Location: Virginia

Hi loyal readers :)

I left Rexburg at 3 in the morning and headed out to Virginia. The flights were super bumpy and made me motion sick. So I got some delicious peppermint tea in Detroit. But before I got the tea I had to walk through this tunnel:




It kept changing colors and had music that matched what was going on. It was awesome. Very soothing. You know those glade light show air fresheners? It was like walking through one.

So then as I got on the plane I looked over and saw the coolest sign:



The sign said something like, "Challenge any person not displaying an airport ID" and has two guys posed to fight! Detroit has, by far, the coolest airport ever!

And then I saw my baby...he's so cute! Look how big he is!

Quick thought

Can I just say I love everything on here! There are so many cute things. Her earrings are adorable, and there are  cute notebooks and beanies and ahh! I love it all. I'm probably going to do some shopping soon. I should tell her I blogged about her. But I should probably do a better job at a blog. But I need to blow my nose and get ready for work. So later.

Love You In The Fall

Oops, I posted it with just a title at first. My bad.

Anyway, quick post before counseling. I freaking love fall!

Have you ever noticed that when leaves are super crunchy and falling all around you, it sounds like rain? I adore that. It makes my heart smile. I was driving back to work yesterday from my lunch and I got caught in this little wind tunnel...of leaves. It was beautiful. If I didn't have to get back to work right then I'd have stopped and just watched it. This is why I need a camera. I want to be able to take pictures of stuff like this when it happens. Not google a picture and add it or hope that someone else is with me with a camera.

Then last night I did not go to the gym because I had stuff to do and I would have needed to take a shower after the gym, obviously, but I didn't have time to do that and get my full work out in. So I went for a walk around town. It was a beautiful fall evening. I had my overly big winter coat on (last winter I was a fatty and I haven't had time/money to get one this year) my super cute hat that my friend made me, and my ipod. What else would a girl need?!

It was a gorgeous night, and I loved just rocking out between Will Smith, Joe Buddens, Timbaland, Primary songs haha, and the occasional Indonesian song. And just as I was walking through the cute little homes away from campus, the great song "Love you in the Fall" by Paul Westerberg came on. It's such a cute love song. I'm so glad I'm not one of those bitter people that can't listen to love songs unless I'm in love. Gah, they annoy me with their sadness.

I went to a soccer game too, with a blanket and hot cocoa (good bye workout haha!) and loved it except I had a pounding headache. But I left at halftime because of it and then took a hot shower and crawled into bed. I had a friend buy me some sinus medicine and boy o boy that was good stuff! I felt great this morning! I'll probably take some tonight too just to make sure I'm all better but I may have stopped a really bad cold in it's tracks. Booya and take that. Then this morning I woke up to $10 by my bed. Well good morning to me! My roommate apparently borrowed my car, which is totally fine, but I guess the medicine was a little stronger than I thought, I never sleep that soundly! But I needed it for sure. And I got 8 hours (almost to the minute) of sleep. Rock on!


Okay, well I gotta go to the bank and then therapy, woohoo! Stacey, have your baby please. Ainsley, comment like you do. And someone else please. Because seriously, I feel so alone......

Love ya!

Oops, I did it again :)

Yeah, that's right. I worked out again. I know. That is all. 

Too hot to handle

Dear You,

I just went to the gym and I'm so proud of myself!

I worked on the bike for 30 minutes. I got 10.2 miles (10.89 with the cool down) which, according to my calculations is like, oh 22 mph. Yeah....you can be shocked cause I was too.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

I went to the elliptical and did like 5 minutes of backwards riding, which is intense, but it was cool that it didn't feel weird (like I was going backward) after a minute or two. But I only did 5 minutes because my legs were so tired and my roommate wanted to do weights and I figured I'd do them with her because I don't really know what I'm doing over on that side.

Holy crap...so much fun! I am way buffer than I thought too. Must be picking up those kids all the time at work or something. I was doing 2 reps of 10 (I'm trying to use gym speech, but I don't know if it's right) and I felt good. I did different machines for a half hour. I felt like I was floating. It was so amazingly amazing.

Ainsley, this was mostly for you. I think you may be the only one reading that cares. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me to do this again. It really didn't take long (just over an hour with changing and stuff). Last week was pathetic to say the least. I know I can do better. I just have to actually do it.


Goal: Do this again at least 3 times next week.

Love,
Me

You're the inspiration....

Ainsley :) But I cheated making mine, 5 minutes...words found through google. Yeah, kinda pathetic :P

Sand Dunes!

Okay this was all a few days ago, but still a good time. We took more pictures, but I really need to get my own camera so I don't need to rely on others to post pictures so I can steal them.



I got this great idea to get a puzzle to keep me from going crazy this semester. Yeah, stupid me bought a 1000 piece one. I did the smallest amount, my roommates and friends did it all. But I put the last piece in :)


Freezing at the dunes


Aww, aren't they cute haha ;)


Haha, Cherie totally tackled him, and then I just kinda jumped in afterward.



