Amesie Boy

What I like.

2012-01-06T15:07:00.000-08:00

I'm not usually one to really make New Year's Resolutions. I just don't ever get around to making them, and if I do I rarely follow through. But that is going to change this year! This year I am going to blog every week! Emily tells me I need to write in my journal more (because I don't at all) and she's right. I do need to. But I don't like writing. Like, writing with a pen and paper. When I write, with a pen and paper, I can really get into it at first and then I start pressing really hard and then my hand gets tired and then I can only concentrate on my hand hurting and then I stop writing. So instead of writing in my journal, I am going to blog. Yeah? I will blog every week - maybe once, maybe more. And they don't have to be long entries. They can and will be anything: what I'm up to, what's on my mind, quotes I like (But I promise I'll actually know what the quote means; I won't just google "quotes on being happy" and then post something that I have no attachment to other than simply liking it. I mean, not that that's bad, if you do that, but I won't. At least, I'll try not to.), rantings and ravings about RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4 starts in 24 days!!!!), maybe even my latest craft made from my Silhouette machine (Yes. Sometimes I "craft." Silhouette.). I'm excited.

Today I would like to talk about what I like.

I like my life. I know that's a pretty broad statement but I truly do like my life. I like it a lot. It isn't perfect, it isn't always glamorous (I say always because it really is pretty glamorous occasionally), and it seems like we're always just scraping by. But my life is fun. Really fun. And I wouldn't have it any other way. (I know that everything else I say is all just part of this "like," but just go along with me.)

I really really RILLY like my wife. She is the best girl that I know, and I'm sure that even if I knew all the girls I would still think that she is best. Because she is. Things aren't the easiest right now but even still, she is so strong. She doesn't always think she is, but she is. She is amazing because she keeps going. Winston Churchill said, "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." She probably doesn't think that she's very enthusiastic but I think she is. She is because she does keep going, she does do everything she can to make things work. She loves me. And she loves our cats. She is the best girl. PS- She is in a really cool play right now at Hale in West Valley. It's a really fun and NEW murder mystery comedy. But tough luck gittin' tickits cuz it's already all sold out! Thaz righ'!

I really like our cats. Yes. Emily and I have cats. If you know anything about anything about us, you know that we have cats. Two of them. Their names are Trevor and Lucille 2. They are the cutest, funnniest, most best cats that ever lived. They really are! Most of time. I'm sure I will blog about them later, and probably a lot, so get used to it. Hello. My name is Ames. I am a cat person.

I really like my family. Even though we are kind of all over the place and even though I don't see all of them too often or talk to them nearly as much as I should, I like them a whole lot. They are the reason I am who I am and I'm very grateful for all of them.

I like my job. I work for this really cool company called Silhouette America. The company manufactures this super nifty and extremely handy crafting-cutting machine. It is so so cool. I have one at home and I use much more frequently then I thought I ever would. It became especially handy for a Stage and Screen Design class that I took (and ACED) this last semester. I'm a customer/technical support rep, so I talk to people (mostly middle-aged women from the South (No offense to them, I love them most of them)) every afternoon for 4 or 5 hours and help them with all kinds of things. It's actually pretty fun, and it's a great company!

I like school. Do I want to be done with school? Yes. But I like it. At least, I keep telling myself that I do. Maybe it's just that I like being lazy. That's probably it. I really like being lazy, but that has bitten me in my tooched booty way too hard recently and I'm getting over it. I'm learning how to be pretty good at school and I'm really starting to like it. I mean, I never really HATED school or anything, it was just a kind of a nuisance. I'm getting over that, too. It has taken me forever but I'm almost finished with all of my G.E.'s and can almost start taking my Education courses. Yeah, that means that I still have a while but it also means that I'm that much closer to being done!

This isn't the extent of things that I like. I like a lot of things but I can write about them later.

Adventures in the Night

2011-01-27T15:45:00.000-08:00

Huh? What? I haven't posted for more than a year? I don't know what you're talking about.

I know that this post's title may seem raunchy to some people... if that's t your case, then I apologize ahead of time. No raunchy... in this post.

The other night was a first. I sleepwalked. In my memory, I've never sleepwalked before. All that I can actually remember is kneeling down in front of Emily's side of the closet, FRANTICALLY SEARCHING THROUGH HER SHOES. That's right. I don't know remember why, but I was looking for one of her shoes that I was positive HAD A MICROCHIP PLACED IN IT; according to Emily, I called it a 'coin.' WHA--? I have no memory of what I was dreaming that had led me to look for this shoe, or why there was some kind of a chip inside a shoe, or why I was even looking for it. But that's what I was doing. Ok.

