NOT to go to bed angry has clearly never been married. Retard. Seeing as how it is about 5:30 in the morning, these events will be referred to as "yesterday." I don't know what our deal was yesterday. I spent ALL freaking day at the office. First the training meeting from 9 to 11. Then I talked with Zack, my RVP, then I sat through the first half of the life insurance class - which went way longer than anticipated. (That happens when you take an hour dinner break. :p) Anyway, so I left a little early because I had a 7:30pm appointment, and I told Matt I'd pick him up. The appointment was fine, but the real issues started on the way home. (A neat trick when you live not even 5 minutes away.)
Dad had called while we were in the appointment asking if we were having dinner with them tomorrow... er... today, rather. So I called him back and he mentioned they had just got home from my cousin's wedding reception. I was a tad in shock at the news. I knew that he and his wife were thinking about divorce for awhile, but I never knew it had happened. Last I heard, she had decided her marriage was worth it, so she was going to work on it. Anyway, that apparently didn't happen, and my cousin got remarried. Shocking in and of itself when I had no idea he had even been divorced. More shocking, is not receiving any announcement whatsoever. Matt told me that a second marriage isn't something one would usually want to parade around, but ... we're family! Whatever. So in my shock and little bit of hurt about being left out on this fact, I apparently sounded angry. Matt didn't appreciate that and asked why I had to be upset with him. This, of course, made me a little upset. (Stupid.)
Anyway, we got over that for a little moment. Then I asked Matt if he had noticed White Peaks finally got their new kilts (after a couple years). (This wasn't completely random, Matt had been watching videos from the Pleasanton games.) I'm still upset that Don didn't bother calling to say, "Hey, I know you ordered a kilt like five years ago. They're finally in, did you still want to buy it?" That's right - five freaking years I've been waiting for that d*** kilt. They finally show up four months after I quit the band, and I don't even get offered to try it on? Anyway, I was venting this, because it clearly still pisses me off, and Matt was interrupting me and saying things that made it sound like it didn't matter and that my being upset was unnecessary. All I wanted was to vent. Anyway, him not wanting to listen to me made me stop talking and made me upset again.
Then! (I told you it was a bad night. This was all in the space of like 2 hours.) stupid Windows Vista needs permission to do anything. My java updater kept popping up asking permission to continue. I finally gave in and told it yes, but it still kept popping up. Matt said I had to click the thing at the bottom to tell it to continue. I didn't realize I needed to continue 2 things, so I snapped at him, then realized what he was saying, but the damage was done and he snapped back,so I left the room. While I was hanging out on the bed, my favorite (read: NOT) person came over to play Halo until, I am assuming, he could pick his wife up from work. Probably shouldn't leave that comment since his wife is a follower on my blog, but that's too bad. Anyway, so I stayed in our room and finally dozed off. Matt came in around 11 or a little bit after, but he still thought I was mad because he woke me up and I kept giving the bird back to him and kind of ignoring him (I was sleeping!). Anyway, he apparently fell asleep at some point as well.
I just woke up before 5am, and I'm not really mad. This always happens. We'll go to bed annoyed with each other or whatever, then when we wake up, it's like it never happened. Maybe it is because we live with each other, so after having time to relax, there's no point in being mad still. I know we could probably gain something from learning to actually communicate, but our issues generally are stupid little things anyway. So far, sleeping it off has worked quite well. So whoever said not to go to bed angry was stupid. I suppose it would be good advice if there were some "real" issue, but I don't think we have too many of those. To end, I want to leave you with a little clip of Jeff Dunham. If you only want the part relating to this post, move it to 0:55 and watch until 1:02. Or you can watch the whole thing (it's the secont part of his monologue from his Spark of Insanity video, so you'll have to go to youtube to see all of it, but it's still funny!)
I have decided that I love holiday weekends! That - or just not working... Anyway, for the heck of it, I'm going to start on Saturday - my 5 year high school reunion (Thanks, Jessica, for making one happen!). It was fun. We only did a barbecue. None of my "group" was there, but there were some choir friends I got to talk to. Matt even found someone he knew to occupy his time. Afterward, we went to Matt's aunt Lynell's house where people were watching the BYU game. (*sigh* BYU pulled off a win.) It was rather entertaining for me - the satellite kept having issues, so they were listening to the game on the radio, then they'd ocassionally get to see what happened.
Skipping Sunday (primary program practice... ugh)
Monday - Labor day! We made it to Payson just after the start of the parade. K, a little more than that, but in comparison to where we were sitting - it was just after the beginning. We met up with Matt's family and hung out there. WP has grown in numbers. Ian and Robbie were crazy enough to march the parade twice (once with the HS then again with WP) I got succesfully sunburned again. Not too bad, though.
Payson High School Pipe Band
Salem Hills High School Marching Band
Cool folk dancers - Ballet Solana
White Peaks Centennial Pipe Band
I think this was American Beauty - mostly their entry was my favorite!
One of a few giant tractors
After the parade, we hung out at Matt's parents and had pizza. Yum! It's kind of exciting to see extended family so much (some Saturday, Monday, then again tomorrow!) We were entertained by Melody and Jennifer country swing dancing. McKade and I learned some sign language for some primary songs. Matt napped. These were the highlights :)
Melody and Jennifer dancing while Dad watches
Matt and I then went to the park - I was thinking of playing at the carnival - at least the farris wheel. However, it was so bloody expensive! Nothing too cool at the boutiques either. Matt wasn't feeling too well, so he didn't even play any games to try to win prizes. After our stroll around the park, we headed home. Traffic SUCKED! We got off the next exit and went through town to get home.
Later, we took a ride (traffic still bad, but we avoided Northbound I-15) to check out some townhomes. We'd driven past before, but now they are CHEAP! Because, you see, the inside isn't done. Now just have to wait for the realtor to get the scoop on them to see if we want to do anything about them.
So most of you are probably aware by now - either because I love you and actually see you, or we're FB friends. Regardless, I feel possessed to share a few (ahem...edited...) pics of my new do - courtesy of my step mom. :)
Mostly, I was bored with my hair (again). Didn't want to dye it again. Didn't want to do layers. (The short ones never stay pulled back.) Bangs are trendy now, and I thought to myself, perhaps I could pull off side-swept. Well I daresay I can. It's been a little bit of an adjustment, but, as you can see, I'm dang cute!
This one I edited with some extras :)
Here I really wanted a pic of how I see myself - in the mirror. It's not great because my camera doesn't focus as well without the flash, and my mirror was dirty. I did my best to clean it up, though. Gotta love Photoshop!
So I just finished the posts about our trip for our anniversary. To read it chronologically, you'll need to scroll to the third post and work your way backward. Point is, though, I didn't want anyone to miss out on any of the posts. And since I didn't do a proper post about the Hadfield cabin trip, here are some pictures from the night we went up. (I love Grandpa's lessons!)
Grandma and Camile
Family!
Cousins (and John and Chloe :) )
Two suckers on a stick, anyone? 
Jenn, Me, Matt, Grandpa, and Grandma(I love Photoshop - hate trying to make a vignette with Elements, though.)
