Nothing Much Happening Except...

Apologies for the neglect of my blog. A lot has happened. So to follow up on my last post, no we did not end up going to Switzerland. (I wish we had.) Instead we ended up going to China. It was a misadventure of sorts. We learned a lot by doing it, first an foremost was that we shouldn't travel to countries where we don't speak the language. My cousin lives outside of Hong Kong so we decided to go visit him. He talked us into flying into Shanghai and taking a train down to where he lived. That was our big mistake. We should have gone directly to Hong Kong and spent time with him then came home. We did see a lot and had some yummy food, but the trip was so stressful. Not a pleasant vacation. If I ever go back it will be with a tour group.

So, since then, my husband has changed his major twice. We've moved back up to Cache valley for one of those. Though we will be moving down to the Salt Lake area next summer for sure because his current field of study has a very limited selection of online courses. We have enough for the spring semester but we will need to be down there for the rest. I really hope he sticks with this one!

My nephew moved in with us at the end of November 2014. He was 11 then. It has been a rocky road of emotions and fights and stress. It has been difficult to go from no kids at all to a preteen to now a teenager. Teens are not fun. So dramatic. Ugh. We have good days every now and then, but the majority are hard. So far we plan to keep him. But it's really up to him.
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As for me. Nothing really big up until this past few months. We were trying to get pregnant. So we were seeing an OBGYN and doing fertility treatments. (I have PCOS.) My doctor wanted to do a hysteroscopy because he noticed the lining of my uterus was a little thicker than normal and he wanted to check to make sure everything was okay. He removed two polyps. About a week later I get a phone call at work. He was very somber, apologetic. I was slightly confused as to why he would be until he said it, "I'm so sorry, but we found cancer." Then he rushed through what was going on, or at least it felt rushed. I was in shock. I was at work. I couldn't cry at work. So I went upstairs and found my husband (who luckily got a job at my work in a different department.) I pulled him into the elevator, the only place I knew we could be alone because it's rarely used, and told him. I bawled then and he held me.
A miracle happened for me that day. I forgot to order my lunch before 9 (because of the phone call) so my hubby went over and got me a crepe from The Crepery. While in line my mom walked in. He said hi and then brought me my lunch. When I found out my mom was there I called her asking her to please come see me. She came and I bawled some more as I told her. She held me too and let me cry. I don't think my mo has been that affectionate since I left for my mission, or maybe at my wedding. But I needed my mom and the Lord knew I needed her and put her there for me.
That was back at the end of August. We were referred to a cancer clinic in Salt Lake. Our only options were hysterectomy and hormone treatment. Of course we leaned to hormone treatments right off the bat. But then we were stopped cold by learning that the hormones used were the same ones I had taken as birth control the first year of my marriage. The same ones I gained 50 lbs in one year with. Only this time the dosage would be stronger. This time there would only be a 15% chance that the cancer would go away. In the mean time I would be ruining my body with massive weight gain. So after many long talks and prayer we decided to opt for the hysterectomy. Because, even though I would not be able to carry my own children in the womb, We could always adopt.
Now I am sitting at home after surgery, recovering. It's been two weeks. The first week was the worst. I felt like crap. The pain meds don't agree with me so I ended up not taking them for long and switching to acetaminophen (aka Tylenol.) I'm tired now. But no longer in pain. I get to go back to work part time starting next Wednesday and even though it's stressful, I look forward to it because you can only play puzzle games, watch Netflix, and read for so many days before becoming bored with it all.

Switzerland...oh please, oh please!

On Friday last I had a mission companion send this to me via my Facebook messages, "So (name omitted) is getting married on Aug 22, so we are planning on going. Well we are going to save money for the trip and two weeks before the date check to see if we save up (enough) money, what do you think, wanna come with us?? I haven't been back and it would be nice to see everyone!! I have a buddy who could give us buddy passes for about $150 I believe. I'll ask to make sure. So we will save and see if we saved enough, if you guys decide to jump on board with our plans, that would be awesome!!!!"

I was floored. I have been having dreams about being able to take my husband back to my mission, specifically to Switzerland, for the past two months. Oh please, let this be an answer to my dreams! 

Of course I said we were on board. A lot rides on those buddy passes. Though I know they won't be $150, probably closer to 1K is what I'm guessing. But even that could save us a lot of money in airfare. I was looking to see how much it would be outright. The cheapest tickets I have found are about $1600 each. Not to mention the hotel and food costs for a trip like that. It could easily be 5k total. So if we get the buddy passes, that could make the cost much easier to bear.

