29 January, 2007

So going to bed early on the weekends when we don't have to work is not an option. In that case we end up crawling into bed at 1 or 2 in the morning which we are not use to anymore. At least i'm not. So by the time that we find ourselves tired and ready for bed, we don't think about the blog or atleast not wanting to write. So that is a long explained reason of when we havent written for the past few days.
Today is monday but it wasnt your typical Monday. For me it went by really fast. I got to work and did the night drop with Amelia (the new girl I trained at work) which took us a few hours. Then I ended up going in the back vault organizing the deposit slips which took me to lunch. Now at lunch today I went in for a interview for possibly a new job. Last friday a women came into the Bank that comes in everyday to make deposits for the Neuroligical office she works for. Told me an a opening and I asked questions about it and she took that as I am very interested! She called me the next day,(friday) and asked if I had thought about the job. WHAT JOB!!! I was so confused. I did not think that my question I asked the day before gave her the idea I wanted the job.
Anyway, I went there today to talk to them about the job. Found out they would pay me about 5 bucks more then I make now, which would put me up to 16 dollars an hour, plus its a administrative position and not so much customer service. The job is very intimidating though, it makes me nervous. I will be doing alot of praying and pondering about this. The only downfall is I can't have insurance for a year and I just signed us up for insurance. What if I get pregnant?
Yesterday at church, first day at new ward, so far so good. In relief Society I was sitting across from a girl my age with a pretty new baby. I watched then threw all of the meeting. A few minutes into the meeting I looked over at her with her baby and got nervous and a some butterflies. Then I got a little emotional. Let me repeat that, a LITTLE emotional. It was strange, and eversense I have been thinking about it and feel like I will get pregnant earlier then I thought. CRAZY!!!
We met a cute couple that are our age in our ward. They live kiddy corner to us. Elizabeth and Brian Pue. We found some friends, hopefully!
Saturday we finished up our apartment. We can use the kitchen table now and the living room is totally organized. Well pretty much, minus the impossible puzzle on the coffee table that we have been working on forever and a few other odds and ends. Well Seth and I are going to be watching "Lost" not sense we discovered we could download them from limewire. The most important discovery so far this year. Gotta run!!

25 January, 2007

How is it possible that people do not understand that something like, say, a DUI DOES go on their MVR (Motor Vehicle Record)? Or maybe that having your license suspended SIX TIMES looks bad when you are applying for a job as a D-R-I-Ver. Do we not realize that this is like going in to apply for a mortgage after having filed for bankruptcy six times? Does it not seem to some people that MAYBE, and I mean maybe because who am I to say, they don't hand out license suspensions for outstanding deeds of civil chivalry? That they don't suspend your license for helping your elderly neighbor cross the street? These are not merit badges to hang on your sash at the next court of honor. They are red flags that tell ANYONE who pulls your MVR, "This person is the motor vehicle equivalent of a rapist."
That being said, you can probably guess what happened at work today. Blows my mind...
Janette had a wonderful day too. She went to the Social Security office, Early! Only to find people camping out and doing their thing. She had to wait TWENTY MINUTES!!! COME ON!!!! SHE HAD TO BE TO WORK IN TWENTY ONE MINUTES!!!! You know what they should do at the Social Security office? They should have someone hide, and when you walk in, they just punch you in the face. "Why did you bite my eye?" "'Cuz I'm a SNAKE!" (What did that have to do with anything? Nothing. But we like Dane Cook)
Janette is legally Janette Harrop-Jefferies now, minus the Harrop-. Just Jefferies. We are just making one big happy family up in hur.
After work, we decided to go marathon-style all over bountiful (ever see "Rat Race"? yeah.) looking for ATM's where we could get money out, because we had to pick up our wedding pictures. Homeboy lives in a pimp house. The pictures look great, and I am just so thrilled to have them. I could almost wet myself. They really do look nice though, and we were pleased with the work, but not thrilled with the price. I wish I could get paid lots of money to do my hobby for people, but then again, sitting on a couch picking my nose doesn't have much redeeming value within society...
We made it to bed earlier tonight. Hopefully we can wake up early tomorrow.
PEACE!

