Procrastination...

I told myself last night that I would be productive at work and get my homework done, seeing as how I was going to ARU and they slow WAY down after ten...but what do I do..dick around on facebook and find out what the #1 chart topper was the day I was born! FYI it was "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley...and Chav's was "These Dreams" by Heart.

And as cool as that is, I was sent home at midnight...so I got nothing accomplished re: homework.

Today...same kind of deal...so now, after some words of wisdom, I will log off here and...do my homework!

Today's thought: Take into account that great love AND great achievements involve great risk. 

--dalai lama

JAZZ!

Despite my recent disgust with the NBA, we decided it would be fun to take a weekend trip up north and catch a game with some friends.

We went to the Jazz vs. Nets game. We had nose-bleed seats, but Reggie (Shay's BF) hooked us up with an empty suite!!...so we got to enjoy the game in style..football game on TV, and basketball game live. We had a blast! Our friends Sam and Virginia ( aka: V) came with us!

the Jazz warming up

our suite!!!...so SICK

1/2 time performance...look at the guy doing a toe-toe with skis on!

chav, me, V, & Sam

WOO-HOO Jazz 107, Nets 94!!!

The Fam's a Bloggin'

Woot-woot! My sister, Meagan, and my mom, Jenny, both started blogs!

Meagan's is a daily deals blog called "Small Town Shopaholic Secrets" 

and my mom's is "With Love, From Mum." 

With deals and inspiration, you can't go wrong following these two!

http://withlovefrommum-xoxo.blogspot.com/ 

&

http://smalltownshopaholicsecrets.blogspot.com/

go check them out for yourself!

Sexy and I know it!

I've been thinking I should upgrade to full-size sedan for a while...so I set a goal to have my car posted on KSL by friday January 6th (and hoped it would sell within 30 days or so). So on the 6th at ten am I posted my car, and by 6 o'clock that night I had found a buyer (a nice couple from Panguitch)!! 

Naturally in my excitement I HAVE to go to the dealership the next morning to pick out my car....I had planned to get a pearl white Kia Optima, but then this beauty came on the truck saturday morning....so Chav and I spent our afternoon negotiating pricing and picking out what warranties I wanted. (I actually emailed all the Kia Dealerships in Utah and Las Vegas area, and Findlay Kia here in St. George price matched)

So...Tuesday night, I get home from SUU...the new owners pick up my car (goodbye Honda..we made some good memories you and me), and then we raced over to the dealership to pick up my new RIDE!

2002 honda civic...you were good to me, but I don't think you're going to be missed :)

"girl, look at that body".. that is one sexy car!

However (as I'm sure many of you feel the same), sometimes I feel that without bad-luck I wouldn't have any luck at all...

I wake up Wednesday morning to open to garage to make sure my baby is still safe and lookin' fly and..mmm the garage smells like new car...so tasty!

and then...my spiral starts...

435-590-**** pops up on my cell phone...my instict, "SHIT, what's wrong?" I answer the phone and the buyer of my honda tells me it wouldn't start this morning for him. He thinks he tried starting it twice and nothing happened..but he's hoping it's just the battery. I tell him how sorry I am, and ask him to call me if it is not the battery.

I instantly feel nauseated...I already took the money I made off that car and bought a new one...I don't need two cars..he better not think he's going to bring it back..it's already been replaced..F*$# is all I can think (what can I say, I am my mother's daughter (:   ).

F-bomb, followed by a prayer that everything will work out...leaves me feeling uneasy honestly because my gut tells me he is going to call again...and sure enough within the hour he calls..

"My wife jump started it and it started just fine, so she left it running while she went to grab something out of the house. When she came back there was tons of smoke coming out from under the hood. We just want to bring it back." FU*#. "I'm so sorry all of this is happening to you, we have honestly never had anything like that happen while we owned it. Let me talk with my husband and call you back," I say.

I can't hold back the tears...I'm so sick to my stomach I can barely stand it. After many frantic text messages to my Dad, Chav, and talking with Katie at Utah Power...things started to feel bettter, and my thoughts had been justified.

My thoughts: I want to trust people, but money makes people do shady things. It's not like they drove it 5 miles, they drove it to Panguitch..I have no idea what happened between here and there. I sold a fine, working car so they cannot expect me to take a broken one..I don't want to seem like a shady business person either..why me?..why me?..Fu#$ity, Fu#$, Fu*&, Fu#@!..I can't have two car payments.thank goodness the Bill of Sale states it is sold as is and not guaranteed.

Last phone call arrives, and I'm dying inside (because I feel he is going to once again, say he wants to bring it back, and I'm going to say "I'm sorry but I can't take it back," and he's going to say, "FU..I'm not keeping this piece of shit," and I'm going to say, "Well you can bring it back but I can't give you anything for it." and so on)..but thankfully he had it looked at, and it was just the belt Chav told him had probably broke when his wife jump started it due to the cold..easy fix...thank goodness!

Wed/Thur=on call at work=fitness at Gold's with Chav

2012 Kia Optima EX in Metallic Bronze

Friday (today) means it has been > 48 hours since selling my car, feeling relieved, I am LOVIN' my new car! And as I drive through the city the song playin' in my head..."I'm sexy and I know it!"

Another year...full of adventure

Holy Cow...I cannot believe another year has gone by.
This year has encompassed many up's and downs for this Holliday family. It has been a year and a half since we moved our family from Blanding to the St. George area, and in doing so we have been on the roller-coaster of life.

