Okay, so I have really been wanting to go to Floral Design School. There is one in Portland, the Floral Design Institute. Well, I am actually doing it!! I was at the bank and asked about alternative loans that they offer, and when I told the lady what it was for, she looked some stuff up and found a credit card that I could get that has zero percent interest for the first 12 months, so even better than an alternative loan! An alternative loan would immediately start accruing interest. And we plan to pay it all off within a year anyway, so when she told me that I started getting super excited. I came home and talked to Spencer about it and he said to go for it, so I am! I will get started on the Basic Floral Design class in the next few weeks, hopefully. I am doing the distance learning program for the basic design class because it is cheaper and I don't mind doing that from home. But the Advanced Design class I want to be in the classroom for so I can actually physically have a teacher there to help me. So we are going to Oregon this summer!!!! Spencer's wonderful family is helping to make it possible. His mom is driving to Oregon because her parents live there. They are going to spend a few weeks up there so they can visit and spend time with the grandparents. We are going to go with them! So we will be leaving June 22 and will come back on the 16 of July. I am taking the Advanced Design class from June 25-29. So not only do I get to go to Floral Design School, but we also get to get away from Utah for three weeks, AND we get to spend time with family. Yay!!!! I am SO excited!!!!! I seriously want to make a chain to countdown the time. I just can't believe I actually get to do this. I am stoked. Anyway, so there's my wonderful news!
Also, I will be making quite a few arrangements for my basic design class, and if anyone in the Utah County area is interested in maybe buying one, we could definitely work out something so you can get it super cheap and so I can get a little extra money to help pay for it. ooooh I just can't wait!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Updates
It's been quite awhile since I've given a real update. Valentine's Day was absolutely crazy! I thought a flower shop was nuts, it was way worse at a wholesaler. I am very glad that is over, but then Easter hit and I didn't realize it would get so busy. That's over now too, thankfully, but alas, Mother's Day and Memorial Day are coming up. Both wonderful holidays, I actually support those ones--not like Valentine's Day, but they are still going to be crazy and I will be VERY happy when June comes around!
Anyway, Spencer has been having a rough go lately. BYU keeps throwing things at him making things more difficult for him. We don't really know what he is going to do because he keeps being faced with difficulties at every single turn. Hopefully by the end of the year we will know what he is going to do. We are hoping that he will get a job doing video editing sometime soon. He has been doing fantastic in his video editing class this semester and his professor has noticed--yay! So proud of him. He is so talented.
As for me, I am hanging in there. Getting sick of this part of our lives. I am ready to move on (we both are) and start a different chapter of our lives. But we can't exactly do that until we know what is going to go on with Spencer. But work is going alright. I am very grateful to work somewhere that understands that when you're sick you just can't work sometimes. I have been sick for a week with some kind of upper respiratory thing. It wasn't really a usual cold, but I had a super sore throat and was SO tired. Well just as I was starting to get over that my Vestibular Neuritis (dizziness) started acting up. So I have been dizzy since Friday. It is starting to get better, but it is definitely still affecting me. If I move to quickly my head starts to spin and I have to grab hold of something to steady myself. I hate to be a downer, because I am VERY grateful that I am not affected by this all of the time, but I really hate it. Being dizzy is awful. It makes it so I don't really want to do anything, because doing much makes me dizzy which sometimes leads to me being nauseous. It's just a horrible feeling to have to concentrate so hard on standing and walking straight. As I said, it started getting better today, so it's just if I move quickly that it really hits me, but for the people that know me know that I move quickly. I was not raised to do things slowly so Spencer has been getting after me all day to slow down and not move so fast. I don't do well with that so I have had to stop and take it easy a LOT. Anyway, I don't mean to complain, and again I am super grateful this doesn't affect me all the time. It just sucks and is very frustrating when it does affect me.
On a different note. I love my husband. He is so good to me. I absolutely love that he is a good dancer. Dancing in the kitchen is one of my favorite things ever! Not that we have been able to dance much the past while because my head instantly starts to spin (only partially from the vestibular neuritis ;) ). Anyway, cute story. Awhile ago we were at the American Fork D.I. and we went back out to the car and Spencer wanted to show me a new dance step in the triple step swing, so we put our stuff in the car and then he pulled me into dance position and started teaching me the new step. We just got sucked into our own little world until this older couple came over and the guy said "I get the next dance." We started laughing and realized that we were a young couple dancing in a parking lot. And I loved it! The gentleman said that he liked our moves and we had a good laugh until the other couple got in their car and we decided to get going. Oh the sweet little joys in life! I am so grateful that I have so many of them in my life-and Spencer brings a lot of little joys into my life. I'm so grateful I'm married to my best friend.
