Thoughts, Thoughts

Here are some things that on my mind lately:

• Whenever I'm having a bad day at work and someone takes my survey, later that evening I pray that they will be blessed with amazingly great blessings for helping me out (so you should take surveys and receive blessings).

• I'm kind of feeling surreal lately because everyone I know is just now getting engaged/married and I'm about to celebrate my 1 yr anniversary. It makes me feel old, except everyone else is older than me. Guess I was just ahead of the curve? Maybe I'm just emotionally old...? I don't know....

• For the few people that I know who got married around the same time as me or after me are ALL having babies. Sometimes I'm jealous of them, but then I think of the costs, and the hours of sleep they are not getting, and all the awesome quality time I get with Garett right now and I'm okay. 

• My little brother is going to college in a month. I hear the words but they aren't really sticking yet. I will forever imagine everyone 3+ years younger than me as 8 yr olds and there they should stay. 

• I'm at this point where I feel like I've been in college forever even though I'm only getting my Bachelors, but I'm getting trunky. I can only imagine how people in grad school+ must feel. All I can say is bless your souls!

• I really want to get into running, problem is I hate doing anything alone and I want to run in the mornings and Garett wants to run at night.. Any suggestions?

• I also want to be super crafty except I am terrible at hoarding random stuff and for the little stuff I do hoard, it ends up stored away somewhere and I can never find it. Guess it just wasn't meant to be....

• Also I'm finally going to get my legs tan! Now that it is August and will be cold by the end of September....but to be fair I have the nastiest top-of-my-feet-only-sandal tan lines. Meaning only parts of the tops of my feet are tan, then there is a straight line where my pants stop and my legs are WHITE. Needless to say I'm still wearing boots to church because my tan line is super noticeable and awkward (and now that my ward is tiny, it will be even more apparent).

• Though I am not baby hungry, I am pet hungry. I keep seeing all these beautiful dogs and cats everywhere and it reminds me how much I love pets. Pretty sure as soon as I graduate/have a house I want a dog. They're too sweet for their own good. 

• One of the best feelings in the world is when your home is clean for more than 2 days in a row! Mine has been clean for almost 2 weeks! It is amazing! Clean home=happy wife! 

Hope all is well with y'all! Have a great rest of your week/weekend!

Meg

I'm Not Dead I Swear!

Sorry I don't blog much anymore. School is over thank goodness. One more week of it and I was going to explode. So summer break came in the nick of time. Now my days are spent sleeping in (we need to fix that, I don't like sleeping in so late), reading and/or watching random TV shows. There is a show about every little thing, seriously. They even have one called "My Teen is Pregnant and so am I". Is anyone else as mind boggled as I am that anyone would actually want to admit that?

Garett's favorite show lately is "River Monsters" which by the way is on Netflix instant streaming (as well as Fullmetal alchemist: Brotherhood). It's kind of cheesy, but cool. Mostly the narrator's voice is just amusing to me.

We have gotten to do some fun things though. A few weeks ago we went to the sand dunes with some of our friends. We brought snacks, blankets and some wood for a fire. While there was still sun the men ran off to go jump down the sand dunes and us wives had some much needed girl time. Once the husbands came back we played "Betrayal at the House on the Hill", ate some snacks & enjoyed the fire, especially because we all forget that it still gets pretty cold at night in Rexburg and were wearing shorts. It was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend that game to everyone. =]

Friday night we had our friends over again. It was originally going to be a movie night, but ended up being a game night. We played Buzzword (thanks Jess & Nik) but quickly realized whoever was on Garett's team would win. Guess who never got to be on Garett's team....yeah me. xP So instead we decided to go around the room and have someone read the card and everyone else guess the phrases. Strangely that ended up being a lot more fun and we laughed our heads off. Partially because as married people we don't stay up late so everything after 11:30pm becomes hilarious. I felt like a kid again. It was great. =]

Yesterday we got to help some people move out, which felt great because I've felt so useless lately and being able to serve felt really good. Sad though that we're losing more people. 4 families are moving out this week which means we have about 40 people left in our ward at church. =[ (not even kidding....I counted on Sunday).

Garett has more books to read since we went to the library and I'm finally getting around to my never ending reading list. I'm currently reading "Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. He is definitely a favorite of mine already. =]

But I digress, so yesterday we got to help people move, went to the library, then work went really smoothly which was nice. We came home and got to take a walk together. That was needed even more-so since we haven't gotten to take any walks since we were in California. and we haven't really gotten to explore this side of Rexburg (aka married and family housing) I'll take pictures one day.

And then we came home, ate dinner and probably my favorite part of the day, we curled up in bed and read our books. It sounds simple but it was a wonderful feeling. There is something sweet and altogether happy about just being side by side reading. I don't expect many to understand but I hope at least Catherine might know this feeling. It's just a peaceful blissful feeling. Needless to say, yesterday was a really good day.

Not sure how the rest of the week will compare....but I hope it goes well. Saturday at least should be fun.
Oh also we've been getting a great deal of rain which means Rexburg has been nice and cool the last few days. Lets cross our fingers and hope it lasts a bit longer.

Next week we'll be headed down to Utah to see my family and Garett's family. We can't wait to see everyone =D

Love you all. =] Hope everyone has a fantastic week =D

Meg