I've been tagged ........ a little about me

I've been tagged...A Little Bit about Me

ten years ago..

I was 20 years old, and lets just say my life is completely different from now, and different for the better. Patrick was 3 and cute as can be. I look back at pictures and he is always smiling and looked so sweet, but my memory tells me different. He was hell on wheels, but I would not have it any different. My personal life was utter confusions, the funny thing is, I thought it was perfect. Looking back it wasn't and I am ever so thankful for the way life turned out for me.

5 THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST: (this is my to do list for spring break)

1. Attend Tigeri meeting (a committee for school)

2. Get an oil change and car looked at (it is making a horrible noise)

3. Go to an interview with Ireland Bank

4. Get my hair cut

5. Disinfect Patrick's room

WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WERE SUDDENLY MADE A MILLIONAIRE?

I would pay off my massive student loans and invest the rest.

4 BAD HABITS: (I am sure Matt could name a million)

1. Treats, I love treats, hence the weight gain

2. I'll open a soda and not finish it, I usually only take 2 or 3 drinks out of it

3. Not putting gas in my car

4. not fully listening

5 JOBS I'VE HAD

1. ISU - HR intern

2. Monsanto - HR intern

3. Big Brothers Big Sisters
4. RS&I
5. Circuit City

Places I've Lived..

Idaho Falls, Alaska

Things I like to do....

This should not be a tough question, but it is one that I have been asking myself a lot lately. Getting through school all I have done is school work so now I must remember the things I like to do. A few things are backpacking, bike riding, camping, I am going to start scrap booking, and reading books that I want to, and I would like to start running (we'll see about that one).

TAG Rachel, and Clifford, and Heather (she needs to be tagged twice and then maybe she will do this)

Too close to home

Today I checked my email to find one from Patrick's science teacher with the subject line of letter. I first think what in the world has he done now. Let me tell you it was a shock. She had sent a letter that was basically a memo to all parents. On the bathroom wall someone had written
“I’m bringing a gun March 13, Ya’ll had better run.”
As you know, today is the 13th of march. That freaks me out a little. That is just way too close to home. Things like this have been in the news for a while now, and maybe I am a little numb to it now, but it has never hit so close to home. After reading that I called Matt, still in shock a bit, and then a million what if's run through my head. It makes me sad that our children have to live in such a world, we never had to deal with anything like this. We never had drills of how to deal with someone shooting at us at school, we had fire drills! It enrages me and makes me want to cry at the same time.

Now the school handled this wonderfully. A student reported it and the administration went to work. They have cameras that show who entered and exited the bathroom (again nothing we ever had to deal with) so the interviewed all of those people, with parents permission (no admissions of guilt). This morning they had 5 police offers and a police dog at the school. After all of the students were in their first hour the police searched all of the lockers and all open areas, no weapons were found and they offered the opportunity for parents to keep their kids home.

Since I did not check my email until 2pm Patrick went to school. Since I leave the house at 6am, Patrick rode his bike to school. I did not see the police at the school. However, I think I would have lost it if I had seen it. It is a sad day in Idaho when police are at the school when you drop your kid off.

Life is good

Today I went and picked up my laptop. It is wonderful and fixed.
It was the hard drive, Matt just happens to know the right people and we only paid $80 to buy and have a new hard drive put in, and he fixed my space bar! It pays to have a husband with a useful trade. He does a little plumbing and I get a faster hard drive, no complaints there.

As you all can see I have a count down, 58 days until graduation! Can you believe it? Me graduating with a Bachelor's degree??

And for the bag, it has become a tradition for it to show up every birthday and every Christmas. It must never die. It would not be right for the bag to not show up again. Jennifer you should not throw the bad away, tape can fix anything.



For those of you wondering, this bag has been reused among our family for three years. It has become fun, and as Jennifer said you must be special to receive the bag.

Hubby Tag

My Sister Tagged me, so here we go....


What is his name? Mathew Ryan Bateson

How long have you been married? 3 Years in April

How long did you date? 10 Months

When was your first kiss? The fist night I met him, sitting my window seat when I lived on 2nd st

How old is he? 29

Who eats more? Matt, well maybe about the same. What can I say.. I am addicted to food.

Who said I love you first? Matt did, to be honest with you it kind of freaked me out. I did not want to be in a relationship, but I loved him back. Kind of scared me.

