Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Its been three years this month...

since I met my best friend.

DEVIN


ALAN

FLETCHER

(the above mostly drawn on mustache was a joke for labor day)

We are awesome and met in a Preparation for Celestial Marriage class.
We both were there because we were dying to get married as soon as possible and were ready to tackle the first person who approached us and asked on a date.

PSYCH!

(when's the last time someone said psych?)

For serious though, we were both there because of completely random situations.
You might even say that it was meant to be.

My dear friend Sean Larson was about to leave me friendless as he embarked on his mission to Australia, so I was looking for someone new to hang out with. At the time I was going through a phase where I changed my friends as often as I changed my underwear. So when I remembered that tall kid who I saw at institute wearing a Get Up Kids shirt...I thought it was time our fates collided. Turns out, he was Devin's best friend.


(a million times thanks! and as you said at our wedding...be careful who you introduce your friends too.)

Dear Darson introduced us.
After introductions we talked some music, I gave him a CD to listen to, and he gave me a new middle name.

One John Vanderslice concert later it became very apparent to me that I kinda liked this kid.

We held hands about a month later while watching "Walk the Line" at the movies. The next day he kissed me before I left on vacation to Florida with the fam.


Every night I was gone I would walk outside of the house we were staying in that had bad reception to talk to his friend Courtney trying to figure out if I was sure I liked him. You see anytime a boy liked me back I immediately figured something must be wrong with him. I was coming home that Saturday so I had to make a quick decision on whether I was okay with this whole thing. She told me that the whole time I was gone he kept singing these lyrics...

"And yeah if only it was Saturday Saturday,
things would be better in every way every way,
And I would be okay."
...from a Rocket Summer song

As well as these modified lyrics...
"Come back to me from Florida
All of us here in Arizona
Are starved for your attention
We're starved for your attention"
...from a Copeland song

That sealed the deal for a while.
But a short time later we broke up. You see our feelings are like this picture...


He was all for it, but I was hesitant.
So when I told him I wasn't sure I was ready to be exclusive we broke up.

That lasted a whole five days.
After showing him true devotion by going to an Aquabats concert with him we were back together.

By late December I was in love. On New Years I asked him what he thought about getting married since I couldn't imagine being with anyone else and the first Sunday in February we fasted about it and decided to go for it.


He proposed in March. He thought he was pretty sneaky but I knew the whole time.
(hence the painted nails)


Since then we got married and now we are just two stupid kids in love.


He still makes me mix CDs.
He still says I love you at least a million times a day.
He still can make me laugh harder than anyone else can.
He still randomly puts on 50s music and slow dances with me in the kitchen.
He still likes me love handles and all.
and He still gives me that look that tells me that I'm the only one for him.

So for me October 26, 2005 was a pretty good day.


Monday, October 27, 2008

Blarg


My excuse for not blogging are as follows:
  1. THIS

  2. Fourth Year Camp (next door cousins please excuse the swearing you heard from my parents house last Saturday when I was cleaning out the throw up in my backseat from the trip home. I finally resorted and got the car detailed. It still smells.)

  3. School per usual.

My month of October has been rather full. Which leads me to two conclusions

1.I can't wait for November to come

2.I am so glad I put up my Halloween decorations mid september. Boo to all you Halloween Naysayers. My goal is to convert you all.



I leave you with evidence that Halloween can be cute.


















Wednesday, October 8, 2008

More about voting

I realized while watching the debates last night they totally stole the idea of presidential debates from high school.


Or maybe its the other way around...



Either way if one of these guys wants my vote then they'll have to win over the leading man in my life

because he pretty much gets two votes.

Dear Susan B.

Sorry if I wasted your time with the whole women's suffrage thing.
I don't care about voting.

Sincerely,
Laura


Thursday, October 2, 2008

Voting Sucks

Laura: I didn't vote in the last election
Devin: I forgive you.

So I needed to register to vote since my address changed. While I was registering it asked me what my political party was. What kind of a question is that? I dunno the answer to that. "I'm Mormon so I'm republican" doesn't fly with me but then again I don't want to go all "crazy Devin-liberal wants to disarm our army and give them bubble blowing guns instead of real ones apparently we're going to soap them to death." But then again I'm not all "on the third day God invented the Remington bolt action rifle so men could kill the dinosaurs and the homosexuals." Therefore I did what any reasonable person would do given this predicament. I took an online quiz.
Perfect solution.

On the quiz, this was one of the questions:

You find out that the government is tapping your phone line. What do you think?

a. With the proper checks and balances the government can keep us safe and protect our liberties.

b. Hey, the world is a different place after 9/11. If these measures mean keeping me and my family safe, I'm all for it.

c. If the government starts getting this involved, what's to stop them from monitoring our bedrooms, what we eat, etc; where does it end?

d. These security measures are all about protecting our foreign investements. We need to be focused on improving our domestic social programs.


I chose C because I had just come home from watching Eagle Eye. Shia LeBeouf fought against evil government computers tapping our phones and taking over America so I will too. Who needs debate and reason when crappy movies can make my decisions for me?

Concerned Blog Reader: So why did you become a liberatarian?
Laura: Two words. Stanley Yelnats