I must have woken Emily up, either by turning on the lamp at my bedside table or asking her where it was, because I'm pretty sure that her trying to calm me down was what brought me to full consciousness. Well, somewhat of a full consciousness. I think I had said, "I know it's here - I'm just trying to find it," and then stopped and starred at her shoes for a while. It was only after I realized that I had NO IDEA what I was doing that I slowly got back into bed and went back to sleep. Doo doo doo...

But really, what the hull?

At first I was really scared by it. Thought I was crazy for not realizing what I was doing until I was deep "in the act." But after thinking about it further... I want to sleepwalk more! Call me crazy, but this a whole new world of sleeping that I've never even experienced before! I've been missing OUT! I mean, I could be going on some crazy BAD-A** adventures: beating all sorts of Wii games, chasing Trevor Cat (SOON, thankfully!) and... yeah, stuff like that!! Right?!

Sleepwalking 101: SIGN ME UP!

Town of Urine

2010-01-12T14:50:00.000-08:00

Hey.

I'm in a show with my wife and a whole bunch of friends at school. It's called "Urinetown: the musical." You may have heard of it. If so, you know why you need to come and see it. If not, I'm telling you, this show is hilarious. Really, like, so funny! And I promise you will love it. If you want a fun night of live (and lively) theater, please come and see it.

It will open in UVU's Ragan Theater on January 21 (next Thursday) and runs every night until January 30 (excluding Sunday, and including possible matinees on Tuesday and Friday morning of the second week). For more information on how to buy tickets go here.

I am having the most fun I have ever had in a production before and I want everyone to come and see it!

2009-09-05T15:26:00.000-07:00

I was asked to post on UVU theatre department's website about Charlotte's Web. I'm in it, and it opens September 17. Also, it's amazing, and I really think you should come and see it! Here is my post:

Christopher Clark told us at our first cast meeting that Charlotte's Web "isn't a dumb kid's show," and I wrote that at the very top of the first page of my script. As we've rehearsed I've continued to think about that. This isn't a dumb kid's show. Sure, the story is known as a children's story, but the way it's told is so unchildlike, and the experiences within the story are things that everyone, both child and adult, can experience: incredible friendship, hard work, happiness, loss of a dear friend, etc. In fact, the main reason why I'm so excited for this production is because of how much it means, and will mean to so many people. Whether they know the story, love the story, or don't know the story at all, everyone can relate to something in it. The entire cast has worked so hard to be able to produce this amazing experience on stage, and I can't to share it with everyone.

Last night, as I was getting ready for a scene, one of Wilbur's lines hit me and really sank into me. I don't remember his line exactly, but he was yelling at Templeton for being inconsiderate to him and also towards Charlotte's dire situation. Now, this is my personal take on his line, but he says something about how it doesn't matter how long you live, but how you live. Wilbur assures both himself and Templeton that he, Wilbur, has lived a good life, and that he is happy. As I was walking towards my entrance location I thought, "Wilbur is less than a year old. What has he experienced to make himself so happy and fulfilled in such a short time?" Then I thought about his friendship with Charlotte, Fern, the farm animals and others. They trust eachother, are dedicated to serving eachother, and love eachother. Thinking about good friendships and relationships that I have, or have had, I realized/remembered that that's what made them so meaningful, and made me so happy. Trust, dedication, and love. This production portrays these traits (and so many others) that are so valuable and meaningful to everyone.

I love this show. I love this story. I'm so glad that I'm a part of this production; part of this experience. Come and see. You won't regret it.

Forever and ever

2009-08-19T17:21:00.000-07:00

I have a friend of the Book of Faces. She recently posted a picture of her grandparents at their 70th Wedding Anniversary. "That's right, 70 years." She probably has no idea how AMAZING I seriously think that is, and how grateful I am that she posted that picture. Her grandparents look SO happy. Yes, they look tired as well, but so happy.

I'm getting sealed to Emily on Friday. This Friday. I cannot believe that it's here already. We will be married and become husband and wife forever and ever. I believe in that and want it with all that I am; it makes me so happy just thinking about it. My friend's grandparents have gone through 70 years and they will probably go on even longer. Forever and ever even. Emily and I will do the same.

