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Saturday, December 15, 2012

on Fast Forward.

Does life seem to be ZOOMING by, like we are on fast forward?

I feel like I blinked and it went from November to Dec 15th. Christmas is in 10 days.

10 DAYS.

((oh. and also, the world is going to end for the 2nd time in just 6 days.))

just a little FYI.

Things have been chaotic and kind of a pain here on my end of things...

but I've been going back to my November days of Gratitude and reading...and then re-reading...

and then days like yesterday happen.

Where poor, innocent, and lovely children are victims of horrible, heinous crimes.

Where parents, siblings, grandparents, extended families, and friends are

mourning the loss of family members.

Puts things in perspective. And you always hope it doesn't take something like this to realize how blessed you are, but it always seems to hit me like a ton of bricks.

I'm not a mom, but I am an aunt. To beautiful, vibrant, enthusiastic children.

I am a sister, daughter, and wife.

And I am just so grateful for who and what I have---I could just burst.

I feel sorrow for the families who mourn...but I know that the Lord has taken those who were lost, up into his arms and is loving them and keeping them safe. They are away from all bad, horrible, and heinous things.

So, be sad that you don't have them, but be grateful that they are in such good hands.

Love and prayers to all.

Friday, December 14, 2012

"Poking the Bear"

Jace and I watched a movie one time and there was a quote in it, that just seemed to STICK.

It was from a wife, who just found out shes pregnant, talking to her husband who is

antagonizing and annoying her...

"Really? You want to poke momma bear right now? That seems like a GOOD idea to you?"

Aw, so sweet right?

Until you start messing with it!

AND that's how we now describe ME

when i'm super annoyed...at ANYTHING!

True story.

So without further ado...things at the moment where people are poking this momma bear without realizing the consequences of what their actions may cause:

1. The pipe burst in our apartment and how long it took me to get a hold of "emergency maintenance" and the fact that the office management NEVER once returned my phone calls about it.

2. Drywall has STILL not been fixed. After I call everyday and they PROMISE it will be done the next day...I am STILL not able to put my house back together after "the wreckage".

3. I lost ALOT of precious pictures that I don't have copies/originals/negatives of.

4. I missed all the rain last night...but the worst part is somehow the rain shorted ALL of our Christmas lights (that i have spent DAYS putting up and $$) and now the socket out on our patio isn't even working.

5. I called the management office about THAT last night and was promised a call TODAY and NOTHING! so far.

6. My stomach is having issues and I feel sick--all the time.

7. I'm still super self-conscious after that lady congratulated me on my non-existent pregnancy.

This now concludes my Friday gripe session.

Thank you.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

a Truth for Tuesday (TMI)

Let me tell you a little about me--in case you don't already know me.

I have PCOS.

In case you don't know what that is: Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome.

It is different in EVERY person who has it.

Basically though, i have cysts covering my ovaries making it hard to get pregnant.

My cycle has NEVER been regulated.

And with these cysts comes different symptoms.

of PREGNANCY.

I get hot flashes...actually I just feel like a furnace ALL the time.

My feet swell up.

My nose picks up smells that they shouldn't be able to.

I get nauseous easily.

I've gained 50 pounds since Jace and I got married (my syndrome activated when I had sex for the first time)

I'm healthier now, then I was 3 years ago.

I eat more fruits and veggies, I make most of my food--eating out is not as much, I drink more water, and I exercise way more.

Nothing changes my weight because its CHEMICAL.

AND to top all of it off, I cant get pregnant on my own because my body THINKS its already pregnant.

So, when I have people come up and ask me when I'm "due" or congratulate me on my "pregnancy"--I know I shouldn't be mad at them, but COME ON.

Its not my fault I look the way I do---and I already am sad and depressed by it.

I don't need others pointing out the fact that I'm fat,

but its "okay" because I'm "pregnant"---oh wait.

NO I'M NOT.

Do me a favor--anyone who reads this--DO NOT ask someone if they are pregnant. Period. DO NOT ask when they are due. DO NOT put your hand on someone else stomach (oh yeah..that happened).

Just DON'T. End of Story.

Monday, December 10, 2012

The Wreckage

My own version of the Titanic happened Friday night around 1130 PM.

I heard running water.

From, I knew not where.

I went to sleep.

At 2:30 AM Saturday morning...

I was awakened.

I stepped onto our carpet.

Heard a squish, and was standing in a little puddle of water.

I opened our closet.

And it was RAINING.

A pipe had burst and was quickly filling our closet and working its way out into the middle of the room.

Sleep was gone.

We sprung into action clearing that closet out.

Countless things were water-logged and ruined.

The items that suffered the most damage were my pictures and frames :(

The clothes will dry.

The shoes will dry.

The laptop speakers? Not so much.

I was up for a solid 27 hours by the time I finished waiting for 1. emergency maintenance and 2. the carpet guy.

There is a giant hole in our closet now...awaiting drywall.

We have had to sleep out on our couches for the last 3 days while a giant, loud fan was drying our carpet and filling our apartment with the aroma of mildew.

yum.

It could've been way worse...it didn't ruin any of our furniture or go beyond our bedroom.

But what a freaking pain in the behind.

Seriously.

Friday, December 7, 2012

1st Date of Christmas!

Jace and I have had an abnormally busy start to our Christmas season...

We hurried and did all of our shopping at the end of November so we could more

fully enjoy the month of December...

We've had a trip out of town (Jace), 2 weeks without a day off (me), a HUGE Relief Society Christmas Program (me..and Jace to help pack my stuff back up in two cars), a Christmas Party for my parents ward (I babysat Randy), putting up Christmas lights at the parents (me), and doing our Christmas lights for the 1st time! (there is a contest at our complex...and I really want to win that $100).

I haven't even had time in my days or room in my brain to think about when we'd start doing our 12 dates of Christmas. Luckily we've finally started!

As per tradition, our 1st date of Christmas is picking out our special ornaments for this year! My parents always did this for us kids growing up and those are the ornaments that we got to take with us when we moved out, so if we put up a tree we had enough to decorate it!

(our first Christmas, my ornaments from all those years growing up are all we used!)

Jace LOVES this tradition now. He's excited to do it when we have kids too. So--what we do, is we each get to pick an ornament that represents "us"--what we love, what we've done, whatever! and then we get a couple ornament--something that symbolizes what we did together that year. 2 years ago we went to Montana to visit my family. We found 2 great ornaments to remember that trip. Last year, we saw more movies in theaters (i swear!) so we found an "admit one ticket stub" ornament.

This year our big thing was our first trip to Disneyland for my birthday!

Without further ado--our ornaments for the year 2012!

(These two are mine! I got them for 50% off and the total only came to $5 for both!--the blue glass reminds me of an ornament my grandma had, and i love penguins!)

(Jace decided 3 Christmas' ago that he wanted to get a Super-hero army on our tree...yeah. So one year he got Spiderman and Yoda, last year I got him Batman, and this year was Wolverine.)