The Future is Looking Good

A lot has happened since my last post. Let me go through my goals from my last post and you'll see why:
- Read Books...Looking good. One down and many more to go. I read "Being Enough" by Chiko Okazaki for my ward's book club. I used a part of it for a talk in church.
-Read the BOM and other church books. I've been reading the BOM on the train to and from work. It's amazing how much I've forgotten since the last time I read or maybe I'm just able to understand more of the details now.
-Attend the Temple and least once a month...Still working on this, but it is really high on my list of things I need to start doing really soon. The same goes for writing more blog entries.


-Be active in my ward... I started doing this one and it really paid off by helping me meet the man of my dreams. :-)
-Because I met the man of my dreams, I've also gone on lots of fun dates.
- I'm still not good at staying in contact with friends and family and having girlfriends, but that will soon happen as I continue to get settled into married life again and our house gets put in order.










- We've been learning lots of home makeover ideas with the Sandy house.
#1 how much trash can possibly fit into the bed of a pickup truck. :-)
#2 How to make your kitchen sink work without a base. lol
-I think I've been a little more patient lately, too, but there is always room for improvement.

7 out of 11...not too bad.

The future year...

Now that I've listed past events/accomplishments, I think it's appropriate to tell about a few future events/goals that I hope be able to work on in the coming year. Yes, this is kind of like a New Year's goal list for me but it seems highly appropriate because I fee like I'm starting this year over with a fresh, clean slate. Here it goes (in no particular order of importance):

- Read books...as many as I can.
- Read the BOM... and lots of other church books.
- Attend the temple at least once a month...beginning this week.
- Be active in my ward... as soon as they will let me go.
- Write more blog entries...starting with these two today.
- Stay in contact with good friends and family...while studying I have truly stunk at this.
- Make lots of girlfriends and do lots of girlfriend things...studying again sucked this out of my life.
- Meet the man of my dreams (who treats me like I'm the woman of his dreams)... he must be out there.
- Go on lots of fun dates...this should hopefully help with the one above.
- Learn lots of new home makeover ideas...I should learn lots of these while fixing up the Sandy house.
- Learn to have more patience, to be more Christlike, and to look for learning opportunities in crappy situations.

I'm sure I'll think of more later but that's all for now because I'm getting tired.

This past year...

This past year has been crazy with lots of emotions. I use to think that life was really easy for me. Everything just seemed to fall into place and then God decided he need to give me a wake up call. All I have to say is, "I'm listening now!"

Here are a few things I've done in the past year:

I've taken all four of the CPA Exam tests. I'm now waiting to hear back on the last two. I'm crossing my fingers in hopes that I passed, but we'll see by the end of this month. Then all I need to do is take a state test, send what ever else in that I need to and I'm a CPA. Yahoo! The feeling of almost being at the finish line with this goal is a amazing.

I planted a huge garden that has been incredibly proliferate. It must have been that manure that hauled all the way from Idaho in my car trunk. At least that's what I told my co-workers my secret was. My neighbor Dave says I must be singing to it. But alas, all I have done is water it.

My new concrete driveway was finally sealed. I woke up early one morning and put 2 hours of sweat into rolling the sealer on. If someone ever asked me for a good workout idea, I'll tell them to pretend their sealing a driveway for two hours. I was completely exhausted the entire rest of the day.

Most recently, I've made an offer on a short sale in Sandy. My mom and I will be co-owners. It's going to be a ton of work for at least two to three months after I close, but it will surely pay off in the end.

I have at least another week or so of hiding out from all things social, so now we'll see what else I can get myself into during that time.

What Matters Most...

Girls Girls Girls

This week I threw my first bridal shower.

My dear friend, Krista, got engaged just a short while after I did. She threw me a bridal shower so I threw her one... with some help from our friend Andrea.

Here's a pic with just a few of us remaining near the end.

It was lots of fun. The funniest part was reading to Krista some of the comments she made while opening her gifts...and telling her that this is what she will say on her wedding night. Lol...very cute.