I have been horrible at writing on my blog lately, I really need to get better at that! Anywho. So I am back in school now and actually really enjoying it. Most of my classes are theatre classes so it is great. I get to be creative and have lots of fun, so I typically don't really dread going to class which is awesome!
Spencer is working hard in school and doing well too. We are just waiting to see if/when he will start work at the LDS Motion Picture Studio. He really wants the job and would be extremely good at it. He would be hired as a student video editor which he is SUPER talented with. Hopefully he gets hired soon. It would be an amazing opportunity for him. It really would be his foot in the door into the film industry. So hope and pray that he gets to start that soon!
If you know me well you know that I tend to have more health problems than the average person. Well trying not to go into too much detail, I have always had menstrual problems. I have always been super irregular and it is very annoying and frustrating... and unhealthy. But I am finally on health insurance again so we decided I really needed to get in and figure out what is wrong with my body. I went in last Monday and they drew five vials of blood. Yippee! I absolutely HATE needles so you can imagine how much I just loved that. Anyway. I went back in yesterday to find out the results. Everything looked good except for my prolactin levels. Apparently I have higher than normal prolactin levels which can cause menstrual problems. The doctor prescribed some medicine that is supposed to lower prolactin levels, so I am taking that now. In a month if it regulates my period then she will call in and renew my subscription and I will go back in for testing again in about 6 months or so. If it has not regulated my period then she will up my dose and see how it goes from there. I am still researching and figuring out exactly what having a high prolactin level means, but it doesn't seem like it's that big of deal, at least at the moment. Prolactin is created by the pituitary gland and is supposed to be high for new nursing mothers. It is the hormone that causes a woman to produce milk after she has a baby. So when you are not a nursing mother it is a problem if you have high prolactin levels. Anyway, the medicine they put me on is bromocriptine. There are some adverse side effects that are supposed to go away after awhile (if you suffer from any of them). I have only taken one pill, so I don't think I will really know if I will have any of the side effects or not. But on of them is headaches and I have had a killer headache today. However, I have headaches a LOT, so I don't know if it's a side effect or just the usual for me.
We are loving life and still loving married life :) Spencer is so good to me and we have so much fun together. I marvel every day that he stuck by me and won me over. I couldn't have imagined being married to a better guy. He can always make me laugh and is so loving. I am so grateful I have such a wonderful marriage with such a wonderful man. I love him so much and count my blessings for him every day!
We are very excited to be going to Reno this weekend. We both need a break from Utah and decided Reno would be great for us. So we are going with our friends Brian and Julia and we are going to stay with our friends Steve and Preston in Reno. But Spencer and I wanted a night away together, so we got a hotel at the Circus Circus hotel in Reno for a night and I am very excited. I am so excited to get away for a weekend, especially this weekend! Valentine's Day isn't as crazy this year because I am working somewhere new and they are awesome with the big holidays. Yay! But it is still busier than usual so I am looking forward to a break. And I get to spend four days straight with my favorite person in the world, who wouldn't be excited that?!
Well there ya go! A couple updates (if you care) from the young Johnson couple. We are happy and hope you are too!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Wonderful Vacation
Well we have been having a wonderful vacation! We have been making the most of it and we have desperately needed this. We have been having a blast! I will try to do a little rundown. Let's see...
We left June 22 and got here that night. I was starting to finally feel better the day we left. I still couldn't talk, but I was starting to get my voice back on the 23rd, so that was excellent. When you walked out the front door, it smelled like pine. I was in total heaven--I still am!
On the 24th Maryl drove Spencer and me to Portland and we spent most of the week with his aunt and uncle that live there. My Advanced Floral Design class was from the 25th-29th. I LOVED the class. There were only three of us in the class, so we really got to know each other and the instructors. And we got lots of attention, so it was great. I learned so much in my class. I feel so much more optimistic about my designing abilities. The greatest thing I learned is that there are no limits to what you can do. The only limits are your own creativity. If you can think it up then you can do it! Oh I absolutely LOVED it!
Spencer came and spent Wednesday in downtown Portland with me. He walked around Portland while I was in class and came and spent my breaks with me. We had such a fun day and it really made us want to have more time in Portland together. So Wednesday we decided that we wanted to get a hotel for Thursday night. I decided to take an extra class Wednesday night since we were in the area. So I took a Hydrangea Class at the school I was going to. It was really fun. It was just a two hour class all about hydrangea and how to make them last a little better and how to use them. It was so good for me to take that class. When we got back to Spencer's aunt and uncle's house that night we got online and started looking for a hotel for Thursday night. We found a good one that wasn't too expensive and we ended up loving it!
