Since I last posted...
I have started school again. I am pursuing a Bachelors degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. I am pairing that with a cluster in Business Psychology and a cluster in HR Management. As with anything in life there are hard days, and after lots of trial and error I get a little uncertain of myself, but this time around something always happens that reaffirms that this is what I'm suppose to be doing. It's been a frustrating road getting here. It has been difficult to watch all my friends move forward, graduate, and start families while I felt like I was drowning--going nowhere. But at long last I have jumped through all the hoops and am back on track.
Kevin's brother, Matt, is getting married in August to his lovely bride-to-be: Esther. We are excited for them and are looking forward to making the trip out to Oregon for that wonderful day.
Kevin is working full-time at Malaleuca right now. They treat him well and it has been a huge blessing in so many ways.
My brother Jacob graduates from high school next week. It's crazy thinking I graduated six years ago. They had their final choir concert last night and I got to go up for the alumni piece: "How Can I Keep From Singing". Jacob came down and stood by me and we ended up being front and center. Jacob and I may have a lot of differences, and I may think he's a butthead a lot of the time, but he's my brother and differences aside, I was proud to stand there next to him on stage last night. It warmed my heart to hear him say "I'm going to stand by my sister" all the way down the risers, pushing through people to stand by me. I will cherish that moment for the rest of my life. Hearing those words meant more than he will ever know.
Kevin's sister, Diane, has made a wonderful CD. She has such a beautiful voice. She is doing a concert in Utah this weekend and we wish so much that we could make it down to support her. Hopefully she knows our hearts are with her.
That's really all I can think so say right now. Or at least that's all I'm willing to share right now. I do still have a lot of posters so if anyone wants one I would be more than happy to sell one to you... ;D But seriously, I'm just happy anyone reads my blog anymore. I hope you are all doing well in your own lives. I'll post again. Soon this time.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
"Donations! For the poor beggar girl!"
Hey Everybody! (If anyone even checks this blog anymore)
I know it's been way too long and this really should be an update post, but it's not. I am trying to earn a little extra cash and, as such, have a list of movie posters I accumulated over my years at the theater to sell. Here I will just post the titles, but if you have any questions or want to see what the actual poster looks like email, text or call me. I will edit the list as I sell them.
Family
Alvin and the Chipmunks $5
Karate Kid $5
Princess and the Frog (Portrait) (8) $10
Tale of Despereaux $5
Science Fiction
Golden Compass $5
Premonition $5
The Time Travelers Wife $5
New Moon $10
Comedy
Morning Glory $5
When in Rome $5
You Again $5
Drama
Fame (Dancers) (2) $5
Fame (Yellow/Silver) $5
Secretariat $5
The Greatest Game Ever Played $5
The Last Song $5
Water for Elephants $10
The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided $5
Action/Adventure
Ghost Rider $10
Green Lantern $10
The Last Airbender (Aang Body Shot) $5
Transformers: Dark of the Moon $10
Suspense
The Lovely Bones $5
Unstoppable $5
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Has It Really Been A Year Already?
It's really kind of embarrassing that it has taken me this long to do another post. Of course it doesn't help that we don't have internet in our apartment, but still. I apologize to any of you who are still occasionally checking this blog. I'll have to try and do a catch-up post soon, but for now I will start with a few posts about our trip we just took!
Kevin's parents decided almost a year ago that after their youngest, Matt, returned from his mission they wanted to go on a cruise to celebrate the entire family being together again for the first time in four years. They also decided to be incredibly generous and pay for everyone. They chose this last week to go on the cruise, which was very good of them since it fell right on our first anniversary!
We left a couple days early to spend some time in Kevin's home town before we headed up to Seattle to depart on the cruise, which was a lot of fun. I don't have any pictures of that, but I do have a couple
gorgeous pictures I took from the plane right before we had to turn off all electrical devices!
Is that not gorgeous? I thought so.
The next pictures I have are from the trip up to Seattle. Along the way we had a tire pretty much explode. At first we were afraid it was something more serious, but then Matt and Kevin looked under the car and saw a big strip ripped off of the tire. Crazy! Thankfully Kevin's parents had a full-size spare so we made it to the departure on time.
So our second night on the cruise was one of two formal nights for dinner. You know, sometimes it's really fun to dress up all fancy... And then let your hair down when it's all done! ;D
I think I'll leave it at that for now. Next up: Ketchican, Alaska!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Is Anyone In There?
Hello All! I'm still here!
