This year is going to be very different for us during the holidays. Since i am working at the hyatt i don't get off the holidays very easily. During Thanksgiving we went to mary's house which was a lot of fun! Thanksgiving isn't really that big of a deal as a holiday for me but it was really nice to spend it around a lot of people.
Christmas is going to be interesting this year. It will be my first year where it is just me and tim. Kinda sad but because of work i guess its ok. Me and tim will be going to my house in folsom on the 26th and my family is waiting a day for me and tim to celebrate Christmas! We are very lucky!! I love Christmas and i am a little sad that i won't be able to spend more time around my family because i think the best part about Christmas is all the time leading up to Christmas. The anticipation is GREAT, as well as all of the pre-festivities!!
11.30.2008
11.21.2008
turkey
We got a trukey from the hyatt, yep a free turkey, i guess every year they hand them out to there employees, weird but nice. I have never cooked a turkey and i don't really want to but this year eventhough me and tim aren't even having a thanksgiving in our appartment we are going to cook a turkey. Well i should say tim is going to try and cook a turkey. It will be very interesting and i will be posting pictures, if anyone had any adivce please let us know!!
I kinda wish we had that turkey fryer that is just sitting in tim's moms garage. Do work.
I kinda wish we had that turkey fryer that is just sitting in tim's moms garage. Do work.
11.18.2008
Books
At my job sometimes it can kind of get boring. I just answer the phones and direct the calls, there is a lot of down time. Since we are not really allowed to go online i decided that i should start reading books. When i went home i borrowed about 17 books from my family. I have read 6, and already i have read some really good books. the first book was glass castle written by jeannette walls. It was her biography about how her family moved around a lot and her parents became homeless in new york city.
Next was from the corner of his eye written by dean koontz which was a thriller (i think that's a good category to call it but i'm not sure) it was spooky because the main bad guy was extremely evil. Then, love walked in written by marisa de los santos which was a love story of course. It made me want to have a baby. the shack written by william p. young which was a creative story about God. It was really interesting and definitely thought provoking. So far my favorite has been forgive me by amanda eyre ward. I really enjoyed this book. It talked about the history in Africa. I really enjoyed it! The book i just finished is the wednesday letters written by jason f. wright. It was a great love story mostly about a funeral but with a happy ending.
I have learned that my favorite kind of book is a book that talks about true events mixed with a fictional story. I like learning new things as i am reading, like in the book angels and demons. I also like books that are about 200-300 pages because sometimes i lose interest in books. I just have a short attention span. I have lots of books to go but i am really excited that i have the time to read these books!
Next was from the corner of his eye written by dean koontz which was a thriller (i think that's a good category to call it but i'm not sure) it was spooky because the main bad guy was extremely evil. Then, love walked in written by marisa de los santos which was a love story of course. It made me want to have a baby. the shack written by william p. young which was a creative story about God. It was really interesting and definitely thought provoking. So far my favorite has been forgive me by amanda eyre ward. I really enjoyed this book. It talked about the history in Africa. I really enjoyed it! The book i just finished is the wednesday letters written by jason f. wright. It was a great love story mostly about a funeral but with a happy ending.
I have learned that my favorite kind of book is a book that talks about true events mixed with a fictional story. I like learning new things as i am reading, like in the book angels and demons. I also like books that are about 200-300 pages because sometimes i lose interest in books. I just have a short attention span. I have lots of books to go but i am really excited that i have the time to read these books!
11.15.2008
Pony
I love fish! I have always had a fish to take care of since high school. One time mary and I were at wal-mart and randomly decided to buy goldfish, mine stayed alive for about 3 years! Crazy I know.
We went to Sacramento a couple weeks ago for jessica's suprise party, which was amazingly fun! I am still dreaming about cotton candy, mm I can taste it in my mouth. Um...anyway, at the party we won 2 goldfish in the game where you have to toss ping pong balls in the little bowls. Basically it's one of those games that looks a lot easier than it really is, of course. I know that's not a great description but if you have ever been to a fair or carnival you probably know what i am talking about. It is a really hard game and me and tim were throwing ping pong balls forever just seeing if we could make it in. Finally tim made one in! We didn't really care about winning the fish but who could resist a goldfish, honestly who? It was pretty fun throwing the ping pong balls and a couple minutes later i made one in and it went right into the bowl with the actual fish in it, haha. Definitely not the objective but funny none the less. Since no one really wanted the left over fish me and tim took home 3 goldfish. This is when i found out that tim has never had a fish. I was shocked because i just thought everyone has at least experience some type of fish growing up, apparently i was wrong. So the fish became tims responsibilty it is just something he should experience. I also let him name the fish. He named them Sweet Moves, Hot Shot, and Pony. Odd names i know but he really wanted to name them all Pony so these are a step up. About three days after we brought the fish home Pony died. So we now have two fish and i think they are making tim wish he had a dog. Oh well.