So Thursday Spencer went to my class with me and he walked around again while I was in class. That afternoon he checked into our hotel and then met me to help me walk there after my class was over for the day. We got to the hotel and dropped off our stuff and just relaxed for a little while. THEN we went on a huge walk around Portland because Spencer wanted to show me Washington Park. It was about a 2.5 mile walk from our hotel up to the park, and it was SO worth it. I was exclaiming every few seconds how beautiful it was. I was in absolute heaven. We kept walking up through the park and came to the entrance of the Rose Garden. Oh. My. Goodness! It was so beautiful! So many colors of roses. So vibrant and just breathtaking. We ended up spending hours up in the park/garden. Afterward we ate at a great Pizza place and then made the walk back to our hotel. It was such a fun evening. Spencer and I had such a wonderful night together. It was a great way to celebrate our anniversary (a few days early, but that's okay!).
On our anniversary we spent most of the day at his grandparent's house. He made pizza for dinner so we were able to get away for a little bit to spend some time together so we could run to town and get a few ingredients. The next AMAZING day was the 4th of July. We woke up early and drove to Portland to meet my brother and sister-in-law, Josh and Gail, and their kids. We haven't seen them since we got married, so it had been two years and two days exactly! I was SO excited! We met them at the Rose Garden in Portland and I was ecstatic. We went to the Japanese Garden which was awesome. Since Spencer spent almost eight years in Japan we REALLY wanted to see the Japanese Garden. It was really neat. We took so many pictures. It was gorgeous. After that we walked around the Rose Garden and Washington Park and walked down to eat lunch together. We had such a wonderful time with my family. It was so good to spend time with them. I wanted to cry when we had to say goodbye. I missed them as soon as we left. We had such a fun day with them, I was just so sad to leave them! We drove back to Silverton from Portland and enjoyed the time alone for the drive.
We have just had so much fun up here. We do NOT want to come back to Utah. We are just absolutely loving it here. The next fun day was Thursday when we went to Silver Falls. But I am tired and this is already a super long post, so that will have to wait. So still to come, Thursday, Silver Falls, Saturday, Washington (visiting where Spencer served part of his mission), and Monday (July 9th), New Port, Tillamook, and Astoria. Oh so much fun!!!
We left June 22 and got here that night. I was starting to finally feel better the day we left. I still couldn't talk, but I was starting to get my voice back on the 23rd, so that was excellent. When you walked out the front door, it smelled like pine. I was in total heaven--I still am!
On the 24th Maryl drove Spencer and me to Portland and we spent most of the week with his aunt and uncle that live there. My Advanced Floral Design class was from the 25th-29th. I LOVED the class. There were only three of us in the class, so we really got to know each other and the instructors. And we got lots of attention, so it was great. I learned so much in my class. I feel so much more optimistic about my designing abilities. The greatest thing I learned is that there are no limits to what you can do. The only limits are your own creativity. If you can think it up then you can do it! Oh I absolutely LOVED it!
Spencer came and spent Wednesday in downtown Portland with me. He walked around Portland while I was in class and came and spent my breaks with me. We had such a fun day and it really made us want to have more time in Portland together. So Wednesday we decided that we wanted to get a hotel for Thursday night. I decided to take an extra class Wednesday night since we were in the area. So I took a Hydrangea Class at the school I was going to. It was really fun. It was just a two hour class all about hydrangea and how to make them last a little better and how to use them. It was so good for me to take that class. When we got back to Spencer's aunt and uncle's house that night we got online and started looking for a hotel for Thursday night. We found a good one that wasn't too expensive and we ended up loving it!
So Thursday Spencer went to my class with me and he walked around again while I was in class. That afternoon he checked into our hotel and then met me to help me walk there after my class was over for the day. We got to the hotel and dropped off our stuff and just relaxed for a little while. THEN we went on a huge walk around Portland because Spencer wanted to show me Washington Park. It was about a 2.5 mile walk from our hotel up to the park, and it was SO worth it. I was exclaiming every few seconds how beautiful it was. I was in absolute heaven. We kept walking up through the park and came to the entrance of the Rose Garden. Oh. My. Goodness! It was so beautiful! So many colors of roses. So vibrant and just breathtaking. We ended up spending hours up in the park/garden. Afterward we ate at a great Pizza place and then made the walk back to our hotel. It was such a fun evening. Spencer and I had such a wonderful night together. It was a great way to celebrate our anniversary (a few days early, but that's okay!).
