with these things there's no telling, we just have to wait and see, but i'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery

today my marriage turns two years old, and i find that really weird because it feels both too young and too old at the same time. if it were a baby, it would be in one of the cutest stages of its life, but also the most bratty.

to celebrate this momentous occasion, here are a bunch of random facts about two years, marriage, married couples, and other random things that are only vaguely relevant.

• the average person spends around 2 years on the phone in their lifetime. (i'm not sure how much i believe this fact. i mean, my sister will sit on the phone for almost eight hours a day nine months out of the year, which means she's been on the phone for one year about every four years. so unless she dramatically decreases her phone usage, she should fill out her two years any day now.)
  
• 101 dalmatians and peter pan are the only two disney movies that have 2 parents that are around and don't die in the movie. (in peter pan 2, though, the dad is at war and i can't remember if he dies or not. my family and i used to watch peter pan 2 on repeat every summer for my little brothers.)
  
• washington dc has the lowest marriage rate in america. (i'm not sure if i am surprised by this or not. at first i was, but then i tried to think of a state that would have a lower rate and i couldn't think of one so maybe that means that i'm not.)
  
• lions generally only mate once every two years. (from all of the nature documentaries and animal books and shows i have gone through with my brother, i should have learned this before.)
  
• the wife of a married, male millionaire is statistically most likely to be a teacher if employed. (i don't know how they came up with this one or if it has any basis in truth at all, but now that i posted it it will sit in your mind and you'll randomly remember it at parties and tell other people and pretty soon everyone will believe it.)
  
• in america, tv soap opera weddings tend to have more viewers than a presidential address. (this does not surprise me at all. not even a little bit.)
  
• the title for this post is from bright eyes' first day of my life which was the song my husband and i danced our first dance to. (i don't think there will ever be a time that the fact that i played bright eyes, muse, the script, and savage garden at my wedding will not make me happy.)

*First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes

it's a nice day for a white wedding

so last night i went to my friend's wedding and i think that's really all i can say about it without spewing sappiness all over your screens. seriously. suffice it to say that she was a beautiful bride and it was a super fun night. except for the fact that i borrowed my sister's shoes at the last minute which were the perfect height heel and the perfect color but didn't fit quite right and left me with feet still hurting as i type this. but totally worth it. also, when my husband came to pick me up afterwards, he had flip flops with him which was awesome.

oh, and he and i had this conversation about my (sister's) clutch afterwards:
him: how do you fit anything in here? (i had everything from my lipstick and mirror to my phone and excedrin.)
me: magic.
him: it is magic. it's like hermione's bag.
(harry potter references are also awesome.)

but back to the wedding. um... there's really nothing i can say about it that doesn't start with my first impression of her in fifth grade and go on for pages and pages until it ends up at last night. it's one of those times when words fail me because there's just too much to say with too many emotions tangled up in it and too many secrets and inside jokes and too little time and space. and at the end of it, some of you might have missed the point completely, sigh about wasted hours, and move on with your life without understanding the magnitude of last night.

which of course brings to mind the question of: if i had nothing to say about the wedding then why did i mention it in the first place? because i felt that it should be commemorated in this ongoing virtual recording of my life so that years from now i can look back and know that i was there and it meant something.

*White Wedding - Billy Idol

i like to eat, eat, eat apples

i miss vitamin water zero. like really, really miss it. in the weeks leading up to my trip i became really obsessed with the stuff. i would drink several bottles a day and buy tons of it whenever i went out. the recycling coming out of my room was outrageous. they don't have it here. at least i didn't see any and my cousin said they don't have. i am craving the lemonade right now and there's still fifty-some days until i can drink it again. *sigh*

also, i think i should mention that apples here are just so much better than apples in america. oranges too.

to try and not make this a completely pointless post, can i just say that this is a summer of marriage in my family. it seems like it is all everyone is talking about. one cousin is getting married at the end of july. another just got engaged last week. everyone is telling me that it is time for me to get married now that i cant use "i wanna finish school first" as an excuse. and my cousin has a doctor she wants me to meet. it's getting kinda crazy.

*I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas - Raffi

stayin up till four in the morning

it's three thirty and i just got back from a wedding and i cant sleep. mind you, we left early and didnt even see the bride. not that i really cared because i knew neither her nor the groom (he's the sister of my cousin's wife), and my dad and uncle took us and the men's dinner finishes waaaay before the women's thing. anyways, though the wedding was fun, it was such a commotion. (i blame my cousin who was insistant that we shouldnt go).

the series of unfortunate events:

*i actually wasnt planning on going to this wedding so i had neither bag nor make up to match my dress. as i decided to go a couple of hours before we left, it was too late to bum some off a cousin. i finally made do with some of my sister's.

*i was doing my hair and suddenly (seriously out of nowhere even ask my cousin) a huuuge knot appears at the back of my head. i wasnt even doing anything at the moment. it took forever to painfully brush out.

*my sister's hair straightener would not work properly. this is her favorite thing in the world. it always works.

*while my sister was done getting ready, she spilled lotion all over the front of her dress. i have no idea how. and she couldnt cry because then her makeup would get ruined, but she was having difficulty keeping back the tears. my dad got it all off perfectly.

*just as i was walking across the hallway to get to the door to go to the car where my dad was waiting, my shoe broke. in three places. it was ridiculous, and the only black shoes i have here. i ended up using my sister's.

*when we were all in the car, we realized my sister had forgotten the invitation upstairs and so she had to run back up to get it so that we could have the cards that would let us in.

*we got lost on the way there (and the way coming) and since the wedding was in makkah we had already been in the car for over an hour. my hair was so flat when we finally got to the place, but it was fixable.

*my sister matched the wedding color scheme a little too much. her tulle shawl looked the exact same as the stuff tied around the back of each chair. and my chair conveniently didnt have one so it kinda looked like she had stolen it.

*my sister's necklace broke out of nowhere while we were sitting. the chain just snapped. she looked a little weird searching on the floor for the pendant, but it's okay cause she's an american.

*like i said, we had to leave early, and i made a commotion getting up. i tripped over a chair that some not so smart person had left behind me in the already crowded space between the tables. then, as i tried to catch my balance, i tripped on the front of my dress. i didnt fall, but i looked like an idiot.

oh, and they were walking around serving peaches, plums, and cherries from fish bowls along with te juice. :/ it was very random.

despite all this, though, we had fun. i just wish that some people wouldnt wear dresses with slits up to their throats and stomachs and sides bare if they really dont have the body for it. i do not want to see you oozing out of your dress thank you very much. you are embarassing yourself.

*4 in the Morning - Gwen Stefani