how embarrassing

i knew this was coming, i knew it! luckily, i've shared pretty much all of my embarrassing stories on here already, but i will recap, for the sake of today's "blog every day in may" challenge topic.

old photo, circa october 2011 at silver lake. i had no idea what picture to use for this...

fainting / a few months after devin i were married, we were at the temple doing sealings (an ordinance we perform in the temple for people who have passed away. we act as proxy during the ordinance where the couple who has passed away is sealed (married for time and all eternity). so devin and i kneeling across the alter from each other and he keeps asking me if i'm okay. i remember getting so annoyed. i felt fine! why was he so worried?! it was pretty warm in the room and we had been kneeling a lot, but i seriously felt fine. after he asked about two or three times, i started to feel very light-headed. now, i don't know if you've passed out before or not, but i've passed out several times, and when you get light-headed like that, you really only have a few seconds to recover, or else you reach this point of no return. like, you can feel light headed and lay down or put your head between your knees or drink some water, but you really only have a few seconds before you get to a point where your peripheral vision starts going black and you know you're about to pass out. so, my headed started nodding and i was sort of swaying and i felt all the blood drain from my face and i started wiggling my feet and twisting my ankles, trying to fight it. i felt so tired, i looked at devin and he asked me again if i felt okay and i shook my head no and the next thing i know, i wake up and i'm being helped to the ground by devin, and there is a woman moving my legs out from under me so i could lay flat. he had run around the altar and caught me before i fell. it was pretty embarrassing! but after i got back to my seat everyone else in the room started sharing their temple fainting stories, and another lady had said she was glad it wasn't her that fainted, because she was sure she would, so i felt better about it. devin has fainted in the temple before, too, but he his his head! haha it was pretty funny. i'm glad everyone took it lightly, although i did have to argue about being taken out to the car in a wheelchair! haha

sleep talking / on our honeymoon, we had so much fun. devin had booked us this really nice, huge family suite at a hotel in st george and we spent so many hours watching grey's anatomy in bed, eating junk food. it was a blast. so one night, at about 3:00 a.m., (keep in mind, i don't remember any of this. because i was sleeping. this is just what devin tells me happened!) i say "doooon't fall asleep." and devin asks why. and i said, "just. don't fall asleep." and he asks me again why we shouldn't fall asleep and i said "because they're going to bring us dinner." and he told me that it was 3 in the morning and no one was going to bring us anything and i said "i don't know!" and rolled over. whaaaaat?? in my defense, though, devin, to this day, laughs in his sleep. regularly. it's not like a creepy laugh, it's just that he must be having a funny dream! i think it's funny.

tripping / in college, at the ripe old age of 18, i was walking back to my apartment with my roommates after playing sand volleyball with some other friends, and i tripped on the sidewalk over absolutely nothing and BROKE my foot. aversion fracture. it was a little scary, because i was totally alone. i had to email and call my mom a bunch to figure out insurance stuff and which hospital to go to, so i spent at least a day without seeing a doctor. i had borrowed some crutches from someone, and the side of my foot looked like a tennis ball. once i saw the doctor, he put me in a boot and probably gave me some medication. the x-rays looked so cool! i wish i could have kept them. anyway, i remember having to leave the news room (i was an editor for the newspaper and i was in the middle of editing my page for the next day's paper) because i had to go to my doctor's appointment and the adviser was so rude about it! she didn't take me seriously and was so mad that i was leaving, and when i came back about 2 hours later in a boot she said, "oh, your foot really is broken" ... uh, yeah it is, jerk! i was so upset! but seriously. i BROKE A BONE. TRIPPING. over NOTHING. true katie fashion right there.

babysitting / this is the story i tell most often when i'm asked to share my most embarrassing moment, because it's the best one. so it's my sophomore year of high school, i think, and my friend asked me to help her babysit. long story short: these kids were insane. there were 3 of them and they were just the worst. anyway, the 2 young boys open the garage door and run away. in different directions, so my friend and i split up, each going after one boy. so i'm chasing this kid down this busy street and he's maybe 100 feet in front of me when i dark car pulls up next to him and the person in the car has the window rolled down and is talking to this kid. who i don't know, and am just babysitting. so i run up to the boy and grab him and pull him away from the car and i've got this crazy person adrenaline right now. i probably could have lifted a car, and i stick my head in the window of this car and say in my meanest 15-year-old-girl voice, "DO YOU KNOW HIM??" i was ready for war, here! and the man looks at me really confused and says, "uh... he's my son."