I ran into my dear friend Amber Miles last night and was gently reprimanded for not posting in so long ;D (and rightly so Amber, don't feel bad). In very meager defense of myself, I was waiting to do a new post until I got the pictures back from the honeymoon. However, that is still in the works so I'll give you an update now and pictures will have to follow later.
Wow. Where do I start?
Well, since the honeymoon we have semi-settled into our lovely apartment which was very kindly made available to us by my grandparents. We have some fun little Christmas decorations out right now to make it a little more festive. I especially love our tiny little table top tree that sits on the floor surrounded by our own little treasure trove of presents. We have discovered that we are very ideally located in town. We're close to campus, our ward building and most of the places we shop at. Kevin just finished Fall semester which he enjoyed quite a bit. He is now eagerly searching for a job as he begins his semester off-track. We came across some promising prospects today so here's hoping. Everyone cross your fingers for us.
Speaking of school, I have finally completed all of the paperwork and everything else to petition to get back into school. It's all turned in and I am hoping to hear from them not long after the Christmas break. I'm really hoping I get back in because all of this waiting is driving me crazy. It took me forever to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and now that I am 99.9% sure I've figured it out I have to sit and wait. It took a lot longer than it should have to pull everything together for the petition and I've been feeling so... stuck. I want so badly to move on with my life. Don't get me wrong, marriage is moving along wonderfully, but academics are lagging sadly behind. I'm so tired of doing nothing but work at a dead-end job that is nowhere near where I want to be with a career. I've finally grown up and I want the chance to prove it to everyone else and especially to myself.
On that note! May I vent a bit? Of course I can, I'm typing to a computer screen with no one to stop me! Muahahahahaha!... *cough* I mean.... ummmm... Well you see, my job is, in a word, ridiculous. I have been through all three managements in that building and it seems like each one tops the one before it. And not in a good way. I do have to say that the current management/ownership is much more financially stable and corporate itself seems nice enough, but as far as drama it is just as bad (if not, possibly, worse than the others). I swear that building is a breading ground for stress and drama. You go in there a fairly mild-mannered person and if you're there too long you come out with almost a desire to see the negative in everything and dirty words nearly ready to fly out your mouth at the next person who dares to speak or act without first consulting their common sense. You think I'm exaggerating? You try working there for five-and-a-half years and tell me how you turn out. Thankfully I got out of town for half a week for Thanksgiving. I was getting so stressed about work and everything going on there that I would get physically ill if I let myself dwell on it. I'm not exactly sure what happened on that trip to Utah, but whatever it was, I'm eternally grateful. Something clicked inside of me and since then I have started to make my way back to the woman I was before the corruption of that building infected me. I am relearning how to let things that aren't a big deal slide off my shoulders and not dwell on them. I am learning how to detach myself from that place. When I am not in the building it is not my concern.
Anyway, that's not the half of it, but I'm not including details. It was just a general vent session for my own satisfaction. Moving on!
About Thanksgiving vacation! It was so fun. I wasn't excited to go at first because, as previously mentioned, I was just super stressed and bogged down. However, we went and had a great time. It was so nice to go and not be obligated to be anywhere at any particular time. It was so relaxed. I loved it, I could actually breathe! It was fun to see Kevin's family again, both immediate and extended. We played a fun game with everyone that took forever, but in an enjoyable way. I'm an observer so it was very nice for me to be able to sit and watch everyone. This year we stayed with his aunt Erin and her husband Bruce and their two lovely daughters Amy and Elizabeth. It was so fun! We got to sleep on a comfy king size bed (something we haven't done since the honeymoon). I had to laugh the first night we were there because Kevin scooted right up next to me and after a minute I said: "Babe, you do realize we're in a king-size bed, right?" After a pause he gave me a little space, but still held my hand. How cute :). The next morning Bruce introduced me to possibly the most amazing breakfast idea EVER! Erin made some delicious sour dough waffles and then Bruce brought out vanilla yogurt, chunky apple sauce and cinnamon sugar. OH MY GOSH! It was SO good. I have used that idea several times since coming back to Rexburg. Thank you so much, Erin and Bruce. You have changed waffles for me forever. In a very good way.
Also while in Utah I got to go on a "girls only" shopping trip ;). That was fun. While in the mall Kevin's mom bought us a "first Christmas" ornament for our tree. It's very pretty. Kevin and I went back to the same mall right before we left to head home and let me tell you, I had the worst saleswoman experience ever! She was ridiculous! I couldn't believe it! She would not let me leave. I swear I was essentially captive for about ten minutes. Awful. We ended the trip on a great note, though! We decided to see if anything sounded good in the food court so that we could just eat lunch and leave straight from there. Sure enough there was something fantastic there: sesame chicken at The Flaming Wok. Holy cow, good. If you have the opportunity, we recommend it.
