Everyone is invited to eat as much squash as possible this September.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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Anna sure is a cute kid. Everywhere we go people stop us and tell us how beautiful she is. Really. EVERY time we leave the house. We’ve just gotten used to it. Sometimes at a restaurant people have asked us to bring Anna to their table so they can ooh and ahh over her. Sometimes we’ll be in a hurry at the store but the cashier takes her sweet time telling Anna that how gorgeous she is. But the most fun is when you hear people whispering under their breath, “That is the cutest baby I have ever seen”.
We’re currently trying to figure out how we can get rich off of her cute face.
But more than that, she is staring to get a little personality. Here are some things we hope to remember about Anna at 8 months:
- She growls. Like she’s possessed. It is the scariest sound you can imagine, and coming out of a sweet little girl makes it even freakier. I try to imitate it but my 28 year old male voice can’t go as low.
- Her favorite toys are measuring cups and empty butter boxes, oh, and the wipes (because the package makes a crinkle sound), and the junk mail. Anna LOVES junk mail. She tears it up, eats it, crinkles it, and makes a pretty good mess.
- Jen and I tried to teach Anna how to wave. For days we went through every possible waving scenario. She watched politely but never made the effort. Until Jen took her to the grocery store, then she had a wave for every stranger that walked by, the little turd. It’s been the same with every trick. She waits to use them on strangers, not on her boring old parents. When people come over to the apartment (especially adults) she does every trick she can think of. She loves new people. She could spend all day in a crowded place just studying people. She gets that from her parents.
- Do you know what a raspberry is? Here’s what dictionary.com has to offer: “Raspberry: a loud, abrasive, spluttering noise made with the lips and tongue to express contempt.” She learned to do one of these every time we fed her something she didn’t like, it effectively spat all the food back out. But now it’s how she expresses “I don’t like this” about anything. Try cleaning out her nose: “THBBTHBBBTHB”, Wrapping her up for a nap, leaving her in the car seat for too long, wiping her face, or even if she bumps her head, it’s the same reaction. It’s pretty funny. She crinkles her little nose and blows away on a raspberry.
- She likes being startled. Any game where you can make her jump out of her skin is sure to get a laugh, but be careful; if she laughs too hard she’ll probably throw up on you.
- She thinks sneezes are hilarious. I guess as she has gotten older she has gotten used to Jen and I laughing every time she sneezes. Now every time one comes out, she looks around the rooms like “Did you see that one? Pretty good, right?”
- She loves the computer. I am currently minus one control key.
- When she wants a bite of something you’re eating she smacks her lips. I made the mistake of feeding her a fruit loop the other day now I can’t eat any cereal in peace.
- She grunts when she poops. Really loudly. And she turns beat red and makes ugly faces.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Becky Mitchell is a haircut professional. I don’t know what schmancy beauty school she went to, but when I go to her salon, she cares for every strand. She broke her foot the other day, and couldn’t cut my hair.
Going to a “Great Clips” is always a gamble. You throw the dice and see what haircut you’re going to end up with. When I walked in, the only other guy there was just leaving the chair, with a bowl cut and a bewildered look on his face. I’m not convinced that was the style he was going for. With trepidation, I took my seat.
You know your haircut is going to be a real winner when the gum-smacking worker holds the clippers close to your head and demands, “So what are you, a three?” Nervously I explained my case; I usually go to this stylist I really like and I just had a haircut like, 3 weeks ago. I like how it is now. I’ve just got a wedding to go to and I only need you to clean it up a little bit. Period. She responded, “So like, what, a four?” BUZZZZZZZZZZZ! She was already tearing into the side of my hair.
I sat there dumbfounded as she moved around my scalp forming the base of what looked like to me, a bowl cut. She was a one trick pony. I was speechless. And after a minute or two of uncomfortable buzzing and gum chomping, the first words she said were, “you know, it looks like it’s taking more off from this area than this area...” Chomp....chomp.
As she (THANKFULLY) whipped out the scissors to fix the bowl, I learned that her husband had done some of the work on the Eldredge Manor, “When we got married in December, he told me he could get a steal of a deal on a reception. I told him after being married five times, I didn’t want one.”
It was a cultural experience.
I left there thinking, I just paid someone to make me look worse. I might as well walk into the store and lay down some money for B.O. scented deodorant. Ridiculous. And you know, you wonder when it was that your dad started listening to oldies music, or when he gave up the afro of his youth for his current conservative do. This might be the end of the line for me, the “missionary” is the only option I’ve got left. I gambled, and the house won.