....... we'll just stop the story there. SOOO embarrassing. 

week at a glance

 

aria in a witch hat. twice. 

 

devin masterfully making one of our pinterest recipes for sunday dinner w/ his fam. it was delicious!

 

devin's cheesy chicken pasta. SO good. mmm

things i did with the munchkins this week:

 

built a fort and watched Toy Story 3. (notice aria's sitting in her mini lawn chair)

pumpkin patch today:

we picked out some pumpkins and took them home to paint them. and couldn't help but stop for frosty's on the way home... :)

today certainly got off to a bad start. we woke up this morning to find that our bike rack and cargo rack had been stolen from the mazda. maybe you remember just months ago when we BOUGHT the cargo rack? and the bike rack was pretty new too... major bummer.

and then? devin blows a tire in his work truck. on the FREEWAY. he didn't get hurt, and everything is fine, but still.

also? aria may have had a small accident on my shirt. which was a pleasure. i was certain that would happen eventually. and at this point, i'm not surprised it was today!

tomorrow, i have the day off from nannying because the kids are on UEA break and will be staying with their grandma, but most likely, i will have them at my house tomorrow for a few hours to help her out a little. i think that will be a fun change for them. trying to think of what we can do! devin and i don't have a super kid-friendly house. that should probably change, what with our friends' kids, nieces and nephews and cases like this! oh well. it will be just fine! (i'm thinking we'll make cupcakes? or cookies?)

last night, i had a fun time hanging out with my sister in law Amanda for a few hours. we had dinner with the family, gave addi a bath (hilarious), made a wal-mart run for some ingredients and snacks, made s'mores and watched the Pretty Little Liars Halloween special. i'm so glad she likes the show too. it's so ridiculous and i hate admitting that i watch it (...i love it), so at least we can be embarrassed together! she also convinced me to make devin and i's stockings this year instead of buying some off pinterest. 

the ones i wanted were burlap with a lace trim. the lace wasn't floral though, it was reindeer! amanda said she's seen the lace before, and burlap is everywhere, so it will be way cheaper to just make them ourselves! i'm so excited about it. i don't know if the world (or myself) is ready for another katie sewing challenge though. but hopefully we'll go to a fabric store tomorrow and see what we can find.

what a weekend.

like i said, we've been crazy busy since... well, since we got married, really! we're realizing that now both of us have plans, as always, but now that we're married... we do all those plans together. so we're adapting. it's good, though. i like it. i like to be busy. it makes me feel productive.


Friday, i got off work at 2:30, like always, and headed home to do a little cleaning before I went to PG to Christian and Sarah's at 3:30. They are the parents of my favorite 2-year-old, Joanna, and have a 3 week old baby girl, Molly. I told them that whenever they were ready, Devin and I would watch the girls so they could have a much needed date-night.


friday was the night!


so I was with the girls while Christian and Sarah went to dinner and saw a movie. They are angels! Joanna is so easily entertained, and does a great job of keeping herself busy with her toys, and the wonderful help of Nick Jr... haha and Molly is such a great baby. She's just content. She ate just fine, and only cried a little bit, and slept for awhile too, even. It was great!


Devin came over when he got off a little after 6:00 and Christian and Sarah were home around 7:00.


after we talked for a little while, Dev and I went to the Timpanogos Temple to a) make up for last week not attending because i was sick and b) start our goal of going to all the temples in the valley this month!


we had taken an envelope full of family names to do sealings. we had couples, and their kids. 


we were with 3 other couples, and our sealer was really nice and let us do all of our family names first, and Devin and I were proxy for all of them, even for the kids! It was so much fun. I absolutely loved it.


I loved being in the sealing room again, especially so close after our wedding (only 3 weeks!) because on our wedding day, I honestly wasn't paying much attention to the words of the sealing, so it was nice to be refreshed and get a better understanding of what it means to be sealed, and the blessing that come with it.


