Well, sadly, it's that time of year.
The air is getting colder, my slippers have been dug out of a box, my feet are constantly freezing thanks to our wood floors, another blanket has been added to the bed....
and midterm exams/papers/everything horrible and time-consuming, is due by this Thursday at 11:59 pm.
In other words, don't expect to hear from me, let alone see me, for the next week.
Bleeeeergh. Erich is actually excited about this, cause it means I won't be harassing him for staying up till 2 am playing video games for a week. Because sadly, I will most likely be staying up even later every night trying to get all my studying/writing/memorizing done.
Anyways. See you kids in a week.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Mr. Erich Newey, as much as I love him, is currently on my hit list.
A couple weeks ago, I was pretty sick. Turns out I had bronchitis ( for the second time in three months...way to go, immune system!) and my doctor put me on antibiotics. Within like 3 days I was back to feeling about 95%, with the exception of this dang cough that will just not go away.
Anyways. I ended up buying a humidifier to sleep with, I figured the dry climate wasn't doing my system any good. And on Monday night (the night we bought it) I slept soundly for the first time in three weeks. Amazing difference.
Last night (Tuesday), I fell asleep super early, and was just OUT. That is, until Erich woke me up around 2 am (who knows what he was still doing awake), told me my cough was driving him crazy and literally forced 2 NyQuil gelcaps down my throat.
Fast forward to eleven am, I've been up since 6, been at work since 7:30, and I'm STILL all sorts of out of it from the Nyquil. Thanks Erich.
Now that my complaining about Erich is done, onto the good news. It's midterms week at school (that's not the good part haha), but I am going into midterms with 110% in one class (on our last test, I got every question right plus the two extra credit questions), and 97.2% in the other.
Assuming I don't screw up too badly (and it would be HIGHLY embarrassing if I did screw up considering both my midterms are open book, open note take- home -tests that I have a week to complete), I should be going into finals with all A's. This is by far the best I've ever done in school.
(for the record, I emailed that paragraph to my parents, my father responded almost immediately with ,
PROUD PARENT MOMENT! MY KID ISN'T STUPID!!!)
....thanks Dad. Love you too.
Now if I can just get through the next four years with this good of grades, I'll be set :)
A couple weeks ago, I was pretty sick. Turns out I had bronchitis ( for the second time in three months...way to go, immune system!) and my doctor put me on antibiotics. Within like 3 days I was back to feeling about 95%, with the exception of this dang cough that will just not go away.
Anyways. I ended up buying a humidifier to sleep with, I figured the dry climate wasn't doing my system any good. And on Monday night (the night we bought it) I slept soundly for the first time in three weeks. Amazing difference.
Last night (Tuesday), I fell asleep super early, and was just OUT. That is, until Erich woke me up around 2 am (who knows what he was still doing awake), told me my cough was driving him crazy and literally forced 2 NyQuil gelcaps down my throat.
Fast forward to eleven am, I've been up since 6, been at work since 7:30, and I'm STILL all sorts of out of it from the Nyquil. Thanks Erich.
Now that my complaining about Erich is done, onto the good news. It's midterms week at school (that's not the good part haha), but I am going into midterms with 110% in one class (on our last test, I got every question right plus the two extra credit questions), and 97.2% in the other.
Assuming I don't screw up too badly (and it would be HIGHLY embarrassing if I did screw up considering both my midterms are open book, open note take- home -tests that I have a week to complete), I should be going into finals with all A's. This is by far the best I've ever done in school.
(for the record, I emailed that paragraph to my parents, my father responded almost immediately with ,
PROUD PARENT MOMENT! MY KID ISN'T STUPID!!!)
....thanks Dad. Love you too.
Now if I can just get through the next four years with this good of grades, I'll be set :)
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Getting started
Well, considering my soon-to-be sisters-in-law Deb and Liz both have blogs (which, I'll admit, I read a bit obsessively), and everyone keeps telling me to keep them updated on Erich's and my life, I figured I'd start this thing. No promises on how often I'll update though.
Let's see. For those of you who don't know, Erich proposed to me on Thursday night, our eighteen-month anniversary. (10/07/10). It was amazing. I knew he was going ring shopping with my best friend Ariel that day, and we were going out to dinner that night to celebrate 18 months, so I was all sorts of nervous that day. In fact, I'd say neurotic is not an incorrect description. I was ridiculous. I met him for dinner at the Red Iguana on the West side of Salt Lake, and barely said a word out of nerves until he informed me that he had not purchased a ring. I have to admit, I almost cried. I was so disappointed. But it allowed me to calm down enough to enjoy dinner with him.
