This Made My Day . . .

Be brave . . . . but its ok to be afraid sometimes

Zombies! written by Sam

I really like writing with the "sweet mystery of life" theme, which is my way of telling you of things that make me happy or that I hate. That way I get to do you all a favor by letting you know of things that are awesome just because I said so, and also those things that suck. So far I've never been wrong, and if you disagree with me then. . . you're wrong, sorry. Today's sweet mystery is, yes, zombies. Lovely lovely zombies. This takes some background to explain. I do not do horror movies well. I just don't like them, mainly because I'm a man and thus am expected to be tough and unafraid, however, when I watch horror movies I am neither of those things. I once walked a girl home after watching a scary movie with a big group of friends only to find that once she was inside her warm house that I was very very alone. In the dark. In a small town. . . alone. So I ran to catch up with the other guys who were walking girls home blocks away only to NOT find anyone. alone. Then I ran home but only made it to my friends house scaring his mom to death when I leaped though the side door and slammed to door behind me. So yeah, I don't do horror movies well. Maybe part of it is from the time I dressed up in the Scream costume and scared the girls who were watching that movie in the other room. All I got out of it was a few screams and a hooker boot in the crotch and maybe the inability to procreate. The latter is yet to be proven. Now with all that background it would seem odd that today's sweet mystery of life is, in fact, a horror movie, a zombie movie. But I just like it! If you haven't seen 28 Days Later, you must. I would say it's my guilty pleasure because of the R rating and blood and cuss words but I really don't feel guilty. I am of the opinion that the movie rating system is not divinely inspired and that in this case the R stands for "R-eally R-eally good" and that sometimes PG-13 are worse than R's. I make it a point to research movies before I see them for a little clue of what I'm going to be exposed to. The reason this graphic zombie is awesome is that it is not your ordinary zombie movie. Usually zombies will have their head cocked to one side, slow walking, spasms, and easily avoided as well as killed because they are just slow and dumb. However in 28 days later the zombies don't slowly stumble along chanting "braains, braains", they run at top speeds and are not easily thwarted. The movie starts with a man waking up in london in a hospital only to find the entire city abandoned. Turns out the zombies are just people who have been infected with "Rage" and they are just hiding in the dark and starving because they have run out of fresh meat to eat. And as odd as it seems this zombie movie is very artsy and has deep lessons embedded in it and that is hard to do with a zombie movie. My only hurdle in enjoying this movie is the wife, she watched it once and liked it but doesn't want to see it again, so it will be MY movie from now on and since I just bought it at a pawn shop for $3 I can enjoy it whenever I want, as long as she is not present. Woot! Go Zombies!

Oh The Irony

Good thing I did that post about working at the same place for a year . . . I just got laid off. It took me forever to find that job in the first place. Cedar is not an easy place to find a job. I'm hoping to find something fast as well as get into my photography more seriously. If any one needs any kind of photos let me know. I have very reasonable prices. :) Also, if anyone hears about job openings in Cedar please let me know and keep me in your prayers. Thanks.

One Year Down. . . .

I just realized that I have been working this job for 1 year this month. In my personal opinion that's one year too many. It started out ok but has gone down hill from there. My boss treats my manager like crap (and that's putting it lightly) and the other secretary gangs up on her too. I don't know about you but I get very upset and defensive when people mistreat my friends. I'd go in to detail but this post would never stop. I'm SO ready to find a job that I love. I can hardly wait to finish school then get to pick where I want to work and be able to ask for a much higher hourly wage. This is the most dramatic and unprofessional workplace I've ever been in. The work is not terribly hard (I finish all my work in no time and have nothing to do a lot of times) but being handed "grunt work" is ridiculous. I want so badly to be the one that hands the lowly worker things I don't want to do. *sigh* Any way, enough of my complaining.

P.S. If you hear of any stellar job openings in Cedar City let me know.

At last I found thee

Along with some new changes to this blog, Whitney and I have made the decision to share this blog because it is nice to share. So just so you know, this person writing this entry is Sam, Whitney's hubby. How are you? I am fine. I want to start by sharing a sweet mystery of life that I have found just recently. My wife, along with you or your wife reads and loves the Twilight series (I may not know you, but I know THIS about you). She convinced me to give it a try and I read the first book and . . . I liked it. Then the next and the next and next. I was pleasantly surprised. But the "sweet mystery of life" I found was that I read it and remained heterosexual as well as not attracted to Edward in the least. I'm not sure how I did it, I'm fairly positive that I am the only Twilight fan to ever have this happen to them. Now on an unrelated note. Do you know what is NOT a sweet mystery of life? Any and all Old Navy commercials. Every time I see one I just want to say "Really? Are decent writers THAT hard to find in this market? I'm ok, I mean I could write a commercial that was not dumbtastic or that didn't involve weird awkward stop-frame-photography manaquins. my application is in the mail. . . idiots." That's all I have for you today, it was a pleasure meeting you, here's a picture of me so you can soak me in.