Since we had the privilege of being proxy for most of the names we brought, we were doing a lot of kneeling. And I hadn't eaten all day because of work and babysitting. The sealing room was also pretty warm.


The whole night, Devin would whisper to me across the altar and ask if I was okay, and it was starting to get on my nerves a little bit. I was fine! But then, we were sealing some couples, and I started getting really light-headed. I kept trying to snap myself out of it, but reached the point where you know you aren't going to be able to. Devin kept squeezing my hand, and I wasn't responding and I was starting to rock forward and droop my head and he asked me again if i was okay. I looked right at him and shook my head and that's the last thing I remember!


Soooo... I fainted. In the temple. Naturally. (Oh, that Katie Ashby!-- i happen to faint a lot...) From what i've been told, Devin ran around the altar and caught me before I fell and he laid me down. One of the sisters that was in our group was a nurse, so she came and moved my legs out from under me to get some blood to my head, because I was super pale. 


I woke up right after they set me down, and was really confused. It took me a minute to realize where I was and what happened. The sealer was really concerned, but everyone kept talking about how often that happens. It's a hard thing to kneel for a long time! It's pretty true, too. I've heard so may stories of people fainting in the temple. Devin did before his mission! I wasn't very embarrassed, because of how common it is.


After that, we just sat down and let the rest of the group finish the names we had, and they did a few more couples and then we were out of time. The sealer kept asking if I wanted a drink of water, or if I would need a wheelchair-- no! haha I had some water, and then we got the family names recorded.


I really wanted to go to the celestial room, so we went for a few minutes. I love being there. It's a feeling that isn't of this world, and it's such an amazing place to be and feeling to have. While we were there, we saw Devin's good friend, Shane, who actually got married today. Shane and his then-fiance were getting their endowment out. It was so cool to see them, and congratulate them, and we also saw another friend of Devin's from high school, so i'm glad we went to the celestial room!


When we decided to go, we came home and made some food and I felt a lot better. 


But honestly-- leave it to Katie to faint in the temple. 


Hopefully, that won't be a regular thing. 


Today has been equally busy.


We got up in the morning, and Devin had planned to ride, but didn't have time for the route his friends were doing, so he spent the morning putting our new Yakima car basket on top of the car. He wanted a skybox... but I didn't. So we agreed on the basket, and it's awesome. 


I spent the morning baking.


We've embraced the fact that now that we're married, every holiday and occasion will require 3 parties of us. My parents, his parents, and my grandparents, who always have family get-togethers whenever they can.


Now that we're married, we're considered to be obligated to bring a dish every time. Challenge accepted.


I got assigned dessert for my mom's and my grandparents' parties.


I wanted to make lemon cupcakes, but we didn't have lemon jello. Instead, I used raspberry. Best idea i've ever had! They are sooo good. Raspberry flavored anything is delicious, but cupcakes? I didn't even think that was possibly!


They are a funny shade of salmon pink, and the only frosting I had was yellow, so they definitely look funny, but they taste SO good.


Next, I was out of ideas for the other dessert, but happened upon a recipe for a really easy Chocolate Mousse. 


Done.


Both are successes.


For devin's family party, we're bringing chips and guacamole. Mostly because I was sick of desserts, and Devin's guacamole is extra scrumptious. No seriously. He has secret ingredients.


After all the baking, we went to a family reunion for my grandma's side of the family and had some lunch before heading over to Amanda's to see how the boutique was going.


She has so many cute new products (like baby shoes, and more hairpieces for adults!) and there was awesome treats, hoola hoops, and Scentsy. It looked like it was going really good!


Devin and I hadn't seen the babies for awhile, and when I took Addison outside to where Devin was, she yelled "HI!!!" she's getting so talkative, and she can pronounce words so well. She kept saying so excitedly "I'm outside!" it was adorable. I love that baby! 


Kayla and Kaden were busy playing angry birds (they're way better than I ever was!), but they were excited to see us. I love that when we go over there, the kids are excited to see us. It makes me feel so good! They're the best nieces and nephew I could ever ask for! 


Next, we headed to Bed Bath and Beyond to use up our last giftcard and got another bamboo cutting board, and an expandable cooling rack. After that, we went to Lowe's, and Devin got lots of tools. He had been using his dad's, and he needed them back. Tools were easily justified-- we used them when we came home to hang up lots of frames! Purchase success.


