Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Next time I see that Bleeker kid, I'm going to punch him in the weiner.




Hi there, Devin here. So we went and saw Juno last night and it was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. A lot of the songs in the movie were by belle and sebastian, the moldy peaches, and kimya dawson (of the said peaches). There is a point in the movie where the song, "Anyone Else But You" plays. The oft-repeated chorus of the song goes " I don't see what anyone could see in anyone else but you," while played over an acoustic guitar. It is quite a lovable song. I am sure thousands of people went home and downloaded it to their ipods to play for their respective significant others. Now I have been listening to moldy peaches since 2001. 400 scene points for me. The point is, I know the all the words to the song, including the ones that weren't played in the movie. All I'm saying is, if these boys don't listen to it first before playing it to their ladies, there are going to be hundreds of mortified girlfriends when it gets to the part of the song that says, "you scrunched up your face and you did a little dance, and you shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants."

Thursday, December 13, 2007

All you need is love



This is Devin reporting. Turns out John Lennon was right.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Come on! -Gob



The following is a Public Service announcement paid for by Laura Jones Fletcher.


As much as I love my little car...

and it's licence plate cover...

I hate it.


I bought this lovely car NEW January of 2007.

So far it has already needed to go to the dealership THREE times to get things fixed on it.

1. My CD player stopped working. This resulted in me singing "That thing you do" every time Annie rode with me because she would get so ticked that it wasn't working. When I took it in the mechanic told me it was my fault and that one of my little kids must have stuck a quarter or other coin in through the CD slot because there is no reason for a CD player to just short out like it did. (apparently he assumed I had kids because Annie had left a green crayon in my cup holder and it had melted all over in it. It has since been cleaned out.)

2. My battery died about ten thousand times and so finally I took it in and they said the battery was already dead and wouldn't hold a charge.

3. Last night my engine light went on. What the heck! I've only had this car eleven months!


Conclusions drawn:
1. singing "that thing you do" ten times in a row makes me tired
2. melted crayon means that I am a mom of three kids
3. I will NEVER buy a kia again.

Now I know why they have ten year/100,000 mile warranties.



Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Bored

So besides Bored being Annie's most favorite word, this now describes how I feel.

Bored.




I feel like I have nothing to do. I finished my internship last week and so now my Mondays and Wednesdays are open from 9-4 when Annie is at school. Last Tuesday I had my last night class, this Tuesday I had my last day class, and tomorrow is my last Thursday class.


And then I will be done with this semester of school.

Scared.



What in the world am I going to do with all of this time?

Now granted I have plenty I should be doing. For example:


My house needs tidied.
My laundry needs done.
I need to set up my VT appointments.
I still have two papers to write for tomorrow.
I need to set up about three dr's appointments for Annie and one for me.
I need to do some exercise per the new diet (seriously who is crazy enough to try and start a diet in december? oh thats right...I am.)
I need to water my flowers.
I have a wedding sign in book I should start working on.
I have some christmas shopping I need to do.
I need to make treat plates for my neighbors for christmas.
There are some people in my ward who I need to call etc.

But what about when I run out of things to do?

Oh I know I'll just procrastinate all of those things so I still feel busy and mess around in the mean time.


Genius, Laura. Pure Genius.


So if any of y'all need some help with anything in the mornings between 9 and 4...

I'm your gal.





Sunday, December 2, 2007

Week(s)end update

So the week before Thanksgiving I trained bubsy to work at vista cleaners. Besides telling her how to tag things is and how to help customers I also offered her my eight year knowledge of who are the nice customers and which ones you should watch out for. She still didn't seem all that excited to be there.


Tagging in clothes.



Running the conveyor belt. Jealous? You know if you haven't had the pleasure that you've secretly always wanted to push the button. Maybe when I cleaned Jones I used to push it "on accident" while "dusting" the button. If you really want to press it that bad just let us know next time you are in. I let the under five years old crowd do it all of the time.

Working the cash register.


Don't tell my dad but I think she's just in it for the money. Don't tell her but there probably won't be that much money on vista pay. But really who can expect more? You kind of sit around a lot when there aren't customers.


To ease my boredom while training I made this fantastic sign. Bubs had the idea to use tags to make the sign cuter. It became quite the masterpiece. I plan on making the Christmas version next Friday when I work. Sigh.

That Saturday after a rousing day of training Emily and I went to Valdemart to get our oil change. Oh Emily don't you know that once a year is not often enough? She hadn't changed it since February. We walked around Walmart for the hour and a half it took for them to do both of our cars and shopped for the things we needed to make t-giving dinner. When we checked out I was a nice mom and bought my kid a Popsicle.
She kind of sickens me because her hair always looks perfect.

While checking out in the automotive area I looked up at the security camera television and noticed that my hair replaced the tile pattern. Now that is something to aspire to in your life.


Red circle= my head
Blue circle = Devin taking the picture
Orange circle= lady trying to figure out what we are doing


The sunday before tgiving was Kendal's (devin's sister) birthday. She was turning thirteen. She is one of the cutest thirteen year olds that I know and the nicest. She really is a saint. In her room she has on her bulletin board one of the pictures that annie drew for her. She is so nice to annie any time we are over. They always hang out in her room and Kendal listens to annie talk about her life. I think I need to do a post introducing Devin's family to the blogging world. I'll have to work on that.


Early Tuesday morning two days before t-giving emily and I played martha stewart and used her receipe to brine our turkey. We were kind of very impressed with our efforts even though it wasn't that hard...but cooking t-giving dinner is a daunting task when its your first time. We put our turkey in a five gallon bucket to chill for a couple of days. Seriously only a mormon would have enough refridgerators to accomodate enough room to stick in a five gallon bucket.


Unfortunatley for me I took this picture at 9 in the morning pre-getting ready for the day. I generally look this disgusting when I go over to help get annie ready in the morning.


See Emily's blog for our thankgivites.
We also went to have tgiving with devin's family but I didn't take any pictures.

The Friday after t-giving we went to walmart at 10:30 am for some early morning shopping. I lusted after the cricket wishing I could buy it but eventually we just left with one amazing present for darling delia.



Later that day we went to my mom's parents house for a Mexican fiesta. Okay really just some mexican dinner.



And that friends brings us to this amazing weekend where we went with Annie to her friend Jordan's birthday party. Jordan was this girl who I met through my internship at mesquite jr. high. After talking to Jordan a few times it was clear to me that her and Annie needed to become best friends. She also loves hannah montanna, all things high school musical and she draws on every scrap of paper she finds. Her plus annie equals long lost soulmates.



Her party was of course high school musical themed. First we played some bowling on the Wii Jordan got for her birthday. Then Annie sang her heart out to high school musical karaoke.


Then we ate pizza and had cheetos and pretzels (three of Annie's main food groups). Devin was such a good guy and came even though he kind of just had to sit there for the whole party.


After that we played some more Wii and then opened presents and ate cake.


Annie made Jordan a very cute card and gave her hannah montanna pajamas.
(it took me a while to find out that my camera flash wasn't on aka my pictures kinda lame)

We ended the night playing Wii baseball and tennis. Plans were made to go to see enchanted the next day and to hang out every weekend for the rest of the year.