HE WENT TO JAREDS!!!

No really...He did.

Holy COW...Yeah I know. I didn't see it coming either. We, The Guy and I, are getting MARRIED. and I am so totally frazzled I can't EVEN tell you! I knew I wanted to marry him, he is perfect for me in every way. I just never thought, due to conversations about dating for a year before things get 'serious', that it would happen so soon.

On November 28th we were walking along center street looking at Christmas Lights when we decided to duck under a gathering (gaggle? horde? copse?) of pine trees. The trees had created a sparkling canopy of lights above them. Looking up through the branches of christmas lights has always been a favorite activity of mine. We could see our breath in the air it was so cold. Zach feeling nervous bent to "tie his shoes". I, being unsuspecting and oblivious, turned to find him on one knee holding a small box out to me. I held my breath completely overwhelmed, he opened the box and asked me if I would marry him.
I was stunned, but not stunned enough not to answer " Yes yes yes yes yes." as many times as I could.

What to do when you're in love...

What do you do when you are in love? This seems to be a constant question I hear and Feel for myself. What DO you do when you are in love? It depends on the other person i suppose, Is it a love that is returned? Is it unrequited love? Is it the love of a sister for a brother? is it the love for a best friend? All these factor into the question of what you do.
For me it is the first, a love that is returned. I am totally and completely lost in The Guy. He is the most important person in my life. We have talked about the big M and plan on it for next year. However, Things are not official in anyway yet. My sister L put it correctly yesterday, I am in Limbo. Not a girlfriend, not quite a fiancee. All things happen in due time, or so i have heard. I will just have to practice a little more patience, and little more balance, and a little more restraint. Heaven knows all of the above will be a chore since i am neither Patient nor good at balancing. With how i feel about the Man, all things will turn out.
Til Next time!

Old Dog, New Tricks...

So, Here's the thing. I think that even though you are an adult you should always try to learn something new. Choose something you have always wanted to do, maybe learn the piano, or how to ski, or maybe fencing. You may think 'there's no way i can learn this now, i'm too old. It might be embarrassing'. That is the WORST thing you could do! Don't be self concious, get out there and do it! me, i'm going to learn me some Italian! I have always wanted to learn a second language, i have even taken some french and spanish (very little and a LONG time ago). So this is my chance to redeem myself! La Citta Eterna here i come! I am, and always will be, that Quirky/Confusing, and slightly zany, woman.

Ciao

Love and Insanity

So, these past 2 months The Man and I had our first set of hurdles as a couple. These came in the Form of an 1984 truck. That truck is Run down, Two tone, Crap engine, and definitely not my thing. He had been talking about buying a "Project" Truck since we started dating, but I didn't actually take him seriously. That is, Until i was at work one day and he called me and told me that he had found a good deal on truck that wouldn't take too much work. He wanted to know my opinion on him buying the truck. I told him I didn't like trucks, but that it was his decision. So, he bought it. Now I am learning one of the biggest lessons you can learn in a relationship. Being Patient and Supportive with someone when you don't neccessarily LIKE what they are doing. I love The Man, I really do, and this is one thing I am going to have to put up with. I'm not a patient person, So a certain Man Upstairs truely knew what he was doing by putting The Man and That Truck together. Till Next Time!

Kid Crazy...

Deep down I think that I have always harbored a secret dream of being a teacher. This coming from all of the fabulous teachers that I have learned from and cared about over the years. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go with my sister and help her out with her orchestra class on a field trip. Here is what I learned. Elementary school kids are Insane, they are never quiet, rarely do exactly as they are asked, and like to go to the bathroom...alot. After a 15 minute busride in which I most often heard "Ouch, he's pulling at me!" "When will we be there" "This is boring", we entered a local highschool to experience some Classical music. The theme for the concert was Marches. Consisting of The Wedding March from A Midsummers Nights Dream by Mehndelsson, The Indiana Jones Theme by John Williams, and various and sundry other musical selections. They were excellently put together and performed by the Utah Symphony. During this concert the children never quit talking, never quit squirming, and had to go to the bathroom every 5 minutes. I could, in fact, tell you exactly how many steps there are between the seat I was in and the restroom at this particular highschool. Which is 475, going and coming combined. Well, As we returned the rambuncious children to their regular schedule back at the school I thought to my self, there goes another dream. Two down, Tons to go. I wouldn't be able to teach, I do not have the patience. So I commend all the other teachers out there who have not yet gone insane! Brava! Til Next Time!

