Back in the Saddle

My oh my, does time have a way of getting away from me sometimes!

I had all these plans for some new blogs posts after my fiancé popped the question, per my previous post (much like how I had ideas for a blog post before he proposed!). I was going to do a summer wrap-up...a little vent about how wedding planning isn't always as shiny and fluffy as people make it out to be (might revisit that later, actually)...a list of all the things about the fall that make me love this time of year (spoiler: it involved pumpkin-flavored ev'rythaaaang)...a recount of all the fun autumn activities I took place in, and all the ones I regrettably missed out on, at least so far.

But you know what the say about the best-laid plans of mine and men: Nothing I wanted to write about actually got written. Life got pretty busy, but I can't complain, because it was only good things I got whisked up in! Engagement- and birthday-related celebrations, for both myself and other friends and family, the jump-start of wedding planning, work craziness, getting back into a fairly steady workout routine, and many other things that always left me saying, "You know what? I'll just blog tomorrow." You can guess how often I actually followed through on that one, seeing as how my last post was 2 months ago. Yikes!

But the time has come for me to be a bit more dedicated to writing. I started this blog to get into the habit of writing on a regular basis and working on finding my "voice," so I'm determined to make writing in this blog a part of my routine.

Not only do I have a lot of great things coming down the pike, but I have a lot of things that I've experienced recently that I would love to share:

 - Our engagement party
 - Our first steps in putting together our wedding: checking out venues, trying on bridal gowns, etc.
 - the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy
 - checking out an awesome local outdoor sculpture park/art museum

There are so many things I want to talk about, which I think will be pretty great motivation to writing on a regular basis - I'm looking forward to getting back into this thing, so let's do it!