i'm gonna go crash

before you think i have a sick sense of humor, i titled the blog post that because after all was said and done, nick said, "alright, let's go crash!".. as in, take a nap. haha. not using that phrase anymore!


soooo.. i crashed the car today. it was kind of exciting. i feel weird now, because i've felt a whole bunch of emotions, so now i feel.. drained? i decided to write a little bit about it.. mostly because nick's making me stay in bed for a little while (rude, huh?) ;)


he is getting me cafe rio, though, so he is forgiven.


what's the worst is that where i crashed is not where i was supposed to be.. does that make sense? i was driving to work and realized i needed to take something to the post office. so instead of going all the way down 8th north to get to work, i turned onto state and went down to center so i could drop off my letters. as i turned right, my stuff started to slide off the passenger seat, so i looked down and caught it all with my arm. literally just two seconds. i looked back up in time to hit the back of another car.


i didn't have time to hit the brake or swerve, just hit. i braced my body and the airbag went off. scariest thing ever, no joke. i hate the airbag. had it not gone off, my arm wouldn't be burned, i would be as bruised, and our car wouldn't have to get inspected to decide whether or not it's "totalled" (it's not, by the way, but they still have to inspect it). 


so it hit. everything was smoking. the airbag, the engine.. totally freaked me out. i got out of the car and some super sweet black ladies came running out of the mcdonalds to take care of me, haha. they were adorable, and seriously the nicest women ever. they hugged me while i broke down crying, gave me their phones to call nick, and pushed my car into the parking lot for me. their little boy even offered me the rest of his food, haha. so sweet.


in all honesty, everyone was SO nice. i was overwhelmed by how nice they were. the guy i hit, he had gotten into some sort of road rage battle with another guy, and when they turned onto center, the guy cut him off and slammed on his brakes. resulting in me crashing. the guy who caused it then made a u-turn and flipped us off, laughing. jerk. seriously. big, mean, jerk.


the guy i hit was my age, super nice. a million policemen, an ambulance, and a firetruck showed up. haha, overkill? i realized later that center street is where all that is. but they took care of the burn on my arm, telling me how impressive it looked and that they'd never seen one like that. the policemen were awesome, asking if i was okay. if i hadn't been so shaky and emotional, i probably would have made sure to tell them that they're wonderful :)


nick got to come down from salt lake and save me. i was totally calm until i talked to him and my parents, and then i broke down, haha. they have that effect, you know? the only bummer is that since the airbag went off, the car might be considered "total loss".. which would suck. they towed it to our house (thank you, geico) and at some point an inspector will come out to make the decision. it's really not bad.. the hood and bumper are dented and the airbag went off. oh, and the coolant leaked all over the place. still driveable.. kind of :)


so that's my exciting story for the day. luckily we live with an er doc, so dad hooked me up with some good antiseptic ointment (or something like that), bandaged me up, and gave me drugs. mmm! and now i'm being spoiled, and we get the day off work.. ta da! had i known it would be that easy to get a day off... 


here's a photo. it looks cooler in person, and my arms are turning purple from the bruises. i love adrenaline, i felt so good up until a couple of hours ago. now i have icepacks all over & i feel like an old person.

it's a phone photo, so it's not the best quality. what a shame, huh? ;) i told scott i just colored it with marker to make it look worse.


welp, nick's here with cafe rio salad.. bless his heart! so long!

the best two years

okay, time for a more happy post... :)


june eleventh


we were "warned" so much about marriage before we got married.. even after. we still haven't figured out why. we're hooked!


we wanted to spend the day together. no chores. no errands. no friends or family. just us :)


the day started by sleeping in.. something we rarely get to do, so that was happy. nick made us breakfast while i packed our lunches and camelbaks. then we left to go hike in big cottonwood canyon. little did we know we'd be hiking.. in snow.


we got realllly lost, but it was so much fun!

yeah, we found handcuffs. we're probably diseased now.. so it goes.

we like to take photos of ourselves.. we're kind of vain.

okay, we're totally vain. whatever.

snow snow snow... we're not sure if we ever found donut falls or not.

the snow was SO deep. we fell knee deep over and over.

so happy to be out of the snow :)


it was a really fun day. we went out to five guys (drool), went and played, lounged about. just being together.. totally perfect!

vent vent vent

i am angry at...


hawaii.
the hawaii criminal justice data center.
a woman who works there named gail.
brian.
nick's work asking him to work from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
our car and it's not-working-ness.


.. i think that's it. just wanted to vent. thank you for listening :)


i'm loving...


nick. the real nick. not the hawaiin felon nick, haha.
my job.
having a girl's night tomorrow.
cleaning.
working out in the morning. i feel like i'm killing myself, but it feels so good.
food network, to watch while i'm cleaning.
our senses of humor.
our really comfy bed, even if we only get to be in it for a few precious hours every night.


okay, thank you for handing my negativity with me :) it's much more mild than it was an hour ago. and it will be gone once my apartment is clean and my husband is home. 


i love you all. really really.

fish, cookies & gnomes

june fifth

another sunday at the savage household. sunday dinner is always the best.. mostly because i don't have to cook it :) and because i get to see that weird awesome brother...

june sixth

erin comes over on mondays and we watch the bachelorette (my small amount of girliness ever week!). during our show, the penrods showed up to tell me i got the job (yay!) and make me a celebratory cake! thanks garn and heidi :)

i had already made cupcakes, though, so it was a very sugar-induced evening. (by the way, LOVING the job so far! a little tough going back to a nine to five job, but i'm so glad i got it!)

