<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141</id><updated>2012-02-16T19:43:56.174-08:00</updated><title type='text'>b &amp; b husted</title><subtitle type='html'>Adventures is the Making</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>40</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-9187418536154345272</id><published>2011-06-11T22:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T23:23:11.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We slapped that bar bitch in the face!!!!!</title><content type='html'>Where to begin, it's been about 6 months that I haven't written a word!!! After a fabulous Christmas and New Year celebration we came back to SD so Byron could start studying for the BAR. There was no way we were staying in VC for that so Chris n Kelly kindly let us stay in Encinitas with them. They have a beautiful house super close to the beach. I really fell in love with the feel of ecninitas. The food and ppl and atmosphere are amaing and for whoever knows me realizes how importNt those three things r to me. &lt;br /&gt;Anyways, Byron started studying right away and boy was he dedicated. I have never seen him focus and work so hard t something. I gotta admit it was kinda hot to me ( what a geek haha, me that is )&lt;br /&gt;So the studying lasted till he took the bar. We got a hotel by the bar center. The test was three days long ( that being the California bar which is the hardest bitch). I stayed back in Encinitas while he stayed at the hotel. He took it, told me he did well and there the waiting began :)&lt;br /&gt;During this time I didn't mention that I started working for Kelly full time. She is super great at what she does and an inspiration to me and my career goals. I hope to learn a lot from her. &lt;br /&gt;So Byron went to Mexico with his brothers and dad during the first week of May which was the week of the results. I was so nervous that day. To be honest wi u I was freaking ou!!! It hurt my heart imagining Byron doing this shit all over again ( pardon my French but there is no nice words to describe studying for the bar)&lt;br /&gt;He called me and told me like it was no bid dea and my heart was racing 10000 miles/hour . Yeah....sooo... I passed....  R u freaking kidding needed.? Well I'm so sorry but I actually said r u fucking serious and I never swear and I don't like ppl that do lol&lt;br /&gt;Ahhh happiness baby!!! Just happiness&lt;br /&gt;I partied all night my Ryane and Deena, it was super fun!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;I still fill up with joy every time I think ab that moment. Good job Byron I'm sooooo proud of u. We did it pheeewwww&lt;br /&gt;He has to do a swearing before he Can sig. Off as an attorney. How exiting!!&lt;br /&gt;So what's coming up? A Vegas trip with our besties chris and Amy July 7-10 we got a room with Ryane and can't wait to have some fuuuun. It's also our 5 year anniversary can u believe it? Woooow&lt;br /&gt;After that we are heading down to Albania for three weeks. All my cousins are getting together and wev planned so many cool activities I can't wait. For right now I'm focusing on getting a dress for my dads big 60th birthday gala. Omg can't waaaaait&lt;br /&gt;After that we gotta focus on our careers and family. About time to start our own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will keep u updated with pics when we return from Vegas!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-9187418536154345272?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/9187418536154345272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=9187418536154345272' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/9187418536154345272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/9187418536154345272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2011/06/about-time-for-freaking-update.html' title='We slapped that bar bitch in the face!!!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-7287296100570049254</id><published>2010-12-27T15:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-27T15:52:03.602-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas Everyone!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmlBbyZ9I/AAAAAAAAA9M/0LoO48zVIp0/s1600/christm1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555514032820217810" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmlBbyZ9I/AAAAAAAAA9M/0LoO48zVIp0/s400/christm1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmgOHniSI/AAAAAAAAA9E/YuJOoju6fBI/s1600/chrism2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555513950325934370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmgOHniSI/AAAAAAAAA9E/YuJOoju6fBI/s400/chrism2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmbHh7UiI/AAAAAAAAA88/yfH8p3qGsSo/s1600/chris3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555513862657888802" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmbHh7UiI/AAAAAAAAA88/yfH8p3qGsSo/s400/chris3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmWe1sc0I/AAAAAAAAA80/8sQjLl3jrXo/s1600/chris4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555513783015469890" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmWe1sc0I/AAAAAAAAA80/8sQjLl3jrXo/s400/chris4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmSckT7pI/AAAAAAAAA8s/sUCax-JJ3hk/s1600/chris5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555513713686212242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmSckT7pI/AAAAAAAAA8s/sUCax-JJ3hk/s400/chris5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmNyY5EyI/AAAAAAAAA8k/RD1UnkQzYmg/s1600/chris6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 361px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555513633644548898" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmNyY5EyI/AAAAAAAAA8k/RD1UnkQzYmg/s400/chris6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was so great to Fly to Utah for Christmas. I love California weather but there is something so whimsical and beautiful about a white Christmas. I love the snow, but only if it is for a week or two :)&lt;br /&gt;I arrived in Utah early on Monday and i was so anxious to see Byron. I had missed him so much and i cant believe that he is done. I am going to dedicate another blogg entry to Law School, the Terrible, The end!! This one is about Christmas!!&lt;br /&gt;Monday we had Christmas at Tammis. We had a blast hanging out with evb. Than we went back to Sonis, Ohh i had missed my brother so much. Him and Maria seem very happy and i couldnt be happier.&lt;br /&gt;They're into reading nowdays. We got into a few discussions about Mormonism and such, interesting....&lt;br /&gt;Byron and I together with Emily, Danielle and Brent went sledding and it was such a blast. I have a bunch of very funny videos launching in the air. I love family time.&lt;br /&gt;Christmas Eve we spent at China Lilly since Danielle was working there. Latter we went to Leannes and we played games and cooked, wrapped presents ( which i loooooove) and than headed home to elsons.&lt;br /&gt;We left for SD the next morning ( Christmas Day) we had a nice drive to Vegas. I saw a car burning on the side of the road which was a bit scary!!! I hope everything was ok&lt;br /&gt;We're finally in San Diego...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-7287296100570049254?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/7287296100570049254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=7287296100570049254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7287296100570049254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7287296100570049254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-christmas-everyone.html' title='Merry Christmas Everyone!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TRkmlBbyZ9I/AAAAAAAAA9M/0LoO48zVIp0/s72-c/christm1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-7865319558971064109</id><published>2010-11-29T11:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-29T12:01:38.669-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving in Bikinis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQClBbdhrI/AAAAAAAAA5A/AXb98M8BRKM/s1600/ziplin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545059876261955250" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQClBbdhrI/AAAAAAAAA5A/AXb98M8BRKM/s400/ziplin.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCgDDnGGI/AAAAAAAAA44/qEZNR6KfUgI/s1600/jungle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545059790799444066" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCgDDnGGI/AAAAAAAAA44/qEZNR6KfUgI/s400/jungle.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCbduYQeI/AAAAAAAAA4w/5Z2ry7pFQb8/s1600/zip2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545059712058802658" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCbduYQeI/AAAAAAAAA4w/5Z2ry7pFQb8/s400/zip2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCSDsJIoI/AAAAAAAAA4o/Z750pLPiZnA/s1600/ziplin.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCKaR6E4I/AAAAAAAAA4g/uOAk3NYkIIA/s1600/beach2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545059419076301698" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCKaR6E4I/AAAAAAAAA4g/uOAk3NYkIIA/s400/beach2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCAJv57II/AAAAAAAAA4Y/UPy3QFR7BcY/s1600/chichen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 219px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545059242840026242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQCAJv57II/AAAAAAAAA4Y/UPy3QFR7BcY/s400/chichen.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQB2cVK6nI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/byi6ayPMNg0/s1600/beach1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 176px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545059076029475442" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TPQB2cVK6nI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/byi6ayPMNg0/s400/beach1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;After a hard year of moves, tests, new jobs, go go go attitude we took our forced vacation to Cancun. I say forced because our hotel we had paid for last year durin swine flu which didnt give us a refund after the cancelation told us we either take the vacation now or bye bye the money.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of course who will complain right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I love mexico so much. That place just makes me very very feliz :) The people, the food, the atmosphere. I love it. I deff want to visit Mexico every year!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By nd I had a blast. Ohhh what a wonderful time of doing whatever the heck we wanted to do just like we're used to. I cant believe how time just flyes by and By is almost done with school. Cant wait to have him home. Cant wait for us to move on with our lives. This going to school thing sucks!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We stayed at Playa del Carmen, but visited Chichen-Itza, Cancun, and did a day of fun in the jungle. We rode ATVs like crazy in the mud and jungle and than we went zip-lining. How fun. Next day my body was so sore holy moly im out of shape. We soaked the sun and warm waters for a while till we felt like home!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This time around unlike last time i didnt get sick, and i ate so much crap u wont believe!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ohhh Mexico, we will miss u. 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535381321580052818" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGf-_kcgVI/AAAAAAAAA3E/Ftz2T6KA1qA/s400/hal6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGf3BRTCgI/AAAAAAAAA28/3FhNjupankw/s1600/hal5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535381184597658114" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGf3BRTCgI/AAAAAAAAA28/3FhNjupankw/s400/hal5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGfyWHQ_QI/AAAAAAAAA20/zI9LLMJTOU0/s1600/hal4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535381104293379330" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGfyWHQ_QI/AAAAAAAAA20/zI9LLMJTOU0/s400/hal4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGfrtbf8ZI/AAAAAAAAA2s/8NeX3ra8U40/s1600/hal3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535380990293176722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGfrtbf8ZI/AAAAAAAAA2s/8NeX3ra8U40/s400/hal3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGff8LWfCI/AAAAAAAAA2k/E18b0L-IL00/s1600/hal2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 327px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535380788093549602" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGff8LWfCI/AAAAAAAAA2k/E18b0L-IL00/s400/hal2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGfU5oQiRI/AAAAAAAAA2c/3zEP7ZoVJA8/s1600/hal1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535380598430927122" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGfU5oQiRI/AAAAAAAAA2c/3zEP7ZoVJA8/s400/hal1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can tell, We had a BLAST for Halloween!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I got in a car accident the day before i left for Nebraska. Yeah!! Thats all i needed right?!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was a pretty minor one, although still need to fix my car. Spent half a day working on it. This guy made a U-turn right in front of me. Had to call my insurance than his insurance,( he hadnt even called his insurance) HAd to file a claim with his insurance and till this day they havent gotten a hold of the guy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Got a rental car, Rented a PT cruiser lol. I hate those cars and since i will never ever buy one, thought of driving it to see how it felt. Feels just like it looks, ugly!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Woke up on Thuirsday to take a shower and do my hair. I was sooo exited. Was a little late but got on the road and totally fogot abot traffic. Than i started to panic. OMG...im going to miss the flight!!!! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;HAd to first go to enterprise to leave my rental and than got into the shuttle to the airport. I made it in time. Met this girl on the flight, Melissa. She was going to Minesota to meet her boyfriends family, she was nervous. What a sweetheart. I hope they liked you just as much as i liked you!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So stopped in Denver. OMG getting closer to Nebraska. Havent seen my hubby in two and half months, im gonna die!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Arrived in Nebraska. Saw Byron and we hugged forever and i felt at peace!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ive been so uptight lately and so stressed. Life sucks without him. Its so annoying. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We went to Blue and had sushi with Dirks and Genna. She seemed cool. Dirks seems to like her since they looked like a couple, touching eachother like a couple. I dont know if theyre a couple though!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then, we went to Jakes. Lindsay was there she looked so good. Saw Jamie, jeff, bunch of law school kids. Than met Tami, she's nice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stayed there for a while than went home and went to bed. Well, we didnt fall asleep right away haha tmi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Friday was halloween. We went to beders house first to also see travis and kim. Kim's pregnant with a boy, how cute. She wanted a baby real bad and im soooo exited for them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We went to the Alley latter met with Jeff and Sarah and bunch of Jeffs friends from yhis PHD program. It was a blast. We had lots of fun. Went to a house party afterwards, that was wierd but fun nevertheless. Tami picked us up at 5 and we ate fat mexican food, yuuuuk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sunday we made sushi for Jeff Pam linds and Jake. Didnt turn out perfect but oh well....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I left Monday, why ohhh whyyyyy....See u in two weeks baby, in CancuN!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-3188414855828687710?