{Who wants a pet fish?}

Because we are going to be gone for the entire summer we need someone to take our pet fish, Julius Ceasar. He has been a good fish but we know it's time for him to go to a better home, whether that be to a real house or the duck pond on campus.
Here he is!
He's dark blue-ish with some red in his fins - very pretty. We're including the bowl, plant, rocks, food, and cleaning stuff.

Also, this fish will never die. True story. No one report me to the animal police or anything... but, we have not been the most regular feeders and bowl cleaners for this little guy and he has survived it all. I don't think he will ever die...ever.

Come on! An immortal fish for free! Gotta love it.

If you want the fish, lemme know cause we're going to put him up on craigslist later today :)

{Our car smells like pizza....}

Our car smells like pizza. No, we did not have pizza recently, we did not eat pizza in the car, we did not have friends eat pizza in the car, and we did not leave pizza leftovers in the car over night. Seriously though, our car smells like pizza. Let me tell you why.

As most of you are aware, the husband and I are moving at the end of this month into a 2 bdrm place for the baby. In order to move, we need tons of boxes. So, for FHE Monday night the husband and I went box hunting. There is no way on the planet that we are going to pay for boxes so we have to find them ourselves. Thanks to some friends and our stealthy rummaging through cardboard disposals all over campus we came up with a few boxes. Our last stop was at Smiths, the grocery store, and we got there just in time. We came out with 2 grocery carts full of folded up boxes in perfect condition! Lovely!

Problem - we are not quite ready to move, yet, but we thought we'd get started on the box hunt so that we could gather a little bit at a time over the next 2 weeks or so. But, when we hit jackpot at Smiths we probably won't need to go box hunting again and now we have millions of boxes with no where to put them [cause our current apartment is a freaking disaster due to end of semester madness] so we just left them in our car. Now our car looks like a hobo car filled with cardboard boxes - it's awesome.

AND.... our car smells like pizza! Let me help bridge the gap for you.

When you order pizza and the pizza guy comes in and pulls out the box of delicious pizza the smells fills your entire house and you know without a doubt that you are about to eat delicious pizza. A large part of that smell can be contributed to the cardboard box, kinda weird. Don't believe me? I'll give you a ride in my car and you will be a believer. It will bring up memories of greasy pepperoni and cheese, no doubt about it.


 

{College}

For the last two night husband and I have been in the library well past midnight to finish up some final projects. Not the funnest time of our lives. Anyways, the husband and I are pretty picky about what computers we use in the library - they have to be the wide screen with a good keyboard and finding two of them next to each other is nigh unto impossible. So, we had to sit on opposite sides of the table which led to us using google chat and making faces at each other across the table.
Here is a conversation between me and the husband on google chat about a brilliant discovery that I had made last night...

me:Guess what - text books are actually helpful!

  i'm glad i'm reading this

 Sean: haha

 me: it actually teaches me things and i don't have to guess!

  it's magic.

 Sean: that's good to learn on the last week of your educational career!

  lol


Anywaysss.... Good luck to everyone finishing up final projects and preparing for finals!  Oh yeah, and here's a picture the husband took of me while studying - I'm sure people thought he was being a creeper lol. do you see that slightly raised eyebrow saying "Why on earth are you taking my picture?!?" HA!

{Dinosaur Noises}

Everyday I am emailed a Calvin and Hobbes comic. I love it. Calvin is my childhood hero and I think he's brilliant, albeit, he does not always using his genius ways in the kindest acts. Anyways, I think he's fabulous.
Here was my comic from yesterday:

This made me laugh a lot and I would be lying if I said that I, myself, do not frequently walk around our apartment like a dinosaur making dinosaur noises. You can just ask the husband. I've been trying to get husband to speak dinosaur, but it does not come as easily to him, which is bizarre considering he's fluent in Spanish and did not have much difficulty learning Chinese...We're still working on it, though, I haven't given up yet.
Luckily, I have not yet broken out into dinosaur language during class or work as Calvin did...

That's all.

Happy Monday!

PS - we should be finding out in a couple weeks if we're having a BOY or GIRL baby..... CANNOT WAIT.
PPS - also, I graduate in 11 days. 11 - I can almost count that on 2 hands....almost.

Our Summer in Sleepy Hollow

I don't know how many of you have yet heard, but Heidi and I met a great deal of relief a couple of weeks ago as our difficult hunt for an apartment in Chicago came to a sudden end. Finding an apartment within decent distance of the Sears campus that offers a 3 month lease was remarkably hard, and at the end of the hunt, we had only 4 options. Two of those apartment complexes had reviews of frequent tire-slashings and robbery. The third was a decent price, but still looked sketchy. The fourth was beautiful, very close to Sears and would cost us around $1200 per month. And we'd still need to buy furniture in any of those cases - none came furnished.