Becky, please move to Colorado.
Going to a “Great Clips” is always a gamble. You throw the dice and see what haircut you’re going to end up with. When I walked in, the only other guy there was just leaving the chair, with a bowl cut and a bewildered look on his face. I’m not convinced that was the style he was going for. With trepidation, I took my seat.
You know your haircut is going to be a real winner when the gum-smacking worker holds the clippers close to your head and demands, “So what are you, a three?” Nervously I explained my case; I usually go to this stylist I really like and I just had a haircut like, 3 weeks ago. I like how it is now. I’ve just got a wedding to go to and I only need you to clean it up a little bit. Period. She responded, “So like, what, a four?” BUZZZZZZZZZZZ! She was already tearing into the side of my hair.
I sat there dumbfounded as she moved around my scalp forming the base of what looked like to me, a bowl cut. She was a one trick pony. I was speechless. And after a minute or two of uncomfortable buzzing and gum chomping, the first words she said were, “you know, it looks like it’s taking more off from this area than this area...” Chomp....chomp.
As she (THANKFULLY) whipped out the scissors to fix the bowl, I learned that her husband had done some of the work on the Eldredge Manor, “When we got married in December, he told me he could get a steal of a deal on a reception. I told him after being married five times, I didn’t want one.”
It was a cultural experience.
I left there thinking, I just paid someone to make me look worse. I might as well walk into the store and lay down some money for B.O. scented deodorant. Ridiculous. And you know, you wonder when it was that your dad started listening to oldies music, or when he gave up the afro of his youth for his current conservative do. This might be the end of the line for me, the “missionary” is the only option I’ve got left. I gambled, and the house won.
Becky, please move to Colorado.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
In the afterlife...
The other day in lab, we were measuring the metabolic rates of goldfish. Basically we set up a little fishy-treadmill and measured all the oxygen they burned as they swam. My little guy was the first to be tested. He was a stud. He swam his little heart out. I was so proud of him, I asked my professor if I could take him home.
In our lab write-up, he’ll be referred to as “Number One”. I figured that was as good a name as any, but Jen renamed him “Uno”
He abruptly died.
We were so bummed about it, (and by “we, I mean “I”) I went to petsmart the next day and went nuts. I had read that as “feeders”, goldfish like somewhere to hide so I bought two plants: $6. Electrolyte-balancing aquarium salt? $3.50. Special bacteria-friendly rocks? $2. Special water treatment to cut down on stress? $4. Two new goldfish? 12 cents a piece.
One of them just died.
I remember working in a ward in downtown Helsinki. It was an impossibly hard area, and the ward was a little odd. After weeks of trying, we FINALLY got an investigator to come to church with us. It was a testimony meeting and you can picture my surprise when the first women to speak talked about the recent death of her cat; “Imagine!” she said, “the chance in the afterlife to SPEAK face-to-face with my cat, like I’m speaking to you now!”
We lost that investigator. But now I hope that’s true. Or at least that Uno will be there.
Come to think of it, the next life will be zoo for me. Two dogs, countless fish, untold amounts of mice, my lizards Fred and Wilma, a couple stray cats I snuck home and kept in my closet, Habeeb the chameleon, Uno, and this last fish that just died.
Maybe I’ll name him then.
In our lab write-up, he’ll be referred to as “Number One”. I figured that was as good a name as any, but Jen renamed him “Uno”
He abruptly died.
We were so bummed about it, (and by “we, I mean “I”) I went to petsmart the next day and went nuts. I had read that as “feeders”, goldfish like somewhere to hide so I bought two plants: $6. Electrolyte-balancing aquarium salt? $3.50. Special bacteria-friendly rocks? $2. Special water treatment to cut down on stress? $4. Two new goldfish? 12 cents a piece.
One of them just died.
I remember working in a ward in downtown Helsinki. It was an impossibly hard area, and the ward was a little odd. After weeks of trying, we FINALLY got an investigator to come to church with us. It was a testimony meeting and you can picture my surprise when the first women to speak talked about the recent death of her cat; “Imagine!” she said, “the chance in the afterlife to SPEAK face-to-face with my cat, like I’m speaking to you now!”
We lost that investigator. But now I hope that’s true. Or at least that Uno will be there.