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/3188414855828687710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=3188414855828687710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/3188414855828687710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/3188414855828687710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/11/halloweennnn-in-nebraska.html' title='HALLOWEENNNN in NEBRASKA'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TNGgg5Bb3QI/AAAAAAAAA3c/PNXdHj7aLcg/s72-c/hal9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-8291803115176198167</id><published>2010-10-14T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T13:58:55.001-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloweeen is coming!!!!</title><content type='html'>Halloween has got to be my favorite holiday. I love dressing up in costume!!! My brother teases me about halloween costumes, Isnt halloween supposed to be scary?, he says. I just love dressing up. This year i figured out a very cute costume but u will have to wait to find out what it is.&lt;br /&gt;I will be heading over to Nebraska October 28 and stay there till November 1st. So 14 days till i see my hubby. I cannot stand being without him any longer. I might just go crazy!!! But im exited though because after Halloween in Nebraska, we get to go to Mexico on Vacation and Besi really needs vacation time real bad!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Danielle has been at the house during this time and its been so great to spend time with her. I love her very much. She is heading over to Germany first week of November so i try to spend as much time as possible with her. Leanne and Simon came to visit us. Rob and Michelle Macy and Madison have been here too. Its been fun to see family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ive tried to stay with Elson everytime he has come to SD. Its been so much fu to see him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cant believe time is going by so fast. October is almost gone. So will November and my baby ( my one and only baby for the moment) will be graduating Law School. What a great accomplishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MArianne is here today and she'll be in Sd till Saturday so im taking tomorrow off and show her around. Im exited...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did i say i miss my husbaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!!!!..grrrrrr&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-8291803115176198167?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/8291803115176198167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=8291803115176198167' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/8291803115176198167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/8291803115176198167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloweeen-is-coming.html' title='Halloweeen is coming!!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5625810587616364367</id><published>2010-09-10T09:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T10:27:00.913-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Oriona's Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfvmVsoNI/AAAAAAAAAss/Fw8AcyoCRD0/s1600/oris10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515325965018636498" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfvmVsoNI/AAAAAAAAAss/Fw8AcyoCRD0/s400/oris10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfrLTHPCI/AAAAAAAAAsk/UFeY_i59aPI/s1600/oris9.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfmoRI5CI/AAAAAAAAAsc/fB4lr5d4ETg/s1600/oris8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 236px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515325810917565474" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfmoRI5CI/AAAAAAAAAsc/fB4lr5d4ETg/s400/oris8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfhhhKOdI/AAAAAAAAAsU/ggB7NScQLB8/s1600/oris7.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Birthday Girl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfcjEVJiI/AAAAAAAAAsM/0jBqmqtixbc/s1600/oris6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 287px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515325637722973730" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfcjEVJiI/AAAAAAAAAsM/0jBqmqtixbc/s400/oris6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giving a Kiss to the Birthday Girl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfXf7RoiI/AAAAAAAAAsE/Krn5t2tlphQ/s1600/oris5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515325550980342306" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfXf7RoiI/AAAAAAAAAsE/Krn5t2tlphQ/s400/oris5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alba and Sonila and I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfTnpavNI/AAAAAAAAAr8/3-kG_4_FDRM/s1600/oris4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515325484333448402" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfTnpavNI/AAAAAAAAAr8/3-kG_4_FDRM/s400/oris4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Sonila. She is married to Andi, an Albanian guy and he moved to the states in May. Cute!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfGyHLs_I/AAAAAAAAArk/qi_r6aMgjpk/s1600/oris1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515325263804347378" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfGyHLs_I/AAAAAAAAArk/qi_r6aMgjpk/s400/oris1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this Past Weekend was Memorial Day, Monday day off THANK GOODNESSS. Although these long weekends throw me off sometimes, its hard to get back to work. We celebrated Oriona's Birthday. She turned 30 woohooo, BIG 30 :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We went and got bunch of food, meanwhile i also got myself bunch of stuff to make cookies. I made Byron and Dirks cookies and mailed them. Anyways back to Oriona..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a little get together for her at Albas place. We had lots of good food and it was fun. THe night before it was really late and we were cooking i told evb that i had our wedding video with me if they wanted to see it. Ok so that was hilarious...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We ejoyed watching it so much. It brought back memories of our wonderful wedding in Albania, fireworks, Byron and I singing and dancing ohhh what a blast we had.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So i had my birthday too btw lol.  We went to sea world but didnt take any pics so its just for memories!!! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron is back in Nebraska. Its been a month now and cant believe that time is just flying by.  Cant wait for him to be done so we can be together again and no more of this leaving crap!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, This summer was really fun. Dirks visited us a couple times. Jonisa came over, I see my brother Elson Regularly everyother week. He works in SD and stays in super nice hotels and i go stay with him sometimes and enjoy. Tami has been over it was a blast hanging out. We went to Old town in the littloe shops and walked around good times.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My parents came over and i had a blast with them. O MY i love my parents sooo much they're the best in the world. We went to Vegas, to get them spent a couple days there it was fun!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This summer has been very eventful. We didnt take any vacations anywhere because we just moved here and its been an overall vacation on its own. We're going to spend thanksgiving week in Cancun and thats the only planed thing for now. Cant wait.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I love my job and its going great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ciao..for now&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5625810587616364367?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5625810587616364367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5625810587616364367' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5625810587616364367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5625810587616364367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/09/orionas-birthday.html' title='Oriona&apos;s Birthday'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TIpfvmVsoNI/AAAAAAAAAss/Fw8AcyoCRD0/s72-c/oris10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-4722297236863881584</id><published>2010-06-11T09:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T10:53:18.410-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Very Fun Weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJoJ_RG8xI/AAAAAAAAApI/TKxye26Knvo/s1600/ballondy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481558217274618642" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJoJ_RG8xI/AAAAAAAAApI/TKxye26Knvo/s400/ballondy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJoEA9diKI/AAAAAAAAApA/clGB4M_m4h4/s1600/ballonnje.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481558114649868450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJoEA9diKI/AAAAAAAAApA/clGB4M_m4h4/s400/ballonnje.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJn9MjMjNI/AAAAAAAAAo4/6xGkEkvFagI/s1600/amyb5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 191px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481557997501844690" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJn9MjMjNI/AAAAAAAAAo4/6xGkEkvFagI/s400/amyb5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJn09MptDI/AAAAAAAAAow/fC_rbVfXuPA/s1600/amyb3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 166px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481557855941801010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJn09MptDI/AAAAAAAAAow/fC_rbVfXuPA/s400/amyb3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJnwFYuaLI/AAAAAAAAAoo/4BtCEvz5Sk4/s1600/amyb2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481557772240578738" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJnwFYuaLI/AAAAAAAAAoo/4BtCEvz5Sk4/s400/amyb2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJnpBRsFHI/AAAAAAAAAog/J7LkwyflkRY/s1600/amib1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 309px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481557650878239858" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJnpBRsFHI/AAAAAAAAAog/J7LkwyflkRY/s400/amib1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been bugging Byron about going on a balloon ride since before we got married so its been a while. Finally we made it happen. We went on a ballon ride and i crossed that off my list HAA!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We woke up super early since we had to go drive all the way to Temecula for the balloon Festival. It was very fun. We ended up landin in the middle on a vineyard ( that was quite hilarious) since all the time we were up he kept talking about how they cant land on vineyards since they get fined. They quickly moved the ballon the the designated spot and we were clear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The tourch that heats up the balloon is so hot it burnes ur head so if you're thinking about going make sure u put a hat on. We had lunch at the Callaway winery, it was really good. I really like Temecula.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The night before it was Amys 30th birthday. We had a reserved table at the Hard Rock Hotel. OMG, that night was sooo messed up by so many reasons. I was late, stuck int raffic, Pulled over by a cop and i have expired registrations 5 months ago. Ok the Cop didnt give me a ticket he didnt even ask for my lic &amp;amp;reg how lucky, Than i got lost ended up in La jolla instead of Downtown...seriously!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Got to the Hard Rock at 11:30 and it was good from then on. Minor things happend. Like i got stuck outside cuz i didnt have a stamp since i didnt get one in the first place when i walked in.AAAAAAA i almost punched the security guard. Serously!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We slept at Grandmothers and the next day Byron and I had a blast by our selves tanning and swimming in the pool HEAVENS&gt;.. I need me a week of that saturday, it was really nice. Im overdue for a vacation but it aint gonna happen until maybe Thanksgiving.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ONE more year Besi, Hang on, let Byron be done with this stupid school and the BAR and hopefully we can start living and conquer the world :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-4722297236863881584?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/4722297236863881584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=4722297236863881584' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4722297236863881584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4722297236863881584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/06/very-fun-weekend.html' title='Very Fun Weekend'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/TBJoJ_RG8xI/AAAAAAAAApI/TKxye26Knvo/s72-c/ballondy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5473842980719004066</id><published>2010-05-23T20:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T20:39:56.823-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Addicted to Sephora!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_nxdtlrNNI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/V0ppbgpWx2Q/s1600/sephora11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 321px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474672314801665234" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_nxdtlrNNI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/V0ppbgpWx2Q/s400/sephora11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I love sephora loooove it!!!...&lt;br /&gt;Im so addicted to make up, hair products, clothes!!! ahhh...&lt;br /&gt;I wish i had a closet just like Carrie in Sex&amp;amp;theCity, the movie. When BIG buys the fav house and builds her the most magnificent closet of all mankind. I WANT THAT CLOSET!!!!&lt;br /&gt;I was there to buy some bareminerals and for everything you buy they give you free samples and I LOVE FREE SAMPLES!!! Anyways thats kinda my fun for the day.&lt;br /&gt;Byron and I played Tennis for a couple hourse and i can kinda admit that im not as bad as i remember..I want to actually continue playing because i would like to be good at this.&lt;br /&gt;Cant believe the weekend is over. I had a hard time during thursday-Friday because of my PMS-ing and feeling fainty and all. I figured i need to eat more red meat and start taking vitamins like the one a day for women since i believe i need more Iron in my body.&lt;br /&gt;Im trying to figure out a new colour for my hair. I want to soften my look. Still keep it dark because i like dark hair. Im thinking about doing dark brown with strikes of slightly red.&lt;br /&gt;Anyways, i need to go and take a long shower, treat my hair. Just got a microdmb and my face is tingling. lol..gotta go give my hubby sm smoochies. ciao&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5473842980719004066?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5473842980719004066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5473842980719004066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5473842980719004066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5473842980719004066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/05/addicted-to-sephora.html' title='Addicted to Sephora!!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_nxdtlrNNI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/V0ppbgpWx2Q/s72-c/sephora11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-4829320463680588760</id><published>2010-05-17T13:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-17T15:42:24.437-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GO PADRES!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_G2N03-83I/AAAAAAAAAmE/o6_hCAZi0_Y/s1600/29464_399250223727_647138727_3969332_4119044_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472355370879873906" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_G2N03-83I/AAAAAAAAAmE/o6_hCAZi0_Y/s400/29464_399250223727_647138727_3969332_4119044_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_G2C4W9NRI/AAAAAAAAAl8/dcRxq65rNBA/s1600/29413_745679615089_17820476_40306396_1843989_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472355182836528402" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_G2C4W9NRI/AAAAAAAAAl8/dcRxq65rNBA/s400/29413_745679615089_17820476_40306396_1843989_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heiii, im at my first baseball game!!!!! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron and I together with Chriss&amp;amp;Amy went to a baseball game this weekend. SD vs LA. We lost!!! BOO, but it was fun nevertheless.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had never been to a BS game before and it was fun to learn a bit about that stuff. If i want our kids to play sports i might as well get acquinted lol &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sunday we went to wine country Temecula. It was soo beautiful !!! Looking forward to a picnin there soon!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was deff a fun weekend. The weather was very nice. Today its raining.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron and I have decided to drive together in the morning, than he takes the train downtown. WE'll see how that goes :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ciao!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-4829320463680588760?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/4829320463680588760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=4829320463680588760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4829320463680588760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4829320463680588760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/05/go-padres.html' title='GO PADRES!!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S_G2N03-83I/AAAAAAAAAmE/o6_hCAZi0_Y/s72-c/29464_399250223727_647138727_3969332_4119044_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-8040402631276302159</id><published>2010-05-09T10:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T10:23:49.767-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Everything is good now!!!! :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S-buwoQI0_I/AAAAAAAAAlc/ZUzBPEg-tDU/s1600/29694_742939715869_17820476_40231553_3775924_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S-buwoQI0_I/AAAAAAAAAlc/ZUzBPEg-tDU/s400/29694_742939715869_17820476_40231553_3775924_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469321316694283250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My baby is here and I feel good now!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Bywon just got here yesterday and boy am i happy or what!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Thats all the update for today.I have no time to write since i'm too busy having fun haha!!!&lt;br /&gt;Happy Mothers Day to all Mothers out there!!!xo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-8040402631276302159?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/8040402631276302159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=8040402631276302159' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/8040402631276302159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/8040402631276302159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/05/everything-is-good-now.html' title='Everything is good now!!!! :)'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S-buwoQI0_I/AAAAAAAAAlc/ZUzBPEg-tDU/s72-c/29694_742939715869_17820476_40231553_3775924_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5833775259174963408</id><published>2010-05-03T16:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-03T17:08:15.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Remember this day?!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S99iHPMxjWI/AAAAAAAAAlU/RLt0-3Z7IZ4/s1600/byron.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467196349129788770" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S99iHPMxjWI/AAAAAAAAAlU/RLt0-3Z7IZ4/s400/byron.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hoey zemer!!!&lt;br /&gt;Its been such a dragggg to be without you this month. Ive missed u so much and it would be such a lie if i didnt say that ive thought of u every minute of every day!!!&lt;br /&gt;I was going through pictures of u when u were a little boy and how freaking cute were uuu. I love your every inch. I adore your everything!!!!&lt;br /&gt;I saw ur cute little blond hair and how u started bleaching it latter in highschool, boy who gave u that idea?!!! And how many times over have u been to Sea World my heavens? And u still take me and pretend you're doing things for your first time.&lt;br /&gt;I love your big heart, your passion. I love how ur silly and make me laugh. I love how after negotiations u always give me what i want cuz u love me...&lt;br /&gt;I love how i see you, us grow together and face life like grown ups but still be crazy kids at heart. I love how im the center of your world as you are mine.&lt;br /&gt;I love how no matter how when and why, i always know that your my constant in my life and that makes every Hell a piece of Heaven.&lt;br /&gt;I love you more than you know. I make mistakes but you will always be the constant, the center of my universe, my only love forever!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank God for whatever reason you came to BYU so i could meet your sexy face. xooo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5833775259174963408?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5833775259174963408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5833775259174963408' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5833775259174963408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5833775259174963408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/05/remember-this-day.html' title='Remember this day?!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S99iHPMxjWI/AAAAAAAAAlU/RLt0-3Z7IZ4/s72-c/byron.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5889014997954897377</id><published>2010-04-27T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T17:11:12.904-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Weekend with Good Friends, But Withought MY LOVE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S9dMRUxm4bI/AAAAAAAAAkE/F0KXABVM8c0/s1600/24561_739977691789_17820476_40146804_5327349_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464920533355651506" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S9dMRUxm4bI/AAAAAAAAAkE/F0KXABVM8c0/s400/24561_739977691789_17820476_40146804_5327349_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here we are on top of Mount Soledad. Dalina, Sonila and I.&lt;br /&gt;San Diego is just so DAMN Awesome i dont know why would u ever want to leave?????&lt;br /&gt;We spent the weekend between late nights of talking, Sushi, Shoping, Beach, Pool, Tanning and Casinos loool. It was all awesome, all was missing is my better half!!!&lt;br /&gt;Dalina is soon going to New York. This girl is pure ENERGY makes me laugh. I spend Friday at her place, we had sushi downtown at this place and it was sooo good. We went shopping, talked till sunrise, went to the beach..it was fun.&lt;br /&gt;Oriona joined us on Saturday and we hung out till Sunday night. Of course another late night!!!&lt;br /&gt;I came back to work on Monday and i was so tired. My Boss called and i responded "thank you for calling Td Ameritrade" he's like "heyyyyyy u dont work for TDA anymoooore" hahaha...&lt;br /&gt;It was the only single thing that kept me going all day, thinking of that moment and laughing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss my baby so much. I hope you're doing well with ur finals my love. I hope u miss me as much as i miss u. TONS!!! Cant wait to hugg u and kiss u and be with u again. I hate being away from u. I hate anything about it. Its not cool, not fun, not peacful, very boring!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I send u kisses from California and hope these days go by fast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muahhh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5889014997954897377?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5889014997954897377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5889014997954897377' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5889014997954897377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5889014997954897377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-weekend-with-good-friends-but.html' title='Another Weekend with Good Friends, But Withought MY LOVE'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S9dMRUxm4bI/AAAAAAAAAkE/F0KXABVM8c0/s72-c/24561_739977691789_17820476_40146804_5327349_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-1945900812278433425</id><published>2010-04-22T14:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-22T15:02:19.434-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My New Friends in San Diego</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S9DE4Q0HSiI/AAAAAAAAAjk/ab_OOmkX-Gg/s1600/25379_10100205369933880_7920844_60468489_4147100_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463082818865678882" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S9DE4Q0HSiI/AAAAAAAAAjk/ab_OOmkX-Gg/s400/25379_10100205369933880_7920844_60468489_4147100_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So here we are, the Albanian Bunch :)&lt;br /&gt;Ive been in San Diego for a few days now and here are my new friends :) Nationality=100% Albanian. Well, all exept one i guess, her name is Linda right across from me. She is from Japan and she is married to one of the Albanian guys, Endri. The rest the loud, opinionated, hot blooded bunch are all Albanians.&lt;br /&gt;We met on Friday at a Greek Restaurant called Zorbas ( talk about "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" lol. I went to Orionas for a while before we left. She lives here with her Mom and Dad, She's super cute. Used to be miss Petronini he he, so of course she is beautiful. We hung out and talked for a  few hours. Than we went downtown, than ended up at Dalinas house. Dalina is finishing law school. SHe's super fun. We went latter to her place and we talked till probably about 5:30 a.m. OMG!!! :) what the heck!!! :)&lt;br /&gt;I miss my baby so much. Byron is doing finals right now and i feel bad im not there to cuddle during hard times. I love you honey!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Work has been fine. I kinda like it. Ed ( my boss) is teaching me a bunch of fun things so its been great so far.&lt;br /&gt;Juliana gave me a microdem yesterday and holly molly my face is sooo smooth. Its lots of fun to play with her machines. I love this stuff.&lt;br /&gt;This weekend im planing to spend with Dalina and Oriona. Juliana and Earl are going out of town so im scared to be in the house by my self. Im having the girls over and we can tan by the pool. Go downtown have sushi and maybe a bit of shoping. Pretty nice ehh??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is super fun for now. I got nothing to complain. THank you GOD for this beautiful place. Baby i miss you so much it hurts my little heart. I love you forever. I would rather be fighting with u right now than laughing with anyone else :) But u'll be here very soon. CANT WAIT!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See ya latter,&lt;br /&gt;CIAO&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-1945900812278433425?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/1945900812278433425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=1945900812278433425' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1945900812278433425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1945900812278433425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-new-friends-in-san-diego.html' title='My New Friends in San Diego'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S9DE4Q0HSiI/AAAAAAAAAjk/ab_OOmkX-Gg/s72-c/25379_10100205369933880_7920844_60468489_4147100_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-6567025219169542864</id><published>2010-04-06T19:02:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T19:19:01.598-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Last Days in Nebraska</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S7voOIHRKlI/AAAAAAAAAjE/c6NQ54zp-Qc/s1600/IMG_1412-1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457210702883269202" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S7voOIHRKlI/AAAAAAAAAjE/c6NQ54zp-Qc/s400/IMG_1412-1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S7voFv_dVRI/AAAAAAAAAi8/_I0i1G2nzs8/s1600/IMG_1421-1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457210558969107730" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S7voFv_dVRI/AAAAAAAAAi8/_I0i1G2nzs8/s400/IMG_1421-1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Is it really time?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron and I went to a fund raiser at the Law School and spent a few hours with friends. I met the dean and she actually came gave me a big hug and said that she is really going to miss us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today was my last day at Td Ameritrade. I did my resignation letter yesterday so i couldnt talk to clients anymore. I spent a couple days writing thank you letters for helping me get a job with the company in San Diego which i respectfully turned down. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I really like the new firm im going to work for. it is a small firm in Carlsbad and its so funny how Byron's aunt Kelly works on the third floor of my same building. Im first floor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I love California. Im meant to live there. I love the shopping, i love the food. I love the people. Im looking forward to being healthy and fit. I really want to get a convertible because the weather is just so fabulous but we will have to wait a bit on that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you Nebraska for such great friends. Yes, i did have my ups and downs here i have to admit, although i know i will never find such warm hearted people as in the midwest and i feel blessed to have had the opportunity to have a taste of it. Thank you to Td Ameritrade for teaching me so much these couple of years. I never thought i would ever enjoy anything that has to do with the stock market or investing. Thank you for helping me to get to know myself better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes Im scared.Who knows what the future holds for us, but i know that as long as we're together we could be in Africa for all i care and we would be happy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hopefully i get my scuba certification this summer so we can go scuba together in Cancun latter in the year. Im very exited. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We got out of our Condo in Ashland and we're staying with Dirks till Thursday. We leave for California on Thursday. I know!!! I cant believe it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-6567025219169542864?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/6567025219169542864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=6567025219169542864' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6567025219169542864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6567025219169542864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/04/last-days-in-nebraska.html' title='Last Days in Nebraska'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S7voOIHRKlI/AAAAAAAAAjE/c6NQ54zp-Qc/s72-c/IMG_1412-1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-8810090048021979287</id><published>2010-03-18T07:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T07:55:03.220-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My addiction to Sushi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S6IzO5ryDLI/AAAAAAAAAeY/uvsXASPCV78/s1600-h/IMG_1260.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449974830167362738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S6IzO5ryDLI/AAAAAAAAAeY/uvsXASPCV78/s400/IMG_1260.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S6IzLM3pCBI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/Pv2t4wgEtAo/s1600-h/IMG_1255.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449974766597900306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S6IzLM3pCBI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/Pv2t4wgEtAo/s400/IMG_1255.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So this is one of my favorite foods to make. SUSHI!