No Better Way to Spend My Day

Yesterday I had a day of fun planned for my day off. What did I do? I went and spent 2 hours at the dentist getting 4 cavities taken care of. Then, after 3/4 of my mouth was numb, I went and attempted to eat soup for lunch. Lets just say that I felt like a little kid. Then I went and met with a NP at the Diabetes Management clinic to talk about my blood sugar. Finally I picked up hot wings for Brad and drove home. My dentist told me that he was so glad that I would spend my day off with them. Going to the dentist afterall is my favorite activity! (that is dripping in sarcasm).

Well, my mouth was sore after the numbness wore off. And I have a cold. So after eating chili for dinner I got ready for bed. I am an avid flosser. While flossing, I managed to pop off half of my brand new temporary crown. Crap! I quickly pushed it back down and held it there for a while hoping the adhesive would work again. Then, I was plucking my eyebrows (I'm totally addicted to it, like part of my OCD). Well, my hand managed to slip and I jabbed my eye with the tweezers. Luckily that eye had closed in time so it jabbed my eyelid, but my eye still hurt. All in all, a fun day or doctors appointments and beating myself up. Hence why I stayed home today and did very safe activities.

Goodbye Chuck

For those of you who don't know, my favorite show is/was Chuck. And sadly Chuck just ended a few weeks ago. I'm not to happy with NBC for putting an end to this amazing show. If you have never seen Chuck, well that is sad and you totally should. It's funny, has action, romance, and geek. Basically it's about an extremely likable guy named Chuck who I think a lot of people can relate to in some way.

Unfortunately, this last season they moved the episodes to Friday nights. Even more of a lame way to kill off a show. Some Fridays I was home to watch Chuck, other Fridays I had to depend on family to record it. So when Brad and I went to do something with friends the night of the series finale, we came home to find that my worst nightmare (okay, not quite) came true. Chuck was not recorded! I was pretty distraught, especially since NBC also stopped putting the episodes online this season (I seriously hate you NBC).

Well after several days of furiously searching for some way to see how it all ended, and then giving up that I would have to wait until the season came out on DVD, which made me not very happy at all...Brad came to my rescue. With his magic computer tricks, he was able to get the last 2 episodes for me on the computer. It was fantastic! The only thing that would have been more fantastic is if it had ended with a bit more happy closure for me. Sure, they brought back lots of stuff from the first episode/seasons and it kind of came full circle. But come on, we all just want everything to be perfect and happy! Lame. But it did make me cry. In fact, the second to last episode I was a mess. You would have to watch the show to understand. Brad did not watch the episodes with me, he just saw me falling apart and rolled his eyes. It was emotional.

I have since been watching chuck seasons over again. It is methodic to watch it from the beginning cause then I don't feel like it's over. Sad day. I love Chuck. Funny guy and awesome shoes! Moral of the story, don't be gone when your show is on tv and watch Chuck! If you don't have it, I will let you borrow it. It's addicting. I know that I can relate to Chuck cause a lot of times I feel like I'm just like he was in the first episode - not living up to his dreams and working a crappy job. So this is my ode to Chuck. I will never forget you (because I own all the seasons).

A Caribbean Christmas

Well, as noted previously, we had a weird Christmas. Poor Brad has no idea what a normal Cramer Christmas is like, cause we have not had one since we have been married. The first christmas spent with my family, my aunt had recently had a baby so the whole family took a red-eye flight to CT on Christmas. Needless to say, that Christmas was a little rushed and then we were in Connecticut and NYC.

Then, last year, we were all down in So Cal at my grandparents for Christmas. So a very full house. And why did we go to So Cal? Because grandma ordered a real tree...which looked like a bush.

Finally, this year my grandparents paid to take the whole family on a cruise, for Christmas of course. I've always wanted to go the caribbean. It was pretty, and warm, and humid. I can't say it was my favorite Christmas though because it didn't feel like christmas.

Everyone mailed presents to each other, so we didn't have to take them with us. So Brad and I opened all our presents before christmas. Then we flew to Florida on the 22-23rd of December. Spent a day in Ft. Lauderdale. On Christmas Eve we boarded the boat, ate, wandered the boat, and finally left the dock at 6pm.

