Happy 25!

Well, Todd's birthday went pretty well! I wanted it to be a nice and relaxing day, and I think that it was. I made Todd breakfast, pancakes with syrup from his cooking show. I also wrote "I love you Todd" with the pancake mix (I used a syringe from my daddy's work, in case you were wondering how I could be so talented). We have a short video of breakfast that I'll post when I get a chance. Then I drove him to work.

Todd went to work, and I stayed home, but I didn't tell him. I cleaned up everything I could, and went grocery shopping for dinner. I even had to go to the state liqueur store to get some wine to cook with, and it was strange. I didn't know that they didn't open until 10:00, so I got there about 10 minutes early. But I wasn't the only one waiting for the "Closed" light to go off and the door to be unlocked… I felt awkward, like I was a hard core alcoholic or something. But I just needed some cheap wine to cook with!! Anyway, while I was home getting everything ready, the stinker head Todd came home in between jobs. It was lame. But it wasn't to big of a deal, I just moved all food out of the way and told him he couldn't go in the kitchen.

Later, I picked Todd up from work and brought him his biggest present.


It was a pot that I picked out for him, but I knew it was the wrong kind. So on the way home we stopped by Bed Bath & Beyond to exchange it for the one he wanted (luckily, I had just found our B B & B gift card from our wedding that still had almost $90 on it, plus I had a 20% off coupon. Otherwise I would have paid almost $200 dollars for it!!! ouch.)




When we got back, Todd read me the instructions for his new cast iron pot while I finished preparing in the kitchen,


then he went and showered, and I set up our computer on the table. I had planned to watch his gnocchi episode and make the dish together (I know Todd already knows how, but I thought to have the episode would be fun.) Unfortunately, the computer decided to be extremely slow, and we ended up making dinner without it. oh well. But it was still a lot of fun! and we enjoyed just being together.

















We ate at a very fancy place setting, and drank some sparkling cider. Our gnocchi turned out so good, it was the lightest pasta I have ever had, very very light and fluffy, and delicious!!! We also had some nice candles and some music to set the mood. (A quick note about the music- I had been working for a month on a playlist of good love songs for Todd's birthday- but THE DAY BEFORE my entire iPod got erased. I was pretty upset- mostly because my iPod was now useless to me, but also because I had nothing for Todd's birthday and no time to make a new list. I cried. But I called my little sister Lauren, and she was so nice and spent over an hour putting a new playlist together for me. I just stopped by my parents' house while I was out earlier in the day, plugged it in and downloaded the list. It worked great. THANKS Lauren!!!!)










Of course, after dinner it was present time!!! I had worked hard for about three (maybe more) weeks to get Todd things that he would love. The T-shirt I got him, I ordered from a catalogue, and it was supposed to ship one week before Todd's birthday to give it enough time to arrive. I called on the 17th (only two days before), and it was still sitting in their warehouse! I talked to a manager, explained I needed it for my husband's birthday, and she was nice enough to send it 2nd day shipping, for no extra charge. But that was a close one! Unfortunately, I also ordered some Josh Groban CD's on Borders.com, and they said to expect shipping within 3-8 days. Well, I ordered them 9 days before Todd's birthday, and I still don't have them. lameo! Otherwise, Todd got a meat thermometer, an oven thermometer (our oven is about 10,000 years old- who knows how accurate it is!), 2 bricks of parmesean cheese imported from Parma (Todd served there for a little while on his mission), some VERY nice tongs from William's Sonoma, and also a DVD that Todd REALLY wanted from Deseret Book about modern evidence of Lehi's journey to the promised land. (THANK YOU Grandma for helping me with that one!). His last gift was a cute little fondue pot with some different flavored chips (chocolate, peanut butter, and white chocolate). When he opened that one, I brought out a plate with some angel food cake, strawberries, and marshmallows to dip in it. He made a mixture of the chips and let it melt, while he put in the video and watched some of it. Then we had our fondue and watched a movie.











This was my favorite present, when it comes to wrapping. Isn't it cute?




