Getting the Boot...

Finally. As of August 30th, I will no longer have a job with Corner Canyon Marketing. Q:Are any of us really surprised? A: NO. Last Thursday I was pulled into my supervisors office and told that my co-workers and I need to be aware that we are "down sizing"-whatever that means. Q: Could it mean that my current employer has finally been called on all of his crap?

A: Quite possibly.

I am sitting here in my little cubicle while the guy across from me listens to Mr. Jones by Counting Crows and when I really think about it, I actually feel sad that I wont have this job anymore. For the most part, I enjoy the people that I work with and I hope that I will still know them when we dont have work in common anymore.

I guess I'd better see the dentist before we dont have insuance anymore! I can't figure out for the life of me why I always have to go to the dentist, it is pretty annoying.

I have been looking for jobs on craigslist and other places. I have had a few interviews. So far nothing. I know that I will be able to find something else, I just hope that it is sooner than later.

I need to send a shout out to Laura:

I love reading your blog. I love that you post so often. I love how clever you are. I love that no matter where I am when I am reading it, I always laugh out loud. You are raising such beautiful little girls who are just as clever and funny as you are. Jane is an absolute hoot, and Lizzy couldn't possibly be more adorable.

I love you guys!

Don't Do It!

A while back I decided that I wanted to try out this new frozen yogurt place that was just recently built in the Union Park area. It is called the Red Mango and it is something similar to a Cold Stone, or a Marble Slab or whatever the other rip-off place is called...only they serve frozen yogurt. I walked in (John in his ultimate snobbishness wanted to have nothing to do with the place)and got a small cup of regular frozen yogurt with a little scoop of raspberries. I was excited to try it until I went to pay. IT WAS 6 DOLLARS! It was fun and all, but definately not worth it. So, don't do it. Don't go to the Red Mango.

Lazy Dog Days

I didn't get around to posting this when I wanted to so here goes:

Last week (or maybe two weeks ago?) the apartment was being remodeled to have a stackable washer and dryer and we weren't allowed to be in the house for about 8 hours. I took Sally and stayed at my sisters house for the day. Here are the pictures of the wonderful doggy party that we had.


Stephanie has three dogs. Nebo and Bella are here with Sally. Sally LOVES little dogs and could play with them for hours. Bella didn't want to be played with.
Nebo is the sweetest pup. He just wants to love and snuggle all day long. Bella is his little baby and every time Sally wanted to play with her Nebo would step in and put Sally in her place. Syd did not like Sally AT ALL. Don't believe me?...

I cant believe I captured this. Sally was literally licking the inside of Syd's mouth and he wanted to have nothing to do with her. This wasn't the only time she got in his face...she didn't seem to mind that he almost ate her.

So the hook ups for the washer and dryer are all done and we should be receiving the machine by the end of next week, which means we will no longer have to pay to do our laundry. Hooray!

Thats it for the week. Sorry for not having anything more entertaining to report.

It has been a while.

I know I haven't posted in a really long time. My last post didn't work for some reason and so I wasn't feeling too up to having that happen again. So here are some pictures of our new apartment from when we first moved. I will have to take some more pictures when everything is all nice and clean.Because John was sick the week we moved, I did most of the moving while he set up the television. These pictures (above and below) were taken from the front door.

I think that we would still be sitting on the floor if it weren't for Laura's couch, so thanks for letting us take if off of your hands!

It was such a mess. The hardest part was deciding where everything would belong.

This is the little nook which is situated across from the kitchen. This is where we have set up our computer desk-which we bought off of craigslist.

Across from the nook is the kitchen. It is pretty small, but compared to our last apartments kitchen it is great. There is plenty of cabinet space (even though they are pretty crappy), so I still have room for more if ever I need it. All of the appliances are new, including a dishwasher! - No more hand washing for me!

This is the "hallway"-I guess you could call it that. To the left is the kitchen, to the right is the nook. Straight ahead is the bedroom with the bathroom through the door on the right.

The bathroom is the worst! But at least we have one! It has a silly sliding shower door which I hate because it is so hard to clean, and the floor is sticky no matter what I clean it with. AND there is no room for anything (anybody know where to get a cheap over the toilet shelf thing-y?).

