Cool Thing from D and a Little Venting

One word. That's all you can write as your answer. Can you do it? Not as easy as you might think. Change the answers to fit you and post! It's hard to only use one word answers!

1. Where is your cell phone? .................Purse
2. Your significant other?.................Incredible
3. Your hair?....................................Short
4. Your mother? .................................Outgoing
5. Your father?..................................Determined
6. Your favorite thing?.........................Hugs
7. Your dream last night?..................Forgotten
8. Your favorite drink...........................Juice
9. Your dream/goal?........................Celestial
10. The room you're in?..................Bedroom
11. Your ex?.....................................Insane
12. Your fear?..............................Failure
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years......Mother
14. Where were you last night?................... Home
15. What you're not?.............................Relaxed
16. Muffins......................................Chocolate
17. One of your wish list items?.............Camera
18. Where you grew up?...........................Kent
20. What are you wearing?...................Rings
21. Your TV?.....................................Old
22. Your pets?..................................Dead
23. Your computer? ........................Fabulous
24. Your life?.................................Blessed
25. Your mood?..................................Stressed
26. Missing someone?........................Katie
27. Your car?...................................Abused
28. Something you're not wearing?...........Shoes
29. Favorite Store?............................Target
30. Your summer?..........................Hot
31. Like someone?.............................David
32. Your favorite color?....................Blue
33. Last time you laughed...................Today
34. Last time you cried?....................Prayer


I just need to vent for a minute. It has nothing to do with the rest of this post I just need to say it to say it. I HATE Osama, Obama, whatever his name is. If you like him, good for you, but he has done NOTHING to show me he would make a good president. I'm not just saying this because I lean to the right, either. The guy gives me the creeps and I'm terrified of what he will probably do if elected. If you feel the need to stand up for him, tell someone who cares, because I DON'T and I HATE hearing about politics in general, but especially from people who just want to defend their voting decisions. Vote for whoever you want and I'll do the same. BAH.

Ohio Trip Part Two and the Aftermath

I finally have pictures! Yay! The first picture is of me with Kyle and Kira after the Kirtland Show. After that is some pictures from the rehearsal and then the wedding. The ones during the ceremony were taken by my brother, Jon. Here is what happened after my last post:

On Sunday I got up and attended church in Tallmadge, which was my ward until David and I moved this past January. It was good to see a bunch of the people I had been missing. After church I went home and read until Mom and Jon got home. Mom made chocolate chip pancakes for lunch and then I left to go to the Carey's house. My friends, Kyle and Kira, are both going abroad soon so it was a combined bon voyage party. Kyle is headed to Japan to teach English for anywhere from one to five years. Kira is headed to Germany for either one or two semesters as part of a study abroad program. Her major is German Translation, so this is definitely a good move for her. I can't imagine a better way to learn the language. Anyway, I hung out over there for a few hours and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa Ridinger's for what I thought was the rest of the evening. Grandma had invited my aunt and cousins over as well so it was a big family dinner in honor of my being in town. During dinner, however, my brother received a call from my sister, Katie, who was in Virginia working at a girl scout camp. She had been fired by her crap-for-brains ex-friend and needed to be picked up. She was so upset it made me want to cry! Anyway she asked me to come get her and I couldn't say no so I went to Grandma and told her I was sorry but I would have to skip out on the rest of the evening. As sad as I was to have to leave, I was excited to see my sister, and I was touched by how our family came together to help Katie out. Grandma and my aunt Sue went to the kitchen to make Katie a sandwich, Jon went and printed directions for me, and my dad gave me $80 to pay for gas and tolls. I also heard from my other brother, Andy. He and his wife, Heather, live in Maryland and offered their apartment for us to sleep in since it was fairly close to camp and we would be there late. Andy and Heather were vacationing in North Carolina, however, and the guard left too early to let us in, so that didn't work out, but Andy also offered to get us a hotel. I just felt like everyone in the family was there and ready to help. It was a great feeling. Anyway, I drove to Virginia in Katie's car (which she had left behind) and arrived at 12:30 am. I might have been there sooner but 90 miles of the PA Turnpike was closed due to an accident and I had to detour. We drove straight home (the turnpike was open by then) and made it in five and a half hours. We were tired by the time we got home, obviously, so we went to bed. I got up a few hours later and showered before meeting my friend from high school, Linday Kean, at Panera for lunch. After lunch I went home and slept some more until 5:30 when my dad came and took Katie and I to Mike's Place. After that we went and saw "The Dark Knight." It was SO well done. Heath Ledger did an amazing job as the joker. He was so disturbing in that role...I was very impressed.

