23 going on 45

I'm used to people thinking I am younger than I am. Most of the time when strangers ask what school I go to, they are expecting to hear Union High or Jenks High. And when I tell them that I am in college (or have already graduated from college), they always say, "Well, you look much younger than that." Thanks?...I guess.

Today was a different story. I went to Wal-Mart (yes, I'm poor) early because they had some cute t-shirts for only $3! They were from Miley Cyrus' line. (Ha! I feel dumb for saying it, but her line actually has cute clothes. They aren't like Hannah Montana or whatever, they are this stuff:Typical stuff you would see on girls from ages 14+, yes? ANYways....

While I was in the checkout isle, these two women in line behind me saw my clothes and asked, "How old is yours?"

How old is my what? I was buying Summer some baby PJ's so I thought mye they thought I had a baby? So I asked, "Oh, you mean the pajamas?" One of them replied, "No, the t-shirts." I just said, "Oh! Uh...they're for me." They both laughed and said, "We both have daughters who wanted those shirts, so we just assumed...." And I awkardly said, "Haha, yeah, I figure I have a few more years left where I can get away with wearing this stuff. Hehe.." Which the women embarrassingly laughed at. I don't know if they were embarrassed for assuming I had a daughter who was old enough to wear such clothes, or if they were embarrassed for me, being a woman my age (which I'm guessing they thought was like 40) wearing clothes that are teenagers.

Anyway....I feel old. I think I am gonna take back my shirts and buy some eleastic pants that go up to my belly button.

BonQuiQui

This is one of me and Jordan's favorite MadTV clips. We both hate bad customer service, and we both hate hoochies. When those two combine...you get BonQuiQUi

Warning: This clip is extremely quotable.

A quote from one of my husbands....

*While getting ready for church this morning*

Me: I think I'll wear my long denim skirt today.
Jordan: Nooo! It's ugly! I HATE that skirt.
Me: but I LOVE that skirt!
Jordan: Yeah, well so does Warren Jeffs.



At least I refrained from sporting the hair poof!

More Good News!

Jordan got a small, thin envelope in the mail from University of Oklahoma-Tulsa (my school!). He came in from work with it in his hands and he said, "It's pretty small..." (and if UW has taught me anything ((which it hasn't really taught me anything because it won't let me be its student, no matter how many times I ask nicely)) it is that small thin envelopes are potentially sucky.) Well, he opened it and TA-DA! It was one of those NICE small letters! Jordan has been accepted to interview for their PA school in January! We were both super excited because OU-Tulsa or OU-OKC are our top choices for PA school. Keep your fingers crossed for my maaaan.

More good news: Jordan is officially done with applications! He turned his last one in on Wednesday. I am so glad that that process is over. Applying took forever, especially because Jordan had to write different essays for many of his schools. This lead to me proof-reading them, wanting him to make all these changes that I thought were spectacular and Jordan thought were unnecessary, which lead to us debating and getting sassy with each other. At least our arguments are all scholastically based....Makes us sound smarter... *crickets chirp*

But that's not allll: I have my internship lined up for next semester- or excuse me, my practicum. BYU referred to them as internships and OU insists on the word practicum, which leads me to confuse myself and those around me. OU also refers to January-May as Spring Semester while BYU called it Winter Semester. This has also lead to further confusion....Back to my internship- It's great! It is at an agency called Family & Children's Services. The agency offer es a ton of services, but I will be in the Family Counseling program. I'm so excited because marriage and family counseling is kinda what I am focusing on as my future career (which is coming up- I'm old!). I start in January and go full time until May. I am also taking two classes that are 3 hour weekly night courses....blah. Honestly, its for the best. One of those nights is Tuesday and since I am SO done with American Idol, being in class on Tuesday evenings will help me avoid the temptation to relapse into an AI coma each week.

There's still more: My apartment is starting look like a place where people actually live! I've been slowly decorating the place up, and it is starting to look nice.

Not done yet: In one month from today, we will be back home in Seattle for Christmas! I'm so excited to go back to the Northwest, I seriously talk about it everyday. I miss my family! And when I was watching New Moon last night (please don't judge me) I got sooooo homesick looking at all the Washington greenery...Sigh.

I better stop or this is soon turn into one of those Relief Society good news minutes where people randomly say stupid things that aren't really good news. You know what I mean? Like, "I made cookies today!" That ain't news, sister.

kbye.