After shopping and hanging, we did lots of cleaning, and I took a nap and then we headed to my parents for Father's Day dinner. Kelli and Sean came down, and Kelli had just run the Ragnar race (she did so good!!! she's amazing!!!) and Grandpa Larry was there too. We had steak, grilled on the smoking Tragar (which is awesome) and the chocolate mousse was a huge hit. 


Now, I'm sitting on the couch while Devin and my little brother play video games.


I think i've been depriving devin of much needed man-time. They're having a good time, though.


I even made us muddie buddies. 


I like having guests over. Even if it's my 15 year old brother. He thinks our house is awesome. Which makes me feel good.


Tomorrow, we have 2 family parties, and are definitely going to sleep in!


This next week, we'll be doing a lot of research on schooling options for both Devin and I-- that's a process I'll have to talk about later. 


good weekend. i love spending time with my family, and i love all the time i get with devin when we don't have work in the way. also? a very domestic weekend. all that baking and cleaning and house-decorating will do that to ya! 

the joys of a desk job

me: "...I can just leave it as 'guest of Jonathan Harris', and that way you can bring anyone over the age of 18"


caller: "why over 18? are you serving alcohol?"


me: "...that's 21..."


caller: "oh. right..."


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ibsingle4u@******.com


(i ask for people's email addresses...)


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me: "most of our attendees prefer to receive a text message reminder on the day of the conference. may I have your cell phone number, starting with the area code first, please?"


caller: "oh, I can't do the texting. i don't have a computer."


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me: "I have an important conference email which contains additional information about the conference. Which e-mail address would you like me to send that to?"


caller: "well, I just got a new computer, and I dont know what the e-mail address for it is yet."


++++++++++

me: do you currently have a business website?

caller: nothing other than my residential telephone number.

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me: do you have any questions about your reservation?

caller: no. but I do have a question...

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AND ALSO

just to humor you... and my husband...

this story can't go untold.

so APPARENTLY.... one night on our honeymoon, at like 3:00 in the morning, Dev and I had this conversation. That I do not recollect AT ALL.

me: Don't fall asleep.

dev: Why?

me: Just don't fall asleep.

dev: But why?

me: Cause I keep thinking they're going to bring us dinner.

dev: Babe. Nobody is going to bring us dinner. It's 3:00 in the morning.

me: ...I don't know.

i swear i do not recall this! apparently i sleep-talk. we both find this very entertaining.

unfortunately, nothing else has happened. but i'm crossing my fingers. it's hilarious.

hahahahaha

he will never let me forget this! i love that we tease each other though.

and i love him!

why i shouldn't be allowed in Hobby Lobby (or public, in general).

today was great. in almost every way.


i went to work, in a good mood. we had a slow day, and that's always nice.


a few of us got called into the conference room (just like in the office), and we had a "quality meeting" with our boss, Colton Parry, who is the man! he's the coolest boss. anyway, we talked about really official important stuff, and when i got back to my desk, i texted devin and told him i had just gone to my first company meeting and was feeling very corporate, and he made jokes about pant suits. why am i even surprised?! he's the funniest.


anyway, in our company, Stores Online (need a website? ask me about it. i can give you absolutely no answers, but i can direct you to people who can!), we have this employee reward system where we use fake, monopoly-type money we call Sto-Bucks. you can earn bucks (they are all priced like real bills) and use them like cash to buy SWEET STUFF. like a wii or a gps for your car... all kinds of giftcards... they're awesome (and we get a cheaper price then a retail price). and pretty hard to come by. but at our meeting, i answered some questions (mostly guessing) and got $3! hahaha trust me, it's a big deal. so i was excited about that.