Look at the awesome sand storm we were in! Awesome except when it was getting in our eyes, mouths, salsa, chips, soda....yeah....
 

Sunday Evening

My roommate, old roommate, and fishing buddy (even though we haven't gone yet) went to Mesa Falls tonight. We got super scared after Hans hid in the darkness and even more scared when the light at the creepy cabin came on, when it didn't look like anyone was there. So we belted some Hymns and ran for the car. But there were some cute pictures....and some delicious brownies. I'm sorry Ainsley. I really need you around when I think about eating.


I'm driving believe it or not.


Cherie tried jumping in front of Hans


Being Mary and Joseph


Diana just screamed in my ear. SO SCARY!


Backseat mischief


We ate those on the way--the rest on the way home.


Hans had long enough arms to get us all in the picture after I failed :(


Yay! Me and Diana!


Cherie and half my face!

I had a video that taken as my FHE brothers just threw some stuff together on this cool drum thing and a guitar. Then after the song, I played the drums--I was kinda awesome, not gonna lie ;) But the video quality stinks on my phone. Maybe after Christmas things will get better hahaha

8 Things

I was finally tagged in something! How exciting for me!

8 TV shows I love to watch
House
Office
Arrested Development
So You Think You Can Dance
Jeopardy
Burn Notice
Doogie Howser, MD
The Mary Tyler Moore Show


8 Favorite restaurants
Johnny Carino's
Applebees
5 and Diner
Steak and Shake
Joe's Pizza
Uptown Bagelry
IHOP
Fazoli's


8 Things that happened yesterday
Babysat
Watched Roman Holiday
Blogged!
Talked to my buddy and listened to his engagement story, which rocks!
Talked to my grandma
Ate my weight in spaghetti :)
Purposefully almost ran over my friends fiancee---but it got really close when he pushed her into my way even more!
Got my eyebrows tamed, owwie!


8 Things I am looking forward to
My birthday :D
Seeing my family
Getting back into running
All my friends getting married and being so extra happy
Playing Play-doh with my kids someday :)
Making Monkey Bread on Easter
Graduating
My next trip to Bozeman, MT.


8 Things on my wish list
Owning a beautiful piece of art
Walking down a adorable Main Street around Christmas when it's snowing and it reflecting off the holiday lights
Learning to fly
Being debt-free (college loans stink!)
Flying in a hot-air balloon
Make someone shoot milk out when I make them laugh
Actually finish a puzzle myself
Write a book


8 People I'm tagging...
Ainsley (just kidding), Susan, Rachel, Melissa, Diana, Hannah, Talia, Stacey, and Meghan

Yay!!!

Very little reading required....

Hannah loves me so much


Dwight is happy to be there with me, Tyler is freaking out!


Jon is more fierce, but I'm so cute and cuddly!!


I love the song "Creep" and this stranger boy played it for me on the guitar!


Don't know him, but he wanted to hug me, and "for balance requirements" (haha, wink wink) I wrapped myself around him.


I was pooped ;)


Is it still called a piggy back ride if it's on a lion?


Oooh! So excited!


Rawr baby!


Some more strangers, and I really scared her, just walking in and sitting next to her. It was worth it completely!


I look good in that apron! Thanks to my new friend Reagan.

How jealous are you of me right now??

I bought a typewriter!

Yeah, I did, it's true. And AWESOME!!

I am going to blog tomorrow when I get the pictures in. But that's so you know that I am not a hypocrite, asking people to write new entries and then i don't do it myself! That would be terrible.

Oh man, you are just gonna bust a gut laughing about this stuff I did tonight. Ahhh, awesome, awesome, awesome! 

Til later!

My song!

This is pretty freaking sweet!!! This is the song that was number one on my birthday!

So, go find yours! And post it as your own entry! And let me know that you did it too so I don't have to blog-stalk you!

Thank you sis!

Fabulous!

I go to therapy. Every Friday morning. It's been for a long time actually. Like a year or so. I can't even believe that I didn't do this before. I have had a few; these last two have been my favorite. And this one is FREE! But he's super talented, I'd want to pay for it if I could.

It's funny, he gives me these assignments, sometimes not explicitly, but I know that whatever we talk about one week, I should try and implement the next week. I love having a goal like that. And when I do really well I think, "I can't wait to talk about this Friday!" And when I do he gets so happy that I know that he really does care and wants me to succeed. This next week's experiment is so cool, I'm really excited for it. I can't write down what it is, in hopes of keeping the integrity of it intact, but next week I can say something :)

I am so sleepy! I started writing this at 11:45 this morning, but then I went out and stacked my old roommate's furniture in front of her door, and then went to work. After work I've just been running around all night. Saw some friends, played a little shoe-soccer (found an old shoe on the tennis courts and kicked it around---lots of fun and stubbed toes!), and got myself good and tired to sleep in tomorrow!! And then I'm getting sushi for dinner (paid for by a friend) and watching Jeff Dunham and Brian Regan on Comedy Central. Yay!!! And hopefully some college football too in there.

