Dress Up Day (aka Halloween)

Halloween is Josh's favorite holiday, as it is the one day of the year where it's acceptable for anyone over the age of 5 to play dress up. He's one of those people who plans his Halloween costume months in advance. So naturally, I'm required to wear one too.

Last year Josh chose our Halloween costumes. There is one word to describe them: Pokemon. Being a good fiancee, I went along with it. Our costumes involved buying and returning 3 different sweatshirts, Josh slaving over a sewing machine, and me shopping in the boys department. They actually turned out pretty well:


This year we decided to dress up as Shaggy and Velma. Lilo, of course, dressed as Scooby Doo. To complete the gang, some friends from the ward, Matt and Haylie, went as Fred and Daphne. We had fun with it.


I have to point out that I made my skirt, which I am very proud of. We couldn't find a red skirt anywhere so I had to get creative. Since I can barely sew a button, sewing an entire skirt was definitely out of the question. Instead, I made the whole thing out of red fabric and safety pins. I'm still impressed with myself.


It was a good Halloween. And we already have next year's costumes in the works.

Our New Niece!

Josie Emma King

Our new niece was born Thursday, October 21. I really wish we could have been there! For now we just have to settle for pictures instead. She's beautiful and just as adorable as her older sister.

I love being an aunt!

Portfolio

I've been missing on our blog lately for two reasons: 1) I haven't had much to blog about, and 2) I've been working on my portfolio. I'm hoping that my portfolio will help me find a job that I'm at least interested in.

Since I know how to use blogspot and can practically blog in my sleep, I made a second blog dedicated to my portfolio. It pretty much sums up what I've been doing for the past four years. Here is a little preview:




It's still under construction, but if you're interested or just curious, you can see more at emilymassey.blogspot.com.

Fall

Despite the fact that I've been freezing for the past month, there are a few things I've been enjoying about fall up north:

- A real excuse to wear sweaters and pea coats
- Drinking hot chocolate
- No humidity, which means non-frizzy hair
- And watching the leaves change



Ahhhh.......fall.

Holly Jean

It's official. We have the CUTEST niece in the entire world!

Blah

This is how I've been feeling lately: blah.

Job hunting is going very slowly and unsuccessfully. Kind of frustrating. Right now I feel like my college degree is pretty useless. Companies want to hire someone with experience, not someone fresh out of college. Okay then, how am I supposed to get experience if no wants to hire me?

We are still waiting on Josh's company car, so I'm temporarily stuck at home during the day. I've been going a little stir-crazy. Between job applications, I spend my days cooking, watching 30 Rock (thank you, Netflix), and making Young Women handouts. And that is my exciting life.

Hopefully things will progress soon. Until then, life is a little blah.

Right Turn Ahead

I have a bad sense of direction. You'd think that having a GPS would solve the problem, but in my case it doesn't. Our GPS (aka Tom Tom, or as we like to call it, Tomas) and I are not very good friends. We have somewhat of a hate-hate relationship. Let me explain:

When Josh and I spent a week in Minneapolis for his work training, I had to rely on Tomas to get around. This proved to be more difficult than it sounds. I wanted to go to the Galleria about 10 miles away from our hotel. I'm not familiar with the city and Tomas started taking me through confusing little side streets. He would say "Right turn ahead." Ok, no problem. Then all of a sudden he would be screaming "Turn right! Turn right!" So I turned right, but it would either be a street too soon or too late. Then I would hear the all too familiar words: "Turn around when possible." With this happening at least five more times and construction on the highway leading me on a detour, I arrived frustrated at the Galleria an hour later.

Earlier this week, I decided to do a little job hunting with the help of none other than Tomas. Besides the fact that Tomas is getting too old to locate some of the streets I was trying to find, things were going fine. Then I had to take the highway. Tomas told me what exit I needed, so I took the exit. Then he suddenly decided to switch the exit from 63A to 63B, but it was too late for me to get in the other lane. So then I found myself going in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go and Tomas telling me to "Turn around" like it was my fault for taking the wrong exit. I hate that thing.

Besides the fact that we have a GPS, I'm somehow constantly getting lost and turned around. I don't know how it happens, but it does. Josh thinks it's a user problem, but I blame Tomas.