31 years with my big little broham...

Sure...... as kids I made him eat ants, put him in play "jail" when he misbehaved and we had multiple life threatening brawls where blood was drawn, glass was shattered, scars were made and things were broken. He would set things on fire, I would put them out. He performed surgeries on my barbies, I left nail marks on him still visible to this day. He's hit on my friends, I've dated his. He's been rude to my boyfriends and I've bullied his girlfriends. He left a dent in the side of my first car, I've aired his most embarrassing moments for all to see.

Still....

You can bet he stood up for me on that Nevada playground when those little bastards called me fat, and I defended him when those boys from his fifth grade class were about to beat him up for who knows what (but I am sure it was something for which he was indeed guilty.) We've built forts, formed clubs, wrote and performed plays (though he ruined most of them) and literally danced and sang together.....in high school.....on a stage... in front of hundreds of people. (Not our finest moments)  He's been there from the beginning and will always be my big little brother - even though he's been saying that he is older than me in "God's way" since he was five, I've never been clear on what that means.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREV

(How does it feel to be 31?)

What brilliant minds do on slow work days

Bam. That happened

Bargain shopping is like gambling. Once you start you can't get enough - especially at Bulward. Shopping Goddess Mele tipped me off to this place last year. Its major deals and this last Saturday you could spin a wheel to get up to 50 percent MORE off. I spun it and hit 50!! It was even more glorious because Toad was there to cheer me on and I got to actually see the bargain shopping addiction start to take hold in him. Excelllllllent.

Moments of Hilarity

There is a reason this girl is my best friend. She sent me this last night and it made me laugh out loud and then laugh again.

Secondly here's a little nugget out of Utah County that I thought was hilariously sad, but still hilarious. Apparently they decided to celebrate their "diversity" through shirt colors.

After Utah Valley Magazine was called out on its interesting use of the phrase the editor responded that it was supposed to be just "clever word play" and admitted that no they haven't employed actual women of color. "We don't. I definitely don't think we're ethnically diverse. But we did have an article in this issue about the first African American Miss Utah Teen USA." Hahahahahahaha. Oh Happy Valley.....

One Year

A year ago we pulled this off...



Deciding to get married was one of the scariest things I have ever done in my life. But looking back a year later it has been a total blast and I would do it again a thousand times over. He is the coolest, smartest, strongest, endearingly nerdiest, tallest, nicest, most patient guy ever, who makes me better (and nicer in general, I'm told). My crush just continues to grow on him.

❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ 

.........Ugh, gushy and lovey, I know. But it's my damn blog and I will be mushy if I want to.

The next best thing.... I guess

I was G-videoing J today and I told him to hold on because I had to leave my office for a few minutes. I returned to this.

Apparently I had left him hanging too long. Notice he even drew his missing tooth that just got pulled and is awaiting a bridge next month. Very detail oriented. I laughed forever.

2fresh's brilliant complaint letter to UVU.

This gave me the giggles. And yes, she actually sent it....
2fresh

Hello Academic Scheduling,
I am a returning student to UVU and am simply trying to add some classes for summer and fall term. This, however, is proving a ridiculously arduous task. While I agree that the "Dynamic Schedule" available online can be helpful when searching for specific courses, it is a poorly made program that does not allow for its user to go back one page, forcing its user to start from the very beginning any time an adjustment in the search needs to be made and cannot show multiple class listings, and therefore has the tendency to make its user pull out every strand of hair on his or her head (including eyebrows) before taking a running start and jumping off of the roof of a 10-story building. 

These frustrations could be easily relieved with an available link to the pdf files of each term's class schedule. I realize that the University Bookstore would most likely have this schedule available for purchase, but as I work during the week and live in downtown Salt Lake, it's not the simplest of tasks for me. Quite frankly, I am a little bit shocked that they are not readily available on the school's website. There is a Student timetable.... and a Course Catalog... so I thought that surely there must be a Class Schedule pdf that I just wasn't seeing. So I began my quest for this elusive file... but to no avail.

If it turns out that there is a pdf file link available on the University's website that I have somehow overlooked, I'd like to express my profoundest apologies. Futhermore, if this be the case, I'd like the whole Academic Scheduling department to accept a gift basket of their choosing upon the completion of my degree and subsequent degree-related job acquisition in 2022. 

I know that in a sea of undergraduate students, I am not even a blimp on your radar. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if no one even reads this e-mail and nothing is done. It's just the simple plea of a lowly subject on the bottom of the academic food chain.

Regards,
Julie Calderon