Snow, Stress, and Forever Sharp Knives

Its snowing outside. Real snow. Blizzard-esque snow. Not just the little flakes that have been flying around every couple of days for the past couple of weeks.


Yesterday was the most beautiful Fall day we have experienced this year. It was gorgeous. David and I couldn't help but admire all of the crisp fall colors and watch the leaves whipping around in the wind. I can't believe that yesterday the temperature was in the 60s, and today we wake up to a slushy, snowy day. Oh well, such is the way the weather works here in Logan.


I feel like I have lost my balance in life. My equilibrium is just off a little bit. I think that the stress of all of the changes happening around us have really had a subconscious, yet negative, effect on me. I have lost several important papers, forgot to pay our rent, over-booked myself (and David), and made a HUGE mistake at work. I really hate to be flaky, and I HATE when I make mistakes at work. I realize that it isn't the end of the world. I realize that even just one short year from now my mistakes will be forgotten. I realize that I am a dramatic person and should just chill out. However, realizing these things doesn't do anything to lessen the load I feel every time I do something stupid. Is perfection too much to ask from myself?


When I get loaded with stress, the smallest things can set me off. For example, this weekend I watched the movie Funny Girl while I was finishing my Quiet Book sewing project. It was so sad, and I cried and cried. Even after the movie was over, I cried for almost an hour. I went into the bedroom where David was taking a nap and snuggled up to him while crying my little heart out. He woke up almost immediately and thought that something terrible had happened. When he asked what was wrong, all I could tell him is that I had watched a really sad movie and was really sad about it. I couldn't pin-point something that was "the matter." Really, it was just me needing to release some pent up stress.


Don't worry, I feel much better now.


This weekend was a busy one for us. I had two consultations for wedding announcements, several other wedding announcements that were in various stages of the design process, the Quiet Book project to complete, a wonderful visit from my sister-in-law Amy, and a trip to Rexburg to watch my little sister compete in the "Battle of the Dance" at BYU-I. Although it was busy, it was a wonderful weekend and I enjoyed almost every moment of it! It was great to have Amy up visiting, and great to see my family. (Everyone drove up to Rexburg to see Jenna compete.)


I wish that I had pictures, but I don't. Because I'm lame. Oh well.


Do you realize that this is the second post in a row with no pictures? I am really sorry about that. I like to include pictures with my posts. Unfortunately, this post is so incredibly random that I can't even think of any pictures to include.  Hmmmm...


How about this:

This is of Jenna and I sometime last year. I just stole this from her facebook. She really did such a great job at the Battle of the Dances! She is on a Big Band Swing team, and she was darling. I wish I could be more like her in all areas of my life. 

Another one of us, just so you can see how we have changed over the last year. :)

This is one of my favorite wedding pictures. A little different than most, but I adore it.

This is volume 1 of the book on CD that David and I are listening to right now. We are on the 5th and final volume. It is excellent and we are going to be really sad when it is over! Orson Scott Card is my favorite author, hands down. I have read almost all of his books, and now have to ration myself to only one of his books when I go to the library. It's nice to know that I will always really enjoy at least one book that I check out, because I always enjoy his books! Now if the stubborn man would stop starting new series's and just finish the ones that he has already started!

These Stuffed Pizza Rolls from HERE are amazing. We had them for lunch on Saturday, and we will definitely be making them again. However, next time I'm not going to be afraid to over-fill my pizza rolls. I thought that the filling would spill out if we put too much in, but they could have used a little more filling. 

 This is a set of "Forever Sharp" Kitchen Knives. You may wonder why it is being included in this blog post. There are several reasons actually. One reason is that this has turned into an incredibly random post and there isn't much I could do to make it more random than adding a set of Kitchen Knives at the bottom of the post. Reason two is that I got suckered into buying these knives at Sams Club today. Darn that incredibly persuasive Infomercial Man! His demonstration was incredibly convincing. The best part? David was with me, and was convinced as well! (Although, I think that he is entertaining thoughts of taking them back to Sams Club later this week.) I am such a sucker. I think that it's because I have been a salesperson for so many different things that I am much more susceptible to buying something. I've bought several things over the years including a yearly subscription to a newspaper that I hadn't ever read, and only read once after it started showing up on our doorstep. (My roommates and I just designated a drawer in our kitchen to be the newspaper drawer.)  I will be the lady that all of the kids come to with their fund-raising catelogs, pies, and projects. I can't help it!  

