{"id":9863,"date":"2022-12-04T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=9863"},"modified":"2022-12-05T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:15:24","slug":"my-wedding-nose-surgery-combat-fitness-seminar-vid-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2022\/12\/04\/my-wedding-nose-surgery-combat-fitness-seminar-vid-games\/","title":{"rendered":"My wedding! Nose surgery. Combat Fitness seminar. Vid games."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our wedding was fantastic! Funny, Chris once said something about little girls dreaming about weddings, and he wanted my wedding dress to be everything I dreamed of. Hah I tried NOT to be a girl who dreamed about a prince. And I don&#8217;t like dresses. When I hit my twenties, just going on a date became a goal, and thirties, having a boyfriend. Well, for not having dreams, my wedding became a living dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My favorite parts were having my friends from all ages of my life make the effort to trek from all across the country to come; dancing the waltz routine that Chris and I practiced for months while my aunt sang the Disney song; and seeing Chris smile so widely when he looked at me and held my hand. I haven&#8217;t had very much romance until recently.  Yes, true love is everything it&#8217;s cracked up to be.  I&#8217;m so happy and peaceful inside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cake-cutting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cake-cutting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9864\" width=\"544\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cake-cutting.jpg 725w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/cake-cutting-632x800.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">eating cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s so funny how, growing up, I thought I should be a strong independent woman who doesn&#8217;t need no man! He can make his own lunch and do housework! Equality for women! yeah! And now I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Darling, would you like mayonnaise or mustard on your sandwich?&#8221; lol Super excited to be helpful by making his sandwich every morning for lunch, and folding his laundry. I guess that is the definition of love. One time, he said, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay, I&#8217;ll do my own laundry.&#8221; My reaction was, &#8220;&#8230;but&#8230;but&#8230;nooooo ;_; &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yeah. Here are some non-pro pics we took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CVPT9404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CVPT9404-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9865\" width=\"765\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CVPT9404-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CVPT9404-632x632.jpg 632w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CVPT9404-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/CVPT9404.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">you guys, the dip was really hard for me to learn LOL you have no idea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9866\" width=\"765\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n-1020x765.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n-632x474.jpg 632w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/311772872_10108949602097542_7345592243496186874_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">bachelorette party~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve got my elementary school friends, high school, fight friends, besties, new sister-in-law, and cousin-in-law all in one pic. I&#8217;m only missing my college era friend &#8211; I missed you and love you, Q! I had friends who either couldn&#8217;t make it, or I couldn&#8217;t invite because of guest count limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4916.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9867\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4916.jpg 640w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4916-632x474.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">husband and wife!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THEN, the nose surgery for a deviated septum that I&#8217;ve been trying to schedule for an entire year finally happened!! I won&#8217;t even go into all the drama that went into that. well, okay, you really want to know? 1) had to wait for doc&#8217;s opening 2) doc had medical emergency 3) doc&#8217;s office scheduled and canceled twice for summer. Months passed. 4) found new doc 5) scheduled for September 6)  insurance wouldn&#8217;t get approved 7) surgery got canceled 8) went back to doc #1. but no openings 9) last minute cancelation got me in the week after my wedding!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yaaaaaay but omfreaking g it was rough. Septoplasty. On the day of my surgery after Chris brought me home, I passed out in the kitchen and shook violently after trying to sit at the table. I was NOT prepared for the different stage of healing process. I didn&#8217;t know I&#8217;d be bed ridden for a week, or that my nose would constantly drip blood for 3 days. I thought after they took the tubes out of my nose, I&#8217;d be able to breathe. Not even close. I thought that two weeks later I could breathe. Not really. They said normal after two weeks. um, Normal my buttcheeks! I still snored. Yellow scabby junk and bloody loogies were coming out of me and nobody from the doc&#8217;s office would answer my phone calls. That is, not until I left a message outlining all the disgusting gross details of my issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then they called me after twenty minutes. Hahahahaha take that. I&#8217;m sure you didn&#8217;t want to know all that, receptionist. You could have called me back the first time I left a message several weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took a pic of my bloody nose but then deleted it. I&#8217;m sure nobody wants to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nurse who called me after my detailed message wasn&#8217;t even working for my specific doctor, but she probably took pity on me. She said it&#8217;s a 6-8 week recovery. wtf? Nobody told me that. I mean, it&#8217;s fine, but I hadn&#8217;t understood beforehand.  