Listening

*A song for a friend: Kip More Young Love

*One about Dennis and I: Kenny Chesney She's Got It All

*Memories/Guilty Pleasure: Boys Like Girls Hero/Heroine



By the way, here is my 8tracks.
8tracks.com/c-a-l-l-i-e

My name is Indigo Montoya. Prepare to die.

So.  I am mad.  One should not blog when one is mad.  Nonetheless.

My name is Indigo Montoya.  You rejected me.  But now you have rejected my brother.  Prepare to die. 

The only school my brother applied to rejected him.  Straight As.  Robotics club. Language all four years.  Sports for two.  AP classes and honors in any place possible. 31 on the ACT. Why did he get rejected you ask?  Well I have come to the conclusion that BYU no longer values academics.  Rather they value sports over everything.  Every single person he went through school with that was academically minded was rejected.  Those who focused more on extra things and not on school were accepted.  Which happened my year as well.  Its whatever that they rejected me.  That's ancient history.  I'm not that smart anyway.  But my brother is so smart.  He might even rival my mom for intelligence. (Those of you who know my mom know how big that is.)
I'm mad for him.  There is no formula to get into that school.  Except to care more about your sport than your classes.  Every other school has a formula that will get you in.  This school seems to be more chance than anything.
I'm a little but furious on his behalf.  I know he'll end up going somewhere way better after his mission.  Provided he doesn't go into the military... But still.  I just wish this time they had accepted him because he deserves it. 

A man's reach must exceed his grasp,

or whats heaven for?

-- Robert Browning

Thankful

Lately I've had a lot of opportunity to realize how lucky I am. Its not that I can't see all the wonderful things in my life, it is more that I have especially noticed them lately.
Things I am thankful for:
*My husband Dennis.  I am so lucky. He is the perfect gentleman in every circumstance and I wouldn't trade anything in the world for him.  He is truly the most amazing thing or person in my life.  I always tell him he is my favorite.  I can't even describe this bit of gratitude.
*My job. 
*Our (big) apartment with all of the furnishings we were so lucky to get.
*Our Disney passes
*Books
*Temples! (I count how many there are whenever we drive.  I have a goal to visit all of them in the area.)
*My family and Dennis's family
*God.  I would not be where I am today with His help and His love.  You have no idea. 
*The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
*Squeaky cheese
*Candles
*Washing machine
*Babies.
*The kids I work with
*Medicine
*The scriptures
*That Dennis served a mission and is temple worthy
*Soft sweaters
*Yoga pants
*Leather boots
*Socks
*Being able to buy our own food without worry
*Clean water
*Camping

Honestly I could on for quite a while longer.  The point is, I am so grateful for everything in my life right now.  It makes me happy.

Sunshine

So pathetic or not this is my second blog post in the same hour... I'm waiting for Dennis to wake up so I may be a little bit lonely...
So.  I saw one of my friends do a 5 things about me post.  And I'm totally a follower or maybe I just like her a lot and miss her... Anyway I'm going to copy her a little. 

*I cannot sleep if there is light.  So I have been up since the sun hit our window.

My husband thinks I may as well dye my hair red.  I'm a grown up baby Ana.

*I'm really into photos and making digital scrap books.  (Real ones too but they're expensive.)

* I'm really into experiences.  I've discovered lately that I have really become one of those people that values doing things over owning things.  I don't mind in the least. 

*I'm awful at sitting still.  Ask my husband.  He has to sit through movies and church with me.

*I love the library.  One of the first things I did after we got an apartment was get a library card. 

The First Day Ever

So the phrase "live today like it's your last" has always really bothered me.  Not just because it's inspired the dumbest acronym in the English language (see:  yolo) or because it's basically sacrilegious (see:  The Bible).  No, it is because to me that sounds so incredibly sad.  Can you seriously consider for a moment what you would do if you knew it was your last day?  I feel like that is so sad.  You'd be filled with so much regret and panic and wastfulness.  Anything you'd do would just seem.. dismal.  The other day I came across a quote that said to live today like it's your first.  Now that is much more to my liking.  Imagine you are just plopped on this earth for the first time ever.  You'd be so excited and filled with so much wonder at even the smallest things!  You'd want to try that ice cream shop on the corner.  You'd be excited to see all the silly National Monuments or those places they adverstize on the freeway in remote places (such as the Museum of Butter).  You'd want to try bee farming!
Ok so maybe this is just becoming a list of things I want to do.  The point is, the first day would be the most exciting, hopeful day.  So why not live every day like its your first?  Even if you live in the same place you've lived for years, there is always something to feel amazement or curiosity over.  Like bee farming. 
So now that I'm thinking about this, I'm going to digress.  I really, really want to work on a bee farm.  That is what I am asking for for my birthday.  I'm border line obsessed with the idea of bees.  It all began last summer when I told my then-fiancee that I was going to be a bee keeper and we were going to buy a hive when we had the money.  Then I met a nice bee keeper at a farmers' market in Virginia who told us to come and work on his bee farm in the spring.  However, we no longer live there.  So.  Now I need to find a new bee farm.

