Finals!

Wow. I haven't changed my blog in forever. It's finals...and I barely have time to do anything! It's still Snowing here in Logan. Wish the summer would finally decide to come! Snow and tests. Man life is good. I get a new car this weekend. Dan is downsizing and I'm upgrading. My red car's brakes are not doing well. They've gone out twice in the last 2 months. Dan wants me to get a more reliable car... and well it's easy for me to agree. His yellow charger is going back to the store and we are both getting more affordable vehicles. I found a 2000 BMW for only 9,400! I'm excited. I may get it this weekend. Keeping our finger crossed! I better get to class!

Poor Daniel!

I had an awful night about a week ago. I was asleep.. Daniel got home from work and was probably just getting ready for bed. I woke up to the sound of him dressing, or undressing and all I could hear was this awful tearing, ripping, shreading sound. I felt miserable, my head was pounding and the sound was so LOUD. I don't remember what I said, but Dan told me to get up and go to the bathroom (I always have to go, seriously!) I crawled on my hands and knees over the blankets on the bed, glaring angrily through the darkness at him and his shreading sounds.

In my night time stupor: I pictured him wearing a shirt of duck tape and imagined him tearing it apart! I then lunged forward and tried to hit him! I drunkily missed him by a long shot... I don't know why or where it came from! Oh.. In the next few minutes Dan's good mood had deflated. I still didn't know what was going on. My mind was clogged and muddled. Finally I was awake enough to ask him what was wrong. I had the adacity to ask him what was wrong with him!! It was then that I realized that I was being a total jerk and didn't even realize it. I wanted to laugh when he told me the ripping sound was actually his old tshirt that was growing way too old to wear and he was ripping it off to be funny.

Poor Dan! I couldn't believe I acted like i did. (Like another person) Kinda reminds me of the time Anne punched me in the face in the middle of Sacrament meeting. (a whole other story). Well, I told him everytime I remembered the incident how sorry I was, that I didn't know what came over me. Lucky for me, he's quick to forgive. Weird story I know.. I can understand if you don't have any comments!

LIfe is GOOD

Spring Break ended with a bang! We drove to Boise, Daniel, Jeri (cousin), Joel (Dan's Brother) and I. We met up with Ibis and Keith (cousin's of Dan) and played all weekend. On our last day, we planned to leave in the afternoon. We woke up to Ibis telling everyone to get dressed quick, and then to our surprise she blindfolded us and drove us to the grocery store. I found Dan after we got out of the car and grabbed his hand (lucky me!)

We trailed into the grocery store (4 of us blindfolded and holding hands) while 4 others led us. Ibis convinced Dan's little brother Joel to put on a crockadile suit! He must have gotten alot of laughs from people doing their early morning errands.

Later we were driven to another location and led for about ten minutes into the middle of a park. There we took off our blindfolds and ate breakfast with the stuff we purchased at the grocery store. then tied our blindfolds on our legs connected to a partner... We raced around with 3 legs searching desperately for eggs and candy. It was alot of fun! People were laughing and stumbling all over the place!

In Boise we shopped until we dropped! I found an old vintage coat for $14 and Another one for just $3! Jeri bought about 7 pairs of pants and 12 shirts for $3 each! Crazy. The town is full of memorials, and cool art work. They have neat walk way that had what looked like lamps lined up... but as you walk passed them they are motioned sensored and make clinking and beats to form music to your footsteps! It was cool! They have a library there that makes me laugh... I guess they orded lettering for the library.. but the place sent them an extra exclamation point. The library decided to use it anyway.. We like to scream LIBRARY! everytime we pass it.

Life is Good.

IN MY DREAMS...

