Let's see. There's not much of an update on the story with the neighbors. We found out some more details from the bishop (who's been wonderful) and decided to be as supportive to them as possible without actually communicating with them in any way. This mostly means just grinning and bearing it. Kenny hasn't been arrested yet, so we're not too worried. As of last Monday or so, we kind of stopped caring too much.
Aside from that, things have been "ok". Actually, this week was pretty poopy, so this might come out as a bit of a rant session. Let's talk about the good things first:
-Lucy graduated from puppy school. She won the "come-when-called" competition (quite a surprise for us).
-We saw Harry Potter 5 on Friday and quite enjoyed it
-In the last week, I've read: Wicked (I give it 5/10), Jane Eyre (9/10), Harry Potter 7 (7/10), the Eyre Affair (9/10), and most of Twilight (so far, 8/10). I bought a couple new books with my birthday money yesterday, including Alice in Wonderland and a "Musee d'Orsay" coffee table book (the muse d'orsay is my second favorite museum in Paris, second only to the Rodin Museum.)
-Kenny is wonderful
-I bought Civilization 4 for the computer and quite like it (though, in game play, it's very similar to Civ 3, which was also good)
-My' work threw a kickin' party on Thursday at seven peaks. They rented the whole park out for a day and had free food and entertainment. We even got free massages. It was a lot of fun.
Alright, so now for my rants:
-Kenny and I had the biggest "fight" of our marriage on last Sunday night. It wasn't even really a fight, really- there was no yelling, no hard words, just a misunderstanding and hurt feelings, all revolving around the sticky neighbor situation and how to handle it. We both behaved badly but we got it resolved before falling asleep. I think the tensions were just too high and we were both so tired. I think that was the breaking point- after that, we stopped caring about the situation because we both know Kenny is innocent, and we know God knows that, and that’s all we have control over.
-Since Lucy is growing up, we decided to let her start sleeping in the bedroom with us. Until yesterday, when the smell of dog pee was so strong I could barely walk past the bedroom. Apparently, she has been going under the bed to hide it from us. Mind you, to get under the bed, I have to army crawl without using any limbs and twist my hips 8 different directions, but I finally got down there and sprayed it with doggy-pee-cleaner and febreeze like mad. The smell is better, but it'll need another treatment tonight. Lucy, on the other hand, is henceforth banned from the bedroom.
-Lucy got in trouble for something else yesterday too. She likes to play chase, and once she has it in her little mind that she's playing chase, there's nothing we can do to get her back. Unfortunately, chase yesterday consisted of running in front of 3 moving cars. I was furious and frustrated, all the while she thinks this is some fun game. *sigh*
-Work is getting more and more frustrating. I have literally nothing to do that I can bill to clients, and it's only Monday morning. And yet coworkers in other industries are drowning in work. It's nobody's fault- it just means there are too many people in my industry and not enough financial service clients. Still frustrating, though.
-I've felt sick since last Friday- very sore (like, I can't sleep because my back hurts too much), very tired, and on-and-off headaches.
I think that about covers it. All in all, the good outbalances the bad. And we have a lot to look forward to: this weekend, sister Becky and family comes to Utah, then next week, Lori moves back, then the next week is our first anniversary- we're going camping in Zions. Yay! I feel better no, after posting this. Things really aren't so bad.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
What the...?
So tonight, what might be the strangest (and not a good strange) experience of my life happened.
It started out well enough. I told Kenny that because he got a scholarship, he could spend 800 bucks on a new speaker system for our entertainment center. Such things don't matter to me at all, but he's wanted one for a while. So he went and bought a nice one and was setting it up while I played guitar and sang (I may or may not have been in only my underwear, fresh out of the bathtub). Then we heard a knock on the door. I figured it was landlady Lori coming to ask about Ikea (she's buying us new counters for the kitchen, yay!). Anyways, I retreat to the back half of the house to get decent. When I come back to the front, Kenny is outside talking to someone with the door closed (and Lucy was whining like mad that her daddy had stepped out without her). So I poke my head out the door to say hi to landlady Lori. But it wasn't lori, it was two cops. Kenny tells me to go back inside. I do, and listen through the door.
Apparently, Kenny answered the door to meet one cop, asking for Kenneth Kunz. He said "that's me" and steps out to see another cop to the side of the door (as if to ambush him if he acted up). So there are two cops.
There are some nice people down the street who live in our ward. I've chatted with the mom on several occasions- they are remodeling their house to accommodate baby number 3 who is coming any day now. Her name is Jenna. I offered to babysit her kids. She later told landlady lori that she thinks we are a lovely couple. Kenny hasn't met them, though they've seen him in sacrament, I'm sure.