Christmas day, we rescued Cubans. How do I know they were Cubans? Well, we were a lot closer to Cuba then to America, and who else crams 12 people onto a little dingy, that is taking on water, and floating in the middle of the ocean? Oh yeah, Cubans! Needless to say, it is international law that boats must rescue stranded people. So we got to wait for hours for the US Coast Guard to come and pick up these Cubans, as we could not go to Grand Cayman with them.

My family panicked that we would miss our excursion as we would get to Grand Cayman 4 hours later than we originally were supposed to. We went to a Christmas on Ice show (yes, there was an ice skating rink on the boat). Other than that, we all sat on a deck (some laid out in the sun and got fried, the rest of us hid in the shade) and read books. Christmas dinner, all 18 of us sat at two different tables right next to each other (cause there is no table big enough for 18 people) . My mom did make stocking things for each room, so we did find gifts/candy in these stockings each day.

Monday, we were in Grand Cayman. We went to string ray city, and I now find sting rays to be freaky animals. We also went snorkeling by the reef, which was cool.

Tuesday, we were in Jamaica. We went ziplining in the rain. Then we hiked Dunns Falls. I liked zip linning, I hated climbing the water fall. A) It was boxing day, which is a big holiday to anyone related to England, so it was crazy b) I don't like big crowds, especially when you are trying to fight through all these people to climb up a water fall and not lose your group, fall in the water, or slip and C) I was wearing my pump (cause i didn't trust leaving it) and I have had a pump break in the water before. But Jamaica was pretty, while also a little scary. We did see a sign for city saying the cops were not allowed.

Wednesday we were in Labadee, Haiti, which is Royal Caribbean's private area. It was nice, we snorkeled, went on the alpine coaster, and introduced my family to the joys of street vendors.

Thursday we sailed back to America. Friday we got off the boat and flew back. I was really ready to come home. The caribbean is nice, but I just want to be home for christmas. Have a normal christmas at home with family, and hopefully enjoy a holiday without someone in the family yelling/lecturing, etc. So we had fun, but I can't say I ever want to do it again.

Granted, at this point in time I never want to fly again. One day, Brad will have a christmas with my family where we are at my parents home, can walk the street and see all the lights, and relax. One day, maybe in 20 years.

Slow and Steady Wins!

Well, with Christmas around the corner, all our bags packed for this christmas cruise, all our presents opened (totally weird to open everything before christmas) I just had to talk about my favorite thing as of late.

Sherlock Holmes!

So I saw the first movie, and I love it. So when this second one was coming out, I told Brad that I hoped it would be a good sequel and not like all other sequels that tend to be worse. Brad told me not to worry. I had a hard time waiting until Saturday, dec 17, to see it, but Brad had work on Friday and we went to a party Friday night. So early Saturday morning we treked out to the theatre.

Needless to say, I have never laughed so hard and long during a movie. Brad told me that everyone who could hear me probably thought we were watching a comedy. It was hilarious to say the least. Saturday night christmas dinner with Brad's Stevens side of the family. His grandma at one point had us all ready sections from a conference talk. I had such a hard time not laughing, because I kept thinking about Sherlock Holmes. Now I just have to think about the movie and I start laughing. Helps with the stress at work

So basically, everyone should see this movie. I almost went and watched it again last night, but it would have been a 9pm movie, it was snowing, and Brad had to work today. Oh well, I will see it again soon!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Catch-up Time

So, I haven't posted anything for a while. Oops. I keep looking at other people's blogs and being like, wow, they haven't done anything new for a month! Ha ha, neither have I. Well, I will quickly recap what I deem noteworthy.

Brad had a birthday. Kind of a lame one too, poor guy, cause it was on a Wednesday, so I came home from work exhausted. I did my best to make up for it with fun on Friday though and so we went to Red Lobster and he ate lots of shrimp and then we watched Captain America. Only a few more years and he will be the big 3-0!

We had our 4th anniversary, which also happened to be Thanksgiving. So we celebrated with lots of family, ate yummy food, and had everyone shocked it had already been 4 years. Crazy how time flies. We also got a threat that we better have a kid before Brad is 30. Fun times.

