One year down (plus 2 months), forever to go

So what if this blog post is a little late. Scott and I celebrated our one year anniversary back at the beginning of August. I still can't believe that it has already been a year and we are a couple months past the one year mark.

When we got married everyone said that it would be a big adjustment getting used to being married. For me and Scott it was pretty easy because we NEVER saw each other. You think I'm kidding, but there were weeks that we didn't see each other outside of me saying bye in the morning when I left for work and him waking me up to say he was home from work. I worked from 2am - 10am 5 days a week, and then went straight to school. He went to school and then he worked 2pm - 10pm. Which meant that I was in bed before he got home, and he was asleep when I left for work. Occasionally we got to study in the library together or one of us would have the day off. It all worked out though, we're as happy as can be.

What did we do to celebrate the fact that we reached the 1 year mark?

First we went to dinner at Red Lobster. Normally we go to PF Changs, but not this time. I had lobster for the first time, and it wasn't really what it's all cracked up to be. It was good, but I wouldn't say it was amazing or anything. 

Then we went to Fat Cats for a couple rounds of bowling. (Are they rounds when you are referring to bowling?) 

We even got matching shoes

He creamed me the first game so I didn't feel like it was a picture worthy score. I didn't do so bad the second time... 

Yeah, I got three strikes in the last frame, no big deal. 

Then we went home to enjoy a wonderful bit of this...

Frost bitten wedding cake.

 It didn't look as bad once it was cut. 

Scott kept asking if I was serious that we were each going to eat a bite of a year old cake. It was just one bite, and it actually kept pretty well in the freezer. 

August 6th also just so happened to be my last day of classes at BYU, as well as the first day of my normal 8-5 job. No more waking up at 1 in the morning!

Scott is amazing, and I am so happy to be married to him. He is the most patient person ever (he had to be when I was only getting a few hours of sleep at night). He is thoughtful, funny, always willing to help, smart, motivated, attractive, honest, hardworking, respectful, silly, confident, sexy, understanding, considerate, selfless, kissable, and best of all he is MINE. I love him so much and it has been great being married to him. I look forward to spending forever with him. 

We moved...

So this is probably old news to anybody who knows me, but Scott and I moved.

After Scott and I got married we moved into my mom's basement. It was great, we had our own space, I got to do all of the decorating and we didn't have to pay very much rent. My mom had told me that she was planning to go through and get the house ready so we could put a sign out front to see if we could sell it in three or four months. About a month after she started this project we were told that we had a buyer and a month to move out.

It couldn't have come at a worse time. I was trying to get all of my classes finished so I could graduate, and Scott was trying to get all of his stuff together for his dental school applications. We were just busy... and clock was ticking. This may or may not surprise you, but I put of getting all of my stuff packed up until the last minute possible. What I didn't realize was how much stuff someone could collect up until college. I had my room upstairs which contained all of my per-college life, and then the things I had collected since starting college that I kept in the basement.

It was weird to think that I no longer had a home. The place that I lived for half of my life wouldn't be a  place I would ever visit again. I think that half of everything I owned ended up going down to the nearest DI. Yet I still had plenty of boxes to take with me, and Scott still thinks I have too much stuff.

Well, we moved into Scott's parent's basement which has been great. It has been nice having a kitchen in the basement (although we still haven't used it much), their basement has a lot more space and we have a bigger bedroom. Rent is even cheaper here too. Moving was a pain, but now that it's all said and done it was definitely worth it.

The last day of the move we were packing up our bed and frame and we found this behind our bed.

We painted it on the wall when we painted the trim in our bedroom. I totally forgot that it was there until our bed was moved out of our room. I love Scott, and he was so excited when I told him I didn't care if he painted on the wall.

A Gift

Has it already been a month since my last post? I am happy to say that I am almost half way done with my  Spring term at BYU. After this term I will only have the few independent study classes and a 1 credit lab before I graduate. I am excited that I can finally start to see the end of the tunnel.

On mothers day Scott surprised me with a gift. You may be thinking to yourself, "I didn't know that Amber was a mom." I'm not.  But Scott's dad told him that Mother's Day is for your wife too, even if they aren't a mother. I have wanted one of these for a LONG time... now I just need to learn how to use it!

Light at the End of the Tunnel

In two weeks from today I will be done with finals for Winter 2012. I know that there is only one week of  classes, but I am so ready for for these 17 credits to be done and over with. Once this semester is over I am one step closer to graduation. I finally feel like there is a light at the end of this tunnel.

Even though I am extremely excited that graduation is only a few months away, I am also a little scared. Almost my entire life one of the words that has been used to describe me is "student." In a few months that will no longer be something that defines my life. What's next? What happens when you get into the real world? In classes my teachers always say things like,"Being in college isn't like being in the real world." Am I an exception to this comment? Am I already living in the "real world"? The way I see it I will be doing the same 40 hours of work every week, but it isn't going to be followed by hours of school and homework. I know that I don't have an amazing job, and I know that I hardly make more than someone working straight out of high school, but I feel like I know what is required in life.

In high school I was always told that you won't earn very much money unless you have a college degree. Now that I am getting closer to having a degree I don't know if it will really change anything other than my resume. I chose exercise science because that is what I love, but I can't really think of a career that I could go into with just by bachelor degree. Which means, even after I graduate in August I will still be working my job at Ancestry making the same thing I would if I didn't have a degree. I will probably look to see what options are available, but by the time I graduate I will only be in Utah for another year, and then Scott and I will be off to dental school (At least that's the plan). So is it worth even looking for a new job if I only have a year left in Utah?

