Working at it

Alright, so maybe the first few...weeks were easy. Now we work. The problem is that he is there in NM and I am here in AL. BLECH!!! So we get irritated and mad about really stupid things. And it is totally because he can't see my face, I can't see his, my phone goes dead, he's really busy with something, it goes on. It's not every night, but it still happens.
I REALLY can't wait for him to get here. Next week!!! Yeah, Valentine's Day. :) We are going down to Orlando to go to Disneyworld too!!! I have never been there, so I am totally psyched about it. The coolest thing is that I get to meet a lot of the people he taught and worked with on his mission. Way excited for that. I think he's excited to go back there. He keeps in touch with a lot of them. The problem is that...I don't speak Spanish. He served in Orlando Spanish speaking. I understand a word here and there, but I really don't know right from left in that language. So it will definately have its awkward moments. We shall see how it goes. I hope some of his friends out there speak English. But we shall see.
All right, short and sweet. Love ya'll!!!

Our Anniversary

Alrighty, so today is our one month anniversary since we decided to become boyfriend/girlfriend. Yes, an exciting day indeed. Yeah, he totally doesn't remember. I have held off saying anything, but I didn't even think about this fact until later today anyways. So when he calls me back withing the next while, I am totally springing it on him. :) Ah, I love him. I do, I love him so much. He and I are so very good for each other. We had a rough moment for a while, but I think it was a result of the long distance, and I think it was good for us. We hadn't had one yet, and now it's good to see us working through the rough spots with a great deal of love and understanding for each other. It's not going to be all hunky-dory all the time, but most of the time it is.
Gosh, I can't say enough about him. I am in love. It is so easy, too. Even though we are so far apart, we have been good friends for a long time. I have said on a number of occassions actually that he's the kind of guy that I would make a pact with that if I was, say, 30 and still single, we should get married. Not that we were in love before, but I saw that there was potential there. :) And it is sooooo blossoming tremendously. I can't wait to see him!!! :) Can't wait. It will be a very very happy day when he shows up here in Alabama.
My knee? It's still very huge, but the stitches are out, which is wonderful!! It feels so much better without them, cause they really were pinching the skin pretty bad.
Yay!!! He called. Later, yo!!!

Well, I have a boyfriend. Merry Christmas to me!!! 1:00am December 24th, 2006 we became 'official'. How about that, huh? Nice anniversary. And that date just happens to be his birthday. Happy birthday to Warren! Yep, that's his name. We are doing the long distance thing, and I swore up and down I would never do the long distance thing. EVER!! Anyways, I am totally happy. He's like perfect. For real. We've known each other for 11 years. He saw me at my absolute worst, and yet he is dating me! Yay!! I'm loving it! I am SO happy, you have no idea. Seriously, he is so wonderful. He and I have been friends over the years, I even emailed and wrote him on his mission and once I sent him a care package. But always just as a friend. He is an amazing actor, a fabulous businessman, and most importantly a faithful member of the Church, and THAT is so attractive. And let me tell you, we are moving along fast. I have a good feeling about this. :) In fact, he's coming out here Valentine's Day, and you can probably guess what he is going to do!!!! I am sooooooo happy!!!!

I got a Kitchenaid Mixer for Christmas. So was not expecting that for Christmas. I guess my parents got a sweet deal on it though, so that's cool.

Christmas and New Year's was just so wonderful. So much better than last year, let me tell you.

So I had knee surgery yesterday. Yes, I am just fine. The surgery turned out to be a very good thing. I have a tendency to dislocate my left knee, so I decided to finally do something about it and wha-la, surgery. So I am laid up right now. My knee is about 4 times the size it usually is. And it hurts. But I do not like the pain medication they gave me. I like the fact that it kills the pain but I get so dizzy and sick to my stomach. So I am thinking about going to Advil instead. I can handle that stuff. I have to wean myself off of the codeine first though. Blech!

