November 13th

Wowza, what's been going on this week? Let me check my calendar.

November 6th, Sunday -

Nothing specifically mentioned here, but I do remember helping a girl in our primary as she was nearly having a meltdown. She claimed her brother was bothering her (they are both mentally-handicapped, so his cries of "Move, NAME," kind of escaped my ears for a bit). I took her out into the hall to do sort of a reset, and I was only 4% away from giving her to her mom because I certainly didn't want to just "fix" the situation because I was its Savior when all she was really crying for was her mom and her sister. That's fine - we do what's best for the child. Then when she was still acting pretty distressed, I walked her around the church and we talked about what we saw to get her mind off of it. When we finally reached Relief Society and I pointed out her mom from the back, I asked her if she'd like me to get her or if she wanted to go finish Primary. And she said she wanted to finish Primary before she talked to her mom! She we got to walk back and while she was still a handful, I think we avoided a situation.

November 7th, Monday - 

I had bought a straw bale for my duck pen (there's another story about this that I'll mention later) so I was a big farm girl and distributed it in the coop and the grounds. I hope that will keep them warm. It attracted sparrows at first like nobody's business though. Then I got the wild hankering to clear up the Asian Elms that were surrounding the pen on the back of the garden shed, so I went at them with shears and saws and I found a dead black bird!

Hold up - a dead black.. bird.

I found Zoe. Our previous duck who had mysteriously disappeared while we had no good protection for these poor ducks (novices) and Wash was found scratched up. (The reason we got Rinse.) I had found Zoe's body. So that was lovely.

That night, I allotted time for my family to watch a movie that had been recommended by a friend to me called Belle. It's all about a girl who has an alternate ego in another vitual world, but it's the music that drew my friend to it, and admittedly I have been binge-listening to one of the songs ever since we viewed it. (Gales of Song) The show was unique in its delivery, and it made Atlantean cry! He said he wanted to buy it. 

November 8th Tuesday - 

Despite the idea I had of trying out public transport to go do a snack run, it was rainy, and I was lazy, so we just drive to the nearest Natural Grocers where I was finally able to get Merrow and I some healthy (what I like to call "snooty") snacks. Then we spent a little more money picking up cheaper alternative ingredients that I had tried to find at Smith's.

We had a date night later where we dropped Merrow off and then came home to watch The Secrets of Dumbledore.

November 9th Wednesday - 

So, to go back a little in time that I didn't cover cuz I'm still trying to get in the habit of journaling, On October 27th, I went to go see Dracula He Loved in Vein at Desert Star Theatre for my Daddy-Daughter Date night when I get to go out to be alone and have some time to myself. It was as hokey as you would have thought.  To save on money, I didn't buy any dinner, and I tried to leave early because apparently the second half was just a grouping of dorky monster mash songs, but when I went out after intermission to go start my car, it straight up wouldn't start! I called Atlantean desperately and asked him to come get me. So I slunk back inside to go watch the rest of the show while I waited for him to arrive and instead of me getting out ahead of everyone, we had to wait for everyone else to leave so Atlantean could pull his car out in front of me, since I was parked on the side of the road. (yay! -_-)

So we got to work. I swore I had a set of jumper cable in my car, because that's where I always keep them. (Where the heck else would they go??) So I was digging around, but here's the issue:

The jumper cables would be in a bag in the back of my car, i.e. the trunk.

The battery has died so none of the electrics works so the trunk doesn't open because I can't unlock it! (Also both our key's remotes have been out of battery for a while)

There is a straw bale in the back of the car, taking up the entire width of the car, so we are pushing it as hard we can against the door and digging out below it in hopes of finding a familiar canvas feeling of the jumper cable bag.

The battery has died, so the only light I can use is my phone, which may become an essential life line, but since it is the end of the day, its battery is very limited.

To top it all off, the back of my car is a mess, so we're dumping stuff into Atlantean's car and Merrow is obviously with him, and wants to be involved and has limited patience, but she was certainly not going to be party to electric wires and speedy traffic, so we had to leave her bawling all alone in Atlantean's car while we worked.

Suffice to say, for about forty-five minutes, we worked with a semi-charged battery and cables that uncle Aos Si had given us and miraculously Atlantean got it to work even when it was starting to look a little hopeless. Turns out I left my headlights on.

Or so we THOUGHT because Wednesday, I tried to start the car to go transfer some plasma-donation money to our account at the bank, and it had a hard time starting again! So I made the executive decision to still go to the bank in hopes it would come back alive when it came time to leave. Well, I had the brilliant idea on the drive over that there was a well-beloved and well-trusted Tunex right next to the bank, so I dropped the car off there, walked to the bank where I was rejected (because it was Atlantean's donation and they needed HIS ID.) and then walked to a park nearby. Atlantean came home early to pick us up because he wasn't having a great day anyway. And then Tunex charged us $300 for a new battery, which we saw to be actually quite a good deal. That was Wednesday.

November 10th Thursday - 

I got to ship my comics! Lately, to save money, I've been parceling out activities for specific days so I go crazy less often and this day was scheduled to go ship my Tale of the Blacktongue to two people I wanted to have it. A girl whose character is in it and she was having trouble accessing what I'd posted online, and a girl who (I think) admires me in Carrie, ID. :) That was exciting for me :) (I just got a message yesterday from the first one saying she'd received it). Then I moved Daddy-Daughter date time to this night instead, so I hiked on over to the library in names of maybe taking a Zentangle class they were offering. I sat there and got my NaNoWriMo done (I'm doing it this year- a little Gothic short story that's been rolling around in the back of my brain. I'm at 7,392 words out of 12,000 so far - so doing pretty good! and it's been an enjoyable experience.) 

November 11th Friday - 

Gall, I don't remember much about what happened this day. We had something happen in the morning, but Aos Si didn't come to D&D again so it was just Werewolf and Flying Pig (who have chosen a name for their unborn baby boy!) and we played another game of DC Rebirth. Last week, I had to betray them all but not tell them and make sure that we failed the scenario so we get our new scenario cards which was HARD, but it got easier.... It was fun, looking back. At the time it was stressful. 

November 12th Saturday - 

Had Activity Days in the morning that I only had one activity for the day, and it went by really fast. I thought maybe the other leaders were judging me and thinking this wasn't going so well, so I tried to show off my ducks and my boxing equipment to keep them entertained. I feel sort of foolish about the whole thing, but I do want kids to feel like my house is a cool place. One of the boys was left behind because his parents were a couple minutes late, so we had him help us rake our tree's leaves (which fell in MASS EXODUS in one night!) and he was having so much fun in the enormous leaf pile that he asked his parents if he could stay longer. We told him we had other things to get to, but it was super cool to have him want to stay. <3

Later that night, a birthday party I had been working on with one of Brownie's friends was coming together. I went and picked up doughnuts from her favorite doughnut place. Then we had a meal of chicken salad, fruit salad and Caesar salad and way too many sweets. We tattooed ourselves with horrible leftover temporary Halloween tattoos, and even got the crazy ADHD one to convince us all to get tramp stamps. I now have a miniature blood-sucking Dracula on my rear end. We finally got to watching the show, the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 that I thought was the main event, but more people kept showing up and wanting to talk to Brownie, and I thought that was good but I also kinda just wanted to watch the show... I was a little disheartened at the end of the evening because all anyone wanted to talk about was gossip, sex and raunchy "funny" topics. I felt like the most mature of the group, and I didn't really like it.

