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I went to NYC in September and I still need to post about it here! This week, that's the goal.</div>
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Posting this to try and make myself accountable....</div>
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Happy first anniversary to my LOVE!!!!</div>
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It's belated because we were too busy celebrating by eating artisan chocolate.</div>
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I love you forever Shae.</div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">The thing is ... being an adult is really expensive. Being an adult in dental school is also really expensive. Now, I'm no expert on adult-ing, but I do know that</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> it helps a lot with financial stress if you know where your money is going and exactly how much you need every month to survive. Aka a budget. Shae and I came across this great budgeting tool called You Need a Budget, or YNAB, which has really helped us visualize and plan our finances better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's an app you can download to your phone, and it is also a tool that can be used in your web browser. We actually use it the most on our computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Basically, you link up all your bank accounts and cards, so you can see how much money you have and how much money you owe in credit/loans/etc. This is a really helpful thing for us since we each had different bank accounts from before we were married. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly how much we spend because sometimes I use my UCCU card and sometimes I use my Wells Fargo card. On YNAB, we can see everything in one place and we don't have to log in to a bunch of different websites and try to make sense of it all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You then set up all the categories you need to budget for. I.e. groceries, transportation, clothing, rent, etc. Then you put in the amount you want to budget for each category. We kind of had to estimate the amounts on the first month. The longer you use it though the more you see your spending patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every transaction will show up on the main page of YNAB. You then categorize each transaction. So if I see a transaction for $100 at Walmart, I know that was my grocery trip and I categorize it as such. It helps so much to see exactly where your money goes, and even more helpful to see how much you have left to spend in each category!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another thing I like about YNAB is that you can make categories for things like Christmas Gifts, Car Registration, and, in our case, investing. Let's say you want to spend $500 on Christmas gifts at the end of the year, YNAB helps you see how much you need to save every month throughout the year to make that happen, instead of arriving at December and trying to scrape that money together. If you know you need to save $42 dollars every month all year, you will save yourself a lot of stress at Christmas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">YNAB is free for students for the first year, and then $50 per year after that. We're still in our first year of usage, but I'm pretty sure we will keep using it in the future because it is an awesome tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a link to use to create a YNAB account and earn $6 right off the bat: <a data-mce-href="http://ynab.refr.cc/5GL85ZR" href="http://ynab.refr.cc/5GL85ZR" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;">http://ynab.refr.cc/5GL85ZR</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy Budgeting! (Flying money emoji here)</span></div>
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Shae and I found some music that we both enjoy! This is big news because we have really different tastes. Of course, we both like The Killers because that is kind of a prerequisite for being married to me. But normally he refers to my music as "weed smoker music," and he likes country and the more mainstream music that I don't care for. I also really only care about how things sound musically, and Shae only cares about lyrics.<br />
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Two bands we've found are a good combination of what we both like:<br />
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They're twangy enough for Shae and "weed smoker" enough for me! So there's been some happy mutual music listening over here for a few days. Huzzah!<br />
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Even though Shae and I served in the same mission, sometimes I think Shae's version of it was cooler than mine. He served like seven months on the Island of Malta. I mean, the man speaks Maltese for goodness sake! Wow, he's cool. Our mission included everything south of Rome, Italy, including the Islands of Sardegna, Sicily, and Malta. Between the two of us we served in all the islands. Sardegna (where I served) had flamingos and white sandy beaches, but idk Malta just looks the prettiest. </div>
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This past week I read the book The Impersonator by Mary Miley. It was a super fun read! I really like murder mysteries, and this was one set in the 1920s. I've always been really into that era, so when I learned about this book I was excited to read it. It was like a mix between Anastasia and The Great Gatsby, with a little hint of The Lizzie McGuire Movie. </div>