Who is taller? I am

Who sings better? Neither of us should sing, However, Matt insists on having a "microphone" in the car. If I sing he will put what ever is in his hands in front of my mouth and tell me to sing into the microphone.

Whose temper is worse? We are pretty equal on the temper, which can be a very bad thing. Not to mention we are both hard headed and refuse to admit we are wrong. Makes it interesting sometimes.

Who does the laundry? I am so lucky. Matt does it all and he does it right. He separates the colors and separates my delicate cycle load and hangs up all of my clothes so that they don't shrink. Oh and he puts the clothes away, too. Not always in the right spot though.

Who does the dishes? That would be me. We do have a dishwasher though.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me, it is right by the heater vent and I freeze if I don't and that is where my alarm is. But on the weekends he jumps into the right side.

Who mows the lawn? When we fist moved into our house, me. Then I took a summer class and he did, last summer I was in Soda Springs so once again he did.

Who pays the bills? Me, but we seem to argue quite a bit about how it should be done.

Who cooks dinner? If we eat at home me, Matt has been trying to cook a little more, but he shouldn't cook. He cooked corn on the cob for an hour once. YUCK.

Who drives when you are together? Depends on which vehicle we take. Mine or his (Pathetic huh, we have my car his truck)
Mostly me though, Matt hates to drive and I hate when he drives. Seems to be a pretty mutual agreement between us.

Who is more stubborn? As I said earlier we both are pretty stubborn, we both think that we are always right.

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Matt has definitely been better at this then me. After all I am never wrong.

Whose parents do you see the most? Matt's I think we see them 4 to 5 times a week. Matt does talk to them everyday.....

Who proposed? I would say Matt, but I almost want to say it was just kind of mutual. He told me to go look at rings, so I did and then he came home with his mom's old wedding ring. I got it sized and gave it to him. He looked at it, handed it back to me and said, "will you"

Who has more friends? We both know quite a bit of people, Matt does have more friends more, and he talks to his much more than I do.

Who has more siblings? Me, I have 5 siblings he has 1

Who wears the pants in the family? We both wear shorts, which means that neither of us wears the pants. We both know it is best to not tell each other what to do.

What is his favorite meal? Nachos, and his mom's tacos

What does he enjoy doing in his spare time? Anything that involves building, fishing, anything outdoors and I am pretty sure hanging out with me, he did tell me "Robbie, we are best friends. We do everything together."

what is one of his good qualities? He is very generous and friendly and outgoing and funny. He is himself always, never trying to put on a front.

What do you love most about him? How well he takes care of me and Patrick and that he is my best friend.

I tag... Clifford and Rachel you should have your mom do this.

Technology

Technology is a beautiful thing, it is amazing how depend we are on it. I say this because my laptop crashed on me. I turn it on and it tries and then turns off and tries to turn off again. We have brought it to Matt's friend, who owns a computer shop, with the hopes of having it fixed. So now I have to sit in the computer room where the desktop is. I no longer can move from room to room as I please.

The worse part about it.... What if it can't be fixed. I use it at school all of the time and having only a few months left I will not buy another right now. Only time will tell what it going to happen.

Funerals

I know an odd post, but it is amazing the perspective that funerals give a person. Matt's 31 year old cousin died a week ago and we went to Boise to go to her funeral. Her name was Jennifer and she was a pharmacist. That makes me think of my sister Jennifer, since she is also in the medical field it seemed to hit home. Just tonight I get on my friend Rachel's blog, of course she has not updated it so I get on her mom's blog and she had written about her sister being sick and almost dying. Which brings me to my point.

Life is really short, be sure to let those you love know. You never know when it could be the last time you talk to them.
My sisters (yes, even sister in law), they are my best friends and I am glad they are in my life.
My brothers, who could ask for more? They keep things interesting. My in laws, there is not enough words to describe how great they are and how much I appreciate the open arms they gave me and Patrick.
Patrick, I would be lost without him. I am happy to see him grow into a man, but boy do I miss him as a baby! and Matt, my soul mate, my best friend. He is the one who understands me best and deals with me best. I know I don't show him enough just how much I love him.

I could go on forever, but life is short.....
Embrace it and live life like there will be no tomorrow.

Snow

This morning we all woke up to quite a surprise, more snow. OK so maybe no surprise.
Well I went out to start my car at 6AM and due to the internship I am in dress shoes. Little dress shoes and snow went right down into my shoe, BRRRR.
So I went inside and changed my shoes.



