It's time to be Grateful!

So this morning was not a good morning. I was tired, which for those of you who know me well, is not ever a good thing. I also had a million things to do today and not enough time to do them! I felt like I was losing it. Then I arrived to work and had received bad news about one of my classes and more assignments for work. This for some reason made me really angry. From about eight o'clock until eleven I was not a happy camper. I give myself stomach aches when I get upset and a mean one was setting on. I quickly said a prayer to eliminate some of this stress I was causing myself. Then promptly after the prayer I wanted to slap myself, I was focusing on all the bad things that were happening, instead of being happy and GRATEFUL. So I feel like for my own sake, surely not yours, I wanted to write all of the things I am grateful for. It's a good time of year to do this, and since blogging has over taken journal writing, I am going to post it.

The gospel, warm/comfortable homes, having a job, getting an education, my wonderful and extremely patient husband, my sister, my brothers, my trials, the temple, nieces and nephews!, wonderful friends, the holy ghost, my frog blanket, parents and in laws who are close/concerned/and oh so loving, food on the table, a car that starts every morning, gas prices coming down, music, entertainment, jewelry, Sundays, funny co-workers, my ipod, my body, my health, the atonement, the United States, my talents and abilities, chocolate, the beautiful world around me, on and on.

This list is relatively short to what is going on in my mind. I feel like I needed to remember that everything we have is a gift and we need not waste it. I was brought quickly today as I was caught up in the menial tasks of life back to my experience of being in "Our Town" a few years ago. I learned so much about appreciating all of these small and seemingly simple things of life. It all matters, even President Monson said so when he said that we ought to be enjoying our journey.

Halloween!

Tyler and I decided since we live in an apartment complex and very few children would come to trick or treat at our house (we had two all night) that we would go and act like children ourselves. The school hosts a party called The Howl each Halloween. It is generally not for us "old, boring married folk" but Tyler and I didn't care since most of our friends are single anyway. We found ourselves there amidst the half naked girls, freaks, and others.
Sidenote: I don't understand when Halloween became an excuse for people to just not wear clothes or girls to be in lingerie. I don't think that's ok...
Anyway, in the spirit of the Election we found ourselves "being just a couple of mavericks"! It was so fun and we got a lot of attention. Tyler did a great impersonation and I wasn't too shabby myself. We even won the costume contest! It cost us twenty bucks to go, but we won sixty. Tripiling our money, not a bad deal at all and it was fun!