Thank you

Last week during my lunch hour I was talking with a friend and decompressing about my day and frustrations.  I then felt bad and apologized.  They said that is what friends are for.  

I came home.  Saw a new pretty center piece on the table.  Saw my mail sitting next to it and grabbed it.  Went down to my room and changed.  On my way up the stairs my sister asked me if i got my package.    I said no.  She said well you can't miss it, it's on the table.  I laughed and said haha ya. I got my mail.  She said no it's huge you can't miss it.  I said no. I don't know what you are talking about.  She said well look again it's sitting on the table.  I went upstairs looked again. Saw nothing.  She was was rich behind me and said see, told you it was huge.  I said that is not mine.  Those flowers are not for me.  She chuckled and said yes they are.  I argued back about three more times saying, no they aren't. Those are not for me.  She said read the card.  I said Those are not mine.  She just kept laughing.  I opened the card and it read:  hope this cheers you up.    That was it! no name. no nothing.  I thought about it for about one second then realized who they were from.  What a nice, kind, thoughtful friend! :)
 Aren't they GORGEOUS?!!!    Thank you !!

                                                  

Summer is here!

I'm a little bit behind on my blogging.  It's been a crazy two weeks! pictures to come, but I'll start with the most recent....I have found the love of my life, (aka shoes)!!  I'm going to be wearing them all summer long and have/get the coolest tan line ever. Must be jealous ;)  I love them so much I need to go buy another pair; and lucky for me I just got a coupon in the mail for $10, so... I will be ordering another pair this weekend!! :)

 

What would you do?

I walked into the bank today to deposit my check and noticed a long line (about four people in front of me) for only one teller, but then Immediatley noticed a little bit of commotion at the front counter and wondered what was going on for one second but then put it together and assumed a girl had fainted and then realized that it had just happened about ONE SECOND ago, as I was walking in.  I looked around the people, and saw the lady at the counter kneeling down and her daughter sitting/in the process of laying down.  

The nice man behind her in line knelt down and held the girl up right so the mom could finish doing her transaction at the counter.  We were all very curious and worried.  I heard the girl (about 12 or 13 years old) ask, "what happened?" the mom said, "I don't know honey."  The nice man kept holding the girl sit up while the mom got all her things together.  While this was happening the girl behind me had watched it happened (she was standing at the island desk filling out her paper when I walked in), and said, "I don't know what happened, she was just standing there then she fell."  The mom was pretty embarrassed and quite surprised that this had happened and didn't know what to do, but she was handling it very well.  This older man could not leave this mom so he stood up holding the young girl and carried her to their car.
By the time the girl fell and carried her to the car and came back into the bank, the line had grown by about four more people behind us.  So he came in and stood at the end of the line.  But the guy in front of me, me and the girl behind me told him to go back up to his spot. he kindly declined.

The only teller available got stuck with another long transaction so the line was not moving.
Finally, another teller came to help with the line.  Then line was moving now.   Right before it was to be my turn the lady behind me offered to let the man go in front of us.  he said "I'm ok really thanks."  she responded with, "Being the good samaritan of the day you should go in front of us."  He smiled and kindly said, "Thank you so much for offering. but really I'm fine thanks.  after all this is my second time to the bank today, so I'm ok. But thank you for offering."  :)  

So lesson learned:  be a good samaritan.  you never what will happen. don't lock your knees at the teller counter while at the bank with your mom.  haha jk.
I don't know and we all don't know why that happened.  The mom was in as much of shock as we were.  But the girl was definitely pale as they walked by.   I hope she is fine now.  but it was kind of scary, and kind of a crazy story...

Hope you all had a good day! :)

Lunch anyone?

Seriously?! who was going to tell me I had lunch on my pants all afternoon!!

Wow it really has been one of those weeks.....hope next week is better.

Alarm clock is fired!

Today.  How can I describe today?
Let's just say today I experienced something that has NEVER happened to me before and that will NEVER happen again!!  I'm sure many of you have had this same experience.  And may be an often occurrence for.  But for me, it's not, and I think I almost had a heart attack.

Wednesdays I have started working at 9 am. (heaven).  But since we did not work on Monday for the Holiday I had to come in at 8am. no big deal. I do it every day of the week.

So I went to bed at my normal bed time....12-12:30 am.  Set my alarm for 6am.  Fell asleep.  And.....well you can probably guess what happened next.  NOTHING!!! I never heard the alarm!!  I was sleeping like a rock.  My brother-in-law came in my room,..."Lanae, wake up.  I don't know what time you were supposed to be to work."  I sat Straight Up!  Freaked out.  And the next words out of my mouth, "What the Crap!! What time is it? What day is it?!"  Jake stood there and said, "Um...Wed. it's about five min til 9am"  I said CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!  HOLY COW!

