Batman

I have salsa chicken cooking in the crockpot, and it's making the apartment smell amazing!

I went boating with my family yesterday. I did my favorite, slolum-skiing, but I also learned how to surf behind the boat! And later after, Jeffrey, my brother, and I went on the tube together. We got some good air, but we weren't able to go for too long because the bottom of the tube had a hole in it so it was flat, and it made our butts numb.

I forgot to wear sunscreen yesterday, I'm in pain today.

I'm spending today watching Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, those are the titles, right? I'm going to the newest Batman tonight at 7pm with our best friends, Sean and Melanie and Caity and Ben. I want to know what's going on tonight so I decided I should probably watch these films now.

I finally got a full time job! I am going to be an office assistant for a company called Dura-Tuff Wear Products. They sell grouser bar for bulldozers to people around the world. I start July 30th, and I am so excited!

Even though I got the new job, I am going to continue working at Sizzler part time. I love it too much to quit.

Shane's birthday is next week, and I can't wait! I have a few things planned, I hope it all goes well!

Rain Rain Go Away

I was so excited today because Shane and I had plans to go to Seven Peaks Water Park after he gets off work today. About an hour ago, the skies began to look like this:

And then the rain began. Thunder, lightning, raindrops the size of tennis balls. . . Bummer!! Call us crazy, but we're praying for a miracle. It is now 3:57pm and we aren't arriving there until around 5:15pm. We're still going to try to go. Hopefully the skies will clear up because this is the only day this week we can go.

Rain rain go away, come back a day I don't have any fun plans!

Freaky Friday

Well, it's Friday the 13th. . .

Dun Dun Dun!!

In celebration of this day, here are 13 facts about Friday the 13th:

• There are 3 Friday the 13th days this year; January 13th, April 13th, and July 13th. No big deal, right? Wrong. Each 13th is exactly 13 weeks apart. This hasn't happened since 1984!
• Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.
• Next time you go to a big hotel or hospital, look for floor 13. Oh you can't find it? That's probably because it's not there! They avoid 13th floors because people can be so superstitious.
• The next year we will have 3 Friday the 13th days will be in 2015. They will fall in February, March, and November.
• Think your Friday the 13th is bad?  Be glad yours wasn't like this: On Friday, Oct. 13, 1307, officers of King Philip IV of France raided the homes of thousands of these Crusades warriors, imprisoning them on charges of illegal activities. Though the charges weren't proven, more than a hundred died of terrible torture. You may get seven years of bad luck, but at least you weren't tortured to death!
• Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th - Friday, August 13, 1999 would have been his 100th birthday.

• It is said that starting a trip on a Friday will bring misfortune. I believe this because my honeymoon started on a Friday, and we had quite a few misfortunes that vacation!
• For pagans, 13 is actually a lucky number.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt avoided travel on the 13th day of any month, and would never host 13 guests at a meal.
• Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12."
• The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N.C. offers therapy to help people overcome their fear of the freaky Friday.
• More than 60 million people worldwide are affected by a fear of Friday the 13th. This fear causes these people to not drive a car, leave the house, or even get out of bed.
• According to superstition, if you cut your hair on Friday the 13th, someone in your family will die. (This makes me laugh, because as I am blogging at my parent's house, my mom just arrives home from getting a hair cut.)

So hold on to your rabbit foot, don't open umbrellas inside, don't walk under any ladders or go near a black cat, and have a nice day!

Lazy Pants

I may or may not be writing this post on my husband's tablet. . . okay I am, and I love the clicky noise it makes every time I type a letter. So fun.

I feel like a fatty pants. It's hard to eat healthy when you only have the money to grocery shop every couple of months. Anyone know of any healthier nonperishable foods? Help this lady out!

I love my new job! It's only part time and I am still looking for a full time job, but it works for now. I work at the Sizzler at The District, feel free to come visit me! The food is so flipping good and the people I work with are just fantastic! I feel so happy at work!

Shane is SnoresMcgee tonight holy cow.

I can't wait until we can move somewhere that has internet. I would love to use my laptop once in a while.

Only working part time is so boring. I feel so lazy all the time. if anyone ever wants to just hang out during the day sometime please call/text/message/hit me. I would love a reason to get out of bed before 2pm, and I could use a few friends.

Advice, eh?

So I went down memory lane and read some old posts from my previous blog here, and I came to the conclusion that I used to be a lot more interesting than I am now. Bummer.

There are seven fires currently going on in Utah right now. I'm not kidding and they're not small! Utah is a blazing orange! I was so happy to have such a dry winter, but now seeing what it's doing to not only Utah, but the surrounding states as well, I don't think I'll ever wish for no snow again! 

Shane and I have been house sitting and babysitting Chip for my parents while they're camping, and it's been a blast! (I want a dog!) I love spending time with the little pup. He's just adorable!

I had my orientation today at Sizzler, and Tuesday I start training. I didn't get the server position I wanted, but that's ok because I can work towards the position. It seems like a great company and I am excited to work for them. I'll be working there as much as I can until I can find a day time job. Once I get a day job Sizzler will be moved to nights. 

We're going to see the new Spiderman with our fun friends Caity and Ben next week. We're excited, the previews look awesome so it'd better be good!

I went to a baby shower today for my high school friend Kenzie. She looked great, I love her little belly!! She got some of the cutest things, her little boy is always going to look so darling!! Seeing all the baby things made me so excited to be a mom one day. Baby things are just so precious and tiny!! I love it all!

