Welcome 2010

Oh my I don't have time to write everything I want to but I was sick of my Christmas reindeer on my blog as I am sure as were you!!!
So I wanted to get a new background. Which I love this new background because it is purple. Many of you may not know but when I was a small child (or even when I was a large child) my favorite color was always purple. For some reason my mom always dressed me in purple and Shasta in pink. Actually I do know why, she told me it was because of my red hair, I didn't look good in pink as a child, therefore I was always in purple and Shasta always in pink. So you can say as a child my signature color was purple. As I got older my signature color changed to green. I do love GREEN!! However, I am really happy the color purple is coming back into style, I LOVE it!!!

So that is my tid bit on colors. . . who knew!
Just one quick funny story. The other day I was at Smiths getting some stuff for work and as I was walking out to my car I was looking down at my receipt to make sure they got it right and I was walking to my car. I opened the door almost sat down when I realized there was a dog on the seat growling at me. To my disgust and shock I realized I was getting into someone else's car not mine!!!! Well of course I had to look around to make sure no one saw me especially the owner of the car. . . I think I was as horrified by the dog as the dog was by me. It was really funny, I laughed all day about it. And now I hope you do!
Stay tuned hopefully more to come soon, if I find the time!!!

Tis the Season!

The Holiday season is upon us. Oh how I love this time of year, Christmas is an amazing time of year! Despite the cold and snow people seem to be kinder, love more, and serve one another more often. I could go on forever about Christmas but I will save that for another blog moment. I just wanted to add a little something about Thanksgiving and put up a few pictures.
Thanksgiving was great!!!
The Wednesday right before Thanksgiving thanks to Josh winning some tickets off of the radio he and I went to the Tran Siberian Orchestra Concert. It was awesome! They are amazing and had a great performance.
Thursday I ate way too much food, played with the nieces and nephews, had a great nap, played a little guitar hero, and saw Josh. It was a great day!
Friday we went up to the mountain to get a tree, it was a little mediocre this year. . . there was no snow for sledding. :(
Saturday Josh and I went to Salt Lake spent some time with his family then went to see the lights on Temple Square. I haven't been to see the lights in a LONG time, they are sooo beautiful and it was fun to see them with Josh.
Overall Thanksgiving was great!!! There wasn't even any drama to report. So here are just a few pictures from the weekend.

Friday the 13th

So as I was sitting at work today looking at my calendar and I realized today was Friday the 13th!!!! What does this really mean? I then left work early and was just a little curious of why so many people make a big deal about Friday the 13th so here are a few facts:
Superstitions about Friday being lucky or unlucky day have existed since ancient times.
The number 13 has been considered unlucky for a long time. Early Romans thought 13 was a sign of death and destruction.
In French Lick Springs, Indiana, a law was once passed requiring all black cats to wear bells.
Greek philosophers called 13 an 'imperfect' number.
Friday was the common day for people to be hanged in the past.
Hangmen were once paid thirteen pence halfpenny.
Some Texans say never to cut any kind of garment on a Friday because it will not be completed.
Fear of Friday the 13th — one of the most popular myths in science — is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor and some airline terminals omit Gate 13.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal. Napoleon and President Herbert Hoover were also triskaidekaphobic, with an abnormal fear of the number 13.
Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12." Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
The number 13 suffers from its position after 12, according to numerologists who consider the latter to be a complete number — 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles of Jesus, 12 days of Christmas and 12 eggs in a dozen.


So I think my new favorite number is 12!!!! What do you think? Yes I know this is all very random, but that is me!

If Friday the 13th isn't scary enough here is a picture of Josh and I at Halloween, we were Sonny and Cher, but he was Cher and I was Sonny if you couldn't tell. . . it was really funny! We may have scared a few people, including myself!

Update!!!

How am I doing? Well since you asked I will tell you. . . j/k, but really many of you have been asking how I am doing since my little hospital visit and I am doing much much better. I have a doctor's appointment next week to see if I will have to have my gall-bladder out, but they said that most likely I WON"T, which would be great! I have been a regular visitor on Monday's to the blood bank. It's funny how I use to HATE needles and having my blood drawn, but not so much anymore!

Well to prove that I am doing much better I thought I would add a few picture's of my life the last few weeks!!!


Josh and I at the first USU game of the year, I also must add the first USU game that either one of us had been to where they actually won!!

Pumpkin carving is always a must!!!



I went with Josh to his FHE murder mystery party it was a lot of fun!


So as you can see I am feeling better, at least well enough to hang out with a cute boy!
I love this time of year, I know lots of people don't because it starts to get cold and all but I love the change.
Some of my favorite things about fall:
-The leaves on the trees start to change colors, (so beautiful in Logan).
-Once the leaves fall, one of my all time favorite things is to step on crunchy leaves. I can't really explain why it brings me such joy, but it does!
-I love jumping in huge piles of leaves, just seeing big piles of leaves in people's yards brings a smile to my face.
-I love the cooler air because that means I can start wearing sweaters, I love sweater weather.
-I absolutely love hot chocolate!!!!
-Many of you may be shocked to hear this but I really do love this time of year because all the good sports start. Such as the JAZZ!!!! Also, I recently have watched some baseball, I will admit I am becoming a fan.
Well there are many many more wonderful things that happen this time of year, also there are many many more wonderful things happening in my life, but these are just a few of the highlights. Stay tuned there is always more to come! :)

My life in a nutshell!!