I put dry markers in the box with the movie so he couldn't guess what it was, even if he shook it








Unfortunately, after all our food and fondue, we were to full to eat Todd's birthday cake. Before dinner however, I took some pictures of it just for fun. Later I learned this was a very good idea. After school on Thursday, Todd came home and ate a big piece! He didn't even let me come home and sing to him with all the candles lit. I was sad. But he said it wasn't his birthday anymore so it shouldn't matter. But I don't think that way! So when I got home, I lit all the candles anyway and singed him the song. I suppose at least it was memorable!

1 Week and 100%

Only one week left until Todd's 25th birthday! This year I wanted to do something for Todd that would last much longer than just one day, so I came up with the birthday tree! I got the inspiration when I was in my parent's storage room and saw one of their short, fake Christmas trees. I borrowed my little sister Nikenzie's play jewelry, and she helped me decorate the sign for the top of the tree. Then I brought it home, so I could celebrate Todd's birthday almost a full month! I keep adding a new present underneath it every few days. It has been so fun!

Todd took his biology test today, and didn't miss a single question. Not one. I am so proud of him! He has been working so hard this semester, he's doing better than I am. But that doesn't mean I'm not working hard to!

You Can't Pass This Up!

Megan and I have come across what we feel is a business opportunity that can not be passed up! It is called IBS Elite and it's a brand new company that you probably have never heard of. They are not even starting up officially until the middle of January. Just to give you an idea of what it is, you know how banks make billions if not trillions of dollars a year off of credit card transactions? Well this company came up with a way to give you back a portion of that transaction, and a portion of all others that end up signing up underneath you! The idea is brilliant and you would be getting in just at the right time, considering the fact that it has not even begun yet. Megan and I have already talked to a few of our friends and they absolutely love it and so do we. If you want to really know what it is, just go to www.ibselite.com and there you can watch a video and get all sorts of other information about it. And if you really like it let us know, and if you have any questions just ask us, my brothers father in-law is in direct contact with the owner and has already answered many of our questions. And I have never been interested in these types of things before until now, it just seems like to good of a thing to not try for at least a little while. 

CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

The sports gods where finally, finally, after twenty five long years, smiling down on the beautiful city of Philadelphia!!! Philadelphia has not seen a major sports championship in twenty five years, and the Phillies last night won their fist world series championship in twenty eight years, and for me the moment could not have been any sweeter! When the Phillies first made the playoffs this year, like always I was very hesitant about their chances of winning it all, just because of our past twenty five years of failures and misery! But as they kept wining and wining, my belief and hope grew and grew. By the time the world series rolled around, I felt a sense of confidence that I had never felt about a Philadelphia team that had made it to a championship. I really felt that they could win it, but I also wanted to stay grounded and not get my hopes up to much. But believe it or not they started wining. They started out by splitting the first two games in Tampa, and then when they went back to philly they went up 3-1 in the series! I couldn't believe it, it was here, there was no way they were going to blow it this time. The championship was ours. Then Monday was game five and we were all together to watch the clinching game, and everything was going right until it started to rain. It started raining harder and harder, and then Tampa Bay came back to tie it in the sixth inning and then they suspended the game! And they didn't restart the game until wednesday night! And during all that time we were all thinking "oh no, here we go again!" But sure enough this team was a team of destiny, and tore down the past twenty five years of misery and became world champions!!! It was the greatest feeling in the world! It was everything that I expected it to be, and we are now world champions! Megan and I watched and celebrated this game with family. Scott my older brother and his wife and little kids were there, and my younger Dan was there as well. What a great night, one that we will never forget!

Our Trip To Jackson Hole Wyoming

Well it sure took us a very long time to finally post and talk about our vacation that we had up in Jackson Hole Wyoming! We went at the end of August and now its already the middle of october, oh well! It was a very fun and needed vacation. I had just spent the entire summer working and going to school without any type of vacation, yeah I felt just a little burnt out! But lucky for us our good friends Christy and Jason invited us to go on this camping trip in Jackson Hole where they both have camped out many times before. Needless to say me being from Philly and not to familiar with camping, also still scared emotionally from the "not Nick" camp out when I was a little kid, (a family story) I was a little weary about the whole idea of not having any of the every day amenities, such as my own bathroom, electricity, and most important of all, NO Sports! I know I am pathetic. But Christy and Jason were able to calm my nerves and tell me that it would be just fine, and Megan just told me to suck it up and get over it. Actually that was the best part of this trip for her, no TV and no sports for four days! Well I was happy for Megan. 

