My 24th Birthday.

Tuesday July 17th was my birthday. I'm now 24 years old. :) Good times.

For the occasion we spent a couple days in Salt Lake. We went to Hogle Zoo with our friends Miquette and Jon. It was fun (pictures are on my camera at home...I'll post them later). I don't know if I'll be able to go to Willow Park Zoo anymore...it's lame compared to the Hogle Zoo. After the zoo we went to Hire's Big H for some Root Beer Floats. Super tasty. After that Miquette and Jon had to leave for a bridal shower or something. Anyway, me and Tyler decided we would go to The Gateway and find somewhere to eat dinner, but this was only like an hour after the biggest RB Float I have ever eaten on my own in my life, so I wasn't super hungry, but still we wanted real food in our bellies. We walked around for awhile hoping to work off the floats a little, it worked fairly well. We went to dinner at Biaggi's, it's an Italian place kinda kitty corner to the movie theater. It was good. I had a salad mostly cuz I wasn't that hungry and because in an effort to get rid of some extra weight (as mentioned in last post. Salad's are supposed to be healthy, right?) I figured a salad would be a good idea. It was really tasty. Tyler had Parmesan chicken with some pasta, he let me taste it and it was really good too. After dinner we went to Dick's sporting goods and I got some exercise clothes and Tyler got him some BRIGHT ORANGE running shoes. Seriously they are quite blinding. It's awesome. Once we had enough of walking around for one day we drove out to Tyler's dad's house in Tooele to spend the night. We spent about an hour or so just chatting and then we finally got to sleep. I was super tired from walking and being in the sun all day.

The next day we got up, ate breakfast, got our stuff together and went back to SL to visit City Creek. We hadn't been there yet since it opened and wanted to check it out. It's pretty sweet...the stores there are a little out of my price range though. I will say we found success at H&M though. I found this cute gray dress that was modest. It's knee-length and has a higher neck line than the shirt I was wearing at the time. The only immodest thing about it is that it doesn't have sleeves, so I'll have to wear a shirt underneath. That's fine I usually layer anyway so no big deal. While we were at H&M we thought we would see what Tyler's brother, Levi, and my brother, Andy, were doing for lunch. They both work at Zion's which is just on the corner accross from City Creek. Turns out they were planning on taking lunch about the same time so we asked if they wanted to meet up with us for a bit. It was fun to see them. Andy's wife and kids were meeting him for lunch too so we got to see them also. That was exciting. After lunch we just wandered in and out of stores finding cute things that of course were way too expensive for us. Once we had seen just about everything we got in the car and drove home. :)

It was a fun couple of days, but it made it really hard to get up and come to work today. I really wanted to stay home in my bed...

OH I almost forgot! I ordered me some running shoes from Nike. I would have bought some at Dick's when Tyler got his but they didn't have any that were really bright or cool looking. So when we got home last night I got online and customized a pair for me (that made them more...but it's fine, I hope.) I'm super excited for them to come!

The pic is kinda small...sorry. It's the image from the confirmation email. But aren't they AWESOME! Now niether of us will get lost while we're running. I also put a custom thing on the tongue where the logo usually is. The right shoe says LEFT and the left shoe says RIGHT. Tyler's idea and I thought it was funny, so I did it. Pretty great, right? :) They are Free Run 3's with Nike+, which means I can track my running/biking/anything else I do with my phone! That will make it easier to put it into Myfitnesspal...when I remember to use it. I hate guessing when I exercise...I feel it's never accurate.
Anyway, that was my birthday excitement. It was an epic time. :) Loved it.

Followers...I need your help. :)

Alright friends (like 4 of you that read this) I need your help.

Tyler and I have decided that we are getting chunky and we don't like it. SO we are going to do something about it. I've been trying for months to get a solid routine down so I can get back to my pre-marriage weight, but I'll do great for about a week (if that) and then I quickly lose what little motivation I had and stop. I think a lot of my problems stem from the fact that I've never had to work to stay skinny...I just always was, so now that I'm not I don't know what to do to get back to what I was. Now I'm not saying that I'm so overweight that I'm going to drop dead of a heart attack at any moment, I'm just heavier than I would like to be. That's fair right? :) Anyway, I'm posting this so that now you guys know and maybe that will be my motivation to keep things going because more people know than just me and Tyler.

Let's go back a few years (OK...it's like 6, whatever). This is me my Senior Year of High School at a fabulous 105-ish pounds.

Yes it's a dance pic...that was my life then. :) Don't I look good? ;) OK enough...moving on.

