General Conference

I really enjoyed General Conference this weekend. I think it's one of the first times that I actually listened hard and really took everything that was said in. I want to share some of my favorite things that were said. First of all, I really enjoyed what President Utchdorf said both at Women's Conference and General Conference. At Women's Conference, he talked about how a lot of times women undervalue their great abilities. I'm definitely guilty of this and it really helped me realize that I should try not to do that. I also enjoyed when he talked about his greatest happiness being God's happiness and then asking himself what God's happiness was, which is His children. I loved his talk on Hope and how it is linked together with faith and charity. It was neat when he said, "In Winter, we find an invincible Summer." In Joseph B. Wirthlin's talk, I really liked when he said, "Try and laugh, it will make life more enjoyable!" It's so true. No matter how hard life may get, a laugh always helps me in some way. Jeffrey R. Holland reminded me that "Christ has promised to fight our battles." I know that if I do what I am supposed to, then He will take care of the rest! :) I also loved Elder Bednar's talk on prayer. It was grand. I like Hales talk about Christian Courage and how it can sometimes be mistaken as weakness--it is not! When Sister Dalton spoke I liked the saying, "The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." That can be applied to almost anything! I liked William D. Oswald's talk on teaching. I want to be a teacher one day (even if I'm not, I'll be a mother) and I learned about this in one of my education classes --> 1. Show love to those you teach and call them by name, 2. Teach from the scriptures, 3. Encourage the ponderings of gospel truths. Well, that's most of the things I wanted to share. Sorry this is scatter-brained!

It's a great day to be alive!

Yesterday and today were pretty good days! I have been feeling much better! I don't know if it is the iron supplement of what! Yesterday I rode my bike down to walmart and picked up some more postcards and went next door to Albertsons and picked up some bananas, milk, and brown sugar. Once I put it all in Joey's backpack that he lent to me, I was like oh man I hope I can still ride this bike with the extra weight! It wasn't hard at all... until I turned onto the street that leads up to our apartment and found that the clouds were nasty and it was super gusty and the wind was going against me. Eventually it was too hard to ride against the wind so I had to walk my bik all the way back up the hill to home. After Joey got back from class, I read some of my "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" book while Joey submitted some homework online. I made dinner (hamburger for me, Spaghetti for Joey) while we were waiting for the baseball game to come on at 7:30. It was great and went until about 11:00. We didn't get to bed until about 1, so we slep in this morning until after 9:30, and then got up to have a delicious breakfast and watch General Conference. We had eggs, toast, and bacon! Yum! We really enjoyed both sessions, and in between I baked cookies... they turned out okay. lol. I cleaned the house while Joey went to Priesthood and I showered and got ready for date night. When he got home, we rode our bikes to Wingers (Delicious!) and then went over to Walmart and picked up a couple of things. The ride home was tiring and it was pretty chilli! We got home about 10:30 and we are exhausted! It was a pretty good day though! :)

An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away!

So I went to the Health Center again today. For the last five days or so I have been having these massive headaches. It's like my neck, all the way around to my forehead and eyes hurt. My ears would also hurt. The weird thing is is sometimes it would go away, but if i coughed or sneezed it would hurt my head wicked bad! It was like so much pressure. I woke up this morning at seven with the most awful headache I've ever had so I went and took two tylenol and it helped me sleep. When I got to the doctor she asked me questions like usual. She said it sounded like tension headaches and showed me some exercises to do with my shoulders and neck. She checked my ears and they were fine. She felt my neck and said two pretty swollen lymph nodes and that could be what's causing the neck pain and headache. She wanted to take a blood count to make sure that I didn't have mono. After they got my blood, the lady came in and said, "well, you don't have mono that's for sure, but something is making those lymph nodes swell so make sure you get plenty of rest and drink lots and lots of liquids." She then proceeded to tell me that she noticed that I am border-line anemic. So, I know what explains me being tired all the time, my shaking, and why the room sometimes gets dark when I get up. So, I have to take iron supplement twice a day and go back in a month so she can take another blood count and see how I am doing. I just want to know where the killer headaches are coming from. I'm just glad that they didn't find anything serious with me though! I have a picture of our stack of thank you cards I've been working on for a while. This is not all of them, however, because I already sent some out, and I still have like 15 more to do. It's kinda fun though! The ones on the bottom are actually postcards and there are a lot of those!

7 weird things about me!

