Valentine's Day

It's hard to believe this year is our FIFTH Valentine's Day together!!!!!

**Unfinished blog post alert!**

 

Random Realization

Today I had a funny realization while I was eating a delicious dill pickle. I hate cucumbers SO much! It's because of the flavor, but it's also in large part due to the seeds. I think they're gross. Sometimes I do eat cucumbers because it seems like the right thing to do at the time, but I never enjoy them. Anyway, I LOVE pickles!! They can be whole pickles, babies, spears, sliced...doesn't matter. Dill or bread and butter. I love them! And the seeds totally don't bother me. Well today I was looking at my pickle and had the thought that it was once a cucumber. Still loved my pickle and enjoyed the gigantic seeds in the middle. But cucumbers....LOATHE entirely!

(Joshua thinks I'm a little crazy for writing a blog post about this.)

Spook made it!

Our car, or Spook as we fondly refer to him, reached a momentous milestone today!!

 

 

Check out the mileage! I have been greatly anticipating this moment for weeks, and I'd even calculated when it would happen. Naturally I was thrilled when I got a red light (after a streak of green ones) just in time to snap a good picture!

 

In other car news, just this week I finally found a radio station we like. Good times.

SNOW

It snowed Thursday night!! I was checking the next day's weather when I noticed. Naturally I had to go run around in it! Mostly I was hoping for a snow day Friday, but that didn't happen. Clearly I was still excited to play in it though!

Winter's Coming!

This morning when I went outside to go to work there was ice on our car! On half of the back windshield. I was feeling a little bothered by it and momentarily missed covered parking...until I realized it's the end of November and I've only had to scrape ice off half of my back windshield once this season. And the season is actually still autumn...not winter.

Let's just say that every time I check the weather I feel glad to be living in Chapel Hill and not Rexburg.

Ice made me think of snow. Snow made me think of winter, and winter makes me think of Christmas. I've found a Christmas radio station!! It's the only decent radio station, besides classical, that I've found since moving here. It makes me happy. :) Happy holiday season to us!

Can't wait for Friday....

It's been a week full of firsts!

We started the week out with our new joint calling - nursery teachers!! We're both excited for it. And also glad that we do it only every other week, so that way we can still meet and interact with some adults. So I can add nursery teacher to my versatile list of callings held. Now my list will look like this: RS pianist, ward organist, RS pianist, RS chorister, RS pianist, ward organist, nursery leader. Uhh...obviously the versatile part was a joke. I would have been very happy with ward organist again, since I'd be terrified of some non-music callings. But this is one non-music calling I'm looking forward to!

Monday I walked through my very first spider web...in the face! Gross. I think North Carolina was welcoming me. Wanted me to feel like a legit NC resident or something. At work there were some other firsts. I'll be happy to spare you the details which I'm certain nobody wants to hear. I've just got one word for you: Y-U-C-K!!!

Tuesday I started off the morning with another first - my first case of pink eye this school year! (Which means I broke my new year's resolution to not get pink eye this year.) Thankfully I caught it early on, and we already had eye drops. Plus, my boss told me to come into work anyway. haha. I thought that was weird, but was fine with it since I don't have sick time yet and would have been home essentially feeling fine all day anyway.

Another first for Tuesday was our first tornado watch. It was POURING outside and there was some intense thunder! Poor Joshua got soaked walking to the bus before coming home. For me it meant that I got my first "rainy day" schedule experience at work. Not gonna lie, it was pretty nice. Also had my first parent night for work. I think parent night is a "four-letter word" at this school too. At least it only lasted an hour!

Tuesday ended with a bang. Or maybe I should say a drip. A drip from our bathroom ceiling. Yep, while it was pouring outside, our ceiling started leaking. It's a crack that was dripping from a handful of places. Nothing too bad, but we called the emergency maintenance number just to be sure they were fine with waiting until morning. Apparently some of their ceilings leak when it rains really hard...comforting. They'll come check it out. Hopefully before it rains really hard again!

I went to bed thinking, "It's only Tuesday???"

Today seemed to be pretty smooth sailing, for both Joshua and me...minus some exhaustion. Anyway, the spider I smushed and smeared with my finger (unintentionally) and roach in our dishwasher encounter (half full of clean dishes) were both things I won't be forgetting about anytime soon.

I think it's been a week worth remembering. But let's just say, can it be Friday already??

"We're an eye doctor..."

This one is just a memory for us McClures. Go read April 11th's entry in the family almanac. (I looked at the calendar and was a week off...oops!)