19-ish by 22... haha

goal wrap-up...

as most people know i have been doing 22 goals to complete by my 22nd birthday. well, tomorrow is my birthday, so here is the progress i've made. basically i have done all but 14 (didn't get accepted), 18 (no desire to eat them anymore), and 19 (i set it up for my sewing but thats about it). so here they are in all their glory:

1. get an 85 and above in all my classes (check!)
2. get a sewing machine and make lots of cool stuff (check!)
3. cook more real food (not just mac n cheese or frozen chicken everynight) (check!)
4. try to read my scriptures every night (check!)
5. participate in more service activities (semi-check?)
6. go to more relief society/church activities (i've been working on this one) (check!)
7. get good at little big planet (check!)
8. make some sort of budget to better our [lack of] accounting (check!)
9. go to the temple more often (1-2 times per month) (check!)
10. get a new camera and bring it everywhere so i can take more pictures (check!)
11. make bread like they have at macaroni grill (check!)
12. organize my closet, and take stuff to plato's closet (check!)
13. make my wedding album (check!)
14. get accepted into a career program with the forest service (r.i.p.)
15. figure out more ways to make our apartment eco-friendly (check!)
16. eat more vegetables (well...any, at this point) (check!)
17. try to do my 5 happy things list every day (check!)
18. make lemon bars from scratch
19. clean up our spare bedroom (unpack and put everything in storage) and make it cute
20. finish all my outside reading for my religion class (check!)
21. declutter/reorganize the kitchen so more stuff fits anywhere besides the counter (check!)
22. have sunny and jackson over for a sleepover (hopefully more than once...!) (check!)

i love lists

first of all, things i should be doing right now:
-studying for my music test (yawn)
-preparing for the review session im giving tomorrow (yikes)
-showering (yeah right)
-sleeping (sounds nice)


second, a list-related update! so for my 22 by 22 goals, i wanted to do my happy list every day. honestly, i have probably only missed 5 days or so since i made it a goal. i have been writing my lists every day in this:
this is a book that my mom gave me a long time ago. the covers are handmade, and its really awesome. its such a nice little journal book though that i never wanted to use it because i wanted to save it for something special. so in the end of august i started to write my happy list in it.

the other day i filled the whole book. it spanned from 8-30-08 to 3-14-09. i wrote down 5 things every day. so i wanted to include some samples from a few entries for your reading pleasure. some are random/cute/embarrassing/funny. enjoy:

-9-16-08: "Josh still loves me even though/when I'm stupid" (this is a common theme in my happy book haha...)
-9-18-08: "yummy food, playstation, and my lover"
-9-27-08: "Allie is soo nice and let me print off my talk at her apartment"
-10-1-08: "we can run now in Pixel Junk Monsters"
-10-6-08: "Ron Minsky got published...ha..ha..ha.."
-10-7-08: "Sarah posted a really sweet blog about Sunny saying I was her favorite person and it was adorable and made me feel good about myself"
-11-1-08: "I farted really loud at McDonalds and no one heard it"
-11-4-08: "Obama! Obama! Obama!"
-11-10-09: "We beat that hard asian world in Little Big Planet"
-11-17-08: "Josh is nice to me even tho im stressed and therefore a crankenstein"
-11-19-08: "I know the church is true"
-12-1-08: "Bob is okay and didnt need surgery"
-12-7-09: "Making amends with [an old friend]"
-12-10-08: "finding a christmas tree in front of our door when i got home"
-12-17-08: "We beat all the LBP levels!"
-1-7-09: "Playing monopoly...I let Josh win since i won last time"
-1-9-09: "winning @ spades w/Darci"
-1-13-09: "I got told I look beautiful"
-1-16-09: "I'm not pregnant; i can afford to buy pregnancy tests"
-1-23-09: "fun games w/jeff and darci and being the SPADES CHAMPIONS!"
-2-10-09: "Donuts♥"
-2-18-09: "Josh called me cute :] (even tho i looked like doodoo)"
-2-25-09: "Mellissa called me smart"
-3-13-09: "slept slept slept"

yay for my goals. and yay for all the happy moments in my life, and all my friends and family who i love :]

#16--check!

16. eat more vegetables (well...any, at this point)

i really have been trying harder to eat fruits/veggies. i decided maybe i should show some proof so people believe me haha. tonight along with our baked potatoes i made zucchini, sauteed in basil pesto grapeseed oil. yum. of course, i ate all of these by myself, but at least there are vegetables being eaten in our house :]

i turn 22 next month (march 23) so i have to hurry and make sure ive been getting all my goals done!! maybe i should go do some more now haha.

