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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:26:40 GMT

Ok... Don't ask why, but I have a different blog. Actually, ask me why. Why? Ok... because anyone can comment on this blog, it's for Nate and I, although I will probably be the only one using it, and it's kind of nice to learn how to use a new blog system. Here's where you can find us. See you on the other side... of blog world that is! :)

Monday, July 07, 2008

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:51:13 GMT

hello blog world. I don't have much time, as always, but I just wanted to blog for a second. Life is weird. Random. I used to listen to tons of music everyday. I can go for days without listening to anything more than the radio, which is fine cause I still get music that way, but seriously... I guess I didn't realize how much I miss music until I have a night like tonight. Nate and I are members of a cd club and we earned 6 free cds and then had limited $.99 for all cds once you buy one at regular price. So we are gonna catch up on the music scene. We ordered 23 cds tonight. they range from new Christian artists like Addison Road who I am excited to have to music like Nelly Furtado and Timbaland so we can go clubbin in our living room... :) I just hope we have time to listen to it all.

Here's another example of random... I got a call from a principal tonight, SUNDAY, and he asked what job I was interested in, said he would look for my resume and call me back. I was totally excited and ready to set up a time for an interveiw and now it's 11:40 pm Sunday night and I haven't had a phone call back and it's kind of dissappointing. I honestly think that the second they hear or read that i work at The Science Zone, they black list me. I have had almost no positive response from principals once they learn I work for the museum... I don't get it. And isn't that illegal? So anyway... it was really weird getting a call on a Sunday evening of a holiday weekend from a principal, but it's even more weird that he didn't call back to say he needed another copy of my resume or that he found the resume I already gave to him after he said he would call back. I'm totally frustrated with lack of a real teaching job... it would be such a blessing financially and in so many other ways, and I really do have a desire to teach in my own classroom. I am trusting God will provide. I am also trying to decide if God is telling me to leave my job since it hasn't been doing much good, even though it's been such a learning experience... I don't know what to do about it anymore. I'm done thinking about it tonight.

Hope you had a great 4th!! We have tomorrow off too! Yay!! I hope to post some good pics of our real quick trip to Denver and Rocky Mountain National Park...we got realy close to some elk... REALLY close and we won a trip to Orlando... it will be the first time we're on an airplane together and the first time on the ocean together... I'm excited. We just have to pick the dates and go. More details to come...

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Thu, 29 May 2008 02:55:51 GMT

Ok... it's been a long time and I feel like I should go back to the beginning of the year and update a bunch of pictures and stuff, but yeah... we'll do May and see how that goes.

Nate and I on a little hike in early May... his facial hair is crazy, but fun.

Here's my 2 favorite boys playing fetch. By the way... this was taken on May 3rdish. We had like a foot of new snow on the mountain and had to go play in it.

On May 10th my friends Danielle and Rob got married. This is me with Danielle and Jamie... we are the "Malodorous Trio" aka Smelly, Stinky and Stenchy... we got the nicknames, before we were all really good friends, from friends and family and then when we were hanging out one night we discovered our nicknames and decided to become the Malodorous Trio... good times. We really don't smell bad though... just in case you were wondering.

My favorite nephew Cody... he looks so old in this photo... it was taken at our family memorial day bbq at our house on Friday. He'll be two on July 28, so still really young, but so cool!

And this is Allissa Grace, Cody's little sister. Look how she holds her thumbs! So cute! She'll be 2 months old on May 31. She and my dad are the only blue eyed family members...

We had Erika's wedding shower on Saturday morning... here's her with Alissa and our mom. The wedding is in like 10 days... crazy!

That's all for now. It took me forever to get a post up... we'll see how long it takes til the next one.

Changes

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:48:50 GMT

Today I had a thought. I think that God knows that people need changes in their life so he made seasons. Someone at work today said, "I love the spring time. It's the only season that makes me happy." So if there were no spring, would my coworker never be happy? It was just an interesting thing I hear and I thought I would share it. And I am glad that God made seasons and allows things around us to change, because I am realizing, now, that I work well over 40 hours and week and come home to work more, that if something around me didn't change every once in a while, I would go crazy. I used to rearrange furniture like every 6 weeks or just change something. I'm a bit busy for that these days and I am happy the weather is changing. Even today it was nice enough to drive with the window down, but now it's snowing. Gotta love Wyoming. (I rhymed).

