tight rope walker

i have been doing alot of reading so far this summer which i'm really enjoying. i just finished let the great world spin. its a deep book about the struggles of life and the beauty that can be found there.

school

i seem to wax poetic on thursdays so here i go again,
at least philosophically if not poetically.
while its nice to have free time and be married, of course,
i do NOT do well without a friend schedule.
i miss going to class on thursday and friday morning. i need that engagement with lots of people and conversation and stimulation.
while its been a relief to not have deadlines hanging over my head what i miss is the proscribed time with my friends.
i need their hugs, and laughs and questions.
this is going to be the biggest adjustment.
and with summer whisking many of them away its difficult to arrange schedules and lives with the ones that are here. but i want to, i need to and so it will happen, i just have to buck up and realize that it won't be as often.
things change and it takes a bit to get into the new flow but i know, after a bit, it will be good.

mrs. furr, chocolate and coffee

on tuesday i finally succeeded with the social security office after also succeeding on monday with the DMV.
i am now officially mrs. furr.
though the picture ids to prove it will take a little time.
after this little victory i went to blue bottle where i had placed my resume last week.
they gave me a free coffee and a sample of chocolate and i chatted with the baristas.
i spoke to the manager and gave her my spiel but they're not hiring at this time. they will pass my resume around and call me if anything opens up. atleast i got some face time and a free coffee.

on my way home i stopped in at the tcho chocolate factory. they are not doing tours now but they had free samples.
i really enjoyed the citrus.
a green volkswagen bus then picked me up and we went grocery shopping. it was a lovely day.

christina's boot camp

whenever people, especially jacob, visited over the past year i've joked about how i put them through a boot camp.
with all the walking and bus riding and san francisco hill climbing. there are different levels of difficulty yet everyone's always passed with flying colors.
i took it to new levels over the weekend though, i put jacob through the equivalent of def-con five, the epitome of the boot camp, the final test we'll say.
i wasn't feeling well, we didn't get to finish our meal at the restaurant, we had to ride the bus and find pit stops on the way home, and it involved staying up very late in our bathroom.
but he was a pro, he gave me cold compresses and told me stories and brought me pineapple juice.
he's now officially certified. i think i'm going to make him a certificate.

a bryan photo

bryan johnson did an incredible job at our wedding.

i knew he would but i was still impressed.

we had so much fun and the images i've seen so far are amazing.

after waiting, very impatiently i might add, he recently blogged about our wedding.

enjoy this preview of what's to come!

a lovely day

paper work sucks but riding the bus and reading with the one you love makes everything worth it.
i don't suggest changing your name for the fun of it but if you do make sure you have the original copy of your marriage license and a passport, previous driver's licenses don't work.
so after two bus trips,
about 6 hours total
and 2 cheeseburgers, 2 shakes, and one fry, and one conversation with tony's brother, of tony's cable car restaurant,

i have no driver's license to show for it but i do have lots of wonderful memories.

heath

my dad kindly gave jacob and me a little set of heath ceramics for a wedding gift, as if he didn't already do enough, and we have so enjoyed eating our meals on them.
They have such unique designs and are made in sausalito.
yet they are prone to break, not good for this household.
this accident has already occurred but they were nice enough to replace the broken mug.
i should have listened before i picked out the "girly" ones.

we are enjoying making our studio a home.