Pet Peeves

I'm an easily bugged person. Don't get me wrong, lots of things make me happy and sometimes even downright giddy, but lots of things make bother me big time. What I think is interesting is when something that drives me insane and it doesn't even faze someone else and vice versa. So I thought it would be fun (and therapeutic!) to list all of my pet peeves. See if you agree with any of them or find what make me angry is your reason for living. I have so many pet peeves that I am going to place them in categories.

Facebook Pet Peeves
* When people write their status' in a foreign language
* When people write "deep", vague statuses. For example: Sonja is feeling the hurt that comes from loss of a broken dream.
* Statuses that don't make any sense at all. this includes people quoting music or movies with the intention to be mysterious.
* When people click "Reply to All" when they are responding to a mass inbox message. This one probably gets me the most fired up.
* People who invite all of their friends to events. SO LAZY! Don't invite me to something if you live in Provo and I live in Oklahoma. It's like saying, "I really don't care who comes to this." Boo.

School Pet Peeves
*Students who make very loooong winded comments. Cut to the chase PLEASE.
* When class goes over time. I have ZERO tolerance for this.
* When teachers assign overwhelming amounts of reading that are not even mentioned during lecture.
* When students ask stupid questions about assignments that could easily be answered with a quick glance at the syllabus.
* When someone sits in my seat. I'm one of those people who picks a spot and stays there for the whole semester. Taking that spot away is chaos...well, maybe not chaos, but irritating.
* This is rare, but when my professor is teaching something that I know is wrong. Not morally, but factually. This happened during one of my classes and it was driving me CRAZY.
* When students throw the words crisis and poverty around effortlessly during class. Both of those words have very specific definitions if you are using them clinically, yet some students use them as though crisis=sad and poverty=kinda poor.

Church/Mormon Culture Pet Peeves
* Hymns being sung slower than they are supposed to be sung.
* When church goes over time. General Conference NEVER goes over. If the prophet keeps with a schedule, shouldn't we all?
* When people stand up to the pulpit and say, "I wrote this talk last night..." As Jordan puts it, it is an invitation to not pay attention.
* When people use testimony meeting as a method of advertisement. "I wanted to bear my testimony- and also let you know that we are having a farewell tomorrow..." Ugh.
* When people give a talk and try to be funny the whole time. SoooOOooOooo annoying. This happened alot in my student wards.
* When we only sing the first three verses of "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief"
* Mormons who blatantly swear to look cool.
* When Mormon girls wear bikinis in public like it ain't no thang.
* When people claim that they didn't prepare a talk or a lesson because they wanted to rely on the Spirit.....uh, no.


Driving Pet Peeves
* When people make a left hand turn into the wrong lane. ERGH!
* When someone doesn't use their blinker.
*When someone stops right in front of a parking lot entrance.
* Honda Elements in general
* Crappy parking jobs

Conversational Pet Peeves
* Students who talk really loudly on their cell phone in quiet areas (anyone notice this ALOT at BYU? And didn't it seemed as though those chubby blonde RM's who were talking in a foreign language happened to talk much much louder?)
* When I would be on first dates, and someone would ask me, "So what do you like to do for fun?" I LOATHED that question....
*When an adult uses the following words: stinky, stink, stinks
* When adults use obvious improper grammar in somewhat formal/professional situations



Parental Pet Peeves
* Children in movie theaters- particularly mature movies. I understand that its a risk of hearing kiddy chatter if I go to see Up!, but if I am watching Angels and Demons, I shouldn't have to hear the commentary of a six year old sitting behind me.
* People who do not remove their babies when they are crying in church.
* Children playing in dressing rooms. Grrrr.



Miscellaneous
* When people do not return their shopping carts to the appropriate location. This is the ESSENCE of selfishness and laziness.
*Bad customer service in general.
* When my pants get wet all the way up to my knees after walking in the rain.
* loud Liberals (and loud conservatives too, but Liberals tend to be much more noisy)
* When someone misquotes a movie line (I know it's dumb, but it just bugs me a little)
* Any printed article that states Scarlett Johanson as being hot, pretty, or talented
* Buy one, get one half off sales. Why would I want two? Can't they just make one 25% off?
* When I am not taken seriously due to my height (this is not nearly as frequent as it once was. I think getting older has helped)
* Overuse of auto-tune in songs
* Sagging jeans
*When a remark made against a person who is not white is portrayed as Racist, regardless if race had annnnything to do with it.
*When someone has a whitehead on their face, but is not going to pop it because they "want it to heal". Yeah, then stay home until it is healed.

Hmmm...I guess that wasn't too therapeutic after all. I just feel annoyed. Oh, well...

