Seriously.

I know a lot of my posts have been negative lately, but I just gotta.

Did I have to start work at 4:30 this morning? Yes.
Have I had to entertain a 7 year old client all day long? Yes.
Did I try to bribe him to be good with all kinds of food, treats, and drinks? Yes.
Was he with me all day because his foster parents were not able to be reached? Yes.
Did I cry when I took this kid to a surgery because when he woke up crying from the anesthesia I wished he had his mom to rub his back and not me? Yes.
Did the nurse look at me like I was crazy? Yes.
Did I care? No.
Did the kid I had to entertain watch 3 movies on my laptop while I tried to work? Yes.
Is he driving me crazy at this point? Which is 13 hours later? Yes.
Is he cute? Yes.
But could any level of cuteness prevent craziness at this point? No.
Has this kid actually done an amazing job considering he's been stuck in my office all day long? Yes.
Did I have to run out of my office suddenly because pregnancy called and made me throw up every item I ingested today? Yes.
Do I feel like crying because I am so tired? Yes.
Have a listed enough things to complain about? Yes.
Was this enjoyable to read? No.
Am I sorry for doing yes another negative post? Yes. Sorry.
Are the foster parents ever going to come get him? Yes. in 10 minutes. Hallelujah!!!!

Nostalgic

Is it weird that last night at the grocery store that I got nostalgic for elementary school as I walked down the school supplies isle? I was shopping for cleaning supplies that we have been seriously out of and our place is seriously dirty, and I wished I was buying a brand new 64 crayon Crayola box and picking out notebooks and mechanical pencils. The beginning of a new school year was always so exciting and so fun. I still remember getting so excited to wear my brand new, just pulled out of the box, Dr. Marten shoes and thinking I was looking so fly.

I guess getting new pens and post-its from the supply closet is kinda like getting new school supplies. But not really.

First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage...

Then comes a baby in a baby carriage.

Baby Herway is set to grace our presence on March 8th, 2009!

Dear Universe,

Do you hate me today? Because nothing, and I mean nothing, is going right at work today. I don't mean just not going right, but turning into COMPLETE DISASTERS! D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R.S. Please throw me a bone, I'm dying here.

-Heidi

p.s. Usually on days like this I call up Seth on my way home from work and ask him to meet me at Cafe Rio. Barbacoa Pork somehow always lifts my spirits.

Why Not

Tagged.

3 joys. Seth. Family. Friends
3 fears. Fish. Someone I love dying. My work finding out how much time I waste online.
3 goals. Waste less time. Complete a triathalon this year(really hard to do with the fishy fear). Redecorate our condo.
3 current obsessions. Jon and Kate Plus 8. Blogs. Sleeping. I love it.

Whoa. I am lazy.

Yay Sethy!

Seth just got his board scores back and he passed! Woo hoo! He did better than he thought he would but says he's neutral about his feelings on his score. Not happy, not bummed. I do know he did better than the national average, which is way awesome! Yay Sethy!

Did I use enough exclamation points?

Memory Lane

This a fun little post I found on my friend Star's blog. What you do is, leave a comment on my blog and leave one memory you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a lot or a little, anything you remember!
Then, repost the instructions on your blog. I tag all ya'll.

Bummer Alert

I'm having a hard day. I don't feel like doing much. Here's the proof.

Number of items on my work to-do list today: 33
Number of items on my work to-do list that have been checked off:10
Number of blogs I've looked at today: 20
Number of wasted tax dollars spent on my paycheck today: Not that many because I don't get paid much anyway.

Nevertheless, sorry for wasting your tax dollars today folks. I'm just not in the mood for helping families and kids I guess. I'll be back tomorrow. I'm going to Maverik.

And so it begins...

