24 reasons why I love him :)

I wrote this to Kevin for his birthday yesterday. Hopefully he doesn't mind me sharing :)

24 reasons why I love you (for your 24th birthday of course!)

1) That above everyone else, you chose me to be your eternal companion.

2) You say, “Guess What?” every time you are about to say “I love You.”

3) You came into my life at the best time.

4) You always dance in the car to Kesha.

5) You put up with how airheaded I am.

6) You make me more spontaneous.

7) Falling asleep in your arms every night.

8) You love fruit smiles and gushers as much as I do.

9) You are the most affectionate person ever.

10) You are the hardest worker I know. Sometimes too hard 

11) You are so silly and make me laugh every day.

12) How you kiss me on the forehead.

13) I love watching you sleep.

14) Listening to your heartbeat.

15) How much you know about technology. And cars.

16) You’re a good driver and I never have to worry when I’m in the car.

17) That you will take showers with me just so that I will actually take one because you know how much I hate them.

18) You know everything about me.

19) You know that when I don’t eat or sleep, I will most likely be crabby, so you make me eat.

20) You push the cart whenever we go grocery shopping.

21) It is impossible for you to be mean to anyone, even if you try.

22) You are ridiculously smart.

23) I can trust you in every situation.

24) You make me a better person every day and I am so lucky that you love me.

Life...or lack of having one

Kevin is playing Halo right now. I am bored.

Obviously.

Nothing really exciting is going on in our lives recently. I'm been working 30 some hours every week and taking 14 credits. I have no idea how I am even staying afloat. Luckily (or unluckily) a lot of my classes are just busy work.

Is unluckily even a word?

I have A's in all my classes except one. That's Personal Health and Wellness. I have a B+ which isn't bad,  I just really don't have the time, energy, or remember that I need to go exercise 4 times a week. Oh well. I figured out that if I get all A's this semester, it really doesn't effect my GPA at all. Likewise if I get all C's. So I'm really not too concerned.

Michael (Kevin's brother) comes home from his mission in about a week and a half. I've met the kid once. And it was only for about an hour I think. It was right after we got married and we were on our way down to Disneyland. We stopped by and surprised him for his birthday because he is in California. So it should be interesting to see the different family interactions with him home too because I've never known their family with him there. We shall see.

Brian, Shaune, and Nick are all in Utah right now, on their way to move from Alaska to Las Vegas area. It will be nice to have them closer. Especially once baby #2 arrives.

Kelly is due in 3 days I think. I'm sad we can't be there for the birth, but  that's life. Hopefully I'll at least be able to make it home for Kelli's graduation and be able to see Dillan then.

I feel like we're one of the old couples in our ward. We go to church and regardless of what part of the semester it is, there always seems to be a couple that  says, "We just got married last week!"

Seriously? It's March! Couldn't you have waited 5 more weeks and gotten married after the semester? Oh well, to each his own I guess.

After being married a year and half, people look at you like in 1 of these ways.

1)  You're still in school? How young were you when you got married?

2) Wow, you've been married a long time!

or my personal favorite (sense the sarcasm, please)

3) You've been married a year and a half and you don't have any kids? I'm 18 and we've only been married 9 months and we just had our first!"

Sometimes I just want to say "Congratulations, I'm actually going to finish my degree."

Now, that is harsh, I know, but it seems like once you've been married for a year or more, you're almost expected to have a child in these student married wards. Kind of annoying. Again-to each his (or her) own. I'm not trying to judge anyone who is young with a child very shortly after they were married. If your situation allowed it, then by all means, have a baby. But just don't expect everyone to make those same decisions as you, OK? :) Especially when you don't know the whole story.

That was a rant that I didn't intentionally start out to write, just was something on my mind today and tonight.

I even got a nap today, so I'm not grumpy or anything. Maybe I just need some chocolate. Yes, chocolate sounds yummy. Plus, Kevin is still playing Halo, so I have nothing else to do now. Especially since I've gotten caught up on everyone else's blog and then other people that I don't even know. Everyone does that though. At least that's what I keep telling myself :)
Chocolate time. Peace out girl scout. I wish we had some girl scout cookies. Oh well.