Imagine our relief when I got a call from a bishopric member in the Schaumburg area (the corner of Chicago I'll be working in) who was planning on taking his family on an all-summer vacation in Utah and who was looking for someone to house-sit for him.

Now imagine how quickly Heidi and I agreed. :)

Here's an areal shot of the neighborhood:

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We've only seen it from above, too, but the neighborhood looks beautiful and quite cozy - and apparently so large that it gets its own town name, since I can't see Sleepy Hollow appearing on the address of anything else. We don't know exactly how big the house is, but we know that they have at least two kids, a guest bedroom, and roughly a full acre of property to sit on, so the home can't be too small. Plenty big for Heidi and I, to say the least. Too bad Google hasn't been able to do any Street View shots in the neighborhood.

Other things of note:

It's just ten minutes to the local church!

Its just 15 minutes to my office at the Sears campus!

It looks beautiful. We are so excited. They're charging us just $1,000 for the entire summer, provided we mow the lawn and take care of their garden. That lawn does look formidable, but we're excited for garden. :)

We are very blessed.

{Absurd}

Let me preface this blog by saying that I love BYU. I love going here and the stellar education that I have received. It's a great school. GREAT.

Now....sometimes the people at BYU are a very interesting sort of people. Let me explain.

Every Wednesday in the Daily Universe [our school newspaper], there is a section entitled "Police Beat." It is a section where they summarize the phone calls that the BYU police receive for that week. I look forward to the police beat every week.  It is so amazing how special *stupid* some people can be. BYU does not have the biggest "criminal record" and has been voted top "stone-cold sober" school year year after year. The honor code on campus does a good job of preventing any sort of behavior which would normally make it into a police beat, so we get ridiculous things reported on our police beat.

Here are my favorites from today:

"Police received a report of individuals crossing North Campus Drive wearing garbage bags. They were taking pictures. No crime was committed."

"A resident of Wyview Park reported a suspicious male knocking on her door. She was able to get a license plate number and discovered the vehicle belonged to the BYU paint shop. The man had a work order to do a paint job."

"A Wyview resident reported a suspicious pickup in the Wyview parking lot. It ended up being three people visiting in the vehicle."

Really?


Ok - here are some of the best ones over the past 10 years.


"Sept. 12, 2008: A custodian reported screaming near the MCKB at 4 a.m. The screams were later discovered to have come from a female student sprayed by a sidewalk sprinkler."


"Sept. 19, 2006: An individual reported male students singing to female students outside of Hinckley Hall in Helaman Halls. PoThe males were advised to leave due to complaints."


"July 4, 2009: An owl was found in the former president’s home. An officer communicated with the owl and it left."
*How did the officer communicate with an owl!?!? this is amazing.*


"Oct. 23, 2006: An assault was reported in R Hall of Deseret Towers. One male student threw a bug on another male student, who retaliated by spraying shaving cream on the male who threw the bug. Shaving cream got in the eyes of the first student and the argument quickly escalated and became a physical confrontation."


"Jan. 22, 2002: A man was reported leaving the bookstore carrying a gun. When the officer located the male they found he was carrying a chrome toy pistol. When the officer asked the 22-year-old male student why he was carrying the gun, he said his roommate told him it would get chicks. The officers cautioned the male on carrying or simulating a weapon before he was released."




I hope these absurdly funny near-criminal acts 

{General Conference Weekend}

This past weekend was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I love General Conference. Love love love love love it.

I remember being younger and thinking, "Really? I'm required to stay awake and listen to 8 hours worth of church meetings this weekend?" and now I'm thinking "Really? It's over already? Done? No! Can't we just continue this next weekend?"

I feel so blessed to be able to hear from living prophets and apostles in these times. We can read the words of prophets past and gone in the scriptures which is amazing but it's also astounding how we are still provided with that guidance of a prophet on the earth today.

Their words were full of hope and love and instructions on how to draw closer to our Heavenly Father. General Conference just gets me pumped up about life and a renewed resolve to be a better person. My perspective on life shifts back to where it's supposed to be. I remember what's important and what's not. I love it.

Other things I love about Conference Weekend - spending the whole weekend in my pajamas cuddling with my husband being spiritually fed on the words of God while also being physically fed on home-made biscuits and gravy :)