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I dont know how i got so addicted to it. I started few years back and it has become now my favorite food to eat and make. I youtube it so much to find new ways and new combinations. Mostly i just put whatever sounds good to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These pics were from this weekend. I made sushi at Dirks'es place for Byron Dirks Danielle and Jamie. It was really good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I made shrimp and veg tempura and poor byron burned his finger but he was such a trooper. If it were me i would have been crying all night long. If there is one pain that i cannot stand is burn pain. Sorry cant deal with it!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We tried a recepy rice this time so we added sugar, salt and rice vignegar and it became oh delicious!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways, Im pretty exited about becoming even better at this stuff. Its a dream of mine to own a sushi bar. Something really small. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was St. patricks Day yesteray. We went out with Jeff&amp;amp; Sara, Kyt, Julie and talkeda about ghosts all night it scared the crap out of me. I'll put some pics up latter. I leave for San Diego tonight and will be back on Tuesday. Ill miss my baby sooo much&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-8810090048021979287?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/8810090048021979287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=8810090048021979287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/8810090048021979287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/8810090048021979287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-addiction-to-sushi.html' title='My addiction to Sushi'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S6IzO5ryDLI/AAAAAAAAAeY/uvsXASPCV78/s72-c/IMG_1260.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-1533799507601153185</id><published>2010-03-03T12:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T14:16:03.265-08:00</updated><title type='text'>For the past few months...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S47fk05crWI/AAAAAAAAAbs/Bpkwz_yUgJ4/s1600-h/sunshine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444534823305391458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 354px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 337px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S47fk05crWI/AAAAAAAAAbs/Bpkwz_yUgJ4/s400/sunshine.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;its been a while since ive written what we have been up to. Life just flows so fast sometimes, it goes and goes...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a great Christmas and New Year in Utah. We spent a bunch of time with Byron's family. Playing face ten till 2 am and than going to In&amp;amp;Out. Oh my GOSH. Cant believe they have In&amp;amp;Out in Utah now. You should see the line of 25 cars in the drive through. Ridiculous. But we had to go. Had to have it. I liked it more on the way to California, a stop in Vegas for an In&amp;amp;Out, it was more special that way. Now its not special, its everywhere lol&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Christmas was fun so was New Years. We spent time with my Brother Elson and Maria ( which by the way r going to Tokyo, Japan on vacation on a couple of months, im totally jelous). Saw a few of my friends. its so silly how they all have the cutest kids in the world. Like Edlira. OMG. She has two boys now and they are the most adorable little boys in the world. They bought this huge house i hadnt seen so i went to visit to take a look. Its Gigantic!!! She also just got a brand new baby grand. Oh so gorgeous!!! We spent New Years with Bryson and Jonisa and than had to leave the next day. I didnt even have time to do my hair which so desperately needed Jace...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We made it home ok. Did i forget to say that we hit a dear on our way to Utah. Yeah, it sucked!!! We had Steve and Marianne with us and their TWO DOGS!! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;January passed smoothly. Byron started the new semester. I started my new job. I like it so far, its totally sales and im into it. had to take another licence, i passed, thank goodness!!! We had Valentines in North Platte at Jake's place. Byron got me a diamond neckless and it was gorgeous. I got him flowers hehehe. and this amazing candle that smelled so good. Byron has just such a strong sense of smell its fascinating. I tell him that its because he only has one nastral. lool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a blast in North Platte with Dirks, Danielle, Jake &amp;amp; Lindsay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron through a fundraiser for Haiti. Im still amazed today about the great work he did. We did it at a piano bar in town. Byron went around different places and got them to donate things or gift cards and than we had people get ruffle tickets to get the prizes. We raised about $900. Than the owner of the piano bar gave byron an envelope with all the door tickets about 700$ it was amazing that he did that. Byron was almost in tears. We send the funds to haiti the enxt day to rebuild a school in Jacmel. It was a wonderful experience and im so proud of my baby!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, things are starting to get hectic around here. Im still looking for a job in CALI. Byrons finals are aproaching and the plan is to move in May. Its insane. where will we be in three months??!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-1533799507601153185?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/1533799507601153185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=1533799507601153185' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1533799507601153185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1533799507601153185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-past-few-months.html' title='For the past few months...'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/S47fk05crWI/AAAAAAAAAbs/Bpkwz_yUgJ4/s72-c/sunshine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-3919466285538827738</id><published>2009-11-13T14:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T15:42:33.573-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are we just too sensitive?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sv3nZIhJ0lI/AAAAAAAAAS4/yLG_1kny-4o/s1600-h/black-white-hands.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403729546883748434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sv3nZIhJ0lI/AAAAAAAAAS4/yLG_1kny-4o/s400/black-white-hands.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;R we just too senssitive to hurt smbs feelings nowdays? I cant call smb a retard or gay just because im going to offend sm particular group. Why are we so senssitive? PPl arent equal, no matter how much we try hard to believe so. Yes, on paper we all fight for rights of equality but r we?&lt;br /&gt;I told a caucasian friend yesterday that i didnt like black comedy. By "black comedy" i meant slangish type of comedy which maybe because of my foreign origin i just dont get. Just like i dont get "redneck jokes" because i have nothing in comon with country/redneck living and i dont find it funny. The white person i was having this conversation with jumped in my face stating that i was steriotyping black ppl. I dont believe so. I believe being black is a culture not just a color.&lt;br /&gt;Im talking in this case about black people born in United States. Not Foreigners.&lt;br /&gt;I believe people should express themselves freely withought being judged. Overdeffening something that doesnt need deffence only emphasizes the fragility of our preccious equality.&lt;br /&gt;R we equal? r we really? I dont think so.&lt;br /&gt;An African American Person has 80% more chances to get into a school of their liking, and get a scolarship compared to a white caucasian . So do they have higher chances of getting hired as Firefighter. So are they 90% better at sports. So do they usually have hardcore abs and amazing bodies. So, white ppl r u jelous?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My white friend felt the need of deffening....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dont look at color. Color for me has no meaning whatsoever. I personally find dark people very attractive even though i have to admit i grew up in a semi-racist environment ( First time i saw a black person was when i was 12-13.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a problem with sensitivity. Why do we have to be sensitive. Why r we affread to speak the truth. Why are we affread to be judged. Why do we gossip. Why dont we love people for who they are and apprecciate and learn from their differences. Why cant we just accept that black/white/yellow/red is the same, but different. We can embrace the differences and love them. Being different only emphasizes how unique you are.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-3919466285538827738?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/3919466285538827738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=3919466285538827738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/3919466285538827738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/3919466285538827738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/11/are-we-just-too-sensitive.html' title='Are we just too sensitive?'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sv3nZIhJ0lI/AAAAAAAAAS4/yLG_1kny-4o/s72-c/black-white-hands.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-6083626555459989744</id><published>2009-10-23T10:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T10:42:58.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dentist time...BOOOOO</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SuHl8mIuTSI/AAAAAAAAASY/dmpz4Zee1Z4/s1600-h/the-endodontic-procedure-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395846657758612770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 243px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SuHl8mIuTSI/AAAAAAAAASY/dmpz4Zee1Z4/s400/the-endodontic-procedure-3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, lovely, I have to go to the dentist like 10 times before Christmas!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They are all refills to the root cn i have had before. All three of them. One i can understand because i had it done in 1996 or so and it was done by my middle school dentist. Total terrorist this one. I remember i was in so much pain. Whats with Albanian dentists and not wanting to numb ur teeth. They give you the most idiotic excuses about why u should treat a tooth with the nerve still screaming for help. Auuuchhh&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;THe other two i had done were done by an American Dentist, holly molly...Anyways...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I started with one a couple of days ago. My endodontist looks like he is about his late 20s which kinda freaked me out. Brand new out of Dental School :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Second issue i have is why does the Dentist cost so much?? Im so sick and tired looking at Medical Bills costing so much money. He spent two hours on my tooth and there goess $200 out of my pocket. 20% of the $1000 Not only i pay insurance everymonth but than i have to pay again when i actually need something? Moi, not happy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its almost the end of October, kinda crazy. This week we've been all over the place and im thinking maybe By and I will take this weekend off. On Tuesday we went ON this cool activity. Trav and Kim invited us and we went on a Limo Ride to all these restaurants that had prepared this meal for us. My favorite was the salad and desert. Better than Sex desert. I say Have Sex and the desert afterwards. That would be hmm...insane :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Work is going ok. I cant believe time has just gone by so fast. Next week is Halloween and i cant believe its here already. That means Thanksgiving is around the corner and than comes Christmassss...YESSS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My mom and dad r coming so im so exited to see them in Utah. Im ready for some snowboarding as well. Cant wait. I really need to work out. Ive gained so much weight its sick. Sick i tell ya. Both of us r just chubby and happy is what we are hahaha...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-6083626555459989744?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/6083626555459989744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=6083626555459989744' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6083626555459989744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6083626555459989744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/10/dentist-timebooooo.html' title='Dentist time...BOOOOO'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SuHl8mIuTSI/AAAAAAAAASY/dmpz4Zee1Z4/s72-c/the-endodontic-procedure-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5145739094028646888</id><published>2009-08-13T13:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T13:48:17.282-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Byron Finishes Summer School</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SoR5cc1b1_I/AAAAAAAAARg/g3qRMnxhU5g/s1600-h/101_5200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369550185416087538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SoR5cc1b1_I/AAAAAAAAARg/g3qRMnxhU5g/s400/101_5200.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Holy Cow, its over Finally. Byron is done with his summer school Im so proud of him. He has been going to school for 1 year streight and that just got to be tiring.&lt;br /&gt;Summers in Nebraska are hot and steamy. WE dont really do much. Go out with friends, have sushi. Mostly work and school. Although im happy we havent had any tornadoes. I was so afread of tornadoes when we moved here.&lt;br /&gt;I really wish we could take a vacation fo some sort. Not until Christmas though.&lt;br /&gt;We can do it!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5145739094028646888?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5145739094028646888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5145739094028646888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5145739094028646888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5145739094028646888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/08/byron-finishes-summer-school.html' title='Byron Finishes Summer School'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SoR5cc1b1_I/AAAAAAAAARg/g3qRMnxhU5g/s72-c/101_5200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-4075153852948187551</id><published>2009-07-15T10:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T10:33:06.710-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Weekend Fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4RaB1qVAI/AAAAAAAAAOM/nUjTd0T7TPE/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358739745485247490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4RaB1qVAI/AAAAAAAAAOM/nUjTd0T7TPE/s400/photo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4RPZpSlEI/AAAAAAAAAOE/e2f3Ra6JOV0/s1600-h/photo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358739562897249346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4RPZpSlEI/AAAAAAAAAOE/e2f3Ra6JOV0/s400/photo1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we're exited!!! Byron got done with his second term summer classes and we played all weekend long. Its been a busy summer so far with work and school and this weekend was actually super fun all around. We went golfing with Eric&amp;amp;Meg. I decided i really like golfing. I want to learn and maybe get myself a pair of clubs, why not!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Watched "Public Enemy" which was ok, went out to SUSHI ( of course ) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Watched th UFC fight on Saturday and it was INSANE. My poor baby Mir got his face smashed pretty bad. We were at a sports place and it was soo busy there was no place to sit. Although this guy let me sit on his chair, that was nice. Its nice to be a woman :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had our anniversary on July 7vth but i'll write a special post about that a different day since im missing pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4Qhe6811I/AAAAAAAAAN8/zdkY9Yw2u_8/s1600-h/photo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4QYr794QI/AAAAAAAAAN0/dshSgB7UF0o/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-4075153852948187551?