I’m back!….for a second…and asking for something!

YAY Obama. I have never in my life been more proud to be an American as I am today. Like Michelle Obama, this really is the first time as an adult that I can say that.

Now with that said, I need your help, blogworld. The husband and I are desperately trying to get to DC for the inauguration. Since we just came up with this brilliant idea, all of the hotels are sold out. If you, or if you know someone (who may know someone) that can help us get a hotel it would be more appreciated than you will ever know. Please shoot me an email or leave a comment if you can help.

You guys are the best so I know you will come through. Atleast I really hope you will because this means the world to me.

Oh and I’ve gone public. If you want to come along for the ride, shoot me a comment or email and I will give you the address to my new, shiny home. This one will be self destructing in the near future.

Well hello there

Hey y’all! Since it’s been a serious minute I thought I would give the masses (read: the 3 of you still out there) what they want and update you on the happs of Pie. Get ready for randomness

* The husband: He’s awesome. It’s been 3 months and man, marriage rules. My photographer made a tiny album of some of our wedding pics and I carry it around in my purse like it is pictures of of our kids. If we had kids. We love each other more and more everyday and yes, I am going to say it, he completes me.

* The dog: Is 80% normal now. A lot of random shit scares her, but she loves Mike and I a whole lot. She is currently laying next to me on the bed eating grapes. Her life definitely no longer sucks

*The job: Is awesome. I love loving what I do. I have been traveling a lot more than I would like but who doesn’t love frequent flier miles!**

*I started reading this dude in all of his pint sized adorableness (Don’t be mad! It’s totally a compliment!) one day after seeing a link on this ladys page, and wow. FIrst, I spent a good 4 or 5 hours one day reading through his archives. My billable hours currently hate you. Second, I had no idea there were so many naughty blogs out there. Websites dedicated to helping married people cheat!? Call me naive but my life was a sunnier place not knowing shit like that existed. This dudes blog is linked to all sorts of not pg-13 blogs and wow. Some are hot reads. Some uhm…are not. I guess not everyone writes about weddings, shoes, and love.

*My mom is in town for the week and I couldn’t be happier. Not only is she awesome to have around, but she buys me shit whenever she’s here! Need groceries? Got it. Need new makeup? Consider it done. Want a new shower head and those pesky weeds pulled? Will do! It’s like college all over again! Not but seriously, I think sometimes my mom just wants to feel needed and somewhere in her brain I think she believes that because I’m married now, I’m going to stop needed her. And that, my freaders, is NOT the case. Plus I get to see my dog, and although Sammy tried to murder her up via attack on the jugular, I like having her around too.

* I love fall. Dark manicures, turning off the AC, caramel anything, cashmere, light jackets, blazers. Sigh it is this preppy girls paradise.

* I cry at everything these days. When one of the assholes from my super sweet 16 was exhiled and stopped being the aforementioned asshole for a couple days, this Pie was in tears. Mike definitely did not approve.

* Moving back to NYC may be a reality. I had accepted that we were going to have to settle for the lesser city of Chicago, but we may be able to make NYC happen. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

*I missed a lot during my blog hiatus. Especially this. So here is my late letter…

Jess,

I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting you, but as you know. I dig you. You are an amazing woman and I am so happy that you have found your forever. Your love truly is the stuff fairy tales are made of. I wish you nothing but a lifetime of happiness, growth, babies and well, the love you deserve. Never forget what gave you the butterflies.

Hugs,

Pie

* I just realized I never told the ex girlfriend, myspace drama story. I’m kind of happy I didn’t.

* The scandal with John & Kate & their 8 has really tainted me on the show which is a shame because I have a serious soft spot for half Filipino’s babies. (ed: Aunt Jody got booted from the show and her sister started a blog. It’s a little bit crazy but I think there is definitely some truth to it. Plus, I love a good scandal. http://truthbreedshatred.blogspot.com/)

* I just watched an episode of intervention where this girl spent $2000 a month on heroin. The first thing I thought was “UGH that could be at least 4 pairs of Louboutins.” My priorities are a bit skewed.