It is so much fun to live a life of excess. It is something that people rarely get to do. But thanks to a recent influx of Bed Bath and Beyond gift cards, that is exactly what we got to do tonight. Fancy Faux glass cup for the bathroom with a metal base? Absolutely. Eight dollar cheese grater? Throw it in the cart! Collander that extends over the sink so you don't have to hold it?!? Your wish is my command! IRONING BOARD??!!??!!?? YOU BET YER SWEET BUNS MISSY! The crowning jewel of course was the way over the top fifty dollar vacuum cleaner we got. Now I know that fifty doesn't seem like much to some people, but that is totally 50 tacos from a taco wagon that we didn't get, so that is big news mister.
Honestly though, it was good to get some of these things. I really don't know how people survived before they had potato chip slicers on the side of their cheese grater. It's all a mystery to me.
As if this shopping spree was not enough, we topped our splurge off with a classy meal at DQ. That's right. Six chicken strips in a basket, french fries, and a couple of blizzards. We know how to live the life.
Now, we don't want people to go out and get all jealous of the fact that we bought nice things tonight, like, say, a soap dish, but we do feel the need to brag about the fact that we got Janette a body pillow so that she doesn't have to fall asleep clutching my thigh.
OK, here is where I need to clarify something by way of a story.
I'm a bit of a hot body. Janette is not. I need space when I sleep. Janette does not. Usually this is ok, but last night Janette needed to cuddle herself to sleep. Cool. Well, I fell asleep with a human blanket, and everything was good until about one in the morning. I woke up feeling like I was doing laps in an olympic pool. EVERYTHING was soaked. Like a big shaggy dog had dried off in our bed. Of course, waking up to a soaking bed, my first thought was... "Did I wet the bed?" I SO wish I was joking. So I touched a wet spot and then sniffed my hand. Conclusion: not urine, but I was not satisfied. I turned on the lamp, threw back the covers and looked at myself and then inspected Janette to make sure that there were no conspicuous stains. Luckily, it wasn't pee.
Moral of the story: Buy a body pillow for her to hold at night, and that way you don't sweat so much that you wake up feeling confused and insecure.
I REALLY wish that story were not true.
G'evening

23 January, 2007

I'm BACK! After Janette so blatently IGNORED the news of the day yesterday, I feel it my obligation to inform you all of the most important thing to happen in years (aside from us getting married).
Carmelo Anthony came back into the Nuggets lineup. What a wonderful day for Nuggets fans worldwide. Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony on the same court, making sweet sweet music as they tore apart the Memphis Grizzlies. Those Grizzlies are so smug and think they are so great because they have some grubby spaniard as their leading scorer and best player. They think they are so great.
Today was a good day. I had nachos for lunch, Janette drank a mountain dew, we had baked potatoes and Top Ramen for dinner, we watched some show about Alexander the Great and switched back and forth with the State of the Union adress, and made a new year's resolution 23 days late, to go to bed early tonight. Great resolution.
We are working on working out. Sounds stupid, but it's the daggum truth.
Apparently it is a serious chore, to walk down three flights of stairs, and over half a block to the work out facility. We don't have to pay to get in, we don't have to spend a certain amount of time there. We don't even have to look at the equipment, we just can't make it. We are doomed to end up fat and out of shape. At least malnutrition will not be the cause of our demise. Of course, clogged arteries might factor in. Working on Working out. Motto of the month.
Be good, people of the world. We love you all
G'evening

22 January, 2007

Alright, today is my turn to write a little something in our blog. I didnt choose the most exciting day to write though thats for sure. Ok so today is monday and a monday is truly was. Seth went to good old Quality Tire and I went to Wells Fargo.

Cam started today at Quality tire...whoever that is!! He doesnt seem to want to expand on that at all. As for me nothing really happened that is worth writting down to remember.

But I would like to take some time to brag about dinner tonight. I was planning it from the early afternoon and it turned into a masterpiece. "Ginger Spicy Chicken", with aspargus which cooked in butter, lime juice, and garlic salt. AMAZING!!!! I timed it all to perfection so everything was presented and ready at the same time. Well anyway its was amazing thats really all anyone needs or wants to know.

(SETH) "By timed to perfection do you mean that I would have time to get home, shower, shave, and start our laundry? And watch a little TV in there too???"

(Janette) "No!!!! By timed I mean making the food all finish cooking at the same time. So when one is cooking the other one is getting cold because you made it an hour before you started the next part of the meal!!! Honestly some peoples kids!!"

After dinner we had the opportunity to go and use our first class laundry utilities. The building is under construction so it doesnt look the greatest but it sure is large enough. In that room they probably have 15-20 washers and about the same number of dryers. We saw a girl from our ward who we met on sunday in the laundry room. We cant remember her name but she is a single mother who loves to complain about our apartment complex. We are not sure what bad hand she was dealt but we love these apartments so far. Minus the deliciouse aroma that welcomes you when you walk to our stairwell. The smell of sulfur and someones bodily fluids makes me want to vomit whenever I smell it. But putting that aside I really don't have all that many complants. I like it and I believe seth would agree. Other then laundry and dinner and work we watched a bit of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and some "ESPN". I put a handful of puzzle pieces together and Seth is about to go on a rampage with the Sudoko book puzzle he is trying to figure out. Other then those few events we are calling it a night to wake up and do pretty much the same thing the next day.

