well i did get a new calling. i am now the 2nd counselor in the young women presidency. lucky me. there aren't that many youth in our ward, so it shouldn't be too hard to get to know them. i sort of know 2 already because they were in my sunday school class. i can't remember names though. i need to work on that. i am nervous and excited and wondering how i can possibly be a leader/example to this young women. i don't think they like me yet. i say this because i had my first activity last wednesday and no one wanted to ride in my jeep with me down to salt lake. we went to the joseph smith movie and also kinda toured the conference center. the new president had to tell one of the girls that she had to ride with me because there was just no room in the other cars. only 1 girl came with me. hopefully it will get better.
i am excited that next week is thanksgiving. i really am hoping the weather stays good so we can go down to la verkin. i miss my family. i need my family. things are not quite what i was thinking my married life would be. most of it is me in my own head that i can't get away from and just get over myself. my poor husband. and oh how i love him.
i really just have to vent now because i was so mad yesterday evening. i got home from work just before 2pm. i took rei rei out for a walk. we were gone for about 2 hours. we came back and she got a bath. then i showered cause i had a client at 6pm. well, it didn't take quite as long to give rei rei a bath and i don't really like super long showers so i was all ready by 5:15 ish. i didn't have to leave for another 15 minutes. i decided to start playing the piano a bit since i haven't really been able to. not even 10 minutes later there is a knock on my door.
it is the manager. she got a call from our neighbor that i was pounding on the piano and that my dog was barking. i told her that i was playing up until she knocked on the door. she didn't hear it. and rei rei doesn't bark unless someone is outside our door and raising his/her voice. i was here with rei rei and she wasn't barking at all. the manager said that the complaint about barking was actually friday night. we were home then too and she was not barking.
i talked with the manager and she actually apologized to me about the complaint. she says that everyone else says we are polite and respectful and have no complaints against us or our dog. it is just the black lady upstairs and her husband. technically the manager can't tell us who complained, but i asked if it came from upstairs and she said yes. i then asked the manager if she could find out when a good time for me to play that i won't have pounding on the floor from upstairs. she said she will talk to them again and find out.
i also said that if complaints were going to be made that we had some as well about the upstairs people. every morning i wake up at 3 and 4 am because they are stomping around. not just walking on old floors, they are stomping. it wakes rei rei up. it wakes me up. and it wakes zach up. every morning. there was in fact one morning at 3 am that i woke to her screaming. i just about called the cops. in fact, i really wish now that i would have.
if i can't play my piano at 3 and 4 pm then they shouldn't be allowed to stomp and turn the tv up loud at 3 and 4 am. bottom line. i can't figure out why she hates us. we didn't do a dang thing to her. she has just had it in for us. oh, she will be nice to our faces, if it is only me that she sees. if she sees me with my dog, she is rude. if she sees zach, she is rude. if she sees us all together, she is rude. now remind me how i am the rude and bad neighbor?
so today i got off work a bit early and was home about 12:30 pm. i started playing my piano. 2 minutes later i hear the tv upstairs blaring down into my apartment. i keep playing. she turned it louder. i stopped playing about 2pm and took rei rei out for a walk. we got home about 4pm. and now it is 4:22 pm and she is stomping around upstairs. if i were to start playing the piano.... i bet you $100.00 that she will call the manager and start pounding on the floor and turn her tv up. i am half tempted to go upstairs and confront her face to face, but she is just going to get loud and then "that dog will attack me" is her claim.
rei rei doesn't like her. the reason being that she was yelling at zach one day about parking. rei rei won't take to anyone attacking her family. she is a guard dog. extremely protective of her family. it is in the boxer blood and in the labrador blood. the neighbor was yelling at zach and rei rei saw it as an attack. now you tell me... why can my dog not defend us? is she just supposed to not bark and let zach or i get injured? rei rei could sense that this neighbor is/was no good and she wouldn't stand for it.
and tell my why my dog can't bark at you if you are out in front of our window yelling about something? if you hang around outside in a place that normal people don't hang out, my dog has every right to bark and alert us to your presence. in fact, this stupid neighbor said it herself that she was glad we have a dog and that she is such a protective guard dog. it was only a week or so after we got rei rei that the neighbor pulled up in her car while i was taking rei rei out to potty. rei rei started growling at her when she got out of her car and the neighbor said that she felt better knowing that we have a dog being right next to the main door.
ok, i think i am done with the venting until something else happens. i think i will take a poll from the rest of the neighbors and see if zach and i are really as bad as she claims we are. then i think i will take it to her and just tell her straight up that she choose to live here knowing that it is an apartment complex. there are noises you will always here. you just have to accept that.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
is it really november?...
wow the time is really flying past. not a whole lot has been happening with us. zach has been trying to get full time at best buy but keeps getting beat by the same guy for one stupid little thing. i am still waiting for my piece of paper to make my schooling all official like. then i can really hit the job searching hard. rei rei is getting big. she is still learning lots and drives us crazy sometimes with her very high boxador energy. we love her and have been blessed to have her in our lives.
thanksgiving is coming fast and we are still hoping to get things set in for where we are adventuring to. i hope the weather stays good enough to drive down to la verkin. but if not, we will have turkey with mike & debbie. they have been gracious enough to open their home to us since brooke & chris decided to make a family together.