Family is amazing. Once upon a time, my Grandma Mari Bell recorded herself reading a book to her grandchildren as she was serving a mission with my Grandpa. It was a book about how the Bats became the 'outcast' animal, or something like that, because they couldn't choose between the animals or the birds, which made both sides, the animals and the birds, hate them, and thus, the Bats are now all by themselves... Anyway, after she read the book to us she testified about how important it is to choose a side, "either the Lord's side, or the Devil's," and how when we choose the Lord's side, we can all be together, as family, forever and ever. "That is our strongest, most deepest desire, to be with all of you." And that is my strongest, most deepest desire. To be with my family forever and ever. To be with Emily forever and ever.

Friday is going to be a good day.

So Happy And So Right

2009-08-06T17:41:00.000-07:00

It seems like everytime I have a desire to blog about something, I go to write a new post and I have no idea what I want to write anymore. None. I wonder why that is. Maybe I'm not creative enough. And, everytime I've posted something (all of two times, including this time) I think of the movie "You've Got Mail." But anyway, here I am at work, behind the counter in the gift shop of Seven Peaks, when I probably shouldn't even be writing this, but the gift shop is as clean as it can be (well I could probably vacuum, but I still have four hours ahead of me to do that) and the work is pretty slow. So as the wind blows the smell of frying burgers and seasoned fries through the door, and as I listen to people squeeling and screaming as they go down The Boomernag, I feel just fine about blogging. Good. And now I know what I want to write.

I'm getting married in 14 days. In a couple of hours it will be only 13 days. That's basically like, tomorrow, right? It feels like just yesterday we had 100 days to go and were thinking how far away it felt. But it's not far away at all now.

I'm so excited to marry Emily. Everything has worked out and is working out and I have the strongest feeling that everything will work out so well. I'm very thankful, and very happy.

Two days ago I was working the same shift that I am now in the gift shop during an exclusive party event, and it was SO slow and SO boring. I had nothing to do because my real computer was broken so I found a piece of scratch paper and wrote a random journal entry. I haven't written a single thing in my real journal since I moved to Provo. I remember exactly: sitting on my new bed (well, new to me) and opening up not new journal after I had mostly unpacked my not new things on the first day in my new (to me) apartment. It was actually just before I went to hang out with Emily I believe. It felt good writing in my journal then, and it felt good writing in my 'journal' on Tuesday. I mostly wrote about Emily. (She wants to read it, but hasn't yet. She'll love it.)

You know, I'm constantly thinking about how I should and need to write in my journal more often. It shouldn't be so hard if it feels so good, right? I'll do it. Be more like Emily.

I never really pictured myself getting married. I mean, I've always known that I will get married eventually, and I've always wanted to get married. I guess I just didn't it expect it come so fast. However, now that I am getting married, I'm so happy and it feels so right. I know that it's right. And it's real. This is what I need to do and what I'm meant to do. And I love it. I can't even picture myself going on without doing it. Obviously those feelings of not seeing myself getting married are from someone that doesn't want me to do what is making me so happy, and what is so right. Too bad. Because I'm going to. In 14 days (almost 13).

Blogged for the Very First Time

2009-05-15T09:41:00.000-07:00

So basically... this is my very first blog. Ever. Even.

A favorite line from That Thing You Do just came to mind:
"I.... I quit... I quit... I quit... I quit, Mr. White."
You know that part at they very end? When everyone is in the recording studio, and the band is kind of falling apart, and Jimmy comes up with this 'new song,' saying that he wants to do his own thing? Jimmy is such a JERK. Especially in the last couple of minutes. But I love this line; his big, cheesy grin, the crisp snapping of his fingers, Tom Hanks' look of disgust/confusion. Ha! Love it.

Well, I just quit my job today. What? Yes. The job the I just started on Tuesday. I know, right? Two full days of it and I couldn't take it anymore. I went in before my scheduled shift this morning to talk to my boss and to be polite and everything, telling him that I was quitting... but he wasn't there yet. So I left and went to donate plasma, which, to tell you the truth, I feel WAY better doing than going to work. I'm just glad that it's over with. It was fun while it lasted... no, never mind. It wasn't very fun. But in those two, not so fun days at work I have learned that I just don't like having to work over the phone the whole day. Don't like it. I would much rather see people, and talk to them face to face. Ah! I can't wait until I'm done with school and get to teach kids, see their faces, and have fun with them all day long! Well, I guess that I can wait because I love school right now.

But I just don't want to have to go through jobs that I don't enjoy and don't feel comfortable doing until the times comes when I can actually do the job that I want to do. So I'm not going to go through them. No.

So, once again, I resume my position of the last few weeks: looking for a job. My job. One that I want to do, that I'm comfortable with. One where I can interact with people. Who knew it would be so though?