On Running After One's Hat

zelma's pictures

2011-07-09T13:03:00.000-07:00

These are some of my favorites

A GREAT Job

2010-09-23T12:10:00.000-07:00

So...
I got a great job, at Great Harvest, get it?
Right, so I work at 5:30 in the AM (Who would have guessed?!) And I love it!!! I'm not the biggest fan of going to bed early, but I am really liking getting up early and moving. I have to work a cash register but I also get to frost cookies and cinnamon rolls and put the drizzle on all the sweet treats!

I wear my American flag bandanna and get to make the frosting in a giant mixer! Its real fun.

So this cookie (the one in the picture) is significant because I made that frosting all by myself! I made it purple, but while I was making it the color was getting really faded, I thought it looked Grey. So, I kept asking one of my co-workers "Does this look Grey?" He kept replying really weird, a really enthusiastic, "yeah!."
I didn't want grey, duh, so I kept adding color and asking him, "This looks grey, doesn't it?"
And he kept being really enthusiastic, "yeah!"

So finally, I realize. He thinks I'm asking him if the frosting looks "GREAT"

no... I'm not that conceited.

It actally looks a little grey in this picture... I promise its purple!

23! It's an age

2010-04-16T15:53:00.000-07:00

Its my age. And there's nothing like a spring birthday to bring everyone together for a picnic party in the park.

We ate cake ad laid on blankets, and mother nature didn't act up one bit.

There was plenty to do at the park all morning!

We played bocce ball

I was pampered...

And we fed the ducks (look at all those gulls)

Owl city

2010-03-19T10:24:00.000-07:00

not the band... not a fan

Teryn has been watching a live feed of a wild owl who is hatching her eggs! Here's the link...

http://www.ustream.tv/theowlbox#more

Molly the owl!
Here's what we can be excited for!!
they are supposed to hatch this month! I will be watching it at work... pretty much constantly.

My Alter Ego

2010-03-17T11:04:00.001-07:00

Meet Barb
Height: takes up half the flat track when she bends her knees low enough
Months on her skates: 2
Time: 25 laps in 4:48 (as long as she doesnt fall over)
Total point count: 3 (I've only jammed twice people!)

So thats what I have been doing lately and I'm getting better people. So be prepared to get your bottoms to Utah to see a bout!

I am a child of the spring

2010-02-25T10:34:00.000-08:00

Although it is snowing
I am a child of the spring
And with my tax return
I will buy
My freedom

Party!

2010-01-10T11:18:00.000-08:00

I threw a birthday party for my friend Damien.

This is my friend Damien, I met him when I was twelve. At a carnival. We ran wild terrorizing carnies (in an innocent 12 year old way) and slid down a giant slide in potato sacks. And now we do pretty much the same thing here in Salt Lake...

We had his party outside in the snow. We ate curry out of chinese takeout boxes. drank Martineli's and made toasts. Then we played party games. Each guest had a party bag with treats and supplies to play the party games. We played outside until our feets were frozen, then we went inside and played some more.

And ate cupcakes!

and took pictures!

Happy Birthday Dame!!

locked my keys in the car

2009-12-08T14:09:00.000-08:00

while it was running this morning... it was running.
I turned it on to heat-up(because it was 5 degrees outside)and the door I had left open got pushed closed while I chipped ice off the windows.Mostly I could just laugh and laugh while I waited for AAA.

I was late for work already so i treated myself to some donuts before I drove to work at 20 MPH (incase you aren't here theres a blizzard going off)

Also going off, The Eddie.
Been watching it online all day.
Heres to better I MEAN less snow-filled days

p.s. I don't hate Utah. Sometimes you just think "Why am I in the middle of a blizzard when people are on a beach somewhere else??!?"

Scat Cat

2009-12-04T09:35:00.000-08:00

this ones for you EJJ

got me a cat

2009-11-10T15:55:00.001-08:00

His name is charles. Charles in charge...

Charlie

Cha-ullllls when he's being particularly finicky.

He snuggles me and pounces my face in the morning and is getting fat already!

Work is fun!

2009-10-30T11:33:00.000-07:00

For work we all dressed up and had a potluck!
Thats right, I work for the man 40 hours a week! surprisingly grown up, no?
This isn't my full costume... but i get up too early to really go all out for today. Tomorrow= a different story.

County Fair

2009-10-05T16:11:00.001-07:00

Went to the fair and it was so fun!

Saw this prize pig.

And the smallest horse in the world!! I asked the midget that was holding it to set it down in its shoe box so I could take this picture...

this was a pie-eating contest. duh
We also Boys To Men for free!
Rode the Barf-go -round (you know the anti-gravity thing)
Ate great fair food. My favorite!!
Any opportunity to wear my cowboy boots is a good thing.

the saucy little red-head

2009-09-20T20:21:00.000-07:00

TEN PRETTY GIRLS

There were ten pretty girls at the village school.
Picture ten pretty girls at the village school!
They were sweet, small and tall
And the boy loved them all
But you can't marry ten pretty girls.

There were ten pretty girls and let me tell you this:
That the boy's biggest thrill was to steal a kiss
Playing 'kiss-in-a-ring'
But it don't mean a thing
'Cos you can't marry ten pretty girls

Now, five were blondes and four brunettes
And one was a saucy little red-head.
The girls grew up and the boy left school
And at twenty-one he wedded the saucy little red-head.

Now there's one pretty girl from the village school
And 'twas she took the boy from the village school.
Kissing girls may be fine
But you've left over nine
'Cos you can't marry ten pretty girls.

GrannyBird sang me this song when she saw that my hair had gotten redder

mona rope swing

2009-09-15T10:42:00.000-07:00

I live in Utah now. Here we can rope swing safely (not like in hawaii).

elle's here too!

pescado

2009-09-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

Fish eye pictures in mexico. just as the title leads you to believe...

ash and john on the beach

four wheelers!

sand dollar

kites!

Teryn and I braved the beach at
night to pry the muscles from their homes

2009-07-29T14:36:00.000-07:00

iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

This video is awesome.
oh and dont forget to download the font after you watch it!

PADI certified

2009-06-20T00:36:00.000-07:00

It's official
it came in the mail
take me scuba diving!

love this

2009-05-27T14:54:00.000-07:00

I saw the new chanel No5 comercial on that parisian street style blog im always talking about...

audrey is great.

swine flu

2009-05-05T23:04:00.001-07:00

I hate the swine flu

It's 100% blown out of proportion...
did you know that more people have died of the real flu this year than of swine flu?
not hard... only ONE person has died of swine flu compared to the 13,000 that died of the real flu...

Also, two people are killed every year by VENDING MACHINES!!

vending machines, 200% more deadly than the swine flu.

I'm just a little upset... I had a great trip to Havasupi planned and it was completely ruined. this picture only sort of makes up for it...

Fisheye 09'

2009-05-02T12:38:00.000-07:00

crab smashing on our Big island trip

Carrie Gail

best night/ best concert. is it bad that seeing jenny was sort of better than graduating college?

Easter morning. post sunrise service

free your feet!

