Don't You Think I'm Funny?

On Friday I decided to head home to have a Valentines/Birthday/Christmas date with Stephen. I made him an amazing dinner that consisted of lasagna with breadsticks and after we watched the Princess and the Frog. Before we started the movie, we decided to exchange gifts. Mine included a teddy bear, a shirt from Aero and cologne from Aero. He gave me a Mexican leather bracelet and

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a diamond ring!!!!!!!
too bad it's a fake :/

A few weeks before Stephen came home, he asked me what I wanted from Mexico. I asked him how much diamonds cost there ... as a joke. So, he thought he'd be funny and get me a fake diamond ring. I had a better joke.

Of course, I didn't fool Jamie because she knows me waay too well. However, when Dad finally got home from Florida, I made sure Stephen an I were awkwardly positioned in the front room waiting to share the happy news. When flashed the ring in front of his face, he sat there and stared at it for a while as if trying to figure out how long Stephen had really been home. He looked at me with a weird expression on his face and so I decided to tell him it was fake before he had a stroke. Stephen did not think I was funny. I thought it was friggin hilarious. Later Dad apparently told Mom he knew it was a fake all along. Ha! Yeah Right :)

25 Random Facts (Updated)

In no particular order:
1. I love lunchables. No knock off brands.
2. If I sleep on my back I get nightmares.
3. I hate crime scene shows EXCEPT for Castle and occasionally NCIS.
4. I can (or used to be able to) quote all of Pirates and most of Miss Congeniality.
5. Going on a date with Stephen Jones is my ultimate goal in life.
6. I find it somewhat hilarious and a bit ironic the word 'Lisp' has an S in it.
7. I have a lucky blonde eyelash.
8. Give me caramel and I'll do whatever you want.
9. I love sitting over the heater vent with a blanket and a book.
10. I'm a sucker for guys with blue eyes and blonde eyelashes. And big arms.
11. I'd rather poke my eyes out than eat fish or meat loaf.
12. I love my guitar named Felix even though I don't know how to play him.
13. I wish Kelsie and Jamie lived closer.
14. I'm dying to go skydiving.
15. I crave ice cream in the wintertime.
16. I love the smell of dryer sheets. Which is why I always walk passed the laundromat on my way to and from school.
17. I want a kiss in the pouring rain.
18. I'd rather have my legs tickled than my back.
19. I love the sound of crunching leaves.
20. I miss the crunchy M&Ms.
21. Touch screen texting is the most frustrating thing ever.
22. I haven't been this happy in two years.
23. People think my eyes are Asian, my name is Black, and my coloring Brazilian (I guess when I'm tan). I'm Scandinavian. . .
24. I have to eat with chopsticks at a Chinese Restaurant.
25. Teaching dance was the best job I ever had.

Best. Weekend. Ever.

Stephen came home!!!!

It was the longest week of my life this week. I knew that Stephen was going to return home from serving the Lord on Wednesday, but I also knew that I wouldn't see him until the weekend. Add a few shifts a work, a couple of papers, a midterm, and reciting the proclamation to a professor, and you've got yourself a stinking long week. Luckily, I was able to talk to him a few times on the phone. He was able to make it down on Friday to see me and a few of his other friends. I didn't see him again until Sunday when he gave his Homecoming talk, which was hilarious and amazing by the way, and then again on Monday when we went to Ogden to meet up with some friends and play games all day long.

Apart from seeing him on Friday . . . and Sunday . . . and again on Monday, I was able to hang out with Jamie, her husband Spencer, and Kelsie on Saturday. It was the bomb. We went out to eat at Cafe Rio and used free movie vouchers to see Never Say Never in 3D. Spencer has the Bieber Fever and practically threw a tantrum when we told him we didn't want to go. So he convinced us. It was actually a pretty amazing story. Due to a blizzard that almost trapped us in Park City, we were unable to hot tub that night.

I was a little bummed at the thought of my roommates going to Vegas without me. I love Vegas, (minus the sin) and I really need a vacation. But, I wouldn't have traded in that weekend for anything. I got one of my very best friends back AND I got to see the 2 most important girl friends in my life.

Where is the rewind button?

U. S. Cohabitation: Know the Facts

• About 10 million cohabiting couples in U.S. in 2005.
• Between 60-70% of marriages preceded by cohabitation.
• About 40% of cohabiting couples eventually marry. After 10 years, 62% of cohabitor married couples have divorced compared to 33% of non-cohabitor married couples. But higher divorce rates due primarily to serial cohabitors.
• 75% of children born to cohabiting parents will see their parents’ relationship dissolve; 33% of children born to married parents see their parents divorce. (3% of all children live with two unmarried parents.)
• Cohabitation increases the risk of divorce about 50--150%, depending on sexual/cohabitation history. (Multiple pre-marital sex partners significant risk too.)
• No significant increased risk of divorce if: (a) cohabitation with one partner whom you marry; (b) cohabitation after engagement • Negative effect of cohabitation comes mostly from premarital cohabitors with children (strongest for Whites).
• Cohabitation is associated with more negative communication in marriage, lower marital satisfaction, less commitment (dedication) to spouse.
• Cohabitation a major factor in increasing rates of child abuse.