Monday, November 22, 2010
WHOA!
I'm actually posting something! This is just to tell you though that I created a new blog for Dustin and myself. I'm trying to start afresh so I'll actually keep up on posts. The new blog's url is http://www.nielsenquotidian.blogspot.com Wish me luck!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Look! It's our new apartment!
This is the front door and the front closet. There's another closet with a door just opposite this one.
This is just right next to our front entrance, hehehe, our little TV and DVD player :)
This is my bestest friend from BYU, Emily sitting on our couch!
This is the view from the couch across the room into the kitchen. That's our bedroom back there!
Between the bedroom and the main room is this little hole for our washer and the bathroom right next to it.
TADA! The bathroom!
One view of our bedroom...
... and the other view of our bedroom!
Dustin and I got our apartment, and I just moved in yesterday! I thought you'd like to see :)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Dear Birth Control,
I hate your stinking guts. You make me vomit. You're scum between my toes.
I have officially decided that I absolutely hate these little itty bitty white pills. Not only do I have to swallow them EVERY day, they make me CRAAAAZY! One moment I'm feeling anxiety like I'm about to jump off a cliff, the next I'm feeling depression like I'm a penniless college freshman about to take finals, transfer schools, move, then get married, then the next moment I feel totally fine. Other times I feel like I'm bouncing off the walls with happiness (these times aren't so bad, I kinda wish I had more of these, but sadly, these are the less-frequent episodes,) and still other times I feel like I just want to punch those cinder block walls. I can't figure myself out! And the worst part of it all is that through all this feeling as though the battle of Gog and Magog is waging inside of me, I can still see the rational side and tell myself, "Get a grip, Katie, its just hormones..." BUT IT DOESN'T HELP! Because that just makes me mad. You know what's funny? The doctor told me these were the lightest possible pills she could give me that would still work. Meaning, if I don't take these, I've got nowhere to go. So my rational side tells me, "Deal with it, Katie, get used to disappointment," and then I get mad at my rational side. Its hopeless.
I have officially decided that I absolutely hate these little itty bitty white pills. Not only do I have to swallow them EVERY day, they make me CRAAAAZY! One moment I'm feeling anxiety like I'm about to jump off a cliff, the next I'm feeling depression like I'm a penniless college freshman about to take finals, transfer schools, move, then get married, then the next moment I feel totally fine. Other times I feel like I'm bouncing off the walls with happiness (these times aren't so bad, I kinda wish I had more of these, but sadly, these are the less-frequent episodes,) and still other times I feel like I just want to punch those cinder block walls. I can't figure myself out! And the worst part of it all is that through all this feeling as though the battle of Gog and Magog is waging inside of me, I can still see the rational side and tell myself, "Get a grip, Katie, its just hormones..." BUT IT DOESN'T HELP! Because that just makes me mad. You know what's funny? The doctor told me these were the lightest possible pills she could give me that would still work. Meaning, if I don't take these, I've got nowhere to go. So my rational side tells me, "Deal with it, Katie, get used to disappointment," and then I get mad at my rational side. Its hopeless.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Seventy Four Days
Wow! I know it has been a long time, and I have absolutely no excuse :) Anyway, I just got out of my Introduction to Sociology class, and after being drilled about rationalization and globalization and the decline of the social world for an hour and a half, I got bored of checking facebook or my email while no one was on, thus my escape to blogspot! I figure I should probably give you a summary of what has been going on since my last post before I tell you all about my day though :P
So, Dustin and I went to Georgia for Christmas, during which time he officially proposed to me (it was so cute by the way, and if you want to see a video, Phil took one and posted it on youtube - you can just type in Dustin proposes to Katie and it should show up!) and we had a blast. I still have a bunch of M&M's to eat! We came back and started our new semesters. I work on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and go to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays... all day. I wake up at 5:30 to leave the house at about 6:10, get to the bus by 6:25, and get to school by 7:25 then start class at 8:00. I catch the bus back home at 8:18 in the evening and get home by 10:00. Miserable. That has essentially been my life. Work, school, wedding!