Tuesday, Katie and I went shopping at the mall, and we all had dinner at the Derby's. I got some glow-in-the-dark nail polish and some travel items I needed. Wednesday we went thrifting before I went to the airport. Luckily my flight was on time and I reached home safe and sound. David picked me up at the airport and we went to Wal-mart to get some things for our campout this weekend. Then we went home and found a note from Chris that said he was at his new apartment and would drop his key off later. We were a little confused because up until that day the plan had been that Amber would move into the apartment until the wedding and Chris would stay with us because she wanted to be away from her parents and she had already requested the transfer to Clearfield for her job. We went to his room and found it empty! Chris had just taken off while we were gone. I had mixed feelings about this. Chris had been living with us for over a year and while the last few months were overly stressful with him here and I was in many ways looking forward to him having his own place, I found it incredibly rude that he would take off the way he did. Even if he had decided to move out earlier than we expected, common courtesy would have been to come to us and tell us that he was going to move, preferably a few days before he actually moved so that we could prepare and even help him. It is irrelevant if he was angry with us for whatever reason or whatever else because I think at the very least we deserved more respect after housing him (rent free for half of that time) for the last year. He stopped by later that night to drop off his key and I could barely look at him it was so awkward. I couldn't think of anything nice to say so I just sat there most of the time. Supposedly she is staying/moving back in with her parents and he is going to live at their new place for the next few weeks. While this is a good thing for me and David, in my humble opinion, it is a big mistake for Chris. He is putting himself in an even more dangerous situation. She got the transfer and therefore will be commuting from Bountiful to Clearfield until the wedding since she can't live at her place due to his midnight flight. They say they won't due anything stupid but they've already proven that is very difficult for them and honestly, I just don't trust them at all. They still don't even know if she's pregnant or not so I don't know how they can feel relaxed about any of this. He knows that if anything happens he'll be excommunicated and yet he keeps putting himself in the same situations hoping the same thing won't happen again. I believe the definition for that is STUPID. Retarded and ignorant are also good words. However, after some venting I decided that this is AWESOME for me and David! It feels great to have our own place again. In fact, I already redecorated his room into our new guest room! As soon as he picks up the rest of his junk, I can finish redecorating our office (which will be a nursery eventually....but not anytime soon, I'm afraid). I have pictures of that room, too. I think it looks awesome. So come visit! We have lots of space!

Broadcasting from Ohio!

Here I am in not-quite-so-sunny Ohio where it is hot and muggy ALL THE TIME. However, I am having lots of fun! Wednesday after I arrived my mom and brother and I got Hungry Howies (not in Utah, therefore a MUST) and then I went to the church with them and talked with Kira and some other people for awhile. Thursday I got up and met my cousin, Lindsay, and my aunt, Jane, at Ridinger's and we went over to the library where I met up with a bunch of people I used to work with and introduced Lindsay because she is going to start working there this fall. We also went to the bookstore where we got some books and also some awesome clearance clothing items. I got a hat for $5 and a hoodie for $13. Then we went to lunch at Ridinger's. Grandma made chicken salad. Jon came over and ate with us also. I was SOOOO stuffed! After that I went home and waited until Dad came to pick me up and I rode with him to Kirtland for the show. I helped him carry his stuff in then went and took pictures backstage. The show was pretty good, I enjoyed myself. Some people did a REALLY good job and were some of the best people I've seen in that role, but others I thought could have been better. So is life I suppose. After the show, Kira, Kyle, Sister Carey, and Sophia Gawu (friend who used to live here who was visiting with the Carey's) went to Kokomo's for ice cream. I have some good pictures of that but I haven't put them on my camera yet. I do have some pictures of the show though because I used my dad's camera.

Friday I went to my friend, Molly's, house and we went and decorated the reception hall with the other bridesmaids (Rachael and Sheila), Molly's mom, Brendan's (the groom) mom, and Molly's friend Siobhan (pronounced Shavonne). Then we went and had a bridal lunch at the pufferbelly. After that it was back to Molly's and we watched a movie and I did my nails. Then I went and got Molly's gift (a nice frame) and then we got ready for the rehearsal. We were way ahead of schedule all day so we had lots of down time. I regretted not having my book. Then we went to the church and did the rehearsal. It was nice to know what to do but the lady showing us what to do was kins of rude and mean. I didn't like her much because she didn't know how to talk to people in a respectful way very well. Oh well. After that we went to the Sheraton in Cuyahoga Falls for the rehearsal dinner. That was fun but also went a bit slow. There was an open bar though so I got a Shirley Temple (channeling my brother, Andy). I got my car from Molly's house and went home to bed.

Today I got up early, showered, and then Mom dropped me off at Molly's. I ate half a bagel then Molly, her mom, and I left to get our hair done. Molly's took almost 2 hours! Ugh! It looked amazing though. Then we went back, got make-up and stuff on and finished getting ready. I was done before most of the other girls but I was smart and brought my book so I got to read awhile. Then we all drove to the church and got dressed in the bride's room. We waited a bit (it was very VERY calm...no one was freaking out like you might think) then went upstairs. The wedding itself went well, I don't think I messed up....then we took pictures and went to the reception. I just got home from that. Again, I have pictures of all of this but they are all on my camera. When I get home I will put them all on facebook and a few on here as well.