june seventh

more sugar? yes please! my biggest weakness (yes, my biggest.. otherwise, i'm perfect..) is baking cookies. they always melt. so i went to my aunt and uncle's house (they're old), so andrew could teach me how to bake cookies. turns out i'm doing it all right, my oven was just fifty degrees too hot (on convect bake). ta da!

that night, erin & i went to take photos of the hulets and then headed to a boutique, while nick worked hard with the parade committee on the parade float. coming along pretty nicely, eh?

june eighth

as this was my last "free" weekday, i went with mom, nicholas & his friend carter to the aquarium. nick had never touched a manta ray (must be a nick thing.. the husband nick hates touching sea creatures, too). so we decided it was time to make him a man. (you can't see him touching it in the photo, but he claims he did!).

june ninth

started my job. i really do love it so far. it's a job at a life insurance company, so i'm learning a lot (ryan, my boss, gave me some reading to do and some training meetings to attend). but i love it! i work with really fun people, in a small environment (which i love), and i'm constantly busy, which i also love! it's a little weird getting used to working nine to five again. i forgot how nice it was to have all that free time to edit and.. have a life :) but money will be nice, and i feel so much more structured and productive now!

aaaaand.. the photo was of a gnome. kind of like work :) nick loves gnomes, so mom and dad gave him one. i came home from work to find him in the pot!

june tenth

friday is penrod night. none of us felt like cooking, so it was also a costco pizza night :) ta da! laziness = pizza = happiness.

food and weddings

may thirtieth

memorial day. we got a lot accomplished.. spent the first half of the day running errands and getting nick work boots that won't kill his feet.. yay! then nick cleaned out the garage so we could fit a parade float in there.. we're on the committee this year. lesson learned: when people get a church calling you don't envy, don't be too glad it's not you.. you'll get called to it a week later ;)

that night we had shrimp tacos with homemade salsa and cafe rio style dressing.. delish! i also tried out strawberry brazillian lemonade. and i got to use my cool new.. salad.. dressing.. glass thing? what would you call that?

may thirty-first

i think 99% of my photos on this blog are food-related. i'm surprisingly okay with that.

nick and i went to park city for a one-night getaway (thanks mom & dad thurman!). hot tub, ben and jerry's, a movie, and harry potter four. it was good :)

june first

oh man, some kind of cleaning bug got into me. maybe it was that we got to sleep in 'til eight. but i cleaned. and cleaned. and cleaned. to disney music, of course :)

june second

it was a caffeine day. sometimes i get these killer headaches behind my eyes. not often, but when i do, only caffeine will get rid of it.

i did have a job interview, though, for the coolest job ever... cross your fingers!

june third

i got to babysit maya while heidi worked on making cards. mickey mouse clubhouse is her favorite show, so by the end of the day i always have the "hot dog" song stuck in my head. for some reason she was not only fascinated by my vase of corks, but obsessed with putting as many down her shirt as she could and then dumping them on the floor and laughing hysterically. life's little pleasures...

i also made a run to an antique store to gather up stuff for a stylized shoot i have coming up this month. it's been taking up a lot of my time, so i'm really excited for it :)

june fourth

we spent all day shooting a wedding. literally all day. we left our house at seven thirty a.m., came home in the middle of the day for about fifteen minutes, and got home around nine thirty. it was seriously the best wedding ever, though. we met so many amazing people and had so much fun :) it's nice to be around such good people!

this was my precious little buddy jacob. he was such a poser.. i loved it! he made me smile all day.

and this was the gorgeous couple.. look how happy they are! they were like this all day, it was wonderful. we did their engagements (my favorite), bridals (coming soon, but you saw a sneak peek in my last blog post) and their wedding will be posted as soon as i can :)

hair

Wow, it's been a loooong time since I posted! I need to update that, we have had so much going on!


One of which was an intense haircut. Keep in mind, the shortest my hair has ever been was to my shoulders. Once. When I was ten. And Brigham, the little boy down the street who I had a crush on, told me I looked uglier than a dead pig when I cut it. So, naturally, I had no inclination to cut it again.


In the photo below, taken on my birthday, you can see how long it had gotten. Kind of. It doesn't even look that long, but it was seriously halfway down my back. Even after they chopped 11 inches, it still came to my shoulders.. they just took off more after that.

Nice photo, right? We went to Red Butte Gardens the morning of my birthday.. it was gorgeous! And had a moose! I'll post more about it later :)

So, after much trepidation, I did it. (I know.. this is a crappy webcam photo. I may be a photographer, but I don't do photos of myself, haha. This will be remedied this weekend while we're in Zions!)

It looks MUCH better curly (my hair went so curly when it was cut, I love it), but she straightened it to make sure she hadn't missed any spots. It's growing on me (haha, because it's hair..) (.. okay just kidding..). There will definitely be more photos later, this is just to make all you obnoxious friends happy ;)

You're welcome.

Oh, and because I don't like photos of myself, let's end with a beautiful photograph that I took a few days ago! I don't get to post them anywhere more public, because she doesn't get married for a few weeks.. but this is probably my favorite photo I've ever taken :) Not to toot my own horn or anything... ahem...

(http://wewanttoshootyou.com)

scott is home

ta da! it's kind of strange having scott back, i'm not gonna lie. i know it's weird for him, too, though... so it goes! it's fun chatting with him... i've missed his laugh :) the following are photos from the airport. we ended up waiting longer than we thought because scott missed his flight (hence the second photo down). then we all went back to the house for food and family-time. it was fun spending the weekend with family :) welcome home, scotty.