Because Sometimes We Just Need a Reminder

Please watch the video below. It really helped me out today. Comment if you so desire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654QGjYHlJY

Life finding its course

Well, life is interesting. Thats for sure. I love the new job. It is definitely a new dynamic but its kinda nice to change pace and have a significant drop in drama. The only crappy thing is that David works till 10 three days per week. Used to be that this did not bother me as I was working crazy hours at multiple jobs s0 I would just wait around a bit for him.

While doing all of this fun stuff I have finally found the camera cord!!! YEAH! This means I can finally upload some photos! The photo above is a bouquet of flowers David created for me on our anniversary. That day was amazing by the way I woke to a beautiful arrangement of flowers and an iHome. I did have to stop by the bank that day, but after I was finished we drove to Manti and went through a session at the temple. That day was amazing. It was like we were reenacting our wedding day. We even got to see the room we were sealed in. After our great session we hurried back to Orem to grab dinner at our favorite restaurant Pizzaria 712. I love that place. We started going there back when we were dating. Anywho back to the present.

Since things are actually starting to calm down I have been catching up on past television shows, cleaning, crafting, and plain ole being lazy. The odd thing is I am very happy/content but feel totally unlike myself. I have been very standoffish towards my husband and any physical contact....its odd, and not so good. Oh well, we will figure it out eventually.

Presents for Me!

SO excited!!! So the other day I am at work when I feel my (scuze my language) bra vibrate. Yes, I am one of those girls who when I do not have a pocket (or sometimes even when I do) will use the convenience I was born to and store items, namely my phone, there. I check my phone as any responsible manager whose boss may be calling, would do. Imagine my surprise when I realize that my mother is calling me...mid day. Oh speaking of which I should probably call her soon. I answer the phone to find out she is just leaving the funeral of an old family friend. As I talk with her she decides that she NEEDS to stop by work to give me some mail, instead of just giving it to me later in the evening. Come to find out she had an ulterior motive. It seems as she was reading the newspaper her eye fell upon an add for a Sewing Machine/Serger by Necchi. It cost 199.99 and she was wondering if I would like to go in halvsies. Heck yes!!! I was so excited.

Saturday, after much family guilt over canning and just stupidness, we went shopping at Gracie Lou's Quilt Shop. While there we found the perfect bag for a 'diaper bag'....purse? I promptly bought the items needed to make it. We then grabbed a burger at Berry's. For those of you who are not from the Spanish Fork area, these people have THE BEST burgers. Granted I have not been taking my medication as I should so just eating the fries caused a bit of a stomach upset. As we ate we drove to Kmart in Provo and the day after shopper in me came out. I rushed to the line and jittered around scared that I would not get my machine. Imagine my surprise when I find out that there is not one but THREE machines to choose from. Mom held my place in line while I choose which machine we would get. I went with the most expensive, but it had all the best features and who can say no to that kind of a deal? One machine, a collection of all feet made for the machine, and a carrying case later we were on our way.

All in all I am still very excited. I have only had a few minutes to work with the machine and can't wait to start working on it. Hello old projects that really need to be finished! I can't wait to work on new Christmas projects.

Other than my new toy, lets see...what is new in life? My little brother is on a mission. I am sure that I have mentioned this before, well I received a letter from him last week. We have not written in a few weeks as he just got out in the field and we did not have his new address. I am sending a package tomorrow. Can't wait till I get his response to it. My friend KT or little Katie from high school is coming out this spring! She just had a baby two months ago. I can't wait to see him. Hopefully they will be able to stay with us or at least hang out for an evening.

David is trying super hard to be a good husband. We had a couple rocky weeks, one in particular where he choose his friends over me. I did not take that very well. We have been discussing the baby topic quite a bit and know that we need to make sure we are in a place we are comfortable with before changing our lives forever.

New Job and a Shopping Trip

Well so far so good? Things are going as well as can be expected. Pay day finally arrived, which means hypothetically we can pay our bills. Now I just need the time to sit down and take care of them. Oops. As for work things seem to be going okay. They defiantly could be going better. I am still trying to figure out the in's and out's of this job, while my employees are trying to get used to me and my randomness.

Last week was pretty humdrum. For the most part I worked and tried to get used to actually accomplishing my new job and 'fixing' the many problems I stumbled across. In the end I was basically told it is my job to be in every place at once. While I expected this to an extent or even hypothetically, I was told it in reality, as some of the said problems are getting pretty bad. Oh well, what can a girl do? Her best I suppose.

