Ok that is the dress....not on me (In case you couldn't tell). I really like it. I should take the princess dress off of here cause I really liked that one too. I just though a view of it would boost my less than sparkling spirits today....this week has been pretty stressful. Johnny hasn't been in to work since last friday and won't be going back for another few days at least.Here's the skinny: Johnny's back was giving him problems (as usual) last thursday and I made him do some stretches with me. (NOTE: What follows is NOT my fault) The next morning he woke up with INTENSE pain in his back and numbness down his leg and the bottom of his foot. Doesn't tell me he's numb until I was over at his house that night around 11:30 so then I (in my drama queen way) panicked and made him go to the ER. They diagnosed him with sciatica and told him to stretch it and heat it and get to physical therapy as soon as possible. Physical Therapy was yesterday and had not improved...AT ALL. So they said it was a problem with his spine, either a herniated or ruptured disk. His MRI at 7 this morning showed it was herniated. Which sucks...but its good because now we know what is actually wrong and it can be treated without surgery. It stinks that he hurts and I know he's miserable....but I am really enjoying him being off of work.....that's bad I know but I like being able to spend time with him. [EDITED! Dumb mean comment removed by author!]Sorry...that was selfish and I like my Wedding stuff so you should be excited Halley coming out there a little. But yeah so that's what's going on in my world. Hope everything in yours is bright sunshine and daisies (which happens to be a lot like my wedding stuff). Have a fantasmic evening! :D
You know you wanna sing the song...sing it loud and proud!!! I just got off the phone with the director of financial aid at the U and they are pulling my account out of collections!!!! What does this mean: it means that they remove the $1600 + fees that were added to my tuition. It also means that with the same loan I can pay them, pay off my credit card, and my $700+ taxes and still be paying less a month than I already am. It ALSO means that I can get back to school in the fall and FINALLY finish this degree up!! I can not begin to tell you the HUGE sigh of relief I have already begun to breathe. On another, non-scholastic note: My mom found some GREAT deals on wedding stuff last night! She found a bunch of bright colored, high gloss little buckets with daisy cut-outs around the top that we're just going to fill with a little bit of sand and a bunch of white daisies. They were $2-4 dollars a pop. And she found some bright paper lanterns for the dance floor for a remarkably low price of 2 dolla' THANK YOU HOBBY LOBBY POST-EASTER SALE!!Also I finally got my New York City Ballet Work-out DVD...and my bum has been kicked! But in the best way possible! My legs were a little tired by the end but I wasn't hurting...just sweating and panting (LOL) but by the time I walked downstairs to my room (a whole 5 minutes) I was feeling it. And I'm still feeling it. I only feel it in my abs when I laugh but my legs are burning and I can feel it in my shoulders and back. Woohoo dance...I'm trying the second workout tonight. I hope I can walk in the morning!!
But I actually went with another dress. Mom and I went to a place called FairyGodmother's Bridal that a lady runs from her home and found a dress that is similar to the princess but is different and unique in its own way. It's been discontinued so NO ONE will have this dress ever again! BWAHAHA! It's actually a little too small in the bustal region but we're getting laces put in so it will lace up the back and I can have my pink bow at the bottom! I am so glad my mommy got to come see me--oh and get this! After all the dilemma because she liked the queen dress she told me "after thinking about it I think the Princess one would be better for you too" I think the price tag was a little scary...and it certainly was. But I found one just as beautiful and unique and flattering and sparkly and lacey and for A LOT less money! And it has a hoop in stead of tons of tool as a petticoat so it's still poofy and full but without being quite so miserably hot. But I haven't decided if I should put the pictures up on here...or just make you come to my wedding to be surprised. I'll ponder that. You go ponder other things. Later lovelies!