I JUMPED out of bed. paced my room for two seconds, still while said holy cow, crap, crap!  Jake then said, "What time were you supposed to be there?" I said "CRAP! I was supposed to be there at 8am!!"  He just stood there and looked at me with a face that says 'oh crap. you are LATE, you are dead meat'
 I hurried and grabbed my phone called the office.  Patty answered,  I quickly and frantically responded with "Hey Patty it's Lanae. I totally just woke up. I'm SO SORRY! I have never done this before. I'm totally freaking out and totally embarrassed."  She finally piped in to calm me down, and responded with, "It's ok. haha. It's ok.  you're fine.  We will figure it out.  your patient is not here yet. I don't know what time Jamie is coming in, but we will figure it out."  I again, said, "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!  I will be there as soon as I can."  She said it's ok. ok. we will see you soon"  I dropped my phone grabbed my clothes, ran upstairs. practically threw my nephew out of the bathroom. showered in two minutes. got dressed. put my make up on. grabbed a muffin. and a dish of leftovers for lunch. ran out the door and drove 20 minutes to work.
I arrived to work with long hair down and dripping wet.  I ran into the bathroom flipped my hair in a ponytail. and clocked in for the day.  I clocked in at 9:30am.  (Remember I was supposed to be there at 8am).

And what do ya know, my patient was there waiting for me.  Awesome.  Some employee I am.

News traveled fast around the office all day that Lanae slept in.... :)  When they would ask me 'Lanae I heard you slept in today'   I was would give them an innocent, yet embarrassing look, pause for a few seconds and admit, 'Yep! sure did!" and then of course laugh :)  Later that morning Patty approached me about it again,  I again said I was VERY sorry!  She just laughed and said, "it's ok.  It happens.  We have all done it. I've done it. Jennifer's done it. We have all done it."  I responded with a, "ya, but an hour and a half late?!?!  Who does that?!?!?!"

At the end of the day I apologized to the Dr., he just looked at me, smiled, chuckled a little and said it's ok. you're forgiven. :)  THANK YOU DR. ELISON! :)  Man do I owe him big!

What a way to start your day.  What a way to make your boss freak out.  What a way to impress your boss.  What a way to be a great, punctual person.   It happens right?  Wrong! At least not to me!  That will surely be the one and only time I will ever do that!

My alarm clock is FIRED!!

Just remember things don't go as you plan or dream or want in your life.  I keep having to tell myself that. We always have to have a plan B.

Just having a bad day and needed to make me feel good.

some day

One day.... I will be...

                                                   

nieces and nephews

Just a little more bragging about my cute nieces and nephews

This is what I came home to the other  day :)
Lemonade stand :) I love this time of year!

She just wanted to try on her sister's new cowgirl boots :) with pajamas on...

A few weeks ago we passed by a VERY LARGE LOUD group of Harley motorcycles going on a trip (at least that is what Im assuming), but anyway, when they passed my sister rolled down her window so we could all hear just how loud they are/were and my niece started laughing, "Bryant is crying, LOL"

The two cutest little babies ever :)  I love them so much!

Guess who is older? :)

Boston :)

Concert

I spoiled myself and bought FRONT ROW tickets to see the one and only famous Jenny Oaks Baker perform in Pocatello.  I took my sister with me.   My sister also loved it because she used to play in the orchestra when she was in middle school and just stared in amazement and jealousy.  We loved it!

And of course you have to meet the Princess from the show! :)    My sister and I

 

signing autographes...i caught her right when she looked up.  I missed her gorgeous smile by ONE second.  I was mad.

Me and the talented Jenny Oaks Baker

Welcome to work

This is what I get for being the first to use the staff restroom of the day...

McKay

My little nephew is so cute....

these are my favorite pictures of my little nephew McKay

ok wait, maybe these are....sleeping...

going...

going...

gone...

new blog update coming soon... stay tuned :)

Thoughts going through my head

Just when things could happen so perfect something else gets in your way that is more important that you have to tend to, so that 'most important' thing you were going to do has to be put on the back burner. oh Life.
Just when I get my taxes back knowing exactly what I was going to spend that money on, car problems/fix-its come up, and of course cost more than you thought and they take up your tax return, therefore other things have to wait. oh joy. life gets in your way sometimes.

And just when you get things organized things decide to crash; yep my computer crashed. So now I get to decide if I want to get a new laptop, Ipad, or kindle/nook. What would you get? again tax return gets to go towards that too. oh boy oh boy. so now sadly there is no money left for that one thing I was going to treat myself with; my very own bike! :(

Lately it seems like every fireside, RS meeting, or other large gathering I have been to has had a theme. It's been a good theme. But it's also been a thought pondering theme. I hope I can take those lessons and apply them to my life this year. So it makes me wonder if this conference might have that same theme. or maybe its just a theme for me. feeling a little uneasy about listening to it, not sure I'm ready to hear it. but, like always, its what you/we/I need to hear.