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/4075153852948187551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=4075153852948187551' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4075153852948187551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4075153852948187551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/07/weekend-fun.html' title='Weekend Fun'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sl4RaB1qVAI/AAAAAAAAAOM/nUjTd0T7TPE/s72-c/photo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-2132961001023443954</id><published>2009-07-05T20:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-05T20:28:41.803-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4rth of July, 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SlFqPHpJXfI/AAAAAAAAANU/x7HVW6DtPNg/s1600-h/IMG_0914.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355178239902440946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SlFqPHpJXfI/AAAAAAAAANU/x7HVW6DtPNg/s400/IMG_0914.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Exept that we're both looking in different ways !!! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We always encounter this problem when we take pictures of ourselves. We usually laugh at it because we always say "dont look at the screeen" !!!!!....our camera has a screen that u can lift and rotate so u can look at urself while taking a pic...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This past week was nice at work. I had a fabulous schedule 8- 4:30 and it was awesome. It is the summer so its pretty slow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thursday was fun and irritating. Fun for all the wrong reasons, and irritating for all the right ones. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Friday, we went out to Sushi, lovely and afterwards drove over to Weaverly at Travis's house, they were having a huge party over at their neighboorhood. We had a total blast. Came back home around 4:30 or so. I met a few new people over there and we had fun. These guys are attorneys that work in different firms around Lincoln and Omaha. Mostly all married, few of course having merital problems. Duh, if u're out partying at 3 a.m. and u're married but you come by urself while ur wife is sleeping....no wonder ur having problems. It happens all the time that i dont particularly want to go whenever Byron wants to go out and vice versa....BUT i will go, i think it is important for a married couple to hang out together. This last sentence may sound a little unnecessary since it is a given, but not a lot of people understand the importance of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saturday was the 4rth of July. We went over to Lincoln and watched Larry, the cable guy. Ok, that guy completely annoyes me beyond reason. Could not understand a word he was saying. I gave up.We stayed for a bit and than left. Plus, it was raining and my hair was all over the place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We ate at a mexican place while we watched fireworks. It was fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I feel a little sick, My throat was hurting since last week and i feel weak. Its Sunday and i better head off to bed so i get some sleep before i have to go to work tomorrow. This long weekend was way nice!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-2132961001023443954?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/2132961001023443954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=2132961001023443954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/2132961001023443954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/2132961001023443954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/07/4rth-of-july-2009.html' title='4rth of July, 2009'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SlFqPHpJXfI/AAAAAAAAANU/x7HVW6DtPNg/s72-c/IMG_0914.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-6730885223916160566</id><published>2009-06-27T23:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-27T23:40:46.724-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Memories...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SkcJ_686-nI/AAAAAAAAAM0/YjVgGICWLuI/s1600-h/jackson-michael-photo-michael-jackson-6205114.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352257675914312306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SkcJ_686-nI/AAAAAAAAAM0/YjVgGICWLuI/s400/jackson-michael-photo-michael-jackson-6205114.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Michael Jackson died on Thursday, June 25, 2009. The news was all over the place.  A lot of people just made fun of the news or simply did not care. Elson sent me a text message and i do not know why i got so sad about it. I was driving home from work and they were playing MJ songs and i got really nostalgic.&lt;br /&gt;I remember the time being in elementary school and going to my grandmas house after class, to wait for Elson to be done with his classes so that we could both go home together. I always remember MJ in the bakcground. I remember the little birthday partys, Mj always in the background. Oh he was everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;I remember the first time i had a crush on a guy and the time he told me he loved me and i acted like i was NOT interested- still MJ in the background.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time flies :( U're all of a sudden all grown up, married, working. Where has all that time gone??&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-6730885223916160566?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/6730885223916160566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=6730885223916160566' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6730885223916160566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6730885223916160566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/memories.html' title='Memories...'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SkcJ_686-nI/AAAAAAAAAM0/YjVgGICWLuI/s72-c/jackson-michael-photo-michael-jackson-6205114.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-7510214006494830741</id><published>2009-06-24T18:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T19:06:42.089-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My First Ticket</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SkLXZKTBAKI/AAAAAAAAAMs/2AMuP8Gclzg/s1600-h/speeding-ticket.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351076134530384034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SkLXZKTBAKI/AAAAAAAAAMs/2AMuP8Gclzg/s400/speeding-ticket.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I was driving to work yesterday and i was ALMOST there, on Chandler road going to Southroads. I saw Mr officer sitting in his car right by a turn and i knew i saw him too late. I turned and there he came after me. I have been pulled over many many times since we've moved to Nebraska but never, NEVER did i ever think i was going to get a ticket this morning???!!!! I'm 25 years old and i have never gotten a ticket. I was so sad. I was cramping so bad yesterday and i was SUCH IN A BAD MOOD. Now i have to attent this stupid class which they have made it from 4 hours to 8 hours uhhhh.... NOT FUN!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Im going through Broker Training right now at work and im not so exited about it. Its a bit confusing when u have to place trades for margin accounts auch. Although i have to be an expert by tuesday so i better learn it !!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-7510214006494830741?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/7510214006494830741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=7510214006494830741' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7510214006494830741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7510214006494830741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-first-ticket.html' title='My First Ticket'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SkLXZKTBAKI/AAAAAAAAAMs/2AMuP8Gclzg/s72-c/speeding-ticket.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5761587285250874604</id><published>2009-06-15T20:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T20:12:44.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Surprise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjcLUtrgInI/AAAAAAAAAL0/d5wwGj-CHNU/s1600-h/IMG_0871.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347755533013099122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjcLUtrgInI/AAAAAAAAAL0/d5wwGj-CHNU/s400/IMG_0871.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today was another one of my days off so i decided that i was going to cook dinner for my love. I woke up and drove to Omaha. I shopped at the Asian Market for some sushi ingridients. I have made sushi before over a year ago. I was such in the mood to make it again today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron told me he would be home by 5 p.m. and i was going to make everything so pretty and dress up as a japanese slut ( old halloween constume lol ) . Well, that didnt happen. He showed up at 4:30 so i wasnt dressed and i hadnt put the candles in or anything. So yeah!!! He ruined my surprise haha...nevertheless we had an amazing dinner. I had done vegatable tempura too which turned out very good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I made Shrimp tempura. It was amaaaazing. We had so much of it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Afterwards we passed out. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What a great day, tomorrow gotta go to the Gym early in the morning so i better head to bed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5761587285250874604?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5761587285250874604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5761587285250874604' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5761587285250874604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5761587285250874604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/surprise.html' title='Surprise'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjcLUtrgInI/AAAAAAAAAL0/d5wwGj-CHNU/s72-c/IMG_0871.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-4853664817502009661</id><published>2009-06-14T01:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T01:39:30.175-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Unfaithful"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjSwfQvTvWI/AAAAAAAAALs/vengCkfghYc/s1600-h/unfaithful12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347092708711447906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjSwfQvTvWI/AAAAAAAAALs/vengCkfghYc/s400/unfaithful12.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ..."Drink wine.. it's what remains of the harvest of youth - theseason of roses and wine and drunken friends. Be happy for a moment,that moment's your life..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So i was watching Good Will HUnting which i love till this movie started right after&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hate this movie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For me, the whole point of the movie was the arbitrary nature of infidelity, the fact that you could be the happiest person on earth and meet somebody over there, and suddenly your life's changed. And u're hot French boyfriend ends up dead and ur husband going to jail just because u wanted to screw a bookdealer in his dirty studio apartment ano ocasionally by the staircase.&lt;br /&gt;Every decision she made, from not getting in the cab in the first place, was a conscious decision??? "She was surprised she was invited over. She was surprised he wanted to have sex with her. What did you expect? Excuse me, its the third time you've been in this guy's apartment!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bullcrap, but i hate it. Its so real this movie makes me sick!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-4853664817502009661?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/4853664817502009661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=4853664817502009661' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4853664817502009661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4853664817502009661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/unfaithful.html' title='&quot;Unfaithful&quot;'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjSwfQvTvWI/AAAAAAAAALs/vengCkfghYc/s72-c/unfaithful12.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-5239153260315528057</id><published>2009-06-11T06:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T06:51:43.007-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pablo Neruda</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjEKJnx8aZI/AAAAAAAAALI/kQyNsvHzlUA/s1600-h/6a00d414308aad3c7f00d09e6f50b8be2b-500pi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346065393079052690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 322px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjEKJnx8aZI/AAAAAAAAALI/kQyNsvHzlUA/s400/6a00d414308aad3c7f00d09e6f50b8be2b-500pi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pablo Neruda, one of my favorite authors. Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I do not love you...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;in secret, between the shadow and the soul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I love you as the plant that never blooms&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;so I love you because I know no other way&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;that this: where I does not exist, nor you,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-5239153260315528057?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/5239153260315528057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=5239153260315528057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5239153260315528057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/5239153260315528057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/pablo-neruda.html' title='Pablo Neruda'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SjEKJnx8aZI/AAAAAAAAALI/kQyNsvHzlUA/s72-c/6a00d414308aad3c7f00d09e6f50b8be2b-500pi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-6011653033468498434</id><published>2009-06-09T15:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T16:41:04.929-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Doing the Right thing Sucks!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Si7jDjEfN0I/AAAAAAAAALA/5aDRgbAjJ6w/s1600-h/Sad_Excuse_For_A_Grip_by_TheTragicTruth_Of_Me.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345459457828534082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Si7jDjEfN0I/AAAAAAAAALA/5aDRgbAjJ6w/s400/Sad_Excuse_For_A_Grip_by_TheTragicTruth_Of_Me.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes, it does!!! ( Sometimes) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I've been ignoring doing the right thing for a while. Why? Because its easy to do stupid things and let life direct u sometimes instead of the opposite. I will tell you one thing, it is hard to do the right thing, not only hard it sucks a** :) Pardon my french. I never swear but this one deserves it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;THe other thing i hate, confrontations. Uhh i hate them, first of all when i get mad i can barely remember english, i start talking like Borat and totally pisses me off cuz i really care about being literale and eloquent expetially in such circumstances when i'm having an argument with someone. I hate arguments. I would rather not talk, i cannot stand when ppl get mad. I would rather go for a walk and meet latter at night and talk sitting on a patio or out for a coffie ( per say i dont drink coffie) Nothing comes out of arguing. U're just going to look at eachother in a very ugly disposition. You say mean words and eventhough u will say "im sorry" ( and mean it) Ur memory does not forget. Your memory will always remember the mean words that were said. I'm a big beliver in good Karma. So, Sorround urself by good Karma people!