Catching up with the Erdmans

* Best friends*

So I know I haven't blogged in a while...I just really haven't had anything to say. I will just update you on whats been happening in our neck of the woods:

• Clint is now working for Charter Communications as a salesman. If any of you are interested in switching to Charter or upgrading in any way, let me know and I'll get him down to you as soon as he can. He just started last week and is enjoying it a lot. He also just finished a season of Men's Softball up here in Atascadero. He really likes getting out there and getting some exercise. Clint is a really good ball player and I loved when I was able to get out there and watch him play!
• I am still working as hard as ever at Bed Bath and Beyond. Like I mentioned in the last post, my direct superior is out on medical leave for an undetermined amount of time. I have heard she is trying to get back as soon as possible but I can't see that happening any time soon. So, in her absence, the responsibilities of the department have fallen on me, as the full time lead. Last week I was able to sit down with our district manager Dennis and discuss my options and future with the company. I left the meeting with no exactness as to what will happen, but a definite feeling of hope that things in the store will be changing for the better, and that I am not being overlooked as far as promotions go. The district staff is well aware of all my hard work and accomplishments and that's basically all I need at this point. I am still team teaching with my mom in Primary at church - we love it so much! We started out the year with 7 or 8 kids (I really have lost track!) and we are now down to 5. But they are such lively and crazy kids - I LOVE them all so much! They make teaching so much fun with all their little comments and questions and ideas!
• Chase is...well, still the same! He seems to be getting bigger, but I really think its just the fur. He spends his days being lazy around the house and his nights trying to get either Clint or myself to wrestle around with him (after we get home from work and just want to be lazy).

Clint and I were able to get down to Ventura at the beginning of October to visit with some friends of ours. It is a tradition for us to go to Universal Studios and do their "Halloween Horror Nights": it is AMAZING! Think about it - a movie studio putting on a Halloween party, complete with costumes and all kinds of great special effects. It is absolutely insane! This was the first year that Clint could come with us, so that was really neat! They have a couple mazes that are built after some of the classic scary movies (Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, etc) and everything is SO real! They also have scare zones, where you just walk through and people jump out at you and scare the crap out of you!!! Its so much fun!

Other than that, everything is pretty boring. :) Just the way I like it - drama free!

And to leave you with a treat (since you read SO much already!!!), here's a picture of Chase dressed up for Halloween:

I thought he was cute...he didn't like us too much after the photo shoot was done. ;)

The other day I was getting ready to do the dishes, so I take off my rings and watch and turn on the water. I let it run for a few seconds to warm up while I arrange the dishes for easier washing and check back on the water - still cold. Move some more things around, open up the dishwasher, check back with the water - still cold, and it feels like its getting colder. This goes on for a little bit and I cannot for the life of me figure out what the heck is going on. Why won't my water heat up?!?!



I forgot to turn on the HOT water...that's what I call an epic fail.



On a brighter note, my manager at work is taking a leave of absence for illness. No one is sure exactly when she will be back, we just know it will be at least a month or longer. So this basically means...I am in charge of the front end at work! Yahoo! It's finally mine again!! :) I have two other leads that are fantastic; very hard workers and lovely girls to be around, so we are going to have a blast without Pauline (who everyone seems to greatly dislike...hopefully this will bring about a change in attitudes along the whole front end!) So yay, its been a pretty good week, despite the crazy weather and long hours I had to put in. Good karma is finally catching up to me! :)

Yummy Pumpkin Shaped Bread Bowls

The finished product...mmm

I've been totally loving checking out so many blogs because they give me so many ideas about fun things to do around the house and fun things to cook as well. I tried a great one from The Idea Room blog, it was for Pumpkin Shaped Bread Bowls for soup to go inside. If you click here, you will get the posting.

It was super simple and they came out really, really cute! They only thing I'd do differently (and this was my own fault) would be to before baking, make the balls flatter, like in the picture on the blog. That seemed to be the reason why mine came out so round and ball like...I think if they were flatter going into the oven, they would have been more like an actual bread bowl, more oval in shape. Next time, I'll try that.

Fresh out of the oven

They were super easy to make and totally delicious!

This weekend...

So Clint is gone this weekend in Tahoe with some friends (LUCKY!!!! This is the reason I hate WOW week at work/Poly sometimes...I never get to go with them) so I decided to have a sleepover (yes, a sleepover...be jealous!) with my best friend up here Michelle. Her boyfriend is leaving on Sunday to go to Ireland for at least 6 months to try it out. He's hoping he'll find a good job and stay, but I'm hoping he'll come back. Mostly because regardless of where he is, Michelle will end up with him there, and I want her to stay here! So anyway, we're doing it up right: girly movies, cookies, brownies, ice cream, and the inevitable sob fest I'm sure. She's supposed to be out of work RIGHT NOW, so I'm just getting the apartment ready for this awesome slumber party! I love being a girl at times like these - boys wouldn't do this. But we're gonna have the best time! I sure do wish all my girls could be here though...I miss our sleepovers sometimes. I wish we weren't so spread out and this could be a regular thing. Miss you ladies, love you!