after work, i had some errands to run, including this story:


so i had a LG shine. LOVED IT. it was such a cool phone, and then it got uncool, but it was okay because my warranty was up, but i was living in SG, so was waiting to get something new. then my charger port in my phone busted, which i secretly liked, because that meant i got a new phone. i got the samsung impression, and loved it even more. it's been a good phone! i'm definitely looking to upgrade, but i still love it. i had had it for about 10 1/2 months when the touch screen started being picky. i would have to push things pretty hard, and several times, before it would work. then all in one day, it slowly got worse. first the touch screen totally gave out. then the screen just went black. then the buttons stopped working, but it would still light up and charge... WEIRD. so i call AT&T, and since i'm sitll within my 2 year warranty, they send me a refurbished phone. awesome. i had been using my dad's old blackberry pearl (WHICH I HATED) in the meantime. when i got the refurb, i was soooo excited. it was all shiny and new-looking... but i could NEVER get service. i think i had enough service to send maybe 2 texts total in 2 days. who's ticked? me. that's who.


so i call AT&T all mad, and also having questions about how to send them back my old phone, because if i did it wrong, they would charge me $200. yeah that's not okay. so they agreed to send me ANOTHER refurbished phone, and make it priority shipping, waiving the fees. i took my first refurb to the post office yesterday, and then today in the mail, got my new one! it's even shinier and newer looking! and it works great! i'm so happy. so TODAY... i went to the post office for a second time. to stand in a long line for several minutes. just so i could hand a box to the lady and walk away. annoying? slightly. oh well. at least it's done and i finally have a working phone. this one is dark blue, though. which is weird. but in a cool way i guess.


soooo.... after that, i wanted to go to Peir 1, which is always my go-to store for decor/dishes and the like... and of course i had to bring Kylee, because she loves it as much as I do. we picked out 4 different plates for my plate stand. it only has 2 racks, but i got the plates all very different, but matching enough that i can mix and match and switch them out when i feel like it. i also picked up some super cheap salt and pepper shakers that look like little birds. to use just as decoration, haha. i'm a nerd!


then we went to hobby lobby. i had some cool vases, and spray-painted them white. and now they are even cooler, but they needed something in them. i wanted something very specific, but couldn't find it, so after a long and indecisive search, i settled on some white and yellow flowers with twigs. turned out super cool.


(this is where it gets bad. this is also why i shouldn't be allowed in public. ever.)


while we were there, i wanted to show kylee the giant mason jar i wanted to get for the wedding. it matches our theme SO well, i loved it. so i went to pick it up, and did so by the lid... which caused the $30 jar to CRASH to the floor. probably the loudest noise ever. the only other lady that was on the aisle walked away mumbling something really rude, and then a worker came. i asked if i needed to pay for it, and he said no. thank goodness. but i had been wearing some peeptoe sandals and there was glass in my shoe, so i slipped my foot out to get the glass out and cut my finger. it wasn't huge, but fingers bleed a lot, and forever. so i'm trying to check out, and my finger is this stinging, bloody mess, and who's in the line right behind me? that rude lady that mumbled!!! yeah, she hates me. anyway... i go to pay, and my debit card isn't in my wallet. we had just gotten soda from the gas station though, so i thought maybe it was in my car. i very embarrassingly asked the woman to wait and kylee ran out to check. she was out there for about 5 minutes... with no luck. everyone was getting super annoyed with me. i was reeking havoc on this poor craft store, and right as kylee walks back in the door.... i realize my card was in my back pocket!!! only me... ugh. so typical. so i finally pay and GET OUT of there. i'll be surprised if they let me back in, haha. it was so embarrassing! how many more things could have gone wrong?!?! hahahaha oh man.


so i came home and put together the flowers in the vases, did some laundry, sprayed the plate rack with another coat of white paint, and did some wedding planning.


update:


picking up the wedding dress TOMORROW!!!! i'm so so so excited. my dress is so beautiful. i can't wait to wear it!


taking it to get alterations next week, hopefully.


did some specific-type planning with my mom about crazily detailed things like tablecloth placement on the guest book table, and exactly how much ribbon we have and need and weird little things like that. which i just laughed at, and thought was hilarious. we're two of a kind!


also... I don't know if i mentioned this, but Devin had originally NOT wanted to dance. thought it was weird and lame, and i was okay with that. then he changed his mind. so we've been making a playlist. well, i have. and it's AWESOME. it's everything from waaay classic love songs, to popular stuff, and some songs that will just mean a lot to devin and i. which is the whole point. i have one playlist of music that will play the entire reception in the background, and a very, very specific playlist for the dancing.


