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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
a blank space.
So we've put up most of the pictures in frames that we own, and we're still lacking (as you can see by the huge empty space above the television). Because we were unable to decorate our apartment for so long, we didn't really collect any art or larger frames or anything. So I need ideas as to what we should put above the tv to not make it look so empty up there. I was thinking some kind of a large canvas art print to go above the tv, and then put something vertical to the left, but I'm not sure. And I'm not sure what art I want. I've been looking on eBay but so far have not had very much success. Does anyone have any other ideas? Suggestions for what we already have up there? I'm not totally sure yet I love the layout we have, but I AM totally open to ideas!
And yes, that is the Michigan St. vs UConn Final Four basketball game. Eric's obsessed...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
this blog is long and contains a lot of pictures.
Ok, so I am going to try to undertake writing a blog that contains all the things that have happened in the last month and a half, with a lot of editing - because otherwise this entry would probably be a novel. No, actually, not that much has been going on, but there's been more than enough to write about. So here we go:
1. This last weekend, Eric and I went down to Arches/Goblin Valley with Eric's parents and had a really fun time. We hiked to Delicate Arch on Saturday morning (I'm surprised neither of us had ever done that before) and then I left to come back to Provo to see all the girls from Cafe Rio since Katherine was in town (why do we never get together unless she's here??). Eric stayed another night there and hiked with his family to Devil's Garden, which looks really pretty and like something I definitely want to do - maybe this summer? We took about 200 pictures down there, so here are a few. I'll probably make a Facebook album too in case you're dying to see more of them.
Arches National Park:
Devil's Garden:
2. I got into grad school at BYU! I'll start taking classes again this fall, and if I get into the museum certificate program as well, I'll (ideally) be finished with the degree in about 3 years. I'm still not sure it's dawned on me that I'm going to be spending the next 3 years in school again, but what's another 3 when I've already spent the last 15 getting educated?
I've also had nothing to do since about January since I was never able to find a job and I graduated in December. But because I'm going to be a student again, I can get my job back at the museum! Yay! I'm excited. In "these rough economic times" it's been hard for pretty much everyone I know to find a job that isn't degree-specific.
3. St. Patrick's day, as everyone knows, was last week. Every year that I've been out in Utah, my siblings and I all get together to have corned beef and cabbage and listen to Irish music...and maybe try out our version of Irish dancing. Since Shannon is out here right now, we were able to have 5 people at our party instead of just 4. Yay! Megan and Shannon (I think) both posted on their blogs about the St. Patrick's day party, but I have a couple of things I'd like to add as well (sorry the video is sideways, I'm really not sure how to turn it):
4. A few weeks ago, during a basketball game, Lindsay and I "ghoulied" our friend Chris' car. We stayed up til about 1 in the morning making ghoulies to prank him (all while Eric and Mark sat on the couch playing Madden football and mentioning how stupid we were) and then strategically placed the ghoulies all over his car the next day. I'll let the pictures do the talking...fun times.
5. Shannon, Eric, and I have done some fun things together the last little bit. We went and played in the snow up near Sundance (flying bears??) and Eric trounced through the snow while Shannon and I tried not to fall in. A couple of weekends ago, we also went bowling at Miracle Bowl in Orem. Eric pretty much owned us, but we had a lot of fun.
6. The last thing. I found a delicious recipe for spiced sweet roasted red pepper hummus and it is so delicious. It tastes almost exactly like the Athenos red pepper hummus that the sell for like $4 a grocery stores, and this is obviously way cheaper to make, plus you get twice as much. I'm hooked. I've already made it twice, which means a recipe must be pretty good...yum!
Delicious!!
Hopefully this will be a lesson to me that I better not wait a month and a half to write a blog ever again. And hopefully that wasn't too unbearably long...
1. This last weekend, Eric and I went down to Arches/Goblin Valley with Eric's parents and had a really fun time. We hiked to Delicate Arch on Saturday morning (I'm surprised neither of us had ever done that before) and then I left to come back to Provo to see all the girls from Cafe Rio since Katherine was in town (why do we never get together unless she's here??). Eric stayed another night there and hiked with his family to Devil's Garden, which looks really pretty and like something I definitely want to do - maybe this summer? We took about 200 pictures down there, so here are a few. I'll probably make a Facebook album too in case you're dying to see more of them.
Goblin Valley:
Arches National Park:
Devil's Garden:
2. I got into grad school at BYU! I'll start taking classes again this fall, and if I get into the museum certificate program as well, I'll (ideally) be finished with the degree in about 3 years. I'm still not sure it's dawned on me that I'm going to be spending the next 3 years in school again, but what's another 3 when I've already spent the last 15 getting educated?
I've also had nothing to do since about January since I was never able to find a job and I graduated in December. But because I'm going to be a student again, I can get my job back at the museum! Yay! I'm excited. In "these rough economic times" it's been hard for pretty much everyone I know to find a job that isn't degree-specific.
