Alrighty, folks. It’s finally that time that I was telling you about many moons ago. And by “that time” I am of course referring to you updating your bookmarks and/or RSS feeds to my new URL: http://huongfralin.com and  http://huongfralin.com/blog.

No more hyphen, no more single lady, all new married name, all new design. It’s mostly just a make-over to my old site which had not been updated for centuries so I’m just pretty proud of finally taking the time to take care of it. And special thanks to my husband who built it for me and made sure it worked. I got the fun job—designing the layout, picking the fonts, uploading images, while he had to worry about heights and widths, codes and links, etc. And this is only round one of the launch…there are still a few things to be added such as icons to find me elsewhere as well as an updated bio picture, but I have one in it’s place for now and those of you who read my blog already know where to find me elsewhere via the links to the right. And I am not necessarily sure the edits I’ve made for the site are final but I’m too excited to just let it sit there and not tell anyone about it while I keep changing my mind about things. So yeah, it’s nothing fancy, but then again, neither am I.

My categories are people, places, and things (the definition of a noun) as an ode to my alter ego, the journalist, and I should mention that I totally don’t even like pink in real life but for some reason I’m drawn to use it on my sites for that punch of color. Maybe because some people can’t figure out if Huong is a man or a woman’s name and I think the pink might help them. You’d be surprised at how much junk mail comes to our apartment addressed to Mr. Huong. So let me know what you think and if you encounter any problems. My site hasn’t been completely moved to the new url yet so you can’t use the back and forth buttons in your browser without it doing something you don’t want it to do, but that’ll be remedied.

And of course because a post without a photo is a boring post, here I am in the reflection of my travel box…it has old stickers all over it and I don’t even remember where it came from but I just know that I love it. I taped a polaroid of Jeff to the mirror in college because I once saw Liv Tyler do that to the inside of her travel case in That Thing You Do (I totally own it on VHS). Love that movie. It made me want to be a drummer.

*I can’t ever decide whether I like diptychs to touch or not…I usually put the space in between just because it looks consistent with the space between each row of images but if you have any thoughts on this minor detail (I make a big deal out of what most would call minor details) I’d love to hear them.*