For now, I'm tired and I have church in the morning.

Whoa Baby!

Today=Laundry

Tomorrow=Packing

Wednesday=OHIO!!!!!!!!!

Less than 48 hours.....omg I am SOOOOOO excited!!













(Plus really pumped to excape Utah ("Mars") and some certain people for a week....)

OOOOKKKKK

So I really don't know what to post about but it's been a week so I figure I should write something. I guess I can blog about our campout although I didn't take any pictures (trust me, there wasn't much to take pictures of...)

So David, Nick, Chelsea and I left around 4ish on Thursday, the 3rd. It took about 2 hours to get to Wendover and the three of us not driving spent most of the trip playing Monopoly on my Ipod. (We didn't finish.) When we reached Wendover we walked through several casinos to find a good buffet because Nick kept telling us how cheap they were, however it must have been a while since he was there because every single one was $15-16 per person. I don't know about you, but that is RIDICULOUSLY expensive for a buffet. I mean, even Hometown is only, I don't know, $9 a person. Anyway, we passed on the buffets and went to Burger King instead (I wasn't super hungry anyway and wasn't about to pay $15 for one plate of food since I knew I couldn't eat any more than that). I just got a Whopper Jr. and I was full. After dinner we went to the KOA, which was right down the road. It's funny, I KNEW I was in the desert and yet I wasn't prepared for what I saw. Just picture a large dirt parking lot for RVs. Around the perimeter of this parking lot is a wood fence. There are sections divided off with more wood fence and a small corner of each section has a lean-to-like roof over top of a pint size picnic table. On the other side of each section is a giant sandbox. There is not a single tree within 100 feet, no cement, no blacktop, just sand and dirt. However, before we get too bad-western-movie, there are several casinos less than a mile away with pretty bright lights so we never felt too far from civilization. So we get there and check in, where they asign us to "tent site" (giant sandbox) J-11. We're thinking "oh geez, thank HEAVENS we brought our own firewood!" We also pass the pool, which looks a gross shade of green. Oh boy.

So we start setting up camp. Amber has loaned us her family tent, so we set it up in the giant sandbox. We also dragged another picnic table over because one only seats about 4 people comfortably. Then we notice their "fire pit" is this little hole in the ground with iron bars over it and it is way too close to the fence, not to mention it is partially underneath the lean-to cover of the picnic table. So we went around and found several medium size rocks and made our own fire circle (which apparently was against the rules). I pulled the one picnic table out a little and then covered both with a long patriotic table cloth. I believe we then decided to brave the pool. The good news is that we found the water wasn't that gross. Apparently some idiot decided that since the KOA sign was on the bottom of the pool, the entire inside of the pool should be painted yellow to match the sign. Throw in some blue water and BAM you have a nasty looking pool. So we were able to cool off without feeling like we would be covered with slime. However the filters were rarely used (if at all) and so there was lots of sand/dirt/leaves etc floating on the top. At least they had a skimmer.

We swam for awhile then showered (another nice perk to KOAs) then went back to camp. After a while Chris and Amber showed up but they didn't stay long as they went to get food and ended up staying out for hours. When they came back we all sat in the tent and talked. After everyone else fell asleep I had to go to the bathroom so I asked David to come with me. We started talking and ended up staying up a few more hours. We finally went to bed and I tried to sleep but sleeping on the sand isn't as comfortable as you might think. At least it wasn't so blazing hot. However as soon as the sun came up it was awful. Luckily, right outside the tent was a shadow from Chelsea's GMC Jimmy so a bunch of us sat there to eat breakfast because it was significantly cooler. The boys left to find a good place to shoot off fireworks and the girls all went to the pool. We talked and stayed cool for several hours. The boys found a spot then decided to go lizard hunting. Joy. They came back with a horny toad. Crazy loons. Anyway, they came to join us in the pool after that and we stayed there a bit until Michael showed up with our lunch (hot dogs). We went back to camp and ate then decided to go play poker in the game room. This was a great place because it boasted an air conditioner and a TV (reception sucked). So we played poker until Chris and Amber bailed and then Nick and Chelsea decided they wanted to go get dollar chips from all the casinos. I would have gone but I had a terrible earache so I laid on the couch and waited for them to come back with some medicine. Michael stayed with me and read his book while I tried to watch NCIS. David came back with medicine (he had gone with Nick and Chels) and that helped a bunch. The two of us went swimming again (I didn't put my head in the water) and Michael came and read by the pool. Nick and Chels decided to nap and we still had no idea where Chris and Amber were. However there were clouds and the temp dropped enough that we were too cold so we went and showered and changed. Then we went back to camp and started with foil dinners. Chelsea and I cut up veggies and David called Chris and Amber until one picked up their cell to tell them to come back for dinner. (Don't even get me started on how annoyed I was that they took every opportunity to leave the group.) They turned out pretty good, I was impressed. After dinner we went and played Apples to Apples in the A/C until it got dark enough to leave for fireworks. Nick, Chris, and David put on the show for the rest of us. I videotaped a bunch of them for Michael's girlfriend, Cheri, who couldn't make it, but also to see if the boys would do something funny enough to sent to AFV. Chris almost killed himself a few times but other than that it was fun. We came back and after a bit of annoying drama and a few ghost stories we went to bed. By morning I was ready to go. We took camp down and checked out by 9am. Everything was soooo sandy. Chelsea, David, and I finished our Monopoly game and it took almost the entire 2 hours. Chelsea was about to win several times but I think David won in the end. When we got home we showered and started putting stuff away. Nick and Chelsea went home also and showered and then came back and we took them out to lunch at Chile's. After that we went home and played some Pirate's Dice, then they went and got a movie and stuff for Root Beer Floats. We had those and watched "The Eye". It was an OK movie.