On our anniversary we spent most of the day at his grandparent's house. He made pizza for dinner so we were able to get away for a little bit to spend some time together so we could run to town and get a few ingredients. The next AMAZING day was the 4th of July. We woke up early and drove to Portland to meet my brother and sister-in-law, Josh and Gail, and their kids. We haven't seen them since we got married, so it had been two years and two days exactly! I was SO excited! We met them at the Rose Garden in Portland and I was ecstatic. We went to the Japanese Garden which was awesome. Since Spencer spent almost eight years in Japan we REALLY wanted to see the Japanese Garden. It was really neat. We took so many pictures. It was gorgeous. After that we walked around the Rose Garden and Washington Park and walked down to eat lunch together. We had such a wonderful time with my family. It was so good to spend time with them. I wanted to cry when we had to say goodbye. I missed them as soon as we left. We had such a fun day with them, I was just so sad to leave them! We drove back to Silverton from Portland and enjoyed the time alone for the drive.
We have just had so much fun up here. We do NOT want to come back to Utah. We are just absolutely loving it here. The next fun day was Thursday when we went to Silver Falls. But I am tired and this is already a super long post, so that will have to wait. So still to come, Thursday, Silver Falls, Saturday, Washington (visiting where Spencer served part of his mission), and Monday (July 9th), New Port, Tillamook, and Astoria. Oh so much fun!!!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
What a month!
Well it has been awhile since I last posted. And a LOT has happened. May was just not a very fun month, gonna be honest. Work was crazy because we had Mother's Day and then Memorial Day back to back. We were crazy busy. And then right before my birthday my Grandma had a mini stroke, and then on my birthday she had another mini stroke. Thankfully she is doing better now, but she won't be able to live on her own anymore, really. So they are trying to get her on medicaid or medicare (I always get them mixed up), so that she can get into assisted living. I was able to see her briefly last weekend and it was really good to see her. My Grandma is great. She didn't miss any of my plays, choir concerts, or pageants while I was in high school. She was always so supportive, so I'm grateful I was able to see her so she knows I support her too.
Anyway. My Birthday was wonderful! Spencer went to very great lengths to make it an amazing day for me. I was very tired because I'd been working so much, so Spencer woke up and got our bountiful basket by himself Saturday morning so that I could sleep in. It was very sweet. We just hung out and had a wonderful day together. We went to Tucanos for lunch. I LOVE Tucanos! They have the most amazing passion fruit, mango, pudding cake. It is to die for. I definitely got it for my birthday! haha. When we got back home I was completely surprised. Spencer was throwing me a surprise party! I opened the door and about had a heart attack when I saw someone sitting on the couch. I realized it was our friends, Brian and Julia, and I calmed down. It was a very nice little surprise and we had a really good time. Spencer made a wonderful dinner, Thai Fried Rice--my favorite!! And he made coconut rice and we had it with mangos. He also made homemade ice-cream. Mint chocolate chip and also coconut. SUPER yummy!!
The other thing that hit really hard the past few weeks is my mom was diagnosed with cancer. So far all the tests have been coming back very well and things are looking good, for which we all are SO grateful! She is still waiting to get the results from a few more tests and we will know more after that. So still just a waiting game. The waiting is the hardest part, really. But my mom is a wonderful, very strong woman. She has a lot of people in her life that love her very much and we are all supporting her. Our family has already been pulled closer because of this and we will do anything we can to help our dear Mother. :) There has been lots of support outside of our family as well, which we are all so grateful for. Many prayers have been and will continue to be offered up for mom and the whole family. That's all anyone can really ask for right now.
It's really been quite the little while for my family. Daddy cut the tip of his middle finger (right hand) off. Thankfully it was his right hand since he is left handed! The same day he did that was the same day I passed out in the bathroom. I will back up a few days, though. Last weekend we went to my parent's house for a visit. All of my siblings except for Josh :( were there. We had so much fun! It was such a wonderful weekend. There was a lot less fighting and we all just had a really good time together. I love spending time with my family--especially my adorable little nieces and nephews! So that weekend was wonderful! But Sunday night when Spencer and I were driving home we were really tired, so we pulled over to take a nap. When I woke up I felt really sick but just got started driving anyway. I ended up having to pull over to the side of the road and I vomited. Throwing up is an awful experience, but this was probably one of the worst experiences I had ever had. There was so much stomach acid that it just burned my throat. I stayed up from work on Monday because I still felt so sick. My chest was even hurting. Tuesday I was feeling a bit better and got to work. And then Wednesday morning things went way downhill.
