Sorry Folks

I've been sick all week. Again. On Sundays the hubs and I work in Nursery (for my non-LDS readers, Nursery is basically a free babysitting service for children 18 months to three years during church hours) and this is the second time I've gotten sick after working. We tell the parents not to bring their children in if they are sick or experiencing certain symptoms because there are 15 very young children is a small room for a few hours and it's very easy to spread germs...but they still bring them in. I can understand wanting to be free of your young child for a few hours without having to pay but it's not fair to us Nursery workers or the other kids to be exposed to sicknesses like this. Sigh. So, that's why I've been boring, I have no energy to do anything. Can't wait till I'm over this. Sorry to complain, hope everyone else is having a good weekend! :)

Am I allowed to think something I made is cute?

Because I kind of do. For some reason I've been in a "mine" stage. I don't know what else to call it, I've been wanting to design things, and only make things that I designed. Most of my craftyness is a combination of something that I thought up and things that I saw online that I liked. But lately, it's only been "my" things. So, this is what I've come up with.

This is my "alium." Really simple, I just traced circular things I had in the house. I'm experimenting with anti-pill fleece (left) and regular fleece (right.) I actually think that the anti-pill looks more "old" and worn out. But sadly, I have almost a yard of it to use. I'll be using some of it on another version of...

This! I call him Steggy. Stegosauruses are my favorite dinosaur. Obviously this one was a little more complex so there are still kinks to work out with my pattern (notice the awkward tail...the spikes got stuck in the tail and now it's all weird!) But i think it's cute. I'll try it with the fleece next, for this one I just used scraps of cotton since I knew I would have to alter some things.

Surprise Visit!

I am having surprise visitors this weekend! My cousin and my uncle decided it would be fun to come up and visit and I am SO excited!! I never get visitors, who wants to visit Rexburg, Idaho? Either way, there will be a blogging break this weekend, but I'm sure I will have plenty to update on Monday. :)

I will leave you with a cute. I spent the day yesterday going around to all the lemonade stands around town. This was my favorite buy, a kitty shaped lollipop! Best 50 cents I ever spent. :)

Stomach Flu

I have it. So does the hubs. It sucks. Real bad. It really puts a damper on my hobbies! It was my LOST finale party, it was just too epic!!

You know what I DON'T Love?

SNOW!!!! It had all melted, seriously, all those big piles in the parking lots and and all of it in "hard to melt places." I was so excited for spring. But, it snowed all day yesterday. I wake up this morning to it looking just as snowy as it did all winter. ARGH!!!!!!!! Please come back spring. :(

Major Frustrations

I HATE not having a camera. HATE it. Especially with this crafting/sewing obsession. I really want to post pictures of all of my stuff (mostly to motivate me to do more. If I "have to" post about it, I'll come up with (or find) more things. And, with the helpful critiquing of fellow bloggers, I will be more motivated to make better and cooler things!). And I can't do any of that without a camera! Describing something just doesn't cut it, most people are visual, they need to SEE something! (I am one of those people). I thought maybe if I use a tutorial from another blog or website I could post one of their pictures of the final product on my blog, but most of them don't want that, and email all these people about using one of their pictures is just too much work. It would be much easier to have a camera. But I don't! Such bad timing to lose one. Grrrrrr.

Ok, rant over. Hopefully after my birthday in a few weeks I'll have enough money to buy a new one and life will be wonderful. :)

This is the project I finished today. I LOVE it. I think it's so scary, it's cute! I didn't see any disclaimers on her site, so hopefully I'm good with this one.
Mine is a green print with a brown underbelly. I love it. Tutorial here.

Update: I'm so happy there are great crafters out there that are willing to share their ideas and tutorials (and pictures!). :) I got this one off of Fireflies and Jellybeans (that links up to the tutorial). Mine is made with a fat quarter with cherries on it, I think it turned out really cute!

Sharing the Wealth

I decided that it was very selfish of me to keep all of these amazing craft blogs I follow to myself, so I've added some of my favorite blogs' buttons to my sidebar! If you've got a few minutes I highly recommend checking them out. They've got some great ideas and tons of projects that I can't wait to try! Seriously, check them out!

Ps, check out makeitandloveit.blogspot.com. Right now she has a great giveaway with Dip-sy, which has some of the most yummiest dips ever!!

Oops

So much for updating my blog often. I blame it on student teaching, that semester sucked away my life. So...updates...

1. I graduated college, huzzah!

Um...that's it really. I'm currently subbing (or rather, sitting at home all day doing nothing hoping for a sub job) and that's basically my life right now. Boring...I know. I'm thinking about getting a hobby. I'll let you know how that goes.

