Happy Anniversary!

Tomorrow is our one year anniversary! One year of positive thinking. What do you think, C? Is our hypothesis correct?

C, we stink at this.

things I am happy about: the fact that i got a job, and the fact that there is vacation coming up next week.

I'm very grateful for pride and prejudice to keep me company when I am lonely.

shame on me

How did I forget to mention that my little brother is home? He gives some of the best hugs ever.

Have you noticed that we keep posting less and less on this blog?

Well, I'm pretty happy about this weather. It's finally hoodie weather again, and we all know how much I love my hoodies.
C just had a baby, and I'm pretty sure she's happy about that.
My niece is adorable.
J made me coffee cake.
Life is good.

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Today is National Punctuation Day, so I made some cookies to celebrate:

(my favorites are the interrobang and the em dash)

And then Mom and I spent a couple of hours making pickles:

road trips and huge book stores. and buying lots of cheap books at huge book stores.

it's silly how easily i can fall in love with fictional characters.

hp love

rereading my very own annotated edition of harry potter and the sorcerer's stone. i was seriously the coolest person ever. further proof that i was meant to be an editor.

passive aggressive optimism

I'm loving Freaks and Geeks, even if stupid WMG on YouTube turns the audio off on some parts of some episodes so I don't know what's going on.

purple nail polish.

this is getting ridiculous

the new best recipe cookbook has made my life. their blueberry muffins kick the pants off any other blueberry muffin you have ever tasted. except for my mother's.

Is there such a thing?

I really need to find things other than food to make me happy.

But for now I have homemade raspberry ice cream and I am loving life.

the interwebs

I love the Internet so much. How did people survive without it?
I got my mom set up on facebook and it's pretty cute.

happy father's day

skewers for lunch today, grilled on our new grill. pork and beef marinated in a sweet and spicy sauce, celery, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, and red onion for hubby. they were....amazing.

my hubby is the best dad i could ever ask for. our son is just so stinking cute and our daughter will be too.

brownies with cream cheese frosting. need i say more?

best. baby shower. ever.

thanks kaitlyn, you really rock. :)

butterflies have been doing the dirty hanging from a flower on my porch for the past 5 hours. HAH.

birthday presents

it was j's birthday yesterday, and i bought him a record. and i am thoroughly enjoying listening to it.

(consider checking out "skinny love" by bon iver on hypem.)

i think i missed my calling in life. i make a damn good banana cream pie.

mmm

chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting = delicious
peach french toast bake = we're about to find out

got a new fish, and it is still alive. let's hope it lasts more than three days like my last one.
i had a grasshopper shake from iceberg yesterday. it was DIVINE and now i am craving another one!
i'm feeling the baby move a lot more, but since she's so small it doesn't hurt yet, yay!
someone gave me cute little girl clothes yesterday! i'm getting more excited about having another baby.
little buddy says "hi" all the time now and it is just adorable.

I don't know.

No more internship. This is good, right?

two days in a row of walking around the park. i am so in shape.

countdown.

3 more days.
Muddy buddies and chocolate dipped pretzels.

woohoo!

we find out what the baby is today: boy or girl!

I don't have to worry about giving sharing time for another six months. sweet!

april goodness

we had an awesome easter. hubby took the cutest pic of me and little buddy with the daffodils...i love it.

i am really starting to show now, and i have felt the baby move a couple times. next week we find out if it's a boy or a girl!

i successfully changed my blog layout to include three columns and i'm pretty darn proud of myself.

i am doing my part to annoy the crap out of people and spread the word about national child abuse prevention month. so if i know you on facebook i will continue to harass you about it.

i decorated some really cute easter eggs.

i love easter candy. yum. :)

rain.
and now there are purple flowers, too!

Another reason why I love my job

I think I came up with an idea for my book?

why i love my job. and elder nelson.

"One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us."
Thank you, job, for allowing me to find this quote. Thank you, Elder Nelson, for saying this.
I just really like the image of a great and spacious makeup kit.

Best.Day.Ever.

I finally got more contacts
I wore the cutest jacket today
It will be my birthday soon(ish)
And I came home to find some mud pie mojo in my freezer. Best day ever.

cake/twilight/melting snow/one month left to purgatory

I'm going to try to remember to post more often on here.

We had delicious cake tonight to celebrate the birth of someone we love.

Twilight is the best worst movie ever. And it just keeps getting better/worse.

The snow today melted quickly.

I have only a month left to my internship.

i got a pickle hey hey hey hey

my hubby drove to the grocery store last night to buy me a jar of pickles, which i promtly ate half of upon his return. the rest of the jar becons to me and i'm sure it will be gone by this afternoon.

ah, the joy of pregnancy cravings. and husbands who indulge them.

i made corned beef with boiled cabbage, potatoes and carrots on sunday.
i made old fashioned chicken and dumplings last night.
yum.

