Sheena Tagged Me

Tag 8

favorite TV Shows
1. House
2. Law & Order: SVU
3. South Park
4. Family Guy
5. Basketball
6. Football
7. My list doesn't go that far
8. " " " " " "

8 favorite Restaurants
1. Spaghetti Mama's
2. Chili's
3. Olive Garden
4. Texas Roadhouse
5. La Puente
6. Applebees
7. TGIF
8. (And what would go here would have been the Bavarian Chalet. Good German food, but was overtaken, and not in business anymore)

8 things that happened yesterday
1. Had a hellish day at work
2. Sold my truck
3. Played with Sadie
4. Washed the "For Sale" off the truck
5. Watched my truck drive off
6. Got Brian's car gas
7. Watched the last of Family Guy season 6
8. Fell asleep

8 things to look forward to
1. Thanksgiving
2. Christmas
3. A break from work
4. Doctors appointment
5. Finding out if I will have a niece or nephew
6. A new vehicle
7. Halloween
8. Cold weather

8 Things I Love about Fall
1. Colors
2. The cold
3. The leaves
4. Smells
5. Halloween & Thanksgiving
6. Snuggling in bed
7. The end of yardwork
8. Candles!

8 things in my wish list
1. Get a gym pass
2. Be a size 3/4 again
3. A raise
4. Go back to school
5. Reading
6. Run a mile
7. New countertops
8. Bathroom remodel

8 people I tag
1. Friends: Melissa, Kimi, Tiffany, Maranda, Jessica
2. Family: Cherstin, Desi, Wanda

No tag backs

Its the game of blog tag!!! I was tagged by my cousin Melissa, who was tagged by her cousin.

For those of you that I tag, here are the instructions. Copy the post, paste into a new post, and fill in your answers. Then you get to tag people!!!

I am... always so tired!
I know... how to do a lot of things
I want... respect
I have... a cold
I wish... my stomach problems went away (yes Melissa!)
I hate... how people disrespect me so much
I miss... my truck
I fear... losing people close to me
I feel... undercut
I hear... Jen & Travis talking
I smell... Nothing........my nose is stuffed up
I crave... watermelon......let's hope I'm not pregnant!
I search... and search to better improve myself
I wonder... why there's so much hatred in the world
I regret... nothing.
I love... my hubby
I care... about my family and friends
I always... care too much
I am going... to be saving up for a new vehicle
I believe... that people should be accepted for who they are

I tag - Tiffany, Sheena, Summer and Kristen

So it's always exciting when Sadie learns a new trick. She's still in the learning stage, but I started this last night, and she is getting it pretty fast. She's so adorable.

Everyone asks me if I'm a dog trainer (lol). I'm not that good! Brian's dad has a Shih Tsu, and he's 11 (I think almost 12), and I taught him to actually just sit on his butt. It's pretty funny. But you "can't teach an old dog new tricks!"

Brian's been sick this past week, and it is just terrible when he gets sick. He always gets it ten times worse than me. His work told him he should take a few days off before the end of the year because he has too many hours saved up that he'll just end up losing by the end of the year. Too bad he can't cash those hours in! (160 hours!!!). One of his bosses one year cashed in like 500 hours, and ended up being able to purchase 2 fourwheelers, cash! They don't allow that anymore sadly.

Lately I've been thinking about going back to school. I really would love to do something in the veterinary field. One of my old coworkers has a daughter that works at a veterinary hospital, and loves it. She keeps telling me to go work there, and then wonders if I could handle it because of my sensitivity to animals. I hate seeing animals in pain. I'm constantly watching the Animal Cops shows on Animal Planet, and I think I'd love to do something like that. To have a voice for the animals would be great. People have suggested I do all the classroom work online, and then do the clinics later on. I think becoming a vet tech would be awesome. I wish I did that in highschool since there was that option, but I opted for dental assisting. Oh well I guess.

It's been getting pretty cold lately. We had a snow storm the 2nd saturday of October! No Autumn in sight! Utah weather is so much fun sometimes. Global warming is among us people!

Ok, here's about the wedding!

Here we are almost a month after being married. I've been getting these questions over and over: "How does being married feel?", "Do you feel any different now?". My reply each time is, I don't feel any different. We had been living together for over 2 years by the time we decided to get married. Anyway, I told everyone that I'd blog about the wedding, so here goes:

I awoke about 9:30 with a call from my mom to make sure I was up (of course she would call!). My day was supposed to start off with a manicure and pedicure and picking up Brian's tux. Brian was supposed to go with me, but he hadn't begun to put the music on his Zune for the reception (I asked him to do it on Thursday while I was doing my Bridals!). I ended up going by myself, which was probably better anyway because Brian can't stand the smell of nail salons for too long. I got a french pedicure and a fill on my nails. I just went with white because I wanted simple, yet elegant.

Following the nail salon, I went to pick up Brian's tux. Thank goodness that took less than 2 minutes to pick up! I was running out of time.

