we have gift cards to spend, (thanks Ash and Josh,) but there’s clearance going on, (Clearance anywhere = Dani’s happy place) and the sudden realization that hey, we’re MARRIED. Which means that we can take off on weekend camping/kayaking/backpacking/generally awesome outdoor excursions any time we like. Reason One because now we don’t have to dance around sharing a tent but can snuggle like two snowbunnies, and Reason Two because the only wedding tasks we have remaining are paying it off and writing thank-yous.

WOOT.

Not only is our house growing more awesome with every moment that we organize our towels and hang our curtains, but our life outside of being blissfully happy at home is way cooler too.

Being married IS the shiz.