3. St. Patrick's day, as everyone knows, was last week. Every year that I've been out in Utah, my siblings and I all get together to have corned beef and cabbage and listen to Irish music...and maybe try out our version of Irish dancing. Since Shannon is out here right now, we were able to have 5 people at our party instead of just 4. Yay! Megan and Shannon (I think) both posted on their blogs about the St. Patrick's day party, but I have a couple of things I'd like to add as well (sorry the video is sideways, I'm really not sure how to turn it):
4. A few weeks ago, during a basketball game, Lindsay and I "ghoulied" our friend Chris' car. We stayed up til about 1 in the morning making ghoulies to prank him (all while Eric and Mark sat on the couch playing Madden football and mentioning how stupid we were) and then strategically placed the ghoulies all over his car the next day. I'll let the pictures do the talking...fun times.
5. Shannon, Eric, and I have done some fun things together the last little bit. We went and played in the snow up near Sundance (flying bears??) and Eric trounced through the snow while Shannon and I tried not to fall in. A couple of weekends ago, we also went bowling at Miracle Bowl in Orem. Eric pretty much owned us, but we had a lot of fun.
And Shannon attempting to be fancy...
6. The last thing. I found a delicious recipe for spiced sweet roasted red pepper hummus and it is so delicious. It tastes almost exactly like the Athenos red pepper hummus that the sell for like $4 a grocery stores, and this is obviously way cheaper to make, plus you get twice as much. I'm hooked. I've already made it twice, which means a recipe must be pretty good...yum!
Before blending
Delicious!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
it's zrath!
This last week, Megan, Shannon, Nathan, Rylie, and I went on a trip to California since we all managed to find a week where we didn't have anything going on and some of us hadn't been home in a while. We went to lunch with Mom at Ruby's on the Oceanside pier and saw lots of pelicans, we read Ian's book of stories and laughed so hard I think I died a little, we went to the beach at Leucadia (it was gorgeous and it rained), we went to a Rockola band thing at the high school, we went to church at our old ward, I spent the night at Maggie's and got to see Steven and Ronni (I will always spell it like that) as well, we went to the zoo and had an awesome adventure even though it was freezing and windy and rainy and empty, we went to Pedro's Tacos, the Mad Greek in Barstow, and even made it to In-N-Out in St. George on our way back. It was a great time.
Shannon wrote a little on her blog and posted pictures on her facebook. I posted some more pictures on my facebook, which I think you can see here. Hopefully that works.
Basically it was an awesome week. I love going home!
Shannon wrote a little on her blog and posted pictures on her facebook. I posted some more pictures on my facebook, which I think you can see here. Hopefully that works.
Basically it was an awesome week. I love going home!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
happy birthday lindsay!!!
Today is my best friend Lindsay's birthday. I am so glad we got put in the same dorm room in DT in 2004. She is the only one who shares my sick sense of humor and is as addicted to Cafe Rio as I am, and there are so many other things that make me soo glad we are friends. Happy 23rd birthday Lindsay!! Thanks for being my BFF and talking to me in that accent.
And now a present for Lindsay. I took this picture on my trip here in California. Enjoy!
A real update will be made when I get back to Utah.
Friday, January 30, 2009
a real update with pictures will come later
I know, I know. I promised I'd update more. I lied. So a quick update. We finally moved! We found a 2-bedroom apartment in Provo that would let us keep our cats, so we're really excited about that. Eric is still working and going to school full-time, and I am doing neither of those things. I am applying to grad school at BYU and sort of looking for a job though, so I promise I'm only wasting about 80% of my life right now.
Anyway, we brought over the rest of our stuff from the old apartment last night. A pretty good portion of this was bags full of papers and other things I'd had in my filing cabinet at home, so all of it is from my pre-college days. I am going through it currently and throwing away a lot of the stuff that I just don't need to keep. I came across almost every paper I've ever written in high school (most of which are not going to survive the purge), all kinds of drawings I did when I was a kid, birthday cards and other miscellaneous letters from relatives, all the awards I got for being a good student throughout school, and other random things that sparked my memory. I had fun going through everything.
I found a couple of poems that I wrote with my mom in high school for two different English classes that I had with Mrs. Critchley (probably my favorite high school teacher ever). I enlisted my mom's help on these projects because she's really clever and I think she has a way better grasp of how Chaucer and Shakespeare would have written than I ever will. My sophomore year, the project was to write a poem in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and my senior year, we were to write a parody of Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquoy.
I'm glad I still I have these. Here they are.
Pilgrim: The Farrier
A farrier of Smithfield we did meet
Whose voice was so honey-tongued and sweet,
He was a young lad, maybe sixteen years,
And sounded like a woman to our ears.
He wore thick rough-spun clothes and woolen cape
Yet still appeared thin-shouldered in his shape.
His hair was blond, the color of ripe wheat
And, although thick, unusually neat.
As true mahogany his eyes were brown,
And as he walked he kept them both cast down.
For one who made his living shoeing mares,
I thought it strange his hands were clean and fair.
