traveling dress

After my wedding dress has been to Austria and back (it's temporary home since last August up until a couple of weeks ago), and has been almost a year and a half since I've worn it....

It STILL fits! I feel pretty great about that.

Ok, ok, I can't say I weigh the same I did when we got married, but I can still slip it on and zip it up, all the way.

Happy New Year everyone!

home.

Well, it's been a while since I've blogged, eh? I guess that means that I've been having too much fun and not a lot of time around computers.

That's a GOOD thing.

Ok, so maybe there's a side of laziness in there somewhere too.

Since I'm official home HOME as of two nights ago, I think it's time to play catch-up with blogging on these last couple of crazy weeks.

It'll be coming soon....today, tomorrow....or whenever I feel like it.

Episode Two

Here is episode two to this post. :

Last night when I went to bed, Wolfgang was sound asleep. I thought I might have a little fun...

Me: "hun.....hun...??"
Wolfgang: (groan)
Me: (thinking of something) "Did you feed the cow today?"
Wolfgang: "yeah, its all good."
Me: "what did she say?" (apparently this is the best thing I could think of at that moment)
Wolfgang: (Something in German).
Me. (pause.)..."What did she say in English?"
Wolfgang: "Nothing."

It's time for those cows to learn some English.

Class of 2010!

Wolfgang and I officially graduated yesterday from BYUH! It was a fantastic day. Couldn't have been better, celebrating it with our families and friends.

Last night was the first night in a while that we actually got some good sleep in, so we are happy campers.

Pictures and more details to come!

24 hours.

Wolfgang's family is currently on their flight heading over here to Hawaii and will be here a little less than 24 hours,

Jess will be here in a lot less than 24 hours,

and my parents will be here in about 2x 24 hours.

BRING IT!

Party time!

Pathetic

I may or may not have teared up after our friend bought and took our entertainment center.

I didn't care about the entertainment center itself, is was just the fact that our little apt became that much more impersonal (our entertainment center was about the only thing we decorated semi-cute) and that much more real that we are leaving.

(Sorry I have so many posts like this....get over it.) ;)

Disclaimer: OH and one more thing... the above mentioned DOESN'T mean we are sad to leave TVA (housing complex) I've been counting down for months on that one...I just mean leaving in general.

1:5

Completely done with one class,

5 more to go.

This week will be one of the worst/best weeks of my life.

here we go.

Pandora

I know I've blogged about Pandora in the past, I would like to blog about her (yes, her.) again.

Amongst all the chaos of these last couple of weeks and not feeling a lot of peace and calmness at this point, I've learned that my more "worldly" approach is to turn to my good friend Pandora.

For the last 5 years, it has been very difficult to get into the Christmas Spirit, until finals are over, which usually end within days of Christmas, then I feel cheated of the Christmas experience.

So, to calm my troubled heart during this chaotic time, I rely on Pandora in supplying me with delightful Christmas music. I'm a big time Christmas music snob, so the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" feature is really great for me.

Tis the season.

lei'd

My first REAL lei. (PCC leis don't count for me; they're too impersonal, and made in Thailand).

Its fragrance was beautiful.

like a train

I'm just going to say it how it is...

I don't do well with change.

Anytime my life is about to make a dramatic turn, I think I go into denial, and the reality of it hits me at random times (and I become annoyingly and ridiculously emotional).

Last night was one of those random times.

It sort of started out yesterday afternoon, when it officially became known that our chance of staying in Hawaii went from about a 70%, down to about a 5%. When Wolfgang told me and the synapses in my head did their thing, I just kind of stood there in shock. "That means we aren't staying in Hawaii?" I almost cried. In the beginning, I knew that our chances of staying here were not that great, but the ups and down of it really confused me emotionally, knowing whether to be happy or sad, in either outcome (Hawaii or Mainland).

Then last night came along. I was lying in bed when all of a sudden it hit me again, that we are leaving Hawaii, very soon. A flood of people went rushing through my mind- friends, co-workers, and professors, and I couldn't help but break down and cry.

I seriously can't believe the last 3 years has gone by so incredibly fast. A part of me is ready to move on, but the other part is feeling overwhelmed that I haven't done everything that I need to/want to here. I guess that's just how life is though.

It's amazing how time flies.