Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, 8.11.2011
Today was our day off from everything. We got to do what ever we wanted!! We slept in and it was so nice. I love our hotel. It is probably the nicest hotel i have ever stayed in. I also love having a king bed. We ate breakfast and went shopping. I bought a pair of shoes and that was it. but shopping was more of something to do we didn't really shop shop. Anyways then we came back to our hotel to rest and then we went to the Sea Life Aquarium. It was so fun and we saw some way cool animals. then we just went back to our hotel and went to sleep, we were so tired and we had to get up at 4 in the morning!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday: 8.10.2011
Well Matt and I have had the adventure. Matt had to be at the police station in moab at 8 in the morning. So we head out at like 7:40 thinking we will have plenty of time to get there. We borrowed a TomTom from my grandparents and it was telling us to go the wrong way. (at this point i had not figured out how to use it) it was telling us to leave moab and Matt wanted to listen to it and i was like no way we have to find center street. so finally we found where we were going! He got there just in time and did the physical test and he did so good. I was so proud of him. It ended at 9:40 and he had to be back for an interview at 10:20 we had not even packed or anything yet. So we showered packed and got everything in the car by 10:10 (we just wanted to leave after the interview) we were pushing it cause it is better be early to an interview than be late. He got there and the other guy in head of Matt was still interviewing! Matt went in for his interview and he said at first it was not going so good, but somehow he mentioned that my dad was a cop and my step dad is a cop. They asked my dads name and i guess all the people interviewing Matt knew my dad personally. I thought that was so cool but it also opened up a window for Matt to actually talk with the officers and not just answer questions. He talked with them for about 45 minutes and than the chief came and in talked to him for a while. that has never happened before so hopefully that's a good sign!
After the interview we headed to pheonix. It was such a long ride. We had tomtom working by then until i started driving. Matt hit a button and suddenly it was going to take 30 hours to get to phoenix. Thankfully i had printed off a directions from mapquest so we fallowed that. We were about half way and we stopped to get gas. We were in line to put gas in our car when the car in front of us pulled out so we started pulling in. This lady drove right passed us and cut us in line. She also did not go to the farthest open pump she stopped at the first one so no one else could get gas. i was just like are you kidding me, are you seriously that concerned with only yourself. Anyways we got gas and kept driving. We stopped at flagstaff to eat dinner. We were charged for an extra sandwich so we had way to much food but i had the chance to give it to someone less fortunate. I was glad i could help someone. I always want to help people but i don't really ever take the opportunity, but i am trying to work on it. By now we only had about 120 miles left!! I was worried about my car making it the whole way with out breaking down or over heating and it had no problems at all. I was so relieved! We finally got to our hotel at 8:00 and it is so nice. Its probably the nicest hotel i have ever stayed at. I love it, we are considering staying another night just to stay!! Thursday we get to have a day of relaxing. I think we are going shopping (mostly just for something to do) and we are going to an aqurium that i have tickets for! It should be a fun day :) ( sorry to who ever is reading this i am mostly just posting to keep a journal of our trip)
After the interview we headed to pheonix. It was such a long ride. We had tomtom working by then until i started driving. Matt hit a button and suddenly it was going to take 30 hours to get to phoenix. Thankfully i had printed off a directions from mapquest so we fallowed that. We were about half way and we stopped to get gas. We were in line to put gas in our car when the car in front of us pulled out so we started pulling in. This lady drove right passed us and cut us in line. She also did not go to the farthest open pump she stopped at the first one so no one else could get gas. i was just like are you kidding me, are you seriously that concerned with only yourself. Anyways we got gas and kept driving. We stopped at flagstaff to eat dinner. We were charged for an extra sandwich so we had way to much food but i had the chance to give it to someone less fortunate. I was glad i could help someone. I always want to help people but i don't really ever take the opportunity, but i am trying to work on it. By now we only had about 120 miles left!! I was worried about my car making it the whole way with out breaking down or over heating and it had no problems at all. I was so relieved! We finally got to our hotel at 8:00 and it is so nice. Its probably the nicest hotel i have ever stayed at. I love it, we are considering staying another night just to stay!! Thursday we get to have a day of relaxing. I think we are going shopping (mostly just for something to do) and we are going to an aqurium that i have tickets for! It should be a fun day :) ( sorry to who ever is reading this i am mostly just posting to keep a journal of our trip)
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday: Day 1
So the first day of our trip was probably the longest days ever but it still was kind of fun! We were aiming to leave cedar city at about 6:00pm but we didn't end up leaving till 7:30. That was ok, we just knew we were in for a long night. The first part of the trip went by so fast i seriously don't even know were the time went. We stopped by matt's parents house to print of some tickets to go to the aquarium in phoenix and then we stopped at a gas station in richfield and saw my mom and my little sister. The drive from Richfield to Green River went by so fast. Matt and I played 20 questions and seriously i am the best at that game. Matt could not figure out what i was thinking of! We didn't get tired till around 11:30 and that was about the time we turned off I-70 to get to moab. (we still had 30 miles). We have a tom tom but it said we would be there at 11:30 so i think we got so tired is because mentally we thought we woud be there but still had 30 more minutes. that 30 minutes felt like days, it was not fun! We finally go to our hotel and just went straight to bed. I had a hard time sleeping and i slept until 4am and then i woke up and just could not get back to sleep. I was so tired and stressed and had such a bad headache and all i wanted to do was sleep but i just couldn't. Around 5:45 i was just crying and having a break down, matt came over and calmed me down, put his arm around me and i fell straight to sleep. I felt bad cause he had to get up a half hour later (so did i but i was not concerned about me, kinda) I really do have such a sweet husband and I love him so much. Over all it was a good day just a long night will little sleep and 8 hours of driving on wednesday
Thursday, August 4, 2011
What do we do?