His nails were trim, not one of them was broke,
He often kept his hands hidden beneath his cloak.
His rosy cheek was smooth and soft as silk,
His complexion quite comparable to milk.
Quiet he was, averse to cpmany,
Unless among the women he could be.
He sat near them to eat his meat and drink,
He did not care for fellowship, I think.
Before the fire he joined the Wife of Bath,
Where they would sing duets, and talk and laugh.
We took delight in listening to their song.
Right glad I was that he would come along.
Soliloquoy
To wash, or not to wash - that is the question:
Whether it is better for the dishwasher to suffer
The stains and blotches of caked-on food
Or to take up soap against the dried-on mess
And by rinsing end them. To wash, to scour -
No more - and by scouring we say to end
The filth, and the thousand vile viscosities
That dishes are prone to. Sparkling dishes are the perfect finish
Devoutly to be wished. To wash, to scour -
To scour - perchance to clean; ay, there's the scrub,
For in that scouring wash what suds may come
When we have eliminated this mortal soil,
Must give us pause. There's the concept
That makes disaster of washing dishes by hand.
For who could stand the chapped and reddened hands,
The broken plates, the sharp forks stabbing,
The insolence of soap, and the little flecks of suds
That flick into the unguarded eyes,
When the vassal might be freed from all
With an automatic dishwasher? Who would cauldrons bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after washing,
The odious task of drying, from which chore
No one escapes, frustrates freedom,
And makes us rather do the chores we have
Than end up being punished beyond reason.
Thus lemony-fresh Joy makes dishwashers of us all.
Anyway, we brought over the rest of our stuff from the old apartment last night. A pretty good portion of this was bags full of papers and other things I'd had in my filing cabinet at home, so all of it is from my pre-college days. I am going through it currently and throwing away a lot of the stuff that I just don't need to keep. I came across almost every paper I've ever written in high school (most of which are not going to survive the purge), all kinds of drawings I did when I was a kid, birthday cards and other miscellaneous letters from relatives, all the awards I got for being a good student throughout school, and other random things that sparked my memory. I had fun going through everything.
I found a couple of poems that I wrote with my mom in high school for two different English classes that I had with Mrs. Critchley (probably my favorite high school teacher ever). I enlisted my mom's help on these projects because she's really clever and I think she has a way better grasp of how Chaucer and Shakespeare would have written than I ever will. My sophomore year, the project was to write a poem in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and my senior year, we were to write a parody of Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquoy.
I'm glad I still I have these. Here they are.
Pilgrim: The Farrier
A farrier of Smithfield we did meet
Whose voice was so honey-tongued and sweet,
He was a young lad, maybe sixteen years,
And sounded like a woman to our ears.
He wore thick rough-spun clothes and woolen cape
Yet still appeared thin-shouldered in his shape.
His hair was blond, the color of ripe wheat
And, although thick, unusually neat.
As true mahogany his eyes were brown,
And as he walked he kept them both cast down.
For one who made his living shoeing mares,
I thought it strange his hands were clean and fair.
His nails were trim, not one of them was broke,
He often kept his hands hidden beneath his cloak.
His rosy cheek was smooth and soft as silk,
His complexion quite comparable to milk.
Quiet he was, averse to cpmany,
Unless among the women he could be.
He sat near them to eat his meat and drink,
He did not care for fellowship, I think.
Before the fire he joined the Wife of Bath,
Where they would sing duets, and talk and laugh.
We took delight in listening to their song.
Right glad I was that he would come along.
Soliloquoy
To wash, or not to wash - that is the question:
Whether it is better for the dishwasher to suffer
The stains and blotches of caked-on food
Or to take up soap against the dried-on mess
And by rinsing end them. To wash, to scour -
No more - and by scouring we say to end
The filth, and the thousand vile viscosities
That dishes are prone to. Sparkling dishes are the perfect finish
Devoutly to be wished. To wash, to scour -
To scour - perchance to clean; ay, there's the scrub,
For in that scouring wash what suds may come
When we have eliminated this mortal soil,
Must give us pause. There's the concept
That makes disaster of washing dishes by hand.
For who could stand the chapped and reddened hands,
The broken plates, the sharp forks stabbing,
The insolence of soap, and the little flecks of suds
That flick into the unguarded eyes,
When the vassal might be freed from all
With an automatic dishwasher? Who would cauldrons bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after washing,
The odious task of drying, from which chore
No one escapes, frustrates freedom,
And makes us rather do the chores we have
Than end up being punished beyond reason.
Thus lemony-fresh Joy makes dishwashers of us all.
Friday, January 2, 2009
happy new year
Hopefully I will be much better at updating this blog now that the holidays are officially over. Plenty happened over the last month or so. We went and saw Coldplay with Lindsay and Mark, I dyed my hair much darker, we had a Christmas party at our house (Chris-mas??), we spent a lot of time with family, we had a wonderful Christmas (and got to talk to Kelly in Italy...can't believe he's almost done!), and we went to Las Vegas for a couple of days for our anniversary. I just uploaded around 200 pictures from the camera onto the computer that we've taken over the last while, and there's no way I can put even half of them up here. Maybe I'll make a slideshow or something...