zach has been released from everything but the young men's. and i have been released from everything but sunday school teacher. tomorrow that all might change. our bishop pulled us in last week and i am getting a new calling. can't say just yet. but i'll be busy and that will be that.
i am not sure yet what christmas is going to entail, but i have been asked to sing in sacrament meeting on sunday the 26th. i almost want to ask if i can change that date because most likely, if we can arrange it, i would like to be with family. since our family is all mostly out of state, we won't be here.
anyway, we have been taking things day at a time and that is us. not much going on, but still a fair amount. oh, we didn't have a single trick-or-treater....forcing zach and me to eat all our candy. oh the weight that comes with being married.... i know i have put on a few 10 lbs or so. zach says he has put on about 20, but i can't see where... and we have to take rei rei out on walks so we are getting exercise.... maybe it is all muscle weight :) ha ha ha... i'll just keep telling myself that.
thanksgiving is coming fast and we are still hoping to get things set in for where we are adventuring to. i hope the weather stays good enough to drive down to la verkin. but if not, we will have turkey with mike & debbie. they have been gracious enough to open their home to us since brooke & chris decided to make a family together.
zach has been released from everything but the young men's. and i have been released from everything but sunday school teacher. tomorrow that all might change. our bishop pulled us in last week and i am getting a new calling. can't say just yet. but i'll be busy and that will be that.
i am not sure yet what christmas is going to entail, but i have been asked to sing in sacrament meeting on sunday the 26th. i almost want to ask if i can change that date because most likely, if we can arrange it, i would like to be with family. since our family is all mostly out of state, we won't be here.
anyway, we have been taking things day at a time and that is us. not much going on, but still a fair amount. oh, we didn't have a single trick-or-treater....forcing zach and me to eat all our candy. oh the weight that comes with being married.... i know i have put on a few 10 lbs or so. zach says he has put on about 20, but i can't see where... and we have to take rei rei out on walks so we are getting exercise.... maybe it is all muscle weight :) ha ha ha... i'll just keep telling myself that.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
honeymoon and things forgotten
well i forgot to tell you all that i did pass my test. i can't believe i forgot, but then again... i can. so i passed my test and am now waiting yet again for a piece of paper and my school to get things into gear. no more job offers have come, but without my little paper, i can't really go looking. blast!
the REAL SLC soccer game on the 18th (adam's birthday) was a lot of fun. zach was able to get work rearranged so we could go. REAL played Chicago and won! this was a record game because it now is 23 consecutive home wins for any major league soccer team. GO REAL SLC!!!
Dad & Eliz were kind enough to dog sit Rei Rei for us and i am happy to report that she was a very good dog for them. we get to pick her up today after zach gets off work at 5. we just got back from california. we finally took our honeymoon!
mom & dad Smith got us a week in Dolphins Cove in Anaheim and we loved it! We got checked in on monday and went to bed fairly early so we could enjoy Disneyland/California Adventure. zach & i walked 1 mile to Disneyland. we had fantastic 2, 2-day park hoppers thanks to becky & hyrum. poor zach got sick on thursday so we stayed at the resort and played in the pool & got ice cream and made strawberry/banana shakes. friday we went to La Jolla Cove to go snorkeling. It was beautiful and even though the waves were a bit rough to actually see well, we still had fun. saturday we went back to becky & hyrum's to get mom & dad smith to journey back to la verkin and then this morning ogden. dang the week went too fast.
can i just say i love connections. because hyrum is a disney animator, we got an extra free button in disneyland that has "happily ever after" on it. the other button we got just for honeymooning in disneyland said "just married" and they gave both of us our own buttons. we actually only got the free buttons on the second day because the first day (tuesday) was still crazy busy from the weekend. it wasn't too bad, but the wait line for galaxy ghost (space mountain decked out for halloween) was an hour without the fast pass. this was also in part to the ride being shut down for most of the day. but the people in disneyland were even more nice (if that's possible) when you have a button on your shirt that says you are celebrating something special with disneyland. and disneyland at halloween is really amazing! i've never been to disneyland other than during the summer breaks. and really, i want to go see what they do for christmas, but that won't happen for a few years at least. but who knows. the wonderful world of color is a must see in california adventure. it is the newest night show with water, lights, and fire. by far cooler than other shows done in the park. if you get the chance, you have to go see it!
this past week was a much needed, great getaway. it went too quickly, but it was such fun. i took a lot of pictures. you can see them on facebook. i was able to get them on there, but i can't figure out how to get them on the blog. i'll get them on though. for now, i leave cause conference is going to be back on soon. and then we get to go pick up rei rei. i hope she missed us cause we missed her. and i hope she won't act out for us being gone a whole week.
the REAL SLC soccer game on the 18th (adam's birthday) was a lot of fun. zach was able to get work rearranged so we could go. REAL played Chicago and won! this was a record game because it now is 23 consecutive home wins for any major league soccer team. GO REAL SLC!!!