Here is my knee before the surgery. Yes, I almost match my white socks with my whiteness...

And here it is after the surgery. Now take into account the fact that there is an ace bandage and some bandaging underneath. Still, it's humungous.
And here is totally out of it me and the beautiful flowers that my sweet Warren gave me. Aren't they gorgeous!!! He is so amazingly sweet and wonderful!

Yeah, so back to the man. He's so wonderful. He is everything I ever wanted and much more. He sent me flowers yesterday! I didn't hear the man knock at the door, but my Mom came up to my room with this big basket of flowers. From my sweet Warren. He's sooo wonderful. Good member of the Church, RM, amazing actor, incredible singer, incredibly handsome. Ah, I am soooo loving it.

Alright, that's all I can handle for right now. Have a good day!

Children singing

I teach the children at my church various religious songs to help them learn the Gospel. I LOVE teaching the junior primary. They are so sweet, and they do everything you ask. Senior primary is a challenge everyday. I have discovered that if I keep all of them directly in front of my, rather than spread out far to the right and left, I can keep their attention. But there are 2 of them who drive me bonkers and 1 who never participates, well, at least most of the time she doesn't. I wish I knew what I could do for her. I have decided that next time those two troublemakers cause a problem, I will take one of them out into the hall and give them a "halltalk" like we did with IRD, my old employer. The thing is they are both very sweet kids, but they just have too much energy built up inside of them. They need to learn to put that energy towards paying attention and being involved, not to being attention-getters. Anyways, they will sound great when they perform for church on Christmas Eve. I wish Bishop would have asked them to sing today, because I won't be here. Ah well. Such is life. Goodness, there isn't a faster way to feel the Spirit than listening to these kids sing. I love it!

I miss my Mommy SO much. I really need to be closer to family. I can't wait to move to AZ. I still say my parents should move there too. They live in NM. A lot of my Mom's family lives in AZ, and there is just something so wonderfully attractive about AZ. I love it so much and I can't wait to move back. The summer after I moved to Alabama I worked in AZ for the summer, and it just tore me to shreads when I moved away again. Gah!!! Leaving my family and my friends...it just really stank!

I wish there was something that I could do for my roommate. She is a theater major, and is so busy a lot of the time. She hasn't come to Church in a long time. She has performances, rehearsals and party's that go late, and so she gets home, conks out, and wakes up around the time I get home from Church. She really is missing so much. She is such a wonderful person, she has a strong testimony of the Gospel, she just needs to come to Church, at the very least for Sacrament meeting to partake of that ordinance. I really think her life would improve so much if she were to just do that.

Heather is sick today. She gets sick so often. I hope that this won't be something that haunts her for the rest of her life. She is such a sweet girl, and she is trying so hard to do everything that she is supposed to do. I hope she can hold on and stand strong. Her testimony is really growing. Today would have been her last Sunday here, but being that she was so sick she stayed home. She works as a nursery worker, and I am sure a number of parents will be grateful that she didn't get their kids sick, but still I think that she should've come to Sacrament Meeting. Maybe she was really down in the dirt sick, ya know?

That's all folks!!!

another day

Well, Amber and I were going to the temple, but we didn't. I need to clean my house, and I just don't feel good about going to the temple and leaving my house in such a state as it is in, ya know? So I have...cleaned. Unfortunately it really doesn't look like I have. I have been throwing stuff away, and that is a good thing. It will make it a lot easier to pack when I leave, and it will make it easier for me to clean in the short term. Amber tried to talk me into going with her to the movies tonight, but this just had to get done. I went in to my work to put some stuff away, and ended up being there for 2 hours. That's good, it will give me more money in the end. When I come back from NM/AZ I will work 20 hours a week there I think, which will be a good thing. I will learn how to do more stuff there than I do now, cause I won't be able to fill 20 hours with what I am doing now. 1 1/2 weeks after I get back I will be having surgery done, so for a couple of days I won't be able to do all that heavy duty work, but I will be able to get back into it soon after I think. I hope at least. I don't want to be more of a burden than a help there. We shall see. Technically I don't need to be here next semester at all, but it will make life much less complicated if I am able to stay here during the spring.

