Loaded

Even though it's only been about a week, i feel that there has been a whole months worth of activity and emotion going on with us. I will keep it straight to the point for the smaller things that are self explanatory. Let's get started!

Hubbs is in the process of filling out his grad-school application. He has a phone interview tomorrow with a faculty advisor. We are going strong on that. Pretty confident that he will get accepted, but still if you keep us in your prayers that would be appreciated.

Hubbs is playing ultimate frisby for school and has games every Friday night. One of the team members lives in our complex and so on their practice days, his wife and i go walking together while they practice. They are all really good players. STRONG. POWERFUL. The game this friday was an interesting one. The team they played was short and couldn't keep up with our team. Hubbs mates are all super tall *(except like two) and they all have played several semesters and know what they are doing. They play well together, just get lazy sometimes. They have been working hard on conditioning themselves to play hard. They won the game 10-0 on Friday.

Hubbs is working on school work and is so busy trying to keep up with his spanish teacher who he finds very annoying. She requires so much work. Our online class we take together is pretty demanding too of our time and not always worth the work put into it. He is getting fairly good grades and does his job of studying hard to get good grades for his scholarship.

Soon he will be going to the chiropractor that i was seeing a few months ago. He wants to get adujusted and work with the doc on his internship. That will start this week most likely.

I am super busy right now with all my classes, work, and trying to fit in fun things for my own sanity. For one of my classes, we have a group project to do PR for a society and so we have been working on that. It's kinda great because the team needs us to get all the stuff set up as soon as possible to implement it this semester. They have nothing so i am working on creating a logo and t-shirt design for them while everyone else is working on something different.

This society needs A LOT of work and so it's keeping us very busy and with a group leader that isn't bing very supportive and helpful with providing us with the information we need to do our project, it's becoming quite frustrating and with this being the last class of the day, i go home feeling frustrated and overwhelmed.

With this class i am taking comes seminars. Every semester the entire department cancles all of it's classes so that the students and teachers can go to seminars that go for six to eight hours a day. Last week me and my sister-in-law needed to go to these seminars. I ended up having to work all day so i only went to one of the sessions. The lady that spoke talked to us about her job as a PR Consultant. Since that is what i want to be, i thought it would be very interesting, but she talked more about other things that didn't have the most relevant points to the topic. The next day she came and spoke in each of my classes about the same thing. The up side what that i got a free pair of socks from it.

Work is kinda busy just cause i am still figuring things out for one of the jobs. I am working on putting together a work book for future employees. Finishing a project from last semester. Also, just getting the day to day stuff done. Last week, i went into the place where hubbs works to warm up some food. His boss came out of her office and stopped me to talk. She said "have i told you how much i love your mouth?". I of course shocked at the comment sat there stunned and not sure what to say or how to react. She continued to say "see look at my face" and pulls her hand up to her mouth and used the first two fingers on her hand to move each side of her mouth down, on her face. She then continued " and my husband's even worse". Pulling her hand up again to pull the edges of her face down even more. She then said that she loved my mouth because it's naturally in an upward shape and looks happy.

So as i said things are busy around here. Saturday is a great example because we didn't stop all day. We woke up, ate, got ready and went to the temple. While there it was so interesting to me. The first reason why was because we hadn't gone to the temple for a long time and so it was a great refresher to kind of start pulling myself back to what i believe. Then we had a wonderful experience to share the session with a young guy who was going for the first time. His innocence and purity was great to see. His curiosity was intriguing to me because i hadn't seen a "own endowment" for anyone other than myself over a year ago.

After the temple, we went to pick up hubbs sister and her husband. We have been planning for a family dinner and activity that needed some food and groceries. Here in our little podunck town, there isn't much here for shopping of any sort. We have a store that is in the bigger town about a half hour away and so we carpooled there. On the way we remembered the different things we needed from the town. The whole trip took like almost 4 hours.

On our way home, we were driving and laughing and having fun. On the other side of the freeway there was a cop that was coming our direction and as he got close to us, we noticed his lights were on. Usually cops in this town are pretty intense on speeding. Hubbs said we were only going four miles over so we all started to kind of worry they would turn around to come after us. We saw an exit coming up and figured we would drive down this road to our apartment. We didn't realize till we hit a dead end, that it was the wrong exit. So we had to turn around and we wanted to find the way home without the freeway. So needless to say we got lost. Right before we took this exit, sister in law mentioned that they had stake conference in seven minutes. We all laughed after we realized it wasn't going to happen.

Luckily when we got back to town, we had dinner that was ready and we got from the store. We sat down and ate like carnivors because we all realized just how hungry we were. As hubbs and i were fininshing up, our neighbor texted us to see if we were ready to go to a straw maze with them. I told her we were up the street and would be there shortly. So we ran home and when we got home realized they were sitting in their car waiting for us. We then ran up the stairs to grab our coats and back down to go.

We got to the straw maze and they hadn't planned on many people going out because of the cold windy weather (that is always in our area) so there was no one there really. We walked through the maze that wasn't that exciting and quite small. After being there for 30 minutes we went home. Once home, we called the siblings to come over.

While on the phone with the siblings, the neighbors came to see if we wanted to get ice cream with them. So we walked over to get ice cream and told the siblings to meet us there. The siblings came over and we walked back to the house afterwards and put in a movie. I fell asleep on the couch during a movie. So our day was very busy and that is what every day is like. We only rest when we go to bed.