Ok so Matt has been applying for jobs all over. He has tested and interviewed at all of them but he just has not been one of the top 3. He always gets in like the top ten, which is good and i am so proud of him cause he works so hard staying in shape. but he just has not got a job yet.
He has recently applied for a port of entry officer position and an officer position in Moab. We got an email saying that we have to be in Phoenix Arizona on the 12th at 5:30 in the morning (which is a Friday) So we where planning on going down the 11th and staying 3 nights there to kind of make a little vacation out of it. But then we get a call from Moab saying that we have to be there at 8:00 in the morning (that's Wednesday). I don't know if you have realized but we have to be in moab and two days later we have to be in phoenix. Thats so much traveling and so much money in hotels and gas, plus missing 3 days of work. Of course i could not go with Matt but he is a horrible navigator and seriously it is just a bad idea to send him that far alone. There is a high chance that he will get the port of entry job but there is always the chance he won't and there is a low chance he will get the one in Moab but there is always a chance he will. So we don't want to pass up a job opportunity but it will just be so hard on our budget and our sanity. We know that a lot of people that are already certified applyed to moab because they are doing a whole separate day of testing for them. So why would they higher someone they have to pay to certify it just does not make any sense. Also i don't know if anyone has checked recently but to get a hotel in moab is expensive, our hotel in phoenix is less. I just feel like we are just putting a lot of money out there but i guess if thats what we have to do to get a job then thats what we will do. I will probably go into work on Saturday to make up for days missed but still its not going to be fun.
I am trying to think of plus side things, one good thing is that matt and i will have about 20 hours of time to sit and talk to each other. And we have a whole day in phoenix that we can spend doing what ever we want so i think we are going to Castles and coasters and an aquarium, and laying out by the pool!! It will be a long 3-4 days but hopefully we can make the best of it and get a job!!!!!
He has recently applied for a port of entry officer position and an officer position in Moab. We got an email saying that we have to be in Phoenix Arizona on the 12th at 5:30 in the morning (which is a Friday) So we where planning on going down the 11th and staying 3 nights there to kind of make a little vacation out of it. But then we get a call from Moab saying that we have to be there at 8:00 in the morning (that's Wednesday). I don't know if you have realized but we have to be in moab and two days later we have to be in phoenix. Thats so much traveling and so much money in hotels and gas, plus missing 3 days of work. Of course i could not go with Matt but he is a horrible navigator and seriously it is just a bad idea to send him that far alone. There is a high chance that he will get the port of entry job but there is always the chance he won't and there is a low chance he will get the one in Moab but there is always a chance he will. So we don't want to pass up a job opportunity but it will just be so hard on our budget and our sanity. We know that a lot of people that are already certified applyed to moab because they are doing a whole separate day of testing for them. So why would they higher someone they have to pay to certify it just does not make any sense. Also i don't know if anyone has checked recently but to get a hotel in moab is expensive, our hotel in phoenix is less. I just feel like we are just putting a lot of money out there but i guess if thats what we have to do to get a job then thats what we will do. I will probably go into work on Saturday to make up for days missed but still its not going to be fun.
