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Would you buy me?
Posted on Friday, December 31, 2010
$200 $25
Unknown $700-900
I know I would!
Cats courtesy of KSL classifieds.
December 2010
Embarrassing Story Of The Day
Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Did any of you have to drive in the blizzard today? Well let me tell you, I sure did.
I arrived at work to find my afternoon haircuts canceled because they didn't know if they could make the drive in the storm. "Storm? What Storm?" I thought. Well I am certainly glad they did cancel because it was quite the storm!
It was raining all afternoon and I looked out the window to see small snowflakes floating down, nothing too serious. Next thing I know it is a blizzard!!! So I left early, and I think the combination of fresh snow on rainy streets made for some extra slick roads. I have never been scared of driving in the snow, so I wasn't worried, but I slid 3 times driving down the hill and only made it 3 blocks from my work before this unfortunate event happened...
a big jeep cut me off, and so it was necessary for me to slam on my brakes, and we all know brake slamming and snow streets don't go well together. So I honked my horn, but apparently a little too hard because my horn wouldn't stop! Luckily a grocery store was right there so I turned/slid into the parking lot and quickly turned off my car to stop the honking.
Turned it back on, still honking!
So I call Jason at work and he tells me to unhook the fuse. Car's have fuse boxes? Whhaaatt?
So I turn on the car again, and this time a nice man shoveling the parking lot comes over to see if I'm ok. Yep, just trying to get my car to stop honking....I am so embarrassed. So I sit there for a while not turning on my car and not knowing where a car's fuse box is located.
Luckily my mom calls me just then because she felt like she needed to make sure I was safe in the snow storm.
No! I am never going to make it home! Seriously! I have never had snow driving problems like this before! This is when I start crying out of frustration because my horn won't stop honking and my car won't stop sliding and my car is getting cold, and I start laughing because I mean really, this is so stupid!
My dad makes me turn on my car again, still honking!
This time a nice grandpa type man salting the parking lot comes over and asks if I need help and he tries to fix the honking horn. So I pop my hood, and a man from the meat market on his break runs inside to save the day with some pliers, and the nice grandpa man removes the fuse and saves my life from freezing to death in this parking lot!
After thanking him profusely realize there is now way my car is making it up capitol hill safely to my apt. So an hour later I arrive at Jason's work and we take the long way up the hill and I am finally safe and warm in my apt.... whew!
and I bet you all thought I was going to say I got in a car crash...
And it was very Merry...
Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Are you as heart broken as I am that Christmas season is over?
As every year passes I grow to appreciate the Christmas season more and focus less importance on Christmas Day.
This Christmas was a different one for both Jason and I, it was our first Christmas together. Jason spent it away form his family, and neither of my brothers were here this year. So Christmas was spent with my parents and my Grandma Dot. I think Christmas day will never lose it's excitement...I woke up at 4:50am to Jason shouting "Merry Christmas!!!" It was hard to get back to sleep after that!
It's funny making a Christmas list as a newlywed because instead of clothes I wanted more homemaker-type things... among 2 sets of sheets, a vitamix, kitchen supplies, anthropologie money, and other things Jason surprised me with this...
The IKEA shelving unit of my dreams! In my dreams, it was white, because I have this obsession with white white white furniture lately, but my dreams have changed to decorating this shelving unit with loads of milk glass and my old books, and I think it is even a better dream come true!
Thanks for busting or budget by so much Jason! Our bank account may not be grateful but I sure am!
I had serious intentions of quitting my laziness and uploading some photos onto this blog as well as video of our Christmas day shooting adventures, but the memory card converter is nowhere to be found...so they will be here soon enough!
A Very Tacky Christmas
Posted on Monday, December 20, 2010
Tacky Glue that is! Because I have been covered in it from making these...
Handmade bows and glittery labels. You know that joke about glitter being the herpes of all craft supplies? Jason has repeated that joke a few times, because it is EVERYWHERE! And impossible to get rid of.
And for your listening enjoyment... some of my favorite christmas tunes! Because I love love, love my christmas music.
Jason hand sewed this ornament. Which now serves as our tree topper, along with a ribbon tied around a rose Jason gave me when we first moved into our apartment.
But you see, these are very special handmade ornaments. My mom made ornaments from this fabric in the 70's for my parent's first Christmas. She found extra fabric and gave it to me to adorn our first christmas tree! So we hand sewed them and stuffed them with cotton balls, (for lack of any other stuffing...)
Isn't Jason such a good sport for sewing these with me!?
And I must tell you about our Christmas Tree!
We took a long time to finally get our Christmas tree. Finally Jason took me to get our tree, which I had been looking forward to doing since Thanksgiving, with a Home Depot wedding gift card. The awesome guy helping us find a tree gave us a tag to the cheapest tree in the lot and told us he would hook us up with a nicer one, and the guy inside gave us $10 off! Talk about Christmas spirit! I think they could sense our poor newlywed-ness.
We came looking for a 3 foot tree and left with a 6 foot tree tied to the top of my little car. The best part was when we had to climb thru our windows as Walmart to buy a tree stand because our doors were tied shut. We felt pretty white-trash, but hey, it's Walmart afterall.
I am so excited Christmas is here!
Elder O
Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2010
The past week has been extremely busy for us, but the craziest thing is that
Tyler is a missionary!
We will all miss him a lot the next two years, but I am so happy for him! I can tell he is really ready for this and watching him preparing for a mission, I have already seen him grow a ton. Holidays will be weird without him, but it will be interesting to see how life is when he returns in 2 years from North Carolina, fluent in Spanish :)
As you can see from these pictures, Jason and Tyler have grown a bond of love too.
Tyler went into the MTC on Dec. 15, his birthday! It was funny because we were eating Subway for lunch, (his request), and all the sudden he says, "Oh, I'm 19!" We had all forgot it was his birthday! Even him! I still feel bad, but the attention was most definitely on him, there were bigger things on the mind, and we did celebrate on Sunday! I am sure it will be quite the memorable birthday. I can't wait to hear from him and see how he is doing!
PS...my aunt Sandy sent an email with the link to the article about Provo Tabernacle burning down, it is so sad! However she also sent the link to this painting salvaged from the fire.
Isn't that so neat!? They are calling it a miracle :)
I won!
Posted on Friday, December 3, 2010
The other night I was doing my daily blog readings, which turned out to be even more exciting than usual!
"I won a knife!" I squealed with excitement.
"Shhhhhhh!!!!" Jason hushed me with a glare. He was playing Wii Zelda and my excitement was interrupting him.
"But I won a knife!"
"A what?"
"A knife!"
"...what?"
Jason may not have shared me excitement but its OK because I won a knife! From a giveaway on Off the Wheaten Path! I am really excited because me and Jason have 0 good knifes. Seriously, they all suck. But now I can chop things with ease! Click here to see the post about me winning the knife. "Rachel the Poor Newlywed", she certainly got that right!
This is my new knife!