A lot has happened since my last post, I went on a cruise to the Caribbean to be an aide to an older gentleman and saw some really cool places such as Xunantunich and Talum (both mayan ruins).
In a less lazy world I would blog all about how cool it was, but you'll just have to ask me about it because I have better news: I'm engaged to my lovely silly Susan!
After the cruise I went out and met her family in Utah and they were all great, and then this past week she came out here to meet mine. We spent some time with the family but mostly I took her all over to church history sites and to the towns I grew up in in Missouri.
Wednesday I took her to Nauvoo Illinois and we went to several of the places in town and learned about life in Nauvoo in the 1800s and at 5:00 we did a session in the temple.
I rushed to be out of the temple first and met her at the bottom of the stairs by a tulip bed and asked her a couple distracting questions and pointed out how pretty the sunset was going to be over the Mississippi River. She turned to look and I went to a knee. When she turned back around I asked "Susan Kelley, will you marry me and make me happy every day for the rest of existence?" She quivered, raised a fluttery hand to her mouth, teared up a little and said "A-buh-a. Yes"
I must admit that I cried a little too, but on April 13th at 6:47 pm my pretty, silly, amazing lady said yes, and really what's a better way to end a day than that?
(Certainly not a 3+ hour drive home)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Bored now
Buffy quote, right before Willow rips a dudes skin off in one piece. creepy.
This title is just to draw emphasis to the fact that for a few months now I haven't been able to do ANYTHING because I hurt my foot(l), back, knee, now foot(r). So basically my lfe has consisted of waking up and limping to let the dogs out, then sitting on the couch until I have to limp over and let them out again. Lather rinse repeat. Got very boring.
The plus side is I have been able to think a lot about life. More to the point: where in life I am and what I want to be doing with my life and why the flying hell I haven't yet. Sorry to anybody who happens to read this if you're offended by the word Hell. Be careful though because being offended is dumb and may land you there for judging me for saying it.
sin/cos aside (by the way sin/cos = tangent) I have been thinking that while I absilutely love what I am doing with my body work I need to find a way to either make it more productive, ie get an office in town and advertise and work through chiropractors, or perhaps move back to Utah to be with Susan and set up a practice out there and perhaps finish one of the college degrees I started.
It is a rather sad statement that in order to really get anywhere in this day and age you need a paper that states you know what you're talking about. Pretty dumb qualification if you ask me. I know of myriads of great people throughout history who weren't encumbered with the necessity of having a college degree before their mighty works came forth.
OH yeah, wow, tangenting all over the place again. Basically I'm tired of sitting around on the couch, the last few days I tried being more active and my foot has really let me feel of it's displeasure. Stupid foot.
Big happy bright side, I talk to Susan all the time. First thing in the morning before she goes to school, then 15 minutes during recess, then 30 for lunch and then an additional 30 or so during her prep period and then basically all evening unless she's teaching Piano or bagpipes ar practicing with her pipe band. She's an amazing busy lady. Last month I sent 20,000 text messages. Wow. That is either insane or awesome, and on that I'll let you be the judge.
This title is just to draw emphasis to the fact that for a few months now I haven't been able to do ANYTHING because I hurt my foot(l), back, knee, now foot(r). So basically my lfe has consisted of waking up and limping to let the dogs out, then sitting on the couch until I have to limp over and let them out again. Lather rinse repeat. Got very boring.
The plus side is I have been able to think a lot about life. More to the point: where in life I am and what I want to be doing with my life and why the flying hell I haven't yet. Sorry to anybody who happens to read this if you're offended by the word Hell. Be careful though because being offended is dumb and may land you there for judging me for saying it.
sin/cos aside (by the way sin/cos = tangent) I have been thinking that while I absilutely love what I am doing with my body work I need to find a way to either make it more productive, ie get an office in town and advertise and work through chiropractors, or perhaps move back to Utah to be with Susan and set up a practice out there and perhaps finish one of the college degrees I started.
It is a rather sad statement that in order to really get anywhere in this day and age you need a paper that states you know what you're talking about. Pretty dumb qualification if you ask me. I know of myriads of great people throughout history who weren't encumbered with the necessity of having a college degree before their mighty works came forth.
OH yeah, wow, tangenting all over the place again. Basically I'm tired of sitting around on the couch, the last few days I tried being more active and my foot has really let me feel of it's displeasure. Stupid foot.
