...Three months later!

Ok! So lots has changed since the last one.

First: that's the only picture pretty much we've taken since April, so I decided to include it. Sometimes I tuck in my shirt now to look older. At least that's the goal. :) this was me trying to growl, but I ended up laughing. Slightly reminds

me of the bad guy in the Dark Knight, what's his face?

Joker? Because his face looked smiley but he was evil.

Anyway...

I'm not sure if I'm going to major in Psychology anymore, just because I got to thinking how much school we have ahead of us for Sam. I enjoy learning about Psychology but can't really do much with it, so I've actually been considering going into nursing. This would provide me with a job that permits people to still have families, and could help support us in the many school years ahead. But can I do it!!! I guess we'll have to wait and see. I don't have a very strong stomach,

but I've read you can get over that. And I've had a lot of different people/sources tell me I would make a good nurse...we'll see if I try to prove them right, or stick with Psychology at BYU (nursing would mean transferring to UVU or Provo College).

Sam, in the mean time, is a Linguistics major for now but may switch to Speech/Language Pathology. And after undergrad, he may try to get further degrees in Speech/Language Pathology, or go to optometry school. Again...time will tell!

As I said last time, I'm grateful to have a job. But I'm kind of at my wits end with it. I k

ind of clash with one of my supervisors, and there's so much to do all the time we've been behind since I started. I hate that there is so much room for human error: it's not just one process you have to memorize, details and all, its like twelve. With ten details each. Of course I mess up!

I may leave before school starts, my main excuse being my whole "ADD-does-not-go-well-with-too-much-to-do, no-time-to-do-it". Thing. Particularly if I try to pursue this nursing option, which would require lots of science classes. Which have never been my cup o' tea.

But how will we save up for a new car and pay the rent if I have to do this! hmm...well we'll see.

As to our car, it's driving us crazy. (oh man, that was a good one. Not even on purpose.

:D) Since we have been married, it has broken down once every month with a significant repair required to get it functioning proficiently again. arg...oh well, Murphy (its name) is a stud, and if it can just last another year I think we'll have other options we can take then.

Our housing situation: we found a place! This will be our third time moving in eight months of marriage. Woo-ee! But I think we'll be here to stay, at least for a year.

It was kind of a crazy situation, how I found it. Being a worry wart, I was on craigslist and KSL every day, clicking like crazy trying to find a place that we could move to in August. In the mean time, I got on the waiting list for Nate & Derry's old place (which was 2 bedrooms for $450: snap!).

Come mid-June, I found one that would be available Aug

ust 2nd. We went to check it out, and both liked it quite a bit. After some thought, we decided to go with this place. We filled out an application and after they checked it out, we told them we'd be in the next day to sign a contract.

THAT same day, the guy who managed the Teuscher apartments (the ones where Nate and Jandel used to live) called us and said one had opened up, and we could take it if we moved in that weekend.

What!! What?!?!?!

How does that even happen? Seriously.

So that night I went and knocked on one of the apartments at the Teuscher's place, and asked if I could take pictures. Super awkward of me I know, but I wanted a visual to compare the two.

So here's the Teuschers apartment (of course it wouldn't have been furnished, but still gives you the layout:

And here is the other place (notice my shadow in this first one- nice):

So we chose this one,

because: we didn't want to move right that weekend and have to pay rent for two places for TWO months; it was a little bit bigger; the carpet wasn't dark orange; and it was a little bit closer to campus than the other. It is more each month, but not by that much and probably our biggest thing is we don't think we'll feel the need to move for the rest of our time here in Provo, which is awesome. Moving is the pits.

In other news...Sam's family started a book club, and switch off an educational/classic book one month, a session of conference the other month. May was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' June was the saturday morning session of conference, and July is 'The Real George Washington.'