 I feel much better about the addition of pictures to this incredibly random post. 

Oh, and just for the record... it isn't snowing anymore. It's slushing.

Tis the Season

Tis the Season for...

-giving dirty looks to anyone who dares to listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving.

-wishing that the break between allergy season and snow was a little longer.

-pulling down all of the black and orange decorations, and getting excited about the browns and reds of Thanksgiving.

-sneakily asking questions about what people like and dislike to get a good list for what they want for Christmas. (There is a moral difference between preparing for Christmas shopping, and full out Premature Christmas Cheer.)

-Wedding Announcements! (I am currently working with six different couples on Wedding Announcement designs. Wowza!)

-not knowing when to wear a t-shirt, a jacket, or a heavy winter coat.

-eating lots of soup and hot chocolate.  

-going out of my way to step on an especially crunchy leaf.

-cuddling up with a good book and my handsome husband on the couch. 

-wanting to drive through the canyon just to look at the colors of the leaves

-trying harder to recognize things I am thankful for.

-FOOTBALL. (This submission is from Wendy. I can't believe that I forgot to add this to my list. *sigh* It's too bad she cheers for the wrong team.)

 

What part of this season is your favorite? 

Halloween 2010

*sigh*

Have I told you how much I love Halloween?

I really really love Halloween.

In fact, I am tempted to put one of these Halloween countdowns on my blog. Only 364 more days!

For Halloween this year, David and I dressed up as MAC and PC. It was brilliant.

(Thanks to Rebecca for the fantastic idea!)

For those who haven't seen the "I'm a MAC/I'm a PC" commercials... please watch these now:

Really. Watch all of them. They get funnier as you go along.


We were able to pull off all sorts of great quotes from the commercials throughout from the night. We would hold hands and tell people that we were "communicating." David had a great time showing people his Family Vacation Pie Chart. He even had a meltdown when I told him that I have been running Microsoft Office for years.

It was fun.


Here are a few more pictures:

Please excuse the fact that I look homeless. I was going for "chill".


Here are some other things that I loved this Halloween:

Our Awesome Pumpkin
(Now do you get it? I'm a MAC, I'm a PC?)

Getting to hold my cute niece, Olivia.

Posing for the camera with Avarie and Olivia, our nieces from Las Vegas. They were so cute! Avarie was a witch and Olivia was her black cat. I love it.

Making cute Halloween treats.

Tell me that you don't adore these cupcakes.

You can't do it, can you? I know. The cutest owl cupcakes you have ever seen!

Decorating for a Halloween/Welcome home party with my friend Megan.

Megan and Kyle. Kyle has been gone in the military for about 8 months. It was so great to see him and Megan is SO excited to have him home.


Also, here are a few pictures of our apartment. We didn't actually get out our Halloween decorations because we were just so busy that we didn't have any time. However, I still found a few ways to dress up our apartment for the holiday!

The wreath on our front door.

Our Front Door. At night. Because that is what time it was when I started writing this blog and I realized that I didn't have any pictures of our Halloween decorations. Bear with me.

Our porch. Isn't it cute? I'm going to miss it!

A cute little printable that I stuck in a picture frame by our TV.

This is the adorable Halloween sign that my sweet sisters-in-law, Amy and Wendy, made for me for my birthday. I LOVE IT! They know how much I love Halloween and they got together to put this together for me. It was the perfect size to fit on our little coffee table, and it looked really cool with a layer of black tulle underneath.

I wanted you to be able to see the black candles and this spell book that were sitting behind the halloween sign. Those candles are actually red. I bought them last year for Halloween and never got around to spray painting them until this Halloween. Maybe next year I will get around to burning them so that the red wax drips down the black paint. Baby steps.

This is "The Crafty Witch's Enchanted Book of Spells, Potions, and Everything Magical."

I love it.

I hope that you all had a Happy Halloween! Remember only 364 more days!