new bloggggggggg.

so... i have another blog - it's all about me and john and it's pretty lame at the moment.

BUT it's the only blog i'm going to write on starting, like, last month.  so you should follow it.

s + j

thanks  :)

oh, i'm getting married next week? ok. no problem.

didn't i just have like, five MONTHS to get all this stuff done???  and now i'm down to a matter of days??!!?  someone please tell me that the calendar is lying. 

just kidding!  we do still have a lot to do - but it's not like we're going to be up until the wee hours of saturday morning trying to finish everything up.  well, i might be awake.  but only because i'm chronically sleep-deprived during exciting events - like Christmas and the first day of school and the nights before i get to see John.  i probably won't sleep at all this week.

hopefully, most of you married girlies can relate to what i'm about to say...

can i just be married already?!?!??please?

i'm over it.  let's just get married and give everyone a high-five and go start our life.  it could be that i've only spent around 6 or 7 days with John every month since we've been engaged.  it could be that we've spent upwards of a thousand hours talking to each other on skype since we met.  it could be that we send about 50 texts about what we're doing or figuring out wedding stuff every day.  it could be that i just miss him a whole heck of a lot.  it could be that when we're together he does all the heavy-lifting and driving and cell phone fetching and i'm just lazy.  it could be that i have an entire lifetime of treasures to pack up and i don't want to do it all myself.  it could be that when you know who you want to spend the rest of eternity with and you can't be with them everyday you pretty much just want to scream and yell and tie your dog's leash to a skateboard and make him pull you to wherever they are [tho it help when your dog is at least bigger than the skateboard].

um - sorry for the ranting.  the point is:  I'M GETTING MARRIED IN SEVEN DAYS!!!! 

yep. 

that's the point  :)

here's a picture of the day i got bored and tried to braid John's hair.

and here's all the flowers that Steph and Nettie and i planted this afternoon.

the end.

rock in the suburbs.

How come she looks better in my sunglasses than I do?

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one month...

Today marks exactly one month until John and I GET MARRIED!!
We're super excited that we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. It's been a great - and by great I mean loooong - six months of engagement... but we are SO ready to be married.

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woot woot!!

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german pancakes...

mmmMmMmmMMMmmmmm!!!!

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ice skating!

So, before Christmas I was in San Diego and John reeeallllyyy wanted to go ice skating downtown. So we went to the rink, but it was a little too small and melted for me.
I promised him that we'd go to a real ice rink the next time he came to Vegas, but we never got the chance until today! In Provo of all places!
We had a really good time... except for when John pushed me into a wall...

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utaaaahh!

Right now I'm sitting on the bed in Meg's basement waiting for John to finish his homework. We are gonna go to J-Dawgs for lunch and then go ice skating at Seven Peaks. Expect more pictures!!

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gluten free

This week, I've been babysitting my cousins.  It's been fun!  Well, except for the day that Reed's blood sugar went psycho and they sent her home from school.  That was not a fun phone call to get.  But really, we've had fun.  We played mini-golf, went to see Yogi Bear and Red, and went bowling.  [I won, btw.]
AND they have the new xbox kinect... which is ah-mazing!!  I love it.  I would play it all day if I had the stamina.  haha.  Mostly because I can beat George at one of the games!
Today, our plan is to go to the Pinball Hall of Fame.  And that's going to be great!  I'm really excited to waste away hours of my life playing every pinball machine known to man.  Seriously. 
First, though, we have to wait for Reed's blood sugar to come down.  And while we were doing that, I got hungry.  Oh, I forgot to mention that Reed's allergic to wheat and gluten and whatever else makes bread delicious.  Bummer. 
Needless to say, finding something to eat this morning was a little bit tricky.  I don't really like rice cereal - but that's all they have.  So I compromised!  I mixed in some sugar and some cocoa and you know what?  It was good!!  It looked disgusting, but I gobbled it all up and even thought about making a second bowl.
Now that I've shared that with you, I'm going to go watch cartoons with George.  Bye.

please ignore the bald-headed man.

Yesterday I went to the movies with my two cousins. We got there a little early so we played in the arcade before venturing to the snacks. And then, as we walked toward our theatre, George spotted a cotton candy machine. I love cotton candy. LOVE it. So we decided to give it a try. It was awesome. And definitely worth the two bucks! But then, when I got to my seat realized that my drink loves cotton candy too. Oh well, it was worth the two bucks AND sticky fingers :)

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meet Teko.

He's cute, huh?

Right now Teko is rubbing his face on the rug.  I'm not sure why.  He doesn't really like me, which is a bummer because he's exactly the kind of dog I love to cuddle!  He's my cousins' dog, and since I'm watching them for the week I get to spend lots of quality time having staring contests with Teko.  Usually I'm the only one aware that it's a contest, because he's too focused on whatever I happen to be eating at the time.