The joys of mascara

A few years back I kept getting puffy eyes about once a week or so. Then it became more common. So I finally went in to see a family friend doctor and he gave me some eye drops to try. They worked wonders for those ten days! Then about a week or so later, the puffy eyes came back. I would just keep my eyes washed and cleaned and they would stay down for the most part. Well, I just could take it one day and I kept rubbing my eyes because it was SO bad! I went back to see this family friend doctor and he gave me different eyes drops. same story. Well we finally figured out, after talking through the order of events etc., that is was my mascara! I am allergic to mascara!! (well not exactly mascara it's self, just an ingredient in mascara. don't ask me what it's called because I don't remember. I just know the mascaras I can't use.) So I sadly had to change the mascara I used (I loved the mascara I used). The next day I went to the store and bought a brand new mascara. Didn't like it. Tried a different one. It took me about a year to find THE mascara that wouldn't irritate my eyes. But I seem to have run into that same problem lately. uh oh. now what am I going to do? A girl clearly can not go with out mascara! We shall see how things work out. my eyes are puffy right now and very irritating and itchy and dry. I better tend to those so I can go to work tomorrow. Hopefully a new day will be better. If not...to the trash goes my mascara!

thoughts....

I think it might be time to start Pintrest...as much as I don't like being with the fads and such I think I need to break down so I can keep track of all my ideas and add new ideas to my ideas; if that makes any sense. But the thing is I will want to do a lot of the things I see so I will have to start saving money like no other so I can afford my new 'addiction', if you can call it that.

Going along with money and such,....I have about four trips I want to go on this year and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do it. I really need to work for the airlines! Everyone keeps telling me that, and I keep telling myself that, but I love what I do too much to step away from it just to get a free flight whenever and wherever I want....mom, want to work for the airlines???? haha. Ok, ok, maybe I'll figure out a way to do both things; the thing I love and the thing I am totally addicted to, TRAVELING! Any suggestions on how to do and go on all these trips I want and need to do?? Maybe I'll be looking for a job at the airport soon. :)

money. money. money.

Well Feb 14......car won't start. One week later I finally got it into the shop. The next day they tell me my fuel pump went out. And that my choices are to wait a week to order the part and get it fixed or over night the part for an extra $60 and have my car in two days. Joy.
So I called three people to see what I should do. Two days later I had my car and an empty savings account. Where is my money tree?!
Now that I have that done with and no money, why don't I go ahead and pay off all my other debts; tires, medical bill, this bill, that bill. Perfect. Now I'm really broke, now what?
Well I feel a little better now that I'm pretty caught up on my bills and debts, But SO SICK to my stomach that I had to drop ALL my money in a week's time.
Just glad I have a job and that I can slowly earn it back; but still!!

One word

What is one word that best describes me?

This weekend I decided to come home and see mom and dad. Well I offered to bring one of my sisters kids with me, and the only one she offered was little Emily, 2 years old. I said sure whatever. So we packed and were off. She did great the first half of the trip talking, watching out the window, listening, reading books, eating snacks, perfect back seat rider you could ask for!
We were driving along and we saw a train, I said, "Emily look at that long train!" I saw her look at it and she thought it was cool! Then I heard liquid and I thought she spilled her water she was then drinking. I looked back (with the help of my other rider Melyssa) she said, "uh oh" I said, "oh no did she spill her water?" She said "no she threw up, and oh there she goes again." A few seconds go by and she says "oh there is more. oh no here you go." Poor Melyssa was helping Emily throw up in the ONE bag we had in the car. Luckily, we were just hitting Glenns Ferry and I took the exit and stopped as well and as fast as I could right off the exit and she had just finished throwing up and we stopped for about twenty minutes to clean up as best as we could so we could hurry home and be in more comfortable settings if she needed to be sick and/or throw up again. Luckily we were able to clean up Most of the mess. And thankfully I am a boy scout and prepared and had wipes and Germ-X in the car! ;) we drove as fast as we could to get to my mom's house to clean up ourselves, and wash our hands and clothes, and the car.
It was an eventful ride, but fun. Just remember it could of been worse!
I feel so bad for my friend Melyssa that was riding with me and had to deal with that. I hope she was able to get thoroughly cleaned up when I dropped her off.
Poor Emily has been so lonely (asking for "Lila" aka older sister Lydia to play with),and bored and sad and homesick this weekend. But she is still having fun and being spoiled :)
She can't wait to get home and see her mom :)

Taxes

So tax season is upon us, and I always dread doing my taxes. And wish I could claim more people and things to get WAY more money back, but I guess I can't complain too much; at least I don't have to PAY taxes.
So Turbo tax; fast, easy, free, get more money back, etc. etc. right?! not with my luck! stupid thing!
It wanted to charge me an extra $29.95, so some crazy total of about $57.92, but wait I thought it was FREE?? I was pretty upset so I found their number on the website and waited on the phone for about 25-30 minutes to talk to some girl with a southern accent that spoke fast and said "ok" in every sentence. annoying. THEN when I finally got the answer I needed out of her, the phone call got disconnected!! Told you, just my luck; no good luck ever for me!
I'm not sure if I will be using turbo tax again, BUT it did give me extra money I otherwise would not have gotten back, but not a ton to make that much of a difference.
I swear I have the worst luck in the world! I never find amazing deals!! :(

Needless to say I finished my taxes and I sure hope I get back what it told me I would be getting. My luck I won't. This year has already started out crappy.

Happy taxes everyone! Hope your luck is better than mine!