Big happy bright side, I talk to Susan all the time. First thing in the morning before she goes to school, then 15 minutes during recess, then 30 for lunch and then an additional 30 or so during her prep period and then basically all evening unless she's teaching Piano or bagpipes ar practicing with her pipe band. She's an amazing busy lady. Last month I sent 20,000 text messages. Wow. That is either insane or awesome, and on that I'll let you be the judge.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Suuuusan
I write this blog after much chiding from a dear friend :)
For those of you who don't yet know, I have begun a long distance relationship with my friend Susan :).
Susan was my neighbor when I lived at Lakeridge in Orem about 2 years ago. I asked her out then, but due to one thing or another nothing ever happened, and even though I moved and fell out of contact, save for facebook, I was never able to get her out of my head. So after some creepy facebook stalking action I got her phone number and mischievously began texting her a few weeks ago. I sent her flowers for Valentines Day and convinced her to finally give me a chance :)
Susan is sweet, adorable, silly, cute, and I could nauseate you further with an entire list of endearing traits, but I think I will save you the trouble of wondering whether you retched enough to finally tear your esophagus from your stomach. Long story short I adore Susan, and I'm looking for a way to go out to Utah and spend time with her and meet your family. She is coming out here to see me on spring break in April. That seems sooooo far away.
So, more about Silly Susan, she teaches elementary school and piano and bagpipes. She also plays in a decorated bagpipe band. She owns a condo in Springville (gulp) Utah, likes to bake and is absolutely fantastic :). As I said before I adore her and am super grateful to have her in my life. I also 'freak her out' ;)
Love you Susan :D. You make me extremely happy.
For those of you who don't yet know, I have begun a long distance relationship with my friend Susan :).
Susan was my neighbor when I lived at Lakeridge in Orem about 2 years ago. I asked her out then, but due to one thing or another nothing ever happened, and even though I moved and fell out of contact, save for facebook, I was never able to get her out of my head. So after some creepy facebook stalking action I got her phone number and mischievously began texting her a few weeks ago. I sent her flowers for Valentines Day and convinced her to finally give me a chance :)
Susan is sweet, adorable, silly, cute, and I could nauseate you further with an entire list of endearing traits, but I think I will save you the trouble of wondering whether you retched enough to finally tear your esophagus from your stomach. Long story short I adore Susan, and I'm looking for a way to go out to Utah and spend time with her and meet your family. She is coming out here to see me on spring break in April. That seems sooooo far away.
So, more about Silly Susan, she teaches elementary school and piano and bagpipes. She also plays in a decorated bagpipe band. She owns a condo in Springville (gulp) Utah, likes to bake and is absolutely fantastic :). As I said before I adore her and am super grateful to have her in my life. I also 'freak her out' ;)
Love you Susan :D. You make me extremely happy.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I'm an uncle
It's lovely being home around all my siblings, but it's really hard to be so far from my nephews. JBary just had their third little boy, and he is adorable, and Michthany have 2 little boys. I love them all and miss being able to see them :(
Well, I haven't seen little Andrew yet in person, but I positively adore her other two, Max and Benny. Sometime I must trip out to Utah to see them.
Nathanial and Jacob are also multiple squeeze worthy but they're all the way over in Washington! So perhaps a trip there is in order too...
Well, I haven't seen little Andrew yet in person, but I positively adore her other two, Max and Benny. Sometime I must trip out to Utah to see them.
Nathanial and Jacob are also multiple squeeze worthy but they're all the way over in Washington! So perhaps a trip there is in order too...
Friday, December 17, 2010
Hmm
Well, I haven't posted in a while now, but nobody has exactly been clamoring for me to too...
So made the move up to Missouri, and in doing so I successfully powerslid a uhaul around a corner (the stig would be proud).
Since being here I have (i think) helped tons around the house (i live with my parents...again), but I (with help) cleaned and organized the house; changed the faulty plumbing; cleaned and organized the garages (that one without help) and other various stuff.
I did finally get my massage license for missouri, so now I just have to get a car and a building.
Boringest blog post ever.
So made the move up to Missouri, and in doing so I successfully powerslid a uhaul around a corner (the stig would be proud).
