Labor Day

Well,  It was a very good day in the Allen residence on Saturday September 3rd, 2011.  Chris Peterson and Kellon Moore took to the field for yet another season of Bronco football.  I was not nearly as nervous as I was for the opening game last year against VT.  We found a way to watch it on the internet and we plugged Brian's computer in to the TV so we could watch it a little bit bigger.  Definitely not HD but better than not watching it at all.

We got ready for the day and we ran our errands in our Boise stuff.  We got a few strange looks for the most part we didn't even phase people.  We went in to a furniture store that was having a huge Labor Day sale in the hopes of finding a bookcase.  No luck but the gentleman that was helping us said 'oh I love to watch them play on that blue grass.'  We thought it was funny!

We came home and had our pre-game food:  grilled hotdogs, italian nachos and brownies.

We were a little nervous to hear that a few players had to sit out because paperwork had not settled in time for the players from the Netherlands to be approved by the NCAA.  Granted our third string safety cost us a couple of TDs but we looked so good!

The TV showed Kellon's wife and I told Brian that he may not be the most attractive (it's the teeth!), but I have a crush on him.  It is ok with him because he has a crush on the supercross announcer girl, Erin Bates:

Ya ya ya... she is very pretty...  He says even more so in person...  Whatever...

We got the big win.  1-0 for the season.  Now UGA needs to win the rest of their games and TCU cannot loose again.  We slept pretty good that night.  I told Brian, when any other team is playing I can sit back and relax and just watch, but when it is your team, you just can't sit still!  Auburn doesn't look so hot this year.  They barely won against Utah State!

Yesterday we spoke to Trent, Brian's sisters husband.  He lives in Boise and we got talking about how next year may be a train reck for us.  He is of the understanding through the grapevine that is not Chris's style.  He doesn't believe in rebuilding years and that he has a very competitive schedule for the youngsters to the program so they are ready and that there are several sophomores that have the chance to outplay/out start some seniors this year.  That would be nice wouldn't it?  Keep it up Chris!

Oh Sunday...

Is it bad to somewhat dread Sunday's?  I kind of do.  Not so much the spiritual side of things... just the people part.  Br. Gardner called us in to give us callings.  They keep saying that they need an R.S secretary and since the first week we got here I honestly thought I was going to get that calling.  Boy was I WRONG.  They called Brian to be an assistant scout master.  He needs to be to all the activities on Wednesday nights and two camping trips a month.  I am super excited for that...  Brian is going to be gone 50 percent of the month, now two weekends a month and evenings.  The Lord is truly testing me in this town.  Ya, ya I know... tons of people have callings like this but right now I hate this town and this is just icing on my cake.  Give it time and I won't mind the calling at all.

When I took a religion class from Br. Sturm on campus he told us to always accept our callings with open hearts.  I don't like him right now.  Yes I have heard this often. But it goes deeper than that.  He told of a story of a girl coming up to campus and getting a calling to play the piano in sacrament meeting.  She accepted and then asked if me would get her a list of people that played the piano so that she could take lessons and learn to play.... I thought that was the most ridiculous story and things like that do not happen.  Wrong.  I am the new primary piano player.  I quit taking lessons when I was a sophomore in HS and I never played out of the song book.  I always considered them far more difficult than the hymns. And even then, I couldn't play that many hymns either.  I am stressing this calling.  I don't have a piano.  How am I to learn how to play the piano?!?!?! What am I supposed to do, hire a teacher? Is that what the Lord is telling me? Don't have a job?  Well fine I am going to make sure you are busy???  Does he not know that I cry just thinking about it and playing in recitals or church or even YW for that matter made me sick?  I am not happy right now.....

We went for a drive Sunday evening and I found where I want to live.  Granted I would need $400,000 but I can dream right? I have my house picked out for heaven?  I don't know why CAT people even buy houses.  You have to move every 4 years.

Today I went and got my visiting teaching done.  Brian is out of town and this morning when he left I asked him which car he was going to take.  He said the car.  I didn't say anything more to him because I knew the GPS was in the truck and he wasn't going to need it.  Well he took my GPS.  So much for going and getting out of the house while he is gone and finding the library and other things.  I cussed him for a moment.  I realized this about 37 minutes before I was supposed to be there.  Lets just say it took me 40 minutes to get there.  I was so lost.  I had to go to like downtown and it is ghetto.  I thought I was going to get shot.  I didn't.  Lucky for Brian.

A few tears and streaks of mascara later I found where I was going.  No, I don't ever want to do that again.  Why do I even bother putting on make-up?  I swear it comes of by mid day anyways.  Oh well.

Is it Friday yet??