It's about time Jay lets me write this blog. She'd been writing so much and holding me back whenever i have wanted to update. I had to explain to her who wears the pants and that's all it took. Here i am.
(for those of you who really know our family, you also know that i should also be writing my will)
So! boy, oh, boy.. that past 2 weeks have been emotionally up and down for me. I'm having difficulties w/ my job, particularly w/ my boss. We just aren't clicking well both regarding our personalities and our business practices. It's becoming a challenge to follow my rule for working w/ new supervisors: "The things you disagree w/ regarding them should only be creating opportunities and experience for you to learn from it." or some blah-blah inspirational phrase about it -- you know what i mean. It will all work out fine in the end... unfortunately, our moments come at times when i'm having other things in life that i have to deal with.
::sigh:: good ole Life. At least i get my raise soon :D .. in fact, today they let us know that in order to compete w/ the other companies hiring in the boise area, they are giving 80% of everyone raises. Essentially, they booted up the hiring wage a few cents, $.90 for entry level, $.50 for the level i'm at. then they looked at the previous raises you've gotten and based it on performance, etc etc. basically, anybody under the base entrance wage will at least be boosted up to that level. that already means i'll get a whopping $.04 increase. i'm hoping my performance evaluation last year and my 36th ranking in our call queue means much more than that. either way, i'll get another performance evaluation and another raise in march.
Other than work difficulties, life has been going happily for us. Main reasons below:
Finger Painting: Hyrum came in crying to Jessica one morning, she really wanted to comfort him but at the time, but was feeding Emily. Once he got closer to her, she had realized why he had been crying... The night before, we decided to take a break from frugality and order chinese food! We had Moo goo gai pan, crab rangoon, egg drop soup, i forgot the main course, shrimp, and beef sticks w/ sides of hot mustard, cocktail sauce, and sesame seeds. We hadn't used the hot mustard or cocktail sauce, and left them in their little containers out on the end table. Myson had gotten into the hot mustard and had gotten some in his mouth. Jay felt really bad for him --that is, until she went into the living room with him to go clean up the mess he had probably made. Instead of a mess, she found a work of art: he had finger painted w/ the hot mustard and cocktail sauce all over both couches, the floor, and Em's bouncy chair. He even added his own artistic flare and poured the sesame seeds over his paintings. After several times vacuuming in the wedges of the couches, we'll still find dome more seeds coming out of who knows where. I came home from work to hear the story of what happened and i couldn't help but laugh... Husbands: these are the things you don't do unless you want the evil stare from you're wife for the next several days -- or unless you want to do all diaper changes for the next week.
The Curse of Generations: The rash/baby acne/cradle cap that jay talked about last post had gotten worse. it began to gather down her forehead, past the cheeks and on her next one morning. We got pretty concerned and setup an appointment w/ the doc. Lucky, it wasn't anything serious. It turned out to be eczema (thanks, mom :P). Doc Rand said it could be hereditary, but also that sometimes it's only apparent in the infant stage. All we need to do is apply hydrocortizon to her every now and then and keep her skin moist. If this had happened to hyrum, he would have hated us his whole beginning months, but emily is sooo cute. She smiles (well, she always does that) and scrunches her neck when we apply it and coos like she wants to laugh when we put it on.
Charleston: We went dancing again last Friday night and again we enjoyed a night away from the offspring. This time they taught the waltz (well, we knew it already, so it refreshed us) and the swing. The swing was fantabulous to do again, however i had become really, really forgetful on all the moves i once knew. i give credit to the ones that taught it last week, but they also had a problem w/ rhythm. They'd teach all the moves, but once it was put to music, everybody would find themselves off the correct beat -- including us. Chalk up another curse that majoring in music does to you. The fun part of it all was learning the charleston. It is a FUN FUN thing to do, and really cute --that is, when you see other people doing it. We can do it and do it well, but my gawky frame makes it quite laughable if you were to see me. :D We're really excited for the actual formal dance they'll do on Feb. 16th. They're going to have a live band and refreshments ... oh! and music. James, jessica's brother did the pictures for it last year and it's apparently a very gussy-up experience. I'm all happy because i haven't worn my concert tux since i played in the Ricks symphonic band in ... 2000? That, a palmful of hairgel, an intensive 10 mins of mouthwash, and an overdose of cologne and i'll be that ladies man that night -- either that or i'll lose more hair, be drunk, and be emitting odor i'll empty out half the cultural hall!
Well, i know there's other things to talk about, but who knows what they are.
Em's baby blessing is this Sunday. I'm excited, however nervous... just hope i'm attuned to how the Lord wants her to be blessed. I'd just hate to say something like, "You will grow up to be a woman of the street" or something bad like that...
Well, that's all i can think about for now. Love you all!
