Current mood:	cheerful/grateful/blessed
Current music:	the trees and jack johnson.

WITH SOUP SPOONS AND ED GRIMLEY.
i like the smell of paper. i just now caught myself quickly pick up a book to my left and fan through the pages against my nose so i could smell the pages while waiting for my blog administration page to load.

weird? sort of.

well...yes.

but mark likes it.

this time today i thought i was going to be sad. reason: i had traffic court at 10am, i was sure i was going to be there 'til atleast now, and was sure we were going to be over six hundred dollars poorer by the time we left...or on our way to being six hundred dollars since we so wouldn't have been able to afford all that straight up and would have needed to pay in installments. HOWEVER, the cop that told me that he would dismiss my six violations so long as i took care of them really did stick to his word. he was actually even there! somehow what was six violations dwindled down to three violations (?!?!) one of which wouldn't cost us anything and the other two only costing ten bucks a piece. so, since the ticket was in my maiden name (and well, i still haven't officially changed my name-- i know :i) and my maiden name is stidham and well, stidham begins with an S, i figured i was going to be one of the last people called. however, i was like the second person called. and before ten am too since we got there early. the prosecutor calls me up there, the cop that gave me the ticket was sitting next to her and she asks me if i have twenty dollars on me. and i'm just standing there slightly confused and i'm sure looking very dumb. she must have caught on to my stupid look because she proceeded with, "twenty dollars cash, check, credit card?" and i fumbled for an eager, 'YES, yes...i do.' i couldn't believe it. so she replies, "okay then, that will dismiss your charges...hold for a moment and you'll be free to go." since i was in court, i couldn't hug her...and then proceed to hug the cop. so all i could muffle out was the most enthusiastic "great" that i could without drawing attention to myself. mark was with me because he's my lovey heart awesome man. and yes, i just said that. so, when i let him know, we were both quite relieved. about fifteen minutes later, we were out of there and on the road to get brunch by 10:35! best court experience EVER. well, except maybe for the time that we got our marriage license and that big black man with a glass eye talked to us for forever about how we shouldn't get married.

yes.

i was craving a breakfast taco and mark is always craving a breakfast taco so he took me to spanish flowers. <-- awesome! we made them turn on the music and ate messican food for breakfast...and lunch...brunch. and i got an awesome soup spoon in my table setting...and mark got just a normal one. definitely a sign that today is the most awesome day ever. and incase noone has any idea what i'm talking about with the soup spoon: i love soup spoons and wish i could eat everything with them.

i have a feeling this is turning into the dorkiest entry ever. but eh, it just adds to the collection. and it's okay because i am flooded with relief. praise the Lord! it really is good to have gotten the burden of court off of me and 97% cheaper than i thought it was going to be! i feel like doing the ed grimley dance right now.

but i won't and i'll spare you the details but i know that doesn't spare you the possible visual you may have. and i'm sorry for that.

so here's this to make it better:



i have my first paid photography gig at four. not a huge deal and i don't really get to be creative since it's a company photo shoot for a christmas card, but it's a job...and hopefully will turn into one of many. i am hopeful. optimistic. it is such a relief to know that God is taking care of us. i may be able to use the money i get from this job to get business cards. and that's definitely something to be excited about.

i also have an idea what i want to get mark and my sister for christmas. believe it or not, i actually had fun "window shopping" online last night. and that is really good to know because i would totally be stressing over what to get them.

yahoots and g'days.