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Like I said, the book is set in the 1920s in a city near Portland, Oregon. Leah is a Vaudeville performer, and one night after a performance a man comes up to her and asks her to impersonate his niece, Jessie Carr, an heiress, who disappeared years earlier in order to help him claim her very large fortune. Does she do it? What are the implications of pretending to be someone else? Oh, and there's murder in it. Did I mention I like murder mysteries?</div>
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I've been using Spotify for like ... 5 years probably. But I finally upgraded to Spotify Premium just to see if it is worth it. Is it worth it? I'm not sure yet. I kind of fell out of searching for new music in the last couple years, but maybe this will help me get back into it. Here's what I've listened to and like recently.</div>
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<br />jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07173278544623675955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3231361081435062800.post-25211719871876185342016-11-19T21:49:00.001-07:002016-11-19T21:49:18.144-07:00some things never change.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are all <a href="http://islandrecords.umg-wp3-dev.com/thekillerschristmas/">The Killers' Christmas songs in one place</a>. Thank you!!!! </div>
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(simply save the above image to your phone's camera roll and you're good to go!)</div>
<br />jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07173278544623675955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3231361081435062800.post-25916366811027776402016-11-13T18:06:00.002-07:002016-11-13T18:06:44.301-07:00Dark Matter by Blake Crouch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I totally blew through this book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. </div>
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It. Was. Awesome. I think it's my favorite book of the year and it was probably the most interesting love-story-but-not-a-love-story I've ever read. It was so surprising and thrilling and heartbreaking and I wanted to scream a couple times! If Christopher Nolan reads this he is going to be all up on the movie version. </div>
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Being VERY vague and not giving anything away, it's basically about the impact of our choices. The main character, Jason is abducted by a masked person and wakes up in a completely new life. He is still Jason, but everything around him is different. Does he like his new life? How does he get back to his old one?</div>
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I read it at a really appropriate time, as Shae and I are making decisions about where to go for dental school and all that, and really wanting to make the right decision because we know whatever side of the fork in the road we take will have a lasting impact. It's kind of exciting and kind of terrifying, and I just think this book has some interesting morals about decisions and what actually matters most.</div>
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<br />jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07173278544623675955noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3231361081435062800.post-33779958985928305862016-11-01T20:08:00.001-06:002016-11-01T20:09:14.051-06:00gratitude<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I went to World Market on my lunch break the other day. I love that store, and it's too far away from my house to justify going there. But now I work minutes away! While I was there I was looking through greeting cards, and I saw one with a quote from Charles Baudelaire on the front that said, </div>
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I've posted a similar quote on this blog before, and I'm working really hard to internalize it. It's the <i>small</i> things. It's noticing. It's being grateful for tender mercies. It's about not comparing your bloopers to someone else's highlight reel. It's remembering that I'm infinitely harder on myself than God is. Every day is a mixture of sadness, anxiety, doubt, tiredness, and small happy moments. We have to try and focus on the happy, and not apologize for our other daily feelings. </div>
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One of my favorite movies is called <i>About Time</i>. It's about a time traveling Domnhall Gleeson and it's so delightful. Something he talks about in the movie is that he lives every day as normal, and then he travels back in time and lives the same day all over again, but without the worries of the day because this time he knows the outcomes of every situation. He lives it again and enjoys the small delights that he didn't notice the first time because they were shadowed by worry and uncertainty.</div>
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It teaches kind of a deep principle, and it's my goal this November to time travel, in a way. To recognize that it's normal to have worries about the future, both short and long term, but to trust in an infinite God who knows the outcome, and who sent His Son to comfort me and reassure me that everything is going to be made right, and to be give more energy to the small joys.</div>
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So here's what I'm thankful for today: That cute neon "entrance" sign. Jacques Henri Lartigue photographs. Sparkling lemonade. The rainy day smell. Dark chocolate. The sound After Effects makes when it's done rendering a project. When a Killers song comes on the radio during my commute. When you accidentally press the button on your phone while talking and Siri grossly mishears what you said and you and your husband break into fits of giggles. Finding an important quote on a greeting card at World Market.</div>