* My reality tv repertoire is officially out of control. I have recently added The Rachel Zoe project, The Cho show (stop it. you’re judging. stop right now!), and the RW/RR challenge. Too much tv! Not enough time!!

* Chatter about my 10 year hs reunion is coming up and I feel old. Real, real old.

* I think whenever I regain the ability to get it up for this blog again, there will be more blog love. I didn’t even come close to completing the list.

* Sooo, what’s new with y’all!?

Go…now…

and wish my favorite blogger, friend, all around awesome woman, Barbie an amazing 25th birthday!

I will actually post some of the happenings of Pie in the near future. There are lots to share.

HELP!

Ok you romantics out there, I need your help. My videographer is putting together our wedding video and I need to get him 20-40 love songs. Easy enough task, right? WRONG! I have dug deep and can only come up with 18. I even used songs from the “I love Mike” mixed tape I made him for Valentines day a few years ago. (yes, I’m that girl). He needs fast(er) and slow songs. I’ve got John Legend, The new Jason Mraz, a lil Mary J. Blige, some DMB, but I need more.
So this is where you come in. What are your favorite love songs? Fast or slow, just has to be love related. You guys are the best and I know you can do it!

One month down…and women are scary

Hi pumpkins! Hope everyone enjoyed the pictures! For those that saw the slideshow what did you think? I’m kind of obsessed with them.

What I am not obsessed with is my wedding. There are however, a lot of women on theknot.com that are. I love the knot. It was a huge help when planning my pretty pretty princess day, and I have connected with some cool chicks. The chicks on the wedding withdrawal board? They are not cool. Here is a post that one sad sad woman wrote. I have bolded the (worst) parts that made my jaw drop to the floor.

I got married in May and have had the post-wedding blues ever since. The thank you notes are mailed, the final payments sent and the last “weddingy” thing I have to do is get my dress cleaned and preserved- and I am doing that tomorrow. Which is why I am wearing my wedding dress right now. I have been wearing it all afternoon actually and cleaning in it, cooking in it and just sitting in it trying to relive and hold on to some of my brideness.

I am so sad that it’s over! I am having a hard time letting my dress, which feels like my last tie to being a bride, go. I know I am getting it back but it will be all clean and safe in the box and I won’t want to take it out, let alone wear it.

Any of you other married ladies had some wedding mourning moments or rituals? Any engaged ladies anticipate having them? Please share…I need support!

Here are some of the responses she received. Also quite vomit worthy (names changed to protect the crazy)

From Bridecrazypants1

Got married in May also. Can’t believe it’s all over! I definitely have the post-wedding blues! I really don’t know how to snap out of it. Nothing makes me happy- not the pics or anything else. Still waiting for the video so that might help or make me more sad!!

From Bridecrazypants2

So many people say that they couldn’t wait for the stress and planning to be over. I couldn’t disagree more! I loved every part of it.

And I feel your pain about the dress. Luckily mine is at my parents house, so I don’t have easy access to it. But I put on my veil just for fun yesterday. Yes, I folded laundry while wearing my veil. My husband looked at me a bit strangely, but I think he understands.*

*editors note- trust me dude. he does NOT understand. He thinks it’s fucking weird.

From bridecrazypants3

I was married in February and experienced the blues for a few months afterwards. They have finally started to dissipate and we just had our honeymoon in June. When I started planning our Mediterranean cruise honeymoon the blues started to go away and I began to anticipate our honeymoon it was so wonderful and something we really loved. I am doing better now but those first few months after the wedding was hard. I now have two cousins who recently got engaged and will be in two weddings in 2009 so wedding planning will start up very soon. We also plan to start our family in December we are preparing our lives for our new addition. Getting the wedding DVD was so cool and really helped re-live that amazing day for us. We also love looking at our pictures and I have begun to scrapbook our wedding which is fun and plan to scrapbook the honeymoon as well.

