Look What I Did Today...

My application is officially in the mail, and I am officially going to be somewhat nervous for the next month and a half. If nothing else, I hope they are impressed with my Star Wars stamps, especially since I saved my two favorite ones for this very envelope.

Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me!

Back from Being Stressed...

I'm back!

I've been fairly busy and really stressed out about my hygiene application as of late, so as a few of you may have noticed, I took a little posting hiatus. However, lucky for you I kept taking pictures while I was not blogging, and thought I would post a few.

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First up, we saw this lady at Chipotle last week, and I maybe laughed harder than most at her situation: shirt tie stuck in pants, causing bunching of the shirt.

I don't have a heart, so I took a picture. :)

Does anyone know how long it takes to peel and slice this many peaches by yourself? Too long my friends, too long. Ok, so most of you are sorry that you are seeing this much of my leg, and for that I apologize. But look and then feel bad for me; this is a mosquito bite turned savage. Oh, and this is my polka-dot skin that is the result of having leprosy since I was 10 and scratching all the skin off my legs. I'm disgusting. Happy first day of school! Philip started Pharmacy school today, and we couldn't be more excited! So as tradition in the Jones and now the Lindblom family, everyone gets a first day of school picture with the backpack and all.

Also, I would like everyone to notice how cute Philip dresses. Aren't I lucky? This is what happens when, being the on the ball wife that I am, I forget to screw the cap on the Dr. Pepper all the way. Notice my tub of grapes that are now soaking in soda, as well as the splatters on the door, which went into those compartments too. Also, soda was hiding behind the yogurts on the second shelf and under the drawers at the bottom. I'm a CHAMP. Anyhoo, have a fantastic day everyone. Oh, also some new exciting news is that I have a new neice! Her name is Sophia. I think I'll call her Sopie. Anyways, I'm really excited to meet her and see Chris and Beth be the cutest parents ever! I love you kids!

Things I Love/Hate Thursday...

So it's been kind of a long sucky-ish week, and I've been somewhat cranky as I stress out about several different things. So I'm going to talk about things I hate...some of which are caused by things I love, and then there are some things that I want to love on too. Basically I'm jumping on the "Things I hate..." bandwagon.

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First and foremost, I am hating my house. Well, not so much my house, but the fact that I can't easily live in my house. Here's why:

What's this Melissa? Well my friends, this is our crown moulding. And I am totally in love with it (btw, this is the backs of it, so don't think that we picked weird stuff, the picture is for dramatic effect). So what's to hate? Perhaps the fact that these two 16 foot long stacks stretch from one end of our kitchen/basically our hallway into our laundry room, and we can't easily open our fridge or dishwasher with them here. My poor grapes and nectarines were trapped in the bottom right drawer of the fridge this week because I couldn't open the door far enough to be able to open the drawer. And the dishwasher just got unloaded tonight after being ran on Sunday. Hooray for it being hung on Saturday and having my kitchen back!

And here is my cute little clock that has been waiting so patiently in the extra bedroom where it will stay until the bathroom is ready for it. Sighhhhhh, I feel like my house is seriously never going to get done.

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Here's more things I hate that I don't have pictures of:

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1.That nowhere in Downtown Phoenix has public restrooms...even if I spent a good 52 cents on copies and gave you my business and paid for parking to use you Mr. Stupid FedEx/Kinko's!

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2. Forgetting something in the copier after leaving and having to drive back, while your gas light decides to come on, and you still have to go to the bathroom because they wouldn't let you use it when you were there earlier, jerks. Oh yeah, and you're in Downtown Phoenix, and are kind of afraid for your life and don't want to stop.

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3. Broken escalators. When it's broken they should put a sign on the stairs that says, "You might as well walk up now because the escalator that you are going OUT OF YOUR WAY to use is now a very narrow staircase as well with bigger steps, sucker."

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4. That the applications for hygiene school require you to get fingerprint clearance cards. Apparently there have been a lot of crooks applying, so they need to see if you have murdered anyone lately. Actually it is just another hoop to jump through to see if you are seriously thinking you can get in. I hate that they can make things difficult for no reason whatsoever. Rrrg.

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Something I love:

my new phone and the fact that Philip goes to the Verizon store so that I don't have to deal with that. I am especially grateful because every time he goes there he comes home fuming about how much he hates everyone there. Bless his heart...and blood pressure. Oh yeah, and I love being from Japan and peace signing it up.

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Another thing I love: having a tan.

