Step it up!

So Jeff and I have started a routine.  In order for me to get better at italian, we decided to only speak italian every other day.  We have been doing it this whole week so far and we have been doing pretty good.  The days when it is only italian, I've had to switch to english cause most of the things I know how to say is pretty much every day things like, "we need to clean the kitchen" or "please feed the cats".  No intense discussion happening in italian any time soon but baby steps.  A friend sent me a website where I get more additional vocabulary on top of what I'm learning on Rosetta Stone.  A lot of useful kitchen items have come up which is good since I spend most of my time in there.  I hope with doing this more "immersion" speaking I can get more fluent faster.

Autumn

It's that time of year!  I love the fall.  Everything from the crisp weather to the changing leaves.  But the best part.... food!  I broke out my family cookbook and whipped up some wassail. For those that don't know what wassail is, it's basically a warm cider with cinnamon, oj, and some lemon and other things.  My mom would make a large (at least 2 gallon) pot of this around this time and winter and there is nothing better!  Perfect time to make it too because Jeff happened to get a cold.  It seems to have helped his cough and throat.  Whenever I get sick Jeff does too but he makes my illness seem like nothing cause I'll end up with the flu with a fever and aches while he will get it and be like "eh just a cold".  But he is doing fine.  Working hard and pushing through it.

Oh and Karen if you are reading this, we made the sweet pork recipe you sent us.  It was yummy and Jeff said I lived up to your standards which was the highest honor for me.  With the leftovers we are gonna make burritos and freeze them (you know how much Jeff loves his frozen burritos).  Thanks again for the recipe!

Job #2

We had a great weekend.  I requested the weekend off so I can sit at home and watch conference with Jeff.  Well Jeff forgot about conference when he scheduled his FSO test.  So we only watched the first session before he had to leave to go take his test.  He thinks he did decent.  He doesn't like saying that though cause he said that test makes him second guess everything.  He will find out in 3-5 weeks what his results are though so fingers crossed!  But he came home and we watched priesthood session.  We definitely felt inspired and will take that in consideration.  

But anyways, Jeff got a second job.  Since we both have opposite schedules and he is basically sitting around at home when he is done with work in the morning, he thought it would be best if he got a second job.  I was considering doing the same and I really don't know if I should or not.  I'm really on the fence about it because we really want to save money but since I was so sick over the summer we don't want me to get sick again so I want to take it easy.  I dunno, any thoughts on the matter?  But he is working at Buca di Beppo.  It's an Italian restaurant and he will be starting on Wednesday.  So hopefully our schedules will still match up a little still.  We are gonna try and live off my income and one of Jeff's job and put the rest into savings.