Quick Updates-about upcoming events

Okay, so here I am getting ready for a fattening weekend in about a week? That's right! Thanksgiving! A wonderful holiday to pack on some pounds! and I mean it. Chris and I are going to his parents house first. Then we'll be heading down to my parent's house for another fantastic meal. Hopefully though we'll be able to have enough room in our stomachs for both places. I hope so because I'm sure there is going to be alot of fantastic food. Also another perk that comes with the Thanksgiving time of year is the BYU vs. U game. GO BYU! I'm sure they'll win. At least that's what I'm hoping for. It should be pretty awesome. I plan on watching the game over at Chris's place in HD! Good stuff, hopefully though the TV will work. He's had trouble with his antanae since he got it, it's a bit sensative to movement. Anyway, there's this and next weekend for ya.

As for next month...December. Chris plans on taking me to see The Nutcracker. :D should be fun. and I plan on spending Christmas with my family. and hopefully we'll be going up to Idaho as well, since this time I will be able to have at least some time for that this year. and I'm hoping to get some serious snowmobiling in. Hint hint.

So that's it as far a s plans for the rest of the year go. I'm not big into planning too far ahead, though I have been known to plan ahead for a few things. My family can probably tell you that much. But for now, that's everything. Well I hope you all enjoyed...and I'll be back tomorrow to do some better blogging for everybody who reads this thing (and that's only about what? four people?) hahaha, oh well, it's fun anyway. Alright, peace everybody! I'm going home!

I LOVE YOU!

To Chris,

Thank you so much! I love you! You are amazing, and that was the best surprise I have ever received. Thank you.

To everybody else; Chris sent me flowers.

To Forgive:

forgive

stop blaming or grant forgiveness;

╚forgive
╚excuse; pardon
╚pardon
╚remit
╚absolve
╚absolve; justify; free
╚excuse; condone

According to Dr. Robert Muller,
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of Love..." I must admit, I agree with him. It is the highest, most beautiful form of Love. Some people believe that the only reason to forgive a person is if they deserve it, If they have earned it. But I believe that a person deserves to be forgiven always. No matter what. I admit some forgivness takes time. Some situations take more times than others, but I believe everybody deserves to be forgiven. If you love a person enough, they should be forgiven for their mistakes. Because their actions are simply that, a mistake. We all make them. If we didn't, we would have forgiveness at all. It simply would not exist because we would all be perfect. You don't need an emotion, a word, an action like forgiveness in a perfect world. But this is not a perfect world...
And I am not a perfect person. And I am So Very Sorry. If you can find it in yourself to forgive me, I promise I will do whatever it takes to make it right in your eyes. I am so sorry. Please please please, forgive me.

My New Job. Check it out.

I have a new job. I now work at Kitchen Resource. I am in the customer service department. I answer phone calls, questions, (from both the customer and myself). I send replacement parts, and give the address of where customers are to send their machines to us to be the ones to get their machines fixed. I am lucky here. I am lucky to be here. This company is great. They give us lunch everyday. And not just any kind of lunch, they have a chef who comes in and makes us nice lunches from scratch. It is amazing. They are amazing. The hours are the best. I work 10am-5pm, Monday-Friday. It is heaven.
My last job, was the complete opposite. I worked too many hours for too little pay. I'm glad I left. They were worthless. They didn't care about any of the guests what-so-ever. Housekeeping was horrible, it seemed they never vacuumed, wiped-off any counters or other surfaces that should have been disinfected. Dishes don't get run through the washer, and some of the time the sheets don't get sent to the cleaners because corporate is more determined to save money and not pay the Cleaners, than to have nice clean sheets for the guests to sleep on. I for one, think that is ridiculous and that the company is going to be shut down. I can only hope for so much though.
The other ridiculous thing with my previous employer is that they do not give their employees any reason to stay there and work for them. No raises until November! No bonuses until 2010, if ever again. Insurance doesn't do squat! Over all, it's a stupid company, and is going down hill. Fast. I only hope they go down shortly. Or else get their heads out of their greedy selves and put some money into that fiery doom. Which they won't.
On the bright side, I have a fantastic job. I even recieved a fax at my new job from Future Stacey. It is as follows;
To:Stacey
Date:6/16/2008 (that's my favorite part from future Stacey, she made it seem so real and near!)
Regarding: Kitchen Resource

Dear Stacey,
You should be into your second week of working at Kitchen Resource by now. Keep it up, you will be running the Service Department soon enough.

Yours truly,
Future Stacey
P.S. Beware of the potato salad.