Come to think of it, the next life will be zoo for me. Two dogs, countless fish, untold amounts of mice, my lizards Fred and Wilma, a couple stray cats I snuck home and kept in my closet, Habeeb the chameleon, Uno, and this last fish that just died.
Maybe I’ll name him then.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Does this count as a journal?
So... the other day Jen and I were laughing at some old facebook "status updates". As lame as that may be, reading them all in order was kinda fun, and sometimes an interesting peak into my life.
And sometimes just disgusting.
They go back over a year. Enjoy.
10/2/07
-Jonathan is listening to a large man snore.
-Jonathan is listening to a larger man snore.
10/25/07
-Jonathan is cloning.
11/1/07
-Jonathan is cramming.
11/8/07
-Jonathan is moving into the library.
12/3/07
-Jonathan is researching motilities of CCL-225 carcinoma cells, and wondering why Tyler is on facebook.
-Jonathan is eating cold meatloaf with an old spoon.
12/8/07
-Jonathan is going to cut down a Christmas tree.
-Jonathan is cleaning pine tree mess.
12/11/07
-Jonathan is getting fat.
12/18/07
-Jonathan is a housewife.
1/30/08
-Jonathan is mastering physics.
-Jonathan is shaking his fist towards Florida.
1/31/08
-Jonathan is sleepy.
2/1/08
-Jonathan is glad he didn't take that genetics test yesterday. Snow day!
2/5/08
-Jonathan is so mad at McCain in WV that I'm about to huck my computer at a wall.
-Jonathan wants to spit on Mike Huckabee.
2/7/08
-Jonathan is plugging his nose.
2/20/08
-Jonathan isn't dancing
2/22/08
-Jonathan is going to San Fransisco!
3/10/08
-Jonathan isn't sleeping.
3/11/08
-Jonathan binged on facebook today.
3/25/08
-Jonathan is trying to move the left side of his face.
3/28/08
-Jonathan loves his wife.
3/31/08
-Jonathan remembers not studying.
4/3/08
-Jonathan has the ADD! Woo-hoo! And I like a girl song. And I have a beard.
4/13/08
-Jonathan just built a blanket hut.
4/25/08
-Jonathan likes his new putter.
4/29/08
-Jonathan wants to watch Ed.
-Jonathan wants to live in Stuckeyville.
5/5/08
-Jonathan thinks Tyler is kinda a wimp.
-Jonathan kinda thinks Tyler is a wimp, although my back did hurt yesterday.
5/7/08
-Jonathan purged on Ed.
5/15/08
-Jonathan hates those Lakers.
5/21/08
-Jonathan loves his wife. We just went to the temple and she set the officiator up on a blind date.
6/3/08
-Jonathan watched American Gladiators. Shame.
6/5/08
-Jonathan saw University of New England's campus right on the coast. I might be hooked for med school.
6/6/08
-Jonathan is a cheese sandwich master.
6/19/08
-Jonathan is fretting.
7/1/08
-Jonathan is eating ice cream for breakfast.
7/14/08
-Jonathan is no longer cool.
7/15/08
-Jonathan will get you, Brady.
7/29/08
-Jonathan has grown in dimples with his newer, fatter face.
8/11/08
-Jonathan detests new facebook.
8/18/08
-Jonathan is pining for a Callaway 460X driver.
9/1/08
-Jonathan is not golfing well.
9/3/08
-Jonathan used to be funny.
9/8/08
-Jonathan wants doughnuts.
9/11/08
-Jonathan is STILL doing applications.
-Jonathan got his first medical school interview.
9/12/08
-Jonathan is up really late. Again.
9/13/08
-Jonathan is going to watch the game today. And do nothing.
-Jonathan thought the BYU was going to be close. Jonathan thought wrong.
9/15/08
-Jonathan won't say.
9/16/08
-Jonathan was sure he had nutella.
9/18/08
-Jonathan is on a Moby kick.
-Jonathan is dancing around his apartment like a white man on fire to the Woodtick Mix.
9/20/08
-Jonathan thinks his new lucky BYU cup is the key.
9/23/08
-Jonathan just got his second medical school interview.
9/24/08
-Jonathan just got his THIRD medical school interview.Jonathan is grateful for Wheaties and tupperware.
-Jonathan just got shushed.
-Jonathan just got medical school interview invite #4.