October 16th 2022

  It's time to bridge the daunting gap between where I was and where I am. I've been putting this off for a long while, and knowing where my weaknesses lie in journaling, it has come to my attention that I will merely be adding to the overwhelm if I try to talk about every little detail that has occurred since I have last written, so I will merely function by doing what I do best - and reiterating my schedule of the week that I pack to bursting so that I will not go insane. (We all have our coping mechanisms) Hopefully this will begin to help this habit grow into a more sustainable one by cutting it down into these digestable chunks for my timetable to handle. I know I will not regret getting this written down somewhere and so I have allotted Sundays for time. My own personality will be sure to write way too much anyway.

Monday October 10th

After a trip to WinCo where I spent a little *lot* too much money. (There were chocolate rocks and pine nuts are nearly 25$ a pound!!) I came home to some frustration with a meal that I thought my Smith's Pickup had been successful in acquiring all the ingredients, but came to find out that I was missing things. After I had tried to sort all of that out and collect my ingredients, by the time I was putting it in the oven to cook for an hour, we were supposed to be on our way to family pictures. We jumped in the car and broke the rules by grabbing Zaxby's on the way over. We were only a little grumpy when pulling in to a canyon 40 minutes away. The photographer was late too, so we were not the only objects of frustration. But my side of the family was of course nothing but happy to see us, as my mom proved by throwing a humongous scarf around me for "a splash of color" to my seemingly drab purple sweater that had previously been approved by her. Pictures were nondescript, our photographer was a family friend and knew exactly what she was doing, so she finished quickly. (Can't wait to see the end result, although I believe my mother said she recently posted them. Perhaps I shall go check.) Merrow SOAKED it all in. She was a good smiler, she stayed in our arms, no matter what position. When the photographer even mentioned that it would be cute if she and I hold hands, it was Merrow herself who reached for my hand, always so mindful of instruction. Her solo pictures were darling (I can only assume) and we got her to say Cheese, which truly is the magical smile-inducing word. We were only a little jealous when we heard Mermaid, Cowboy, Werewolf and Flying Pig mentioned they were all going out to dinner afterward. Let them enjoy childless life while they can. Boar Piglet is coming in February.

Tuesday October 11th

I attempted to visit my ministering sister on Tuesday, but she canceled due to sickness. For date night, we merely holed up in my parent's basement and finished watching Marvel's Moon Knight. There are rumors my parents are going to be discontinuing their Disney + subscription due to the controversial nature some of their material is headed, but with a granddaughter obsessed with Winnie The Pooh, we will see how much ground these accusations have.

Wednesday October 12th 

Wednesday was lovely. I hung out with my friend Dryad, starting at noon. We went to thrift stores, craft stores, Swig, Tuesday Morning. I got new cutting boards for $5 (hallelujah, mine are beginning to grow mold, I swear it! As well as curling at the edges. One of my wooden ones has up and broken unceremoniously!). I picked a Pinterest project I thought was doable in the span of one day granted I gathered the right materials - black pants with lightning seemingly streaking across them. (achieved with blue and white paint). When I had acquired all of my items (amazingly!) and some (food dye) we retreated to Dryad's house, where we made dinner together for the family. Atlantean swung by to pick up Merrow, joined us for dinner, then got out of our hair. He's been pretty tired, but enjoying spending the rest of the evening with Dryad, just crafting, listening to soothing music, painting and working on my comic was quite relaxing. I think it was a nice night. It was weird to realize that Dryad's family (and subsequent mother friends, etc) were actually distressed by Merrow's franticness of eating and talking and moving. They said "God bless the young. I couldn't raise a two-year old" as if they were glad Merrow was out of their face. I... felt conflicted. My family so readily accepts Merrow's antics, helps us with her, encourages her, works around her. But these people obviously had not had a child in that house for a long time. It was stressful to them and I suddenly felt like such a burden. It was a weird dynamic.

Thursday October 13th

We managed to find a babysitter (friend in the ward) who took care of Merrow while we slipped off for a well-needed temple appointment. It was nice to just be together, doing sealings. My deadline for my comic was tomorrow, so I powered through til I had a half page to go.

Friday October 14th 

This day was ... long. I waited for Atlantean to get back from work and then I headed out to a meeting I thought I had with a member of the Salt Lake City Library's AltPressFest committee. He was meant to help me print and bind my zine for the festival, which I had been approved to table at. I showed up, a little nervous, and turns out he wasn't even there. When I tracked down his number from the chain of emails we've been exchanging (which by the way, also totally checked out on the date and time that I was there, so there was no mistake on my end) and texted him. He called the front desk I was standing at, which was currently unavailable because the sweet librarian who was attempting to help me was now being threatened by a homeless man who had wanted to save a seat for his nonexistent friend. The substitute tried to help out (even when he had a little bit of a panic attack and had to leave for a moment) but ultimately, they kept passing me around to someone who could hopefully help me. Finally, we found a sweet girl in tech who said she worked in the Creative Lab who could help me. 

As if the issues with the personnel weren't enough, then the comic started to go wrong. I still had to scan in the last seven pages, so finding a machine to do that and a computer to translate it was a process which involved walking back and forth between rooms and hallways and logging in and logging out. Then I kept waffling between Color, Grayscale and Black & White depending on the page. Then I found pages that had deep indents over some of the words that I had erased and replaced, so I had to selectively white-out those, wait for them to dry and refill them in while working on all other portions of this project. Then I had to sort them out by all the PDFs to email that I had sent them as, which took more tools than I'm willing to admit to just split up the darn things into individual pictures. When the Creative Lab techs had finally moved me to a computer with the entirety of Acrobat DC software and I had split up and labeled them all, we then had to put them all on a specific size of Photoshop canvas. I did that manually, one at a time, two on a page. The comic is 60 pages long, so this took a little bit of time. Just when it looked like we were nearing the end of maybe possibly being able to print one of these suckers for a sample, I realized I had done them all the same direction and now had to do some serious math? geography? engineering? to figure out what pages went which direction on the back of other pages so that the book read naturally. It was harder than you think! Then - joy to the world - I found out I had misnumbered long ago, so all my calculations were off and that I was entirely missing a page 35! It went from 34 to 36! So now everything was off, leaving one page for a four page middle section. So I had to call a tech over to use the lasso tool to awkwardly split that sucker down the middle and call it good. Then I had to reverse all the even pages - YOU GET THE PICTURE.  Eventually, EVENTUALLY, I had drawn up a schematic that the tech could read (Because the only available printer for this size was in the back of course) and transferred it all over to a little USB and prayed he could get it right.

