Wow, for once we have had a 'normal' couple of days. What I mean by this is that I have been able to spend time with my hubby that does not require running around crashing (although this happened as well) or checking stuff off of my long list of 'to-do's.' Last night we wandered through R.C. Willey and discussed the possibility of buying a larger television, looked at random furniture, and once we came home picked up the office together and each worked on our random projects as we just sepent time in each others company.
Now I know in comparrison to my recent blogs it sounds like I have begun to loose my mind. This is not the case. I have finally understood that it is not yet our time. Meaning: While I desperately want to become financially secure and start a family, like all of my friends and family are doing, I need to realize that they have all been married for a few (or at least a couple) years. As such, they have done their time, lived through the uncertainty and stressful few years where you have to work extra hard to meld two lives together and become seccure in the world. We are not the only one's who feel this way. It is now our turn to go through the hard times and learn to appreciate what we have before moving forward.
Great thought no? Well I thought so, and have been trying extra hard to convince myself of this fact. Two weeks later, I think it finally sank in! Well I gotta run, gonna be a good wife and take him to class so I can steal his car and go shopping!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Things you do around the house before having children
........somehow my brain did not immediately pull up the correct answer, Childproofing. Game days are always a blast. I decided to write down a few of our favorite random games that we play with the friends.
*Munchkins-very fun crazy play on words game.
*Last Word-shout out the random words that pop into your head, only they have to match the theme and the letter. No, Hilary, Kanye West does not apply.
*Cranium-everything crazy and fun mashed into one game. Be sure to be out going or you will get no where.
*Sorry Card Revenge- Uno meets a talking pawn. Take two cards................and then take SEVEN more!!!!
*Monarch-Random history game concerning the monarchs of Britain.
*Catchphrase-always hysterical (notice the title of the post, it involved root beer being sprayed in a fine mist all over my body as well as the living room)
*Bananagram-Scrabble with a twist.
*Risk-well duh!
*Colosseum- Can't even begin to describe this one but it is awesome and takes brains.
The list could literally go on and on, always looking for new ones please let me know if there is a critical one missing from my list.
*and a new one today. Word on the Street. It is so funny! Quote of the day: Poop! If we move the poop we get the P!
Monday, February 15, 2010
If No News is Good News.....We Definately Have News...
Along with last weeks GREAT news concerning the job front....beep beep beep beep beep...Jordan School District to Lay, off 500 Employees: 250 Teachers, 250 Administrators. Wow, if picking the hardest subject was not making it hard enough, now I have an extra 250 experienced (in the best school district in the state mind you) teachers, plus all of those administrators who are also teachers, to compete against. Life just keeps getting better and better.
To top all of this off, I am back from a wonderful WARM vacation in St. George, ready to get back to the grindstone...yippeeeee.
To top all of this off, I am back from a wonderful WARM vacation in St. George, ready to get back to the grindstone...yippeeeee.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
No news is good news....or is it?
Well how to start. If I remember right I updated everyone on the whole job situation and how David is picking up hours with the custodial crew at night as their supervisor. Well the other day I was thinking about how much they hate it when we go overtime and realized that three weeks in a row he has gone over. This can not bode well. So we talked to his boss and it was decided that they would just bank the extra hours, giving them to him on weeks that he needs the hours but they don't need him. This seemed all well and good...a few days past and I began thinking about another problem (you know me...I have to find all of the bad so when its good I get extremely happy-I am the quintessential pessimistic-optimistic) we are only allowed to work 1500 hours per fiscal year. Out of curiosity I pulled up David's work history and started crunching numbers.
Drumroll Please..........
That is right people, if my wonderful work-a-holic-bring-home-the-bacon-to-support-my-wife-husband keeps working the hours he is now he will run out of hours as of May 13th, 2010. If not a bit sooner. Oh joy. Oh Bliss.....urg.
I quickly brought this to his and his supervisors attention, and honestly, I don't think they believed me. They quickly questioned the campus employment services people to find out that, yes, once again Kayde was correct! Shane the supervisor was not pleased. He does not want to loose David, the two of them are really starting to get along great and they have a nice groove going. David is freaking out as he loves his job and does not want to leave it (he just got Chef coats with his name on it for hecks sake) and he is desperate to make sure that he provides for me...male ego or something. I gotta admit I'm glad he feels this way. I have watched other marriages where the men are content to sit back and let her bring home the bacon, and in all honesty those men make me sick. Now call it a double standard, but I also feel that the women should not sit idly by and do nothing. As we have no children I see no reason that I can not work a bit and assist in building up a nest egg and helping our family progress until the time comes that we do have children. Another point in this argument is the fact that I know David will not be able to work as much as needed when he is attending school. He NEEDS to finish his schooling for himself and for us as it not only educates him and allows him to build upon prior learning, but it will also open doors when it comes to employment in the future.
There is the long and well the long of it, there really is no short. When presenting the problem before our boss yesterday we were basically told that David will have to cut his hours (almost in half) so he can make it until July. After that point he will only be able to work thirty hours per week at most. David's argument was to just give him the full time status, benefits, and leave the pay as is, the problem with this is we have to get approval from the Vice-President before anything can happen and that is neigh on impossible, and will take quite a while. So as we shuffle along...hoping to get ahead, we once again find that one step forward is indeed three steps back, and we have our answer, we will definitely be waiting a year or so before actually thinking about getting pregnant. Oh joy.
Drumroll Please..........
That is right people, if my wonderful work-a-holic-bring-home-the-bacon-to-support-my-wife-husband keeps working the hours he is now he will run out of hours as of May 13th, 2010. If not a bit sooner. Oh joy. Oh Bliss.....urg.
I quickly brought this to his and his supervisors attention, and honestly, I don't think they believed me. They quickly questioned the campus employment services people to find out that, yes, once again Kayde was correct! Shane the supervisor was not pleased. He does not want to loose David, the two of them are really starting to get along great and they have a nice groove going. David is freaking out as he loves his job and does not want to leave it (he just got Chef coats with his name on it for hecks sake) and he is desperate to make sure that he provides for me...male ego or something. I gotta admit I'm glad he feels this way. I have watched other marriages where the men are content to sit back and let her bring home the bacon, and in all honesty those men make me sick. Now call it a double standard, but I also feel that the women should not sit idly by and do nothing. As we have no children I see no reason that I can not work a bit and assist in building up a nest egg and helping our family progress until the time comes that we do have children. Another point in this argument is the fact that I know David will not be able to work as much as needed when he is attending school. He NEEDS to finish his schooling for himself and for us as it not only educates him and allows him to build upon prior learning, but it will also open doors when it comes to employment in the future.
There is the long and well the long of it, there really is no short. When presenting the problem before our boss yesterday we were basically told that David will have to cut his hours (almost in half) so he can make it until July. After that point he will only be able to work thirty hours per week at most. David's argument was to just give him the full time status, benefits, and leave the pay as is, the problem with this is we have to get approval from the Vice-President before anything can happen and that is neigh on impossible, and will take quite a while. So as we shuffle along...hoping to get ahead, we once again find that one step forward is indeed three steps back, and we have our answer, we will definitely be waiting a year or so before actually thinking about getting pregnant. Oh joy.
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