I woke up to start getting ready for work and I had a really bad pain in my right side. I went to the bathroom because I always have to pee when I wake up. The pain in my side was so awful I started to get really light headed. I put my head in my hands and the next thing I remember was hearing a loud crack and waking up on the ground. I was so stunned I just stayed there for a minute. I finally flipped over and leaned against the wall and called for Spencer. If you know Spencer very well you know that it can be quite a feat trying to get him to wake up in the morning. But thankfully he got up after I called him a few times. He came in and asked if I was ok. I touched my head (I knew I had a bump) and asked him to bring me some ice. He looked at my head and was like, oh my gosh! He got me a frozen bag of corn and helped me up and got me to the couch. We are both amazed that my head didn't split open. I had an indentation of the tile in my forehead and a huge goose egg. Anyway, needless to say I didn't go to work that day. I felt awful. My head hurt SO bad and I was so tired. I was so out of it. We were going to go to an urgent care just to make sure nothing was wrong, but they had different hours so we ended up going to the ER later that night. After a few hours there and lots of tests, they found out that nothing was wrong. So a very large bill later, all I had was a hospital bracelet and some pain medication in my system that would last for eight hours. That night I realized something I hadn't noticed earlier. My head was hurting so bad that I didn't even notice that my right side was sore. I must have hit very hard because my face on the right side all the way down my neck and shoulder was super sensitive and very sore. My shoulder and neck are still a little sore, but much better. My goose egg has definitely gone down in size, and I am naughty and picked the scab off of my forehead, but it actually looks a lot better than it did!
Thursday my head was still really hurting, and my throat was starting to hurt really bad. Friday it got really bad. I don't know if I have strep, but my throat was hurting so bad I could barely talk. Swallowing at all is very painful. My glands are very swollen on the left side (all of this stuff is on my left side), to the point where touching them even very gently hurts really bad. My jaw is also in pain and I don't know if it's cause my glands are so swollen that it is irritating my jaw... I dunno. All I know is I have been miserable since Wednesday (more so since Friday), and I just want to get better! But we can't afford for me to go to a doctor. So I have been struggling the past week. I am trying to stay optimistic, but it's really hard when you feel like death. I hate not being able to talk. Spencer is getting pretty good at figuring out my attempts at sign language. And speaking of Spencer. He has been absolutely amazing! He has been so helpful and wonderful this past week. He is so caring and loving. I am so lucky and so grateful to have him.
Anyway. On a happier note (I hope!). We are leaving for Oregon on Friday! I am getting really excited. We desperately need a break like this. I just hope and pray that I start feeling a lot better soon. I am so excited for my floral design class in Portland. We are really just so happy to be getting away from Utah for awhile. It is going to be a burden financially, but we need it so desperately that I can't bring myself to stress about that too much. It is going to be wonderful to spend a good amount of time with Spencer's family. We are just so happy!!! Well this has been long enough, I think. And plenty of complaining from me. I feel like crap, but I am desperately hoping and praying that I start feeling better soon. And we are getting out of Utah for almost four weeks. I get to spend most of that time with my amazing husband and his family. What could be better!?
Anyway. My Birthday was wonderful! Spencer went to very great lengths to make it an amazing day for me. I was very tired because I'd been working so much, so Spencer woke up and got our bountiful basket by himself Saturday morning so that I could sleep in. It was very sweet. We just hung out and had a wonderful day together. We went to Tucanos for lunch. I LOVE Tucanos! They have the most amazing passion fruit, mango, pudding cake. It is to die for. I definitely got it for my birthday! haha. When we got back home I was completely surprised. Spencer was throwing me a surprise party! I opened the door and about had a heart attack when I saw someone sitting on the couch. I realized it was our friends, Brian and Julia, and I calmed down. It was a very nice little surprise and we had a really good time. Spencer made a wonderful dinner, Thai Fried Rice--my favorite!! And he made coconut rice and we had it with mangos. He also made homemade ice-cream. Mint chocolate chip and also coconut. SUPER yummy!!
