This year I...

Hold on to your hats folks, I'm back for another post!

It shouldn't surprise you to hear that it will be about my list of things-to-do for this next year. I like calling it a "to-do" list more than I like calling them goals. Crazy? Maybe but thats fine with me.

So, like last year, I just wrote up my list on a kitchen note pad and stuck it on my memo board.

Here it is!

• Learn to use the table saw
• line the kitchen cabinets
• finish snowman quilt
• line bathroom cabinets
• intall laundry nook outlet
• Make a perfect batch of rolls
• finish kitchen
• finish kitchen baseboards
• finish knitting socks
• finish baby girl quilt
• make baby room curtains
• paint pantry
• do something about master bed lights
• lose all baby weight
• pay off car 
• pay off furnace
• stay debt free!!

Okay. So they aren't terribly exciting goals, I know. But here's the thing. They are all things that I want to do, or learn or accomplish. So worthy, right? The first couple things on the list are roll-overs from last year, so theres that. I bought a knitting book about knitting socks and I taught myself how to knit. Now I just need to finish the socks right? So far, they are pretty bad looking but its okay! Its my first project. Also, I have yet to bake a batch of yeast bread that turned out. So this year I'd like to make that happen. Anyway, my ambitions all in a list. Woo-hoo! I'm looking forward to this year, even though we have welcomed it in with terrible colds all around. I mean, all three of us super sick and congested. Its been awesome. I have coughed so hard I thought I would send myself into labor. Its horrible. But aside from that, we have fun things to look forward to! New baby, fun adventures and good times to be had. 

Here's to the New Year!!!

oh.my.

I'm so excited! I just checked my race time from the 5k I ran on Thanksgiving and I was very pleasantly surprised to see this:

135

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Emily MALLOY

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00:40:04.3

00:17:31.400

12:55.6

So I finished 135th out of the 200 women in my age division, 1833 out of 3200 total people, with a time of forty minutes and four seconds. That is a whole 3 minutes faster than my previous 5k!!!!! That is so huge for me! I'm so excited! I'm going to keep running and hopefully be ready for a 10k when the next one rolls around. If I can just keep up my motivation throughout this freezing cold winter We're up against!!!        

I'm proud to say that I have faithfully followed a diet plan for two weeks solid!

Two whole weeks.

I'm also proud to say that in those two weeks (and a day) I have completely stopped drinking Diet Coke. (and anyother soda for that matter...)

aaaaand

I've lost 9 pounds!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

so excited!

Lately

I have collected about a billion projects.

I got this adorable fabric.

I found some stellar chairs at the DI.

And another one to craft with...

And I am trying to help my little garden grow.

I have a flower bed that has magically re-appearing grass in it.

Our Tracer keeps tricking us into thinking it will die... but then doesn't.

I made my first window valance.

Now I need to make another one...

I sew. All. Day. Long.

My baby is adorable.
and hilarious and cute and cuddly and funny and loveable and squishable and huggable and perfect and wonderful and SUCH A NUGGET!

My life is wonderful.

so excited!

I just want everyone to know the best news we've recieved in a while now...

Darrell got a new "real" job!


Goodbye Walmart,

                                  Hello US BANK!!

He was offered an in store banker position yesterday and we are beyond thrilled!!!

I just pulled out my phone and its covered in paint.

How, you ask, did my phone get covered in paint?

Very good question.

I don't know.

I don't remember touching it with painted hands, but then again, I also don't remember getting paint in my hair, on my arms and face and under my fingernails.

I guess we're using magic paint.

Speaking of which, I also don't know how it happened, some how my basement magically almost got completely painted yesterday. I don't remember doing it all by myself, but I know that nobody else had a paint brush in their hands...

weird.

my purse

my purse is medium sized.
it has some compartments, and a main space.
there are some premanant fixtures and some not so permanant: wallet-permanant. dirty diaper- not.
sometimes it is super cluttered.
okay, most the time.
its cute.
its functional.
sometimes its aggravating.

my apartment is medium sized.
it has some rooms, and a main space.
there are some permanant fixtrues and some not so permanant. easy bake-sized oven, permanant, me- not.
sometimes its super cluttered.
these days, most of the time.
its cute,
its functional.
sometimes aggravating.

last night at 2 AM we decided its time to leave our apartment, much like I change purses on a whim.
so today, I cleaned out my purse. Everything, gone.
Put the wallet back in and put it aside.
and today, I cleaned out my house,
and i'm packing up all my worldy belongings, leaving the easy bake-sized oven behind and moving.

I've heard people say the state of your purse is a reflection of the state of your home.
I never knew how true that was.

this will be mine!

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Sorry its a little blurry... its the only picture I have.

BUT

in about a month (fingers crossed)

we will sign the papers and this little beauty will be ours!

seriously, so blessed!

Okay, okay, I don't really like to admit when I am stalking a blog. You know, reading it silently, gleaning information about strangers. But. If you want a good laugh, read the blog Seriously, so blessed!. It is hilarious. Don't take it seriously, its not meant to be taken that way. Its a joke. I wish I could be her. Literally.