And that is pretty much it for now. I will post again as soon as we get the pictures back and will give any further updates we may have. They will probably include Christmas things and, I hope, a new job for Kevin!
Love you all! Merry Christmas!
I ran into my dear friend Amber Miles last night and was gently reprimanded for not posting in so long ;D (and rightly so Amber, don't feel bad). In very meager defense of myself, I was waiting to do a new post until I got the pictures back from the honeymoon. However, that is still in the works so I'll give you an update now and pictures will have to follow later.
Wow. Where do I start?
Well, since the honeymoon we have semi-settled into our lovely apartment which was very kindly made available to us by my grandparents. We have some fun little Christmas decorations out right now to make it a little more festive. I especially love our tiny little table top tree that sits on the floor surrounded by our own little treasure trove of presents. We have discovered that we are very ideally located in town. We're close to campus, our ward building and most of the places we shop at. Kevin just finished Fall semester which he enjoyed quite a bit. He is now eagerly searching for a job as he begins his semester off-track. We came across some promising prospects today so here's hoping. Everyone cross your fingers for us.
Speaking of school, I have finally completed all of the paperwork and everything else to petition to get back into school. It's all turned in and I am hoping to hear from them not long after the Christmas break. I'm really hoping I get back in because all of this waiting is driving me crazy. It took me forever to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and now that I am 99.9% sure I've figured it out I have to sit and wait. It took a lot longer than it should have to pull everything together for the petition and I've been feeling so... stuck. I want so badly to move on with my life. Don't get me wrong, marriage is moving along wonderfully, but academics are lagging sadly behind. I'm so tired of doing nothing but work at a dead-end job that is nowhere near where I want to be with a career. I've finally grown up and I want the chance to prove it to everyone else and especially to myself.
On that note! May I vent a bit? Of course I can, I'm typing to a computer screen with no one to stop me! Muahahahahaha!... *cough* I mean.... ummmm... Well you see, my job is, in a word, ridiculous. I have been through all three managements in that building and it seems like each one tops the one before it. And not in a good way. I do have to say that the current management/ownership is much more financially stable and corporate itself seems nice enough, but as far as drama it is just as bad (if not, possibly, worse than the others). I swear that building is a breading ground for stress and drama. You go in there a fairly mild-mannered person and if you're there too long you come out with almost a desire to see the negative in everything and dirty words nearly ready to fly out your mouth at the next person who dares to speak or act without first consulting their common sense. You think I'm exaggerating? You try working there for five-and-a-half years and tell me how you turn out. Thankfully I got out of town for half a week for Thanksgiving. I was getting so stressed about work and everything going on there that I would get physically ill if I let myself dwell on it. I'm not exactly sure what happened on that trip to Utah, but whatever it was, I'm eternally grateful. Something clicked inside of me and since then I have started to make my way back to the woman I was before the corruption of that building infected me. I am relearning how to let things that aren't a big deal slide off my shoulders and not dwell on them. I am learning how to detach myself from that place. When I am not in the building it is not my concern.
Anyway, that's not the half of it, but I'm not including details. It was just a general vent session for my own satisfaction. Moving on!
About Thanksgiving vacation! It was so fun. I wasn't excited to go at first because, as previously mentioned, I was just super stressed and bogged down. However, we went and had a great time. It was so nice to go and not be obligated to be anywhere at any particular time. It was so relaxed. I loved it, I could actually breathe! It was fun to see Kevin's family again, both immediate and extended. We played a fun game with everyone that took forever, but in an enjoyable way. I'm an observer so it was very nice for me to be able to sit and watch everyone. This year we stayed with his aunt Erin and her husband Bruce and their two lovely daughters Amy and Elizabeth. It was so fun! We got to sleep on a comfy king size bed (something we haven't done since the honeymoon). I had to laugh the first night we were there because Kevin scooted right up next to me and after a minute I said: "Babe, you do realize we're in a king-size bed, right?" After a pause he gave me a little space, but still held my hand. How cute :). The next morning Bruce introduced me to possibly the most amazing breakfast idea EVER! Erin made some delicious sour dough waffles and then Bruce brought out vanilla yogurt, chunky apple sauce and cinnamon sugar. OH MY GOSH! It was SO good. I have used that idea several times since coming back to Rexburg. Thank you so much, Erin and Bruce. You have changed waffles for me forever. In a very good way.