I don't know if this slideshow thing lets you copy pictures from it, so if anyone (family or anybody) wants any of these pictures for any reason (I know I'm always stealing pictures from people's blogs), just let me know.
I don't know if this slideshow thing lets you copy pictures from it, so if anyone (family or anybody) wants any of these pictures for any reason (I know I'm always stealing pictures from people's blogs), just let me know.
Monday, December 1, 2008
a glimpse of winter...from a few weeks ago
The other Sunday (about 3 weeks ago) the weather was pleasantly chilly and the skies were cloudy and I was getting really excited about Christmas coming. So I made some delicious pumpkin soup (yummy and easy to make, but very very filling - I couldn't even finish a whole bowl!) that we had with cranberry scones. If anyone wants the recipe I used, let me know. Super yummy.
After eating lunch I got this craving to go play in the snow. Probably because it still hasn't snowed down here yet and to me, in Utah, snow=Christmas. At least until January 1. Eric and I decided to take a little drive up the canyon to Sundance, where we found artificial snow...
...but really not very much. Still enough for Eric to try to start a snowball fight though. It was basically packed ice and stung when it hit the back of my knee. I missed him three times. I'll have to work on my aim...
After finding no real snow at Sundance, we made our way up to Aspen Grove and had much better luck! We walked a little ways up the trail towards Stuart Falls, but we both were wearing shoes without very much tread on the bottoms and it was pretty treacherous going. We made it though, don't you fret.
After eating lunch I got this craving to go play in the snow. Probably because it still hasn't snowed down here yet and to me, in Utah, snow=Christmas. At least until January 1. Eric and I decided to take a little drive up the canyon to Sundance, where we found artificial snow...
...but really not very much. Still enough for Eric to try to start a snowball fight though. It was basically packed ice and stung when it hit the back of my knee. I missed him three times. I'll have to work on my aim...
After finding no real snow at Sundance, we made our way up to Aspen Grove and had much better luck! We walked a little ways up the trail towards Stuart Falls, but we both were wearing shoes without very much tread on the bottoms and it was pretty treacherous going. We made it though, don't you fret.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
and now for something a little more positive...