There are three yellow daffodils in my yard. I hope they survive this weather.

i love saturdays. because i get to wear jeans.

i love the internet. because i get to shop without having to deal with people.

got a new computer yesterday because our sucks. it's nice, i like it. :)
i was feeling well enough to go to costco with hubby and walk around for ten minutes. we got polish dogs and they were yummy.
hubby went to dinner with a friend and brought food home for me as well as a huuuuuge jamba juice! i was so excited.
little buddy has been throwing fewer tantrums the past two days.
my house is clean.
i remembered how much i love my maternity undies. soooo comfy they're like pjs.
i'm starting to show already. how crazy is that?

wedding bells are ringing

my baby sister is getting married in july! can you believe it? i'm not going to be the only old married one in my family anymore.

a not-food-related post

I just spent two hours on the phone with a good friend. Talking about everything and nothing.

And I just reread a post that a certain lady (ahem, C, cough cough) wrote about me in her blog.

And they both made me feel so much better.

chicken divan = divine.

i love that all of my happy thoughts revolve around food.

I went for a walk today and it was nice outside.
There are raspberries in the fridge and I am going to eat them. Right now.
Mmm.

we had little buddy's first birthday party yesterday. i can't believe he's one! it went really well, and he loved digging through his cake.

we got an offer on our house! and we are expecting a second one tomorrow! holy cow!

only one baby! had our first ultrasound yesterday and everything looks great!

i'm pregnant.

and determined to make this a "glass half full" thing.

psych!

best.show.ever.

too many times

It's so easy to be negative, isn't it? It's just not fair that it's not easier to be happy. How do some people make it look so easy? It's not. J does so many wonderful things for me and it's way too easy to ignore all of those the second he does something that upsets me. Why is it easy to forget the good and dwell on the bad? It takes a lot of conscious effort to be happy, I think, and sometimes I'm just not willing to put in that effort. But it's worth it right? I don't like crying, so why do I spend so much of my time with tears streaming down my face? I have so much to be happy about, but those few bad things get the spotlight. How many times have I said this, how many times have I decided that I am going to focus on the positive and then continued to focus on the negative? Too many times.

I am grateful that I have a job (if only for the next 3 months...). I'm scared for the future; it's nice to have a sound present.
I am so grateful for my family, for loving me even when I'm snippy.
I am grateful for music.
I am grateful for people with talent, for creating beautiful things that I can enjoy.
I am grateful that chocolate-dipped pretzels are so easy to make.

Life really is good.

I'm glad I'm not a total loner. I was worried that I would be. But the other interns are nice and let me eat lunch with them and ride the bus with them.
I'm even glad that I ride the bus for 3 hours a day. That gives me 3 hours to read every day.
I'm truly grateful for black nylons so that I can get away with shaving every other day.
I'm glad that J is willing to wake up in the morning and scrape the ice off my car and kiss me goodbye and then go back to sleep.
I'm glad it's raining, even though I won't be when I have to stand in it while waiting for the bus.
I'm really glad for alarm clocks or else I would always be late.

awards and other fun stuff

i am working very hard lately to see the half-full glass instead of the half-empty.

my baby is adorable. and i can't believe that he is almost a year old already...

as an adult, i finally know that my parents love me and are supportive of me.

my husband is supportive and tries so hard to be understanding. i am so grateful for that.

we won an award here! thanks to mile 191, we received the lemonade award for showing great attitude and gratitude. she said "two glasses half full is definitely a place for peace, and some good thoughts to get you by. how about half full of lemonade! thanks!"

thank you, mile 191!

my diploma is almost here!

Good friends who are good friends despite the fact that I am not always a good friend.

Ahhh, I am thankful for days off. If only there were more of them.

I survived.

memories

i relived happy times with my friends yesterday. how crazy, how long ago it seems, and yet like it was just yesterday...i sure miss them and everything we did together. (even though i don't miss junior high.)

i sold a drawing! yay!
today is friday, which is awesome.
tomorrow i get to see my friends! the four of us from jr high. ribbit, meow, and kitkat. (haha, can you believe i still remember that?)
my hubby freaking rocks and i love him.
i got to see my parents today, and my dad gave me a blessing.

a glimmer of hope

on my way to healing. a long road ahead of me but i am beginning to feel hope.

i have found a wonderful support group that is just amazing, has helped me so much.

i started a support group on modern molly mormon that i hope will be able to do the same good things for others.

i know my husband loves me even though i'm crazy.

internship

i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship, i am grateful for this internship.

if i keep saying it, it will be true.

gratitude

even when everything is crashing down around me, i have a husband who loves me.