These are the everyday adventures of a California Girl in Kansas City (with guest appearances by a boy, two pugs and the world’s fattest cat). Despite recent evidence to the contrary, this is NOT a wedding blog. I swear. Really. BTW, all opinions posted here are my own.Tumblr (3.0; @sheasylvia)http://blog.sheasylvia.com/<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12562270&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12562270&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12562270&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>If you don’t mind crying at your desk, watch this video.</p> <blockquote>Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, remember their life together—from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer. This remarkable couple personifies the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of every day people if we take the time to listen.</blockquote> <p>“Marriage is like having a color television set. Once you have it, you don’t want to go back to black and white.”</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1053601682http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1053601682Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:09:07 -0500marriagevideolove<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l82sdzWUIk1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GPOYW: Beach edition.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1048356224http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1048356224Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:47 -0500gpoywsanta cruz<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7z36cEZnU1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7z36cEZnU1qzog1eo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7z36cEZnU1qzog1eo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7z36cEZnU1qzog1eo5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7z36cEZnU1qzog1eo11_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Our trip to Northern California can be summed up as follows:</p> <ul> <li>We went to the beach.</li> <li>We took a lot of pictures of ourselves on the beach.</li> <li>We ate amazing seafood (at the restaurant where we’ll be having our reception, no less).</li> <li>We visited with family. My niece officially has me wrapped around her little finger.</li> <li>We loved every second of it. </li> </ul> <p>I’ve now added “Convince Aaron to move back to California with me” to my five year plan.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1037341773http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1037341773Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:01:00 -0500CaliforniahomeSanta Cruz<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7sk5iFSsT1qzw5g9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://adultlifetaketwo.tumblr.com/post/1017721500/walk-n-snort" target="_blank">adultlifetaketwo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Walk ‘n’ Snort</p> </blockquote> <p>A huge, HUGE thank you to <a target="_blank" href="http://adultlifetaketwo.tumblr.com">C</a> who pugsat for us while we gallivanted around Northern California. Tumblr friends are the best kind.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1037286326http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1037286326Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:46:43 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7s16yMd9Q1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1015865064http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1015865064Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:34:49 -0500love<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7rvn7NjgU1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Spending the morning watching surfers.</p> <p>Pleasure Point | Santa Cruz | California</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1015374208http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1015374208Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:34:47 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7ru06AnST1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hello lover.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1015237942http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1015237942Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:59:32 -0500the meccaTJ'slove<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7r2gvAj7H1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This was obviously the first order of business.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1013332570http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1013332570Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:04:44 -0500homeCaliforniaIn-N-Outnomsanimal style<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7pxyv0Ecj1qzog1eo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>GPOYW</strong> - Geisha Edition</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1009678618http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1009678618Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:30:00 -0500gpoyw<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7os3y1NHX1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Today just got infinitely better.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1006577876http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1006577876Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:25:51 -0500jeff lewisspirit animalwine“Marriage is not a scarce resource that has to be rationed. (Nor is love.) When Walker pressed a lawyer for Prop. 8, who had been talking about marriage existing for procreation, to say in what way, exactly, marriage equality would harm the institution, the answer was “I don’t know.” Ross Douthat, a columnist for the Times, wrote that a “marital ideal” would be lost—but he admitted that this ideal was disconnected from reality. The shattering of an illusion, or the grip of a prejudice, is not enough to give someone standing in court. What might undermine marriage is pushing fully loaded domestic partnerships—marriage-lite, lacking the constricting, exalting, maddening qualities of the real thing—as an alternative, another box to check. This might become an attractive option for everyone. If such contractual arrangements are really just as good as marriage, then what is a wedding good for, other than cake?”<br/><br/> - <em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/08/30/100830taco_talk_davidson">Just Married: The next steps for gay marriage | The New Yorker</a></em>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1005551998http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1005551998Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:41:41 -0500gay marriageprop 8marriage<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7nwapqdRY1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m pretty sure the pugs stole the show during our (brief thanks to torrential rain) engagement/family photo session last week. </p> <p>(<em>photo by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jenniferwhiteportraits.com/">Jennifer White</a></em>)</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1003728965http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/1003728965Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:59:13 -0500pugs<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7lum2ZiVi1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>In two days…</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/997941121http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/997941121Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:26:36 -0500santa cruzcaliforniamy peopletravel<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7j082Hdj91qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Weekend pug.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/989675670http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/989675670Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:35:33 -0500pugsOliver<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7ghn9sr8j1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My favorite photo from <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/980137347">last night</a>. </p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/982661320http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/982661320Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:59:33 -0500black ballooniPhone 4“I believe that net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time — unless it’s freedom of religion, which until last week I thought we had kinda worked out.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://theuptake.org/2010/08/19/franken-net-neutrality-biggest-issue-since-freedom-of-religion/" target="_blank">Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)</a> (via <a href="http://savingpaper.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">savingpaper</a>) (via <a href="http://think4yourself.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">think4yourself</a>) (via <a href="http://mustamuseme.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">mustamuseme</a>)</em>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/980342173http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/980342173Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:00:48 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7fi9ggJDO1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nope, I didn’t just teleport back to 1997. But yes, I am at a Goo Goo Dolls concert.</p> <p>I’d be lying if I said I didn’t get excited when they played “Slide.”</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/980137347http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/980137347Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:14:43 -0500thingsidoforlove<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7eu9yzDar1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bristolseafoodgrill.com/">Bristol</a> is easily one of my favorite restaurants.</p> <p>Sparkling wine is definitely one of my favorite beverages.</p> <p>Combine the two and you have <a target="_blank" href="http://bristolkc.eventbrite.com/">a pretty fabulous event</a>.</p> <p><em>Full disclosure: I’m not getting any freebies for posting this. I just like Bristol (we went there to celebrate our engagement and their happy hour is amazing) and I like wine. Obvs.</em></p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/977986993http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/977986993Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:37:00 -0500foodwinekansas city<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7dk026XHG1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wearing our Royals blue.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/974605565http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/974605565Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:57:08 -0500aaronroyalskansas city<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7di2duHpp1qzog1eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wednesday night at the K.</p>http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/974424663http://blog.sheasylvia.com/post/974424663Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:15:14 -0500kansas cityroyals