Sorry blog. I have neglected you.
-Not showing much love, Andrew
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
1/19/12
Dear Future,
Really quick I just wanted to share what I think to be a funny experience. This story shows how miscommunication works. Katie was on google chat with me. She said that we need to think of options for din din (Katie for dinner). I started naming off a list of options which consisted of home made mac n cheese and cheesy potatoes. Katie said that sounded good but we would have to shred the cheese and it would take an hour to cook. Being the wonderful husband that I am, I told her that I would take care of the shredding of cheese. For the mac n cheese there are lots of cheese used for it. We had 3 different blocks of cheeses that would need to be shredded. I started shredding away. The seconds turned to minutes and the minutes turned into more minutes. This was taking longer than I had anticipated. After many hard minutes I had finished. I called Katie to see if I could lovingly start the macaroni noodles (elbow style to be precise) she asked me what they would be for. I was confused. I said for the mac n cheese. She replied we are having cheesy potatoes. Oops. We had different ideas for this din din occasion. We both laughed and I wanted to surprise her by having the cheeses all shredded in different bowls. She came home and laughed. Then she whipped me with a belt for my punishment. If you believed that last sentence you should be ashamed. Any ways I thought this was funny. Maybe it was a you had to be there story. Guess what, I was there. Therefore it is funny to me.
Really quick I just wanted to share what I think to be a funny experience. This story shows how miscommunication works. Katie was on google chat with me. She said that we need to think of options for din din (Katie for dinner). I started naming off a list of options which consisted of home made mac n cheese and cheesy potatoes. Katie said that sounded good but we would have to shred the cheese and it would take an hour to cook. Being the wonderful husband that I am, I told her that I would take care of the shredding of cheese. For the mac n cheese there are lots of cheese used for it. We had 3 different blocks of cheeses that would need to be shredded. I started shredding away. The seconds turned to minutes and the minutes turned into more minutes. This was taking longer than I had anticipated. After many hard minutes I had finished. I called Katie to see if I could lovingly start the macaroni noodles (elbow style to be precise) she asked me what they would be for. I was confused. I said for the mac n cheese. She replied we are having cheesy potatoes. Oops. We had different ideas for this din din occasion. We both laughed and I wanted to surprise her by having the cheeses all shredded in different bowls. She came home and laughed. Then she whipped me with a belt for my punishment. If you believed that last sentence you should be ashamed. Any ways I thought this was funny. Maybe it was a you had to be there story. Guess what, I was there. Therefore it is funny to me.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
1/15/12
Dear Future,
Well today we went to my boys homecoming. This term confuses Katie but what I am trying to say is that the last companion I had who I trained in the mission field came home. It was so amazing to go and hear a story about an investigator I found with him. I had no idea how the end of her story went and how she finally made it to baptism. This weekend has been really fun and I have learned a lot. I was reminded on how no matter how busy life gets I need to always keep Katie in mind. She is my boo and I will take care of her. Katie and I were talking about possible future plans. She took me out to the sticks where she taught school last semester. She told me of how she would like to live there if she got an internship. I was sold by the amount of space and the cool small town feeling. Honestly when I grow older (and wiser too) I want to live in a smaller town setting. So we are going to keep our eyes open for any good deals to live in Springville. I also took Katie to a couple craft stores. She is so talented at decorating homes and just making anything that looks bad ( such as our apartment haha) into something so beautiful. She just has a natural talent for those types of things. We also ate out at a couple of cool restaurants. I have now learned that if you want to go out to eat and just walk in and sit down. You have to do it outside of Provo. I have loved my stay here in the P Town, living the Happy Valley Dream. But I cannot wait for the day to move out and on with life. I am so close. I am actually thinking hard of what schools I would like to go to. Right now Houston and Memphis are my top choices. I would love to go back to Texas.... for the third time. I have to keep the pattern alive. I grew up in Utah, moved to Texas, High School in Idaho. Utah for College, Texas for Mission, back to Idaho for marriage. Now I am in Utah to finish school and according to the pattern there is only one option.... TEXAS. So we will see. I love my life. I love the gospel which always reminds me of what is important in this life. I love my wife who is my best friend and who helps me more than anything else. Well here are some of my random thoughts.
Goodbye Future
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
1/10/12
First off, don't get used to me writing much on this high tech journal. But I will be honest that this makes journal writing super easy. I just finished a essay I wrote for my English class. I wrote it on my wife Katie. I had to pick a topic where we have had opposite opinions. I had to write about what has led her to have a certain opinion. As I wrote on about her I couldn't write anything bad. Suddenly I found myself seeing how much she does for our future family. Ya that means you buttheads (as in the kids). She truly does so much and I am so in love with her. She is so great and sacrifices so much just so we can have a better life. Who would of thought that a simple homework assignment could be so good on my soul. Well it may have to do with the fact that I am at BYU where that is not only appropriate but expected. (That was a huge diss on other schools). I think I really want to use this Journal for funny events, things that I personally learn, or big events. I am going to try and cut the fluff out. I mean who cares that today I got to eat a fancy lunch with deans, advisors, and other high rollers for a meeting, free lunch and I got paid. I did all of that while katie probably had coke and chips. See those events I may not care about later on in life. But knowing me I will most likely include random ideas, thoughts, or stories that would be good if I knew how to be a good story-teller.