So this is crappy, but since being married I've gained a few pounds, (as you may have noticed if you've seen me recently. Blah.) I'm trying to get healthy again, and holy cow it is not easy! I began calorie counting with this and it wasn't too bad this week. But today hit and I was just so hungry, I stupidly made Saturday my "cheat day." Bad decision. I have been eating everything in sight!! Help! Does anyone have any tips on losing weight and developing healthy habits?? I need I need!! 

Time Wasting

I understand that I have been writing a million and one blog posts in the past two days, but people! It's because I get bored. I also have a hard time sleeping at night, which is why this post is currently getting written at 1:48am.

I found these questions on a pinterest post and I thought they might be fun to answer. If you're as bored as I am, go ahead and keep reading. If you have better things to do, do them. I don't want to be wasting anyone's time here. (You have been warned!)

The husband just rolled over in his sleep and sprawled himself out over my back. It's cute, but it makes it a rather difficult to type.

Oh he moved!

Now, let's get down to business. There are 30 questions to answer, but that is way too many and I guarantee I can't keep anyone interested long enough to actually read the whole thing. So I am going to choose my favorite five. Here we go now!

1. Describe your relationship with your parents. My relationship with my parents used to be nonexistent. I wanted nothing to do with them, I didn't like being around them, they annoyed me. Now let me tell you, I only felt this way because I was a brat. I was snooty and defiant, and that made it hard for us to get along. I moved out in 2010 and quickly, very quickly, I realized just how much my parents did for me and that this whole time, my entire life, I was wrong about them! They are amazing people who do what they do because they really do love me! They really do know best, they're not just saying that! So, since moving out my relationship with my parents has grown, and grown, and continues to grow. I have to be honest; besides Shane, my parents are my best friends. They are the first to know anything and I spend just as much time at their house as I do my own. I love my parents, and I love the example they have set for me. I appreciate everything they've done for me and everything they continue to do for Shane and I. I hope one day we can do as much for them as they do for us. I couldn't have asked for better parents, I feel like the luckiest kid in the world.
2. What is the thing you wish you were most great at? Oh man there are a few things I wish I could be so awesome at. I don't have very many talents, but there are so many I wish I had. I think the one I would want most is to be able to sing. I have loved singing since I could talk. Whenever my mom pulled out the video camera growing up, I'd find my way in front of the lens and sing, "I'm Gonna Be A Mighty King." I sing everywhere; at home, in the shower, in the car, while I cook, while I clean, etc. I love to sing and I would love to perform for people if I had the voice. That would really be my dream coming true. People who can sing are awesome. Really. 
3. What is your favorite part of your body and why? Oh this one is easy. My nose. I love my nose, specifically the hump. My mom is from New Zealand, so there is some Maori blood in my family. My older brother and younger sister got the Maori skin and my older sister got the Maori hair. My little brother at least got the Maori hair color, I didn't even get that. The one thing I did get though, was the big Maori nose. And I love it.
4. What are 2 weaknesses and 2 strengths that you have? Weakness A: I am extremely sensitive. You give me the wrong look and I'll go home in tears. I take most everything the wrong way and I get hurt easier than anyone I know. Strength A: I am very forgiving. Weakness B: I can't do conflict. I will agree with anyone outloud even if I don't agree in my head just to avoid conflict. Strength B: I am very understanding. I can easily put myself in someone else's shoes and immediately love them because I can see the good in them and ignore the few bad things. 
5. What is your biggest pet peeve? Bad spelling, need I say more?

Marriage

I love being married and I love my husband. I love going to sleep with him less than a foot away from me and I love being so happy. I really can't remember the last time I was this happy. (I think I was nine.) 

Being married is great, people!

Love and marriage is sometimes a difficult topic to discuss. Before Shane and I got engaged, I hated talking to my married friends, (I still loved them though!!) I hated reading lovey nonsense on facebook, and I hated looking at pictures of couples who were so happy together. I hated it all because I was jealous. I wanted to have all that and I wanted to be in love.

A little before Shane and I started dating, I had completely sworn off boys. I had my guy friends, but I was refusing to let myself get involved with anyone. I kept telling myself over and over that I loved being single, hoping that if I said it enough, it would come true. I was done with relationships. In my previous blog, www.myfishmonster.blogspot.com (it's still there,) I had even written about how awesome being independent and single was. I wrote:

"I am single. I have realized that this is exactly what I need to be truly happy. I need to be FREE. I need to let myself do what I want and not worry about anything else. I don't want any commitments with anyone. I want to be my own self, worry about my own self, and have fun for once."

Oh how wrong I was! I'm pretty sure I made God laugh with this, because two months after I wrote this, Shane showed up in my life. And man. . . our relationship moved FAST! We went on dates every night, (I kid you not, we still have yet to go a day without seeing each other,) we became exclusive within ten days, we began talking about marriage two weeks into our relationship, and on September tenth, one month and one day after our first date, we got engaged. We sealed the deal on December first. 

Doesn't that sound scary?? Moving that fast, hooooly crap! I always told myself I would never even consider marriage until I'd been dating the guy for a year. I had dated seriously before Shane. . . my longest relationship lasted over three years, but I never felt the way about him that I do about Shane. When people say, "When you know, you just know," they are not kidding! Shane and I had both prayed and fasted about our big decision, and we knew it was right. 

Love is unexpected, and it really does come when you least expect it. I love Shane more than anything in this world and I know that he feels the same way about me. We are a perfect match, and we couldn't be happier than we are now. 

I love love, but I love my husband mostest.