Next life event. This is one of mine and Tyler's engagement photos...about 5 years after the above photo.

Here I'm probably around 110-ish, maybe 115. (Like I said I've never had weight issues so I never weighed myself.)

Ok now we come to the depressing photo of me now...ugh. I'm kinda nervous posting these in such a public place...but it must be done. :) Alright...here we go...please still be my friend...

Please ignore my dirty bathroom... :)

 

This is me today. (I literally took this like 10 minutes ago) I'm approximately 145 lbs! Pretty gross right!

So in a little over a year since the engagement photos I've somehow put on about 30-35 lbs! This is the HEAVIEST I have been in my ENTIRE LIFE! I'm disappointed in myself for letting it happen, really... I can blame birth control somewhat cuz it does crazy things to you and makes gaining weight easier and losing it harder, BUT that's not the entire reason. I know I don't eat as healthy as I probably should and I don't exercise like I used to. (Seriously...my Senior Year of high school I was at the dance studio for a total of 11 hours a week, and that doesn't include competitions, performances, dress rehearsals, or the dance classes I was taking at school at the time either. That's strictly DANCE CLASS and that's it. That's a lot!) 

To help keep me motivated (hopefully) I've come up with a goal... I have a super cute pair of jeans that are a size 3/4 that I bought myself about 2 or 3 years ago. When I go back to school in January those are the jeans I want to wear on the first day! Plus I have some skinny jeans that I want to wear again too.

That would be about 30-35 pounds in about 6 months. Think I can do it?

Please, please, PLEASE leave comments if you have any suggestions or ideas for me and Tyler to keep at this.

What do I do now??

I'm going to warn you now...this post may not have a happy tone, mostly because I am not in a happy mood. You will understand by the end.

A little background: I started my job in Ogden in July 2007, got my Level 5 in 2008, I transferred to Cache Valley in May 2009, and then moved to my current branch in June 2010. Ok I think that's good enough background. In short, I've been at my job for 5 years and my last "promotion" was in 2008.

I've applied for promotions in the past (since my Level 5 in 08), each time going in with more experience than the time before. Well about a week ago another Lead Teller position opened up. Of course I applied right away. I had high hopes for this one...I have more Lending experience than I ever had before, I have plenty of interviewing experience, and I certainly know my job. I felt I had done everything I could to be ready for this and be the best choice. So I was confident that I would get this one. Did I mention that this would be the 6th Lead position I've applied for? Yeah you read right...that is a 6. Six applications...and now...six rejections.

That's right, I didn't get this one either. So now I'm faced with a decision...do I stick around and wait for #7 to open up (if it even does) or do I move on with my life and look for something else?

Input would be nice. :)

To put it lightly I kinda feel like the fat kid getting picked last in Gym Class.

I'm frustrated...wouldn't you be?!

So I've decided...

A few things. #1 I should be a better blogger, even if it's about nothing in particular. #2 Me and school are not friends.

Let's start with #1 I thought I'd share some random things about myself that most of you probably don't know. Here goes:

• I hate fried eggs with runny yolks.
• My favorite color is red and really anything bright.
• I have terrible vision, like REALLY bad, but I hate wearing my glasses. Contacts all the way my friend.
• I'm a nerd. I play video games (mostly Mario), I watch Star Trek Voyager (and like it), and I've seen the original Star Wars trilogy several times. Most of these are accentuated by the fact that I married a HUGE nerd. It's fine, I love him!
• I don't like to study but still expect to get good grades.
• I'm stubborn
• I'm easily annoyed.
• I hate doing all the things that are expected of a perfect wife, cooking, cleaning, laundry, doing dishes, etc. BUT I still do them anyway cuz I have to (and a lot of coercing by Tyler) and I want to be a good wife.
• It drives me a little crazy when Tyler leaves his dirty socks in the living room even though I do the same thing sometimes... :)
• I love having a clean house...but I don't want to be the one to clean it.
• We don't make our bed unless we just washed the sheets.
• It's a lot easier to tell Tyler to not spend money than it is to tell myself.
• I miss my Dancer Abs, but have zero motivation to get them back...I'm open to suggestions.
• I have a bad shoulder. It'll probably have to be taken care of some day.

Is that enough or do you want more? Well you might get some in future random posts.

