It’s been one month and two days since I left China, and already it feels like a life­time ago. I’ve been hav­ing a grand olé time back in the states, as prob­a­bly appar­ent from my lack of posts. So far I’ve been hang­ing out in Lake Tahoe, Santa Cruz, San Fran­cisco, Boze­man (Mon­tana), Yel­low­stone, Chicago, Brook­lyn, NYC, Damariscotta (Maine), and Lake George (NY). Busy indeed. Every day that’s gone by, I kept telling myself, “I’ve gotta blog today”, and “I’ve gotta post these pics online” but those things, for some rea­son, just didn’t hap­pen. In fact, I actu­ally for­got how nice this blog looked and how hard I worked on it, until I checked it out again today. I hope I haven’t lost all you faith­ful readers!!

Any­way I’m back now, start­ing with this short, unusu­ally photo-free post. With our move to DC com­ing at the end of this month, and finally being able to set­tle down into a rou­tine, I hope to bring you more con­sis­tent post­ing and catch some of you up with what I’ve seen and done over the sum­mer– one of the best sum­mer vaca­tions I’ve taken.

But before then, I’d like to share with you some news. It’s some­thing that I’ve been hold­ing back, for lots of rea­sons, but mainly because I don’t like splat­ter­ing my busi­ness all over the inter­net in real-time (rather, I like to do it with a bit of lag time).

The Diplo­Man and I got married!!

We did it because we were bound to do it even­tu­ally, and because of all the ben­e­fits we’d receive through this tran­si­tional period (China-DC-Dar), and oh yeah, we totally love each other too.

We love being mar­ried. Really, it’s fun. Those of you who says that get­ting mar­ried doesn’t change any­thing– that’s a lie. Get­ting mar­ried makes you feel dif­fer­ent, in a way that for now I can’t explain. It’s like it gives you super cou­ple pow­ers. The Diplo­Man and I did the offi­cial thing in China, on June 18 (funny pic­tures of our city hall mar­riage to come). So far, two months in, it’s been noth­ing but joy. We are thank­ful for the sup­port from our fam­i­lies, which has been full of noth­ing but over­whelm­ing love and gen­eros­ity. We are thank­ful for the hugs and cheers from all the friends that we’ve told so far, and glad no one has been offended by the sur­prise. We’re thank­ful for this sum­mer mini-moon, and thank­ful that we have each other through this crazy lifestyle!!

I guess I’m a DiploMrs now!

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