Mosquitos: Pure Evil

Seriously....do they even HAVE a purpose??? Why oh why did God create such a rotten awful irritating and disgusting insect?!?!?! And furthermore, why did Noah save the stupid things!?!?! Let them drowned...let them ALL DROWNED!!!!!!

I have on my body right now 39.......yes, THIRTY-NINE BUG BITES!!!!!!!

It's like the cruelest form of torture ever! The government should take terrorists and rapists and murderers and put them in a room FULL of mosquitos and just let them go nuts! At least then the mosquitos would be doing something useful for humanity!

Does anyone have any good advice for getting mosquitos to hate you??? I'm told not to eat bananas...but I don't eat them much as it is. I'm spraying myself with OFF regularly...but I think they actually like it! I feel like the step mom on Parent Trap who keeps putting on sugar water thinking its bug spray! UGH!

My Summer So Far...

It has been one crazy summer for me so far! Here are the highlights:

• Fell in love with Phil....now if we can just get all the details dealt with, we may actually be together some day! Isn't he so handsome :) *happy twitterpated sigh*

• Turned 27
  
  My birthday for one more minute:

• Got the most amazing birthday gift from the love of my life

*sigh* Its been my dream to own Burberry rain boots....My baby is the greatest! :)

• Tried salmon for the very first time.....still not a fan
  
  
  




• Moved across the country back to Utah after 4 1/2 years on the east coast with the help of Kate the Great

Kate is just a little bit OCD...

• Went to the Manti Pageant with my family (which meant a lot of time with my adorable niece and nephews!)

• Did a session at the Manti Temple with my brother (complete with his crazy beard) and sister-in-law

• Hiked the "Y" (Oh yeah....I felt awesome!)

• Hiked Ensign Peak (not quite as awesome as the "Y" but still fun)

• And finally....moved BACK across the country when the new nanny quit after a mere week and a half!

• I hope the second half of this summer is a bit more restful than the first half has been...but at least its given me some things to blog about! Thanks to everyone that saw me in Utah!

• XOXOX Love to all
  
  

Surprise!

Its been a pretty frustrating few days for me. I'm still working on landing a job and figuring out where exactly I'll be moving to in 3 weeks.....and the fact that its in 3 weeks has be freaking out quite a bit! This past weekend I had to go away with my nanny family and work and that was even more frustrating because I have so few weekends left to get all the job stuff sorted out.

Yesterday I received several injuries, minor but still rather annoying and then had a frustrating talk with someone who though they meant well, left me feeling very deflated and doubting myself and every decision I'm currently making.

Today wasn't terrible or anything but on top of the frustration of the last couple of days a few things with work this morning had me really irritated and I found myself just not being in the best of moods with the weight of it all swirling around me.

After a shopping trip to Costco (which of course is the BEST place to go when you're already feeling irritated!) I hauled the mountains of groceries into the house only a few of which belonged to me. I took those few little items back to my room....when I walked in something caught my eye....

I have the most wonderful Sweetheart ever!!!!!!

XOXOXOXOXOX

Love & Faith

"Love is never wanting to lose faith, never wanting to give up, and never truly moving on. Love is knowing and praying in the deepest part of what's left of your heart that they feel the same."

I've found someone amazing and I love him. I'm scared to trust and to truly love again. I'm scared of getting my heart broken and facing the pain of putting it back together again. But if I'm too afraid to try, if I'm too scared to trust, and if I'm too closed off to open my heart I will be alone forever and that is not what I want.

This new found love and the happiness that is coming with it is changing my plans. It looks like I'll be staying in the north-east part of the country though my location will still be changing. Not sure exactly where yet...that all depends on the jobs that come my way in the next couple weeks. I will let you know when I do!

I've found someone amazing and I love him....and by some miracle, he loves me back. I believe it, I trust it and I'm moving with faith towards it. I am happy :)

UPDATE!

Finally an update...its been awhile. It seems like my life is going at a greatly accelerated pace these days. So much is happening and so much is about to change, I feel like I can't keep up with it all.

Last week I finished my Physics class which completed my credits for my AS degree in general studies. It has been a long time coming so I'm very relieved to have that over (now I just need to fill out the forms to get the degree in hand! I'm such a procrastinator! LOL)

My job has been keeping me busy and I'm almost into my final month with this family and CT/NY. Its weird because on one hand I'm so excited to move on to something new but I'm also very sad to say goodbye. I'm also nervous because I'm not sure where I'm going next.

This weekend though I'm going to be flying out to California to interview with a new family. I hope it all works out because I think it could be a really great job. Wish me luck! Its going to be exhausting doing that long flight twice in one weekend plus working!

A few weeks ago my friend Jason came out to visit. We had a great time in NYC...you can see some of our pictures in the slideshow above ;)


My updated blog decor reflects my current love of American Idol. I really haven't gotten into Idol since the very first season but this year I was home in Utah visiting during the first few episodes and so I got sucked into by my family all watching it. I immediately took a liking to Adam Lambert who's voice I felt was incredible and who reminds me of Pete from Fall Out Boy haha




Of course, last night Adam made it into the final round! I'm also excited because I really love Kris Allen too. I'm hoping Adam wins but if Kris wins I won't be too disappointed. I think at this point both have a good career on its way and I'm excited to get the first albums for both of them sometime in the hopefully near future! I miss Allison too...I hope she puts out an album! :)

XOXOX

Amanda

Good Day!

It has been a really good day today! I got to sleep in which was wonderful (after my 5 year old came in and tried to convince me that I had to go take care of her at 8 am which wasn't true...but whatever. Sleeping in is sleeping in! LOL)

After I got up (at noon!) I worked for just a bit then it was off to the gym where I had a really good workout...though I'll probably be crying tomorrow! Haha

After the gym and hit up my fav Trader Joe's to get some groceries for the week. As the girl checked out my stuff I looked at everything I'd bought and thought "Ugh, this is gonna cost so much money!" But when she told me my total it was over $40 less than I was expecting! Whoo hoo! Gotta love that! Also gotta love that they now have sour cream and onion flavored Unburied Treasure corn puffs (like my fav white cheddar ones!) Mmmm Still love that store like crazy!

As I did all these things today, the other awesome thing was that the weather was absolutely gorgeous! Like middle of June awesome! And right now the daffodils are all out in CT/NY and that is one of my fav things about Spring here cause I think they're soooo pretty!

All in all...a very very good day :)

XOXO

Happy Tax Day!

It's probably been about a month since my last update...too much going on in my world!

At the moment my biggest news is that I'm moving back to Utah soon! I'm currently job hunting and will be living in Utah for at least the summer. In the fall I'm not sure what the plan is quite yet, it will depend a lot on the job opportunities I find in the next few months but I definitely need at least a few months at home with my family and friends to recharge my inner happiness! I miss you all sooooo much!!!

This past week the kids and I have been sick so its been a pretty exhausting few days. On Easter Sunday I taught Sunday School through coughs and sniffles but my lesson seemed to go well.

It is of course Tax Day today...got my taxes done weeks ago but held off filing till the last minute. Luckily TurboTax made it nice and easy! Given that my taxes are pretty plain and simple I probably could have just done it myself for free but given that numbers and anything to do with government is not my forte I opted to pay the money to save myself any additional headache and hastle...totally worth it! Haha

No pics really for today's update but I did just update my pics slideshow so check that out up above ;)

Love to everyone!
XOXOXOX