Green Fever 5k

UVU's student athletes are sponsoring the 2nd annual Green Fever 5k Run/Walk!!!
Justin and I did the walk last year and it was a lot of fun.
Race information:
Location: McKay Events Center at UVU
Registration: 8:00 a.m.
5k race: 9:00 One mile
Fun Run/Walk: 9:30 a.m.
Early registration is $15.00 per person Day of Race registration is $20.00
All Ages are invited and the money goes to the Orem Rotary Club
Check out the web site link for more information.
I can't wait to see you there!!!

Current Hobbies

These are some of my favorite hobbies:

I love to buy clothes. Before I got married I would go shopping at least once a week. I wouldn't always buy things but I would still go. From that I developed a shrewd shopping practice of only buying what I can't live without, are on sale or look fabulous on me. I have cut most of my shopping out (it was super hard!) and I am grateful I have developed those practices. I have even added making a list of things I need to buy. (it really helps me keep on task:)

I love buying paper and various crafting accesories. Every time I go into a Craft shop I almost always buy paper. I really love it. It is easy to get carried away but I only buy the paper I can't live without. Or paper for current projects.Thankfully paper is fairly cheep!

I love Kitchen things. We went into a kitchen store the other day and I found a ton of things I would like to have. I don't currently have any kitchen needs, I have to keep telling myself that. There were some awesome pans and cookie cutters...
Honestly the things I want are things I don't need and would only use maybe once or twice a year.

Food! I Love it! There are so many new things to try and taste. I have some fun cookbooks with new and exotic things to try. If I had my way I would spend at leats one day of the week doing some serious cooking. And another doing some serious baking. New recipies are also a lot of fun! Oh and I am going to try something new next month. A cooking journal. I am super excited about this one beacue I can label pages and make notes on what I am cooking. Super Excited about it!

But I found something NEW! Fabric and its accessorizes. I knew Julie, Eliza Nancy, Ariel and Janel really liked fabric and had lots of it. But i never got it until I saw fabric I REEAALLY REEAALLy wanted. (I have done most of my fabric shopping at Wal Mart, until yesterday.) Wow!!! I went into a local fabric shop and fell in love with the button selection and fabric. (The Cotton Shop) I did eventually gain composer and found things I needed. It is kind of a pricey hobby! I am super excited to use my new sewing machine and get creative!

I just hope Justin is as excited about my Hobbies as I am.

Or are they addictions...

Water water every where but not a drop to drink

Wow, I almost died today.
So I was just minding my own business drinking some water when BAM!
I had to cough, I tried not to spew the water that was in my mouth. But I could not hold it. I got water everywhere...
The ceiling, my clothes, the computer, my desk a few students computers.
luckily for me no one was in the lab. I still can not believe how far the water got.
Good times at work today...

Work issues

I just need to vent for a moment.

So I love where I work. I love the people, I like most of the students:) and I really think we perform a valuable service for the community.
BUT it gives students a way to procrastinate making up failed classes. Really at the end of the year I want people to fail there tests because they have waited to the last min. to make up classes.
It amazes me how much work they can get done the last week of school!
I feel bad that I feel this way, but I have no sympathy for students the last month of school. I have never felt bad failing anyone of them. The only ones I feel slightly bad for are the ones who all year long their counselor has said that they are fine then oops, you are missing a fine arts credit.
At my high school my counselor told me straight up she could make mistakes. I need to know precisely what credits I needed to graduate and make sure I had space in my schedule just in case I failed.
Also there are a crap load of students who are good kids who take a ton a music classes and decide to make up the needed credits at the end of the school year. What! Wait, we are open all year long and have been for like 10 years and you are JUST Signing up with 2 weeks left of school?!!?
Anyways I am VERY VERY grateful to work with people I like who help relive most of the stress.
Don't worry I do remember to breathe. I know that it is not my fault that they are here, and that I just need to relax and enjoy the business. Because that is what keeps me employed:)

It's a Small World After All

So It's a Small World got a face lift. I didn't know.
Here is a new article all about it.
I really love when they change things at Disneyland. It makes it so exciting to visit and see what is new or has been updated.

Sweet Potatoes!!!!

So over the last year Justin and I have eaten a ton of sweet potatoes. We eat them in curry or baked. They are fantastic! Our favorite way to eat them is fried in a pan. Here is our recipe:

Pan fried Sweet Potatoes

• Cut up your sweet potatoes in to strips. ( between the size of potato wedges and fries. Just depends on how quickly you want them to cook.)
• In a deep frying pan melt 1 tbsp. butter on a low heat
• Add sweet potatoes and salt and pepper to taste.
• Cover the pan and stir occasionally. Keeping the pan on a low heat.
  
• Cook until sweet potatoes are tender

Sweet Potato sauce

• 1/2 cup of best foods mayo
• and about 1/2 cup Jimmy Dean BBQ sauce.
• Mix together until blended.
  
• The sauce should be a light tan color. Taste and add more BBQ sauce or mayo. (just depends on what you like:)

Make sure you use the specified mayo and BBQ sauce. Those ones taste the best together!
Mix the sauce while the potatoes cook. That way you can eat the potatoes while they are hot!

Resolutions Update

So I thought it would be good to update how I am doing with my new years resolutions. One month in lets see how I am doing...

• Exercise. (I have been doing pretty good at it. Last week I missed 2 days. That is all I have missed for the new year. Not to bad yet.) (not burnt out yet!)
  
• Eat Healthier. (I haven't really changed much. I have been using less salt and butter in things. And Making sure I buy fresh veggies.)
  
• Clean everyday. (It is working. My life feels more relaxed. I am not perfect yet, but I am happier.)
  
• Bake Bread. (Still have not done this. But we did borrow my parents wheat grinder, so that is a step in the right direction.)
  
• Use my Cookbooks. (I made a goal to read all of my cookbooks. I started on February 1st.)