Reunited

Guess what pals!!

My best friends that moved up north stopped by last night on their way to Las Vegas and we got to play!

I haven't seen them since the wedding which was like 41 years ago.(Yes, i have been married that long)  It was so much fun to see them again!

I'm obsessed with you girls!

We went out for sushi, which was a tradition with us... we ate sushi aaaalll the time. So, when the sushi came to our table I was quite excited because i haven't eaten it for a very long time.

I pick up a peice with my chopsticks aannd...

it was the nastiest thing i've ever eaten.

MY TASTE BUDS HAVE CHANGED

 AND NO LONGER ENJOY EXTRAVAGENT RAW FISH AND SEAWEED.

I almost spit it out but I swallowed it painfully and wallowed in my newfound discovery of my dwindeling taste for "hip" cuisine. 

So, I ate the rest of my fried rice and when I got home had a bowl of cereal. Yup.

I took a couple of pictures but I'm missing half of the group!

^^ me and my twin.

We have the same brain pretty much and when I had super blond hair, EVERYONE asked us if we were twins. Even though we don't look at all alike, our blond hair somehow made us siblings...we're still twins even with my brown hair and pasty skin. She is just the cooler one. :)

 

me, taylor and brooklyn.

I don't know where Tia, Angela, and Tasha wandered off to... I will need to steal them away soon and get some pics with them.

It was fun to be reunited and laugh with them!

Miss you girls!

Love, your married best friend

Spring Fever

Whhhaaat uuupppp bloggas!
I am so ready for this cold weather to be gone! It's really cramping my style. and I don't fit into any of my pants anymore. So I would like shorts season to come around.

To brighten our place up I thought I should get some "spring" like decor to add some nice color. (our place is mostly different shades or brown and red... fall colors) So, I dug out my Tai Pan Trading gift card I got for a wedding present and went shopping with my Mom! Wahoo!
I only had 20 something dollars on my gift card so I tried to find things that were cheap... which isn't easy in Tia Pan... uhh. But here are some of the items I bought that are really adorable :)

I didn't get pics of the rest of the cute stuff I got but these are just a couple. Tai Pan had the CUTEST flower spring-time wreaths with so many different varieties of flowers and colors... but they ranged from 24 $ - 57 $! HOLY no! They were so darling, so I thought, why not make one myself and save like 30 thousand dollars? And here is my finished product:

It turned out pretty cute :) It cost like a total of 4 dollars to make too. Yay for being thrifty!

Anyways, I thought I'd let you guys know what has been going on lately... not much though. We have been working out butts off to get good grades in our classes and we can't wait till this semester is over and we can take our boat out without worrying about homework!!! Yeeeeaaaah.
We are in love and having fun... we really want a vacation soon too. I would appreciate a nice week in Hawaii. Har, har... like that would ever happen! ;)
This post was really boring and not even funny... sorry ladies. (i'm assuming only girls read this blog.. but if I am mistaken... sorry dudes.)

Here's a recent pic of me... and no I don't have any of my husband. He runs when a camera approaches.

Pretend I'm cute?

Thanks for reading this Liz! I know you're the only one ;)

Love,
Mrs. Sweet.

Busy Bee

Hi fellas.
I know I don't blog very  much and I know nobody really cares, except perhaps that one lone person that reads my blog now and then. But I appreciate you, lone wolf. I do.

Have I told you guys how busy I have been lately? Obviously not because I never get on here... let me tell you now! I started my new job and I totally rock at it. and i get to wear cute clothes to work. and I totally rock at it. Besides the fact that I am super awesome at being a teller at a credit union, I am doing exceptionally well in my college classes also.
You must be proud.

It's been tough to get all the things done in the day that I need to and still have the will to live till the morning to start over and do it all again.
That's putting it lightly.

Ha, no but it's been refreshing... having so many tasks and responsibilities to concur. Not to mention feeding my husband... and making sure we have clothes that don't smell like garbage.
Plus, I potted some adorable flowers today with my mom in these cutesy pots that now harbor in our condo that I also must keep alive.

