Barely Made It

I sometimes try to start a post with a winner sentence in mind.  Unfortunately many of the one-liners I think up in my head don't work for full posts because I can't think of anything beyond that one sentence.

So, here are some random thoughts I've had that almost didn't make it onto the blog:

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"There are two things I never thought I'd do.  (1) Wear skinny jeans and (2) Part my hair in the middle.  Oddly enough I am doing both right now, and I think I look pretty cool."

"If only I had a dollar for every time someone told me I looked like a little kid."

"Before I married Scott and started eating spicy things, I thought toothpaste was spicy."

"So far we have somehow burned two things in our dishwasher.  The wooden spoon that fell on the heating coil made our entire house smell like bacon, and the plastic spoon that fell smelled of raw salmon..." (I should have known that would NEVER be its own post.)

"We've been really busy lately.  Those 2 hours per day of mandatory snuggling have really been taking their toll."

"It may be wrong, but I fully support implementing more confusing tax laws, because for me, that equals job security."

"You know you are getting old and boring when you think buying mulch is fun."

"I looked at Scott's recent Amazon viewings and saw that he'd been looking at books on how to improve one's memory.  I asked him about it, and he said he doesn't remember looking at it..."

How Convenient

Lately, Scott and I have been noticing a lot of “convenient coincidences.” 

It began with another trip to Sonic to pick up a chocolate malt (after 8 and at half price of course). We’ve been at least six times this summer, and only once have they remembered to charge us the half price. Of course, we remind them once they claim the malt costs anything over $2, and they say, “Oh yeah, sorry--I forgot.” I am suspicious about this because guess what--the half-off deal has been going on all summer, and it is August...

Here's another: I sold the speakers I won at the Marriott School to some woman who came all the way from Spanish Fork to pick them up.  When she got to my house she told me that the bank would only give her $70 instead of the $75 we'd agreed to over the phone.  How convenient. By the way, If your bank is only willing to give you 70 bucks, I don't think you should be buying Bose speakers...  

Another: Whenever I ask Scott to do something, about 90% of the time, he says he needs to go to the bathroom first.  It's happened too many times to be coincidence.  In his defense, I am guilty of making excuses also.  The last five times Scott has asked if I wanted to do p90x, I happened to have a really bad toothache...which prevents me from doing just about anything I don't want to do.

Firsts

We've had a lot of firsts around here lately.  It's been fun...and sometimes scary...and often ridiculous....

We decided to switch things up with our dinner date-night, and we went for Vietnamese.  The iphone told us to do it.  What the iphone didn't tell us is that only hipsters and people of actual oriental descent like pho (however you pronounce that).  It was fun to eat with chopsticks and porcelain spoons, but I prefer a cheeseburger any day.  Blech.

Scott had his first week at his new job.  Now he spends a lot of time commuting and also learns a lot of new things.  Because of this, we wake up reeeeaaaally early, which means we also go to bed reeeeeaaaally early.  So don't ask us to do anything on a weeknight, like...ever again.

I mentioned Scott's new iphone, which is definitely a first for us.  (Let's be honest, I was functioning on a Nokia flip phone until about two months ago, so cell phone technology clearly doesn't matter much to us.)  It's pretty cool to be married to someone with Instagram capabilities though.

I participated in my first ever TH ping pong tournament.  I was paired up with pretty much the only person I've never talked to in the whole company, so it was awkward to initiate an unscheduled yet mandatory match with a stranger. (My email went something like this: "Hey there, if you want to beat me in ping pong sometime today, let me know.  I may or may not know what you look like, so sorry I didn't ask you five minutes ago at the company birthday party...")  I lost by the way.  And my opponent was playing with his left hand.

I learned how to mow a lawn.  I haven't actually mowed yet, but Scott showed me how to turn it on.

I gave Scott a haircut.  My very first time doing anything like that (except for an occasional bangs-trim back in the day).  I think we did a pretty good job, and it was actually kind of fun.

I inherited some clothes from my cute cousins who are still doing that growing thing I used to do.  Being the oldest girl, I've never really gotten hand-me-downs, so this was a new and exciting thing.  Thanks for the cute skirt and other stuff, Arnold & Erin.  And next time you go shopping, remember I'm a 4-short in jeans. ;)