Me and Mine

Hello!
Guess what! I graduated!! Hooray!
Graduation rocked! Well.. Kinda. My feet were killing me by the end. My mom bought me a pretty new dress to wear for it (which wasn't seen at all under my gown by the way) and I even got a delicious super awesome cake! Those chocolate cakes with the flakes from Costco, I highly recommend them, YUM!!
Curtis and his mom came over for dinner that night (I'll splain about Curtis in a minute) and then his sister and her husband and their baby came over for cake after. After that and a few pictures we were off to graduation. The ceremony was long and I was pretty bored with most of it, but I was so excited when I got to walk through the "C" and they handed me my diploma. After graduation Curtis and I went for a walk and a drive and got ice cream. We were both so excited and it was so nice to have a small piece of the crazy evening just with him. Grad night rocked too. I loved being with my pro start and ward friends one last time before we all went our separate ways.
The next day I went up to Salt Lake with my family and everyone in my extended family started asking me what I was going to do next. I guess I sort of had a "deer in the headlights" look and all I could say was "college". My sweet mom then took me aside and told me that my plans for June were just going to be getting up in the morning and going through my days. I had a really stressful last semester and it was time for a break. I feel very lazy and unaccomplished, but this has been so nice. Then I started framing pictures of cats (an entirely different story all in itself) so I am making a change to this routine this week and I'm going to start looking for jobs and other things to occupy my time. Apparently a night pharmacology class twice a week just isn't quite enough for me. 
So Curtis. I hate the term "boyfriend" but that's essentially what he is. I prefer the terms "man candy", "significant other", or simply "man" to describe him. We've been dating since... somewhere between September and Halloween. We aren't exactly sure when it totally started. Curtis and I met in the summer for 2007 when he and my brother, Dan, had just graduated from high school and I was just getting into high school. I didn't have a lot of friends quite yet because I was still pretty new to Cedar so Dan invited me to go do some things with him and a few of his friends. Curtis brought girls over to my house quite often and it drove me crazy. I didn't exactly have a crush on him I don't think (though I did think he was exceptionally handsome) but it annoyed me when he would give more attention to someone else. So I sat there quietly and occupied my time with other things. We did become very good friends throughout that year and I will admit I cried when he got his mission call. He was called to Spokane, Washington and left in September of 2008. We wrote hand written letters back and forth every week for those two years and we each still have all 104 letters from the other person. He came to see me the day after he got home and it was getting late and I was so angry he wasn't showing up sooner. I was sitting in a patio chair on the porch reading a book when he ran up the porch cause he knew I was sitting there. We did a spinny hug :) I know I was supposed to say a bunch of excited goopy things but all I could say was (not in a sweet way mind you) "What took you so long?!" and "Did you shrink?" He just laughed and hugged me, I'm so glad he's so patient with me.
We had a rough first couple months of him being home and adjusting, but it's been absolutely wonderful since then. I love spending time with him and being reminded every day of why he is my best friend.
I'm sure now I'm expected to go into a big shpeel justifying my choice to have such a peculiar relationship. Well I'm not. If someone can't handle this, then they need to go read someone else's blog. I'm happy with my choices and that's what counts. I wouldn't have it any other way :)

Fun Quirks

So I was up late last night and I was thinking about some fun little things about me that I'm not sure are very unique, but they're interesting (to me at least). So here are a few of them. I'm not sure how long this list will go but we'll try for a bit.

~ I have lots of energy and my favorite way to use it is cleaning. It takes so much out of you and you feel so rewarded at the end :) I clean when I'm happy, excited, sad, or mad. I do my best cleaning when I'm mad.

~ I love to be lectured to about anatomy. I love to do worksheets on anatomy and I love to test on anatomy. I absolutely love anatomy. Bodies are so interesting.

~ I tell people that I love to read. I don't know if this is true.. I enjoy reading, but I can't sit still for that long to just read very easily.  I read very fast though so if I'm told to read something it's never a problem.

~ I regretted not taking a math class this year about 3 minutes after classes started the first day.

~ Every year for the past three years on New Years Eve my mom and I have gone and picked out all the fabric I would need for a brand new quilt to make that year. I got my first quilt finished that I started for 2008 at 5:47 pm December 31, 2010. The other two quilts are..... Well they'll get done someday.

~ I don't really like "out of the norm" kinds of fruits. I love apples, oranges, bananas, grapes, strawberries, other kinds of berries, but I don't like melons much, tropical fruits and I really don't like peaches.

~ Cinnamon makes my hands itch and makes me cough, but I love cinnamon so I live though it.

~ I love "oldies" music. Anywhere from 1920's to 1980's. My dad always played the "guess who" game with me when we were driving in the car and listening to the oldies station while I was growing up (I still consider myself growing up) but now I find myself playing this game with almost everyone that rides in my car, and I consider it super annoying.

~ I think Gone With the Wind is a horrible movie, but I absolutely love it.

~ My favorite movies are the old black and white movies or old musicals. Oklahoma, West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, It's a Wonderful Life, and any Audrey Hepburn movie are at the very top of that list.

~ I am a sucker for anything that has to do with Disney. Flat out pretty much obsessed.

~ I cry at pretty much everything, especially happy, spiritual and historical (like the whole time I visit places like DC or Civil War battle fields) moments. I'm easily moved.

~ I tell people I don't like soda because I want to sound like a better person than I am. This is a lie, I love soda. It's bad so I try to limit my intake, but I love soda. Especially Dr. Pepper.

~ Simple jokes are my absolute favorite. Especially when they have a pun in them.

~ I am probably one of the lesser active people I know. I love the IDEA of having endurance for physically exhausting things, but when I really look at it I think "why..........?"

~ I have a phobia of snakes, and I am absolutely terrified of sharks and whales. Absolutely terrified...

~ In the back seat of my car I have a stuffed shark (I do not have a fear of furry, stuffed sharks) and a stuffed tiger sitting in seats, and buckled in. Their names are Sharky and Baba Oriley (named after Teenage Wasteland by The Who). I love them. I also have a small Clifford dog with a mustache on my dash. His name is El Cliffordo.

~ I love my sandwiches toasted. With the exception of deli meats. But peanut butter and jelly, tuna, chicken salad, blt, egg, etc..  I eat toasted if I have the choice.

~ I hated peanut butter until I got mono last summer, now I love it.

~ I have no idea how I got mono last summer, but I'll never forgive whoever gave it to me.

~ I have different music I listen to during different seasons. I'm so excited for spring, we start Billy Joel and The Beatles season.


~ I've always had this resentment toward the letter "Y" because when I was little my older brother told me that when I started kindergarten I had to sign my "y" with a straight line because they would kick me out of school for signing my "y" wrong. I was currently learning how to do the curly one and absolutely loving it but I stopped because I was scared I'd get kicked out of school . I totally believed him for longer than I'd like to admit. Now I sign my "Y's" with the curly thing that I like and I'm learning how to get over my resentment.

~ I have a huge fear of sharp, metal things being scrapped across my molars. The biggest one is the inside of a pop can that you pop down when you open it (there is no story to go with this, just a thought). The dentist's office is a dreaded affair for me.

~ I am almost never warm.

~ The things I am most insecure about on my body are my shoulder blades.