Seriously…hoy shit! There are really women out there that feel this way and it makes me want to scream. You just got MARRIED! How about taking off that wedding dress, putting down the veil, stop eating the wedding cake, and I don’t know, hanging out with your husband. Or going to work. Or hanging out with friends you didn’t see that often when planning your wedding because you were off being bridecrazypants.

I loved my wedding. I look at my pictures often. But I am in no way depressed about it being over. I’m depressed I’m not going to get as much for my wedding dress as I would like to. But that’s about it. So Molly, Clink, Jess, Bing, and Rachel, (whoa that’s a lot of weddings to read about soon! YAY!) please don’t turn into those wifes! I may have to come to all of your hometowns and bitch slap each and every one of you if I start to see signs. You have been warned.

Also, Happy 1 month (and 2 days. I was busy on the 14th!) to me and Michael. Here is another example of his adorableness. On Monday morning, I woke up to breakfast and bed, a clean car (if you had seen the insanity that was in inside of my car, you would understand this is a huge deal), and a pink peony (our wedding flower) in the passenger seat. When I got home there was pizza and wine. What wine you ask? The wine that was served at our wedding. My husband who doesn’t care about details AT ALL called the reception venue to find out what wine was served and went to 5 liquor stores to find it. My husband? He’s a keeper.

Meet Sammy. and pictures galore part 2

Hi y’all! This is Sammy and my husband.

please excuse the ugly couch. It’s Michaels from college and he has seperation issues. It will be gone soon.

Anyway, back to Sammyface. She rules. Here is another picture of her.

God that couch is so fug. The dog on the couch is not.

So we got the dog about 2 weeks ago now and about 7 days ago I lost her. Yep. Lost. the. new. dog. I took her for her morning stroll and she got scared of something, flipped her shit, and bolted into the woods. The deep, scary, gross woods. This is when I flipped my shit. I for real thought I was going to end up without a dog and a husband because Mike was surely going to divorce me when I told him. Long story short: after 4 HOURS looking for her, we found her caught on something (she still had her leash on. thank god) and terrified. Ugh it was horrible. So so horrible.

Anyway, ever since that gigantic step in the wrong direction, things have been awesome. She is warming up to us and I think she is happy here. I don’t know the whole story but I know she was abused and abandoned so needless to say our darling has some trust issues. Every single day it gets easier and we love having her. Again, she rules.

So enough of Princess Pookum lets get onto St. Lucia pics, shall we!

the view from our room. Yep. Sick

The pool. We didn’t spend much time there because we were here….

le sigh.

where we ate breakfast and dinner every day. Can’t beat that…or this…

our suite. Amazing. It did not suck waking up there everyday

If I were on cribs I would say that is where the magic happened. But I’m not. So I won’t.

Even our bathroom was precious.

what we saw during our last breakfast. I wanted to kill myself.

It was insane. We woke up everyday and said “oh my god are we really here!?”. Hands down the most beautiful place I have ever been.

Our photographers put together a phenomenal slideshow of some of our wedding pics and I reeeeeally want to post it but the whole anonymity thing is preventing me from doing that. So shoot me an email (mysmallpie at gmail dot com) if you are interested in seeing it, and it’s yours. Unless you’re sketchy.

Happy Tuesday y’all!

pictures galore pt. 1

Here are a few of the teaser pics my photog put up. Since I’m all anonymous blogger and all, I can’t show most of the ones of me looking totally bridal and stuff, so these will have to do. Enjoy!

p.s. all of the squiggles and black boxes are to cover my photogs. logo/website. Also to prove that I cannot draw a straight line. Awesome.

I heart my bouquet

A little stroll on the beach the day after the wedding. No, there was no dress trashing. Just a little strolling

table details. I loved our tables

short centerpieces

tall centerpieces.

the ceremony. God it was beautiful if I do say so myself.

Our day, as previously stated, was amazing. I want to do it again. Maybe this time in St. Lucia.

