Evidence

Okay Okay I will admit it. I am almost 23 years old and yes I still sleep with my baby blanket. Anthony calls it my "ethiopian" because it has been so manhandled. My blanket was actually my crib comforter when I was just a tot. My mom made it, and back then there wasn't the fancy 3D ultrasounds like they have now, she didn't even now what gender I was going to be so she picked mint green. 

Well my blanket has been with me through thick and thin. After a sewing class in junior high I decided I would help the poor thing out, but in the end only made it a bit worse. But that hasn't stopped me from sleeping with it every night. When Anthony and I first got married I asked my grandma if she would put a new back on it for me because Anthony was tired of finding chunks of batting in our bed. Well my grandma kept it for a good couple of months I was dying!!! When she finally returned it she asked me if she had succeeded in weening me off of it. I think it only made it worse :)

Well when Anthony and I were in Colorado I snapped a few pics of evidence of his love for my blanket also. Of course he would deny that he even touches "the ethiopian" but a ha you can't deny a picture. And the court rules.......

 he is a blanket lover!!!

Is it all in a Name?

Okay am I the only crazy that has a hard time giving up their name? I was totally excited when I first got married to change my last name I mean I went from Elicia Bearce to Elicia Simon which is much easier. Its bad enough when people slaughter your first name, but its even worse when you have to listen to people slaughter the first and the last. So Simon was a much better change.

Even though it is a much better change and I love being married I still try to hold on to anything that I can with my maiden name. Like my Weber State account at school I have to sign in with the name Elicia Bearce. My bank card says Elicia Ann Bearce Simon just to give it that little extra kick. My car was registered to me in my old name until just recently. I don't know call me crazy but I like the feeling of independence it makes me feel like I'm walking on the wild side. I think the real reasoning behind all of this craziness is because the day I changed my name I had to have our marriage license with me in order to do so. That made sense to me if your going to take on the name of a man you better have evidence that you are married to him. This is the real kicker though, the same day I went to the DMV to change my driver's license, but before I went up there I stopped at home and grabbed a little lunch and left all my paperwork at home except for my new social security card. When I got to the DMV I waited in line and filled out all the paperwork. When I got up to the counter they hardly cared about anything except to ask me if I had my marriage license with me. Does this make sense to anyone else? I had a social security card with my new legal name on it and they weren't going to change my driver's license without my marriage license?!?!?!? Well I left to go home and get the ole marriage license, but on the way home I called Anthony crying. Okay I wasn't crying, but I was on the verge of having a mental break down. I felt like I was lost and becoming a possession of Anthony Simon and had to show my paperwork that I was owned. Anthony was very nice and even told me that he would change his last name if I wanted him to, lets be honest we all know he wouldn't do that, but it was still a nice offer. Even at Weber State when I changed my name they didn't just accept my social security card they also have to have a copy of your marriage license. 

Well the other day I was up at the school to take a test. I have been using the same id card since I started school so obviously it has my maiden name on it and I'm 18 in the picture and tan and have long hair. I used this card all last semester to take all of my tests, but for some reason on this yucky day a girl that was hating the world decided to tell me that my card was not acceptable and that she would accept it this time, but I would have to get a new card or bring in my driver's license. I didn't mean to, but I think I might have given her the look of death. I don't know where this is all going honestly I am just rambling, but I have thought long and hard about this and come to the conclusion that I love being married and having the same last name as my husband, but at least I have Elicia Ann thats two names that my wild independent side can hold on to.

Another dog post

I can't help it, this is going to be another post about Chloe. So Chloe has a nice big doggy bed that is in the corner of our bedroom. We are not that nice we don't let her sleep in the same bed as us and its a good thing too. Last night about 3 am I hear this dog awful screech come from Chloe's bed. This isn't the first time its happened, at least once a month Chloe has doggy nightmares. I really wish there was some kind of collar that would allow her to talk just like on the movie Up. I'm very curious to know what her bad dreams are about?!?! So besides the fact she woke me up last night this morning I found out that she had wet her bed when she had the bad dream. It must have been a very bad dream for her to do that. So I dare say dogs are a lot like children they even have bad dreams and wet the bed. 

UPDaTE

hmmm what to write about? Sometimes I find it hard to write posts because I don't feel like I have very exciting things going on. You know just the norm. I don't have any young chitlins to write about and I can only write so much about my dog before I start sounding like some kind of crazy person. Well here it goes...

