solution

perfect solution to an awful day

Call it cheesy all you want :P


-Chicken club car sandwich from Dairy Keen (yes, Keen, not Queen)
-Vanilla coke
-French fries WITH fry sauce
-Finish 3 lessons promised to self to finish before Friday night (did it Thursday night YAY!)
-Snickers shake (still haven't eaten yet, going to after I start the 4th lesson for this week :) ).
-Sight read/practice piano music that came in mail today
-Have SO's b-day present arrive in mail today
-Be told by professor you are right when you're sure you're wrong, but you cannot find any other reason and now reassured you aren't stupid after all
-Skittles Smoothies
-Diet Pepsi
-Have a folding clothes party with sister while watching movie below
-Man of the House (great movie with Tommy Lee Jones)
-Catch the end of the meteor shower after movie (watched alone as sister was asleep)
-Find another state quarter for quarter collection, only 10 more to be back up to date with all quarters since 1999
-Do more laundry and fold more clothes, begin packing for long anticipated CA road trip, leaving Friday night
-Go to bed after long, exahusting day/almost content and satisifed night.

the only key ingredient missing?

Bryan.

Blanding

So it's been a while since I've truly updated on anything. It's been quite busy. I left last week Tuesday (july 26) to go teach an Intro class in Blanding, was there until Thursday, got home Thursday night (drove with my brother, and it's one of the most boring drives you could ever think of). The day I got home, There was a guest at my house already fromt he night before. A friend of my sister's was staying until EFY started on Monday, we also had the boy from England fly in the same night I got home. He's here until the 17th I believe. So we've been trying to keep them entertained and get work done and so forth. Then Monday my sister's friend left, later that afternoon we all left to Ogden for the cueing camp, Camp CueTah. We all worked there doing something, whether it be teaching, video production or counselor. We just got back at 1130 pm last night. We now have not only the boy from England, but a woman form Minnesota with her daughter who has Down Syndrome with us for now. They stayed the night last night, they leave in a few hours. We also have a man from Washington staying with us as well, he's here until Monday. Then on Tuesday or Wednesday mom has asked me to see if I can get the boy from England to a water park or something (tonight we're doing a parade and a rodeo). Then Thursday my family leaves for Lake Powell, all but me and one of my sisters, she has to work. Then I leave for California with Bryan Friday night, and will be gone until the 21st. I'm looking forward to it, but I wouldn't mind having a few days at home where the house was just back to normal. yeah...I just want the normal household back for now, it'd be nice. 
Camp was great, lots of fun stuff happened, update more about that later as now I have to go shopping to entertain more guests....:)

hair

Got my hair done today

Highlighted and cut it. 

This first pic doesn't show much of a difference in my cut I guess, but my bangs are completely flat in there, I've always had them somehwat curled/hickish i guess one would say. It makes a difference to me in real life :) Before I cut them, my bangs were covering my eyes if that gives you an idea. The rest of my hair was just trimmed to fit bry's request to keep my hair long
THis last pic is just to show the contrast for those who care :) She did it much more blonde this time thatn i've ever had it before. 

Sissy

I worked late again last night. I went to bed at 2, so not too late, but I woke up every hour, pretty much right on the dot after I went to bed. Drove me nuts, so I finally got up at 7 just cause it was just becoming annoying to wake up every hour (note it took about 10-15 minutes to go back to sleep each time). Tired and rough night, not just from sleep, but things in general. But for some odd reason, I just feel a lot better today. Did a lot of praying/meditating/reading this morning. Helped a lot, and I feel much better, but I'm still exhausted. course the gym didn't help me feel anymore awake either...:). 
One of the dogs, Sissy, a golden retriever/yellow lab mix, is just darn cute every time she goes to sleep. I've provided a picture :) 



She's just so cute

earwigs

 it's all girls here tonight since dad is at work and michael is on a camp out and brent hasn't come home yet, maybe tmrw. We went to dairy keen for dinner, got shakes, and rented 4 movies. We only watched one tonight of course, the others people can watch with us, but we had to get an ultimate chick flick: "Message In A Bottle". Makes me cry every time I see it, I confess! we just finished watching it, and it was a nice break from having to try so hard to find everything for work. 
While watching the movie we had all the lights off. My mom gets up to go somewhere and turns the light on. Bryan you remember all those earwigs on the porch the other night? well yeah, about half of those were in the frontroom/entry way. EWEWEWEWEWEW my sister immediately went and got the hand vacuum and I swear we sucked up at least 20 of them. Sissy, our puppy/dog, helped by eating a few. It was just gross and UGH gross! There were some on the wall, and I hadn't seen any in the basement recently, so we all immediately went down to the basement since we're all wide awake (well 3 of us anyway, one sister conked out since she HATES chick flicks), to do more work and stuff. As soon as I sit down..an earwig crawled out of under my keyboard. SO FREAKING GROSS. I have the heebie bajeebies. bleh. We can't afford to have a professional come and get them cause of some recent financial/car troubles. I just hope they will go away! ew

