Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

Oh, what a beautiful day! I've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going my way!

Wow, it's so gorgeous outside today that I am in the BEST mood ever!! It's 60 degrees! For the first time since -I don't know- October, I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt and went out in my flip flops! Oh how I've missed those wonderful little shoes... The most comfortable thing that ever happened to my piggies.

I've always thought of myself as a generally happy person. But it's on warm, sunny days like today, after a long cold winter, that I get even happier! Feeling the warmth of the sun on my back makes me want to run, skip, play, dance, and sing! I just want to be outside ALL day! And it puts a permanent smile on my face. How can you not LOVE a day like today?

Yes, I know winter is not quite over yet, but it's finally at the point where every few days Mr. Sun will grace us with his wonderful, warm presence, and we can forget for a little bit that it's still February. Ahh Spring, how I love you.

A.u.t.o.m.a.t.i.c.

So, I have a little bit of a beef with automatic stuff.

Faucets- You always look silly waving your hands around until you hit the sensor, and then they keep turning off while you're still soapy.
Soap dispensers- Can't seem to get the right amount. You either get way too much, or have to go back for a few more drops.
Paper towel dispensers- You have to do a little "Jedi mind trick" hand wave ten times to get enough paper to actually dry your hands, and soemtimes you just give up and use your jeans.
Toilets- Always scare the pants off me when I stand up and they go WHOOSH!! and you're afraid of getting sucked down.

Now one more thing has been added to the auto-bathroom collection. What else is there, you say?


Yep, that's right. These days the human race is so unbelievably lazy that we don't even need to overdo ourselves by grabbing a handful of TP after doing our business. Just hold your hand under the dispenser, and out it comes, with a nice little whirring sound. I was pretty surprised when I first discovered this phenomenon on campus, and couldn't really believe that BYU was actually putting money into auto-TP dispensers instead of other, more important things. Really.

One unfortunate factor of said TP dispenser is the noise. A girl a few stalls over from me obviously needed quite a lot of TP, as the infamous whirring gave her away. I don't want people knowing how much I'm using- awkward!

Nate decided that the next invention will probably be a little automatic hand and does the dirty work for you! Oh the luxuries of technology...

Hipocrisy much?

So the other day at work, I was contentedly stocking the shelves (cheesy tatoes, to be exact) and I noticed many of the boxes already on the shelf were missing the top right corner. Someone had ripped them all off. Why would anyone do such a thing? I looked at a non-ripped box, and discovered that the "Box tops for Education" things are in that corner.

Someone actually stole box tops for education.
And ruined our product doing it, so they basically stole that from us too.

How can you steal those?! We decided that doing such a thing basically makes you a really horrible person. Hope your school enjoys the stolen points, ya jerk.

"Bella" by Jovanotti

Ok, I'm kinda obsessed with this song right now, and I know you guys don't speak Italian, but it's great! Jovanotti wrote it for his wife while she was pregnant, and it's all about how beautiful she is. All together now: awww!

Hail!

Well, I hoped I'd get something to write about...

Yesterday I rode my bike to work, cause it looked like it would be stormy in the evening when Nate gets off, and I wanted him to have the car since his commute is longer. When I left, it was dry but cold, and in the distance (by my work) were huge, evil-looking black clouds. My thoughts: better ride fast.

I got about halfway to work when out of nowhere a huge hailstorm broke out, and I was pelted with thousands of little ice pellets. Of course I was riding against the intense wind also, so they were all hitting me in the face. I could barely see anything and had to ride one-handed whenever I could to block my face with my other hand. Ever had a sandstorm blow at you when you had wet legs? It stings like crazy. So does hail to the face.

Normally, I'd probably get super upset about this, but for whatever reason I was in a great mood, and even found myself laughing at my misfortune. When I got to work, I looked like a sickly wet puppy, hair blown askew and dripping all over my face. Not to mention my face was bright pink.

Today my awesomely awesome sister-in-law is going to drive me, cause I don't feel like being damp at work again. :)

dum dee dum

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything, so here I am, though I don't really have anything exciting to write about.

Life is the same as always, work, school, and never getting to see my husband for more than 2 hours a day. But so it goes, and I'm glad we both have jobs!

You know you've changed from the California girl you used to be when you get excited about 45 degree weather. It's warmer than 20 or 32, so I'll take it! Unfortunately, it's starting to get a little snowy outside again; hopefully it wont last very long and Spring will arrive soon.

I got my hair highlighted and cut today, and remember how much more I like it when it's lighter! Nate was happy that I came home with my hair still chin-length, just a little neater and not super short.

That's about all for now! Maybe sometime soon I'll have something more interesting to say.