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

I totally forgot to post about our 1 year anniversary in my last blog but that's ok because this one deserves its very own post. Sam just LOVES being sneaky and surprising me! While I hate the suspense I really do love the surprise at the end. So around February I asked him what he wanted to do for our anniversary that was coming up and he wouldn't give me a straight answer for like a week and when he answered he said, "How about I get to plan everything?" and that was that. I was left wondering for 3 months about what he was planning. The suspense almost killed me! I'd ask him what we were doing and he'd just say, "You don't really want to ruin the surprise do you?" and I'd shut up. On May 8th we left Cedar for "some where". He kept saying weird things to try and throw me off the trail. We headed in a northerly direction on I-15 and then we ended up in Midway which was our favorite place on our honeymoon. I figured out we were heading to Midway once we got to Provo Canyon but I didn't know where we were staying because we'd stayed in two different places while we were there. We stopped by the Zermatt Hotel and he pointed to stuff and such and said "What number is that one?" and I told him and he said, "Cool, we're not staying there."! He was dragging it out as long as possible! We finally pulled up to a condo at Zermatt and the garage opened. We pulled in and walked in. There were eggs cooking on the stove and I was thinking, "We just walked into someone else's house!" then Ry and Em jumped out of a closet!! They were there to surprise me! They totally helped Sam plan the whole thing. Em's parents own the condo and she let us stay there for the weekend! It was SO fun! We hung out with them till like 2 am then we all went to bed. We got up the next morning and had a leisurely morning then we headed to Park City to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine! SO good! After that Ry and Em headed to Idaho to visit family and we had the rest of the weekend to ourselves. We walked Main St. in Park City and went into different shops. This saddle was AMAZING! My father in law wants to make a saddle like this in the near future. Check out all the details in the leather and silver! I don't remember how much they said it was worth but it was many thousands of dollars!

Our favorite gallery by far is this one. I don't remember what its called but we went to it on our honeymoon and loved to so we were determined to find it again and we did. We BADLY want one of these brass frogs. They are way heavy and WAY expensive but they are GORGEOUS and have so much personality. The big frog was $7500 and the little ones were several hundered each. The giant octopus (which we also want REALLY bad) was thousands as well. They are just all so gorgeous! The guy tried to get Sam to buy me one but we just don't have the money right now. Maybe next year. :)

That night we went to Teriyaki Grill which is kind of like Panda in the sense that its fast but its Japanese food. SO yummy! Then we went back to the condo and relaxed and watched tv. The next day we got up and drove around Heber. We went to some shops and found a painting that we found on our honeymoon that looks just like me! We had lunch at an authentic Mexican restaurant that was awesome! Went back to Park City that day and Sam took me on a shopping spree as his gift to me! We went bowling in Heber just like we did on our honeymoon and I actually beat Sam!! That's the first time that's ever happened. We were the only people bowling. So fun!

He had Ry and Em get Kung Fu Panda for him so he could give it to me when we got up there but they gave it to us as their gift for our anniversary so he had to think of something else. Haha. I got him and I a couple's massage since he'd never had one. We got it done a week after we got back. Any ways we went to The Outlets and shopped FOREVER! It was a record for us. He got me new flip flops since mine broke, a new purse since mine was ugly and falling apart. We got him some new shirts, a bunch of kitchen stuff, and other odds and ends. It was great but we were SO ready for dinner when we were done. We went to Cafe Trang for dinner that night. Its an Asian cuisine restaurant. They had Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian and Thai food. Sam and I are kind of obsessed with Asian food. It was DELISH! We got gelato at Zermatt that was divine on our honeymoon but just ok on our anniversary. We left on the 10th (the actual day of our anniversary) and stopped by his parent's house to wish his mom a Happy Mother's Day and we had dinner with them. On the drive back to Cedar I called my mom and talked to both my grandmas. It was a wonderful, wonderful weekend. I loved every second of it! Thanks honey for a wonderful anniversary! One year down, eternity to go!

I'm Alive I Swear!

I didn't die! I only have a few excuses for my long absence to the blogging world:

1. We moved (here's our old place all cleaned out)

2. I'm in summer school (here's one of my pictures from my photography class)

And . . . that's about it. We love our new place. We moved into the Northfield Apartments when the school granted us a housing scholarship so now they pay our rent. :) We also got permission to plant a little garden in our front yard and we love it. Two tomato plants, one crookneck squash plant, a jalapeno plant (Sam's idea) and 2 corn stalks.

These are our little budlings of plants. SO cute. They make me happy every time I walk by. I am SO looking forward to fresh veggies this fall. MMmmm.

In other news, Sam is working nights at Lyn's as a donut fryer. He likes it, the hours are just weird. We see each other about 3 hours a day. 6 pm - 9 pm since I get off work at 6 and he goes to bed at 9. Its a crazy schedule but we're making due.

We got to St. George quite frequently and go to SLC when we can. We've made some really great friends here in Cedar and are becoming more attached each day. I'm drawing a blank on other things we've done as of late but once I remember I'll be sure to post them.

Also, I just posted a new recipe on my food blog, Good Eatin', that I cohost with my friend Brittney. Check it out everyone! Its in my list of friends under "Good Eatin'" haha.

Loves to all!!