Only a few issues! But we ended up with a decent finished project and I still need to go back this week to print off the rest. I'm actually glad that gentleman who didn't show up didn't show up because this was a much better way (Even though it took a while to get to it) to eventually figure everything out. I think we have a lot of good tools to print it the way I want it and no pressure because everyone was just trying to do their best to help me. We should have a nice stream-lined process soon (God willing). Here's to finally, for the first time in my LIFE, making some money off of my comics! Then I headed, bedraggled, and desperately needing a drink of water, to D&D.

In other good news, I found out the Salt Lake City library Creative Lab has a soldering station! That excites me greatly!

Saturday October 15th

Despite being up decently late that next night, I still decided it was a good idea to sign up for a Non-Breeding Bird Survey with Tracy Aviary for the next morning. I could have just bailed and not attended, but my body woke me up at 6 AM and I thought "why not?" So I packed my butt out of bed and drove up to City Creek Canyon to join a bunch of strangers (Getting to be less of strangers, this was my third time) stopping and ogling at birds.

Ornithologist and birders alike are some of the most adorable people. It is truly a magical thing to have people so interested in the same things you are, and to have an entire crew stop on the side of the road, straining desperately to see a Golden-Crowned Kinglet the size of your thumb flit through the trees with all the same level of enthusiasm. We saw Towhees, Juncos, our leader swore he heard a Solitaire, there were legends told of the summer when a Dipper was spotted. We saw inordinate amounts of Scrub and Stellar's Jays, almost a suspicious amount, most were saying. We even spotted (truly miraculously) two Golden Eagles, one of which was being harassed by a magpie. We got to see her take flight and everything. Beautiful birds.

The only thing about these adorable group of birders is holy HANNAH can they go for a while! We're up at the buttcrack of dawn, dressing warm because the sun hasn't even decided to risen and then these people want to go for four to five hours! I think this has repeatedly been my main issue with this group. It's not that I'm not devoted or even (I feel) in horrible shape. Just ... eventually we're seeing the same birds over and over. The first two, three hours are wonderful! Then... can we go home?

They also were teaching me plant names and uses which was PRETTY cool. We ate wild apples and crab apples. They spotted and pointed out Poison Ivy, Gumweed (the antidote), and Horsetails. Russian Olives, Hawthorn trees and Aspens. I like learning that stuff too, and I generally really like the people who are willing to get up so early and be so cold just in hopes to catch sight of the Yellow-Rumped Warbler's butterbut. (a literal term they use) They're a cool bunch of people. Positive and helpful.

When I got home, Atlantean and Merrow had been up for a few hours, and we went to Hill Aerospace Museum. Not much to report. Saw lots of planes. Atlantean liked it. I thought it was a good way to kill some time :)

We tried to drive by a mortuary that had claimed they were giving away free pumpkins in Millcreek (I had seen the sign when hanging out with Dryad) but we got there only an hour after they'd started, and they were fresh out. It was hard to tell Merrow she couldn't have a "Pum-ken."

When we got home, Atlantean agreed to let me take a nap. When I woke up, apparently I had slept thourgh my alarm (wearing an earplug to the noise outside your door will do that) and it was nearly 6:45. I decided to make dinner anyway, and sent Atlantean to the store for the missing ingredients. Namely a new potato peeler. We had Chicken with Root Vegetables at nearly 9 o clock at night. A win's a win.

Sunday October 16th

We are one day away from Merrow's second birthday! We practiced the Primary Program at church (I'm in the Primary Presidency) and it was only a little chaotic! We didn't even get to my lesson, but that I was totally prepared for (even if the subject material was cool.) As a director of children's plays in the past, I'll admit I saw a couple flaws right off the bat, but they got sorted out. (Hopefully. We're on next week haha)

Then this afternoon - the Whitings wanted to celebrate Merrow's birthday with us! I had forgotten that Ginn and Troll, Unicorn and Unitoad were in another entire state! So it was quiet. But boy did that family spoil us! Merrow was given a racetrack with electric cars, an entire wooden kitchen set from IKEA and a Cinderella doll on top of her cake! She loves Cinderella. Feeling super spoiled!!

~Nymph

February 27th

Where the heck do I even start? It's been over one and a half semesters up here at Utah State. Atlantean and I made the plunge and we live up here now. But there are so many things that have changed.

I'll start with the first big one. I have developed severe anxiety. It started on the night of Sep. 21st 2019, when I convinced myself I was dying. I convinced myself so well that Atlantean had to take me to the Emergency Room. It is nearly March and we are still finding the way to pay that off lol. That hump of that year was horrible. I was at the lowest I had ever been over Christmas, convincing myself that I was going to die and being completely convinced of a narrative in my head. It took a lot of recovery, and I'm grateful the worst of it was over Winter Break inbetween semesters, and I have had much more success, but I am still struggling with it. It is a long process and a jumbled story, but I can get myself fearing for my life very quickly. It is an uncomfortable and troubling process that I am still trying to work through, though I am happy to say I have made some progress.

I am insanely involved with my campus and I love it. As of now, the week before Spring Break, I have many clubs and groups I am proud I am involved in (on top of 15 credit hours and being a wife, mind you. I love being busy)
I went to my first meeting of the Bird Working Society this morning and I'm actually super stoked to show up on time this next time. If you show up at 8 you get to fill the bird feeders. I'm hoping to help them plan more bird-heavy activities, like visiting aviaries or stuff like that but maybe I'm getting too ambitious. I just met them and they're sweet. It's actually a crazy cool feeling to just look at someone and awkwardly say, "I like birds" and they just awkwardly say it back, and you're both super sincere.
I'm still heavily involved with Aggie Radio. I'm actually teaching an Adobe Audition class tomorrow because I want others to learn it. I offered it to most Slack channels under Aggie Radio. I have created three successful episodes and have gotten nothing back from my producer but, "These are awesome, I have no critiques. You should do this professionally!" which is a pretty good feeling lol. I have a LOT of voice acting meetings every week to try and stock up on the lines so I can make the episodes anytime I want. I am scared to lose the ability of Adobe Audition though so I better get cracking.
I'm trying to prioritize Refit every Saturday morning, which is a dance/zumba fitness class that the Institute offers. I got my friend Steph to say she'll come, but so far we haven't been together because of schedule. Steph is also majorly cool because she'll just willingly wander buildings with me and she loves jazz. It's cool to have a friend like that.
I'm a new DM of our Logan D&amp;D guild and we are actually meeting tonight. We are doing Curse of Strahd and I think it's going well :) We meet at the Logan HeeBeeGeeBeez and the manager there, Chris, is super cool. The building used to be a hot tub store, so they have this cool side room they call the tavern that's totally made out of wood that we get to use.
Atlantean and I recently found a club that meets on Tuesdays at 6 PM who are Shakespeare Improv and I love that! I saw their advertisement on the whiteboard during one of my classes and when I told them about it, they were so thrilled that we had seen it! We acted out Shakespeare scenes and I found a little more of the relaxed part of me that can improv and make people laugh! (I think) We fully intend to go back.