2009-04-24T21:56:00.000-07:00

I was always barefoot when I was a kid, and even now it is rare to find me laced up unless I am going somewhere where it is required.
in fact... A few months ago my parents were out here visiting and we decided to go to town via the north shore. Well we had a good time at the beach for a little while and then hopped in the car to head on to honolulu (about an hour or more away from my house) we were about 3/4's the way there when I realized I hadn't brought any shoes! My parents and even katie gave me that look... the "Are you serious?!' look... yes, I am 22 and I went to the mall with no shoes on.
I think my mom was a little embarrassed when I waltzed into Nordstrom with my toes bared, she insisted on buying me new sandals.

But according to this link:

I'm the one that got it right!

so show of those tootsies, painted or not.

I did it!

2009-04-24T00:19:00.000-07:00

I have wanted an autoharp for a long old time, and I bought myself one for my birthday (with the help of the $ GB sent me)
good buy Karl
I love it
in case you are wondering what an autoharp is the girl on stage left of this video is playing one... June carter played one. man i just love it so much!
maybe when I feel a little more confident I will post myself playing it... maybe

marriage

2009-03-20T00:35:00.000-07:00

some of these people are doing it...

Not the one in the middle.

So many good times, and jokes and trips...I'm glad you girls are growing up! maybe some day I will join you.
But for now I will wear my bridesmaid dress, dodge your bouquet and eat your cake!

I have a feeling that no husband is going to get in the way of times like these...

Don't judge

2009-03-10T22:59:00.001-07:00

I officially have one month of college left!

seriously

so to celebrate I bought these shorts...

now, some of you might be thinking, "Karly, those are too short".
They are actual shorts, yes.
This is not normal for me. For the past four years I have attended (and I'm more than glad I have) BYU, and anything above the knee has been too short. But no longer!
don't get me wrong, I love being modest
and I'm not going to go wild because of these shorts,
but my lower thighs have been neglected enough!

whilst I was reading

2009-02-23T02:11:00.000-08:00

"By complex, confusing, and almost contradictory mathematical process, by the use of zigzags instead of straight lines, the earth can be proved to be the centre of things celestial;
But by an operation so simple that it can be comprehended by a schoolboy, its position can be verified among the other worlds which revolve about the sun, and its movements harmonized with the laws of the universe."

-James Weldon Johnson in "Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man"

*also, Pluto's not a planet. FYI

In celebration

2009-02-13T17:56:00.000-08:00

of my new red skirt.

Did you know that according to the National Greeting Card Association (the NGCA) 85 percent of Valentines are bought and sent by women?
I protest!

I will not be sending out Valentines cards.

Happy Valentines anyway...

latest love affair

2009-02-10T00:32:00.000-08:00

I spend all my time with him, John Steinbeck.
Thats right, while my cousins make eternal relationships I have mad affairs with books. I am writing my senior thesis about John, his friend Ed and this book...

I highly recommend reading it. Its everything a book should be; poetry, comedy, tragedy, full of nostalgia. If you don't want to be the person you've always wanted after you read it... well then I don't know what.

favorite encounter in my research:

(written by john Steinbeck in a letter to a friend)

"The values (of society) have gotten crossed up. Courtesy is confused with weakness an emotion with sentimentality. We want to be tough guys and forget that the toughest guys were always the wholest guys. Achilles wept like a baby over Patroclus and Hector's guts turned to water with fear."

1913

2009-02-03T15:06:00.000-08:00

The year mascara was invented by a chemist named T. L. Williams.
The earliest in history I could have been born and still led a happy life.

The drug of choice.

I'm serious, its an addiction.
I have really blond eyelashes and I hate them. Sometimes after days at the beach we go straight to town to go to Walmart or the movies, i always bring my mascara just incase. My roommates look at me in amusement (disgust?) as I push my cart through Walmart WHILE applying my mascara.

Best day of my life = while wrapping presents with my sister kerry for christmas she looks at me and says, "are you wearing false eyelashes?"
"No."

*sigh* success

Overall

2009-01-28T18:32:00.001-08:00

I know that people say that overalls are a fashion faux pas and everything, but I like them

ok?!

So does the french woman who created this parisian street style blog www.garancedore.fr/en/
Which I love
Just thought I should let you know...

Here fishy fishy fishy

2009-01-20T18:25:00.000-08:00

In no particular order...

Got hit by a car...

2009-01-20T18:21:00.000-08:00

my bike did not appreciate it.

whenever I hear about people getting hit while riding their bikes I am always thinking "How in the World??"
Now I know.
blind corner + bad timing = smushed wheel
It wasnt that bad, I got a bruise on my shin but all and all it was a pretty good laugh. the lady that hit me kept saying "You must be in shock" because all I could do was laugh and laugh and laugh.

valentine for christmas

2009-01-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

"Now I'm hunched over a typewriter, I guess thats what you call painting in a cave."
-Conor Oberst

My parents surprised me with this typewriter for christmas.
The Olivetti Valentine was designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1970.
I love it, even though I live on an island and couldn't bring it with me. Someday I will live in a cute house with a desk of my own and I will put this beauty front and center.

for now I will use my mac book, so humdrum.

oh! So practical.

something fishy

2009-01-07T02:35:00.000-08:00

Ashley got me this awesome camera for christmas.
I am working out the kinks of using a camera with film... only eight of the pictures on my first roll turned out.

I am an auntie times 10 and pretty much all the pictures I took were of the little rat finks. The ones that turned out i really love.

This one turned out best. back lighting= good picture. duh

probably my favorite part about taking these pictures was how none of the kids got it.
I went out back where they were already swinging. They saw my camera, they knew what was up, so they all stopped and posed for me. "Keep swinging" I tried to stop the picture perfect smiles they have been trained to give.
"Let me see the picture," my niece Emma asked after every shot. "No... this isn't that kind of camera" I think she thought I was messing with her...

She just looked at me like I would look at someone if they told me that their computer was the size of their spare bedroom, pong to a generation of wii players.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

2008-12-25T15:45:00.000-08:00

check

I'm spoiled, I got everything i wanted for christmas.

you'll see...

Come what may, and love it!

2008-12-02T16:41:00.000-08:00

Elder Wirthlin passed away last night, what a great blessing his example was to us all. I am especially gratful for the amazing talk he gave last conference, his optimism was truly inspirational!

read it at LDS.org. seriously, its the best.

Film festival

2008-11-21T16:40:00.000-08:00

Me and some friends made this movie for a film festival on campus.

enjoy

There's nothing like...

2008-11-12T23:58:00.000-08:00

Getting all dolled up

And stuffing your face!

out of my gourd!

2008-10-26T18:17:00.001-07:00

I made my roommates and some friends drive across the island to go to a pumpkin patch! Boy did we get into the season, check out that flannel...

there were bunches of pumpkins to pick from, I got the guy on the right (stage left). I like him, I'm gonna carve him up real soon, maybe roast his insides.

Overalls + flannel + boots + chicken leg = Fall fashion.

Cat Show

2008-10-21T02:00:00.000-07:00

So these are the cats that made it to Iams cat show, aren't they beautiful?

so, not all cats make it to the big show... me and my roomate carrie did a little research. We found who missed it.

And what they are doing to be sure to take home the blue ribbon next year

Me-Ow

2008-10-17T14:20:00.001-07:00

enough said.

