weddings entail....

Burns, Bruises, no sleep and exhaustion for three days after! Eloping sounds good;)

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So sorry it took a while to explain my last post. The genius was....You can make CDs from music videos!

We have alot of music and I wanted to make a CD for a certain person that I love. I have thought for so many years that it was a different format that you have to use. Funny things you do at 1AM that proves to be brilliant! I was really tired and just happened to look down at a little button on the Realplayer that said CD not DVD. SO! I thought,"what the heck I'll have to buy CDs anyway!" Found some blank disks and hit burn. To my surprise it worked and didn't have a single problem.

So there you go! If this is nothing new to others then please don't rub it into my face. I am still pretty happy about it

Gotta love it when...

Don't you just love when you figure something out that you didn't know you could do before the moment of truth? I just had one of those moments! I just danced for joy when I did it! I will let you all know what I did after the moment the person gets the gift.

Don't you just love a good cliffhanger?!?!

Smooches!

I think this photo says it all The party was a hit!

This is the last face I painted but I don't think that the man that got it was to happy when he saw what it was:)

Little James

All the ladies that I work with will leave notes on the counter for each other. Usually they are notes like,"Lois called about this class. who wants to teach her?"

nothing interesting.This morning however I noticed a long-ish note on the counter.

It read," Most of my day was spent thing of how darn beautiful James is. Those eyes,those eyes, oh my those eyes. If only he were 50 years older-however if he was 50 years older he might not look that good-maybe even better. Yikes I'm turning into a DOLLY.

Dirty old lady lusting youth

-Ok-just kidding- but he is darn cute- and Chy- he has the hots for you."

My first thought was that it was a journal entry of M.E.'s. Then realizing that it was to me, I died of laughter. I am glad that I was the only one in the shop.So to agree with her- yes, James is really cute...and 10 years old!

The unknown

What would have happened if I hadn't had surgery? what would have happened if I had left for school, like most all the other kids in my town, who graduated my year? Or what about this one!... what would have happened if I had stayed friends with those that I don't speak to anymore?

These are the questions that I have cross my mind when I am in (what I like to call) a Dark Green mood. I call it that because it comes from a very funny children's book that I love. The Quigleys. It makes me laugh when I think of it as so.

What if though?

Well for one, I know that I wouldn't be happy right now. I have found the ONE I love. I have the best kind of friends for what feels like the first time in my life: Good ones! I am not lying to myself about what I truly feel anymore. I won't lie, it was a really hard year last year. It's just hitting me now that it was only a year ago that all outter darkness was on me. It only took one week to change what I thought was for really and what I thought was my life. I will not pretend to know what Job went through...but I can imagine how he felt.

My life is for really. I am starting to feel lightness in my life again. It feels good. It has been a long time.

Fun all around!!

So when all your friends are poor college kids that have little to no money, there is a need to still have fun but on the cheap. The problem is we live in Prescott Arizona!

Not alot to do if you don't have money... or so it may appear.

Here is a list of fun and inexpensive things that we've found.

• Barnes and Noble read alouds! Get as many books as you are allowed to and find a place to sit.Take turns reading random paragraphs aloud. You would be very surprised at how much fun this can be.
• Thursdays bowling at Plaza Bowl. This is the best day to go! It is only $2 a rack and free shoes.
• Washing cars....it only costs for the water and if you get toaster strudel at wal-mart after.
• And on that note it brings me to....Wal-Mart!! in the end we almost always end up there!
• Redbox. I don't think there is much else to say.
• Bake nights! Ok so this isn't the cheapest of things to do but it's for a potluck for our ward. So we like to all get together to cook what we need.

So after all of the fun sometimes we need to eat! not always but sometimes!

• Half priced appetizers at Applebees! They have the same quality of wings as Buffalo Wild Wings but they only cost about $4.
• Bottomless stake fries at Red Robin! They have the best!
• And there is always Taco Bell! Food and fun, always cheap...in all senses:)

There you go!!! that is most of the time what I am up to with friends. Hope that you- wherever you are- can find something fun to do without spending a fortune