The Dirty South

Back in Jan­u­ary of this year, I wrote this post. It was a pretty emo­tional post for me because at that time I was very dis­sat­is­fied with life. The dis­sat­is­fac­tion came as a result of hav­ing my pri­or­i­ties in the wrong order for most of 2009. On the way home from Sacra­mento that week­end, Vitaliy and I had a very dif­fi­cult con­ver­sa­tion. That could be my next Life After “I Do” post because it’s essen­tial in mar­riage to have dif­fi­cult con­ver­sa­tions. It’s the only way to grow as peo­ple and as a cou­ple. We saw two impor­tant things in our life that needed more of our atten­tion – Jesus and rela­tion­ships. In real­ity, start­ing a busi­ness requires a lot of work and a lot of ded­i­ca­tion, but you have to keep a healthy bal­ance of work and rest if you want to enjoy the process of it all. And for me, enjoy­ing life is the only option.

So here we are deep in the midst of wed­ding sea­son tak­ing a vaca­tion. As you’re read­ing this post right now, Vitaliy and I are in the dirty, dirty South – Dal­las, TX. I’m going to be prac­tic­ing my south­ern drawl and I’ll hope­fully get a piece of South­ern pie. If any­one knows of some­thing I must see, or more impor­tantly must eat, while in Texas, please feel free to leave your sug­ges­tions in the com­ments. I always wel­come rec­om­men­da­tions. I’m sure you are won­der­ing why on earth we would take our vaca­tion to Dal­las, TX. I won­dered the same thing too and ques­tioned myself quite a few times! But Dal­las is the home to our best friends Peter and Kris and they were a big pri­or­ity for our 2010.

From Dal­las, we’ll be head­ing up to the big M-O, that’s Mis­souri for all of you unaware of the spec­tac­u­lar Show-Me-State. We’re head­ing specif­i­cally to Colum­bia for a very dear friend’s wed­ding. I’ve actu­ally been given the honor of being a brides­maid in the wed­ding and Vitaliy will be pho­tograph­ing the big day. C.R.A.Z.Y. I’m going to be in front of Vitaliy’s cam­era and I’m feel­ing quite ner­vous about the whole thing. I don’t know why. Our com­puter is full of ran­dom shots of me stand­ing around mak­ing faces while Vitaliy tests the light dur­ing our pho­to­shoots. Maybe I’m ner­vous because of all the fried chicken and apple pie I know I’ll con­sume while in Texas before the wed­ding. I might have to rethink my food itin­er­ary for our trip.

We’ll be end­ing the trip in St. Louis where I will get to spend Father’s Day with my dad. I am truly excited to see my fam­ily and it’s the per­fect way to end our vaca­tion. This trip is filled with every­thing we have been work­ing to pri­or­i­tize this year. I couldn’t be happier!

It’s now June and we are offi­cially half way through the year. Have you revis­ited your goals for 2010? Now might be the time!

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