I also took on some house projects for my parents this summer-organizing their home to make it more efficient/get rid of junk, and putting their VHS home videos onto DVD. The former is

highly dependent on my mom, because I can't throw away anything she doesn't want me to, and the latter just takes quite a bit of time. But I figure I can do as much as possible now, and keep working on it throughout the fall/the next year. (Hopefully it won't take a full year, but you never know. )

I think that's about it, in a nutshell! Oh, I guess I can say our callings: Sam and I are, yet again, on the Activities Committee. Last time all we did was decorate the gym for a Valentine's day dance, but this time we're helping with a bigger activity-a ward camp-out. Fun fun! I got work switched this Saturday so I can go, but Sam will have to work till 6 Friday night (well me too but still) and work again at 8 the next morning, so we'll spend the night but he'll have to leave again

early the next morning. He may play the bagpipes Friday night! I'm hopeful. He's such a cutie. :)

I never said Sam's jobs, either! In May he got a job doing this guy's yard work part time. I didn't think it'd be that great a job, but it actually pays more than his other, is super flexible and his boss is a real character (which keeps things fun).

In June, he started his other job at the BYU library as a...I don't know what they're called. Person that sits behind the desk to answer questions. But I was so happy he got that job! Though the hours aren't great, and he doesn't do anything all day, I think it's a nice change of pace for him and will be a good job to have during school.

Ok! That's it! I'll just include one of my favorite pics of Sam, from before we were even dating exclusively:

Good night!

New adventures!

So we finally get to move into our new place on Monday. Considering we moved out of our wonderful first home over two weeks ago, it'll be nice to have a place of our own again. And to have different clothes to wear: I'm sick of the seven shirts I packed for three weeks of wear.

I just think I should say the Lord is really looking out for Mr. Sam and myself. I wasn't really sure how we were going to finance the next few months, but then one of my old jobs took me back. Though it's been hectic, since it's at an apartment complex and contracts are just ending so there has been lots to do, I'm extremely grateful to know we need not worry where the money for rent will be coming from. This also means Sam doesn't need to be as desperate for a job, so I'm hoping we can find him something he'd actually enjoy that isn't a labor job. Everybody needs change.

On another note, I started six of my last eight credits at BYU-Idaho online this past week, and will be starting my first credit at BYU this upcoming week.

I'm kind of having a hard time deciding what to do about school. At least I'm almost positive I want to stick with the Psychology major I decided on back when I first began college, but I'm not sure if I want to try to get it done ASAP, or if I want to take half the amount of credits to get more out of them. The second option would work well with my new job, considering I've only gone to school and worked at the same time for two months ever and it could take some time for me to learn how to be more efficient so I can get everything done. BUT...I'm not sure. We'll see.

Oh! I haven't said anything about our visit to California! Yeah, we drove down to Pleasant Hill, CA on the 12th and drove back on the 19th. It was a wonderful week! We went to: San Fransisco and walked all over the place; the Oakland temple; the Jelly Belly Factory; a Six Flags; the Oakland Zoo and we saw the new Alice in Wonderland. Probably best of all though was me getting to meet Sam's sister, Jessiann, her husband and three kids. She was the only sibling I hadn't met yet, and she's closest to Sam's age so it was really nice getting to know her. And her kids are adorable! What fun, having 24 nieces and nephews now. :)

poor eyes...

1st off, I forgot to say a while back: Sam and I both got into BYU!!! Yay!!! It was a perfect birthday present, finding out Sammy was accepted as well.
2nd, we have an awesome condo we get to move into for the summer, starting April 25th. Can you say lucky? Three bedrooms, washing machine/dryer, dishwasher, half a block from BYU, and half the price of a normal place=Sam and Ariel have a lot of blessings to pay forward. Seriously though I'm more excited about the washing machine and dryer in the place than anything else. :)
3rd, the semester is almost done!!! Just got to hold on a liiiiitttle longer. I'm still terrified about writing my personality theory paper, but that's just how I get about papers. Hopefully BYU will solve that.
I also applied for a job in the mental health field recently, and was informed my resume made it past the first cut. What on earth?? I don't have a very impressive resume so this was a lovely surprise.
Ok and the eyes thing:
So one night Sammy needed a tissue, so I was bringing the box over so he could grab one but I brought it too far and jabbed the corner of the box into his left eye. His reaction was so great! It was just like a movie, he immediately said "My eye. My eye!"
Well LAST night I had just turned off the lamp, so was unaccustomed to the darkness still. I was flipping back around, and squished my own left eye precisely into his thumb. :) I could not stop laughing: that's two in a row!
I love Sam. The end

963 Country Road

This is a great example of me being a horrid journal writer: blog updating doesn't seem to be much different. Ah well.

