Day 3- A picture of you and your friend.

 Well that's a broad topic isn't it?  I just picked a folder and found this picture that makes me laugh out loud.  That was a fun time and a really fun night.  So there we go, a picture of me (looking oh so attractive...) with my friend Brian.  Gooood times.  My former boss, Teresa, told me that I look like an oompa loompa in this picture...Can you see the resemblance?  How sad...

Day 2-A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest.

 This was a tough one so, new rule, I'll post as many pictures as I want.  :)  I have a lot of long time friends in my life.  

 1st-In recent years, Lora.  We became friends soon after I moved to Utah and I would say she has been the most consistently close friend since.  We've been friends for almost 10 years and have talked, emailed or visited regularly the whole time as far as I can remember.  I love her because we think alike, feel similarly about things, have the same (fantastic!) taste in music and we just get each other.  She is like family to me and I love her for it!  (I was looking for old pictures of us and found this one which happens to be my all time favorite picture of Lora and I)

  #2-Officially the longest?  Laura.  We don't talk much anymore but we have been friends for as long as I can remember.  (You all remember the french toast/powdered sugar story).  Laura is one of those friends that I know that, if I needed to, I could call her out of the blue for anything.  Up until she moved away from Utah we saw each other pretty regularly and we always make time to see each other when we are in the same state.  Laura is probably the person that I have been closest to for the longest period of time.  Love you Laur!

30 Days

I found this in my internet wanderings and I thought it would be a fun thing to try since I love pictures and haven't been blogging much these days.  :) 

I have a list with something to post every day for the next 30 days and so, I begin with Day 1.

Day 1: Post a picture of yourself and 10 facts.

1. I never sleep soundly if I'm not sleeping with my teddy bear, Fuzzy.
2. Sometimes I don't want to be around people but there are a few people that I love to be around anytime, even when I feel like that.
3. I wish my hair was naturally a nice dark rich color.
4. I want to live in my current house for forever.  I love it so much.
5. I have a craving to run away again, I need to be rich so I can travel.
6. I work too much and think about work too much, and yet I still love it most days.
7. I have the greatest people in my life, my heart gets full and happy every time I think about it.
8. I love cupcakes, LOVE.
9. I love bags, and purses and always walk through that section in stores just to see if "the one" is there waiting for me.
10. Listening to music makes me feel alive.

WAIT!! I'm a Pisces??

No wonder I had such a rough day...My whole world shifted and I didn't even know it.  ha!

How do you think the people who live their lives around their horoscopes must be feeling right now?  Their whole life was a lie...A LIE!! 

Ok, I know everyone and their dog is talking about this but it did make me giggle and after the day I've had that giggle was worth sharing.  :)  The funny thing is, I was doing pre-service for a new employee the other day and I noticed that his birthday is the day after mine.  He said oh, nice!  Aries!  I hadn't referred to my zodiac sign in forever, how random that someone would and now BAM it's different...I wonder how he is taking it.  Ok, I know I'm a big random mess right now but there it is.


And here is my new horoscope for today.  I even got some advice on how to plan a party...niiice!

"Focus in on the things that really need accomplishing and the rest of the day will move along quickly. Someone has good ideas and not realizing it, may just leapfrog you forward in your career. Up-to-date information is most important to your business and you work and research to find the most recent theories and research that will help in your future projects and contacts with professional people. A strong urge for the social life finds you visiting with the neighbors this evening. Planning a future get-together is fun and a good way to bond and to keep in the know around the neighborhood. Consider suggesting a time to enjoy games and each other's food with perhaps a progressive dinner. A treat at each house: appetizers, salads, side dishes and desserts."

2010 did not suck.

