I am married and as a married person am sick of having to do things on my own, so I am making Heather do it all now (including maintaining a blog, I am only kidding about the whole me not doing anything anymore attitude). Here is our new blog address. Don't expect anything more on this, but feel free to read old stories/posts.
http://roastandheather.blogspot.com/
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
What I've been up to lately
Some of you have pressured me and bothered me into posting so I guess its about time I did so. You all already know about going to Disneyland if not see some of my friends blogs. For some reason I lost my voice for a week afterward and lost it while there. In all it was a great fun trip.
I had like two tests in my classes lately and that kept me busy as well.
Also I don’t know think many of you have heard, but a couple of weeks ago I went in for a physical examination to see if I was fit for marriage I suppose. Well there we discussed getting an echocardiogram as I had an irregular heart flap rhythm as a child and was suppose to follow up on in every 10 years. I waited a while to get one as to save some money and see about my potential employers insurance policy. Well I found out that it’d be just as much with Deloitte’s insurance as it would be with mine, so went ahead and received one last Friday. Basically it is just an ultrasound on your heart. Here’s the best picture I could find:
Well they said it wouldn’t be until Monday that I got the results seeing if anything was wrong with my heart, so I got a call yesterday while at work and had to go meet with the doctor immediately over at the hospital. This was a little worrisome, but went over to the hospital anyway.
When I finally got there I had to wait briefly until the doctor was able to go over the results with me. Basically he told me I have a heart disease called noncompaction cardiomyopathy. It basically means that part of my heart didn’t grow from birth, and that I have (not really a surprise) susceptibility to fatigue and breathlessness and shouldn’t do extreme physical exercise. It also means I am more susceptible to dying all of sudden. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
Anyway I’m fine, a little worried, but will hopefully be o.k. I wish I could put up a picture of my heard since we are all about posting creepy things on our blogs, but don’t have a scanner unfortunately.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
DISNEYLAND!!!!
Yesterday I went to Disneyland with the three day weekend starting it a little early....
NOT! The funny thing though was that about a couple of weeks ago I was all set to go to Disneyland and then Heather remembered a concert she had yesterday.
So that was fine, no big deal, I had to take a test anyway, and decided to procrastinate it instead of taking it early to get to Disneyland.
What makes it even funnier/ironic is when I got home I find out my roommates have all gone out of town (not to Disneyland luckily). So I was home alone as Heather was playing at her concert.
What makes it even more funnier/ironic is that my sister went out of town to Vegas.
Even funnier/ironic is my friends who are married also went out of town to Disneyland/to visit a friend in California.
I thought all this would be o.k. as I figured we do the annual man trip on President's Day, but my buddy Micah who I did it with last year has to work, and Brandon lives in California, so that wasn't going to happen.
I couldn't find a place to go out of town too, so I am going to Bountiful today! Yey!?
Hopefully Disney will happen the last weekend of the month...got that Heather, Wes, Lori, Amy, and Ryan!?! You too Michelle, but I bet you can't be there unfortunately.
If not I guess there's always late March, and Disney World is shaping up for August!
NOT! The funny thing though was that about a couple of weeks ago I was all set to go to Disneyland and then Heather remembered a concert she had yesterday.
So that was fine, no big deal, I had to take a test anyway, and decided to procrastinate it instead of taking it early to get to Disneyland.
What makes it even funnier/ironic is when I got home I find out my roommates have all gone out of town (not to Disneyland luckily). So I was home alone as Heather was playing at her concert.
What makes it even more funnier/ironic is that my sister went out of town to Vegas.
Even funnier/ironic is my friends who are married also went out of town to Disneyland/to visit a friend in California.
I thought all this would be o.k. as I figured we do the annual man trip on President's Day, but my buddy Micah who I did it with last year has to work, and Brandon lives in California, so that wasn't going to happen.
I couldn't find a place to go out of town too, so I am going to Bountiful today! Yey!?
Hopefully Disney will happen the last weekend of the month...got that Heather, Wes, Lori, Amy, and Ryan!?! You too Michelle, but I bet you can't be there unfortunately.
If not I guess there's always late March, and Disney World is shaping up for August!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Favorite Parts/Quotes from the Weekend
Well I haven't posted for a while, but figured I can give some insight into the big engagement over the weekend. Sorry no pictures though.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
"I'm afraid it will $#^#@ off my $#(%*$"
-This is mostly a reminder to myself of the real quote, but I am sworn to secrecy about what it is about and who its by.
HEATHER: "ARE YOU KIDDING ME"
ME: something like "No I'm not, just say Yes"
-Heather in seeing me proposing as she had NO idea it was all set up for the engagement and had no idea I had got the ring.
AMY: "Can we forget about the caves already!"