So here I sit, after an exhausting week of running around. Watching the hubby read his homework. This class is not very fun. All he does is read and randomly run his fingers over which ever portion of my body is closest to him at the time. Math is my favorite one to watch as he talks to himself and becomes very animated as he studies.

The only problem with this new schedule is that some days I have a lot of time on my hands waiting for him to come home. I can tell you one thing, my house has not been this clean in a long while. By the end of last week I was going crazy. This week has somehow flown by without a chance to get bored, with the exception of tonight. Tonight I got off work came home checked my usual websites, paid the bills, and took a short 5-10 min nap. After that was all said and done I started to run errands. The purpose of these errands was to not spend a lot of money but to grab paper for work and some dinner. Well things did not go quite according to plan.

• Gandolfos: Ordered my dinner. Forgot to tell man that I did not want ham...Oh well, guess I get to pick that off. Oh and they have no Coke products! So I went thirsty.
• Honks: First time for me in this particular dollar store. They have a decent assortment but not what I was looking for. I left with a mouse pad, and two other MUST have items.
• DI: Found a beautiful hand made baby dress...? Guess I had to have that one. Picked up part of David's Halloween costume. He is going to be Mario, all cause he can grow the 'stache.'
• Dollar store #2. This store should not be called a dollar store. Yeah things cost a dollar...or fifteen? Didn't buy anything they had no paper and while their towels were nice I refused to buy unless I found something I really needed. How is that for will power?
• Dollar store #3. Hit the mother load. Here I bought lots of paper for work. Check. The shopping trip is now a success. Found the one thing we were looking for, oh wait whats that over there?! Reward with Coke. Check. Buy dollar store pregnancy tests. Check. Buy new toenail polish, red of course. Oh a first aid kit for the car, think I will. Gallons of water? Food storage might be nice. All in all spent more than planning at this particular store.
• Smiths: While leaving to head home I received a call saying I needed to buy some mason jars. As I just so happened to be next to Smiths I made the detour. One 12 pack of bottles and a BLOND wig later I am on my way home.

Ahhh. So as we can see from the list above I had a successful trip. I found my paper and all is well in the world. If only all shopping trips could go so well, and maybe next time a little easier on the checkbook?

Stop! I wanna get off!!!

I feel like I am on a roller coaster (of life) and then I remember...I don't like roller coasters (just the super scary ones). The past few weeks have been rediculous! First crazy schedules working three (four) different jobs, trying to be a wife but failing misserably as I just sleep at home, and ending in an emotional weekend/beginning.

So as I started this whole job exchange thing I knew my hours would be cut into a bit and things might be hard at first...I did not realize how hard life would really hit us. I am not attending school this year and this fall is David's first full time semester. We applied for financial aid as always and waited anxiously for the response. We expected to get some help, and hoped that it would cover everything. Shucks darn, we need to learn not to hope I guess. So far his FAFSA has been audited, which included redoing our taxes (-1000), a FAILED camping trip (oh the camping was fine, it was our personalities that failed), and yet again payroll has had some fun with our paychecks. Honestly the problem has never been theirs, I know who keeps oopsing and I still love them but UGG! I can't take much more of this!

Hopefully David's classes wont get dropped, the grant will eventually come through, and we can stop struggling, get on top of it all, and survive...right?

"Ya can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes you just might find, youl'll get what you need."-wow Glee really puts it in perspective somedays.

Beating the horse

So once again I am back on a baby kick. There are a couple of very bad things assisting this problem. #1. My hubby. He tells me daily to go to the doctor and get rid of my birth control so we can get pregnant like...tomorrow. #2. We have insurance now, pretty good insurance actually and therefore my main stance against pregnancy has just been kicked out from under me. Oh joy. I know we will be getting pregnant but when is the deciding factor...and can I do this?!?! There are needles...and PAIN involved. And I'm not just talking about the labor/delivery part...in my mothers words an eternity of pain will follow. Do I really want to do this? Yup. I must be a glutton for punishment. Oh joy.

So basically readers what I ask of you is how do you prepare? Where should I look? Ya see, I am a compulsive planner. I like knowing every aspect of every detail and being prepared for multiple outcomes. Not a big surprise person. Unless they are good and someone can sneak them up on me without me finding out (and good luck on that part).

Interesting Fact

I just learned that blogger tracks all of my readers! This is sad that I actually care but it was interesting to say the least. Honestly I think most of the views were me checking to see if the blog really existed.....? Yeah I'm odd. So thank you to all of you, especially the four whole viewers from Canada. Those four I KNOW were not me. Can't wait to tell the hubby.