Tagged

I'm almost ashamed to be doing this, but I've been tagged, and I actually decided to go after this one, since it was my lovely sister who did the tagging. And yes, to continue in my long, honored tradition of coming up with lame excuses for doing things I am embarassed about.......It's really boring at work and I am tired of doing homework.

Past lame excuses have included: "I watch power rangers because my little brother likes it and he refuses to change the channel" and "The only reason I have a 'My Little Pony' doll is because my grandma gave it to me and I didn't want to hurt her feelings."

Here goes: 6 facts about myself

1. My worst fear is someday waking up in the middle of the night, and in my tiredness glancing out the window. Underneath the streetlight on the road outside will be a scary looking clown. I'll glance away and then do a doubletake. When I look back, the clown is gone, and I think that it was just a figment of my imagination. Then I hear the front door of my house slowly open, and footsteps coming toward my room.........Yeah, freaky, I know. That's why it's my worst fear.

2. If I could be reincarnated as anyone, it would probably be Will Smith. Think about it. He's got the bad-boy image that every guy deep down kind of wants, because he's played all those tough guys in movies. He's also got the nice guy image from a lot of his movies and his days as the "Fresh Prince." He's musically talented, and anyone that's ever gotten "Jiggy" can account for that. He's also got a decent family life from what I understand. I'm pretty sure he's not hurting too much financially either.

3. One of my dreams is to someday become a rockstar and be up on stage in front of atleast 20,000 people. At a cool part in the song, I want to throw my hands up in the air, my head back, and just let them cheer because they love me so much, like Garth Brooks in this picture:

I've been practicing my rockstar kick in preparation for that day, which is bound to come.....as soon as I am reincarnated as Will Smith.

4. An average of 18-25 times per day, I come up with hilarious jokes and insights about things happening in my life. The only problem is that I am the only one that thinks they are hilarious. My many efforts to share my humor with those around me is usually met with blank stares and chuckles coupled with alot of eye rolling. However, I have not given up in my effort to share this humor with all the lucky people within my circle of influence. Then, one day, I met a person who thought my insights were funny too! He was my little brother, Tanner....but then I met another person, who was of no blood relation to me, and who was a girl....a pretty girl! So I married her. I am full of stupid jokes, and Julie always laughs at them. I appreciate it.

5. I am convinced that if I was not a member of The Church, that I would be a heavy social drinker. Why? Because I love root beer. Not only do I love root beer, I love drinking root beer. I love the atmosphere of sitting down with my buddies, drinking root beer, laughing, telling jokes, watching a football game, etc. Back in my lonely single days, when I was feeling especially single, I would drown my sorrows in root beer. Basically what I'm trying to get at is that rootbeer has played a significant role in my life up to this point. Enough said.

6. I hate cell phones. I have one, because I really feel like it has become a necessity in our lives. I am rarely home during the day, so it facilitates a lot of communication. But I really don't like them. People's cell phones have become so important to them. I hate it when I am talking to someone face to face, their cell phone rings, and they interrupt our conversation to answer their phone. I'm sorry, but it's very easy to let it ring and then call the person back in a few minutes. Real people need to be more important to you than the people on the other end of the phone line. Also, I think text messaging is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. People actually have conversations over text messaging. How hard is it to just call the person?

I will now step off my soapbox.

Give the Public What They Want!

Well, the polls closed yesterday with a landslide, decisive victory by Northrop Grumman over IBM. Maybe it's the average winter temperature of 3 degrees Fahrenheit in Rochester, or maybe it's those darn Rockies who surprised everyone this year. (Or maybe it was my wife who voted more than her share) Either way, I decided I had to follow the public demand. But really folks, Northrop Grumman is the place we need to be. I know it's a company I can work hard for and that I can take pride in what I do.

So I called today and accepted the offer in Denver. I guess that's where we'll be after I graduate. I'm really excited and so is Julie, so I guess you could say we're both really excited. It will be really exciting to have a real job, whatever that means.... because ya know, I'm tired of all these fake jobs I've had. Finally, I leave you with the immortal words of Muhammad Ali:

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

And beat people up he did. Go team go.

Rocky Mountain High......or Big Fish?

OR...

