Excel and Office in the City

First off, can I just say that my husband is obsessed with Microsoft Excel? Does anyone else have this problem?!! Initially, this was made manifest in his consistent "Excel-ing" of every aspect of our personal lives: budgets, school plans, comprehensive GPA and semester breakdowns, trip itineraries, etc. I definitely love this as it keeps me from having to think about much. But this past month, as Mitch has been ecstatic to come home and do all his real estate equation Excel homework, I’ve realized the extent of this fixation. Last night he made an equation that crossed 7 worksheets that would increase and decrease a home’s overall cost based on city location, state fees (which depend on the base house cost and additional fees which increase with each $1000 on the house), taxes, and about 10 other factors. As many of you know, I used about 15 Excel spreadsheets to plan my wedding. It may have been at this point that I thought Mitch and I were made for each other…

Other observations and thoughts from the past couple days: Sylvia Allred (RS presidency) is our bishop’s wife and the most amazing little lady you’ve ever seen, this Sunday at church we heard our first testimony with swear words (welcome to the downtown wards), my sister is amazing and is running a marathon in January (you know, the one with 3 kids), I never drive anymore—living in the city is amazing—we walk everywhere, I’ve invented about 15 new recipes in the past 2 weeks, I'm so happy for one of my best friends-Jon-who is going to be a dad in 2 weeks!, and as if we weren’t obsessed with The Office for the past couple years I love it more than ever after the season premiere last week; seriously, who writes that show? I was about to pee my pants.

This weekend I re-watched some classics from previous seasons. Here are some of my personal tear-jerkers:

- “When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissues made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.”
-“Ryan started the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turnin’...” ,
- “I’m trying to help my friend decide between two girls. One’s brunette and the other’s blonde and perky and kind of judgmental” “Do you have their medical records?”
- A few years ago, my family was on a safari in Africa, and my cousin, Mufasa, was um, he was trampled to death by a pack of wildebeests, and um, we all took it really hard. All of us, kind of in the audience, of what happened.”
-“When I die, I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time to figure out exactly why I died, and what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in."