I am trying to think of plus side things, one good thing is that matt and i will have about 20 hours of time to sit and talk to each other. And we have a whole day in phoenix that we can spend doing what ever we want so i think we are going to Castles and coasters and an aquarium, and laying out by the pool!! It will be a long 3-4 days but hopefully we can make the best of it and get a job!!!!!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
VENTING
This summer seams so much harder then last summer. I think back to last summer and life just seamed to go by so much smoother. I don't get it. Our house is hotter then ever and i thought when we moved in it would be cooler down her in a basement but i was oh so wrong. Last summer Matt and i made quite a bit more money because he was working like 3 times as much as he now. now he only gets like 2 to 3 hours a day which is not much. It just seams like we have more bills this year and making less money. This is a bad thing. Matt and I try so hard to keep our credit card paid off and put money in savings which we are still doing but it just seams like our money is just vanishing and neither of us is really spending it. (we do have money from 3 of Matt's pay checks that we have not used because we just really want to save so that's maybe why it feels like we don't have money when we really do, Please don't think we are super poor and starving cause we aren't i just need to vent my frustration.)
One thing that i really wish for is that Matt could find a career job. He just graduated so i know i have to be patient but it feels like we are just stuck. I feel like we are not moving forward or backward we are just here. I know it takes time to get a job so hopefully he will soon! I really like my job and i am good at it so if he could get a job here that would be awesome but i don't think that will happen, but i am glad i get to do something i like and i am able to make enough money to pay rent, which is my whole pay check but at least it gets paid. (i know that was a really long run on sentence) anyways i feel better now, i think i just needed to vent a little.
One thing that i really wish for is that Matt could find a career job. He just graduated so i know i have to be patient but it feels like we are just stuck. I feel like we are not moving forward or backward we are just here. I know it takes time to get a job so hopefully he will soon! I really like my job and i am good at it so if he could get a job here that would be awesome but i don't think that will happen, but i am glad i get to do something i like and i am able to make enough money to pay rent, which is my whole pay check but at least it gets paid. (i know that was a really long run on sentence) anyways i feel better now, i think i just needed to vent a little.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Birthday!
A few weekends ago it was my 21st birthday and Matt and I went to st. George and went shopping ! It was so fun! Matt was so cute and he did not complain at all he just pretended he really liked shopping :) we both got some clothes and some yummy food!! It really was such a great birthday!!
Tomorrow I think we are going to my grand parents! I have not been there for so long. At first we were not going to go but my grandma called and I just could not sat no I just felt so bad so I said that we are comming. It should be fun I think!
Tonight we went running and seriously i want to be a runner but i am not sure i will ever be. We ran down to Wendy's and back and around campus. It does not sound like that far but for me it was. I was running a lot like a month ago but i was running just around our block and its on a hill and after a while i got this huge bump on the side of my knee so i went to the doctor and its like an inflamed something that i cant remember but its from running up and down hills. Retarded i know and that would only happen to me but hopefully i can get in shape with Matt running with me!
Tomorrow I think we are going to my grand parents! I have not been there for so long. At first we were not going to go but my grandma called and I just could not sat no I just felt so bad so I said that we are comming. It should be fun I think!
Tonight we went running and seriously i want to be a runner but i am not sure i will ever be. We ran down to Wendy's and back and around campus. It does not sound like that far but for me it was. I was running a lot like a month ago but i was running just around our block and its on a hill and after a while i got this huge bump on the side of my knee so i went to the doctor and its like an inflamed something that i cant remember but its from running up and down hills. Retarded i know and that would only happen to me but hopefully i can get in shape with Matt running with me!
Friday, July 8, 2011
Recently
Ok so I feel like Matt and I have not really done anything exciting. We have just been working and hanging out with each other. It is kind of nice not to have to do any homework or anything like that though. We did get to go to Richfield to see my family and go to my best friends baby shower!! It was so fun to see my family, we don't really get the chance to go down there very often. My friends baby shower was fun too! The night before i went over to her house and helped her family decorate the baby's room and it turned out so cute! It kind of made me want to have a baby but that will have to wait. We spent the 4th with matt's parents, we went to the parade and had a bbq that night with some neighbors and family. It was really nice to spend time with both our families.
This Sunday is my birthday!! I am so excited because i kind of just wanted to go shopping for my birthday so i have been trying to save money so we could go shopping. Low and behold matt has been saving money for the last little while and yesterday he gave it to me!! it was like 600 dollars. I am not spending even a 4th of it (most of it is going to fix both of our cars) but he was also trying to make a point that we can just live off my paycheck and put his in savings when he gets it! But i am excited to go shopping with some of that money!!! :)
This Sunday is my birthday!! I am so excited because i kind of just wanted to go shopping for my birthday so i have been trying to save money so we could go shopping. Low and behold matt has been saving money for the last little while and yesterday he gave it to me!! it was like 600 dollars. I am not spending even a 4th of it (most of it is going to fix both of our cars) but he was also trying to make a point that we can just live off my paycheck and put his in savings when he gets it! But i am excited to go shopping with some of that money!!! :)
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