Sometimes it's hard to be married to me...

and sometimes it totally rocks. All in all I hope it evens out for Jeff. I have felt a bit bad for Jeff recently as some of my comments on a non-relief society sponsored site, (yup, no matter what someone may say to make themselves look better, it was never set up as a relief society web site.) has riled many in the ward. Not that I should know that cause no one has actually said something to me and start a discussion, they all prefer to tattle to the Relief Society Presidency and have the comments deleted in an Iranian move of censorship.

ANYWAY, I mentioned to Jeff that I felt sorry for the tension he had to feel on Sunday. He reminded me that he didn't notice anything cause this ward totally ignores him anyway so he was just worried for me. He is so supportive.

But yesterday I totally rocked. Jeff and I had arranged to take Max to Toy Story 3. Jeff got off work early and I arranged babysitting for Mae and we went to the 4:50 showing. Only despite what it said online, this time had been moved back an hour for this day only to accommodate the midnight showing of twilight. Whatever, except that what to do now.I asked the teenage attendant to just charge me the matinee price to the 6:15 showing. She blinked, then told me she couldn't do that. I asked for the manager. I explained to her that this put me in a difficult position babysitting wise and it helped that Max was almost in tears confused as to why we weren't going in. So I nicely, yes I can be nice, asked her what she could do for us to keep us from going to the Malco for now on. Well she gave us free tickets!!! And now I will think twice before going to the Malco, even though it is cleaner, and has stadium seating, and you can't hear the movie in the other theater.

We went and got super yummy deep dish pizza with the money we "saved." Special shout out to Meg for watching Mae even with the delay. I liked the film, not as much as number 2, but still a lot. I mean it had a Totoro cameo for peet' sake! Poor Jeff, I'm like totally screaming Totoro Totoro! in the theater.

Fear

So I try very hard to overcome my fears. There are many things in life I can't control but some things I can. I am afraid of deep dark water. I really don't see any cruises in my future. I often have dreams about being adrift in the Fort battle scene in the Pirates of The Caribbean RIDE at Disneyland. It's dark and I am usually in a small boat or box. I usually try to swim in the deep end of a pool to get over this fear, but it isn't working yet. Now one of the other fears I have is putting out a candle with my fingers. I have seen people extinguish candles often by snuffing the fire in their fingers. This idea totally freaks me out and I just don't think I will ever overcome this one. Now you may all be thinking, this is so stupid and trivial. Well it is, but I feel like stupid and trivial right now. Really isn't that what blogs are for? What small or big thing do you fear? Can you snuff a candle with your fingers?

It Was Gonna Happen Eventually

So I'm in the bedroom with Max and and Mae folding laundry. Max took a basket of clean clothes and dumped them on the floor right in front of me laughing maniacally. I told him I wasn't happy with this incident and he looked me in the face and said, "Mae did it."

B&D Farewell Party

So with the end of the school year came the end of my babysitting gig. We were very sad for this time to end. The kids and I adored them and I think they liked us too. To send them off in style, I took Max and the boys to the animal safari. If you ever have the chance to go to an animal safari, you really should it is a really cool experience. The boys were disappointed that the monkey didn't climb on our car, but in the back of my mind I was thinking, "does my insurance cover monkey?"

Looking Out For His Sister

The Kids and I were driving to the pool yesterday when I made a sharp right turn because some dirtbag was on my tail. (This was onto Kingsland, for the local readers.) As I proceed to go up this very steep hill I hear Max call out from the back, "OH NO MAE!" That can't be good. I turn around and see that the seatbelt, while on, had not locked during the turn and Mae's car seat was turned on its side. Due to the hill, the turns, and the dirtbag still on my tail, there wasn't much I could do in that instant. I then hear Max again, "It's okay Mae, I'll hold your hand, you're okay." HEART MELT. What a guy.