Have you ever dug a hole for a tree? Try 22 holes! That's how many trees we planted in our yard beginning on Sunday. We got all the trees on Saturday, after I went to the school district job fair... another story, another time... and then we began digging holes on Sunday. We finished planting the last trees last night around 9 and we finished moving some dirt around tonight. Now we are going to plant some trees in the front yard before the beginning of may. May and June are going to be crazy. We get a new exhibit at work, I will probably try to get some interviews for the school district, my sister gets married June 7 and I will be in Laramie again for Astro Camp most of June. It's gonna be crazy!! Ok... this entry is getting way too long. I am going to bed now. Seriously... diggin holes is not easy... I'm still very sore from it!

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:09:44 GMT

Basically I don't want to do anything truly productive right now so I'm not. Life has been much better the last few days. I am preparing, slowly but surely, to attend the job fair for our school district. I have no expectations. i think it would be great to get a job as a teacher... have my own classroom, work with some awesome kids, and learn from teachers who are pros at teaching, but if that's not where I am supossed to be, then it won't happen yet. I have thought about some other opportunities, but I am really not drawn anywhere else. The Science Zone or a classroom is all I feel draw to. But I realize if God wants me in other places besides the places I feel drawn to, it will happen. I am also thinking about getting PartyLite going. I really do like doing that job. It's pretty interesting. Doesn't use a ton of brain power. Just excellent social and communication skills. If i ever get really motivated, I'll try to get that business going. It would be pretty cool to work from home and not have to worry about working for other people... who knows.

Well... I have a new baby niece! She was born on Monday, March, 31, weighed 8 lbs, 9 oz, and was 21 1/2 inches long... maybe today she's a bit longer, and probably weighs a little less, cause i think babies lose some weight at first?? but she is so cute! She hardly moved the other day when I saw her. She was just sleepin and sleepin and looked so peaceful. See... if I didn't have a job that kept me so busy I could go visit her everyday and play with Cody too and life would be much more fun! Anyway... Welcome to our family Alissa Grace! You're a beauty and you'll be just a cute as your big brother! (sorry... I don't have pics uploaded yet!!)

I'm going to go eat cake and watch a movie with my husband. Man... life is gonna be so different when we have kids. Now's the time to enjoy being lazy together late on Saturday nights.

Trial

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:32:54 GMT

I am very tired. I have been trying to get my hand healed up and better so I can live without the terrible itch and pain it has been causing me. I think I have a really bad case of eczema that got infected by something. It's on my right hand which I now realize I use for everything. I can't even shake people's hands because if anything touches it, it itches more. If I scratch my skin, the rash spreads. I have gone to the doctor 2 times now. The first doctor told me it was eczema with a bacterial infection. I was almost done with the antibiotics and the rash was worse, and making my hand swollen and annoying, so I went back. The second doctor told me he thought it was a fungus, not a bacterial thing. So... i was taking low dose of steroids to help with inflamation, but he said steroids make fungus spread and I can't even use anti-itch cream, because it's a topical steroid. So now I am using athlete's foot cream to see if it reacts to that... if it doesn't then I have some random and weird, stress-induced rash that began on my hand and is slowly spreading up my arm. I even have itchy patches on my back, neck and legs now too.

I noticed at work on Friday that my hand gets really itchy and swollen when I am under stress. My job may really be making me go mental. Seriously. I can't pinpoint what it is excatly at my job that makes me so emotionally wore out and tense, but it's something. My boss is even wanting the throw up most of the time and she leaves with head aches and neck pain almost everyday of the week. Why does it have to be so hard to work there? We are the ones planning things, doing things, running the place. Why can't we just slow things down, not do so much, not be so emotionally connected to our little science center we have created and molded, and just get our everyday things done? Nate has really tried to help me leave work at work. And it's not like I do any work at home, but I just think about my "to do" list and how other people I work with have really crazy lives and how it is hard to work with people when you know so much about their personal lives. I need to leave it at work. And I do not need to take my life to work. I am going to try hard to seperate the two. I am also looking for other options, but with my stess level so high lately, and my inability to handle more stress well, finding a new job is just another stress. Just pray for me. I feel so overwhelmed and this hand rash thing is so distracting and causes me to feel disconnected completely. I just want to be normal Michelle again... genuinely happy about life and always enjoying whatever I do. I haven't felt like that for months! If I could afford to quit my job, i would have quit a long time ago... however, tomorrow is a new day and I will rejoice and be glad for all the amazing things God has given me and allows me to have each day... like my husband who is already in bed... I should go join him.