We left late Wednesday night and drove all night and got to the camp site at about five thirty in the morning. The reason for that was at this site its first come first serve, so we were trying to snag the best camp site possible. We had to circle the camp site a few times but we were finally able to snag what we thought was the best one out of them all. It was kind of in the back corner away from most other people, which was nice. But the only down side to it was we would be the first place were the bears would have come in looking for food. Luckily we avoided any bear encounters the whole trip, but the first night was really windy, and because of that leaves and pine cones were falling all night. So we got scared and thought an entire army of bears were circling and planning and elaborate attack on our poor tent and us! Luckily we just imagined the entire thing. But I will admit I was cowering like a little girl!

So the first day that we were there, we set up our tent and got everything situated. Then we took a nap because we had been driving all night. Then we did a lot of hiking that day, and when you watch the video that we posted you can see some of the beautiful scenery that we saw! The second morning we made our now famous episode of french toast, if you still have not watched it it is a must see on our cooking blog! Then we kind of lounged around for a while and just soaked up the opportunity to just sit around and do nothing. Then later in the afternoon we went boating on canoes. Megan and I, lets just say we had a hard time getting in sync, and we liked going around in circles! But it was still very fun. Then we went back and made dinner and I continued to dominate in scum! I think I won fifteen straight games! Then the last full day that we were there we went into Jackson Hole. We went swimming, and site seeing, went out to dinner, and bought cool sweat pants that say Jackson Hole on the side. 

Thats about it. It was a very fun trip and I was able to overcome my need for sports, and only texted Scott one time to find out what happened in the Eagles pre-season game against the Patriots. Thank you Christy and Jason for inviting us to come with you guys, it was a blast!

Caught red-handed

So we have these cool cameras at work that we can pull up online. My coworker Maranda did that for one of them, and this was the picture she got:




So you can tell that I am a very hard worker

It's Here!

Hey guys, our first episode is UP on inyourkitchen.blogspot.com. Check it out and try the dish, then let us know how it goes!

A Wedding!

So Puddle got married on August 2nd. I was going to blog about it last week, but alas, laziness got the best of me. I didn't want to do it right when when I blogged about Todd's and my anniversary, because as much as I love Puddle, my own wedding will probably do a lot more for me in my life than hers, and I wanted to give the first year a good celebration.

She looked beautiful! It was very fun to actually be able to attend her wedding. It was also funny because my old sign language teacher was there to interpret for Puddle's sister-in-law who is deaf (Amy.) It was great to see her again and do a little catching up. Right outside the temple was fun, we all got little bubble blowers to blow on Puddle and Ryan as they came outside. I thought it was such a cute idea! We shuffled around all the other brides for the good picture spots, and Got some really fun ones. We took a bunch of pictures to give to the newlyweds, so we can share them now with you!

The reception was also very beautiful. There was no luncheon because they had had a dinner the night before instead, but we weren't able to go. (Can you guess why?!!?) I was very impressed with the reception. It was at a church, and there was a scarlet curtain that hung all around the gym, which made for a great backdrop. The food was simple, yet delicious, and the atmosphere was very pleasant. It was especially fun for me to see a bunch of people using sign language (Amy was there, and some of her family, plus almost all of Puddle's family knows sign language too. Whoda thunk?)

Everything seemed to flow seamlessly. What a fun day to see one of my best friends get hitched!

Their entrance to the world as a married couple


Bride, groom, and parents share a romantic moment


Me and Todd.


The bride and her best friend :D


The four of us. I think we will be great friends.


The very pretty cake


And cake in the face


Britt. She was taking the pictures so she didn't get to be in many

One Year!

Well folks, we made it. Up to the the mark where everyone says the hardest is over. sweet. Anyway, we spent Thursday night at mom and dad Faber's house to make sure the kids weren't throwing a wild party while they were away. We got up and ate breakfast at Magleby's Fresh, only the best french toast and pancakes around. Then we came back and put on some nice clothes to go to the temple. Lauren was so nice and loaned us her camera for the day so we could take pictures. In the temple we did sealings, which was such a fun experience to kneel across the alter from one another in the exact same building wearing the exact same clothes exactly one year after our special day.



