If you know me but at all....

Lets just get to the point- I'm awkward, and I hate it, but I can't change it.

Setting the scene.... Christmas Eve night, at Derek's grandma, hanging out with all (and I mean all) of his family.  The other day Derek and I were discussing our Christmas plans and he was telling me all about going to his grandma's for Christmas Eve dinner.  Then he brought up something that instantly made me worry.  "Santa comes every year, and EVERYONE has to sit on his lap, its tradition."  "Uh, wait what? No way, not happening.  That is way too much attention on me at one time, uh-uh I'm not doing that."  "You have to ask him what you want for Christmas, so what do you want?"  Now me being the brat that everyone knows I am said... "What do I want? What do I want?  Hmm, ooh wait, I've wanted an engagement ring forever now, so I'll ask for that :) :)"  Derek looked at me and laughed as if he knew there was no way in heck I would ever say that especially in front of his family.  Alright, so cutting to the chase...

Christmas Eve.  My name got called to go sit on Santa's lap but luckily I had planned it so that I would be in the bathroom and hopefully get out of it all together.  Unfortunately I didn't get out of it, I had to sit on his lap.  As I'm walking up to his lap I was really nervous, I mean really nervous, yuck, I wanted to puke.  I sat down, looked at Derek and as I was being asked, "What would you like for Christmas young lady?" I said, "I would like... (then my voice got VERY shaky.  So shaky that no one could really tell what I said) an... eng-age-em-ment ring..." (just try to picture that coming out of my mouth, I felt like I was in 7th grade giving my impromptu speech all over again, oh the pain.)  I have no dang clue what Santa said after that all I know is I took my gift and ran back to Derek.  Everyone was laughing and I kept saying, "Wow that was way too much unwanted attention on me, Derek... Derek... I think I'm going to cry, I'm so embarrassed."  HAHA, oh heck.  His family kept saying, "Ash why are you shaking so bad?"  I was all, "Did you see what I just did?!?"  I can not handle being embarrassed, it feels like I got the wind knocked out of me.

We got to my moms later that night and I told her the whole story.  She looked at me and said, "What the?  My daughter said that?  There is no way... I can't believe that.  I bet you were so red and sweaty ahahahaha."  She thought it was so funny... as I hope all of you did too.  For the peeps that know me very well I'm sure you can picture this exactly how it was.  So, if anyone has any tips on how to not be awkward and embarrassed, I'm ALL ears.  I'll post pictures later and what else happened on Christmas, but for now I'm going to go back to my 'Box of Shame'.

Stewart.

So... about my puppy: I love her to pieces.  Its funny, since I started dating Derek, who always told me he hates small dogs, I never would have pictured he would like Chloe as much as he does.  And by like I mean love and by love I mean an uncontrollable need to hold her at all times.  Yes as much as it sucks to admit, I've totally and completely been bumped to Chloe's second favorite parent.  I remind her every day though that I am the one that purchased her, nursed her to health and the only one who will release her anal glands (might be too much information but hey I have to brag).

Of course, the reason she loves Derek so much is because he is a spitting image of my step father.  Derek is always prepared with treats in his coat/pants pocket, he is always down to cuddle with her, and she know she can always go to him for a good belly rub.  Anyway, Chloe is pretty well trained ever since Debo came along so I recorded a couple of their tricks.  Just keep in mind, she is super hyper in these two clips so she doesn't hold still very long!  And also, there is a trick where Derek holds a treat in one hand and then puts both hands in a fist out in front of her.  The outcome of this trick is: Chloe smells both hands, picks the one hand that has the treat in it, then gets the treat.  But its not that easy because she is so hyper she just guesses both hands hahaha.

Sno-what.

So its decided, I'm not good at making my blog witty, entertaining, funny, make you laugh out loud, etc.  I need better writing skills.  Maybe I'll go to college for that.  When they ask me, "Why exactly did you decide to come to college?" I'll reply by saying, "Well, duhh, to learn to blog better. Hellllloo!"  Anyway, the past couple of days I've been exhausted, every night Derek and I try to fit in at least one or two episodes of Friends, (my all time favorite show ever).  We are currently on the 9th season.  Its almost over and every time I watch the whole series I still dread the last season, it's just so sad to see it end all over again.

And then after or before Friends my roommates, Bre and Lexi and I sit down with our boyfriends and play the Wii.  Talk about addicting.  But I'll give a quick shout out to Evan Prisk for letting us use his Wii every night, and to Andy Harris for putting aside his homework and studying to get us new levels to play. Its a great way to bond with the roomies and get us all close when it is cold outside, its the best. 

Also we have been playing the Newlywed Game, Andy borrowed it from his brother and its been really entertaining for us.  We've played it for the past couple of nights and we've stayed up way too late so Lexi and I made a pact that we were not going to play it for a couple nights.

A couple of nights ago Derek and I stopped by 7-11 to pick up some drinks and a movie.  Quick tangent, we rented Smokin' Aces II, and when we were done watching our friend Evan told me that the girl in it was Taylor from the OC.  I was all, "Dude your smokin' crack, I would have recognized her for sure."  Later that night I woke up at 2 or so in the morning and was all, 'oh my gosh she is in that movie!'  It didn't click to me because she was so cute in the OC...

And so not cute in Smokin' Aces... YUCK

Anywho, I got out of the car and started kicking off the snow that had built up around my front and back tires.  (I don't know how to better explain that, but everyone in Utah knows what I mean because everyone has to do it.)  Anyway, I felt like my car was having a hard time turning good because you could hear all the snow/ice grinding on my wheels.  I got to the back passanger side tired and saw a huge chunk of ice and snow build up.  And here is Derek and I's conversation...

Me: "Debo, come here! There is a huge chunk of ice around this tire and I can't get it off."
Derek: Kicking the ice off, "Its not that big of a deal Ash your car will really be fine."
Me: After seeing Derek kick off the big chunk of ice, "Ooh wow see, no wonder my car wouldn't turn!"
Derek: Staring at me with a blank look on his face, "Ughhh babe, you car does not turn with the back tires. Wow sometimes you scare me with the things you say."
Me: "Dang it, shoulda thought that one through."

We called my mom after this little conversation and she apologized for Derek having to put up with me.  HA sometimes I wonder why the heck he'd wanna marry me!