Sunshine in June

So, this hasn't been monthly as planned, but hey, periodically is better then never. Happy Father's Day Dad. My father is an superb father. It seems fitting that I am having a difficult time coming up with the right words for a man of few words. When I was a kid it was clear that I was a momma's girl, or more then that, I was just a baby who needed the apron strings cut. I am pretty sure my family would be happy to go the rest of their lives without hearing me call out MAOOOMMM. But dad has always been a favorite person. I knew that I could always turn to him for spiritual guidance. To this day I have a special fondness for the story of Joseph in Israel, since that is the first lesson my dad gave as my CTR A teacher. My favorite memory of my dad comes from my early years. I was coloring and I asked my dad to draw a picture of me, he obliged and drew me, but he drew me with a mustache! Oh this made me so mad! Around the fourth grade I got it into my head that my dad was sad he never had a son, so I tried to get into football, basketball, and baseball. Luckily my dad could have cared less about having a son. He never made us feel like disappointments. He sure does love having grandsons though. It was easy to pick a middle name for Max, cause me dad is such an excellent example and role model for him. He has a special greeting for them on the phone. You can always tell when it is him on the phone cause you can hear this HELLOOOO MAAAAX coming out of the receiver. We talk to him all the time and I find myself always getting the best advice from him. He helped me solve my dog problem, so that there is enough to qualify him for sainthood in my book. I do hate shopping for my dad though. I love my dad, but I NEVER know what to get him. I do believe the hardest years of my life are when he worked for Hastings Video cause that took all books, music, and video's out of the running. Actually things weren't much better when he then went to work for Lowes. My mother has made it quite clear that I am forbidden from ever buying him a tie. But that's okay cause she does do a good job. My dad's Sunday gettup is always class act all the way. My mom is sooooo easy to shop for, but my dad is super hard. He always answers "Socks and Underware" when you ask him what he wants. How am I supposed to work with that? There is one thing I know he wants and as soon as I win Powerball I am buying my dad a Honda Shadow Motorcycle. I Love my Dad.

Favorites

Well long story short, facebook and I have different ideas about privacy and other things, so my info pages on facebook are pretty bare. Therefore I have decided to take a few min. and post my favorites here. Cause I can, and I wanted to post something happy.

Favorite Movies: Dan in Real Life, The Blues Brothers, Mulan, Desk Set, Woman of the Year, Jane Eyre, Darby O' Gil and the Little People

Favorite TV: DARIA, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Burn Notice, Roseanne

Favorite Books: The Thursday Next Series, Howl's Moving Castle, Lighten Up, A Room With a View

Favorite Stores: Banana Republic, Anthropologie, William Sonoma, Gymboree, the Walmart Associate Store.

Favorite Music: U2, Dixie Chicks, Alanis Morisette, No Doubt, really most anything on the radio

Favortie Activities: hanging with friends and family, singing in Primary, dying my hair or painting my nails.

Favorite Websites: Well the ones linked on here of course, and the stores listed on here. I also like entertainment weekly's, sister share, and the New York Times. I also read the Desert News..I don't know why, but I do.

Hobbies: Baking, gardening, reading, organizing, decorating

Vices: swearing, over eating, gossiping

Sign: Taurus the bull

Left handed

MISC: I follow College football, it got started when I was in college and I just kept it up.

I just recently stopped watching the Young and the Restless after almost 20 years of viewing, I realized that I really hated all the people on there.

I don't buy the forever stamps because there is something so special about the other ones.

I don't usually get sad or depressed I just get mad. I am frequently angry.

I am always tired.

Mae's room is my favorite room in the house.

I frequently daydream about winning the lottery. I have very detailed plans about what I will do depending upon how much money I win. One of my favorite ideas being that if I win big, like over 200 million big, donating money to BYU to turn the Y lot by the Law Library into a parking garage for undergrads. I would have them name it after my mom, cause she graduated from there, and I don't feel that they have enough buildings named after women. So if you have any requests then I suggest you submit them now in the comments section so that when I do win you won't seem like money-grubbers.