Wherever life takes us...: February 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

2 Things:

1) My husband gave me the most beautiful potted flowers for Valentines day. (I love flowers and like getting them but feel like they're a waste of money at the same time. To compromise he gets me potted ones. Isn't that nice? :)

2) I got a new job in a cardiac rehab center at a somewhat nearby hospital. I'm really excited. It's starting out part-time but, it could go to full time. It also includes benefits. Hospitals definitely take care of their employees.

The hospital is in the process of reorganizing their program and are hiring an Exercise Physiologist for the first time in a few years in order to diversify the team. It'll be challenging to carve out a niche for myself but, I think that it's ultimately better that way. I think I'll enjoy having a say in some of the changes and making the program the best it can be for us and for the patients.

Life is good.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

On Colds

I've always been really blessed when it comes to health. I usually only get a couple of colds a year. Working in childcare the last couple of months has already given me 2-3. I think I've reached my quota. My current cold is the worst one I've had in like 4 years and I'm not exaggerating. It's because of said cold that I'm blogging this morning instead of working. Luckily Joey has been really helpful.Two nights ago everything above my mouth was completely blocked. It felt like there was a heavy plug in all of my nasal and sinus passages. On top of that I have a sore throat so, the whole breathing with my mouth open thing didn't feel so good. No matter what angle I positioned my head and how much cold medicine I took nothing helped. As I got frustrated because my body was exhausted but I couldn't sleep I started to cry and my throat tightened up too and then I really couldn't breathe. It was kind of scary. After I calmed myself down Joey offered to give me a blessing and I was able to sleep the rest of the night. He was also willing to go to the store last night to get me some breathing strips (which actually help by the way). So, all in all I guess if I have to get a nasty cold at least I have someone to take care of me. :)

On another note, I just found out I may not have to work with the little petri dishes much longer (as cute as 2 year olds are and as much as I like them they don't exactly understand the concept of keeping germs to themselves.) I have a job interview at a cardiac rehab center! Updates to come.

About Us

Melissa's Version:

Joey and I met in September 2010 when Melissa decided to leave her friends and family and move to Duluth, Minnesota for graduate school. Coming from BYU this was a big change and I didn't expect to do much dating at all. We met two weeks or so after I arrived and I was immediately interested. He just "seems like my type of person," I reflected that night. We saw each other every night that week and he didn't waste any time finding out if I would date him. I guess we both knew what we wanted because we've been together ever since.

Joey's Version:

So here's the Real version of how we met:

We first met at some YSA broadcast at the church on a Sunday night, early September in Duluth. Since there were a number of new people there (new school year and all), we were still in the chapel afterwards chatting and getting to know each other some. And there was this girl who kept on looking at me... even though everyone else was facing the other direction she kept turning around to check me out. I personally thought this was a little forward, but I guess that's how they do things in Utah.

Flash forward to the next night... there was a FHE event at her house that evening, bunch of people there including the missionaries. People talked, blah, blah blah... so afterwards we were eating our dessert snack and the 2 of us talked some more, getting to know each other. She won't admit it, but she was checking me out quite a bit during all of this.

So jump to the next night at Mutual at the church. After the lesson some people are talking about going down to the Lake Walk for a lil stroll. I announce how it's better if you go running on it, not just walking. This is when my future-wife loudly announces "Oh! I'd love to do that too! I'll go with you!" If she wasn't so cute I'd think she belonged in a looney bin.

So we change and I go to her house to pick her up.. we go down to the Lake Walk and go for a run.. We were both pacing each other very well, something that's hard to find in a running partner, so I had good feelings for her. We met the others, but they were still walking so we kept going. And all this time the waves were HUGE.. the biggest I've ever seen down there. We get back to where I parked the car but we see these 3 or 4 teenagers out in the waves, playing and jumping in them. I talk her into trying it out and so we take off our socks n shoes and go on in too. As cold as the wind was, the water was actually pretty warm.. so we played in there.. every time a big wave came at us she's squeal out and clutch my body. It's a dirty job, but someone had to do it. So we got out and headed back to her place for some hot chocolate...

And that's the REAL story of how we met