Dad & Eliz were kind enough to dog sit Rei Rei for us and i am happy to report that she was a very good dog for them. we get to pick her up today after zach gets off work at 5. we just got back from california. we finally took our honeymoon!
mom & dad Smith got us a week in Dolphins Cove in Anaheim and we loved it! We got checked in on monday and went to bed fairly early so we could enjoy Disneyland/California Adventure. zach & i walked 1 mile to Disneyland. we had fantastic 2, 2-day park hoppers thanks to becky & hyrum. poor zach got sick on thursday so we stayed at the resort and played in the pool & got ice cream and made strawberry/banana shakes. friday we went to La Jolla Cove to go snorkeling. It was beautiful and even though the waves were a bit rough to actually see well, we still had fun. saturday we went back to becky & hyrum's to get mom & dad smith to journey back to la verkin and then this morning ogden. dang the week went too fast.
can i just say i love connections. because hyrum is a disney animator, we got an extra free button in disneyland that has "happily ever after" on it. the other button we got just for honeymooning in disneyland said "just married" and they gave both of us our own buttons. we actually only got the free buttons on the second day because the first day (tuesday) was still crazy busy from the weekend. it wasn't too bad, but the wait line for galaxy ghost (space mountain decked out for halloween) was an hour without the fast pass. this was also in part to the ride being shut down for most of the day. but the people in disneyland were even more nice (if that's possible) when you have a button on your shirt that says you are celebrating something special with disneyland. and disneyland at halloween is really amazing! i've never been to disneyland other than during the summer breaks. and really, i want to go see what they do for christmas, but that won't happen for a few years at least. but who knows. the wonderful world of color is a must see in california adventure. it is the newest night show with water, lights, and fire. by far cooler than other shows done in the park. if you get the chance, you have to go see it!
this past week was a much needed, great getaway. it went too quickly, but it was such fun. i took a lot of pictures. you can see them on facebook. i was able to get them on there, but i can't figure out how to get them on the blog. i'll get them on though. for now, i leave cause conference is going to be back on soon. and then we get to go pick up rei rei. i hope she missed us cause we missed her. and i hope she won't act out for us being gone a whole week.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
an eskimo, piano stompings, and darkness
so much has already happened this month and it is only half way done. and i am sure that i have already forgotten a lot and will remember later only to forget again. what has happened to my memory?...
first of all, they gave zach another calling in church. he is in the young men's presidency. we still have the other two callings right now as well. but there might be changes this sunday. we'll see. then we might also be asked to speak...so really, we'll see what happens. but the real story is when he went over for his first meeting with the presidency. zach said they had finished with the meeting and were all just kinda chatting and getting ready to leave when someone or all said to zach, "so zach, your wife..." to which zach replied, "is half chinese, half american." somehow he knew that was what they were going to ask. they then said "oh, cause we thought maybe eskimo." i can honestly say that is the first time i have gotten eskimo. usually it is hawaiian then indian, and to the mexicans, mexican. but never eskimo.
secondly i have pictures now taken but due to my lack of technology, i haven't found how to put them on zach's computer to put on my blog. our schedules aren't always the same, and when we are together, i prefer not to be on the computer. my laptop still works, but for some reason it is a lot slower and is always stuffed aside somewhere. so we have just been using zach's. but technically since we are married, everything is now just plain ours. hooray!
third, rei rei (and yes this is the spelling we went with and is on her name tag) peed on me in the jeep the other day. just a tiny tinkle, but she still peed on me. gross! but slightly funny. we were driving back from getting groceries or something and she climbed up in the passenger seat with me and then i felt my leg get oddly warmer. needless to say i showered as soon as we got home.
fourth: zach & i had a fabulous dinner and game night with erin & greg. erin was my one good roommate in the terrace basement. she got married & moved out and we have been trying to get a game night for over a year now. school and then work were always getting in the way. finally we set a date and were able to go. it was so much fun. we ate some amazing smoked chicken that was so tender and flavorful that i will gladly take thanksgiving with them if we were invited. we then played a game called dominion. it is tons of fun once you play the first round to get the hang of it. after that, the card game moves and you really have to stick to what you play because greg is a tricky tricky player. he won almost every round. erin won 2 i think. then i was a party pooper cause i had to go to work the next morning so we left.
fifth, my dad gave me the piano i learned to play on. he brought it down from idaho on saturday the 11th. i love it. my one neighbor hates it. every time i have practiced, i hear stomping above me. you would think maybe they could come tell me to please be quieter instead of stomping around, but whatever. they don't have a problem with rei rei when she sometimes barks or growls, but my piano playing is offensive. who knew.
and ending tonight's blog, my humorous tragedy at work today... it is ad day so i was at work at 4am. i got all the signs done by 630am. i still had other work i had to do for today so i got a snack and a soda for breakfast around 7am. well, that soda finally caught up to me around noon. i went into the women's restroom and proceeded to do my business. then next thing i knew, it was all black. the power had gone out and for some stupid reason, there are no safety lights in the restrooms at work. total black. complete darkness. i couldn't see anything. i had my cell phone in my pants pocket, and had to use it for light so i could finish my business and leave the restroom. just as i was finishing all up, the power came back on. go figure. and maybe perhaps tomorrow i will laugh at it, but for now, i am still angry that there are no safety lights in the restroom. and that concludes my tale for this blog.