24

David and I got Netflix a month or so ago. It was David's idea, solely for the purpose of watching 24. Honestly, that's the only reason he wanted it. We've finally caught up on LOST, and we had to search the internet for extended periods of time to find season 5 episodes (since it wasn't on the ABC website) and it was extremely difficult to find all those episodes, and they were all poor quality. So, David decided that instead of trying to borrow DVDs to watch 24, or spend hours searching for it online, we would get Netflilx. I think we've watched only 2 actual DVDs since we got (and that was only because I begged). I will admit, however, it's rather convienent, and it's nice to have good quality picture and sound.

Now for my comments on the show...I'm still trying to decide if I like it, we're halfway through the second season now. It's so intense, there is always so much going on. I think what really gets me is that you can't trust anyone on the show, it's like everyone is a traitor or something, that bothers me. It's a really good show, I actually get like worked up and sad and hurt and feel real emotions when I watch the show. That's how you know it's a good one. But so much drama, so much betrayal. I guess I would like it more if I could actually trust somebody on the show or if there was one episode where someone isn't killed or something good happens and it doesn't get screwed over later. Anyone else watch 24? I'm interested to hear your thoughts on it.

Blogging Noob!!

So, I was trying to figure out how to follow other people's blogs, and I ended up following myself! And I still don't know how to follow other people's. I'm embarrassed at my noobness.

I've been studying for the Praxis a lot lately. I can't believe I take the tests on Saturday!! It's one of those things where you feel like it's soooo far away that you don't really think too much about it, but then all of the sudden it's here and you wish you would have thought about it more. I took a practice test for the Content Knowledge (which is where I have to recall EVERYTHING I've ever learned in school starting from Kindergarten through yesterday) and I didn't do too badly, but I want to do better. Perhaps I'm setting my standards too high, but I really want to do well on this test. "Passing" scores are different in every state, so even if I pass for Idaho, that score might not be good enough for another state. So I'm shooting pretty high. I'm really nervous for it, probably more so than is healthy. :\ Oh well, it'll be over Saturday afternoon. :)

I think I would blog more if I had more things to talk about. I mean, I don't have a hobby that would interest anyone else (like couponing or scrapbooking) that I could post about and give good tips on and people would come and benefit from my posts. Nor do I have any children that I could put pictures up of and brag about and talk to other moms about baby things. Nor am I even in school, which would also give at least SOME material. And I'm not single anymore, so I don't have fun adventures with roommates to post about. No, I'm just a hosewife who cooks my husband dinner and folds laundry. Not that I'm complaining in any way about my life, I love my life! It just doesn't yeild anything that I deem blog worthy. :D Maybe I can start posting pictures of my spotless kitchen sink or my stack of freshly folded laundry. Woot.

But, thank you to all who read this. :) I know it's not the most exciting blog but I like knowing that at least one or two people read it. :)

I Think it's Safe to Say That I Suck at Blogging

I do, however, have a lame excuse in attempts to cover up my horrible blogging skills. I was way too busy before to even thinking about blogging, and now I have nothing to do and therefore have nothing interesting to report in blog! It's true, my life is horribly boring with no job and no school.

Oh! There is one exciting thing, we're moving!! :) To University Village, it's BYU-Idaho owned so it's kept up pretty well, and untilities is included in the rent, which makes me so happy. It's very close to campus, a huge plus because when I student teach in the fall, David will be able to walk to school so I can have the car. (Oh yes, I got my student teaching placement! :) Central Elementary School in Sugar City, Idaho. First grade, YIKES!!!) It's really exciting to be moving. I'm not too thrilled to lose our washing machine, but moving away from our horrible neighbors upstairs is worth it I think. David's mom and sister will be here to help us move, which is greatly needed. With David in school, there's no way I can move our entire apartment by myself! Plus, it'll be great to see them, since I can't ever see my family, seeing his kinda makes up for it. :) But I'm excited to move nonetheless. :)

I apologize for my lack of interesting life events, would another boring survey make up for it?? This was way fun. I tried to choose songs whose titles fit the question the best, if everyone knew all the Fall Out Boy songs I did, the answers would be very different. :)

Try It...it's Tricky!Using only song titles from one artist, cleverly answer these questions.
Pick a band/artist: Fall Out Boy
1. Are you male or female: XO
2. Describe yourself: Short, Fast, and Loud
3. How you feel about yourself: Sugar, We're Going Down
4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend: It's Hard to Say "I Do" When I Don't
5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: 7 Minutes in Heaven
6. Describe your current location: Calm Before the Storm
7. Describe where you want to be: Moving Pictures
8. Your best friend is: Golden
9. Your favorite color is: Pretty in Punk
10. You know that: Hum Hallelujah
11. What’s the weather like: Hand of God
12. If your life was a television show what would it be called? Grand Theft Autumn
13. What is life to you: Bang the Doldrums
14. What is the best advice you have to give: Fame > Infamy
15. If you could change your name what would you change it to: Dance, Dance

...Oops...

