lynsie and andrew

College Registration Bliss

2011-02-18T18:25:00.000-08:00

SEPTEMBER- Director: "We can definitely take you for winter quarter. Please take all of these pre registration courses that expire quickly. See you in December."

DECEMBER- Director: "Oops, we can't take you this quarter. But go ahead and leave me ten messages, I won't call you back. Then I'll make my secretary call you two days before class starts to let you in on that secret. Oh yeah, take all of those classes again. Try again in the Spring."

JANUARY- Director: "Hi Lynsie, please register on Feb 18th using this top secret code you need to enter the program."

FEBRUARY 18th- Website: "This code is invalid. Please try again Feb 28th."

2010-10-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

So it was confirmed last night that the fire at the church was arson. The whole thing is just heartbreaking. We heard from another church member that they were talking to the investigator yesterday, who found some device that was thrown into the building from the back door. They must have broken the glass to get in.
Here's an article if you want to read more.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/105111959.html

2010-10-16T12:23:00.000-07:00

Some sad news today. Our church building burned down around 4 am. They couldn't save it because the roof became unstable and they had to back out. The investigators are suspicious of the way it happened and how quickly it burned down. They are still working but assume it was arson.

Mukilteo, WA

Oops..

2010-10-15T11:03:00.000-07:00

Recently I've received a few harassing emails from family and BYU friends, wondering why I never update our blog. I was thinking it hasn't been TOO LONG...

Once a year is respectable right? So blogging isn't high on my to do list. It gets trumped by working and sleeping.

So, what has happened in the last year?

We are doing well, still working the same old same old... Andrew's still working at Travis Industries and I'm still at Everett Clinic.
Andrew is back in school doing night classes. This semester he's in a Psychology course, which I love because we get to have lots of nerdy conversations-- and I get to laugh when he studies Freud.

I'm planning on going back to school in January. Long story short I'm not sure yet if I can register for Winter, but I'm hoping I can. They have a 3 month EMT program here, and it should be a breeze.

Hum what else. Oh, someone broke in to our place over the summer. They only took: cereal, pop tarts, and a baggie of fireplace parts. The parts are green and crinkly, so they probably thought it was bud. I hope they tried to smoke it, and burned their face.
Also maybe they left behind a Batman shirt??? Neither of us recognized it, and it was of the Joker. ha ha. Creepy...

We briefly had two cats at the beginning of the year. I wore Andrew down, after only a year and a half of begging.
I fulfilled my very mature life-long dream to own a cat and name it Hobbes. When we saw all of them, they were so cute I had to have two. We got them when they were only 6 weeks old, adorable fluffy Siamese/Tabby kitties.

We soon found out that Hobbes has a penchant for chasing you around the house, and eating everything in sight. He's a little tornado of energy.
You never knew when he was going to sneak attack and jump up your pajama-clad legs while you are brushing your teeth, or when he will stealth crawl under your laptop while you're watching a scary movie alone in the dark.

Retail therapy was also a favorite...

Juno I'm pretty sure had a different parent or was exposed to crack in the womb. She has some sort of freakishly abnormal inability to catch herself, and she falls off of stuff.. a LOT. And runs into walls. And chases imaginary things. (See?)

I loved them dearly, but they didn't last long. Our place was too small. Oh, and... Andrew hates cats.

Speaking of Andrew, we had our 2 year wedding anniversary in September, and took a fancy-pants dinner cruise around Seattle. It was gorgeous, and the food was great.

I can't really think of anything else exciting that has happened. I had some mild appendicitis earlier this week, and they found an ovarian cyst. After two days of tests, (including the glorious CT with the contrast dye that makes you feel like you are peeing yourself) they decided I didn't need surgery for now, and I had to just wait it out.
The cyst blew on it's own (imagine what Hiroshima might feel like in your abdomen) and then it was all better.

That's all I can think of for now.

New job, new place...

2009-09-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

Yeah so it's been a long time since I've updated... That seems to be a pattern..... Well Andrew and I are moving, FINALLY! Thank goodness!! Our place has been a good starter place but it's grown small and icky. So vamanos! It's been a long, exciting road, filled with annoying video game nerd upstairs (that plays games all hours of the night, and floods his toilet and blames it on a "bloody nose") But look at our new place:

Mostly Im just excited that WE will finally be the obnoxious upstairs neighbors..... stomping around on OTHERS heads at 3 am, flooding the toilets, and in general just being a nasty pest. But in the interest of karma I'm sure we'll move in right after a rock band rents out the place below us.

Look at this cute fitness center the have that I probably wont use!

Arizona + 4th of July

2009-07-05T19:12:00.001-07:00

Andrew and I just got back from our Goff family reunion in Flagstaff, AZ. In mormon terminology, we had an freakin' ultra super time. Eight days of time-off work bliss. We flew into Phoenix where it was 100 degrees... at 11pm. Awesome. Coming from 50 degrees in Seattle.... basic heat stroke.