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<br />jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07173278544623675955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3231361081435062800.post-43904851387434725762016-10-23T22:42:00.002-06:002016-10-23T22:42:27.532-06:00how we metThis is mostly for posterity's sake, but here is how me and Shae met each other.<br />
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I was in the fourth transfer of my mission, so I had been out around six months. It was my first transfer in Catania (Sicily), and it was zone conference. Zone conference was kind of a big deal down there in Sicily because we literally never saw the mission president. Our mission is so big and includes islands etc so we really didn't get a lot of interaction. It was going to be a 2 day zone conference where we got to have interviews with the president, and then a day of the zone conference and probably arancini for lunch (woo!). </div>
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We showed up to the Catania church in the evening (probably after doing finding) for interviews and naturally that place was packed with missionaries from the other cities in the zone. I was new to the mission and I had spent all my time on the island of Sardegna so I didn't really know many other missionaries. I was waiting in the entrance of the church for some sisters to finish their interviews, because I needed to take them back to our apartment where they'd be staying the night, and there were like four or five anziani I hadn't seen before waiting too. </div>
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The next day was the zone conference so we all met back at the church to have training from the president and assistants and zone leaders and stuff. Turns out Anziano Bryant wasn't in my zone, but he was one of the assistants. I remember he and his companion gave a really good training on commitments. Then it was over and everyone went back to their cities and we got our apartment back after it was overrun by a dozen sorelle. </div>
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The next transfer, I stayed in Catania with another new companion, and Anziano Bryant stayed in Catania with his same companion. It was the transfer that included April General Conference, and it was also Anziano Bryant's birthday that week. I took it upon myself during my mission to make sure that everyone in my districts had a good birthday and got some kind of treat. So I made his birthday cake, and all the missionaries in Catania got to watch conference at the church together. That was probably the first time I ever had a non-business conversation with Anz Bryant. I don't remember it, but after that I could tell he was a lot more comfortable talking to me at district meetings and english course. </div>
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We both stayed in Catania for one more transfer after that. That transfer was probably one of my favorites during my mission because our district was all really awesome missionaries and we were all good friends. We saw some really awesome things happen that transfer, including a baptism in our district, and Anz Bryant passing a golden investigator (who later got baptized) to me and my companion. Some also not awesome things happened that transfer, like me and my companion missing the last train way out in the boonies and having to call Anz Bryant to come pick us up in the car (I was SCARED to make that phone call haha), and I got some weird lung disease and had to call Anz Bryant again to take me to the hospital on the American Navy base. He was just always willing to serve and help everyone, and he was always really pumped about other people's successes more than his own. </div>
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All the missionaries from Sicily who were getting transferred up to the mainland rode up on a train together. So it's kind of cool to say that we rode on a train all the way up the coast of Italy for 10 hours and it was really beautiful. Anz Bryant hopped off in Napoli and I was pretty sad to say goodbye to him. I really thought to myself, "Well, have a good life. I'll probably never see you again. Friendship over." But I was glad to have been able to serve with a really good example and friend.<br />
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He finished his mission six weeks after that, and since I was in Rome I got to see all the missionaries who were about to go home that P-day. Anz Bryant was there and seemed happy to see me, which was a nice surprise! I kind of imagined that our friendship was more meaningful to me than it was to him. But he took the time to talk to me and to listen to how things were going in my new area.<br />
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After he'd been home for a week or two and I was still serving up in the Rome zone, I got an email one P-day from Shae Bryant. Whaaa? We were still going to be friends without being plopped in the same city by chance and required to work together? I have to say I was pretty happy about that.<br />
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As I was writing this, Shae leaned over and hugged me and said, "I'm so glad we can hug now!!!" I am too.<br />
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I went through my phone pictures the other day, and couldn't help but share some of my favorite moments here. Photos really don't deserve to just sit on our camera roll or our hard drive, never to see the light of day. So here are some of my images that are really making me happy lately. </div>
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I feel like there was a lot of hype about Stranger Things (2016), the new Netflix show, so I wanted to know for myself why everyone was fah-reaking out about it. I watched the whole season (8 episodes) over the past couple weeks ...<br />
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I really, really wanted to like it. But I didn't.<br />