Looks like being married has distracted me from blogging. :) What with getting married, a two week honeymoon, then jumping into the busiest semester of my life, it's no wonder I haven't had time to blog! But oh man, being married is amazing. :) So much better than I could have ever imagined it! I wonder why I didn't think of this earlier! ;)

This semester has been crazy. It's only a 14 credit semester, but I have a 6 credit class that seriously kicks my trash. I get to go intoan elementary school twice a week for an entire day and I LOVE that part...but then on Friday's we meet to have an actual class where a professor teaches us and whatever and THAT'S what kills me. Argh. Luckily I have two block classes that just ended, which means I get 6 more hours in my week! Hopefully that'll lighten my workload a lot.

So...since I lack a lot of interesting things to say...I'll do a husband survey! Enjoy! :)

1) What's his name?David

2)How long have you been married? A little over 2 months

3)How long did you date?Just over a year before we got married

4)How old is he? 23, almost 24

5)Who eats more? Hmm, it depends. I eat more meals throughout the day, but he eats fewer but eats enough for an army during those two meals. But...I still think he eats more despite me eating more often.

6)Who said, "I love you," first? He did. I wasn't even ready for those words yet and he just laid them on me. Haha, it's funny looking back on it!

7)Who is taller?David, he's 5'11 12''and I'm only 5'3''

8)Who sings better?Oh wow he does. He has an amazing voice!!! Mine is not so great.

9)Who is smarter?How could I possibly answer that question?? He's a lot smarter than me at some things, but I'm a lot smarter than him at other things. I think we even out pretty well, we complement each other pretty well. :)

10)Who's temper is worse?Hmm, I think this is a trick question! I think I get angry more easily than he does by I don't lose my temper as often. Hmm...I don't know the answer to that one.

11)Who does the laundry? We both do. He's done it a little more since he doesn't have school this semester and I have the busiest semester ever, but I still do it to give him a break.

12)Who does the dishes? He does most of the time. He's amazing. :) He cooks for me too!

13)Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do. We started out with me on the left and him on the right but with the set up of our apartment and me waking up at unholy hours of the morning it was better to have me on the right side. I don't mind at all. ;)

14)Who pays the bills? He does, he's the breadwinner! Plus we have a joint account, so no matter who takes the money out it's still all the same money.

15)Who mows the lawn? Lawn??? What lawn!?!?!

16)Who cooks dinner? He cooks it more often since he's home more often. But I love to cook so I cook too. I love it when he cooks for me though. :)

17)Who drives when you are together? Him, he's a much better driver than I am. Plus I hate driving.

18)Who is more stubborn? He is. If he gets set on something there is no stopping him or making him think otherwise.

19)Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Wrong?? Psh, we're never wrong.

20)Whose parents do you see the most? Neither, they both live 2,000 miles away from us.

21)Who has more friends? I don't know, I never counted.

22)Who has more siblings? Equal, we both have 3 siblings each

23)Who wears the pants in the family? Pretty sure we both do.

Hope that was enjoyable for you! Anything to give me a break from my mountains of homework. :) To be continuted...later!



I've been married 66 days yai!!! :D

Time's starting to speed up!!

We're in the 30's now. :D 39 more days!! Oooh wow, I'm excited. I'm so glad half this stuff is over, we've got flowers done, invitations are out, bridesmaid dresses are ordered, reception and open house mostly planned...hmmm. It seems like we've gotten much more done that that! I didn't realize that planning a wedding was soooo time consuming. And stressful. I wonder if getting married sooner would have been less stressful or more stressful? Either way, I'm glad it's almost over. This semester is FINALLY starting to speed up!

What has happened since then?? Our current issue were facing is housing, we STILL don't have a place to live! It's so hard to find somehwere that has everything we want at a good price, I didn't know house hunting would be this hard either! Apparently being engaged is a real eye-opener to life! And I'm not even married yet.

Hm, this entry wasn't meant to sound like I was complaining. I'm actually rather pleased with life at the moment. :) David, my little brother Jordan, and I won second place in the Halloween costume contest! That was amazing, made me feel like all my hard work finding everything for our costumes was worth it. :)

You like? We were Mario, Princess Peach, and Yoshi from Mario Kart. Ohhh I love Halloween.

I don't know why I did it

I got a blog. Why? I'm not sure yet...it seems to be the trend of recently married couples. And since I am avoiding math homework like the plauge, why not get started on it early? This would be my second blog, but I figure the blog I started when I was 16 might be just a liiiiiitle bit outdated. That may as well be lifetime ago, I don't even know the person I was then. I'm soon to be embarking on a new life, may as well start a new blog. :)

66 days till I get a husband :D