Well, they now say (through the cops) that they have security footage of Kenny coming and knocking on their door at all hours of the night on multiple occasions. If Kenny does it again, the cops will take criminal action against him. (!)
I have no words for the absurdity of this. Kenny has never knocked on their door. Hasn't even met them, or been on their property except for to pass by while walking Lucy. Lucy hasn't even pooped on their yard.
The cops haven't seen this footage, but it was hard to convince them that Kenny is innocent and bewildered, to say the least. They advised us to just never go on their property again ("we can't go on their property less than we have, because we never have").
Kenny jokes about how sometimes he sleepwalks and the cops tell him "that would never fly in court"(duh) to which Kenny stops laughing and says "um, no, of course not."
So the cops left with many warnings (including the command not to contact these neighbors in any way) and Kenny and I just stare at each other, dumbfounded. I can't help but laugh at the absurdity, while Kenny has trouble keeping his dinner down.
He calls his dad (who went to law school and is a wise fellow when it comes to such things) and I call my mom (the source of all wisdom) and they're both flabbergasted. Kenny calls the bishop while my dad tells me that unless they have darn convincing evidence, we can take them to court.
The bishop, who is great, by the way, says he'll try and get in touch with them so he can mediate this a bit. Kenny and I go over the fact that Kenny couldn't possibly be leaving at night (even sleepwalking)- he'd wake me up, he'd wake lucy up, not to mention the fact that the cops didn't mention that Kenny was caught walking around in his underwear (which is what he would be wearing in the middle of the night. Heck, we're newlyweds.)
So, Kenny is probably going to shave his beard to make him less mistakable for the mystery man. It's a shame, his beard had just gotten back to it's original fullness (after the mustache-shaving incident.) We have to wait til Sunday for bishop to set up the mediation. In the meantime, Kenny can be arrested if the Fluckigers (yes that's right, their name is "fluckiger") think they caught him again. In the meanwhile, we won't be able to sleep.
Honestly, their are no words to describe just how weird the whole thing is. Poor Kenny.
It started out well enough. I told Kenny that because he got a scholarship, he could spend 800 bucks on a new speaker system for our entertainment center. Such things don't matter to me at all, but he's wanted one for a while. So he went and bought a nice one and was setting it up while I played guitar and sang (I may or may not have been in only my underwear, fresh out of the bathtub). Then we heard a knock on the door. I figured it was landlady Lori coming to ask about Ikea (she's buying us new counters for the kitchen, yay!). Anyways, I retreat to the back half of the house to get decent. When I come back to the front, Kenny is outside talking to someone with the door closed (and Lucy was whining like mad that her daddy had stepped out without her). So I poke my head out the door to say hi to landlady Lori. But it wasn't lori, it was two cops. Kenny tells me to go back inside. I do, and listen through the door.
Apparently, Kenny answered the door to meet one cop, asking for Kenneth Kunz. He said "that's me" and steps out to see another cop to the side of the door (as if to ambush him if he acted up). So there are two cops.
There are some nice people down the street who live in our ward. I've chatted with the mom on several occasions- they are remodeling their house to accommodate baby number 3 who is coming any day now. Her name is Jenna. I offered to babysit her kids. She later told landlady lori that she thinks we are a lovely couple. Kenny hasn't met them, though they've seen him in sacrament, I'm sure.
Well, they now say (through the cops) that they have security footage of Kenny coming and knocking on their door at all hours of the night on multiple occasions. If Kenny does it again, the cops will take criminal action against him. (!)
I have no words for the absurdity of this. Kenny has never knocked on their door. Hasn't even met them, or been on their property except for to pass by while walking Lucy. Lucy hasn't even pooped on their yard.
The cops haven't seen this footage, but it was hard to convince them that Kenny is innocent and bewildered, to say the least. They advised us to just never go on their property again ("we can't go on their property less than we have, because we never have").
Kenny jokes about how sometimes he sleepwalks and the cops tell him "that would never fly in court"(duh) to which Kenny stops laughing and says "um, no, of course not."
So the cops left with many warnings (including the command not to contact these neighbors in any way) and Kenny and I just stare at each other, dumbfounded. I can't help but laugh at the absurdity, while Kenny has trouble keeping his dinner down.
He calls his dad (who went to law school and is a wise fellow when it comes to such things) and I call my mom (the source of all wisdom) and they're both flabbergasted. Kenny calls the bishop while my dad tells me that unless they have darn convincing evidence, we can take them to court.
