just some things

A potato blew up in my face last night as I opened the oven. Luckily my eyes have fast reflexes and closed before potato smashed into them. Unluckily I do not have fast reflexes and my face was covered with HOT potato. ouch!

I was shocked when I walked out of work today and it was NOT raining. It was a good shock :)

I wore my shirt inside out today and no one noticed. Me either, until I got home.

My baby brother graduates from high school in 3 days! And moves down here in like 3 months! I'm excited for him to be here!

When I drive past the spot on the freeway where I got in my wreck my heart beats faster and I still get nervous.

I get to hang out with my girls this weekend and see my parents before they head off to Florida!

zumba

So, I've been hearing a lot about this cool new exercise thing called Zumba. That its more dancing and fun than it is exercising, which is right up my alley, I love fun! This girl in my ward, Mikelle, just got certified to teach Zumba so she wanted to test out her teaching skills on our Relief Society.  So, yesterday, I ran down to our church building, (which is super close) Zumba-ed it up for an hour with 10 other girls in my ward and then ran home. It was probably the most fun I've had at a Relief Society activity ever and I loved Zumba! I was really nervous at first because I am sometimes uncoordinated when I try to dance especially when I know others are watching me, but it was great!  Its a lot like Just Dance on the Wii at least thats what I think, which I also love! I just tried to imagine myself in my apartment dancing in Just Dance and racking up the points then I was more comfortable and did better.  I'm hoping that Mikelle does more zumba classes this summer because it was so so great!

I've even been looking online at the zumba wii game tonight and debating about buying it soon.  I mean, after sitting in an office allllllll day long, I need to do some sort of exercise or I'll lose my stylish figure ;)

thievery

Last week, my MIL asked me to go pick up some shoes for her at a store in the mall. She had them ordered in, they were only going to hold them for another day and she couldn't get down to Provo in time. Since I drive past the mall everyday, it was no big deal. After work, I stopped in at the mall, wandered around to see if there were any amazing sales going on(which there was, I bought some sweet sandals), and then went to the shoe store. Everyone was pretty busy except for a girl who looked semi-new at the shoe selling business. I asked her for the shoes for Laura, waited, received the said shoes, asked if I needed to do anything, to which she answered "No" and then I walked out. Several of the girls working there said, "Thanks for coming! Have a nice day!" as I walked out of the store holding the box of shoes.

I gave them to Josh to take to his Mom when he went up to Midway for work the next day. Laura gave me $20 for getting the shoes for her and I was a bit surprised since she already paid for the shoes. When I asked her about it, she said they wouldn't let her pay when she was at the store and said to pay when she picked them up.

Apparently I'm a thief. And I'm pretty good at it.
I'm so good, I didn't even realize I was doing it!

Here's a few key steps to successfully stealing shoes.
1. Have someone go in the store before you and put some shoes on hold.
2. Make sure you ask the least experienced sales person for help in getting the shoes from the back.
3.  To make her feel good, pretend like everything is good and politely ask if there's anything else she'd like you to do.
4. Casually walk out of the store acknowledging the other sales people.
5. You've successfully stolen a $20 pair of shoes. Congratulations!

(Don't worry, the shoes will be paid for, I don't wanna get a bad rep, I love that shoe store!)

Wait, summer is already here?

My cute Grandpa Jurgensmeier turned 91 this past weekend! He's such an amazing Grandpa! We went to wish him happy birthday on Saturday and gave him some Snickers. Whenever he came to visit my family, he'd always bring a bag of Snickers for me and said I could share if I wanted, but I didn't have to. I think he gave them to me because he already knew I'd always share with the brothers. He always let me sit on his lap and then he'd hug me tight and scratch my face with his whiskers. haha Once he also stayed in my bedroom around Christmas time and after he left there was magically a $100 bill on the Christmas tree I had in my room. He told me Santa left it. See how cute he is?  We also saw a bunch of my family members and 2 of the cutest twins I have ever seen! My cousin Sabrina had twins a little while ago and they are the cutest and sweetest little girls!

Josh & I are still waiting for the "school mode" to go away. We both come home from work and start stressing about homework. Hopefully after this week that will change and the weather will start to get better! Then we'll be in our "summer mode" ha

I'm working at Myler Disability again and it's actually a little weird...

First of all, they went all high tech on me! I walked in the building, or I guess I tried to walk in, but the door was locked. The receptionist had to "buzz" me in and everyone was wearing a lanyard with a photo ID on it. Everyone has a key card that you have to hold just right in front of a scanner deal and it'll open the door. Believe me, its very sensitive... I sat there for a good 5 minutes with my key card after my lunch break trying to figure out how to get in the door! I held it on the scanner, the light turned green, I turned the door handle, and NOTHING. I flipped the card over, tried it again, and I was still locked out. So, that means either I'm technologically challenged, or maybe that's the way they fire you, just deactivate your key card. Genius idea I think, no tears or hard feelings, you're just locked out of the building! Unless you do what I do now, try to time my walking from the car to the building perfectly so someone else uses their card and holds the door for me haha

Second weird thing: All my good friends I made last year have either switched departments or quit. I see some of them in the break room or at lunch but we don't work together and see each other constantly anymore. And I'm not supervising of a team of people anymore, in fact, I'm on the same team that I used to lead and the supervisors are people I trained! It's a little weird, but my boss told me they were making changes in the next 2 weeks and I'll most likely be moved to supervisor once again. Crossing my fingers!

I love helping people who actually need Social Security Disability and laughing at the weird things people who are just trying to get free money tell me in order to get disability. On Monday a girl told me she has a metal heart that doesn't work as well as a real one so she needed disability. Also, I talked to someone with a super thick accent who immediately hung up when I asked if they were a US citizen. I'm looking forward to helping people in need and some good laughs this summer (and figuring out how to use my key card!)

Josh is super busy with Green & Greener again. He comes home after dark every night tired and smelling like grass and sweat hard work.  :) He started doing aerations and de-thatching this year and is trying to expand his business to Provo and Orem. He's got a couple of big projects this year doing some landscaping. I actually aerated a lawn the other day and it was a lot easier than I thought. If you know anyone who needs landscaping or lawn maintenance needs Josh is your guy!

I also am trying to cook better and healthier meals. And, well, recipes that look super delicious online and in the cook books we got for our wedding. Last night I made stuffed bell peppers. They were delicious! I wish I took a picture of them because they were definitely 5 star restaurant quality. At least that's what Josh thought...

We're loving life and excited to do some camping, hanging out in the sun, putting our "Pass of all passes" to use, and going to some weddings this summer! Life is good :)