first of all, they gave zach another calling in church. he is in the young men's presidency. we still have the other two callings right now as well. but there might be changes this sunday. we'll see. then we might also be asked to speak...so really, we'll see what happens. but the real story is when he went over for his first meeting with the presidency. zach said they had finished with the meeting and were all just kinda chatting and getting ready to leave when someone or all said to zach, "so zach, your wife..." to which zach replied, "is half chinese, half american." somehow he knew that was what they were going to ask. they then said "oh, cause we thought maybe eskimo." i can honestly say that is the first time i have gotten eskimo. usually it is hawaiian then indian, and to the mexicans, mexican. but never eskimo.
secondly i have pictures now taken but due to my lack of technology, i haven't found how to put them on zach's computer to put on my blog. our schedules aren't always the same, and when we are together, i prefer not to be on the computer. my laptop still works, but for some reason it is a lot slower and is always stuffed aside somewhere. so we have just been using zach's. but technically since we are married, everything is now just plain ours. hooray!
third, rei rei (and yes this is the spelling we went with and is on her name tag) peed on me in the jeep the other day. just a tiny tinkle, but she still peed on me. gross! but slightly funny. we were driving back from getting groceries or something and she climbed up in the passenger seat with me and then i felt my leg get oddly warmer. needless to say i showered as soon as we got home.
fourth: zach & i had a fabulous dinner and game night with erin & greg. erin was my one good roommate in the terrace basement. she got married & moved out and we have been trying to get a game night for over a year now. school and then work were always getting in the way. finally we set a date and were able to go. it was so much fun. we ate some amazing smoked chicken that was so tender and flavorful that i will gladly take thanksgiving with them if we were invited. we then played a game called dominion. it is tons of fun once you play the first round to get the hang of it. after that, the card game moves and you really have to stick to what you play because greg is a tricky tricky player. he won almost every round. erin won 2 i think. then i was a party pooper cause i had to go to work the next morning so we left.
fifth, my dad gave me the piano i learned to play on. he brought it down from idaho on saturday the 11th. i love it. my one neighbor hates it. every time i have practiced, i hear stomping above me. you would think maybe they could come tell me to please be quieter instead of stomping around, but whatever. they don't have a problem with rei rei when she sometimes barks or growls, but my piano playing is offensive. who knew.
and ending tonight's blog, my humorous tragedy at work today... it is ad day so i was at work at 4am. i got all the signs done by 630am. i still had other work i had to do for today so i got a snack and a soda for breakfast around 7am. well, that soda finally caught up to me around noon. i went into the women's restroom and proceeded to do my business. then next thing i knew, it was all black. the power had gone out and for some stupid reason, there are no safety lights in the restrooms at work. total black. complete darkness. i couldn't see anything. i had my cell phone in my pants pocket, and had to use it for light so i could finish my business and leave the restroom. just as i was finishing all up, the power came back on. go figure. and maybe perhaps tomorrow i will laugh at it, but for now, i am still angry that there are no safety lights in the restroom. and that concludes my tale for this blog.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
welcome september
ok here's the scoop. i haven't taken any pictures. i know i keep saying i will, but i just haven't taken my camera out of the jeep and then i remember when zach has the jeep at work. blast my gettin old memory...i really will post pictures and we have a lot to post now. pictures of our apartment, and..... our new puppy!
yes that's right i said our new puppy. she is adorable and i love her so very much. Rei or Rae (we can't decide on the spelling) is a 5/6 month old chocolate lab/boxer mix. She came to us yesterday from a friend from work. So far Rei/Rae has only pottied in the house 3 times and I think it was because she was nervous in her new home. The first time was 10 minutes after zach left for work...of course she likes zach more... and the 2nd time was 2 minutes after he came home from work. The third time was when we were trying to bedtime her. she didn't want to get locked in the bathroom (we don't have a kennel yet) and pottied on the floor & part of her bed.
Rei/Rae has quite the personality and brains. she knows what toys are hers. she knows sit. she has almost got lay down. and she is learning not to play with our hands and arms as toys. she sort of knows fetch, but is ADOSS (attention deffi...ooo somethin shiny) and looses interest quickly. rei/rae has claimed her spot on the couch, but knows not to jump on zach & my bed. and for being a puppy, she is active, but also pretty chill mannered. i am so excited to finally have a dog of my own.
in other news, i finally have a test day scheduled for my national massage exam. sept 16th at 3pm here in ogden. i didn't hear anything back from the spa for a hands on interview. i am almost certain now that i didn't get that position. i'll have to e-mail/call them and let them know that i have a test day scheduled or maybe when i pass i will let them know i passed. i haven't quite decided yet as i only got my test scheduled today.
i am totally excited to also finally be taking a honeymoon. we are going the last week of september. my boss wasn't too happy when i asked for the time off... (that is the first week of case lot at maceys and we are in the beginning of training 2 new people) i do feel bad, but i also don't quite feel bad as work has been getting more stressful as of late. nothing to do with my boss, but the head boss of the whole store. he is a younger guy and is just riding the power trip. so i am excited to really take an entire week off of work and everything.