The bishop, who is great, by the way, says he'll try and get in touch with them so he can mediate this a bit. Kenny and I go over the fact that Kenny couldn't possibly be leaving at night (even sleepwalking)- he'd wake me up, he'd wake lucy up, not to mention the fact that the cops didn't mention that Kenny was caught walking around in his underwear (which is what he would be wearing in the middle of the night. Heck, we're newlyweds.)
So, Kenny is probably going to shave his beard to make him less mistakable for the mystery man. It's a shame, his beard had just gotten back to it's original fullness (after the mustache-shaving incident.) We have to wait til Sunday for bishop to set up the mediation. In the meantime, Kenny can be arrested if the Fluckigers (yes that's right, their name is "fluckiger") think they caught him again. In the meanwhile, we won't be able to sleep.
Honestly, their are no words to describe just how weird the whole thing is. Poor Kenny.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Birthday!
Today is my birthday! And it's been great. Yesterday we went tubing down the Provo river with 2 married couples. I found a cousin of the whomping willow, the whomping river shrub, and made good friends with it, leaving with it a chunk of my chin. That's ok, it added to the adventure. We had a great time.
For my birthday, I've gotten 4 new books (including Jane Eyre, and Wicked) and 5 new movies. We also got a new board game called "Ticket to Ride", which we played for the first time last week and loved. Kenny bought me roses yesterday morning and treated me like a princess all weekend (sunday birthdays make the whole weekend fun).
Friday we went to a ward swim party and had a good time. Tuesday was my friend Chelsy's bridal shower. Wednesday we went on a ward service project to an LDS handicapped center and pushed around wheelchairs for their "dance". All in all, a very fun week.
Other happy news: I think I may be getting new position at work. A Team Lead in another department has been jokingly offering me a job for a few months now (ever since I tested really well on the product his team supports) and I think I may actually take him up on it. I told him I'm planning on having a baby next summer and moving to Texas and he said "if they can get me just for 6 months, great, or he'd be happy to set me up to work remotely for however long I want. my pay would probably only go up a little, but I'm getting less and less happy with current boss, so it might be a good option.
Anyways, things are great. Gotta go eat my Birthday ham!
For my birthday, I've gotten 4 new books (including Jane Eyre, and Wicked) and 5 new movies. We also got a new board game called "Ticket to Ride", which we played for the first time last week and loved. Kenny bought me roses yesterday morning and treated me like a princess all weekend (sunday birthdays make the whole weekend fun).
Friday we went to a ward swim party and had a good time. Tuesday was my friend Chelsy's bridal shower. Wednesday we went on a ward service project to an LDS handicapped center and pushed around wheelchairs for their "dance". All in all, a very fun week.
Other happy news: I think I may be getting new position at work. A Team Lead in another department has been jokingly offering me a job for a few months now (ever since I tested really well on the product his team supports) and I think I may actually take him up on it. I told him I'm planning on having a baby next summer and moving to Texas and he said "if they can get me just for 6 months, great, or he'd be happy to set me up to work remotely for however long I want. my pay would probably only go up a little, but I'm getting less and less happy with current boss, so it might be a good option.
Anyways, things are great. Gotta go eat my Birthday ham!
Sunday, July 08, 2007
The news
The good news:
- We loved Texas, and are oh-so-excited to move down there in a little over a year
- We had a letter waiting for us after our trip: Kenny got a full-ride scholarship for his lasst two semesters at BYU! That's 4000 dollars we can save!
- We've seen (and enjoyed) Ratatouille, Surf's Up and Transformers. I'd recommend any of them.
- Kenny has been so sweet- he wants to take me to France (and other parts of Europe) for our 5th anniversary. Yeah, we're planning way in advance. He's even learning French! We bought a $17 French program he practices each evening and all day asks me French words and stuff. It's good for me, too- I'd hate to forget it all.
- My company stock is going up, up and away! I get to buy 2000 shares at 11 bucks a piece, and currently could turn around and sell them for 23! Woot!
- We went to a Trendwest condo timesharing presentation and nearly bought in- it sounded like a great deal, and we actually could afford it- for now. But in the end, Kenny thought to pray about it, so we did- on the balcony of a trendwest condo in Midvale. We both instantly felt it would be a very bad idea, and promptly left, feeling very glad we didn't do something stupid.
- We bought Stranger Than Fiction and The Prestige, our two favorites movies from the last year. They were both even better than we remembered.
- We found a natural water slide in a canyon near our house. We took Lucy so she could go swimming for the first time. The water slide is just a 20-foot chute carved by a stream out of rock- it looked painful but it wasn't. We had a good time.