RIP #14

14. get accepted into a career program with the forest service

goal number 14: may you rest in peace (i didnt get in)

at least i have my hydrology job this summer.
another affirmation that maybe we should be staying here in utah...

check for goal 21 and 22!!!

goal 21: declutter/reorganize the kitchen so more stuff fits anywhere besides the counter

so, this first picture was taken kind of in the middle of cleaning, so it looks even messier than it really is. but you get the idea.

then, after...

goal 22: have sunny and jackson over for a sleepover

the kids came over tonight. there was lots of gaming, eating, and sunny obsessing about where the cat is at all times.

jackson is hiding under the covers in this picture. they are so cute.

goodnight! :]

ps: goal 13 is also a check (my wedding album), but it was a christmas present to people so i couldn't admit it until now. yay for being productive over vacation!!!

yayyyyyy for getting internet back!!!

our neighbors, who we were splitting an internet bill with and using their wireless, decided to move away to sandy. therefore, we had no internet....which was quite an inconvenience.

so finally, i called comcast. we now have the internet back, and can keep it all to ourselves! (insert evil laugh here)

so i know everyone is dying to know what ive been up to since thursday morning.... haha. well, on the sewing front i made 2 blue pillows for the couch, and i made a laptop case! (i consider goal #2 [get a sewing machine and make lots of cool stuff] well on its way)

exhibit a: the shiny blue pillows

exhibits b and c: laptop case! (yes, its the same material as my stocking, i really liked it)

now...disclaimer...this is not animal abuse...

so joshua told me i should make a shirt for jay-z. i did it in like 4 minutes and it was not so good. obviously, it didnt go over well with kitty. it was more like a cape really. but yeah, not so good. we took it off right after the kodak moment..

NOW, on other news. i always want my christmas presents. and i might be slightly snoopy. so on friday josh got my present, came home, and then did this.....

this was on his closet

and on the left door of my closet..

so there is a little update. now that we have wireless at our apt everything will be ok. the end. :]

goal #3 --- good progress

3. cook more real food (not just mac n cheese or frozen chicken everynight)

so my cooking obviously hasnt been top chef worthy, but i really am trying to be better. a few weeks ago i made the whole pizza, salad, macaroni grill bread meal, and then last week i made alfredo (courtesy of wildtree) multiple times because joshy and i loved it [seen below].

this is the alfredo extraordinaire. delish. come over and i'll make you some.

then yesterday i used my new crockpot (thank you sarah and ryan!!) and made cream cheese chicken w/rice. yuuuuuuuummy!!! so yes, i have been working on this goal, and i think its been going well. ask josh tho to make sure haha. :]

its my life, and its now or never, i aint gonna.... blah blah blah

goal #11----check! our friends dave and christina came over for dinner last week and i made pizza (duh, i've accepted its the only thing i can cook), caesar salad (which josh made), and macaroni grill bread!! although it didn't look like the bread they bring out at macaroni grill, it basically tasted the same. it was delicious. it wasnt cooked near the bottom, but thats because i had to change the oven temp like halfway through so i could cook the pizzas. so anyways, it takes a long time to make just because it has to rise for forever. and i felt like there was so much seasoning in it that it would be weird, but it was good. anyways, like no one reading this even cares about my bread, so if you are still reading this, thank you. and try the recipe out. yum.

on another note, we got hair cuts. i evened my hair length out, so its a bit shorter. very sad, but now it will grow at all the same length.. boo...

also, i think bj (my brother-in-law) should be a video game creator. he has made two levels on the game little big planet, and they are very impressive. they drive josh crazy because he continually plays them until he gets the highest score possible so he can be #1. thats joshy for you. :] i like the first level, but the second one is too hard.

ALSO, i cant wait for thanksgiving!!!! we are going to maine for 5 days. i wish it was tomorrow. and i wish i could fast forward this next week because school will be kicking my trash. every single day is something, whether it be a test, paper, or combination of the two. yikes.

the end. theres everything going on in my life. doesn't everyone feel like they know me so much better? haha :]

goal #12 --(check!)

tonight after we got home i was in a weird cleaning mood, and i decided that my closet was bugging me and i wanted to fix it up. so, yay for goal 12!

this first picture was taken after i had started the hangers (a little bit) and the shoes..

this was the worst part....the shelves [of death]

does anyone know what to do for belts? i need some sort of hook or something

getting rid of pile:

and finally, the final product:

if it doesnt look perfectly clean to everyone, whatever. this is (obviously) very good for me. and look at all that closet space!! now i can justify getting more clothes :]


(i also realized i should do my dresser too, so that might happen tomorrow... we'll see haha. then off to platos closet/DI!)

22 things by age 22

ok so a lot of people have been doing this lately and you can say that im jumping on the bandwagon blah blah blah whatever. i am making a list of 22 things i want to do before i am 22. here goes:

1. get an 85 and above in all my classes (check!)
2. get a sewing machine and make lots of cool stuff (check!)
3. cook more real food (not just mac n cheese or frozen chicken everynight) (semi-check!)
4. try to read my scriptures every night
5. participate in more service activities
6. go to more relief society/church activities (i've been working on this one) (check!)
7. get good at little big planet (check!)
8. make some sort of budget to better our [lack of] accounting (check!)
9. go to the temple more often (1-2 times per month)
10. get a new camera and bring it everywhere so i can take more pictures
11. make bread like they have at macaroni grill (check!)
12. organize my closet, and take stuff to plato's closet (check!)
13. make my wedding album (not trying to copy you darci, but it is something i still need to do as well!) (check!)
14. get accepted into a career program with the forest service (r.i.p.)
15. figure out more ways to make our apartment eco-friendly (check!)
16. eat more vegetables (well...any, at this point) (check!)
17. try to do my 5 happy things list every day (check!)
18. make lemon bars from scratch
19. clean up our spare bedroom (unpack and put everything in storage) and make it cute
20. finish all my outside reading for my religion class (check!)
21. declutter/reorganize the kitchen so more stuff fits anywhere besides the counter (check!)
22. have sunny and jackson over for a sleepover (hopefully more than once...!) (check!)