It's 10 times worse when you're naked. No joke.

This morning I realized that there are certain things that are 10 times...no, 100 times...worse when you are naked. And as it happens, it happened to me this morning. Let me tell you what happened.

This morning I woke up nice and early to get ready for church. After pressing the snooze button about 7 times, I finally got out of bed and into the shower. Everything was going great, the nice hot water was relaxing my muscles and my freshly washed hair smelled amazing. After I massaged the conditioner into my hair and scalp, I reached for my Bath and Body Works body wash. Yummm smells so good! (P.S. I Love You is the best scent.) Anyway, as I reached for it, I noticed something crawling. Something big. I mean, ridiculously BIG! Like the size of a 50 cent piece!!!

(This wasn't the bug in the shower, but I swear, this is how big it was. No exaggeration) 

Abruptly I started screaming and jumped out of the shower. Jesus, hearing my screams, runs into the bathroom. Just a side note....our bathroom is one of those half bathrooms, where the toilet and shower are in one room, and a sink is in the other. Meaning that there is hardly any room in the toilet/shower room. So as I was cowering in the corner screaming because I believed that the thing crawling on the shower liner was a HUGE 50 cent piece spider, Jesus rushes in, making me squished between the door and the wall. Super comfortable. Um, no, not really. I quickly tell him what I saw, and he attacks the creepy crawler, and as it turns out, it was not a spider. We don't know what it was. It was like a mix between a June bug, cockroach, beetle, and a deer (because of the size). Stupid Texas and their bugs that I've never seen.

After that episode I crawled back into bed, needed to reset my heart rate. I was thinking about what happened and realized that if I had seen that bug while I was fully dressed instead of in my birthday suit, I don't think I would've been so freaked out. I mean, I would be plenty freaked out, but not as much. I figured it's because when you are naked, as opposed to dressed, you are more vulnerable. What if that bug had been a flesh eating bug?! Well it would've made things so much easier for that bug to eat me, with there being no clothes in the way. Soooo I think I am going to start showering with clothes on. Or maybe never shower at all. Except...I don't think Jesus would appreciate that too much.

How did that stupid bug even get in there?!?!?!?! That is what is freaking me out now. I have gone on an apartment bug hunt, to see if there are any holes in the walls where bugs could crawl in and out of. Ick, ick, ick, ick, ick. Things like that should never happen while in the shower. It is just wrong. And it goes against showering nature!!!

This week in Texas.

I miss Fresno!!! 

Oh my lovely family. My hilarious friends. Going to school. My great job.

How I miss thee!!!

But there are good things about Texas. For instance, we have our amazing washer and dryer that we purchased. If we had been in Fresno I think we would've waited a lot longer.

Here is what has been happening down here. Apparently the ward we are in is pretty active with how many activities they do. For instance there is a book club, cooking class, dog training class, volleyball tournaments, play groups, etc. I went to the book club this week and we read Shakespeare's love sonnets. Not something I would chosen myself, but it was a fun night. Actually, we talked more about Harry Potter and Twilight. I have read both series and I like them both. 

However, a woman at the book club has a big issue with Twilight and after hearing what she had to say, I agree with her. She is the YW president and she hates how Bella is so insecure. Bella believe's she isn't good enough, that a man (dead man, actually) is too good looking to like her, she's too pale, blah blah blah. And these young women are reading this book and are in love with Bella! (And Edward. And Jacob. But we are concentrating on Bella here.) Young women are already insecure--with their bodies, school, friends, boys. This woman at the book club...Mary? I think her name is Mary....doesn't like the example of insecurity that she sets to all the young girls that read these books. However, we did agree that the book did have good points. Bella cares a lot about her family, Edward tries to CTR even though he's considered a creature of the devil, and they wait until they are married until they DO IT.

Later in the week Jesus and I went to an Italian restaurant, and let me tell you, this place is a million times better than Olive Garden and Luna's. Yep. It was pretty freaking delicious!!

Weird thing that happened? Yesterday (Saturday) Jesus went into the main office to pick up a package that was delivered. He tried to go into the door through the back because it is usually open. However, that time, it wasn't. So he went around to the front and went inside. There he saw the girl at the front desk, Tessa. He went to Tessa and told her he was there to pick up a package. Then he asked her why the back door was locked. Here is the conversation he had with her. (Tessa is in pink and Jesus is in blue.)

"Hey, I got a notice that a package was left here for us."

"Yeah of course, let me go get it, hold on a sec."