Oh! And I have a new niece! Abagail Bullock, she's a little cutie and I can't wait to meet her! She was born the day I got sick so we haven't been able to go visit. But we will this weekend. Yay!
I am so excited :)
And now it is time to close. Dizziness is starting to get the better of me and I need to try to get some sleep. For those who read all of this, prayers for things to look up for Spencer would be very much appreciated!! Thank you!
Anyway, Spencer has been having a rough go lately. BYU keeps throwing things at him making things more difficult for him. We don't really know what he is going to do because he keeps being faced with difficulties at every single turn. Hopefully by the end of the year we will know what he is going to do. We are hoping that he will get a job doing video editing sometime soon. He has been doing fantastic in his video editing class this semester and his professor has noticed--yay! So proud of him. He is so talented.
As for me, I am hanging in there. Getting sick of this part of our lives. I am ready to move on (we both are) and start a different chapter of our lives. But we can't exactly do that until we know what is going to go on with Spencer. But work is going alright. I am very grateful to work somewhere that understands that when you're sick you just can't work sometimes. I have been sick for a week with some kind of upper respiratory thing. It wasn't really a usual cold, but I had a super sore throat and was SO tired. Well just as I was starting to get over that my Vestibular Neuritis (dizziness) started acting up. So I have been dizzy since Friday. It is starting to get better, but it is definitely still affecting me. If I move to quickly my head starts to spin and I have to grab hold of something to steady myself. I hate to be a downer, because I am VERY grateful that I am not affected by this all of the time, but I really hate it. Being dizzy is awful. It makes it so I don't really want to do anything, because doing much makes me dizzy which sometimes leads to me being nauseous. It's just a horrible feeling to have to concentrate so hard on standing and walking straight. As I said, it started getting better today, so it's just if I move quickly that it really hits me, but for the people that know me know that I move quickly. I was not raised to do things slowly so Spencer has been getting after me all day to slow down and not move so fast. I don't do well with that so I have had to stop and take it easy a LOT. Anyway, I don't mean to complain, and again I am super grateful this doesn't affect me all the time. It just sucks and is very frustrating when it does affect me.
On a different note. I love my husband. He is so good to me. I absolutely love that he is a good dancer. Dancing in the kitchen is one of my favorite things ever! Not that we have been able to dance much the past while because my head instantly starts to spin (only partially from the vestibular neuritis ;) ). Anyway, cute story. Awhile ago we were at the American Fork D.I. and we went back out to the car and Spencer wanted to show me a new dance step in the triple step swing, so we put our stuff in the car and then he pulled me into dance position and started teaching me the new step. We just got sucked into our own little world until this older couple came over and the guy said "I get the next dance." We started laughing and realized that we were a young couple dancing in a parking lot. And I loved it! The gentleman said that he liked our moves and we had a good laugh until the other couple got in their car and we decided to get going. Oh the sweet little joys in life! I am so grateful that I have so many of them in my life-and Spencer brings a lot of little joys into my life. I'm so grateful I'm married to my best friend.
Oh! And I have a new niece! Abagail Bullock, she's a little cutie and I can't wait to meet her! She was born the day I got sick so we haven't been able to go visit. But we will this weekend. Yay!
I am so excited :)
And now it is time to close. Dizziness is starting to get the better of me and I need to try to get some sleep. For those who read all of this, prayers for things to look up for Spencer would be very much appreciated!! Thank you!
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Blickenstaff's!
I have been meaning to post about Blickenstaffs on here. It is an awesome toy store here in Provo. It is seriously the coolest place ever-fun for everyone! Seriously! They have toys out so you can play with them, and they have these awesome scooter things that you sit in and you move your feet back and forth to make yourself move. It's just way fun. We love going there and hanging out. We are kids at heart and what better place to go than a toy store? We like dragging our friends there when we can. We love Blickenstaffs and I think you, yes you, should check it out! If you are in the area, of course. But really, it's awesome, I want to take my nieces and nephews there SUPER bad! But don't take my word for it, go check out their website and facebook.
http://blickenstaffs.com
/https://www.facebook.com/Blickenstaffs
Ooh ooh! And another thing that I LOVE about them, is that they have imported candy! Yep, they have the real Cadbury from Europe, not the yucky fake American Cadbury stuff. And they have yummy sodas that you can buy too.
Now if you want to see us making a complete fool of ourselves, scroll down for pictures!
Spencer loves to watch me do the jack in the box (except that it's a little sock monkey one-SOOO cute!)
These are those cool scooter things that you sit on. Way Fun!
Yep, we have WAY too much fun at Blickenstaff's sometimes!!!
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