After the temple we packed up our things and headed to Park City. While we were up there we went shopping at the outlet mall, but pretty much everything we saw was ugly. I ended up getting a black skirt (which has been much needed for a long time now) and a shirt that I will probably end up taking back because it was more expensive then we thought it would be. But still fun anyway. Then we just ate lunch at Burger King and relaxed a bit.



After lunch we headed over the the Alpine Slide. When Todd found out we had to go up on a ski lift he said he wouldn't go. We were going to have caricatures of us drawn instead, but when I was off looking for an ATM to pay the guy, Todd decided to man up and do what we had set out to do. We got on the lift and he was very brave. I made it all the way to the top without losing circulation in my arm once. When we got to the line at the top, we decided to take the less adventurous trail because the line was much, much shorter. We had a great time! P.S. as you are looking at the pictures, please notice that I wore my wedding shoes in commemoration of the day. :)



When we got done with the slide we could finally check into our room at the Yarrow Hotel. We went up and just relaxed and watched TV for a while. Then I got ready for the evening by putting my hair up. But I forgot to bring a mirror so it was very hard in light of the fact I couldn't see the back of my head. Oh well. We got all dressed up, and Todd wore his wedding tie, while I wore my wedding jewelry and the dress Todd gave me for our wedding (I didn't put on 15 pounds by getting married, it still fits!) We drove around for a while looking for a place to eat, but ended up eating dinner at our hotel. I know, ha ha. It was very tasty. When we were done we went and dressed up our wedding cake with some strawberries to make it pretty again. Unfortunately the blackberries we bought turned out be be moldy. rats. We also had some Martinelli's from martini glasses (both of which were stolen from my parents. THANKS mom!) And also thanks to mom for keeping our cake in her freezer that doesn't defrost, because it was still absolutely delicious. And by the way, Todd put the captions on these last pictures. Enjoy!!

Another great weekend!

Todd's parents were in town this weekend. They flew in on Tuesday, stayed with Margie's parents on Tuesday and Wednesday, and showed up at our place late Wednesday night. On Thursday we went out to IHOP with the parents while our car got a new windshield. Boo. Then we hung out with Scott, Lisa, Crystal, and new baby Seth. In the evening we went to Mom and Dad Faber's house with all the Itri's for dinner. We ended up staying late into the night. It was a blast.

On Friday we basically just hung out.

Saturday was a busy day. Todd and I got up early for a ward breakfast, then came home to get ready for the temple. We met Todd's Aunt Cathy and Uncle Michael, Todd's brother Dan, and his two cousins J. Dee and Jason (plus we rode in the car with Todd's parents of course.) We did some family file names, both endowments and sealings, that Aunt Cathy had dug up from our trip to Italy last year. It was way awesome. Then we went and ate at Pizzeria 7-12. Here is a picture of us eating our authentic italian pizza:

After that Todd and I babysat Crystal and Seth while everyone else saw Batman. Actually, I mostly watched the kids while Todd cooked amazing manicotti. We ended up with 16 people over, all squished in our little apartment! It was so fun and everyone RAVED about Todds cooking. Aunt Cathy said it was definitely memorable food. What can I say, I'm a lucky gal!



Sunday was Seth's baby blessing. We went to the blessing, then spent the rest of the day at Lisa's parents house just chatting. It was a very nice evening to finish off a great week with Mom and Pop Itri.


This is me with my favorite cousin Julia:



On Monday night we got to play with my family. My Aunt Laurine was in town with her daughter Saria, so we all had dinner with them and my Grandparents came too. We ate great food that my mommy made, then played pictionary. It was a blast! After the serious game was over, a few of us just took turns drawing while everyone guessed. I turned out to be pretty dang good at it. I even drew a pretty awesome picture of Kenzie. And of course, everyone guessed the word "slack" when i drew an amazing picture of Will lying on the couch with a -er after it. Ya know, I like the realistic pictures Ü.

The 4th of JULY!