(refer to my arms in above picture)

What I don't love: peeling like crazy and basically looking as if I am a leper. I wish I was joking, but I'm not.

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So that's all. Um, sorry I've been slacking on the posts lately. Reason being three things: First, I'm boring and cranky. Second, my stupid house steals my time. Third, I need to get my hygiene crap done ASAP. Hey, speaking of, does anyone know where I can get CPR certified besides the fire station? Let me know!

We're Jerks...

So these are our cute and fun friends Brent & Brooke that we met up with at Disneyland.

And we thought it was fun to be as unattractive as possible in the back of their pictures.

So yeah, we're jerks, but awesome jerks.

Vaca pics of yours truly...

Okay, so as usual, I'm going to throw out a disclaimer here; there are lots and lots of pictures, and knowing me, a good possibility that lots and lots of words will follow.

I am slightly nervous for Philip to see this because I can imagine him asking me, "Do you really think that everyone wanted to see EVERY detail of our life last week?" The answer: probably not. Sucks for you guys.

Hooray for CALIFORNIA!!!

Philip told me tonight that this vacation was his favorite vacation ever. Hooray for successful vacations! Ok, less talk more rock.

Every road trip thus far with Philip I take a dash board picture. "California or Bust!" had just come out of Philip's mouth. Fairly unattractive picture of us, but look! There's a Frozen Banana Stand! Oh, and apparently when I don't blow dry or straighten my hair when it's humid I look like I am trying to pull off "The Rachel". 8 years to late Melissa, 8 years too late.

Oh, and look at the adorable couple in the background. Tender!

Sara and I really wanted to roast marshmallows on the beach, but we settled for the barbeque on the patio. They were delightful nevertheless.

We maybe were a little impatient with the coals so we stuck like every paper we could find in there so that we could to try to make a fire. Then we gave up and went inside and 10 minutes later Jason told us that our efforts paid off! That was when Sara realized that "Ready in Ten Minutes" which is what it said on the bag, means just that, ready in ten mintues.

Oh bliss, one of my favorite parts of the week was our morning bike rides! Oh, and this is a good picture to see where we were in relation to the beach. The brick wall is our patio and the beach is behind the house across the street. It was awesome.

Down at the pier where we would get corndogs and funnel cake. And I might have been wearing a sweater because it was below 80 degrees, which means I was cold.

THE BEACH! And here are a few of my favorite beach things: reading lots, Beach feet when the sand doesn't stick to toenail polish, and of course the guy on the left's furry vest. We met up with my very cute friend, Melissa and hung out one afternoon. She is so ridiculously adorable, and I had almost forgotten how much I like her since I don't get to hang out with her anymore. Boo. And here's her kiddo, Jack, who I would like to claim as my own. Shoot, I threw her baby shower so that makes me like his God Mother, right Melis? Anyways, he is the definition of adorable, and she is definiteion of adorable mom. . I wanted Jack and Oakley to hang out because they are practically twins thinking that they are so big and being SOOO busy, but that didn't happen, waah. I really like Oakley too, so I have lots of pictures of him... And I'm the best aunt ever because I gave him a fudgecicle, his first ever I would like to think... And he liked it a lot. For some reason this is the only picture that I got of the whole group of us. It makes me laugh so hard because we were having a splendid time, and Oakley was being a baby A-hole, which is obvious in this picture.

Next stop: DISNEYLAND!!!

Does anyone else think that the tram into the park is like the first ride of the day and get all excited? I do!

The first of our churros that day...

Ahh look, we're in love or something.

And then we have lots of random and fairly bad pictures of us that I took lots of with my arm sticking out or asked a stranger to take...neither of which result in good pictures.

My eyes look extremely creepy in this one...

Oh, and I just remembered a nerdy story. So we were walking along in TomorrowLand, and this guy walks by wearing a shirt that said, in all of it's awesomeness, "I'm A Keeper." So then, thinking that I was very clever, I said to Philip, "Look, that kid plays Quidditch." And then we laughed and gave each other Harry Potter High Fives. It was awsome, and we are nerds. And that's it!!! Hopefully you enjoyed our trip vicariously through my pictures, which is only fair seeing as how I live vicariously through all of your more exciting than mine lives! Um, so then I came home and did laundry, and lots of it. And I...er went to work today to find 25 messages waiting for me, and bundles and bundles of mail that took me all morning to go through. SOOO back to life as usual I guess. Anyhoo, have a great day everyone! I hope you enjoyed!