I now know what it feels like to be a grown up. As much as a weirdo 20 year old can. But I turn 21 in 5 months (which is way close, but not according to Scoty) so I'm basically like a grandma.

I am really putting off my 8 page research paper that I am writing on gender discrimination in the workplace and how women should be payed equal to men. Don't ask me where I got this topic... probably some idea from my marriage and family class. Anyways, my rough draft is due in like 32 hours and I have my name on the paper so far. I don't know what my english teacher expected from us... she didn't even give us a week from when we got all our sources to get this thing banged out. I kinda hate her... but not really because she is really nice and cute and looks as old as I am but she is almost done with her doctorate degree at UNLV. So I actually kinda do hate her.

Enough procrastinating, even though I wasn't really because I just finished writing a different paper for my other class... I do have a bed time and my hubster fell asleep on the couch watching Scrubs pretending to do his math homework so I must go awake him.

I am sooo exciting!!!!!!!!

Not.

Phat

Okay. I know, once you get married you gain a little weight, blah blah blah... it's normal... blah.

But seriously? 15 lbs since I met this man?! I'm kinda pissed. I know, you're thinking "Melissa just go work out! it's not that hard!" Um, yeah. It is. I hate working out with a passion and my husband hates ALL vegetables except corn and potatoes. (they both have noo nutritional value AT ALL.) I try secretly adding them to dinner but he can just look at it and know that vegetables are in it. He can read veggie's minds. I'm not being a baby and blogging about my pathetic weight gain for no reason.. you see, my blog is my only friend now. HA! much more pathetic than you thought!

Well, I will be a hottie again soon. Right now I look like a pregnant vampire with my pale skin and dark hair and bulging tum. But don't you worry... come summer time i'll be a somewhat-tanned, less-pregnant vampire that is on a vacation from being a vampire.

Prentend that this wasn't lame and that i'm awesome?
Thanks bloggers!

Sincerely,
Melissa the Vampiress

thank goodness

I finally have a new job!
 I have been searching sooo long and it's been really hard. I have applied to almost everyplace in STG and went on a couple interviews with zilch luck.

On wed I went on an interview @ Mountain America Credit Union and I did sooo awesome! Well at least I felt like I did... they told me I would know by friday if I got the job.

So i'm chillin at work (at Lin's) on thursday and I get a call and a voicemail from them. I quickly faked that I needed to pee and ran to the bathroom and imediately called them back.

they told me I got the job! like 24 hours after I interviewed! HOORAY!

I will have a set schedule and get paid much better than I do at Lin's and the manager is the sweetest lady ever named Ellie.
I am so excited mostly because it is like one minute away from our house AND I get to wear cute clothes to work! NO MORE APRON!

They are sending me up to SLC this sunday the 30th for a whole 5 days for training, I'm staying in a hotel in Jordan Landing and they pay for everything- and I get paid full time while i'm training. wahoo!

The last interviews I went on I thought I did really well, and I totally didn't get those jobs. I have been really discouraged because I have been praying for help to find a new job for months, going to the temple, and fasting. I have been confused why I didn't get the last job I interviewd so well for.
I know my Heavenly Father had a plan for me and those jobs were not the right one for me, they would have definitely stopped me from being able to go to school in the mornings and spend time with my husband. I am grateful that my Father in Heaven has been looking out for me and answered my prayers just when I felt like giving up.

^ that's me on the day of my interview

and I mean come on, how could they not hire me... I'm soo darling!

I'm so blessed. I am overwhelmed with how lucky I am to have so many wonderful people in my life, so many awesome experiences, and so many nice things.

Life is goooood.

:)

Married Life: post wedding recap

Okay, so I am putting off my Lib 1010 assignment and blogging instead.
Please don't judge me, just listen.
I am finally going to fill you all in on how much fun married life is! Hooray! Life after the wedding/honeymoon starts here.