- We've now been married almost 11 months! Next month is our anniversary!
- Next Sunday is my birthday! Kenny's planning some big surprise, and has already got a bunch of presents. I'm excited.
- Lucy is completely potty-trained and coming along on other training, too.
- The fourth of July was great- we didn't do anything too exciting, but had some friends over for some fireworks.
- I'm less and less happy at my job. My new boss has no idea what I've been doing for the last 8 months and uses me as his personal tech support. Oh well. Still infinitely better than Heritage.
- I got my haircut for the first time since last September- it ended up being a little more helmety/frumpy-mormon-mommyish that I would have liked, but it's ok. I've had worse.
- I had a minor flu this last week
- Kenny's superscope for his super Nintendo no longer works. That's the bad news he suggested for me to post on here:).
- We had to buy Lucy an anti-bark collar. She barks nonstop, but only when we're gone, because she missed us. Since we aren't there, we can't train her not to. I'm sick of feeling uneasy about her bothering the whole neighborhood each time we leave. Fortunately, she's only worn it once, with it on the lowest setting, and she seemed to get the idea so we won't need to use it again.
The Texas Trip
I'm going to try blogging every Sunday so I don't go this long between posts in the future. To start with, the Texas trip was great. We got to see Kenny's sister Jeanette and visit her lovely home in Fort Worth. I got to meet her husband, Jeff, at last, too. We look forward to living closer to them in the future.
We also visited Lori, Kevin and my parents. It was great. Let's see... the run-down: first, we got to drive a dark red '07 Ford Mustang while we were there. We paid for renting a dodge neon, but when we got there, we had a very nice cashier who felt bad for us having to pay an extra 10 bucks a day for being under 25. So she gave us a free upgrade to a Ford Mustang. Kenny enjoyed driving it, and we sure felt cool, but I think we'd both be content without ever owning a sports car.
Wednesday night we got to see Kevin and my parents for dinner at their lovely home, then drove to Lori and Sam's, where we stayed. Thursday we took off early for Sea World. Lori gave us some CDs of Harry Potter (books 1-3), so we had something to entertain us while we drove about. Sea World was great fun. We saw a great shark exhibit (Kenny's favorite) and dolphins and penguins and a good dolphin/beluga whale/synchronized swimmer/acrobatics show. Actually,the first thing we did when we got there was hit the water park, since we figured the lines would be better in the morning. We were right- we had virtually no lines the whole time. And just as we hit the last water attraction (the lazy river), a storm broke. Mind you, everyone is in swimsuits, and the rain is hardly cold, but sure enough, every one ran for cover. Kenny and I enjoyed walking in the warm rain.
I stayed in my swimsuit the rest of the day (got to work up a tan/burn somehow) but Kenny got into his dry set of clothes, which backfired when it stormed again in the afternoon. We had actually waited in line for a roller coaster for a half hour or so, and when we were the next to get on the ride, it started pouring and they closed the thing down. Oh well. We caught it later in the day.
So yeah, Sea World was great. After that, we went down the street to Kenny's friends from his mission, the Dahle's. They had a nerdy/cool 6 year old boy (he walked around "force lightning"-ing everyone with his fingers) and an adorable little 4 year old. I had a great time talking to Heather, the mom. It was great.
The next day we drove back to Houston and chilled with Lori. She bought me some birthday clothes (yay) then we went to dinner with the whole Ball gang. Then we when back to Lori's and watched Pan's Labyrinthe.
That's a whole blog post unto itself. The movie came highly recommended from many sources, but we all fervently HATED it. We were expecting a fantasy film- perhaps weird fantasy (Tim Burton style, perhaps), and got a depressing, disturbing war story with some depressing, disturbing horror fantasy on the side. Bleh.
Let's see- Saturday we went to Galveston. The weather wasn't great (apparently we misseda tornado), but the water was warm and it wasn't too crowded. We saw a great school of fish do some acrobatics just a few feet from us in the water. And, of course, I love playing in sand. That evening we visited some of Kenny's high school friends, now engaged and living about a half hour away from my brother Kevin, in a BEAUTIFUL wooded area (appropriately named the Woodlands). We went to Chili's and enjoyed just chilling.
Sunday, we drove to Fort Worth/Dallas to see Kenny's sister. We chilled all of Sunday and got to relax and chat with them, who we hadn't seen since before the wedding. Monday we went to Six Flags. Jeanette has a season pass and managed to get us both in for 25 bucks, total! Of course, when we first entered the park everything was shut down because of a threatening storm, but in the end that was a good thing because there were fewer crowds all day. We had a good time.