Also while in Utah I got to go on a "girls only" shopping trip ;). That was fun. While in the mall Kevin's mom bought us a "first Christmas" ornament for our tree. It's very pretty. Kevin and I went back to the same mall right before we left to head home and let me tell you, I had the worst saleswoman experience ever! She was ridiculous! I couldn't believe it! She would not let me leave. I swear I was essentially captive for about ten minutes. Awful. We ended the trip on a great note, though! We decided to see if anything sounded good in the food court so that we could just eat lunch and leave straight from there. Sure enough there was something fantastic there: sesame chicken at The Flaming Wok. Holy cow, good. If you have the opportunity, we recommend it.
And that is pretty much it for now. I will post again as soon as we get the pictures back and will give any further updates we may have. They will probably include Christmas things and, I hope, a new job for Kevin!
Love you all! Merry Christmas!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Pure, Untainted Joy...
Hello Everyone!
My goodness! I'm sorry it's been so long since I last posted, but I wanted to hold off until I could include some wedding pictures with it. We finally got our pictures so here we go!
First off, it was a perfect day. Everything was so wonderful. Even the weather cooperated. While I have heard that many brides still feel a little stress trying to make their day perfect, I felt absolutely no stress myself. I was blissfully happy the entire day. The sealing was... amazing. And the rest of the day was beautiful and perfect. The weather was gorgeous, the cake my mom made for us was beautiful and extremely tasty, the reception was lovely, Kevin was incredibly dashing and I fulfilled my goal to take my husband's breath away. It was a day I will forever cherish in my memories.
I love being married. The way I put it when talking to a friend the other day was this: It may not be the easiest thing in the world, but it is the best thing in the world. I hold to that. Being married is, indeed, an adjustment and it takes effort. You don't go get yourselves married and suddenly everything's sunshine and daisies. However, it is the greatest joy I have ever known. Kevin is so good to me, better than I deserve sometimes. He is patient and gentle; understanding and loving. In short, he is everything I ever sought after in an eternal companion and then some. Not just some, a lot. He is so much more than I ever would have given myself or believed myself worthy of and I am daily thankful to a loving Father in Heaven for seeing fit to bring him into my life and allowing me to bind myself to him for time and all eternity.
I love my husband with all my heart and I look forward to the adventure of our lives together.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Deep Cuts and Ghostly Fingernails
So, funny story I forgot to mention a while ago...
I believe it happened on June 19th. Kevin and I were going to some yard sales, seeing if we could pick up anything for our new apartment for fairly cheap. We decided to stop at a neighbor's sale just around the corner from my house after driving around town for a bit. As we got out of the car I looked for Sis. Dickey because I wanted to visit with her and ask how she and her newborn baby were doing. I had just spotted her when I felt A LOT of pain coming from my right index finger. I turned around and low and behold, I had completely shut my finger in the door! According to Kevin I said something to the effect of "Oh shnikeys, crap, suck!" I quickly opened my door and walked over to Kevin who gave me a hug and asked if I was alright. As I pulled back to say I was okay I looked down and there was blood literally gushing out of my finger. Fortunately blood itself does not make me nauseous. I walked up to the driveway and asked Bro. Dickey if I could borrow his bathroom so I cleaned my cut while he looked for a band-aid. While running water over the cut I started to feel light-headed so I sat down on the toilet seat and wrapped some toilet paper around my finger and put pressure on it. That's when the tears started. They were partially out of embarrassment. I got it under control long enough to talk to Sis. Dickey and find out how she was doing. However, the waterworks continued to rage behind my eyes and it was hard to fight them back so I ended the conversation and let it all out as Kevin and I walked to the car. I drove home (than goodness it was just around the corner, apparently Kevin was pretty nervous). When we pulled in Kevin ordered me to the couch and didn't leave my side. I had gone into shock, but even though I recognized it I couldn't talk my self out of it. So he talked to me and soothed me and eventually my breathing slowed down. A little bit later my dad drove Kevin and I down to Community Care and I was supremely relieve to find out that all I had to do was get a shot and have my finger wrapped up. No stitches! Yay!!! They offered to drill some little holes into my nail to release some pressure, but seeing as how it was already hurting and I hate needles I politely refused.
My cut has healed up quite nicely and my nail is more than half black. It's lovely, I must say.
So there you go! That was my big adventure for the month of June.