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It sucks when u realise that u have to go through a change, ( trust me a healthy change) that hurts at first. Now, long run.....GREATTT STUFFF....but now, it sucks &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But what do i love??...hiking the mountain... thank goodness i love challenger. As Miley Cyrus says..."Its the climb" ...doesnt matter whats on top or the other side. Its the climb that drives me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok now i ended up totally cheezy, cant believe i quoted Miley Cyrus, i need therapy. MAJOR&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-6011653033468498434?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/6011653033468498434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=6011653033468498434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6011653033468498434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6011653033468498434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/doing-right-thing-sucks.html' title='Doing the Right thing Sucks!!!!'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Si7jDjEfN0I/AAAAAAAAALA/5aDRgbAjJ6w/s72-c/Sad_Excuse_For_A_Grip_by_TheTragicTruth_Of_Me.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-1790657383560882323</id><published>2009-06-03T20:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T20:55:31.857-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Piano o Forte</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sic6xZoPX3I/AAAAAAAAAKI/xibetYP3EOY/s1600-h/hands100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sic6xZoPX3I/AAAAAAAAAKI/xibetYP3EOY/s400/hands100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343304103266049906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I wrote such a long post and than decided to delete it all. I think i just needed to write it out for me to state a change in myself. Yes i need to forget PIANO, and move forward FORTE!!! I'm exited for this revolution of mine and Im ready. I love my life and Byron so much. We are so lucky to have found eachother and to have recognised how impossible life would be without oneanother. U might run into turbulence and storms, yes, life gets busy sometimes with work, school, studying all day...but its nice to get back to basics.&lt;br /&gt;I love you honey, I know you have a test tomorrow. You will do wonderful. You're a exeptional man that loves me so much i could not, possibly, ever ask for more. You're always there to hold me in your arms when im most voulnerable and you know how hard it is for me to show voulnerability. You're the only man that realy knows me. I love you today more than yesterday, less than tomorow. I love you.....THIS IS THE REAL THING&lt;br /&gt;this...u'll never read :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-1790657383560882323?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/1790657383560882323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=1790657383560882323' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1790657383560882323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1790657383560882323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/06/piano-o-forte.html' title='Piano o Forte'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sic6xZoPX3I/AAAAAAAAAKI/xibetYP3EOY/s72-c/hands100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-7331157929908186886</id><published>2009-05-24T10:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T11:38:19.947-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Mistake</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShmJI7nTxgI/AAAAAAAAAKA/smfDZBfwX4M/s1600-h/keepout.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339449619758958082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShmJI7nTxgI/AAAAAAAAAKA/smfDZBfwX4M/s400/keepout.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A few things happened last week, and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;I've&lt;/span&gt; been very upset for a few days now. I was exactly where i wanted to be and i was happy. Until something happened and shattered my little plans. For those of you that know me, know that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;I'm&lt;/span&gt; NOT a patient woman. If i really want to have something i work very hard to get it, and i will have it. Now, of course i do not give my self unreasonable desires, they are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;rationally&lt;/span&gt; reachable. I usually aim a little higher than i would probably reach. I still remember the time i adopted this type of reasoning. I was in middle school and i was listening to the conversation my parents and another adult couple were having in the living room. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Smb&lt;/span&gt; was explaining with a lot of passion how you should always aim your goals for the stars, because even if &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;u're&lt;/span&gt; not going to get there &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;u're&lt;/span&gt; for sure going to reach somewhere close by. I started thinking about it. I loved this theory and i still believe in it Today. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I made a mistake. It is very humbling to make a mistake. I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;didn't&lt;/span&gt; sleep for two days in a row and i kept thinking to myself how could i have been so irresponsible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron was so suportive and cute. He came home while i was crying and was singing me songs and telling funny jokes, performing right in front of me, and i was crying, and laughing at the same time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;OK, so i dealt with the sadness but now i have to dealt with the fact that i really really want a few things that i cant have. At least not right now, not for a while. How does one deal with this dilema?!! How do you cope with the desire to want smth U know you cant have for a milion reasonable reasons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ehhh....I say Besjana, quit being a child, get over it. U cant everything in life. U CANT WIN AT EVERYTHING. U gotta accept a loss with dignity and class. :) U have to work hard and show that u fall , and u rise again. U work hard and u show that nothing can bring you down, nor anyone. This is the time that you show what u're made of. PERIOD!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-7331157929908186886?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/7331157929908186886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=7331157929908186886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7331157929908186886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7331157929908186886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-mistake.html' title='Big Mistake'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShmJI7nTxgI/AAAAAAAAAKA/smfDZBfwX4M/s72-c/keepout.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-7034050579058768322</id><published>2009-05-23T16:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-23T17:48:53.139-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Bahamas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShiP6l_0XvI/AAAAAAAAAJw/Tq5PWFAxHRA/s1600-h/IMG_0366.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShiOYuUn9MI/AAAAAAAAAJo/W5CCxzkh_Rk/s1600-h/IMG_0686.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339173913650263234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShiOYuUn9MI/AAAAAAAAAJo/W5CCxzkh_Rk/s400/IMG_0686.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; So, a few things happen last week and i didnt write about our trip to the Bahamas. I had never been there before. It was my first time. We were planing on going to Cancun but the swine flu kinda messed everything up for us. Its ok!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We left the day after Byron finnished his Finals. It was a bit hectic. Elson and Maria were already there few days before us. We hadnt seen them since we went to Albania. We left Nebraska around 7 a.m. and arrived in Nassau around 6:30 p.m. Elson was waiting for us at the hotel. My first thought about him was "O My Gosh, u're sooo tan, lol" Im not used to seeing my brother tanner than me. Im usually always the one that is way way tanner than anyone else.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The villas where we stayed were right by the beach. It was beautiful. I have never seen such beaches. Speechless!!!  Food on the other side was not good at all and very expenssive. Whenever i thought of the bahamas i always pictured hot pirates, fresh fruit, grilled sea food. Oh so wronggg lol.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although it truly was beautiful and we had a blast. Earl and Juliana, Victoria were there as well. We played at Atlantis, saw a lot of sharks, went on crazy rides that would pull my bathingsuits all over the place so i flashed evb few times. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The local guys were all over the turists. I think the pick up line of the day "hello pretty girl, r u married? haha" it was hilarious. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It ended before i wanted it to end. I'm ready for another vacation already, isnt that crazy? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I havent really loved this week at work. It has been really hard on me for a few reasons. I still really like it but it will take some time to get over some stuff.  I hope it is soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-7034050579058768322?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/7034050579058768322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=7034050579058768322' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7034050579058768322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7034050579058768322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/05/bahamas.html' title='The Bahamas'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/ShiOYuUn9MI/AAAAAAAAAJo/W5CCxzkh_Rk/s72-c/IMG_0686.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-110004521972135564</id><published>2009-04-30T19:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T20:45:49.200-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Made in Albania</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfpfO83a9TI/AAAAAAAAAHo/lvT0QgIvXSU/s1600-h/mail.google.com.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfpfO83a9TI/AAAAAAAAAHo/lvT0QgIvXSU/s400/mail.google.com.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330677819407791410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a few conversations that made me think about my childhood today. I started thinking about the way i was raised and the fact that what i remember from being a little girl growing up in the 80s under a communist regime will be by no mean anywhere close to the way my children will be raised in the states. It made me think about how they, together with many children of different parts of the world will be a product of globalization, a product of brands.&lt;br /&gt;They will all play soccer with a ball that marks the word Adidas, drink from a bottle that reads "coca-cola" they will be able to understand any child their age in countries far,far-away..&lt;br /&gt;understand anything but their mother and where she came from.&lt;br /&gt;Never in a milion years did i dream about the life i have now when that picture was taken. I was born on August 28, 1983 in Tirana, Albania and just like any other respectul family lived in a two bedroom apartment on the third floor about 10 blocks from the capital's downtown. We had a black and white antena tv that officialy should only get the Albanian National Chanel which would most of the time talk about the Party and how good Comunism is and how we should always be ready to serve the country. I went to school at a time where your teacher would slap you in front of the class if you wouldnt know a question, and there was no easy number you could dial to report the abuse :) Even thought the parents would be the ones that would encourage the beating in the first place. -Yes Mrs XXXX, if my child does not know the answer to the problem, just slap them :) ....OK, i did dramatise a bit but this doesnt take away from the fact that it was true.&lt;br /&gt;Toys where all chinese brand, mostly plastic, nothing was plush and soft. I used to sleep with my plastic bear when i went to bed, he was yellow and the skin was just carvings on the plastic. I used to squizz him so much when i slept that i would wake up with my cheeck bearing the marks of his skin which would take about 20 jminutes to go away. Your neighboors were as close as a member of the family and everybody knew ur business in a 40 block radius.&lt;br /&gt;I always got what i wanted mainly because of my well known lastname and my father, but i often wanted the oposite of what my parents wanted for me so i had to work for it myself.&lt;br /&gt;I never knew jelousy of smb having a cuter bike than i did. In our neighboorhood there was only one kid with a bike that we ALL USED. It was a comune bike :) No, my parents did not push me along to teach me and did not cry when they let go of the bike like a comercial on tv. I learned by myself and thats why my knees where often bloody and my parents worried that i was too much of a tom-boy. We never had much growing up but we had friendship and imagination. I remember staying up so late playing outside with my friends games of all kinds and i can never see the laughs we had than in a childs face now while i watch them play WII or nintendo or guitar hero for what matters.&lt;br /&gt;We read books intead of whatching Tv. There was nothing to whatch in the first place. Exept Jugoslav porn ( which u would get from the antena Tv) we all had the same furniture in our houses. Same backpacks that often would get confused so we used to put stickers and write our names on them. Had the same clothes, same toys. We were equal !!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was no crime, no drugs, nothing really u could get in trouble with...until....the 90s came along and everything changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My brother and I uwsually frequented the same school even though he was 4 years older than me. We would walk to school together everyday and often make up stories about places we would rather be and things we would like to have. Among Piano, Italian, English and French classes i was taking after school i would often walk on dark streets around 11:00 p.m coming back home. Education was NUMBER 1. If u werent a 4.0 student u were a nobody. I had to pracice hours of piano everyday and i hated it. My mom used to go to the neighboor and tell me i would be dead if she didnt hear me practice. Like the rebel child that i was, used to record myself play, and play a tape really loud ( sound would crarry through concreete walls and she thought i was practicing)...i would do that because i couldnt wait to watch some Friends or BH90210...while painting my toe nails :) and i dreamt about a life like that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No Albanian Girl has low self esteem. U would be told 100 times a day how beautiful u were from guys hanging on the streets. It wasnt something dirty, mostly just cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I listened to music fro the 70s and often wished i had lived the hippie times. I often feel way older than i am and often find i have more things in comon with a 40year old than people my age.&lt;br /&gt;But my kids, they will be able to understand anyone across the GLobe, but not me, their mother. I will probably give examples of how i learned life growing up and i'm sure they will look at me and they will not understand.... because i'm part of a generation now extinct. A generation that will be never understood but only by its peers. A generation that bears the brand "Made in Albania"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-110004521972135564?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/110004521972135564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=110004521972135564' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/110004521972135564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/110004521972135564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/04/made-in-albania.html' title='Made in Albania'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfpfO83a9TI/AAAAAAAAAHo/lvT0QgIvXSU/s72-c/mail.google.com.