Valentines Day

Last night we celebrated Valentines Day since Kevin is leaving tomorrow. I worked from 6-4 (well I really got out of there around 4:20). Kevin had the day off so he decided to stay up the whole night before playing Halo Reach with a bunch of people from work. So he got home about the time that I woke up at 5:30 and then he went back. Apparently I'm a cool wife because I let my husband stay out all night playing video games. However, since I went to be at 10 the night before, it really didn't make a difference to me where he went once he got off work at 2 am. Of course that freedom comes with limitations haha.
Anyway, we finally got out of the apartment around 6ish and went to dinner at Ying Yang Oriental Kitchen. Real authentic oriental food. So good! Our next door neighbor works there and he's the only white guy in the kitchen so it's pretty funny to see him working there. The guy that owns the restaurant has an amazing story. Ask me if you wanna know.

Then we went to Coldstone and got these bad boys.

Chocolate Lava Meltdown

(Mine)

No Fair Funnel Cake

(Kevin's)

They were pretty good.  My chocolate was kind of bitter and Kevin's strawberries were still frozen, but other than that they were delicious.

Then we went ice skating at the ice rink here on campus. I only fell once so I was pretty impressed with myself :) Although in my defense, that ice has definitely seen better days. It was full of holes and I'm sure they've never used a zamboni on it.

Of course we forgot the camera (big surprise there) but you get the jist of what we did. Definitely a fun date.

In a funk...

Do anyone ever have one of those moments not even a whole day (although I’ve had those too) where you just don’t know what’s up of why you feel weird? Yeah, I’m feeling that right about now.

All of a sudden, I’m just in a complaining mood. So this is my venting zone.

I’m pretty sure I need another 30 day challenge to get me to actually start blogging again.

Our internet sucks. No joke. I had to type this blog out in 

Microsoft word before I could even try to make a blog.

  Apparently I still owe about $500 dollars to the doctor’s office for my IUD. Yeah, they said

insurance would pay for all but $300 of it. They failed to mention however, that didn’t

include a bunch of other fees the doctor requires. And that doesn’t include the insurance

deductible/whatever else they’ll charge. So there goes our tax return which means most

likely no Florida this summer. Leaving that sucker in for the full 10 years is starting to sound

more appealing just to get my money’s worth out of it.

 Kevin will be leaving for 5 days on Monday (Yes that’s Valentine’s Day if you were wondering).

He won’t be back until Friday afternoon-ish. That’s the longest we’re been apart in
a year and a half. Yes, I am aware that people go months without seeing one another.
That still doesn't disregard the fact that it’s the longest we’ve
been apart since we got married.

 I think I need a new calling because I can never seem to meet with the committee

when they can because I am always working or at school or doing homework.

Blogger is still not working even though I’ve typed this whole thing since I last checked.

Um, excuse me, Big Dog Satellite Internet. You should really check your satellite since

we live in a frozen tundra and occasionally the receiver may be, just may be blocked.

It is 16 degrees outside. That’s actually really warm for February. Anytime it gets into

double digit positives, you're bound to see people walking to class in short sleeves.

Crazies.

You'd think after 17 years of school I'd learn to double check my answers on quizzes

and not mark false when I really mean true.

My new computer that we just bought already had it's graphic card crap out in it.

Not cool, little Sony. Not cool.

I need to go to the gym but I really don't want to.

That was 10, count em 10 things that I just came up with recently to complain about.

So now I will force myself to come up with 10 things I am grateful that will dismiss

everything I just complained about all on my own.

So here we go.

I don't need a 30 day challenge. I have enough stuff in my life that could easily fill up this blog

if I just took the time to record it.

The internet finally started working again. Good dog, good dog.

(Reference to Big Dog if you didn't catch that.)

We actually still make little enough to still get a tax return instead of having to pay.

Although I'm pretty sure if we make much more this year as we did last year,

it's only a matter of time before we'll have to start owing the government.

I am blessed to have a wonderful husband who treats me like a queen regardless of the

fact that he may have to leave every so often for work training. There's always skype.