As you all probably know I am in Pocatello 4 days a week. I take the bus and drive home with a group of girls Mon - Wed and then I drive us all up Thursday. Well I have this fear that I will get stranded in Pocatello. Well today that fear will be coming true. The roads are too bad and everyone else is not coming. Today that is no big deal. I can take the bus home. My fear is Mondays. I have class until 9pm and there is not a bus that goes into IF that late. In fact the last bus into IF leaves Poc at 5pm.



So reading Jennifer's blog about snow I thought I needed to share my experience with snow.... Not quite as cool as being able to use my pass to snowboard. And Jen, I am just as excited about the "world Wide Web" as you are. I love that I can have a full conversation and know what is going on with everyone and everything without leaving the house!

So here is to snow, scary or great and to the world wide web.

School ... again

Well I made it through the first week of school. OK this semester really won't be that bad except I lack motivation. I have always heard about senioridos, well I have it and bad. But I will get past it. This semester I have only 13 credits, a breeze compared to last semester.

The classes I am taking are:

• Strategic management
• Advanced Human Resource
• Ethics
• Industrial Relations
• and Business admin class (supposed to teach me how to write resumes, look for a job, etc, its really a dumb class)

I also have an internship in the HR dept at the school. My worse days are Mondays. I get there at 8am for the internship and have class until 9:45pm. Other than that it is a breeze, I am home by 2pm on Tuesday and Thursday and home by 4pm on Wednesday and no school or internship on Fridays.

Now the countdown to graduation begins!

New Year

Well we have now entered 2008. It will be a good year for me, seeing that I will be graduating and hopefully beginning a new job!! Also on the 14th I will begin another internship, this one is with ISU in the HR department.


So what did we do to ring in the new year?? We went to Olive Garden with Clifford, Share, Bryan and his girlfriend. It was a lot of fun and good of course. Matt loved it which is quite funny because he refused to ever eat there, but went because he was out voted. Matt had chicken scapini (not sure how to spell) and I had some garlic chicken on Alfredo and we sat and talked. It was a lot of fun. We then went to my in-laws and hung out for a bit. However, we were home by 10.


So here is to a happy and healthy new year and good luck to any of you who happened to make resolutions (I did not make any).

One big lump

Well, I made it. To the end of a horrible semester, and to think I did it to myself. I also made it through Christmas, so this will be one big lump of both.

Finals
This year they were a week before Christmas, yuck! I had 6 finals. One class I was a little worried about even passing and the rest I was sitting good in, but why let my grade drop just because I did not put enough time in? So I studied my but off (too bad it doesn't really fall off). I had one on Monday, and one Wednesday and then I had three Thursday and one the Friday before Christmas. It all did pay off. I got all B's one was a - and three were +.
Now I wish I could say that I has some A's, but school never was a strong point and I figured with that many classes I should be glad that they were all B's

Christmas
Christmas came out of nowhere for me. School consumed me! But Christmas was so nice. We went to Heather's on Christmas eve for my family. We ate and opened presents and talked. We all talked about what Christmas meant to us. Well for those who were not there to hear what I had to say, my thing was friends. Matt's dad has this mentally handicapped guy that he goes to see every year, named Harry. He always brings him a present and candy. Well this year we went with him. Well the lady that runs the place is a bit of a raunch and her husband let us in to see him and told her that we were his family (which we had not said) and she came storming out of their house mad asking why we had said we were his family.
She said "He has no family why did you say you were family"
So we told her that we never said that and Harry answered his door right after that. Let me tell you how cool it was. He was so excited and he hugged Matt's dad saying I knew you would come! I knew you would not forget me. He was so excited to get some candy and to get a present. He could hardly contain himself.
So it made me think so what if we were not his "family". Is having the same blood the only thing that makes you family? I think not!
So at Christmas time don't forget your friends who don't have family. You may be the only "family" they have.
Anyway....
It was so much fun to watch my little niece and nephew (who are siblings) fight over a present I got some good pictures.

Hallie pouting when Kelsie got to open the princess paper present.



Then we went to Matt's parents. We ate and hung out. I watched a Very Brady Christmas for the first time! We just enjoyed each other and enjoyed being together on Christmas. I will never get tired the way Matt is when he is opening presents. So kid like with such excitement I love it!

This is why I love Christmas so much!