My name is Kelsey, not Roofresh, but Roo IS my nickname. I live in the Phoenix area with my husband and we are having fun being newlyweds and going on crazy adventures together. We like finding new hangouts, food, art, music and friends; so that's pretty much what my blog is about. You'll find a bit of fashion, design, nutrition and family sprinkled throughout my content, or anything else that catches my eye at the moment. My blog has changed a lot over the last year, but you'll see that it's really just a record of our lives together; our public journal.
I know that I haven't posted very much the last couple of weeks, but we've been hard at work at the Strothers' household. We have been working on getting the place cleaned up, inside and out, both of us have traveled a lot for work, I got sick, Jim entered into a high stakes weight loss competition and I am training for a 1/2 marathon! Whew! I don't have to travel as much this month, so hopefully I can get some more blogging in.
ANYWAY. Since I've been doing my training and it's been way too hot out to run still, so I've been spending a lot of quality time with the treadmill. I know this is going to sound cheesy, but I've been listening to a lot of Katy Perry. DON'T JUDGE ME! I liked a couple of her songs so I decided to download the album and it's really good workout music! So there's this one song called "The One that Got Away" that really resonated with me, but for less obvious reasons. There's not an official music video, so here's the best I could find..Hopefully Ariel does it justice.
Normally, meaning before Jim, I would hear this song and think about a boy in my life and be sad or nostalgic and be upset by the song. Now, having Jim in my life I started thinking about what my life would be like without him. I know it's kind of morbid to think like this, but if something awful happened to him, I would be devastated, but I think it would be just as hard to see him move on without me!
So I started to think about how lucky I am to have him in my life. This song really just made me think about how silly I was when I was younger and how fortunate I am to have such an amazing man in my life. It honestly made me have a very content and triumphant feeling. While it's still a sad song, it was nice to feel a different emotion along with this; knowing that my life is right and that I made the best choice in the end and have no regrets.
I'm so happy because I'll never have to think of my husband as the one that got away...
Sorry to be so mushy, but a girl's gotta share her feelings from time to time! So what about you? Any good songs out there that make you happy, sad, bitter-sweet or make you look at things a different way? Share!
I wanted to share this cool post that was done about the invites that Jim and I did for our wedding. I've posted our invites on the blog before, but Ashley from HiFi Weddings recently did a post on them and I really think that you should mosey on over to her blog if you haven't already. The general idea behind HiFi is real weddings, couples and the music they chose as inspiration for all those who appreciate music. It really is a neat concept and a such fun blog to read!
Cute lil' blog huh? What's your favorite song to hear at a wedding? Did you have an awesome playlist for yours? I'd love to hear what songs really get you movin'!
I love getting mail, like actual letter, postcard, stamps, envelopes, MAIL. Well a couple of weeks ago I was having a twitsation (twitter-conversation) with my pal Brandi from Mucho Mucho Bueno Bueno, and she talking about how she was lounging around in bed, and then I told her about how I was already driving to work and that it takes me an hour, and then she said "well it sounds like you need a mixed tape (CD)!"
So I was super stoked when Jim Bob came back from the mail box with THIS the other night!
This is by far one of the best things I've ever gotten in the mail, and for sure the best thing I've ever gotten from someone I haven't met in person! Brandi and her sister Kelly are both some of the most creative minds that I've seen and they both work together to make Mucho Mucho Bueno Bueno. You can totally see, just by checking out their blog, that they are a close family (and it's probably because they're really nice-I got a mixed CD and I'm essentially a stranger!)
If you haven't been living under a rock, you've probably heard this song. It's new to me though and I'm obsessed! I love the sweetness to it and the nostalgic sound. Check it out...
Even better than the original song is this Cover...
If you had not seen it, I'm glad you have now and I hope it brightened your day. If you had, I still hope you smiled.
Roo
Ps. My favorite part is when she says "one day I'm gonna whistle?" sooo cute!
