DAYS. LEFT. i seriously did not think it was possible to actually get to this point. i'm pretty sure i looked at all of the other girls who had their missionaries home and had just decided that they had lied. two years never really comes to an end. these guys never really come home. you just have to suffer like the lonely baby that you are while you submit yourself to realizing they are gone forever. negativo compleanos.
but! OH HO HO, i was all sorts of wrong. apparently, times does go on. (who knew, right?) and now i have 100 days to run enough miles to work off all of the food i ate while in the above-mentioned phase. (plus the blondie i just ate… ok, three blondies i just ate. judge a woman.)
my current screensaver. because now i actually will see you SOON. holla.
oh, and this is his view right now. jealousy abounds.
once upon a time (two weeks ago) i ordered new glasses. i was all sorts of wanting the ridiculously large hipster glasses, but my mom (bless her soul) talked me into getting the smaller, classier glasses that didn't take up 87% of my face. and now i love them, and actually feel like a 20 year-old college student instead of the high school freshman that picked out my last pair of specs. kudos, momma. kudos.
excuse the shameless selfie.
never ever have i won any sort of contest. well kneaders (my new favorite restaurant) was doing a giveaway for a valentine's day date night. if you entered and won they would send you a gift card to kneaders and to the movie theater right next door, so that you and your valentine could go out on valentines day! ludicrously tender, right? so i decided that i would enter and i seriously hoped i would win! and then two days later my mom comes to me and was like "hey i randomly entered this kneaders giveaway and i won!" so i still haven't won anything. but my mom took me to kneaders on valentines day because my dad had to work late, so i still kinda won. (at least i like to think so.)
this post has an alarming amount of selfies. my b.
and i will end this post with a picture of my dog in one of those russian-looking winter hats. i laughed far too much while taking this picture.
that's right,
TWENTY JEFFIN MONTHS.
twenty months of:
-being grumpy.
-not wearing makeup/real pants/not putting in my contacts because i just don't care.
-watching videos like this and this and this over and over again. (plus a million more. many hours have been wasted watching homecoming videos.)
-eating heinously unhealthy foods. (i may or may not be eating a s'mores cupcake while writing this. we'l never know for sure.)
-saying "i'm gonna get fit now!" at every month mark. (it's starting to take effect…)
-staying up late to write letters instead of studying for tests.
-mainly, just missing that crazy kid i am lucky to call mine.
4 MONTHS LEFT, FOOLS.
see you soon.
who gave him that sweater? no idea. but they
should keep giving him insatiably attractive clothing.
LATELY:
-so i mentioned in my last blog post that something went wrong with my car, but that i got it fixed. well, like three days later i loaded up my little car and started my drive down to utah, where i would pick up all of my family and then we would all drive home to beautiful colorado for christmas! except for an hour and a half into my drive down to utah my battery started to die. i was able to pull over into the nearest gas station in MCCAMMON, IDAHO. literally the middle of nowhere. there was nothing even close to a car repair shop anywhere around. i would have to drive back a half hour to pocatello to get my car worked on. except my car didn't drive. and it was 4:45- all of the mechanic shops would be closing in 15 minutes. so, i put on my big girl pants (after calling my parents in a frantic panic), called a mechanic shop to tell them i would be coming, called a tow truck to come and pick my up and cried by myself in a booth in the gas station until the tow truck came. not one of my brightest moments.
lyle on the back of a tow truck. not something i ever
wanted to see.
i was going to have to stay in a nasty motel that night but then my sister-in-law called her cousins who live in pocatello and they came and picked me up from the auto shop, brought me back to their house, fed me, watched a movie with me, let me sleep in their guest room and then took me back in the morning. i was SO grateful for them. kind people, man. they're the greatest.
-wow. that was long. take a breather.
-i had my whole family home for christmas this year. and it was amazing.
AMAZING life-size gingerbread house at the broadmoor.
even more amazing siblings.
(cheesiness for the win.)
aaron eating the lobster of our traditional surf&turf
christmas dinner
new year's hiking.
-my dad went out and checked the mail one day and nonchalantly put a package in front of me when he came back in. my heart nearly stopped beating when i saw that this was no ordinary package, this was a package from FRANCE. and it had this little beauty in it.
holy gorgeous necklace.
you win this round, elder.
-i started back at work again. i walked into the room that had my old kids in it and they looked at me so confused for a minute before saying "anne!!" in their little voices. my heart melted.
-if you watched the super bowl (like most american humans) and you were watching right after it ended, then you saw this amazing commercial that my amazing sister-in-law wrote. she's pretty much the coolest human ever, and i am not related to someone famous. no biggie.