Last night I had a terrible dream that Daniel told me he had to marry someone while he was married to me! He had a big wedding (again) but with this new blond girl... I was invited.. but ignored and wasn't allowed to sit with Daniel or his new wife. I felt like I was put on the back burner... the weird thing was that I knew Daniel still loved me... but he was now having to spend time with his new wife. He even had a parade for her and her family. I had to find something to wear to get his attention... but all I could find was a short skirt school girl outfit with no shoes to match!!! I woke up, and hugged him tight this morning. It's just me; I get to be his ONLY wife. How nice is that? I don't know how it would have been to live in times when men had many wives. I don't think I could do it!! Dan told me his dream... much better than mine. I was flirting with him in our parking lot. I guess he said he was really attracted to me (I must have looked stunning) "in his dreams!" Nice.

Daniel's humor again...

Just the other day I was talking to Anne on the phone about husbands... sometimes they don't offer to help much around the house. Both Anne and I are trying hard to "Help" our sweet husbands want to help us. Well... I carried on this same conversation with Dan's mom. She told me it's impossible to try to get men to do what you want. I told her that I've been able to get Dan to make the bed by encouraging him... well, I guess by telling him how glad I am after he DOES it. So... I talked to Daniel about this. He said that he was busy alot.. with work and school 24/7, it's hard to do anything else but homework or relax when he can. Well... when we got home from school, walking through 12 inches of snow... we had a couple hours before we both needed to go back to work. Dan put on a classic smile, and trudged through the house with his soaked shoes... then went straight to the bathroom, (I followed bugging him the whole way) he started going while I was standing there... then, he didn't flush while leaving the toilet seat up. To my surprise he started to leave the bathroom without washing his hands. Dan never does any of this... He is very ordered and clean... I finally understood what he was doing. Daniel... so cunning, was trying to show me that he is good, and does alot of things that I don't already notice. He does try to keep the house looking nice, and keeps the toilet flushed with lid down... he made me laugh when he was finished with his act. The crazy things he does sometimes.. This doesn't mean I won't keep trying! I have to remind him that he has magic drawers, maybe he'll do the laundry next week.. who knows?

P.s. my project at school changed to Cochlear implants. If you want to comment on this as well... Here's the background information on this:
Children are tested in the first few weeks after birth for hearing disabilities. If they are deaf, or hard of hearing they have the option of a hearing aid, or cochlear implant. The battling question is whether or not to place hearing aids on the child. Much of the deaf world feels that being deaf is a part of who they are. They take great pride in being deaf. The choice to put hearing aids must be done early, within the first month of life... when the branching of neurons in the brain takes place. (This also helps the child to learn with the aids rather than without them early, then trying to implement them later). SO the question is: Put hearing aids on, or leave them behind and allow the child to be Deaf, and join the deaf culture?

I Need HELP!

I'm working on a school project. The topic is simple. What do you do if you have a deaf child, and your a hearing parent? What would you do when it came time for them to go to school? Would you send them to a deaf school or a public school? What if you were deaf and you had hearing kids? How would you teach them to speak? Where would you send them for school? I need to know your opinions please! If you have children in your kids classes at school that are deaf, or you know anyone who is deaf or has a deaf child, let me know of their story. I need to figure out how to present information without slaughtering the topic! Thanks!!

I Never Knew...

Daniel is an army man. I didn't know much about the army except that it was a really scary thing, that young men join for lots of reasons... Dan went to boot camp right after high school.. well all I can say is that I see the effects of what they did to him. Just a few nights ago, I woke up to hear Dan coughing next to me. I wondered if he was ok, without thinking, I reached out putting my hand gently on his back. To my great surprise, the blankets flew back, Dan seemed to roll off the bed with so much speed, he almost hit the wall. I blinked. He was crouched at the bottom of the bed, staring at me. I stared back, I'm sure my 'stare' showed much more shock than his. When Dan started to breath, he was laughing. My tense muscles melted, and Dan crawled back into bed chuckling to himself. "What?" I asked him. He continued to chuckle as he told me his dream. Spiders everywhere, giant taranchulas climbing toward him and his brother Joel. Joel tried to spray one with insect Zapper, hoping to kill it. The spider started to fume, and die, but more came. Lots of them, then all of the sudden Dan felt one on his back! Woah... Thanks to me, I made his dream more real, and thus he leaped out of bed. I was beginning to think it was because of all of that boot camp training! Good times.