Wedding plans are coming along nicely. Really, I feel like it's just a game of waiting now. We have our colors, our reception location, the date set at the temple, my endowment session set, my dress, the photographer, the honeymoon, the doctors, the flowers and ideas for pretty much everything else. Is there anything we're missing? Yeah, it just seems like it's forever away. Seventy four days to down and seventy four days to go!!!
I've just been realizing lately, you know, those "aha" moments? that it's such a miracle that we have each other. And I know it sounds cheesy, and I know we're just young and in love, but it's amazing to just hug and know that we will have the ability to feel that way FOREVER. I never realized until now what a blessing those words are "for time and all eternity." I hope that I can always remember that. Not everyone has that privilege to know they'll never be parted, even by death. It truly is the greatest gift of God.
So, Dustin and I went to Georgia for Christmas, during which time he officially proposed to me (it was so cute by the way, and if you want to see a video, Phil took one and posted it on youtube - you can just type in Dustin proposes to Katie and it should show up!) and we had a blast. I still have a bunch of M&M's to eat! We came back and started our new semesters. I work on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and go to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays... all day. I wake up at 5:30 to leave the house at about 6:10, get to the bus by 6:25, and get to school by 7:25 then start class at 8:00. I catch the bus back home at 8:18 in the evening and get home by 10:00. Miserable. That has essentially been my life. Work, school, wedding!
Wedding plans are coming along nicely. Really, I feel like it's just a game of waiting now. We have our colors, our reception location, the date set at the temple, my endowment session set, my dress, the photographer, the honeymoon, the doctors, the flowers and ideas for pretty much everything else. Is there anything we're missing? Yeah, it just seems like it's forever away. Seventy four days to down and seventy four days to go!!!
I've just been realizing lately, you know, those "aha" moments? that it's such a miracle that we have each other. And I know it sounds cheesy, and I know we're just young and in love, but it's amazing to just hug and know that we will have the ability to feel that way FOREVER. I never realized until now what a blessing those words are "for time and all eternity." I hope that I can always remember that. Not everyone has that privilege to know they'll never be parted, even by death. It truly is the greatest gift of God.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Apostrophe
Finals are almost over!
I've survived my first semester of college!
I get to go home to see my family in ten days!
...
I'm getting married! Whoa! So many wonderful and exciting things!!!
I've just been sitting here thinking, if you asked me five years ago where I thought I would be now, I would definitely not have said here haha! because I could never have guessed that my life would be so blessed. At the age of fourteen, being in 9th grade (the height of my social life), I would have said that five years from then I saw myself at USU studying to be an English teacher, maybe preparing for a mission, working as a receptionist or something in a big corporate office. At that point in my life I was convinced that I would never like guys since they were all dumb and had cooties :P Just as so, I thought I would never get married because guys don't like girls like me. I'm way too picky, I'm not twig thin, and apparently (or so my family tells me) I'm intimidating. I most DEFINITELY never expected myself to end up at BYU of all places, and I could only have dreamed of working at Deseret Book.
I am so grateful that the Lord has blessed me and guided me to where I am now. I don't think there is a better or happier place I could be. Despite my best efforts, I'm at BYU :) and I'm so glad that I am. Deseret Book is fantastic! I've worked there for just over four months now, and I still love it. Tyler and Karen are so amazing to let me live with them, especially with everything they have to deal with now (me being all mushy and everything lol! I'm pretty sure they don't really like seeing me cuddle with my fiancee!) There are no words for how grateful I am for Dustin. It took a lot of hard work to get to where I am, and through most of that journey I somehow felt like I was heading where God wanted me to go, not necessarily anywhere near where I had planned. If I had been stubborn and trusted in my own strength rather than the Lord's, I shudder to think where I would be now. I've been blessed with an amazing life now, and I can glimpse a little bit of the amazing future I have ahead of me. I'm so grateful to be sharing that future with Dustin, and I'm so grateful for the unexpected twists and turns that God graciously guided me through to get me here to be with him.
