Update Spring 2010

Amy tells me people are asking for the update on our lives since marriage. To this Amy responded, "Um...well, I can't think of anything off the top of my head." It made me feel like we lead boring busy lives haha. The last blog about our honeymoon was a good one and I guess now every following blog will feel like it's in its shadow since it was so fun and epic. But, here is the updates to the best of my knowledge...sorry again for the length. I have a hard time keeping short blogs. (Especially since I am bad at updating them, and sorry we don't have lots of pictures, we don't take many photos and Amy's camera sucks the life outta batteries that we neglect to replace.)

About 4 months ago Amy got laid off from her job at Qqest being there for a year 1/2. Amy had a real jerk of a boss (Richard) that laid her off because he thought she didn't want to stay with the company for a career and was planning to make changes to her job. When he let her go, it made the other ladies that had worked there for years nervous at his actions. The new girl that took her place was a real beast from what we heard. Of course the boss thought she was tremendous. He wanted Amy to train her, yeah right. Everyone had a good laugh when she quit after 1 month of not handling the heat. Amy even got frustrated calls from her about how to do her job a few times. To Amy's credit she did not return the calls, for had she, she might have opened a can of you-know-what. All the girls there gave the boss a big "told you so" and suggested he never should have fired Amy. After that, he fired another lady there Amy was close to named Greta after he had promised that he wouldn't for months. Then he hired a new lady to take Greta's old job and Amy's. This was an unfortunate time for Amy's friend Greta because she just spent $6,000 fixing a busted sewer line in her basement. Bummer.

Our marriage has had a few speed bumps in the beginning, but for the most part, we are grateful for whatever works and stay happy. Amy and I seem to have a reputation for bad things happening to us though, we laugh, and a lot of times only us does it happen to out of many. So we have a common catch phrase for it and we say, "of course." I remember Amy came home from being on the job her first week at Discover card saying, "OF COURSE I had to have the one computer out of all of them that didn't work right, of course!" I had a big "of course" this last week for car insurance. My brother and I had an old policy together when I lived at home that we shared. When I had my accident finally clear in late January, my old insurance company mixed my name for my brother's (Carson) and I got his accident on my record. I had to really jump through some hoops for that to get cleared up. I was almost going to have to pay more a month for another year 1/2 for their stupid mistake. I straightened it out after paying some fees for it and gritting my teeth saying, "of course." Now those insurance guys are history, got a new guy, and we are much better off. I complain, but I know that we all have these "of course" moments, and I'm sure a lot of people much worse than me. But sometimes it feels like life is fabric and Amy and I get dealt a lot of little wrinkles haha.

After being fed up with the bad management at our last apartment, Amy and I now have moved into a duplex my dad owns. It's not far at all from our old apartment. We live in the upstairs and its just adjacent to the shop where I work. The place wasn't quite ready to move into the summer we got married. We spent a month before our lease was up fixing it up in our free time, (new shingled roof, drywall work, painting, cleaning) Amy came to help in her spare time. Bless her heart because she works a 5am-Noon shift at Discover Bank and was often tired. So far we have liked the move. The ward is the one I grew up in, lots of kids grown up and people gone. The duplex is old and has quirky things but we are so blessed to get a killer deal on rent and have assets like a washer, dryer, and a dishwasher.

Other than that, I have been busy knocking off more classes the past year. I am in the Electronic Art Engineering (EAE) program at the U of U. I have maybe another 2 semesters left I'm hoping. The classes are very task oriented and time consuming so I just fill below full time hours. Some projects take me hours. A lot of students in my Major don't finish in 2 years and my counselor suggested not taking big loads unless you are full time and devoted. I just found out they are opening an MFA program which is exciting. Maybe that might happen in my future, who knows? But for now I am really focusing on that BA. Amy says that I should post some of my work on here, maybe I will sometime if anyone is interested. I also have a bunch of stuff I have worked on on facebook. I keep up to date on there better than on here haha.

So sorry to everyone that wants constant updates, but Amy and I tend to run busy schedules with our jobs and all my schoolwork generally keeps me pretty busy. So, keep nagging us to post more blogs and stay in touch with facebook. To family reading this, we love you all, and family away, we miss and love you all.

Love,
Calvin and Amy