California

First off, if you're bored enough to see all the photos from this trip to SF, go here:and the pics start near the bottom with the first picture being BayBridge. :) 
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/slvrchic83/California%20Trip/
Now, I'm home, long car ride, but I wasn't driving so I was lucky enough to sleep for 2 of the 10ish hours of the drive. it was nice. brief summary of what we did. Friday - drove there. Saturday - Went to napa county fair. Sunday - Went to church, ran errands, and ate chinese. Monday - Went to SF and took picutres, Lombard St, Golden Gate and ate lunch with Dale. Tuesday - Beach in Santa Cruz (I think), very very very cold. Wednesday - Gave the two big dogs baths...long story and I want to kill Bryan. :) Thursday - Bry worked on the car with his dad, I went to pick up Bri and Jay with Bry's mom, then went out for Bry's birthday dinner, came home and relaxed. Friday - Great America after being lost for over an hour..not Bry's fault though. Saturday - Went to Yosemite, took Jay and Bri home, went home. Sunday - Drove home. 
Very short summary, overall, I had fun, it was long, but I had fun. :) 
Now back to reality...and YAY Engagement pics are being taken tmrw!!! YAY! :) only 45 more days til I get married! :D

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! :)