We're pretty much pros at that.

I have a job and school that keeps me busy and the committee members do their
best to work around my schedule. (Even if it is a terrible schedule to work with.)

Internet started working, so now blogger is too! YAY!!

It will warm up eventually. And then we'll all be complaining about how hot it is in the summer.

I've been able to go to school for 17 years and regardless of my airheadedness

I've done relatively well in school.

I still have Kevin's computer to use and mine is getting fixed for free since
it's still under warranty.

I am physically able to exercise. Lots of people aren't. I should take advantage of that.
Just not tonight.

I feel like this blog needs a picture since I've basically written a novel. So here. Enjoy.
I'll even give you two since it was so long.

I love Dory.

And the fountains at the Bellagio :)

I finally got "My little ponies"!!!!!!

I woke up on Sunday morning and there was a bag with 2 of these amazingly fun toys in it!! I never had them when I was little, so I was beyond excited! Kevin's co-workers had put the little bag together with a card as well. Thanks to Cindy for being the ring-leader! And all the other McDonald's crew that signed my card :) I just wish it was under different circumstances.

So here's the story...

Saturday mornings I open by myself at work. So I get there at 6 am and usually don't leave until about 4 pm. Whoever opens in the morning is responsible for cutting all of the vegetables for the day and about half of the meat (the closer cuts the other half when they come in the afternoon). So I get all the vegetables ready to cut. It's only 6:10 at this point, and on the first cucumber I am cutting, I cut a little more than the cucumber on something that looks very similar to this monster.

It's really not as mean as it looks. I promise.

And now my right thumb looks like this...

Don't worry, all you healthy germ-a-phobes! I cleaned off the slicer and found the missing part of my finger and threw it away, so there was no trace of any blood or any thing else like that on the slicer or the food. However, you can imagine how much this bad boy would bleed. Like 4 hours worth! (Which may have had something to do with the baby aspirin I take every day. Stupid thin blood). I had it all wrapped up with gauze, band-aids, even paper towels, but eventually it seemed to bleed through all of those. And yes, since no one was there with me, I still stayed and worked until about 3:30. I was a little behind since I pretty much didn't have use of my right hand, but I eventually got everything done with the help of my coworkers when the showed up at 10 and 10:30. 

So I went to the community care here in Rexburg and pretty much all they could do was clean it up and bandage it. No stitches since there really isn't anything to stitch up, as you can tell. I did have to get a Tetanus shot, which made my arm sore for the good part of Sunday. They threatened to cauterize it. I had no idea what that meant, but when Kevin explained it to me, I almost had a heart attack. They pretty much burn the wound so it kills the infection. I think I would have passed out. Or cried. Luckily they didn't need to do that so I'm not in a terrible amount of pain from the cut on top of having a BURN!! But give me some Ibuprofen and I am feeling good! Well of course with the exception  of the non-use of my right thumb.

So that's how my day went on Saturday. Fun stuff, I know. And that's about it!

It's a pillow, it's a pet. It's a pillow pet!

In addition to a Snuggie, I want a pillow pet...specifically a bumble bee pillow pet. Or a penguin. Yes, a penguin one would do. They are so precious.

That way I could curl up  in bed under my snuggie with my pillow pet.

                  

We watched Marley and Me tonight. So sad :( Kevin had never seen it before so I wanted him to watch it. But now I just want a puppy even more. Someday...

brrrrrr!!

It is freezing in my apartment, but i have to have my arms out of the blanket to type assignments/do other homework. Naturally, I'm freezing. One might say to just go put a sweatshirt on, but I just say,

"I want a Snuggie!"

I usually want one every day of every freezing cold winter in Rexburg, but today I want one especially bad. I guess I'll just have to settle for a sweatshirt. Lame. They are so not as cool as a Snuggie. I would even settle for a "slanket" (the off-brand, not so cool version).

Seriously, who WOULDN'T want one of these?!?

1) They keep you warm.

2) You can still do stuff (unlike if you are under a blanket).

3) You get to look like a Jedi (this is by far the best and my most favorite reason).

P.S. If you want a good laugh, google images of snuggies. Priceless.