Twi-hard

I saw Eclipse this afternoon with my coworker Julie thanks to her Allstate Insurance account (they bought out an entire theater and invited their clients). Julie was gracious enough to invite me. I had a splendid time. Eclipse wasn't as emotionally draining as New Moon. It was quite action packed mixed in with a few gushy love scenes. I was disappointed by the Voutori (sp?), they should be far more frightening. I liked the fight scenes. I used to be "team Jacob", but I have converted to Edward, after he told Bella to wait until marriage for sex. Yeah Edward!! What a gentleman. I will definitely be dragging Philip with me to see it again (I think he will secretly like it).

Camping

Our power went out last night for three hours for some unknown reason. It was fun bc it felt like camping. Philip grilled some hot dogs (we had to light the grill with a lighter-how archaic) and I put a can of beans on there to heat em up. Mmm... Grilled beans...
It was mighty tasty.
When it got dark we lit some candles and snuggled in bed to watch the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Philip's IPad-thank heavens it was already charged up before the power outage, I don't know what we would have done. It was fun camping out.

Memorial Grove Hike

For the summer I am running a hiking/meditation group for my clients, ages 15 to 18. Tonight we hiked City Creek Canyon, which is accessed from Memorial Grove park by the capital building. We had six clients come and two staff, 5 were boys. We had a fun time stomping around and splashing in the creek. This is supposed to be part meditation, and most of my clients found ways to meditate by throwing sticks, rocks, yelling to bystanders, skidding in the dirt, and using the trees as restrooms. You know, I thought it was therapeutic.

Another highlight of my day was finding out that one of our foster parents served his mission in Poland (where I served two years ago). He served in '93 so it was interesting to talk about the various changes the LDS church has gone through between his time being there and mine.

South Bend Trivia

I grew up in South Bend. Indiana. Yesterday for father's day and my sister Dana's birthday we got together for a family feast. One of our favorite family past-times is to play "South Bend Trivia". Can any of you challenge me with a trivia question regarding South Bend? I challenge all you Hoosiers to a match.

Our Wedding

Catching up

My brother Dave recently got engaged and set the date for August 20-21 (reception on one day and marriage on another). Watching the two of them navigate wedding plans brings me back. Phil and I have been married just over a year now, May 1st 2009. To think we have been married over a year is hard to fathom. Here are some things I have learned that I will pass on to Dave and Jennica:
1. lower your expectations of housework and you will be pleasantly surprised
2. compromise on everything
3. avoid marrying your spouse during an annual sporting event such as the NBA playoffs
4. learn to like things they like (like watching the NBA playoffs or playing X box)
5. pick your battles

Okay so I make it sound like marriage is hard, well here are things I love about being married to Philip:
1. he is my best friend and I can tell him anything and everything and he won't judge me
2. we laugh so hard together often
3. I can be my complete self and he only makes fun of me a little
4. Philip can fix anything on the computer, phone, television, media player, monitor, ipad, and most items from ikea
5. he gives me back and foot massages on a daily basis and doesn't make me reciprocate
6. I absolutely LOVE shopping with Philip, he never makes me feel shoppers guilt, talks me into everything (unless it's from TJ Maxx or Ross, or Target, or DI....), and he actually is interested in what I am looking at (unlike most guys)
7. I have someone to help me through bad days
8. I love him

Going back to where I am at now, Philip and I two months ago moved out of our apartment at San Moritz (away from the crazy neighbor woman below who called the cops on us for walking around) and into my parents' basement. We are the "boomerang generation" so why not? the reason why we took this drastic measure is because our lease ended, and my parents were gracious enough to invite us to live in their basement while I attend the University of Utah to earn my masters degree in social work. We want to avoid student debt if possible so this sounded like a good plan. Philip and I both work full time now until I start school in the fall 2010. Philip works at Ticketmaster in IT and I work for Valley Mental Health with clients in foster care. I am sure I will be blogging more about my job so I can avoid constantly telling Philip all my crazy stories. This already feels therapeutic.

First timer

So this is my first time as a blogger. Well, I tried it once in college but realized there wasn't much to write about. I decided that even though there is nothing really more I can write about, it's what married people do and I should join up. I love reading other people's blogs, and you bloggers deserve some reciprocity. So I hope you enjoy my blog, even if it's only me reading it.