Hooray for me! After three days on sabbatical I finally acted like a girl and put some of the good old rouge on. (Granted I still didn't really do my hair and I'm in jeans and a sweatshirt). My Mommy will be here tomorrow night!! I'm so excited!! We get to do real wedding stuff like go to our venue and go dress shopping and meet with our florist and yeah ...so YAY! Plus she gets to go with Brittany to their first ultrasound with the new baby. She gets in Sunday night and leaves Saturday morning. I know its going to go by so fast and sadness abounds at that...but still she's gonna be here! I'm kind of exited....like REALLY excited!! I've never been a "homebody" or a real Mama's girl until I moved out here to Utah and I only get to see her for a couple days at a time. And its been really difficult planning a wedding without her here. Tuesday is going to be hectic cause it's the only day we have with Johnny so we're going out to the venue and we may be going done to look at a house....OMG I'll tell ya that story next.....and then he's going to take a nap because his work that morning is going to be crazy and mommy and I are meeting with my florist and then we're all (along with Brittany and Chad) going to dinner somewhere. Oh and mom is going to the ultrasound that morning so he'll be glad to sleep in on wednesday I think.SO I think I may have found Johnny's and My first home!! Its amazing and perfect and when I found it I just had that feeling...ya know the "this is my house" feeling. I don't want to curse it though, and I would definitely be very happy in some of the other places we're going to look at but its a townhouse right along little cottonwood creek and they're asking 40K less than its value because they have to sell it IMMEDIATELY. And you want a "just goes to show our church is like way truer" moment? I had been bad about paying my tithing cause I've been barely scraping by lately but decided last week I had to be better and put that first priority. So I paid it on Sunday and just prayed that I would have enough from my paycheck to cover my bills. It was gonna be close. But Thursday I ended up babysitting for my boss and made a sweet 20 for playing with her baby (BEST JOB EVER!) and all my bills have come through and I still have a few bucks left. And then Friday...on the high of realizing the immediate blessings of obeying commandments I found this house. I don't know for sure that we will get it....but its definite proof that my needs and concerns are known and addressed. So to sum up: 1000 points of light....wouldn't be prudent....I still want a baby....I hope and pray we get this townhome....and Pay your tithing! Hooray for you! Have a good day!
That's going to be my wedding reception. I have decided. Nothing quite seems to be working out with the wedding today so I think we're going to default to sitting our family room eating cake while I wear my wedding dress. We made the deposit on our venue last week. We've been planning forever to do it at the Cottonwood Market Street because A) its PERFECT! B) it's the company Johnny and I worked for when we met and C) Johnny still works for the company so they're paying our facilities charges. However today I got a copy of the contract emailed to me and it had a minimum food charge requirement of about a thousand dollars more than we were planning on. Well Shizrick Wixfoz! The problem is that pretty much blows my entire budget. And if we cancel, we lose 500 big ones from our deposit. I'm okay doing our own food...NOT A PROBLEM. Johnny doesn't want to but neither he nor his parents are paying for it so....yeah. But I don't know where else we could do it. We could maybe bribe Bishop into letting us do it at his Cabin. I really want to use that as a last resort because we love Bishop and don;t want to impose.....but the place is GIANT! Oh and if we buy a condo instead of a home we may have a fieldhouse we could use. I don't know.....I'm telling ya: Cake and movies in a dress. Other than that it is GLORIOUS outside. I guess its supposed to rain slash snow this week. It was supposed to start today but they said "oops, we mean tomorrow" so let's hope that continues. I just had to vent a little but I should probably get to blocking my student's show....LUVS!!
Happy posts are good....I feel like I really let my low swing get to me more than I should have. But its gone and things are up again. Man I sound like a wack-job! I've started working 4 ten-hour shifts instead of 5 eight-hour shifts so I have two weekdays off (tuesday and wednesday) and Sundays. Its only my first week on this schedule but it is already so hugely perfect! Tuesday was Johnny's and my date night and since his birthday was wednesday we spent our night "celebrating" the man that is Johnny Ray. The celebration was modest but I made him a candlelit dinner with fancy dessert (AKA jell-o in a martini glass with whipped cream hahaha) and then we watched a couple episodes of "Into the West." Earlier in the day we went to the home loan people and got pre-approved for a mortgage. Holy Cows on a stick!! We're pretty excited and feel rather grown-up. (He should...he's old. ) And I gave him his Birthday present that has been taunting me for three weeks since I picked up. I finally found a CTR ring that suits him and he loves it and hasn't taken it off yet. so Yay!Tuesday we also officially found out that my gorgeous sister, Brittany, who lost her baby just 8 weeks ago is pregnant again! so way totally awesome news there! Its crazy and we are hoping and praying very hard that she has a healthy pregnancy and pops one out around my birthday or maybe evans...we don't yet. Man this is exciting! Oh and everything is going well for Caitlin and she's due in 2 months! YAY BABIES!! My mom is dead convinced I'll be mighty preggers with one of my own when Evan gets home from his mission....in one year. Keep in mind Johnny and I aren't getting married for another 5 months. I'm not saying I'd be upset cause we all know I'm baby ravenous (a higher degree of Baby hungry) but its is not in our game plan. Even though I, not-so-secretly, want to be pregnant now. I guess its just a little sister thing. I think that's about it. After my low swing and a little bit of sicky tummy its been glorious! and The weather has been pretty friendly itself. A little chilly but its getting up there--and we discovered we have about a dozen tulips in our front garden. a very pretty happy spring surprise! May your march bring you the Same!!
