When I woke up this morning, my phone was clogged with texts, my email inbox with messages. Overnight, the YouTube clip of my remarks had attracted over 36,000 hits. By today, it was the most watched video in Britain.” ~ Daniel Hannan
New Artist
I randomly bought this album this morning by Lily Allen. It totally rocks. Its a bit of a trip and its good stuff. Makes me think that that randomness is good.
Her single “Smile” reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. In December 2006, her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag.[3] In 2007, it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the BRIT Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of “Best Alternative Music Album”.[4]Alright, Still has sold over 2,600,000 copies worldwide.
A second album entitled It’s Not Me, It’s You was released in the UK on 9 February 2009[5] and the United States on 10 February 2009. In the UK the album debuted at number 1, [6] while the first single from the album ‘’The Fear’’ was number 1 in its first four weeks on the charts.[7] In the United States the album debuted at the number 5 position.[8]
Just because I have a few minutes I thought I would write some stuff, do some journaling. Things are still uneventful, I think, maybe we should get some hobbies. Last Saturday I sat on the living room floor ALL DAY looking up the answers for the CPA ethics exam. I finished around 12:30. John was in bed. I can’t remember what he did during the day…oh, he went to work in the morning and then watched some movies I think. Sunday was a nice day. After church we went to visit a sister in our ward. She needed some computer help and she fed us lunch. We were glad we could go help her out. John sat with her at the computer and I sat behind them in a comfy chair falling asleep. We had a little time at home, then went over to our friends (the Newman’s) to watch our weekly tv shows. They are so nice to let us come over to watch their giant tv, and they always feed us some good junk food. We are sad though, because they are moving to a different apartment complex so now we will have to drive over if we want to go watch tv! What will we do? We might have to move there too. We’ve been working this week, but coming home earlier than other times. It is nice to both be home before the sun goes down. I got to go visiting teaching last night to Joy and had a good visit. She is so sweet, she always provides us a little tea party. We love to visit her. Oh, this weekend John’s cousin had a baby boy. We heard they are all doing well and we are so excited to go meet the baby. I am selfishly excited because now my little boy will have a little boy cousin. He already has tons of girl cousins. I talked to my dad this morning. He is home alone this week. Mom, Marcy, McKenzie, Jeff, Megan, Kierra and Paisley all drove to Kansas to visit grandma. Grandma didn’t think McKenzie and Jeff and his family were coming, so that was a fun surprise. I hear they are going to lots of museums. Dad is doing fine by himself. I guess Lindsay, Brian and Eva were there until yesterday. He was on his way to town to pay for his insurance. I asked him how many vehicles he had to register and he didn’t know, he thought maybe 15. I keep telling him he should start his own blog. He used to write letters when my brothers were on their missions and he was very entertaining. Maybe next time I see him I’ll set one up for him. Well, that’s enough rambling, I guess I’ll get back to work!
So today marks 100 days until my due date. I always thought it was pretty cool when people would write about being at 100 days, but I don’t really have anything to say. I will say I don’t really want to get any bigger than I am now, but I know it is inevitable. During the day I really don’t mind, it’s only at night when I’m trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in that I don’t really like it. And that’s usually because I ate too much food for dinner and my belly feels like it’s about to pop. Some days it just feels really stretched.
I don’t want to make this an all pregnancy blog, but it seems like there’s not a lot else happening around our house these days. We go to work and then when we get home we are tired so we don’t do much. I have to straighten up the house, I hate having clutter and whenever I have dishes in the sink I think my apartment is a huge mess. I am worried for when there’s another person in the house who may not hate clutter as much as John and I do. John recently discovered hulu so he’s been watching tv on the internet. He likes to unwind at the end of the day by reading/watching the news. We’ve been trying to go to bed earlier so it really seems like we’re only home for about 2 hours in the evening with time to do anything. I am working on my ethics exam for the CPA and when that is done I will really have lots of time to hang around at home. I really need to start going out walking or something. I have gotten quite lazy with my excuse that I have to study all the time.
To celebrate St. Patrick’s day I went to an Irish pub with some of my co-workers. It was packed. The waitress tried to get me to put whiskey in my lemonade but I showed her my belly and she said that was a good excuse not to. Then tonight I went to an awesome enrichment activity. The ladies in my ward are so good about adding all the little details to make it a special event. We had displays of pictures and dresses; blessing, baptism, and wedding dresses. The little girls modeled their baptism dresses and the young women modeled wedding dresses and we had to guess whose dress was whose. (And I won a pretty pot of tulips!) And they made an awesome video that I was interviewed for a while ago. It made me cry. The video had clips of people talking about womanhood, motherhood, men talking about their wives, children talking about their mothers, I loved it! Then it also had pictures of sisters in the ward in their 3 dresses. It was wonderful. Plus I got to visit with lots of sisters that I haven’t talked to in a while (or ever, really).
So, here I am with 100 days to go. I can’t figure out how to make a cute smile, but I guess it’s the belly that we’re really looking at here…(wow, it’s bigger than I thought!)
March 17, 2009 ~ 25 weeks, 5 days
McKenzie, when can you come back? I am in desparate need of a haircut!
My new glasses – even though I only wear them for about 5 minutes a day. It has been a few years since I got a new pair. Now I can actually see when I wear them. I might even wear them outside the house one of these days!
This cool picture of the Redlands temple that my mom gave us for Christmas. This is where we got married and we haven’t put up a picture yet, but we think this one is beautiful. Thanks mom!
My shredder. Grandma Sherrill paid attention to what I wanted and got it for me for Christmas. I love it and have already shredded a bin full of stuff (packed down really tight, it was a lot of stuff).