I also informedly just voted on Student Body and I'm proud of myself. I found out where to find their bios and voted according to my gut.

Classes are good. We have Professional Copyediting with my proper English professor (literally. He has a British accent).  Then there's Literary Analysis where we are reading very stagnant and depressing books, but the whole class is basically talking about why they're so stagnant and depressing which I find refreshing. Methods &amp; Research and Project Management are kind of hard, and both have one big project we are working on throughout semester, so whoo! And my captioning class is actually a blast. He's a super cool and nice teacher and the assignments are never too hard. Some of them have even been fun! And my Institute class is MEGA Awesome. My mind is blown I go everytime. I need someone from Deseret Book to come in and tape him to sell CDs because he blows my freakin mind everytime. I'm trying to keep studious notes. My patriarchal blessing says to keep Jesus at the center of my life, so that's why I chose this class, (it's Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel) and I have never not regretted something so hard.

Now for the whammy.

I'm pregnant.

Yeah.

We announced it to our parents this past weekend when we went down, which BTW, we only found out the Friday morning before we headed out. Thankfully, early into our marriage, we had bought some announcement mugs, so I just wrapped those suckers up and Atlantean and I made a plan. We kept it cool. No one was expecting it because I'm supposed to finish schooling and all that. My sister Mermaid now works at Shirlyns, so on Saturday, we got the help of one of her co-workers to keep quiet while we went up to the counter and told her we had to get some stuff and we laid down pre-natals, preggie pops and tummy cream. Mermaid freaked out and we explained that we needed her help to film the event tonight when we announced it to our parents. Well, the Kepps are moving to Arizona (to run a lemonade business?) and we hung out in their abandoned (for sale, so pristine. Also, it fetched $15,000 more than selling price because all the Californians are moving over here right now, but not important) and talked about the good ol' days. Well, the conversation got round to our old videos we used to make for book reports so we had to go downstairs to watch them and Mermaid was staring daggers into my head, but I told my mom that I just had presents I so desperately wanted to give her for her birthday. She was hesitant because she wanted this to be about Imp, whose birthday it was soon and didn't want to upstage her, but consented. We gave her our original gift first, a set of three cookie-cutters that represented her, and then gave her and dad the mugs. They opened them together and my father's reaction will go down in history.
You don't surprise my dad. You just don't.
But we did....

His coworker and good friend said he had NEVER seen my dad that shocked.
The mugs had the decal "My New Name is Grandma/Grandpa." and the Kepps were confused as to why my parents were freaking out, so I pulled out the pregnancy test to show everybody. We are very early with this information, but I wanted help and support. We are still figuring out how to tell Wolfman.
For Atlantean's family, we did it a little simpler (it's their sixth grandchild as opposed to their first) and put a 3x5 card with the simple sentence, "We're pregnant" on it for Atlantean's father's birthday present. He was also overjoyed and instantly the family was offering everything they could from babysitting to maternity clothes and I was actually touched by how selfless their love was.

The next person I'm trying to figure out how to tell is my best friend Brownie, but we need to know things are progressing well before we tell anyone. I don't have a history of miscarriages in my family, but we want to be a little more sure. (We definitely took a chance with that Friday shenanigan) I'm getting a blood test done on Monday to confirm and have an OBGYN lined up I guess. Morning sickness is kind of not fun, but it's kind of not horrible yet.

Yeah. So, there's that.

We're gonna get through this semester before we do anything else frankly lol.

That's my life in a nutshell right now!

~Nymph

September 4th

I cannot believe how busy my life is right now! Today we got so much done!
I went to my Elements of Grammar class and I'm still not sure the teacher knows what she's talking about (the entire time)
Then I went to the Introduction to Animal and Dairy Science that I'm unofficially auditing (I should be paying, but I dropped the class and I just drop in to take notes and listen). We learned about meal for animals made out of byproducts. I thought it was actually pretty cool.
Then I went and rented the textbook (English Fundamentals) that they had held for me overnight. (thank heavens, since it was the last one) I also got a luchador notebook. A notebook. Covered. In Luchadors. Pretty awesome.
I then went to the gym and worked out for thirty minutes. It's getting a little easier to stick around that long.
Next was Professional Writing Technology. I got the in-class quiz done so fast that the teacher swore and asked why everyone wasn't sitting next to me. I picked PodBean as my software and I'm excited he's going to let me because I wanted to learn it anyway for making a podcast. I need to make a list of my interests. They are so varied. I've been thinking about that today. I wonder what my classmates think of me, I pester the teacher a lot in class.
I headed home to make sloppy joes and then Atlantean came with me to the AgTech class which I actually am interested in, but not sure how we will fit in to the group or really fit in our schedule (I certainly want to try tho) and then we went to an institute marriage class for young married couples in a chapel.
I dropped him off and headed off to Folklore Class down in Brigham City where I'll be here till 10:30.
Oh, also my sister came home from her mission tonight due to health issues. She has a lot of pain in her tummy.
Also it's my dad's birthday.

So that's me.
I'm actually handling the workload like a champ so far.
#slay
~Nymph

August 26th

It's been a week full of emotions. A month, actually. We have moved to Logan. We regret nothing, honestly, but it is still a transition. Probably less of one that I would've had when I was younger. Today was my first day of school. I really hope I can keep up on all of it. I want to do great things and I'm just feeling that tonight. Trying to figure out how... and what.
I will (hopefully) write more later. I just had so much time at my other job. Yep.

~Nymph

June 21st

So yesterday at my work we were forced to watch a security video they are thinking of enforcing district wide and just as everyone started watching it on their personal computers, our boss came out and said that Sandy Police or some authorities had called him and said that there was a stabbing up at Quarry Bend Walmart and the stabber was in our area somewhere, wearing a white jersey with a number 3 on it (I found that out from other news sources later, the jersey thing). We all thought it was ironic.

And a little scary...

~Nymph

June 19th

I guess I'm firing a couple shots today, because today I finally told my boss I was quitting, or giving my "letter of resignation" (she was less than surprised and pointed out the stains on my sweater. Thanks Harpy) and the tonight Atlantean and I will be telling Jinn and Troll what our neighbor and my previous employer has proposed, which is to let him take care of the basement apartment we're leaving because he wants to become a property manager.