i was asked to play a musical number on the piano for sacrament on the 12th. i am so rusty that i am hoping angels will come move my fingers for me. but i am totally stoked because as sort of a graduation/we need to find a home present, my dad offered me the piano i grew up playing. he is bringing it down from idaho on the 11th of september! i am getting a piano...the piano i learned how to play on.
i am also really excited for sept 18th. not just is it adam's birthday, but zach and i have Real Salt Lake soccer tickets. they play chicago and we are going to see them live. zach is pretty excited too. so i think this month is going to be a good month. and i really will post pictures.
yes that's right i said our new puppy. she is adorable and i love her so very much. Rei or Rae (we can't decide on the spelling) is a 5/6 month old chocolate lab/boxer mix. She came to us yesterday from a friend from work. So far Rei/Rae has only pottied in the house 3 times and I think it was because she was nervous in her new home. The first time was 10 minutes after zach left for work...of course she likes zach more... and the 2nd time was 2 minutes after he came home from work. The third time was when we were trying to bedtime her. she didn't want to get locked in the bathroom (we don't have a kennel yet) and pottied on the floor & part of her bed.
Rei/Rae has quite the personality and brains. she knows what toys are hers. she knows sit. she has almost got lay down. and she is learning not to play with our hands and arms as toys. she sort of knows fetch, but is ADOSS (attention deffi...ooo somethin shiny) and looses interest quickly. rei/rae has claimed her spot on the couch, but knows not to jump on zach & my bed. and for being a puppy, she is active, but also pretty chill mannered. i am so excited to finally have a dog of my own.
in other news, i finally have a test day scheduled for my national massage exam. sept 16th at 3pm here in ogden. i didn't hear anything back from the spa for a hands on interview. i am almost certain now that i didn't get that position. i'll have to e-mail/call them and let them know that i have a test day scheduled or maybe when i pass i will let them know i passed. i haven't quite decided yet as i only got my test scheduled today.
i am totally excited to also finally be taking a honeymoon. we are going the last week of september. my boss wasn't too happy when i asked for the time off... (that is the first week of case lot at maceys and we are in the beginning of training 2 new people) i do feel bad, but i also don't quite feel bad as work has been getting more stressful as of late. nothing to do with my boss, but the head boss of the whole store. he is a younger guy and is just riding the power trip. so i am excited to really take an entire week off of work and everything.
i was asked to play a musical number on the piano for sacrament on the 12th. i am so rusty that i am hoping angels will come move my fingers for me. but i am totally stoked because as sort of a graduation/we need to find a home present, my dad offered me the piano i grew up playing. he is bringing it down from idaho on the 11th of september! i am getting a piano...the piano i learned how to play on.
i am also really excited for sept 18th. not just is it adam's birthday, but zach and i have Real Salt Lake soccer tickets. they play chicago and we are going to see them live. zach is pretty excited too. so i think this month is going to be a good month. and i really will post pictures.
Monday, August 23, 2010
now that august is almost done...
first off, we finally heard from our photographer about our wedding pictures. she wasn't going to tell us anything, but because i have family asking for pictures, i finally asked her if she was done with them. well, she said that she isn't going to work on them until she gets paid in full. um, last time i checked, you had to complete a job before getting paid.... hmmm. anyway, she then proceeded to change the contract which we were originally under. now she wants more money and gave us our pictures, but they are on a cd with a password. no idea if she actually saved to the correct format. (our engagement pictures were in the wrong format so we couldn't print them....thankfully zach is a computer wiz so he reformatted and we got our engagement pictures) well, he hasn't quite been able to break the password, so we have no idea if our wedding pictures are even worth spending money on. i have the money, but i can't access it right now since zach & i are really really poor. and we aren't even sure if we want to pay because we don't know what we are paying for.
she is throwing a big hissy fit, and for those of you looking for a photographer, i do not recommend this girl. i might later, but i promise you will want a written contract that both of you sign and date and have copies of. otherwise, i guarantee she will change the contract and try to blame you for it. and if she is grown up enough to be reading this, i do apologize to her. i am sorry things had to end up like this. i should have known better and just hired someone else.
so if anyone reading this has any wedding pictures from zach & my wedding, we would sure appreciate it if you could email them or facebook them or something else.
i interviewed with a spa last monday. i haven't heard anything since. i know i can't actually get hired until i am licensed. i am still waiting on that... it is hard to believe that it really takes that long to get back to people about a test day. i think if i can get a hands-on interview with the spa, they will realize how valuable i am. i have to laugh at myself because i was debating about wearing a skirt or dress pants to the interview. in the end i wore pin stripe dress pants, blue tank top, and white button up shirt. boy oh boy i am glad i chose dress pants.... the interview was on the floor in the yoga room. we sat on the floor in the yoga room. it was kinda cool, but very different. i do not think it would have gone so well if i had worn a skirt.
i had a really neat opportunity on saturday. one of my friends from massage class called me with a volunteer proposition. he knew some people having a fun run that wanted massage therapists at the end for the runners/walkers. he called me up to see if i would like to come be one of the therapists. it was a local job and sounded like fun so i agreed.
