Friday, December 19, 2008

what now?

what am i going to do now that i'm graduated?
as previously, this is what takes up most of my time with the unruly stack of charts on my desk waiting to be dealt with. i have taken a few pictures of my ever-growing stack of charts as proof of my daily insurmountable tasks.
now, if only i could figure out how to load it...maybe i would get some sympathy.

some reading.
i'm so ready to read whatever i feel like.
this shall be one of them.
i {heart} these guys!
cleaning my disgusting house that has been pretty much neglected the last 5 weeks, with only a tidy-up here and there when people come over (which mostly consists of madly throwing things in closets and brushing the crumbs off the counters).

AND, last but not least....
finishing my christmas decorating and actually enjoying the season.
i feel like there is still so much to do....see the lights, watch charlie brown and home alone, and buy and wrap a few more presents.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

i did it!

the day finally came.
poor jd got more than his fair share of:
"i don't even care, i'm quitting right now"
"you sure you don't want to finish for me?"
and
"i don't care if i wasted the last 4 years"
the pictures are a little overkill and repetitive, sorry.

here we are

my mom and rod

allison and baby ham (even though you can't see her)

my dad

the in-laws

me again-

the whole darn thing


lovely flowers i ended up picking out myself because i just wouldn't let jd "be alone" as he claimed

and one more picture that isn't so great, but i wanted someone to see my cute outfit that i stressed so much over and that was covered by my hideous smock looking thing most of the time.

we had a pretty chill day and enjoyed not being at work. we went to the gym, to breakfast and costco with my friend kristen, picked up my cap and gown, made another trip to costco for some last-minute pizza, and then to the graduation. the plan after was to go to cheesecake factory, but it was a 3 hour wait. we ended up at the mandarin and had a great time. yum!

i feel so fabulous being done...except one more project due to a little "conflict" with a female batting-for-the-other-team, tattoo-sleeve-wearing professor who has taken quite a liking to me. yikes.

i don't know what to do with my spare time. if anyone needs some company, you know where i'll be!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

i'm obsessed with

PepPeRmiNt
everything


i currently have all of these...mmm










its beginning to look a lot like christmas

sugar cookies with peppermint icing

christmas tree

it really doesn't look that bare, its just hard to see


and a fabulous present from my lovely friend kristen
anyone up for a good game of office trivia?

Monday, December 1, 2008

last week...

last week was crazy and the 4 day weekend went by WAY too fast.
we spent thanksgiving with jd's grandparents and i made this fabulous pie.
carmel apple cream cheese pie...mmm.
later that night we hunted around at local wal marts for this tv. i told jd i would get him a tv for christmas and the ok was all he needed. he was there at midnight and the first in line for this beauty. he stayed up all night and made friends with the other crazies that were waiting all night. apparently they formed a pact to help each other out, which included jd taking a camera off another pallet for a "teammate" before he was supposed to and almost getting kicked out and wasting 5 hours there. it was all sorts of crazy there with layton police patrolling and telling them to not put the tv's in carts because if you look away someone will take it. when he brought it home and i saw the box, i was SO nervous it wasn't going to fit. we made it with about 1/4" on each side to spare. it's quite a bit bigger than we thought.

my mom and my sisters and i got up to go shopping at about 4:30. we hit walmart with no luck, target, smiths marketplace (solely for the socks), kmart, target again, old navy, and ace harware twice. we definitely came home with more than we intended on buying, of course.
apparently we were already on to christmas because we immediately proceeded to christmas trees and decorations.


friday was 3 years from our first date. i know it sounds kind of cheesy to remember, but let me tell you a little bit about how this happened...
jd was in my english class fall semester of '05. i had noticed him before, but for some reason i'm not into talking to people much in my classes. one night i happened to mention something to ash b. when we were out....something along the lines of "there's this cute guy in my english class, but his last name is kitchen...." (and look what i ended up with!) she happened to know him and a few days later he was at my house. i wanted to hang out with him on thanksgiving so i pretended like i sent out a mass text saying happy thanksgiving so he would write me back....it worked, i'm such a nerd! we hung out for a few weeks with some friends before we dated and i really needed a date to bonus night at my work because my previously planned date didn't work out (thank goodness!) i was talking to my friend brian and told him i wanted to ask jd to go. brian told me i couldn't ask him out first, he had to be the one to do it....i followed brian's advice and ended up taking brian instead (jd and brian are friends mind you). jd has never let me live that down. sure enough, later that night jd asked me what i was doing saturday night...ugh, bonus night. i had to tell him i couldn't go. i felt so terrible i had to tell him no, but luckily he asked me out for another night. he actually called me when i was sitting right next to him in the car...i don't really remember why. we went to temple square to see the lights in the rain, drank hot chocolate and watched so i married an axe murderer. i think we saw each other every day since.
this year, we didn't follow the tradition of the last 2 with temple square. we went to the mandarin, went bowling, and finished off with a bowl of peppermint ice cream and a movie on the new tv.