Fun!

		I will marry Orlando.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in scotland in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 3 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a pink passat.
		I will spend my days as a model, and live happily ever after.

Bad Day

I had a really great weekend going to the Nutcracker ballet (despite the fact that my sil did not post any pictures of poor Sadie Mae)

Sunday was the St. Nickolas Day tea. Or Nicholas depending on where you're from. I was surprised that everyone wanted to come. Usually there are just four of us. I thought it was very successful, especially because the Violet tea was sooo good.

Today, I was really tired for some reason. I spent all day studying for my final and then hopped in the car to go to math. My car was doing some very funky things. I drove back home. I waited for mom to get back with her car. I got to math 30 minutes late. I know I failed the test because I didn't know it would be comprehensive. The syllabus implied that it would only be the chapters after the midterm and he never said anything about it being comprehensive. He told me I need a C to move on. I have a C now and will have an E after the test is graded. :(

I got home to find out that my car's alternator had finally gone. I had been expecting it for some time, but it happened on a bad day.

And I am still worried about the tree. :(

Here you go

O.k. let's see if blogger will ever let me publish this...

I Am...
Looking for meaning in life.

I Want...
To get married, to travel the world, to find a job I can love.

I Have...
A black cat named Zim. *smooch*

I Wish...
I was more out-going and less shy.

I Hate...
The mormons who are trying to make dumb laws...like the one where restaurants that serve alcohol need to put a curtain around the alcohol so people can't see it.

I Fear...
A lot of things. All of them revolving around death. 1. Car accidents 2. Earthquakes 3. Getting struck by lightning 4. The house burning down 5. Any and all diseases.

I Hear...
The sounds of the computer.

I Search...
The internet for recipes. One day I'll actually cook them!

I Wonder...
What happens after we die.

I Regret...
Not trying out for dance company in high school.

I Love...
My family.

I Ache...
When I'm walking around the U and it's cold. Breathing in the cold air makes my lungs ache.

I Always...
Kiss the kitties goodnight.

I Usually...
Have really strange dreams.

I Am Not...
Where I wanted to be at 21.

I Dance...
Sometimes. Not as much as I used to. I miss dancing.

I Sing...
Every single time I get in my car. I think I know most of the songs they play on X 96.

I Never...
Leave the house without makeup. Even if it's just a tiny bit of concealer and lip gloss.

I Rarely...
Wear shoes in the summer. I go everywhere I can barefoot. I love the way the grass feels.

I Cry...
When I'm sad and I hear a sad song.

I Am Not Always...
Sure about my major. (probably changing it)

I Lose...
My sunglasses unless I put them in a specific place every night.

I'm Confused...
as to why there can't be any fine arts classes at a decent time.

I Need...
Sunshine.

I Should...
Carve my pumpkins tonight.

Botched Halloween

I LOVE being invisible. I have been planning my Halloween party for over a month. I have talked and talked about it. I have told people to reserve the date. Now that it is almost here, no one can seem to remember. Jamie will be out of town, so Kylie can't come either. Dad will probably be out of town. David is probably doing something with his friends. Ethan and Jessica MUST come or it will be a failure. :(

Look for Monterey: Coming soon to a blog near you!

Blah Blah

Here is a blog entry although, it is full of complaining so it would probably be best to skip this one. As everyone who knows me knows, I hate school. I HATE school. I hate driving up there in the morning. I hate my classes. I hate the homework. I hate the teachers. I hate the essays. I hate driving home in the afternoon. I hate that I have a math plateau and I can learn anything up until functions and then my math brain goes dead.

Here is what is currently really frustrating me: I know that college is supposed to make you a "well-rounded" person and that any degree looks good. But all I am being taught is to how to interpret poetry (the way they think it should be.) I am afraid that I am going to go through all this and not be able to do anything. Who hires people to interpret their poetry?

I know, I know. It's my major. But I've looked through the majors and I'm just not interested in anything.

I've thought of going somewhere else and getting an associates degree to be a paralegal. But then I'm afraid that I won't like that and I'll be back to square one.