We had a great fourth of July!! We drove up to Todd's aunt Jill's house in Fruit Heights and played all day! First we had a barbeque where Todd grilled up some way yummy steaks and we ate lots of good food. Then we all got together and went down to the softball field for a "pick up" softball game. We had three teams of 5 each. The first team to 10 runs would be the winner. Our team had zero runs for the first two at bats, and Todd was getting pretty frustrated. He blamed the other teams for playing terrible defense when we were in the field with them, and then awesome defense when we were at bat. But, the next inning we scored 5 runs! I even got around the bases, only by my cunning bravery in smacking right into the second baseman to be safe. Todd of course hit better than everyone else, but I was a sweet runner. In the next inning we pulled out another 5 runs to win the game! Todd was extatic and couldn't stop talking about it the rest of the day.

We came back to aunt Jill's and just relaxed for a while from the heat and exercise. I ate some ice cream while Todd had to stick to his diet (he only cheated a little, which is pretty good for a holiday!) Then we played volleyball for hours. It was way fun, and I actually was able to help the team (sometimes....) At first all the boys on my team kept crowding my space because I'm a girl and I've only played volleyball in P.E., but then I told Todd it was mean, so he told our team he would break their heads if they got in my space after that. It actually helped! I got to play and it was a lot of fun.

After volleyball we went and watched a pretty fireworks display which was fun to. Then we all ended up sleeping over! We played The Newlywed Game until about 2:30 in the morning. It was funny, and Todd's brother Scott and his wife Lisa pretty much kicked everyone's trash.


Todd showing his disdain for terrible defense


Todd and his professional batting stance


On my first run I accidentally missed the plate and had to run back to tag it, and found another teammate coming in at the same time


Me after smacking into the second baseman. I think if I didn't hit him he would have caught the ball and I would have been out!


Me and Todd at the dugout with our teammate Jason at bat


Our newest nephew Seth watching the action

p.s. I added a post in May (even though I actually wrote it after this one.) You should all check it out.

School.

So Todd is working hard this summer at school, while I sit back- BORED!!! It is so weird how when school ends you can't WAIT to have a break, then after a few weeks you are sick of having nothing to do. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if Todd didn't have school either, then we could go out and play together more often. We have at least taken to walks on some evenings. Last week we took a walk to a park, then sat on the swings (I totally got higher than him, no matter what he says), and chased each other around the playground. It was almost like we were dating again!!

Todd has only two classes this summer, but they have to go super fast because they are less than two months long. He has been working so hard, I am so proud of him!! He actually got the high score on his last math test, so he ended up with 100%. I think that's pretty impressive. He is finally learning that you actually do have to redo all your problems to catch those silly little mistakes everyone makes the first time around.

An update on the camera situation!! We went to best buy and bought a universal charger. It had a bunch of ends to a charger that plugged into the wall. We found the one that fit, and let it sit connected to the wall and the camera for a little while. Unfortunately, when I went back to check on it, I had a very hot, very dead camera. I will have to take that charger back and see if I can get someone to help me find a charger that was made for fuji cameras. So the quest continues. I guess you all will just get a bunch of words until this is figured out. To bad!

Hello Again!

Hello. Life is bittersweet sometimes. I was so excited to finish the semester in April, and I am already mondo bored. I am actually excited to go back to school in August. Todd and I are starting to plan a trip to Hawaii, though a long time off. We were going to head out there this December, but all the times we could go are during school, which neither of us can miss. So we might go in December of 2009. We will just have to see!

So my goal this week is to get a new charger for my camera. The reason I never post is because I feel so boring without any cool pictures to show, while all my pretty sisters show off their family all the time. So yes, I am making an effort to try to keep people up with the goings on at the Itri Home. Life is good for now!

Retroactive

I haven't been much of a blogger because I think it is so boring to just read stories with no pictures. I am actually writin this on July 5th. But while Todd and I have been at Aunt Jills for the 4th, Uncle Michael and Aunt Cathy brought their camera and I am now sneaking onto the computer to upload some of their pictures. We went to Todd's cousin's wedding in California in April, so here are some pictures.


The Bride and Groom


The Itri Family


Just the Itri boys


Eating at the reception


I turned because I didn't know someone was taking a picture- but isn't my hair cute?

School's Out!

I have finally finished my first semester as a nursing student. Whew. I thought at one point I was going to dropout because of how awfully unorganized the entire teaching staff was. However, I stuck it through. And now I am very glad I did. I liked getting to know the other people, and it was SO nice to actually work with other students who were there because they wanted to learn! What a novel idea. Who would think anyone wanted to go to school to learn? Well, I was actually thinking I was crazy for it the last few years, so it's good to know I'm not the only crazy one out there.

