Merry Happy Blog: May 2014

Everyday Life

A few months ago I was talking to my friend Emilee whilst sipping a "Cast Away" from Sodalicious. (Which really is "so delicious" btw.) We were just chattin,' giggling, and enjoying the sunshine as girls during reading days do when she asked me,"Why is your blog named Merry Happy?"

Sometime in Feb/March of 2011 Stephen was back home in Iowa getting ready to leave for his mission and I was in good 'ole Provo finishing up my sophomore year. One day Stephen and I were Skyping and he introduced me to a song he had recently come across called "Merry Happy." He played it for me and we chuckled at the amusing lyrics and the sweet English accent of the artist, Kate Nash. Although the song is technically a break up song, the chorus starts out, "Dancin' at Disco's, Eatin' Cheese on toast, yeah you make me merry, make me very very happy..."

A few days later we were Skyping again and I said to Stephen, "What do you think she was talking about when she said 'cheese on toast'? Do you picture the cheese being melted or not melted? Because for some reason I picture the cheesing not melted." Stephen thought this was a ridiculous question and statement and said she definitely meant melted cheese. "No one eats toast with cheese that ISN'T melted on it!" he said. The next day I emailed him the following picture:

Not long later, I received the following photo from him:

And then I responded with a video of myself as a potato person singing the chorus of the song (which is much too embarrassing to post online, so a simple series of pictures will have to suffice):

Needless to say, "Merry Happy" and its lyrics quickly became commonplace in our everyday conversations and we introduced many people to the song (which, I'll be honest is actually kind of boring after the first minute). During the next two years, while Stephen was gone, whenever I needed a little pick-me-up I'd listen to the song and happily reminisce about all of its associated memories.

A little over two years after introducing me to the song, Stephen proposed. And inside of the silver band that he proposed with were the words engraved, "Merry Happy."

If you'd like to hear the original song go here. (But like I said before, it's actually pretty boring after like the first 60ish seconds...)

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Happiness

HAPPPPYYYY BIRTHDAYYYYYY!

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Everyday Life

IDP!

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Date Night

Movie Friday.

First let me just take a sec and brag about how cool Stephen is for landing an AMAZING summer internship. Out of DOZENS of applicants he was selected (after FOUR rounds of interviews) to be an Intern at a really cool company in Salt Lake City. He hasn't even applied to the Finance program yet, so the fact that he scored a paid summer internship as a sophomore is pretty incredible. (But if you know him at all you're probably not that surprised because he is more than 'pretty' incredible.)

Now, PICTURE THIS:

It's Friday morning and I'm taking Stephen to the train station so he can catch his 6:20 am train. We are just about to pull into the station when Stephen realizes he's forgotten not only his train pass, but also his security badge for getting into his really cool workplace. Without missing a beat, I flip a U-ie and drive ~~like a madwoman~~ carefully-and-calmly-in-a-speedy-manner back to the house. Upon arrival Stephen runs lickety-split inside to grab the badges and we're OFF! Were on the road again back to the train station. ~~Speeding~~ Driving hastily yet cautiously down University, we ~~speed through~~ pass through each green light with ease until we are stopped at a ~~COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY~~ red. As we ~~zoom~~ drive over the overpass we see the train sitting motionless on the tracks below. Will we make it??? ~~Racing~~ Pulling into the parking lot we can see the train sitting on the tracks just a few hundred yards away. Stephen jumps out and sprints onto the platform as the train slowly starts picking up speed. Stephen runs along side the train for a few moments before bowing his head in defeat. WE had lost.

END MOVIE.

Stephen ended up driving to work, and after he'd been gone about half an hour I realized - my phone was still in the car! He gets done with work early on Fridays and wanted me to take the train and meet him in Salt Lake so we could hang out downtown for a bit and then I could ride back home with him. Needless to say, I was pretty apprehensive about traveling the train on my own without a cell phone and not really knowing where to meet Stephen once I got there. BUT, I survived.

And it was an adventure. :) And my mom would be proud of me. :)

Regardless of the stressful morning, it truly was a fabulous (rainy) day.

Oh ya, and I forgot to mention we were matching. WOOPS #sorrynotsorry

PS We went to lunch at Kneaders and had the Chicken Pesto Panini and I literally have not stopped thinking about it since. YES: LITERALLY. We came home and I thought about it so much that we went to the store and bought all of the ingredients to make said Panini for dinner. We proceeded to eat it again for dinner on Saturday AND for lunch on Sunday. I'm telling you I'm obsessed. Now do yourself a favor and go make a Chicken Pesto panini. And then invite me over to eat it with you ;)