i am so infatuated with and privileged to live near portsmouth, nh…

i went there w/ a friend on sunday…we were walking around, and he said, “i always thought your pictures were so colourful…and i’m sure you do some processing, but it really is that vibrant around here!”

behold…these were all taken w/in a block or two of each other, in about 10-15 minutes:

over on this post at offbeatbride.com, someone asked about “roles of honour” other than having a friend stand up as a member of the wedding party. in the comments, someone mentioned that she attended a wedding that had a “best dude”…he had interesting responsibilities, including keeping people “well-liquored”.

tremendous.

i was a weird kid…one year for my birthday, i wanted to have an egg-fight party. no seriously. i did. my mom told me i could have x amt of people, and we’d each get a dozen eggs. she took us down to this vacant lot, and we ran around throwing eggs at each other for, oh, about 2 minutes. i don’t know if anyone actually got egged, but…i was happy. i have, uh, different creative outlets now.

i wanted to have a ketchup fight the next year, but that never materialized.

anyway…i’ve got sooooo many things to blog about…i’ve lost track of time and space, so, i’m just going to be posting things as i come across them…please don’t expect anything in order!

(also…life should slow down enough for me to breathe sometime mid-november. i’m looking forward to it. i’m also looking forward to actually ATTENDING a wedding…my good friends hannah & zach already wed, (before he got transferred to hawai’i…poor things, now they’re trying to settle into married life on oahu. i really feel sorry for them, don’t you?) and they’re celebrating their marriage with a ceremony and party in oklahoma city in november.

here they are in DC in january…before they were even on each other’s “hmmm?” radar. we went to arlington for the day. (to make the story even better, zach’s sister becky is hannah’s best friend and college roommate…)