this may just be a slight venting blog, but i do have some sort of kinda round about funny story. but first the venting because i find that i really should keep a diary, but i find typing much easier not to mention faster. i really really hate that i have to be the "smart" one in my office. not to mention that i am not really tech savvy, but apparently i am and have to be. whatever. i just can't handle when people who really are supposed to be tech savvy because they are working in a tech support place really aren't any help at all. go figure. so i have to figure it out on my own, but the good news is, i did figure it out. bad news, it still didn't work. so i have been on the phone for almost 2 full working days now just trying to get someone to find the extra special thing i missed to make the printer work. BLAH! why can't they test things and make sure that there really aren't so many flaws before they expect little ol me to understand and then teach the even more handicapped.... okay okay, maybe they aren't really handicapped, but that doesn't explain why they still can't do even the smallest of tasks not to mention that one flat out refused to learn, but then was told that there isn't a choice anymore in the matter. double BLAH!
okay so now i am just all around frustrated with myself because i told myself i was going to be gone before christmas 2010.... now i looks like i may be there for a while longer. and if they can't find someone to replace me, well then it isn't my problem and i can walk away and never give another thought to it. don't get me wrong, i do love most of the people. and i haven't found another job to give my well, i suppose i should give more than just 2 weeks, but if it comes to it, then 2 weeks is all it will be. who knows. it just depends on when i can get down to SLC to get fingerprinted and background checked and fees paid and apply for the license. i have all the paperwork filled out. i (thanks to a wonderful sister) now have the money to pay the fees. i just need to be able to take a day between monday and thursday to go to SLC in the day/working hours. only 2 problems.... i am much needed at work and gas. why am i so loyal to my job. why can't i just play sick one day so i can still get my hours that zach & i so desperately need... and why can't i just get it done? i hate that i am so close and yet i feel like it is impossible and can't find the will power or whatever it is to just be done with stupid people.
i get so frustrated dealing with the exact same issues everyday with the same people. and why can't people just work at work. is that really too much to ask for. i sure wish i could just talk on my phone all day and hide out in the bathroom and walk around talking to everyone instead of working or take as much time as possible to do a simple task. i wish i could come to work, punch in, change my clothes, read the paper, and then come down to work and then do what i really wanted to do at work instead of prioritizing things, and then when it is time to leave, go change my clothes again and then wait a few more minutes just to make sure i get all the time i can, and then punch out and leave. i wish i could do that. but then, oh yeah.... i'd get FIRED. so why do other people get away with it all the time. why do i have to work my butt off and still have things that "need" to get done but if i hit over 40 hours i get written up. why can't the system work.
alright...i think i am okay now. so on to the kinda funny in a round about way story... on sunday zach and i came home to find that rei rei had got into the trash and covered the living room floor with it. upon cleaning it up, zach found a blue plastic pouch with a sticker on it. it was partially eaten. he handed it to me and asked what it was. it was my birth control pills from my mostly zipped up purse. rei rei had opened my purse, dug through it, and pulled out; not the gum, not the candy, and not the chocolate.... but the birth control pills!!! and not only did she manage to get the pill pack out of the plastic wrap, she almost got every single pill out of the punch bubbles.
i have no idea how she did it, but i was so mad i was ready to just beat her. she put herself in the kennel though and stayed there the rest of the night. i went into work monday and didn't really have a clue as to what i should do. i asked the pharmacy people if rei rei would be okay. they said that since she is spayed that she should be okay but we should still watch her. and then i asked if i could get another pack of pills, esp since it was a brand new pack. they looked it up... insurance won't pay for it or any part of it... i could just get it and pay out of pocket. i asked how much. the answer $50.00 YIKES! then a friend suggested i should go to planned parenthood. it would work, but i would have to see one of their doctors first. i don't know how long that would take. then another friend suggested that i call up my doctor and just ask if there is anyway i could get a free sample pack. so that is what i did. i called up my doctor. only problem, they didn't give me a call back until close of tuesday night. i had called as soon as i was off work tuesday. i should have figured something out on monday, but things just didn't work so nicely on monday. it was just not such a happy day.
