A mess.

We have been a mess lately. Like seriously,  a mess. Between school and work and trying to figure out what are are going to do with the rest of our lives, David and I  have been just as likely to burst into laughter as to burst into an uncontrolled panic attack.

"You mean that I have to decide what to do for the rest of my life, right now?"

*cue breathing into a paper bag*

With David and I being such a mess mentally, switching back and forth where we want to be and what we want to do and all of the million options in between, everything else seems to have fallen apart.  Hello, October? When did you fly by?  I can't believe that it is Halloween this weekend. Like really? It's October 26th? I probably would have told you that it was October 18th. I'm WAY behind on the times.
 
Aside from our brains being turned to mush. Our apartment is a mess and I lack the motivation to clean it. I think that we have repeated the phrase, "Tomorrow we will do the dishes, and clean off the counter, and pick up our random assortment of junk so it isn't laying in inconvenient places around the house" about every day for the last week. I actually did the dishes over the weekend, out of necessity, but unfortunately that act of goodness has been long forgotten. I realize that I should probably be doing the dishes right now, along with cleaning the rest of the apartment so that it can again be called livable. But, it's cold. (It snowed today in Logan! I don't know how I feel about that considering that I feel like it's still September, but I can't deny how beautiful it was outside today.) I am all warm and toasty in a Utah State hoodie and big red comforter. I seriously lack the motivation to do anything productive. Besides, I can hear ESPN from the other room where David is supposedly "doing his homework." So, I can justify myself in not doing anything.

Oh, by the way... I mean it's no big deal or anything... but... we finally decided what we are doing with the rest of our lives. Yeah. Cool, eh? Haha. Yesterday, we went out to lunch with a Partner from Hansen, Barnett and Maxwell. That was all we needed to push our teetering decision over the edge! We officially accepted a position with them last night. In case you don't remember from my explanations before, HBM is a middle sized firm with a great work-family balance and awesome future opportunities. We are so happy and excited. It is like the perfect place for us to be.

I have another excuse for not getting up to do the dishes. I'm working on a project for my parents. It's called, "Transfer all of the old home video hi-8 tapes into digital form so that we can burn them to DVDs." I've been working on this little project for a couple of months now and it has been SO fun to watch my little siblings and I as we once were. We were so little, and it brings back such good memories to watch these videos. I really hope that I can finish this project out perfectly. I've run into several very time consuming issues. Sometimes I just get so frustrated that I could cry. Like right now, I just realized that I just wasted an entire hour of capture time, because the tape was just on play mode instead of capture mode. You see, in order to capture the video, you have to have this ridiculously expensive tape player that will convert it to digital form as you play the tape in real time. That means that for every minute on the tape, you have to wait a full minute for it to play into the computer. Each tape is between 2-3 hours. Loosing an hour is a big deal. Now the only way I am getting up is to get some ice cream to console myself for my stupidity. (Yes, I eat ice cream when it is snowing outside if I am dejected enough. So what.) Oh well, it's worth it right? I really do love watching these home videos. They make me smile so much. I could just sit here and watch them all day.

Or maybe I will put in a movie and continue work on my latest sewing project. I am making a quiet book. Rather, I have joined a group of 13 girls who are making 13 quiet books together. It's a really awesome idea. My friend Emily, asked around to see if anyone would be interested in this Quiet Book Exchange. The premise is that all 13 people will make 13 copies of one quiet book page and then exchange them with each other. That way you only have to make one page 13 times, and you end up with an entire quiet book! She talked me into it by saying that even though we don't have kids now, someday we will, and someday we will wish that we had a quiet book. So here I am, making a quiet book and loving every second of it. (By the way, Emily is in a contest to win a free couch. Please help her out by going HERE and voting for her couch. It's entry 27.)

I love to sew. Many of you know that. However, you probably don't know what a crazy seamstress that I am. I don't always do things the way that I am supposed to, and I often make it harder on myself than if I would just follow the instructions the first time. But it always works out. I am such a logical sewer, and I love the way that sewing makes sense. (It is very cause and effect.) The problems come from when I don't think things all the way through. The moral of this story is not to make you fear my sewing skills. Not at all. The moral is that you can, in fact, sew in 13 zippers without a zipper foot. It may not be easy, but it can be done! I hope that all of you seamstresses out there just gasped and are in awe of my amazing skills. I have now put in 13 zippers free handed. Meaning that I didn't use a presser foot at all, I just freehanded the zippers. And. They. Look. Awesome. (For those of you who aren't sewers, zippers may be the single most commonly-feared item in all of the sewing world. I haven't ever had super-problems with regular zippers but it is quite the accomplishment to be able to put in a zipper without the appropriate presser-foot. Invisible zippers on the other hand are the bane of my existence  slightly more difficult. With or without a presser foot.)

Alright. Fine. I give in. Those dirty dishes are glaring at me from across the apartment. I can hear them calling to me to come and clean them.

Actually, I just set up a consultation for tomorrow at 5:00 to talk about doing someones wedding announcements. Which means the house has to be clean tonight. I'm okay with the whole cleaning thing, because I love doing consultations. Actually, I love designing wedding announcements. So I love consultations because I love to start on new announcements. It's seriously like the perfect job.

A job for David, awesome family home videos, a great sewing project, and a consultation.

I'm so lucky.

Even if I do have to clean the kitchen.