Rain reaction, in a sentence.

2008-10-15T13:54:00.000-07:00

Its been raining a whole lot lately, which is partially ok because I study and work all the time and cant go to the beach most of the time anyways, but mostly real crappy because my hair never dries (part the humidities fault, part the rains) and I don't get to ride my bike as much as I want (which is a lot) and when I do ride my bike I get a huge strip of muddy water up my back because I have no fender, but there is a plus and that is rainbows like these (I know rainbows, so cliche, but I really liked this one, in fact, I stopped my car on the side of the road for a half an hour to take pictures of it even though there were people in my car that didn't appreciate the rainbow as much as I did.

22, 2 parties

2008-10-03T01:02:00.001-07:00

Ashley turned 22 on monday, we brought her into the new year of her life with two bangs! We had a sit down dinner for her real birthday day (I made that cake, thats why im smiling like a dummy)

We also had an awesome joint birthday dance party for ash and our friend matt newbold. It, of course, had a cowboy and indian theme. We were mostly injuns, because we heard that cowboys often lose their scalps... better safe than sorry.

Lets get a closer look at those white thighs shall we...

There were some attractive squaw their too...

and we had a heck of a time dancing!

My perfect day

2008-09-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

so I was pretty bored in class the other day and I decided to plan my perfect day. This, however, is no ordinary day, I decided that I wouldn't have any travel-time constraints on my perfect day (although I actually do like car trips and plane rides...) there is still a 24- hour time limit. So here it is...

9:00- 10:00 ~ I like to sleep in so my day is starting at 9. I wake up at home in Las Vegas and my whole family is there, like Christmas moring, and we make oven pancakes.

10:00- 12:00 ~ go to Waimea with all my friends in Hawaii, all of them, even the ones that are now gone... and we do everything! We jump off the rock and go to the toilet bowl and out to the island and swim with dolphins and sea turtles. (i've done it before, and yes it does fit into only two hours)

12:00- 1:00 ~ get a hotdog, the best hotdog ever, in Vienna. At the stand at the Wahringer strasse stop on the U-3. Except here I travel because I really like watching people on the subway... Its a Linzer Bratwurst, so it is on a toasted bun with sauerkraut and garlic-breaded onions and only a little bit of ketchup.

1:00- 3:00 ~ Play tennis. With Cami and Brit and my mom and John. My dad and any other tennis enthusiasts can come by too.I dont care if I win, but my serve is really on, because its a perfect day...
3:00- 5:00 ~ go cliff jumping at Lake Powell and then get whipped behind the boat by my brothers. We can have Banana wars too, but I mostly like getting whipped.
5:00-7:00 ~ Watch a movie. I really like doing this... maybe a new one or one of my favorites; Charade, Stranger Than Fiction or Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius.
7:00-8:00 ~ Eat thai food at Haleiwa eats here on Oahu. Yellow curry noodles and coconut rice, and I steal some of someone's Panang curry too.
* and for dessert they surprise me with a raspberry tart from Stoher in Paris... the best.
8:00- 9:30 ~ Read Cannery row, my favorite book, and write something of my own too! Oh ya, and while I'm reading my cat Dr. Earl is there to sit on my lap and purr

9:30- 10:00 ~ Put Meg Hogle to bed.
10:00- 11:59 ~ Play cards. First I play rook in Canada until my family goes to bed and then I finish the night with some nerts in Hawaii. And we make chocolate chip cookies with oatmeal in them. And we have an impromptu 30 minute dance party...

11:59 ~ go to sleep on the top of the house boat at a sandy beach in west Canyon. Not a cloud in sight...

Terminal Velocity Achieved

2008-09-16T02:59:00.000-07:00

So I jumped out of a plane the other day... i went 180 MPH. i did, science tells me so.

Sweet jumpsuits , huh.

It all began when my great friend Jane came to visit. From the beginning of her trip she was all "lets go sky diving1" and I thought we never would so I was all "ok!"
Much to my surprise we actually went, I was really scared and made everyone listen to coldplay on the way to calm my nerves... the magical music worked though. Because once we got in that plane I was pumped!
and oh that thousands of feet of falling...

maybe it's time to explain...

2008-08-08T12:02:00.000-07:00

The name of my blog...

This is G.K. Chesterton. He was born in 1874 and he writes books and essays. ya, ya sure point and laugh at the English major for blogging about some old guy that no one ever heard about, but really he's great! I just finished reading a book of his "The Man Who Was Thursday". He is what I like to call an eternal optimist... thats why I love him and what he writes.

Also (and this is getting back to the original purpose for this post) he wrote an essay entitled "On running After One's Hat". I was given a copy of this short essay once in a class and I carry it around with me where ever I go (really I do, in my green paper organizer that katie gave me for one of my birthdays... along with other great things). The essay is something he wrote in response to some floods in London. I wish I could just post the whole thing but I will give a short excerpt

"The true optimist who sees in such things an oppurtunity for enjoyment is quite as logical and much more sensible than the ordinary "indignant ratepayer" who sees in them an opportunity for grumbling...

"For instance there is a current impression that it is unpleasant to have to run after one's hat. Why should it be unpleasant to the well ordered and pious mind? not merely because it is running, and running exhausts one. The same people run much faster in games and sports. The same people run much more eagerly after an uninteresting leather ball than they will after a nice silk hat...

"There is an idea that it is humiliating to run after ones hat, and when people say it is humiliating they mean that it is comic. It certainly is comic; but man is a very comic creature, and most of the things he does are comic- eating, for instance. And the most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing- such as making love ( hey, he said it, not me) . A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a wife...

" An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. The water that girdled the houses and shops of London must, if anything, have only increased their previous witchery and wonder. For as the Roman Catholic preist in the story said: "Wine is good with everything except water," and on similar principle, water is good with everything except wine."

O.K. so that was sort of a long excerpt... I just really love it. If you hated it send me hate mail or something, but for heaven's sake have some adventures!

Auf Wiedersehen

2008-07-23T04:16:00.000-07:00

Good bye Vienna!
I will miss the U-bahn
and the Danube
Milka chocolate
being looked at like an imbecile
and I will miss my German teacher peter, who I don't understand.

I will miss the people at church and at school.

and I will miss Oma and Opa.

and the Jacobs

Its been a grand old time.

At the Danube

2008-07-21T01:31:00.000-07:00

So my last week in Vienna has been pretty rainy, but last Saturday it was incredibly sunny! So we went and spent time at the Danube, which you have to pay for! Oh, how I miss America where the beach is free to all.
But it was really great.

Sunny!

Tiny towel!

I went with my roommate and Alex. We had a great time and I had a great peach.

It really was a great peach, but then this bee came and claimed it. Really it wouldn't leave! and I am real afraid of bees so I was freaking out a little and I just set the peach (with the bee sitting on it) down on the ground a safe distance away from my towel. The other girls were laughing at me but then when Taryn tried to shoo it away, it hovered in front of us for like a whole minute. It was really staring us down. It would look at me for a few seconds and then at Taryn... it was one sassy bee.

I walked. a lot

2008-07-21T01:19:00.000-07:00

So while in Europe I walked a lot. I didn't really being a lot of clothes and stuff so I ended up wearing the stuff I did bring a lot and these shoes just got worn out!