Brad got a best buy gift card for his b-day and wanted to make the best use of it, so we went to best buy on black friday. We didn't camp out, but we did show up at 10:30pm on Thanksgiving. I wore snowboarding pants, gloves, and a beanie. It was still cold. I read while in line, Brad played on his smart phone. Crazy people tried to sell us their tickets for tvs and computers. It did work out good thought cause Brad got 2 games for the price of one, we got an 8gb SD card for cheap, I got movies on my xmas list for cheap, and a few xmas presents for family. Then we went home to bed at 2am.

On December 3rd we had the option to go to our ward christmas party, or my work party. We picked my work party, because we didn't have to wear church clothes and it was at Rodizio Grill. Brad drank a yummy passion fruit limeaid and I had a strawberry limeaid (I missed the fact it was limeaid until I drank it). We had fun, and ran errands while down in good ol Utah Valley.

I have made a few christmas/winter decorations. I fell our space is very monotone because I have a white snowflake banner and a few white snowmen. The few gold stars and red ornaments don't add too much color. Oh well.

Next week we get to fly to Florida and go on a christmas family cruise with my mom's whole side of her family. Yay for family craziness. I'm excited to get out of fridged utah for a week. But I can't wait until we finally have a NORMAL christmas. Oh well, one day...

Merry Christmas too everyone!

How Do you Like your eggs?

I love breakfast! Probably because of my Dad, cause he loves breakfast and makes delicious breakfast goodness. So whenever I go out to eat breakfast at a restaurant I get pretty excited. However, I have learned that not all things restaurant are what I'm used to.

My Dad makes killer scrambled eggs. I love them. When I go to a restaurant I always order scrambled eggs, but they are not the same. My dad loads his eggs with milk, cheese, bacon, and seasoning. Delicious! Restaurants don't do this. They are just scrambled eggs.

When we surprise visited my parents and went to Awful Annie's, I explained my dilemma to my parents. I have never tried any other kind of egg. So they recommended over easy, which is what they always order. I tried this. It was good.

Well this cold morning, I decided to make my own eggs. I didn't have any meat to put in them, but I got everything else. And they were delish! I might be a scrambled egg snob, but what can I say, I know a good scrambled egg when I see one.

Freezing already

Well October is almost over. Crazy how fast time flys. And with October ending, the freeze has come. For the past few weeks, I have taken our big warm t-shirt blanket to Brad's softball games to wrap up in. Brad finds it ridiculous because he does not think it is that cold. Well last night, was the tournament. If they won their 6:30 game, then they got to play in the 8:30 championship game. For some reason, I did not think this through so when I told Brad I was ready, I was wearing jeans, a thermal long sleeve shirt, a sweatshirt, ankle socks, and tennis shoes. I also brought the big blanket. By the end of the 6:30 game, I could barely feel my toes. Smart. I should have worn my snow pants, long socks, and boots, and maybe even a big coat.

Well, they won the 6:30 game by a pretty big margin. There was almost a fight too. I'm glad Brad didn't get involved, but his Dad and one of the other teammates looked like they were going to take out the pitcher on the other team. He was a jerk. But we won, so it was fine. And thank goodness the teams kept the pitchers from killing each other.

Well, I explained my freezing body to Brad, so we went to 7-11 and got some delicious hot chocolate. My roommate Jen introduced me to 7-11 hot chocolate and the goodness of the coffee mixins (like french vanilla, half and half, and pumpkin spice). Yum, so i had a very creamy pumpkin hot chocolate. Which was great, but my toes were still frozen. So Brad had me put his sweats on over my jeans, which helped. The crazy guy played both games in just his shirt and shorts. Crazy! He is a snowman, I am not.

Well they lost the championship game. Sad, but they still got a big trophy for taking 2nd place. And they did get t-shirts for being the regular season champions.

On a good note, the Cardinals won last night, while Brad and I were sleeping buried in our blankets and with the heater turned on high.

Time to turn on the space heater for the basement so I don't freeze all day. I already am cold now. I'm too scared to look at our thermometer to see what the temp is down here. Upstairs it is only 65. Freezing. Can I just say how excited I am for November and December when it only gets colder?