9/28/08
-Jonathan 's wife just made monkey poo.
-Jonathan died.
9/29/08
-Jonathan just played racquetball with Jen.
9/30/08
-Jonathan just used a stall where the toilet paper was at LEAST 8 feet away from where I needed it. I won't be going there again.
-Jonathan thought his last "status" change was the funniest thing possible.
10/1/08
-Jonathan planted a pomegranate.
-Jonathan planted a pomegranate and blogged about it.
10/2/08
-Jonathan doesn't think the Utes should be ranked as high as they are. They struggled with Air Force and allowed WEBER 21 points.
-Jonathan 's fat face looks fatter with his haircut.
10/3/08
-Jonathan is miffed that my tax dollars went towards bailing out Wall street. If the corner grocery store makes bad decisions it just goes bankrupt. Accountability??
10/4/08
-Jonathan is listening to Album Leaf, contemplating conference.
10/5/08
-Jonathan wonders if "greater Kansas City area" means "Independance, MO."
10/8/08
-Jonathan rocked his interview.
10/9/08
-Jonathan blogged about Vegas.
10/11/08
-Jonathan is cleaning.
10/12/08
-Jonathan thinks people should use the word "nifty" more often.
10/13/08
-Jonathan 's wife makes great dinners.
-Jonathan endured the funniest most socially awkward experience of his life tonight. Wow.
10/14/08
-Jonathan is packing for Denver.
-Jonathan is in Denver.
10/16/08
-Jonathan LOVED Rocky Vista University! Brand new school in Denver.
-Jonathan can't BELIEVE I'm missing tonight's game.
-Jonathan doesn't want to hear it about the BYU game.
10/17/08
-Jonathan got into medical school. Viva Las Vegas.
10/19/08
-Jonathan ate four pieces of pie.
10/20/08
-Jonathan flossed.
10/22/08
-Jonathan is waiting for another plane. I've been bumped from two flights...
-Jonathan (while waiting for possible plane #3) met the US women's dive team. I'm done with rainstorms.
10/24/08
-Jonathan is bracing himself for the opening of the stock market. Its going to be ugly.
10/25/08
-Jonathan has to do homework.
-Jonathan blogged.
10/26/08
-Jonathan decided against going to medical school interview #5.
10/29/08
-Jonathan is going to get 4 hours of sleep. Then its off to Pennsylvania.
-Jonathan just got accepted to medical school #THREE!
11/4/08
-Jonathan won't be "plugging his nose".
-Jonathan is glad he won, but is worried about the economy, abortion, and nationalized healthcare.
11/5/08
-Jonathan has the flu.
11/6/08
-Jonathan STILL has the flu. Yuck.
-Jonathan's wife is trying to drug him!
11/7/08
-Jonathan is feeling really, REALLY guilty.
11/8/08
-Jonathan bottomed out.
-Jonathan is coloring in a dinosaur coloring book.
11/10/08
-Jonathan lost 9 pounds on a steady diet of oreo shakes.
11/12/08
-Jonathan played hooky.
-Jonathanilla on Suomeen ikava.
11/14/08
-Jonathan looks just like his mom. With his dad's hairline.
11/16/08
-Jonathan really wants a veiled chameleon.
11/18/08
-Jonathan is wearing slightly damp underwear. Yeesh.
11/20/08
-Jonathan has a fancy person's phone.
11/22/08
-Jonathan hopes Pitta's knee is better, we keep pressure on Johnson, and Asiata brakes both his legs.
-Jonathan blames BYU, not Utah.
11/23/08
-Jonathan just ate over 30 oreos. Worth it.
11/24/08
-Jonathan agrees with Mike. The world needs to see this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1kjkUAA9VM.
-Jonathan was really a big fan of "Death and All His Friends" until he looked up the lyrics.
11/30/08
-Jonathan just got home from Sun Valley with his family and everything seems....quiet?
12/1/08
-Jonathan needs suggestions for his Christmas music list. What's your favorite Christmas song?
-Jonathan is going to compile the best Christmas music list EVER. Any suggestions? Also, does anyone have MoTab's "Rejoice and Be Merry?"
12/2/08
-Jonathan is sad about Elder Wirthlin.
12/3/08
-Jonathan thinks.
12/4/08
-Jonathan has grown a really, really awesome beard.
12/5/08
-Jonathan is a bearded rascal.
