Trips to the farmers' market, BBQs, lots of yardwork, benefit lunch for a friend's family (who was injured in a motorcycle accident), booked our honeymoon cruise and excursions, attended Ian & Jen's wedding in TX, booked a Mary Kay party, and...
I had been trying to think up things I could do for Johann for our 1 yr anniversary, so I repainted his office. I had originally painted it blue, hoping it would be the ash grey/military blue-ish color he likes. I did this about a yr ago, and he saw it and said it looked like a baby's nursery. I used to be so good at picking colors out, considering what they'd look like dried on the wall. He was right though, it was too light baby blue. So it got repainted to an actual grey this time. My friend Cheryl came over for day 1 to help me prep and start painting, she was a big help. It got done in about 3 days (I have to work in between, people). Johann's moved all his stuff back in now and enjoying the color much more.
So he thinks this was my gift to him, but I had been dropping little hints about it being the paper anniversary for a while. The whole time, I had actually been secretly planning for us to go to the Japan house for a tea ceremony, followed by origami classes. The Japan house didn't pan out, which was a bummer, but through luck and persistence, I found a 16-yr old origami instructor. She and I made plans to meet at a coffee house and surprise Johann. He loved it! He has been making paper cranes in his office at work since :) We also made lotus flowers and shapes like boxes and cups that can actually hold water.
Johann surprised me with paper... tickets... to see... ZZ Top! We had a blast!!! We drove to Normal, IL three days after our anniversary and got totally soaked in the middle of a major scary rainstorm (that had produced a lot of damage throughout the state). We parked at the nearest parking garage, but had to walk about 2-3 block to the venue, those blocks seemed to go on forever. We were FREEZING inside, but the show was really good. I don't remember the opening band, so that says something about them. There was an awful lot of camo at that show, by the way, just sayin. ZZ Top was awesome and I bought myself a T-shirt. As soon as we got out to leave, it started pouring again. We got into Johann's car and I couldn't stop laughing for a while at our luck. This was definitely a memorable show, I had the rain soaked undergarments to prove it :P Here's us, drenched and cold, but excited!
I'm glad we did some things together before I left town that weekend for Iowa City. I rode with Sylvia and we stayed at her parents house. Her bachelorette party was planned by her friends Jess and Andrew, who I met briefly at our last Easter potluck. Saturday, we went to a park with a lake and had another BBQ (so many already this summer). We had frozen margaritas at our picnic/bbq, which was awesome. Then we jumped in the lake, and I got both sunburned and mosquito/ant-bitten. After a power-nap and a shower, Sylvia and I got ready to go out on the town with Jess, Andrew and their friend Linda. We went to dinner at an awesomely swanky mod Italian place with Sylvia's parents. Then we went bar hopping until after 2 am, which ended at a little piano bar where Sylvia sang along to "Werewolves of London." Note: Do not get drunk with temporary tattoos on your person, it makes for a very interesting morning after ;)
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