Sunday was church and resting, Monday I cleaned the entire apartment. I vaccuumed and washed all the non-carpeted floors, got all the camping stuff put away, did dishes, everything except the guest room because it needed more time. Yesterday I had an interview with the Syracuse branch of the Davis County Library. I'll know by today whether I got the job. Cross your fingers.

Dang this ended up being long and probably REALLY boring. I am working on all the plans for Ohio right now and making sure I have everything I need. We're going to the temple on Saturday but other than that no big plans.

7 days baby!

So Don't Make Plans for September

September is going to be a busy month for us here in Utah! My bestest friends in the world, Nick and Chelsea, are getting married on the 18th, and then my brother-in-law, Chris, is getting married the 19th. Both weddings will be in the Bountiful Temple. To add to the excitement, Chelsea will be getting endowed on the 16th and Amber (Chris's fiancee) will be getting endowed the 17th, both of those also taking place in Bountiful. That is four days in a row in the temple! Crazy! It will be fun though. Nick and Chelsea I believe are having their reception that same evening, the 18th, and Chris and Amber are having theirs on Saturday the 20th. So 5 days of festivities. The only difference between the couples at this point is that Nick and Chelsea have been dating since December and Amber and Chris met about 2 1/2 weeks ago. In all fairness, they talked online for two weeks before that, so they have been communicating for a month, but they pretty much decided to get married after being in each other's presence for about 7 hours and within a week or so moved the wedding up 2 months and Chris dropped $1000 on a diamond ring and silver wedding band set. I have my opinions about their sanity in moving so ridiculously fast, and I have shared them with the happy couple, but in the end I know it is their decision and I just need to be happy for them. I'm working on it; it will just take me a little more time to adjust. I only pray that the common problems that arise when couples rush into marriage won't be so big that things fall apart. Overall I think they make a good couple; I have believed this since the day I met her, I just think they would be wise to get to know each other better before making such a big commitment. I've been married just over 3 years and I've known David just shy of 5 years, so in many ways I do feel qualified to make that kind of assessment (in general). I suppose some people feel that they "know" it's right faster than others though. Nick and Chelsea are ready though. I can see they are already committed to each other 100% and you can just see the love between them. I have fewer worries that they will be very happy together. In the end, I just wish both couples as much happiness as I have in my marriage.

In more exciting news, I am WAY pumped to go to Ohio in two weeks! I am going to be able to see my best friend from high school get married and I will be blessed to be a part of it. Aside from that I'll get to see my friends from the Kirtland Show and I'll be able to see the show, which will be awesome, I'm sure. I'll also get to spend time with my family and just be in my hometown again. I am just itching to be back in Ohio!! My sister was kind enough to allow me use of her car so I'm sure things will be awesome. I can't put into words how excited I am to see everyone!

We're leaving for our big 4th of July campout tomorrow. David and I still need to do some shopping for the food and stuff we need but hopefully I can do that this afternoon. We have a pack meeting tonight and then we're going to play croquet at Nick's so there isn't much time after David gets off work. Plus we have to find out where his mom and brother, Daniel, are. They came to visit and have been here since Monday although they are planning on leaving tomorrow. I haven't seen them at all today though. I don't know what we'll do with them when we go to Nick's. I guess they can stay here. Eh, we'll see. It should be a good time. We have plenty of fireworks. I'm going to videotape them for a friend who can't make it. Just pray we all come back alive....yikes!

Happy Independence Day! (Since I won't be here to post on the 4th)

Ohio in FOURTEEN days!!!!!!