I haven't blogged in a couple of days, and I didn't really know what to blog about so I decided to do the "7 weird things about me." Kerstin tagged anyone who wanted to do it, so I decided to do it!
1. I absolutely adore the color pink. I mean, I'm a "think pink" kinda girl. The weird thing about this is I used to absolutely hate pink. I was totally against it, and never thought that I would like it.
2. I have to sleep with a very flat pillow. If there isn't a flat pillow in the house, then I'll sleep without any pillow.
3. I love dipping nacho cheese doritos into sour cream! It's delicious!
4. I'm a sucker for the Disney Channel. I think I'll always be a kid at heart. I love Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, That's so Raven, and the newst the Suite life on Deck! haha.
5. I don't know why, but I can not handle dishes just sitting in the sink, so the dishes either need to be in the dishwasher or the cupboards. I have to see an empty clean sink... weird, I know!
6. When I am going to sleep, I have to be facing the wall. I've always been like that. I can't fall asleep unless I am facing the wall.
7. I can not leave the bathroom without making sure that the counter around the sink is not wet. I have a dry washcloth that I keep in our toiletrie box that I use to wipe up any water or drops of water. I also get on the scale every time I use the bathroom... don't ask me why. Maybe it's just the fact that we actually have a scale. haha!

Well, I don't really know who to tag, but if you wanna do it, do it!

Bike Ride!

So, yesterday I rode my bike for the first time since we got it! It was so fun! but I had to be careful because we live on a big hill so when I went down I had to make sure I was braking so that I didn't go way to fast and fly off!... that would have been awful! I rode it to the grocery store to get bananas and shampoo/conditioner. It was great fun! On the way back up, however, was super hard. I had to walk it up most the way, but from what I did ride up really made me sore! My feet all the way up to my abs are super sore this morning, and I did a bunch of pushups last night and my shoulders down to my wrists are sore too! yikes! I don't think I'll be running today. Probably tomorrow. Here are some silly pictures that Joe and I took yesterday!:

It's the big day!

I'm super excited for the season premiere of The Office tonight!!! WOO HOO!!! So yesterday I was at home most of the day. While I was at home, I did some thank-you cards, cleaned, and did laundry. I also kind of moped around because I had a bad headache. So, while Joe was at class I got my gym clothes on, picked up Joe from class, and we went to the gym! We both ran on the treadmills. We both had a hardcore workout. We both ran for 25 minutes straight, but then my left knee (the one I broke) started to kill, and Joe's big toe started to hurt! We felt great after even though we were dripping in nasty sweat! My headache was gone after that and I felt great! After the gym, we raced home so that I could make dinner before Relief Society Enrichment. Since there wasn't much time, I made hot dogs and we ate doritos with it. It was pretty good! Oh, and I ate chocolate too! So, I had been looking forward to this Enrichment because we were going to be making magnets, and we have none for our fridge so I was glad to make some! So, our limit was four, but since there was lots of extra supplies I made a fifth one. It was great! After that, I came home and changed because my friend Sandra talked me into joining our ward's ultimate frisbee team. Good thing I went because we had exactly 7 players and that is how many we needed to play. The team we played was super good and they were all serious about it... they even had a coach!.... weird! We were there just to have fun, and of course we lost 1 to like 7! haha... then again, they had a bunch of players and were subbing people in constantly. We, however, all played the whole time. It was super fun, but I was worn out! Running back and forth on that field after the hardcore workout made getting to sleep that night easy! So, there is another game tonight at 10, and I might go, but I can't decide. So, right now I am watching a great episode of What Not to Wear! I've included a pic of the magnets I made. I could not get a clearer picture of them though, probably not the camera's fault though...

The Biggest Loser!

I am watching The Biggest Loser for the first time as I write this. This show is pretty good! It kinda makes me laugh at some parts too. I enjoy seeing how people look after losing all that weight, just like what KT said. There's a DVD that came with our scale (the one with the biggest loser logo on it) and it's like a workout DVD. I can't wait to try it out. I might do it tomorrow if I decide not to go to the gym. I'll probably end up going to the gym though... haha... I like running on the treadmills! Anyways, I just think that this show is so unique and I can't believe I didn't even know it existed! To be honest, when we bought the scale I was wondering what the biggest loser even meant. I was like is that like just the name they gave the scale or what? And then one day while flipping through the channels, I saw a commercial about the show and I was like it's a show?!?!?! Okay, well this blog is kind of random and weird, but I was trying to find something to do on my computer, so ya! :)