Yuck huh! The grossest part was that I actually wore them for quite some time in this condition. I have sense bought some H&M shoes that I am already wearing through... I just wish you could smell these ones! When I showed Cami and Brit cami said, "Karl You're like a missionary"

They were Bad.

Thats why I threw them off a bridge into the Danube.

Paris

2008-07-16T11:39:00.000-07:00

What can you say about Paris, right?!
I loved it, there was so much to do. I did a lot of planning so that I could do all the things I wanted to and even though I didn't get to all the places I wanted to go I had such a good time. First of all, paris is perfect for me. It gets light a lot later in the day and it doesn't get dark until after ten. seriously, I flew in at ten and it was still light outside. So I got to sleep in and not miss a thing!
Before we went we watched some movies about Paris. We watched "Funny Face" with Audrey Hepburn and the lady at the movie store recommended a French film named "Madame de..." Directed by Max Ophüls. It really set the mood and I highly recommend them.
A few of my favorite things:

San-Chapelle. This church is on the same island as Notre Dame, also really beautiful. The Gothic Stained glass windows are AMAZING. From the outside it looks like any other church but the entire chapel is the original stained glass. It makes the inside look sort of somber, but a beautiful sort.

The Arc De Triumph. Yes, I am standing in the middle of the road to get this picture, but when Cami and Brittany want a photo shoot, I hope to. Also, about 15 people followed us out there. Also, I bought that dress in Paris... love it.

The Champs de Elyse. I once attempted to memorise a song about this fancy little lane on a very productive tuesday/thursday with some fabulous girls, of whom I thought about for the entire time I walked down it. Which was quite a while indeed.

The Catacombs. So creepy, I loved it! The entire first half of the walk through them there were no bones. I kept saying "If there are no bones I will be so so mad" I have been through quite a few bone-less catacombs here... but there were so many, I picked up a skull! it was a little gross. And at the end they checked our purses, just incase we had thought of taking a souvenir.

Oh, you know, The Mona Lisa...

The Shakespeare Book shop, where I bought some great books to read on my billion hour flight home (that I take in one week! where has the time gone?)
And a Crazy girl named Carrie Speed that I bumped into.

The Pompidou, a modern art museum, its built inside out. I loved going there with my sister Katie, who was in Paris for two days with me! The museum was great, but the Frenchies were a little overzealous in their estimation of how much french literature they would need... oh those sassy Frenchies with their French.

The Eiffel Tower was blue, and at 11:00 it sparkled...
Ok, We went to this really great pastry shop, Stoher, that was opened in the 18th century, twice. I just had to film the display case. I am in LOVE!

Paris loves me

2008-07-08T10:06:00.000-07:00

So I had a rough time getting here. I accidently made my plane reservation for eight at night instead of eight in the morning, which led to me crying in the middle of an airport hallway when I found out that they don't "do stand-by". Lame, I know. Also, I spent the next day (it was really rainy and horrible) reading and eating chocolate all alone at my house. I was pretty much the poster child for PMS.
However, I got here and I'm oh so happy!
And paris loves me. Look what I found on the street today...

Thats my name, spelled correctly. See? paris love!
Oh and since I spent all day at Versailles this was my first view of the Eiffel Tower

Its just sitting there! I'm going to spend all night getting a proper view of it.

Cookies!

2008-07-07T06:49:00.001-07:00

So other than my family and my friends in America I also miss a lot of other things. Madonna said it, I am a material girl. One of them is chocolate Chip Cookies. they just don't have them here! Cami and Brit brought me some cookie mix, I love them. No cookies? No wonder Europeans can be so grumpy...
Other things I miss:
- refillable drinks. I really don't have that much soda or whatever usually but I can't tell you how many times I have just wanted a big gulp.
- Del Taco. We don't have this in Hawaii either but the three months tacked onto the four at school are just too many.
- Winchell's donuts. Also not in Hawaii, but every time I see a giant glass case of bread (which is often) I want there to be a maple bar in it.
- normal breakfast. Here breakfast is bread... I want pancakes and/ or hash browns. bacon?
- my blanket. Why am I confessing to acting like a child all the time on my blog? I don't know. but I miss it, ok?
also, I just want to say. I'm not complaining. All the things I miss will soon be restored and then I will have my awesome trip to remember. well worth the time missing these things.

Vienna vacations in Linz

2008-07-06T07:30:00.000-07:00

Well aren't I glad that this city that I like a really lot gets to have a vacation of its very own.
NO, no I am not.
Me, Cami and Brittany went to see the Winter Riding school... it is really famous, every tourist does it. Unfortunately, the real riding school is on vacation in Linz. But don't worry they lent Vienna a bunch of untrained horses (that might get trained later) So we got to watch them run around and pull carriages for an hour... Almost as bad as the Black light show I saw in Prague that I'm not talking about.
Also, the other day I went to the natural history museum. I am against going to places like this in foreign countries generally, only because the things inside of natural history museums, or say a zoo, are not from that country. Pandas don't come from Vienna, I don't want to see one here... but the natural history museum here has something special. The Venus of Willendorf. You have probably seen a slide of this if you have been in a humanities or art history class, it is known as the first piece of art. It is just a small little fertility statue but I saw the spot the found it and I thought it would be cool to see the real thing, so I went to see it - not possible- she's on vacation in Linz... to bad they didn't tell me before hand and I bought my ticket. So now if I am ever in an art history class and the teacher asks if anyone has ever seen the real thing I will raise my hand and say, " No. but I got a real nice picture of a very good copy of the little vixen in the Natural History Museum of Vienna"

The plus side:
Remember when I was little and I had a rock collection? (you know, the one that is still in my closet that I pull out and look at when I feel nine.)
Well, I remembered why I used to do that...

Rocks are pretty.

Prague

2008-07-01T06:32:00.000-07:00

Our last trip as a group was to Prague. I feel like I am getting good at this… I only got duped once, and I saw so many beautiful beautiful things! Before I went I bought a Wall Paper City Guide for Prague, these books are mainly for people interested in architecture. And Prague has a large amount of really interesting architecture. After communism fell they went nuts and let people build whatever they wanted, that’s really what it seemed like. Plus they have a lot of amazing, albeit conventional, buildings and sites as well.

The House of the Black Madonna. This is a cubist building. Cubism was really let wild in Prague. I like it.

Tyn church. Do note the big screen that ruined our view of this square our whole trip. Oh, Eurocup fever.

Look at that flowered cross ribbing! Ya, I took my art history final the week before our trip.

Golden ally. A place where midget people shop… Ich Bin Gross.

St. Charles bridge. Why is that guy looking at me like that?

The National Theatre. I saw the worst show I could ever imagine there…. I don’t even want to talk about it.

What leaning building?
The Fred and Ginger building (fred astaire and Ginger whoever, they are dancing.)

The Emauzy Church. The original top of this Gothic Cathedral was destroyed in WWII and they rebuilt it this way.