Today I am thankful for the 2 hour nap I had while Nate played the Wii... we both needed some down time and it was refreshing.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:34:32 GMT

My nephew Cody eating a pear... Cute!

It's been so long it seems... I almost couldn't remember my password to log in... CRAZY!

So life for The Longs has been VERY BUSY. It doesn't seem to slow down ever. Our jobs are crazy. Our house keeps us busy. We have lots of fun playing outdoors when we get the chance. Our families and friends, when we get to see them, keep us from being bored or lonely. It's just a busy time in our lives. I think maybe God is allowing us to do do do and go go go now because there may be a day when we really can't handle this much stuff, or else he's just preparing us for kids or something.

However, we went to a Naturopathy doctor (Preventive Health Resouces) this week and found out that we aren't really that healthy. Due to all of the stuff we are doing and probably the pressure we feel at our demanding jobs, our adrenal systems are almost not working... I'm worse than Nate cause I love coffee... drink it everyday and my body''s energy system has almost shut down because the caffeine takes over. The crazy thing is that this is probably happening to every other person around me. It's just normal for our society to feed the body crap and not think about the effect it has in the end. SO... Nate and I are on a track to being healthy for real. Being conscious about the food we give to our bodies and paying attention to the signs our body sends letting us know to pay more attention. Just think about it... doctors should be around to keep us healthy, not wait for us to be sick then treat some simptom that may be a sign from the body that something else is out of balance. We are a temple and we should take care of ourselves. So... that's a new thing for us. A couple things we have been successful in doing... no more pop. Haven't had a Dr. Pepper since December!!! We work out... got a gym membership and everything. Now I am trying to stop the coffee... man it's worse than living without my Dr. Pepper, but I am doing that, so i can skip the Grande Vanilla Latte from Starbucks 3 days a week and maybe save the money to busy clothes!! :)

Wow... this blog is getting long. I guess I had some stored up thoughts to spew out there. And now I am going to upload some pics cause these words are so boring to look at.

Cody and Erika @ Christmas

Cutest cake... for our new exhibit opening in January... that's how far behind I am with pics...

I love this pic... we all have different expressions and it's candid. We're in Laramie for Erika's birthday and wedding stuff... Erika and Dan picked out some really bright colors... those wedding pictures are going to be awesome!! I am wearing a bright red dress!! I'll share more later. I need to stop the blogging now.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:49:30 GMT

Valentine's day... spent tons of time with Nate. He took me to breakfast. I took him to dinner. We watched a movie together. Not a bad day. He got me the cutest card ever... if I take pics and upload them, you could see why. I love Nate! He's so genuine and he truly cares about me and our life together. I didn't even have his gift on Valentine's day, and felt so bad about it, but all he really wanted was to spend the day with me. He is actually playing the gift right now... it's Endless Ocean for the Wii... really neat game.

Then we had to endure a day of work before we could FINALLY get up to the mountain and snowboard together. We are so tired and soar, but it was a blast today! 20+ new inches of snow up there since the middle of the week and it snowed tons while we were there... it was great. Nate taught me how to go in the trees and float on the powder. Good times! We also took our dog Shadow to the big sled hill, so he could chase us down the hill as we snowboarded down. Also good times! Now it's bed time. Hope you all had a good Valentine's day and a great weekend!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:36:10 GMT

It's been a long time. I have pictures to download then upload from Christmas stuff... I worked for 2 weeks straight, took a day off, got sick and am still sick. I thought I had strep but didn't and I might as well have because I ended up missing a few days of work to take naps and try to get rid of whatever it is I have. It sucks. My head hurts, my sinuses ache, I can't breathe. Now imagine if I was a mom and going through all of this... kudos to all the moms out there.

The reason I mentioned the moms is because we spent an evening at our friends' (Kirstin and Jeremy) house. Kirstin is having another baby in late summer/early fall and their 17 mo. old daughter is so much fun! But yeah... my life may have to change a bit if we were to suddenly be having babies.

Speaking of life changes... Nate's new job seems to be really great. We don't work at Pizza Hut anymore!! I am still doing PartyLite... but it's been slow. Science Zone has been BUSY! This week doesn't seem to have too much going on, so hopefully I can get extra sleep and continue feeling a little better each day and then be not sick anymore... gotta love my grammar. Now I must prepare for sleepy time. Goodnight.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:07:55 GMT

Looks like it will be a white Christmas here in Casper!! Hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Love,

Nate and Michelle Long