Atlantean's friend Dwarf just called and apparently we're eating out with him tomorrow night. Sounds like his new wife hurt her foot or a tendon within and now they are both filling out paperwork to not work for an extended period, her for her foot and him for taking care of her. We usually make a rule not to eat out if we already have and we only get to eat out even then if we got to church on time, but for an elusive friend reaching out to us, I think we can make an exception.

I have had real trouble getting together with Brownie this summer, with the play falling through and then Meow Wolf in Santa Fe being totally booked, today we found out that the Upstart Vision Screening for Preschoolers that we went and got trained for are all booked up too. So we have ... failed. But nobody can say we didn't try! We are still hoping to get together tomorrow? It's been weird. I half set up an day thing with Brownie tomorrow, a movie day with Giantess and then a Saturday theme park extravanganza with Pixie, but now all of them seem to have fallen through.

Right now Pixie's family is going through some rough patches. It sounds like our good friend, Pixie's mom, lost her dad over the weekend on top of a lot of other things. She was actually coming back from helping her mom from a stressful surgery to find him gone in their own home. I think it was very tramautizing.  Whew. I am shaking from lack of food right now. Not good for blood sugar. Also haven't taken meds for a while. Having trouble breathing. Seeing in dark tunnels... Just kidding. Last sentence atleast was an exaggeration. So we called Pixie's mom on Mothers Day, managed to get together with her and my family (though she really still did seem very shooken up) and do some game nights. My parents are awesome. Go Centaur and Fairy Queen! Pixie's mom also sent Atlantean a really sweet text for Father's Day. Who doesn't fall in love with Atlantean's kindness? I have yet to find someone.

Did I mention Mermaid left on her mission? I probably did.

I watched Good Morning Vietnam for the first time this morning, and I'm really excited for Toy Story 4's release on Friday, just have to find someone to go with me to it. I'm currently reading The Pioneer Woman's love story (From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels) along with a YA book Jinn suggested from the library called The Storm Keeper's Island, which I'm liking more than I thought. We just bought My Hero Academia volume 19, and the card game, which we played last night and it is much simpler than I thought. I am also reading books on Fake News, cowboy skills, podcasting, how to write mysteries and car troubles/advice along with a chapter from the Book of Mormon and Ensign every morning.

As for our move to Logan! The big juicy move! Everything seems to be coming along pretty nicely! I have rescheduled our moving truck, our rent went down inexplicably but I'm not complaining, and I just registered for classes! All that's left is for Atlantean to find a job and for me to pay tuition. It's official as of today that I am resigning from Canyons School District. Kinda crazy. Our new life opens up ahead! (lyric from my musical that I have yet to put on) I have faith it will all work out, and I feel like it is a good next move. It's scary, but I don't want to stay where we are. Let's move forward!!!

Wanting community with renewed vigor (hopefully) !~
~Nymph

June 10th

Todays already been kind of a whirlwind! Whew! Haha.

This morning, Atlantean took the day off so we could visit Dryad and Kappa! We haven't seen them in a while when we used to see them every week! It's nice to kind of have them not as much in our lives (We like the people in our current D&D guild very much) but it still feels important to keep in contact with them as the most important things you'll do in this life are  keeping up connections I think.

Then my coworker refused to give me the morning shift, which hurt, but I had to read my scriptures to calm myself down and forgive her. I understood where she was coming from, but she wasn't being very giving. I guess she learned from last summer not to give me time because of my play. I wanted to yell at her, "You just don't want to," but I guess God is giving me this just so Brownie and I can figure out a better way to spend time this summer, or work around it and still love her. We want to volunteer at preschool vision screenings, which I thought was a worthy cause, but evidently not. Everything I do feels forced this summer. Ugh.

May 28th

I feel like I have a lot to catch up on, but no idea if anything is worth mentioning, ya know? Let's start with the biggest thing out of the way first. Mermaid is going into the MTC tomorrow! My family is literally going to swing by, pick me up from my morning shift which I switched for at work, and we'll all drive down to Provo to drop her off! I hope it's a good experience. I hope it all doesn't come crashing down at once.

Logan is starting to feel more real. Today, our new apartment called us to confirm when we wantd to move in and it was like, "Whoa." I'm excited but nervous and I guess that's just the way it's gonna be. It's weird, but I'm mostly excited about fickle things, like swimming pools at our apartment or being able to walk through my favorite cemetery, being far from family and making our own way. Is that wrong? Should I be more excited about school? I'm just getting excited about the little things, and namely having Atlantean and I being up there making our own way. Somedays I think I have too big of dreams, like We're gonna get fit! We're gonna make dinners every night! We're gonna go hiking and camping! Life is gonna be good! and maybe it's just a positive way of looking at it all. Heaven knows if I looked at it anymore pessimistically, things could be trouble lol. I want to be excited! But I also don't want to be unprepared or unrealistic. I think that's a relatable emotion.

I've been struggling lately with finding things to do after work. Atlantean and I had a week we called our "Shut-In Week" where we tried not to go out to just spend money as we often did recreationally. It was a lot of fun and helped us realize that its important to learn how to entertain yourself. I think we are extending it into the rest of our lives lol, because shopping for money-spending sake is a habit we should kill now.

I've also been trying to find purpose in musical writing again. I wrote Sedna - The Goddess of the Sea, and I'm still working on writing, compiling and begging certain (SPRIGGAN) musicians to work on my music. Turns out Spriggan just sent his girlfriend on a mission and now will be working a lot, but he has a year here, so I better catch him before I go so he'll work on my music. I feel like I have to write Matrimony to a Phony, but it will be a stretch, because I've never started with nothing. Faster came so much... well... faster and more natural to me. I like writing musicals, but something holds me back, like if I start writing The Seven Wild Geese now, I suddenly won't have any musicals to work on. I'm debating between saving the good stuff I know I want to write or just throwing myself in headlong to enjoy it now.

This morning, my ESL student had some hard questions about English words, and I think I confused her more with my explanations. I'm so glad she wants to learn. She is so faithful to learning, and comes every class. She's basically the only reason that we keep the class I teach open. Who knew I'd be meeting with a Vietnamese lady every Tuesday in an intimate Music room classroom to teach her English and get almost stumped by her questions in Salt Lake City and get to drive back and see the Capitol framed by misty clouds. So cool.

We replaced our brake pads and rotors by ourselves! to save us money I learned how! I want to do so for other repairs because that was a big issue at the beginning of our marriage. I think cars would be a valuable thing to learn. (I'm a pretty decent piano player now! And I drive stick shift like a natural! (I think))

Tonight is Mermaid's setting apart! I also have to make blondies for a co-workers birthday tomorrow.