they had wipes for our tables, hand sanitizer, papertowels, garbage can, canopy, and even business card holders all set up for us. i just had to bring myself and my table. i didn't keep track of how many people i worked on, but we were only there for about 2 and a half hours. we did an estimate 5-10 minute massage. (both of us forgot to bring a clock) at the end though, they had a little gift bag for me. inside was a really cool tee shirt with the company name and fun run on it, xbalm chapstick, 10 day passes to the gym, women's vitamins, orange julius coupons, a gas card, and a thank you note. i was surprised they gave me a bag. it was really cool. but the neatest thing was at the very end after everyone was gone and we were cleaning up.
the lady in charge is a doctor. we offered to work on her. my friend had the doctor get on his table, and i had the opportunity to work on my friend's mom. we worked for maybe a half hour or so. (as mentioned before, we had no clock) but we were all kinda talking about the response of having massage therapists there at the fun run. i guess there was one lady who just went on and on and on about my work.
this doctor was impressed and said that we needed to come to the office and work on people. she said if she could get enough support that there might be a possibility of the company purchasing chairs for us and we can come either work the chair off, or get a percentage. either way, i hope that something comes of it. i really would be excited to have the opportunity to have a company purchase a massage chair for me and let me work it off or pay it back or take a percentage.
the only downside is, i didn't have business cards to hand out. so i am relying on my friend to remember me and hopefully include me if something does happen. ok the reason i don't have business cards yet is because i haven't ordered any. the school was also supposed to get us business cards before graduation, but that didn't happen. i got a call last week saying i could come pick them up at the school, but i asked if they could mail them to me instead so i don't have to drive to salt lake. well, the school just called me. they didn't update my address. my cards got sent back to the school. i am wondering if maybe that's why i haven't heard anything about my test. the school can't get things together on the paperwork or communication. GRRR! whatever.
hmm...what else....oh, so yesterday in sunday school we had one kid who was really disruptive and down right rude. it was getting on both zach & my nerves. we were both trying so hard to be nice and polite and keep things under control. as soon as the bells rang, this kid went out of the classroom and held the door shut with his foot and body. nobody could get through. zach tried to knock him a few times, but the kid had got another buddy to come help hold the door. finally he let his foot go and we were able to open the door. my guess as why he let the door go, his mom was coming down the hall and a member of the bishopric came out of the door right next to our classroom. i don't know why, but that kid holding the door really really really made me mad. i wanted to smack him aside his head and grab him by the ear and march him over to his mother and tell her what he had just done. i didn't do that. instead i took a deep breath and went back inside the classroom to finish cleaning up. i wanted to cry. i knew i had to let it go, but i really didn't want to. zach came back in and said that the member of the bishopric asked what happened and zach told him. he said it would be taken care of. i went into sacrament meeting still rather angry and on the verge of tears. when we started singing the opening song, i knew that i had to let the anger go or i shouldn't take the sacrament. the words of the hymn calmed my heart and mind & even though i was still not happy with what had happened, i knew it would be ok. something will change, even if it is just my heart. i don't know what else came of this or will come of it, but i know that next week if this kid acts up again, i will find his mother and have her come in the class with us or have him go to sunday school with his mom. zach says he wants to take the kid to an empty classroom and have just the two of them sit in silence until the bell rings. somehow i don't think that would go over so well considering i got chewed out for having a room full of teenagers and just me. hopefully we can figure something out. and now i am going to leave things here. i really will post pictures sometime. of our wedding(maybe) and of our apartment. i know you have all been waiting. so be patient with me. i am doing the best i can...
she is throwing a big hissy fit, and for those of you looking for a photographer, i do not recommend this girl. i might later, but i promise you will want a written contract that both of you sign and date and have copies of. otherwise, i guarantee she will change the contract and try to blame you for it. and if she is grown up enough to be reading this, i do apologize to her. i am sorry things had to end up like this. i should have known better and just hired someone else.
so if anyone reading this has any wedding pictures from zach & my wedding, we would sure appreciate it if you could email them or facebook them or something else.
i interviewed with a spa last monday. i haven't heard anything since. i know i can't actually get hired until i am licensed. i am still waiting on that... it is hard to believe that it really takes that long to get back to people about a test day. i think if i can get a hands-on interview with the spa, they will realize how valuable i am. i have to laugh at myself because i was debating about wearing a skirt or dress pants to the interview. in the end i wore pin stripe dress pants, blue tank top, and white button up shirt. boy oh boy i am glad i chose dress pants.... the interview was on the floor in the yoga room. we sat on the floor in the yoga room. it was kinda cool, but very different. i do not think it would have gone so well if i had worn a skirt.
i had a really neat opportunity on saturday. one of my friends from massage class called me with a volunteer proposition. he knew some people having a fun run that wanted massage therapists at the end for the runners/walkers. he called me up to see if i would like to come be one of the therapists. it was a local job and sounded like fun so i agreed.