I am so blessed, and I am so grateful!
(P.S. Just as a side note, for those of you who don't know, Dustin hasn't officially proposed, that will happen in about two weeks, but he already bought the ring, and we've set the date for May 25th 2010 at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, so, it's about as official as official can get!)
I've survived my first semester of college!
I get to go home to see my family in ten days!
...
I'm getting married! Whoa! So many wonderful and exciting things!!!
I've just been sitting here thinking, if you asked me five years ago where I thought I would be now, I would definitely not have said here haha! because I could never have guessed that my life would be so blessed. At the age of fourteen, being in 9th grade (the height of my social life), I would have said that five years from then I saw myself at USU studying to be an English teacher, maybe preparing for a mission, working as a receptionist or something in a big corporate office. At that point in my life I was convinced that I would never like guys since they were all dumb and had cooties :P Just as so, I thought I would never get married because guys don't like girls like me. I'm way too picky, I'm not twig thin, and apparently (or so my family tells me) I'm intimidating. I most DEFINITELY never expected myself to end up at BYU of all places, and I could only have dreamed of working at Deseret Book.
I am so grateful that the Lord has blessed me and guided me to where I am now. I don't think there is a better or happier place I could be. Despite my best efforts, I'm at BYU :) and I'm so glad that I am. Deseret Book is fantastic! I've worked there for just over four months now, and I still love it. Tyler and Karen are so amazing to let me live with them, especially with everything they have to deal with now (me being all mushy and everything lol! I'm pretty sure they don't really like seeing me cuddle with my fiancee!) There are no words for how grateful I am for Dustin. It took a lot of hard work to get to where I am, and through most of that journey I somehow felt like I was heading where God wanted me to go, not necessarily anywhere near where I had planned. If I had been stubborn and trusted in my own strength rather than the Lord's, I shudder to think where I would be now. I've been blessed with an amazing life now, and I can glimpse a little bit of the amazing future I have ahead of me. I'm so grateful to be sharing that future with Dustin, and I'm so grateful for the unexpected twists and turns that God graciously guided me through to get me here to be with him.
I am so blessed, and I am so grateful!
(P.S. Just as a side note, for those of you who don't know, Dustin hasn't officially proposed, that will happen in about two weeks, but he already bought the ring, and we've set the date for May 25th 2010 at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, so, it's about as official as official can get!)
Monday, December 7, 2009
Okay, so I'm weird...
Katie :P
Dustin!
Tee hee hee hee hee :) This one is my favorite!
Gimme a break! I'm entitled to be mushy and cheezy and excited :) Dustin and I wanted to take some pictures together, so we went to the Oquirrh Mtn. Temple for some awesome scenery and then back to Tyler and Karen's condo for a couple more. I just wanted to post a few of my favorites :DThursday, November 26, 2009
Hooray for the Holidays!
I have time!!! It's a beautiful thing that's sorta been absent from my life recently! College is kicking my booty! Just before the Thanksgiving break, my teachers all decided to give us papers and tests galore! I've barely had time to eat! Just so you all know what I'm taking, I'm in a total of 6 classes equaling 14.5 credit hours. Honors English 150, Honors Music 201, Freshman Academy, American Heritage, Book of Mormon, and Humanities 101. Most of these classes are great! American Heritage is really boring, but not bad overall. Humanities is my FAVORITE! I've actually reconsidered my major (though I'm still officially undecided, I was most likely going into an English major) now I think I might do a Humanities major :) The one class that I'm having the hardest time in is my Music class. It's not really music. We've been learning a ton more about art, architecture, literature, and philosophy than we have about music. And my teacher kinda just rushes through all the info during class, avoids our questions because he has to cover all his material, and creates killer tests where if we haven't memorized the textbook, we're going to fail. It's awesome! The test format usually goes like this: 60-80 multiple choice questions, then 3 short essays, 3 medium essays, 3 long essays, and then 3 really long essays. :) They generally take me about 3 hours and I have to hurry through them because I have to catch a bus that'll get me home before midnight!
