October-ness

General Conference weekends are always my favorite! The talks are always fabulous, and I always learn so much. This year I got sick over this weekend. It was sad, and unfortunate, but luckily it was on the weekend, and I could stay at home and just listen to conference.

Also, this medicine is about the only medicine I actually like. I've tried others, and they are just awful. So, thank you Kroger. You are a life saver!

It's always beautiful when it rains. Always!

October always reminds me of Gram, since her birthday is the 10th. I'm so grateful for the opportunity I had to live right next door, and to be able to visit her whenever. I just wish I had visited her more as I got older. I can't wait to see her again!

Oh church ball. Greg is over the stake sports, so he gets to go set up volleyball nets and play. I went this first night because one of my volleyball girls is in our ward, and I wanted to make sure she knew someone. It's always good times watching people play.

We had a Relief Society Activity on the 13th. We did a "Witches Night Out" with dinner (potato bar), and "Speed Friendshipping." In the last 3 years that I have been in this calling, I have never had an actual committee. It was just Melanie and me for the longest time, then we added Shaye.

When Melanie moved in March, I told the RS President that I would not do any more activities until I got a committee. Well, we had 3 accept callings, and then we sent around a sign-up sheet for additional help, and got one more. It was the greatest thing ever! They did such an amazing job, and it turned out so fun. Plus, the fact that I had very little to do made it even more awesome.

The dinner was delicious, and the speed friendshipping was super fun. Even with all the complaints (which, honestly, I wanted to smack a few of the older ladies!) in the end they all had a great time, and I heard so many comments about how fun it was, and how they loved getting to know the sisters better. Jerks. If they would just trust us!

Last Saturday, Mom and Dad were in town. They were going to come visit and see our house, but since we were at Wal-Mart, they decided to visit Uncle Dick & Aunt Joanna. Since we were right there, I had Greg drop me off so I could go see them too. It was a really fun visit. I was always terrified of Aunt Joanna, and when I told dad, he said, "well, everyone is terrified of your grandma." I had never noticed how similar they are, but since Grandma is my grandma, she doesn't terrify me like Aunt Joanna did. :)  It was really fun to visit them though.

It's been raining quite a bit, and it's just perfect!

About a month ago, I realized that my computer only had about 10 GB left, on a 1 TB hard drive. I could not for the longest time figure out what was taking up that much room. It just didn't make sense. I even went through and deleted a lot of stuff, but nothing worked. Finally I downloaded a program that showed what was taking up all the space, and learned that my Norton back-up was backing up stuff on my hard drive. 850+ GB over the last two years! We deleted the file, and watched as space on my computer opened up. Now I don't have to worry about where to save my Holiday orders!

And October means Halloween. We may have spent way too much money on decorations, but they are fun, so I suppose it's okay.

Happy October all!

Not So Much...

...of stuff going on around here.

Monday, the 26th, was a holiday so I didn't have to work. Greg and I went and watched the new X-Men movie, which I really enjoyed. Then we did a little shopping where I got some new black canvas shoes, and some new "walking shoes." Yes. that's right folks. I'm officially an old lady, having to buy walking shoes instead of running shoes. (No offense to you youngies who buy walking shoes too.) I'm hoping I can eventually break them in so I can put them on without the help of Greg, but they don't have laces, so they should be easier for people to put them on me. Man I wish I had my flexibility back. Though I did learn the other day that I can kneel on the ground. I just have to sit on the couch and ease myself onto my knees. Then to get back up I have to like slide myself up the couch to a sitting position, then stand up from there. It was epic.

Tuesday, the 27th, I went back to work. Good times, folks, good  times. I am quite consumed with loans at the moment. It's quite crazy, but it's a great learning experience, and I get to work with some awesome people, (and some not-so nice ones), and people that don't typically come into our branch. Now if only I could convince people to purchase MBP, GAP, and Debt Protection.