Next semester Todd gets to start school again too. We are not sure exactly what course we want him to take, he wants to do physical therapy but is not dead set on it. My daddy suggested the other day that he become a nurse, a nurse anesthetist, or a physicians assistant or something. So we are playing around with some ideas and just trying to finish up the last few generals that need to be taken. Todd is very excited to go back to school, despite the fact that I think he is crazy.

Work has been absolutely terrible lately. I thought I was just being whiny, until I found out that EVERYONE feels the same way. We had a staff meeting where we were all able to voice our feelings because management was not present, and there were a lot of tears shed because people had been bottling up their frustrations for so dang long. So today I took the liberty of making a list of job descriptions that I think should be incorporated into our office. I showed it to my fellow employees, and they all loved it. Hopefully I will find a way to implement it, even though I'm not in power. It really needs to be done.

That's it for tonight folks!

For Mommy

This is for my dear sweet family. All of my sisters have started blogging, and I feel left out. Plus my mommy said I should. So here is a brief: I am very excited that school ends in a month. Todd is fun but I don't get to play with him enough. I want to find a new job. That's about all I got right now! I'll let you know about more stuff later!

Why Hello!

SURPRISE! I remembered today that I once had a blog! I am sure that by now no one reads this anymore, but I thought that it might be fun to be able to say something anyway. Megan is living in Philadelphia right now and pretty much it's awesome. I am a Mary Kay consultant, and I am having a lot of fun with that. I think it is very enjoyable actually, even though at first a lot of people tried to tell me that it was a bad idea, it has actually been one of the funnest things i've ever done. And so was moving to Philly, people think I was crazy but it has been way awesome so I don't regret anything. I am going to be here for a few more months, I am taking one class at Delaware County Community College, and it is way boring. The teacher dumbs everything down to the point that it doesn't make sense anymore. Compared to my Anatomy class at UVSC last semester, this is like nothing. Who would of thought that physiology could be so boring? I mean, it should be interesting because I am learning about something that actually interests me, right? Well NO! The teacher puts me to sleep every time. And the most exciting thing... I'm going on a trip to Italy!!! I bought my ticket last night. Now I just have to work a ton so that I can earn that money back and not be poor. I'm going with my best friends family. That would be the one and only Todd Matthew Itri! (I even looked up Todd Itri on google once and couldn't find anything. I think that means that he really is one and only. I must be pretty lucky.) So everyone, there's the last year in a nutshell! See ya'll later!

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Let it Snow!!

Hooray! Finally the coldness has a purpose! Being cold is ok as long as you have snow to go with it!! Today has been wonderful, there are even trucks driving around plowing snow everywhere all day because it just keeps coming! Ok, I will try to stop with the exclamation points now. But finals are next week, so that is good. I will be all done with this terrible school and on my way… to NEW YORK! (Sorry, I did it again.) Then I will come home for a few weeks and move out with some of my friends, which will hopefully be awesome. I don't want to end up hating any of them like some people do. But we'll just have to see what happens won't we. I'm happy, life is good, and… yeah.

Psychic

Dang it, I did it again. Why do I always erase entire entries that I write? Oh well. I'll do it again. Today I was psychic. A while ago I told Chris Money that I am psychic like him, and he asked how. But I couldn't remember a specific situation. Now I have one! So, Chris Money, here ya go.

Today I was in my room listening to Death Cab for Cutie. I thought to myself "I bet my rommmate's boyfriend Zack likes this. I bet he asks me if that is what I am listening to if he comes in here while it's on." Not more than 10 minutes later, my roommate came home. I didn't notice that her boyfriend was with her until he asked "Is this Death Cab for Cutie?" Yeah pretty much I'm amazing. He is going to borrow it sometime now and yea anyway I just thought that was kinda funny.

Yep. Thanksgiving holiday was wonderful and I had a ton of fun. I didn't get to play with Ryan as much as was planned, but otherwise it was pretty much a perfect weekend. Now I'm back at school, and finals are so soon!! Only two weeks away. School is almost over, then I'll be back down in Provo. After that, who knows! Life is crazy.

