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Thursdays in the Life of a Gorringe

This Thursday played out in an all too familiar way. I ended up waking up that morning and debated on whether to drive to school. School is about 45 miles away and on Thursday one of my classes was cancelled and the other one I could watch online. I decided that it wasn’t worth getting out of bed. Well around three o’clock p.m. I was working on my school work on the computer and I heard Justin’s Voice upstairs I ran up to see him and I found him using crutches and he had a walking boot on his foot. His response was “Oh, Hi Honey, I just spent two hours in the ER. I got ran over by the forklift.” I freaked out and almost started crying. After I made sure he was OK. I got really mad. It is sad that it has become such a common event to go to the ER in my family that he didn’t even think to call me and let me know. He claims that he didn’t want to worry me at school. Well his foot is now a lovely shade of Blue but it is not broken. He has stopped using his crutches and has been working on the truck all day so I assume he is feeling better. I have since forgiven him for not calling but made him promise to call me next time he is admitted to the hospital. Oh, by the way this is the third Work Comp. case he has had in the two and a half years we have been married. I was just glad that it was Thursday and that Grays Anatomy was finially back on.

The Good Life

I have really enjoyed the last few weeks. I am finally done with my online classes which drops my course load from 20 credits to 13. This not only makes my life less stressful but allows me to do more of the things I would like to do. One of the things that I really missed doing, even though I know it sounds corny, is doing house work. I truly believe that this last week has been the first time I have been caught up on laundry, dishes and cleaning it quite some time. Justin has honestly forgotten where things “really” go, he didn’t even think to look for his clothes in the dresser.
Last weekend we went to Salt Lake City. We spent the previous weekend there too, but I ended up having to go down again to take the TEAS test (it’s a test to get into nursing school). I did really well on the test. It was also part two of birthday week (Justin’s birthday). Michele took us out to a lovely birthday dinner where we shared Justin’s special day with the table next to us. We always enjoy spending time with the Michele’s Family and we all enjoyed the birthday brownie.
The only other thing that has been going on here in Burley is that last night I volunteered at an AIDS awareness convention. It was put on by the World Vision Company. It was very moving and I enjoyed volunteering. I spent the night handing out head phones and IPods for the guided tour. I have to admit the reason I signed up is because I got extra credit in my Microbiology class but I have vowed to do more volunteer work. Life is slowing down and now we are in the waiting stage. I sent in my Application for nursing school on Tuesday, all fingers crossed.
Oh and Justin got a promotion at work, which means a little raise but also working some nights. So it looks like I have the bed to myself tonight.

SPING BREAK

These last week was my spring break and in appropriate co-ed form we decided to head somewhere warmer. We decided to take a trip to The Vegas and visit our friends Jess and Von. We then flew to Phoenix to visit some of my favorite people. We spent the first few days with Vince. We walked around a lot, hung out at the pool and ate a lot. The makings of a great vacation. We enjoyed spending time with Vince and I fell in love with his puppy. Her name is Maddie.

For our birthdays Vince took us to the Texas Roadhouse for some yummy food. They made Justin and I sit on the "birthday" saddle and sang to us.

On Wednesday we went to the Mesa Temple and walked through the visitor center and did a session. We also took lots of random pics. This is me hugging the cactus.

The last few days we spent with my best friend from elementary school, Stephanie Rider, who was also celebrating a birthday her mom got giant cup cakes for us all.

We spent Thursday at the Grand Canyon. It was quite some hole. The day was perfect and the views were unforgettable.

The last night we were in Phoenix we went to the Easter Pageant at the temple. We met up with Katie, Brian, Chris, Kira and their baby. It was a blast catching up with everyone. I miss them all already.

We flew to Salt Lake on Saturday and spent my birthday and Easter with the Rands Clan.

Oh and more importantly I got a car. I love it, it is so bold that there is no excuse not to see me coming down the road.