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long time, no post.

it's literally been months since i blogged.  which is funny, because i have all the time in the world these days to be blogging about everything.  this whole wedding-planning thing is pretty fun.  i'm finding a lot of great ideas, mostly for my wedding, but also for decorating and party-planning in general.  i just wish it were april already!!

i'm such a great employee.

sometimes i think that every time i mess up at this job it's the boss-man who catches me.
and that really is how it happens, almost every time.

but today i feel a little bit better about myself.  because:
[a] i had the car-detailer guy come an hour later than he had planned, [b] i had the car-detailer guy wait an extra 20 minutes because the boss-man was late, [c] i looked up an address and printed directions to the boss-man's next meeting, and [d] i double-checked the car-detailer guy's going rate for a regular car wash.

all in one day.

man, am i awesome or what?!

sunshine and tulle.

yesterday i had a VERY grumpy day.  i was sleepy and hungry for most of it.  and then it seemed like everytime i had a breakthrough with wedding stuff something would go wrong.
i took a lot of my frustration out on john, and i feel terrible for it now.  it's a good thing he's so in love with me  :)
i was grumpy because work was really busy yesterday, and one of my contacts was being difficult, and the daily checks were super complicated to figure out, and the wrong delivery came in, and my blood sugar was low, and the internet at home wasn't set up, and my room is a mess, and i needed to do laundry, and my brother's dog is annoying, and there were about a hundred other reasons - but typing them all out will just make me grumpy all over again.
so i was laying in bed this morning, not wanting to get up just yet, and i started thinking about how nice the weather's been outside, and how exciting it is to be planning a wedding, and my fluffy dress, and how incredibly lucky i am to be marrying my absolute best friend in the world.  john is just amazing.  and the best part is that he doesn't even know it.  he's everything i've ever needed in my life, and i can't even begin to express how grateful i am for him.  but i'm going to try.

to my johnny monster -
you are the best thing in my life.  you make me smile, even when i don't want to.  you light up my heart every single day and you remind me that it's never going to be dark again.  thank you for always doing what you say you will.  thank you for always being there, even when i didn't ask for you to.  thank you for telling me that you love me every chance you get.  thank you for my pretty ring and the promise of forever that you attached to it.  thank you for not thinking i'm crazy.  thank you for being lazy with me, and letting me take naps.  thanky you for telling me the truth - even when it's hard.  thank you for holding me close, and holding my hand, and kissing my head when i'm sad.  thank you for letting me meet your family and friends in san diego.  thank you for liking my friends and family and not thinking we're too wierd.  thank you for being the driver on long road trips.  thank you for making my lunches before school.  thank you for holding my hand when we'd cross the street.  thank you for taking an online class while your home and working.  thank you for calling the apartment complexes to find out more information and get us on waiting lists.  thank you for trying to explain things to me because i don't understand them, and not getting too mad when i give up trying and need to take a break.  thank you for giving me a reason to go back to rexburg, because i wasn't quite ready to leave forever.  thank you for being driven and wanting to be the best student you can so you can get into a good law school and support me and our family.  thank you for thinking i was cute in a pathetic sort of way.  thank you for loving hot dogs and slurpees and horkleys and pickles as much as i do.  thank you for all your efforts to get me to go to the gym.  thank you for reminding me of the things i need to do.  thank you for inspiring me to be better and to really study my scriptures.  thank you for being my best friend, and the best thing in my life, and for wanting to spend the rest of forever with me.  thank you for calling and reserving our date at the temple.  thank you for calling my every morning to make sure i'm awake and to tell me that you love me.  thank you for staying on skype every night until i fall asleep.  thank you for letting me bug you with a million e-mails a day and responding to them whenever you have an extra minute.  thank you for letting me call and wake you up in the middle of the "night" and talk to you while i'm at lunch.  thank you for getting days off work to come and see me for halloween and for our trip to rexburg.  thank you for everything you do for me.  thank you for all your prayers.  thank you for thinking about me.  thank you for boris, and ghoti, and marcus, and the flamingo whose name escapes me...  thank you for loving me even though i'm an absolute mess all the time.  thank you for kissing me before i brush my teeth.  thank you for thinking i'm pretty when i'm sick, and haven't showered, and just woke up, and especially when all of those things happen at the same time.  thank you for letting me take you all over the place to take pictures and then not even showing them to you because i don't really like them.  thank you for letting me have a secret engagement story.  thank you for introducing me to the two-story target phenomenon.  thank you for metting me be me.  thank you for laughing at my silly jokes.  and thank you for laughing at me when i'm trying to be serious.  thank you for working graveyard shifts, even though you hate it.  thank you for telling everyone you meet how much you love me.  thank you for washing dishes.  thank you for fluffing herman.  thank you for telling me that i have too much stuff.  thank you for all of it - the whole package.  thank you, john.  i mean it.  i really don't deserve you.
i love you, forever and ever, time a bazilion, plus infinity, with everything i have.

ten things that made me happy today.