Seth started 3rd year, which means he is now in the hospital doing rotations. Monday was his first day and ended up having to stay through the night until 2 pm the next day. Seriously. His first rotations in Pediatrics at Primary Children's. The first three weeks he'll be working in Inpatient. This means every fourth night he will be on-call and will have to stay at the hospital. Monday night as I was bored home by myself and scared going to bed by myself I thought, "This year is NOT going to be fun." It's the fourth night since Monday so I'm in bed right now, again by myself, trying to think of things to make me so tired that I won't even care that I'm home alone. I think next I'm going to watch Friends until I fall asleep. I feel super bad that Seth is going to be up all night and still through tomorrow. Good news is he will have Sunday off so he'll have a day and half to recupe. Wait, that isn't really good news. Only a day and half of a break? Seth's had a super good attitude about not getting sleep, which is a little surprising because he's a total stickler about getting 8 hours of sleep a night. When I came home from work on Tuesday Seth had just woken (is that a word?) up from a nap. He was still in his scrubs and I couldn't resist but take a picture, he totally looks like a doctor, don't ya think?

Happy Birthday Lanxie Jo!

Today is my sister Lauren's 19th birthday! She totally rocks and here's why:

1. She was born during Wimbledon. My mom was watching a tennis match up until she had to deliver.

2. She's the middle child and always the peacemaker as most middle children are.

3. She started playing soccer when she was just 4 or 5.

4. She couldn't say her "R"s for quite a while, like until 1st grade, or fuwst gwade. She was in Ms. Gwegowy's class and her best fwiend was Mawtha.

5. When she was little she lived off candy and bread. "Carbo Canx"

6. She is way good at any sport she tries.

7. Growing up she always had lots of guys friends who would invite her to play sports with them.

8. She loves to ski.

9. She plays soccer at Utah Valley University.

10. She has an academic and soccer scholarship.

11. She definitely got the best grades out of anyone in our family.

12. She was a prom and homecoming queen candidate in high school.

13. She's been a great role model to teammates, friends, and family.

14. She was asked to give a prayer at a church-wide broadcasted fireside for the youth! She got to meet President Hinckley and received a thank-you letter from him after.

15. She has a rock solid testimony of the gospel and has very high standards.

16. She is super sensitive and really cares about others.

17. She once broke her ankle by jump-roping backwards down our driveway.

18. She is really good at giving you the silent treatment when she is mad. (Which is rare by the way)

19. Kids LOVE her. She is naturally so good with kids and they are drawn to her.

20. She was voted Most Gangsta by her Senior class. "Lanxsta Gangsta"

21. She is my parents favorite child. For real.

Those are just SOME of the awesome things about my sister. Happy Birthday Lauren, Baisey Banks and Biddle, Laurie Lanx, Jinkin Janx, Lanxie Jo, Stinky Stanx, Skanky Kanx, Carbo Canx, Candy Canx, Grumpy Ganx, Lanx!

Love you lots!

(p.s. I didn't put anything on here about your well-endowed chestal area like you thought I would. oops, now I did.)

Run, Sleep, Repeat- Part Tres

This was my third year as a Wasatch Back Relay participant. The first two years I did it with Seth and a team of random friends and acquaintances. This year I wanted to put together a team of all girls. Every year while doing it I have thought, "Why am I doing this?" but then somehow I find myself loving it and keep going back for more.

Mandz at the starting line!



Jamie and me at after our firsts legs. Look at our cute shirts!

This year was a blast, although we had a few minor mishaps the week prior and one minor incident during the race. Also, during the two hours we were able to sleep some random person kicked me (I was sleeping on the grass) and then some ladies came and stood over me and told me I needed to move or else I was going to get run over.



Working Girls-Amber, Abbie, and Me-We all work together at DCFS. We dressed up in Diva attire to cross the finish line.


For all of you who are unfamiliar with the Wasatch Back, it goes from Logan to Park City, about 180 miles. You have a team of 12 and starting from Logan you always have one person running until you reach Park City. Each team member runs 3 times with an average distance of 3 - 8 miles. You literally only get about 2 hours to sleep, but somehow this is fun.



Abs passing the baton off to Kacey. Abbie totally rocked this race. She had super hard legs but did way awesome. She's a little drenched in this pic, but it's not sweat. Diva's don't sweat, they glow.

This year our team name was "The Diva Dozen" and we had super cute shirts made by one of our team mates, Amanda Ogaard.

I forgot to mention that last minute we had a team member drop out (we actually had two drop out last minute) but this particular member was going to provide one of the cars. Luckily, my dad knows really awesome people like Tom LaPoint, yes that's right, of LaPoint Ford. Mr. LaPoint hooked us up with a way nice truck to use for the race for FREE! If you ever are need of a Ford truck, definitely go to LaPoint Ford first!