Well, after a lot of waiting and wondering and praying and interviewing and sleeping in my suit, it looks like it may have paid off. I finally got a couple job offers that I'm really excited about. One is from IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, and the other is from Northrop Grumman in Aurora, Colorado. I'm kind of torn between the two. They are both great companies, both Fortune 100 companies that offer great benefits etc. As far as location goes, Northrop Grumman wins out, because Andi is there in Denver and it's closer to home and to the Rocky Mountains. However, Rochester's cost of living is super-low, and I can only imagine what the fishing is like in Minnesota's 10,000 lakes.

Also on Northrop Grumman's side is John Denver and the fact that I would get government security clearance if I worked for them, and I would have to do a polygraph test....which would be pretty cool.

So, in order to be fair about this, I'm going to let all of you decide. I have posted a poll asking you where Julie and I should go. I promise that I will follow the popular majority.....as long as it goes along with what we personally decide.

In case you don't know what either one of these companies does, click on the links above to find out.

I love my wife

This is Nate. I love my wife......alot. That is all.

Our Exciting Weekend

Ok, so our weekend wasn't that exciting, but I felt like posting, so here it goes. It all started on Friday night when we went to the BYU volleyball game. We LOVE volleyball around here. So we walked into the game, picked up our volleyopoly pieces (a game like unto monopoly where you collect pieces at each game and try to create winning combinations), checked our board, and what do ya know? We had won! Not only had we won, but we won an ipod shuffle. So that was pretty sweet. Needless to say, Nate had fun playing with it when we got home. The next day was the ward Fall Festival. Ya know, games, food, fun, and a pie eating contest! We both participated. I wish I could say we were victorious, but alas we were not. But the pie was good, so it was worth it. That night we went to another volleyball game, did I mention that we love volleyball? This time we won again! I won a t-shirt, and Nate won a gift certificate for free ice cream, and a sweet blue spirit wig, AND a volleyball! Yea, we know, we really cashed in. Then we came home. It was only 9:30 and not wanting to go to bed yet, we did the most logical thing. We pulled out the old-school 8 bit Nintendo and played Super Mario Brothers 3 for the next 3 hours!!! Apparently you can never really run out of lives in those old games. Apparently you can't save your game either! I was bitter to discover this at 12:30 am when I really, really wanted to go to bed, but I wanted oh so badly to pass the game as well. Oh well, that will have to wait for another fun-filled weekend!

The Provo Frederiksens

So we haven't blogged for awhile, since I'm home alone while Nate's in Denver I thought I'd take the chance to update the world on what has been happening in the lives of the Frederiksens of Wymount Terrace. Nate has been going crazy with job interviews. We went to Idaho Falls a week and a half ago for an interview with Melaleuca. He is currently in Denver to interview with Northrup Grummin in the morning. For those of you who have no idea what Northrup Grummin is (like me as of 2 weeks ago), they are a defense contractor. They make aircraft carriers, stealth jets, missles, etc and sell them to the government. He had to answer all kinds of security questions just to be able to go to the interview tomorrow.
I have been crazy busy finalizing report cards and getting ready for my first batch of parent-teacher conferences. Having never actually attended one of those, I don't feel like I know what I'm doing. If anyone reads this who is a parent and has attended parent-teacher conferences before, what is it that parents like to hear about? I could go on forever about each student, but in 15 minute intervals, that's not really possible!
Yesterday we went to the BYU football game. We went prepared with a blanket and a poncho because we got rained on last time. Little did we know that Mother Nature had outdone herself. We were there in the middle of a snowstorm. Yea for winter! Luckily the snow is all gone now, but I know that was just a sneak peak of what is to come this winter. After the game our friends the Doxeys came over and we carved pumpkins. I love carving pumpkins because it means Halloween is coming and Halloween means Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving means Christmas! Don't you love the holidays? I am just so excited to spend the first full set of holidays with Nate. We spent Thanksgiving together last year in Boise with his family, but being able to spend Christmas together will be special.
Well, that's about it for us. Wish Nate luck tomorrow. If he doesn't get this job then most likely we will end up in Rochester, Minnesota and while I'm sure it's a nice place, just saying Rochester makes me shiver!

Indoor Campfire

We were bored tonight, so we decided to have a campfire. That's right a campfire, on a Sunday, indoors. No worries, no commandments nor firecodes were broken. We had planned to camp this weekend, but our lack of finding a campsite near Idaho Falls and the rain deterred those plans. We had already bought stuff to make s'mores because what is camping without s'mores? So we got all of the gooey yumminess minus the cold, hard ground and campfire smell. We'll let you take a guess based on the pictures whether the s'mores were satisfactory or not.