http://leahandmark.com Life is More Than You or Me, it's Us. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:13:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="ISupport"][/caption] Yay!  My sticker came!  If you want one of these, too, GO HERE.  They're free! http://leahandmark.com/2009/07/03/lovenmarriage/ [caption id="attachment_868" align="alignnone" width="630" caption="The Westin Hotel Downtown Atlanta (the black spots are windows broken during last year's tornado)"][/caption] Our apartment is a mess. It's kind of been a mess since our wedding. After our wedding we got a lot more stuff. Just lots and lots of stuff. Boxes and appliances ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/07/02/we-must-move/ I've burned all of my vacation time for the rest of the year. In fact - I'm negative five days. Cool huh? I've never worked at a job where they actually gave me the vacation time up front (and where they let me use it!) So technically - other than ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/30/working-the-3rd/ Tomorrow. A. Real. Post. I Promise. Goodnight. http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/29/monday-fries/ Blueberries from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo. After a busy week of running around and/or calling various Official Places for the somewhat lengthy process of changing my last name, I was ready for a fun weekend.  And it was! Recently, I reconnected with Diana, a good friend of mine from middle school - and ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/28/blueberry-weekend/ It's difficult to really write anything that I feel would be worth saying, on topics such as the struggle in Iran, or any of the many other battles going on all over the world. And while we know things are getting considerably worse in Iran right now... this week I've ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/26/friday-weekend/ DirtyTruth.org FLM from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo. http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/25/just-south-of-us/ Alongside our regular gifts wedding registry, we used HoneyFund.com - so that people could 'buy' us pieces of our honeymoon. What you do is break your honeymoon into individual costs, like dinner on the beach, or you know, swimming with dolphins. Then you break it down even further. So if ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/24/swimming-with-dolphins/ You know what's dangerous? Having travel tour brochures lying around the house. We have a couple from IntrepidTravel.com - and they have the intended effect - they make you want to take a month off from work to go wandering around south east Asia, or spend 51 days making a ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/23/the-scenic-route/ Vertigo in China from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo. Over the weekend I started replying to craigslist post for video editors. You know, editing film/video/tv/web junk - whatever. I need practice and I need to work on something other than my absolutely awesome home music videos! While something paying was hardly what I ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/22/video-editing/ Mark and I don't share our fathers' DNA.  Our dads might not have genetically contributed to our stunning good looks, but in every other aspect of our lives, these men are our fathers.  There are a lot of not-so-great dads in the world.  A lot of kids do not have ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/21/798/ Our Wedding Photographer Jason Spruill is running an ultra-marathon today. 100 miles in one go... well, in a 30 hour go. He posted this article about Dean Karnazes that started his transition from biking over to running... and more running. While I'm not about to start running with ultra-marathons in mind, ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/19/the-build-up/ Hey, we have a new way to comment - IntenseDebate - one where you can actually reply to someone else's comment.  Finally!  You can sign up on IntenseDebate to create a profile, or you can use OpenID.  I still need to learn about this OpenID thing, though.  That's been on ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/18/talkin-back/ You've probably noticed our cowboy hats. We bought them in Playa Del Carmen so that we could use them when we visited the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza - but really, we should've just bought them when we arrived on site. Outside of the gates before you enter, there are ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/18/chichen_itza/ For our honeymoon I bought a DiCAPac 510. It's basically a ziplock bag for your camera. It's supposed to be good for about 15 feet but I'm not sure you'd want to take it down that deep. I will say that it worked really great during our entire trip. I ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/17/dicapac-underwater-camera-bag/ Wedding Ceremony - Goldfrapp: Happiness from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo. I feel like we're kind of all over the place. Maybe it's just me. I feel like I'm kind of all over the place. I probably need to stop half-way trying to do so many things... it's always those many options that ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/16/tuesday-glory/ [caption id="attachment_726" align="alignnone" width="630" caption="Georgia Guidestones"][/caption] In a successful effort of procrastination from doing homework/laundry/cleaning - we took a mini roadtrip yesterday and drove to the Georgia Guidestones (a.k.a. American Stonehenge - but really only because we don't have any other gigantic standing slabs of granite with a fair amount of ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/15/georgia-guidestones/ Our super talented friend Sean took the above photo.  Woohoo!  He takes lots of awesome pics.  That's why I like him.  Oh, yeah, and he's a super nice guy. Anyhow, I love how in every single picture of my walk down the aisle, I have this crazy open-mouthed expression of happy ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/10/glee/ Our Honeymoon in Mexico from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo. We're back. And it was all awesome. All of it. The wedding, the honeymoon. Hey - you already know that because you've seen the videos (especially if you're my facebook friend... or you follow us on twitter.) And aside from the reflecting that goes ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/07/were-back-and-yeah/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photo by Lauren Smith"][/caption] Wow, I'm still processing the whole wedding weekend - all the wonderful, touching, totally awesome moments - so many of our loved ones all in one place.  It was incredible.  The wedding truly exceeded my highest expectations.  It was so much better and ... http://leahandmark.com/2009/06/05/wedding-wonderfulness/