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-1790182940508785214</id><published>2009-04-28T15:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T15:21:37.732-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sleeping</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sfd-TNMJ1iI/AAAAAAAAAHI/YSMv_YF8FPA/s1600-h/kangaroo-sleeping.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329867552439522850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sfd-TNMJ1iI/AAAAAAAAAHI/YSMv_YF8FPA/s400/kangaroo-sleeping.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was sleeping beside me like an angel. He was pretty tired, and was now hugging the pillow and was mumbling some nonsense i couldnt understand, but was still so cute to watch.  I like looking at people while they sleep. They look so peaceful and i always wonder what they're dreaming about. Wouldnt it be wonderful to borrow somebody's dreams for a night. I usually have very wierd dreams, but tonight i was right awake and i couldnt sleep.&lt;br /&gt;He suddenly moved and wraped his body around mine. His feet were comingled with mine and his arm was around my body. He was still sleeping while i was still awake looking at the ceeling.&lt;br /&gt;Now i cant move, I cant move an inch because i would wake him up. I didnt want to wake him up but i wanted to move some, plus i wanted to drink watter suddenly now that i couldnt move i needed a drink really bad...than...i felt an itch i needed to scratch but i couldnt move...and..i really wanted to go to the bathroom...I didnt want to wake him up....&lt;br /&gt;My body started getting numb and i was suddenly feeling it go from my feet to my arms. Wonder how ur head feels when its numb. I have to moveeeee.....&lt;br /&gt;I had to move and i did..I woke him up. - Huuuh, where r u going??" always asks me the same question everytime i wake up at night to go to the bathroom...and i always give the same answer,&lt;br /&gt;"to the bathroom" :)&lt;br /&gt;I laid in bed yet again and i still couldnt sleep. I started dreaming about what i would like to dream and i smiled. Than...i ended up asleep, having one of those "wierd dreams" yet again..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-1790182940508785214?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/1790182940508785214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=1790182940508785214' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1790182940508785214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1790182940508785214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/04/sleeping.html' title='Sleeping'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sfd-TNMJ1iI/AAAAAAAAAHI/YSMv_YF8FPA/s72-c/kangaroo-sleeping.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-4552730553694122129</id><published>2009-04-26T12:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T12:33:03.538-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SWINE FLU??!!!! what the heck</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfS1TCMIXkI/AAAAAAAAAHA/J-daOkudZok/s1600-h/323de550-3e73-4683-8ee4-74f5a616e47c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfS1TCMIXkI/AAAAAAAAAHA/J-daOkudZok/s400/323de550-3e73-4683-8ee4-74f5a616e47c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329083597696032322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So instead of me going shopping for bathing suits and being exited about Cancun we probably will have to cancel our trip unless we want to get he Swine Flu. What the heck is this flu anyways?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;In March and April 2009, more than 1,000 cases of swine flu in humans were detected in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico"&gt;Mexico&lt;/a&gt;, and more than 80 deaths are suspected to have a connection with the virus. As of April 25, 2009 19:30 EDT there are 11 laboratory confirmed cases in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States" title="Southwestern United States"&gt;southwestern United States&lt;/a&gt; and in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas"&gt;Kansas&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-22" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;23&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and several suspected cases in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_metropolitan_area" title="New York City metropolitan area" class="mw-redirect"&gt;New York City metropolitan area&lt;/a&gt;. Following a series of reports of isolated cases of swine flu,&lt;sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-23" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;24&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-24" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;25&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; the first announcement of the outbreak in Mexico was documented on April 23, 2009. Some of the cases have been confirmed by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization"&gt;World Health Organization&lt;/a&gt; to be due to a new genetic strain of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1N1" title="H1N1" class="mw-redirect"&gt;H1N1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-25" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;26&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-26" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;27&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The new strain has been confirmed in 16 of the deaths and 44 others are being tested as of April 24, 2009.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-bbc090424_27-0" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-bbc090424-27" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;28&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The Mexican fatalities are said to be mainly young adults, a hallmark of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_flu" title="Pandemic flu" class="mw-redirect"&gt;pandemic flu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-28" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;29&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;At 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 26, the New Zealand Minister of Health confirmed that 22 students returning from a school trip from Mexico had flu like symptoms (most likely swine flu). 13 of the students with flu like symptoms were tested and 10 tested positive for Influenza A, their cases strongly suspected to be the swine flu strain. However there is a possibility that the infected are not infected with the swine flu but other forms of the flu. The government has suggested that citizens of New Zealand with flu-like symptoms should see their G.P. immediately.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;There have been five cases of possible swine flu in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada"&gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;, according to the Canadian Press. Two are in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia"&gt;British Columbia&lt;/a&gt;, and three in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia"&gt;Nova Scotia&lt;/a&gt;. According to the Government of Nova Scotia, four students in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor,_Nova_Scotia" title="Windsor, Nova Scotia"&gt;Windsor, Nova Scotia&lt;/a&gt; have confirmed cases of swine flu.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-29" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;30&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The new strain appears to be a recombinant between two older strains. Preliminary genetic characterization found that the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemagglutinin_%28influenza%29" title="Hemagglutinin (influenza)"&gt;hemagglutinin&lt;/a&gt; (HA) gene was similar to that of swine flu viruses present in U.S. pigs since 1999, but the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuraminidase" title="Neuraminidase"&gt;neuraminidase&lt;/a&gt; (NA) and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_protein" title="Matrix protein"&gt;matrix protein&lt;/a&gt; (M) genes resembled versions present in European swine flu isolates. Viruses with this genetic makeup had not previously been found to be circulating in humans or pigs, but there is no formal national surveillance system to determine what viruses are circulating in pigs in the U.S.&lt;sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu#cite_note-30" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;31&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;According to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia"&gt;University of Virginia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; virologist Frederick Hayden, the most recent flu season was dominated by H1N1 viruses, and people who had received flu shots in the U.S. may have some protection against swine flu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, i dont know what we're going to do, but probably pick a different destination for sure. Seems like the Bahamas would be next on our list. Ufffaaa&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-4552730553694122129?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/4552730553694122129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=4552730553694122129' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4552730553694122129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4552730553694122129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu-what-heck.html' title='SWINE FLU??!!!! what the heck'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfS1TCMIXkI/AAAAAAAAAHA/J-daOkudZok/s72-c/323de550-3e73-4683-8ee4-74f5a616e47c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-960169146275526349</id><published>2009-04-24T15:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T15:28:14.344-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My addiction to High Heels</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfI5pv4MIJI/AAAAAAAAAG4/_QerFor3mjc/s1600-h/bebe-liza-pump-france-wedge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328384698522280082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfI5pv4MIJI/AAAAAAAAAG4/_QerFor3mjc/s400/bebe-liza-pump-france-wedge.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I just cannot help it. I love high heel huchie-esc shoes. Although in my dreams i would be at least 5'6 and than i would wear long beach light dresses and flats all the time. But, since in rality i'm 5'3 and most of the population is taller than me i like to see them eye to eye which means Besjana needs to step on stools :) If anyone ever even thinks about buying me shoes, please visit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bebe.com/"&gt;http://www.bebe.com/&lt;/a&gt; and u can pick anything really i wont complain, instead i will thank you in various forms and ways. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have decided that i will start running and getting myself in a super shape and run the Omaha Half marathon at the end of September. I'm very exited and i am very dedicated. Im going to run this weekend. Maybe hopefully tan. I believe there might be some type of storm coming so maybe i'll end up at a taning place but i hope its sunny and i can just tan outside.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-960169146275526349?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/960169146275526349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=960169146275526349' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/960169146275526349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/960169146275526349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-addiction-to-high-heels.html' title='My addiction to High Heels'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SfI5pv4MIJI/AAAAAAAAAG4/_QerFor3mjc/s72-c/bebe-liza-pump-france-wedge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-2614719659039159895</id><published>2009-04-20T14:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T14:58:18.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunshine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SezvhBzEDzI/AAAAAAAAAGg/S-FJtY4Ieao/s1600-h/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326895809969786674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SezvhBzEDzI/AAAAAAAAAGg/S-FJtY4Ieao/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I Miss last summer, We had so much fun in Europe and it was so nice to see some of my friends. Last weekend, April 10th was Elira's Birthday and i really wished we could have been there to go out with them. Guess switzerland isnt around the corner but i really hope we get to go next summer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Elira, Besjana, Edlira)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a really nice time this weekend. I got to sleep in but we stayed up really late both days. On Saturday we went to watch UFC in Lincoln and Sunday Dirks came over and we stayed up talking till 3 a.m.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I woke up cuz Byron was snoring lol and i decided that i'm going to sleep on the other side of our huge bed like it makes a difference, like i cant hear him snore if i move 2 feet away lol. I just love it how when u're half asleep u just make no sense of ur thoughts. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron is mainly studying all day now and i really cant wait for this semester to be over. Im ready to go on a nice vacation and for us to chill a bit. Work has been pretty tiring as well. We just got done with tax season but its one thing after another expetially when u're so sickly competitive as i am.&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sezuj8utGcI/AAAAAAAAAGY/IMgwtNT6ppk/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326894760637307330" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 330px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sezuj8utGcI/AAAAAAAAAGY/IMgwtNT6ppk/s320/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nebraska is getting sooo green. Its green everywhere. I really like it. I just hope we dont get any tornadoes or i will totally freak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I went and so Danielle on Saturday and did my hair at the spa where she works. She did a really good job. I think i'm going to let my hair be long for a while i just put a bunch of layers all over the place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Im thinking i will be going to get a massage there pretty soon. The place was right on Old Town and it was really cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everybody was sitting outside at the little cafes and people were walking on the street, it reminded me of home. I really like walking around the city and looking at people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm starting to really like Nebraska. I never thought i would but I'm wrong. I believe i will miss this place when we leave...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-2614719659039159895?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/2614719659039159895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=2614719659039159895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/2614719659039159895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/2614719659039159895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunshine.html' title='Sunshine'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SezvhBzEDzI/AAAAAAAAAGg/S-FJtY4Ieao/s72-c/2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-6132009447564087360</id><published>2009-04-06T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T13:31:27.347-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring is Around the Corner</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sdph3YNNLpI/AAAAAAAAAGI/4hxDcuCpHzg/s1600-h/untitled123.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321673513710202514" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 258px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sdph3YNNLpI/AAAAAAAAAGI/4hxDcuCpHzg/s320/untitled123.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I felt like I should spice up my blogg and add cheerleader pictures :)&lt;br /&gt;The inspiration comes from the fact that Byron and I have been thinking or better contemplating to get season tickets to go to the games in the fall. Now, everybody that knows me will realise that i started watching football or better understanding even how the game works when i met Byron lol.  Although, we havent decided yet. I think it would be fun though!