Since being here I have (i think) helped tons around the house (i live with my parents...again), but I (with help) cleaned and organized the house; changed the faulty plumbing; cleaned and organized the garages (that one without help) and other various stuff.
I did finally get my massage license for missouri, so now I just have to get a car and a building.
Boringest blog post ever.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Seattle
It's not an obscure quote, but oh well. It has been said in film and song thus staying with my quote motif.
This past week I and nearly all of my siblings met up at my illustrious brother Michael's house in Seattle. Good times were had. Without going into too many of the details I'll give a rundown (run-on?) of the festivities.
The first day we were there I went out with my dad and James to pick blackberries. Apparently these humongous bushes grow wild all throughout Seattle. It also became apparent that my choice of flip-flops was poorly thought out. Yes I knew the bushes were thorny, however I did not know that there would be piles of dead thorny bramble all over the ground. After several minor lacerations and one slip of the foot earning a prick to the bottom of the arch I magnanimously decided that I would hold the bag so as to allow my brother and father to worm their way into the bushes easier. They would stick an arm out from these treacherous bushes of despair and drop their prized berries into my bag before rummaging deeper into the thorny abyss. After an anecdote about picking berries with his mother until he had to inform her it was time to stop I gigglingly (new word, it's gonna be a thing, and why the crap does spell check accept 'gonna' as legitimate? I digress) said 'Dad it's time to go'. And wonder of wonders we went!
Mmm blackberries, as syrup or in oatmeal they were exquisite. After breakfasting on various all natural thingies we decided that we would take a drive up to Hurricane Ridge (magnificent view) and continue on to the Hoh Rainforest. As I stated before (but feel it deserved a second mention) the view from Hurricane Ridge was tremendous.
We could see Canada (not the tremendous part of the view) and a range of glacier covered mountains. Took a walk around the crest and saw some amazing vistas, and a bunch of deer that were rather nonchalant about us two legged types being around.
Back into the cars we go and off to the Hoh rain-forest. We had to pass through Forks to get there and let me tell you "Twilight" has either destroyed or invigorated that town depending on your viewpoint. Mine is the former. Everything was labeled 'twilight this' or 'twilight that'. 'Bella eats here' proclaimed local establishments, there were other more mundane items such as 'twilight firewood'. Really? I ask you.
Moving on, it was quite a drive to the rain-forest, but well well worth it. The smell alone was incredible. I saw the largest trees I have ever seen, amazing fern like foliage, mosses of many variety, I even heard an elk bugle. We decided to walk down one of the trails (which was quite a bit longer than anticipated) and it quickly grew dark. Luckily I pulled out my iPhone which has a flashlight (yes there's an app for that) and made my way merrily on. I could happily go back and spend days in the forest. we got back to the cars at around 8:00ish and had to race back to the other side of the state to catch the last ferry home at 12:05. We made it, but that ferry only operates on the weekends, so we had to rush down to the south part of the island peninsula to get the actual last ferry at 1. after landfall we made it home at somewhere in the vicinity of 2 AM and blissfully tumbled into bed. BTW, I have absolutely no cushion on my bum, and sitting that long was quite uncomfortable, but totally worth it.
The next day (Friday) we packed up the cars again and drove up to Oak Harbor to see my Grandpa. I haven't been to his house in 25 years but the floor plan was just how I remembered it; (that semicolon [also I have a friend nicknamed Semi Colon due to an unfortunate blood clot {I digress}] is for you Rebecca Maas Blevins) hurray for geeking out about little things like floor plans. We bought KFC for lunch and Grandma Ruth showed up with some Albertsons deli chicken so there was plenty of fowl food to go around (I like puns, don't judge). After/during lunch my brothers and I made free of the fallen apples in Grandpa's backyard and played monkey in the middle. Many lost and splattered apples later we were done and juicy and somewhat sweet smelling. James exploded a thrown apple against the heel of his palm. It looked sweet (ba dum ching). BACK ON THE ROAD!! We drove over deception pass (gorgeous) and stopped at a roadside/beachside park and threw a baseball around/played on the beach/ used some seaweed as a whip (it was surprisingly flexible [I contend it should be 'flexable', makes more sense to me] and strong)/ laughed at Stephen who chose the frigid ocean of Washington to be his first oceanic swimming experience/ skipped stones/ had a jolly good time before driving the couple hours back to Seattle.
