6 Quirks

I was tagged by Camille a while ago. Sorry I’m a slacker.

1. I have to have all my money facing the same way. When ever I get change at any store I have to put it from largest to smallest bill. I face Zach's wallet sometimes as well. When I tellered at America First I always had to have the bills not just face up, but having all the faces going the same way. I even had to face all the money in the vault when I was in charge of the money in there. I blame it on working at Jubilee. That is when this obsession started.

2. I hate folding socks. I don't know why, but that is always the last thing that I fold. Sometimes I even let them sit a few weeks before I get to them.

3. I don't like taking baths. It grosses me out to think that I am sitting in my own filth in the water. If I take a bubble bath or just need to soak in a warm bath for some reason, I have to shower first so I know I'm clean.

4. I always am early to things. I always over estimate how long it is going to take me to get ready, then I am sitting around until it is time to leave the house. I would rather show up early and sit in my car in the parking lot than show up late. (Zach is the one that usually makes us late to things. He knows exactly how much time it takes him to get ready and he waits until the last minute to start. It drives me crazy sometimes)

5. I have to have the TV on when I am alone in the house. I hate being alone and I guess that makes me feel like I'm not alone or something. I just have to have the noise.

6. At work, I have to have all my windows open in the same order every day. If one of my tab things on the bottom of the screen is out of order it drives me crazy. To the point that if one of my windows has to close for some reason, and it isn't that much of a hassle, I have to close and reopen all my windows to make them in the right order.

So there is all you ever you wanted to know about me, and maybe a little bit more ^_^
I tag Sherry, Natalie G., Michele, Denise, and Janell.

Beneficial Financial Group

Many of you know that I've been interviewing with Beneficial Financial Group for over a month now. Well, as of today I now have a new job. :) I begin my training on Monday, and they hope to have me through most of my training by the first of the year. Both Dawni and I are excited for this opportunity.

So, if any of you are thinking of investing, retirement accounts, or insurance, give me a call soon. My living will be based on the clientele I help, so if you have any friends that might be interested, please pass the word on! :) They say the first year is always the hardest, but I'm ready to go for it!

-Zach

(BTW, I'm still planning on working at the shop part-time for a bit, so still come in and say hi!)

First time

Last night when we were coming home from a friend's house, it was after midnight. We were by the new Chevron there on Park Lane (the street you go on to get to Lagoon Dr.) and I saw a car slow down, going the opposite direction for a deer to cross the road. I was pointing out that deer to Zach, and when I looked back there was one right in front of me. Yes, I hit it. It was the first time I have ever hit a deer and only the second time that I have ever hit an animal in the road. I was so greatful to have Zach there to help calm me down. The girl that had slowed down for the other deer came to help us and see if we were ok. Luckly, neither of us were hurt and there was very little damage to my car...

There is a small dent in the fender next to my door. As you can see I scared the poop out of the deer that I hit :)

There is also two small dents in the front end of my fender.

The door creaks when you open it a little so we think all we need to do is shift the fender back up, since the deer pushed it back, and hammer out the larger dent near the back of the wheelwell with a rubber mallet. These are the times I am greatful to have a mechanic in the family. As for the deer, all I did was break its hind legs. It was sad to see it struggle to get up to reach its family (the other deer that crossed the road before her). We had to call the police to come and put her out of her missery. It was hard, even though I hit it, to watch the officer shoot her on the side of the road but we couldn't let her suffer.

So, there is my long story of the night. Needless to say, I didn't sleep very well after that :)

4 in 4 tag

Since the only picture file that I have is our picture dump that we did on Zach's laptop when we were in Disneyland because we ran out of room on our memory card, here is the 4th picture in that :) This is right after we got our camera a few years ago and all we did at first was take random pictures to figure out how everything works on it. This one is of Zach, Kaede(the brown dog) and Ryoko(the black and white dog, Zach's parent's dog) on our bed. Don't ask me what kind of face that he's pulling. I tag Natalie Richens, Camille Thornock, Timorie, and Annie. Hope you have fun :) (ps sorry about the last names but I have a couple of friends on my blog with the same first names)

Yay for a new entertainment center :)

We found this entertainment center on KSL yesterday. It is a scratch and dent from Overstock.com; that is what the guy who we bought it from told us. It fits the TV pretty good, but I don't know what I am going to do with all the other stuff that was in our other entertainment center. That thing was a bottomless pit (Sherry you should know).

We got a new TV!

We have been waiting for our $40 redemption card from the government to purchase a digital converter box for ~3 months now, and while at college today I looked into it and got incredibly frustrated. We haven't got our card yet, and another would take possibly months to arrive, and at that point we might be at the date where analog transmission ceases, so we'd have to go buy a digital reciever box with our own money anyway. And the box would only be a band-aid, as our TV would still be out of date... I got so frustrated, that I did something I normally do not do; I wanted to make a big purchase and just buy a new TV. Normally, I'm ok saving for something until you can buy it in cash, but at this point I just didn't care anymore.

So, we went down to RC Willey to visit Dawni's brother who works in electronic sales down there, and he hooked us up with a bright and shiny 50" Hitachi Plasma Screen. (Thanks, Bud!) Sadly, our entertainment center we had owned since we were married could not hold this behemoth, so I am going around with a truck today to various stores to find something to hold both it and the mountain of unknown mass of DVDs, CDs, and books that we had stuffed in the old entertainment center. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm going to visit various DIs and Furniture in a Box. We don't want to spend the gas to drive down to IKEA, but that's an idea as well. We'd like to keep it under $100 if possible and have places to squish our DVDs back into.

Hello, pictures!

Nightmare Before Christmas on the new TV.

Me acting like a fool in front of the new TV. Geez, I have long arms...

Dawni looking fully awesome.

Yes, that is a DESK the TV is currently on. I am attempting to remedy the situation!

-Zach

My Costume

So...here is my costume. Can anyone guess what it is?
Thanks to Zach's creative mind....I am a hobo spider :)

Here are all the people that dressed up at work. Hope everyone had a great Halloween :)