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Let me say that there were a lot of things I did like about the show. <b>1) The production design.</b> It's set in the 80s, and I feel like the designers did a fantastic job. I wasn't alive in the 80s, but I do know good design when I see it, and I would give their design team an A. It's really nice and fun and nostalgic. <b>2)</b> <b>I liked the child actors</b>. I thought the boys, especially Dustin, were quite good. I believed them. <b>3) I watched every episode and didn't quit</b>, so that means that there was something drawing me in. Haven't quite put my finger on it ... Was it the 80s music?<br />
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I think the first issue I had with Stranger things is that it was eight hour-long episodes. <b>It could have been a 90-minute film</b>. I felt like the plot just wasn't actually that eventful and it was stretched out way longer than it should have been. Every episode had the same basic elements: "We have to find Will," Winona Ryder having a breakdown, one kid getting mad at another kid, some kind of encounter with a bully, the chief of police sneaking around, a flashback, and the climax when Eleven does something that gives her a bloody nose. I think each of those things happened a few too many times. Again, it would have made a pretty good movie if all of the plot points were condensed into an hour and a half.<br />
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I love Winona Ryder for real. She usually plays kind of a melancholy, or even deadbeat, character and that super works for her. Seeing her as a hysterical mom just wasn't quite what I wanted from her and it inched toward the annoying side. I also thought it was a shame that <b>she had pretty much no character development</b>. She starts out as a mess, and is pretty much a mess throughout.<br />
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I like the sci-fi genre in general, and I love thrillers. However, I think there is one brilliant thing about scary movies that Stranger Things did wrong (in my opinion). <b>They revealed the monster too early.</b> Part of what makes a scary movie scary is the unknown. We're scared when we don't actually know what we're afraid of. Think <i>Jaws</i> (1975). The actual shark isn't shown until at least halfway through the movie. It's the musical theme and the hints at the shark's presence that makes our hair stand on end. Stranger Things showed us the whole monster in the first or second episode. We know what we're up against very early on, and while it is a gruesome creature, the unknown element is gone.<br />
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I had a minor issue with Hopper, the police chief. It's unclear whether the writers wanted us to identify with him or not, or at least sympathize. They set him up as kind of this fallen hero. But <b>he never actually redeems himself</b>. He kind of sneaks around and I'm not sure if he's solving this mystery for himself, because it's his job, or because Joyce is his friend. Does he see Will as a proxy for his daughter and feels like he needs to save him because he couldn't save his daughter? I think that's what they were getting at, but they didn't get at that till the very last episode... I just had a hard time understanding the character's motives throughout. At the end, too, they make it look like he's made deal with the bad guys ... I just didn't get him. That could totally be my bad though.<br />
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Lucas, while such an adorable boy, was also flat. He flip flops between hating Eleven and being buddy buddy with the group, but there's just no explanation for it.<b> Does Lucas have a family? </b>What's his deal? I just found out today that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7qb6Y3GJE">SNL did a sketch</a> about that which touched on my questions I had in my head about Lucas the whole season, and it's pretty hilarious. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7qb6Y3GJE">Watch here.</a><br />
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I also cringed a little bit when Steve swoops in and whacks the monster with a baseball bat when it should have been Jonathan. He gets this big heroic moment after being a huge jerk every episode. It could be argued that it's his turning point when he decides not to be terrible anymore, but it bummed me out.<br />
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I really don't like to criticize films because every piece of cinema was made by caring people who love what they do and just want to make stuff. These people actually made a thing that people are watching, and that is definitely worth something. Like I said, it wasn't bad, I just wish it had been a movie instead of eight hours of tv.<br />
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They set up the last episode so that they could make a second season, but to be honest I don't think I'll watch it if it has the same conflicts going on. It's called Stranger Thing<b>S, </b>which means they could explore a lot more strange things and monsters and people. It might even be cool if the second season had a completely different cast and characters and plot. Kind of like a Twilight Zone type of thing.<br />
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Please don't hate me.<br />
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Besides enjoying stories and becoming a better thinker etc., audiobooks are good for me because they actually motivate me to exercise!!! Can I get a round of applause?! Thank you, thank you. I've never been a big fan of listening to music while exercising. I don't really know why. But as soon as I started listening to The Girl on the Train, I was trying to find all the spare moments possible in my day to listen to it. I woke up at like 6:45 to listen to it one day and I was like, "Okay, I'm going to make this productive." So I went on a run. And I woke up early every single day to run/LISTEN TO THAT BOOK FOR HALF AN HOUR. So all I'm saying is if you struggle with motivation to get up early/exercise/do chores, then pair it with this book or any other audiobook and the job is fun. </div>