I've also thought of doing something animal related because I LOVE animals, but everything I've read says you need an animal science or zoology degree and the U does not offer those.

I want to be able to be independent and live on my own and have my own money and I'm frustrated because I can't see that happening.

So, I guess I'll stick it out.

Next time, I'll write a happy blog. I promise!

Hello from Moe

I'm not sure what to post, but I've been threatened to be cut from J's blog if I don't update. I did tell E that I was going to post a Moe post. Here is a picture of Moe right before his second molt. I wanted to take a picture because he had a particularly redish coloring at the time. (hermit crab colors vary from time to time.)



Shortly after taking this picture, Moe got listless and stopped eating. I thought he might be on his way to hermit crab heaven, but he was just molting. He shed his outer skin and ate it. yum yum. Now he is recovering and starting to eat regular food again (including his favorite: grapes)

Hello from Moe!

Bad Day

I should just learn to stop having good days, because they always lead to something bad. The night that everyone had so much fun at Harry Potter, Ben told us he was leaving. Yesterday, I had an amazing time at Raging Waters. I forgot how crappy work is. I didn't even think about work at all. I laughed and had fun all day long.

Today, the first thing I noticed when I woke up was that my watch has stopped working. The cute watch with the moving stars. It's possible that it's the battery, but I have this annoying way of burning out watches for no apparent reason.

After work, I needed to get my car inspected. We drove all the way to BFE only to find the place where my dad wanted us to go had a huge line and a long wait. We drove back to the crappy place down the street. They told us their person had left for the day. The same person who wasn't there last Friday.

My air conditioner was acting up so we turned it off. At a light, my car proceeded to overheat and die. We got it started and got it home where it proceeded to spew something all over the driveway.

I bought a CD to make myself feel better and while I was putting it on my I Pod, my laptop decided to freeze and die. It's working now, but it will probably be the next thing to go.

Sometimes these kinds of days make me laugh with how ridiculously bad they are. Today, though, I am tired and frustrated.

I'm sick of hearing about how all the people who have been so mean to me in the past have all the things that I want. Am I really such a bad person? I guess I must be.

One day,I will learn how to not pour my heart out to a screen for everyone on the internet to see. One day, hopefully.

Left :(

Today started out as a really good day. Work went amazingly well for a change. After, I wore my Harry Potter shirt and cuddled up in my Harry Potter blanket and went to see The Order of the Pheonix with my mom, Ethan, and Jessica. I don't care what anyone says, I loved it. We were having fun talking about the movie so we decided to go to sconecutter for shakes and talk about it some more. After, we stopped at the store because tomorrow is a field trip day and I needed sandwhich supplies.

Coming home, we saw a black dog get sort of hit. It took off running though so I hope it's ok.

When we got home, Ben called. He said that he is moving to Washington DC. I'd figured this would happen for a while because his girlfriend is there, but he always said she was going to come back here and he wasn't going anywhere. Well, now he is.

I know I'm being selfish, but I am so upset that he is leaving. For so many reasons. And the worst part is, he doesn't even seem to care. I wish that things didn't have to change so much. I wish so many things were still like they used to be. I am not good at dealing with change.

When I took off to 4 1/2 hour away SUU, I was scared, but I was so excited to be leaving and doing something new. Now that it's someone else leaving, I can't stop being sad.

I guess it's always easier being the one who leaves instead of the one who is being left.

Weird weekend

It has been a strange weekend. Firstly, because it felt like Friday last Tuesday because of the 4th of July holiday in the middle of the week. And also because of the altered farmhouse plan. I had thought we were going Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon as usual...but my dad has to get ready for a business trip. So I was informed after work on Friday that I had to get ready because we were going that night. Anyone reading this knows I love plans and when plans get changed on me, I feel a little out of sorts.

So now it feels like Sunday night, but it is only Saturday night. Which is good because the coming work week is going to be very difficult.

What was really weird though was the smoke. I woke up today to see a heavy blanket of smoke sitting over everywhere, as far as I could see. I had been hoping to sit out on the porch under a lovely blue sky and to breathe some good clean air. As it was, I couldn't go outside without the smoke hurting my eyes and throat.

