Gratitude

So I decided I need to be more grateful. In an effort to be more grateful I decided every Sunday I am going to blog about 5 things I am grateful for. This might only last a week, but it is worth a shot.

1. BYU basketball. I LOVE Jimmer! I was really bummed after football season and really down that we were graduating after such a crappy football showing. Then Basketball came a saved my life. I love basketball and I love Jimmer and I love March madness. This is the perfect way to leave BYU! Go Cougs!

2. Games. All games. I love card games, board games, and some video games. I LOVE playing games. My idea of a perfect night is eating good food and playing tons of games for hours. I am also an obnoxious winner and a terrible loser so I have a hard time getting people to agree to play games with me. Petty much all of my favorite memories include games of some kind. Let me illustrate this point further with a story. My favorite, all time, memory with Chris happened one night when we were playing Wii tennis. Chris and I had just started dating and we were playing tennis and he had literally beaten me like 15 times in a row. It was ruthless and he started being SO OBNOXIOUS. After every win he would run around the apartment yelling how awesome he was and doing this stupid dance where he would bend his knees and lean way back and twirl his remote in front of him like a ninja. It was seriously OBNOXIOUS. So in the midst of on of these victory dances he lost his grip on the controller and wacked himself in the head so hard that he fell backwards. We laughed so hard we were both crying. Seriously best moment EVER.

3. Reuben sandwiches. Every year for St. Patty's day I make reubens in support of the Irish. They are awesome and half on the fun is searching all over town for Corn beef to make the sandwiches. This year we had our celebration a day late, which made the corn beef way cheaper and the search slightly harder, but it was awesome nonetheless.

4. The birds outside our window. We have what I believe is a very happy bird family outside our window and every morning I wake up to their happy little noises. It is awesome. It reminds me of spring and warmness and it rocks. I want to set up a birdbath for them, but we also have a whole bunch of feral cats by our house and I think the birdbath would make their job all too easy and I would suddenly lose my happy little bird family. Poor birds. I seriously hate cats (can I say that in a grateful post???)

5. Dishwashers. We currently do not have a dishwasher, which really deserves its own blog post because I have SO much to say about that, but I digress. Dishwashers are awesome. We had our friends over last week to watch the Jimmer and it seriously took me another week to get all of the cups washed. Not because washing cups actually takes a lot of time, but because our dish dryer thing can only hold like six cups at a time and if it is full of cups it can't hold anything else. Chris and I have both learned this so we each use like one cup and wash it whenever we feel it is absolutely necessary. Anyway our friends came over again last night for the games and I felt like a freaking Nazi because I kept demanding that they all use paper cups and paper plates so I did not have to wash the dishes. I felt guilty for two reasons: 1 our paperness is ruining the planet and 2 I kept having to remind people to use the paper stuff and they all have dishwashers so they don't feel my pain and I come across and a crazy/controlling person. It is the worst. I all the sudden am so grateful for dishwashers not named Laura.