Oct 7 2010

So, I have a crow problem.

Those great birds and nature noises I was such a fan of a few posts ago, now they have a friend. A lovely devil crow that refuses to leave me alone. It is the worst thing ever. He doesn't start his great song until about seven in the morning. And since I sleep with my window open, he sings right into me and wakes me up. Lately, I have finally been getting up and shutting my window. The dumb bird hates me. As soon as I shut the window, he shuts up. No joke, the bird knows. I tested this this morning. Closed the window, waited, didn't hear him singing. For about twenty minutes. That is too long for him to just be catching his breath. Open the window again, and there he goes. I think he watches me. It's a game to him now, and I'm constantly losing. This is no joke. I really have tested this, and it is backed by extensive research. I feel like Zooey Daschanel on Failure to Launch, when she has to kill the Mockingbird outside her window with the Air-soft gun.

Anyone have an air-soft gun I can borrow for the weekend?

Oct 3 2010

Yay I'm finally posting! This one has pictures of things we have been up to (and things we did FOREVER ago, but I figured visuals are always great!) We have been really busy lately, and it has been fun. We had a good week, with lots of school stuff going on. This Friday was the BYU/USU game, so all week we were really pumped for that. So pumped in fact, that we decided we needed the best seats in the house, so we camped out on Thursday to get them. :] It was cold and windy, and we didn't sleep at all, but it was really fun! It's all about the experience. So Friday we got special early seating for the game, and got to sit right up front on the fifty yard line! It was awesome, considering just how many people were there! It was nuts! And it was a really good game, because we won. :] There were a couple of slanderers around, and that wasn't great, but all in all, it was good clean fun. Here are pictures from the game. It was so hot we were dying!

These are from Zion's but, hey, they were just there. :]

Sept 29 2010

We had a busy weekend!

I had no time to post. :/ Sorry.

So this weekend we went home to see Troy's sister who was visiting from Colorado who I had not yet met. We all just hung around Friday night and chatted. It was pretty fun. :] Staci is super pregnant, she is due on my birthday! So that is fun. :] The first girl of the family.

Sidenote: we have have been watching Lost. I'm sitting by myself in the Hub, and I just saw a tall bald man walked by. I thought it was John Lock. No big deal. I can't stop thinking about Lost.

Anyway, Saturday morning I had a dress fitting so me and my mom went to that. That went well. It's going to be all done in a couple of weeks. Yay. :] We spent the rest of the day at a park with Troy's family and ate a picnic lunch and just played outside. It was fun to just relax and do nothing. Saturday was also homecoming for my sisters, so I spent a couple hours waiting around for them and then helping them get all ready. It was really fun. I did Courtney's hair and I must say, it looked really good. :] They all looked adorable and their dates were quite studly. They had a good time too, so that is important.

Westlake won their game, so now they are 6-0! That is really cool. I'm excited for them. I cheer for them now, since Lehi had to go and be all lame on me. (Not for football, just in general.) I'm disappointed in Westlake's student council though. But oh well. Courtney has a blast being the manager, and she has the opportunity to letter this year and the next! Pretty cool. They are going to be playing Timpview this Friday, and I'm super excited to see how that goes. I hope they beat them. That would be just awesome. We have to stay up here in Logan, because BYU is coming to play. :]

School is still going on just like always. We are starting to get the hang of it now, and are having a little more fun. I fixed my work schedule so it's not quite so bad. These are my favorite things about my job:

1-When a small child answers the phone, and says something hilarious. That gets me through at least an hour.

2- How people believe that messing with the people that call them is the best thing ever. Look, that joke did not just make my day. You did not make me laugh. And you still have to complete the survey.

3- The people that rant on and on about not having the time to take the survey, blah blah blah on and on for 8 minutes about not taking a 3 minute survey. Thank you for wasting 5 minutes of your time.

We cook our own meals now, and we are doing a really good job at it. We planned a legit menu and everything. I'm proud of us. :] We can totally handle being married and living together.

Pretty exciting, this summer we might go work up at Bear Lake with Troy's dad. He runs the Scout Camp up there, and we would just camp out all summer and help out. I'm actually excited about it, and think that it is a really good idea. Even if I do have to live in a tent for 3 months. No big deal. :] Free rent, and free food. That will be a big help!

I'm taking a Family Finance class and I absolutely LOVE it. I'm making Troy take it next semester. I hope that I actually take what I am learning and apply it to us, so that we can feel good in 15 years, and not be stressed out financially. We will see. :] I suggest everyone read Automatic Millionaire however, and any other books by David Bach. He will make you rich. Really.

Sept 22 2010

Oh man!

Nothing has happened really, I just felt I should be getting everyone's hopes up for something exciting. :] We don't really do anything, which is a problem! We need pictures for our wedding slideshow, and pictures of us sitting around doing boring things like watching Lost, homework, or working are not going to make for an interesting photo montage!

