Down with Trunk or Treat!

This is the saddest Halloween of all time. We purchased four huge bags of candy because we assumed we would receive tons of little trick-or-treaters. We live in an apartment complex with a profuse amount of children (we are the only childless couple in all of Idaho after all), our complex is comprised mainly of kids in our ward who we know, and we live in Rexburg, the most wholesome city in the world. And yet here we sit on Halloween night, our trick-or-treater count is at 2, and there are no children to be found... Down with trunk-or-treat! It is like the fast food version of Halloween. It is ruining the beauty of walking from house to house on a chilly Halloween night with the leaves blowing all around you. It has taken away the excitement of waiting for the door to open to yell "Trick-or-Treat" as loud as you can. All children have to do now is walk from car to car and they have all the candy they need within 15 minutes. Where is the fun in that? Trick-or-Treating is becoming a thing of the past and I am mourning its loss tonight...

P.S. Adam just suggested we go drive around and hand out candy from our car. Hey little kid want some candy??? Hmmm....

Adam

Today is Adam's birthday! In honor of his newly acquired 28 years, I am going to list 28 things about him that you may or may not know...

1. He had his tonsils removed a few years ago
2. He loves Fajitas. He would eat chicken fajitas every day for dinner if he could
3. He is very strong. He can lift me up and throw me around like rag doll
4. He always feels very sad when I get hurt playing rag doll
5. He loves getting presents almost as much as me
6. He doesn't get mad when you accidentally buy yourself a present
7. He is a very hardworker
8. He is the biggest sweetheart ever. For example a few weeks ago he made me a chocolate cake with a chocolate heart in the center.
9. He will rub my back or my feet anytime I want without being grumpy about it
10. He loves eating treats as much as me
11. He is always cheerful. I have only seen him in a bad mood maybe three times
12. When he meets someone for the first time, he really is interested in getting to know them, even if he knows he will never see them again. He will ask questions and he really listens to the answer.
13. He loves my mom and my grandma immensely
14. On Christmas Eve, on his way to propose to me, he stopped and changed a stranded woman's tire on the highway and got my ring box all dirty
15. Wherever we are he has to sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door so if anyone breaks in he can protect me.
16. He loves to sneak up on me. He calls it the cheetah. Most of the time its funny, but sometimes he really scares me to death.
17. He thinks that anything I cook is the most delicious thing on earth
18. He LOVES his neices and nephews and they are crazy about him too
19. Last year for my 30th birthday he threw me a huge surpise party. He was very sneaky about it and made up a huge story about how he got into a fist fight with the neighbor to cover his tracks
20. He loves to hear about my work no matter how boring it is
21. He went to every performance of Blackbeard the musical to hear me play in the pit orchestra. He had the whole play memorized by the end of the run.
22. He went to the National Flute Convention last year and listened to me play about a million flutes and took notes for me. He even hijacked a billion free pens and pencils from the displays so I could have flute inspired writing utensils.
23. His favorite hobby is hunting and he is quite good at it
24. He knows everything about fixing things around the house, especially plumbing of course
25. He thinks I am the bee's knees even though I can be a real brat sometimes
26. He thinks Sarah Jessica Parker and Debra Messing are very gross
27. He is the best husband ever and
28. I love him very much!

Happy Birthday Adam!!!!

TV Show obsessions and misc.

I am currently in the middle of a TV show DVD marathon/obsession! Periodically I find a new show that I love and then rent all the DVD's of past seasons to catch up. When this happens, it is like waking up on Christmas morning with tons and tons of presents to open. The DVDs hold so many episodes just waiting to be clicked on and enjoyed with no commercial interruptions. Thank you Santa!!!!

The only draw back is the dreaded ending...when the last DVD shows up from Blockbuster Online my heart weeps because the bounty has run out. This is particularly sad if the series has already ended. The most famous example of this is my beloved Gilmore Girls. My roommates and I became obsessed with watching Gilmore Girls reruns on the family channel a couple of years ago. Every day at 6:00 I would sit down with my 2 Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip cookies and delve into the world of Stars Hollow. I enjoyed coffee and chili cheese fries at Luke's, I attended friday night dinners at Emily and Richard's, and I even participated in the town meetings at Miss Pattie's dance studio. I laughed at Sookie's kitchen mishaps, grew irritable with Taylor's obsession with town laws, and of course listened to hours of girl talk with Rory and Laurelei. As the seasons wound down, I started to feel a strange sense of anxiety. Soon I would be cut off from my dear friends and their idyllic little town! The thought was too much to bare... When I finally did watch the last episode it was so sad. Lets just say it involved a lot of tears and consoling from Adam. I cannot tell a lie, it was traumatic...

So my new obsession show is Bones on Fox. I L-O-V-E it! It has inspired me to a) quit my job and go back to school to become a forensic anthropologist b) become a genius and c) wear cute necklaces. It is hilarious and it totally kicks CSI's trash (p.s. is anyone else totally irritated by that red head guy on CSI Miami? He is so over the top with his tough guy sunglasses). Anyway I highly recommend it to all!

On a totally unrelated topic, I am so sick of living in an apartment! Right now the baby upstairs is crying (probably because her parents are stomping around in moon boots making a giant racket) and the girl next door is yacking it up with one of her girlfriends at about 60 miles per hour. In addition tomorrow morning at 6 am on the dot, the neighbor who parks outside our bedroom window will start his car to go to work. This would be no problem however he has a loose fan belt and it squeals like wild banshee giving me a heart attack every morning. Oooo I hate that rabbit!

I heart Friday

The most magical part of my week is friday afternoon. I LOVE friday afternoon! I love packing up my flute after my last lesson, turning off my computer, switching off my light and walking away from work for 2 whole days. Time stretches out before me untainted, unassigned, unlimited: The world is my oyster. I drive home with a smile on my face, I climb into my pajamas with childlike excitement and I lay on the couch with a sigh of sure delight.
Adam and I have a new friday night tradition. I starve myself all day on friday and the minute Adam gets home from work we go out to dinner at Craigo's Italian Restaurant. Craigo's is an old-fashioned pizza, pasta and salad bar buffet restaurant, reminiscent of the Brick Oven in Provo. The food is pretty good, but the real kicker is they have Diet Dr. Pepper and they give you free scones and cream cheese icing! Oh they are pure yumminess! Adam and I sit in our little booth discussing our week and stuffing our piggy faces. It is pure heaven!

Victory!

As of tuesday I have lost 13.6 pounds on weight watchers! I am now down to my pre-wedding weight and still going! These are a pair of pants I couldn't even get close to buttoning a month ago...

comedy

Every day I walk past this picture on my way to work and chuckle...