NaNoWriMo

is taking over my newlywed life! I'm already behind on my word count, which is probably not good since I need to have 50,000 words by the end of the month. Eep.

For those that don't know NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. A group of people started it a few years ago, and the challenge is to write a complete novel (of 50,000 words) in one month. You can come in with outlines and characters, but you can't have any actually writing done on the novel. That, my friends, would be cheating. It's a lot of fun, but it's also completely stressful. I feel like I'm definitely going to have a few nights towards the end of lots of caffeinated tea and late late (or early early) bedtimes.

My story is about a girl who stows away on a plane to London, lives in Hamley's (a toy store) and pickpockets the shoppers for food money.

So far I haven't hit my word goal for any day, but darn it, I will persevere!

Busy Week!

I let my blog fall to the wayside this last week (bad Megan,bad) because I was BUSY.

I started rehearsals for "A Christmas Carol" which are going very well, and I'm so excited to see where this show will go. Already, just this week, you can see that the cast is playing so well off one another and that the adaptation is fantastic. Dickens' is such a poet, and his word choices are just perfect.

We also, as you can see, carved pumpkins! It was a lot of fun, and it's the one thing that I actually like about Halloween (except the candy, which I am trying very hard not to like so much).

I've also been chugging along on the Christmas presents that I'm making for everyone. So far I have three petty much done, and am working on the fourth. I have a pretty good idea of what everyone's is going to be (they're all petty different) so that's a good thing, because that is definitely the hard part for me. I want to make sure that it's something that they'll actually like and is specifically for them.

Tonight we're headed over to the church for a young adult game night of sorts, which should be a lot of fun (mostly because we're bringing BANG! with us, with the hopes of finding people to teach it to and play it with).

Well, it's time to keep working on Christmas presents! I hope everybody likes them!

Something I Learned Today

If you eat too much guacamole you will not feel good.
Lesson learned...

Also learned: Peppermint tea will help it feel better.

San Francisco Here We Come (or, there we went!)!

Things to do in San Francisco:
1. See the Golden Gate Bridge (check)
2. See South Pacific at the Golden Gate Theatre (check)
3. See Fisherman's Wharf (check)
4. Buy an I <3 SF shirt (check)
5. Get punched in the head by a crazy lady while walking down the street (check)

Yep, I went to San Francisco and got punched in the head by a crazy lady. She also had some choice words for me, which I don't really care to repeat.

And, to answer the question that everyone seems to ask: Why?
Ya know, because I punched her in the head first.
No, there was seriously no reason. Ask the guy fifteen feet behind me that she punched after me and I bet he'd have the same answer. There was absolutely no reason for her to punch me in the head, but she did.

Anyway, the rest of San Francisco was pretty good. We definitely want to go back so that we can hit Pier 39 and go to Alcatraz.

Oh and to let everyone know, I spent ten days in NYC once, and did not see nearly as many CRAZY people as I did in one day in San Francisco.

The Golden Gate Bridge was pretty impressive, and so was the Bay Bridge (it's two stories) South Pacific was fantastic. The sets were breathtaking and the acting was fantastic. Nothing Like a Dame was definitely the most impressive of all the songs, the men in the show were just spectacular.

We'll go back to San Francisco sometime (and hopefully not get punched in the head again) and visit Nathan's aunt and uncle (I wonder if that lady has ever punched one of them in head before...) and maybe we'll see another musical :)

Why Martha Stewart is fantastic.

1. She has such great projects (even though some of them are too freaking hard to do).
2. The projects give me something to do to occupy my time while I'm here at home and Nathan is at work.
3. Even if a particular project is un-doable (for me this is a lot of them) there's often pieces of it that I can do, and I create my own projects out of them.
4. She has some great tips on random household things, like getting stains out or un-cluttering a room.
5. Does there even need to be a number five? Yes? Oh, okay, she can help you plan a mean wedding.

I used a lot of stuff from Martha while planning my wedding, and even more things that suddenly have appeared on her website (Either that, or I missed them before).

I love DIY projects because I think that they make any event, or home, more personal and more "you" than something that is purchased.

I'm actually going to go spend a little time on her website and then do a few projects of my own (which will eventually be Christmas presents for family)!

These Newlyweds are a-walking.