THE LOVE LIST
1. Actor-network theory (and I’m not even sociocultural emphasis!)
2. Airplanes and flying in them
3. American Association of Museums
4. Animals
5. Banana Republic
6. Barack Obama
7. Bedsocks
8. Being successful
9. Blatant creepiness
10. Britney Spears
11. Brown rice
12. Café Rio
13. Cartoons that involve talking animals (i.e. Madagascar, Ice Age, Over the Hedge, etc.)
14. Catch Phrase
15. Catch-22
16. CFL lightbulbs
17. Chapstick
18. Christmas
19. Citizens of Humanity jeans
20. Clean laundry
21. Cloudy days
22. CNN
23. Coats
24. Coldplay
25. Cooking
26. CSI
27. Cuddling
28. Daybreak in South Jordan
29. December 27
30. Digital cameras with memory cards that can store more than 40 pictures
31. Discovering something new
32. Dollar theater
33. Dressing up
34. Dyeing my hair
35. Edward Gorey
36. Eric
37. Expressing myself
38. Fall
39. Flowers
40. Google and all its components
41. Horseback riding
42. Hot chocolate
43. Ikea
44. imdb.com
45. Inside jokes
46. InStyle magazine
47. Interior design
48. iTunes and my iPod
49. Jewel tone clothing
50. Laughing
51. Learning
52. Leopard print
53. London
54. Long pants
55. LOST
56. Ludacris
57. Making connections
58. Making lists
59. Most Disney movies
60. Museums
61. My bed
62. My bike
63. My family
64. My friends
65. Mythology
66. NAGPRA (not any paperwork that goes along with it though…)
67. Naps
68. National Parks
69. Native American cultures
70. New ways of thinking about old ideas
71. Oak cabinets and furniture
72. Oregon
73. Pasta
74. people.com
75. Photo Albums
76. Photography
77. Pillows and blankets
78. Planning
79. Public transportation
80. Pumpkin pie
81. Rain
82. Raspberries
83. Sex and the City
84. Slot canyons
85. Snow Patrol
86. Swimming
87. Sydney and Paris
88. Temples
89. The beach
90. The blog “Get Rich Slowly”
91. The Devil Wears Prada
92. The gospel
93. Trashy reality TV
94. Traveling
95. Vacations
96. Warm comfy sweatpants
97. When I’m not the tallest person around
98. Wooden spoons, bowls, or cutting boards
99. Yoga
100. Zoos
1. Actor-network theory (and I’m not even sociocultural emphasis!)
2. Airplanes and flying in them
3. American Association of Museums
4. Animals
5. Banana Republic
6. Barack Obama
7. Bedsocks
8. Being successful
9. Blatant creepiness
10. Britney Spears
11. Brown rice
12. Café Rio
13. Cartoons that involve talking animals (i.e. Madagascar, Ice Age, Over the Hedge, etc.)
14. Catch Phrase
15. Catch-22
16. CFL lightbulbs
17. Chapstick
18. Christmas
19. Citizens of Humanity jeans
20. Clean laundry
21. Cloudy days
22. CNN
23. Coats
24. Coldplay
25. Cooking
26. CSI
27. Cuddling
28. Daybreak in South Jordan
29. December 27
30. Digital cameras with memory cards that can store more than 40 pictures
31. Discovering something new
32. Dollar theater
33. Dressing up
34. Dyeing my hair
35. Edward Gorey
36. Eric
37. Expressing myself
38. Fall
39. Flowers
40. Google and all its components
41. Horseback riding
42. Hot chocolate
43. Ikea
44. imdb.com
45. Inside jokes
46. InStyle magazine
47. Interior design
48. iTunes and my iPod
49. Jewel tone clothing
50. Laughing
51. Learning
52. Leopard print
53. London
54. Long pants
55. LOST
56. Ludacris
57. Making connections
58. Making lists
59. Most Disney movies
60. Museums
61. My bed
62. My bike
63. My family
64. My friends
65. Mythology
66. NAGPRA (not any paperwork that goes along with it though…)
67. Naps
68. National Parks
69. Native American cultures
70. New ways of thinking about old ideas
71. Oak cabinets and furniture
72. Oregon
73. Pasta
74. people.com
75. Photo Albums
76. Photography
77. Pillows and blankets
78. Planning
79. Public transportation
80. Pumpkin pie
81. Rain
82. Raspberries
83. Sex and the City
84. Slot canyons
85. Snow Patrol
86. Swimming
87. Sydney and Paris
88. Temples
89. The beach
90. The blog “Get Rich Slowly”
91. The Devil Wears Prada
92. The gospel
93. Trashy reality TV
94. Traveling
95. Vacations
96. Warm comfy sweatpants
97. When I’m not the tallest person around
98. Wooden spoons, bowls, or cutting boards
99. Yoga
100. Zoos
lindsay did it, now i am too. haha.
THE HATE LIST
1. “In America, we have…”