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Norwegian Airlines is cool and interesting. You can find great cheap flights to Europe from select US airports. When we were shopping for our Italy tickets, we found some really cheap return tickets back to LAX from London, not Rome. So we thought, "Hey, why don't we just have a stop in London on our way back home to the US?" So we did that. I think London is one of the greatest places ever and I was stoked to go back and visit!</div>
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Same with Trevi. Maybe this is my favorite fountain actually?</div>
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The vatican at night is empty. Guess those missionaries gotta be home at 9:30 too.</div>
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Shae taught me that all the angel statues on this bridge in front of Castel Sant'Angelo are holding a different object attributed to the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Look at that, me taking a lesson from Shae in art history! So proud.</div>
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The cool thing about Rome is that while it's super huge and there's so much to see, you can actually hit all the main tourist spots in one night, like we did here, because everything is well connected with the metro, and it's actually not very far to walk between some of the key spots.</div>
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We got to take a little trip up to Ladispoli, which is a city on the coast of Rome where I served for six months. We got to spend the evening with one of the best families ever - The Giorgianni Family. And lucky for us, their mom was in town who we knew from Messina, so we got a taste of Sicily in our trip as well! And the I got to meet the baby S.lla Giorgianni was pregnant with when I served there! Such a great night with the greatest people.</div>
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Here's the part about the EARTHQUAKE. While we were in Rome, there was a 6.2 earthquake in central Italy, so just north of Rome. We woke up in the middle of the night to our entire building shaking (our Airbnb where we stayed was on the 6th floor of an apartment palazzo). It felt like we were on a bumpy train ride. Shae thought I was just being annoying and shaking the bed, but yeah that wasn't me buddy. All the italians were out on their balconies yelling and freaking out, but really, Rome didn't have any damage at all. The damage was up in the smaller mountain cities on the very northern border of our mission, and it was so devastating! I'm praying for all the people up there.</div>
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So that was my first earthquake experience, and sometimes even now when Shae rolls over at night and makes the bed shake a little bit I wake up all worried that it was a mini earthquake. Yeah ... So hopefully I get over that soon haha.</div>
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One thing that we didn't really expect to have happen while visiting our mission is that it gave both of us a really good sense of closure. Being there felt like being at home, but it also felt completely different from when I was a missionary there. </div>
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When you leave your mission, you're pretty sad about it. You think about it all the time and you miss it and you want to go back. Going back to visit after the fact, with a new mission president in place and new missionaries that are too young to remember that you even served there, you definitely feel like you aren't meant to be there anymore. I don't feel this longing to be out there anymore. And I think that's a really good thing. </div>
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I will always love Italy and love to visit there and miss the people I met, but it's nice to finally know that that chapter can be closed now and I can feel totally good about it. This trip gave me a really good ending to what I started there. Italy will always feel like home, and I'm so glad I got to go back and reminisce about how much being there impacted my life. Italy, ti voglio bene.</div>
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We decided to take a big trip to Italy this summer. Neither of us had jobs over the summer, we don't have kids, and Shae is going to dental school next year, so we figured this would probably be our best time to go back and visit our mission. </div>
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After flying on a sweet plane (literally Shae's favorite part of the whole trip haha) from LAX, over Iceland and through the northern lights (!!!!) to Rome, we took a train down to Napoli, and then a little trenino down to Castellammare di Stabia, Shae's very first area in his mission where he served for six months, and then again at the very end of his mission for six weeks.</div>
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Holy cow, that place was so pretty! I never served in the Napoli zone myself, and now I see why all the missionaries who served there thought they were the real shiz. It's gorgeous, the food is the best, and the people are SO LOUD. It was awesome! All my Napoli dreams came true.</div>
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Right when we got off the train at Castellammare, Shae went straight to the nearest store and bough a ball of mozzarella di bufala and we just ate it plain outside the station. ITALIA THANK YOU FOR YOUR FOOD.</div>
