I’m literally dancing around the house from a spontaneous onset of excitment about life in general. Maybe it’s because of all the sweet things you all have been saying to me in my last post about the blogroll and what could be improved (did the post come off as a plea for praise? It was not intended to be so.)

Buy you’re all so lovely and sweet, and your kind words combined with That Husband coming home from his trip to Houston a day early have me beaming from ear to ear.

Here are a few other things that have me prancing:

I gave That Husband his Valentines day present yesterday. Can you guess what it was? It involved looking like this for a little while.

This is what color it was in December:

And this is what it looks like today: (Yes I’m being kind of shy in the photo because I have no makeup on)

I gave my husband blond hair for V-day. He likes it, I like it. And I promise you will see better photos of me wearing my new hair soon.

Then I went to the leasing office to pick up a package and saw this on the ceiling. They pained the dome to look like a birdcage. It made me so happy I had to take a picture and show you.

One of the packages was from That Mom. Among other things she sent me the bookends That Sister gave me for Christmas a few years ago.  I was momentarily saddened by the carelessness of the USPS system.

Luckily That Mom taught me the magic of Gorilla Glue a few years ago.

Not quite good as new, but I’m just so happy to have my pretty bookends with me once again.

The other package was something I had been waiting and waiting so impatiently for.

My etsy alchemy request for a custom wall vinyl from seller Wall Creations and More! I’m planning on moving the bridge shot to the office and working on making the bedroom a space full of pictures of us, using some of the spicy and sweet engagement and wedding photos we have. I’m working on making the bedroom as calming, relaxing, and intimate as possible.

The quote is from St. Elmo by August J. Evans, a random old book we bought for the centerpieces for the wedding.

That Husband was really skeptical about using one of these wall vinyls. He thought it would look cheesy, but I don’t think it looks cheesy. I think it looks lovely and inspiring. I love the line “Accomplish thou my manhood”, it reminds me that I want to keep working every day to make our marriage better.

Tonight, if That Husband gets home early enough, we are headed to a temple session and afterward to get some dessert with some friends we haven’t seen since last summer. If works keeps TH late we are going to invite them over to our house for some homemade ice cream.

I’m just so thrilled to be alive right now, I don’t know what it is but I’m grinning from ear-to-ear and shaking a little bit from excitement about the greatness of life.

I hope you get the chance to feel the same way this weekend!

Writing letter to the future is a very good idea.

I like clicking on the “View Public Entries” option to read the letters others have written.

Some are religious:

He has risen! Mark 16:6

Alleluia!

Some are letters written to others:

Dear Norman,

I stumbled upon this site while doing research for an article that I’m writing. Today’s date is February 1, 2005, and it’s approximately one o’clock in the afternoon. Outside, the sun is already starting its slow journey across the blue-stained sky. I was eating a plate of orange wedges earlier, wishing that you were here because you always eat the other half of the orange when I’m not looking…

Some are reminders:

Dear FutureMe, Hey you hows it going? im fine just drinking some Guiness thats on special offer at alldays (remember that TINY flat you and Kathryn used to live in, its from the one near there) Anyway the reason im sending this is I figured 35 (30 for Kathryn) would be a good time to start having kids so just saying well done if you have already or get on with it! if you dont . Anyway see you later (literally) good looking!
bye from me and kathryn (aged 24 and 19)

Wouldn’t it be lovely to get a letter from your past, reminding how you good thngs were? Or reminding you how bad they were and hoping for a better future?

I think I will have to begin writing some of my own.

I’ll share one with you:

Dear You,

Remember when you and That Husband used to turn to  each other on a regular basis and say “We’re married!”? And you said it because you were so ridiculously happy that you needed to make sure it was really true.

I hope you still do that.

Love, Me.

Internet, please meet the newest addition to That Household.

Together Forever DDR from Jenna on Vimeo.

I don’t look cool while doing it, but I doubt anyone plays because they want to look cool.

We have DDR 1, 2, 3, 4 for XBOX and we just purchased a Playstation so I can play my favorite version PS2 version, DDR2 (and probably collect the rest of the versions as well). AND That Husband has it set up so we can play Step Mania from the the computer on the TV, which has a catalog of 14,000 songs.

Yeah, that’s techno speak for “I’m a total nerd and I don’t even mind having all of you know about it.”

Now is the time to out yourself as a fellow Dance Dance Revolution aficionado as well! (Ethidium Bromide I already know about you!)

This is what I want for Christmas.

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Bacci!

That Wife (You can also find me as JAB if That Wife isn’t showing up on the nice list anywhere)

This weekend, That Husband turned to me and said “This is the first time in my life that, if given the opportunity, I would not go back in time because doing so might prevent us from being together.”

Insert me sighing and saying “Awwwwww” here.

Admittedly, my lifestyle is pretty easy at the moment. But even if it weren’t so delightful, I would still completely agree.

I should add that when I asked him why he wanted to go back in time on other occasions he replied “So I could use my knowledge of the future to make money off of the stock market.” In so many ways, that perfectly describes my husband.

I hope that you can think of a time in your life when you have felt this way.