Huh?

Oh your wondering what that was all about? Ha ha!

I thought I might try to register my phone (new feature that showed up today) so that I can post random things from my phone. That way maybe I will remember the things I want to blog.

Apparently it doesn't work so well. lol

I got a good laugh out of it.

At least I tired.

A post of randomness.

I finally got all the Christmas decor taken down and cleaned up! I am so excited, because it seems like most years I put it off until after the new year. This year I can focus more on partying in the New Year and not having to worry about getting the cleaning done before Monday. Nice. Very nice!

These cool people are coming to our house for New Years! I am so excited. I hope they don't get too bored with our po-dunk town. lol Either way, we can party hard, play lots of games and eat lots of food!

The one part that I do not like about winter - dry skin. Ouch. I have so many cracks on my hands and I am horrible about applying lotion consistently. It is a habit that I need to develop. Is there such thing as waterproof lotion? I wash my hands far too much during the day.

Speaking of ouch, and hands... yesterday when I was packaging up some lights in a cardboard box, I got a BAD cardboard cut on my palm. Ouch! Gotta love those, aye Michelle? Takes you right back to the good 'ole days at Smead. Ugh.

My legs ache today. You know, like "growing" pains ache, but times ten. Ouch. I hope it passes soon. Guess I was on my feet a little too long yesterday.

So one time I read in a blog post that you are only suppose to put one space after a period now-a-days. (And she's smart. And a better reporter than I would ever be.) I really, really, really try hard to do it, but I seriously cannot change the habit that I developed all those many years ago. How do you fix a habit like that? Seriously.

I am tending today and MyMy is still sleeping. Silly girl! It's almost 9:00, that is unusual. Mal, on the other hand, has some serious bed head. lol (She woke up right after I typed that.)

By the way, this is going to end up being an all day entry.

I think I left my phone home. Dang. I hate that. What ever did we do before cell phones and internet?

I keep neglecting to mention our Christmas Eve. I was great! We went to Dustyn's sister's house and had dinner and games. Fun times, fun times. Of course we had Steak and Crab because that is the tradition. (thanks guys, it rocked)  Then we played a few games. They were even good sports and played Quelf with us. If you have never played it, it is a super crazy game. Crazy, I tell you. But there was definitely good food and good times.  (Thanks again guys!)

Oh yeah, I took ZERO pictures during the Christmas Holiday. What is up with that. I have one small video of Dustyn opening his present and that is all. At least I have that! Oh yeah, and pictures of the race track. :)

Dustyn is so funny with his race track. I walk in the room and there he sits staring at his tracks. (during the 15 minute rest time) He comes up with a new configuration tries it out, makes adjustments, tries something new, and over and over again.  It makes me laugh. He's cute. Here is one of the tracks he came up with last night.

I have a lot to clean up. So many new toys! But for sure a disaster. Guess I should get busy. I guess that is all for now. Have a great Tuesday people!

Some favorites for a Tuesday.

My first favorite thing of today is my phone. (the LG Chocolate 3) I love it. (about time, huh?) It's a fun phone, and I love all the fun features. And is has some really cool ring-tones. :) (Oh yah, it may look black, but don't let them fool you - it's blue! I have finally got over it though. :)
Of course, Dustyn own the light blue one (because I thought I wanted Black! Ha ha)


I am totally loving the Olympics and I think this girl is amazing! Nastia Rocks!

I love Bagelfuls!  Yum!  I know you are all thinking - why not just buy bagels and cream cheese?   It would probably cheaper and have less preservatives.  Hmm...  but it's just not the same!  I love pulling a bagel-ful out of the freezer and popping it in the toaster over.  The outside is crispy and chewy and the inside is cream cheese (frozen, of course!)  Mmmm.....  I'm weird I know.  I also just love pulling one out of the freezer and gnawing on it!  :)  I think they are so good and much better than your average bagel and cream cheese.  And nice when you are on the run!

I love being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am thankful for Eternal Families! Dustyn's Grandpa passed away on Saturday. Although it is sad, we know that we will see him again. We know that in the next life we can be together forever, if we live worthily. Knowing that I can be with my family members that have passed on and my sweet Hannah, makes me want to be a better person everyday. I love the Gospel and the truths that it shares. This is a photo that Dustyn made of his Grandfather a few years ago for Christmas. I love it.

Chet. It was his birthday on Sunday and I failed to post it. Sorry it's late buddy - not like you would actually read this and know that. :) So Happy Birthday Chet. Can you believe that he is 18 years old? Seriously, how does that happen? I think it finally hit him yesterday that he did have to go back to school today!

Frustrations!

So today we finally went to Verizon and gave our fancy phones back.  We were so sick of dealing with it and decided we did not want to pay the extra money if we were going to have so many problems.  We decide to get Chocolates.  I really really like it.  BUT they only had two colors.  Black and a Aqua color.  I of course chose black, cause Dustyn wanted the other one.  Well it turns out that what they consider black was actually Navy Blue.  I hate navy blue.  But it's all good.  Even though Dustyn's phone is so much cooler.

