Well, I hope you guys enjoyed my last post for our *first* anniversary. That was so much fun to write. Once I got in a groove I remembered more than I thought! hee hee here's a beautiful picture to remind you of how hot we are. ;)
Anywho, life has been progressively been on the upside as of late. For those who didn't know, Ian was without work from the end of May till about 2 weeks ago. Talk about stressful. I only bring in about $1300/mo by myself, which is not nearly enough for us to be able to pay off all the essentials. Fortunately, we had a pretty nice nest egg in my savings account which has basically supplemented our lost income for the past 6 months. Now, he's a shift manager at Arby's and will be starting a second job at a call center in December. He's also going to school online with BYU-I's Pathway program so that he can work full time and still get his degree. Did I mention with half price tuition? Shyeah I'm a fan; especially since we are paying for mine too, which will be super expensive once I transfer (back) to ASU. What makes it even better is that once we rebuild our savings account I can finally quit my job at State Farm! I have been so grateful for this job, I don't even have the words. But after nearly 2 years, it's starting to take its toll on me; mainly being on the phones and waking up at an ungodly hour. Hopefully *knock on wood* I can just take a much less stressful job at like Target or something. Being a cashier is my dream job! Just check out customer's items that I didn't even have to sell them! They just picked what they wanted, came to me, paid, and left. Of course there will always be *those* customers who insist on giving employees a hard time, but I'm feeling it won't be as intense since it's not regarding their insurance. It's dealing with a broken seal on a bottle of lotion. Mmkay. Yes, there is some sales but nothing like State Farm. Just anything not phone sales would be ideal. haha
Enough on that. School is going great. I feel like I'm going somewhere with my voice/performance/skill. I know I'm improving and it feels good since I've been working so hard at it. Nothing is worse than putting in 110% into something and not getting anywhere. So yeah. OH and I got an honorable mention at my first NATS competition! Basically NATS is where all the voice students (whose teachers are part of the National Association of Teachers of Singing), they prepare certain pieces (this time was musical theater), perform in front of judges and whoever receives the best overall scores in their category get either a prize and/or get to perform in the winner's recital. Honorable mention is when I scored really well and they wanted to recognize me, even though I didn't place. Out of the 3 judges I received an 89, 92, and 97 out of 100. Not too shabby. :) I got a little certificate later. My voice teachers are also comfortable giving me more difficult pieces, even though I'm only in my 2nd semester. For instance, I have Mein Herr Marquis from a German operetta that I have started on this semester to sing for next semester! I didn't think I'd get to sing something like that until I was about ready to transfer (at least a year down the line). Going to school has been one of the hardest and most rewarding thing I've done thus far. (My marriage is obviously the most rewarding thing ever but I don't find it hard to love my husband and want to keep him happy soo...;) haha)
In other news, I am super excited for the holidays and am just riding the wave that is life. Nothing else of significance crosses my mind, so I will let you continue on with your evenings. Good night lovelies!