She goes, gets the package, and gives it to Jesus.

"Oh, why is the back door locked?"

"Huh? Oh, because I'm the only one working today."

"....So?????"

"Well I don't leave the door unlocked in the back when I'm alone because I don't want to get raped."

"Oh. Um. Alright."

Jesus leaves the building then tells me what she said, and we are both thinking, 

WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!

RAPED??

Wow, that gives a lot of credit to the apartment complex we live in. 

She doesn't want a tenant to come through the back door and rape her. Great.

 I have a lot of confidence is this complex now. 

I super want to go outside all the time now. NOT!

Haha yep. That was our week. Sounds great huh? Book clubs, Italian food, possible rapists in our complex. Hahaha wow. How could it get any better here?

All moved in!

Howdy there partner!

Yep, it's true. We moved to The Lone Star State (aka Texas). Why? Jesus got a job promotion that required the move. So we packed everything up and moved, all in just about 2 weeks. Wooh it was fast. Jesus had to get everything squared away at his work and I had to finish my semester at school 2 months early. It's safe to say we were pretty busy. So here is an update of everything that happened since we left Fresno.

Early Saturday morning we left to hit the road. Jesus was driving the U-Haul which had our Yaris being towed behind it and I was driving the truck. Just a few minutes of driving I realized that although the Yaris was being towed and it wasn't being broken into, the alarm was going off. Every 30 seconds I would hear, "Beep-beep-beep!!" After about 10 minutes of the beeping, the full out alarm went of, with the lights flashing, the horn blaring, and even more beeping. Nonstop. So how did we stop the alarm from going off? I had to travel close enough to the Yaris so I could use my Yaris key to press the button to unlock the doors. Soooo yep, every 30 seconds I had to press the unlock button. Unfortunately, because Jesus packed all of his tools, we had to drive for about 2 more hours like that until some shops opened where we could buy tools to disconnect the battery. But jeez! That beeping was sooo annoying!!!!!!!

Jesus's mother Maria was kind enough to accompany us on our adventure, however, I didn't have her ride with me in the truck to often because I like to sing along to my music. I like to sing loud. I mean, really really loud. And I get super into it. Like if it's a sad song, I'll sing with a sad face, etc. And I didn't want her witnessing my singing time because I knew she would laugh at me. Haha, if I were someone else and saw me, I would laugh too.

Out cute little doggy, Texas (she was named that before we even knew we would move to Texas, so don't judge her name!), was so tired of riding in the truck that when we would take a break and take her on a walk, when she saw that we were getting in the truck she would lay down and not move an inch. Poor puppy. She hates cars now. Oh well.

Once we got to Texas it was amazing to us to see the difference between Texas and California. For instance, there is no litter in Texas! I can count on one hand how many pieces of trash I saw on the side of the road once we got into Texas. It's incredible how clean it is here. And their aren't any homeless people that we've seen yet. Completely mind blowing!! It's like entering into a different world! The best thing I saw once entering Texas was a giant billboard that had a picture of the former president Bush, and it said, "Do you miss me yet?" Next to the writing there was a picture of Obama. Hahahahaha. I laughed so hard!!! I found this picture online, and while it wasn't the same billboard I saw, it gives the message.

Another big difference between here and Fresno is that Jesus was looking at the news for Fresno the other day and saw that there had been 6 shootings that night. Then he looked at the Dallas news and the biggest thing to report? It was a car accident. Haha yeah. It is pretty tame here.

On Monday we finally made it to our destination, however, the apartment complex that we made plans to stay at was actually pretty ghetto. Reallly ghetto. So instead of moving into what we thought would be our new home, we had to go apartment hunting with a U-Haul and everything. After visiting 3 other apartments, we found the apartment that we are now living at. It wasn't the best one that we saw, but it was available for us to move into that day. So now we are living in Irving and so far it doesn't seem too bad. I think I would like it a whole lot more if I had friends here. Friends make a big difference. Yep.

Oooo but guess what?! We bought a washer and dryer!!! It is really so exciting. I never realized how much of a luxury it was to always use my mother's washer and dryer to do our laundry, and once we moved to  our apartment we had to use the ones at the complex. It pretty much sucked. So Jesus and I decided to buy our own! It is much cheaper in the long run to buy them instead of paying to use the ones at our complex. I love the smell of fresh laundry. And now we have it in our home! Delight!!!!

Weeelllll, that's pretty much it for now. I'll post soon again with pictures and more stories.