12/6/08
-Jonathan 's wife is getting him an Ikea for Christmas.
-Jonathan just spent 20 minutes wrestling his wife because she was trying to blow up his nose.
12/9/08
-Jonathan has a bung toe.
12/10/08
-Jonathan is upgrading his bung toe status to "superstar".
12/12/08
-Jonathan is eating an orange that tastes like batteries.
12/14/08
-Jonathan is being a grump.
-Jonathan thinks his status updates are superior.
12/15/08
-Jonathan froze his pancakes.
12/16/08
-Jonathan ate a grumpy halibut.
12/17/08
-Jonathan won't be scammed. No sir.
12/18/08
-Jonathan is one of the 4,400.
12/20/08
-Jonathan is getting the BEST toy for Christmas.
12/21/08
-Jonathan takes his hot chocolate black.
12/22/08
-Jonathan is eating Ben and Jerry's oatmeal cookie chunk. That pretty much makes him superior to everyone.
12/23/08
-Jonathan is 99.9% done with his Christmas shopping.
12/24/08
-Jonathan wants to be Matt Harding.
12/26/08
-Jonathan made his wife breakfast in bed. At noon.
-Jonathan mase his wife breakfast in bed. At noon. Because that is when he woke up. She's been hungry since nine.
-Jonathan thinks that if his wife wants to change his status on facebook, she could at least spell things correctly. So there. Neener neener.
12/31/08
-Jonathan isn't feeling creative enough for a status change.
1/2/09
-Jonathan binged on facebook.
-Jonathan congratulates Ute fans on possibly the greatest win in the State's history. Impressive.
1/4/09
-Jonathan can't BELIEVE he's hungry again! What the heck is going on with my metabolism?
-Jonathan just finished registering for classes which start tomorrow.
-Jonathan just wrestled his pregnant wife over an otter pop.
1/6/09
-Jonathan is considering a lunch of Reese's Christmas trees. Darn estradiol.
1/8/09
-Jonathan is done with the "expecting" phase, I want my baby now.
1/9/09
-Jonathan hates computers. Hates them.
-Jonathan also hates really low urinals.
1/10/09
-Jonathan ate brownies for breakfast.
-Jonathan ate brownies for dinner.
-Jonathan is JJWT. Seriously.
1/11/09
-Jonathan is married to a little tart.
1/12/09
-Jonathan is eating homemade sourdough bread and delicious balsamic.
1/13/09
-Jonathan can't believe "Animal Cops" is still a show.
1/14/08
-Jonathan is feeling egotistical about his latest blog.
And sometimes just disgusting.
They go back over a year. Enjoy.
10/2/07
-Jonathan is listening to a large man snore.
-Jonathan is listening to a larger man snore.
10/25/07
-Jonathan is cloning.
11/1/07
-Jonathan is cramming.
11/8/07
-Jonathan is moving into the library.
12/3/07
-Jonathan is researching motilities of CCL-225 carcinoma cells, and wondering why Tyler is on facebook.
-Jonathan is eating cold meatloaf with an old spoon.
12/8/07
-Jonathan is going to cut down a Christmas tree.
-Jonathan is cleaning pine tree mess.
12/11/07
-Jonathan is getting fat.
12/18/07
-Jonathan is a housewife.
1/30/08
-Jonathan is mastering physics.
-Jonathan is shaking his fist towards Florida.
1/31/08
-Jonathan is sleepy.
2/1/08
-Jonathan is glad he didn't take that genetics test yesterday. Snow day!
2/5/08
-Jonathan is so mad at McCain in WV that I'm about to huck my computer at a wall.
-Jonathan wants to spit on Mike Huckabee.
2/7/08
-Jonathan is plugging his nose.
2/20/08
-Jonathan isn't dancing
2/22/08
-Jonathan is going to San Fransisco!
3/10/08
-Jonathan isn't sleeping.
3/11/08
-Jonathan binged on facebook today.
3/25/08
-Jonathan is trying to move the left side of his face.
3/28/08
-Jonathan loves his wife.
3/31/08
-Jonathan remembers not studying.
4/3/08
-Jonathan has the ADD! Woo-hoo! And I like a girl song. And I have a beard.
4/13/08
-Jonathan just built a blanket hut.
4/25/08
-Jonathan likes his new putter.
4/29/08
-Jonathan wants to watch Ed.
-Jonathan wants to live in Stuckeyville.
