Hey everyone...

I had an interesting experience this morning. Yet another demonstration of my all too often absent mindedness. I got all ready for work this morning and as usual I was in a rush, so I'm ready to walk out the door and where are my car keys? No where to be found! I tore my house apart frantically looking. I went outside to see if they had somehow possibly been locked inside the car that we hadn't driven all weekend. Nowhere. So, I call my husband and ask him to check the truck since that's what we had driven over the weekend and I remembered having them on Saturday. Well, he was busy at work so he had to wait a while to call me back and let me know. In the meantime, I call my boss to let her know. Our company doors unlock automatically at 9am (don't ask me why, I have no idea why this would seem like a good invention). So luckily there was an already one of our agents there and she said she would cover the phones for me until I could work something out. So, Shayne calls me back and says they are not there. I realized that I had probably left them in my coat pocket which I had left at my mom's house after my brother's baptism on Saturday. So, her house is in Roy and my mom is at work. So my only other option is to have Shayne leave work and come get me. Well he was so nice about it and didn't get mad or anything. Thanks babe :) It ended up being fun though because while he was on his way home, I made some breakfast burritos ready to go with us when he got there (he rarely eats breakfast no matter how much I try to get him to, so I figured I would suprise him for being so nice and coming to get me). It was nice because I got to ride to work with him and he will be here to pick me up and take me home in about a half hour. We don't ever get to do stuff like that so it was fun. And I was only about an hour late for work. Thankfully I have the nicest boss in the world and she didn't even get mad or anything. So all in all, it turned out ok. And my mom brought my keys to me when she got off work today, so I'm all set for tomorrow if I can manage not to lose them between now and then :) Anyway, sorry for the long post. I'm bored at work. So we are having my sister-in-laws baby shower at my house this Saturday and I'm a little stressed. I was fairly satisfied with the way I had decorated our house until I saw some other people's houses that I know and now my walls seem naked. Shayne has been on me about getting up pictures of us, he says we never put up pictures of us. He's right, somehow, something else always seems to take up the space for them. And now my walls seem naked, and I feel creatively bland, for lack of a better word. I need creative inspiration and lots of money to do what I would like to do to our home. Shayne and I have been itching to paint an accent wall, but we can't agree on which wall or decide on a color. Plus I feel overwhelmed at the simple task of trying to find places for things on our walls. I feel like it will look wierd if I just go at it. I've been seeing some cute ideas from friends and I think I will try a couple. But man, I just don't know how I can get it done in a week. I'm suddenly feeling self concious about my house now that I know lots of people will be there on Saturday. Our main priority is finishing our front door. It's in but it needs finishing and painting. I should just relax. I stress too much about things, but I have this wierd obsession with impressing people. That sounds prideful. It's not so much impressing them as desperately seeking their approval. I'm sure everyone already accepts the way my house looks but I have a hard time with it when I know people are coming. My mother and father in law stopped over the other night. My house was a COMPLETE DISASTER. They were so nice and didn't even act like they cared, bless their hearts, but I was a nervous wreck! I was freaking out about how it looked and I was so embarrassed. I have been trying harder to keep it clean all the time so when people come over I won't be quite as embarrassed. But I'm one of those people that like one dirty thing leads to another. For example, I am horrible at putting away the clean laundry. So that leads to other things being undone. Like dishes. I think "okay what do I need to do when I get home tonight? Well, I need to do the laundry and if I have time, I'll do dishes" Which never works out, I usually find myself busy with something else, or we end up having to go somewhere so nothing gets done. Or I'll do the dishes first because I can't stand dirty dishes (but I HATE washing them, no we do not have a dishwasher...)and by the time I'm done with that, I'm so tired I just want to sit, so the other stuff doesn't get done. I shouldn't complain. I can only imagine my life once I add kids to the picture :) I really am glad and grateful for all that I have. When I get overwhelmed with things like housework, I just have to stop and think that I would have given anything to have our own house and be doing this while we lived at my Grandpa's for the past 2 1/2 years. So I just need to do one thing at a time. Thanks for listening to my rambling. Sometimes getting it out helps. Anyway, I hope the shower turns out okay. I'm really excited for it.