the doctor's office said that if i could come wednesday at 9am (when they open) that i could get a sample pack and that i would have to take 1 pill as soon as i could get it, and then take another one at night. then do that again thursday (today). they also told me that for the next 7 days that we should use backup birth control if we make love unless we want to possibly start our family growing with children. um, not yet please. so they didn't have my exact birth control that i have been taking, and this new one is slightly different. and it is messing with my hormones. maybe it is just in my head, but i have been awfully short tempered and then just short of crying and then back to being angry and then depressed and then my poor husband gets the full craziness of it all. but it has now been 5 days and rei rei is okay. so i guess that is what is important. even though my emotions are all over the place, we are both okay and i just have to remember that. so now i have comleted my story and here i shall leave you all.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
i know, i know... its been a while
i haven't posted for a while because well, let's face it. i have just been kinda busy and when i wasn't busy, the computer was either ignored or occupied by, um, not me.... so here i am by myself on friday night because zach is at work. and rei rei is keeping watch out the living room window so i can finally have some time to blog.
i last left you all just before thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was wonderful except for being so rushed. zach and i didn't get the head start we thought we could get to head down to la verkin. we ended up leaving about 2 hours after we had planned. mostly in part of the freezing cold. our windshield washer fluid froze because i still had summer fluid in. imagine that, you don't use as much washer fluid in the summer than in the winter/weather..... anyway... we had to stop at walmart and put in winter washer fluid. still didn't help because the line was also frozen.
our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour trip took almost 6 hours because we had to keep stopping to splash washer fluid on the windshield so we could see. and rei rei kept having to make potty breaks. (i told her before we left that she needed to be a good dog and potty and poop before we left) and she sort of did... at least the potty part. we were able to sleep in a tiny bit on thanksgiving morning, but i really wanted to visit with my family. so i didn't really sleep in and once again rei rei is used to keeping my early morning hours and insisted on being taken out to potty at 530am. oh the joys of having early mornings and a puppy set on that schedule...
thanksgiving dinner was of course excellent. mom & dad (smith) and everyone else that added their talents of cooking to the meal did a wonderful job. the whole family was there and it was just a fantastic time. after dinner we rushed to take family pictures since we were all there. and then zach & i & rei rei had to head back up to ogden. boo hoo for black friday and both of us having to work it. blah. and that was thanksgiving. very short and yet it was still worth it.
december brought with it very chilly weather. and i have been able to get to know my young women's girls better. we had an activity to do baptisms for the dead as a whole youth group. it was such an incredible time to see the youth doing baptisms and watching zach throw the young men down in the water then struggle just a tiny bit to bring them back up. the ogden temple has a unique viewing area that looks straight at the font and allows everyone (in the baptistery in the temple) to watch the baptisms. when the names we brought were all done, and the youth all dried off, we went to golden corral for dinner. a few of the girls had a bit much sugar and it was quite funny to watch them giggle and enjoy each others company. and after dinner we all went to the ogden lds institute christmas show. it was quite a different time for me being there in the audience without having my sister to watch or me being on stage too. but it was a good time.
december also brought with it a sad but happy day. my grandpa richmond passed away. i was kinda shocked that my dad called to tell me since sometimes he forgets that his children might want to know these things. i was even more shocked when he asked me to sing a musical number at the funeral. i mentioned that esther has a beautiful alto voice and it might be better if we could do a duet instead of a solo for me. my dad agreed and es & i did the duet. i had to fight hard not to let the tears take over me. but it was a happy day because grandpa was home with his sweetheart again. my grandma richmond had passed away earlier in the year. i think grandpa really really missed her and just wanted to be home with her for christmas.
then an exciting day for mona happened. it was her birthday, but also, she was able to go and receive her endowment at the logan temple. i was able to go and be in the session with her and most of the snyder clan. it was a wonderful day. and so exciting.... (this was my second session since i received my own endowment in june) i know, i know.... zach & i tried to go to do a session in ogden temple, but the temple was closed the day we went and scheduling things have not allowed us to go together. but we were able to go and do sealings with mike & debbie once and that was a lot of fun.
after we had lunch and fun with the snyders; es, zach & i headed up to blackfoot to have an early christmas with dad, eliz, adam & cedar. it was a lot of fun to be able to see adam & cedar. we hadn't seen them since our joint reception in june. their dog, bosco, has gotten really big and rei rei and bosco had tons of fun. they were good entertainment for us. esther is a very crafty person and had made homemade dog toys for bosco. rei rei and bosco played tug-a-war with one. they were about equal in strength & height. at one point bosco laid down while still keeping his end of the rope in his mouth. rei rei didn't like that. she started dragging bosco across the floor. it was so funny and we were all laughing so hard that rei rei stopped and looked at us funny. it was a great time.
and now finally to real christmas. thanks to our thanksgiving mishaps, i was packed and ready to go by the time zach got off work. so all i had to do was pick him up and we were off. we made it in our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour time on christmas eve. both of us had to work, but i got off quite a few hours before zach did. it was sooooo good to actually spend time with mom & dad (smith) and relax. christmas was wonderful and i hated leaving to head back up to freezing cold ogden.