We went to Sacramento a couple weeks ago for jessica's suprise party, which was amazingly fun! I am still dreaming about cotton candy, mm I can taste it in my mouth. Um...anyway, at the party we won 2 goldfish in the game where you have to toss ping pong balls in the little bowls. Basically it's one of those games that looks a lot easier than it really is, of course. I know that's not a great description but if you have ever been to a fair or carnival you probably know what i am talking about. It is a really hard game and me and tim were throwing ping pong balls forever just seeing if we could make it in. Finally tim made one in! We didn't really care about winning the fish but who could resist a goldfish, honestly who? It was pretty fun throwing the ping pong balls and a couple minutes later i made one in and it went right into the bowl with the actual fish in it, haha. Definitely not the objective but funny none the less. Since no one really wanted the left over fish me and tim took home 3 goldfish. This is when i found out that tim has never had a fish. I was shocked because i just thought everyone has at least experience some type of fish growing up, apparently i was wrong. So the fish became tims responsibilty it is just something he should experience. I also let him name the fish. He named them Sweet Moves, Hot Shot, and Pony. Odd names i know but he really wanted to name them all Pony so these are a step up. About three days after we brought the fish home Pony died. So we now have two fish and i think they are making tim wish he had a dog. Oh well.
9.20.2008
New places
It has been so long since I have written anything for our blog and I just wanted to take a second and apoligize for how long it has taken me to write something new.
Right away i started looking for a job because unlike tim, who is going to school in fullerton, i really have nothing else to do. I really wanted to work for disney because i think that they are a great company and they also give great benefits, but unfortunetly they weren't hiring at all and i was really sad. After disney was a dead end i started looking pretty much everywhere else. I had an interview with hyatt to be the operator, which i have done before at BYU-Idaho. I was offered the job and i am really excited because i get great discounts and it is a really easy job!! It is the hyatt at huntington beach, which means it is right across the street from the beach and has an amazing view!! I like it so far but i have only been working for 2 weeks.
It has been 1 month now that we have moved to southern california and lots has happend!! First we had to drive from baltimore to southern califrornia. Luckily we were able to stop in kansas city, to see tim's dad. We also stopped in salt lake city, to see tim's mom. The stops really made it a lot easier, i was dreading the drive and writting this now is making me remember how awful of a drive it was!! I hate being in a car for so long.
Once we finally got to southern california we drove to our apartment which we had never seen. Mary checked out our apartment for us since we were so far away. I was so glad that she was able to do that!! We really didn't have much to move into our apartment because we were lacking a couch, a bed, a table, and a fridge. It was a really bare apartment for a really long time. Luckily we found a good deal on a couch and a bed so we only had to sleep on an air matress for about a week. We eventually found a fridge on craigs list, its in really good shape and a really good deal; we were glad to finally be able to go grocery shopping. It was a slow process but our apartment finally looks like a real apartment. It made a huge difference.
Right away i started looking for a job because unlike tim, who is going to school in fullerton, i really have nothing else to do. I really wanted to work for disney because i think that they are a great company and they also give great benefits, but unfortunetly they weren't hiring at all and i was really sad. After disney was a dead end i started looking pretty much everywhere else. I had an interview with hyatt to be the operator, which i have done before at BYU-Idaho. I was offered the job and i am really excited because i get great discounts and it is a really easy job!! It is the hyatt at huntington beach, which means it is right across the street from the beach and has an amazing view!! I like it so far but i have only been working for 2 weeks.
Since we have been in southern california we have been to the beach lots and we also went to this hot dog place called pinks. It was on food network because it sells really popular hot dogs and it has been around for a really long time. A lot of their hot dog selections are odd but i think that is what makes them so popular, we waited in a really long line but it was really good!
That is pretty much all that is going on right now. Well the major things at least, i think i have filled in the gaps for the last month or so.
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