Anyway, this week has been dragging on. I hate weeks like this. We missed a couple of classes, my bad, had a couple of tests, and worked a bunch of hours. Well, I did. :] But good news, Troy got called from Golden Corral today, so hopefully they will hire him! Then he can work with the lovely April! It sucks, because I feel like we haven't really seen anyone in forever. I hardly even see Parker anymore. :/ It's super lame. But we want to try to plan a get-a-way for the roommates, because we hardly know them. So I'm working on getting that whole thing planned out. Cross your fingers it works out. I am less stress about our financial situation, for the time being. We will see how long that lasts.

I'm excited for this weekend, we get to hang out with Troy's sister. It's funny how much I still want to go home even with Troy up here. Home is just so much less stressful. I love it.

Sleeping at my new apartment (even though it's not really new anymore....) I have realized that now I cannot sleep without the ridiculous animal noises that go on in the "woods" behind mine and Parker's windows. We have the back rooms, and behind the building there are like 7 or 8 trees, but it looks like the woods, because you can't see anything else. Plus, they are infested with all sorts of obnoxious creatures. No joke. There is a squirrel that crawls along the power lines, that I swear crawls over and sits next to my window at seven every morning and makes the most obnoxious high-pitched squeaky noise. But every night you can hear all the crickets, and in the morning different birds and things. It's like my own relaxation sound machine. I am learning to like it. :]

We are still obsessed with Lost. We probably watch 3 episodes every day. We love it. I know, so against everything I wanted to be, but hey, don't judge.

Me and Troy also started a new thing. I thought of this, and am still weary of if it is a good idea or not. Yesterday (Sept. 22) was our 100th day to our wedding. So I created something I called "The 100 Books." We have 100 different questions/stories that we put in a little jar, and every day for the next 100 we will pull one out and write down an answer. Yesterday was our fist day and Troy seems to like it so we will see. Hopefully it has the same in the future value I want it to have. Something kind of cool for us to look back on and see. :]

Sept 20 2010

This weekend I did something pretty cool.

I bought a dress! We went home late Friday night after Parker got off work. We hung out at my house for a while, looked at our engagements and got a whole bunch of wedding stuff figured. Kind of. Ha. Saturday morning we woke up early and headed out to look at bridal shops. Everyone went, my mom, sisters, Parker and Melissa. We started in a little shop in Provo, Sweethearts. It was really cute! I tried on about seven or eight dresses, but was really in love with the first one I tried on. We had an appointment at David's, so we went over there to check out what they had. And weren't we glad. It was kind of like a wanna-be Kleinfeld's, but it was still pretty cool. I walked around and picked out a ton of dresses I thought I might like to try on. I tried on about six here, and then I found it. I love it! It is really pretty, and only the sleeves need to be altered (because it is sleeveless. :/ ) But they will figure that out, and I will be modest. Phew. :] We also managed to find the perfect bridesmaids dresses too, and the girls love them and they go really well with my dress. So we got quite a bit done, I was proud of us!

Later that night we all went to dinner. The Page family and then the Butterfield's. We went to Texas Roadhouse, and it was really fun! The food was good, and it was good to get both families all together finally. Woo! Sunday was pretty low-key, we ate dinner with my family, and then played in the yard. From our front yard we could see two fires, one to the North, and one to the South. We never found out much about the Southern one, but the Northern one worked up quite the reputation. Over in Herriman, a fire had started due to a military practice by Camp Williams. It was really windy, so the fire started quickly and spread even quicker. There were houses burned, and thousands were evacuated. It is really sad, and is still burning. Apparently it was pretty close to Grandma and Grandpa Yager's house, so we will see how it turns out. Hopefully there will not be any more damage to homes. It got us on the Today Show.

Today was Monday and that isn't very fun. But me and Troy got a lot done. We knocked out a bunch of homework, and I have been studying for my first test. We both are liking our classes, and it is good we are not too overwhelmed. I still have my job (Ha) and am still doing great. I won a hat today for getting the first 30 completes. Woo. I don't know what I'm going to do with all these random prizes, I think they should just be giving me money! :]

Right now we are making brownies for Troy's roommates, because last night, they had a little epidemic. They had bought a box of brownies, and turned the oven on. When we got home, we could smell the burn. They believed it was just the oven at first, and once they "fixed" the problem, they popped their pan in. However, about fifteen minutes later when the smell was only getting worse, Quin, went over to check on his precious chocolate desert. Burned. Scorched. Fried. The entire top inch of the pan was completely charred, while the bottom was still not quite cooked. The top coil of the oven was the only one on, and no one could figure out the problem.

About thirty minutes ago, I fixed the problem.

The knob that turned the temperature and such, was a little lose. So when you turned it, to what you thought was 325, it was actually not turning the entire knob, but just the pretty plastic labely part. So, it was on broil. Quin officially broiled his brownies. :]

But now, in an apartment of all boys, who all tried to fix the oven, a girl has emerged. Tightened the knob, and cured the "mysterious" oven problem. That's right, the girl. :]

Sept 15 2010

ONE WHOLE YEAR!

This is my one year post. Exactly one year ago, I started this lovely little thing. And look how different my life is now. Amazing.