That's us on Thanksgiving.

November 25th 2010, almost 3 weeks after our weddin' day.

 Don't we look fat and happy? Please don't answer that... 

It's like since the second we were husband and wife, I have an uncontrollable knack for eating everything in my sight. Eating is one of my favorite hobbies, and just so happens I married a man exactly like me. Don't get me wrong, it totally rocks my socks. But this girl is now having a hard time fitting into her work pants... which were pretty loose when she bought them a year ago.

We are now into December. Our first Christmas being married! Awwww. Cute. While on our honeymoon in Disneyland we bought these adorable Christmas ornaments of mickey and minnie in their wedding outfits. I would not leave Disneyland until our first Christmas ornaments were purchased. I don't have a pic of those but here's our little Christmas tree.

All of our ornaments were not on yet, and we have no presents underneath... but it has character, right? Right. It turned out pretty beautiful to me at least.

Christmas was really fun, we went up north and spent Christmas Eve until the day after Christmas at Scot's parents house in West Valley. It was really different being away from my Mommy and family on Christmas, I really missed them! But we had a second Christmas when we got home the following Monday so it's alll goood.

Oh! and in December, another monumental event happened. Scoty traded his two dirt bikes in for a boat! It literally has been his dream since before he was born. and he is SO happy. We picked it up from his parents house where it was being kept and towed it home on the way back to St. George after Christmas.

In a snow storm.

But we survived! Fantastic! For a while there I was a little worried... because we could barely see the road in front of us, but it all worked out and now his sweet, sweet mastercraft is sitting in our condo driveway. We basically are counting down the days until it's warm enough to go out to the lake. Well he is, I'm not so excited about the lake because that equals swimsuit and I have canceled that attire out of my wardrobe until I control my feasting habit.

Ahhh, hello 2011. Here already? Guess so.

We spent New Years Eve as any 81 year old grandparents would. We went out to eat at our favorite restaurant and payed using a sweet gift-certificate coupon and wandered on home to watch a short movie and fell asleep around 10:30 p.m. Yes, we are party animals.

We enjoy it this way.

So now you are pretty up to date besides the fact that I dyed my hair dark brown.

This is very surprising information in case you didn't know. I have been blond for 5 years. (unnaturally, of course) When I was 15 years old I decided I wanted blond streaks in my hair and it basically escalated from there.

Going into a blurry phase of platinum, almost white locks with many, many Paris Hilton/Barbie look alike references.

I decided to end the madness and let the world know my true identity and impulsivly bought a box of hair color and now you have this:

Please ignore the 15 year old annoying kissy-camera face I have going on in this pic. I was delusional from the drastic change, okay? This is the end result. Quite different, but I like it. And so do 70 % of my co-workers and customers that actually recognize me instead of the 30 % that ask if i'm the "new girl".

Well, there you have it. That's basically our life [so far] in a nutshell. I left out the part where our new major hobby is watching 'The Office' every night, we started at season one probably a little more than a month ago. We are now on season 6 and going strong. Once that ends, I don't know what we'll do.

We love being married.

Ta-da.

             Hope you enjoyed my procrastinating as much as I did,

Melissa.

It's been a while!

Hello fellow bloggers!
Sorry I have been such a bore lately and totally ignored our sweet blog. I have been busy being a wife! :) Being married is fantastic by the way.  We have been busy decorating our condo and playing with family for the holidays. We spent Thanksgiving down here with my family and went up north for Christmas. I have to say it was more difficult than I thought spending my first Christmas away from my Mommy and family! I missed them! But it was a blast spending time with Scot's side of the fam, especially with all the little kids so excited for Santa! I did promise pictures... but you will have to wait till my next post. I can't figure out my dumb camera and computer right now.
2010 has been the best year of my life so far and it's only going to get better. I'm really looking forward to 2011! Minus the part where school starts... blegh. and looking for a new job. Whatever happens I have a really adorable husband by my side forever and it totally rocks. Happy New Year friends!