Locked Out

I locked myself out of my room today. It pretty much sucks hard core. But I will just have to get over it. If it happens again I will have to start paying fees. How am I so stupid? Well, I had everything ready to go for today, I went to bed early, but then went and played with a friend and forgot to put my key back in my backpack. Can you say smart? I sure can't

The rest of today was pretty much reallly boring. I went to go volunteer, but guess what? No one was there that gives me things to do so I had to turn around and come straight on home. It was actually kind of interesting because I had the same bus driver both ways. She lauged at me. And then on the way home there was this weird guy that was telling us about how he is a Jew and what Jews beleive. So here's your Jewish Beleifs 1010 class: The Jews do not beleive in Christ. In any way, shape, or form. He did not come, and he will not come. They are not looking forward for anyone to save them. They are just living. There is no hell. When we die we just disapear. They do not follow the law of Moses. Oh wait, but they do follow God's Law, which was given to Moses on Mt. Sianai and also other parts during the 40 years of wandering. They pretty much just beleive in God. He is everywhere, in everything. That's about all they ever think about or beleive in. In other words, this guy was nutso. But this reminds me of what happened the last time I was on my way home. It was raining and the bus windshield wipers were going weird. On of them was going at exactly half the speed of the other. Then when the rain stopped they were still going. Very annoying, very distracting.

Bleh

So this week will probably be pretty boring. I got a job finally, but I must say it's pretty boring. I am just crawling around on the floor with this little 18 month old girl for two hours in the most inconvenient time of the day. And as soon as I'm done all the shuttles around my school stop and go park. So I have to walk all the way home in the freezing and darkness. Yesterday was my first day and it took me about half an hour to get home, and it was FREEZING. I hope I can find a faster way to do this. I might bring my bike and ride it to the trax station when I'm done. Maybe that will be closer, who knows!

I also need to do some volunteering at the deaf school. That would be cool if I actually felt like I was doing something, but usually I just sit there and help my friend's mom edit letters to parents. So hopefully I will find a way to actually work in some classrooms or do something a little bit more exciting. We'll just have to see!

Well, other than that life is pretty boring. I have a lot of really fun friends up here but I am not sure exactly if any of them are really like best friend-ish. We'll see.

Hey Ya'll

What up world? Ha ha I am not special enought to use crazy slang like that. In cas anyone is wondering, I am really tired and not quite here tonight. But I haven't said anything for a very long time, so I thought I might as well. Life is great, and I am muchas happy. Tonight was awesome, I got to go hear Ryan announce a game at UVSC, and he is pretty much amazing. He was way fun to listen to.

Last week was pretty crazy and weird, I was tired all the time and I didn't get much sleep. But this week was mostly a lot better, so I'm glad about that. Life is fun and things are just turning out to be really awesome. I decided that I will probably go to UVSC next semester, and hopefully rent a house in Provo with my friends Brittney and Puddle. That would make me so very very happy. But we'll have to see. I hope we can find a place. Does anyone know of good places to look? We want somewhere that can have pets but isn't super expensive. So yeah. I hope everyone's life is better, see ya later!

Megan Needs…

1. Megan needs a theme song
2. Megan needs to work on her gun control
3. Megan needs help
4. Megan needs math help
5. Megan needs to become more acquainted with some of the conventions of spelling
6. Megan needs a cell phone
7. Megan needsan organ transplant
8. Megan needs coffee
9. Megan needs a loving home
10. Megan needs offensive player

Ooo la la!

Guess what? Ryan came down this weekend and we drove all the way down to Summerhay's and bought me a harp string! So after he left I went right over to my sister's house to put it in. I tied the harpers knot (pretty nifty, eh?), and strung the string through the hole in the soundboard so I could wrap it around the pin and tune it into place. Well, right away I noticed something was wrong. The string was bigger thant the strings on either side. Much bigger. In fact, the exact size of the string an octave below. That's right, I'm so stupid I got the wrong octave. I got the wrong octave!!!!! I was so dissapointed. But there was nothing I could do. But then, to my great surprise, my sister let me take her car to Lyon and Healy to get the right strind!!! You see, my sister also plays the harp, but more for fun because she stopped taking lessons several years ago. She had also been bothered by the lack of stringness, so she was eager to get another one. So I went and got it, and guess what? I BROKE it when E was stringing it. I was tuning it, and realized that I had done it wrong, which is no surprise because I have never done it right, but it always still works. And this time it would have worked still, but I wanted to do it right. So I undid it and started to do it the right way. But because I had done it the wrong way first, the string had already bent to that so it didn't like to be changed and it snapped. And lucky me again!! They always seem to sell the smaller strings three times longer than they need to be, so I just started all over again and did it right, finally. The only annoying thing was the nature of every newly strung string: you have to tune it about every minute. They always go out of tune so fast. But it was worth it to be able to play, I spent the entire afernoon there. Yay!