-Ryan and I really wanted to go find some caves he remembered from his dating years, but we never did. I suppose he's gone and found them by now....hopefully.
SMITTY (Random Balloon Man): something like "It's amazing fitting 5 pounds of S#$*(#$ in a 4 pound bag"
-we had to put the balloon bag into a small bag. This guy was wearing some jacket with a bunch of multi-colored balloons on it and seemed to be the only person on the 4 person balloon crew who didn't care we got engaged. He was pretty cool.
Those are all the quotes I can think of, but it was great to surprise Heather.
Here's the story behind the story:
The week of New Year's Day Heather and I went ring shopping at a place Heather's dad set us up with that would give us a good deal (I am guessing they did). They told us the ring would be ready a week from that Tuesday and that we could come pick it up whenever. We said we would be back up later in the month (this week) to pick it up as we aren't usually in Salt Lake City. I secretly grabbed a business card while Heather was looking at the different rings so I could have the address.
On Friday January 11 I went back to AAA and got some car insurance....I mean the ring. As I was just about home I got a call from Heather (we were going out that night) saying she was coming over. I was still driving through Provo and figured she would figure out something was up so I told her I was about to lay down for a nap and to come by later. She believed me and I wasn't completely lying as I did want a nap (although I never fell asleep).
I've been pretty paranoid that Heather would find out ever since January 11 and my paranoia started that day. As I pulled into the garage I could of sworn I saw her car parked outside and figured she was just waiting in her car outside until the time I told her to come over. I tried to see if anyone was in the car and couldn't tell from inside my apartment. Then a few seconds later the car was gone, so I don't know what that was all about. I guess it wasn't Heather's car though because this car had its license plate kinda dented, Heather's doesn't.
I've been telling Heather since we picked out the ring that we'd go pick it up together this coming Friday (when we went up for Heather's mom's birthday). I've also been telling her that I'd propose on Valentine's day (although Heather did say I said something to her around Christmas time about Santa not bringing a ring, but maybe Martin Luther King Jr.) so I should have just believed that Heather wouldn't have a clue, but different. People whispering in other rooms, people asking if I was engaged, etc. all made me paranoid that Heather knew I was planning on proposing.
I brought up that first night that I picked up the ring we should go to Vegas for the 3-day weekend coming up thinking it'd be good to do the hot air balloon thing there because of better weather (my original idea entailed UT somehow, but all the places are so far away and didn't want to stay at a hotel the night before. I thought I had found one company up in Logan (and even stole Heather's brother-in-law's phone number that lives there) but could never find it again. Anyway, Vegas looked better.
So I coordinated with the Fitzgibbons and they found a good company. I tried e-mailing some Vegas companies but all of them wanted a deposit and if they couldn't go up that day (hot air ballooning I guess you have to have perfect weather) they'd give you a rain check for the next year. Well I had like one to two days I could do it. I wanted to do it on Sunday as I figured what Mormon would go on Sunday (this one would apparently...meaning me). You also would have to buy out all the spots to go up if you wanted a private flight (I basically did).
So Ryan found a good company and I coordinated with them and told them it was a surprise so he (Ron from the company) gave me a good idea of saying he was a buddy who needed help. So I let Ryan run with it (and you can see all that in Heather's blog).
A couple of nights before the trip I left Heather's house because I needed air from wedding planning when we weren't even engaged. Well that night I took the opportunity to take out the cash needed to pay the balloon company.
So we drove to Vegas. The code word from Amy was suppose to be "Fosters is hecka good", but instead she said "I want ice cream" which I had to make fun of, of course and didn't understand what she meant (while talking over the phone on the way down). So I called them back and checked while Heather was in some random bathroom from Provo to Vegas.
Anyway, we got to Vegas, went to a buffet and while there finalized plans with Ryan and Amy while Heather went to go get desseret from the dessert buffet.
And then the next day came and I proposed as said in Heather's blog.
Ron, the balloon guy, did say all the set up was for show and did slip me a card I could right on that would go with the flower they gave to Heather. I gave that card to Ryan who gave it to Amy however.
Anyway, that's how it all happened.
Other highlights:
-Random kids who came up to see the balloon come down getting suckered into helping with an easy landing.
-Smitty eating a piece of the toast cake before we had even got to eat a piece.
-Heather not having any clue any of this was happening and not thinking this was the real proposal.
-Messing up the words that we were repeating from "The Balloonist Prayer"
-skipping most of church to take a nap as I had not slept well the night previously or all week.
-Heather saying yes and getting married in just a few months.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
"I'm afraid it will $#^#@ off my $#(%*$"
-This is mostly a reminder to myself of the real quote, but I am sworn to secrecy about what it is about and who its by.