Hey I told you there was a lot.
This is the Lennon Wall, as in John Lennon. He was a big deal to kids under the communist regime and when he died they started tagging saint john’s wall. Now its legal, and that’s what I drew (I can’t draw feet, hence the flowers)

Zizkov T.V. Tower, used to block western signals. Yes those are Black babies crawling up and down it, I told you they were wild.

A Jewish cemetery that is so packed the stones are tipping, it is really weird to realize how long the Jews were persecuted in Europe, way before Hitler.

The Industrial Palace. When me and my friend Alex went there it was completely deserted, It was like in BIG, the movie, when he goes back to the carnival in the day time and no one is there. It was bazaar. Also, there was a carnival behind it and we went to get some licorice. The lady gave Alex the wrong flavor, when we wouldn’t leave until we got the right one she threw it on the floor and yelled gypsy at us.

Maybe my favorite, the Church of the Sacred Heart. Apparently the man that built this was run out of town afterwards… can’t see why. The out side was so cool and the inside looked like it belonged in the movie Romeo and Juliet (the new one). And we just happened to show up at Mass-time.

Best Travel lesson learned in Prague: always carry wet wipes. Katie gave me a pack before I left and when Alex was attacked by a tree we really needed them.

And now you have pretty much been to Prague.
p.s. I ate on the train home. Check that life-goal off the list. Czech

euro-cup fever

2008-06-23T08:06:00.000-07:00

So I don't come from Europe and both switzerland (where my family is from ) and Austria (the place i currently live) are out of the competition. So I am a permanent fair-weathered fan. But we have face paint to make up for all that.

We are serious football fans

NOT

ich like-y hike-y

2008-06-23T08:01:00.001-07:00

So the other day we went on a hike just South of Vienna.

I was pretty dirty, don't judge. But nature made up for it...

Travel Budapest!

2008-06-19T02:00:00.000-07:00

We went to Budapest, Hungary last week and I loved it! The food was so good, there were such beautiful things to see and we spent a whole day at the Turkish baths...

All the place we have been have been so different but I liked that I didn't really know what to expect in Budapest. It was a pleasent surprise to say the least.

this is me in a labyrinth inside castle hill. We got real lanterns, not just the ones with light bulbs... which was good because it was cold down there!

Me and my friend Blake at a communist statue garden. When communism fell the people of Budapest tore down all the statues and they all ended up in this statue garden.

hero's square.

A man playing a crazy instrument in the park.

A market we went to...

OH AND THE FOOD!

I bought a chocolate covered waffle through this window. What else could you want? I will tell you...

Menza is communist chic. and good.

I really loved it.
heres a little more for you.

meinen Vater

2008-06-16T03:50:00.000-07:00

My brothers and sisters and I were able to talk our parents into taking us to Disneyland, I think they liked it too. Amidst the candy high, teacups, and the scoldings from Disneyland employees for rowdy behavior (who says they are the happiest people on earth?) I often found myself in line for the Matterhorn. It was my dads favorite, the middle of the Disneyland world. The place I wanted to circle but never stop at. Wiping the churro sugar from my face I would look up at the mountain, in complete horror. “Dad, I don’t want to go this time” I didn’t beg, I knew that would get me nowhere. I tried reasoning with him, “I just don’t feel like it right now.” He wouldn’t budge, we were going. We always went. Some kind of twisted fun, I often thought, dad just wants to see me bawl my eyes out again. Part of this may have been true. I am the youngest of five and they all seemed to enjoy my fear (that had once been theirs). I still feel a twinge of fear every time I board one of those toboggans and head off, with my arms and legs remaining inside the roller car, toward the abominable snowman that I promise I won’t look at this time. I would sit in front of my dad and he would raise my hands up with his. He hooted and hollered, most of the time I cried. After we got off he always looked like he had had the time of his life, and I usually smiled even if my cheeks were stained with tears.

When it comes to dads I'm really spoiled. Not only is my dad real fun, i am the youngest and he was around a whole lot while i was growing up. Lets face it I was pretty much an only child in high school...I got to do so much stuff with just me and my parents. I love spending time with my dad.
I especially love the times that I am talking to him on the phone and then he says "ok, I'm done talking. Love you Karl" The story about the Matterhorn is part of a longer bunch of stories I am writing in my creative writing class about how he taught me to be brave and to always have fun. He is such a good example of that.

This is a picture of us at the top of a mountain. How brave and fun we are. This is Black-en-stein, we call it that because I got hit with a boulder on the way down and it made my thumb look like a zombie thumb.
The experience is really quite funny now and it has been logged away with other family stories but I am really grateful that my Dad holds the priesthood and that he was able to take care of me in such a scary situation.
I love you dad.

Hopp Schweiz!

2008-06-09T02:46:00.000-07:00

The Euro cup is hosted by Switzerland and Austria this year so it is getting a little crazy around here. All around Vienna they have fan zones set up where you can go and watch the games. I am living in Vienna but I am also Swiss this creates a little problem when I decide who to cheer for, but they haven’t played each other yet and they have the same colors (plus their flags are the same… Austria’s is just set on its side) so I have been able to keep it in check. But secretly I am going for Switzerland (mostly because their chant is real fun to say “hopp Schweiz!”) The bad news is that both of these teams lost their first games… I was pretty upset.

This last week we didn’t travel anywhere so we got to do a lot of fun things in Vienna. I rode a city bike, which is really cheap and a great way to really see the city. Me and my roommate went to a museum called the Albertina. They had an exibit by a painter, Oskar Kokoschka, who I did a reaserch paper on last semester so it was really cool to see. They also had a paul klee exhibit and one about contemporary art (mostly expressionism) so I got to see some very good art this weekend. I saw Monet’s Water lilies, it was so beautiful and there was a Mark Rothko too, I got lost in it. Plus I got some really cool sunglasses at a flea market. Liebst du mine sonnigbrille?

Venice!

2008-06-02T02:34:00.000-07:00

So we went to Venice this weekend, beautiful!
We took the train there! I love traveling by train. i love it, love it. We reserved little rooms and at night we pulled down beds and got to sleep. Ok, so my bed was a little short and I had to sleep diagonally... i don't care. I LOVE TRAINS.
Anyways our group didn't have any plans on wednesday, or any day for that matter, we got to run free all weekend. The first day i spent just wandering the streets with some of the other girls, we ended up at what used to be the Jewish Ghetto in Venice. It was the first in Europe, it was sad but now its is a really thriving jewish community which is cool. The streets of Venice are so cool, i felt like we didn't run out of things to be fascinated by, but our feet got real tired.

After our wanderings we took the boat-bus all the way from the top of the grand canal to St. Marks square. It was so pretty at night, I had fun trying to take pictures of it.
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the next day me and rachel and J. Lo headed out to the islands that surround venice. We went to Torcello first. It is the oldest inhabited island, but it isn't that inhabited any longer. We went there for a very specific purpose though... We sat on Attila's throne. Ya, the Attila...

anyways... the deal with the throne is that if you sit in it you are supposed to be married within the year. So my mom will be excited about that one!
It took quite a while to get around to all the islands but we also visited the island of borrano and mezzerbo. All the houses on these islands were so colorful, I took a ton of pictures. these are my favorites.

