Ugh

Well, it's now been 4 weeks and we're just barely starting to resolve all the issues caused on that lovely day January 31. It was a Saturday and I was on my way to Wal-Mart to buy some groceries and find some fabric to finally finish my chairs (needless to say my chairs are still not done) and I got stuck in stop and go traffic in front of University Mall. As I sat behind a suburban minding my own business I looked up into my rear-view mirror to see a car speeding towards me only a split second before it hit me so hard I jumped the couple of feet between my car and the one in front of my slamming into the back of them!! I had seen the car before the impact so I took my foot off the brake and turned my wheel in a vain attempt to swerve out of the way so only the front drivers side hit the suburban, but unfortunately the back part of my car was smashed by the guy driving so recklessly. I immediately drove to my parents and spent a couple hours with my dad's heating pad and sharing my his ice pack for his knee he was using. I headed to the doctor's office Tuesday and was sentenced to a few weeks in a neck collar to help take the tension off my muscles. It's atrocious!! I'm going back to see him tomorrow and we'll see if I do physical therapy or chiropractic work! Always so much fun!

We're still waiting for the check from his insurance compnay to fix my car and for the girl who hit my car in the parking lot about a week before to pay for the damage she did to the OTHER side of the car!!

Seattle

Ethan was home last weekend (surprising I know!) so we decided to take a quick trip up to Seattle, WA. It was so much fun and kind of a way to celebrate Valentine's early, just like we have to celebrate every other holiday. It was a little chilly but the sun decided to peak out Saturday afternoon while we were on the ferry! We didn't have any real plans except to go so when we go there we just walked around the streets people watching and seeing the city. We ate in the dirtiest looking little Mexican food restaurant but it was actually pretty good! Saturday morning we ordered room service before heading out to see Bainbridge Island. It was good to just get away from everything and go have fun for a weekend!!

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Cooking!

A couple weeks ago I finished our seat covers for the dining room chairs and Ethan stained our table. He was so proud, he invited his parents over for dinner. We decided to make chicken rolls with rice and gravy! Ethan helped make the chicken rolls and got everything put together while I was in class! We also had to buy some new glasses because Ethan was sick of using mugs!
Then for the super bowl my assignment was to make cookies and I was so excited to use my new Bosch that my mom gave us for Christmas!!

Our home

We did this a long time ago but I never downloaded the pictures off my new camera until the other day so here we go! We painted our kitchen to give our apartment a little more life and we had lots of fun doing it!

He's such a goofball!!

The big 2-0!!

What are friends for? For making you laugh when you never think you will again, for picking you up pushing you out the door and saying deal with it, so you can come back and thank them later. My best friend is turning 20 today and I wanted her to know how much I love her and have appreciated her the last few years. She's been there through the school stress, the hard times when I had noone else to turn to, she's seen me through all the boyfriends I never had in high school and has shared in all of my happiest moments! She's the kind that knows how to be silly but you know in any kind of panic moment she'll be the first to slap your face, tell you to shut up and sit down and help you get through it, because that's her job. We once dreamed of running off to USU with Martha where we could play all the time and take "day trips to Idaho!" She spent a week under a towel to avoid the sun on the best trip to Lake Powell ever, she snuck out to see Hairspray with me when I was having a bad day, and I can't count the times we skipped class, bought Cafe Rio and watched movies, just to be together and have fun. But our single greatest feat of high school will forever be Sally's birthday, while our single greatest night which we will never forget was the Beach Boys concert in our homemade go-go girls dresses where we were virtually famous! She may be a little off color, but that's why I love her, so look out world, Erin's growing up!!

The Journalist in Me

As a society our values and our acceptable standards of public behavior are continually deteriorating. We’ve progressed from wearing your Sunday best if you were simply going to the grocery store, to the type of people where we’re lucky if we’ve brushed our hair before leaving the house that morning. Not only has our standard of self-cleanliness dropped significantly, but also acceptable public behavior is constantly in turmoil. No one thinks twice to see a couple walking hand in hand down a crowded street unless that couple is comprised of two parties of the same gender. A lot of this spectacle is mostly for show and the shock value it produces and is generally a put on, in no way reflecting the person’s true sense of self or personality. Most people, while disturbed by such displays, generally shake it off and move on, which is acceptable so that they can keep their perfect cookie-cutter lives in order. One fact that even the most sheltered human being cannot deny however, is that although not all of the younger generations are displaying overtly homosexual tendencies, barriers between acceptable exhibitable behavior for young men and those for young women are being crossed. Even in some of the most supposedly “safe” areas such as BYU campus males are displaying more signs of femininity. As I waited in the hallway for the previous class to get out I observed a small group of young men, sitting and talking together. One man had his shoulder resting on the others shoulder, a bit odd I thought, but maybe they were just that close, if girls can do it with no judgments why not boys? As I continued to observe however I was taken out of my complacent, “why not” attitude to a slightly disturbed and bordering on disgusted viewpoint. As the boys continued to laugh one put his arm around the others waist and left it to sit comfortably on his opposite hip. I’m not going to hazard a guess as to these men’s sexual orientation, but simply say, let boys be boys.

ONE WORD:
USING ONLY ONE WORD Not as easy as you might think!
Where is your cell phone?
Pocket
Your significant other?
Ethan
Your hair?
Short
Your mother?
Brave
Your father?
Incredible
Your favorite thing?
Creativity
Your dream last night?
None
Your favorite drink?
Milk!
Your dream/goal?
Family
What room are you in?
Bank
Your hobby?
Creativity
Your greatest fear?
Loneliness
Where do you want to be in 6 years?
Content
Where were you last night?
Home
Something that you aren't?
Raucous
Muffins?
Poppyseed
Wish list item?
Clothes
Last thing you did?
Deposit
What are you wearing?
Jeans
TV?
None
Your pets?
Want
Friends?
Slim
Your life?
Fun
Your mood?
Longing
Missing someone?
Ethan
Drinking?
Water
Smoking?
Never
Your car?
Mexi
Something you're not wearing?
Earrings
Your favorite store?
Gap
Your favorite color?
Bright
When is the last time you cried?
Friday
Where do you go over and over?
Work
Person who emails me regularly?
Janet
My favorite place to eat?
Panda
Favorite place I'd like to be right now?
Traveling

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