Day 14 - Slumber Party!!!!

So, what I wear to bed really varies based on the season.

Tonight I am going to wear fleece pajama pants and the same shirt I'm wearing right now. I love fleece pajama pants, even though it is ridiculously hot, especially in the summer. But I got this pair for Christmas and I love them. Seriously.

Tonight is different than normal though, because I am having a sleep over. So I have to wear pajamas that are appropriate to wear with my company.

As to what I usually wear to bed, I'll leave that to your imagination. ;-)

Also, this blog post has inspired the best conversation I have ever had. Nathan disagrees.

Day 13 - Major Happenings

Prompt for day 13 - What are the 10 most significant events in your life?

1. Getting married to Dave
2. Getting pregnant with and subsequently having Savannah
3. I'm only counting this as one, though technically it could be two, but both of my miscarriages are pretty significant to me. 
4. Getting baptized
5. Going through the temple for the first time
6. Buying our condo
7. Choosing to go to the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism at Taylorsville, which is where I ultimately met Dave. (The first time I met him in person was in the parking lot during lunch. I was eating McDonald's...)
8. Obtaining an Associate's Degree, then pursuing a Bachelor's degree, then deciding to actually just go back for another Associate's Degree...
9. Being born
10. Getting my driver's license.

Also, on a totally unrelated note, but especially important to me right now, I made Orange Chicken tonight, and in my opinion, it is just as good as Panda Express.

Day 12 - Music

Prompt for day 12 - Put your iPod on shuffle and list the first 10 songs.

Here goes...

1. Love Without End, Amen - George Strait
2. Do You Wanna Make Something of It - Jo Dee Messina
3. I'd Do Anything - Simple Plan
4. So Small - Carrie Underwood
5. Dark as a Dungeon - Dolly Parton
6. People are Crazy - Billy Currington
7. Poor Fool/He Makes me Laugh - The Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack
8. She's in Love with the Boy - Trisha Yearwood
9. My Oh My - Aqua
10. Walk to the Light - Jo Dee Messina

So there it is. There are a TON of other artists and songs that I have on my iPod that I truly love, but there's a small sample of what it includes. I really do need to update it though, I don't have any new music that I've gotten in like that past year on there because I haven't transferred my iTunes from my old broken laptop to the new one and I don't want to lose the music I have on my iPod already...

Day 11 - Shopping

I forgot to post this yesterday, so it's a day late and probably a dollar short, but here goes.

The prompt for day 11 is Your favorite store

This one was relatively easy for me. Automatically when I think of my favorite store I think of Smith's. Not just any Smith's though, my favorite one is the one on 56th West and 41st South. Seriously, I love going there, and I love getting a good deal there.

Also, I love that by shopping at Smith's I save money on my gas. Love it. Truly love it.

And that is the lameness that is me, that my favorite store is a grocery store...

Day 10 - Switched!

 Prompt: Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

This one was really hard for me, because most days I am truly satisfied and happy with my life. I don't really sit around and wonder what it would be like to be living in another person's shoes. I think part of this is because I realize that other people have just as many, if not more, problems as I do, and just because I don't see them doesn't mean they aren't happening. I think this is also why I try my very hardest to be nice to everyone...

Anyway, after thinking about it since yesterday, I finally decided that I would like to switch places with more a type of person, than any one particular person, but for the purpose of this blog, I'm going to name one specific person.

In case you've been living under a rock, and you don't know who this is, this is Carrie Underwood. I think she is beautiful! I also think she has an amazing voice, and I am somewhat jealous. For just one day, I would like to know what it is like to have that kind of talent, and to be able to reach that kind of audience.

Also, some days I would like to trade places with Dave... what girl hasn't wondered what it would be like to be a guy?

As I said though, most days I am truly content in my own life, even through all the crappy times...

Day 9 - Emotional

Day 9 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

There are actually quite a few of them. There is a song by John Michael Montgomery, The Little Girl, and it almost always makes me cry. It's a very touching song. I think one of the things that makes it so much more emotional for me is that I know other people who it makes cry. Most specifically, my uncle. He's a tough dude. He is a Cowboy in every sense of the word, and I can remember it coming on the radio one day while we were driving back to his house so I could have a sleepover with my cousin. He was in tears, he had to keep wiping his cheeks so he could drive, and when it was over he looked at me and told me that it was the same way every time he heard the song. I can remember vividly seeing my uncle in tears every time I hear that song, and it pulls at my heart strings. Plus, the song is one of those that pulls at you anyway.

So, I found a version of it on youtube, the video isn't really important, but if you want to, you can listen to the song.

There are other songs as well that makes me cry, Skin (Sarah Beth) by Rascal Flatts, Streets of Heaven by Sherrie Austin, but none of them that are quite so vivid in my memory.

Some church hymns also bring me to tears, ever since I sang with the Tab Choir in high school whenever I hear We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet I nearly always cry. Because it is associated with such a vivid memory and feeling of peace and love that I got while we were singing it in the Conference center and the entire congregation stood. It was an amazing thing. I needed the reminder of that today, I feel like lately I've been struggling with my testimony lately, so to remember those powerful feelings of confirmation and love that were given to me by the Spirit was a really good thing for me.

Day 8 - Bother and Seesters

The prompt for day 8 - Talk about your siblings

So, I have 3 siblings, one brother and two sisters. They are pretty cool sometimes, but sometimes drive me crazy!

My older sister is Amanda. We are either the best of friends or the worst of enemies, there is no in between for us. She is 24, and is married. She recently got married and I was not invited... Rude. Though, neither was anyone else in our family, so I guess it's okay.

Then the rest of my siblings are younger than me.

My brother's name is Matthew. He is 17 and he's a pretty smart dude. He wants to be a chef. He is notorious for chewing with his mouth open (ARGH!)...

Then there is my little sister. Her name is Sharen. She is almost 16, and can be a huge brat, but I love her anyway. The last I heard she wants to be a nurse. Also, I like her friend Kat.

I don't really want to get hugely into each of my siblings on here, but that's the basic what you need to know about them. Or what you never really did actually need to know, but the prompt told me to. The end.

Day 7 - Sly Piggery

The prompt for day 7 is How you found out about Blogger and why you made a blog

When I was in high school, I had a friend named Amy who convinced me that I needed to join this online forum she was a part of called Sly Piggery. This forum was something that her friend Nathan had created. So I joined Sly Piggery, and I met a ton of cool people! (In fact, if you want to get down to the nitty gritty, I "met" Dave online at Sly Piggery!!) It seemed like all of these people had blogs, and that all of them were at blogger. So I decided I was going to try my hand at it, and I created this blog. Well, actually I created a different blog first, but I forgot what email address I used to create it, and to this day I still don't remember the email or password I used.

Originally when I started, I didn't know how long I was going to last, it was something I was doing because my friends were doing it, and I go in spurts, sometimes going very long periods between when I blog. But here it sits, 5 1/2 years later... Wow!

So, now you know.