Blurbs From Eunee's Mind (and Life)

On 11-11-11, I married the love of my life in front of my family and close friends who are a part of my extended family. I think I was too excited to cry then but I do get emotional thinking of it now. It's just amazing how things come to fruition in ways we least expect. We got married on the beach in Los Cabos, Mexico, and it was the picture perfect wedding I had envisioned when I began planning. Everything turned out to be perfect and I had an amazing time. I hope everyone else did too. The entire 8 days we spent in Los Cabos were truly memorable days, particularly having people I know all on vacation with me! That was just a whole bunch of fun. As I think of my wedding and those who attended, I cannot help but feel so blessed to have these people in my life, in our lives - as they have extended their loving embrace to my now-husband. I am also blessed to have such wonderful parents-in-law who have showed me nothing but love. And I always am thankful for my parents

I had to pause and replay in my head two incidents that occurred recently while I was in California. The fact that they happened within a span of a week really made me think. At the moment I was so dumbfounded as I couldn't believe my ears. In hindsight it was a good thing; otherwise, some smart-a$$ remark would have come out of my mouth. But in all seriousness, I don't think I could have found the words soon enough. So what am I talking about? Here. Let me explain.  Incident #1: I was at the bank with my mother (thankfully I can say that this is NOT my bank), and speaking to someone at customer service. She was a pretty young lady, who looked like she was in her early 20s, fresh out of college. We were at her desk with the branch manager and as the manager typed something in the computer, she saw my engagement ring. My engagement ring is a sapphire surrounded by smaller diamonds. She proceeded to tell me how pretty my ring was and asked me what the stone was. I said it was a

I don't remember when the last time was that I waited for a storm. Oh wait....it was this past winter when I told my parents I was getting married. But that's not the kind of storm I mean today. Today I'm waiting for Hurricane Irene. She's visiting folks down in North Carolina right now but I imagine she'll be arriving in the next 12 hours. She'll be stopping by my friends in the DC area before she moves on up to my friends in the Delaware area before she comes here to the New York City, Long Island area. Quite a visit. It's quite a big deal considering there hasn't been a hurricane up this far in years. And I personally have never had to weather one. I remember way back in college there was supposed to be a hurricane heading for New Orleans but it downgraded or veered off its predicted course - I can't remember which one. Still we got the outer bands of the hurricane and boy was it a torrential downpour. I remember wading through the quad, the wat

Have you seen the documentary "The Cove"? If not, please watch it. It's heartbreaking but it's something every human being needs to watch and become aware of what is happening to some of the brilliant, unique, and adorable creatures on the planet: dolphins. I used to watch Flipper practically every day it was on and I liked the fact that Flipper seemed to be free and happy to be interacting with humans. Little did I know about the back story until I saw the documentary today. I think anyone with a heart for nature and for animals should at least sign a petition to save the senseless capturing and butchering of these animals, which is occurring because people like to be entertained at their local aquariums and such. Here's a blog post with the links to petitions and what you can do to at least a small part in caring about this situation.

It's the middle of May and we're still getting a LOT of rain. Sometimes I wonder how this place gets soooo much rain, and then I remember that I live on the East Coast, on Long Island.... And I also remind myself as often as I can that all this rain contributes to the pretty greenery we get here in the summer. BUT, sometimes it's hard to remain positive when I haven't seen the sun for a couple of days and the rain comes down almost the entire day.  Albeit today is a break and it's rather humid, I know there's more rain in the forecast. This makes me want to fast forward to next week! I know it's spring and I know it has to rain, but I'd like some sunshine please! I also would like it to be summer soon! So please rain, go away, and come back a year from today!

I've been immersed in wedding stuff since my fiance proposed last November. It's like everything I am interested in, besides my studies, is related to weddings. I watch My Fair Wedding on the Wedding Channel, Say Yes to the Dress on TLC, and avidly read posts on wedding forums. I mean, since my late 20s I have thought about my own "someday" wedding but not every day; I had other things I had to deal with. But now I wonder about flowers, about aisle decorations, about ceremony issues, Sometimes I think I need a break from all of it because I begin to swim in a sea of flowers, dresses, colors, choices, that all blur together. Argh! My fiance sweetly reminds me that this is not supposed to be something stressful nor is it supposed to be like what we see on TV. He's right. I should be having fun looking forward to a wedding. It should be a happy occasion. Who cares if it's not a production? And I'm certainly not trying to win a contest. Then I begin to wonde

Today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. I'm not Catholic so I don't go to Ash Wednesday mass. But I do like to participate in Lent as I know that it's not a solely Catholic thing. For me it's a God-thing and a personal thing: a time to think about what takes up a lot of my time - things I could do without and learn to be less addicted to. It's like a sort-of spring cleaning in your life. It's also a time, for me, to think about good habits I want to develop. I could use a ton of good habits right now: more discipline in my dissertation, more prayer, less Farmville (on Facebook). I think those are my top three. Why is that a God-thing? Because I believe that God would want me to improve upon myself instead of being complacent. Don't you think so?