Hitched—Now What?

As you all know who have read the past posts, I've been diligently working to "Be present one day at a time", however why does it seem like the people in and around us are always pushing our minds away from right now and depriving us of the bliss that living in the moment brings?  When hubby and I reached the 1 year anniversary marker everyone started asking, "When are you getting engaged?"  Then when we got engaged, the new question was, "When are you getting married?"  NOW that we're married it's, "When are you having children?" Yikes people—whatever happen to the simple old fashioned, "How are you doing today?"

We are leaving for Italy in T-minus 6 days and aside from the grotesque amounts of gelato and pasta I will be consuming, I will most enjoy a place where the popularity of "You snooze, you lose" will be trumped by "La dolce vita"(the good life) & "Il dolce farniente" (the sweetness of doing nothing).  I hope the euphoric relaxation will carry back over to the homeland when I begin to plot out my next quest to set out and conquer.  I would like to meet the originator of the motto that Californians live a laid back lifestyle—he/she must have only met the hippies in OB where half drive the tie-dye vans that smell of Mary Jane while the other half search for nickels in the sand.  Then again, maybe the peace loving activists of the 60's have had it right all along and it's the simple things in life that make living in the present so momentous. I mean Carrie's relationship with Berger was almost compromised over a scrunchy so maybe the smallest of details really DO make all the difference.

This makes me think I should read "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff" by Richard Carlson on the flight over.  I will have 16 hours to kill after all...