The bedroom is my favorite part of the apartment. It is the perfect size, plus it has a walk-in closet, and a regular closet. We do have our bed all put together now, but the mattress topper is where our bed is now.

So this is it. We love it here! The complex is really nice and we finally feel like we are settled in. There are still a few things that we need that we try to pick up here and there but things are coming right along. We are so grateful for the help that we have had to get to this point, and the help that we continue to receive. We love you all!

Thank You All!

Rainy Days and Dogs

As all of you know, John and I adopted a sweet little doggy last Saturday. Ever since then our lives have been....better, or will be as soon as we adjust to this new schedule! This was the plan:



6:00 am-wake up so we can walk the dog
6:45ish - leave for work(get to work at 7:00ish).
7:15 John gets home and plays with Sally for 45 minutes.
8:30 they take a nap.
11:00 John leaves for work (leaving Sally in the bedroom with plenty of toys).
2:20 I leave work to catch the bus.
4:00 I get home (yes, it is an unbearably long trip) play fetch with Sally for 45 minutes.
5:45 John gets home.
6:15 we try to get out of the house for a little while (shopping, eating, etc.)
7:45 Another walk around the block
8:30 We usually start a movie or John plays video games while I get some extra work done.
9:45 One last round of fetch with the dog.
10:00 BED TIME!!!! How glorious.

It is actually pretty nice to be on a schedule-and we have followed it really well so far. But there is no doubt that we are both completely exhausted. It feels like there is not enough time in the day. I know those of you with kids are probably laughing at us right now thinking, oh you just wait until you have babies, and thats all fine and dandy, but we'll worry about that when we come to it. And it wont be soon. Especially not after this.

Today I got home from work after too long on the bus and an excruciatingly long walk and decided to go on a run with Sally (if the weather got bad we didn't want to take her out later). The weather was nice - it wasn't raining and the sun wasn't too bright. I laced up my running shoes and grabbed the dogs leash and we took off up the street. It then immediately started pouring rain. I thought, what the heck, and kept going. By the time we got home (we only ran for about ten minutes-way out of shape) we were both soaking wet. If my mom were here when I brought the dog in she would have thrown a fit.



Every time I wrapped the towel around her to try and dry her off, she thought I was trying to play tug-o-war with her and the towel. I quickly gave up and just let her roll around on her little blanket bed until she dried off. I wont lie, it smells really really horrible in our tiny room. Plus, now I have way more laundry to do. Oh well though, I guess.

We are clearly getting way more exercise now than we ever were before. Maybe our half hour walks will turn into half hour runs?

Oh! And another very bright spot. John and I (and Sally) have finally found a place to live! We are so incredibly excited. We get to move in on June first - looks like we're gonna beat Leslie and Cam. It is a one bedroom (after this, any thing sounds great) but apparently it is quite big. John went to look at it on Tuesday morning and fell in love with it. We are all going to see it on Saturday. Here is the link to the photo album of the model that we are moving into.

http://www.somersetvillageapts.com/4/Apartments-in-West-Valley-City-Utah/

I guess it didn't work as a link, but if you are feeling like looking you should check it out. It is a gated community, has an indoor and an outdoor pool AND a dog park right on the premises. Like I said, we are very excited.

WE'RE BACK!!!

Alright, I know I haven't blogged in a long time but now I have my camera cable and Dave brought up the computer a few weeks ago so I don't have an excuse. Except maybe that I worked a total of 98 hours over the last two weeks. Its going to be a great pay check!

John graduated (kind of) from the University of Utah yesterday. It was very exciting for both of us. I was almost in tears the whole time, I am so proud of him. I did get video of him walking and taking his 'diploma' but we were pretty far away and it was really noisy. We did get this picture though.

I cant figure out why it is so small and such low quality. I must have screwed up with something. Luckily there are plenty of you out there who probably got a better one, so you'll have to get it to me.

He has a few more classes to go, but he will be done in the middle of July. Being at the graduation made me want to hurry up and graduate myself. Because I am liking my new job so much I am thinking about asking my boss if there would be advancement opportunity if I had a degree in business. We'll see where that goes.

So, over all things have been going really well. We are working on getting all of our 'stuff' payed off and then moving out of our tiny cube of a living space, we are closer than we ever thought we'd be...this job has been a miracle for us.

Thanks to everyone for all of the support. We wouldn't have made it to this point without you guys!