the dawn of a new addiction

Well, I followed my nose and here I am!

Thanks to my friend Bratsky, with whom I've been recently whiling away the really slow hours at work. I can definitely feel an addiction coming on, though for me that is really not unusual. Especially when I'm not being challenged or utilized at work! I see a whole new world of addiction coming on. It really started out with theknot.com (aka thesnot) while I was engaged, and now I have a new bunch of friends over at the Lounge - ya'll know who you are. Of course, there's always regular email. Now this. I swear, its a miracle I can get ANY work done. But at least I'm socializing right?

I guess I consider myself pretty self-reliant and shy. It's hard for me to socialize with people outside my group-and I suppose even my friends might suggest that its really hard to get me to hang out with them! Though it's easy to hide oneself away during high stress times like engagements and moving house. I think I find it hard to multitask in a sense-I get really focused and saturated and unable to tear myself away from whatever I'm doing. Now that for the first time in forever I don't have anything pressing to do, I am truly appreciating the close circle of friends that I have around me: the ones I see on a regular basis, and the ones with whom I am close but who I don't see a whole lot. The older I get the more I realise that its not the quantity, but the quality of friends that truly count. And right now it couldn't get any better.

I have to say though, regardless of how well I keep in contact with my friends and family, I was blown away by the love shown to Mike and me on our wedding day this past August. I still get choked up by the thought of what people said and did for us during that whole experience. While my wedding day was one of the best days of my life, I would not be doing it justice by limiting it to one day. The year and a half that Mike and I were engaged was intense. It had its ups, it had its downs, but I still cannot comprehend the overall feeling that we got from people. Getting married was wonderful. And being married? Four months into it I can honestly say that it is so incredibly more than I expected, and I had expected it to be great.