BORING MARRIED PERSON 101: A GUIDE

 I've been in a funk lately. I realized this when the most exciting thing I have done in the past 7 days was to go to ikea and buy $2 breakfast with my husband  (7/10 would recommend). And then after that I was exhausted...like I needed to go take a nap to recover. Work is life - think 20 shoots and 50 hours a week. Though I have sufficiently learned how to get "in" with all the Utah moms by complimenting their pristinely dressed children, I haven't been feeling super inspired lately. Pros and cons. ;) 

Usually I write blog posts every couple of months when I'm feeling particularly witty, uplifted and far away from struggling with the thing I was writing about, but I AM IN THE THICK OF IT NOW. Are you ready for the problem?

Life is dull. 

If they made a documentary about my life it would get 1 star on netflix. Maybe 2 if I had a cute dog.

It shouldn't be such a big thing, but it just....is. I can count on two hands the amount of friends I have traveling in Europe right now and I'm just doing my thang here in good ol' Provo, spending all my money on rent and my little blue car that decided to putter out and die. RIP blueberry. ps. was now really a good time, blueberry?   So I'm just kind of wondering - Is this MARRIAGE? Seeing my husband 2 hours a day before crashing in bed, exhausted? IS THIS MY LIFE NOW? 

Don't get me wrong, my job is AMAZING. I can't tell you how much being a full-time photographer has helped my people skills. It's a dream come true!! Someone read me this quote the other day that said "don't take advantage of the things you have that you used to want the most." I needed a good reason to drop out of college ;) AND I GOT IT. Only this is like photography college in a way with a two year contract that includes the exercising of creativity, socializing with a lot of strangers, getting lots of freckles working outside and oh yeah, I get paid!!! So that's great. It's my first career. It's good.  I'm tired, but it's good. I tell myself that this is my education and that I need to soak it up while I can. (Get back to me in 3 years when I have my own business shooting destination weddings all over the world and working my own hours!! 0% kidding.)

Photography is super rewarding! Look at some of my pics from this past week:

So yeah. My life is about as exciting as eating tacos and watching Parks and Rec with Connor. Today we climbed a tree! Tonight we'll go to bed early!! But you know what? Looking at it in perspective, this is the first time I have ever been 100% self-sufficient. I live in the cuuutest little brick house, I don't know how to treat strangers like strangers anymore, I have a husband who will give me back massages and I live in a state that has like 500 million temples!! I don't really have time for a social life, but when I do I will DEFINITELY be taking applications for some homegurls (or c

ounting down the days until Sister Monk comes home from her mission so I can brainwash her into living near me for the rest of her life and planning arranged marriages between our children.)

Okay!! Well yeah!! Thanks for reading my blog! Now go read your favorite travel blogger and get hyped again. ;) 

xoxo

Hallie Jo