i am going to take the last bit here to share what happened on the monday after christmas. we were able to stay in la verkin until monday afternoon/evening. my cousin was going to receive her endowment that day. i didn't know this until we got down there. i had actually had a thought to grab our temple clothes right before i locked up the apartment and went to get zach. i dismissed it because i thought temples were closed on mondays. when we got down there and mom mentioned that we should come to the session, i thought what a stupid idiot i was not to have obeyed my, what i realized now, prompting.
well, you can rent temple clothes at the temple. hooray! we could go. so i got up monday and got myself all ready to go to the temple. i then had a thought that i should make sure i had my temple recommend. i went to my purse and pulled out my wallet. low and behold, i had left my recommend in my temple bag when i went through in logan with mona. i went to tell zach i didn't have my recommend and once again, could not go. i felt awful. because of my own stupidity, i couldn't go to the temple. i started to cry and zach held me for a minute. he said he would stay with me and i told him no. he needed to go, even if i couldn't. we went out to tell mom & dad that i had forgot my recommend. dad then said, it's ok, i have a plan. we called the temple and dad explained the situation. the temple asked for our bishop's phone number. then we left it at that. i thought that maybe i should also try calling the bishop. i did and no one answered. it was now time for us to go to the temple. the whole ride to st. george i was praying that somehow i would be able to still go.
when we got to the temple, i went in and said that i was the sister who had left her recommend in ogden. they had me wait at the side for a minute while other people went in. finally they came and said i could come in and attend the session. a rush of gratitude and love came over me. during that session, i was thinking about how much life is like what just happened to me. i'll explain.
we come down to earth (la verkin) and spend time with our loved ones. we then are called home (the temple/heaven) but find ourselves full of sin and can't be allowed in (forgetting temple recommend/temple clothes). our wise heavenly father (dad smith) says it's ok, i have a plan. and then though repentance and our savior jesus christ (a series of phone calls to our bishop) we can enter the gate of heaven and come home to be with our loved ones and our heavenly parents again in the celestial kingdom (temple/celestial room). see, it makes sense. sort of. anyway i know that i was blessed and that i needed to be at the temple that day or i wouldn't have been able to go in. it was such a grand feeling being back in the temple, esp the temple i was sealed to zach in for time and all eternity. to be with my family in the celestial room after and knowing that heavenly father loves me and knew that i needed the temple that day was just amazing :)
i last left you all just before thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was wonderful except for being so rushed. zach and i didn't get the head start we thought we could get to head down to la verkin. we ended up leaving about 2 hours after we had planned. mostly in part of the freezing cold. our windshield washer fluid froze because i still had summer fluid in. imagine that, you don't use as much washer fluid in the summer than in the winter/weather..... anyway... we had to stop at walmart and put in winter washer fluid. still didn't help because the line was also frozen.
our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour trip took almost 6 hours because we had to keep stopping to splash washer fluid on the windshield so we could see. and rei rei kept having to make potty breaks. (i told her before we left that she needed to be a good dog and potty and poop before we left) and she sort of did... at least the potty part. we were able to sleep in a tiny bit on thanksgiving morning, but i really wanted to visit with my family. so i didn't really sleep in and once again rei rei is used to keeping my early morning hours and insisted on being taken out to potty at 530am. oh the joys of having early mornings and a puppy set on that schedule...
thanksgiving dinner was of course excellent. mom & dad (smith) and everyone else that added their talents of cooking to the meal did a wonderful job. the whole family was there and it was just a fantastic time. after dinner we rushed to take family pictures since we were all there. and then zach & i & rei rei had to head back up to ogden. boo hoo for black friday and both of us having to work it. blah. and that was thanksgiving. very short and yet it was still worth it.
december brought with it very chilly weather. and i have been able to get to know my young women's girls better. we had an activity to do baptisms for the dead as a whole youth group. it was such an incredible time to see the youth doing baptisms and watching zach throw the young men down in the water then struggle just a tiny bit to bring them back up. the ogden temple has a unique viewing area that looks straight at the font and allows everyone (in the baptistery in the temple) to watch the baptisms. when the names we brought were all done, and the youth all dried off, we went to golden corral for dinner. a few of the girls had a bit much sugar and it was quite funny to watch them giggle and enjoy each others company. and after dinner we all went to the ogden lds institute christmas show. it was quite a different time for me being there in the audience without having my sister to watch or me being on stage too. but it was a good time.