It was so eerie. You couldn't see the mountains and the sun was an unnatural color of orange. No one was out of their houses. It was like we were the only ones there.

Back in Salt Lake, we found the source to be the devastating fire near Scipio. Some people died and so much land has been burned up. It makes me sad.

On another note, I just finished a really really good book. Although the book was sad too.

Lilies

I went for a long time without having a favorite flower. For some reason it bothered me, although I'm sure there are plenty of things to be bothered about other than a favorite flower. For a long time, I liked pansies and I still do, but they weren't it. I flirted a bit with carnations, but there wasn't anything terribly special about them.
A couple of days ago, I realized what my favorite flower is and I guess I've really known for a while. I love daylilies. A couple of years ago, we took a chance on some wal-mart bulbs. They came up as beautiful pink lilies. So we bought some more bulbs, and now our garden is full of pink, crimson, and orange daylilies. My only complaint is that they last for such a short time before withering in the summer heat.

The Princess Tea and other such ramblings

So, I just had a small fight with Blogger, but somehow I figured it out so I could post a new post. I'm not the most technologically advanced person in the world. They probably would not pick me to go on a rocket with the smartest people. They'd leave me to blow up with the earth instead. Or send me to the sun with Bart and Homer.

Anyway, I wanted to post about the princess tea. I had a lovely time and they had some dollies left over so I got to make one and she is so pretty. Her name is Breena and I can put up a picture once I finally decide it's time to hook up my digital camera and move them over here to the computer.
I also won one of the drawings which was neat because I hardly ever win anything.

There you go Jessica. It's not the most exciting entry in the world, but I found a couple of parts mildly humorous.

June Roses

The June roses are out and they are lovely. They are not like the roses in our own backyard, which are full and vary from coral to white. These are smaller, yet more plentiful. They are the most beautiful color of yellow which is a lovely contrast to the red barn. Honey bees flit through the centers until they are heavy with pollen. This makes me happy because even while the existance of honey bees is being threatened, they are there in the yellow roses as if nothing has changed and they will go on forever. Next time I'm there, there probably won't be any roses left...or there might be a few late stragglers. But still, June roses mean one thing: Summer is definitely here.

Maui

So, Maui is the most fantastic place I've ever been to and I could very easily live there and be quite happy.

Getting there was easy because with the time change, we left at 6 am SLC time and even with a 2 hour layover, we got to Maui at 11 am Maui time. (they are 4 hours behind us) so we still had that whole day. There was a beach right across the street from our hotel and I wanted to play in the ocean right away. Sadly, it was very windy and the beach stole my lovely beach dress while I was in the waves. Mean beach :(

Snorkeling got thrown off because there was a shark attack that closed a lot of the beaches. However, when I finally got to snorkel, I decided it was the neatest thing I've ever done. You just float there and look at hundreds of pretty fish swimming all around you. There was a big beggar puffer fish that came right up to everyones' mask looking for food (even though you're not supposed to feed the fish, some people do)

It was my goal to see a famous Hawaiian sea turtle, and on my last day out, I finally got to. I was looking for her where the turtles are supposed to hang out and all of a sudden, there she was coming right at me. I swam above her for as long as I could, but she was a lot faster and disappeared across the ocean floor.

I loved the smell of the ocean and the trade winds (even though they were so strong some afternoons) I loved drinking guava juice in the morning and eating passionfruit cheesecake. I loved the palm trees and bright flowers. But mostly, I loved that turtle.


This is the beach where we snorkeled the most.


Lava rock flowed down here and made these cool formations. This is right next to the coral reef.


This is a baby version of the sea turtle that I saw. This one is in the aquarium.


Everything was so beautiful.

Coming home sucked. We left at 8 pm Maui time and arrived in Salt Lake at 10 am the next morning. Even though we hadn't, it felt like we'd been flying all night. Stupid time change.

First Entry

This is my first entry. I'm trying to figure out how to move a lovely entry about Maui over here. It should be up shortly.

This is for you, Jess!