Life only gets busier...

Do you ever just sit and think about all of the things that you need to get done? This past 2 weeks that is all I pretty much all I can think about. Since working the graveyard shift, and adjusting to only four or so hours of sleep a night I learned to fall asleep and stay asleep like a champ. The last couple weeks have been different for me. I lie in bed creating mental lists of all the things that I would like to accomplish the next day. By the time I am finished with work and school the next day I am so exhausted from only the two or three hours of sleep I got that the only thing I ever have enough energy to do is sleep. Then when I wake up from my little nap I feel overwhelmed by the list of things I wanted to do, which I wouldn’t have had time to complete even if I hadn’t wasted my time taking a nap. When does this feeling ever go away? Will it? Time and time again people tell me that life only gets busier. I hope for sanity that my life and my stresses only become different, not busier. If my life gets any busier it might actually kill me.

I am pretty busy with the 17 credits I am taking this semester. Physiology and Anatomy are some of my favorite classes that I have taken so far at BYU. This semester the classes I am taking have a lot to do with the body, and how it functions. It’s these classes that I feel like I am actually getting information that is applicable to my life. It makes such a huge difference taking classes that I enjoy, even if I do struggle to keep up with all of the homework.

Work is… a little frustrating sometimes. I really like what I do right now, but any time someone new comes in as manager things change. The flow of how things work gets disrupted and a new way of doing things has to be learned. I did get some added responsibility when things got switched up, but this adjusting period has been difficult for me. Somehow work feels more tiring then it ever used to be, it might have something to do with getting further into my semester and my lack of sleep, but it has just been hard.

Scott is doing great, although we hardly get to spend time together. He has started to prepare for the DAT (Dental Admissions Test), which he is scheduled to take in May. A couple days a week he goes to an actual prep class and he studies on his own other nights. Then in June we will be going through the application process. I feel like I have been in school for longer than I can handle, he still has a year at BYU followed by four more for dental school. He’s a trooper, that’s for sure.

Life is really good right now, tiring maybe, but I have no real complaints. I'm hoping to blog a little more regularly again. The fun day to day stuff is more interesting than the "update on the last 6 months" stuff is.

Being Married

Before me and Scott tied the knot I seriously thought that I would have so much to blog about… how exciting newly wed life is. Well, there isn’t as much exciting things going on as I thought there would be. I’m not exactly sure what I thought I was going to have to write about, but whatever it was it doesn’t exist.
Being married isn't exactly what I thought it would be. People would tell us all the time how things would be once we got married. Some of them have been true and some of them not so true.
· I thought that once we were married we would get to see each other all the time. Man, was I wrong about that. When you’re dating you make time to see each other, when you’re married you live together so you would think that at some point two schedules would match up. Most of the time, for me and Scott they don’t.
· You gain weight once your get married. People always say that once you get married you will gain weight… I swore that I would never be that girl. Now that I have been married for just over 3 months I would have to say that this rumor is true, at least for me. Maybe it’s because I never made a full dinner when I was by myself but I do most nights now, or maybe it is because Scott is ready for dinner right about the time I am wanting to go to bed.
· Once you get married you become anti-social. Well, I am not sure if this really has anything to with getting married, but I have only hung out with 2 of my friends since getting married. Once school started my time became much more limited.
· It’s easier to get your homework done after you get married. I would have to say that it is actually much harder. When you are dating you can say, give me an hour to do homework, then you can come over. When you’re living with your best friend you just get distracted.
· You have to deal with the in-laws. Well, I do have to deal with the in-laws but they are almost more my family then my actual family is. I married into a really great family.
· People will start asking you when you are going to have kids. Kelci has asked me more than once, and anytime anyone brings up babies around my mom she gives me that look of approval.
· You love each other more every day. This is true, sometimes I just look at Scott and get all giddy, hence the distraction and lack of finishing my homework.
· That once you live together you will get sick of each other. Nope, I am still just excited to see him as the first time I saw him after he came home from his mission, just less nervous.
Those are just a few of the things that I could think of that people told me my life would be like after I got married. It's been fun, and there has been a lot of change but I love the way my life right now.

Are you asleep?

This was a conversation me and Scott had the other night... I thought it was funny

Me: Babe?

Scott: I haven’t figured it out yet.

Me: Figured what out yet?

Scott: I just haven’t figured it out

Me: Why don’t you come lay back down

Scott: Why? I haven’t figured it out

Me: Just come lay down

Scott: (Grumpily) Fine… but I didn’t figure it out (He gets back in bed)

Me: What didn’t you figure out?

Scott: Do the H’s or C’s come off (Carbons or Hydrogens)

Me: Are you talking about molecular? (The class we have together)

Scott: Does it make it more hydropho....

Me: Are you talking about Ochem?

Scott: (Upset) Nevermind!

Me: Are you awake babe?

Scott: Yes, I’m awake (annoyed)

Me: Okay, let’s figure it out tomorrow.

Scott: But I can’t figure it out.

Me: Let’s go to sleep. (I laugh a little because I figured he wasn’t really awake)

Scott: Fine! (Rolls over so his back is facing me)

Me: Are you mad at me?

Scott: Of course I’m mad at you.

Me: Why?

Scott: Because you’re laughing at me.

Me: I’m sorry I laughed I just couldn’t figure out what you were trying to figure out.

Scott: I just never know if there are spiders in the bed… (I laugh again, and he grunts like he’s upset)

When we woke up the next morning I asked if he was still mad at me. He had no recollection of our conversation. I never thought I would be having full conversations with my sleeping husband.