Techno Nuts...

I love Technology. All kinds of technology, from laptop computers, mp3 players, ipods, and phones. I love getting new technology. Shiny new things, with new capabilities. :) However, I'm learning that being an adult means that you can't have EVERYTHING that you want. Which includes but is not limited to new Ipods. Even when yours breaks. My ipod is fritzing on my, and is soon going to die. I'll shed a tear or two, I'm sure. However, I will hold out, I will not buy another ipod for at least 5 months. It'll be good for me. I'll probably go through withdrawls. But like I said, Being an adult is making smart financial decisions even when you don't want to. But I'm still quirky, still confusing, and more than a little zany.

Boy Crazy...

So, in highschool and just after i was boy crazy. I flirted, I dated, I kissed, A lot. But now, being in a stable, wonderful relationship, I see just just how crazy I was. You don't find the person you want to spend your life with by being a flirt. You do it by genuinely being interested in other people. And thats how i met the person I want to marry. By being interested in who they were, not just that they would flirt. And let me tell you, I have never been so happy that I did. The Funny thing is, He went to school with me. He was a cutie back then but a little bit geeky. He hung out in the computer lab during lunch, and took all the computer classes. I didn't really know him back then, just of him. and truth be told, back then, he never would have been my type. And then, 8 months ago, we met again. He's Still Hot, Still a little geeky, And i am totally in love with him. And all because I didn't flirt, I listened and got to know the man behind the computer. I guess you never know what your type is, or how your life is going to end up, or who you are going to end up with. Now my little sister is 16. Old enough to date, old enough to like boys, Old enough not to listen to her older sister. I look at her, and i remember being wild, crazy, and insane at her age. When you're 16 the world seems SO small and you feel so old. She's nothing like me though, so I guess that I can feel comfortable that she won't be QUITE so Boy Crazy as me.

Past week in review...

So this past week I became a wedding cake decorator. Another thing to add to my list right? It really wasn't as hard as I had expected, but itwasn't easy either. Of course, it was a cupcake wedding cake. Now you think, Oh cupcakes! Easy! NO! lol I made almost 300 cupcakes and had to decorate, by decorate i mean ice, Every one and garnish them with chocolate, pecans, and pirolines... Kill me now. To ice the cupcakes i had to squeeze icing the consistency of hardened concrete through a very narrow opening. Which sounds like i was giving birth. I now want to vomit at the sight of a cupcake...which kind of kills my dream of opening a baked goods shoppe. HA! I wouldn't be able to handle it. lol My hands are KILLING me today. Pchow! (it was supposed to be a shotgun noise) one dream down, several to go. Maybe someday I'll figure out what i want to do with my life. :) Til then, I'm just a quirky/confusing woman!

P.s. Pictures of my cake are forthcoming!

What a Crazy Life...

I have been described many ways, Crazy, Zany, Wacky, Blonde, Oblivious, Confusing, and Artsy being the ones I remember best. I think I'm all of these things. I try different things and put them down the week after I start them because something else has caught my attention. My dad thinks I have the attention span of a nat. He calls it the sparkly syndrome. You know what I mean, when you're walking down the hall and you are completely concentrated on something important and then there is something all shiny and sparkly across the room and you just HAVE to look at it. Thats kind of what its like. That is kind of what my life is like. I will be walking down the hallway and i'll see something I HAVE to see up close and BAM! there i am, I've changed my majors three times, had four jobs, and started too many craft projects to count in the last 4 years. So i guess what i am is just that Quirky/Confusing woman, who will eventually find herself.