2nd blog of the day. I'm on a rolllllll

you know youre high on pain pills when you go to dairy queen JUST to order the thing your mom ordered everytime you went to DQ together as a child and then eat it in the car while listening to bing crosby's white christmas and crying because youre eating and listening to fond memories at the same time and cant hold it in anymore. you also know youre high when you make an entire paragraph out of one sentence.

I am thankful for...

Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving I thought it would be appropriate to list all my blessings and things that I am thankful for.

Being raised by two amazing parents.  Having a big brother who was/is always sticking up for me when people pick on me :) .  Having a very strong connection and friendship with my grandma...I dont think many people can relate to the relationship that she and I have.  My dog-as weird as it sounds, she is the world to me.  Music..its such a big part of my life, I dont know where I would be without it.  Being blessed with a good singing voice...thanks to my dad. My husband.  He is my rock and I love him so much. He is my best friend. Having a good paying job that is flexible and that I have fun doing. I'm thankful for Robbie's promotion at work...more money to save for school.  My mind. My mind works in a mysterious way that many people cant understand...it is so free spirited, creative and free thinking and I am grateful for that.  Im thankful for the ability to play the piano...thanks to my mom and her good piano playing genes. I'm thankful for the ability to write (what i think are good) songs.  For all the terrible mistakes I have made in the past...I know now that they happened for a reason; to help others who are going through the same thing and to mean it when i say "I know how you feel".  The Gospel and my testimony..and for knowing that Heavenly Father is my friend, and not a scary man full of wrath like alot of other religions view Him as.  Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ace Enders for making beautiful music that I can relate to and get inspiration from. You-tube and Facebook...for keeping me sane while i sit on the computer at work copy and pasting all day.  My apartment ..it may not look like much but its a place to sleep and spend time with my husband, and i am thankful for that. My best friend Lacey McQuade. She is the best friend I have ever had and will ever have. For growing up in Casper, Wyoming.  As much as I wanted out as a kid, I now know of its beauty and how amazing that place is. I wish I would have never taken that place for granted.  I'm thankful for my husbands will power and work ethic. Because of him and his goals for life, I know that i will be able to stay home with our future kids and pick a career that will make me happy. For the new Nikon SLR camera I bought and for the amazing future pictures I will take and memories I will capture with it. Im thankful that I have my dad's eyes...not only do I love my dad's eyes, but everytime i look in the mirror i see a part of him in me and that makes me feel special.  Snow. Its beautiful and i have so much fun playing with it.  Beanies. I have more bad hairdays than anyone i know and therefore i am VERY thankful for beanies. The Office. Not many things make me laugh as hard as that show. Disney movies. They are a HUGE part of who i am as dumb as that sounds haha. I dont know what i would do without the movies disney makes. I watch a disney movie or at least part of one almost everyday. (Mostly when im in bed going to sleep). Mittens. My hands are always cold.  Good books that I just get lost in. For a free country...thankful for it while it lasts.

lastly..my writers block is wearing off!! I havent written any music in almost a year...and guess what! I wrote today! woooo! i am pretty excited. even if my inspiration came because i am high on muscle relaxants. a song is a song. :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Did I eat some broken glass in my sleep or something?

So saying this week has been long is an understatement.  I have only been to work like a half day so far and tomorrow is Friday.  Most people would LOVE to stay home from work...but me, I LOVEEE going to work! So that has been a drag. I set my alarm for early this morning  thinking I would probably be feeling better and ready to go to work. I woke up, and within 15 minutes I was in so much pain I couldnt even stand up straight.  It literally feels like my body is trying to digest shards of glass and it is no bueno.  I dont know what is going on this week but I really hope it ends today.

Besides being sick, this week hasnt been ALL bad.  I talked to my best friend lacey a few times this week, each time for a good amount of time.  I love how we dont talk for a week and the next time we talk its like our last conversation hadnt ever ended.  I am so excited for her and Mark to get married next month...I cant even WAIT to go to their sealing. Yay!

Robbie has been sweet this week. Everyone says the first year of marriage is the hardest and they are completely right. It has been really hard and we are only in our 3rd month of it! But this week Robbie has been especially sweet, leaving notes for me and whatnot.  I love him...and we are working really hard so that we can tell people, "the first 5 months of marriage are the hardest!" instead of the first year :)

I hate being stuck home, and wish me luck on digesting these shards of glass within the next couple hours so it can just get be over already!

