Four, Six, Nine

The past couple weeks have been full of so much adventure and surprise, mostly of good nature. The 4th was really fun.... Jordan and I went to the Freedom Festival parade and we had lunch at Burger Supreme, but it was so packed we ended up just eating outside on the grass, it was actually really fun. After lunch we decided to go take a nap under a tree at a park - what a wonderful refresher, I love doing stuff like that! There was this adorable old couple at a nearby tree of their own, it was so cute to see that the even in their old years with the wife in a wheelchair and the husband probably not far behind that they were still enjoying the simplicity and beauty of life. After our nap we went to the dollar theater and saw The Croods (very fun/funny!), then we headed to my brother's house for a bbq and fireworks. After the kids went to bed we watched Independence Day...which I mostly slept through except to wake up long enough to eat the delicious "Blondies" that my sis in law made. Yum yum!

Saturday the 6th was me and Jordan's Six-monthiversary! I got to his place early afternoon and then we went up to the City Creek Mall and had a blast! The first place we went to was Tiffany, and it was so fun just looking at everything and imagining all sorts of things and talking about what it would be like to have that kind of money. Haha after we woke up from our daydreaming we kept walking around and then found ourselves having all sorts of conversation over some delicious philly cheese-steaks in the food court. You'd think feeding our faces would fill our appetites, but we ended up in the Yankee Candle store smelling all sorts of yummy candles and traveling all over the place in our minds with each scent tingling our senses. We continued to walk around and played in a toy store for a while, then we went to Godiva and bought some truffles for later and a Dark Chocolate Raspberry Decadence shake to share in the courtyard. It was euphorically delectable and could be severely dangerous for my wallet if I lived close to a Godiva store. :p We had so much fun talking and enjoying our lives together. We moved location to a bench by the street and talked and people-watched as we witnessed a storm rolling in. Once it started to sprinkle we walked over to the Beehive House and were able to take a tour; it was so amazing to see and hear all of the cool things about that house. Then, we walked next door to the Lion House and had a really delicious dinner while we talked about how white we are, haha you can ask me more about it if you want a good laugh. Anyway, then we went home to his place and I helped him with some job applications while he did the day's insanity workout and showered, then we watched Mulan and ate the Godiva Truffles and enjoyed the last bit of our day together. The hardest part about dating Jordan is that we live so far apart from each other, i.e. we aren't married yet, haha so annoying for us both. Anyway, Sunday the 7th he came down to go to church with me and then later that evening we went to a birthday dessert party for my sister in law's cousin's wife, lol, so for all intents and purposes we'll just refer to her as my cousin from now on. :p

Moving on, my fibro had been kicking my butt and on Tuesday the 9th I was fortunate enough to get a full-body hour long massage from a massage therapist in my ward. I walked in there feeling like less than crap and walked out of there feeling like a million bucks. I'm so grateful for massage therapists and how much their knowledge and ability helps me and others. I spent the rest of the day trying to relax and enjoy not being in so much pain...this was working for a few hours, until about 7:20 when a couple gals from my ward came to drop off a ward party invite and see how I was doing. This is where it gets interesting...but first a little background, my apartment is extremely small and my living room wall has a table that folds out/up and is placed at the stupidest height ever, but I can leave a shorter folding chair under it to put my laptop on when I workout so it's easier to see the screen when I'm doing floor work. ANYWHO...so these gals come over, I'm rushing around to clear off the couch for them to have a seat and then pull the folding chair out from under the table for myself, but I didn't pull it out far enough and when I sat down and rocked back WHAM! I smacked the back of my head/neck right into the table! It hurt like a mother, and even though I was instantly seeing stars and didn't know what to do...what did I do?...I played it off like I was fine and talked with the gals for a few minutes and then they were gone. As soon as they left I took a bunch of pain killers and tried not to think about the increasing and spreading pain. Jordan came over and was such a sweetheart to help take care of me and make sure someone from my ward could come help give me a blessing. Finally around 4:30 AM he took me to the ER and I they did some CT Scans. No fractures or internal bleeding, but a definite concussion. Those first like 10 hours since the injury were excruciating (poor Jordan, I don't think he knew what to do). The next day I couldn't see straight at all for the entire day (I was hoping my eyes wouldn't permanently be like that) and I could only stand up and walk around my apartment long enough to go to the bathroom or grab something easy to make and eat. Anyway, over the next few days I saw great but gradual improvement, so that was comforting at least.

Fed Up With Ferrets....

Alright, here we go again with my randomly trying to catch up on several months of activity and goings-on. Jordan and I are still together and are actually celebrating our 6 monthiversary this coming saturday, and we are so excited! Things have been pretty rocky the past several months in many aspects, but more-so the past month everything has just been trying so hard to knock Jordan and I out of orbit altogether as individuals and as a couple. But one thing about love is that it's kind of insane and you just don't want to give up no matter how hard something might be, and you just want to see it through to the very end even though you're constantly hoping there is no end. And yet, sometimes love does this funny thing where it can make you so incredibly angry that you don't even want to touch it with a ten foot pole. Let's take things a step further though and combine both of the previous scenarios and have them intertwining right and left. Yep, that's love. It's not perfect. It's not always easy. But it certainly is worth it.
Anyway, you're probably wondering what the heck love and ferrets have to do with each other. Haha well, absolutely nothing! I decided to quit my job at ancestry.com at the beginning of June because it was bringing my stress levels through the roof and making a lot of my health challenges flare up big time. Because of that, and the fact that my apartment is just WAY too expensive, I decided to take on a roommate. Not the best idea I've ever had...simply because this girl, sweet as she is, drives me nuts! Okay, okay, she doesn't drive me nuts, it's the fact that she has two super stinky and super annoying ferrets that she lets run around the apartment all the time and poop in the corners in every room and steal random stuff such as the pads from my earphones, my cotton balls, and so much more...! I'm not going to lie, the animals themselves are cute, but if she would only keep them in their gosh darn cage and keep them smelling good! I'm just about at my wit's end with all the animals in the house because not only do we have her two ferrets and my two dogs, but for three days we are tending the two ferrets and one dog that belong to her parents. I can make it, I can make it. I will not kill anything, I will be calm. ;p

Enough about animals, more about what has been going on the past few months...
My best friend Taylor Baker and her sweet Roy Barlow were married in Oceanside, CA on May 18th, and Jordan and I got to have a road trip and attend the ceremony - which was absolutely beautiful. We got to stay with my brother Chad and his cute family in Laguna Niguel, and on our way back to Utah we made a slight detour so I could meet Jordan's parents and his grandfather (who is one of the cutest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting).
Another crazy thing that happened is that I finally got some gum and bone grafting done on one of my front, bottom teeth. It was a lot more intense than I thought it would be, but I'm soooo glad it finally happened!
Jordan and I have been doing the INSANITY workouts, and the program is aptly named. We are half way through and are looking and feeling better in so many ways, but we have such a love/hate relationship with the program. Definitely a worthwhile endeavor, but it takes a TON of mental dedication, not just physical.

My family seems to be doing well, we are all just kind of cruising along. Jordan and I will be celebrating the 4th with my brother Chuck and his family, and possibly my parents as well. I'm sure I will be writing more in my blog now that I'm realizing how important it is to keep it updated on a more regular basis, for your sake and for mine. ;p