Loved This!

So I am sure you all have seen this video but it made me smile...I hope it does the same for you!

Sound of Music Train Station @ Yahoo! Video

5 years ago

this time 5 years ago i was alone - but then so were you. 4 of my best friends were getting married and i had no one but a few of old boyfriends that really needed to leave me alone. i had great roommates but that was still not quite enough. so i prayed, i prayed for a friend, i prayed every night for someone new to walk into my life. little did i know i just needed to hold on, hold on for just a few more weeks. little did i know that one blind date would change my world completely. the month before i met you was one of the hardest in my life but it prepared me for the changes i was going to have to make. now 5 years ago seems like a different lifetime and i can't imagine myself with out you - and now i am ready for our next adventure and the next 5 years.

"It's all going to be ok"

I have something to say! I am frustrated with the hallow expression that we as humans seem to pass back and forth whenever one of us is struggling in someway or another. It seems to me that the words 'It's all going to be ok" have replaced sincer empathy/simpathy. It has just become eaiser to say "it's all going to be okay" rather then to really listen and care. Plus, how do you know? How do you tell a husband that has lost his job and is strugling to find a new one that it will all be ok. You don't know, you hope it will all be okay, you have faith, and you pray that it will all be okay, but you don't really know. How do you tell a mother whose child is fighting cancer, that it will all be okay? You can't! However, you can care, really care.

Just So You Know

Come to find out a VW Jetta can not pull a UHAUL trailer such as the one above all the way to Washington DC. There goes moving plan A!

Now I'm A Runner!

We did it - all 13.1 miles. I finished the 1/2 Marathon in 2 hours, 26 minutes and 51 seconds! My goal was to finish in at least 3 hours and to not have to be picked up by the loser bus all of which I managed so I have to say I am damn proud of myself, plus they gave me a medal (everyone gets one, I know)! LB also ran the 1/2 and he finished under 2 hours - he keeps telling me how he is the fastest fat boy now.
I have to say I am so glad that my friend Lisa Blanck talked me into running the 1/2 Marathon I was quite skeptical at the beginning that I could actually finish. But I did thanks to a great coach and running partner - I could not have done it with out her!!

*Post 1/2 Marathon Pictures - Don't we look beautiful?

Socks?

Yep that is one entire load of socks! Which means I suck at getting the laundry done and that LB may have been waring dirty socks for a while.

Moving = Fear!

So I should be working on my Resume - but I'm not. Why? Because I am scared - I mean not able to eat, drop 7 lbs, terrified! The thought of having to find a job in Washington DC where everyone has a masters degree, 4+ years experience , and graduated from an ivy league school is so overwhelming. I am prepared for rejection, I even expect it, and as much as I want to continue in the health promotion field I would be ok with being a secretary (well maybe)! Needless to say when we moved to SLC I had a job (Honey Baked Ham) and an Apartment and I still lost weight and could not sleep for 2 months - moving clear across the county just might kill me. But LB is sure excited!

One Small Change

Check out the Salt Lake Valley Health Department's "One Small Change" campaign video and see if you can spot me in my first film daybue. Let me know what you think!

Drum Roll Please

The Maughan's have an announcement!

It's Semi-Official we will be moving to Washington DC sometime this summer. Eric (LB) the amazing man that he is has been accepted at Georgetown Law School and will be starting there come fall. We are excited for the adventure to come, however I am scared of all the change and stress - but then I have always been a worrier. We will greatly miss Salt Lake City and all of our family and friends here but not our cinder block bomb shelter of an apartment. We are also extremely excited to have college team be can both root for. Go Hoyas! I think it is time to get a bulldog and start a list of everything I need to see and do while in Washington! #1 Find Employment.

Thank you for the FYIs!

(Note: to understand this post please read the first comment found under the post "Sometimes...")

I am so grateful for your comments Jenny! All this time I have been laboring under the delusion that “Angry Bitch” was so in, but now thanks to you I can get with the times! What would fashion backward people like me do without helpful people like you, Jenny, to steer them in the right direction. Now that you have awakened me to my non-vogue ways, maybe you can help me find a new niche: tongue-in-cheek satire sounds fun, unless that is out of date too?

I must also thank you for your helpful insight about my parenting opinions. All this time I thought that all one needed in order to have a valid opinion was good observations of facts, and sound logic to integrate them, but now I know I was sorely mistaken. Apparently you can't opine about parents unless you are one. You will have to forgive my ignorance though. You see, being a non-parent, I have never gone through the miraculous transformation that endows one with perfect parenting knowledge upon receipt of a child, so how was I to know I was so lacking? Thanks to you though, now I do. I will never again question what any parent does, now that I know they are infallible, and I ask forgiveness for presuming to know anything about the subject.

I wonder though, does the same maxim (that only people in a group can have valid opinions about that group) apply to other fields too, or just parenting? If it does that would mean that there are lots of things I have opinions about that I probably shouldn't, because I am not “in” the appropriate group. You'll have to let me know so I can fix it.

P.S. I'm so flattered, I had no idea so many people were reading my blog.