A whole year is a long time in Logan! And it'll be even longer than that. Gall, wish us luck.
I get to start DMing again! 😆
~Nymph

May 2nd

This morning started off well, I think. I drove over to the AirBnB I clean, and the people were still there, so then I came back but they were a liiiiittle messier than other people, on top of leaving late so I had less time to clean more mess. I had to leave a little for the wife of the house when she got back. I'm grateful that even though they've been a little less pleased with my work, as I try to get up to their standards that they're willing to work with me. Because, too often we are missing things or I'm not sure what to do about others (I mean, they taped a plastic bag over a vent on the ceiling?), and I've been leaving an undesirable amount of things for her to do because I have to rush to work (I'm sorry! I'm really trying to get everything from the list done!), but I'm enjoying throwing myself into this a little harder and taking it just that smidgeon more seriously (as like a real part time job! It's getting real crazy in the summer! lotsa cleaning!)

Been listening to a lotta D&D podcasts. Also, we just discovered Atlantean got a raise? Which is awesome! We managed to pay rent early this month, so my instant instinct is to SUPER SAVE. Which we can totally do with this raise! Yay! Our apartment we are hoping for in Logan has still not received our application in the mail :(

When I got to actual work (which I have a whole new level of acceptance for, I'm actually getting worried I'll miss it terribly when we move) two people approached me first. One just said, "I was thinking about you." and never really elaborated or why, but it seems like she didn't even know. And then the other saved a Discover envelope for me in the mail because the envelope is pretty and I made hats for cats yesterday out of the envelopes I'd collected from Discover card offers. So both those gestures were sweet and I felt important and cared about :)

Atlantean and I went and saw Endgame! We have unfortunate news. Driving back from the show we both agreed that because people had talked it up SO MUCH, we actually were a little disappointed. Good show! Don't get us wrong! But it was a Marvel movie! I've probably mentioned this before, but I find it hard to ever get a film to mean anything anymore to people. We have unrealistic expectations because we've seen it all. That being said, Nebula playing paper football with Tony at the very beginning and Antman punching the giant dinosaur space ship as he was big was pretty awesome. And Atlantean and I both agreed we got chills when everyone came back and emerged with Doctor Strange to back up Captain America. Whoo!! Good film! (Our insurance paid for us to go. Go Allstate!)

I've been obsessed with the idea of making a D&D podcast lately. I've been listning to The Adventure Zone, of which I am a loyal fan of, but I'm also trying others to kind of analyze what makes one tick, what makes one more popular than the other. I really have a desire, in a year, to try to make a D&D podcast with Wolfman, Atlantean and Pixie. I feel like they'd just be such an amazing group to do that with, and I hope they're available at the time. I notice a lot of improve, group dynamic, funny sayings, but also a strong and vibrant plotlines are all things that make The Adventure Zone such a "powerhouse" and I feel a lot of pressure as the DM to create those good vibes and story. I'm just really excited about it if it ever happened!

Two days is Atlantean's birthday! I'm so excited to finally present him with the gift I've been working on since Valentine's Day. (It's AWESOME. HOPEFULLY.) The sad news is our My Hero Academia shirts won't arrive in time (No way) but we are still going to attempt to cosplay, even with that disappointment. We are still avid watchers of what is out in My Hero Academia whenever we can get over to my parents. I now have keychains lol. #BecomingAMegaFan

~Nymph

April 23rd

We went to FanX for my birthday! That was cool. Atlantean was obsessed with pointing out all the cosplays and was frustrated when he didn't know one. It was great timing because both our tax return and his paycheck had come in, so I felt literally no stress about our spending, as long as we were reasonable. We went and splurged on fun things like buying gourmet licorice (why not!) and a mystery My Hero Academia grab box (with an equivalent of six My Hero Academia keychains and everything else either Dragon Ball Z, One Punch Man, Evolve or Pokémon 😛.). But it was the experience that counts I think. Then we basically got together and decided what couple items we would find and buy when we got back (and I got the grossest sandwich) and we got me a She-Hulk print (I really usually don't buy art), two One Piece pops for Atlantean's collection and then a cool deck of "Angel" cards we both initially liked the art for.
Did I mention we also bought 50$ worth of belts for the occasion? Superhero belts that is! Atlantean and I decided that since our My Hero Academia half-cosplays (tshirts) hadn't come in the mail yet, Atlantean came up with the idea to just wear all the Superman and Green Lantern paraphernalia we owned. So I racked UP. He only had a tshirt, necklace, a couple pins and a new belt of Green Lantern, but I have a LITTLE more Superman stuff. I wore a Superman beanie, pin, shirt, backpack, belt, Clark Kent glasses. I put a Superman phone wallet on my phone, I have a Superman wallet already, I packed the Superman backpack (which is a giant adorable plush Pop Superman!) with a Superman pez dispenser (which the bag check lady laughed at), Superman fidget spinner, Superman pack of cards and Superman mints. I wore Superman fingerless gloves, Superman earrings, Superman pocketwatch and Superman badge that says I'm Clark Kent. I was Superman-ed UP. I got comments a lot about "I wonder who your favorite superhero is." Even from like a homeless guy. It was great. I was SUPERMAN (fan). I had one (homeless?) guy yell at me and say "Hey Supergirl! I need a flight to Detroit!" and I said, "Get in line!" I had one lady come up to me in line and ask "Alright, then the question is, Henry Cavill or Brandon Routh?" (which are Superman actors) and I pshawed and said, "Christopher Reeves." and she said, "Brandon Routh was the right answer, but he comes from Christopher Reeves, so I guess that works." and we chatted for a while about actors I had no idea about, but it was cool to have someone approach me about it lol.
We had planned to go with Atlantean's family to Texas Roadhouse for my birthday, but I started getting a really bad headache, and there were a couple of reasons for it: One, I'd stayed up til 1:30 AM the night before and had only gotten five hours of fitful sleep after a good, good D&D session that was still running through my mind. Two, that crappy sandwich and all that walking. Three, the glasses I wore for Clark Kent actually had lenses, so they distorted my vision a tiny bit, and hurt after wearing them for too long. It was a concoction for some serious nausea, and on the TRAX ride home, I was seriously beginning to think I was going to throw up. When we got back to our car, I asked if we could just drive to Atlantean's house and talk to them about going tonight, because while we'd already made everyone wait til much later than usual to have dinner, telling them we also weren't going seemed super selfish, so I was determined to push through it and go to Texas Steakhouse, but when Atlantean called his mom, she said, "Well, if she isn't feeling well, why don't I just make dinner?" The woman is a Saint. She made an impromptu dinner of Salmon burgers, and I apparently conked out on the couch for two hours, with my loving husband always coming to check on me when things were happening. He paid so much extra attention to me on my birthday, always saying we were going to do what I wanted to do. It was a wonderful stressfree evening and I appreciate my husband and my husband's family so much for it. (And FANX WHOOO!)
Also, there was a girl there who was dressed up as Izuku Midoriya's mother from My Hero Academia and everytime she saw an Izuku cosplay (of which there were plenty) she would hold up her sign that said "Welcome Home!" with his anime face on it and would run up to them screaming things like "I Love you!" It was great.