Little does future Stacey know, I Love Potato salad, and I will not give it up. Never. That is a fruitless battle that is already lost. Future Stacey should have known this. But since she also didn't know the correct date...I have no reason to hold it against her. After all, it is Future Stacey I am talking about, and She is amazing. :)

I admit, the only downside of working here, I have to give up Pre-School. And that knowledge tears me apart more than Tear apart auto recycling, tears apart a car. This choice tears me apart completely. I didn't know I would be affected by it this much. The only solace that I have in this choice is the knowledge that someday I will be able to continue in pre-school again. As I have already decided that I am going to be a Teacher when I finally decide to continue growing up. I have no doubt my parents wish that to happen soon. And I admit, I also feel the need for that to continue shortly. The sooner the better as it is always said, and sometimes is right.

Now, as the time is nearing 5pm, I must bid all my fabulous readers fairwell. It's time to finish my work.
Ciao.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM!!!

Happy Mother's Day MOM!! I LOVE YOU! and I want to say Thank You for being such a wonderful Mother. I know I don't tell you that as much as you deserve to hear. So i'm taking this time to tell you know.

Thank You so much for putting up with me. My infamous tantrums, my stubborness, my goofy-ness, and random off the wall comments. Thank You for loving me through all of that. You truly are a wonderful mother, and I am so blessed to have been sent to you. I'm sorry for all the times I've made you cry, or upset you. I'm sorry for getting upset at so many little things. I'm so grateful that you have such a wonderful personality, the way you describe things, your writting style that you use to journalize the many scrapbooks that you spent so much time on. Mom, in all honesty, I do appreciate your skill and talent that you put into those books. I hope that someday, your patience for sitting down and creating something beautiful like that, will rub off on me. I love you so much Mom. Thank You again for always being there for me.

Happy Mother's Day. I Love You!

Funny and Typical. Another Tale of my Kitchen Incidents....

Okay, so by the title you can probably tell that it is not uncommon for me to make mistakes while I'm working in the kitchen. Most of the time I burn the food.....Luckily for me, Chris still eats it...well, as long as he can tell what it is. He says it helps him put hair on his chest? haha, anyway. This incident I'm going to tell you about, just happened last night. You might want to grab a box of tissues....
I was slightly hungry for some chocolate chip cookies...and I had a packet of cookie mix, so I grabbed the mix of chocolate chip cookies, and a box of Triple Chocolate decadence Brownie mix (like I said, I wanted some chocolate, and I was hungry) and Chris and I headed to his place to mix up the batches, and watch The Office. The cookies were sooo good too! yummy!!! and Because we felt like it, we mixed up the brownies as well. Well, I mixed them up (we later discovered that that wasn't such a good idea....). So, I mixed up the brownies, and I spread the batter nice and smoothly over the pan. I then sat on the couch for a minute to give the oven a chance to cool from the cookies I'd baked just minutes before. Once I determined the oven was ready, I read the brownie box to determine the time for which they would bake, and I just happened to glance at the ingredients, and suddenly realized that....I'd forgotten to mix in the egg! Luckily, I hadn't put the pan into the oven yet, and was able to scoop out the mix, back into the bowl, and add the egg. which made such a difference in the texture of the batter! where as before it was all clumpy and difficult to spread...the egg added much needed lubrication. It basically made the batter smoother, spreadable, and probably added to the taste as well. HAHAHA!! and yes, just like I said, this is quite typical of me. Which means that Chris wasn't the least bit surprised when he learned about it. It did give him a good laugh too, I mean, it was just too funny of an incident not to.
So, What's going to happen to the brownies now? Well, because we ended up not eating them last night as it took 33 minutes to bake....we are going to take them to his mother's house for part of our desert after dinner tonight. Chris admitted to me, that he is nervous about giving them to his family and quite frankly, I don't blame him. I know they're not poisenous or anything....but, they might taste funny (as that's not uncommon either). Because (and here's the part I didn't tell him) I don't know the exact amount of oil or water I added.... The recipe called for 1/4c water, and 1/3c oil.....(or maybe it was the other way around?) but Chris, doesn't have measuring cups that go below 1/2c. So using his glass measuring cup that goes from 1/2c.-2c. I guessed. Anyway....that's my Funny but Typical kitchen experience.
Hope you all enjoyed it. I know I did! hahahhahahahhahaahahaha.....

Dover Beach

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;-- on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land.
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the aegaen, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright gridle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.



(This is a poem I recieved while I was in High School, and I just thought I'd share it. Even though I don't even know what it means..... if you have any insight at all, I'd truly love to hear it.)