From the moment Chris and I were married, I felt my social life
ripped out of my tiny little hands
(I can't help having little hands...). I'm constantly whining to my hubs about how I
never have time to do anything, and even if I did have time, I have nobody to do anything with. The ladies in my ward, although absolutely fantastic and very welcoming and warm-hearted, are a bit older than me, have kids/grandkids, and are pretty well settled in their lives; we often run out of things to talk about
soon after we've started. My work schedule is inconsistent and I often have to go in at a moments notice
(I got a promotion. Don't tell anyone.), so it's difficult to make plans very far in advance.
And so on, and so on.
Reason after reason. Excuse after excuse.
Who am I to think I'm the
FIRST woman in America to have to make changes in life with marriage? What? Nobody else feels lonely from time to time?
False.
Not only am I not the only person to have this issue, I also have a fairly decent social life. The moments that I am doing something awesome are often over shadowed by the many times I'm at home by myself watching Desperate Housewives... yeah, because I'm
THAT girl. I need to just snap out of the funk I've been in and count my blessings. Clearly, I've been busy because I haven't posted a cotton pickin' thing in
FOR--EV--OR.
Because I don't want to leave anyone in the dark, but I also 100% don't want to spend 10,000 hours catching everything up, here's just a
bunch of pictures with a
tiny little bit of description. Get ready;
there's a lot...
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| I went to my sis-in-law's FIRST Roller Derby bout where she was voted the "Belle of the Ball" because she's just so stinkin' beautiful. So beautiful. |
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| Megh went through the Temple for the first time, but I didn't get the chance to go with her because I had to work, so we had a little sister Girl's night at Applebee's where we laughed until we almost wet our pants, and we had super amounts of fun with our server because that's what we do when we get together- our "Mob Mentality" just makes us very happy. (Megh on the left and Mo on the right.) |
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| I just freakin' love this picture because it looks like Mo has no teeth! I'm not a fan of Lord of the Rings, but she seems to have a striking resemblance to Smeagol. So great. I cried a little from laughing. Maybe there was even pee involved. |
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| I had a shopping day with my little brother and sister because we all had a day off. My little brother, Matti (but only I can call him that. His name is Matthew or Matt.) is an expert planker. That was on a two inch wall in a dressing room. And he stayed there for a surprising amount of time considering I cannot imagine how comfortable that could be... |
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| If we're being honest here, I'm trying to get the cutest stinkin' boy in the world to plank... But he hates "tummy time", so he doesn't stay there very long. |
This little guy LOVES to just crawl back and forth on my little ol' coffee table. He's not great at being filmed without noticing, so this is the best I could get, but it is literally the best thing I've ever seen. It's now also the best thing YOU'VE ever seen. Don't try to deny it.
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| Our Halloween front porch at night. We had a smoke machine and a strobe light and old manican heads. We won our complex's contest! We got a gift card to Target. Victory! |
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| My cute stinkin' hubs on our porch after we were done decorating. We found a black widow while we were decorating! Chris HATES spiders, so I had to destroy it on my own, but how scary is that?! |
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| I had a free Saturday night, so I called up my friend, Marylou, who I haven't seen in too long, and I asked her what the heck we were going to be doing because Chris had to work and I needed a girls' night. I can't even tell you how AMAZING that night was. We went to a Church Single's dance for a little bit (I let all the guy's know I'm married though, so it wasn't a big deal.), we went to a club on Latin night- so we didn't stay long- and we just caught up on life. I am blown away by the strength Marylou has, and the incredible things she has already accomplished in her life. I could go on and on forever about how great she is, but the easiest way to sum it all up: Role Model. Think of the best woman in the existence of EVERYTHING, and multiply her by 38,933,581,383,072,695,637,001 and you pretty much have half of Marylou. (So from there, you'll need to go ahead and multiply your product by 2.) |
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| I don't know this man. He was at the dance, and it was the best thing I've ever seen . So I stopped him and asked him if I could take a picture of him. And then I sent it straight to Chris so he could be in on the fun. |
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| Matti and I after his play. He was Dr. Frankenstein with a weird twist. |
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| My friend Charley from work went with me because Chris had to work. And then our evening was followed by a night on the town in Denver. Top night. |
This is a tiny little snip of one of Matti's scenes. There will be more once I put them on my computer fully.
I'm sorry; this one was probably the
least entertaining thing you've read all month
(I would say year, but I know there are some pretty dreadful things out there, and I know I can't be THAT bad...), but it's
late o' clock at night, and the creative/ humorous part of my brain went to bed
four hours ago.