5/5/08
-Jonathan thinks Tyler is kinda a wimp.
-Jonathan kinda thinks Tyler is a wimp, although my back did hurt yesterday.
5/7/08
-Jonathan purged on Ed.
5/15/08
-Jonathan hates those Lakers.
5/21/08
-Jonathan loves his wife. We just went to the temple and she set the officiator up on a blind date.
6/3/08
-Jonathan watched American Gladiators. Shame.
6/5/08
-Jonathan saw University of New England's campus right on the coast. I might be hooked for med school.
6/6/08
-Jonathan is a cheese sandwich master.
6/19/08
-Jonathan is fretting.
7/1/08
-Jonathan is eating ice cream for breakfast.
7/14/08
-Jonathan is no longer cool.
7/15/08
-Jonathan will get you, Brady.
7/29/08
-Jonathan has grown in dimples with his newer, fatter face.
8/11/08
-Jonathan detests new facebook.
8/18/08
-Jonathan is pining for a Callaway 460X driver.
9/1/08
-Jonathan is not golfing well.
9/3/08
-Jonathan used to be funny.
9/8/08
-Jonathan wants doughnuts.
9/11/08
-Jonathan is STILL doing applications.
-Jonathan got his first medical school interview.
9/12/08
-Jonathan is up really late. Again.
9/13/08
-Jonathan is going to watch the game today. And do nothing.
-Jonathan thought the BYU was going to be close. Jonathan thought wrong.
9/15/08
-Jonathan won't say.
9/16/08
-Jonathan was sure he had nutella.
9/18/08
-Jonathan is on a Moby kick.
-Jonathan is dancing around his apartment like a white man on fire to the Woodtick Mix.
9/20/08
-Jonathan thinks his new lucky BYU cup is the key.
9/23/08
-Jonathan just got his second medical school interview.
9/24/08
-Jonathan just got his THIRD medical school interview.Jonathan is grateful for Wheaties and tupperware.
-Jonathan just got shushed.
-Jonathan just got medical school interview invite #4.
9/28/08
-Jonathan 's wife just made monkey poo.
-Jonathan died.
9/29/08
-Jonathan just played racquetball with Jen.
9/30/08
-Jonathan just used a stall where the toilet paper was at LEAST 8 feet away from where I needed it. I won't be going there again.
-Jonathan thought his last "status" change was the funniest thing possible.
10/1/08
-Jonathan planted a pomegranate.
-Jonathan planted a pomegranate and blogged about it.
10/2/08
-Jonathan doesn't think the Utes should be ranked as high as they are. They struggled with Air Force and allowed WEBER 21 points.
-Jonathan 's fat face looks fatter with his haircut.
10/3/08
-Jonathan is miffed that my tax dollars went towards bailing out Wall street. If the corner grocery store makes bad decisions it just goes bankrupt. Accountability??
10/4/08
-Jonathan is listening to Album Leaf, contemplating conference.
10/5/08
-Jonathan wonders if "greater Kansas City area" means "Independance, MO."
10/8/08
-Jonathan rocked his interview.
10/9/08
-Jonathan blogged about Vegas.
10/11/08
-Jonathan is cleaning.
10/12/08
-Jonathan thinks people should use the word "nifty" more often.
10/13/08
-Jonathan 's wife makes great dinners.
-Jonathan endured the funniest most socially awkward experience of his life tonight. Wow.
10/14/08
-Jonathan is packing for Denver.
-Jonathan is in Denver.
10/16/08
-Jonathan LOVED Rocky Vista University! Brand new school in Denver.
-Jonathan can't BELIEVE I'm missing tonight's game.
-Jonathan doesn't want to hear it about the BYU game.
10/17/08
-Jonathan got into medical school. Viva Las Vegas.
10/19/08
-Jonathan ate four pieces of pie.
10/20/08
-Jonathan flossed.
10/22/08
-Jonathan is waiting for another plane. I've been bumped from two flights...
-Jonathan (while waiting for possible plane #3) met the US women's dive team. I'm done with rainstorms.
10/24/08
-Jonathan is bracing himself for the opening of the stock market. Its going to be ugly.
10/25/08
-Jonathan has to do homework.
-Jonathan blogged.
10/26/08
-Jonathan decided against going to medical school interview #5.
10/29/08
-Jonathan is going to get 4 hours of sleep. Then its off to Pennsylvania.