Yesterday, we had church until 4:30 and realized that we had people coming over for dinner in 20 minutes. The meal we wanted to make wasn't going to be ready in time so we had to make up a new meal and get everything set up. Hubbs went to pick up cousins while i stayed home cooking dinner. Sister-in-law came over and started setting up for her service project that we were doing. Once dinner was done, we put together goodies and door bell ditched friends in need. It turned into a door bell ditch 3 times in a row. We all were working on getting one friend for the third time and this guy who had been walking around the complex and saw us as we were running around and asked what was going on. So we told him and asked him if he wanted to join in. He said sure and so we had him go do the last doorbell ringing and he ended up getting chased down. DON'T WORRY. The guys both had a sense of humor. It was all good. Another friend ended up chasing down one of the cousins and again all involved had a great time with all smiles!

Anyway, big news isn't going on yet. Life is just moving forward and school is half way over for the semester. Two more semesters for me and i can't wait!

See ya friends.

Humorous boss and Thankful expressions

So this is an email thread from me to Hubbs and my boss, and her response. 

"So i am coming to the realization that when i am having hard times, i need to just deal with it myself.

There have been a few times lately were i have felt home sick or having a bad day and just needed a hug or someone to talk to. I look for Hubbs's sister who is great for talking to, I text hubbs to have him respond, i go up to your office, or i go up to sister Reeds desk. 

Hubbs's sister can't be found. Hubbs doesn't respond. Sister Reed is in a meeting, at a wedding, or just not at her desk, and it's Monday so you are at home enjoying your day.

I get all excited and hopeful that i can see you and just enjoy being around your happy face, and then realize oh yeah she is home today and busy there. So i leave with my head down and say " ill try again another day soon" to realize, it's Monday YET AGAIN and you aren't there.

I just can't catch a break. haha

I realize that this happens and i shouldn't rely on others to help me out. I need to buck up and get over it. Forget the emotion and move on. That's my learned lesson for the day!

enjoy your Monday and ill see you soon! "

Me. 
When i told hubbs about this his comments were... "ie. don't show on mondays"...she has problems. 

Then hubbs's boss responds with this humerus response

Hey Soph,
Let me take you to lunch sometime this week or next.  I am busy on Wednesday but I have time on Thursday or Friday. When are you free?


I am so proud of my witty comments and her sense of humor. They don't come out often and so when they do i feel i gotta share because i feel smart.

So i know that thanksgiving is a ways away but i feel like i must start it now. In one of my classes today i was listening to the teacher explaining a scripture we had to read as part of our homework. He was talking about the people who had diseases and were healed by being in Bethesda. He was quoting a comment from Elder Packer about how life stinks and that is our purpose in life. To overcome our challenges and be stronger people. We have a duty to inform our children that there are some people who are challenged and can't do anything about it, we are there to help them and give our service of able bodies to "lift them into the pool" (so to speak). I started thinking about how my  mom always would tell me when i was younger that i shouldn't call people retards because it is an actual thing that can't be controlled. She taught me that my words would hurt people and i should be aware of other people. She taught me this lesson because i had some cousins that had disabilities they couldn't control and people would use that word in a negative miss-guided way. Somewhere in my growing up, i thought that i had grown out of having to treat people kindly and accept all things. I started to talk like all my friends and when my friends would do something stupid i would call them a retard. How stupid i was! I started thinking about how people call me stupid because i have had to take all my classes multiple times because i can't remember things like i used to. Also, how people would say hurtful things to me, commenting on issues i couldn't control or do anything about. It hurts to be on that side. I then started thinking about my sister in law and how she teaches her boys to be kind.

I realized i need to change this habit of mine, if i want to be a good example to any future child of mine. I then started thinking about how i wanted my kids to be once we start having children in our home. This whole thought process went throughout the whole day not just while sitting in class. I remember how it felt in other people's homes where there was love and acceptance and the whole family could joke around and be strongly connected to each other.

I thought about what each person in my family has done for me and what aspects are weak because of my actions. I started missing home, being with my grandparent's and my sisters. I have tried to suppress my emotions so that i can get through this next year and so i am feeling a strong connection with the person i want to be. I love the fall time as i have mentioned and it's a deeper meaning to me than the crisp air, the spooky activities and the giving season. I seem to gain a greater appreciation and stronger connection to who i really want to be in life.

I want to be a loving mother who is always teaching my children to be kind, helpful, and accepting. I want my children to be respectful and willing to give to others, any day of the week. I can do this by changing myself and i find it easier once i start focusing on paying attention to my actions. I am going to try and focus on one think i am grateful for, writing it down, and putting it in a jar. Then in a year i can go through and put together a book.

I am feeling very blessed right now. I have a home over my head. It's a small little apartment on the top floor of a three story, north facing building. Inside it's filled with experience, love, and family. I have pictures on every wall. Pictures of family, my beliefs, inspirations, pleasures. I am constantly reminded

I have two jobs, that help me pay my bills and put food on my table. I love having people over for games or movies and entertaining friends. I love making goodies when they come over and basically bribing people to come see me. I have some awesome boss's that make my day more enjoyable and who see me as an equal more often than a lower level.

I have a loving husband who treats me like a queen when i am down and needing to be lifted. He puts up with me taking him for granted and being selfish at times. He does what he can to keep me happy at all times. He truly loves and cares for me and i see this more and more with each day.

I have a loving family who loves and supports me in all that i do. They give me advice when needed and know how best to handle dealing with me. They are aware of the things that will set me off and deal with my outbursts of over exaggerated emotion.

What more could i really want or need. I am so very blessed and love where i am in my life situations.

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Have a great day and smile!