Venice was good to me. All of it, even the gelatto.

why does every post end with food?

sprechen sie deutsch

2008-05-26T02:40:00.002-07:00

Ok. so i was at dinner with my host family again last week. We had a grand time, their english is great and we talked a little german, a very little. Also we talked about the things that Teryn and I need; some bath towels, our laundry done, and some more food for breakfast. We told Oma that we needed some bread milk and juice.
On my way out the door We were saying our good byes and I said, "tschuss" this means goodbye it sounds like -chews- or -choose- anyways, I was like
"tschuss"
and Oma says, "yes milk, bread and juice"
"no, no. tschuss"
she looked at me and then taryn and said, "yes juice"
ok... "goodbye"
then she says, "ciao"
ya, don't forget our chow...

Temple trip

2008-05-26T02:40:00.001-07:00

Last weekend a few kids from our group, myself included went on a temple trip with the institute program in Vienna. The temple is in Germany, in Freiberg. It was really fun! The temple is small but very beautiful.

Also, while we were there we got to go on a city tour of Dresden. The city was almost completely destroyed during WWII and if you have read the book Slaughter House Five you know why I was interested in the place. It was pretty interesting to see how the city had been built up. They used the stones that they could salvage from the wreckage so all the buildings are partly black and smokey from the bombing and part new and white. It is actually very pretty.

The people at the Freiberg temple treated us so right. We had three great meals a day and we stayed at a little camp that had fun places to play. They took us on city tours and we even had a dance.

They Waltz.
not just to slow songs either.
they only waltz.
it was fun though, i learned a little, taught a little.

The Rad Route

2008-05-26T02:34:00.000-07:00

Last week we went on a bike ride from Melk to Kraum. Heres the darn thing...

Salzburg day three

2008-05-19T02:25:00.000-07:00

Day three started the way most good days start. with hot chocolate, and my new favorite hazelnut cream (Nutella). we started early and drove out to an old salt mine, that is now a museum. It was sort of weird. there was this weird movie they kept showing us with really bad actors in it. It sort of reminded me of those projects everyone had to do in highschool. you know when a charecter in this "drama" would just start saying all these facts... anyways they had also installed these wooden slides in the old salt mine. just for kicks. They were fun to slide down, though, and we got cool white suits to wear.

After that I went to the top of a mountain!! I was so excited. I didn't even have to hike and I got the most beautiful view (besides the view from the top of Blackisten) I got to take a cable car up, like at Disneyland. It was the best ever.

When we got up there we hiked a little bit, in the snow, to another peak. I loved it.

After we got back we went to a really cool museum about Mozart. It was probably one of the best museums I have ever been to. Instead of being sort of boring, they had had an artist design the whole thing. So it was really modern and beautiful. we heard a lot of live greek and spanish music walking throgh the streets. I bought a really cool painting of salzburg, and we ran into a puppet show about hitler?

It was in german so I don't really know what it was about. but they did have a Roosevelt puppet wheeling around...

day zwei

2008-05-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

I like the salzburg. We started today with a guided tour through the city. This is one of the many great views we saw

great right. After our tour we went up to the fortress you can see on the hill behind me. The view of the mountains, part of the alps, was beautiful! Here are some more pretty things...

also today we went to some catacombs, but they had taken all the bones out! so I had to fill in the space.
Dead

Alive

Austria, you are welcome

Salzburg day 1

2008-05-15T14:31:00.000-07:00

We started our day early early in the morning, Salzburg is about five hours out of Vienna. After we had been driving for a while we made our first stop at a concentration camp museum. It's called Mauthausen, it used to be a concentration camp. it was really sad.About 200,000 people were killed here before the camp was liberated in 1945. It doesn't really feel appropriate to blog a lot about it but like our program director told us "sometimes the study of great evils can be good for you" So maybe look the place up? or if you really want to watch a good movie watch It's A Wonderful Life.

We had a few hours to recover on the bus, and then we had a much more fun stop. A few hundred years ago there was a guy who was both the arch bishop and the political leader of salzburg. He had a summer home built for his mistress (he didn't have a wife that he cheated on, he was an arch bishop though so he could marry her)and their 16 kids. At first when we heard stories about this guy I thought he was a real creep but after visiting his summer home I like him! He has what they call "trick fountains" there. They were really funny. there was a river running through the property and he used the water pressure to make a lot of...trick fountains...

a mad hatter tea party wet-style

I did not volunteer for a reason!
Also, at this place was the the gazebo from the sound of music. complete girl photo op.

finally we got to Salzburg. We went to a restaurant by our hotel where I got a very austrian dinner, wiener schnitzel and apple strudel. then we went on a walk through the city. We found a pretty garden and as we were walking through it we stumbled upon a concert.

Where does that happen?!

pentecost fiasco

2008-05-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

So monday was pentecost, Holiday! no school. Me and my roommate another girl from our group, Danielle, bruce (really bryce but our german teacher calls him bruce, so I do) and Richie... decided to go to some underwater lakes we heard about. What are under water lakes? can you swim in them? Does it cost money? how do you get to them?
All things we did not ask ourselves.
It was an adventure (an inconvenience rightly considered). You see on holidays here in Wein buses and trains do not come through stations as often which means it takes a lot longer to get places. Our trip took three hours. We made good use of the time.

I beat Richie a lot at cards.

observed nature...

and we finally made it! Turns out under water lake= cenote (like the ones in cancun...) sort of a tourist trap... but it was cool. If there ever was a list of things to do on this earth I can check off "see Europes largest underground lakes" Turns out these tricky little lakes used to be a mine. When the miners passed other miners walking into the mines they would say "Gulluk Auf" literally "Luck up" meaning both I hope your luck is good and I hope you have luck and get out of the mine. Sadly, not all of them did the natural water broke through the walls one day and thats why they are now underground lakes. Sad, but at the small memorial for those who died there is a banner that has a G and an A above it. What optimism in such dark circumstances.

In WWII they were used to build secret planes... and then the movie "The Three Musketeers" was filmed there in the 90's. Thats the shortened history at least...

party city

2008-05-13T07:25:00.000-07:00

There aren't a ton of LDS young single adults in Vienna, this is good for us because they are excited we are here! there is an outreach center where we can get cheap dinner on monday nights before fhe and go to institute in thursdays. This last Friday they had a BBQ, we all went.

thats not everyone... some people came late, turns out mormon standard time applies to all mormons. anyways, after that we all went out dancing. After getting gelatto (everyone gets gelatto always...) It was really fun but smokey! everyone smokes in Vienna, it smells bad.

I like them. They speak German, english too. we dance

Mein Mutter

2008-05-09T01:57:00.000-07:00

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This mothers day I am real far away from home! Mostly because my mother and father are so kind to me. My mom is always pushing me to do new things in my life.Last Fall I was headed back to Hawaii for the third year in a row, and she just kept telling me about how I could do whatever I wanted,go to utah stay in Vegas, Mix it up (and hopefully meet a tall boy from Las Vegas.)I did it(not the meet a boy from vegas part. still working on all of that...)No,i went to Utah. And I had a lot of fun.
She always used to tell us about all the fun things she did in highschool; gymnastics and skiing. Hearing about all the stuff she did has always motivated me to get the most out of life. She taught me to seek out adventure, and we both have scars to prove it! I love spending time with her and going on all of our family trips. Love you mom!