Let's see. Tuesday, we went back to Houston. My brother Kevin set us up with one of his ward friends who teaches High School science so we could ask him about teaching in Texas. We got some great info. Then my sister-in-law, Candace, set us up with an appointment with a Realtor so we could check out some houses. He was very helpful and showed us two lovely homes, each fairly new, with 4 bedrooms, beautiful master bathrooms (I'm big on the master bathrooms) and amazing prices- 120,000! We could EASILY afford that. Yay!
Then we flew home. By the way, United airlines sucks. We nearly got to stay the night in Denver. But we did eventually get home and got to see our sweet puppy. It was a great trip!
We also visited Lori, Kevin and my parents. It was great. Let's see... the run-down: first, we got to drive a dark red '07 Ford Mustang while we were there. We paid for renting a dodge neon, but when we got there, we had a very nice cashier who felt bad for us having to pay an extra 10 bucks a day for being under 25. So she gave us a free upgrade to a Ford Mustang. Kenny enjoyed driving it, and we sure felt cool, but I think we'd both be content without ever owning a sports car.
Wednesday night we got to see Kevin and my parents for dinner at their lovely home, then drove to Lori and Sam's, where we stayed. Thursday we took off early for Sea World. Lori gave us some CDs of Harry Potter (books 1-3), so we had something to entertain us while we drove about. Sea World was great fun. We saw a great shark exhibit (Kenny's favorite) and dolphins and penguins and a good dolphin/beluga whale/synchronized swimmer/acrobatics show. Actually,the first thing we did when we got there was hit the water park, since we figured the lines would be better in the morning. We were right- we had virtually no lines the whole time. And just as we hit the last water attraction (the lazy river), a storm broke. Mind you, everyone is in swimsuits, and the rain is hardly cold, but sure enough, every one ran for cover. Kenny and I enjoyed walking in the warm rain.
I stayed in my swimsuit the rest of the day (got to work up a tan/burn somehow) but Kenny got into his dry set of clothes, which backfired when it stormed again in the afternoon. We had actually waited in line for a roller coaster for a half hour or so, and when we were the next to get on the ride, it started pouring and they closed the thing down. Oh well. We caught it later in the day.
So yeah, Sea World was great. After that, we went down the street to Kenny's friends from his mission, the Dahle's. They had a nerdy/cool 6 year old boy (he walked around "force lightning"-ing everyone with his fingers) and an adorable little 4 year old. I had a great time talking to Heather, the mom. It was great.
The next day we drove back to Houston and chilled with Lori. She bought me some birthday clothes (yay) then we went to dinner with the whole Ball gang. Then we when back to Lori's and watched Pan's Labyrinthe.
That's a whole blog post unto itself. The movie came highly recommended from many sources, but we all fervently HATED it. We were expecting a fantasy film- perhaps weird fantasy (Tim Burton style, perhaps), and got a depressing, disturbing war story with some depressing, disturbing horror fantasy on the side. Bleh.
Let's see- Saturday we went to Galveston. The weather wasn't great (apparently we misseda tornado), but the water was warm and it wasn't too crowded. We saw a great school of fish do some acrobatics just a few feet from us in the water. And, of course, I love playing in sand. That evening we visited some of Kenny's high school friends, now engaged and living about a half hour away from my brother Kevin, in a BEAUTIFUL wooded area (appropriately named the Woodlands). We went to Chili's and enjoyed just chilling.
Sunday, we drove to Fort Worth/Dallas to see Kenny's sister. We chilled all of Sunday and got to relax and chat with them, who we hadn't seen since before the wedding. Monday we went to Six Flags. Jeanette has a season pass and managed to get us both in for 25 bucks, total! Of course, when we first entered the park everything was shut down because of a threatening storm, but in the end that was a good thing because there were fewer crowds all day. We had a good time.
Let's see. Tuesday, we went back to Houston. My brother Kevin set us up with one of his ward friends who teaches High School science so we could ask him about teaching in Texas. We got some great info. Then my sister-in-law, Candace, set us up with an appointment with a Realtor so we could check out some houses. He was very helpful and showed us two lovely homes, each fairly new, with 4 bedrooms, beautiful master bathrooms (I'm big on the master bathrooms) and amazing prices- 120,000! We could EASILY afford that. Yay!
Then we flew home. By the way, United airlines sucks. We nearly got to stay the night in Denver. But we did eventually get home and got to see our sweet puppy. It was a great trip!
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