Golly Gosh

I found this article on my sister's blog...I didn't think I needed another reason to be happy I was born when I was...

In case you can't read the text below the picture, here is what it says:

• Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they get home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
• Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.
• Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
• Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dustcloth over the tables.
• During the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering to his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
• Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.
• Be happy to see him.
• Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.
• Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
• Don't greet him with complaints and problems.
• Don't complain if he's late for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through at work.
• Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or lie him down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.
• Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
• Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.
• A good wife always knows her place.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Miss Tenzie

You know those people who are just amazing to be around? Like suddenly you feel so much better about yourself? McKenzie is that friend.

She has sat through hours of car rides so that I can clear my head.

She laughs at appropriate times.

She is one of the smartest people I know.

I first met her when she moved in for 6 weeks and I liked her more than others I had lived with for much longer.

She teaches preschool and must have the patience of a saint as she has had to deal with multiple bodily function messes.

She laughs when I show her my "guilty" music purchases...and laughs with me as we "jam out" to them in my car with the windows rolled down.

(this picture [possibly our worst] is from the night we listen to Neil Diamond's "America"with the window rolled down all through Provo...it was life changing)

FireLight

Hahaha

Not Quite Timp

At the end of this summer my sister invited me to hike Timp. After some time of the trail we realized that we weren't hiking Timp but were on the path to Stewart Falls...it was still pretty though.

Only At BYU...

Do guys get there eyebrows plucked by the girlfriends in the main area of the Library...(sorry the picture is fuzzy).

my stomach hurt

Sometimes you come along something that is just so great that you have to share. Yesterday I found this website http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/. I don't think something online has made me laugh so hard in years! Some of my favorites are on moleskin notebooks, indie music, and unpaid internships.

I think I might just have to by the book...

I think I have a problem

About two weeks ago I became a little sick, which for those who don't know, is the perfect opportunity to do nothing productive and watch an entire season of a show. The show of choice??

I had never seen the show before but had heard many a great thing about it...and to my delight they were all true. The problem you ask? Is it the fact that after my initial sick day I somehow managed to watch all 3 seasons and the current episodes online in 10 days? No, the problem is the fact that I found (well find)this person surprisingly attractive:

But not this one:

Anyway else worried that I find the charismatic killer somewhat fortunate in the attractiveness department but I didn't find the nerdy but somewhat socially awkward boy attractive?

P.S. I think it is the fact that he sometimes wears the square glasses...

7 days 27 posts...

I am well on my way to not completing my goal of 34 posts. My justification (because you know I have one) is that my internet was down for several days this month and it was midterm season (which went over rather smoothly this year).

On the plus side now I only have 26 posts to do this week...yay!

The 10 Year Plan...

In one of my classes we have been talking a lot about place and time and how we as humans deal with such topics (I know I have a fluffy major). The discussions have often brought up the fact that many of us make "10 year plans" or year plans. We are always thinking about where we want be and when we want to be there. Personally I can't remember a time where I didn't have some sort of plan for the future. The first time I actually wrote down my 10 year plan though was when I was 12 (luckily the journal that contained that plan was destroyed some time ago). In a short few weeks I will near the end of those 10 years and while my life has turned out much differently than the 12 year old wanted it to (I thought I wanted to be an actress...this ended when I realized I didn't like getting in front of large groups of people) it feels very strange.

As I contemplate the next 10 years of my life and where I want it to go I have thought about how the past ten years I have been living for the future and maybe the next ten I should try to enjoy the present a little bit more instead of what might happen tomorrow.

P.S. I found the calender here

Dear Comcast..

Dear Comcast,

Thank you so much for understanding my stupidity. After calling you several times about how the internet is slow/isn't working/the router is broken, I still needed this description of what the router was, "it is the one with the antennas...like a bug." Not only did you need to tell me it was the one with the antennas but you also let me know what antennas are (I had no idea until you told me it was like a bug).

Additionally I really appreciate after I tell you that I am having a problem with the internet service you are providing me that you try to upsell your other amazing services. What would I do without you guys?

Thanks a bunch-

A really stupid girl...

the soundtrack of my life...

Often I find songs that I like, rarely I find songs that I can listen to over and over again and still be impressed by them. Today I "refound" one such song, Going North (Do you italicize songs? or do you put quotes around them?) by one of my all time favs Missy Higgins. It just seemed like a summation of my day/week/month/year/dreams/fears/loves. If someone was compiling a soundtrack for my life I hope this song would be on it.

I cried...

Today I remembered how much I like this movie...

I shouldn't admit it but the first time (ok maybe the first 2 times) I watched it I cried. What weird movies have you seen that made you cry (or have an emotion that isn't typical)?

The History of Silence

Every Monday Wednesday and Friday in my 206 class there is a minute of silence before we start discussing that days reading. Today 30 seconds of that minute was spent by the teacher ringing a bell. I never realized just how amazing that minute was until it wasn't there. I blame the noisy 30 seconds on why my day was not so fantastic.

On second thought...reading Foucault might be the real reason my day wasn't so great...

one reason my job is pretty fantastic

This month was my company's annual grand convention...which means I got an opportunity to go to Minneapolis for a week and work. While the whole working thing wasn't so fantastic there was one amazing perk that I wish I had back in happy valley...

Now it might be the fact that I am sleeping on a lumpy more than slightly disgusting mattress in my apartment but these beds were amazing! Down pillows and comforters should really be provided in every Provo apartment.

34 days 34 posts

I am pretty terrible at this blogging thing... horrendous if I am going to be perfectly honest. That is why I am setting a goal to blog everyday until October 31st. Fantastic if I succeed, not so fantastic if I fail. I figure that putting my goal out into cyber space might actually make me want to achieve it more.

Wishing myself luck...

wishing...

Although I am not usually a jewerly type of a gal I have fallen madly in love with friedaspophie on etsy! I especially love this piece...

At only $23 dollars I am pretty sure that my wish will become a reality shortly.

a little ditty

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
-Oscar Wilde

Check out these books

don't they make you want to read more?

buon giorno

this blog is devoted to all the things that make me use happy adjectives