Yarrrrris

Right now, if Caleb and I were in Utah, we would be getting ready to go to Priesthood/Relief Society. But we're not! We're in California, in the warm weather, in the 11:30 church time, in our jammies, in an awesome party environment. I've had such a good time while I've been here - and we haven't even gone to The Price is Right or Disneyland yet!

Carlie got a new game for Christmas called the Game of Life: Pirates of the Carribean edition; it is such a fun game and I want to play it all the time. Mom and Dad and Caleb and I went to the Redlands temple to do a session; it's so beautiful and we had such a great experience! We've eaten some really great food and had some yummy treats. And we've gotten to sleep in every day! Good times.

And all of this has been made so much better because it's been with Caleb!

His Name's Bob

This is Bob. He is welcoming you to the Price is Right, thanking you for joining him. And that we will be, January third. Wearing some swank shirts, if they ever get made. After some great New year's partying, if the party ever gets planned. Working 24 hours in three days really hinders the getting ready plans for this girl. I hate having to cram everything into my life and still pretend that I'm on vacation. Meh, it's this way for everyone.

Christmas was great; Caleb made me a scrapbook of our first week of dating. I cried, but only at the hand written note at the end! Also, I received some great DVDs, shoes, makeup and other assorted goodies. I am really happy that my first married Christmas was such a success and that Caleb also felt that it was a great Christmas. I hope Bob Barker also had a great Christmas.

We also got a digital camera from the Flanagans, making our lives a lot easier (as well as Shyla's; now we won't have to borrow hers all the time anymore!). I'm going to try to take as many pictures as I can of our adventures. To help me with that, I made a flickr account. This will hopefully push me into taking some great pictures and actually uploading them onto the computer.

I cannot wait to be out of the state, out of the snow, wrapped up in Bob's welcoming arms. And Caleb's. :-)

You Can Call me Unperfect

For days, I've had a random N'Sync song floating in my head; I've assumed that I had heard it recently, therefore just being amassed into the background thoughts. It's been a hassle, asking my N'Sync experts what song I'm thinking of...looking for lyrics and failing...waking up with it stuck in my head day after day. But, it has been resolved! It's "Selfish" from the "Celebrity" album, one that I have not heard in awhile. A magical song.

At the behest of many, I am to make a long post that is chock full of personal thoughts and insights.

Christmas is coming soon and Caleb had been working feverishly on a couple of Christmas surprises for me; all I know about these surprises is that they include five pieces of white cardstock, Megan looking cute and Shawn writing more than a couple sentences. Believe it or not, I have it almost all pieced together, so watch out surpriseeeeeees! I'm coming for you!

I am beginning to feel like my life consists of a very few things: work, sleep, eating, Caleb. Not that it's a bad list, but I'm not really in the mode of making a difference. I would like to be involved more in some volunteer thing or some process that involves me working hard on a project. I'm not really doing that and it's beginning to make everything else in my life a little grating. Well, everything else being mostly work.

I don't want to be the non-scrapbooking TV girl anymore. I would give anything to be in the back receiving boxes all day long.

Rick, Shell and Julie are back in Redlands, keeping it warm and leaving behind presents. I'm glad that we are able to bring Shell's present for Mom back to Redlands later on next week, but I'm sad that she was so panicked about it yesterday. Unbelievably, I'm sort of excited to have my very first white Christmas. This is the first time that I've gotten a Christmas present that I couldn't use instantly due to the weather; Megan gave me a liquid sidewalk chalk set, but the icy snow just won't let me play with it just yet. Growing up lends itself to different life experiences.

Meanwhile, Back in the Holding Room

Caleb and I discovered mini ravioli today. We are feeling that it might be a repeat offender in our house, as Caleb put it; pasta is serious business in our house and we feel like taking a new pasta into our lives could change everything. Therefore, we took a lot of consideration into our choice and the mini ravioli came out victorious!

Tonight is a huge group date to go see "The Holiday," a movie with my favorite Jack Black in it. I hope that the movie ends up being better than the tens of horrible reviews that I've read for it. It may depend on the company too, because Julie and Talmage, Roxy and James, Kathy and Billy and Shyla and Shawn will be joining us. Should be good times!

And can I just say, I love spending time with my husband. I never get to do enough of it and I feel like the luckiest girl in the world when I can. I made a good decision in marrying my best friend.

Crash....Into Me

Today was another early day at work, so I'm feeling the groggy spells right now. I might just take a nap before Caleb and I go and see "Employee of the Month" this evening. How funny is it that I went to early morning seminary for 4 whole years and was involved in so many things and I still had a great time waking up at 5 am every morning. It goes without saying that now, 21 and married, that feat is harder to accomplish. Work was great and I'll never say that nothing good came out of working at a scrapbook store - I laugh a lot more now.

The Office did not disappoint. I would have to say that it was the best episode of the season, and that's hard to say, considering I loved "The Convict" episode. It was also super nice that Roxy and Julie watched it with me and Caleb; it's always nice to have someone appreciate what you love.

That's What She Said

Today started out kinda rough; I guess I don't know what to do with myself anymore when I don't have to work. I used to be so good at it, so what went wrong? Anyway, started out rough. Yes. But, I'm feeling better about life because I'm about to watch the Christmas episode of "The Office."

Yes, sitcoms fix everything in life.

I am hoping for a lot of Pam/Jim love in this episode, but I wouldn't mind seeing a full-out Toby episode. All Toby, all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if no one shared my opinion, but I can't help but root for the underdog and pine for the Human Resources rep. Yum.

If this episode lets me down, I will scream loudly and wait all of those weeks for the new one. It's too bad I'm so devoted that I can't boycott.

Upgrade U

I really wanted to be able to post every single day on this blog, considering I should have a journal somewhere. However, I found out yesterday that I cannot access the new Blogger from my Windows 98 clone PC; therefore, because Caleb has his lap top on campus most of the day, I'm out of luck as far as posting. So, I wouldn't mind an upgrade someday. I'm just saying.

A Little Give

Let's not kid ourselves, I've been up for almost 45 minutes and I'm still angry that I'm out of bed. Usually, by that increment, I have resigned myself to the fact that I will be up for many more hours after this and then I putt around until I feel like it's a humane time to be awake. It could be the warmth of my bed, my cute cute husband still in bed or it could be that I'm not accustomed to going to sleep so early and therefore don't feel like I got enough sleep in the first place; no matter what the reasoning, I am sorry to be my co-workers today. I wouldn't want to deal with me.

Last night, I must have had a dream about my family and some holiday. The only reason I know this is that whenever I think about my mom this morning, I automatically think of Christmas, which automatically makes me think of some family rage. Those three things don't really gel in reality, but my subconscious rarely deals in reality, so that can be the only solution.

Working 8 hours still means I'm off at 3 today! Sick.