live.

why is it, that i find i am always always hungry? eating constantly is not a luxury i can afford! it seems that just after i finish eating i am wanting more and have to tell myself- you just ate.

also,
this weekend brandon and i got to touch our roots a little bit and drove up to rexburg idaho to find a place to live and (maybe) if we are lucky a job too!

this all sort of fell into our laps so i'm super grateful but i hope it works out.

we were driving up the road from the highway to the temple to see whats happpennnin on that side of the burg and on the left side (i am scouting places to live) we see a beautiful townhomestyle brand spankering new apartments being built and a sign that declares "STONE GATE" with "COMING FALL 2010" next to it, CALL THEM CALL THEM im yelling at brandon as i swerve in and out of the two laned road. is laned a word? it is now. so im swerving all over and flipping a big u (away from the temple) and almost skidding out somewhere between in front of the old folks home and the national gaurd building. we call the number, the guy answers and is unbearably kind and says yeahhh come check it out in a half hour we just got the paint on in one of the apartments. (sweet) so, we bop around r burg and call some more places and stalk some more managers and then we head back to fortune's find stone gate.

when we are pulling up my heart drops as i see the man paul, on a ladder nailing in the last post for a giant banner that says MEN'S HOUSING!

nawahhhhhhhh.

BRANDON!
so
we walk up anyways and sheepishly introduce ourselves, the man Paul intros himself and says sorry for not specifying, me and my big mouth want to see the apartment anyways because i wanna know what rexburg future housing is going to be like (these poeple are building... a huge complex with guys and girls and a beastly clubhouse and not a pool, but sort of becuase they have that canal next to the parking lot and if we land this i am seriously going tubing AND ice skating and i'll be the manager so nobody can tell me not to!!!!) (except maybe the pigs.) (and i emphasize maybe) (because i'm an adult and i do whatever i want!)

(okay not such a smart creed but i believe it with my whole heart and it's better to have a motto that you live by that is kinda blunt than a really pretty lofty one that everyone knows that can never fully live by)

(okay forgive my add...)

SO
paul shows us the guys apartments.
which people.
if we dont get this management job i am cutting off all my hair and moving in.

seriously.

i told him so myself.

they are installing plasma screen tvs in every apartment
AND did you know that BYUI has forbidden any more apartment complexes to build ANY private rooms ever again? all the private rooms that have already been built are allowed to stay but NO new ones. (must have had some serious probs the last years or two, but thats not going to stop the problems... people will just find somewhere else to go. in my humble opinion.)

im not a materialistic person. at least, i don't consider myself to be. while brandon was gone i was truly happy with no tv, no movies (unless i went out), just pretty much reading all day.

so the plasma things not a big deal to me but its still kinda cool?!

so.
the apartments are gorgeous. only four people are living there! (what?!)
two floors.
four people.
huuuuge storage space
washer and dryer.
plasma screen tv (did i alreadyu mention that?)
just.
huge.
so.

while i was ooh ing and ahh ing over the apartment. paul says, so. are you guys,.... looking for a job or anything too while you are here? brandon says yes, starts talking about his experience as an RA in the dorms for three semesters and the guy jumps on us,
"look, i probably shouldn't show you this but i really like you guys and i think you should at least apply to be managers here"

what? WHAT? MON FRERE? I CAN LIVE HERE? for FREE? i get PAID to live here?

okay, not in the boys apartments/.
so the dude shows us around.

the clubhouse is... humongerous.
ive never seen one that size. anywhere.
not even utah.

(sorry i always want to fling poo on byu housing.)

then he shows us the manager's apartment.

holy sweet mary.

its not even done being framed yet.
but already i can see that
this is a position that i would love to be considered for.

all my managers i've really liked working with (NOT byu-i dorm housing management. that is a different breed of humans)

so while i drool over the apartment (which gets better and better with a huuuge walk in closet in the master bedroom, a big kitchen and triple thick insulation between (what im calling) my house and the clubhouse... a laundry room (for our washing and drying machines that ive already bought) and my own storage closet IN MY HOUSE annnnd a giant giant EXTRA storage space for the people who live there.... (just the boys) AND I WOULD ONLY BE THE MANAGER FOR THE BOYS SIDE. ONLY BOYS. no drama, no girls clawing at my door at three in the morning demanding they be moved to a different apartment. clean, simple, fun loving guys.

how do you like THAT?!?

hey thanks lord, for allowing that to fall into our laps.
now all we need to do after having our personal interview with the co-owner of the complex for almost two hours and sending in our resumes last night together is cross our fingers and wait.

the best part of all of this is that if we get the job,
then we are getting paid by the government (with the GI bill, brandon gets housing allowance and tuition) to live somewhere.
and getting paid by the people who own the apartment.
and living there for free.

on a side note
we did find an apartment that we fell in love with
i didn't know this apartment was above ferguson music store.
that little stone house down from mainstreet across from the floral shoppe where i worked.

it is so cute and just been remodeled.

AND it is above a music shop.
and above what might be a fudge shop.

heaven?

the price is right on the rent too but it doesnt have a dishwasher, a disposal, or a washer and dryer hookup.

fail.

and even though i promised myself we wouldnt even consider a place that didnt have those things
.....
it is so cute.

its old, and new and awesome.

and IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE ABOVE A FUDGE SHOP?
my house will always smell like chocolate!

and sound like classical music!


okay the master bedroom doesnt have any lights.
BUT there are plenty of wall jacks!

and its big!

okay, it doesn't have a tub!
but
it has wood floors! AND all the utilities are included! AND it has a big brick pillar that comes through the middle of the livingroom/kitchen area.

cool huh...

okay now im just journaling. but my experience in rexburg was a good one.
we stayed at idaho falls at re-lived our first date at smittys (NOT 25 pancakes this time...) (and i didn't get sick :])

i got to meet brandon's english advisor/professor/mentor rod keller and his wife and let me say that he is THE MAN! and it was very pleasant to talk to them for an evening.

idaho.
you have to love it.
the houses there look like God was playing yhattzee and shook up houses and threw them on the land in every shape and size and facing any direction and every direction.

and the people there kind of match that idea too.

i am excited already.