they had wipes for our tables, hand sanitizer, papertowels, garbage can, canopy, and even business card holders all set up for us. i just had to bring myself and my table. i didn't keep track of how many people i worked on, but we were only there for about 2 and a half hours. we did an estimate 5-10 minute massage. (both of us forgot to bring a clock) at the end though, they had a little gift bag for me. inside was a really cool tee shirt with the company name and fun run on it, xbalm chapstick, 10 day passes to the gym, women's vitamins, orange julius coupons, a gas card, and a thank you note. i was surprised they gave me a bag. it was really cool. but the neatest thing was at the very end after everyone was gone and we were cleaning up.
the lady in charge is a doctor. we offered to work on her. my friend had the doctor get on his table, and i had the opportunity to work on my friend's mom. we worked for maybe a half hour or so. (as mentioned before, we had no clock) but we were all kinda talking about the response of having massage therapists there at the fun run. i guess there was one lady who just went on and on and on about my work.
this doctor was impressed and said that we needed to come to the office and work on people. she said if she could get enough support that there might be a possibility of the company purchasing chairs for us and we can come either work the chair off, or get a percentage. either way, i hope that something comes of it. i really would be excited to have the opportunity to have a company purchase a massage chair for me and let me work it off or pay it back or take a percentage.
the only downside is, i didn't have business cards to hand out. so i am relying on my friend to remember me and hopefully include me if something does happen. ok the reason i don't have business cards yet is because i haven't ordered any. the school was also supposed to get us business cards before graduation, but that didn't happen. i got a call last week saying i could come pick them up at the school, but i asked if they could mail them to me instead so i don't have to drive to salt lake. well, the school just called me. they didn't update my address. my cards got sent back to the school. i am wondering if maybe that's why i haven't heard anything about my test. the school can't get things together on the paperwork or communication. GRRR! whatever.
hmm...what else....oh, so yesterday in sunday school we had one kid who was really disruptive and down right rude. it was getting on both zach & my nerves. we were both trying so hard to be nice and polite and keep things under control. as soon as the bells rang, this kid went out of the classroom and held the door shut with his foot and body. nobody could get through. zach tried to knock him a few times, but the kid had got another buddy to come help hold the door. finally he let his foot go and we were able to open the door. my guess as why he let the door go, his mom was coming down the hall and a member of the bishopric came out of the door right next to our classroom. i don't know why, but that kid holding the door really really really made me mad. i wanted to smack him aside his head and grab him by the ear and march him over to his mother and tell her what he had just done. i didn't do that. instead i took a deep breath and went back inside the classroom to finish cleaning up. i wanted to cry. i knew i had to let it go, but i really didn't want to. zach came back in and said that the member of the bishopric asked what happened and zach told him. he said it would be taken care of. i went into sacrament meeting still rather angry and on the verge of tears. when we started singing the opening song, i knew that i had to let the anger go or i shouldn't take the sacrament. the words of the hymn calmed my heart and mind & even though i was still not happy with what had happened, i knew it would be ok. something will change, even if it is just my heart. i don't know what else came of this or will come of it, but i know that next week if this kid acts up again, i will find his mother and have her come in the class with us or have him go to sunday school with his mom. zach says he wants to take the kid to an empty classroom and have just the two of them sit in silence until the bell rings. somehow i don't think that would go over so well considering i got chewed out for having a room full of teenagers and just me. hopefully we can figure something out. and now i am going to leave things here. i really will post pictures sometime. of our wedding(maybe) and of our apartment. i know you have all been waiting. so be patient with me. i am doing the best i can...
Thursday, August 12, 2010
life is always going to be crazy
i'm all graduated now. HOORAY!! i have been waiting and waiting for the email to come telling me when i can go take my exams. i swear it may never come..... but whatever i guess. all good things will eventually come to those who are patient right?...
so let's see what all has been going on lately...
my job has been getting a bit harder. thankfully i know that i won't have to be there too much longer. i'll actually get to work a career that i love doing.
um, i still really hate drama. i don't understand why people can't just grow up and accept the responsibility instead of blaming everyone else. then they bring in other drama and i have a major headache and i just want to bawl my eyes and heart out right now.
i really am trying hard to stay positive about life, but i am really struggling. just when i think something may finally start looking good, something else comes in and i spend most of my days feeling so down and depressed. now don't get me wrong, i'm ok. or at least i think i am. i know a good portion of my problem is that i am too focused on just myself. i have now been out of school for 2 weeks and i took a few days off work. what did i do in those few days? slept almost the entire days. and when i wasn't sleeping, i was in a bad mood and wanted to just be left alone, but also felt like i was starved for attention. i don't know how to explain it. poor zach has been so patient and i have been extremely moody.
i have a wonderful husband who loves me and wants me to be happy so he does what he can do. and then here i am; moody, whinny, and angry. i feel like i just want to go out for a run, but then i'm so tired all the time and don't want to do anything, but my brain is going crazy for something to do if i just sit and do nothing. we are newly weds so of course we have no money, so we can't really go out and do anything. the only game we have for 2 people is scrabble. zach has now started creaming me, so it's not quite as fun and i can't think of words because i usually always have a headache. we have gone out a few times on walks, and that is always nice when our schedules can agree. but it is kind of rare that our schedules actually will let us have time together.
i know i could be better at praying, reading my scriptures, doing service. maybe that is really all i need. a vacation from myself, from my thoughts and moods.
