Not your average honeymoon

An offbeat wedding wouldn’t be complete without an atypical honeymoon, which is exactly what  Ryan and I experienced earlier this week. Due to several factors (we paid for most of the wedding ourselves, we just took a week-long rock-climbing trip to Colorado in August, and Ryan has an upcoming business trip for which he needed to prepare), we decided to keep our trip low-key and took a three-day excursion to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, our favorite rock-climbing destination in Arkansas.

New creative endeavors

I have reached a point where I am struggling with what to do with this blog. I have been thinking that maybe I will start feeling motivated to blog more now that the wedding has passed, but I’m not sure if that’s really true. Even with its redesign, my blog isn’t exciting me the way it used to. For a while there, it was my main creative outlet, and I loved thinking of new things to write about. All those topics that I was exploring — natural living, authenticity, etc. — are still important to me, but not at the forefront of my mind any more.

My offbeat (and cheap!) wedding

I said earlier I would provide a little more info about the offbeat and cheap wedding that Ryan and I have put together in a mere two months. Even before we were officially engaged, we kicked around a few ideas for our wedding, including getting married outdoors in Colorado, doing a wedding and adventure honeymoon combo in Costa Rico (rock climbing! horseback riding! yoga!), and just getting married at the courthouse.

Long-awaited update

Today I decided to take some time to give my blog some much-needed TLC. Though I launched the new design a couple of months ago, there were still some tweaks that needed to be made, and I clearly haven’t posted in a while. Which is sad, because I do love my blog’s new look and functionalities. I could offer excuses or apologies for neglecting my blog, but I won’t, except to say that other things have been commanding my time and energies, and there are never enough hours in the day for everything. But I am glad to be back to working on it.

Finding balance … and planning a wedding!

Last week I had lunch with a friend and we were talking about how life never seems to slow down. She just got married in Mexico after a near two-year engagement, is looking at new homes, and is managing constantly shifting responsibilities in her career as a regional manager for a cosmetics company. I am planning a wedding in a mere two months and as a result have practically ceased all blogging and freelancing activities. There simply isn’t enough time to accomplish everything; I feel like even if I had six extra hours in every day, I still wouldn’t be able to get it all done.

For a while, I was pushing myself to accomplish as much freelance writing as possible in addition to my part-time job. I was determined to meet my daily income goals, and it was working.