Its beginning to look a bit like springtime....about every three days. We've still got patches of snow and about once a week we're getting a lovely rain/snow/slush mixture falling from the skies. But today is gorgeousness! And the forecast is varied in the next week...maybe its spring...maybe not. I puppy-sat for my sister last week while she and her husband went to New York City...I don't like being in their house alone so instead of sleeping upstairs in the nursery (with no window coverings) I slept on their love-sac in the family room..and the puppies slept inside with me....Don't tell Chad! Johnny was able to come over a couple nights and hang out with me and the pups for a bit before our curfew hit. And one night he brought me my valentine's day present: a tanning package to my favorite tanning parlor! Yay! I've been saying for a few weeks that I wanted to start tanning again because A) I'm pasty 2) I'm chubby and tan and chubby is much cuter than pale and chubby C) it helps with my skin and my seasonal affective disorder....not to mention when you're engaged to an indian you're always pale. It's better to not be transparent!We did our cake tasting saturday and I am way excited for our wedding cake: It is going to be a lemon cake (very light tasting) with a Meyer Lemon curd filling with lemon buttercream frosting. I know it sounds like lemon overkill but trust me it's not overpowering and its delicious and PERFECT for an august evening in Utah! :D Johnny is also having Ro do his groom's cake but he purposely made me nervous by making a point of telling her he would describe what he wanted later...that it had to be a secret from me...jerk! lol I'm sure its fine but he did it on purpose!Let's see what else has been going on in my world...OH so there was an earthquake in Nevada on thursday...and for some reason (maybe connected, maybe not) our ENTIRE computer system campus wide went down..that was a bit of stress and hecticness right there. Appointments had to be cancelled, we had to go on disaster divert because we couldn't admit anyone to the hospital, we had to page Cardiac Arrest teams overhead....man was it a party. Our computer system was down from 11:30 am to 7:20 that night. I thought the way to take down a hospital was just to get the pager system down (Dr.'s FREAK when they can't page) but no..take out a computer or two and see what happens. Johnny has been very sweet and cute lately. I don't know if it's because spring is just peaking around the corner or if its because we have been doing better with "the rules" or what. But I kind of like it. He sent me a random text message today just to ask "do you wanna be my wife" it was kind of cute. That's probably really cheesy and sappy but I'm in love so deal with it!! Speaking of love...Mr Todd Elliot is getting married next saturday. I'm excited...especially since it's saturday morning so Johnny gets to come with me! It's so crazy... But I feel so loved cause I get to be part of the "family" ceremony. Johnny has to work so he can't go to the reception with me..so I may have to drive back down after he heads to work. I love Todd and I'm so excited he's getting married...That girl better be good to him or I'll beat her! BWAHAHA! He was so funny when he told me he was engaged we were talking about how everything was going so well for both of us and he said "and we're both getting married...to different people!" I had to laugh...cause it's so true. I think that's good for the day...Yay for happiness and stuff!!