I was just thinking about my New Years resolution for 2010 and I think it might possibly be the first one that I ever succeeded at.  Maybe I need to choose broader resolutions more often.  :)  For those of you who don't memorize my blog posts my goal for the year was to recover from 2009.  I'm happy to say that I did and had a pretty dang good year while I was at it.  It wasn't perfect, crappy stuff happened (Car was totaled, for example) but overall it was great.  I felt happy, grew stronger, moved closer to the city, got a job that keeps me busy and makes me feel like my days have meaning, moved to a place that feels like a home, bought a reliable car, overcame constant and debilitating anxiety (it's not gone but I can live again), went on a few trips and a whole lot more.  I couldn't be more grateful for what I have been given and for the great year that I had.

I hope this year will be equally rewarding.  A few goals that I have set for myself for this year include, read at least 2 books a month (I'm taking recommendations! I'm reading The Help right now, already my second book this month woo!), attend the temple more regularly, put my laundry away once it is done and a few more that I don't plan to share.  Mostly I just want to have more fun, love more and work at being a kinder, more grateful and more in tune person.

There are few moments in my life when I think to myself, "I wish I had a husband."  I like to think that I'm a pretty independent gal, but even so, those moments still come up.  One did tonight and that has inspired me to make a list of the moments that I have thought that.

-While shoveling the driveway for 40 minutes (as the snow still falls...)
-When dealing with car insurance companies.
-When taking my car to an auto shop of any kind.
-When I had to (past tense, thank goodness) scrape my windows at the crack of dawn. (And maybe only in my dreams would a husband actually get up and scrape my windows at the crack of dawn but hey, a girls gotta dream right?)

But then again, I could get a snow blower, have my mommy call the car insurance company next time, ask my brother in law to go with me to the auto shop and park my car in a garage (done).  Nonexistent pity party over.

About time for Random Thoughts from Beth, right?

Right!  :)

-I was watching an episode of ER (guilty pleasure) last night and after finding out that her husband died a woman had what seemed to be a heart attack.  The doctors realized it was Broken Heart Syndrome.  I looked it up and as you can see, it's real.  I have been thinking about it a lot today.  I've decided that although it does seem kind of crazy I can also kind of understand why it happens.  Either way it's really interesting to me and it has been on my mind.  I've felt heartache before, where it literally feels like physical pain, it's so interesting to me how emotions can affect you physically.

-I realized today that if I put gloves on when my hands are already cold they never get warmer but if I put gloves on when they are already kind of warm they stay warm.  Is this common?  Is this some kind of known rule that I've been missing out on for the last 27 years?  I'm so curious now!

-For the last two weeks my job was rough.  The days were long, stressful, overwhelming and left me in tears almost every day.  When I went to bed last night I was dreading today.  I knew this week would be more chill but I was worried that the constant dread I have felt before going to work each day was going to last.  I've had this feeling with many jobs before, where I didn't want to get out of bed, but had made it 8 months at this job without feeling that once and it scared me.  Once I got to work today it felt normal again.  I am catching up on a lot of things that haven't been done because of some other craziness and I worked until 7 without stopping.  I didn't really have to be there until 7 but the time just passed so quickly and I was happy to be there.  My new boss came out and said, Beth!  I wish there were more hours in the day so I could work more!  And as crazy as it sounds, I agreed with her.  I love having a job that makes a difference in peoples lives.  Even when I sit there doing silly paperwork or talking with employees or filing or anything like that I always have my sweet clients in my head because all of those little things, all of the processes that have been implemented, are there so we can support these amazing people.  And for that, I am grateful.


-I decided today that I don't have enough Amy in my life and I have been wanting to run away for the last two weeks so I'm going to go down south the weekend of January 8th (as long as the weather doesn't interfere).  Anyone want to join me?

-My niece and nephew are the greatest.  I have been thinking about the fun Christmas day I had with them and they just fill my heart with joy!  I love that when Austin opened his present from me he said "no way!" (which was a new found phrase as of earlier that morning) and I love that Emily snuggled on my lap with me off and on throughout the day.  I love that they both climbed up on my lap to read a book resulting in a picture that is quite similar to one taken last Christmas.  I love being their Auntie and I'm so excited that #3 is on the way!  I also love that my sister and brother in law know me pretty darn well and that they let me visit so often.  They're the best!

That sure was random.  :)