Edit: (45 minutes later)
so yeah, i complained about ONE earwig under my keyboard, after i moved my backpack and a couple of boxes, i went on a killing rampage with the ever handy fly swatter. I lost count of how many i killed at 45. GROSS. Yes i did count them, it reminded me of Legolas and Gimli in LOTR, geeky I know, but hey it's 130 AM

Teacher

I have decided that my mind/body knew that me being a teacher for a career would be the best thing for me without me realizing some of the reasons why. 
A - I love kids, absoloutely love them. I'm still trying to get over my shyness with kids, part of it is due to the fact that I can't hear them that well cause of my hearing loss, but I still love them nonetheless. 
B - I get to use creativity, my usage of creativity has been dulled out over the past few years, and I need to use it again, and I like trying to figure out how to make things fun but purposeful at the same time
C - THIS is the realization I just made now. Being a teacher, I can move around and interact and so forth. I get so restless doing a computer desk job nowadays. I never had a major problem before, but over the past year, it's been really really hard for me to just sit down at a computer and work for a job. I get bored so fast and so easily. 
D - I think the learning process of kids (I want to be a preschool teacher) is just amazing. How much they are capable of learning at that age just blows me away every time I study it. Just amazing. 
So yes, I am going to be a teacher, just the process of getting there that takes work! :)

Wedding

Bad news (i always like to end on a good note if possible): I gained 5 pounds since Thursday due to lots of eating over the weekend. i had been really good about not snacking in between meals and going to the gym everyday Mon-Fri. Snacking was beyond out of control this past weekend, and I didn't go to the gym yesterday, I thought just maybe I could count boating since tubing takes a lot of energy to get on and hold on when you're laying on your stomach and are only holding on to two handles with your hands, using your arm strength to keep you on, but alas, it was not so. So that's a major bummer, as I was about to hit my 10 lb loss. :(
Good news: I got to meet with my best friend from hs today. It was great catching up, course I had a motive too, but it finally got her to have a lunch with me :) Her sister has her own floral business, and I've seen her work and I absoloutely love her work, I mean LOVE it, so I met with her after Ren and I had some lunch (chatted for an hour and a half), then went to her sister's to talk about flowers. With all 7 men's boutoniers, 4 bridesmaid bouquets, 2 mother's corsages, and my great big (it's gonna be huge!!!!) bouquet, it's 305 with tax. GREAT price (yes that does include roses in all of the bouquets!)! I am so excited. Course with how I want the cake, it'll hvae a lot of roses on it, and roses aren't cheap, so it'll be another 150 for the roses on the cake, but still 460ish all in all? holy crap so nice! YAY! Now I'm just looking into how much it would cost to rent stuff and decorate the cultural hall of a stake center compared to getting a reception center. And now that we have the colors all set, and generally have a good idea of what we want the bridesmaids to wear and pretty much know what we want the groomsmen to wear, things are starting to feel better. And the budget management is looking better as I go along. Just need to either find a great but cheap reception center (VERY hard to find)/rentals that will make a cultural hall feel like a real reception, music and food. I know what I want for center pieces and table clothes. Just gotta run it through to make sure it works for everyone and see if i can find the glass boxes I want somewhere first for a good price. Even have an idea of how I want the table to be set up for the guest book signing in...I'm just getting more and more excited about this, and most of these decisions have been mine and bry's ideas rather than moms butting in, so it's way nice *knocks on wood* :) 
This fourth of july weekend was awesome. Saw Bryan Thursday. Went boating Saturday, went on a fun date/dinner with bry that night, Sunday was with my family and Bry, Monday was boating (Bry came along YAY!), and just hanging out and relaxing with Bry afterwards and saw the fireworks here in town, which weren't actually half bad. I always forget that my town does pretty decent fireworks for how small we are. I got to see him 4 days in one week time, that was awesome. :) Won't have that again for awhile though, but hey only....3 months and 2 days until the wedding (which is also 94 days left, but who's counting? ;) ). 
I'm just happy, and it's been nice to be happy for a long period of time :)