-Jonathan just got accepted to medical school #THREE!
11/4/08
-Jonathan won't be "plugging his nose".
-Jonathan is glad he won, but is worried about the economy, abortion, and nationalized healthcare.
11/5/08
-Jonathan has the flu.
11/6/08
-Jonathan STILL has the flu. Yuck.
-Jonathan's wife is trying to drug him!
11/7/08
-Jonathan is feeling really, REALLY guilty.
11/8/08
-Jonathan bottomed out.
-Jonathan is coloring in a dinosaur coloring book.
11/10/08
-Jonathan lost 9 pounds on a steady diet of oreo shakes.
11/12/08
-Jonathan played hooky.
-Jonathanilla on Suomeen ikava.
11/14/08
-Jonathan looks just like his mom. With his dad's hairline.
11/16/08
-Jonathan really wants a veiled chameleon.
11/18/08
-Jonathan is wearing slightly damp underwear. Yeesh.
11/20/08
-Jonathan has a fancy person's phone.
11/22/08
-Jonathan hopes Pitta's knee is better, we keep pressure on Johnson, and Asiata brakes both his legs.
-Jonathan blames BYU, not Utah.
11/23/08
-Jonathan just ate over 30 oreos. Worth it.
11/24/08
-Jonathan agrees with Mike. The world needs to see this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1kjkUAA9VM.
-Jonathan was really a big fan of "Death and All His Friends" until he looked up the lyrics.
11/30/08
-Jonathan just got home from Sun Valley with his family and everything seems....quiet?
12/1/08
-Jonathan needs suggestions for his Christmas music list. What's your favorite Christmas song?
-Jonathan is going to compile the best Christmas music list EVER. Any suggestions? Also, does anyone have MoTab's "Rejoice and Be Merry?"
12/2/08
-Jonathan is sad about Elder Wirthlin.
12/3/08
-Jonathan thinks.
12/4/08
-Jonathan has grown a really, really awesome beard.
12/5/08
-Jonathan is a bearded rascal.
12/6/08
-Jonathan 's wife is getting him an Ikea for Christmas.
-Jonathan just spent 20 minutes wrestling his wife because she was trying to blow up his nose.
12/9/08
-Jonathan has a bung toe.
12/10/08
-Jonathan is upgrading his bung toe status to "superstar".
12/12/08
-Jonathan is eating an orange that tastes like batteries.
12/14/08
-Jonathan is being a grump.
-Jonathan thinks his status updates are superior.
12/15/08
-Jonathan froze his pancakes.
12/16/08
-Jonathan ate a grumpy halibut.
12/17/08
-Jonathan won't be scammed. No sir.
12/18/08
-Jonathan is one of the 4,400.
12/20/08
-Jonathan is getting the BEST toy for Christmas.
12/21/08
-Jonathan takes his hot chocolate black.
12/22/08
-Jonathan is eating Ben and Jerry's oatmeal cookie chunk. That pretty much makes him superior to everyone.
12/23/08
-Jonathan is 99.9% done with his Christmas shopping.
12/24/08
-Jonathan wants to be Matt Harding.
12/26/08
-Jonathan made his wife breakfast in bed. At noon.
-Jonathan mase his wife breakfast in bed. At noon. Because that is when he woke up. She's been hungry since nine.
-Jonathan thinks that if his wife wants to change his status on facebook, she could at least spell things correctly. So there. Neener neener.
12/31/08
-Jonathan isn't feeling creative enough for a status change.
1/2/09
-Jonathan binged on facebook.
-Jonathan congratulates Ute fans on possibly the greatest win in the State's history. Impressive.
1/4/09
-Jonathan can't BELIEVE he's hungry again! What the heck is going on with my metabolism?
-Jonathan just finished registering for classes which start tomorrow.
-Jonathan just wrestled his pregnant wife over an otter pop.
1/6/09
-Jonathan is considering a lunch of Reese's Christmas trees. Darn estradiol.
1/8/09
-Jonathan is done with the "expecting" phase, I want my baby now.
1/9/09
-Jonathan hates computers. Hates them.
-Jonathan also hates really low urinals.
1/10/09
-Jonathan ate brownies for breakfast.
-Jonathan ate brownies for dinner.
-Jonathan is JJWT. Seriously.
1/11/09
-Jonathan is married to a little tart.