This week has not been good, hence, the lack of blog posts.

After my stomach episode of Saturday, I woke up late and almost missed Church but I went. I'm glad I did too, it was really good. There was a little bit of an interesting talk in Sacrament, but overall I'm glad I made it. Even if I didn't have time to shower before hand. :]

Monday, I woke up with an awesome cold. No voice, and oh yeah, I had to work. How might I ask, do you call people all night long and talk to them, with no voice? This was what I asked myself. However, when I called in sick, they said they were desperate for my hours so I had to go in. Luckily I made it through the night, even though the Halls I was sucking gave me a sort of southern-Australian-Deaf accent on the phone. Maybe that is why I got so many surveys. They were trying to figure out where I was from.

I have also jumped on a forbidden bandwagon. I have begun watching Lost. Logan bought all the seasons in this super-nerdy/obsessed set, (no joke, you need to see this thing. It's rivals that of Twilight paraphernalia.) and we have begun watching. I actually like it a lot. We watch two episodes almost every night, so that is fun. It's not confusing yet, so I'm a fan. We will wait to see if I still feel this way.

Oh yeah, we watch Lost on our new GIANT TV .

We felt, that with our bed, we needed some quality entertainment. So, we bought a 55 inch screen TV. No big deal. We won't be able to eat, or have couches, but hey, we have a bed and a TV. Necessities right? :] No, it was only 150, which is a screaming deal, so we jumped on it. It's really nice now, and my justification is that now we don't have to spend the money on an Entertainment center. :]

I didn't do much on Tuesday, worked again, sick again, school again. I like to remember back to the days when me and Troy had fun hanging out. We miss those days. :/

Wednesday, also, the same thing. Super boring. But then something cool happened! We got our engagement pictures back! Well, technically, my house got them because they are at home. But still, in our possession. Almost. They almost were not though.

I asked my parents to try to email us some, so we could at least see some of them. About fifteen minutes later, my mother calls me and asks for Amy's phone number. This, is never a good sign. And it wasn't. Somehow, when they put the disc in our computer to send them to us, the entire disc was reformatted and the pictures were gone. Erased, forever. This is a bump in the road, because those are kind of important. So they had to run to Amy's and get another CD, and now all is good. We will get them all figured out, and then post some of Facebook and things. There are two up, as our profiles right now. So if you just can't wait, then there you go.

Although being sick has not been very fun, there are some positives. A, Troy went and bought me some medicine. B, that medicine makes me sleep soo good. C, I therefore gets lots of good sleep, and sometimes miss a class. :/ But hey, this is college. Your'e supposed to do that right?

Sept 12 2010

So I have missed a couple of days.

But oh well.

This weekend I did quite a few things, and so did Troy. Kind of.

He got fired. Ha. So, now I am the sole breadwinner. It was nothing he did wrong, he just mentioned the company in his blog, and that is a big no no, so he was terminated.

That's okay though. So I had to work all by myself, and that is lame now. I worked a long shift on Friday and then a longer one on Saturday. Friday night we went to dinner at Aggy's, the spin-off of Iggy's in town because I have to write a review on it for the Statesman. It was really fun, Tori and her new boy Matt came and that went good. Parker and Kris were there, and Logan and a date, and Logan's friend. It was good, and the food was really good. I just have to write a review now. :/ Saturday Troy met up with his parents for lunch while I was at work. (Jealous!) But it worked out, because he was kind enough to leave me roses on my seat. :] You know when you fight with Troy, he will always make it better with something like that. It's the only positive of a disagreement. He's so good to me. Ha.

After all that we went to the game and tailgate! (Before the tailgate, I ate a sandwich at their house, and that will come into play later, just don't forget about it.) It was really fun and we kicked Idaho State's butt. I missed football and it was good to watch a game again. :]

After the game we decided Logan needed food so we went back to Troy's place. There, we decided to go to the dance/PoBev (this poetry thing, where you get free beverages. Logan was unhappy with it, so we ended up at the dance) Now, Troy hates that music. All the stuff that they play at those dances. So we only stayed for a little bit, but at least he braved it and went. I was happy with just that. :] (That was where the roses played into earlier.) Notice, I was fine this whole time. Until about twenty minutes later. We left the dance, walked to my house so I could change and then went and to go get Redbox. About halfway there, my stomach starts to hurt. Then when we arrive at Fresh Market, it really really hurts. So bad, I can't stand up. I'm thinking, wow, this is really painful. It continues to hurt and then I realize something. I'm going to throw up. I begin to freak out. I do not throw up. So, I choke it down. Yes, everyone, I forced my body to not throw up. In the course of getting those movies (Fresh Market didn't have what we wanted, so we had to go to Smith's) I probably could have thrown up five or six times. Disgusting. So then we went back to Troy's apartment and I was really dying. By this point I was crying and just very uncomfortable. We came back to my house and watched half of a movie, and then I went to bed. I still feel super ill, but the pain is not as bad.

That sandwich from earlier, the one I told you to remember?

Poisoned me.