a little catch up

so there have been many small things that i have wanted to blog about but i never did get around to it (school has been pretty all consuming okay) so this is me catching up.

i love brown eggs. when i am older and have my own family and house i want to have a few chickens in a coop and collect their eggs. they are so much more awesome than white eggs.


my roommate is a strange one. this is how she calls cats, such as the one that showed up at our intramural soccer team. oh our intramural soccer team, that's another post all to itself.


sometimes people say i'm quirky. probably becasue i do things like this.

i dont like eating cold applesauce so i warm it up by putting a sauce bowl in a bigger bowl of hot water to get the applesauce to room temperature.

i went on a hike with my bestie eliza, now hermana probst, up provo canyon before she entered the mtc. it was absolute beautiful.


we got some practice harvesting the field.



and found the tree of life.
i'd say it was a successful day.

i made stuffed zucchini for dindin. me and kj enjoyed it immensely although it was no where near as good as nonna's.


alexis gave kj surgery on her finger which she slammed in a car door. we watched a video on youtube about how to preform such a surgery. psh who needs a phd when there's youtube ta teach ya all ya need ter know.


and then we dressed up for that pagan holiday.
kj is mc hammers illegitimate white/asian child
alexis is in a onesie
and i am ethnic.

performance anxiety

**warning this post contains potty humor**

Dear girl in the bathroom wearing way to much make-up and boots that could harpoon a whale,
could you please leave. You have been in here FOREVER staring at yourself in the mirror. A bit vain are we? I really need to take care of some important business but I cant while you are in here. Maybe if we hadn't made awkward eye contact through the crack of the stall door i could, but unfortunately we both looked at the exact same moment in the exact same location and now I cant. please leave! I need to go!
Sincerely,
apprehensive bathroom goer

HP: more than an entertaining story

Harry Potter was a huge part of my childhood. I grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermione fighting their battles right beside them. I dont know who made this video but I think its so beautiful. The song by 30 second to mars coupled with the images from the movie provide for a powerful impact. I know it's only harry potter but think of the implementations this has of change, friends, love and forgiveness.



The battle between light and dark is still raging around us, but we know the outcome. Light always triumphs over darkness. The war is won.

Whales on Stilts: a book review by me

Whales on Stilts: M.T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales by M.T. Anderson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Lily thinks of her self as an average twelve year old and why wouldnt she when her two best friends--Katie Mulligan of Horror Hollow and Jasper Dash, Boy Tecnonaut-- are famous for the daring adventurous adventures which they both have series on. But Lily's averageness chnages when she finds out that her dad works for an evil scientist who plans on taking over the world with whales, on stilts! Katie uses her smarts along with the help of her two pals to save the world and her grandma from this whale invasion.

I loved this book. It took me the first five pages to realize that Anderson was making fun of the sci-fi fantasy thriller as well as a lengthy list of other things such as product placement and popular yet stupid movie lines. This book had me laughing out loud.
a couple of my favorite lines:
"My mother was a Razorback whale. My father was a very lonely sailor"

"I was a little worried that you had fallen asleep or were you were calling from the john. Your uncle Sid does that, you know...Sometimes he grunts while talking."



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what a lil play play

i stumbled across this video today. oh how i miss the days of my youth when boy girl relationships were this simple. although at the end it gets a little dicey.

this saturday night

i am sitting at my desk writing a paper, catching up on glee episodes while eating from a carton of udderly chocolate. yep. this is my life. it makes me laugh.
ps finn=sooo attractive!

a little inspiriation

future missionary

This is the picture that a member of the twelve or the first presidency will see when selecting where i will serve the lord full time as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

i had a bazillion ideas...

this past week i had so many ideas of things i wanted to post about, but alas my slacker side got the bets of me (well i dont really know if it was my slacker side because i was frantically doing homework and trying to figure out how to upload a mission photo-which took FOREVER- that i was supposed to have dome last week so i guess in a round about way it was my slacker side because if i had done my h-dub when i was supposed i could have blogged. okay that's enough of a side track)
ANYWAYS, i encountered many things that i wanted to share with you.

1. on friday i read this article in the salt lake tribune. anytime i hear anything about breast milk it takes me back to 10th grade english when my teacher was talking to us about how beneficial a 'mommy farm' would be. The article talks about how a california company is selling breast milk that is donated my women (obvi becasue its impossible for a man to donate breast milk) to hospitals. The article talks about the ethics, more or less, of selling this donated mommy milk. I found a few gems in the article while reading:
"A California company is eyeing Utah for its abundance of notoriously health-conscious, breast-feeding moms."
a. notorious: widely and unfavorably known. really, why would health-consciousness ever be considered 'unfavorably known'. could this be because of the word of wizzum that the many latter-day saints support? humm.
b. "Utah mothers breast-feed at rates, well above the national average..." this made me laugh out loud.
c. the article also mentioned how mom donate, sell, and trade their breast milk online. strange? i think yes is the correct answer.

okay thats enough about boob milk. now on to better things (at least in my opinion)

2. La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's most Enchanting Language.
Its a book I'm reading, one of my besties said when she saw it she just had to buy if for me. so sweet! im so glad she did becasue i LOVE it! I'm only about fifty pages in, but man its so good. the author is just talking about how much she loves the italian language, with words and phrases thrown in that are in italian. "everything just sounds better in italian". and she could not be more wrong.
im currently in Ital 322 advanced composition and let me tell you its kicking my butt. sometimes i just get so discouraged becasue i feel like i will never be able to speak this wonderfully beautiful language. i hide the tears that well up in my eyes during class and hope no one will notice what an idiot i am. doubtful. its at times like these when i have to remind myself why i am studying italian. because i love it. thats all (and the men are on the attractive/romantic side). the more i study the more i love it and the more i get frustrated that i am not progressing as much as i would like. but i love it and i seriously cant image my life now if italian is not a part of it. Dianne, the author, helps to remind my why i put myself in this high anxiety situation. so i trek on, not giving up simply becasue i love the language.

here are a few lines from the book that make me smile...
"...a single word in Italian can reveal more than an entire paragraph in English"
"Take, for instance, Tommaseo's entry on Italy's national pastime (present and future): flirting, which translate into fare la civetta, or 'make like an owl'." She then goes on to describe the difference words that italian have to describe the type of fliriting from a civettino, a precociois little boy flattering a pretty woman, to zerbinotto, a fop tpp old for such foolishness.
"A shrewed furbacchione who obtains a learning a coveted building permit for a rectangular, cement-lined hole in his backyard by describing it not as a swimming pool (prohibited by law) but as a storage vat for water that local firefighters might need to douse a blaze"
she also describes congiuntivo as the sexiest verb form.
whats not to love about this book or the italian language. She talks about how one cannot separate the italian language from their culture. i think that is why i love this language so much. its so rich and full or life, love, passion, tragedy...okay thats enough of a rant about my obsession with la bella lingua

there was more i wanted to write but i didnt write down my inspiriations on my tiny post-it so those ideas will float with the wind until they land again.

i hope all of you have a great week.
you can expect more post as i recommitted my self to being a better blogger

mostly becasue i feeel weird putting it on facebook

I AM ALMOST DONE WITH MY MISSION PAPERS!!!!!!
i cannot wait until i am a full time missionary for the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints.
seriously, i dont want to wait i want to go now!
send me anywhere.
General conference was amazing and i learned much about being a missionary!
whoa!