HEATHER: "ARE YOU KIDDING ME"
ME: something like "No I'm not, just say Yes"
-Heather in seeing me proposing as she had NO idea it was all set up for the engagement and had no idea I had got the ring.
AMY: "Can we forget about the caves already!"
-Ryan and I really wanted to go find some caves he remembered from his dating years, but we never did. I suppose he's gone and found them by now....hopefully.
SMITTY (Random Balloon Man): something like "It's amazing fitting 5 pounds of S#$*(#$ in a 4 pound bag"
-we had to put the balloon bag into a small bag. This guy was wearing some jacket with a bunch of multi-colored balloons on it and seemed to be the only person on the 4 person balloon crew who didn't care we got engaged. He was pretty cool.
Those are all the quotes I can think of, but it was great to surprise Heather.
Here's the story behind the story:
The week of New Year's Day Heather and I went ring shopping at a place Heather's dad set us up with that would give us a good deal (I am guessing they did). They told us the ring would be ready a week from that Tuesday and that we could come pick it up whenever. We said we would be back up later in the month (this week) to pick it up as we aren't usually in Salt Lake City. I secretly grabbed a business card while Heather was looking at the different rings so I could have the address.
On Friday January 11 I went back to AAA and got some car insurance....I mean the ring. As I was just about home I got a call from Heather (we were going out that night) saying she was coming over. I was still driving through Provo and figured she would figure out something was up so I told her I was about to lay down for a nap and to come by later. She believed me and I wasn't completely lying as I did want a nap (although I never fell asleep).
I've been pretty paranoid that Heather would find out ever since January 11 and my paranoia started that day. As I pulled into the garage I could of sworn I saw her car parked outside and figured she was just waiting in her car outside until the time I told her to come over. I tried to see if anyone was in the car and couldn't tell from inside my apartment. Then a few seconds later the car was gone, so I don't know what that was all about. I guess it wasn't Heather's car though because this car had its license plate kinda dented, Heather's doesn't.
I've been telling Heather since we picked out the ring that we'd go pick it up together this coming Friday (when we went up for Heather's mom's birthday). I've also been telling her that I'd propose on Valentine's day (although Heather did say I said something to her around Christmas time about Santa not bringing a ring, but maybe Martin Luther King Jr.) so I should have just believed that Heather wouldn't have a clue, but different. People whispering in other rooms, people asking if I was engaged, etc. all made me paranoid that Heather knew I was planning on proposing.
I brought up that first night that I picked up the ring we should go to Vegas for the 3-day weekend coming up thinking it'd be good to do the hot air balloon thing there because of better weather (my original idea entailed UT somehow, but all the places are so far away and didn't want to stay at a hotel the night before. I thought I had found one company up in Logan (and even stole Heather's brother-in-law's phone number that lives there) but could never find it again. Anyway, Vegas looked better.
So I coordinated with the Fitzgibbons and they found a good company. I tried e-mailing some Vegas companies but all of them wanted a deposit and if they couldn't go up that day (hot air ballooning I guess you have to have perfect weather) they'd give you a rain check for the next year. Well I had like one to two days I could do it. I wanted to do it on Sunday as I figured what Mormon would go on Sunday (this one would apparently...meaning me). You also would have to buy out all the spots to go up if you wanted a private flight (I basically did).
So Ryan found a good company and I coordinated with them and told them it was a surprise so he (Ron from the company) gave me a good idea of saying he was a buddy who needed help. So I let Ryan run with it (and you can see all that in Heather's blog).
A couple of nights before the trip I left Heather's house because I needed air from wedding planning when we weren't even engaged. Well that night I took the opportunity to take out the cash needed to pay the balloon company.
So we drove to Vegas. The code word from Amy was suppose to be "Fosters is hecka good", but instead she said "I want ice cream" which I had to make fun of, of course and didn't understand what she meant (while talking over the phone on the way down). So I called them back and checked while Heather was in some random bathroom from Provo to Vegas.
Anyway, we got to Vegas, went to a buffet and while there finalized plans with Ryan and Amy while Heather went to go get desseret from the dessert buffet.
And then the next day came and I proposed as said in Heather's blog.
Ron, the balloon guy, did say all the set up was for show and did slip me a card I could right on that would go with the flower they gave to Heather. I gave that card to Ryan who gave it to Amy however.
Anyway, that's how it all happened.
Other highlights:
-Random kids who came up to see the balloon come down getting suckered into helping with an easy landing.
-Smitty eating a piece of the toast cake before we had even got to eat a piece.
-Heather not having any clue any of this was happening and not thinking this was the real proposal.
-Messing up the words that we were repeating from "The Balloonist Prayer"
-skipping most of church to take a nap as I had not slept well the night previously or all week.
-Heather saying yes and getting married in just a few months.
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