Summer 2011

Well it has been a good 2 months since my last blog and I figured I would update everyone on the Maclean Family Summer. Andrew and I made the big move up to Calgary for the summer in order to sell and although it is such a blessing that my husband is such a good salesman...it has been somewhat of a trial for me. Most days Andrew and I enjoy the luxury of sleeping in and slowly getting ready for the day, we head off to the office at 12:30 and I do my office work and he attends his morning meeting and then he goes off selling for the day and I come home. For the past two months I have been taking two summer classes (finance and human resource management) and I will be starting up my Managing in a global environment class next while taking two classes through Athabasca university ( Financial Accouting I and II) ..... Usually I wouldn't be taking summer classes but due to the fact I was doing the pre-requisites for pharmacy for a year and a half ....I was a little behind. No worries though! I fought the UofL and they are letting me take extra classes so I can graduate in the spring after my 4 years of hard time in university. I cannot tell you how excited I am to started making money instead of forking it out in $3000.00 chunks every semester!! I hope to be able to get on with a firm in lethbridge to do my articaling but perhaps I will have to move to Calgary permanently because of a large pool of firms. If not I will just find a job that uses a degree in accounting and start making some moolah! Andrew has decided he wants to go back to school to become a geomatic engineer...or something like that. His brother in law Barry loves it and it looks like he was the salesman in this deal because Andrew now has a vision for his life. Anyways, even with all these classes I am still so BORED. My house is always clean..I think I vacuum more then once a week hahah and I have seen way to many TV series' then I am willing to admit in the past 2 months...all I have to say is One Tree Hill is amazing and 90210 is possibly the stupidest show ever haha! I have read some pretty good books though so if you want a good read try... Lincoln Lawyer, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Water for Elephants (some not so great language), The Pact, The Heart of the Matter and I have just begun reading The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks so it should also be good! Anyways I have a lot of time on my hands and I don't know anyone but Kylie up here in Calgary so if you are ever up here TEXT ME 403-715-3388.

This past weekend Andrew and I were driving down from Calgary at about 8pm and we noticed that Miriam and Barry were camping....we thought it would be nice to go have a fire with them that night but ended up camping with them! It was such a spur of the moment thing but we had so much fun and it was just what we needed to get us away from all the summer stress and loneliness in my case haha. We played cards...didn't fall asleep till 3 AM because we were scared of bears ( Andrew and I watch a lot of Bear Clips on YouTube) and got Big Scoop Icecream. We went to church on sunday and there were such good talks given! They were about marriage so it was kinda cool that we were there that day. Anyways I better publish before the internet goes out on me! Hope I will get on here more often!

My Favourite Man

SOOOOO ...apparently my last post could have been seen as not having the most positive things being spoken of my husband. As that was not my intention I want to write a blog completely about how much I love him!! I thought that a blog uncovering some of the humorous situations of having a husband that does things completely differently than me...I think mostly due to gender ...but from a woman's perspective might be fun but I also have lots of wonderful moments with my husband. From the very beginning I knew that Andrew was perfect for me because he is such a chatterbox! Being one myself you can see how we could just talk for hours and hours. Andrew is SO unique...i remember on our first date he played a question game and asked me all different sorts of questions...not the awkward where are you from? how many people in your family? types of questions but questions such as what do you see yourself doing and who do you see yourself being in 5 years? I knew from that moment that he was something special. One of Andrews most coveted traits is his generosity, he is always offering to pay or offering to share what he has... I cannot believe how much I am going to change over the course of our marriage...I am not a sharer. Andrew loves being in nature! While I like it in the hot sun he likes it any way it comes. He loves Waterton especially ..he wants to live there one day. Andrew LOVES spending time with me...it is my love language so I oblige completely! Sometimes we get stuck watching 24 for hours because we just love being in each others presence...one night we played angry birds for so long that a little message came up saying...devoted player you have been on for 3 hrs. Andrew is so complimentary of me..he is always telling me how nice I look even when I look gross. He always brags about me to other people and I secretly love it. I don't care so much that the other people think I am great but I love that I have a man that is confident enough to say how lucky he is...that is rare...definitely. As much as this could be taken as negative..I say it in the most positive way...Andrew is a little bit girlie... he loves heart to hearts and he is so sensitive to me. I have definitely seen my husband cry more then he has seen me cry... also a rarity...who doesn't love a manly man that wears his emotions on his sleeve! Andrew is great with fixing things! He is always over at someone's house helping them fix something. He is such a great new member of the Hendry family... though it took him a while to warm up to us he sure has got comfortable with the crazyness of my family. Andrew always tries to fulfill my needs...he is such a great provider and I know he just wants what is best for us. He is so ambitious and has so many wonderful dreams. I am such a pessimist and Andrew is always there to point out the bright side and I love that about him. He is such a good priesthood holder and I love that comfort. He always makes sure we have prayer before bed and I'm so glad that he has such initiative. I think the best thing about Andrew is that he is SO much like my Grandpa Lyons. It is actually crazy how similar they are...My mother and I were just discussing it. They have SUCH hearts of GOLD. My husband is all I could have asked for and more :) Babe... this post is for you! I hope you always know that I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I would do anything for you and I want the world to know that too! Our biggest lesson we have learned being married is...don't judge another till you have walked in their shoes and I know that is so true!

