Graduation!

Brad had his graduation last weekend! My parents were in town for it and all of his family was there! It was fun and the sun finally came out after friday's graduation, so us and the parents walked around campus and enjoyed the nice nature walk.

I'm so proud of him! I feel like his graduation ceremonies went faster than mine, but that's probably because I was sitting with family and got to run around being Brad's personal paparrazzi. I just felt bad that he didn't get to sit by any of his friends cause they had assigned alphabetical sitting. Oh well.

Jello!

I opened the cupboard today and saw boxes of jello. One of the boxes had a thing on the back talking about Jello Jigglers. As a kid, my mom made these all the time! And us kids loved them! She would always do the good flavors too, like strawberry and raspberry.

I remember standing next to her as she cut out the shapes, so I could eat the scrap jello. She made dinosaurs for my brother, and eggs at easter. So yummy. Now I want to go by some cookie cutters so I can make my own jello jigglers!

Happy Easter!

Long Days and Gradudation

So I survived my week of working 3 13 hour days. And now that it is Thursday, and officially my weekend, I have to say that I love it. 13 hour days really are not that bad. It did not feel extremely long like I thought it would. Plus, I work with providers who love me and think i'm terrific and Mckenna, who makes me laugh and helps me out a lot. So overall, good. I did get yelled at by some patients, but I also had plenty of patients tell me how cute I am. And I have also discovered Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine meals, which are pretty good. Biggest bonus, is that I avoid all the gossip and bad feelings of the other side of the office.

With all this work change, I have completely lost track of time. I keep thinking that it is still March and catch myself trying to write march on paperwork at work. Then yesterday, Brad reminded me that he is graduating next week! Crap! He hasn't ordered a tassel yet or mailed out announcements! So today I mailed announcements and called a bunch of places online. I found one place that won't make me order a billion tassels. I just hope it gets here soon, cause we kind of need it in 7 days!

But Easter is next week and my parents will be here! I'm so happy! I just love spring and easter, if only the weather would help it to feel like spring.

I saw this craft at Roberts, too bad I missed the class to make it. Oh well.

Work

Work is such an awful name of dread. Maybe if work was called Play it would be more enjoyable, you know, change everyone's outlook or something. The only time I like "work" is when I'm listening to Jimmy Eat World.

Well, on that note, I am changing my work schedule. I have been working 5 8's, which was great when I lived in Provo. But now that I live in Kaysville and drive an hour to get to work, driving to Utah Valley every day sucks. So when my managers proposed the idea of me working 3 13's, I had to say yes. Granted, I'm really worried about getting off at 9ish and driving home. I'm not very good at sitting still and staying awake when I'm tired. Hence why I fall asleep in sacrament meeting, why I fell asleep in early morning seminary, and why I fall asleep in morning meetings.

But this change will hopefully be better for more than just not having to drive so much. Work has been driving me crazy lately. I feel like I am pulling a lot more weight around the office than other people. I run myself ragged trying to get everything done and it wears and stresses me out. To top it all off, what do my fellow employees think of me? That I work hard, but that I do more paperwork stuff and avoid answering the phones and rooming patients. When they told me this I wanted to scream! I am on the phone all day, or rooming patients, and barely have time to get my notes and packets for tomorrow's patients done. I miss lunches trying to get my packets done and all my questions answered. But because my desk is separated from all the other MAs, they seem to not notice everything I do. Apparently when I walk past them to get a patient's chart to room them, they don't notice. Granted, they are all talking together, so who can blame them right? On top of this, there is a ton of drama in the office and I'm sick of it all. I just want to work in peace and for everyone to pull their weight.

So, how does my change in schedule fix this? Well the office is split up, so one side has physical therapy, psychology, and 2 providers who see regular follow-ups, and the other side is the rest of the 6-8 providers. I am going to sit on the PT side with the 2 providers and just help them all day. I like these providers, we get along great, and I will be away from the drama of the other workers. So hopefully it works out great and I can stay awake during my drives. I start Monday and I can't wait, cause even though my desk space is a lot smaller, I think I will be much happier (or so I hope) and not hate my job so much.

So now I just have to get some books on tape and hope that those will help my drive.

We Own a Shark!

So, with me working in Orem and Brad working in West Valley, we needed to get a second car. During Brad's month and a half of no job/school, he looked online for cheap cars to use to drive to work. After much looking, he found an auction in Salt Lake with a bunch of "good" cars. So he bought one. And yes, I was there and did not mention that I hated it, thought it looked like crap...he had just been looking for so long and I wanted to get out of there.

This is the best picture, there is some pain missing. And I just hate Focus'. Well after buying the car, we had to replace the battery and we were told the head gasket may need to be replaced. Great. So Brad decided to sell it. Which he did. By this time, he was working, so we had to carpool. Which meant he had to wake up really early so I could drop him off and hour early and get myself to work barely in time. Not so much fun. So then he looked for a new car. And looked, and looked, and looked. It was pretty much an obsession. Brad always was checking KSL and calling on cars that sold minutes after they were sold. We were starting to think we needed to maybe get a newer car, but then, Brad found this Hyundai Tiburon.

He had almost bought one in high school and has always liked them. So when we went and met up with this cute and very honest hispanic lady, she told us she just replaced a ton of the engine (radiator, hoses, etc.). The car is in good condition, has a nice radio, and she lowered the price for us because we were a young couple.

So now Brad goes thumping down the road in his cute little car. He just has to get used to sitting so low to the ground. I'm just happy we don't have to look for a new car anymore, cause it's a pain (and I really didn't do anything except drive in them).

Not so Clean

I used to think that rain was clean. It would rain and I would think, well good, now the earth will be a little cleaner. I came to a rude awakening the past 2 weeks when I walked outside in the morning to find my car like this:

Nastiness. So much for clean rain. Hopefully it will stay clear enough for me to wash my poor car this weekend.

A Happy Thought

I don't know about everyone else, but this winter has felt like it would never end it's joy tormenting and freezing me and the rest of the world. So I was pretty happy when I walked outside and saw these cute little flowers popping up! Yay!

The tulips are working on budding too! I just love spring! Thank goodness for flowers.