Anyway, I seriously am like the luckiest girl in the world though. You know back when I talked about building blocks? Well we had another DOOZY come into our lives last thursday and my life has officially changed! (no I'm not pregnant. DEATH is not a GOOD change, because that would KILL ME) Anyway, I will write more about this building block at a later date, but I'm just waiting to see where the blocks will fall. I think this could be the best thing that could have happened at this time. Time will tell :D

hope (ful)

you know that moment when life gets just a little bit too stressful to think about?

you know, you start to think,

things are going great now but...
how will this work when...
what if i don't...
what if you don't...
what if we don't...

that moment?

the one that strikes at 2 in the morning after husband just got home from work? and we're both so tired that it just happens? and it won't stop?

it seems that moment is followed by one that goes,

i found out that!!!!
they said i could do!!!
a year from now i could be!!!
a year from now you will be!!!
a year from now we will be!!!

and then suddenly all hope is restored and all those fears just seem to melt away.

i really like those moments.

ps: i just love fall.

i have a problem...

... called curiosity.

i am working on not being so curious.

you know, waiting for information to be volunteered instead of asking.
like with husband.
i like to ask him when i don't think the answer is coming soon enough.
silly.

i should just be patient.

so i put this new patience to test yesterday when husband told me he had secret errands to run today.
i asked what they were and he said "i can't tell you! its a secret!"
and he had a cute look on his face.

shoot dang.
now i really really want to know.

blah.


in other news... it seems so weird that one year ago i was moving out of one apartment to go home to get married. sheesh. i never would have guessed that one year later i would be getting ready to go to my BEAUTIFUL cousin Erikas wedding and have a little baby coming.

sheesh.

good thing nobody told me that they had a secret about that.
it might have killed me.

secret

it's a BOY

hip hip!

you know those times when you realize that you are in desperate need of a vacation?

not just a day off but an escape?

oh yeah. i'm there.

hip hip hooray for family vaca!!!!!

we're going to mexico and in roughly two weeks we will be leaving the gloom of logan (AND THE DANG CROWS...they are back!!!!) and heading south toward some warmth. HOORAY!

and the best part is? we get to turn our phones off. FOR NEARLY SEVEN DAYS.

now thats a vacation.

now here's the problem i am facing.

since my skin is nearly translucent and the i am not the best of friends with the sun... should i go tanning just so the first encounter i have with the sun doesn't leave me in crippling pain? thoughts?

i'm just a little excited...

... and not really excited, mostly cause i don't want to get my hopes up too high.

BUT.

I just applied for a job at a place called Scytek Laboratories. I guess they manufacture cancer treatments? (or something like that.) I sent them my resume a few days ago and they responded by sending me a real job application. I'm hoping that is a good sign, considering me and husband spent about an hour creating a whole new resume for me at like midnight to send just to them, AND I have not yet once had someone respond to me when I sent them my resume... so fingers crossed. This would be a really great job!!!

I'll let you know what happens.

p.s. this is what today looked like... and it was beautiful

goal :)

so i am pretty excited. 

here's why.

this week i lost 3.4 pounds.

that brings my grand total to 13.8!!!

i was a little bummed because last week i only lost .6 but my mom,

ever the optimist once again put it into perspective for me.

"thats still 2 cubes of butter."

and then she said "now imagine those cubes of butter and turn them into the little gobs of chicken fat that you usually cut off."

and then i felt better.

(gross)

i'm so excited i think i'm going to cry...

...or pee my pants. no seriously. i'm so so so excited.

there is this band that i really like. like really really really like. and adam went and saw them in concert once upon a time and i was supremely jealous. and they keep touring every where else in the world but they hadn't come to the u.s. for a while. well then they started touring in the u.s. but they weren't close to utah so i kept up this nonsensical idea that it would be fun to just, you know, drive to south carolina just to see  them. yeah. husband didn't really think that idea was the best one that i could have come up with so we didn't. but then one day close to christmas i walked in from work and husband was on the computer looking at ticket master so i asked him what he was looking at and guess what?!?! they were coming to utah so for christmas we bought tickets. EEEEEEE i'm so excited. and the even better part is that they are playing TOMORROW NIGHT!!!!!!! rain or snow we WILL be going to SLC for the concert. oh yeah and the band is MUSE!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE them. they are a rock band. but seriously. they are such amazing musicians. listen to this or this or this (like half way through... LOVE) and pretty much any other song that you see by them will be amazing. i'm so excited. i will have to let ya'll know how it goes. and hopefully i can locate my camera so i can document this event... otherwise i will be tremendously upset. my heart is actually hurting i'm so exciting... i think i need to calm down... and go to the bathroom...


dear weather:
please cooperate tomorrow

dear husband:
thanks for the best christmas present ever!!!!

dear adam:
i wish you could come with... but at least you got to see them perform at least once...

dear muse:
love

7.2

can you guess what that number represents?

anybody?

well i'll just tell you.

thats the number of pounds that i have lost since last tuesday which brings my grand total for march 12.2!!

lets put that into perspective.

thats like 48 cubes of butter.

or one ten pound bag of potatoes and 4 cubes of butter.

where does it all go?

so i have some exciting news.

well exciting to me anyway...

i have lost six pounds since the beginning of march!

HOORAY!!!!

and in other news...

i think i have found what i want to do with myself for the next little while.

shhh its a secret.(but i'll tell you as soon as i can)

oh yeah, and i found the graduate school i want to attend!

and its sunny outside.

and i love my husband.

isn't life great?

bigger and better things

oh new little apartment:

i already like you... even though you smell funny and don't have any air circulation...

I like your cute kitchen/ living space...

I like the big bedroom...

...and the small one...

I like the bathroom...

and the porch!!!

... i just think you are so cute!!!! I can't wait for you to be our new little home!!!!!

Love, your new owner, Emily LaRae