Half of the Dozen-Jamie Johns, Me, Kacey Ludlow, Abbie Ogaard, Amanda Ogaard, and Nicole Jamie's Roommate (I don't know her last name)

The other Half Dozen (not pictured)-Jade (Smith) Pew, Sierra (Smith) Pugh, Amber Rudd, Amy (Robbins) Petersen, Ashleee Andreasen, and Jessica LifeSaver (not her last name either, but she was our last minute girl who saved the team!)


I'm thinking I will take next year off, but that is probably a lie because I said the same thing last year.

Here's a special little treat from this guy:

Post-Boards

Seth survived the boards and this is what he looked like when he got home. He said he thinks he did okay, but thinks he now has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because of it. All week he has been thinking of questions he may or may not have missed.

The Boards

Seth takes the boards today and man, does he seem nervous. He's been studying for the boards since he started Medical School, but has beens studying like a maniac for the past 5 weeks. Don't worry that he set 4 alarms this morning so he'd wake up on time. I've never known Seth to sleep through an alarm, but he just really wanted to make sure he didn't sleep in. I laugh because he gets so nervous, but always does well on tests.I am so excited to see this book thrown away! Not to mention the bazillion flash cards we have around our place. I admire Seth, I could never study this much, for this long. Heck, I couldn't even comprehend one flashcard, it's honestly like reading Japanese.

Thanks to all the friends and family who have encouraged Seth and wished him good luck on this big day! We'll let you know how it goes in about 4 weeks!

Weekends should always be like this

This weekend was awesome. I ran a 10K with my dad, had lunch with friends, had date night with Seth, and got new carpet!!!




The awesomeness started with waking up dark and early Saturday morning to run the Crack of Dawn 10k with my dad in Emigration Canyon, downhill of course. I finished under an hour and thought I was pretty cool for doing that. I passed a bunch of people on the last 2 miles, which NEVER happens, so I thought I was even cooler for that part. I have experienced getting passed on many a races, but have never really experienced the pleasure of making others eat my dust. I thoroughly enjoyed it even if the people I passed were double my age. It was a rainy and cloudy day Saturday morning, so the Crack of Dawn thing didn't really pan out. My dad did awesome too, but he would deny that. We treated ourselves to the always delicious Einstein's bagel afterwards.




After the race I waited for our new carpet! Such an exciting moment in my life as a home owner. It was a little awkard however because there was really nowhere for me to be because all of our stuff was crammed into the living room while the bedrooms were being carpeted. I kinda just sat in a corner and pretended to work on my Sunday School lesson/watch t.v. The carpet looks awesome and our apartment is starting to smell less and less of old people.




Saturday afternoon I went to lunch with my dear old friends, Jamie and Amber. I've been friends with Jamie since the first grade. That's 18 years folks, yes, 18 years. I have so many funny memories with Jamie. I'll have to dedicate a post to that. Jamie, Amber, and I became BFFs from choir class in 7th grade. I think Jamie and I thought Amber had cute clothes or something and decided we should get to know her. Ha! The three of us went to lunch at the most wonderful restaurant in the world, Trio. I am totally obsessed with the place. I rode my bike to the restaurant with gas prices being like $50 a gallon. It was only a like 6 or so blocks away, but it's really hard to ride a bike with a big purse. We ate amazing food and talked for like 2 hours and I didn't want it to end. I love getting together with old friends.

Saturday night Seth and I went to the temple and then went to dinner at The Garden at JSMB. Seth decided the restaurant felt like a cafeteria and decided we shouldn't ever go there again. I thought it was okay, but our server wasn't the nicest. I think she was mad because I only ordered soup and therefore she figured I wouldn't leave a good tip. Loser.

Dearest Uncle Sam,

WHERE. IS. MY. MONEY?! I've tried to wait patiently, but I just can't do it anymore. I've had your generous gift earmarked for some fabulous IKEA flooring and I would really like to purchase it as soon as possible.

Now, I am just a lowly state employee and as you know I get paid beans. You can imagine my excitement when the news of a stimulus package came about.

I've been very good this year, please send me my money.

Sincerely,
Heidi