I had to cancel two seminars. And I still snored, so Chris had trouble sleeping still. It&#8217;s been awful all year with the sleep. I just wanted to stop snoring. I don&#8217;t even care if I never breathed out of my right nostril again. I did this whole surgery thing for him, and even after that, it was still terrible. *pout*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally. Yesterday. He said my snoring was soft it didn&#8217;t bother him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. I cried happy tears.  I&#8217;m so grateful my nose is mostly fixed. Thanks, doc, and thanks UFC for paying. I don&#8217;t mean to complain so much. I just wish I had been better mentally prepared for the healing process. This is week 6 and I&#8217;m not back to normal, but I was under the impression I would be. I was so scared! \ud83d\ude41 I didn&#8217;t know what was happening to me, and if I was worse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was able to do one seminar at Combat Fitness \/ Team Phoenix in North Carolina! Thank you, Graeme Prue, for bringing me out. I got to meet Combate\/ Invicta fighter Katie Perez and we made friends. What a fun experience I had there! Sorry I wasn&#8217;t able to roll hard. Thanks for being so gentle with me, guys who I trained with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316314783_638175981283005_7612870234904145454_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316314783_638175981283005_7612870234904145454_n-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9869\" width=\"765\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316314783_638175981283005_7612870234904145454_n-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316314783_638175981283005_7612870234904145454_n-632x632.jpg 632w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316314783_638175981283005_7612870234904145454_n-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316314783_638175981283005_7612870234904145454_n.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9870\" width=\"765\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n-1020x765.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n-632x474.jpg 632w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/316165185_10229003214289218_1050539363570406914_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been super obsessed with this video game Hollow Knight. I often get frustrated with video games, but this one was so cute, and the style of adventure and exploration was the perfect level for me. I love it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hollow-knight.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hollow-knight.1-1020x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9871\" width=\"255\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hollow-knight.1-1020x784.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hollow-knight.1-632x486.jpg 632w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hollow-knight.1-768x590.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/hollow-knight.1.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did some substitute teaching last week and it was alright. I worked as an aide, not a full-sub, which was a little disappointing. I had to be there long hours for little pay.  However, I learned some important lessons that I needed to learn to prepare myself, so I&#8217;m glad I had that experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m still not sure what I want to do with my life. Maybe I&#8217;m doing it right now!  It&#8217;s so strange not having a singular goal like getting better to win fights in the UFC. I&#8217;m so used to having a goal. Well, I guess that&#8217;s not true. When I lived in Japan, I worked my job and trained to get better. I&#8217;m still doing jiujitsu. Focusing on leg locks. Yeah, I&#8217;m working hard. Trying to get physically stronger. I really want to be a better teacher. I also want to learn how to sew, and I want to take care of my man. I&#8217;m ALSO trying to become stronger and more firm in my interactions with other people. Yeah!!! Go Go Roxanne Roman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shout out to my blog sponsor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcithouston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mcithouston.com\/<\/a> My Consumer I.T. Houston. They specialize in Networking, Support, Telecommunications, Computer Networking, Computer Repair and Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/my-consumer-it-mcit-logo-768x303-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/my-consumer-it-mcit-logo-768x303-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9586\" width=\"384\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/my-consumer-it-mcit-logo-768x303-1.jpg 768w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/my-consumer-it-mcit-logo-768x303-1-632x249.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our wedding was fantastic! Funny, Chris once said something about little girls dreaming about weddings, and he wanted my wedding dress to be everything I dreamed of. Hah I tried NOT to be a girl who dreamed about a prince. And I don&#8217;t like dresses. When I hit my twenties, just going on a date&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9878,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}