We stayed over night at a complete stranger's adorable house in Gilbert. (Even had a house key! Thanks Melissa!). They were so generous to let us stay in their house while they are in UT for the summer. I am going to duplicate their house when we have one it was so cute.
Well, Andrew and I got some quality time in with his cute cousins + Grandpa who also live there. Everyone lived within 5 miles of each other, which was a handy coincidence.
Gilbert is amazing. We have relatives there, really good shopping, SUN, and the BEST food. Can that be beat? I think not. We are talking Gecko Grill, Texas Roadhouse, Cafe Rio, and Sonic. It's been a YEAR without a Strawberry Limeade, so forgive me if I sound a little bit desperate.

After a few fun days in Gilbert getting to know Andrew's cousins, we headed north to somewhat less hot Flagstaff

. 90 degrees instead of 100. I'll take what we can get.

We stayed in sweet little cabins that had showers and flushing toilets. That is what I call camping! We were there for 3 days chilling with family and sightseeing. We were able to see Meteor Crater (where I got a rockin farmers tan/sunburn unfortunately), Snowbowl Skyride (terrifying), and Sedona (one of the most beautiful towns in the world). The red-rock there was gorgeous.

Snowbowl Sky Ride
12,900 ft. of sheer terror for the heights-impaired.

View from the top of the lift.... worth the scare.

It was about 1 zillion degrees this day.

Andrew of course looks perfect,
While I am dripping with sweat.

It was about 110, ideal hiking weather.

Highest toilet in Arizona...I'm proud to be a part of this picture.

We had so much fun we didn't want to leave. Possibly we will go back very soon....

On our return trip, our plane touched down about 1 am on the 4th. A few hours later we ended up at my friend Jessica's house to celebrate the 4th. Her dad owns a cabin out on a lake in Snohomish.

Sedona. My favorite sight of the trip.

Sedona Valley

We had a fun 4th of July with some of my coworkers..........

During the BBQ right when we arrived.

Pretty sunset over the forest.

Fireworks right over water.

Oink

2009-05-05T19:33:00.000-07:00

Hey friends.
As you might have heard, things have been a little chaotic with the whole Swine Flu outbreak that happened where I work. The media got the whole story mixed up, for all those who watch CNN. The skinny of it is that, yeah, a pediatrician in our office contracted Swine Flu. She had no idea she was even sick, so she came to work and was contagious. The news cooked up this really interesting (totally false) story about how she did it as a publicity stunt- supposedly to increase our revenue.

So as you can imagine, we tried our best to control the resulting panic when the news leaked the bogus story before we could set up the press conference. If you were watching the news in the last few days, you got to see news crews chasing our poor patients around, trying to get interviews. And you probably saw us all running around in our sexy Hazmat PPE.
Anwyway, I kind of think the swine flu is NO BIG DEAL. Wash your hands, peeps!!! Dont cough in people's faces, pick and flick, or lick homeboy's food before he eats it! Let's be smart, mmmmmkay?

Here's a pic of my lovely office. It's in this cute town center surrounded by all sorts of yummy stuff like Cold Stone, Starbucks, Jamba, Central Market grocery store (which has a killer bakery), and then this delish Teriyaki place. Basically I am a walking heart attack now that I work there. Which is not ironic at all.
Which reminds me: if anyone has tips how we can lose like 80 pounds before the family reunion next month, I'd like you to place us #1 on your speed dial. Thanks a bunch.

Cant wait to see everyone at the reunion next month. hugs and kisses.

Cell Phones and Spiders

2009-04-14T17:25:00.000-07:00

There's been a little excitement in our apartment... for any of you that are related to me/been my roommate/married me/or slept in the same room as me: this will make complete sense to you. For those of you not unfortunate enough to fall into one of those categories- sometimes I freak out in my sleep.
Due to my deep, irrational, borderline psychotic fear of spiders, that is usually what my nightmares are about.
Two nights ago I woke up in the middle of the night screaming and launched myself out of the bed. Apparently there was a huge spider in our bed greviously molesting my face/arm/hand. Of course Andrew jumped out of the bed too, turned the light on, and searched through the covers and pillows, and anything else in sight. He took way too long about it though, because irritated, I stomped back into bed. I laid there for a few moments, then glared at sweet, bewildered Andrew and said "You gonna turn the light off, or what?".
The next morning he asked me about it.... naturally, I remember nothing. I was asleep the whole time. Kudos. Sorry dear.