2. 2-carat engagement rings
3. 6th floor girls
4. Aeropostale
5. Army National Guard commercial
6. Basketball
7. Big moles on people’s faces
8. Birth control
9. Blisters
10. Blizzards
11. Burglars
12. Burnt out lightbulbs
13. Caked-on makeup
14. Cancer
15. Car commercials
16. Cat hair everywhere
17. Caveman Geico commercials
18. Cheap extensions
19. Class
20. Clear bra straps
21. Cougareat
22. Crazy foreign roommates
23. Creepy Clearisil commercials
24. Crying
25. Deal or No Deal
26. Deforestation
27. Dirty cars
28. Ditzy girls
29. Driving in the snow
30. Eating one’s burrito in under a minute
31. Emo Polaroid pictures
32. Emotions on reality TV
33. EZ Cheese
34. Fake people
35. FaMOUSE people
36. Fishnet shirts
37. Fresh papaya
38. Girls with 8000 best friends
39. Glenn Beck
40. Guns
41. Hot Topic
42. Huge tattoos in Old English font
43. Hunting
44. Idaho
45. Ignorance
46. Interrupted naps
47. Kevin Federline
48. Kids in sacrament meeting
49. Korrie
50. Lace-trimmed clothing
51. Lurking
52. Man bands (like Daughtry, Lifehouse, Finger Eleven, Nickleback, etc.)
53. Matching outfits in engagement pictures
54. Melting ice caps
55. Mormon celebrities
56. Mormon movies
57. Mud
58. Nancy Grace
59. Onch
60. Paramore
61. Pastel colors
62. Pawn shops
63. People who stare into your car as you drive by
64. People who text while having a conversation
65. People who travel all the time
66. People who use Macs to be trendy
67. Provo all-stars
68. Puddles
69. Scene kids
70. Scion xB’s and Honda Elements
71. Scrunchies
72. Shirts with one sleeve
73. Shouting in commercials
74. Skinny jeans
75. Slugs
76. Smog/Pollution
77. Sound Warehouse commercials
78. Sparkling vampires
79. Spencer on the Hills
80. Stallions
81. Stray hairs everywhere
82. Striped polo shirts on girls
83. Stupid jokes
84. Subway
85. Tacky people
86. Temecula
87. Texas
88. The Home Shopping Network
89. The pictures on the walls
90. The Shark
91. The Wendy’s girl
92. Tila Tequila
93. Twilight superfans
94. Utah drivers
95. Utah Lake
96. Utah Valley
97. Waking up before 9 am
98. When holiday job employers actually call your references
99. Wind
100. World of Warcraft
1. “In America, we have…”
2. 2-carat engagement rings
3. 6th floor girls
4. Aeropostale
5. Army National Guard commercial
6. Basketball
7. Big moles on people’s faces
8. Birth control
9. Blisters
10. Blizzards
11. Burglars
12. Burnt out lightbulbs
13. Caked-on makeup
14. Cancer
15. Car commercials
16. Cat hair everywhere
17. Caveman Geico commercials
18. Cheap extensions
19. Class
20. Clear bra straps
21. Cougareat
22. Crazy foreign roommates
23. Creepy Clearisil commercials
24. Crying
25. Deal or No Deal
26. Deforestation
27. Dirty cars
28. Ditzy girls
29. Driving in the snow
30. Eating one’s burrito in under a minute
31. Emo Polaroid pictures
32. Emotions on reality TV
33. EZ Cheese
34. Fake people
35. FaMOUSE people
36. Fishnet shirts
37. Fresh papaya
38. Girls with 8000 best friends
39. Glenn Beck
40. Guns
41. Hot Topic
42. Huge tattoos in Old English font
43. Hunting
44. Idaho
45. Ignorance
46. Interrupted naps
47. Kevin Federline
48. Kids in sacrament meeting
49. Korrie
50. Lace-trimmed clothing
51. Lurking
52. Man bands (like Daughtry, Lifehouse, Finger Eleven, Nickleback, etc.)
53. Matching outfits in engagement pictures
54. Melting ice caps
55. Mormon celebrities
56. Mormon movies
57. Mud
58. Nancy Grace
59. Onch
60. Paramore
61. Pastel colors
62. Pawn shops
63. People who stare into your car as you drive by
64. People who text while having a conversation
65. People who travel all the time
66. People who use Macs to be trendy
67. Provo all-stars
68. Puddles
69. Scene kids
70. Scion xB’s and Honda Elements
71. Scrunchies
72. Shirts with one sleeve
73. Shouting in commercials
74. Skinny jeans
75. Slugs
76. Smog/Pollution
77. Sound Warehouse commercials
78. Sparkling vampires
79. Spencer on the Hills
80. Stallions
81. Stray hairs everywhere
82. Striped polo shirts on girls
83. Stupid jokes
84. Subway
85. Tacky people
86. Temecula
87. Texas
88. The Home Shopping Network
89. The pictures on the walls
90. The Shark
91. The Wendy’s girl
92. Tila Tequila
93. Twilight superfans
94. Utah drivers
95. Utah Lake
96. Utah Valley
97. Waking up before 9 am
98. When holiday job employers actually call your references
99. Wind
100. World of Warcraft
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
veteran's day
I just finished reading this article on CNN about a medic who fought in WWII and was put in a POW camp for a few months before it was liberated. I think his story is amazing, not because of what he survived, but because of what he did while he was there. He felt it was his duty to record everything that happened to him, and even after the war, he wasn't allowed to say anything about it.
I am so grateful for those people who have served and do serve our country in any capacity. I obviously don't agree with war, but I am grateful that there are people who are willing to put others before themselves even if it means they will lose their own life.
I am so grateful for those people who have served and do serve our country in any capacity. I obviously don't agree with war, but I am grateful that there are people who are willing to put others before themselves even if it means they will lose their own life.
"You only live once. Let's keep trucking. If we don't do that, who's going to do it for us? We have to be happy. Why hate?" he says. "The world is full of hate, and yet they don't know what they want.
Thanks to those veterans.
Monday, November 10, 2008
paris does more tricks.
We don't have children, so I am forced to write more often about my cats. Yes, it's true. Especially Paris, who actually does things. This is her latest trick (it might be sideways again):
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
a glimpse of oktoberfest and the ghoulie madness
mark, chris, and eric eating the fondue. i don't know why i don't have any pictures of lindsay and me there. weird. i also don't have any pictures from oktoberfest. i do have this video though...chris, don't kill me. at least it's not on facebook! (and yes, you'll have to watch it sideways. that's the way i took it on my camera.)
after oktoberfest we went searching for the ghoulie tree.
when we spotted the ghoulie tree, chris pulled over and turned off his lights. eric and mark made a mad dash for the tree and grabbed as many ghoulies as they could in a three-second period. mark even went back for one he dropped.
mark and eric were proud of the treasures they had just captured...
more wildness ensued.
lindsay and i found time to take a picture of ourselves where we only look mildly terrified of what was going on around us
fly, ghoulie, fly...
ghoulies love apple beer
eric depositing the ghoulie on a car at the end of the night.a short update until i can post with pictures later.
I am bad at updating my blog, I know. But not as bad as some other people...