On Sunday, my family apparently got a teacher from Paradigm to make them some AMAZING food and we had the cutest cake ever! We saw pictures from my family's vacation and are getting excited for our vacation with them in June. My family got me some cool Western stuff from their vacay as gifts, like some cactus and horsehair earrings, a Native American tale graphic novel and a survival pack of cards.

I also am having trouble stopping listening to a song called Come Along by Cosmo Sheldrake and it's a super weird song. Evidently my brother Gnome found it and liked it, which makes a lot of sense. Also, yesterday I walked over to the church and planned my ESL lesson and read about inspiring Pioneer Woman outside. Best ever! (Except for the fact that I once again left my keys with Atlantean and so I had no way to get there and had to sheepishly call my supervisor and tell her once again I wasn't going to be able to make it out and we had to cancel class and ugh)

Sylph and I finished our animation! Atleast all the pieces are in place, I just have to shoot it and make sure it looks okay and put it into a computer and add all the sound and... 😵
We are putting in our application for our apartment up in Logan soon as well. So that's AWESOME. (Hopefully)

and I am super excited for our next D&D... :#3
(I love where my characters are. Purrrrfectly positioned :3 )

~Nymph

April 15th

Hey! It's the day taxes are due! Crazy lol. TurboTax said ours were e-filed so...

So, yes! Atlantean and I are making plans to move to Logan! My 22nd birthday is coming up this Sunday! We are currently taking care of my family's cats while they are in vacation in Monticello? My dad actually called and needed me to look up some tax documents he'd left on his desk, and it was lucky I was there! We found him the silly number tucked on the bottom of the wrong document, of course lol. I LOVE playing their piano! It's really nice now that I learned that I can just sit down and (admittedly slowly) pound out some of my favorite tunes! I remember the days when I'd buy musical piano books just in the hope that I could convince someone else to play for me, but evidently God had other things in mind! Because now I can play them! And I find such joy in hearing such familiar chords and being the jubilant owner of all of those good, good piano books! I have so many good ones!!  I am also very proud to announce that after probably almost 6 months of not driving the stick shift car we own, I took it home and I totally slayed! Even Atlantean was shocked! He said he had been atleast expecting some jolting, but it was smooth as butter babaaaay! He was very proud, as was I.

I'm currently reading
Tao of Pooh
Ella Minnow Pea
And Then You're Dead
Saints: The Standard of Truth

Two are from Paradigm that always intrigued me, one I found an excerpt in The Ensign from and the other just looked interesting.

I've started teaching at the ESL center! In fact, I have my second class tomorrow morning, and Atlantean and I got a chance to go to a party for Volunteer Appreciation, which was pretty cool. I got a picture (which I took) and a card (which one of  my students wrote in her adorable English. Found in Soul 20, for my progeny)

We  made a list of locations, or places in Logan we want to scout, such as Health Stores, Doctor's offices, swimming pools, etc. Stuff you don't think about til you get there, and I'd love to do some pre-work on that. We are planning on filling out our application to Bridger Pointe Apartments soon. We tried to acclimate our cat to my parent's house, but it went down not well, and it was kind of embarrassing, so we have decided we don't have much of a choice but to keep her, though we will be paying for more expensive housing because of it. But I guess when I got married, I was excited to finally take her away from my parent's house and for her to become my cat and my cat alone (with the exception of Atlantean of course) and she has arguably had the best year of her life so far with us in our cozy apartment, with the most bravery and relaxation I have ever seen from her. Mom says the higher apartment prices are just practice for having kids. I really hope Atlantean (and I, potentially) can find a good enough job to support it.

This morning was awesome! I woke up to driver over and let out the cats and feed them but also made dinner so we can just reheat it when we get home, I managed to exercise and then took a walk while listening to The Adventure Zone, which mentioned French Onion Soup way too much and Atlantean was mentioning because it got him real hungry for it. We have a film festival tonight with Brownie! Admittedly, for kids, but still! I hope it'll be good. If not, we'll just leave I guess lol. I got so inspired by this morning and all the activity I was able to get up to do, that I was reminded of two goals that I just really want in life, and one is to have some kind of small time farm (animals/excuse to get outside) and to be a leader in the community (whether in a political capacity, or in the much more preferable theater/teacher/class capacity. I want to bring people together, and not just kids, but parents too, who need a group where we can work on a project together!)

Atlantean and I are excited to watch the third season of My Hero Academia (admittedly even though it's subbed and not dubbed) using my parents Hulu. ALSO, my parents gave us free reign of their kitchen, so we can eat whatever they have, and then Jinn is starting a Keto diet, so she UNLOADED her pantry and let us have all the excess! It was AWESOME! We have so much filler food! Pasta shells and soup mixes! What a blessing, what a blessing!

Brownie and I met up yesterday to decide what we could do together with our summers considering we will not be doing Sedna, Goddess of the Sea this year. It just didn't feel right and it was too rushed and I lost my star last minute, but on the bright side, we have a lot of good props for when we do decide to put it on. Brownie is such a saint.
Anyway, our plans so far usually include outdoors and animals. I love how similar we are, she is SO awesome! We both like speaking intermittent Spanish, we both like the sound of 90s music! It's crazy! I wanna call her my best friend, but she's so friendly to everyone, I feel like it wouldn't be appropriate? I dunno. I just love doing stuff with her!

My campaign is also going this month. Had to drop the sad moving news to my guild. They were sad, and I don't know if they'll stay together after we go, but Atlantean and I wanted to drop down and do intermittent sessions so I can finish my campaign and we can see them. I can't believe it took me this long to feel friendly with such intelligent people! How I hope two of them get married (fingers crossed! We'll see if they get engaged before we go!) I've also really tried to include Bishop's input on this last mission, because I want the characters to feel something for him. I like playing him and I decided to make a risky executive decision (that went over PRETTY well and should continue to do so if I play my cards right) to basically throw Bishop's character sheet out the window, and have him just have a couple of repeating attacks that I think fit his character rather than making D&D fit him. Yeah, unconventional, but that's the way he needs to roll. I can't keep getting caught up in the details. He dus what he dus.

This past month, I did lose my phone for two weeks. I actually just straight up lost it so there is no happy ending to this story other than the fact that my dad is giving me an iPhone 7 to borrow. I texted Atlantean the Friday night of March the 15th about something about coming home or something, and I exited the CAB East building to get in my car and I never saw it again.

