halfway.

this time last year i was a horrendous wreck.

i was saying goodbye to my best friend for two whole years.
my partner in crime, my biggest supporter, my everything.
i cried for 24 hours straight, and ate a lethal amount of unhealthy foods.
i was not a pretty sight.

you know how super heroes have to get dumped in a vat of toxic sludge or something awful like that to become super?
i'm pretty sure that is how this fella's mission is for us.
this past year has been the toxic sludge year. not super fun.
but now, because of all of that toxic sludge, we are super heroes.
so this next year will be full of a lot of awesomeness,
and a lot of saving old ladies from burning buildings and cats from trees.
(hey, comes in the job description.)

i'll see you soon, my dallin pete.


lovely randoms:

-i had to go on bus runs for my work today (picking up children from school). while on the bus on of the children said "don't touch that! if you do... i'm... gonna... have... an... EXORCISM." i'm not sure he knows what that word means.

-remember how i was real sick? yeah, my doctors weren't a fan of me being sick so often so they decided i need my tonsils out. i'll be accepting donations in the form of popsicles.

-i was eating lunch in the three year-old room one day at work. the teacher in that room had told her kids that they should eat all of their food because "a clean plate is a happy plate!". i sat next to a little girl who was scarfing her food down as fast as she could. when i asked her why she was eating so fast she said very seriously "my plate is going to be SO happy."

-can we just talk about how awesome may has been? my brother came home from his mission, i got employee of the month (heyoo, 50 dolla gift card!), i got to have my whole family in the same place two weekends in a row and i got to the halfway mark with that crazy fool pictured above. three cheers for may.

-today at work i was put in the school-age kids classroom, and it just so happened to be the day of a field trip. the park we were going to was really close, so we walked there. we passed by a ravine with a nast waterfall thing in the middle of it. the kids were oohing and ahhing at this waterfall when one of the oldest kids lost it and started yelling at everyone else telling them "there are so many better things life! this will not be the greatest you have seen! AUGH." it was really hard to not laugh.

-before the above mentioned field trip, i put lots of sunscreen on, spf 50 to be exact. we were out for less than four hours. it was overcast at least 75% of the time. i still got sunburnt. woof.