The other thing that hit really hard the past few weeks is my mom was diagnosed with cancer. So far all the tests have been coming back very well and things are looking good, for which we all are SO grateful! She is still waiting to get the results from a few more tests and we will know more after that. So still just a waiting game. The waiting is the hardest part, really. But my mom is a wonderful, very strong woman. She has a lot of people in her life that love her very much and we are all supporting her. Our family has already been pulled closer because of this and we will do anything we can to help our dear Mother. :) There has been lots of support outside of our family as well, which we are all so grateful for. Many prayers have been and will continue to be offered up for mom and the whole family. That's all anyone can really ask for right now.
It's really been quite the little while for my family. Daddy cut the tip of his middle finger (right hand) off. Thankfully it was his right hand since he is left handed! The same day he did that was the same day I passed out in the bathroom. I will back up a few days, though. Last weekend we went to my parent's house for a visit. All of my siblings except for Josh :( were there. We had so much fun! It was such a wonderful weekend. There was a lot less fighting and we all just had a really good time together. I love spending time with my family--especially my adorable little nieces and nephews! So that weekend was wonderful! But Sunday night when Spencer and I were driving home we were really tired, so we pulled over to take a nap. When I woke up I felt really sick but just got started driving anyway. I ended up having to pull over to the side of the road and I vomited. Throwing up is an awful experience, but this was probably one of the worst experiences I had ever had. There was so much stomach acid that it just burned my throat. I stayed up from work on Monday because I still felt so sick. My chest was even hurting. Tuesday I was feeling a bit better and got to work. And then Wednesday morning things went way downhill.
I woke up to start getting ready for work and I had a really bad pain in my right side. I went to the bathroom because I always have to pee when I wake up. The pain in my side was so awful I started to get really light headed. I put my head in my hands and the next thing I remember was hearing a loud crack and waking up on the ground. I was so stunned I just stayed there for a minute. I finally flipped over and leaned against the wall and called for Spencer. If you know Spencer very well you know that it can be quite a feat trying to get him to wake up in the morning. But thankfully he got up after I called him a few times. He came in and asked if I was ok. I touched my head (I knew I had a bump) and asked him to bring me some ice. He looked at my head and was like, oh my gosh! He got me a frozen bag of corn and helped me up and got me to the couch. We are both amazed that my head didn't split open. I had an indentation of the tile in my forehead and a huge goose egg. Anyway, needless to say I didn't go to work that day. I felt awful. My head hurt SO bad and I was so tired. I was so out of it. We were going to go to an urgent care just to make sure nothing was wrong, but they had different hours so we ended up going to the ER later that night. After a few hours there and lots of tests, they found out that nothing was wrong. So a very large bill later, all I had was a hospital bracelet and some pain medication in my system that would last for eight hours. That night I realized something I hadn't noticed earlier. My head was hurting so bad that I didn't even notice that my right side was sore. I must have hit very hard because my face on the right side all the way down my neck and shoulder was super sensitive and very sore. My shoulder and neck are still a little sore, but much better. My goose egg has definitely gone down in size, and I am naughty and picked the scab off of my forehead, but it actually looks a lot better than it did!
Thursday my head was still really hurting, and my throat was starting to hurt really bad. Friday it got really bad. I don't know if I have strep, but my throat was hurting so bad I could barely talk. Swallowing at all is very painful. My glands are very swollen on the left side (all of this stuff is on my left side), to the point where touching them even very gently hurts really bad. My jaw is also in pain and I don't know if it's cause my glands are so swollen that it is irritating my jaw... I dunno. All I know is I have been miserable since Wednesday (more so since Friday), and I just want to get better! But we can't afford for me to go to a doctor. So I have been struggling the past week. I am trying to stay optimistic, but it's really hard when you feel like death. I hate not being able to talk. Spencer is getting pretty good at figuring out my attempts at sign language. And speaking of Spencer. He has been absolutely amazing! He has been so helpful and wonderful this past week. He is so caring and loving. I am so lucky and so grateful to have him.
Anyway. On a happier note (I hope!). We are leaving for Oregon on Friday! I am getting really excited. We desperately need a break like this. I just hope and pray that I start feeling a lot better soon. I am so excited for my floral design class in Portland. We are really just so happy to be getting away from Utah for awhile. It is going to be a burden financially, but we need it so desperately that I can't bring myself to stress about that too much. It is going to be wonderful to spend a good amount of time with Spencer's family. We are just so happy!!! Well this has been long enough, I think. And plenty of complaining from me. I feel like crap, but I am desperately hoping and praying that I start feeling better soon. And we are getting out of Utah for almost four weeks. I get to spend most of that time with my amazing husband and his family. What could be better!?
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