Now for #2. I love Utah State and I love going to school and learning don't get me wrong, but school is not being nice to me right now. Remember my little freak out about not getting into Huntsman School of Business because USU doesn't know how to round? Yeah still upset about that. Anyway, I'm taking an internship class over the summer that's giving me 6 credits, an easy A, AND the best part my job counts for it! Great right! I know. So I'll apply for Huntsman for fall. I should get in this time. Downer though half of my classes are already full and waitlisting business classes is the biggest pain in all the world (pretty sure I've blogged about that too) and the classes that are full are prereqs for all my other classes...lame! My options at this point are try waitlisting and go through that stress again and run the risk of not getting in and add another semester until I graduate, take half credits and then add and extra semester until I graduate, or just not take classes at all and add an extra semester until I graduate. I'm taking the last one. So no school for me this fall. I'm kind of excited about it cuz it will save me stress but I'm sad at the same time cuz I already feel like I'm going to be in school forever. A secondary thought to being sad about taking an extra semester for school...Tyler and I have agreed that we won't even BEGIN to THINK about starting a family until I'm done with school and now having an extra semester prolongs that even more. (Don't worry guys I'm not baby hungry! Not even a little bit! But I do want to be a mom someday, and I'm a VERY impatient person.)

So yeah that's the plan right now. Usually I would cringe at the thought of taking a semester off from school...but I'm surprisingly ok with this plan. I firmly believe there's a reason I need to not be in school this fall. I don't know what that reason is but I'm 100% certain that The Big Man Upstairs knows full well what He's doing and that this is the right move for me right now. He'll tell me the reason when it's time for me to hear it.

Anniversary Pictures!

So here's some pictures from our trip to Park City for our 1 year anniversary. :) I hope you enjoy them.

The jetted tub! Super nice!

 

I had to stand in the tub to get this shot but this is the rest of the bathroom. It was HUGE!

 

Why yes we did have a full kitchen in our hotel room. That was super nice. :)

 

And this is the living room area of our hotel room

 

Our King size bed. It was SO comfortable.

 

How many hotels have you seen that have a washer and dryer in the room?? Oh right, fancy ones. ;)

 

This is outside the hotel while waiting for valet to bring our car around.

Olympic mascots at the Olympic Park.

 

Olympic Pins! There's a ton! There was a list on the wall next to this of specific pins to find. It was fun.

We went exploring on Main Street and there's a ski lift right at the bottom of the hill. How cool is that?

One Year!

So I can't believ we've been married for a year already! It's pretty much been the greatest year of my life. :) We spent our anniversary weekend in Park City. It was AWESOME! It was so relaxing to be away from work, school, and just everything! We hung out in our hotel room, which was beautiful by the way, chilled in the hot tub, swam in the pool, wandered up and down Main Street, and went to the outlets! Cool story at the outlets. We stopped in all the outlets that struck our fancy, one of which being Abercrombie and Fitch. Now I know what you're thinking we're poor college student newly weds, we can't afford anything at A&F...we were of the same mind set, but we thought "why not..." So we went in just to look around. Immediately we saw a table full of jeans that were marked $20!!!! Yeah we were shocked! So we miraculously found some in Tyler's size. We went to checkout and the cashier rung them up....$12!!! Yeah I looked at the original price tag on the pants and it said $80! We totally got a pair of $80 jeans for $12. Talk about bargain shopping! Yeah we were totally psyched. Anyway, down side to the weekend...neither of us remembered a camera... :( BUT I took lots of pictures with my phone, so they're all on there but I will post them later. It was a wonderful weekend and I didn't want to come home and go back to work... :( but such is life. Ya do whatcha gotta do. 

School=Death!

So remember my post about how I'd be getting into Huntsman School of Business soon? Well, that might not be the case anymore. I got my grades back for this semester and according to my transcript I have a 2.66 GPA (I have bad grades I know...) and I need a 2.67 to get accepted. I'm a little bummed about it. But get this, the way USU calculates its GPA is to take the Quality Points and divide it by how many credits you've passed. I have 237.30 quality points and I've passed 89 credits. So if I do the math and round to 3 decimal places, 237.30/89=2.666. I don't know about everyone else but I learned in about 1st grade that when you round if the last number is higher than 5 then you round up. Therefore, I really DO have a 2.67. Basically I'm not getting accepted (which I don't really know for SURE but with my luck I won't) on a technicality. I'm super annoyed... I'm going to talk to an advisor tomorrow and see what I can do, and I did register for an internship class that I'm hoping I can use my job for since I'm there anyway. I'm just waiting on approval for that one. But I really don't want to get rejected just because Utah State can't round like they should! This is the second time I've had to jump through hoops for the stupid School of Business. They are not being nice to me...