By the way, I love Seattle. I thought the city was quite lovely. The skyline was pleasant, there were trees and bushes and coast. Very nice.
Saturday we went to the beach and had family pictures taken and played frisbee on the sand. So much fun. My family basically rocks. For lunch after a touch of confusion we went to a place on the pier that sold fish and chips (and clams/oysters/other stuff). After eating my fish and some of my chips with relish (the noun, not the sauce) I went and fed the rest of my chips (fries) to the seagulls. My siblings and/or I would hold one (chip/fry, not seagull) in the air and the seagull/s would fly down and take them from our fingers. AWESOME. I'm an animal nut, again, don't judge.
Sunday was church and then going to watch the locks between the ocean and the lake. Fun, geeked out again, saw salmon in the salmon ladder, watched boats use the locks, hung with family, saw one of my nerf-esque balls get thrown into the ocean, (I was sick of slashes, thus the commas) (still love the parenthesis though), and rolled down a hill that was faster than it appeared. Good times.
Monday the Parents and younger siblings went home. Boo hiss. Oh well, I'll be in Missouri with them in a week... I don't remember what else we did monday...Except we ate at an establishment called the crab pot which was immensely gratifying. The waitress gave us bibs and covered our table with butcher paper then dumped a pot of crab and shrimp and oysters and mussels and clams on our table. I want these people to do this at my house at least weekly.
The rest of Monday and Tuesday consisted of playing board/card games and enjoying each others company. Aside from a small trip to the park where we all got very dizzy by spinning repeatedly on playground equipment not intended for adults. Too Much Fun.
All in all the trip was exactly what I needed. I was happy, I laughed, I saw siblings, and I didn't wet my pants once...(well... maybe a little, those spinny things were fast!)
This past week I and nearly all of my siblings met up at my illustrious brother Michael's house in Seattle. Good times were had. Without going into too many of the details I'll give a rundown (run-on?) of the festivities.
The first day we were there I went out with my dad and James to pick blackberries. Apparently these humongous bushes grow wild all throughout Seattle. It also became apparent that my choice of flip-flops was poorly thought out. Yes I knew the bushes were thorny, however I did not know that there would be piles of dead thorny bramble all over the ground. After several minor lacerations and one slip of the foot earning a prick to the bottom of the arch I magnanimously decided that I would hold the bag so as to allow my brother and father to worm their way into the bushes easier. They would stick an arm out from these treacherous bushes of despair and drop their prized berries into my bag before rummaging deeper into the thorny abyss. After an anecdote about picking berries with his mother until he had to inform her it was time to stop I gigglingly (new word, it's gonna be a thing, and why the crap does spell check accept 'gonna' as legitimate? I digress) said 'Dad it's time to go'. And wonder of wonders we went!
Mmm blackberries, as syrup or in oatmeal they were exquisite. After breakfasting on various all natural thingies we decided that we would take a drive up to Hurricane Ridge (magnificent view) and continue on to the Hoh Rainforest. As I stated before (but feel it deserved a second mention) the view from Hurricane Ridge was tremendous.
We could see Canada (not the tremendous part of the view) and a range of glacier covered mountains. Took a walk around the crest and saw some amazing vistas, and a bunch of deer that were rather nonchalant about us two legged types being around.
Back into the cars we go and off to the Hoh rain-forest. We had to pass through Forks to get there and let me tell you "Twilight" has either destroyed or invigorated that town depending on your viewpoint. Mine is the former. Everything was labeled 'twilight this' or 'twilight that'. 'Bella eats here' proclaimed local establishments, there were other more mundane items such as 'twilight firewood'. Really? I ask you.
Moving on, it was quite a drive to the rain-forest, but well well worth it. The smell alone was incredible. I saw the largest trees I have ever seen, amazing fern like foliage, mosses of many variety, I even heard an elk bugle. We decided to walk down one of the trails (which was quite a bit longer than anticipated) and it quickly grew dark. Luckily I pulled out my iPhone which has a flashlight (yes there's an app for that) and made my way merrily on. I could happily go back and spend days in the forest. we got back to the cars at around 8:00ish and had to race back to the other side of the state to catch the last ferry home at 12:05. We made it, but that ferry only operates on the weekends, so we had to rush down to the south part of the island peninsula to get the actual last ferry at 1. after landfall we made it home at somewhere in the vicinity of 2 AM and blissfully tumbled into bed. BTW, I have absolutely no cushion on my bum, and sitting that long was quite uncomfortable, but totally worth it.
