Let the December madness begin!

Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Tarina

Today was our six-month-iversary, and we celebrated by playing Mario Kart, watching football and eating Jimmy John’s. Pretty awesome all things considered! I love nice relaxing days.

December is always a busy time of year for us. It used to be the time of finals and papers, and I had my boards test in December of ‘06. This year we have SCUBA lessons (for which we must study and read) and of course, as in every year, there’s both of our birthdays, buying presents and celebrating Christmas, New Year’s Eve and, you know, keeping our jobs going and minding the kitties and all that normal life stuff.

Back to the madness. Here’s how it runs down, time-line style: My b-day this week, Atkins’s next week.

Then SCUBA the week after that, then of course Christmas and New Year’s in the following two weeks. It’s gonna be fun! Before you know it, it’ll be 2009!

Bring it on, December! I am ready for you!

Upcoming honeymoon. . . sorta

Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Tarina

Hi there! I figured I should write a blog, seeing as it’s September now.

Atkins and I were just in Colorado for my brother’s wedding, which was awesome! It was so pretty and so sweet. I about lost it when Julie walked down the aisle, but that’s to be expected. :)

So, Chris and Julie are on their honeymoon right now, enjoying our nation’s capitol. It got me thinking about my honeymoon with Atkins. We had a little relaxing mini honeymoon, but haven’t actually gone anywhere exciting yet. We’ve decided that it’s time to really get planning on it, so we picked a time and a place. Now we just need to iron out the details. We wanted to go when the weather in Chicago is not the best, and definitely want to get somewhere warm. We also needed to space it out from the wedding far enough that we could get a good amount of time off without making our employers mad. ;)
And the winner is?

Belize in February!
I am so excited! I have started researching scuba classes to make sure we can go diving while we are down there. Atkins and I are so looking forward to it, in fact, that we are thinking about making scuba diving “our thing.” You know, every couple has their thing. Their activity that they enjoy together, that gives them an opportunity and a reason for travel. So, we’re thinking that if we like this, we might go all the way in certification and take diving trips! How cool would that be? I know, I’m getting ahead of myself. It’s just that scuba diving has been a dream of mine for so long. I can’t even remember a time that I didn’t want to go. And now I have an opportunity! Yay!

Anyway, that’s the plan. I have some e-mails out to local scuba instructors and we’ll see what kind of cost we’re looking at.
We would also accept any Belize tips or suggestions from people who have been there. I am not really sure where we should go or things we should see (or avoid) ;)
I can’t wait!

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