I believe it happened on June 19th. Kevin and I were going to some yard sales, seeing if we could pick up anything for our new apartment for fairly cheap. We decided to stop at a neighbor's sale just around the corner from my house after driving around town for a bit. As we got out of the car I looked for Sis. Dickey because I wanted to visit with her and ask how she and her newborn baby were doing. I had just spotted her when I felt A LOT of pain coming from my right index finger. I turned around and low and behold, I had completely shut my finger in the door! According to Kevin I said something to the effect of "Oh shnikeys, crap, suck!" I quickly opened my door and walked over to Kevin who gave me a hug and asked if I was alright. As I pulled back to say I was okay I looked down and there was blood literally gushing out of my finger. Fortunately blood itself does not make me nauseous. I walked up to the driveway and asked Bro. Dickey if I could borrow his bathroom so I cleaned my cut while he looked for a band-aid. While running water over the cut I started to feel light-headed so I sat down on the toilet seat and wrapped some toilet paper around my finger and put pressure on it. That's when the tears started. They were partially out of embarrassment. I got it under control long enough to talk to Sis. Dickey and find out how she was doing. However, the waterworks continued to rage behind my eyes and it was hard to fight them back so I ended the conversation and let it all out as Kevin and I walked to the car. I drove home (than goodness it was just around the corner, apparently Kevin was pretty nervous). When we pulled in Kevin ordered me to the couch and didn't leave my side. I had gone into shock, but even though I recognized it I couldn't talk my self out of it. So he talked to me and soothed me and eventually my breathing slowed down. A little bit later my dad drove Kevin and I down to Community Care and I was supremely relieve to find out that all I had to do was get a shot and have my finger wrapped up. No stitches! Yay!!! They offered to drill some little holes into my nail to release some pressure, but seeing as how it was already hurting and I hate needles I politely refused.
My cut has healed up quite nicely and my nail is more than half black. It's lovely, I must say.
So there you go! That was my big adventure for the month of June.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Stess and Mood Swings and Converse? Oh My
Hello All.
Where do I begin?
I have been so caught up in wedding plans and the multitude of emotions that accompany that occupation. While it is fun and exciting to anticipate your own marriage, I have to admit that I will be relieved when all of the planning and waiting is over. Over the last four to six weeks I have been working just about full-time, I have registered for two bridal registries, picked out desserts for the reception, decided on a cake flavor and design for the wedding cake, tried on my dress and brought it home for alterations, designed and ordered our announcements, stuffed envelopes, made labels for those receiving announcements as well as return address labels and stamped them all. I have learned of still more car repairs to be done on my car before we take our honeymoon to the Oregon coast and am still in the process of attending to those. I have found a place to live, many thanks to my grandparents for that, and have begun moving things in. And there is still a lot to do to prepare for the big day.
On the up side: I have a wonderful fiancee who helps as much as he can while still staying on top of school work and who is so patient with my ever-changing moods. Speaking of which, has any other bride-to-be ever gone through all of these mood swings? Did any of you ever just feel grumpy for no truly good reason? Anyway, Kevin continues to be very patient and understanding through all of this and helps to lighten my mood on a very regular basis. I also have an amazing mother who is helping me every step of the way and who is making my wedding cake. It's going to look, and even more importanly taste, fabulous! And, now that I can work full-time for a while I have the funds to be able to take care of some car repairs while still paying my monthly bills. So there you have it. There's always the silver lining; the good to counteract the bad.
Other than that, I have learned that Converse are very controversial. Who knew?
Where do I begin?
I have been so caught up in wedding plans and the multitude of emotions that accompany that occupation. While it is fun and exciting to anticipate your own marriage, I have to admit that I will be relieved when all of the planning and waiting is over. Over the last four to six weeks I have been working just about full-time, I have registered for two bridal registries, picked out desserts for the reception, decided on a cake flavor and design for the wedding cake, tried on my dress and brought it home for alterations, designed and ordered our announcements, stuffed envelopes, made labels for those receiving announcements as well as return address labels and stamped them all. I have learned of still more car repairs to be done on my car before we take our honeymoon to the Oregon coast and am still in the process of attending to those. I have found a place to live, many thanks to my grandparents for that, and have begun moving things in. And there is still a lot to do to prepare for the big day.
On the up side: I have a wonderful fiancee who helps as much as he can while still staying on top of school work and who is so patient with my ever-changing moods. Speaking of which, has any other bride-to-be ever gone through all of these mood swings? Did any of you ever just feel grumpy for no truly good reason? Anyway, Kevin continues to be very patient and understanding through all of this and helps to lighten my mood on a very regular basis. I also have an amazing mother who is helping me every step of the way and who is making my wedding cake. It's going to look, and even more importanly taste, fabulous! And, now that I can work full-time for a while I have the funds to be able to take care of some car repairs while still paying my monthly bills. So there you have it. There's always the silver lining; the good to counteract the bad.
Other than that, I have learned that Converse are very controversial. Who knew?
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