Okay well here I am!!!
I know many of you are amazed that I am actually updating my blog! I wish I could say it was because it is on the top of my priorities list, well it's really not. But I have a little extra time on my hands because of a certain illness that hit me so I thought I would give a little update. Plus I know many of you have questions of why I was in the hospital for 5 days so here is the run down.
Conference weekend I went down to St. George with Josh on Sunday when we were coming back I started not feeling well at all. Monday I went to work, still didn't feel fabulous but I was okay. Tuesday I got worse, couldn't even get out of bed. I draged myself out of bed went to work for 30 minutes and couldn't even stand. I had a really high fever, the chills, headache, my whole body hurt, and plus I had major pains on the left side of my stomach. Tara told me I had to go to the doctor. Well easier said then done because I don't have insurance I was really worried. It takes a lot for me to go to the doctor. Anyways, it got so bad I decided to go to the community clinic. The doctor there ran a bunch a tests and stuff, the conclusion was that I probably had mono. They had to wait for the test results to come back but that is what they thought. He said that a lot of people that have mono their splean becomes enlarged and that is probably why my side hurt so bad. Okay.. . so I just waited. Wednesday and Thursday it got a lot worse. Thursday I was in soooo much pain was doubled over in pain. Karalee, Megan, and Alicia were over and told me I should go back to the doctor, so Josh came and got me and took me to the clinic. After waiting what seemed like FOREVER, I finally saw the doctor and I still had a 101 degree fever my side was in SO MUCH pain, he told me I had to go to the ER. At this point I was soooo delerious I didn't even care, I just wanted to stop hurting. We went to the ER, the rest all just happend, they did X-rays, ultra-sound, blood work, and such. The found gal-stones in my gal-bladder, so they admitted me into the hospital.
Josh was soooo great through all of this!! He was right by my side anything I needed he got for me! He stayed at the hospital with my until like 2:00 in the morning.
The next day my mom came up because they thought they were going to do gal-bladder surgery well . . . something was going on with my liver. They took my blood almost every six hours to see how the insines in my liver were. To make this long story just a little bit shorter . . . The conclusion was I did have gal-stones but something totally different was happening with my liver. They ran all kinds of test everything came back negative. They did a cat-scan it was normal, they put a tube and camera and balloon down my throat couldn't find anything there.
Meanwhile I am dieing . . . or at least I felt like I was dieing. I really started to hate the hospital bed. It is funny because you never really sleep in a hospital because every 2 hours the nurses come in to check on you. Sleep is really a joke. I had two different doctors looking at what might be causing my liver to have problems, they couldn't find anything. Come Sunday I was so ready to just bust out of that hosital but they wouldn't let me. They wanted to watch my liver more.
Well Tuesday morning my insines in my liver were down enough they said I could go home!!!!! HURRAY!!! I was so happy. Well kind of. . . I still felt like I was going to die but at least I could die in my own bed and not the hospital bed.
So what is the conclusion? The doctors think I had some kind of virus that attacked my liver. . . why, no idea. I still might have to have my gal-bladder out but not for a few weeks. I still have to go have my blood drawn every few days to make sure my liver insines are going down.
This whole experience was something I never never want to happen or go through again. I don't wish it upon anyone, it was terrible.
However I have learned a few things from this whole experience.
1-No matter how hard you try you are never fully covered in a hospital gown.
2-If you are real sick you don't really care if you are fully covered by the hospital gown.
3-Being sick and in the hosptial in not fun but you really see how much people care about you. I had soooo many people, friends, and family, do sooo much for me!!!
4-After having my blood drawn twice a day really curred me of my fear of needles and my blood drawn.
5-Nurses really can make or break your stay in the hospital.
6-Hospital beds really should be upgraded!
7-I discovered I really can go 4-5 days without eating.
8-Flowers really do brighten your stay in a hospital.
9-You can get anyone to do anything for you when you are sick.
10-Everyone should have a boyfriend when they are sick!!
Well I hope you all learned a little something about hospital stay's now, hehehe
I promise to be a better blogger!!! Stay tuned more to come!

Alaska Adventures!!!

Okay, here I am!!!
I know it has been awhile since I have updated my blog and all, I have been a little busy with life.
I promised pictures of Alaska so here they are:

Alaska was so much fun!!!
As you can see. . . We camped on the beach and went fishing with great big nets.
We went on a small airplane ride over Ancorage.
We went on a surprise airplane ride, which made me a little sick, but it was still fun. We also went with Laura and Fifua to their Samoian ward, that is why we were wearing pulatosies. Amber and I played some terrible volleyball with a bunch of samoian boys. Laura and Fifua were so good to us, they took us all around Alaska and let us crash at their house. It was such a good trip. It was fun to do stuff that I normally don't get to do. Well I know this update is over a month old but it was a great trip. Stay tuned for more updates, much more to come in the life of CalPal!

Too much to say, too little time, not enough money!

That is my life in a nut shell right now. Too much to say, too little time, and not enough money. I know you are all dieing to know about Alaska and to see pictures, well you must have patience and wait. You see Karalee and I are trying a new experiment and that is to be poor. We are really excelling in this area, therefore we have no internet, so you get bits and pieces we can sneak on during work hours. Don't worry I do work at work, at least 2 of the 7 hours. HAHAHA
As for being poor, lets just say that fish we caught in Alaska are being eaten a lot faster than if we had a little extra cash flow, if you know what I mean.
This whole poor thing is growing on me, the other night a certain someone asked me one of my secrets and I realized one of my secrets is that I love living in the Ghetto infact it is a new goal of mine. There is just something about the atmosphere that puts a smile on my face. (For all readers that don't know me real well, this is a joke. . . sort of:)) If my mother read this should would die!
Speaking of my mother, she is a funny lady. If she only knew I had my own club and the books that Karalee and I read as well as the book we plan on writing. As for this club well the other day Karalee brought to my attention that I have a club! What. . . a club, I had a club and I didn't even know it! Only select people can be or know about this club, if interested in information please inquire!
So sorry for the randomness I promise the Alaska Adventures will be coming soon so stay tuned for further updates!