Cheerleader

You know what is great about having your own personal cheerleader?
You always have someone who believes in you.
Even if your ideas are a little "out there".

I've been dating an amazing guy for a couple months now, I'll refer to him as T, if and when I refer to him.
He is such a great guy, the male version of me with a few exceptions, one being that he is the extrovert to my introvert.  New relationships are fun because both people tend to have a pair of rose-colored glasses on for a while.  Personally, I tend to remove my rose-colored glasses pretty early on in a relationship, but T still has his in place.  As such, he thinks I am incredible, hilarious, artistic and can basically do anything.

That being said, when I told T that I was contemplating (and have been contemplating for a while) writing some children's stories, his response was immediate, "You absolutely should, you'd be great at that".

Let me give a little background on my foray into writing.

I am NOT a writer.

How'd you enjoy your foray?  That's basically all I've got for you.

I promise I am not completely crazy.  I have been thinking about this for a long time.  I have an online journal with ideas and background on characters.

I do not, however, know if this will actually come to fruition.

But if it does, I can thank my cheerleader for encouraging me.

No-Post November

If we set our calendars by my blog, November never happened.  It's always interesting for me to see how my blogging ebbs and flows throughout the years.  Sometimes a massive stream of blogging stems from boredom, and sometimes it occurs because I have so many spectacular things happening in my life that I KNOW the world (or at least the 5 of you who actually read this) must be dying to hear every last detail (or at least the details my goldfish brain can recall).  Though quite often, a lack of blogging happens for the very same reasons...I'm bored, meaning my life is boring, therefore I have nothing to share, or I have so many spectacular things happening to me that I just don't have the time (or energy, or mental recall) to blog about it.

I assure you that November did in fact come for a visit...stayed for about a month actually before we could kick it out the door.

Here are a few things that happened in November that I am sure you're on the edge of your seat to learn:

Haircuts
Dinners with friends
Movies- I recommend the newest Batman and newest Bond movies...best ones I've seen yet
Work
Lots of laughing with funny people
Made my first cheesecake-  The crust was a fail
Manicures
Dance parties for 1
Harry Potter marathons
Crossword puzzles
Painting
Making ornaments
Avoiding homework-  I am SO good at this one
Trips to Idaho
Christmas shopping
Bridal Showers
Roofing-  I do not miss the hammering at all
One brief snowfall
Dates
Thanksgiving
Silly conversations
Text messages
Reminiscing
Pay raises
3-year old princess birthday parties
Dinosaurs
Museums
Trips into the office

Mainly, I am in disbelief that the year is almost over.  It's amazing how quickly time seems to go by these days, though everything seems to go by quickly in retrospect, doesn't it?  At least I'm having fun!

Aaaand we're back!

Man, time flies when you avoid blogging.

First of all, my trip was A-Ma-Zing!
I arrived in Switzerland after a looong flight across the pond.  I literally kept randomly falling asleep over the course of the next 2 or 3 days.  I seriously hate jet-lag.

After a week in Switzerland, we made our way into Paris.  It was fun to see all the famous landmarks and the gorgeous gardens, though I think I preferred my trip into Alsace with Jenelle, the more pastoral picture of France appealed to me on a deeper level, and I was overcome by the beauty of it all!  Seriously gorgeous!

I've been home for a while now, and I think I am pretty well back in the swing of things, but it still weirds me out that Halloween is 2 days away...mainly because I was out of the country for the bulk of October.  Good thing I don't like Halloween anyway.

Mon Ami?

After the joyous reunion between my bed and I last month, I swore I would never leave it for an extended period of time again!  Unfortunately, I should learn to not make such idle promises...for you see, my bed and are are going to be separated again very soon.

See....I'm going to try out a couple other beds between the end of this month and the middle of October.  Foreign beds.  Swiss beds.  And French beds.  In Switzerland.  And...France.

Yep.  It's that time again!  This Classy Broad is going abroad!  Again.

When I took French in high school, I never actually thought I would ever go to France.  Sure there was the fleeting thought as we sat in our desks learning how to ask for directions to the library and the pool, but as far as serious thinking went, not so much.

But here I am.  Counting down the weeks until I board my flight across the pond.  And while I may not be able to converse with the natives, I will at least know how to say...

"Comment puis-je rendre à la bibliothèque et la piscine"



Just in case I want to read a book...next to the pool, that is.

Another recap...

I've been told by a number of people that my blog needs updating...

Why anyone would get sick of looking at the glorious post about being done with economics for the last month is completely beyond me, but apparently it is so.

Anyway...quite a bit has happened within the last month or so, so in true Lisa fashion, we're going to do a recap!  Aren't you excited?  Well...you should be.

So...last time we met, I was sleeping on the Buie's couch in Salt Lake, going into the office every day, dating a nice guy and planning some pretty fun trips to the theatre.  Well, I am currently residing at home (my bed missed me, and I missed it...we will try to never part again!  Actually not...but that will come later), only going into the office a couple days a week, no longer dating the guy, BUT...I DID go to the theatre!

Kelly and I took a trip down to Cedar City where we saw Les Miserables as part of the Utah Shakespearean Festival.  The production was fantastic!  Aside from Jean Valjean being slightly more angry throughout the course of the entire play, it was incredible!  Did I mention that Kelly and I also have tickets to see Les Miserables again THIS month?  Yeah...we do.  We'll be driving up to Boise in 3 weeks to see it.  Pretty stoked!

There was some craziness at work at the beginning of August that involved my boss leaving her position.  Everyone got a little tense and things got a little hairy there for a while as we tried to figure out what was going to ultimately happen with our department, but things have since worked out, and we are settling into a state of normalcy again (complete with me training 2 new hires for my team).

I have been procrastinating my school work since I finished economics.  My final class has 5 assignments associated with it, and as of yesterday, I only had 2 1/2 of them completed.  I KNOW!  I have about 20 days to get everything else done (which may seem like a lot to you, but Quantitative Analysis for Business isn't a cake-walk for all of us....and some of us are lazy to boot!).

Economics

I am officially DONE with economics.

I loathed studying economics...loathed it!

So I am glad to have it behind me.  I also took a glance at my degree plan, and I only have 9 courses left to complete (once my current term ends that is...).  Crazy!

Some of the courses are longer and more involved, so it may end up taking the full year and a half for me to complete, but that is okay.  The end seems much more in sight than before.

Fast Food

I was ravenous!

Here it was, 9:45pm, and I hadn't eaten since noon.

I had an angry animal growling in my stomach.

I drove down the road in an unfamiliar area trying to survey my food options.  They were pretty dismal.  On the left we had KFC, which is not something I enjoy eating.  On the right we had McDonald's, an establishment I have not graced in over 10 years and I'm not about to start now.  And up ahead we had TacoBell.  I think I went to a TacoBell once...I was maybe 11 or 12...it clearly left a big impression.

So I broke down and went to TacoBell.  It seemed like the lesser of the evils.  I have friends who LOVE TacoBell...or Taco Time...I frankly don't know the difference except that one has a cactus and the other has a bell.

The angry animal was getting angrier.

So I silenced it with a burrito.

Aside from silencing the beast, I have nothing good to report about TacoBell.  It was not tasty.  I have clearly not been missing out on anything in the last 15 years, which is good, because really, the fact that I don't eat fast food is something I am okay with maintaining.