Spring Downer

So. Do you remember that FABULOUS weather I was talking about earlier? Where I talked about the daffodils and sunshine and spring? Well, this is what I woke up to 2 days later.....
I know. You're thinking...."It doesn't look like anything." Right? Well this is what it looks like AFTER all that white mist (Clouds) lifts.....
Yes. There was a big huge mountain behind that white blob. And it was covered in snow. I was grinding my teeth when I woke up and saw that. And all while I was sick too. It sucked. AND...the poor daffodils right outside my door were all buried in snow. I think I'll post pics of them later.

Pat keeps asking me if winter is over yet and I just keep tellin' him that it snows her clear until the end of April. So yay us. It is beautiful though isn't it?

My Hunnybump

What is his name? Patrick

How long have you been together? As of April 7, 2009.....10 months

How long did you date? 3 months

How old is he? 24

Who eats more? Sometimes I feel like I do, but he snacks all day.

Who said I love you first? He did....technically. It was more in the form of, "What would you do if I told you I loved you?" I think this was about a month and a half into dating.

Who is taller? He is... by 3/4 of an inch.

Who can sing better? He can. Definitely. But he keeps telling me that I have a beautiful voice....so.....????

Who is smarter? Hmmmm....it's a tie. But sometimes I say some pretty retarded things. Of course, sometimes he DOES some pretty retarded things.

Who does the laundry? I do. But he'll help me sometimes if I have to do something else.

Who pays the bills? We both do. I just make more money right now.

Who sleeps on the right side? He does. I like to cuddle and made him switch for a night to see what would happen. He hasn't slept on the left side since.

Who mows the lawn? We live in an apartment. The maintenance guys I guess.

Who cooks dinner? We help each other out most of the time.

Who drives? Me. Occasionally I don't feel like driving so I make him, but I can't stand his California driving.

Who is more stubborn? Me.

Who kissed who first? I kissed him. It was his first time too.

Who asked who out first? I did. It was more to hang out than date. He asked me on our first date.

Who proposed? Well. I'd like to think I did first. I told him a month before he actually proposed that I loved him, he was the one, and that he'd better propose because I wasn't going to. Then he proposed.

Who has more friends? Friends? What friends? We are full time students. We barely have time for each other.

Who is more sensitive? Tie. But I'm more emotional.

Who has more siblings? Him. We both have 3 siblings-him 3 brothers, me 3 sisters. But he has step and adopted siblings.

Who wears the pants? He does. But we pretty much decide everything together.

Sick=No Fun

So I've been sick for the past 3 days. Vomiting, headaches, nausea, etc. I thought I was pregnant for a second. Not that I don't use birth control, but you never know...Anyway, I took a pregnancy test and no baby. So I think I may have the flu. Which blows. Royally. I was stuck home on Wednesday vomiting and couldn't go to work. Then yesterday I had this headache that hurt so bad and wouldn't go away. I finally begged Pat to take me to the store to get Excedrin. I don't usually take anything stronger than Midol and I couldn't see very well so he had to drive. Today, I'm dealing with a sinus infection and nausea...again. Yay me.

I had this epiphany yesterday too. I have decided not to put off going to law school. I have been working as a paralegal for a few months now and have come to realize that, even with all of my knowledge and a Bachelor's Degree, I would still and forever just be a glorified secretary/assistant. I am not going to school to be a secretary for the rest of my life. I honestly thought I could be happy. I love the law and logic and form but I can't take not having control and authority. I have come to learn that I have inherited the trait that makes me want to be my own boss from my parents. My dad is an entepreneur and my mother is a lawyer. I'm not saying I have a problem with others' authority over me, I can be a team player. I've just decided that I have to have my own authority. So I have decided to go to law school next year.

My mom says the hardest part is getting in, but once you're in it's all about "just passing". My motto with school is basically that. "As long as I pass." Now I just have to worry about getting a REALLY good score on my LSAT and raising my GPA a little bit higher. I am looking into classes for the LSAT I plan to take in June. Yikes! I so don't know how I'll manage that with all the classes I'm taking this summer and it's freakin' expensive. Then comes the applying to law schools phase. Which costs an arm and a leg as well. Then there's the wait. I really am going to hope, pray, and fast that I get into BYU. The only catch to all of MY plans are Pat's plans. I still don't know what school he plans to go to for his Master's. He'll graduate this December, like me, and then start on his Master's Degree next year too.

I feel so bummed out because I was really looking forward to getting a job, working, and having kids and now, I just don't see that happening for a couple more years. It's extremely hard to know this because I have no patience. I'm not lying. NONE. At all. To make matters worse, we're in a YOUNG family ward where everyone is constantly having a baby or getting pregnant or buying a house AND all of the aforementioned. I hate waiting. Remember, NOT PATIENT. I told Pat that it's like having a truffle in my hand and not being able to eat it. It's something I want really bad, have the ability to get/have, and yet can't. It pisses me off.

