Cold Showers

Last night Me and Megan got home from doing some shopping, and our roommate Tiffany informed us that there was NO HOT WATER!!!!! We are thinking that the pilot light must have gone out because everything is up to date. But this was really a stinker because coincidentally, last night also saw the lowest overnight lows that we have had all winter. Awesome.

Well, I was completely against the idea of showering in ice cold water, so at about 10:30 last night, I started boiling water on every burner that we had in our apartment and put it into the bathtub. Sadly, 4 pots of water barely even covered the bottom of the bathtub. I had to do 3 trips, which was 12 pots of boiling water in all. It was really funny, but it worked like a charm!! It definitely took a lot longer than if I had just bit it and showered in the cold, but to me it was sooooo worth it. I figure it was just like the olden days when people had to carry in their own bath water.

AT&T bought me a new camera!!!!!

So last year when I was trying to get a cell phone, the nice people at AT&T didn't want to give me one because of my rocking awesome inability to get any credit (There is a whole different story for another day). Anyways, the only way they would let me get an account with them is if I made a 500 dollar deposit. They said that if I went an entire year without missing a payment, they would refund the deposit. The best day ever was last week when that deposit came in the mail!! Such a nice little surprise.

Well the past little while, I've been wanting to get a NEW CAMERA, but I just never did. There was always other things that I wanted instead.. like rent and gas. But then, I decided I would just use my AT&T money to buy me a camera. I knew if I didn't just do it now that I probably never would cause there is just always something that I want more.

This was just the greatest impulse buy since my new computer and the best early Christmas present ever!! Luckily when you only get Christmas for yourself, you can open it early!! Anyway, I just really love my camera and I'm so excited that I have it in time for Christmas and the reunion.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN

Sunday was Megan's Birthday. To Celebrate we went to dinner and a movie on Saturday night. We had dinner at Jonny Carino's and then went to see The Blind Side. That is the BEST movie. Really, it was fantastic and I'm so glad Megg-ee-poo wanted to see it for her birthday. Maybe the best part was after we went to dinner, I was certain that the theater where we bought our tickets was a few miles away, so we entered it into the Garmin and took off. After about 20 minutes when we got to the theater Megan was like, "This is definitely not right!" So, we pulled over, called my roommate for the address and realized that it was just about a block away from the restaurant where we had dinner. So we made our way back over there and after probably an hour of driving ended up right back where we started. It was really funny. Finally we made it though and it was so worth it after we saw that movie.

On Sunday, we had chicken parmesean for her Birthday Dinner. We pretty much have that for every important occasion cause it is our favorite. Then, we also had a pinata and we had cheesecake for her birthday.

All in all, it was a really fun weekend and I hope Chowda-Mc-Spawks-Spawks had the greatest birthday ever.

Ugly Sweater Party

On Friday night, our ward had an Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. It was so much fun!!! It was just really fun to dress silly and hang out with my friends.

First we had dinner, then we played big group games with the whole ward. There was speed pictionary (which my team totally dominated by the way), then a game where you tie balloons to your feet and run around trying to pop everybody else's balloons, then a game with presents that you roll dice trying to win. All in all it really was a blast. After all the games were over they gave out prizes for the ugliest sweaters and I am proud to say that I won second place for the girls. In all seriousness, what I was wearing was really terrible, so I was pretty excited about that. I won a movie package. It had the movie Elf and then a bunch of popcorn, candy and snacks inside. It was really fun.

After the party, my roommates and a couple of friends came back to my house and we just all hung out and talked and laughed till the wee hours of the morning. It really was the funnest night.

Random Laughs

So Yesterday was my nephew Davey's birthday. So in the morning while I was waiting for church to start, me and Megan were texting him to wish him a happy birthday. While I was texting him, I remembered that we had a visiting teaching workshop that night and I was wondering if my roommate was going to be home in time to make it. So i sent the text...

"Hey are you gonna be back in time for the visiting teaching thing tonight?"

About 2 seconds later, Davey replied,

"What thing?"

I was so embarrassed. Obviously he wouldn't be able to make that meeting considering he lives in Texas.. and he's a boy and all. Anyways, it was just really really funny to me that I had sent it to the wrong person. Probably because it was the latest in a long line of me sending the wrong messages to the wrong people. Always makes for a funny moment.

Welcome to the world BENJAMIN (no middle name yet) TURNAGE!!!!!

So tired....

So I used to be a grandma and would go to sleep every night at 10:30. And my life was great.

Then, we started all the stoopin' and now I never want to go to bed because all my friends are having fun without me. So for about the past 6 nights in a row, I've gone to bed in the wee hours of the morning. Last night was especially good when I went to bed a little after 2. When my alarm went off at 7 this morning, I was SUPER DOOPER sad. I am always so tired now.

Maybe I should go back to being a grandma.. I think it was a better time for me.