Then we get to our hotel.  We bought our rooms on Priceline.  I spent a little extra money to get a nice room since it was going to be our last weekend away.  Well we get here and they have a lame double queen for us.  Huh?  Ummm...  No.  Apparently they gave our nice suite to someone else.  Grrr...  very frustrating.  So we spent extra money for nothing.  Finally they decided to give us another suite that is lame.  Nothing like what we paid for.  Tomorrow they said we could move into the room that we actually paid for.  I am so annoyed.  They can't refund our money or anything because we pre-paid through Priceline.  They don't understand why I am upset.  I mean if I would have known I was going to get a lame room, I would have paid for the cheap one in the first place.  Instead of paying a lot for what we got and could have paid less for.  

And it's dirty.  Grr...  

More random thoughts be me.

~Tonight I was in charge of Personal Progress in Young Womens.   It went pretty well.  I have a hard time coming up with activities to pass off goals.  I'm pretty much a crappy Personal Progress Leader.  By the way - if anyone was wondering. . . Personal Progress is a program in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) for the Young Women (ages 12-18).  It helps them learn valuable life lessons and keeps them thinking about their spirituality in hopes that when the time comes to make a decision they will have guidelines in place to help them make the best decision.  

~It seems like there is always someone turning around right in front of our house.  It kinda weird.  I don't know if it is the widest part on the street or what.  But it is right where everyone chooses to either turn around or park and look at their map (I guess).  Weird.  

~Verizon is irritating me.  :P  I am so ready to cancel our plan.  So ready.  We bought new phones.  Dustyn's broke within a week.  We called and they were going to send a replacement.   We got the replacement and they had sent it for my number.  My phone sucks and I don't really like it (it is SOOOO slow and freezes all the time), so I didn't really want another one.  :)  Anyways we call Verizon to see if they could change the phone to Dustyn's number and of course they said they couldn't.  (Which turns out is a lie).  So they tell us to send it back.  But the phone is out of stock.  Well they upgraded him to a Palm of some type.  Well that is great.  But now they are not sending it to him.  They just want him to use another phone.  No one will call us back.  We asked to not be charged all the plan fees for Dustyn's phone for the month (yes, he has been without a phone for almost a month) and they thought they were SO nice and gave us a $10.00 credit.  Oh.  Thanks.  Lame.  It's all just a huge mess.  If there were another good service provider around here, I'd switch.  But of course, there's not.  

~Seems like everyone around here is getting cold.  Even me.  Grrr....  I can't be sick yet.  I mean I still have another week of summer left.  Hello?  

~I can not find anywhere in my living room to hang the picture that Dustyn got me for my birthday.  I want it in my living room, but I don't know where.  For now it's sitting on my mantle and might be there for some time.  

~Our house has been so hot lately.  Luckily tonight it has cooled off a lot.  It did rain a little bit so that helped a lot.  I don't know if I can handle another summer without central air or a swamp cooler.  Guess I better start saving up.  

~Does anyone watch Big Brother.  I have been quite entertained in this season.  I still haven't picked out a favorite to win.  It changes weekly.  But I think if the house was smart, they would get rid of Memphis this week, otherwise he has a good chance to win it.  But Jessie does drive me crazy.  He seriously only thinks about himself.  And I am so tired of looking at his muscles.  Blah.  I wonder which it will be.  Oh and Michelle.  Was she mad or what?  She for sure does not like the Leotard as much as Jenn from Season 8.  Ha ha ha.  Speaking of season 8.  Michelle reminds me so much of Amber, except she cries a LOT less.  Keesha reminds me of Danielle in a way.  There are so many similar people in the two seasons.  I am totally loving it.  I loved season 8.  I know, I am easily entertained.

~I am so excited for the adoption conference.  Yay!  There are going to be some great workshops.  We are leaving Thursday afternoon.  If anyone wants to hang out Thursday night, we'll be around.  Email me and I will send you my phone number.  Of course Dustyn won't have a phone by then.  Grrr.....

~I finally found Breaking Dawn.  It was the last one on the shelf at our local Wal-Mart.  There weren't any last time we went.  I have heard a lot of mixed reviews about this book.  I am excited to read it to see what I think.  But I don't know when I will actually read it.  I might save it for when school starts so I have something to read while I am subbing.  I want to read a lot more books this year.  I read quite a few last year, but I stopped after the Twilight series.  I just couldn't find anything to capture my attention.  I hope to keep my library a little more busy this year.  

~I so need to scrub my kitchen floors.  I want to do it, but I am stalling because our house is so hot.  When I clean I get so so hot and sweat to death.  But it has to be done.  I just need to clean up the kitchen and the bathroom and my house will be clean for school to start.  I wanted to get everything caught up so that I wouldn't get behind when I started working more.  

~I can not believe school starts in two weeks from today.  Dustyn starts next week.  Of course we will be spending a lot of time at the school trying to get everything ready.  We have 20 something computers to get set up and posters to hang.  Plus a million other things!  :)  Time to get busy I guess.

~I so need to get to running/exercising.  Usually I lose weight during the summer.  I think I have gained 10 pounds in the past few weeks.  (I had been around the same weight for 2 years, until now.  :P) I don't even feel like I am eating too bad or too much, but apparently I am not doing something right.  I just wanna lose 30 pounds!  That would get me to my pre-marriage weight.  Wouldn't that be awesome?  :)  Now I just need to do it.  I have been getting some healthy recipes lately through a program that my Insurance Company does.  If you wanna see them, I have been posting them on the Anything Cooking blog.  I need to start riding my bike again!

~Well I think that is enough random thoughts for the moment.  Have a fabulous evening.  (Or afternoon for Heather.)