Time Well Spent

My computer is really slow, so I don't use it very often. I can't justify waiting 15 minutes for it to boot up and load the webpage I need when I can just check it on my phone in 1 minute. Once it's up, though, I do prefer having a bigger screen to see things and a full keyboard to type things. When I have something that will take a while or several things all together, I'll get my computer out to do it all at once.

Except then I forget what some of the things are. So logically, instead of just putting the computer aside and doing whatever else I have to do, I stay on my computer checking every possible website I can think of, hoping that eventually whatever I meant to do originally will come back to me so I can be done with my computer.

Yes, this makes sense. It's why I've spent the last half hour checking facebook, every blog I read, and all my email accounts. It's also why I'm writing this post. Because let's be honest, I don't post that often.

If you're wondering, this didn't help me remember what I had to do.

In other new, my birthday is tomorrow. I'm turning 28, which I'm sure I'll write some depressing post about later. I may or may not have had to plan my own birthday dinner tomorrow because no one would just take the lead and make something happen. But I'm going to look the other way and enjoy the fact that I have dinner with my family tomorrow, bowling with work friends on Thursday, then a whole weekend with Jaime who's flying in Thursday night! That weekend includes Wicked with my mom and sisters on Friday and Catching Fire on Saturday. Birthday doesn't exist in my world. I'm all about birth week.

Also, I signed up for as many restaurant email clubs as possible and I now have more coupons than I will ever be able to use, since many of the restaurants give you coupons for signing up PLUS coupons for your birthday. If you're thinking of going out to eat in the next week and you live anywhere close to me, give me a ring before you go. I'm sure I can hook you up.

The Daily

I'm in a master's program in addition to teaching, and I usually have class every Tuesday night and once a month on Thursdays. The past three weeks, though, we haven't had class so I've been experiencing what it would be like to be a teacher without also being a student. It's nice! I have a whole lot more time, so I've gone out for sushi the past two weeks, and I've been hanging out with my little friends.

I watch Tessa's kids every Monday evening and a couple of weeks ago, Emerson and I made some cookies. They look delicious, right? They were.

Even though Thomas hasn't played in any of the BYU football games yet, it's still a thrill to see him on national TV when they're doing shots of important people he happens to be standing close to. Here's his head in the bottom right corner of the screen. If he could just strategically place himself close to the quarterback all the time, we'd have a Thomas show on our hands.

Last weekend we went out for my dad's birthday. He's a great man, and I love spending time with my family.

In preparation for Halloween, Emerson tried out Cooper's horse costume. I didn't get any actual pictures of the kids dressed up for Halloween, though, because they postponed trick-or-treating a day due to weather and I had to go to a conference for school. Boo. The kids did share their loot with me afterwards, though.

And...there's Cooper wearing the costume. These two LOVE playing games these days. They're really cute to watch.

 

I've been sick this week and, unfortunately, I'm a wuss when it comes to physical discomfort. I'm cranky and impatient when I'm sick, hungry, tired, cold, hot, you name it. So I'm pretty much only happy when circumstances are perfect. It's a miracle I have friends at all. Wednesday I was cranky because of my sickness and a few other things that had happened that day. When I got home, though, this freshly bathed, Halloween pajama-clad little boy wanted to sit on my bed and read stories to himself while I folded my laundry. It's hard to be cranky when you've got this looking back at you.

Yesterday was Jonah's twelfth birthday. It's crazy to think that it was twelve years ago I became an aunt, which has proved to be my favorite and most rewarding role in life so far. I remember holding him when he was tiny and feeling this overwhelming feeling of love for this tiny human. I could not get enough of him. Yesterday he had a party with his friend Jacob whose birthday is the week before Jonah's. They went paintballing then came back for pizza and cake. Then they have ever-so-kindly joined me in the basement all night playing video games. I had a nice soundtrack of gunfire to lull me to sleep.