Time to catch-up

Now that it's summer, and I have had plenty of free time, it's time for a blog update.  I don't even know where to begin, since a lot has happened and I've got a good 8 or 9 months of our lives to cover.  My plan is to do a blogpost a day to cover everything.  Now that life is slow, I feel like keeping the blog current is going to be an easy thing to do.

Basically, our summer has been spent mostly working.  We've had a couple of nice vacations visiting family, but otherwise our summer has been very lazy, chill, and relaxing.  Looking back, I could have been more productive, as in I had plenty of opportunities to update the blog/do crafts/read books/exercise/etc, but it just feels so good to lay in bed all day when you have no obligations!  It's almost like I know I won't be able to do nothing when the semester starts, or when I start having kids, so I'm enjoying it while it's here.  Now that I've had my fill of nothingness, I'm ready to get things done.  And so now, a blog!


Here is  list of the happenings in the Rougeau home by month.  Over the next week or so, I'll go more into detail on these things in about a post a day.


November 2011

• Natalie starts teaching a Sunday School class for chuch
• Thanksgiving with Narayne in Logan, UT

December 2011

• December 10 - Fall classes end
• December 12-23 - Winter Intersession class (Human Physiology) for Natalie
• Christmas and New Year's with my family in Houston

January 2012

• January 11 - Back to Houston to welcome Elder Nicholas Egan home from his mission to Phoenix, AZ
• January 17 - Spring classes start, Natalie starts working on her Dental Hygiene application to the LSU Dental School in New Orleans
• January 28 - Go to Houston (again) at the end of the month to see Jennifer play as Hedy LaRue in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

February

• Natalie starts playing Skyrim...it kinda takes over her life

March

• Natalie submits her Dental Hygiene application and is invited to interview

April

• April 1 - totally prank Facebook on April Fool's Day by announcing Natalie's pregnant.  (people are STILL mad at us about it)
• April 2 - Interview for Natalie at the hygiene school
• April 7 - Crawfish with the Huddlestons in Pineville, LA

May

• May 7 - Spring classes end, Natalie's first "C" in college (darn Parasitology)
• Natalie receives a rejection letter from the Dental Hygiene Program
• Natalie becomes the Relief Society Visiting Teaching Coordinator for church

June 

• June 2-4 - see family in Houston for a few days, Natalie starts working on her Raising Cane's T-shirt quilt and pillows
• June 8 - Narayne comes to Baton Rouge, on June 9 we three drive to Lake Charles to see Grandma and Grandpa Mills
• June 10 - Our wedding anniversary
• June 16 - Blue Bayou with Narayne

July

• June 30-July 8 - 4th of July celebration in Bartlesville, OK, with every member of Natalie's family present for the first time in two years
• July 7 - Michael starts his new salaried job at Trendsic Coorporation
• Natalie is asked to become a manager at Raising Cane's
• July 13-23 - Steam Summer Sale!!  Michael buys a lot of much wanted PC video games for dirt cheap
• July 28 (this Saturday) - visit to Pineville to see the Huddlestons and welcome Elder Cory Huddleston home

New Year's Resolution

Now it is 2011. 2010 has passed. 2009 has, too, and I haven't posted a single blog entry. Reading other people's blogs brings so much joy to my life, though. I love reading about the experiences of my sisters and friends, because I feel like I'm closer to them. It's also just plain ol' fun to read about what they've been up to.

But you know how the saying goes: "If you want a Christmas card, you got to send one." I may be stretching it a bit, but if I want my friends to blog about their lives, I suppose I have to blog about mine, too. There's the classic "I'm terrible at keeping a journal" excuse, and also the "Nothing exciting happens in my life." Maybe most people feel that way about their own lives. However, I like reading the mundane "I'm-posting-because-I-have-to" blog entries. Maybe someone will like to read mine, too (which will be almost every post...). As far as the "terrible at keeping a journal" excuse? I'm sure a blogpost once a week isn't too hard to keep up with. I may be pleased in a few month's time that I've kept this simple record of my life.

So here is my New Year's Resolution: to keep up with a blog, and to post in it at least once a week, even if I never get any comments, and even if it's a "I'm-posting-because-I-have-to" entry.

Happy New Year!