They call me CRASH

For all of you who haven’t heard, I was in a car accident this last Tuesday. Tuesday is my long day at school and this particular Tuesday was no exception. I got out of school at six thirty p.m. and was planning on going straight home so that I could go to my viewing for my friends Mom who died suddenly over the weekend. Well, I was traveling home on the same route that I always use when an older gentleman pulled out in front of me. So, no it wasn’t my fault. To paint the picture a little better I was heading east on a two lane highway going 60 mph and apparently the setting sun behind me made it hard to see my little white car. The guy was trying to make a left hand turn onto the road I was traveling on and didn’t see me. I realized that he didn’t see me and proceeded to sound my horn and slam on the brakes. My efforts somewhat lessened the impact but not by much. After impact the air bags were deployed (side note, getting hit in the face with an air bag in not very much fun). After I realized what had happened and that I was alive I proceeded to inventory my body making sure my arms and legs worked. I then checked to see if I was bleeding. Well there was no obvious signs, no rushing fluids, so I got out of my car. I then looked around for my phone to call the 911. There were quite a few witnesses, including a FedEx man (who stuck around to fill out police reports). Ironically, not one of them had a cell phone so I ended up calling in my own acceded. And after my months of training as a 911 dispatch operator I was able to give a quick and accurate report. The rest of the evening was spent trying to reach my husband to come and get me, pacing around, filling out papers and freezing. I ended up calling one of my friends, Erin to come and get me (the accident happen about 45 mins away from burley). I went to the ER later that night once the adrenalin wore off, but managed to escape with only one small cut on my knee, and several bruises and sprains. The doctor did an evaluation and sent me home with some pain killers and muscle relaxers and a note for my teachers saying I was not to go to school until the fallowing Monday.(I missed a test in anatomy, a test in microbiology and a quiz in chemistry) Overall I feel very lucky to still be alive and not have any major injuries. Oh, and we are now in the market for a new car. Here are some pictures but they are not for the faint of heart.

VALENTINES

I understand that Valentines day was 10 days ago, but I haven't had time to blog for a while. This Valentines day was one for the books. As most of you know we live with Justin's parents. So for Valentines day we decided that we might not want to stay home. We decided to get a room and what better place to stay then the Shilo Inn in Twin Falls (which is were we stayed our first night as a married couple). I go to Twin daily for school, so one day I was down there I stopped by and reserved "our" room. I also went across the street to one of my favorite restaurants Jakers and made dinner reservations. I was very excited for our little get away. Sense we were paying for a hotel room we decided to not get each other presents. Well Wednesday I went to work and found a three beautiful roses. I was stunned. So Thursday morning I decided that if Justin was going to break our agreement then so was I. I went to school in the morning and got out in just enough time to sneak over to his work and decorate his truck with paper hearts and chocolates kisses. We meet up at the hotel later on that afternoon. Justin got there before I did and checked in. Well we payed extra money for the romance package which includes a gift certificate, chocolates, roses, and sparkling cider, and when Justin got there he went to the room and there was nothing there. He went to talk to the front desk and they forgot. He was upset and decided to decorate the room himself. He went to the store and bought 20 balloons. After I got to the room we went swimming and enjoyed the room. And as we were getting ready for dinner he told me that he had something for me. So I started looking all over the room and couldn't find anything. So I made Justin tell me if I was getting hot or cold. Well this little game led me to the balloons, I said "yeah, I saw the balloons, thank you there beautiful." He laughed and told me to keep looking. I started looking through the balloons when I noticed one balloon was just plain red. I graped the balloon and it rattled and this is what I found inside....

I was so excited, I still cant stop staring at my finger, it is perfect. We then proceeded to have a great dinner and a relaxing evening, and the next best part is sense the hotel room wasn't ready for us, we got fifty dollars of the bill. It was a great day.

Rants

Due to my extremely busy scheduled I have been spending a lot of time of campus. This is disturbing to me in many ways but most of all I am disturbed by the amount of time I spend in the library. I usually spend as little time as possible in the library. While attending BYU-I in my earlier years my roommates and I commonly referred to the library as the cancer center. But seeing as how I have to take weekly test in the library I decided to give it another change. And now I have several more reasons why I dislike the library. The number one reason is that the vending machine in the library hates me.
No it really does, it is the one of two vending machines I have found on campus and by far has the best variety of snacks, and health snacks at that. But it mocks me. I refuses to take my dollars, I spent ten minutes trying to get it to take one of my five dollar bills that I had and it wouldn’t take a single one. I have gone back on different days and the food some how keeps disappearing so I know somebody knows how to get it to work. But it won’t work for me. I told Justin about it and he laughs and just says well remember the 2% rule (you have to be at least two percent smarter then what ever you are working with). And why don’t you use change. Well I never have change and will not be defeated by the evil machine, so if it doesn’t like my dollars then I will take my business to the science building. I never liked the library anyway.