mmmm.... pad thai....

have you ever had pad thai that literally blew your mind?

or red curry that made your stomach scream {thank you!} in delight....

or mango sticky rice that made your tongue tingle with happiness?

well, that was our experience last night....

and we got to share it with leslie, ryan, and janessa.

afterwards, we watched my new favorite cameleon on the tv....

{i really really want a cameleon.  oh please for christmas, johny dear?}

and giggled lots and lots at him because he's just so darn cute.

what a perfect way to end a day.

knocking over chest tubes, and such.

my nursing final lab pass-off was today.  which means:

heart palpitations,

sweaty and shaking hands, 

and nonstop anxiety.

every semester, i pass.  every semester i get above 90%.  every semester, i get a great grade.  but every semester i always manage to freak out and act like a spaz. i forget what i'm doing, i make dumb mistakes.  i act like i enjoy knocking over chest tubes, and such.  or drawing up morphine twice because i accidentally contaminate the end.  { i mean really, the nurse is staring at me with those ICU kick-A eyes of hers, and i just can't handle the pressure!  ICU nurses are the shiz-nit, and i want to be one.  someday i want know everything and think i'm the shiz-nit too, and then i will have kick-A eyes that tell everybody, "don't mess with me."  and, "i save patients every day that are on the brink of death, do you?"  and really, ICU nurses are the bomb.  they know everything.  they are like doctors minus the degree.... or, something like that.}

so.... after i freaked out and kicked over the chest tube^^^, the lab instructor {looking at me with her ICU, nazi, kick-A eyes,} said, "now i have to fix that".  {i curse myself for wearing those massive boots....}

ug.  minus one point overall, but it feels like fifty.  i needed a sandwich.

on a wonderfully happy note:  

we are golden.

a little letter.

dear mr. brunt,
thanks for calling me every night on your commute home.
i really really love that.
xoxox
wifey

dear earth,

i really love you, you know.

i try to treat you well,

and i'm even planning on tilling your soil and planting a beautiful garden in it in the next couple of weeks.

so will you please try and be warm and pleasant in a bit?

thanks.

xoxox

paige

new love: frisbee golf.

oh, how i love the weekend.  sometimes weekends can be just so perfect.  this weekend was very much one of those weekends, as i was able to spend almost every minute of it with my best friend.  we watched conference, ate yummy food, and definitely spent some time soaking up some much-needed vitamin D.

a perfect weekend should always include:

sunshine:

learning how to play frisbee golf from a pro:

{i am horrible.  and my arm is sore. and i may have scared some people on the course as i wildly hurled the frisbee with all my might in the general direction of the basket. but was it fun? oh yes, i have found a new love}

eat fries and a shake for dinner:

{don't judge me}

and hear inspiring words from people you really kind of admire and want to be like.

happy monday!

how time flies.

today as we drove home from my grandma's house, 

john and i were discussing finances. {really really interesting stuff....} 

"we've saved about this much each month.... and so we've saved about how much since we got married?"

"october 1st to november 1st...."

"december, january, february, march, april."

"holy crap! we've been married six months!?!"

six months since april 1st, 

and we didn't even notice.

perhaps it is our busy schedule,

perhaps it's stress from homework.

perhaps it's that we both had obligations that didn't include each other on april first.

{him - bachelor party, me - bridal shower.  we do live in provo, you know}

i myself don't venture to make any excuses.

we both didn't think about it, because well, it isn't important.

what's important came straight from the mouths of wonderful prophets of God this past week during conference.  they reminded me that it's all about family.  it's all about the gospel.  and in essence, it's all about john and the children/home/family/life that we are going to have/build together.

i hope you had a similarly lovely weekend!

thousands of students, sixty{!} degrees, and blue blue skies.

walking to school today was like winning the lottery.  seriously.  you worked hard for each dollar.  you begged your husband/father/uncle/sister/friend/or a stranger for that dollar.  you know, that's some seriously hard work.   and finally, after months of entering and losing-  {and feeling like that hard work is never going to pay off....} booh-yah.  one million bucks in my pocket.  

in this particular analogy i am myself, and that million bucks was the weather today.  the dollars that i've been mooching off other people come in the form of homework and uh..... more homework.  if you can't tell by that picture, there were thousands of students sleeping/dancing/singing/lounging outside today.  and i was one of them.  i just hope that the weather will continue to fulfill my wildest dreams by being just as pleasant for the next 280 or so days.  pretty pretty please?