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October 25, 2005
ein Monat
it means "one month." that's how long i've been married, as of today.
we just arrived back in the U.S. last night, from our trip to Germany. notice i didn't say honeymoon, since we decided that we still need to take one. or more. apparently in a traditional "honeymoon," the couple sees only each other and rests up and stays in bed half the day and drinks festive beverages featuring little umbrellas and uses scented massage oil... well, this was not that trip. we had a wonderful time, but there was too much train-catching and family visiting to really constitute a "honeymoon." besides, this way we have an excuse to book ourselves trips to interesting sunny locales in the future, and tell people "we're on our honeymoon," and enjoy the perks. ha ha, we're crafty!
i'm really happy i chose to take German lessons as my wedding present to T.T. i can't imagine how i would have fared if i hadn't been able to understand a darn thing. one of the reasons we went to Germany in the first place was to have a wedding reception in T.T.'s hometown for his family & friends -- we had almost as many attend as the actual wedding in California. (yes, i wore my wedding dress again.) lots of meeting, greeting, laughing, thanking... i kept thinking, wow, i'm so glad i can actually communicate with these lovely people. hopefully they all had a good laugh later at my atrocious grammar, but hey! it's the effort that counts. i still can't really say too much intelligently; i probably sound like a three-year-old on a sugar high. but i can understand a good percentage of conversations, especially if i can figure out the topic. as one of T.T.'s family friends said, "out of the pieces you can make the big picture, ja?"
and now we're in Atlanta for a few days, visiting with my family since we've told everyone we're related to that we are not going anywhere for Christmas this year. (my heavens, just the thought of going somewhere over the holidays makes my little head spin around in dizzying counterclockwise ellipses.) soon we'll be back home, in the "new" house in L.A., trying to figure out what this whole Life Together thing entails on a mundane, day-to-day level. already i know that Jockeying For Bathroom Usage will be included.
has it really been just one month? i have to say that being considered freshly minted newlyweds is rather fun. people make little ooohing noises and wink and say congratulations and sometimes even offer sage advice, like "just have fun with it." well, we are. i'm sure in the coming days i'll have nice navel-gazing-worthy Deep Thoughts on the whole idea of joining your life to that of your best friend and attaching the word "forever" to it, but until then i'm just going to be amused and bemused by being a Mrs. Hadashi. it's Good. my happy toes stay nice & toasty warm at night.
Posted by hadashi at October 25, 2005 3:36 PM
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i'm glad you had fun at your reception and non-honeymoon. ;)
congratulations on your ein monat. :)
Posted by: A N N A 
at October 25, 2005 6:55 PM
thanks! now comes the fun of catching up with reading other blogs...
Posted by: hadashi at November 4, 2005 11:01 PM
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