We also have two weddings coming up, I forgot if I already mentioned this, but Elf is getting married! (old family friend) and if she comes enough into my life, I will have to come up with a name for her (Elfette? lol) and Siren is getting married to her beloved Bugbear (that is totally an appropriate name! lol)

Wolfman's still on his mission. Mermaid's preparing to go, and for my 22nd birthday, Atlantean and I are going to FanX! Because our My Hero Academia shirts didn't come in time, we decided to wear all of our superhero paraphernalia, me Superman and him Green Lantern. He's been scrambling for more Green Lantern stuff because my Superman collection puts his to SHAME. (I got to go through it and exhibit it to him last night lol)

Still currently trying to animate with Sylph, going okay I guess. It's hard to do my part. Drawing stuff over and over is not that fun. Trying to do all the fun stuff I wanted to do without breaking the bank before we go! Here's to Logan!!! :D

~Nymph

March 18th

I feel the need to talk about something.
Last night, when I went to bed, I had a dream that was very lacking in details, but in main point, it was poignant. The main thing I remember thinking was that someone dangerous and terrifying was in my house, and I felt great fear clutch my breast because of it. I don't remember if there were any specifics, but I was just extremely scared because the person or being who was overwhelmingly powerful and evil was in my home and I did not want him there. I think I may have been trying to hide from him or even to avoid him as I walked around my home. He never made any advances to hurt me. He was just there and he was panic-inducing.
This kind of dream makes me wake up, full of anxiety. If I start thinking hard enough, I still have enough adrenaline in my body that I can convince myself that I hear footsteps out in the main living room, and I can actually convince myself that someone is out there with little to no effort. Usually it is just Fuzzy.

The weird thing is this is the not the first time I have had dreams like this. At first, I thought the fact that I was actually having scary dreams that shot adrenaline through me was because of the newfound pressures of being financially stable and a wife that could cause me a bit of anxiety. But after this third one, I'm not so sure. Since I've been married, I've had three distinctly scary dreams, two of which now had to do with a man who was very obviously evil getting or attempting to get into my home when I really did not want him there. I didn't see a correlation until both dreams came.
Then, this morning I was reading Saints: The Standard of Truth, a new book about the story of the Latter Day Saint church, and I read the beginning chapter, which talked about Joseph Smith Jr.'s early family life, and their family's struggle with churches. It turns out that both Joseph Smith's mother and father had dreams regarding religion, and that got me to thinking, these dreams I have are potent and they do almost have a prophetic feel to them, maybe I should try to inerpret them.

The man, I am almost certain, is Satan. But why is he in my house? And how did he get there? What are these dreams trying to tell me? I almost think, because the evil in this man or being was vastly stronger than the first dream (where I just refused a twitchy scary man entry into my home), that the dreams are trying to tell me that his presence in my house is getting stronger. That because we did not do Come Follow Me this week, or have not kept the spirit as strong as we should have in our home, that we are now in danger of letting Satan run rampant. That is really what it feels like. His presence was darkly electrifying. I never feel this way in my parents or in-laws house and I think that's significant. I think I need to be more vigilant about what I allow in my home and how I can prevent Satan from being present there.

It's kind of scary to think about that he could be.

Atlantean just pointed something out to me. This last dream was definitely our house, the presence was directly in the main room, but the first dream was in my parents house, and the man was much less evil and never got into the house. That's significant.

Anyway, let me talk about our current lives to alleviate some of that. Atlantean and I are currently making plans to move up to Logan for a couple of reasons. The main one being school for me so I can get my bachelors, which I have to admit I'm not in the perfect mindset for. The other reasons are that I just want a change in our lives, and it feels like a good time to move on considering God's path for us currently is not children. It's a scary proposition as finances are not so neatly set as they were down here and everything around anywhere is pretty expensive. It's also to have our own fresh start. It's really nice to have parents always so close, but my weirdly intrinsic mantra has always been self-sufficiency and i want to know I can do it, though I know the change may be jarring and I may have regrets. I just feel like it's a good growth point and God hasn't stopped us so far, so I think it's a good step, if not a scary one.
So we went and checked out apartments up there. We have about four months before we're moving, which is a good amount of time. We like Bridger Pointe up there.

Aos Si took over DMing for a bit because I didn't feel prepared and I took my first shift at Upstage Crew Services. He brought a projector and aimed it at the ceiling while he used Adobe Illustrator to move us around and fight monsters. It was pretty boss.

Upstage Crew Services was crazy! I am currently working three jobs, two of which are on commission/on call. (AirBnb cleaning and Upstage Crew Services) On top of that, I am working my Canyons School District job which schedule is a little fluctuating right now, and I'm attempting to volunteer at the ESL center, prepare and write the music for a play, create atleast eight different DIY crafts, complete my kickboxing course with friends while working around their schedule and animate a short with my friend Sylph who lives in Saratoga Springs.
If I complained about not having enough to do, I now have a hobby called "Biting off more than you can chew"
But Upstage! So I showed up to Upstage. It was in Salt Lake City, so parking was expensive! But it was quite a out of my element atmosphere. Turns out Upstage is a large employer of Union workers, which apparently causes a little bit of a rift between the two groups, Union and non-Union. But I got to go into the Salt Palace for free and get a free t shirt, and meet up with a whole bunch of gruff looking dudes on the back dock and sign in my name and everything. The people are generally friendly though and I made some friends I feel I could say hi to next time. We were sectioned off into groups, and it was essentially the closing down of a convention for home and auto I think, so I got to see the side of that, but we were only in charge of cleaning up our client's objects, which were specific kinds of tables, dividers, partitions, table skirts and chairs. So we basically did a lot of walking, stacking and hunting down for these items so we could clean them all up to be sent back. It was hard work, and my feet hurt, but I earned 80$ and we got out early! The time said we'd be done at 11, but we got out at 9. I recently signed up for another one (gotta make that dough before USU) which claims to go until 2:30 AM, so we'll find out if ending early is a common occurrence (I'm betting not). It was an interesting group of people and I wouldn't say I socialized much with any of them, but I didn't feel unwelcome or ostracized. They just talked about a lot of stuff I didn't particularly care about. Nice people through generally, though physical labor is not my strong suit, I'm not a wuss. (I don't think) And a lot of people introduced themselves to me. At the end, they explicitly cornered me and thanked me for doing such a good job. I had two people go out of their way to tell me that I had done a great job tonight. I was confused because I was pretty sure I had done the average amount of work and was just one of them, but it did feel nice. It's probably either because I'm new or because (maybe?) I'm kind of cute ;)

Today after work I am going up with Mermaid to Park City and helping Siren get proposed to! (I'm gonna have to come up with a name for her boy!) It should be fun and we discussed the plan all last night when we went and had dinner with my family and planned a package for Wolfman's birthday up in Hungary. the package prices are expensive!

Also I planned a whole bunch of name ideas for our Relief Society book party in April coming up and I was reminded how much I like words and English and books. It's definitely my strong suit. I also chopped my hair (finally!)

Gotta go!

~Nymph