So, I drove home to Ogden. Erich beat me by literally 10 seconds, if that. We walked around to our back door, he opened it and let me walk in first. That's when I saw the whole house was dark, but the kitchen and living room were filled with probably 50 lit candles. I dropped everything I had been holding and turned around to look at him..but he was already on one knee, holding a little white box up. He said something along the lines of,
" I had this whole speech planned out but I can't remember a word of it right now...ah, crap. Will you marry me?" His voice was so high-pitched and shaky, and he had tears in his eyes. I will never forget that moment. Or the moment of walking into my candle-filled house.
I of course said yes and started crying. Then (me being typical me), I asked him how long the candles had been lit, and mentioned it was really unsafe to leave lit candles unattended for any period of time. I am all about fire safety. Hah. He informed me that our friend Jesse had actually been in the house lighting the candles for Erich, which was a huge relief. Anyways. He put the ring on my finger (it is gorgeous), and I called my mom to tell her the happy news. I almost wish I hadn't now...she is furious, to the point where we aren't speaking and I'm looking into student loans to pay for school. Argh. My dad and stepmom are thrilled, and Erich's whole family seems to be pretty excited as well. All of our friends are in shock I think (we're the first people to get engaged out of all of our friends), but they all seem excited for us too.
Anyways, it is 9:15 pm and us old fogies who have to be up at 6 am need sleep. Going to bed now.
EDIT: I tried to post a picture of my ring, but apparently my camera has decided to go on the fritz. I think it feels neglected. Erich is messing with it now, hopefully I'll be able to post some soon. I can't get over how pretty it is :)
And because I am lazy, and 99% of the time I decide to get on this thing I'm at work and don't have a way of uploading pictures here, I'm the lame blogger with no pictures. Hopefully I'll remember while at home soon.
Let's see. For those of you who don't know, Erich proposed to me on Thursday night, our eighteen-month anniversary. (10/07/10). It was amazing. I knew he was going ring shopping with my best friend Ariel that day, and we were going out to dinner that night to celebrate 18 months, so I was all sorts of nervous that day. In fact, I'd say neurotic is not an incorrect description. I was ridiculous. I met him for dinner at the Red Iguana on the West side of Salt Lake, and barely said a word out of nerves until he informed me that he had not purchased a ring. I have to admit, I almost cried. I was so disappointed. But it allowed me to calm down enough to enjoy dinner with him.
So, I drove home to Ogden. Erich beat me by literally 10 seconds, if that. We walked around to our back door, he opened it and let me walk in first. That's when I saw the whole house was dark, but the kitchen and living room were filled with probably 50 lit candles. I dropped everything I had been holding and turned around to look at him..but he was already on one knee, holding a little white box up. He said something along the lines of,
" I had this whole speech planned out but I can't remember a word of it right now...ah, crap. Will you marry me?" His voice was so high-pitched and shaky, and he had tears in his eyes. I will never forget that moment. Or the moment of walking into my candle-filled house.
I of course said yes and started crying. Then (me being typical me), I asked him how long the candles had been lit, and mentioned it was really unsafe to leave lit candles unattended for any period of time. I am all about fire safety. Hah. He informed me that our friend Jesse had actually been in the house lighting the candles for Erich, which was a huge relief. Anyways. He put the ring on my finger (it is gorgeous), and I called my mom to tell her the happy news. I almost wish I hadn't now...she is furious, to the point where we aren't speaking and I'm looking into student loans to pay for school. Argh. My dad and stepmom are thrilled, and Erich's whole family seems to be pretty excited as well. All of our friends are in shock I think (we're the first people to get engaged out of all of our friends), but they all seem excited for us too.
Anyways, it is 9:15 pm and us old fogies who have to be up at 6 am need sleep. Going to bed now.
EDIT: I tried to post a picture of my ring, but apparently my camera has decided to go on the fritz. I think it feels neglected. Erich is messing with it now, hopefully I'll be able to post some soon. I can't get over how pretty it is :)
And because I am lazy, and 99% of the time I decide to get on this thing I'm at work and don't have a way of uploading pictures here, I'm the lame blogger with no pictures. Hopefully I'll remember while at home soon.
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