I just signed Emily Bell 67 times on the back of this piece of paper.

Then I counted them to know it was 67 times.

The Things I Will Eat Today
1.  Probably, 88oz Diet Coke (it looks a lot worse when you write it out like that)
2.  Honey BBQ Flavor Twisted Fritos (delicious snack, or alternative breakfast option)
3.  Sushi
4.  Taco Bell
5.  Fortune cookies

Now I understand how people gain weight and stop taking care of themselves when they get married. Firstly, ( Read more... )

Sometimes I read stories or hear about families getting in to car accidents where one of the spouses is killed, or watch movies like Up where the wife dies, or listen to old ladies talk about how much they love their husbands and plan to "go out together," and I've never really "gotten it" till now but...

I get it.

And it makes me want to fly at Ames ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm living two episodes of The Office right now, at the very same time-- Performance Review and Conflict Resolution. Today I had my very own performance review, but the conflict is brought in because it is not merely a review from the Assistant General Manager (to whom I report directly) and General Manager. We were each given a stack ( Read more... )

The AC in my office is making me freeze. Extraordinarily. I'm sure the 44 ounces of godly elixer (ie Diet Coke) which I'm nursing isn't helping either, but frankly, I'm starting to freeze almost all the time in air conditioning. Do you know what this means? Do you even possibly know what this means?!!

It means, it is September 2, and officially, it ( Read more... )

I love it when Ames calls me "Emily Bell."

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Moremoremore that I must do. Shouldn't be watching ANTM, drinking Diet Coke and eating Ritz toasted chips (Sweet Home Sour Cream & Onion flavor), and checking/updating blogs. I should be folding this laundry real quick so I can decide what I'm going to wear in the next five days and then take a shower and curl my hair so I look/feel darling the ( Read more... )

Two days from this very moment I'll be sitting in a white dress in the Salt Lake temple, holding hands with Ames as we get ready for his grandpa to seal us together FOREVERRRRR ( Read more... )

The last 24 hours have been A Day, that's for sure. Not in a bad way. I spent the afternoon with Mom yesterday, and it was really good. I missed her a lot. I'm glad she's home. Even though sometimes we get worked up in our conversations, even when we're agreeing about something (which is almost all the time), she essentially calms me down and I ( Read more... )