i decided that since my dad is such a sentimental guy, it would mean a lot to him if i let him pick our daddy-daughter dance song. and he did. i'm not surprised at all by his choice. it's really sweet, and SO like my dad. i think other people will think that maybe it's weird or not specific enough, but my daddy chose it. when we listened to it, we both teared up, and had a little moment. so i know it will always be special for us. and that's the important part. i know how much that will mean to him.


the other exciting thing... is that we finally got to see our engagement pictures!!! Chelsy did a great job. I liked a lot of them, and I see so much potential in her as a photographer!!! i have been oggling over them all last night and today. i showed all my co-workers, my family, kylee... and devin and i went through just barely and picked out the ones we want on our CD. i'm so excited!!! i've decided not to post any until after the wedding though. because if you see them all now, then nothing will be cool about the reception! maybe one or two, though. if you're lucky!


also tonight... when devin got out of class, we went to OG (no, not original gangster, which i honestly originally thought... but Olive Garden) with none other than DANE TRAIN. i hadn't seen dane in a long time, and he's one of my favorite people! the three of us had delicious soup, salad and breadsticks, amazing dessert, and the waitress brought EACH OF US THREE andes mints. which are my FAVORITE. the boys gave them all to me. aww. how nice. devin actually hates them, and i think Dane just didn't care enough, haha. they're the coolest. we talked about cars and basketball and photography and missionary apartments... haha it was a much needed dinner. Dane is the man!


Also... Devin finally got a much, MUCH needed massage, and I think that will help him to relax. I've been trying to do my best with keeping him as stress-free as possible. Today was win/lose. I had kneaders for lunch, and got a pastry in my combo, but i didn't feel like eating it, so while devin was still at work, i took it over to his house and put it on his desk with a sticky note (it's a devin-katie thing, those post-it notes ;)...). i think that helped :) but then, i kind of ranted about wedding details for a good 15 minutes, which was exactly what i'm trying not to do! haha but i think his massage helped out big time. he needed that more than i think even i know! and i've been the one trying to differentiate between bone and knot in his back for the past 2 weeks!


the bad news is that we're both getting sinus-y colds :( i thought i was done with cold-season! i had 2, and that's usually my max.! oh well. you gotta pick your battles, right? ha. oh well. cough drops, vitamins, and blue oil for me! i guess that's okay.


tomorrow i pick up my dress, and have some other wedding errands to run. and i'm actually very excited. i also work at BBW tomorrow, and i feel like it's been forever since i had a shift there. so i guess you could say i'm excited about that, though i might regret saying that later!


definitely need some rest now, though. goodnight!

priority-ly demoted

tonight was great.

very interesting.

and i would love to tell you about it

but my new phone came in the mail

and it's going to need some baby-ing.

so the post has been priority-ly demoted

for the time being.

lesson learned

do not apply mascara when you have the hiccups.


it doesn't work.


i tried.

FREAK zip-lining accident

day 21: a picture of something you wish you could forget

no, that is not my foot. i actually don't have the x-ray... i only saw it that once. same concept though. and same place on the foot. my break had way more cracks though.

so.. october 2009. i'm living in St. George. i had just been out play sand volleyball with my roommates and some of our friends. we were laughing and joking and carrying on, walking back to our apartment from the parking lot...

i pull a typical katie

and TRIP. over NOTHING.

like always, everyone starts laughing hysterically. which probably muffled the sound of the CRACK for them... but i heard it.

and i immediately went limp on my right leg, and sat down on the table near by... they were still laughing, but I kept trying to convince them that I was really hurt! They finally caught on, and helped me upstairs.