Anthony and I went and saw the movie "UP" last night. It was very cute. If I was a movie crier I definitely would have shed a tear or two. Pixar made a very cute love story!

We have this nasty linoleum in our hallway and kitchen (bathroom too if you want to get technical) there is a little spot in our hallway that it is coming up. The other day I was walking past that spot and it caught my flip flop and made me trip. Well that just opened a whole big can of worms. After that little incident I ripped up that piece in the hallway and then started toward another spot in the kitchen. Anthony came home and I thought I was going to be in big trouble, but lucky enough he just laughed. I have a very patient husband fortunately or else we would both end up in the looney bin. Well next month we are planning on:

• painting family room, kitchen, hallway
• new carpet in family room and possibly computer room if we stay in budget
• tile hallway and kitchen
• new floor board in family room and moulding around ceiling
• new couch -- I found two that I am in love with and can't decide

We have said for the last two years that we are going to do all of this stuff, but we keep putting it off. Well there is now no excuses especially since I just ripped up chunks of ugly linoleum. 

Anthony and I are getting ready to go for a quick trip to Vegas this weekend. We are leaving Saturday afternoon and returning Sunday evening. I wasn't lying when I said short, but we have to get back because Monday we are leaving for Denver Colorado. Anthony is such a good sport. We are going to Vegas for an Esthetic Conference. Anthony is graciously going to walk around with me and be surrounded by 1000s of women and gay men. Then my work is paying for me to go to Colorado for a SkinMedica workshop so we are leaving early Monday morning and are going to play in Denver all day. Then Tuesday is my workshop day and then we come home that night.

 I love to travel!!! I wish I could do it more often, but I will take any little trip I can get in the meantime. I think when I am old instead of putting Anthony and I in a retirement community well just sale our house and be full time cruisers. Just think of the possibilities. We would be able to go all over the place, have meals cooked for us, and have housekeeping daily. We would just jump from ship to ship. Then we could take breaks and go visit our kids and stay with them. I better implant the idea of the importance it is to always have a guest room in your house to my kids while they are young :)

Ogden 5K

Wahoo!!! I made it I didn't die on the side of the path. 

Friday I didn't have any appointments in the morning at work so I decided to hit a body pump class before I came into work. When I was there the teacher asked how many of you are running in the Ogden Marathon? This is the first time I heard anything about a marathon. 

I did end up making it into work that day and my boss asked me if I was excited to run in the marathon?!?!?! I'm not running I exclaimed. Well one of the nurses I work with is running the 5K I found out, and my boss had it mixed up in her head. Well I was only at work for 4 hours, but that was enough time for me to get talked into signing up and running the 5K the next day. 

For of those who are like me you will like this tad bit of information. 5K= 3 miles. (I should really figure these things out before I say yes)

I'm not a regular runner in fact I don't really like to run because I get bored. I take body attack classes regularly at the gym and that is about as much cardio as I get into. Luckily that was enough for me to finish the 5K in 29 minutes. Well it was actually 29:56 or something like that. Since 29 minutes sounds better than 30 minutes I'll round down. I had so much fun though! 

It was fun to push myself and see what I could actually do. Our bodies are capable of so much more than what we give them credit for.  I'm not going to lie when I woke up this morning and got out of bed after one step I almost collapsed. My butt, hips, calves, hamstrings and the side of my right foot hurts, oh yes and my abs are very sore. Its all a good sore except for my foot. I told my husband I'm going to start running 3 miles everyday to keep my abs sore :) I'm a lot of talk though.

My friend told me she is looking into doing the Park City 1/2 marathon in August. A half of a marathon is 13 miles . She said she is going to walk the whole thing. Thats far enough away that I think I could start training myself to run. I'll have to keep you posted and let you know how I'm doing. 

Easter Pics

I finally uploaded some of my easter pictures. Okay I'll admit I'm one of those crazy dog people, but I can't help it. I even made her a scrapbook page for her pictures. So here is Chloe sporting her easter outfit she has two floppy ears, well she has two FaKe floppy white ears and two floppy ReaL ears. If you look close on her bottom yep you guessed it she has cute bottoms that even has a pink tail attached. I have my very own EaSter BuNNy and may I say she is such a good sport. I'm almost scared for that real day to come along when I have a ReaL kid, and there not as well behaved as my little sidekick. 

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