I had a bad day at work last week and the next day David brought me these. Isn't he the greatest?! I love him.

What's worse than a Rent-a-cop?

The gatekeeper at BYU!

So to get into gate that leads to all of the coveted parking spots on campus you have to get through the gate. To get through the gate you have to have an A lot pass(which they only let faculty and staff have. i happen to be staff) or get a gatekeeper to have mercy on you (fat chance). Well this shouldn't be a problem for me right? I have an A lot pass. I've been driving up everyday for the past month and i stop at the gatekeeper's booth to show my pass and they let me in and i go park. It really shouldn't be a difficult process.

Yesterday was a different story! David and I always drive through campus on the way home because it's faster than going around and running into lights. This means that we have to pass through the gates. Usually we just stop, show the pass and go on our merry way. yesterday the gatekeeper was too busy chatting it up with some car that he didn't bother to look at our pass. So we approach the gate and wait. he just stares. So David backs up and asks if he's going to open the gate. The guy says he didn't see our pass. David points to it and the guy gets out of his booth, walks over to the car to inspect my pass. Then he looks at both of us and asks if we are faculty or staff. David points my way and says "she is". So the guy looks at me and asks if I'm getting dropped off at work. (What does it matter? I have the pass let me in!!!) I tell him no, we're driving through to go home and it shouldn't be an issue. He finally gives up and lets us in.

What the heck?! Yes i am staff, I'm 23 and staff. Are you jealous that i get good parking while you have to walk 15 minutes from the stadium? Or do you just think that I'm lying and borrowed my dad's car? Check the plates dude, read it MICHIGAN. I sure didn't borrow my dad's car from there. So hey, Rent-a-cop wannabe, give it up, don't bother me again!

Pet Peeve

So the Mormon bunch of people who read this will appreciate.......

My current biggest pet peeve is when Home and Visiting Teachers put off making appointments to visit until the last week of the month and then expect you to accommodate their schedules! Bugs me to death!!!

Rockin the Cane!

I went to Wal-Mart yesterday with Carebear to do some shopping. We were over by the pharmacy and, lo and behold, they had canes! And they were cheap $9.00! So yes i bought one! Now I'm rockin' the cane! It's nice to have something not so bulky!


We're all getting a kick out of the cane at work. We have a new secretary too! Taylor, Tay Tay for short. He's fun and he loves the cane!


Look I can even rock it booty style! Woot! I'm one hot broken old lady with a cane!

Absentee?

Or not!

So i registered to vote in Michigan so that my vote would count. (I don't typically vote the way that most Utahans do.) I got my registration mailed in time and everything. I never heard anything about it until yesterday. My mom got my voter registration but now it's too late. So she called the voting people in Michigan to see if i could still get an absentee ballot. Get this...i have to go in person to pick up my absentee ballot?! Doesn't that defeat the purpose of voting absentee? Ridiculous! So i either have to fly into Michigan to vote on Nov. 4th, miss more work to go turn in a registration form today to register in Utah, or just give up on voting this year. What would you do? Kudos to all of you who would miss more work to register and be responsible citizens. I, however, will not be missing any more work, seeing that i am already missing several hours this pay period. I guess i won't be responsible for any horrible outcomes that result from either candidate winning.

$5632.07

I'm so glad i have insurance!

Eye Doctor Adventures

Can you read the line above the red?

I've needed to go to the eye doctor to get a check up so that i can get new contacts and so has David. Carolyn really likes her doctor so we decided to go there. He was great! He explained everything really well and it was fun.

At the end he dilated our eyes to take a picture of the inside, interesting huh? (By the way, you can tell that I'm a true blond and of Scandinavian descent by the inside of my eye.) Then he gave us some trial contacts to use for the week and see how we like them. I decided to try out a new brand.

At first i couldn't tell if they were good or not because when your eyes are dilated you can't really focus or see well anyway. As the dilation wore off i realized that the contacts were not working for me. While we were driving home stop signs were blurry and the leaves on the trees and i had a head ache. Not cool or good. I was confused because my prescription changed so i should have been able to see better not worse. So i switched back to my old contacts for the night and decided to call the doctor in the morning.

I went back in to see the doctor the next morning and it turns out that the problem was that the contacts didn't fit my eye right and so it was making my vision much worse in my left eye. He gave me a different brand of contacts to try and then checked how i saw with them and everything was great! So i think these will work out. Interesting that how a contact fits can change how well you see though!

I'm going all out and getting new glasses too since it has been 4 years. It'll be fun to have some new glasses. That's my fun for the week.

In other news, I'm still hobbling around with my one crutch. I think i look like tiny Tim "god bless us, every one!" Haha! I am starting to lose my limp so that is nice! I'm also walking more around the house and work without my crutch, although i get reprimanded a lot at work for it. I tried going up and down stairs without crutches for the first time this week. It tires me out pretty fast but it's OK. All of the tape is off of the scar and I'm thoroughly grossed out by it. I'm finding it more disturbing than i thought i would to have a scar on my leg. I feel gross and disgusting. It's lumpy and ugly. (As you can see I'm still trying to deal with it :)

So that's life. My scar is ugly and i hate it and i can see!