We hadn't gotten the plates and cups for the reception yet because we hadn't had a chance to make a trip to Zurchers. They were the cheapest in the valley for just clear plates and cups! We were originally trying to get everything from Costco, but they ended up not having the little plates or cups. Terrible! I decided to get a few balloons while we were there (in red and white of course!).

After running around, I finally got home to pick up Brian. He had picked up the flowers THANKFULLY! So we loaded everything into the truck that we needed. We had to go buy a few frames for the bridals and engagement pictures, then headed to my parents. They had been setting up all morning long, and I was so thankful for that to take the stress off my back. The centerpieces turned out to be way cute:

Codi, a girl that I used to work with showed up about 2:00 in the afternoon to get my hair done. We didn't end up getting started til about 3:00. I was doing last minute touches, plus people were fretting about how I hadn't eaten. My sister went to McDonald's and bought 18 double cheeseburgers off the dollar menu *gag!*. I choked one down, but I ended up regretting that after. I went up to get my hair done. Codi started off with a lot of ringlets, and we ended up only putting half my hair up. It turned out way cute.

While I was getting my hair done, Jennifer (MOH), Jamie and Kim (Brian's sisters and my bridesmaids) showed up. Jenn all done up in a beautiful black prom dress, and Jamie and Kim had there cute red matching dresses. My hair took about an hour and a half, so we were pushed for time!

Jamie did my makeup (she sells Mary Kay) beautifully. We went with natural colors, mostly browns. Everything she chose went beautifully on me. Finally about 4:30, I was able to get into my dress. I had my mom, my sister, and Jenn there to help me into it so I wouldn't smudge my makeup or ruin my hair. As my mom is pulling up the zipper, the judge comes up "Is she decent?!" I needed to sign the marriage certificate and pay him. My mom was appalled that he came up in the bedroom because she didn't have her room cleaned up. Well, he needed to talk to me alone. We just went over how the ceremony was supposed to go. B.J. then came up for the ring. My mom put my veil on (which my aunt made in a day!), and I was on my way down and outside.

My brother was probably the first to see me downstairs, and he told me how gorgeous I looked. I was then joined by my dad. He asked if he was walking me down the aisle! I told him that he's my dad, and of course he is! We were waiting for the judge's go-ahead, and realized I didn't have my bouquet!!! Erika went and got it for me and we were ready to go. Erika was holding my train, and I had my arm wrapped around my dad's. We start walking the long walk through the backyard.

Along the way, I guess I was walking fast. My dad just kept whispering "take it slow" and "there's no hurry". Well, we finally got to the aisle, and I couldn't believe how many people were there. I wasn't expecting that many. Arianne had said they set up about 40 chairs, and I wasn't even expecting that. The chairs were filled, and a lot of friends and family were standing in the back, and some brought up more chairs.

I finally got up to Brian, my soon-to-be husband. He had the look of adoration in his eyes as I walked up to him. The way the judge had us perform the marriage wasn't that of a traditional one. The marriage was performed with us facing our family and friends, and the judge to the side so we didn't have our backs to them. Unusual, but I liked it.

The judge began with having us acknowledge the people in our wedding party (parents, bridesmaid, best man, etc.). Then he had a person from each side of our family to give some advice. My dad spoke for my side, Brian's dad for his. B.J. (Brian's best man, cousin, and best friend) also spoke. As my dad began speaking, I was watching and listening. I look at my mom, and she is crying! I wasn't expecting that, but I started getting emotional. When I get emotional, my neck/chest starts to get red (really embarrassing!).

The judge started the ceremony. The usual run through on a ceremony... and then we exchanged rings.

Then

he

kissed

the

bride

The reception basically got started after the ceremony.

If you want to see other pictures, you can see them on my myspace page: www.myspace.com/sweetjennavieve

or my facebook account:
http://www.new.facebook.com/photos.php?id=626938314

I am working on setting up a wedding album also, so if you can't see either of these, you'll have access to the pictures.

All in all it was a busy, stressful, yet wonderful day. We are finally husband and wife. I love Brian more than anything, and I was happy to share that with everyone that was there, or was thinking about us. It was a beautiful day. I couldn't have asked for a better day.

100 Classics of all time. How many have you read?

I stole this from Tiffany. It's a list of 100 classics and apparently the average adult has only read 7. I've read 37 (WOW!). I just bolded what I've read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Pitbull Puppy

This picture is of the little puppy I fell into. He's a pitbull that is about 4 months old.

The marathon of a weekend started on Friday morning about 9:15 A.M.. This lady comes running into the showroom at my work and asks me who the truck outside belongs to. Beats me I said, and asked why. Well, there was a puppy basically strangling himself in the back of the pickup. He's tied up with basically the material of a shoelace, but it's at least 5 feet long. He didn't have a collar, and this was wrapped around his neck. He was tied to this metal tool box with a hitch- like thing. He couldn't sit, he couldn't lay down (not including all the stuff that was back there like buckets, cheater-beaters, extension cords, etc.). So I rush out to help this dog that's strangling himself. Sheena at my work thought that I was being over-dramatic, but when she saw how he really was strangling himself, my boss, Travis came out. He didn't recognize the truck, so he ran into the back to the conference room to find out who's it was.