Nathan and I love to take walks at night. In fact that was one of the ways that we got to know one better at the beginning of our relationship. While at Point Loma we went on walks pretty much every night and we would talk for hours about everything we could think of. When we moved into our apartment in San Diego the walking kind of went to the wayside, our neighborhood was not the best for walking in. We probably wouldn't have died, or even been mugged, but still, not favorite.
However, our neighborhood here is much better and we feel pretty safe. We both still try to be vigilant while walking, but it is definitely less shady (shady as in dangerous, not as in nice and cool).
I am very glad that we have taken up this habit again, not only is it fun it's also healthy.

We're also big tea drinkers. A cup of tea is like a cup of happiness. It is rare that my husband or I meet a tea that we don't like. In fact, we have a whole shelf dedicated to our many boxes of tea. We both spent time in London, where you drink tea everyday usually two or three times a day. I was definitely okay with that. I will probably pick that habit right back up when it starts getting colder.

If anyone is wondering "I wonder what her favorite tea is..." the answer is, right now, True Blueberry made by Celestial Seasonings. Try it, you will not regret it, it's like drinking a blueberry muffin.

Our Newlywed Apartment is...

not done.

But, we love it!

The building is definitely old, and not withouts it's own special little things that are not the loveliest in the world. But now the bathroom faucet works (hot and cold), our kitchen sink doesn't leak into our downstairs neighbor's apartment (Sorry Joe!), and if we shut the bedroom door the crazy lady doesn't come over and complain about the noise when we're watching t.v. :)

We have our little reading nook (with one of the chairs that my Mom recovered for us) and our couch (currently covered with a blanket because we haven't ordered a couch cover yet) for watching t.v.

Every day we make the apartment a little more us, and every day it seems more and more permanent for us. Which, it may or may not be (definitely not permanent as in forever) depending on Nathan's internship coming up this summer.

Soon I'll probably blog a bit about the wedding, because I've got tons of pictures to share!

10 Things You Worry About When Your Husband is Making Dinner

The ten things I worried about last night while Nathan was making dinner in no particular order:

10. What exactly was that crashing noise? *Just a baking pan*
9. Why does he want to know where the cleaver is? *Because he wants to cut a pork chop? No*
8. Is that smoke? *Just a little*
7. "Oh, shoot" *Not his finger being sliced off by a cleaver, so we're okay*
6. Is he putting the spatula down away from the flame? *The answer is yes*
5. Are they going to put Glee up online soon? *This has nothing to do with him, but that doesn't make it untrue*
4. Is he going to make the peas? *He didn't make the peas, even though he wanted them*
3. I should really vacuum. *I will today*
2. Why is Pushing Daisies so fantastic? *Because it's so intelligent, which is also the reason it failed*
1. How many dishes are there going to be after dinner? *Answer: A lot*

Newlywed Wife's Jobless Life

Finding a job is not an easy task. When you have a degree in theatre you're not really qualified for anything.
I mean, sure, we can do customer service, but then really what was the point of going to college?
The only job that I have found thus far is at Macy's.

Yes, Macy's. Where they would make me work the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and the day after Christmas. Which would mean: "Dear family, I will never ever, ever see you all again because they make me work all the time that you have off."

So, until I absolutely have to have a job (we're talking we won't make rent have to), I am holding out for something that will actually make me happy.

In a perfect world there would magically be an opening in a theatre.
I take that back, in a perfect world I would be able to make money as an actor, actually acting.

For now, I'll take the community theatre production of "A Christmas Carol" and keep on waiting for that job to open up in a nearby theatre.
Who knows maybe "A Christmas Carol" will lead to something, I sure hope so, but at least I'll have fun doing it!

This newlywed is blogging!

Not that that seems to be anything new on the internet. When you look up newlywed blog on google you get quite a lot of options.

So I figured, why not join up and add my voice to the throng of blogging newlyeds?

Let me introduce myself:
I was married in July to my best friend (no, seriously, he was my best friend for four years before we started dating, and then we dated for four years [okay, okay, it would have been four years a week later] before we got married) and we have now relocated from sunny San Diego to slightly cold and rainy Monterey.

Nathan is now attending grad school here, doing his computer genius stuff, and I am... being a housewife until I can find a job.

We're both excited to be married and starting our lives together and cannot wait to see what the future brings!


*Photo credit to the wonderful Daniel Son of Tae Photography*