I thought I'd show pics of our current home, since 1-it's our first lovenest, 2-it's WAY better than any other place we're going to live while trying to get through school, and 3-we're moving out in a little over a month. Gah! Heartwrenching as it is to acknowledge.

Anyway. Above, there's a picture of our office/coat room;

This is our storage room (with a mess of snowboarding gear: we cleaned it up eventually I swear);

Our living room (can you see Sam's record player between the loveseat and recliner? That's why I married him, for his collectibles);

Our kitchen (only one electrical outlet :) kinda funny. Some aspects of our home are funny since before it was a guest house, it was a shop);

Our bathroom, obviously;

And upstairs, our bedroom! We've been loving all the space available, seriously. We're going to miss this place. We got really lucky. But who knows! Maybe we'll find a great deal again, in Provo!

On that account, Sam and I were busy in February with tracking down nine W2's, filling out the taxes, taking a trip down to Franklin for Valentine's Day weekend, applying to BYU, finishing applying to BYU last minute when I realized we'd forgotten something vital that had to be mailed, and...that about sums it up. And school, of course. That keeps us busy. I have three tests and a paper due for this weekend, but we will conquer!

In other news...I turn 21 a week from today. This is exciting. :)

Love to all! -Ariel June

what a sweetie...

Ok so Sam and I don't get to see each other very often during week days-well, at least Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays because of our schedules. But I was going to my next class on Friday and ran into my hubby on the way! What a pleasant surprise.

Right after the class I was about to attend, I had a break. And I knew that he had a break then as well, so I told him to come to such and such building and we could have lunch together (which were left-overs from the delicious dinner he had made the night before, but him being a great and willing cook is a totally different story). So he said sure, and I scurried off to Philosophy.

When he's waited for me before to get out of Philosophy, he sat on this one certain bench. So I looked for him there, but was surprised and disappointed to not find him there.

I remembered when I ran into him he'd been walking with some good friends of his who he sometimes spends time with during his long breaks on school days(because he's taking two classes online, he only has class from 7:45-8:45, 10:15-11:15, and 3:15-5:30 MWF). I thought maybe he decided to just stay at their place.

So I went outside (no reception) and called him, but he didn't answer. I went back inside kind of discouraged, but trying to convince myself that this was silly: he spends pretty much all his free time with me during the day, and they're good friends. Maybe he just wanted some guy time. Didn't mean he didn't love me or anything.

Still, I was really having to put forth effort not to be disappointed (and was failing)...but while I was in line for the microwave, lo and behold, my hot husband was sitting on a bench nearby! Let me tell ya, that was a wonderful surprise.

So when I went over and talked to him, he said, "You thought I wasn't coming? Come on, I'm a man of my word!" And when I mentioned he might have wanted to spend it with his buddies, he said kind of taken aback "You're my wife! You're way more important" in this 'how ridiculous to doubt!' voice.

Awwwwww!

Yeah I just always want to remember that, so thought I'd tack it on down before I forget.

In other news...Sam has made me laugh by:

Saying 'Knitten'

Saying 'Squoze'

and not being able to kneel down. Seriously, holy cow. I discovered this when the car broke down in Provo (which is another long, wonderful story) and we had to stay the night: he cannot do it! He can't even put his bum down to his feet- he tries, and sounds like he's lifting two hundred pounds. Or when he tries to do it kind of sitting sideways, not directly on his legs-think 'lady-like'-he falls over onto his side. He looks like he's trying to twist in an absurd way, but all he's trying to do is stay upright.

I love my Sam! the end

And so it begins

We've been married two weeks and two days today! And everyone I keep talking to keeps mentioning blogging. So...why not?

Course we don't have internet at our home, so for now these will only be written on campus...

so I'm outtie. My stomach's whining and Sneakers arrived from a mystery buyer tonight, so I'm headed home!

Over and out

-Ariel June