I was hoping that would get your attention. You may have heard that you can send a wedding invitation to the White House and receive a response. B & I decided to test this out for ourselves, and we received a very timely response from the Hon. President Barack Obama & Mrs. Obama. Squeee!!!You can't tell from my scanned-in version, but the border is dark gold and 'The White House, Washington' is dark blue. I am so excited that our wedding will happen during the Obama administration so we can have the above keepsake for our scrapbook. I think it's neat for B given his lawyerly interests. It's really cool for me because I only became a US citizen in 2006. Did you know only US citizens are eligible to receive White House greeting cards?
Anyway, next time you'd like to invite the President & his family to your special function (wedding, baby's delivery, 100th birthday party, graduation, etc), write to them at:
The Honorable Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama
The White House
Greetings Office Rm. 39
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
I was thinking some more about why I switched blogs. Somehow I felt that my old one had gotten too negative. There were a lot of posts when things weren't going well, and very few when they were. So I started a brighter and cheerier blog, inspired by murder mysteries with happy endings that you read with a cup of tea, and have made the following resolutions for a more uplifting blogging experience:
Nia's Blogging Resolutions
1. I will post more positive material than negative material. My own blog will therefore not depress me.
2. I will post posts of some substance, not 'tweet posts' that run like this: "I'm so tired. I'm still alive. Medical school is hard. Kthanksbye."
3. I will try to include a substantial bit of news or a new fact, etc. in each post. This is primarily to avoid #2 and also to convince myself that I'm learning. Something. New. Every. Day.
4. I will attempt to post at least once a week. Oh, boy, I can't believe I just typed that out loud.
5. I will respond to all comments made in earnest by anyone who takes the time to leave them.
How about you? Have you ever started a journal/blog/diary only to find that it gets you down more than it acts as an outlet? How do you lift yourself out of a funk?
Your friend,
Nia
This is so cool! I'm totally gonna start sending Michelle and Barack invitations to things and, like, Rosh Hashana cards and stuff. Love it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, congrats on your research year and new blog! Definitely understood. You need outlets for bitching-- but perhaps you don't want such a permanent and widespread medium to be that outlet (I have a fun story about my peace corps blog- remind me to tell it to you sometime).
Love,
E
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ReplyDeleteOops, sorry -- I deleted my reply! Here it is:
ReplyDeleteHello hello! Thanks so much for your support of both the new blog and of contacting the President. I hope I see you on Monday at the class breakfast -- I'm excited! Maybe then you can tell me the Peace Corps blog story... now I'm going to go add myself as a follower to your blog (sorry I hadn't done that yet).