Remember all of the nice things I wrote about Katie. Well she just put a close (clothes?) pin on my ear and it hurt me really bad.....
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I rest my case
Monday, January 9, 2012
1/9/2012
Dear Future,
Well Katie told me that for FHE I have to spend a few minutes writing in a journal. She asked me if I had a journal to write in and I may have said yes. So I have decided to make a blog where I can write down my thoughts and my experiences. I may have stolen the idea from the beautiful wife, but she is gorgeous and I copy here big whoop. I decided to title this dear future because I am sure by the time I take time to look over these posts will be sometime in the future. That is a pretty good prediction. But I hope to have this around long enough for my on kids to see. That way they can realize how big of a goof their father was so that I can say, " Ha, I told you kids that I was always a goof and not just now." So I quick update on my life since I have been home from my mission. I kept a good journal on my mission so we can skip that. I got home. Kissed Katie. Was engaged to Katie. Married Katie. Just like that. It basically was just like that except over 3 months of time. I went to BYU and cleaned on campus at 4 in the morning just so I could later in life always one up people on terrible hours for jobs. I thought I wanted to be a dentist and then realized that I have no desire to stick my hands in people's mouths. Do you realize what goes in and can come out of those things? So Katie, bless her heart, took a random class that changed my life. Preview to Optometry. I never in a million (or even 21) years would have thought about being an Optometrist. Maybe because I have never been to one before. Luckily I was still on the right track to become an Optometrist. I have been doing very well in school, which happened to be one of my biggest fears of returning from a mission. I went to school year round that first year back so that I could get out of school earlier. For our one year anniversary we went to Disneyland. Disneyland is almost as amazing as Christmas. But nothing beats Christmas. I just had my second one with Katie and boy does she know how to give me presents. Katie and I teach primary. Best calling ever. I love kids. I only have one more semester after this current one until I am done. I am super excited. I will be taking the OAT soon for schools and I will be applying in July. I can't believe that time is already coming up. Well I hope that I can keep a better journal so that I can remember great events in my life. I sure hope that in heaven there will be a way to retrieve all of my thoughts and memories. In fact I am sure that will happen with all of the technology advancement here they have to have better technology in heaven. I have a great life, wife, and bright future. Fight the good fight of faith.
-Andrew T Smith
Well Katie told me that for FHE I have to spend a few minutes writing in a journal. She asked me if I had a journal to write in and I may have said yes. So I have decided to make a blog where I can write down my thoughts and my experiences. I may have stolen the idea from the beautiful wife, but she is gorgeous and I copy here big whoop. I decided to title this dear future because I am sure by the time I take time to look over these posts will be sometime in the future. That is a pretty good prediction. But I hope to have this around long enough for my on kids to see. That way they can realize how big of a goof their father was so that I can say, " Ha, I told you kids that I was always a goof and not just now." So I quick update on my life since I have been home from my mission. I kept a good journal on my mission so we can skip that. I got home. Kissed Katie. Was engaged to Katie. Married Katie. Just like that. It basically was just like that except over 3 months of time. I went to BYU and cleaned on campus at 4 in the morning just so I could later in life always one up people on terrible hours for jobs. I thought I wanted to be a dentist and then realized that I have no desire to stick my hands in people's mouths. Do you realize what goes in and can come out of those things? So Katie, bless her heart, took a random class that changed my life. Preview to Optometry. I never in a million (or even 21) years would have thought about being an Optometrist. Maybe because I have never been to one before. Luckily I was still on the right track to become an Optometrist. I have been doing very well in school, which happened to be one of my biggest fears of returning from a mission. I went to school year round that first year back so that I could get out of school earlier. For our one year anniversary we went to Disneyland. Disneyland is almost as amazing as Christmas. But nothing beats Christmas. I just had my second one with Katie and boy does she know how to give me presents. Katie and I teach primary. Best calling ever. I love kids. I only have one more semester after this current one until I am done. I am super excited. I will be taking the OAT soon for schools and I will be applying in July. I can't believe that time is already coming up. Well I hope that I can keep a better journal so that I can remember great events in my life. I sure hope that in heaven there will be a way to retrieve all of my thoughts and memories. In fact I am sure that will happen with all of the technology advancement here they have to have better technology in heaven. I have a great life, wife, and bright future. Fight the good fight of faith.
-Andrew T Smith
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