So I kinda forget about this....mostly because I've been trying to get all my ducks in a row with my projects and such. But here we are! Things have been crazy but good. After the events of the previous post and my slight mental breakdown we all took a deep breath and kept going. I started class and, other than some small discipline issues. we were all okay. I've decided that since I'm basically a substitute teacher to them at this point, that's why they don't want to be good. The ones that haven't done any classes at the school before love me...they don't always know when to stop talking...I think once everyone gets used to me and my ways it'll be a lot more fun and much easier to get our work done. My room is dry. They had to remove the padding that had disintegrated from the flood and while I am at Brittany's next week puppy-sitting they're going to replace it. Plus I get to cuddle with my niece dogs and hang out on their monsterSac (a knock off of a love sac). Johnny and I had our first Valentine's Day celebration yesterday. I know that the actual Holiday is tomorrow but , of course, the man's gotta work. So we went to Faustina and had a very nice dinner...I felt bad cause it was pretty pricey but it was so good and just overall a nice dinner. We went over to the gateway to see Juno and since we had a little less than an hour before it started we walked over to the little arcade to play around. The first game we played was Deal or No Deal and won 1000 tickets! lol We were such dorks and it was so much fun...we even did the good old photo booth. We used our tickets to get snacks for the movie so it all worked out! Aww good times. I kind of love him....and i get to eat my leftovers for dinner tonight! :D I have class again tonight and we're going to do some improv so we'll see if we can keep their attention a little longer. Off I go!
Title refers to the fact that I left my engagement ring at home this morning and my finger is very very naked and its just a sample of how my day has been going since 10:30 last night. OK: Good news! I (finally) met with Penny at the youth theatre wednesday night. I work 9-5:30 and most school offices are closed by then but we worked it out and it went really well. I start teaching the Drama Company class on wednesday from 5-6:30. I'm so excited!! I have six girls and two boys ages 9, 10, and 11. We meet once a week for ten weeks (twelve if you count the two weeks we have off for spring breaks) and at the end put on a performance. I'm so ready to get in and meet my students! I'm making them all Black and Silver Star Name tags. I'm stoked but at the same time I had written the start date down wrong so I thought I had more time...not a big deal just bit of stress. Also today is friday which means jeans day and I'm wearing my skinny-jeans. I feel kind of chubby in them but I can sit and breathe comfortably So yay. Now the "since 10:30 last night" story: I was sitting in bed, had the TV on, and was about to start working on my lesson plan for wednesday's class when I heard dripping coming from the little closet in my room with the furnace and water heater. I opened the door to find a rain forest: the hot water expansion tank (high pressure) had sprung a leak and was spraying everywhere-it was dripping from the walls and ceiling, there was a 1/4 inch of standing water on the floor and it was still spraying fast enough that it soak through a super heavy shop paper towel in less than 5 seconds. I started picking clothes up and putting them away (I just did laundry and hadn't stored them yet) and when I hung something up in my closet I felt a little moisture. I though it was just melted snow from my boot...but soon found that the water at soaked through the walls and was pooling under my carpet. It had entirely soaked several items of clothing and was so saturated that when you stepped on the carpet it would shoot water out. We had to turn our hot water off to stop it form spraying. I got most of the stuff up off the ground, did a load of laundry with the wet stuff and went to bed very stressed and tired. In the hurry to get out this morning before our Landlord's father came to fix it...I left my beautiful ring in its box on my nightstand, on the way in to work I hit every single red light, and it was snowy and gross so I clocked on a minute late. And then we were ridiculously crazy slit-your-wrists busy, which in my state of mind only pissed me off. Chelsie got to work around 2 and gave me tho official report: we now have hot water again, they put a new tank on (sans holes) and have begun the clean-up process. Unfortunately the water had so entirely saturated the carpet that the padding was practically disintegrating. So that means they have to replace the carpet in my room, when they do so I will be room-less. Much like tonight. They have fans and stuff going, they've ripped up part of the carpet, and will be working in my room until late tonight which means for the next couple days I'm sleeping on the couch or at someone else's house. And I still have projects due at work including recognition committee birthday board, the behavior standard bulletin board (ownership focus), and a unique valentines box. I also still have not done my lesson plan or made the kids nametags. Nor have I done anything wedding related, other than look at resorts for our honeymoon. but nothing has been accomplished. And here I am blogging away---no wonder I failed out of school!
Ok that is the dress....not on me (In case you couldn't tell). I really like it. I should take the princess dress off of here cause I really liked that one too. I just though a view of it would boost my less than sparkling spirits today.
