My EQ

What is your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

Your EQ is 132

You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.

You are warm and open. Even when life gets you down, you're unafraid of the world and its challenges.
You are comfortable with who you are. And you accept your weaknesses - as well as the weaknesses of others.

While you are quite stable, you don't respond perfectly to every bad situation that comes up.
But you have enough emotional intelligence to know when you need a course correction.


I think this is true, except when it comes to guys I date... BTW, this is a facebook quiz! I hope this link works!
What is your EQ?

Summer Adventures

So, these last few weeks have been quite eventful and interesting for me. On July 14, my boyfriend (ex) and I broke up, so, that day, I was texting daisy while waiting to see Harry Potter (my best friend Eric invited me after he heard of the break-up), and she said “why don’t you come down here?” So on Wednesday I packed up my gear, and Ginny and I were headed to New Mexico on Thursday morning.

NEW MEXICO

My biggest fear about going down to New Mexico was how my dogs reaction would be to the situation (she’s never ridden that far in a car before, and she’s never really been introduced to other dogs or any other house but our own). Upon arriving at daisy’s house, Rebekah ran to the passenger window and Ginny got scared and jumped into my lap as daisy ran to the driver side window. Well, let’s just say they scared Ginny pretty bad… I must say, I don’t think I had ever been peed on by a dog before that moment. After cleaning up, we introduced Ginny to Darla, and although she was scared, they were best friends by day two.

In the middle of my stay in New Mexico, I got to go to Texas with Rebekah, Jason and Dad to pick up Aden and bring her back. It was pretty fun, although I must say Texas is hot and sticky, and I’m glad I live in Utah. Micah is growing up fast, and he’s insanely cute, and Rebekah thinks Rosie looks like I did at that age. I’m pretty excited for all of them to come up and see us next week.

So, after Texas I returned to New Mexico and the rest of the trip was mostly just filled with spending time being lazy. That is my forte haha. Here are some highlights from my trip to New Mexico/Texas (in order that I think of them, not that they occurred):


• Darla taught Ginny how to hump. Bad move Darla, bad move.
• Ginny learned what stickers are… she came inside the first day from the backyard and couldn’t figure out what the things biting her feet were. Poor thing haha.
• I got some awesome shoes! They are black pumps with shiny silver stars on them.

• Dad, Mary, Aden, Jason and I went to Explora, and it was pretty fun, just like always.
• We went to the lake while in Texas, and Rosie has to wear little swimmer pull-ups. When Rebekah was changing Rosie’s clothes so we could go home, she wasn’t expecting Rosie to have made a mess. So, she wraps a towel around Rosie, then pulls her pull-up down (she was still decent!), and all of a sudden little pebbles of poop rolled out and all over the place hahahahaha. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life.
• I FINALLY gave Aden her piggy bank (I promised to make it for her over a year ago).
• Had some always-enjoyable Utah vs. BYU bickering with one of the missionaries in daisy’s ward. Apparently he might join their marching band… that would be mighty fun in a battle of the bands! (My band would kick their butts like always)
• We watched the Terminator, my first time… I always thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was the good guy…
• Got to spend time with Cheryl and her boyfriend Teron. It was awesome to see her. It’s funny; we’re still so much alike even though we have hardly seen each other in 4 years. Also, her boyfriend Teron knows my friend Dokos here in Salt Lake from DCI (they were in Troopers together).
• Dad, Mary, Rebekah and I saw Angels and Demons in the dollar theater… it was pretty good, although I liked the book much better.
• Ginny killed her “no-bark” collar. The second day I was there, daisy and I went shopping, and so we put Ginny out back with her collar on so she wouldn’t disturb the neighbors. Well, I forgot that there was a kiddie pool full of water back there, so when we got back I checked on her and freaked out when I noticed her standing in it. Well, I brought her in and she was fine, but later when I went to put her collar on her, I realized the batteries had fallen out into the pool. I have no idea how she did it, but my dog is a genius.
• Jason and I got addicted to a game called “Zoo Tycoon.” It’s a blast.
• I learned how to cook bacon in the oven… no more of that microwavable crap, I’m getting the good stuff!
• There was a lot of fun bickering with Ramses… he’ll be a nice addition to the family haha

IOWA

So right after my trip to New Mexico, I went on a trip to Iowa with Mom and Jesse for a 50th wedding anniversary. After a 16-hour ride there, we finally arrived at Great Aunt Garland’s house, and it was really nice to be in Bedford. Iowa always has a calm feeling to it, so it’s always nice to go there. We spent most of the time at events celebrating the anniversary, and spent most of our time with Caleb and Georgia Ballentyne, Caleb’s son Mathius, and Caitlyn Drake. They are the grandchildren of the people we were there for (we were there for Charles and Lynn King… Charles is Grandpa King’s cousin). Here are some highlights from the trip:

• I saw some vultures eating a squirrel… I’ve never seen a vulture in person before!
• We saw an owl on the side of the road on our way back to Garland’s house the first night.
• Saw tons of fireflies the first night, got some jars to catch some the second/third night (I’ve never caught one before) and they were gone L. Lynn told me they are really only out in June and July… We saw them the last night of July haha.
• On the way home from Iowa, we stopped at a gas station and I bought a kit where you can open a mollusk and get a pearl to put in this necklace it gives you. I got the pearl representing “success.”
• I spent a lot of time holding Caleb’s son, and at one point he fell asleep on me, and someone thought he was my son haha.
• We played “Greed” with Lynn and Charles, and I won one of the games. It’s mighty fun, and Charles is a blast to play with. At one point he had a roll of 2400 going (you need 10,000 to win), and I said “you should roll again” which really was obvious because he had a great chance of getting higher (he needed a 1 or 5, and he had 6 dice to roll), and he busted hahahaha. It was awesome.
• We went to Gravity to visit the cemetery, then mom took Jesse and I around and showed us where all our family lived when she lived there (about 50 years ago). Some of the houses were still there, and where they weren’t, she showed us where the houses used to be. She told us some cool stories, and it was really cool to hear.
• We got stuck for a while behind this HUGE truck pulling a silo (those big things you see on farms that hold grain) that was going really slow, and I couldn’t pass him because he thought it would be totally fine to just drive in the middle of the road (over both our lane and the opposing lane). We were only 50 miles from our destination too, so it was awful.
• We drove through Clarinda, IA, and I found out that’s where the late, great Glenn Miller was born. Did you know he was killed by friendly fire while flying in his plane? I learned that when I was student teaching last semester.

It was awesome to travel so much, but I think I’d like to take some time at home before going on another long distance car ride. In those three weeks I rode long distance in vehicles for over 70 hours and drove for over 40 of those hours. I also stepped foot in 7 states... Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa. Mom went to Missouri to pick up pizza for dinner the last night we were there. These are all the highlights I can remember for now… I hope I got most of them though! Good times, good times.

And it starts!

So, I don't know why I didn't start blogging sooner, but I've decided it's time to start! Who knows what kind of things will end up here? It'll be quite the adventure for all of us!

And it starts...