More pics to come later. Hope that will tide y’all over for a while.

p.p.s. Adulthood after honeymooning? Sucks.

p.p.p.s. WE GOT A DOG TODAY! Her name is Samantha (Sam)and she is a princess and I want to squish her. We rescued her from a shelter after her owner decided she didn’t want her anymore and just left her at the vet. Why are some people such assholes? Pictures of my new baby to follow also!

Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I’ve got, I’m still, I’m still Pie from the block!

Hey y’all!! I’m baaaaaaaaaaack!

Quick recap:

The wedding: Amazing and perfect. Seriously nothing went wrong at all. It was tres incredible.

The reception: See above. It was more than I ever envisioned and I really could not have asked for anything more

The husband (tehehe): A gift from god. Soooo amazing to call him my husband. To hear him call me his wife. We came back to ATL from MI and ran to CVS to get a few honeymoon essentials when he asked the cashier to unlock the “nice” skin care lotions for me, he said his wife neeeded help and we giggled like school girls. It was awesome.

St. Lucia: Oh god where do I even begin. Heaven on earth. Not. even. kidding. I will post pics later this week but if you go here this is no shit the view we had. Ugh, I miss St. Lucia.

I’ve got to dive face first back into the real world, but I promise I will be back with pictures later this week. They’re pretty glorious if I do say so myself!

xoxoxo

p.s. Big Big hugs to my Barbie for holding the place down!

wonder.

Sad Wonderings
We came in after playing outside. Both exhausted. In the spirit of playfulness, I slept under the bed, she slept on the bed. We giggled ourselves to sleep.
He came in. He got on the bed with her. It seemed like eternity. He cleaned himself using clothes from the dirty laundry basket. Then he left. We never spoke about it.
I wonder: If she was awake the whole time. If he knew I was under that bed. If she knew I knew. If that was the only time.

Happy Wonderings
Miss Pie is now Mrs. Pie. She is a very sweet girl. I’m so happy for her. I can’t wait to see pictures of that first ultrasound and eventually that sweet gorgeous first born.
I wonder: How long she’ll keep giggling happily each time she calls him “Husband”.
How long he’ll sheepishly grin when he responds “Yes Wife’.
Thanks for letting me be a guest blogger Pie, I hope you and Michael are having a swell time on your honeymoon!!!

beep! beep! (who gots da keys to the jeep…)

Thaaaaat would be me.

Oh, hi there. I’m this person. And Miss MRS. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Pie handed the jeep bloggy keys over to me while she is off basking herself in the sun, on the beach with her new hubby. Enjoying her honeymoon.

(Cue jealous snort here.)

Oh… wait. Barbie doesn’t snort. I take that back.

(Okay. Not really.)

Actually, I do take that back. Why? Because there has been ALLLLL kinds of SQUEEEEEEEEEINNNGGGG (!!!!!!) (yes, MANY exclamation points totes necessary) over in these parts because Miss Mrs. Pie done and got herself all married up.

I know. SQUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEE (!!!!!!!!) worthy, right?

And let me tell me, I couldn’t be happier for my beautiful, lovely friend who is deserving of all the love, happiness and allllllll that rainbows and pink clouds crap in the world.

No, really. She’s all kinds of awesome. Our darling Pie is one of the most intelligent, funny, sasstastic, and BEAUTIFUL person (both inside and out) than I have ever met, and I am truly blessed to call her my friend. And her now hubby? Is quite a lucky man. I only wish I could have been there to see the beauty that is true love being united forever and ever and ever (okay, and also tear up the dance floor my beautiful bride.)

Since I love you readers JUST AS MUCH AS  I LOVE PIE, and I know how she’s sooo excited to share her wedding joy with you, I will post her wedding pictures as soon as I have access to them.

(Read: they post them online).

(Yes, I have permission. Yes, I do declare myself awesome because of this.)

So.

Recap: I love you so much MRS. PIE and I am soooo beyond happy and excited for you and this new chapter of your life. I can’t wait to see what the future will bring, and am oh so thankful I’ll be alongside of you to see the moments that I know are going to make your future oh so bright.

Loves. Lotsly.

xo, bb