I wish Chris and I had the time to go on an adventure! For the last year or so I've really been feeling the need to take a trip. Not just wanting to go on a vacation, but a real need to go somewhere new. I'm not quite sure how to explain it. Right now I'd even settle for finding something close, but I can't find anything that ever works out. If you know about anything I'd love to know about it.

Looong time.

Life has gotten so crazy lately! And for once it's a good crazy. :) I'm going to be lame and do a bullet point list.

• My new job is amazing! I love how much accomplishing one new thing in life has made everything so much better. I'm not as stressed, have a steady schedule (which means I get to see the hubs more), make more moola, and am making some awesome friends.
• Chris is applying for schools. He'll have to go online only, so I hope we find something that works. And I think he's even finally settled on what he wants to study. I've heard him talking to recruiters about computer programs. He'd be so awesome at that. Not that he's not awesome in everything he does.
• Brent and Felicia are finally married. She's super amazing and I'm so glad my brother found someone who makes him happy. They live in a tiny little apartment that's perfect for a newly married couple.
• I haven't had to take many pain killers/muscle relaxers in the last few days. I think I might even be to the point where I can start exercising again. :) I should have the results from some of my tests back soon as well.
• We've been making some great progress on dejunking. And by we I mean Chris. He's really been helping out around the house more since I got my new job. Its a good thing too, because I realized the other day that I hadn't done laundry in about two weeks. It's a good thing I didn't marry someone who can't take care of themself!
• It's almost our third anniversary. I love how much I still love Chris. I knew three months after we started dating that he was the man I was going to marry and I've never had second thoughts since.
• I finally bought an algae eater for my fish tank and it hasn't died yet.
• We started hanging some awesome curtains. They're kind of an orange/gold color. They're bold and I love 'em.
• Our house didn't get burned down in the Herriman fire. It was still a ways away, but if it got out of control it would have been right at our front door. Its a real reality check when you're making a pile of your most prized possessions in case you have to grab them and run.

That's the most of the excitement in our lives for right now. Its been a long time since life has been so happy, now it just needs to keep it up!

Late night reality check. :)

Its funny how life never turns out how you want it to, but the big things turn out how they should. It struck me as I was cleaning up dinner how I could be sitting in a dorm room with roommates at this stage in my life, but instead I get to be blissfully happy cleaning up leftovers for me and my rockin' hubby to eat later. Yeah, I wish that our condo is cleaner and that we have more money saved but when it comes down to it knowing that Chris is mine forever makes having dirty socks all over seem less important (though, not less gross). I need to work harder on keeping that perspective than focusing on the other things. Sure, I get upset at Chris sometimes but that just means he's mine to get upset with. :)

Lame sauce.

I wish I knew how to have fun. I have fun when I'm hanging out with my family, but that's about it. Seriously, when I'm home all I do is watch movies, read books, and pretend to clean my house. I've been exercising lately, but it hasn't shown me any results so I'm having a hard time even wanting to get gross and sweaty for nothing in return. I watch Chris and he has fun with anything. I wish I could be more like him and not get embarrassed when he starts singing at the grocery store. I've been thinking about this for a long time and I really have no idea how to learn to have fun. I was so spontaneous and outgoing five years ago, but now its like I don't even exist if I'm not around Chris or my family. I really hate that I have next to nothing that I like about myself. Sorry for the depressing rant, but when you've been in a rut for five years all you have some days are pointless rants. :(

Vacation!

There is so much crap going on at my job that I'm even extra excited my super cool sister had a super cool baby! It gives me an excuse leave town for a while to go hang out with them. Chris and I are thinking about moving to Colorado some day, so its always fun to go visit. I'm going to take so many pictures!

Someday

I wish to be the person in reality that I am in my head. I wonder what happened to the happy, confident, out-going person I was in high school.

Lots of random.

Work has been ridiculous! It's a good thing I like money because all this overtime is killing me. Hopefully the stress will go down once we get more people trained because I don't think this job is worth all the current stress. I have an eye twitch now! I don't know if it's from exhaustion, not getting to take real breaks and eat food, stress, or all of them combined but it is annoying!

Chris is having to drive up to Centerville for work because the manager up there had a baby. He's driving an extra two hours a day now. That's two hours of my time! Only a month and a half left. At least he's getting a raise out of it.

I bought my ticket to Colorado so I can help Katrina after baby comes and I'm way excited! It'll be nice to have a change of pace for a while. I get Katrina all to myself!...and Matty and baby and Brian.

We had a huge shelf fall off our wall. It almost took out our tv and the new (thankfully empty) fish tank Chris just bought. All of our furniture is now stuffed in the middle of the room and we have 17 holes in the wall. We almost have our bedroom all painted though. We just have a few more baseboards to go and it's done! It's really weird looking but I love it. I'll put up pictures of it after I get the room put back in order.

My sister-in-law Betsy lost a ton of weight (about 100 pounds!) so I got to pick through all of her clothes. I've been looking sweet lately. In similar news, I've lost 10 pounds too!

I finished sewing my first blanket with my sewing machine. I'm pretty stoked! I need to start a new project soon.

I think that's all of my random updates for right now. I'll be back with more soon.

22

It was my birthday on Thursday and Chris spoiled me like none other! I slept in until 8:30 and then we went to breakfast at this place called Red Rooster Waffle something or other. It was delicious! There are some huge bar stools there and I picked to sit in them for fun. The seat of them is seriously as high as my shoulders! It took me a bit to get up there. After we untangled a dog outside the restaurant that someone decided to tie up right next to the road we went to the pet store and Chris bought me a frog for my fish tank. I named him Squishy. He doesn't really do very much but that's okay. After we got the frog in the tank we headed down to my parents' house and had them watch the puppies so they wouldn't be in their kennel all night. We went to the Gateway and ate at the Skybox and wandered around for a while. After that we were off to Brian Regan! Yay! He is so funny! A little old lady scolded me for taking a picture of him though. :( I ended up sitting behind the Jolly Green Giant though, and instead of being smart and having Chris switch me seats we bunched Chris' coat up and I sat on it. After we walked back to the car we went to fetch the dogs (haha...ha?) and went to the store to buy some ice cream. I believe we then proceeded to watch some Monk and go to bed. I haven't had a really good birthday since I was 15 so this blew me out of the water. I need to figure out a way to give him an equally awesome birthday! I love this man of mine! I can't believe I'm 22!

New Year's

I'm actually making some resolutions this year. I'm just making a bullet point list because none of they aren't in a specific order that I want to work on.

• keep a clean house
• be a better member of the church
• be more outgoing
• be better in control of my anger
• find a hobby that I love
• and the traditional, lose weight.

I figure all of these will keep me busy for the rest of my life but now is a great time to start now that I'm starting a new chapter of my life.