Etching

I just found a fun blog that I am totally loving on right now. It's called theidearoom.blogspot.com and it has such fun ideas for almost everything. I found this one and just fell in love, so I decided to try. It sounds so easy (and it is, once you get the hang of it...)
I got all the materials at Michaels (except the contact paper...that was from the Dollar Tree). I got the idea because Becca is leaving to go back to Idaho and I wanted to make her a going away present. I thought she could put this on her desk and think of home sometimes. I forgot to take pictures while I was doing it, AND I didn't get pictures of Becca's finished present. So you'll have to make due with pictures of my practicing...I made Becca's on a similar jar as this one, except smaller. And the final product on this one is one letter on each side (C, &, G, E to make like "Clint and Gillian Erdman) and I just put a "B" on one side for Becca.

This has proven to be a pretty fun and fairly easy project, one that I want to continue to do. I didn't think I had this creative streak in me...

Marriage Quiz

Here's a silly thing that Lindy tagged me for on Facebook. It was fun to fill these answers in there, so I figured I'd put it up on here too!

1. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time?
Softball field

2. What is your spouse's full name?
Clint Antony Erdman

3. Do you have any house pets?
Yeah, our pup Chase (cockerspaniel...amazing!)

4. Do you own a house or rent?
Rent

5. Do you live in the country or city?
Small City - Atascadero

6. What is one of your favorite activities together?
Take drives, watch movies, play games

7. Do you have a favorite vacation spot?
Not really...we go to see our friends in Ventura sometimes, we always enjoy that.

8. When did you first kiss?
Mmmm...like a week after meeting...something like October of 2007.

9. What church do you attend?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

10. Where were you married?
SLO...February 6, 2009.

11. What town is your current address at?
Atascadero, CA.

12. Do you work or stay at home:
We both work full time.

13. Where did you go on your honeymoon?
Night of our wedding was spent in a hotel in Pismo...we took a trip to Disneyland a couple months later when we both could get some adequate time off!

14.What was the funniest gift you gave when dating?
I don't even know...

15. Who asked who out?
I think he asked me out on our first official date - sushi and a movie! :)

16. How old are each of you?
Clint is 28 and I am 23

17.Where do you each work or go to school?
I work at Bed Bath and Beyond and he works for Mega Door Management

18. Do you go to the same school?
No school for either of us.

19. Are you from the same home town?
Nope, I am from SLO and he is from Atascadero/Yerrington, NV

20. Who is smarter?
Me duh...on some things. We kinda balance each other out I think.

30. Who is more sensitive?
Definitely me...he's getting better though.

31.Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Depends on our mood and budget. We love sushi, especially Yanagis. And for a relaxed meal we'll go to Woodstocks for pizza!!

32. Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Not far...we've gone to like LA area. Hopefully we'll be able to travel more together soon!

33.Who has the craziest exes?
Me for sure.

34. Who has the worse temper?
We both have bad tempers but we're pretty good about not letting them get too out of hand especially at each other.

35. Who does the cooking?
Me

36. Who is more social?
Probably him...I have my core group of friends and tend not to stray too much from them.

37. Who is the neat-freak?
Neither of us...we like things cleaned and orderly, but we're definitely not obsessive.

38. Who is more stubborn?
Both of us...mostly Clint though ;)

39. Who hogs the bed?
DEFINITELY CLINT!!!

40. Who wakes up earlier?
Depends on the day, usually him though

41. Where was your first date?
Yanagi's for sushi, then a movie.

42.Who had more boyfriends/girlfriends?
I think me.

43. Do you get flowers often?
not often, but sometimes.

44. How do you spend the holidays?
With my family...his doesn't celebrate.

45. How long did it take to get serious?
Not too long...a couple weeks I think.

47. Who eats more?
I think me for the most part...

48. Who does the laundry?
All me.

49. Who’s better with the computer?
Clint for sure. I'm stupid when it comes to computers haha!

50. Leave a piece of advice for the other couples.
You're spouse is going to be there through the good times and the bad, so rely on him/her. Let him/her be your best friend. It's the most amazing friendship you will ever have.

Just finished reading Harry Potter #7 last night...I wish that the story just kept going. But, it has freed me up to begin reading Twilight all over again.

I love to read!

I don't think that Clint really likes that I read all this much...I was trying to finish the book last night and he kept trying to talk to me and I think just all around annoy me. It worked - I ended up just getting up and walking into the other room to get away from him so I could finish. He wasn't too happy that his plan was foiled! :)