About Me
I’m one of those flighty twenty-somethings with a bachelor’s degree in English from California State University, Fullerton. I’m married to my awesome husband, Mike. I am one of four children; I have 2 older sisters and an older brother. Both of my sisters are married, and my oldest sister has four children and a grandson.
I was born in California and currently reside in Orange County, California. My blog is principally about my life as a recent college graduate, but I also incorporate many of my interests such as literature, web design, art, Hollywood, and anime/manga.
My life has been largely uneventful. I was born in a Long Beach hospital and spent my early childhood in a Los Angeles suburb, where I attended a private Catholic school. When I was nine years old my family and I moved to Orange County, California. I completed elementary school and middle school in the public school system, and returned to private Catholic schooling in high school. I joined the colorguard team and made some really awesome friends that I am still close to today. While in high school I met Mike, my fiance, and we started dating in January of 2003. Many things drew me to Mike, such as his vitality, lust for life, easy-going, fun-loving attitude, but I think what I love best about him is his faith. Mike has an extremely strong faith in God as a result of surviving cancer in 2002. After dating for 6 years, we were married on January 17, 2009 in Newport Beach, CA. See Pictures from our wedding here.
In Fall 2003 I began college at California State University, Fullerton while Mike entered Azusa Pacific University, a Christian university. That was a hard year for us, not only was I living at home with all of my friends gone off to college, but Mike was an hour drive away and we only saw each other on weekends. The only highlights were that he made on to the baseball team there, and it was very close to Fullerton. That fall I also began working for his father’s company, which I would do for the next two years. He decided to leave after his first year after hurting his arm playing baseball and attend culinary school. He moved back home to Orange County and things got back to the way they were for us before college.
The rest of our college careers passed by uneventfully, in 2005 I was laid off when his father sold his company and I began working for a printing company in Lake Forest. Mike also quit his job working at a restaurant in Downtown Disney and began working for the Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel, a job he enjoys very much. In Spring 2007 I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Mike proposed to me on my graduation day. A few months later, Mike completed his schooling at the Art Institute with an Associate of Arts in Culinary Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Management. A few months after that we moved into an apartment together and got married.
Besides an obvious love of English literature, I also enjoy discovering and listening to new music, shopping and watching movies. I also like crafting, my favorites being quilting and working on my wedding scrapbook.
Please enjoy some quotes from some of my favorite pieces of literature, and I hope you enjoy reading my website!
“Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help.” — Psalm 22:11
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment betwen breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.” — George Eliot, Middlemarch
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” — George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action, they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.” — George Eliot, Middlemarch
“It is not violence that best overcomes hate, nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
“‘Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.’” — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