Happy Birthday to Julie!

Today is Julie's 33rd birthday! Once again, I am going to give a blogger shout out instead of actually sending a physical card. Ah, the glory of saving a postage stamp...

Julie was the first person to join the Tegeder family since I was born. She was the first sister-in-law AND daughter-in-law, which may have been overwhelming with our slightly enmeshed family, plus joining the Tegeder clan meant forever being associated with Americans (gasp!), but she has fit into our family well!

Here are some things that are guh-REAT about Julie:

1) She's Canadian, eh, which gave us a great reason to go to Canada and visit the West Edmonton mall.

2) She is in incredible shape! She has run several marathons and is a religious yoga mama.

3) She is a superior interpreter. She went on an ASL mission and has interpreted for tons of stuff.

4) She's an entrepreneur. She and her sisters started a business called Namasday. Now to just patientally wait until Oprah chooses the Dreaminder as one of her favorite things.

5) She's the hippi of our family. Not one of those weird hippis that don't shower and chain themselves to trees. She's more into the stuff that actually takes effort, like natural birth and yoga.

6) She's GORGEOUS! Since I have known her, I've seen her sport several different hair cuts, and they all look awesome- that's talent.

7) She helped make me an aunt! Julie produced three of the four cutest kids in the world!!!! I love my babies!!
(this is one of my favorite pictures of Lovi- so cute! and so bald!!)

Thanks for being in our family, Julie! Have a happy birthday!

money money money!

Yesterday Jordan had an interesting conversation with a new nurse at work. I wasn't there, so these quotes are not exact. They are just what Jordan told me. The parentheses are my own commentary.

Nurse: "So you just got married?"

Jordan: "Yeah, almost 6 months ago" (Augh! I can't believe its been that long already!!!)

"You likin' it so far?"

"Yeah, it's great! I mean, there are things you have to adjust to, but overall I love it."

"I know what you mean. My husband and I have been married twelve years and we are still adjusting to stuff. Our biggest issue is money."

"Yeah...I can see how that could be stressful. My wife and I are currently living like poor people so we sometimes debate over what's a need and what's a want."

"Need and want? (whaaa?) What do you mean you live like poor people."

"Oh, know you... we only have one car..."

" whoa!"

... most of our furniture was donated to us or second hand, we have one of those ghetto government issued tv converter boxes.."

"Wait...you're saying you don't have CABLE?"

"No. I liked to get it someday, but we don't have it yet. And our TV is sorta old and boxy."

"Oh my gosh. REALLY? (Sad that this is so astonishing!) Don't you want a nicer one?"

"Well, I WANT a nicer one, but we aren't going to buy it until I am done with school. We are planning on saving for those upgrades when we have a better income."

" See, that was our problem. We didn't plan for anything. Wow...you are wise beyond your years."

This was just a little funny to me. People often hear that we have a prophet and think that it is totally bogus, yet when they hear someone living the council that the prophets had given it us, it is astonishing and wise. The gospel makes perfect sense.

I also like that Jordan and I have a marriage where Jordan just called a few minutes ago to ask if it was cool if he bought a $13 football ticket. It makes me feel confident that I am never going to come home to a brand new car sitting in our driveway that I knew nothing about. Siiiiigh

Good news!

Jordan was offered an interviewed for Emory University (in Georgia) for their PA program! It's not until late January, but we are thrilled to know that they are interested! Jordan got a decline letter from University of Utah which shook his confidence a little. Hearing from Emory has made him feel a bit better.

We have now heard back from Wake Forest, a school in Mesa, AZ (I forget the name), Utah, and Emory. We still need to hear back from four or five more schools. From what we have now, Arizona is our first choice. We are heading over there next month for the interview.

Stay tuuuuuuned!

Happy Birthday Charity!

Today is Jordan's sister Charity's birthday! (Or as Jeff and Jordan called her growing up, "Sissy". SO cute!) It has been fun living close to Jordan's family and being able to get to know his fam better.

Charity is camera shy so I don't have a picture of her to post, but here are her stats:

* She can and WILL kick your butt the game "Scene It". We played this as a family once and she blew us out of the water.

* She is an expert make up artist. She used to work for Este Laudre and MAC, giving people make overs.

* She is a travel guru. Charity has traveled allllllll overrrrr the world - literally! She always has cool stories about each place too.

* She loves animals and is very sensitive about their well being.

* She has fantastic style! When Jordan and I first got engaged, she let me poke through some of her old clothes-HEAVEN!

Happy Birthday, Charity!!!