Celery...

is totally nasty unless it contains a glob of peanut butter. I love vegetables and am making an effort to expand my vegetable horizons, to find ways to eat the ones that I currently dislike. I thought I hated brussel sprouts but a friend of mine marinated them in honey, soy sauce and ginger...I think...anyway, he tossed them on the grill. Doooood, brussel sprouts are good when they aren't frozen green giant brussel sprouts! Same with spinach. Spinach is SO good. I think a lot of people have their first experience with spinach as a nasty frozen sludge that doesn't even resemble spinach. These people grow up thinking they hate spinach. Sad.

Spring and the latest haps

Wow! Where does the time go? I can't beleve that one year ago, we were coming back from Europe!

The last month has been pretty nuts. A few weeks ago I got the sickness from hell and was laid out for days. The entire thing lasted about 12 days for me. Then it got passed on to Trevor and he kicked it in roughly 4 days. My immune system sucks. School is trucking along, I took my final in my cadaver lab on Monday night, I am 90% finished with my psychology class and my physical therapy class should be finished by the middle of next week. I think my Anatomy final is on May 7th, so the end is near. I also should find out in about a month if I got into my program this coming Fall. Most of me wants to just go for it this year, but I am worried about quitting my job and being a full time student living on loans and basically no income. I guess whatever happens, happens!

The last few weekends we have been busting ass on our front yard. There are so many lovely plants and trees that were already there when we moved in. I'm sure our neighbors are happy that our house is no longer the foreclosed eye sore of the neighborhood. I have been talking to the tulips for the last few days when I walk by and they finally opened up about yesterday! I talk to my plants...is that weird?

I had a bunch of fun pictures of recent events but this stupid site is being difficult. Pictures later. I promise.

RANT: Countrywide

We recently did an FHA streamline to get our mortgage rate down to 5.50% from 6.50% Our first mortgage was sold to Countrywide (ugh) and when we did the re-fi we were sold to Countrywide again (UGH!). The one good thing about them is that I can pay the mortgage payment online with no fee. So I got our new statement in the mail and was setting up the online payment stuff and I could not figure out how I did the 1 time payment. So I called them(3 times to get through their craptastic automated robot lady) and I can't do an online payment for April 1st. My options are pay $20 to pay by phone (!!!) or send a check. People all over the country are defaulting on their mortgages and they want to charge me 20 bucks to make AN ON TIME payment!? I have spoken with some other people and other companies charge to make any online payment, on time or not. Redonk!

/endrant

Fever!

Who has spring fever really bad?! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The weather here has been great (for Utah)! We are looking at 70 for Friday and Saturday, then back to the 40s and 50s, but Spring is in sight! I chopped the hell out of our rosebushes last weekend and still have some holes in my fingers. Hopefully it will be a start to avoid the paint-job-ruining havoc they wreak since they are lining our driveway. Little buds of life are appearing on the plants,the back yard is getting cleaned up, and seeds have been started.

I have this week off school and now I'm really dreading finishing the semester. I'm going to spend the next few days trying to get ahead on some homework and reading, we'll see how well I do.

The Germans have arrived!

My friend Carolyn moved to Germany a few years ago and she is back for a visit for two weeks! YAY

Yesterday we went to some hot springs that are a little ways south of Provo. We were expecting about a 2 mile hike that should have taken us an hour BUT what we got was a closed road and a 13 mile round trip journey. HA

The hot springs were awesome, SMELLY, but awesome. There was also a naked lady there who was ultra pissed that we crashed her party. Oops.

Today I feel like an old lady with my hurt foot and sore legs. I have Spring Break the week of the 16th and now I'm in the mood to camp.

Here are some pictures of the adventure

Summer bugs

This morning while I was zoning out in the tub I looked up and saw a box elder bug crawling on the wall. YAY that means spring is nearly here! My friend calls them summer bugs and I do believe that is an appropriate name. The hammock and barbeque are waiting, hurry up and get here.

In need

of some comofort food. Oooey gooey cheesy and warm please, and delivered to me within the next 30 minutes is a plus. I haven't been feeling so hot for a few days and I finally have an appetite as of this afternoon. I am also in need of the elimination of negativity and negative nancies in my general existence. K thanks.

love: my boyfriend
hate: bad vibes
miss: warm cheesey goodness