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We stayed with some awesome awesome members, Vincenzo and Lucy. When Shae first started his mission, he and his companion had given Lucy a little bigliettino for English Course at the church, and then by the time he got back at the end of his mission, she and Vincenzo were baptized! And now he's the branch president. Whaa</div>
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We had a big pizza party with most of the ward. It lasted from 8pm to midnight (sleepy face emoji) and there was no shortage of yelling in dialect and hand motions. I give that night a 10/10.</div>
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The next morning got back on the little trenino again went down the coast a little bit to Sorrento. Lovely little spot.</div>
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Getting ready for our "mini cruise" down the Amalfi coast. We paid like 30 euro each and it turned out to be WAY AWESOME. Even Vincenzo was like, "Oh, yeah you guys got a great deal." It's always nice when an italian tells you you didn't mess up and look like a dumb old tourist.</div>
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The cruise took us out to the island of Capri and we got to swim out in the bay where those sweet rocks are. IT WAS V SALTY WATER. So salty that we pretty much just floated. And it was a blast.</div>
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Shae had driven down the Amalfi coast one time on a P-day, but he said he liked seeing it from the boat too. I'm kind of partial to boats myself. And what a pretty coast. At one point we were like, "I feel like the earth is really showing off right now." Good job, earth.</div>
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After Amalfi, we slept on reclining chairs on top of the boat for the whole two hour ride back to Sorrento and it was BLISS.<br />
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The next day a really sweet family, the Tariffas, took us to their favorite beach. It had a sweet view of Vesuvius, the water is super warm, and the sand was literally covered in jewels. The mediterranean is my favorite sea.<br />
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They treated us to dinner too! And that right there is the number one reason why we came back to Italy. Pasta con le cozze!!! It's linguine with sea food in it: octopus and mussels mostly. And that red thing is a fresh crab. It was kind of crazy that we ate the stuff we caught on the beach that very day. Holy cow it was so good though. </div>
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We went to church on Sunday morning, and they had Shae give a talk. He did great. It was pretty awesome being able to speak with and understand everyone that loves Shae so much. Several people took me aside to tell me how "Bryant" was just the best missionary and they wanted to trade out their current ones for him to come back again LOL. Hearing those nice things and seeing how overly crazy excited they all were to see him come back was the actual very best part of the trip. It was better than swimming at Capri AND the pasta with cozze combined. </div>
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The other day I read the whole <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/2016/09?lang=eng">Ensign</a>, which, I'm afraid, is a thing I don't really ever do (unless it's the conference one). I screenshotted some of the things that mattered most to me as I read, and I'm going to chronicle them here.<br />
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This is what self-employment looks like when your husband is out of town.</div>
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jessiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07173278544623675955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3231361081435062800.post-40067520104068051482016-07-22T18:43:00.001-06:002016-07-22T22:16:50.005-06:00Cooked (2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is "things that are good to watch on Netflix" part ii.<br />
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<b><i>Cooked</i> (2016),</b> created by Michael Pollan (and based on his book).<br />
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When Shae and I started watching this, within the first couple of minutes I said, "Wow this is super pretty." Not only is the cinematography, editing, coloring, design and location super duper nice, this documentary series is super informative and really causes you to reflect on food you eat and how much you think about it.<br />
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This isn't a documentary about how stuff is made necessarily, nor is it totally about nutrition and trying to convince everyone to go vegetarian. I think Michael Pollan is an anthropologist of sorts, and his documentary is really about humans, but he is looking at them through the lens of food. IT'S SO INTERESTING AND I'M READY TO WATCH IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW.<br />
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It's in four 1-hour segments. Each episode is centered around a different element: fire, water, air, and earth. So you can commit to watching the whole documentary because it is easy to split it up and just watch one episode when you can.<br />
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It was also super perfect for me and Shae to watch together because we are both super into documentaries and learning about the world.<br />
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5/5 would recommend for people that like docs, food, learning, pretty images, foreign countries, science, aka pretty much everyone.<br />
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