My foot was starting to swell up... really fast... but it was bearable pain. so i thought it couldn't possibly be broken if i'm not writhing in pain... it was all red, and within about an hour, it LITERALLY looked like the side of my foot had a tennis ball in it. That is honestly no exaggeration. I have pictures, but they are all on my old phone that's totally dead :(

I ignored it, and we went over to our friends' apartment across the lot, on the other side of the complex to watch a movie. all the guys were freaked out, but they gave me ice and said i should get it checked.

this was also in the middle of the semester, while i was an editor for the paper.

remind you... i was walking to campus every day. it's a short walk, but it's slightly uphill... that is NOT a short walk when you are doing it with a foot you don't even know is broken.

i had called into to the editor in chief and told her my situation. she turned me over to the advisor, who basically told me to suck it up, and come get my work done. i think she thought i was fudging. i wasn't.

i went in, and they saw my foot, which only made them SLIGHTLY more concerned. i told them i would work, but had to leave for a doctor's appointment, and would come back after. the let me go... VERY reluctantly. (see! these were just not nice people)

i didn't go to a hospital or anything, i went to Roger (I think that was his name). It was Jessica's dad's friend or something. he let me come to his house, and he gave it a look. he made me feel pretty stupid... he was like "uh... yeah it's pretty bad. you need to go to the hospital..." he wrapped it in an ace bandage and lent me some crutches.

when i showed back up in the newsroom... crutches and all... they finally believed me. the advisor said, AND I QUOTE, "oh, wow. your foot REALLY IS broken? hm." .... uh, yeah. you're a jerk. thanks.

SO... the next day, i think, i had my mom send me all kinds of medical information and i found a clinic that covered our insurance, and went in. the dr was awesome, and he took an x-ray. turned out... it's called an AVULSION FRACTURE. which by the looks of it, and by what i could understand of his foreign medical language... the bone had shattered in a small area, but without coming apart, make sense? it's like when you shoot a window with a BB gun. the glass shatters, but it stays in place. there are just tons of tiny cracks? my point exactly.

he gave me this GIANT BOOT to wear. said it should be on anywhere from 6-12 weeks, and to use the crutches until i felt comfortable.

uuuggghhh. so i wore this huge boot that went up to my knee for 10 weeks. and walked to school on it every day. went to work. drove. even MOVED STORES for my job with the boot... it was horrible.

every day, i watched my toes turn lighter and lighter purple, and the swelling went down slightly each day, too. and eventually, i was okay. but it took a long while. the only high point of that WHOLE experience was when i was walking to my humanities class one day, and i passed a boy on campus (a total nerd, by the way) and he said "i like your bow" -- it made my day. no idea why.

my roommates had tied an orange bow to the boot to make it less ugly -- it didn't really help, but it stayed the whole 10 weeks. and he noticed. and it was nice. and it made the next... well, couple minutes... okay. hahaha what a nice guy.

ANYWAY, this is the moment i choose to forget because A) come on. tripping? over NOTHING? and BREAKING my foot? really? come ON. and B) it has been hurting a LOT lately. i can't sit on my foot like i usually do... i can't walk for too long... it's even hurting right now just sitting here! ticking me off! that's what it's doing! hmph. oh well. it's a good story.

my much cooler made-up version was that i broke my foot in a freak zip-lining accident. and 90% of people actually believed me. it was awesome.

i've never even been zip-lining.

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INTERVIEWED this morning with StoresOnline

GOT the job. they called me like 3 hours later.

STARTING next week with awesome hours.

AND STILL have plenty of availability at BBW. perfect.

WORKED at bbw... with lauren, gavin, baylee and sierra. Gavin shrink-wrapped his arm. it was hilarious. He also told me Chloe's mom came in and asked about him being the boy at work I had blogged about (couple posts ago... drew him a picture for his birthday...) -- haha! Love her.

VISITED my best friend Valeri for awhile. she's going to GREECE in 40 DAYS. with her HUSBAND. soooo jealous right now. but will MOST definitely be back in time for my wedding, you can be darn sure.

JOKED with my family. for approximately 15 minutes. it was hilarious. I asked kayla is she would plan my wedding instead and she said "ah! YES! we can have a PINATA!!! and a PETTING ZOO! oh! i know! Dallie has 11 chihuahuas!!!!" oh boy.

FOUND Devin's wedding ring at Wilson Diamonds -- again, HIGHLY recommended. Ask for Matt Wilson. Tell him Devin and Katie sent you.

ATE some delicious wings from Wing Nutz -- because Devin had a serious wing craving that needed to be fixed immediately

WATCHED "My Sassy Girl" -- and even though the title is stupid, yet fitting -- I loved it. 

ASKED Devin if he would just be my husband already.

DROVE home.

BLOGGED about it all.

and here we are.