Tuesday was also Greg and my 9 year anniversary. Time sure has flown by. I'm lucky to be married to such a great person. We actually made our anniversary dinner on Monday, steak, shrimp, and crab. Crab is my favorite. I could eat it all the time, for reals. For our Tuesdsay dinner we went to Five Guys, which was also delicious. I even ate my entire burger. Be proud of me. It's quite the accomplishment.

Unfortunately, that night/early morning was not so great. My stomach has been kind of acting up the past week or so, but it hasn't been too bad that I couldn't function. Tuesday night I just couldn't sleep. I got up about 3-4 times to go to the bathroom, and on my third trip I ended up throwing up. Normally it's not so bad, and I can fall asleep soon after, but not that night. I just didn't sleep well at all, so when my alarm went off, I really did not want to get out of bed. Greg told me I could just stay home, and when he says it, I do it! JK, I always feel so dang guilty, so I really had a struggle with it. The night before I had read this quote that really helped me make my decision.

So, I stayed home, slept until 11, watched 4 episodes of Psych, ate some crackers, drank some apple juice, then took a short nap until Greg got home. I was totally lazy, but sometimes I just need a day to rest.

I was able to go back to work the next day, and I felt fine. I got a loan closed, and worked on getting caught up from the day I missed. For some reason people keep thinking that they need loans. Oh well, I really do enjoy it.

I actually wrote this post a little while ago, and am just now getting to post it, so sorry if it so abruptly ends. I'll be back to post more!

September thru today

Wow. October is almost over. Crazy. I haven't even blogged about September yet. There wasn't too much that happened in September though. I did go to the doctor finally, but I'm still working on the post for that one. The best part of September was going to the One Direction movie. I would have gladly gone by myself, but Greg had my sis-in-law Shaina go with me. We had fun. I loved it, though I wish they would have done more interviews with the boys, but it's okay. I'm excited for the video to come out...WITH extras. Merry Christmas to me! It was fabulous. I can't wait to watch it over and over.

October has been a bit more busy. I feel like there has been something every single day, and there almost has been. I also think I've missed more work this month than in any of the months previous. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about that. Good thing I've got 3 years worth of sick accrued. On the 1st, I took a bit of a tumble. I was leaving work, and I stepped off the curb, and honestly, all I remember after that is taking two steps and knowing I was going down. I couldn't do anything to catch myself, so I just fell. Kind of hard. I caught myself with my head at least. It hurt like crazy. I didn't know what to do so I just curled up in a ball praying that A. No one would run me over, and B. someone would come out of the CU to help me. Luckily there was a college kid who drove by and stopped to help. He was super nice, and he helped me stand up and go into the CU. It was totally embarrassing. My boss drove me to get Greg, then I went home and just slept. My head was killing me. I missed the next three days of work. I was just so dizzy and was a bit nervous to drive or even be at work. I needed the rest.

From that time on, I had either tests or church stuff every single night. For Greg's fall break I took a few days off work and we went to Star Valley where we (I guess just me) sat around and did nothing. It was fabulous. Sleep in, take naps, watch TV. Super great. I was sad when it was over.

Just been busy with random stuff since then. I'm looking forward to November and the holidays.

Ummm...

How is it already October 24?!? Where did time go? It's so funny how you sit there and think..."I can't wait until _________ . Time is going so SLOW!" And then all of a sudden three weeks have gone by. Amazing how that happens! But for real. I can't believe it's already the end of October.

I'm battling a small cold, but it was worth cuddling that sick baby all weekend, so I'm okay with it. (Though I do really wish that I could just stay at home in my fuzzy socks and pants, wrapped up in a blanket instead of going to work where I'm cold and uncomfortable all day...is it December yet?!?) But oh well. Like I said...the sick baby was worth it.

But for today's prompt (and yes, I'll get caught up...)

What have you been procrastinating lately?

*Blogging

*Editing pictures

*Scrapbooking

*Cleaning the house

*Folding the laundry

*Doing the dishes

*Life...etc...etc...

Kinda stinks having ZERO energy!