We

get to see family and friends this weekend! Oh, and my sister Kate is the LEAD in her school play, which we get to see while in Utah!

A bit of rambling on Project Runway...

If you haven't seen the finale to Project Runway, you might not want to read this... I do mention who won.

After I took Jason to school and dropped a check off at the bank, I was listening to the radio. It was a different station than I normally listen to. There are some very stupid songs on the radio these days so last night as one of those stupid songs began to play, I got a little frustrated and changed to a random preset. LUCKY ME I didn't change it back to one of the two stations I normally listen to. On my way home from the bank the radio people announced they had a special guest with them, MONDO, from Project Runway! I am trying to find the audio clip but I don't think they have it online yet. It was very fun to listen to. I personally thought he should have won. Anyways... My favorite thing he said on the radio was in response to one of the hosts asking what she should wear to a holiday party, the other host said he suggested she wear a potato sack... Mondo said something along the line of, "If you want to go with a potato sack, look into Gretchen's line." Hehehehe! Oh so true! I just thought I would put this up here before I forget. Oh and Mondo was selling his line on mylifetime.com or something and it sold out the next day. He also gave kudos to Gretchen because she sold one... One of the hosts asked how many he sold, all 10! Take that Michael Kors and Nina Garcia, looks like you made the wrong choice!

Home-made... well, sort of...

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago... Oops. Jason had class from 8 in the morning until 5pm on my birthday. The Saturday before my birthday we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory. YUM! I LOVE their bread and spimoni! I was so close to buying some for my home freezer and decided I would be better off without having easy access to it. Anyways... On my actual birthday we went and ate Thai food. It was so good. We also got to pick up our car from the shop on my birthday. It looks so nice. I'm glad they did such a good job, and the paint looks great.

A little more than a week after my birthday, this showed up on my doorstep. I got to assemble it (one of my favorite things about getting desks and whatnot). There were a couple of pieces that were broken so I had to call and get unbroken pieces sent to me. Luckily the pieces were for the drawer and the back (those showed up a couple of days later) and they weren't necessary to assemble it right then.

The bottom piece unfolds into a desktop and the extra space behind it is storage. I wanted to put both my serger and sewing machine down there but they were just a little bit too big sitting side by side. We went to Home Depot and got some supplies and ended up making a little shelf to sit my sewing machine on so both machines will fit in the bottom part.

Now Jason can use the computer desk and I have my own desk to sew and make things.

kitchen and living room

I took some pictures of our apartment a couple of weeks ago. It's not that I have been too busy to post the pictures, I've just been too lazy to. It's kind of sad, now that I have all the time in the world I haven't done much blogging. There hasn't been much going on either, so I haven't really had anything to post about.

Here is our kitchen, behind that door is our washer and dryer.
This is our new couch and rocking chair. We were in need of a new couch and the chair was a wonderful added bonus! We also bought the exercise bike (and like to watch tv while using it).

It's been a while...

We had family come to town for Jason's white coat ceremony clear back in August! The ceremony was pretty neat. The school gave each of the new medical students a white coat, which they were presented with. The students also received new stethoscopes from alumni at the ceremony. It was pretty cool that they got stethoscopes as their gift. We had a lot of fun and were glad we got to have family here for the occasion.



Kate and Penny were also here, thanks for taking the pictures.

kind of boring...

I've gotten a lot of things finished the past couple of days. Today I finally got all of the crap worked out with clearplay... Somehow our account got messed up over a year ago and they started charging us double. We tried to get the situation settled when we started getting charged double, but nothing happened so we just cancelled our account thinking it would stop the double charging... IT DIDN'T! Finally, after about a month of talking to multiple clearplay workers and explaining the situation to them and they try to do the same thing the last person did, but nothing happens. They couldn't find out where we were being charged, they just couldn't find it. Anyways.... We finally got it all resolved today. The woman who was working with me today found the problem, fixed it, and gave me two options. They could send us a check in the mail refunding our money, or they could send us a new clearplay hd dvd player and a year of free service. We really have liked having clearplay, it's nice being able to watch movies that we normally wouldn't, without having the junk in them.

We also took our little guy to get fixed on Monday morning. It's supposed to take about a week and a half. We're just hoping they can match the color of the car so it doesn't look ridiculous.

Anyways... I took some pictures of the apartment and I will post them probably tomorrow... but we'll see.

Long tests and accidents

Jason finished his first test last week. It took 5 hours. Oh boy the studying that went into preparing for that test was ridiculous. I know because I helped a little. He memorized about 33 pages of information which was insane! We didn't turn the tv on for 2 days while he was studying, needless to say it was quiet! Anyways... I am glad that test is over! After he finished the test his second year buddies left him a little treat in congratulations for completing what is said to be the most difficult test (because they have no idea what to expect). The school pairs second year students with first year students based on little "get to know you" cards. Jason's buddies are both LDS so instead of getting alcohol, like the majority of the other first year students, he got a gift card to Olive Garden. It was nice to go out to eat. It was really nice when my food came out burnt on the bottom (too burnt to eat) so I had it sent back. Before my new food came out the manager came over and told me my food had been comped because I had to wait for another one to come out. The funny thing is it came out really quickly, both times. We didn't even end up using the gift card because I forgot to bring cash to pay the tip, so we paid with card. Now we have a gift card we get to use another time.

On a different note... Our car got hit the first weekend of August... In our parking lot... While we were inside our apartment... Probably asleep... Luckily the guy who hit it left a note with his first name and phone number. I tried calling it, but no answer, so I tried a couple more times over the next two days. Then I called the police (I had already called my insurance right after we noticed it) and the policeman finally got ahold of the guy and I got his information. I then went and got two estimates done on the damage to see if they wanted to go through insurance or just write me a check... The estimates came to about the same amount, about a $500 difference. Turns out he hit our little car with his company vehicle so I had to work through the company and their insurance, so It took a VERY long time to get things worked out. To be completely honest, after about a month and a half I finally got a check in the mail from their insurance company last week and set up a date to get the car into the shop (in two weeks). It will be nice to have our car back to looking the way it did. I took a couple zillion pictures of it... I will only post one.


Yes, they are going to have to do some intense work on the car. It is going to take about a week (from what the auto body shop guy told me). I'm just really glad I don't have to pay for it. It doesn't look THAT bad, but it ripped into the metal! so it's going to cost a very pretty penny to pay for it. There are some more scratches near the bumper and the bumper is not attached completely anymore... So for the past month and a half we have been driving our other vehicle.

Anyways... I'm not sure if this all makes sense, so asks questions if it doesn't.