Sleep Much?

Life has been pretty good lately. Work has gotten a bit better. The weather is phenomenial, 65 degrees on the last day of November to be exact and best of all... I discovered sleeping for 12 hours straight. I came home about a month ago and Kimball was home taking a nap, he earns those midday power naps though, the kid stays up til 2 or 3 in the morning just to be prepared for the next day of school. Anyways, I laid down next to him right when I got home from work around 6pm and although he woke up an hour or two later to study, I didn't wake up until the next morning at 6am when my alarm was going off. I woke up pretty disappointed that for 36 hours all I had known was work and sleep so I told Kimball we couldn't let that happen again.

It's happened at least once a week since that day. Including last night. One of the nights I woke up in the middle of it to Kimball laughing out loud and burying his knees in my back. I guess, in my sleep I had refused to move my legs/feet from Kimball's pillow and everytime he pushed me back to my side I'd kick right back onto his. And the best way he found was to knee me in the back as I was yelling, "Ouchy, ohhh ouchy, that really hurts. Stop it! Ouchy!" FYI ouchy is not a part of my daily vocabulary, just when Kimball touches me in my sleep.

I'm going to look fondly back on our years in dental school and think to myself how I caught up on 22 years of missed sleep. Kimball will be catching up on these 4 years of missed sleep for the rest of his life. :) He also likes to give me a recap of the nights that I turn into zombie Tess. This morning I woke up to this notecard:

K: Tess are you ready to get into bed?

T: No I'm telling a story.

K: Okay well are your toes cold?

T: No. Is your vagina cold?
Then you shot me with your finger-gun.

Ha. What a great way to start the day. Ps sorry I said the v word. In my defense, I was asleep.

Surprise for Kimball... HOVA

Can you keep a secret? Cause I sure can't. I don't know why but I am sooo excited for this. I bought Kimball birthday tickets to go see Jay-Z and Kanye West perform in San Jose in a month. And every single day there is at least one moment where I almost just blurt it out to him, so maybe if I type it out and feel like I'm telling someone than it will help me to not tell Kimball. Cross your fingers.

Kimball loves Jay-Z and he loves Kanye West. We don't listen to the ipod very often, but just last night Kimball came into the room and scrolled through everything to find the one Jay-Z and Kanye song we have on there and that's what he picked to listen to and his next choice was the Kanye West playlist. :) My wife job is just too easy sometimes. When we first started dating Kimball invited me on a road trip to Seattle to go see Jay Z in concert and then head up to Canada. It was on that trip that Kimball popped the big question, he was so nervous to ask me to come to Thanksgiving dinner. Kinda a big deal right? Especially since Thanksgiving was still a month and a half away. One could say that Jay Z brought Kimball and I together, yeah, one could say that.

Wednesdays Get Whacky

The Good: Look at her face! Is that not priceless. In the good today, I came across this picture that just melts my heart:

This adorable couple, Ann Thayer, 87, and Paul Walker, 88, got married at the Marshwood Center in Lewiston, Maine. The couple met at church and have dated for 17 years until some nurses in the nursing home where Walker is rehabilitating teased the couple about getting married. Thayer said their conversation went like this, "All those nurses said, 'You've been together how long? Why didn't you ever get married?' Paul looked at me, 'You want to do it?' I said, 'OK, well, when?' 'Right now,'". I just love how you can see happiness all over her face.

The Bad: In Lexington, SC, a six-year-old first grader came home from school telling her Grandma how tired she is of rubbing her teacher's feet. After hearing this, the Grandmother called the school and reported it on facebook and immediately received at least 6 other parents who had heard similar stories from their children. The teacher admitted to making the kids rub her feet during the school day and upon her confession was sent home for the day, only to return the next morning!! WHAT? "Does she take off her socks and shoes?" the Grandmother asked,"Grandma, she wears flip-flops." Ew. If you ask me this should be just as punishable as physical or sexual abuse.

The Ugly: Pretty sure the headline of this news article tells us all we really need to know, "He's no Santa: Burglary suspect stuck 10 hours in chimney". Apparently this 17 year old kid needed $500 to pay his taxes and after stealing it from an Atlanta resident, his best escape route was up through the chimney. A neighbord heard cries from the chimney calling out, "Help me! Help me!" and when asked what he was doing down there, "Ahhh... I'm stupid" was all he could say. I'm sure Antoine Dodson will be happy to hear that they finally caught him! So hide your kids, hide your wives and hide your Christmas presents cause they climbing through your chimneys!

And in my own news report, we had Thanksgiving dinner for lunch at work today :) Pumpkin pie and stuffing and everything. I even saved a dallop of whipped cream to put in some apple cider. I'm sitting pretty at this little desk of mine, yes siree. And later Kimball and I are going to head down to the Mission district to go thrift shopping, a bit sketchy at night but definitely has the best thrift stores around. Specifically, we are on the hunt for a new headboard and bed frame. Our little dorm room is lacking in decorative spirit, don't worry though, it's nothing some cheap furniture can't fix.

