Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Superhubby



My man cooks. He cleans. He bakes. He decorates. He keeps things organized. He budgets. And he even crochets WAY BETTER than me! Proof of that coming soon.

Yesterday he even RAN home in his MTC attire to give me his keys (lost mine) so I could go to work. He had 10 minutes to get here and back, and he pretty much made it.

He is a real-life Superman. Or rather, Superhubby.

I won.

Monday, November 09, 2009

MormonsMadeSimple.com



When I was volunteering at the BYU Ad Lab, we worked with the More Good Foundation, and I really loved them. The other day I decided to see what they've been up to, and I found a site they've launched to promote missionary work that I think is really cool. Just thought I'd share---it's called Mormons Made Simple.

http://www.mormonsmadesimple.com/img/facebook_challenge_homepage.gif

Sunday, November 08, 2009

The Power of Grapefruit?

http://www.wellformdirect.com/images/grapefruit.jpg
We had a bit of a tough past week. Our doctor wasn't able to do an IUI, and we felt inspired to really start living frugally and save save save--we're thinking that in-vitro might be what we have to do to get pregnant. It was a tough realization. I'm just so tired of being patient and trying to think optimistically, trying to fight off the feeling that it'll never happen. I've been thinking that if I'll be working for a long time before becoming a mom, I'd really rather be doing something else. I'm thinking about grad school, but at the same time, I don't know if we can really afford that right now since we're saving absolutely everything we can. I guess we'll see what happens, but in the meantime, we decided to turn to some "home remedies" for infertility. I don't know if they actually work, but not being able to do anything when we knew it was ovulation time was so frustrating, so we researched and bought grapefruits and grapefruit juice, and tried (unsuccessfully) to find primrose supplements. Both of these things are said to help with fertility issues. We figured we should start including the juice in my diet every day. It is REALLY sour and I'm not the biggest fan, but they say it's great for curbing sugar cravings and stuff too, so it's probably worth taking no matter what. We started having family devotionals this week, and it's been so good. We're focusing on conference talks and related materials to the different topics right now. We've also been really trying to eat healthier, sometimes successfully and sometimes not so much. Tonight we had the most delicious healthy pasta confection ever. I'll have to share the recipe soon. Think spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, and onion all sauteed to perfection and then topped with a bit of fresh parmesan on linguine. Amazing.

Friday, November 06, 2009

Reaction Time

Driving home from work, I usually take a street where the speed limit is 55 (meaning most people go 65), and often there aren't many cars around. It's a pretty drive, and I've become so used to driving it, I think I often snap into robotic-driving-mode when I'm drained from a long day of work or too little sleep. But the other day there was a dead deer in the road, and I realized that my route has tons and tons of wildlife that comes close to the road, and in my mindless driving mode something terrible could happen (driving fast, big animal...yeah). So I've been paranoid lately, and then I found this. This is a handy link where you can test your average reaction time. Be careful-this can be addictive. I like to justify that it's also somewhat practical.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf

Monday, November 02, 2009

Lately I love:

Soup and chili dinner nights
My new coat
The lovely valley mountains and fall leaves (also leftover Halloween junk food) Silly boysHappy November!!!