Andrew also recently witnessed the wrath of Lynsie, in the form of some Pakistani guy that for some reason, WILL NOT GIVE ME MY PHONE BACK!!! I bought a blackberry from him on Ebay several months ago, 3 weeks into having it the speaker on it busted, so I sent it back to him. He goes, "Ohhh yeees, no problem, I give you exchange right away!!!" So I send him the broken phone and he promises to send me a new one upon receipt. Then I never hear from him. Finally, a month later, I summon the courage to email him to ask where's the beef????
He writes back, outraged, "How dare you question me, my aunt died, I've been in Canada!"
I wrote back "Well gee golly, thanks for letting me know, just thought you were ripping me off, sheesh".
Fast forward to today, TWO AND A HALF MONTHS LATER, still no phone! What the heck???? He doesn't answer my emails anymore and there is still NO PHONE. As you can tell I'm really happy about it. I try to let it go, try not to kill my blood pressure, remind myself that I should not be so anal, but in the end.... my Goff genetics play through, and I lost my temper on him. Someones gonna have to call the paramedics for this guy, cause the email I just sent him 10 minutes ago probably burned his eyes out. Whoops.
I'm not sure Andrew quite knew what he was getting himself into. LOL.

Adventures in Oregon

2009-03-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

So.............. it has been three months. My strategy on updating our blog is to not do it very often, therefore create suspense and make the next entry much more exciting!
False. I'm actually just now updating this because I am a slacker. Whitney openly blasted me on facebook for not doing it. So here I am, gettin' with the times.
Andrew and I just got back from Oregon (pictures soon to come), where we got to go to a friend's wedding reception and spend the weekend with his side of the family.

My friends Kassie and Lindsey sucked it up and drove the 8 hours from Rexburg to join us there. We had all sorts of adventures, and it was amazing to catch up with my crazy roommates from college.
On the agenda was:
1. Relaxing
2. Eating Andrew's mom's delicious cooking
3. Playing in the rain outdoors
4. Doing a little shopping
5. And..... then my GPS turned into a total liar and got us hopelessly lost. So much fun.

Andrew and I are still doing just peachy. We hit a little bump in the road when his job was cut from 5 days a week to 3, but we are just grateful and happy to have jobs in this awful economy. And if we look on the bright side, as soon as he can establish residency for college purposes-- he has 2 more days a week freed up on his schedule. Score.

Rewind a little. Andrew turned 24 last week. He chose Bajio for birthday dinner (which is delicious mexican food if you don't know) and then we went home to eat a tower of maple bars, instead of cake. I think he would live off maple bars if he could.

Rewind a little more. My mom's parents flew up for their 50th anniversary. We all went out to Arnies (not to be confused with Arbys) down on the Mukilteo waterfront.It is gorgeous there and we had a great time.

Well I think that is it for now. Back again in three months! ha, just kidding. I'll try to be better. See you all in June, love ya.

Now you're stuck with me

2008-12-22T18:26:00.001-08:00

Well hello all. First and foremost I'd like to apologize for my appaling lack of skill keeping my blog updated. Now there's two of us to blame for that.... so I figure now I'm only getting 50% of the blame. Don't tell Andrew.

So a bit of the family has not met my other half, Andrew, yet. Grandma and Grandpa Goff came down for our wedding, as well as Steve and Mel. A few others met him at Whit and Curt's wedding.
You could say our relationship was three years in the making (two of that while he was on his mission?)... and now he's stuck with me. Amazingly enough three years of this Goff was not enough to scare him away... I win.
Andrew is not what Melissa calls "wordy". I asked for his input on here and he said "hey". What he really meant to say was that he loves all of you oh so much, and is just itching to meet you.

Well... what is new these days?? As you may of guessed by now, I joined the married club. Go me! Andrew returned from his mission in Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 12th. He came back saying things like y'all, mmmmhmmmmm, and chirren.
I waited an agonizing 24 hours to see him, made the jaunt down to Hermiston, Oregon where he was hatched, and lo and behold two weeks later we were engaged. (Here is where you go "Awwww.")
Thankfully we had the most beautiful weather you could ask for the day we got married. The sun was shining and it was not beastly hot like it was the week previous. Everything looked gorgeous and perfect, thanks to my Moms planning.
Morning after the wedding we flew out to Oahu for our honeymoon. I got over my fear of flying over endless ocean and we had an amazing time, despite the weird sunburn I got ONLY on my armpits. Explain that one if you can.

We now live in pretty little Mukilteo, Washington in a one bedroom one bathroom shenanigan. Our upstairs neighbor plays Halo/World of Warcraft/Call of Duty or some obnoxious game 23 hours a day and never leaves, but it's ok!! We just focus on our wedded bliss, and it's like hitting the mute button on the weirdo upstairs.

Andrew is working for Travis Industries, which is a fireplace manufacturer. He works in the shipping department. His boss Daniel seems pretty cool, and even lets Andrew play with the foam machine. He is working until we save enough moolah to get him back into school.
I am working for a doctors office right now. Which has it's perks, like stammering when little kids ask me where babies come from, and when slightly intoxicated Betty Sue Jean tells me about her suspicous rash. I'm hoping this is sort of temporary and I can continue on to get my Masters.

Anyway, that's the Ransom life!! Love ya.