Yoga with my Hubby

Right...so, this past Saturday me and Pat did yoga. Pat for the first time...EVER, and me for the first time in 6 years. I decided to start again because I LOVE yoga. Not pilates and not the stringent/super-aerobic kind. I do the Vinyasa flow series. It focuses more on poses and is slow and calming. The dvd that I have, Yoga Conditioning For Weight Loss, has four different people on the screen at different difficulties of all the poses so you can go from beginner to advanced.

It was so sad to do it and watch the advanced chick and think, "I used to be able to do that."Tear:( Pat, because he's amazing and is always so supportive, decided to be my yoga buddy. Talk a bout a couples activity. We had fun and felt pretty good afterward. I started doing yoga again because I'm also going on a diet. I have decided to do the Nutrisystem diet again. I did it in October and lost 15lbs...without exercise. It was AWESOME! So I have decide to finally lose the 80 extra pounds I've been carrying around for the past 5 years. Yeah. I weigh 230. My mom is always asking me why I tell people how much I weigh. You know, I figure I look fat so why play games with people and insult their intelligence? I'm okay with who I am on the inside and that's top on my list. Being okay with myself physically is icing on the cake. I suppose I also feel that, with me being only 23 and all, I shouldn't be like this. I'm young for crying out loud. I want to look it. Seriously, I get people all the time guessing I'm thirty+. It is kinda irritating.

So this is my goal. To lose 80lbs by September. I can't stand to be this weight much longer. I'll post pics when I take them of the "BEGINNING". I think I'll keep track of it all on a seperate blog. Maybe. I hear one blog is hard enough to maintain. We'll see. Here's to my babe. I love you you nudie man!

Spring!

You know, it's always a great sign that the end is in sight when you walk out of your door and there are daffodils blooming. The end of winter that is.

I am so ready to be done with winter right now. No more worrying if my truck will start, scraping my windows, warming my truck up a half hour before I leave ANYWHERE, DRIVING WITH RETARDED UTAH PEOPLE!!!, etc...This list could go on. I'm so happy to see the daffodils blooming. They're so vibrant and happy. I think the yellow has a little something to do with this. BUT...it also means warm weather is so close. I so want to see a temperature high of 80. I might actually break a sweat.

It also means, unfortunately, that I have to watch all the lovely spring and summer days go by without relishing them and golfing. So sad. Oh well, that's what school does to a person. I can't wait until I'm done.

Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying their spring wherever they are.

GOLFING!!!

Yesterday, I had scheduled a tee time to go golfing at the golf course right next to my office building. Our firm, well whole building really, gets to golf there for free. Everything is for free. Which is music to my ears being a starving student and all. So me and Pat had a tee time for 3:20P. It was such a nice day out too. We get there and Pat rents a set of clubs because he golfs left handed. He's ambidextrous. Then we were off to the first whole. Pat couldn't figure out how to use his drivers. I tried to give him instruction. After about 10 minutes, another group comes along and asks if they can play through. We said sure. We waited about 15 minutes for them to make the green and then Pat tried again. Another ten minutes passed and another group came by and asked to play through. Again, we said sure. It continued like this until 4 groups had passed us. It made me want to hurry and really frustrated Pat, especially since it was his first time. We eventually made it to the third hole only to be approached by a group of 4 high school aged boys who asked if they could play through as well. I think that was the breaking point for Pat. After that he tried his hardest to hit his balls and with him being a lefty, it was a little difficult to give him instruction. But I did try. We stayed on the last groups butt the entire time. We enjoyed the scenery and the slopes. There was one hole that took us down the side of a mountain. It was pretty neat and I was so glad we had a cart. Anyway, we eventually made it to hole 8, after skipping hole 7 and had to wait for the 4th group that had passed us to tee off. They took forever. I think the drive to be done and go home was definitely a motivating factor. So we waited and then teed off. About half way down the fairway the high school boys drove up and notified us that we had skipped hole 7. We kindly informed them back that we knew, we were sucking, and that we were fine with that. They chuckled and went back to the tees. We got really good towards the end and were very proud of ourselves for making through all nine holes. We got home after that and were so dead tired. We just laughed, ate dinner, and laid down. That was pretty much the highlight of my afternoon. Yep.

Boredom

My Spring Break is this week. However, BYU doesn't have a Spring Break, so my husband can't get off school to do anything with me. I am basically working and coming home and doing nothing. Well, me and him do play the occasional game of Skip Bo, but nothing too exciting.Last night, I was actually so bored that I persuaded Pat to let me straighten his hair. He was so cute and willing. He even let me put some straightening creme in his hair. So I straightened half of his head and we both decided that 1) he looked really weird and 2) he wouldn't look good with straight hair. After I was done straightening his hair he was so typically male and himself when he asked in a very worried/serious tone, "Will it go back to normal or is my hair going to stay this way?" I had to laugh at him. I couldn't help it. I love love love this guy. I told him that his hair would return to its normal curliness when he got it wet again and he immediately jumped in the shower to wet his hair. As I was watching him stand there in the water with his head dunked in the shower's stream for like 5 minutes, he asks, "Is it okay now?" I can't believe the man I married. Always so concerned with how he looks. Jeesh! ;)! He is so freakin' adorable.
What do you think???