Wednesdays Get Whacky

Since getting a new job that requires me to be in my car and on the road by 7am, I have found a radio talk show that is entertaining enough to keep me awake and alert for the hour commute (as if the traffic didn't already do that). Anyways, my absolute favorite part of their morning show is when they feature 3 news articles and categorize them as the good, the bad and the ugly. So funny! Well lately since I figured out that I could leave by 7:10 and still make it on time to work, I've been missing my favorite news articles so I figured maybe I could find some myself. Fun little challenge and if not, I can always just post the link to Greg and Fernando's articles and I know they're guaranteed to pull through for me.

The Good: Rocky start I guess because I'm not quite sure how to categorize this article but it was just too interesting to not post. CBS reported here that 26-year-old Chris Birch suffered a stroke after he attempted a back flip and landed on his neck. His then-fiancee and family stayed with him in the hospital but when he woke up, they found a very different person. Chris awoke and immediately knew that something was different, he says, "Suddenly, I hated everything about my old life. I didn't get on with my friends, hated sport, and found my job boring". He quit his job, trained to be a hair dresser and started dating a man. The doctor interviewed said that he's never personally heard of a stroke changing some one's sexuality, but he doesn't doubt the stroke had some impact on Birch's life. Hmmm.... that's why my mom would never let me do flips on the trampoline.


The Bad:: About 15 miles away from my front door, this is going on:


Occupy Oakland, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street Movement has made quite a name for themselves. The Movement began about 7 weeks ago in light of the struggling economy and the many people who have suffered. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they are targeting Wall Street in direct relation to the many CEOs who have ridiculous Christmas bonuses and are getting paid well over Over the last couple weeks, Kimball and I will turn on the news to hear at least one 'Occupy Oakland' story. The stories has progressively gotten more and more violent. This article here details the latest action. Thousands of people successfully blocked off one of the nation's busiest shipping ports, their main objective being "to stop the flow of capital". They also prevented any trucks from getting in or out by surrounding the vehicles and climbing on top of them. An update shows that the camps in Oakland were raided by hundreds of police, but very few people remained to stay and protest. I wish they would organize themselves a bit, become more united across the nation and transcribe their list of demands because I don't know how they aim to get whatever it is they are fighting for. Empty camps = surrendered?

The Ugly: Andddd the ugly, a South-African couple, soon to be married and give birth to their baby, found out this weekend they are brother and sister. I guess Mom and Dad split when they were little. Dad took the son and Mom kept the daughter and they agreed to not speak of each other. The two families ended up living 50 miles apart until the son and daughter met at the local university and instantly had a connection. They fell in love and have been inseparable for the last 5 years. Now she is 8 months pregnant with their baby and they have called off their engagement after introducing their parents to each other and finally being told the truth about their past. Holy moly, this is like Oliver Twist mixed with Anastasia mixed with a handful of significantly high-risk deformed DNA. My heart is breaking for these two. What in the world would you do if you found out your husband was your brother, I can't even imagine what kind of emotions come with that.

And that'll do it for Wednesday's good, bad and the ugly. Stay Classy readers.

A Little Halloween Magic!

This Halloween, a wicked witch turned my handsome husband into this little Britney Spears look-a-like beauty:



You can call me the wicked witch. Or JT short for Justin Timerberlake. As our first Halloween, as well as our first holiday, in San Francisco, we wanted to make sure to go all out. I don't know about you but having Halloween on a Monday night made us feel very pressured to celebrate it on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. But Saturday night was the main attraction. Saturday night was the ward Halloween party. It started at 6 but some lady in relief society said it went all night or as long as your little heart could party. Was I the only idiot who believed her that this was an all-out all-night party? Guess so because we showed up at 7:10 to a dwindling crowd. It was my fault: I started making these bad boys at 6 and these sicky bloody bandaid cookies at 6:15 and didn't even put this boy's eyeliner on or help him put his tights on till 6:30... so we kinda missed the whole dang party, we spent 2 hours getting ready for a party that we caught the last 10 minutes of. Secret blessing in disguise though because our costumes were not well received to say the least. Our stake president walked up to Kimball, ha, and said, "Looks like you're in San Francisco now, aren't you?" Seriously?! Yikes. What does that even mean?? I felt really bad for Kimball, he was pretty embarassed.

It didn't help when Kimball got compared to the most passionate gay guy in the ward who was dressed head to toe in pink; pink boa, pink custom made tuxedo, pink top hat, pink gloves and pink alligator shoes who finished the evening out singing 'Let's Be a Lady'.

We went home, washed off Kimball's eyeliner and headed back out to salvage our night. We dropped by Kimball's friend from Utah State's house to help him move a couple things in. Then stopped at some friends from the ward's house, hung out for an hour or so and then decided to take the long way home, through castro street. The show was too good, we had to stop and get a midnight cheeseburger and walk around. Happy Halloween!