december also brought with it a sad but happy day. my grandpa richmond passed away. i was kinda shocked that my dad called to tell me since sometimes he forgets that his children might want to know these things. i was even more shocked when he asked me to sing a musical number at the funeral. i mentioned that esther has a beautiful alto voice and it might be better if we could do a duet instead of a solo for me. my dad agreed and es & i did the duet. i had to fight hard not to let the tears take over me. but it was a happy day because grandpa was home with his sweetheart again. my grandma richmond had passed away earlier in the year. i think grandpa really really missed her and just wanted to be home with her for christmas.
then an exciting day for mona happened. it was her birthday, but also, she was able to go and receive her endowment at the logan temple. i was able to go and be in the session with her and most of the snyder clan. it was a wonderful day. and so exciting.... (this was my second session since i received my own endowment in june) i know, i know.... zach & i tried to go to do a session in ogden temple, but the temple was closed the day we went and scheduling things have not allowed us to go together. but we were able to go and do sealings with mike & debbie once and that was a lot of fun.
after we had lunch and fun with the snyders; es, zach & i headed up to blackfoot to have an early christmas with dad, eliz, adam & cedar. it was a lot of fun to be able to see adam & cedar. we hadn't seen them since our joint reception in june. their dog, bosco, has gotten really big and rei rei and bosco had tons of fun. they were good entertainment for us. esther is a very crafty person and had made homemade dog toys for bosco. rei rei and bosco played tug-a-war with one. they were about equal in strength & height. at one point bosco laid down while still keeping his end of the rope in his mouth. rei rei didn't like that. she started dragging bosco across the floor. it was so funny and we were all laughing so hard that rei rei stopped and looked at us funny. it was a great time.
and now finally to real christmas. thanks to our thanksgiving mishaps, i was packed and ready to go by the time zach got off work. so all i had to do was pick him up and we were off. we made it in our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour time on christmas eve. both of us had to work, but i got off quite a few hours before zach did. it was sooooo good to actually spend time with mom & dad (smith) and relax. christmas was wonderful and i hated leaving to head back up to freezing cold ogden.
i am going to take the last bit here to share what happened on the monday after christmas. we were able to stay in la verkin until monday afternoon/evening. my cousin was going to receive her endowment that day. i didn't know this until we got down there. i had actually had a thought to grab our temple clothes right before i locked up the apartment and went to get zach. i dismissed it because i thought temples were closed on mondays. when we got down there and mom mentioned that we should come to the session, i thought what a stupid idiot i was not to have obeyed my, what i realized now, prompting.
well, you can rent temple clothes at the temple. hooray! we could go. so i got up monday and got myself all ready to go to the temple. i then had a thought that i should make sure i had my temple recommend. i went to my purse and pulled out my wallet. low and behold, i had left my recommend in my temple bag when i went through in logan with mona. i went to tell zach i didn't have my recommend and once again, could not go. i felt awful. because of my own stupidity, i couldn't go to the temple. i started to cry and zach held me for a minute. he said he would stay with me and i told him no. he needed to go, even if i couldn't. we went out to tell mom & dad that i had forgot my recommend. dad then said, it's ok, i have a plan. we called the temple and dad explained the situation. the temple asked for our bishop's phone number. then we left it at that. i thought that maybe i should also try calling the bishop. i did and no one answered. it was now time for us to go to the temple. the whole ride to st. george i was praying that somehow i would be able to still go.
when we got to the temple, i went in and said that i was the sister who had left her recommend in ogden. they had me wait at the side for a minute while other people went in. finally they came and said i could come in and attend the session. a rush of gratitude and love came over me. during that session, i was thinking about how much life is like what just happened to me. i'll explain.
we come down to earth (la verkin) and spend time with our loved ones. we then are called home (the temple/heaven) but find ourselves full of sin and can't be allowed in (forgetting temple recommend/temple clothes). our wise heavenly father (dad smith) says it's ok, i have a plan. and then though repentance and our savior jesus christ (a series of phone calls to our bishop) we can enter the gate of heaven and come home to be with our loved ones and our heavenly parents again in the celestial kingdom (temple/celestial room). see, it makes sense. sort of. anyway i know that i was blessed and that i needed to be at the temple that day or i wouldn't have been able to go in. it was such a grand feeling being back in the temple, esp the temple i was sealed to zach in for time and all eternity. to be with my family in the celestial room after and knowing that heavenly father loves me and knew that i needed the temple that day was just amazing :)
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