On Saturday we went over to Lindsay and Mark's for a little fondue party. Lindsay and I dressed up in authentic dirndls (we looked amazing, and for some reason I don't have a picture of just us in the dirndls...not sure what happened there) and made the fondue. Chris came over too, and that was fun. After fondue we went to an Oktoberfest party that is put on annually by one of the apartment complexes here in Provo. It wasn't very well-publicized so there weren't that many people. The boys spent the majority of their time there playing pool, and Lindsay and I played the piano "like wild beasts of the jungle." Nice. We finally left, shined Chris' huge hunter headlights on the party, then we tried to find the State Hospital deer so we could chase them again, but we couldn't find them so we went to THE GHOULIE TREE. I love whatever family lives in that house, because they unknowingly supply us with such a good time every Halloween. We took some ghoulies and cavorted in the canyon with them, finally depositing them on some unfortunate and (probably very confused) people's cars.
It was a good night.
In more serious news, I voted for the first time! On Monday I went to the Provo administrative building and waited in line for about 30 minutes to do my duty as an American (even though it doesn't mean much here in Utah) and cast my ballot. I don't have to tell anyone who I voted for...as anyone who knows me already knows that little tidbit of information. I'll be honest, I only knew who I wanted to vote for for president and for governor, but the rest of the candidates didn't mean a whole lot to me. Neither did the proposed state constitutional amendments, because I don't really care about when the State Senate meets or how they define replacement of the Lieutenant Governor when he or she becomes unable to serve. But I voted! And I got a sticker.
On Saturday we went over to Lindsay and Mark's for a little fondue party. Lindsay and I dressed up in authentic dirndls (we looked amazing, and for some reason I don't have a picture of just us in the dirndls...not sure what happened there) and made the fondue. Chris came over too, and that was fun. After fondue we went to an Oktoberfest party that is put on annually by one of the apartment complexes here in Provo. It wasn't very well-publicized so there weren't that many people. The boys spent the majority of their time there playing pool, and Lindsay and I played the piano "like wild beasts of the jungle." Nice. We finally left, shined Chris' huge hunter headlights on the party, then we tried to find the State Hospital deer so we could chase them again, but we couldn't find them so we went to THE GHOULIE TREE. I love whatever family lives in that house, because they unknowingly supply us with such a good time every Halloween. We took some ghoulies and cavorted in the canyon with them, finally depositing them on some unfortunate and (probably very confused) people's cars.
It was a good night.
In more serious news, I voted for the first time! On Monday I went to the Provo administrative building and waited in line for about 30 minutes to do my duty as an American (even though it doesn't mean much here in Utah) and cast my ballot. I don't have to tell anyone who I voted for...as anyone who knows me already knows that little tidbit of information. I'll be honest, I only knew who I wanted to vote for for president and for governor, but the rest of the candidates didn't mean a whole lot to me. Neither did the proposed state constitutional amendments, because I don't really care about when the State Senate meets or how they define replacement of the Lieutenant Governor when he or she becomes unable to serve. But I voted! And I got a sticker.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
i love fall.
Last weekend we went up to Logan, which was pretty fun. We went to the football game on Friday night. BYU won, but I don't think they played very well. Too bad. We went and saw Chris at the game, and we was taking lots of pictures. So I'm stealing one from him.
It was Eric's birthday last weekend (and Eric's dad's birthday about 2 weeks ago, and Julie's birthday this last Monday) so we had a little lunch and birthday party on Saturday at Corey and Julie's apartment. Eric enjoyed the Jello cheesecake.
We've both been really busy with school and work lately and haven't had a whole lot of time to do fun things in the meantime. I put all of my fall decorations up last week, and I love it. Maybe I'll take a picture of it later. We're planning on going to the Haunted Forest sometime...and we'll get to carve pumpkins eventually too. Yay Halloween!
It was Eric's birthday last weekend (and Eric's dad's birthday about 2 weeks ago, and Julie's birthday this last Monday) so we had a little lunch and birthday party on Saturday at Corey and Julie's apartment. Eric enjoyed the Jello cheesecake.
We've both been really busy with school and work lately and haven't had a whole lot of time to do fun things in the meantime. I put all of my fall decorations up last week, and I love it. Maybe I'll take a picture of it later. We're planning on going to the Haunted Forest sometime...and we'll get to carve pumpkins eventually too. Yay Halloween!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
i lied, i know.
But our internet was down last night so I couldn't post! I know, excuses, excuses.
I just got back from watching the VP debate with Lindsay and Kirsten while Eric played pool with Mark. Good times all around. We even played Palin bingo, which was a blast.
Anyway, I promised pictures from Disneyland, and so you're going to get ALLLL the pictures from Disneyland. Which means I'll have to put them on another website that you can go look at, since I'm not about to post them all on this blog. Mostly I'm posting them all so anyone who wants any of them can take what they want. I won't be surprised if I see a few them on People.com tomorrow.
Notes: So it actually takes a really, really, REALLY long time to upload pictures on Picasa. I got about halfway through them and it's almost midnight. I promise I'll post the rest later. Here's the link for those of you who just can't wait: http://picasaweb.google.com/adrien.mooney/CaliforniaTripSeptember2008#
Also, Eric and I took a drive on the Alpine Loop on Sunday since the trees are starting to turn all pretty and fall-colored. We may have been better off going this weekend as a lot of the trees hadn't changed yet, but it was still really nice to be out in nature. Bonus! It rained a little while we were out there so it smelled really nice and forest-y too. I love the smell of trees and fresh rain.