Well, it was this guy that was possibly going to be employed at Caffall Tile. He was filling out paperwork, and Travis says "Who's puppy is in the back of a truck?!" The guy said it was his. Travis then says, "well then why don't you not worry about that damn paperwork and take care of that dog! He's strangling out there!"

In the meantime, I was untying the dog so he could at least sit, and so his eyes wouldn't be bulging and red from not being able to breath. I was also giving him water since the guy was parked in the sun, and the pup had no shade. The guy comes out with Travis, and says that the dog isn't his, that he wondered up to his front door and that he was taking him to the pound. Now this guy has tattoos up and down his arms, and one of his tatts was of a pitbull! He asked if I wanted him, and I didn't know what Brian would think, but I didn't want the dog to not be given a chance. I took him home, and put him in Sadie's kennel (as you see in the picture).

Brian and I went home to check on him. He pooped all over the kennel, the poor thing. I think the guy that had him before either gave him cat food (which you never give dogs cat food...a result is diarrhea!), or something his stomach couldn't handle. I'm so glad to have a house now with a hose where it was easy to just spray everything out.

I had put the dog up on KSL (our local news channel website), and within minutes I had people calling for him, but no takers. I wanted to sell him because then I knew someone would want to take care of him instead of fight him. I tried all weekend, and Saturday, I finally texted a friend with a pitbull, and she said she wanted another puppy. She came and got him, but her mom told her she couldn't keep him....so I was back with the dog again on Sunday. I lowered the pricing for the dog on KSL, but again, no takers. I decided that I couldn't really keep him with already having another dog. I decided to take him to the Humane Society. They had pitbulls there, and I knew they had a "no kill" policy there. Well, ends up that they are overloaded with animals at the moment and couldn't take him. They told me that the Salt Lake County Animal center took in animals. I went there, and they have this form you fill out, and 6 "kennels" to put the dogs (or other animals) in. They check them every 15 or so minutes. This girl opens the kennel, and I give her the puppy. I started to cry. I didn't want this to happen. I didn't want to see this puppy not given a chance.

Not two minutes later I get a text from Brian's cousin, Aaron. He said that his mom was heavily considering letting him have the puppy. That really hit me hard...here I just gave the puppy over to the county, not knowing if they'd let me have him back. I called first thing this morning at 8:00, and they said that "owners" change their minds all the time, and that there would just be a fee of $25 and if I didn't get him before noon, another fee of $8 would be assessed. I didn't care, I went and picked him up at lunch.

Aaron met me over at my house, and the pup and him got well acquainted. Aaron seems to be really fond of him which is what I was looking for.

The puppy's a real sweetheart who deserved a second chance at life, and if I hadn't have been there, I don't know what would have happened. I grew slightly attached to him, but didn't want another dog (especially a BIG one at that!). I get to see him off and on, and that makes me so happy.

I've always had a soft-spot for animals, and I always hate to see animals who don't even get a chance to experience a good life. I just wanted to provide that to him, and I did. I really love that feeling.

I need to post more often

So here we are 11 days after we got married....I know, right? As soon as it's over with, it flies by! I'll write a whole page full about the wedding later....

Anyway, lately at my job I feel a lot more included in things that have been going on. Sad to say, but since our showroom girl quit, it's actually given me room to grow a bit within the company. I can say I am NOWHERE near where my coworker Sheena, or the girl who quit are on an educated level, but I've picked up a lot from the two of them. I felt like I wasn't being given the chance to help out, and I was just the receptionist.

We did however hire a new showroom girl, and she is amazing. She's a designer, and although she doesn't know our product all that well yet, she does far more for our customers than I think a lot of people have. She knows her colors and what goes good with other things. I think she was just what we were looking for, and it was worth the month or so it took my boss to hire someone. She has been in school and only works part time right now, but when she's finally done, it'll be awesome having her around. She's very outgoing and friendly to everyone, and that's always nice to have. It's hard when you don't like who you work with.

Anyway, tonight I get a call from my mom. My brother apparently got married to his girlfriend today. Yipee! I don't know if I can say I'm excited, but she is bringing my niece or nephew into this world, and it'd be nice to have him/her in my life. I don't know if it's good for either of them, but I guess we shall find out, right?

Brian is enjoying Rockband 2 as we speak. He seems to be addicted to that for a while. He is amazing on it though.

I think I'll head to bed now. I've been super tired lately, and it's really annoying. I don't know what's up, but I want to know. It'd be nice to get a full nights rest every once in a while. I am always tired, and no matter what I do, it doesn't make a difference. Ah well...