Long time no see!

Well it has been a while since I've posted anything. At least anything more interesting than school woes. Today I'm playing stay at home wife. That is what I play whenever I'm home alone, didn't just spend five hours on campus and Brett isn't home. Basically playing stay-at-home-wife (note just wife, not mother) consists of forgetting I'm a school time student and dreaming up all sorts of yummy things to cook next week. The fact that my text books are strewn across the floor makes this difficult but I'm still enjoying myself. I'm planning my favorite shrimp scampi recipe for tonight, will attempt to make pesto in my new food processor, and have a new french bread recipe rising in the kitchen. I think I'd be a better stay at home wife if I had actually finished cleaning the apartment (I did get dishes done), wasn't continually snitching left over frosting from the fridge and had actually showered instead of opting for a messy bun. Luckily I'm just pretending so I hope I get away with my faults. I'm now waiting to go grocery shopping. Waiting for what??? Nothing. I'm dressed, my list is made, I even put sunglasses on my head and threw my phone in my purse as well as put on flip flops. So why have I not gone to the store yet??? No clue. I came to the computer to turn on the music and succeeded yet. So I guess i'm a pretty lazy procrastinator stay at home wife. But then I realize that I'm home a lone not because Brett is at work but because I opted to not go with him to a BYU football game with twin brother and his wife. So I'm justified in being lazy right???

So onto more news. I'm 21. My birthday was on thursday. (my favorite thing about birthdays is thinking about how uncomfortable the birthday persons mom was however many years ago they are old and then laugh.) So 21 years ago thursday my mom was uncomfortable and ginormous I imagine... I've managed to forget the whole ordeal because I'm sure it wasn't so comfortable for me either. Thursday though was quite the day. So at school three assignments are due friday so you can guess what that makes thursday.. homework day. I sat down and started homework at 8:30 AM and finished about 5:00. Pretty depressing but I really enjoy the people I do my homework with so it was quite enjoyable. And I ate three blow pops throughout the day (yummy). don't' feel bad though things started looking up when I got home. As I was walking to our door a delicious fresh bakes cake smell wafted into my nose and surprisingly got stronger and stronger and I entered our apartment. My wonderful husband had baked me a cake and bought me two beautiful roses. And he did this although he had an assignment due in a few hours, a math quiz and chemistry test the following day. (I'm not sure putting these things off to bake a cake was actually a sacrifice for him though.) The best part though was when he excitedly handed me the mail and told me to open the top letter. To my delight and surprise the great state of Utah had granted me the honor of having jury duty. Oh wait did I say best/delight/surprise/honor?? I mean With a groan and dread I read that I had jury duty. And guess what.. they don't' schedule those things on Saturday when i don't have class! But I'm told I'll get out of it for being a student. The rest of my birthday was spent helping a tired and slightly grumpy husband (with no ability to focus at 10 at night) study for chemistry. He did apologize profusely the next day for his grumpiness although it was totally unnecessary. I know the exact feeling home sleepiness/hopelessness/panic/fear the night before a test. So all in all my birthday wasn't amazing but I've had worse. AND I can't complain because I celebrated last weekend with family.

Finally to end this post and go grocery shopping I'll list my birthday loot: A marlin .22 gun, stainless steel measuring/baking set, two DVD's I really wanted, monkey potato peeler , and a food processor. There are stories behind all these gifts explaining why I got them or wanted them but the grocery store just called and they want my money.

So finally finally here is the cake our five year old decorated for me for my birthday. Oh wait no Brett and I decorated... (note the ez-cheeze style frosting isn't as great for cake decorating as it looks!


Please excuse the messy table. Homework was happening on the other side. Oh and see the slumping edge. That was where Brett had spelled my name wrong, took off the frosting, warmed the frosting up some so it spread easier but didn't wait long enough to decorate that spot so the frosting succumbed to the pull of gravity.