The joys of commuting

The other day I was driving into work... well I guess I should say flying becuase that is more what my car does.  I make it fly down the road because I have a long drive.  I live about 30 miles from where I work and so my commute (if I drive the speed limit) takes about 40-45 minutes.  However, it NEVER takes me this long to get to work.  I generally make the trip in about 35 minutes.  I don't get to work 5-10 min. early, nope, I use this extra time for sleep. :)  Anyway, I was flying down the road past all the other slow pokes and as I was passing this small toyota I glanced over and had to laugh to myself.  This poor womans head was touching the ceiling of her car.  I really wanted to see how tall she was becuase she must have been very tall if her head was touching the ceiling... unless of course she had her chair up all the way.  But even when I put MY chair up all the way my head is far, far away from touching.  My friend suggested that maybe she was sitting on a stack of telephone books but I kind of doubt that she would really want to sit that high.
This got me thinking about other things that I have witnessed on my drive to work.  I've seen waaayyy to many scary accidents and now I don't wonder why Jared won't let me get a motorcycle... I've played chase with other drivers, both as the chaser and the chasee... but one other instance that really sticks out in my mind is this.  I was passing one of the freeway onramps when this crummy old van entered the freeway.  As we were driving alongside one another all of the sudden his hood popped up and covered his windshield!  I didn't know this could happen in real life!  I just thought it happened in movies like Tommy Boy.  Luckily the driver had his sense about him and quickly slowed and pulled to the side of the road out of traffic.  Disaster averted.  Man!  If this would have happened to me I really hope I would have been able to keep my cool like this guy did!  Another time I passed truck towing a popcorn machine.  Yeah... I took a picture on my phone b/c I didn't think anyone would believe me.  I would put it on here but I have no idea how to get it off my phone.  I'm a little technologically challenged that way.  Oh well.  I'll miss seeing things like this when I finally get to stop driving 70 miles a day... but I can't wait for that day to come.

Family

When I married Jared the conditions were as follows:  I had to move to California.  When we were dating I remember asking him, what if the girl that you want to marry doesn't WANT to move to California?  And his reply was... "Well, then I guess I can't marry her."  So I have accepted what I had to do in order to keep him all for myself but I really miss my family!  It's been 6 months since I saw them for Christmas and I'm really really starting to miss them a lot.  I mean, come on look at these people!  How can I NOT miss them?


                             They almost die going down hills...

They rock out with mops and brooms...

They go to Monster Jam...

They're really special fun :)

They order large quantities of food....

And they shower in the rain!

Who WOULDN'T want to hang out with these people?

I'm counting down the days until I get to see them again.

Baby Steps

Last week I had an ultrasound done and then met with my doctor to talk about the results of it.  He said that the lining of my uterus is a little thin but looks like it is big enough to carry a baby and he also said that I have a cist on my ovary.  I'm not worried about the cist because I know women get these all the time, but the doc wants to do a preop ultrasound in 6 weeks to make sure it is gone.  So we're moving on and he is getting authorization to do the Hysteroscopy.  I'm a little nervous but excited to be making some progress!

Stake Conf.

Last weekend our stake had stake conference.  Jared and I went to both the Saturday and Sunday session and I have to say that I think the Saturday session is so much more personal and almost even more spiritual than the Sunday session.  The message that I took out of the meetings was that we need to have full obedience, not partial obedience like so many of us have.  It really has me thinking.  What are the things that I struggle with?  What do I do only partially?  I could love my neighbor I little better... I could be a little more forgiving of others... I really should stop gossiping and I need to have a better vocabulary that has a few less words in it.  I've decided to make it my goal each and every day to be better at having full obedience... maybe I'll be able to perfect it one day... maybe... I think it's one of those things that is pretty much impossible to do, but hey, I can always have high hopes right?

Killer Klowns? I think not

One night when I was little, like 5 or 6 years old, my dad was watching a movie.  I can remember walking into the room and asking him what he was watching and he said it was a grown up movie that would scare me and to run off to bed.  Well, of course that intrigued me!  I always wanted to do the things I was told I couldn't.  So I walked down the stairs as if I was going to my bedroom and then sneaked back up and hid in a corner and watched part of the movie with him and was scared out of my wits.  Thinking back to the movie I can remember bits and pieces... I remember it was about clowns that came from outer space and that these clowns could do really freaky things, like eat people with shadow puppets and I remember there was one part where this man was walking outside of the circus tent and the clowns got his dog.  My whole life I have been terrified of this movie and I've hated clowns because of it. 
The other night Jared and I were at a friends house and for some reason this movie came up and he just happened to have it so he let us borrow it.  So yesterday (while it was still light outside) I opened up all of the windows and made the room bright so I could watch this movie.  I must admit that I'm a little embarrased because now I realize how ridiculous and cheesy this movie is.  It came out in 1988 and is classified as a comedy horror.  Yes, Killer Klowns from Outer Space is so ridiculous that it is kind of funny.  My whole life I've been afraid of a comdedy movie.  From the opening song to the last scene the movie is one ridiculous thing to the next.  The clowns even have guns that shoot popcorn that turns into small little monster clown things that eat people...  bottom line... I am no longer afraid of Killer Klowns and their circus tent spaceship.