100

This is my 100th post!! So I would like to take the time to tell you 100 things I love/am grateful for.

1. Husband
2. My Mom
3. My Dad
4. In-laws
5. 2 Best Friends
6. Music
7. School
8. A Job (that I LOVE)
9. Sister
10. Brothers- and Sisters-in-law
11. The Gospel
12. My Cats
13. Health
14. The Temple
15. The Savior
16. All of my music friends that help grad school be bearable
17. My Teachers
18. Scholarships
19. Government Grants
20. A nice house to live in
21. Clothes on my back
22. Food on my table
23. Shoes on my feet
24. The Bible
25. The Book of Mormon
26. Living Prophets today
27. The gym
28. Hugs
29. Kisses
30. Unconditional Love
31. Crafts
32. A creative mind
33. Missed opportunities that help lead to better opportunities
34. Utah's love for community theater (which has allowed me 2 operatic roles outside of school this summer)
35. Opera
36. The Armed Forces that keep our country safe
37. Freedom
38. Christmas
39. Friendly neighbors (finally!)
40. 2 Cars, even though Bryce and I mostly share just 1
41. The Internet
42. Halloween
43. Setting Goals
44. Making Lists
45. Airplanes (even though my recent experiences with flying/purchasing tickets may have made me feel otherwise)
46. 4th of July 
47. Decorating
48. Teapots
49. TV--specifically some of my favorite TV shows, including:
50. Friends
51. Gossip Girl
52. Grey's Anatomy
53. and Anything on Bravo
54. Ikea (especially since we are still poor college students)
55. Bubble Baths
56. Massages
57. Manicures/Pedicures (and a mother-in-law who loves to get them when she visits)
58. Air conditioning during the hot summer months
59. Snow
60. That I can help others be better at something
61. Blogging/Reading others' blogs
62. Easter 
63. Chocolate
64. Thanksgiving
65. Movie marathons curled up on the couch
66. TV season marathons with Jess
67. Shopping
68. Hope/Planning for the future
69. Traveling 
70. Having to get up really early for something exciting
71. Staying up way too late
72. Talking on the phone to people I can't see often
73. Curiosity (especially from my cats)
74. Hobbies
75. Reconnecting with long lost friends
76. Facebook
77. A washer and dryer in my house
78. Watching sports on TV
79. Going to a baseball game
80. Babies (no experience with my own yet, but one day)
81. Being a girl
82. Lace, Ruffles, and Pearls
83. Video games to keep my husband occupied when I need to get something done
84. Having a really clean house (it doesn't happen often, but it feels so good when it does)
85. Generosity of others
86. Camping
87. Finding new craft ideas online
88. Playing games
89. InStyle magazine that comes in the mail once a month 
90. The Ensign
91. Real Simple magazine that also comes in the mail once a month
92. The Classical Singer website and all of the useful information it contains (including auditions)
93. A computer
94. Houston (which Bryce and I both miss terribly, although I don't know if we'll be saying that after we go home for 2 weeks in August)
95. Dreams
96. Funny Stories
97. Celebrity Gossip
98. Dancing
99. My iPod 
100. Sleep

R.I.P. Ruby.....so long old friend

SO.... nobody's dead.... don't worry about that. But, we sold Bryce's Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, fondly known as Ruby. We are getting a new car sometime soon. We found an amazing deal on a Grand Cherokee, which will be much better for us economically and it will be more family friendly. We are getting it from CarMax, but it is at a store in Florida, so they are shipping it here. We should have it in about 3 weeks (hopefully sooner). Here are some pictures of Ruby, to pay our respects:

Can you tell we're busy?

So it has been WAY too long since the last time I blogged. A lot has happened in the past month or so. Here's the update:

• I got my car back. Yay! But as soon as I got it back I had to take it back to the auto shop to have them fix something in the back that was making a weird noise. That is all fixed and now it is making another weird noise. I am taking it back in either tomorrow (if they're open) or Monday. 
• I started Fall semester of school. It is going well so far. I am taking 3 classes and then I have voice lessons and opera rehearsal once a week each. It is a pretty nice schedule. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I am done at 3 (even after working). I only have class from 9-11 everyday. Jealous? Haha.
• We painted both of the bedrooms and the living room and dining room. They look really beautiful. The extra bedroom, living and dining rooms are all this pretty tan/sage color and our bedroom is blue. I am cleaning tomorrow so I will post some pictures of the finished product. We still need to paint both bathrooms (upstairs is going to be the same blue as our bedroom and downstairs is going to be the same as the living/dining room), the kitchen (pale yellow), and the stairwell (tan/sage also). I can't wait until it is all finished. It is so much better than white.
• Bryce got a new job. He starts next Wednesday. He will be working at the local DI processing donations. Well, that will be his job at least through his beginning "review period". After that month or two there is a really good chance for promotion to a lead. This job is awesome because they will pay for his school books (History text books get expensive) and they offer benefits like health insurance. 
• We have been to the first 3 BYU football home games. The team is doing well. They were undefeated last season and remain undefeated. They have the longest winning streak in the country right now. Pretty cool, huh? Even cooler is that 2 of the main players for the team, the 1st string quarterback and one of the first string receivers are in our ward. All I can say is they better not screw this season up... we know where they live!

Other than that, not much has been going on. We are just keeping busy between work and school and doing stuff around the house. I promise that I will post more consistently now that I'm in the groove for this semester.   

For your information....

If anyone is interested or knows anyone interested in buying our Jeep, it is listed here on eBay. If that link doesn't work it is item #190243657419. Any other questions, just e-mail me at alison.hunter.nielson@gmail.com

Finals and Trying out eBay

This week is summer finals. I have 1: Music History and Bryce has 1 for Chemistry. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and easily. Our plans for after finals: clean house and PAINT! Check back later for some before and after pics. 

On another note... we are in the process of selling Bryce's Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. We've listed it on eBay, Craigslist, and the local newspaper online classifieds. He loves his Jeep, but its not very practical for us right now. We need something that is a little more travel-pet-family friendly car (no we are not having kids quite yet). But, it will be nice to have another vehicle that we can drive around more. My boss has some hook-ups, so once we get the Jeep sold, we are hoping to get a Grand Cherokee instead through the local dealers-only auction. We can survive this semester with only one car, at least until the car we want comes to the auction. We will keep everyone updated on the selling progress. 

Patty got broke

Last Thursday I was on my way to school when I got in a car accident. We still aren't sure on who's fault it was and nobody was issued a ticket. But my poor Patty Patriot sure got crunched. On impact, the rim of my tire was bent, instantly deflating the tire. Interestingly enough, there was one scratch on the front pasenger side door and I don't think there were any on the rear piece, but the rear door took all the damage. And, from the inside, it didn't look like there was any damage at all. At least now I know that if I have passengers and some senile old lady decides she is going to ram me going 10 over the speed limit, nobody will get hurt. Here are a couple of views of my broken little car.