I love you Andrew Maclean <3

Exam Week

Well, whether my posts be few and far between...you can bet on one thing....procrastinating exam study will remind me of my long lost blog. Since last year around this time I have blogged a good 5 times! Hopefully this year it won't be so bad. My husband...YES ..husband! I got hitched during my absence from blogging ...scored me a sweet summer job. I am an office assistant for Vivint and therefore get to work a couple hours a day and enjoy the perks of summer. Of course workaholic Nicole came through and I signed up for 3 summer classes. I am taking human resource management, finance and another one. In my spare time I hope to read a billion books that are interesting!! So if you have any suggestions let me know. My husband already got an ear full from me and will most likely be out working all the time in order to stay away from my wrath..he wants to buy a house and I am just...pushing and supporting him ( well that is what I like to tell myself I am doing). Anyways, I promised in my description of my redesigned blog that I would tell a couple funny stories about married life/men that make a lot of people laugh. So Andrew and I had been married for a whole week, we had just got back from our honeymoon and the house was a mess. I started doing the dishes, sweeping the floors, making the bed, cleaning the bathroom...etc etc. When I come to find Andrew sitting on the couch....not even with the T.V. on. I asked him what he was doing and told me he was doing the laundry.........you don't look like you are doing the laundry I say.....well he says....I am WAITING for the laundry.... OK so let me get this straight...while you sit here and wait for the laundry you are going to watch me do everything else......he looks at me.....I look at him.....he gets up to help....yeah thats what I thought!! It may not be easy to live with me but my husband sure is a trooper! He makes me laugh so hard sometimes but is also very frustrating ! Since when do boys leave more clothes on the bedroom floor then girls....since when does a boy not know the difference between a facecloth and a dish rag....and since when did men become so STINKY...I guess when your dating you see mostly the best of one another...marriage is a different story..but we are both learning! For better or for worse I always say.... maybe I should go study before I say too much!

LOVE

Nicole Maclean!

1 Month

Well....it always seems that I remember about this blog at very random and rare occasions..you know it has been to long when you have to go through the trouble of trying to find out what your username is...and then trying to figure out what your password is lol... I have too MANY! Anyways the reason why my title is one month..is because I am getting married in exactly one month! I AM SO EXCITED! I am so glad to be over with driving home when it is freezing cold or going to pick my car up when we have decided to drive in one vehicle. I am so glad to be over awkward dating and hanging out with boys who don't interest me at all lol..YSA can be interesting sometimes! Anyways most exciting part is being sealed to my best friend forever! but the worst thing...is having to change the name of my blog lol no longer a young single adult...how about old married woman??? welll now it is late and I must go but hope to get some name suggestions! peace out!

Life

Sooo wow it's been a long time since I've blogged but I saw a couple of my friends posting their blogs on fb and I just remembered about this old thing! well the summer has ended and thank goodness for that! working in waterton was defininetly an experience to remember. I have not learned so many lessons in such a short period of time before in my whole entire life! I'm back in school now and taking 1 too many courses lol next semester hopefully I'll be smarter about what I can handle. Life in general has been a crazy whirlwind of emotions! I got back from waterton and just didn't feel like I fit in anywhere. I decided one day to move out because I think I was missing the independance I had in waterton. I live with a crazy house of girls and we have so much fun together! Between running around being silly and cooking super gross amateur meals I am quite enjoying this new adventure I'm on. Everyone gets along really well so I'm not scared about any roomie fights but it's only the first couple months...bahaha. Anyways I just thought I would get on here and update the blog...just so my one follower...lauren...haha...could get an update. Lauren is all growed up and married now...yay!
peace out!

Waterton

Hey everyone!
So this week I moved to Waterton and I am absolutly loving it so far! Everynight my roomate and I hike Bears hump because there is a challenge in Waterton to hike Bears Hump 30 times this summer...so far we are at 3 times so were 1/10 th done already, then we get a T-shirt and a french toast breakfast..mmm. I have been working at the Waterton Lakes Lodge and I'm really excited about it, I get good hours, the managment is organized and professional..probably due to the fact that they are mostly LDS haha. We live above a rec centre so we can swim and go to the gym anytime we want. Yesterday I walked to Big Scoop to get an ice cream...obviously..and I dropped off a Resume and today I went back and got a job! I'm sooo excited cuz now I have 2 jobs and hopefully I can pay off school in the Fall. Well that's about all the news I have soo far and there is just too many fun things I could be doing instead of being on the computer.
Love you all!

P.S. come to Waterton to Visit :)

Home

Well I'm home for a couple days before heading out to Waterton and I've been pretty much working at Thriftway as much as I can. I really have been lucky to be home for this whole week to spend some time with my family before I am off again. Canmore really ended up sucking. We were promised all these things that didn't come through which kind of upset me . We moved up here thinking that we were going to get full time hours and that the amount of rent we were paying was less then is actually was. Anyways it definitely was not full time hours and sometimes we would only work about 2 and a half hours a day. So basically I broke completely even and sat in a gross crack house motel for 3 weeks. My roomate and I had to sit down and actually think about the positives so that we could avoid our frustration. So for the 3 weeks we were there we had a lot of gospel conversations with our fellow employees and we formed some bonds with people who are also going to Waterton. We learned how hard it is to live on our own and how much we really appreaciate our families and all they do for us. Plus we got a lot of TV time in..mostly watching say yes to the dress and TLC shows..anyways tonight I went to a house party/dance party and it was fun. We danced for a couple hours and now I better get to bed because I work at 9 tomorrow! well much love to all of you!! and a big shout out to my one follower!! LAUREN ROERICK!!

P.S. everday someone new is engaged on facebook..and that is not a joke...but special congrats to my best friends Breanne and Lauren for their engagement! love you both!