School is fun and life is good. I hope it's the same for ya'll!

Music

I decided that music is magic. The past few days when I haven't been very happy all I've had to do is turn on some music that I really like and all of a sudden I feel a lot better. Even last night when I was studying for my midterm I was all of a sudden full of energy and just happy when I turned on Hairspray. And now I am listening to Savage Garden and it is just wonderful and fabulous! I love music. And I played my little harp yesterday. It is not even close to as pretty and as fun as my pedal harp, but my pedal harp has a broken string so I haven't really even played a harp for two weeks. But when I sat down to play it was so nice! I need to get another string but I don't have a car so I can't really get anywhere that sells one. I'm dying! oh well. There is nothing I can do about it.

Ballerina's and Tofu

I am back at the U and it's not too bad. I again can't eat whenever I want, I don't get to see my daddy very much, I miss my siblings, and my mommy told me she didn't have something I needed, but when I got back and found out she did, she said that she had told me that. But it is a lie. So now I am back home without it, and it would have been so easy to get had I known it was there. Bleh. oh well, what can ya do? Not much.

I have a huge midterm this Friday, and I was going to do decent, but now I have to do amazing because the teacher yelled at me today for missing class and sleeping when I was there. But guess what? I have only missed class once, and that was at the beginning of the term. And today my eye happened to be swollen, dry, and burning. You try to keep your eyes open when they feel like that. So anyway, now I have this stupid character flaw where I have to do amazing now so he feels stupid for reprimanding me. And so my life is devoted to studying. AHHH!!! I'm already sick of it. Oh well. My daddy will be happy that I got a good grade. Wish me luck!

oh

Well hello everybody. Guess what? I got to come home for the long weekend. It's fall break at the U right now, so I am home just chillin and I worked Thursday and Friday. I miss it a lot. I wish I could just come home and work some more before I had to go to school. Oh well. School is good too. I like most of my classes, but I really need to study more for a stupid midterm I have next week. Eh, I'll get over it.

I hope everyone else out there is doing ok. I have made a new goal in my life to not get so mad and be such a girl. I am generally more forgiving than most people, that is something that comes really easily for me. Now I am going to work on not getting mad, frustrated, or bugged in the first place. People do things, and because of those things other people have every right to feel let down, disappointed, hurt, used, manipulated, or back stabbed. But I'm going to try not to feel that way when it happens to me. It's hard. I feel like I know the most logical way to do things, and when other people think or do differently it really bugs me a lot. So then I let people get on my nerves just because they aren't as nice as I think they are supposed to be. Well, maybe some people don't think it's rude to try to become best friends with everyone you know and then hang out with them without you (oh, by the way, "everyone" is not exaggerating, so then you would have zero friends). Or lie to you because they thought they would save you from pain (when really it causes you more). Or maybe doesn't do any favors for you while asking a lot more than just a little from you. Or thinking it's ok to NOT get you a birthday present. Or be bugged by something about you for a very long time and pretend there's nothing wrong, when they could just ask you about it. Or just do what you ask them even if they don't want to- just because you asked them. Or have something of yours and lie to you when you ask them if they do (are you sure, I saw it in your room). Maybe none of those things are rude, but sometimes I get hurt when people do them to me, especially when it seems they are doing it on purpose to make me unhappy. So it is my new resolution and goal to not be bugged by them, or any other petty little things that come up. Even when my suitemates give my roommate and I a forever long lecture about cleaning the bathroom when it's our turn (we cleaned it a day late), and then they skip their turn entirely, on the grounds that we didn't do the floor good enough last time so it's like they had to do double duty. I am not going to let it bother me.