Work is great! I love working at Deseret Book! It's essentially my dream job :) The people I work with are amazing too! When I first started working, it was pretty slow which was a really good thing because it helped me learn all the product and the store's layout without being a nuisance. Now it's really picking up! We've been super busy lately with all the seasonal shoppers. I love feeling useful when someone comes in and is looking for this specific book and I can take them straight to it or even if I can't take them straight to it, it's awesome to just be able to look it up in our system and find it fairly quickly. I've only had a few incidents with rabid customers. For the most part, I think my favorite part about working at Deseret Book, other than the amazing atmosphere, is how many people I see! I've run into so many family members and friends from the wards way back when! I'm really happy with work.
I think the biggest excitement in my life right now is something that won't surprise any of you :) Yesterday, I guess (though it sounds really really REALLY cheezy to say it) was Dustin and my two month marker. I've never been happier in my life. He is truly an amazing man. I still have a hard time thinking that I'm old enough to be dating let alone dating seriously. It's hard for me to realize that I really am nineteen, and I really am in college, and I really am eligible. And I have an even harder time comprehending how much we care for each other. We've seen each other at least every other day for the past month and a half. And I still want to spend every minute possible with him. I'm really excited that he's coming home with me for Christmas! Thank you so much to Mom and Dad for offering! We're totally excited! He is stoked to meet my family, and I'm ecstatic for him to meet them and for them to meet him :P I met his family on our second unofficial date and I spend lots of time with them now, so it's only fair that he gets to spend a week and a half under the heat with my family right?!
Anyway, I'm super happy, and even with all the stress and absence of time, I don't feel it as much as I would if I didn't have the Lord on my side. I'm really grateful for His mercy toward me. I know it's a miracle that I'm out here, that I'm living with my wonderful brother and sister-in-law, and that I'm spending my time in such spiritual and elevating places. He is watching over me, and I am so grateful this holiday season that I have His love with me wherever I go. Thank you to all of you who have given me added strength through your prayers and support. I love you guys!
Work is great! I love working at Deseret Book! It's essentially my dream job :) The people I work with are amazing too! When I first started working, it was pretty slow which was a really good thing because it helped me learn all the product and the store's layout without being a nuisance. Now it's really picking up! We've been super busy lately with all the seasonal shoppers. I love feeling useful when someone comes in and is looking for this specific book and I can take them straight to it or even if I can't take them straight to it, it's awesome to just be able to look it up in our system and find it fairly quickly. I've only had a few incidents with rabid customers. For the most part, I think my favorite part about working at Deseret Book, other than the amazing atmosphere, is how many people I see! I've run into so many family members and friends from the wards way back when! I'm really happy with work.
I think the biggest excitement in my life right now is something that won't surprise any of you :) Yesterday, I guess (though it sounds really really REALLY cheezy to say it) was Dustin and my two month marker. I've never been happier in my life. He is truly an amazing man. I still have a hard time thinking that I'm old enough to be dating let alone dating seriously. It's hard for me to realize that I really am nineteen, and I really am in college, and I really am eligible. And I have an even harder time comprehending how much we care for each other. We've seen each other at least every other day for the past month and a half. And I still want to spend every minute possible with him. I'm really excited that he's coming home with me for Christmas! Thank you so much to Mom and Dad for offering! We're totally excited! He is stoked to meet my family, and I'm ecstatic for him to meet them and for them to meet him :P I met his family on our second unofficial date and I spend lots of time with them now, so it's only fair that he gets to spend a week and a half under the heat with my family right?!
Anyway, I'm super happy, and even with all the stress and absence of time, I don't feel it as much as I would if I didn't have the Lord on my side. I'm really grateful for His mercy toward me. I know it's a miracle that I'm out here, that I'm living with my wonderful brother and sister-in-law, and that I'm spending my time in such spiritual and elevating places. He is watching over me, and I am so grateful this holiday season that I have His love with me wherever I go. Thank you to all of you who have given me added strength through your prayers and support. I love you guys!
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