I am so grateful for such good examples of what a woman can be.My family is full of great mothers, great women. I hope I can turn into one when I grow up!

Don't. Stop.

2008-05-09T01:56:00.000-07:00

Don't, stop. don't stop till you get enough.
When ever I see this sign on the U- baun thats what i think.

Slovakia

2008-05-09T01:55:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday we woke up early and took a bus east to the capital city, Bratislava, of Slovakia. As we all stepped of the bus in a normal enough town our program director Brother Jacobs walked us about 200 feet to a loading dock for boat rides back to Vienna. He looked at us all (we were still half asleep, it was about 8 in the morning) and he said “see you at 5:30, right here” and then he left… Uh, I don’t know about any of you but I didn’t really know anything about Bratislava. I didn’t know any of their language (not how they counted or how to ask for a bathroom or anything) or their money (crowns) or even what there was to see in the city. We all started wandering and seeing what Bratislava had to offer, but when I pulled out my camera to take a picture of some graffiti I liked I couldn’t turn my camera on! Out of Battery… but other people in my group were prepared so I have some pictures.

We walked through the streets of “old town” for a while. The buildings were beautiful. Some were very run-down though. I thought they looked cool and that maybe they had been bombed during the war or something… later Brother Jacobs told me that Slovakia used to be a communist nation and that those buildings were just run-down because they didn’t have the money to keep them up (that shows you what I know about history).

For a while I got lost all by myself, on purpose, it was fun. We had an assignment to draw something we wanted to remember, so I stopped to draw this yellow church I liked. After that I just wandered around. I ended up at the top of a castle, with a great view of the Danube, and I ran into my roommate and two other girls, Emily and Katrina. We met some guys from Argentina (one was playing rugby in Italy, and the rest were there visiting him) So we hung out with them for a little bit. For the most part, we did a lot of wandering.

who gave me the map?

and then we took a boat back to Wein!

Oh. And the gelato in Bratislava is divine. Also, it loved my body (the gelato) I’m lactose intolerant… but a gelato enthusiast.

Sprechen sie Deutch?

2008-05-05T07:50:00.000-07:00

Miscommunication is a given for me in Austria, I don’t speak German! Sometimes it is frustrating but mostly it is just really funny. Take for example, the time, just last Friday morning, that I went downstairs to talk to Oma and Opa. I was there to set up a day of the week for my roommate and I to eat dinner with them. Oma speaks more English than her husband, but she was in the shower. So I was telling him “We would like to come to dinner on Tuesdays. Is that ok?” He seemed confused and kept telling me his wife would be out of the shower soon… It was a little awkward so I kept talking to him about it. Finally he sits down at the table beside me and says, “ My English is not so good but you say you want two steaks for dinner?” I didn’t laugh then but I giggled the entire three flights walk up to my room…

Super Saturday Austrian Chapter

2008-05-05T01:08:00.000-07:00

In downtown Vienna there is a fresh air food market, the naschmarkt, and on Saturdays they have a flea market behind it. So we began our day by tasting fresh fruits and the many sugar coated-candied fruits that they sell at the naschmarkt and scouring for gems at the flea market. I found one! I bought a typewriter for about 15 dollars. It works really well, and I was really excited because they are about 50 on EBay ( I just got one for my birthday but this one has the option to use German letters, which will be helpful when I’m fluent, right?) Anyways it came in a really cute case, so I will have a fun time lugging it through the airport on my way home.

After we dropped our things off at home we (my roommate and I) went to the secession building.

It’s beautiful! Secession was an art movement in the late 1890’s by artists like Gustav Klimt (he painted “The Kiss”… you’ve seen it) Anyways, the building is basically the first art exhibition house devoted to contemporary art. I love their motto “To everytime it’s art and to art its freedom” My roommate didn’t really like the exhibits… it reminded me of the time I took GrannyBird, My Parents, and Jake and Jamie to the Modern Art Museum in London . While we were going around the museum we came upon a painting that was all blue by . GrannyBird looked at it and said, “ They forgot to put up a painting here…” Ok, so not a lot of people like modern art. MY favorite exhibit was by an American woman named Frances Stark , you will like this one! It is really playful and pretty. I broke down and bought the book.

After the Secession building we ran into some guys on our study, Blake and Bryce. The four of us decided to get on the U Bahn (the train), get of in 3 stops, turn right and then go and find somewhere to eat. On the way we went into a small church, it is amazing how many beautiful buildings there are here. We got sandwiches at a grocery store and some fresh squeezed orange juice (it was really cool there was a machine, like the ones that squish your pennies into souvenirs, but it squished oranges into a bottle. Oh those crafty Austrians) Then we went to the Stephansdom…

It is amazing how big this church is. There you are just waltzing down the karntner strasse, shopping at H&M and eating at McDonalds, and BAM a giant church that was built in the 14th century. After this I got a great Hot Dog, it was a roll with a bratwurst slid inside of it, and got in line for the opera. The performances at the Opera House start at 7:00 but if you get in line at 4 you can buy what is called a standing room ticket. You wait until 6 and buy a cheap ticket (3 Euro as compared to 25) and then you get to stand in these really narrow rows for the 3 hour opera. Sounds great, huh. I think the next time I go to the opera it will not be after a day of walking! My legs were really tired. However, the opera was very good. It was Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. It was in Italian so they had these little screens in front of every seat (or standing space) with enough translations to understand it. I really enjoyed it, but like I said I was real tired, so I got a piece of Chocolate mousse Cake afterwards…

Oh, Austria…

She and Him

2008-05-05T01:03:00.000-07:00

http://www.sheandhim.com/sheandhim.php
I have had this stuck in my head since I listened to the CD on the plane! I love it. It is a guy named M. Ward and Zooey DeChanel (the actress from ELF). Loved her voice in elf… love her… love them…

WEIN!

2008-05-02T07:31:00.000-07:00

I am Finally here, after a whole day of traveling! It is wonderful! My school is right across from The Opera House In Vienna (wein) right in the heart of downtown.

I don't speak very much German but I successfully bought a clock all on my own speaking only German. It doesn't sound that hard, but it was, ok! just be proud of me... My jet-lag hasn't been too bad. although I did wake up at 5 this morning (which is pretty amazing for me). I moved into my house with my roommate Taryn, our host parents are oma and opa (grandma and grandpa) they are really great. their shower, however, is not. it is a seat, with no shower curtain, and a hand held sprayer. It really wasn't that bad. It just made me feel really ridiculous ( I laughed my whole shower).

I can't Believe I'm here! I will have a longer post later, I have a big day planned tomorrow!

Expat Status

2008-04-29T20:31:00.000-07:00

I am leaving for Austria tomorrow! I will be an expat for three months... but I love America and I can prove it.

Haiku for America
The Stars and The Stripes
Watermelon (spit the seeds)
sparkler, in your eye.

The End of An Era.

2008-04-27T22:14:00.000-07:00

(2006)

or is it...

