4.26.2009

Some updates

We are officially moving to Tennessee! I am so excited!

I am less excited about the expense of moving and taking a turn of driving a 16 foot moving truck that is towing our car across America. Oh well. It'll be an adventure. I google mapped the drive and brilliant google told me I could do the 1,700 miles in a day and and hour. Did you also know you can map you travel by foot? However this is what google says about walking.

Walking directions are in beta.
Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.
Walking directions to Murfreesboro, TN
1,654 mi – about 22 days 10 hours

Somehow it's less mileage if you walk. Go figure.

Earlier this month, we had some fun for my birthday. John took me to baby animal days again, we went out to dinner at our favorite italian place here in Logan, went to the temple and had an awesome day. John looks nearly hairless because I buzzed him for military training. Just in time for some pictures. Please ignore his slightly squinty eyes. I am proud that mine are open. This is an accomplishment.





4.05.2009

T-e-n-n-e-s-s-e-e

Lately I either I really love or hate getting the mail. It's either medical bills, or letters about grad school. Let's talk about grad school letters. So, John has applied to 4 so far and has heard from 3. He's been accepted to Pacific University in Oregon, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro and made the alternate list for Western Kentucky University. Western Kentucky told us they'd let us know by July, but pretty sure we will have decided by then. We're leaning towards Middle Tennessee State and have wanted to go there for over a year, so we're pretty stoked to have heard from them this early after applying the beginning of March.

I've been looking up apartments, rental trucks all sorts of moving stuff figuring out how we'll get to do this whole thing. It's gonna be fun.

3.08.2009

10 Things

I've been "tagged" by Andrea

I'm having a hard time coming up with ten things about myself but here it goes...
Here are the rules for the Honest Scrap Award:

A) first list 10 honest things about yourself-and make it interesting even if you have to dig deep
B) pass it on

1. I think that no one remembers me but I remember everyone. I remember a little boy named Nathan Sharp from first grade, but if I ever ran into him I would absolutely never say hello because why on earth would he remember me? I remember people I have never been introduced to, and remember random things about them. I don't like to say hi to these people if I ever see them again because I don't want to freak them out. However, if they do remember me, and I am in my "I don't want to freak you out by appearing too friendly and remembering you too much" mode I look like a jerk.

2. I really like Christian music. Especially Christian Rock. There is this Time Life special with this christian rock concert CD special that I have been wanting to buying for probably 7 years. Someday I'll break down.

3. I hate laundry. If I could assign a task in my life for someone else to do, aside from working, it would be my laundry.

4. I miss living in this crazy old house I used to live in with a weird cat. The house was kind of falling apart, but it had character, it had a yard, the cat liked me, and I had a fireplace. It was cozy.

5. I am so excited to move.

6. I love getting together with the girls. They know who they are. It doesn't happen as often as it should but when it does, We have a blast. There is something so amazing about getting to be with those people who have known you since you were nine and so silly. They mean the world to me.

7. I wish that I could pull off brown hair. I have tried it several times. Every time I try it, at the beginning I like it, and then pretty much I end up thinking, yep, that's not for you. Go blonde. I just have to face it. I look better as a blonde. Try as I may, am not suited for the brown hair, though I desperately want it.

8. I hate having to list my hobbies for whatever is asking. I feel like I have either no hobbies or lame hobbies. I love to read, but I think reading doesn't sound super cool. I also like to sing and play the piano, but now that lumps me in a the category of Miss Mormon UT Sweet 17. So to not appear dull, I have to reach back and think of hobbies that I formerly had. . . let's see. Soccer. I used to play soccer. That will fill up one blank. I don't mind saying politics because that's something I'm interested in, but oftentimes people want to get into a big debate or discuss Rush Limbaugh, both of which don't lead to a night of fun. . .

9. I thought Twilight, in movie form, absolutely blew. I'm sorry. If you loved it, that's totally cool with me. It was to angst-y for me. I couldn't handle it. John and I decided to save our money and see it at the dollar theater instead of the regular priced ones. We should have saved it and seen it at. . . wait. . . we should have never seen it. We actually walked out. Not offended, mind you. I thought the books were pretty good for young adult fiction. B grade. The movie just was not doing it for me. I know Edward was a vampire and all but the creepiness was just bizarre. And not in a hot vampire-y way. Oh well. I am not a teenage girl. The movie was not made for me.

10. I hate tomatoes. I hate 'em.


3.05.2009

it's going to be an adventure.

sara has convinced me into going to hip hop hustle with her tonight. i'm not sure how it will go. i'm willing to be a yes man. i've been listening to some pump me up music and i've got my game face on.

2.22.2009

You ordered the pizza to where?

Maxalt is not good for me. I have figured this out.

I have had a lot of headaches. They run in my family and they suck. Also, before you suggest that maybe I should eat healthy, try drinking Mt. Dew, get a good night's sleep or something else logical, I should tell you all these things have been tried. So- in the last few weeks I've had an MRI, (seriously, what's with all the banging!), IV therapy and have tried out some medication to try to make it so I don't have headaches for 95% of my waking hours. Since I have migraine and tension headaches I get to try to figure out which kind of freak headache it is and then, if I guess right, take the right drug, I might be right and my headache might go away. Wednesday after work I had a headache and decided to try out a migraine medication sample since I was pretty sure it was that. Due to the events that occurred because of me taking this crazy drug I have no idea what kind of headache it was or if the headache even went away.

After I took it I got tired. Made some soup. Took a small nap. Couldn't wake up. Thereby, burning an entire pot of soup. John was a good sport, said hey let's get some pizza. I figured that since I burnt and ENTIRE pot of soup somehow, I could be in charge of ordering pizza. I called ordered pizza. Got ready to pick it up and was so strangely dizzy I almost fell over. So we decided that john was the DD for the pizza run. John called from the pizza place to ask where I had ordered the pizza. Well, normal people order pizza to the location nearest their house. People on bad medication order pizza 15-20 miles away. Luckily the people were nice enough and had our stuff ready in a few more minutes. It was a strange night. I went to bed at 7:20, vowing to never take Maxalt again since it made me a stupid dizzy weirdo. And that's what I told the Dr. the next day.