i made banana bread again. zach likes it, but it isn't as good as the oops one with frozen eggs. This time it came out a bit more moist and it crumbles when you cut it. I am not sure what the difference between the two was, well other than the first time the eggs were frozen solid.... zach says it still tastes really good. he had the last one gone in 2 days. we'll see how long he gets through this one.
i also made chocolate chip cookies for the sunday school boys we are in charge of teaching. zach and i told them we would maybe bring treats if they bring their scriptures and participate in the lessons. the cookies turned out really well, but were almost too moist and so they crumbled too. i am just not sure what the problem is. anyway, the cookies were still a hit and i think they will all have scriptures next week. we shall see... i'm only taking oreos from the store...not homemade.
oh, so i guess i've been in a singles' ward too long.... zach had to work this past sunday. i had to teach by myself. apparently this has changed in the church. i had no idea, and i've never taught before. but i kinda got chewed out by one of the young women teachers for being the only adult teaching. i guess because things have happened there are always supposed to be two adult teachers now for each class every week. once again, i have been in a singles' ward... and zach and i had only been in this new ward for 2 weeks when we were called as sunday school teachers. no one told us anything. they just said "here's the manual. good luck."
so i am not sure what to do since zach is still scheduled for some sundays. i think the one young women leader got her husband to come in cause i ended up having some brother sneek in right before we said the opening prayer. i have no idea who he is. we have only been in the ward 4 weeks and don't know anyone. they stuck us with the youth. i know 2 people's names that welcomed me the very first week in relief society; norma & marge. and i know the bishop and the ward mission leader. i am still learning the kids' names we teach. zach still has no clue as to who is who. we don't even get a roll to read names off of. the way our ward does roll is to write your own name on a paper on the clipboard. so alas, life is crazy and is always going to be.
so let's see what all has been going on lately...
my job has been getting a bit harder. thankfully i know that i won't have to be there too much longer. i'll actually get to work a career that i love doing.
um, i still really hate drama. i don't understand why people can't just grow up and accept the responsibility instead of blaming everyone else. then they bring in other drama and i have a major headache and i just want to bawl my eyes and heart out right now.
i really am trying hard to stay positive about life, but i am really struggling. just when i think something may finally start looking good, something else comes in and i spend most of my days feeling so down and depressed. now don't get me wrong, i'm ok. or at least i think i am. i know a good portion of my problem is that i am too focused on just myself. i have now been out of school for 2 weeks and i took a few days off work. what did i do in those few days? slept almost the entire days. and when i wasn't sleeping, i was in a bad mood and wanted to just be left alone, but also felt like i was starved for attention. i don't know how to explain it. poor zach has been so patient and i have been extremely moody.
i have a wonderful husband who loves me and wants me to be happy so he does what he can do. and then here i am; moody, whinny, and angry. i feel like i just want to go out for a run, but then i'm so tired all the time and don't want to do anything, but my brain is going crazy for something to do if i just sit and do nothing. we are newly weds so of course we have no money, so we can't really go out and do anything. the only game we have for 2 people is scrabble. zach has now started creaming me, so it's not quite as fun and i can't think of words because i usually always have a headache. we have gone out a few times on walks, and that is always nice when our schedules can agree. but it is kind of rare that our schedules actually will let us have time together.
i know i could be better at praying, reading my scriptures, doing service. maybe that is really all i need. a vacation from myself, from my thoughts and moods.
i made banana bread again. zach likes it, but it isn't as good as the oops one with frozen eggs. This time it came out a bit more moist and it crumbles when you cut it. I am not sure what the difference between the two was, well other than the first time the eggs were frozen solid.... zach says it still tastes really good. he had the last one gone in 2 days. we'll see how long he gets through this one.
i also made chocolate chip cookies for the sunday school boys we are in charge of teaching. zach and i told them we would maybe bring treats if they bring their scriptures and participate in the lessons. the cookies turned out really well, but were almost too moist and so they crumbled too. i am just not sure what the problem is. anyway, the cookies were still a hit and i think they will all have scriptures next week. we shall see... i'm only taking oreos from the store...not homemade.
oh, so i guess i've been in a singles' ward too long.... zach had to work this past sunday. i had to teach by myself. apparently this has changed in the church. i had no idea, and i've never taught before. but i kinda got chewed out by one of the young women teachers for being the only adult teaching. i guess because things have happened there are always supposed to be two adult teachers now for each class every week. once again, i have been in a singles' ward... and zach and i had only been in this new ward for 2 weeks when we were called as sunday school teachers. no one told us anything. they just said "here's the manual. good luck."
so i am not sure what to do since zach is still scheduled for some sundays. i think the one young women leader got her husband to come in cause i ended up having some brother sneek in right before we said the opening prayer. i have no idea who he is. we have only been in the ward 4 weeks and don't know anyone. they stuck us with the youth. i know 2 people's names that welcomed me the very first week in relief society; norma & marge. and i know the bishop and the ward mission leader. i am still learning the kids' names we teach. zach still has no clue as to who is who. we don't even get a roll to read names off of. the way our ward does roll is to write your own name on a paper on the clipboard. so alas, life is crazy and is always going to be.
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