(2008)

The prime of the Vegas House

2008-04-27T21:59:00.001-07:00

If you lived in Hawaii last semester, you probably noticed that the Vegas House was real great. I'm not just tooting my own horn... I am serious. I mean there have been other great people that have lived in this house, but never in such high concentration. Let me prove it, here is a list of things on the vegas house's repertoire
1- great parties. saloon theme ones, funerals, breakfast birthday bashes, all roommate late night parties, secret dance parties. We really lived out the semester in ecstasy.
2- pac man
3- tons of cookies. sometimes two batches in one day.
4- communal closets
5- very informative childrens books checked out from the school library.
6- netflix
7- sunday dinner
8- bathrobes
9- pillow talk

It was real great. you should all be jealous!

21; my birthday not the movie

2008-04-15T21:41:00.000-07:00

I MADE IT!! and my friend mike made a movie about it...

RIP O.Ko.315.doc

2008-04-08T01:57:00.000-07:00

Thats right, I spent all day last monday finishing a paper in the library (ten pages) and when I e-mailed it to myself the computer sent the one on the desktop (the un-updated version) and my paper was lost. probably the most depressing thing I can imagine... man. I was real upset. So i decided to throw a funeral (complete with tombstone shaped cake).
Any who I had a partial physiological break down and decided to live the remainder of the week in bliss.
well its a new week and I'm really paying for that decision.
I'll make it through... and if I don't I will have someone else post a post about my funeral. hopefully there will be more cake.

bookshelf make-over

2008-02-29T19:01:00.000-08:00

So I have been blog browsing lately, probably because it's midterms, and I stumbled upon some tips to make my bookshelf more ascetically pleasing. Don't leave a lot of space above the things on each shelf, stack some things as opposed to lining everything up, and stuff like that.
Anyways... i tried to apply them.
I didn't add more stuff, i just used what was there... what do you think?

BEFORE:

AFTER:

The Easy Jane Saloon

2008-02-24T15:53:00.000-08:00

It was my roomate janes birthday and so we had a saloon theme birthday party. Really fun. We had a piano (with player piano music), saloon doors, beer (the root kind), card- playin, and shooting too!

20 year old babies

2008-02-23T02:29:00.001-08:00

I made this video and my friend greg said that we were.. i like that.

bag tag

2008-02-14T20:20:00.000-08:00

heres my bag... well its Erin Jane's bag ( i spilled yellow curry on mine).

I always have my molskin, a book, and candy in there. The movie ticket is from the movie FOOL'S GOLD... bad movie, dont see it.
Also the cute yellow bag is a camera bag that Jill made for me. There is no camera in it because i'm taking a picture, duh.

a bit of pacman humor

2008-02-05T23:38:00.000-08:00

About two years my sister Kerry gave me the best christmas present ever! a pacman game that plugs right into my t.v.! it is so rainy right now in Hawaii and we are all putting it to good use...

Tuesday Thursday Time

2008-01-31T19:44:00.001-08:00

Me and two of my roomates, Erin Jane and Carrie, don't have any class on tuesday and thursday. So we decided to "Do things". This is in quotes for a reason... Hawaii is great, its so so great, but everybody always does the same thing, they go to the beach. And its so great that no one tries to find anything new to do... Hard life, right?
ya well the grass is greener and all of that jazz
Well so far we have made a few trips into town and this is what we did!

These were at the contemporary art museum in honolulu. and yes those are cowboy boots...
We have tried Indian food.
been shopping (real original)
had beach appreciation day (it was sunny ok)
and even began learning German!! das es gut.

all in the name of broadening our horizons!

Cancun

2007-12-25T21:01:00.000-08:00

There are like a billion cute pictures on Kerry and Jamie's pages of our family trip to Cancun I didnt take very many because I was having to much fun! I did take a few though...

Lily's throne. She rode on moms computer case all through the airport.

Meg. squishin her face.

me and terra snorkeling in the cenotes.

me and katie sporting christmas colors. complements to our new rainbow sandals...

Go look at the other pictures! its possible i have the cutest family ever.

ugly sweater christmas party!

2007-12-09T13:24:00.000-08:00

Don't We look fabulously ugly?

Nothing says Merry Christmas like...

2007-12-05T17:53:00.000-08:00

A shoe box diorama! I like to make these every holiday, well most. They make me happy. I put it up next to the wedding invitations that don't make me particularly happy and beside the kitchen table which makes me very happy.

2007-12-05T11:16:00.000-08:00

1. Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Interesting Facts:

1- I'm unlucky. I was hit by a boulder, broke my shoulder on friday the 13th, broke my foot while feeding my dog... maybe im just clumzy. Whos to say.
2- I love love love books. The way they smell, reading them, bookstores, the way they look on book shelves... im not ashamed.
3- I can't contain myself when i see pretty desserts, and i think all desserts are pretty. cupcakes and cookies, pies. but especially really fancy things, i want to be a pastry chef so so bad!
4- I blush very easily. Its really embarassing,especially when im not really embarrased... my face gets really hot so i know im doing it, and it makes me blush even more.
5- More than anything i hate getting embarrased when i'm all alone. When I laugh out loud about it and no one else is there, I HATE it.
6- Sometimes when i write in my journal im really dramatic, which is weird because im not a very emotional or dramatic person. I actually read through my journal and underline the most ridiculous things.
7- I don't cry. well, i do but so infrequently that when i do my eyes get teal, and they are sore for days.

I'm tagging:

No One! the maddness ends here.

I have an ogre thumb

2007-12-03T22:34:00.000-08:00

but I love it...

look what I found in front of my house!

2007-12-03T22:31:00.002-08:00

Its a tropical sea turtle named stanley. he invited me back to Oahu, he came so far I had to accept...

gloomy day= bright cup cakes

2007-12-03T22:30:00.000-08:00

and i needed them !

first day of december, first day of snow

2007-12-01T19:44:00.000-08:00

i woke up this smorning and look at what i saw! i actually threw myself back on my bed in the pit of despair... i warmed up to the idea of snow a little throughout the day. its sort of pretty, now if only it didnt mean it had to be cold!

cheeks!

2007-11-26T21:26:00.000-08:00

i got my wisdom teeth pulled a few days before thanksgiving (not very wise)... look what it did to my face! gross picture. i know. i felt gross too...

lily's birthday party

2007-11-18T19:53:00.000-08:00

dora. what more could i say that the hats don't cover.... i loved it!

my dress!

2007-11-16T12:47:00.000-08:00

i made this dress. i have really got a lot of spare time this semester... the pictures aren't that detailed. i swear its cute

high speed photography

2007-11-16T12:45:00.000-08:00

Who says the drive from utah to vegas isnt beautiful? I made cami take pictures out the window of the sunset. we are really grannybirds posterity...

can you guess what we are?

2007-11-02T15:54:00.000-07:00

Cami and I were salt and pepper for halloween, but we didnt have giant s's or p's on our stomaches. so some people didnt get it. It was funny to ask people what they thought we were... most people just looked at us until we told them. by far the best guess was "cafe rio food?"

fall, my first one!

2007-11-02T15:49:00.000-07:00

The leaves are so amazing. I just wish it wasnt so cold. I was driving home from school the other day and i took my jackets off and rolled down the windows, it was so hot. I looked at the temperature and it was 68 degree's... utah has warped my mind!!

ready for the winter

2007-09-21T23:30:00.000-07:00

I AM.