magic in theaters - don't miss it

You never know you need a flash-back to childhood until something magical & bright & filled with music puts its arms around you and welcomes you back.

Where has this magical world of endless, dream-filled wonder been all these years? Please Disney, don't wait so long for the next animated adventure.

The Office Party

Clint's company hosted an office party at the O.C. Tanner building in downtown SLC this year. It was posh, gorgeous, atmospheric, and the food was eclectic & delicious.

The Christmas music featured in-house pianist whom everyone paid too little attention to. If Clint would have been up for it, I would have loved to dance.

The chandelier dangling down the middle of 3 circling flights of stairs leading to 3 different levels of Christmas-decorated splendor featuring 3 different meal courses. Yeesh.

And us. Can't help feeling like I really wasn't dressed formally enough. Too bad I really didn't hang on to any of my old high school Homecoming dresses. Shucks.

I used to live in an apartment

(I will post pictures when I once again am privileged enough to enjoy internet service in my house.)

THINGS I WILL MISS (& SOME NOT SO MUCH):
*cable & internet (at least included in the rent paymt)
*Ross & TJ Maxx right across the street
*3 flights of stairs to my front door
*the ubiquitous 2-block-long line to the In 'N Out
*the under-floor neighbors' music
*memories galore
*the USPS store down the block
*other newly-wed neighbors who ask me for a spoonful of Mayo or a few drops of red food coloring, & feeling so gratified at being able to supply it
*pounding down my old favorite running trail - it runs along old un-used train tracks, and passes by strangers' back yards - and being nearly non-existent to everyone but the dogs in their back yards and the birds I scare on the trail
*my ward
*my YW girls (*sob*) who gave me the sweetest farewell card & wrote such life-affirming things as "I love you," "you are the hero of my life," and "I look up to you." I think I'm gonna start crying again
*cramming an entire family into the condo for a get-together
*the unbeatable free-way access
*scraping my car on Winter mornings (that's a not-so-much, should one need clueing in)
*a place just small enough to make my decorations seem sufficient
*the club-house and pool. completely free, whenever I felt like it.
*an over-flowing storage closet. Ha.
*white carpets that I was constantly paranoid about staining permanently
*a rent payment that allowed me to also buy shoes! (on sale, of course)
*no landscaping projects, no lawn to mow (however, I am excited to try my hand at yarding & gardening)
*a place just big enough for me & Clint, a place we have fit so neatly into since being married. The same place where we have grown our marriage and lived 2 1/2 magical years together

Many thanks to Shelly for our memorable time in the condo! We loved it.