The next day (Friday) we packed up the cars again and drove up to Oak Harbor to see my Grandpa. I haven't been to his house in 25 years but the floor plan was just how I remembered it; (that semicolon [also I have a friend nicknamed Semi Colon due to an unfortunate blood clot {I digress}] is for you Rebecca Maas Blevins) hurray for geeking out about little things like floor plans. We bought KFC for lunch and Grandma Ruth showed up with some Albertsons deli chicken so there was plenty of fowl food to go around (I like puns, don't judge). After/during lunch my brothers and I made free of the fallen apples in Grandpa's backyard and played monkey in the middle. Many lost and splattered apples later we were done and juicy and somewhat sweet smelling. James exploded a thrown apple against the heel of his palm. It looked sweet (ba dum ching). BACK ON THE ROAD!! We drove over deception pass (gorgeous) and stopped at a roadside/beachside park and threw a baseball around/played on the beach/ used some seaweed as a whip (it was surprisingly flexible [I contend it should be 'flexable', makes more sense to me] and strong)/ laughed at Stephen who chose the frigid ocean of Washington to be his first oceanic swimming experience/ skipped stones/ had a jolly good time before driving the couple hours back to Seattle.
By the way, I love Seattle. I thought the city was quite lovely. The skyline was pleasant, there were trees and bushes and coast. Very nice.
Saturday we went to the beach and had family pictures taken and played frisbee on the sand. So much fun. My family basically rocks. For lunch after a touch of confusion we went to a place on the pier that sold fish and chips (and clams/oysters/other stuff). After eating my fish and some of my chips with relish (the noun, not the sauce) I went and fed the rest of my chips (fries) to the seagulls. My siblings and/or I would hold one (chip/fry, not seagull) in the air and the seagull/s would fly down and take them from our fingers. AWESOME. I'm an animal nut, again, don't judge.
Sunday was church and then going to watch the locks between the ocean and the lake. Fun, geeked out again, saw salmon in the salmon ladder, watched boats use the locks, hung with family, saw one of my nerf-esque balls get thrown into the ocean, (I was sick of slashes, thus the commas) (still love the parenthesis though), and rolled down a hill that was faster than it appeared. Good times.
Monday the Parents and younger siblings went home. Boo hiss. Oh well, I'll be in Missouri with them in a week... I don't remember what else we did monday...Except we ate at an establishment called the crab pot which was immensely gratifying. The waitress gave us bibs and covered our table with butcher paper then dumped a pot of crab and shrimp and oysters and mussels and clams on our table. I want these people to do this at my house at least weekly.
The rest of Monday and Tuesday consisted of playing board/card games and enjoying each others company. Aside from a small trip to the park where we all got very dizzy by spinning repeatedly on playground equipment not intended for adults. Too Much Fun.
All in all the trip was exactly what I needed. I was happy, I laughed, I saw siblings, and I didn't wet my pants once...(well... maybe a little, those spinny things were fast!)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
BooHoo Boone
Got up in church today for the first time in a long time. I don't generally like doing it, because while I have a super strong testimony and all that I just tend to tear up and get facial twitches when I'm talking. How I made it through my mission I have no idea lol.
Anyway, during my testimony I guess I talked about my mission because after the meetings a little lady came up to talk to me and told me she was from the Philippines. So I spoke with her in Tagalog for awhile, which was fun as I love using my language skills, and she said had she known about my mission before she would have cooked me all sorts of Filipino food.
Well dang it, I should have got up a year ago when I first moved here!
So further updates. James and I have decided that we will be moving into Chillicothe rather that Hamilton or some other place in north Missouri. I'm excited for that. WOOT.
Anyway, during my testimony I guess I talked about my mission because after the meetings a little lady came up to talk to me and told me she was from the Philippines. So I spoke with her in Tagalog for awhile, which was fun as I love using my language skills, and she said had she known about my mission before she would have cooked me all sorts of Filipino food.
Well dang it, I should have got up a year ago when I first moved here!
So further updates. James and I have decided that we will be moving into Chillicothe rather that Hamilton or some other place in north Missouri. I'm excited for that. WOOT.
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