I've been looking at hotels and dreaming of Switzerland more now.

Banzai!!

So we're in that season of preparation for Anime Banzai, our local annual anime convention. Right now we're trying to decide what we should go as, or more specifically, what anime do we need to watch in order to pick the cosplay costumes in time to order them. It's a tough decision.
Yeah, we've been looking at costumes and we're stuck. (We decided to do it backward and look at costumes first.) *sigh* This might take a few days.

May the 4th be with You!

My hubby and I are big Star Wars fans. (We're also big Star Trek fans, so don't even try to argue with me about them. Both are great!) This year for May the 4th, Star Wars Day, we had the opportunity to wear Star Wars clothing to church. I think we were the only people there today who did. I was surprised at the number of people who did not know that today is Star Wars Day. There were quite a few who said they were big fans, but hadn't even heard of it. :) I'm glad to share the fun.
Here's a picture of my husband's cool tie that we found on Etsy and my Star Wars Shirt I wore to church and I get to wear to work tomorrow.
On that note, I don't believe I have ever mentioned how big a Star Wars fan my boss is. Dave, my boss/company owner, is an awesome guy. He's even more awesome because he's a huge SW fan. (I'm going to abbreviate Star Wars as SW for the rest of the blog to save time.) He's named rooms in our office after SW things. Upstairs is all of the Rebel stuff, ex Jedi Academy is the name of the conference room, and downstairs is the Empire stuff, the conference room is call the Galactic Senate and a secondary meeting room is the Trash Compactor, while a small interview room is the Sith Academy. On May the 4th we get to wear jeans if we wear SW shirts. I'm so excited to wear mine!

AMV - Inspired by EA

Reading EA's post about AMVs got us thinking we'd like to do one too. We think we have a song picked out and an anime to pair it to, now we have to figure out where to start. I'll admit I'm rather overwhelmed by the project. Hopefully it goes well!
Wish me luck!

Needing a Change

Of late I've been feeling rather blah. I feel like we've been stuck in a rut for a while and I can't seem to get out of it no matter how hard I try. There is very little in my life that I feel I have control over. I think it's one reason I keep changing my hair the way I do. (btw I'm getting it cut this Wednesday so we'll see how it turns out.)

The other day I was talking my hubby about things. I think he feels much the same as I do. We've been trying to do things together to boost our morale. We've been exercising together, just a lot of walking while watching shows of Hulu, but we do feel less guilty about sitting here watching shows. We've also been playing a free mmo rpg together (Ragnarok 2 - via Steam). It can be a lot of fun. Usually I have him do all the talking with the excuse that I can run and talk at the same time. (a little gamer joke.) But it feels like we do get a little socialization that way.
This past weekend we spent two nights at my in-laws home. It was nice not being stuck in our apartment like usual. We ran errands, talked, and while the men went to Priesthood session of conference together I got to go to a yarn store with my mother-in-law. (I like craft stores, they're full of possibilities.)

On Sunday we had tickets to go to the afternoon session of Conference. It was hectic getting into the conference center. It usually isn't so bad. The session was great. Though I spent half of it trying to keep my hubby awake. We were up in the balcony and it gets really warm. On a brighter note I did run into someone from my mission. It was two members from Grenoble. They came to visit some of their mission companions and go to conference. It was good to see them, though I felt bad that I forgot one of their names. I'm surprised they actually remembered me though. I don't look much like I did on my mission after cutting and dying my hair (plus adding some weight.) But they probably use facebook and have seen some of my photos or something. It was good to see them.

Overall though, the blah feeling persists. I don't know if it's because i feel like something should be happening that isn't or what. I do know that I'm tired of it though. I want to move on already. I need a change. Or something to bring me hope of a change in the very least.

5th Time's the Charm?

So he lost his job again. *sigh* This was another stupid company reason. Back in September a dozen or so employees decided they'd work on their own personal accounts at work and believe that Google would figure it out. Right. Idiots. You can't hide something from Google. Their business is information.
Well come January Google decided to not renew their contract. (would you?) The company then offered a full-time student a job that requires 8 weekat 40hrs for training. Did they miss the fact that he's a full-time student? Seriously? Needless to say, her had to refuse the offer. 
I'm trying to put a positive spin on it and say he now has time to focus solely on school work. He's still looking for a job, but if he doesn't find one by summer he'll probably be back at his awesome summer grounds crew job that he did last year. The hours are brutal, but the pay is good.