What do I do?

It's about quarter to three and I am still in my jammies and haven't showered. Really what do I do all day? Well today I played around with Photoshop CS4. Nothing really different from regular photoshop.
Here are some samples.

This is Ebony Ashley's dog. Harley's new bff.


A cool sunset.


My little sunbather.

I thought this would make a cool picture.

Sanford in the House!!

So Kelly is downstairs drilling holes in my walls and here I am bored again. So I update this blog.
I get this call from my sister in Sanford. She was a little upset because I didn't list her in my top ten of 2008. I remember I gave her grief on her blog because she did a whole thing to her friend Michelle and I got a small mention on another post.
I am not having that. So Cyndi, you asked for a post. here ya go.
Cyndi was the one just before me. Second to last. Bummer for her cause I got all the attention, it took me 20 years to finally admit it. She would tease me and make fun of me all the time, lock me out of our room. I got sick of her being mean to me all the time so one time I hit her on the knee with her own clog. HA.
But as we grew up we became friends, the best of. We started hanging out more and doing sisterly things, whatever those were. She would send me fun cards and notes when I moved to Logan. I know I can always call her to just talk or vent. Then she married some cowboy from our neighboring state and he whisked (more like bound and gagged her) off to Sanford. I miss her tons actually!!
Most pictures are cute and some I know she will get mad at me for. But she asked for a tribute :)
Love ya bootsie!!
P.S. To anyone else who wants a tribute I have plenty of pictures, except if I don't have your picture. Also to other sisters reading this, your time will come!!

January

It's been a month since I last posted. Still have no job. Don't worry I fill my days with msn chat, craigslist and the library. That's right. Kelly and I went to the South Jordan library and got cards. Can I tell you it's heaven in there? Sadly all the books on my list were in the teen fiction is that sad or what? Twilight has ruined me forever!!!
I finally filed for unemployment and am looking forward to my first check. I don't really have any job prospects, but don't fret I am searching hard. It's just a different economy out there than it was last time I was unemployed. I am trying to keep my chin up and do the best that I can.
So in tradition of New Years and all, it's hard to look back on the year when you are exactly where you were a year ago, but I will attempt to sum it up for you all.

Top Ten of 2008!!
10. All of my family here for Christmas. Crazy and fun
9. Kelly and I turned 25: it's all down hill from here.
8. Running a half marathon. It's 10 more miles than I ever thought I could run.
7. Moving out of the Granite 6th ward for the 2nd time in my life
6. Finally going to a Jimmy Eat World concert.
5. Beating songs at expert level on Guitar Hero, that's right expert!
4. Doing lots of fun stuff with friends but never bringing a camera to document them.
3. Realizing that growing up isn't as fun as I thought it would be.
2. Kelly going back to school
1. Buying a house.

As always some pics from 2008, not that many this year. I did take pictures from christmas but just haven't uploaded them, oh well.

Networking

Merry Christmas, you're fired!!

I wish it had gone that way. I wish they would have yelled at me and told me what a horrible job I was doing. But instead they thanked me for my hard work and dilligence, but times are tight right now and that I will be "let go" at the end of the month. It took everything I had not to cry in front of my boss and the president of the company. I was shocked, just last week I was told I had a long future with the company. I suppose that was a little to opptimistic of a view. But I was not the only one who was "let go."
I have had many thoughts run through my head today. Certainly one has been that of humbleness. I am grateful for Heavenly Father for looking out for me. I am glad I lost my job now and not when we have a baby to take care of. Harley certainly is a handful, but I think she will be ok with the cheaper dog food. I can't believe how much I have come to rely on a job to get me through life. Yes it is a means to supporting oneself, but it does not define who a person is. I am afraid that I let having a job define me. I was so happy, things were really going well for Kelly and I. But this is just a part of life and I mustn't let this get me down. It is a hard task not to blame the owners of the company and become bitter about the whole thing. Or even to hate the people who still have a job. I guess I am feeling a little unimportant. Obviously my job wasn't that important to the company.
We think we have life all figured out, planned to a T, but I didn't take into account the plan Heavenly Father has in store for me. A realization came to me that life isn't just about us, it is so much more. I am hoping there is a better job out there for me and this is but a trial of my faith. Worse things could have happened. I am grateful that I am only losing my job. God knows what I can handle and what I can't. Even though I think I can't handle this and have a nervous breakdown while driving home, He still made sure I got home safe. There is something great out there for me and this is just a giant shove in that direction.
So I am swallowing my pride and asking for help. At first I wasn't going to tell anyone about this event, but I decided that life is too short to suffer through it alone. So I need help. Anyone reading this blog, yes even you random blog stalkers, please rack your brains for any job leads. Anything right now would be awesome. Networking is one of the best tools out there, so don't be shy.
I am truly grateful for your freindship and support.

A Twist

So I noticed on one of my friend's blogs I got tagged to do the go to this folder pick this picture. Well the other day I found a box of all my pictures from the good old days. For this tag I put a little twist on it. Instead of my digital pictures, I closed my eyes and just picked a random picture out. I will admit, I didn't like it, so I did it again and found this little number. Yes, Sarah it is more embarrassing of me than you, but remember how we never won our Y.W. basketball games and I think this game we won or something? So we had to take a picture to commorate. Don't ask on why we had a camera there. For time reference I was either 16 or 17.
That was kinda fun looking at those 'good old days'. I think my next project will be to scan in all those pictures. Don't worry, I'm sure more gems like this will be popping up.

Yes I know my socks are lame. Whatever.

Two Things

At 4:15 this morning, Kelly and I woke up to the sound of squealing tires and a loud metal crunch. We jump out of bed worried someone had crashed. From the sound of it, I expected to see some 5 car pile up on Bangerter, but everything looked normal. We saw rear lights and went to the other room to get a better look. Everything seemed normal. The paperboy was running back to his car and gets in. The car turns around and stuck under the car is an orange construction marker, the tall skinny one. That's what made all the noise. At first, I was glad no one was hurt, then I was mad because someone didn't see the markers and obviously had to do some severe breaking/swerving. Then I laughed because they are stupid. Then I was mad again because I couldn't go back to sleep.



Number two, does anyone want the game guitar hero? I think Kelly and I have spent a combined total of probably three days straight playing that damn game. It's so addicting and I love it. I'm afraid I might have carpel tunnel. Yikes. Ok, I'm not really giving it away, Kelly would be pretty mad. But is there a better game you could play that much?

Shout out to New London!

That's my sister, the bestest math teacher ever!! (Amy you are too!!)

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