Today I saw this guy I went on a few dates with. Gosh he looks good. A friend of mine saw him a couple of weeks ago and told him he should call me...on the same day I sent him a text message telling him to give me a call when he got a chance. I hope he doesn't think I am stalking him. He IS a nice guy, and he is VERY good looking, but I certainly did not ask my friend to say that to him. He kinda gave him a strange look I guess when my friend asked him that. I suppose he has lost interest. Ah well. Such is life I suppose.

I am listening to a CD of European jazz. It's...different. I will have to listen to it a second time before I give a real opinion of it. It's kind of annoying, but I thought minimalist pieces were annoying until I really understood them. Now I know what to listen for.

Anyways, back to work. LOVES!!!

BUSY!!!

9:30 class, 11:00 drop off note for professor, reschedule lesson time, practice the final exam again, 11:30 get lunch, go to the 'tute to eat and gain some sanity, 1:00 give final exam, 3:00 grade some of the exams, 3:30 work, 6:00 use the back roads to get to my house because they closed downtown for a winter celebration, 6:20 pick up friend with no car for Church activity, 6:30 show up at activity, do not leave until 9:30, 10:00-ish, stop by landlords house (should have been up, but their house was all locked up, very strange), stop by house to drop off leftover food from activity, stop by friends house so she can change, go to another friends house, watch The Pink Panther with Steve Martin starring. Get home at 1:00am. Write blog entry. Very tired.

Oh, and amongst all this I also am officially scheduled for surgery on my left knee on January 12th. I hope this really does help the problem, and not intensify it. I suppose that is partially up to me. I need to get into fabulous shape after the surgery. I should be working on that now, but...yeah.

Yay for sleeping in. I like sleep. I only got 5 hours last night, and I am feeling it. BUT I got a lot of work done last night, so that was good.

Night!!!

Good Morning!!

I really would rather still be asleep, but alas the day calls. I have to work, go to class, go to lesson, and all kinds of fun stuff like that. I am still tired though. I don't know why. I believe I got 8 hours of sleep. AND I took a little nap yesterday. First time I have taken a Sunday nap in a long time. It was quite nice.
Well, there really isn't much to report. This is "dead week" where no exams or assignments can be made. I give my labs their finals this week. Goodness, I hope they do well. They have been worrying me. I don't have much happening this week other than that. I have a lot of work to do. I do have stuff to do nearly every evening this week. And I need to get some visiting teaching done before I leave to go home (YAY!!!) for the break.
I hate keeping secrets. Especially really good ones. I was told a secret not long ago, and it is driving me crazy. But I only have to keep it until Christmas. Then I can tell whoever I want to. It's a family secret, and sometimes those are the worst.
I want a car that works all the time. Like, so bad! I really do. I am tired of having a retarded car. EVERYTHING is wrong with her, except for the engine. I just read the conference talk about patience by Elder Oaks (not the apostle) and I sure am trying to be patient, but it is really tough when I have places I need to be and, you know, commitments to keep. I have seriously not been reliable in a couple of areas this semester, and it is truly driving me nutso. My coworkers want to put my car on that extreme car makeover show, I think it's called Pimp my Ride or something like that. I don't think it would make it on there, and can you imagine them fixing up a wagon? Yeah, me neither. So I have to be patient. I make take out a small student loan this semester so that I can purchase a car with it. I will have a better interest rate with a loan than with a car dealership. Or maybe my parents have enough credit and stuff to get a good loan, and then I will just pay them monthly payments. I will pay it off quick, as I won't have a house payment...at least I don't think I will when I move back. Perhaps they will start charging me for living in one of their homes?
The Church is true!! Don't forget about it!!