[this is for amber, who challenged all her friends to do this.]

ONE - spending all day on g-chat with john.
TWO - the nice weather outside.
THREE - my ring making rainbows and sparkles across my desk.
FOUR - looking at wedding blogs.
FIVE - thinking of brittney out on her mission and having a fabulous birthday.
SIX - the smell of fajitas.
SEVEN -finally getting to hang out with nettie after fifty-seven tries.
EIGHT - talking about forever.
NINE - trying on wedding dresses!!
TEN - john. he just makes me happy all by himself.

would anyone like to plan my wedding??

pretty please?

with sugar on top.
and whipped cream.
and a cherry.
and chocolate syrup.
and rainbow sprinkles.

i have about a BAZILLION ideas - but none of them would really work together.
maybe this is why people spend so much moolah to hire a wedding planner...

book plus blog equals... blook??!

here's the thing... i read.  a LOT.  possibly too much for my own good.  but what i don't do is keep any sort of record of what i've read. 

and so, i'm introducing [da da da da] the blook!!
it'll be great, i promise.  if not for you, then for me.  i need to have some way of remembering all these books so one day, when i'm looking back and thinking what have i done with my life i'll have the blook to remind me of all those precious days i spent doing nothing.

and who knows, maybe i'll nudge someone in the direction of a library every now and then...

i need a project.

i have all this spare time now... and i need some sort of productive activity to fill it with.  i mean, i have to look for a job, and then my spare time will be a little more limited, but let's face it - i do absolutely NOTHING else.  i do need to clean my room so that i can rearrange it so that i can paint it so that i can install some shelves [which need to be designed and then built].  however, i have a feeling that a lot of that will involve my family's help and so not really take as much time as it sounds like it will...

in november i'm going to write a book.  or, at least, try.  there's a non-profit organization that does this thing called NaNoWriMo [national novel writing month] and they challenge you to write a fifty-thousand word manuscript during the month of november.  so that's my plan for then...

i need to make some kind of scrap-book for my years in college.  but i mostly just want that to be a collection of cheesy roommate pictures and random side notes.  nothing too fancy or time consuming. 

after that, though, i'm at a loss.  i expect i'll have a lot of planning to do after the new year, but even then it'd be nice to have some little side projects to help keep me some sort of sane.  but what kinds of things are there to do?!  i'd love to just go out and take pictures, but there's just nothing in this town i want to document.  i'd also love to make a quilt using all my old school shirts, but my mom's sewing machine and i don't exactly see eye to eye.

i need to focus on writing.  i want to start a book-club sort of blog.  since i'm such an avid reader and i did just get a degree in English, it'd probably benefit me to practice those skills that i attained.  you know, to keep my brain from gathering too much dust.

i also think it'd be cool to grow a bonsai tree.  it would help me to be patient and give me something calm and relaxing to do when things around here are hectic or stressful.  i'm just afraid that when i'll kill it i'll be too discouraged to try again.

maybe this list of things to do is already long enough and i just need to crack down and get started.  too bad starting projects is my least favorite part  :/

my Julia is MARRIED!!!

she was sooo beautiful.  everything was just amazing.  even the cake, and i don't especially like red velvet.  here are a couple pics i stole from her sister's facebook...

has anyone else ever noticed that i'm a little tall to be in a short dress and heels?!  [at least no one got a shot of the back of my dress... they would have been in for a surprise!]

oh, i just love her.  so beautiful, right?!  and Shane's not so bad either!  ;)

i'm so happy for my dearest love and her new hubby.  and i was so glad that i could be a part of their special day.  but i am NEVER letting her pick out my shoes ever again!!

philosophy? no thanks, i'll have the pie.

why did i think it would be a good idea to cluster in philosophy of all things?!!  seriously.  i don't think i've spent more than 45 minutes actually paying attention in this class all semester.  it's a bit sad.

here is a sneak peek of the other students in this class with me...
 - the boy who prefaces all of his comments/questions with: "this may sound confusing. it makes sense in my head."
 - the girl who gets up at least once, but sometimes two or three times to walk the entire length of the room to throw something away, usually a food wrapper.
- the girl who wears the same plum-colored shirt and awkwardly laced pink and white tennis-shoes with everything.
 - the boy from my ethics class who turns around to look at me every time a reference is made to something we talked about in that class.
 - the self-proclaimed army-brat girl who spends half of every day complaining about the dress and grooming standards to the person behind her.
 - and, my favorite, the girl who knits during every lecture.

thank heavens for the boy who always sits in front of me with his thick, dark, curly hair that i can stare at and get lost in.

oh, my teacher just started a sentence with, "When I met Hitchcock in my dream..."