Lately...

So I never wrote anything about Halloween! Halloween night Robbie and I went to see the show, "Thriller".  Its amazing dance production that is put on every year in Salt Lake...and when I say its amazing, I mean it is AMAZING!!! It was probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen.  I really wanted to dress up this year because I havent dressed up for Halloween in years!  I had decided what I wanted to be months in advance and was so excited to dress up like Marilyn Monroe! I looked so funny it was great. Robbie of course put his costume together 5 minutes before we had to leave, which consisted of a 40 year old nasty wig he found at his parents house and a Florida Gator's basketball jersey...

Anyway, here are some pictures from that night!

Needless to say it was a good time :)

Also, after 3 months of being married...I finally got around to decorating our apartment.  On Saturday I decided to just pop into Hobby Lobby to see if they had anything to give me some ideas, but I ended up just popping in on the best day of the year! Everything in the store was 50% off! Everything!!! It was definitely my lucky day. I bought a lot of things!! But of course it was justified since it was 50% off..that was my excuse to make Rob not so mad at me.  Not only did i get things for our walls and stuff, but I ended up getting out allllll of the Christmas decorations and putting them up too :)  I decided it didnt matter if people thought it was weird to get them out so early..as long as it made ME happy :)  So I put those up too.  Here are some pictures of the "new" apartment.

its not much, and its hard to tell from the picture, but I put up an antique-ish looking cork board, a antique-ish shelf, as well as some antique-ish frames on top of the shelf! Needless to say I LOVEEEEE antique things.  Oh...and theres the Christmas wreath!

So the glare kind of takes away from the big picture, but I found a wood plaque (antique-ish of course...) that says "Love" and thought it was way cute! I also bought and hung up some candle holders and two really pretty candles! Then underneath is one of our engagement pictures in an..dont make me say it..frame. (by the way...it took me FOREVER to nail those candle holders in the right place on the wall...I am hardwear-ly challenged)

Our apartment is so tiny that this was basically the only place to put decorations! I love the santa and snowman bobble-heads my mom gave me though...so cute! And its like having a bit of Dwight Schrute in our home..which I love!

Since making the apartment was such a special occasion, I decided to get my favorite combo of flowers for it! I absolutely LOVE daisies and roses together..and the colors really fit the style of the apartment as well.  I think that when these die, I will go make myself a boquet of fake ones to replace it :)

This is a TERRIBLE picture of the tree that I put up..but I had to have proof that I actually did it! I couldnt figure out how to rotate it on Robbie's laptop so I guess we just have to deal with it being horizontal. Anyway, it has alllll of the ornaments I grew up with.  My mom gave me all of them as a wedding present and I am so glad she did! Growing up we always had two trees in our house. The "pretty tree" and the "mickey tree".  I am so glad that the tradition of the mickey tree will live on through me! I got very emotional as I decorated it...I couldnt stop crying the entire time. It's my first Christmas being married and away from home and it will definitely take some getting used to. Not only that, but every single one of those decorations has a special memory with it and reminds me of all the Christmases I spent decorating the tree with my mom at home growing up.

I am excited for tomorrow.....I am going to start going to Zumba class! Woooo!

ok....bye!

I think its funny that....

-I have barely listened to any normal music in almost 2 weeks. I have been listening to Disney music for 7 or 8 hours a day at work non-stop.

-That I can remember the chinese song I sang in Children's Chorale in 5th grade word for word in Washington DC but I cant remember things what I did two days ago.

-That no matter how much you love somebody marriage is VERY hard work.

-That I unknowingly ordered a 15 dollar bowl of Mac and Cheese today. What the crap that is the biggest rip-off ever.

-I think Obama is funny. I think he is the biggest joke I have ever heard.

-About $250 or more comes out of my paycheck to go towards social security but that when I am old and gray  the program will probably not exist anymore...or I will be dead before I am old enough to recieve it.

-That for some reason I always put the face of George Castanza (from Seinfeld) to the voice of Phil Collins.  I really couldnt tell you what Phil Collins even looks like because I always think he is George Castanza.

-That I am so severely self-conscious that I hardly will even wear short sleeve shirts because I am so self-conscious about my arms....but some realllllly reallly ffattt fat fat girls seem to have no "conscious" at all with some of the things that they wear.