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;We had a really nice weekend. Well let me put it this way:&lt;/span&gt; I had an amazing relaxing weekend. All i was missing was massages everyday and it would be perfect.&lt;br /&gt;I had Friday off so Thursday night we went karaokee with some of Byron's friends from law-school. I had a blast. It was a lot of fun. Evb is so nice and friendly. I love it.&lt;br /&gt;Saturday was such a crapy weather. Although i decided to go to Lincoln to take my second wedding dress to dry cleaners to get it ready for the girl that bought it. I never get sentimental with things like that. I remember i donated my first dress. I thought it would be nice for a girl that couldnt afford to buy a wedding dress to just use mine for her wedding. I believe in good Karma so since my marriage is super pabulous maybe their marriage will too, since she gets to wear my wedding dress. Than, people save dresses for their kids. I dont care about that. I think the experience of buying a dress is so much fun. Than...styles change. Who knows what styles r gonna be around 20 years from now.  The only thing i kept was my tiara. Just because its sooo skinny and pretty maybe i'll get to put it on on some wierd ocasion.&lt;br /&gt;I was supposed to go to the gym, but didnt make it. I hate not going to the gym. I'm such a lazy butt. I have to start going everyday. We're going again to Cancun the day after finals. I'm very exited. I get to hang out with Elson and Maria and i CANOT wait. I'm so overdue for a vacation. Byron deserves a vacation really bad.  Wer never going to stay this long withought going on a vacation ever again. Never more!!!!&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday we went to have breakfast with the Grovers and Stangers ( Gosh, they have the cutest little kids in the world, expetially the little girl. She has the bluest most fragile eyes i've ever seen. I have to take a pic of her sometimes and save it in an Album. I dont want to forget her). We had a really fun time talking about Nebraska and afterwards we started to watch Conference but it was so glooomy outside and soo cozy inside Byron and I were falling asleep so during the break we decided to leave and go home.&lt;br /&gt;We took a long nap and than Byron studyed for the rest of the day while i did loundry ( YES, my least favorite thing in the world).&lt;br /&gt;I'm back to work and i love it. I absolutely love my job. Isnt that awesome????&lt;br /&gt;Steve and Mariane ( our friends from BYU) are coming over i the summer because Steve got into UNL. We're very exited to have them here. Maybe Mariane will end up working for my company who knows.&lt;br /&gt;Anyways...Au revoir&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-6132009447564087360?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/6132009447564087360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=6132009447564087360' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6132009447564087360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/6132009447564087360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2009/04/spring-is-around-corner.html' title='Spring is Around the Corner'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Sdph3YNNLpI/AAAAAAAAAGI/4hxDcuCpHzg/s72-c/untitled123.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-4678749571910494874</id><published>2008-10-28T10:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T10:57:21.245-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ameritrade owns my life right now</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SQdRr65A80I/AAAAAAAAAFI/0vaQGm-TJ7w/s1600-h/stockwatchpro_screen.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262264504590332738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 222px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SQdRr65A80I/AAAAAAAAAFI/0vaQGm-TJ7w/s320/stockwatchpro_screen.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So..yes its been a while&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I believe people may start thinking i have dissapeared from the face of the earth but no. I'm devoting every minuted to the Series 7. I had no idea it was going to be this painfull. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its an exam composed of 250 questions and you have to get a 70% or higher to pass. Right now i'm scoring about 50 smth so i have no idea how this is going to go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Byron studies all day. Thats all we do lattely is study. Its going to be like this until Christmas and oh boy am i not exited. We not used to not being able to do everything we want. I guess its an investment thought right?!! It better be :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have made really cool friends at work so its not that bad. Although i wake up at 6 a.m. and leave around 7 with Brynn. It takes us about 50 minutes to get to Bellevue. Thats there Ameritrade is at. I can see the stars everymornig when i leave the house.  How surreal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways...i need to get back to studying. I'm still at work just wanted to take a break.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-4678749571910494874?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/4678749571910494874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=4678749571910494874' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4678749571910494874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/4678749571910494874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2008/10/ameritrade-owns-my-life-right-now.html' title='Ameritrade owns my life right now'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SQdRr65A80I/AAAAAAAAAFI/0vaQGm-TJ7w/s72-c/stockwatchpro_screen.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-1641124448225809262</id><published>2008-09-24T20:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T20:50:10.225-07:00</updated><title type='text'>America's Economy</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;So here is an article from cnn.com &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WASHINGTON (CNN)&lt;/b&gt; -- President Bush, saying "our entire economy is in danger," urged Congress to approve his administration's $700 billion bailout proposal.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!--startclickprintexclude--&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  &lt;!-- PURGE: /2008/POLITICS/09/24/bush.bailout/art.bush.ap.jpg --&gt;&lt;!-- KEEP --&gt;&lt;div class="cnnStoryPhotoBox"&gt;&lt;div id="cnnImgChngr" class="cnnImgChngr"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;&lt;!--===========IMAGE============--&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/POLITICS/09/24/bush.bailout/art.bush.ap.jpg" alt="Failure to act quickly on the bailout plan could result in a &amp;quot;long and painful recession,&amp;quot; Bush warned." border="0" height="219" width="292" /&gt;&lt;!--===========/IMAGE===========--&gt;&lt;div class="cnnStoryPhotoCaptionBox"&gt;&lt;div class="cnn3pxTB9pxLRPad"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--===========CAPTION==========--&gt;Failure to act quickly on the bailout plan could result in a "long and painful recession," Bush warned.&lt;!--===========/CAPTION=========--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="cnnWireBoxFooter"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif" alt="" height="4" width="4" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- /PURGE: /2008/POLITICS/09/24/bush.bailout/art.bush.ap.jpg --&gt;                          &lt;!--endclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;p&gt; "We're in the midst of a serious financial crisis, and the federal government is responding with decisive actions," Bush said in a televised address Wednesday night from the White House.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Bush pointed out that the collapse of several major lenders was rooted in the subprime mortgage market that thrived over the past decade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; He said passage of the $700 billion bailout proposal was needed to restore confidence in the market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; "I'm a strong believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention," he said. But "these are not normal circumstances. The market is not functioning properly. There has been a widespread loss of confidence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   "Without immediate action by Congress, America can slip into a major panic." &lt;span class="cnnEmbeddedMosLnk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif" alt="Video" border="0" height="14" width="16" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/bush.bailout/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCVideo" onclick="CNN_changeMosaicTab('cnnVideoCmpnt','videos.html',true,'/');"&gt;Watch Bush warn of the consequences »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; If Congress fails to approve the rescue plan, the nation could face a "long and painful recession," Bush said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; "The plan is big enough to solve a serious problem," Bush said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!--startclickprintexclude--&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           &lt;div class="cnnStoryElementBox"&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Don't Miss&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;ul class="cnnRelated"&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html"&gt;Economic crisis steals campaign spotlight&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; CNNMoney: &lt;a target="new" href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/24/news/economy/bernanke_testimony/index.htm"&gt;Bernanke speaks of 'grave threats'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                               &lt;!--endclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;p&gt; The plan calls for the government to buy from firms up to $700 billion in troubled assets -- mainly mortgage-backed securities -- whose values declined as the housing market imploded. The goal is to stabilize the companies and prompt them to lend again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; "The government is the only institution patient enough to buy these assets at their current low prices and hold them until their prices return to normal," he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke warned Wednesday that the Wall Street crisis is the worst the nation has faced since the end of World War II and urged Congress to take action on a proposed bailout package. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Congress is considering whether to allow Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to use federal funds to buy up to $700 billion in mortgage-related securities and other assets that have caused turbulence on Wall Street and have undermined credit markets worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;     But Paulson and Bernanke faced deeply skeptical lawmakers, including members of &lt;a href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/George_W_Bush" class="cnnInlineTopic"&gt;Bush&lt;/a&gt;'s own party, when they pitched the plan before congressional committees Tuesday and Wednesday. &lt;span class="cnnEmbeddedMosLnk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif" alt="Video" border="0" height="14" width="16" /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/bush.bailout/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCVideo" onclick="CNN_changeMosaicTab('cnnVideoCmpnt','videos.html',true,'/video/politics/2008/09/24/nat.financial.bailout.cnn');"&gt;Watch as lawmakers push back »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The White House had been taken a mostly hard line during the negotiations with Congress, but it is signaling a new spirit of cooperation that suggests the administration realizes the situation is so serious that it will have to compromise in order to get something done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; "This is not take-it-or-leave-it," a senior administration official said earlier Wednesday. "We'll accept changes." &lt;/p&gt; &lt;!--startclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;div class="cnnStoryElementBox"&gt;  &lt;div class="cnnStoryElementBoxAd"&gt;   &lt;div class="cnnStoryElementBoxAdHead"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/2.0/content/ads/advertisement.gif" alt="advertisement" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--endclickprintexclude--&gt;&lt;p&gt; The senior administration official said the president has been contemplating a prime-time speech for several weeks but finally decided to deliver it tonight because he believes that the situation has reached crisis stage.&lt;/p&gt; "This is a bullet you only fire once," the senior official said. "We have reached a point in the process where we just have to get action."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-1641124448225809262?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/1641124448225809262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=1641124448225809262' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1641124448225809262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/1641124448225809262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2008/09/americas-economy.html' title='America&apos;s Economy'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-3240635960394510040</id><published>2007-09-29T13:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-29T14:06:20.606-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Right now Byron and I are working in Orem. Byron is finnishing his last  semester at BYU. We are exited to apply to different law schools this year and be able to make a decision by April.&lt;br /&gt;My parents are comming from Albania this Christmas and we are very exited to spend time with them. Meanwhile its fun enjoying being together and having family close by.&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow, September 30 is Simon's baby blessing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-3240635960394510040?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/3240635960394510040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=3240635960394510040' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/3240635960394510040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/3240635960394510040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2007/09/right-now-byron-and-i-are-working-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3465536355000199141.post-7190736252166966884</id><published>2007-09-29T08:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T14:20:03.732-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Rv66hffH_bI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Mauvau7a_xo/s1600-h/studying.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 71px; height: 55px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Rv66hffH_bI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Mauvau7a_xo/s320/studying.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115731311289957810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Welcome to our Blogg. Byron and I will be posting new updates on this website to let you know whats going on with our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Today Byron is taking the LSAT. We wish him good luck.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3465536355000199141-7190736252166966884?l=byronandbess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/feeds/7190736252166966884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3465536355000199141&amp;postID=7190736252166966884' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7190736252166966884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3465536355000199141/posts/default/7190736252166966884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://byronandbess.blogspot.com/2007/09/welcome_29.html' title='Welcome'/><author><name>Byron and Bess</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/SMRoUh2R_qI/AAAAAAAAADI/CBgN9yo3XE8/S220/IMG_2328.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qE02sYe8y5c/Rv66hffH_bI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Mauvau7a_xo/s72-c/studying.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
