Tagged. Again.

8 TV Shows I Watch:
1. The Office
2. Almost anything on Food Network
3. SNL
4. Heroes
5. House
6. Chuck
7. Oprah
8. What Not To Wear (usually merely out of boredom)

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. I sure do miss Cafe Rio
2. Olive Garden
3. Fusion (but it's only in Provo)
4. Makino's (Las Vegas)
5. (this is starting to get hard...) Jamba Juice
6. J Dawgs (also only in Provo)
7. Cold Stone
8. A gourmet pizza place in Portland...I forgot what it's called

8 Things that happened yesterday:
1. I applied for a job
2. I applied for another job
3. I got sad
4. So, I applied again, for yet another job
5. I went to Walmart to buy pumpkins!
6. I ate too many Halloween cookies
7. Watched Chuck & Heroes with NO commercials. thank you DVR.
8. Did a mini FHE

Things I look forward to:
1. Getting a NICE, well-paying job
2. Having kids
3. Owning llamas
4. Carving pumpkins on Friday afternoon!
5. Having a real backyard
6. Not having to pay rent ever again/owning a house
7. Getting out of the house
8. Michael graduating WSCC

8 Things on my wish list:
1. A dainty laugh instead of my loud laugh
2. Laser Hair removal
3. Chairs for our kitchen table (ha we're lame and still use padded folding chairs)
4. New digital SLR camera...
5. A husband who will do laundry and dishes
6. A full ride scholarship to Culinary School
7. To be someone's personal chef
8. Confidence to do things I dream of

8 People I admire:
1. President Monson
2. Michael
3. Mom
4. Dad
5. Kids, for their blunt honesty
6. People who don't complain who could have sooo much to complain about
7. Charlotte from Charlotte's web
8. Anyone who's real name is Richard, but goes by "Dick"

8 Random things:
1. I am hungry
2. I think it's never a good idea to paint your walls purple
3. This has taken me longer to do than it should
4. I sometimes forget to feed Penny fresh veggies, but I don't feel bad b/c she's fat and has guinea food in her house
5. It bugs me when people rub their hands together when they are nervous
6. I sometimes pretend I am on the Truman show b/c I am bored
7. Public Speaking is my worst enemy
8. Michael and I are probably getting callings in our new ward tonight.

I tag whoever has read this.

Tag. You're IT.

Sixth picture of my sixth album. Camping up Logan Canyon.

This is the reason I get out of bed every morning

what a cheese.

I read a book!

No, I am not dyslexic or anything, and I can read.

But I haven't been able to sit down and a read a fiction book from cover to cover since high school. The combination of not having any time during college (taking 18 credits a semester, doing both Michael's and my laundry (at a laundromat), preparing both our lunches, and cooking dinner almost every night) and that fact that all you do in college is read kind of turned me off to wanting to read in my spare time. I have about 3 books I have started time and time again, but have not finished them.

I am also not really all that hyped about Stephenie Meyer (or Harry Potter, etc.). When you hear these names more than people you actually know...it gets quite annoying. Anyway, I have to confess that I got so bored in Wyoming that I broke down and read The Host by Stephenie Meyer.

And I actually finished it this week! The verdict: it was good. Not amazing or life changing, but good for passing the time. And if you're the philosophical type, it makes you really think about what makes us human, and what would be ethical if something were to come bodysnatch us.

I think we live on the wrong side of the tracks...

Michael and I are cheap. There's no way around that fact. I fully admit that we take full advantage of DI, Savers, and now, Salvation Army, but we do have taste (or atleast I hope so). We scavenge for the good, tags still on, name brand stuff--so quit your "ew"ing.

I have never felt uncomfortable in such stores (although sometimes I feel a little overdressed and clean), except for today. I found some new lucky brand jeans for $4! Beat that Down East Outfitters. I wanted to try them on to see if they would fit. I searched all four corners of the store to find a sign for fitting rooms. Nothing. Well, should I just buy the pants in hopes that they fit? But then if they don't fit, I just wasted my precious $4. What kind of store does not have dressing rooms? Even thrift stores have dressing rooms.

In the middle of my internal conversation, Michael comes over with his pair of jeans he found. As I ask him about the lack of fitting rooms, my eyes wander to a 3 by 4 foot area in the font corner that was surrounded by old nasty drapes/shower curtains pinned together with hangers and clothes pins. That is the dressing room?!?!

You've got to be kidding me.

I used Michael as my guard, as this "dressing room" was next to the men's section, the curtains we rather shear, and how the crap do you knock to know if someone's in there? I tried on the pants and stepped in a wet spot (I didn't even want to know what it was...).

After humbling myself to such a dressing room, getting my sock sopping wet, and hoping some dirty old man couldn't sneak a peak, I came out with a nice pair of pants. What would you do for nice pants?

My Dearest Michael

I found these books while packing up to move. The "do-it-yourself handyman encyclopedia" and the "how it works science and invention encyclopedia". This does not surprise me at all, but made me laugh so hard! These are like Michael's life guidebooks; they explain him inside and out.

He admitted these were one of the first books he actually read...or attempted to read and just looked at the pictures. I should've also taken a picture of one of Michael's first "inventions"--a popscicle splitter...you know, for the conjoined kind. He hasn't changed much since then, just dreams bigger. =)

I am thinking this genius inventor/DIY thing runs in your genes. These were once Brian's (Michael's brother's) books--and Brian's son (hopefully I heard this story right, Gayle) used to read the vaccuum manual. Hmm...maybe one of our kids will "inherit the gene".

So I do a little shoplifting...

So, as you know Michael and I bought new couches (pictures soon I promise...I just want to get everything put away before I take pictures). We also wanted a coffee table and something a little sturdier to put the TV on. Something inexpensive and can also be used as something else later on if we ever get the chance to build our own stuff back in Wyoming (which is way cheaper for our taste in furniture. We can't bring ourselves to pay for vanier covered chipboard when we have relatives with a cabinet shop).

Someone suggested IKEA. Why didn't I think of that? Well, after getting lost in the store, trying not to get distracted by such cute furniture, and making mental notes of how I could do curtains, we picked out these guys.

A side table (which we are currently using as a coffee table) and a coffee table (that is holding up our TV). We found the DIY sets, plopped them in our cart, and checked out. To Do List: get TV stand...CHECK.

But too bad I had to go make a fool of myself at IKEA today to bring back the second side table we picked up on accident and didn't ring up at the self checkout. oops.