1/12/09
-Jonathan is eating homemade sourdough bread and delicious balsamic.
1/13/09
-Jonathan can't believe "Animal Cops" is still a show.
1/14/08
-Jonathan is feeling egotistical about his latest blog.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
A Holiday Recap.
Y’know, it seems inevitable. Any time in my life when I’ve kept a regular journal, it seems there’s a huge gap between the end of November and the beginning of the new year. Apparently the rule works for blogs as well. I’ll try to catch you up.
Thanksgiving was wonderful. The entire extended family overcrowded into three condos in Sun Valley. I loved it. We stayed up nearly every night playing hearts and eating too much while grandma worried. The highlights would have to be Jake properly using the word “décolletage” and our nearly running out of gas on the drive home.
There were seven of us in the Jeep; Me, Jen, Jameson, Samantha, Brady, Dan, and Sharli. If I remember right we were all belting away to Ace of Base in an ipod-Idol sing off. It was during this mad ruckus when Brady calmly (inaudibly?) inquired if I had taken a peak at our gas gauge lately.
I hadn’t.
We looked to our left, and we looked to our right. Nothing but miles of lava rock. We had 16 miles to empty, and the next stop was who knows how far off. This was trouble. Luckily, after 20 miles or so we found a pump. We had to lift a series of levers to pressurize the system. Wanna buy a goat? They were for sale there too.
Christmas was magical. I’m excited for the day when we have young kids listening for the pitter-patter of reindeer hoofs, but for now, its really great just being a couple and enjoying Christmas for what it should be.
Then again, Jen woke me up jumping on the bed at 6:30. “It’s Christmas! It’s Christmas!”
I’m still suffering the effects of New Years. We were going to play with our friends Jared and Katrina, but they bailed on us sick. So New Years Eve we got a call from Tyler and Michelle telling us that their plans might fall through and that we were on reserve. That felt nice.
We all played games until 3 in the morning laughing like giddy school children. We had so much fun we did it all over again the very next night, and then again two days later.
But here’s my problem: I tried warning them about Jen, but they didn’t listen. I told them she’d win, destroy them, annihilate us all, but my warnings fell on deaf ears. I was Lehi. They were Jerusalem. It was incredibly frustrating to scream until I was blue in the face only to be ignored. Their loss, she dominated.
….AND she’s pregnant.
Thanksgiving was wonderful. The entire extended family overcrowded into three condos in Sun Valley. I loved it. We stayed up nearly every night playing hearts and eating too much while grandma worried. The highlights would have to be Jake properly using the word “décolletage” and our nearly running out of gas on the drive home.
There were seven of us in the Jeep; Me, Jen, Jameson, Samantha, Brady, Dan, and Sharli. If I remember right we were all belting away to Ace of Base in an ipod-Idol sing off. It was during this mad ruckus when Brady calmly (inaudibly?) inquired if I had taken a peak at our gas gauge lately.
I hadn’t.
We looked to our left, and we looked to our right. Nothing but miles of lava rock. We had 16 miles to empty, and the next stop was who knows how far off. This was trouble. Luckily, after 20 miles or so we found a pump. We had to lift a series of levers to pressurize the system. Wanna buy a goat? They were for sale there too.
Christmas was magical. I’m excited for the day when we have young kids listening for the pitter-patter of reindeer hoofs, but for now, its really great just being a couple and enjoying Christmas for what it should be.
Then again, Jen woke me up jumping on the bed at 6:30. “It’s Christmas! It’s Christmas!”
I’m still suffering the effects of New Years. We were going to play with our friends Jared and Katrina, but they bailed on us sick. So New Years Eve we got a call from Tyler and Michelle telling us that their plans might fall through and that we were on reserve. That felt nice.
We all played games until 3 in the morning laughing like giddy school children. We had so much fun we did it all over again the very next night, and then again two days later.
But here’s my problem: I tried warning them about Jen, but they didn’t listen. I told them she’d win, destroy them, annihilate us all, but my warnings fell on deaf ears. I was Lehi. They were Jerusalem. It was incredibly frustrating to scream until I was blue in the face only to be ignored. Their loss, she dominated.
….AND she’s pregnant.
Stay tuned...
OK, so I promise a new blog entry soon. Possibly later today. It will highlight Thanksgiving, Christmas, my experiences as a prophet, and possibly a big announcement. It should be pretty good. Stay tuned.
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