One side note, we can not seem to get to bed before 11:00 pm. No matter how fast we move after work we still end up crawling into bed about 11:30 everynight. Its the strangest thing! Well I will sign off for the night!

21 January, 2007

WE SUCK AGAIN! We totally missed the majority of church today. See, the internet said that our ward did not start until 12:30 in the afternoon. Boy was it off. 9:00 AM folks... At least we were able to meet with the Bishop and fill out some new member paperwork. The bishopric and the people that we met seemed nice enough, but I really would have liked to go to priesthood and sunday school. It was ridiculous.

The good thing about today though, is that the Colts finally beat the Patriots to go to the Super Bowl. Peyton Manning is a stud and he deserved it. I hope that he can win it all.

While we watched the AFC Championship Game, we pulled out one of the three puzzles that we bought while we were on our honeymoon. It's a good one, with a cowboy trying to reign in a horse while his buddy watches. The funny thing, to us at least, and certainly not something that we noticed when we bought it, sort of an afternote thingie, is that his buddy is watching him while holding a deer's head. Who does that? He just randomly has a deer head in his hands. No body, no gun, nothing to suggest that this was a recent kill... Just happens to have a deer head. The puzzle is an absolute monster too. It took us almost the entire game (approx. four hours) to put together the border. Now, we are not experts, but neither one of us is exactly a slouch when it comes to puzzling, and by the time we threw up our hands in defeat, we were both puzzled out.

Dinner was great tonight. That whole Ham, Pineapple and Cholula deal I talked about. We cooked the ham for a long time, and it just fell apart in your mouth. It was a wee bit spicy too. Janette had a hard time with the sauce and with the pineapple, but the meat itself was great. As a desert, maybe five hours after eating, we decided to finally cut open a bit of our wedding cake. It's good, black forest, but a little rich. It needs a warning label. "Caution: Consume only with large quantities of milk."

What is it about dry sweets like cake and pie, that you just have to have milk with them? They just taste so much better. Kudos to the guy who discovered that if you pinch a cow's booby it shoots out delicious white liquid. He was one heck "SEE JANETTE?!??! I DIDN'T CUSS!!! YOU HAPPY?" of a guy.

We're out

G'evning

20 January, 2007

That's Janette and Me. We got married about two weeks ago.

Being kinda lame, I decided that maybe we should start a "blog" of our lives and try to keep it updated. This is the start of something that may well be short lived, but let's cross our fingers and hope not. After all, we do believe in journals, and this is probably as good as anything. Maybe we could print these sheets up and keep them in a three ring binder and then bore the hell, er... (scuffling noises as Janette hits me) "OUCH! I MEANT HECK" (More scuffling noises) out of our kids one day with stories of our early married lives and how she put tons of pressure on me to stop cussing. Thank goodness I don't go through withdrawals like a chain smoker or an alcoholic when she takes my vice from me.

Janette probably thinks this is a cute idea. She just agreed with me.

Tonight we went to dinner at Tuscany with Derrek, Brandy, and Dareth. Dareth's wedding gift to all of us. Tuscany makes good pork chops. No doubt about it, it's the best cut of meat in town. For some reason Janette decided to NOT get the pork chop. That was too bad, because I did, and the pork chop ruled. If Dareth ever gets around to reading this Blog some day, thanks, Big Guy, for dinner tonight. It was great. Stay out of trouble sir.

Arranging the apartment is fun. Every time we do something, no matter how small, Janette says "It's FINALLY coming together!" She gets so excited about plugging things in, like our phone chargers, for instance. I think THAT's cute.

Anybody reading this, and reading all the jokes I make about her, probably think I am abusive and that we are dysfunctional. Those people are probably right. But love conquers all and love is all you need (sappy music in background).

We are going to our new ward tomorrow. We don't know what room to go into first, because sacrament is last. Should be a fun time. The new members are going to think we are retarded. Great.

Ham, Pineapple and Cholula for dinner on Sunday. Janette is going to be gassy... "OUCH!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIT ME!!!!" Ok, I am going to be gassy. I am going to have to tuck the sheets in tight so none of that escapes during the night. I should loan her my gas mask for the evening. I do actually have one.

We are off to watch "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Should be enlightening.
G'evening