Brag Post

So my husband Dennis is artistic. Just for kicks and giggles.  It's pretty sweet. I took an art class last semester and received a sweet set of water colors and brushes which he has taken to.  His classes haven't started yet so he's been creating things lately. 
Observe:

He has also created an Iron Man painting as well but I can't find the picture... His next project will be Captain America if I remember correctly.  He's just amazingly talented.  I have a Snow White drawing he gave me and I like to look through his sketch book.  Sometimes I am a bit envious of his natural talent.  He's so lucky.
I'm so lucky.  He picked me. Woot.

So braggedy brag.  He also ordered Frozen for me.   To demonstrate how big of a deal this is we listen to the songs almost daily and when I go over to one of my kid's houses Frozen is on every day.  And! I still love it.  We also went to the Ice Castle. 

 It was so cool. Literally (ha I'm puny) and I had some middle age ladies bully me into crawling through a child sized tunnel. Not that I needed much bullying.  I fit somehow. 

Thoughts on Roundabouts

So I drive to work every day and we live really close to a university. Our street happens to have two traffic circles.  Or as the rest of humanity calls them roundabouts.  I have decided we should never have "modernized" and gone the way of the street light.  Roundabouts are so much quicker to get through and I never have to wait.  I'm a line and waiting snob obviously.  Sir Dennis served in England for his mission and he said that every traffic intersection is a roundabout.  He said he's even been through a round about that led into another roundabout.  Absolute madness.  In a great way. 
On a slightly different topic.  Our new apartment. 

Such an attractive picture I know. So our apartment seemed like a dream come true.  Close to everything, washer-dryer hook ups, cute door, paid for water, etc.  It has been less than a week since we've moved in and we have definitely moved into a fixer upper.  We are slowly discovering new (and exciting) problems.  Such as our cold leaks for our washer so badly we would get flooded if we didn't turn it off.  We have no dishwasher.  Our disposal leaks even worse than our washer. Oh and our fridge doesn't work.  So currently all of our refrigerated things are living outside because the porch is colder than the fridge. (Yay for a fairly cold winter.) We have no idea how to fix it. We have had a variety of other problems but we have figured those ones out slowly. 

Still.  We are so thankful to be living on our own. We get a big apartment for us and at a pretty cheap price right in the middle of everything. 
And those are my thoughts about roundabouts

(Digression. I read an article that it is improper to double space after sentances.  I was taught to do that by a grammar Nazi and the hell I'm going to change it.  I think he is wrong and misled. I will double space till the end of time. Because in elementary school you are taught there is a slightly bigger space between sentences than there is between words.  Therefore.  Double space.  Bam.)

Brontasaurousrex

So one of my dear friends told me I ought to restart a blog.  I don't think anyone will read or even want to.  Dennis thinks we may be fascinating enough for someone to want to.  We shall see who wins.

Alright.  I am not sure what direction this blog will take.  We are going to let it naturally progress however the future sees fit. Let's start with the basics of who we are, what we do or have done, and any tidbits I feel so inclined to include.

 

My name is Callie and his is Dennis (also known as Sir Dennis, Prince Charming, man of my dreams, The Last Surviving Gentleman, etc).  I could completely spam this post with our wedding pictures but instead I'll embed our wedding book.  If I can figure that out... 

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So we got married 26 July 2013.  For our honeymoon we traveled all over the California coast. We went from Mammoth to a ghost town to San Fransico to Monterrey to Big Sur and back to sunny southern California.  It was a blast.  We had so much fun.  Perhaps I'll post a detailed post later.  Maybe.

Dennis is very proud of this picture

After that we moved across the country to Virginia where we both attended one semester of school and hung out with his not-so-baby sister.  Dennis was on the Men's soccer team.  Check out that dramatic picture. Virginia was beautiful. The trees! The trees.  Oh I loved the trees.  The deer were pretty cool too. It was the middle of nowhere though, so we decided there was nothing there for us and we moved again.

With le sister

Oh did I mention we're Disney people? We both are proud owners of the Disneyland annual pass.  I want to go to Disney World so badly.  But first we need money. Also, Snow White is my princess. 













Anyway.  So we moved across the country again.  We now live in Utah. On our way across the country we got stuck due to sever ice/thunder/tornado weather and we experienced the southern ghetto and I may or may not have almost died in the scariest hotel ever. 

We have been in Utah about a month. Dennis is registered for school and I have a job working with children with autism again.  It's pretty great so far.  We just moved into our apartment and we are excited.

"Adventure is out there." -- Disney's Up