My Wordle Creations

This is from wordle.net and they're so much fun to make!

Here's my resume haha!

And a poem I wrote....but jumbled of course...

It's interesting, the more you use a word, the bigger it is, and if I were to write a list of stuff that I really liked or whatever, it'd be fun to see what else it would come up with. Hmm. Boredom project? 

Oooh! I have printer paper that is stickers! I could do this, and then make stickers of them....holy cow. Best idea EVER!! 

I'm gonna borrow Talia's camera at one point too so I can get a picture of the crafty thing I made the other day. It totally rocks. 

Anatomy of a Gummy Bear

Haha, when I have $30, I'm buying this for my computer. I already have it as my background, just so I can get used to it. 

I've been one chunky monkey this last week. I eat out too much. I had sushi last Wednesday, Big Jud's on Friday, Backyard on Monday, and Craigo's last night. Look at these cute pictures my new neighbor Talia took!

So there are dimming lights, but the flash ruined that, so the pictures are just silly now. Erin thinks I'm an idiot haha..
Now she's a deer in the headlights...
"La la la, you can't see me, so I'm going to drink my free water." Erin

Haha, remember those commercials for Sure deodorant? "Sure? Unsure?" Haha!

And this is the awesome boat house on the outskirts of town. I'm going to enjoy having Talia around, she's got a camera, and I do not. So there will be more pictures! Yay!!

This week in pictures

I've had a great week! I've been in a pretty darn good mood. A few times I've gotten unexplainably upset about stupid things, but that goes away really quite quickly. But all in all it's been a great week. Allow me to explain:

Sunday: A great day at church. And I looked a little like this, less shiny though. This was a picture of a picture.

Monday: Also a great day---

Tuesday: I went to Wyoming after work (haha, I say it like I went to the grocery store!) to get my dearest buddy Melissa. It was 8 hours round trip, but pretty cool none the less. I saw an outhouse for sale. That was weird. But I also saw... 

That's the Palisade Reservoir. It is absolutely gorgeous!

Wednesday someone rubbed my belly and said, "Oh look how cute it is!" Or something like that. I don't know what they were thinking, if they were saying, "Cute and little" or "When are you due?" The second one hasn't happened in ages, so I might have to kick her haha! And we rearranged the living room so we could watch the Olympics. 

Thursday: Also a fabulous day! 

I added color to the cut I got Monday. It looks AWESOME! It's not styled that great here because I was already late for work when she was rinsing it and then it's all messed up from playing with the kids too. 

And tomorrow, the awesome days continue:

PAY DAY ROCKS!!!

Yeah, I know, awesome huh? :)

They're getting married!!

My best buddy is getting married! Yay!!! He called me today and I'm super duper way freaking excited. Haha, you'd think I was the one getting hitched, but no, he's just awesome and I'm glad he met a girl as awesome as he is. And very much like me too...at least I like to think so! So congrats to Andrew and Katie!

And I know the ring is cut out, but this is the cutest picture of them I've got. So we'll just skip the ring for now :D

Tons of sleep, no nachos, and no crashes

So today I woke up at 6:30 am, which I'm supposed to do every day. Except today. I jinxed myself at work yesterday. I don't remember who I told, but I told someone that I was afraid I'd wake up in time for work today. Boo being psychic haha

I had no nachos today, but I did have 2 smoothies. And a fabulous stir fry! Mmm, holy yum. The second smoothie isn't as good, but I needed something in my belly to take my meds I forgot to take with dinner. 

And the St. Anthony demolition derby was tonight, but I didn't go, even though I've wanted to for like, a year. Things just didn't work out right today. All of a sudden I had no idea who I'd be going with; even though I had told a lot of people, I could only remember one person that said they'd come. And then he didn't want to go either. So yeah, oh well. I wish Andrew and Katie had come down today. I kept looking out the window hoping. I'm not sure why, I knew they weren't, but oh well. 

I did find a really fun blog today, actually a couple. But this one is a magazine editor turned stay at home mom and she has the cutest ideas for free things to do with toddlers. It made me sad, a little excited, but kinda sad. Someday....but not anytime soon. 

An apology

Michelle came out here, and we went to Frontier Pies and it was tasty. 

Hahaha! Love you Michelle!!

Freshman Year--Wow!

This is where I first lived, and that bucket is not comfortable to sit on. 

Hahaha! Sotally Tober 2003!!!

Mmm, Fiesta Tuesday had the best quesadillas!!

We made a cake for our RA out of graham crackers and zingers. It was a runway cause she wanted to learn how to fly. We thought it was a good idea!

Haha, April Fools!

I hate skating!!

Going out to the Pub :)

A little swing dancing---the boys were late so we took pictures.