2011 in 30 seconds or less:
-We got called to teach primary togther
-Chav survived spring semester @ DSC
-I started SUU's RN-BSN program
-Found out my little sister is going to be a mom
-Fall semester started
-Chavis got released from primary and got called to Young Men's secretary
-I got hired as a float nurse at Dixie Regional Medical Center
-I got released from primary
-Went to the Utah vs BYU game with my Dad...got UTES!
-Chav guided with BTO
-Chav killed a spike and a deer?
-Chavis earned his Associate's from Dixie!
-Spent the Holiday's with family

We are starting to see how the term "opposites attract" isn't always as romantic/comical as it is on TV and the movies, but we're working on things :)

2012 be good to us :)

Christmas with the Holliday's

The funny thing about Blanding is how tight-knit so much of the town is. Seeing how close this town is, a friend called Chavis asking if we could pick up a couch for them in Hurricane before heading to Blanding for Christmas.

Before getting the couch I stop by the Turley's (another couple from Blanding who live a couple miles from us who are good friends with Chavis' grandma Joey) to pick up some items for Grandma Joey for Christmas.

Of course Chavis was working all day, so I was the one who got to help load couch into the truck :). I show up at the Ashley furniture warehouse and there is one large man in the office (i'm thinking to myself, "great, I wore ballet flats and a cardigan to lift a friggin couch into the truck). The man is nice. He has me sign a receipt and then back the truck up. And then he grabs the couch like it weighs TEN pounds! I climbed into the bed to help center it and scoot it back...should've seen these gangly legs straddling the bed so the couch could fit all the way in...haha...I'm sure it looked pretty goofy.

Turley's..check, couch..check, now all that was left to do was load the truck.

I pride myself on my ability to stragically pack so that large amounts of things can fit in small spaces!

As soon as Chav gets home we hop in the truck, and off we go...through the crick (colorado city per Chav's co-workers), and rez...to grandmother's (and mother's) house we go!

Christmas Eve Chav and Punk got up early to call coyotes..the rest of us slept in and then went to the eleven o'clock showing of TinTin; this was an employee present from Dr. Black, even though I think there were some random people not employeed by the hospital that decided to come too..When Chav got back we stopped by Kendra and Jordan's to meet their new addition Jag, and visited with Cindy and Monte before heading to Grandma Joeys for the Christmas Eve Party!

At the party we got to meet Mort and Nicole's baby boy Heston...such a cutie! This was the first party I have been able to attend (since I've worked every Christmas Eve/Christmas since becoming a nurse). It was fun to have Jayne there, she livened the party up with games and got everyone laughing. Grandma Joey gave each couple a book on the History of Seth & Vivian Shumway (Chavis' great grandparents...through whom 1/2 of Blanding is related). What a great gift, and interesting to me in different ways than it was even to Chavis. I had the opporutunity to care for Joey's older brother Merwin before his passing with the wonderful company, Professional Case Management. It was neat for me to see pictures of my patients when they were younger, and remember many of the stories I have been told about by them about growing up.

After the party we heading to Shane and Merri's house to meet... (if we were catholic, i'd for sure be this angel's god-mother..but since I'm not..I'll just have to be happy with honorary aunt :D) BRYIR PALMER. I have loved her since the moment I received the picture message saying she'd arrived! And getting to meet her in person, honestly made my entire trip! She is so precious, and was born to great parents! I am so grateful for the friendship we have with Garrin and Cheyna, and am so excited for their new little family!

Christmas we spent a good two hours talking to Jace on the phone (currently serving a mission in Colorado). It was soo good talking to him..Chav and I miss him lots not being in St. George with us, but he says he plans to come back...and we're glad! We also got to talk with Bri (currently serving a mission in Florida), but we only had 30 minutes (she is very by-the-book...which is a good thing).

Jayne talkin' with Jace

Punk

The Tree

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Chav & I with all our goodies!

Shay must've been good this year!..or was she?!

Quinn...FOX hoodie..picked out by Grandma Joey

the rent's with all their goodies!

Bailey havin' fun with Chav

David, Tammy, Karlie, Amber and Bailey came to say hi!

Christmas with the Black's

December 16-18th we headed back to Spring Glen to attend the Allred Christmas Party.

My mom spends many hours every year sending invites, decorating, and purchasing things for this annual Allred party, to give her family a time to get together every year. It's too bad that not everyone sees the effort she puts into these things. My mom cares about FAMILY more than any person I know. She LOVES her nieces and nephews and her great nieces and nephews...she gets presents for everyone every year, and she does it because she LOVES them. She really doesn't expect anything in return; she just wants everyone to enjoy spending time together.

I am so glad we were able to attend this party this year!

Joel and Rachel's fam came down for this too. We enjoyed opening presents with them, and visiting with them. On sunday, we all drove to Huntington to listen to my second cousin Nevin speak before leaving on his mission! He has grown up so much, and it was great seeing family I haven't seen in years.

Next weekend...on the road again...this time to Blanding

Thanksgiving....at home

This was the first year in a really long time that we have had Thanksgiving at home. It has been a family tradition to go to Park City for the week, but this year we decided to switch things up and stay home (because my work schedule was up in the air, and my sister Meagan moved home). 

Condrad & Parker LOVE Hunter!

watching football

preppin' for the BIG meal!

Meag was tuckered out...before dinner

I forgot to get our annual family Thanksgiving photo...but in attendance this year was my uncle Joel, aunt Rachel, there kids: Mindy, Dallin, Brayden, & Hunter. And my fam: Jon, Jenny, Chavis, Me, Meagan, and the dogs (Conrad & Parker).

I'm not much for Black-Friday crowds, and after hearing about the lady who pepper-sprayed fellow shoppers to get what she wanted, and the theives waiting in parking lots to rip people off...I can honestly say, there is no deal worth the hell people go through to save a couple bucks.

I had a wonderful time with my family this year...see ya in a couple weeks for our early Christmas :)