We are going up to Logan this weekend for the BYU/Utah State football game, so maybe that will be fun. I know Eric at least will have a blast. Plus it's his birthday tomorrow. Happy Birthday Eric!
I just got back from watching the VP debate with Lindsay and Kirsten while Eric played pool with Mark. Good times all around. We even played Palin bingo, which was a blast.
Anyway, I promised pictures from Disneyland, and so you're going to get ALLLL the pictures from Disneyland. Which means I'll have to put them on another website that you can go look at, since I'm not about to post them all on this blog. Mostly I'm posting them all so anyone who wants any of them can take what they want. I won't be surprised if I see a few them on People.com tomorrow.
Notes: So it actually takes a really, really, REALLY long time to upload pictures on Picasa. I got about halfway through them and it's almost midnight. I promise I'll post the rest later. Here's the link for those of you who just can't wait: http://picasaweb.google.com/adrien.mooney/CaliforniaTripSeptember2008#
Also, Eric and I took a drive on the Alpine Loop on Sunday since the trees are starting to turn all pretty and fall-colored. We may have been better off going this weekend as a lot of the trees hadn't changed yet, but it was still really nice to be out in nature. Bonus! It rained a little while we were out there so it smelled really nice and forest-y too. I love the smell of trees and fresh rain.
We are going up to Logan this weekend for the BYU/Utah State football game, so maybe that will be fun. I know Eric at least will have a blast. Plus it's his birthday tomorrow. Happy Birthday Eric!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
a new layout for fall
Thanks to the help of Lindsay and The Cutest Blog on The Block, we're all fancied up for fall! I love this new design. I promise (and it's not an empty one this time!) that I will update later on tonight with all of our Disneyland adventures!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
so
This has nothing to do with Disneyland, which I thought would be my next post. But today I got my awesome boots delivered to me, and I'm so excited! They were featured in InStyle which obviously makes me very trendy. Maybe someday I'll post a picture of me in all my trendiness and subsequent popularity.
They are these ones:
Or, that's what one of them looks like anyway. The right one. Yes, it's suede.
Ok. I promise I'll try not to post anymore about random clothing purchases I make. No promises about Eric though...he'll probably make hundreds of posts about his fashion decisions.
Next time...Disneyland. For real this time.
PS: I think this is hilarious. You all should check it out.
They are these ones:
Or, that's what one of them looks like anyway. The right one. Yes, it's suede.Ok. I promise I'll try not to post anymore about random clothing purchases I make. No promises about Eric though...he'll probably make hundreds of posts about his fashion decisions.
Next time...Disneyland. For real this time.
PS: I think this is hilarious. You all should check it out.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
the happiest place on earth!
Like Lindsay mentioned in a similar and very recent post, we are all headed out to California next week for a little break! On Wednesday night, Mark and Lindsay and Eric and I will all pile into the car for a weekend getaway to Disneyland (and Fallbrook, of course). So, here's 20 reasons I'm so excited for this trip:1. I haven't been home in almost a year and a half and I can't wait to be home! (If even for a little bit)
2. I get to put my feet in the ocean and walk on the pier
3. We're going to Disneyland AND California Adventure, which are both amazing
4. We have dinner reservations at the Blue Bayou inside Pirates of the Caribbean. Yum!
5. I haven't been to In-N-Out in forever and we're stopping in Vegas or St. George for that purpose
6. I get to show Lindsay where I grew up, finally
7. Things are going to get weird in the car ride down, since we'll be driving straight through the night
8. I may have an excuse to get a new weekender bag since Delta employees ripped mine on the way back from Portland...
9. Hospitality provided by my wonderful parents...thank you!!
10. They're also cooking us a barbecue
11. I love Disneyland and always have. I know how to work the Fast Passes and cannot wait for the following rides at Disneyland: Indiana Jones, Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain, Jungle Cruise (I've always loved it), Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, Autopia, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Basically I just love Disneyland.
12. Also the following rides at California Adventure: Soaring Over California, California Screamin', Hollywood Tower of Terror, Grizzly River Rapids. Yay!
13. Possibly running into a few people from home? That might be fun.
14. Nice hot weather (it'll be a nice transition into what's coming for Utah in a couple of months...)
15. Relaxing time away from Utah
16. Lots of animal life in Fallbrook...Lindsay and I are sure to have a field day
17. Pedro's Tacos...oh I'm going to get around to eating there!
18. Swimming in the pool and sleeping in all day Thursday
19. Did I mention how much I love Disneyland?
20. And yes, the big Disneyland Gift Shop on Main Street. I'm bound to get something there since I didn't last time.
Alright, knowing how unreliable I am at updating this blog, I probably won't post again until well after we're back from California. But I'll be sure to post plenty of pictures!
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