*smacks forehead vigorously*

Nuggets of wisdom from a long day of work--->

ALWAYS grease the pan.


Go AROUND the patch of ice.


Be CAREFUL when speaking.

(Quoting my religion teacher who was commenting on when our church leaders received revelation to give black, male members the priesthood.)

"All worthy male members, regardless of gender, should hold the priesthood!"

Didja catch it?

Every single person in our class burst out laughing as we practically sang in chorus, "Don't you mean RACE?"

Also, for those who can't, LEARN TO DRAW EFFECTIVELY.

Another nugget of joy from my amazing religion professor... This was meant to be a bear. With claws.

Song of the day: "It's the End of the World As We Know It"- REM

Pranks.

So, my roommate Kathryn and I have been slowly working up our prankster personalities.

o I hide her comforter in the freezer, she dumps water on my face when I'm in bed.
o She dumps freezing water on me in the shower, I -->

A. Stuff her pillow in the sliding window, behind the blinds and curtains...



B. Pour a can of corn on her when she's in the shower. (hehehe... so clever)



I'm sure this will continue. Forever. And I like it. :) It gives me the chance to be creative.

Song of the late evening---> "Con te Partiro" -Andrea Bocelli (THE BEST. EVER.)

The MOUTHWATERING Dream...

It's been my dream for only... hmm... FOREVER to have a library to myself. Although, my at-home collection is impressive, I can't WAIT for the day I reach THIS capacity. As most bookies can attest to, the best books are the one's that cover your walls and lend a comfy atmosphere to that cup of tea. :)

Yeah.

This one---->



A long-standing book list to help rate where you are on a list of greats! I've marked in which one's I've read already but, please feel free to copy this list and see where YOU'RE at!

(x) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(x) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(x) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(x) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(x) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(x) The Bible
(x) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
( ) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
( ) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(x) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 8

(x) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
(x) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(x) Complete Works of Shakespeare
(x) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(x) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot
(x) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Total: 6

(x) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
(x) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
(x) The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
( ) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
(x) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(x) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(x) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
( ) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
(x) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Total: 7

(x) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(x) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(x) Emma - Jane Austen
(x) Persuasion - Jane Austen
(x) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(x) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(x) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(x) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(x) Animal Farm - George Orwell

Total: 9

(x) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
( ) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
( ) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
( ) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
(x) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
(x) Portrait of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
(x) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(x) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
( ) Atonement - Ian McEwan
( ) Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Total: 5

(x) Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(x) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
( ) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
( ) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(x) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
(x) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(x) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
(x) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(x) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Total: 7

(x) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
( ) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
(x) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
(x) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
(x) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
( ) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
(x) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
(x) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(x) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Total: 7

(x) Dracula - Bram Stoker
(x) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
( ) Ulysses - James Joyce
(x) The Inferno – Dante
( ) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) Possession - AS Byatt
(x) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Total: 4

( ) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
( ) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
( ) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
( ) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
( ) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
(x) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(x) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
(x) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
( ) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
(x) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Total: 4

(x) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
( ) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
(x) Watership Down - Richard Adams
( ) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
( ) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
(x) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(x) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(x) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 6

Grand Total: 55 out of 100

More than half! Not bad for a slacker. At least, in recent years... Either way, as classics, I haven't even heard of half the one's I haven't read yet! Either way, good luck with your reading endeavors, if you choose to accept this challenge.

Song of the evening---> "Hey Leonardo" -Blessid Union of Souls

Le Sigh... The LOVE of my Life...

Have I ever mentioned that I'm a hardcore Peter Pan fan? Fan isn't deep enough, honestly... If Peter Pan were remotely traceable, I believe I'd be a Pan stalker! You know... those creepers that save the discarded tissues and band-aids of celebrities?


Although there are many adaptations of Sir James Matthew Barrie's beautiful tale, my favorite has always been Hook. Many people (namely my mother) can't stand this movie... And I truly wonder why that is. I honestly cry every time! I love Robin Williams in roles such as this! He also acts in this movie!:


One of my other most favorite movies... It's absolutely haunting, and visually breathtaking, and it just... transports you into a world of beautiful dreams. Once again, I cry every time. Maybe that's my defining moment when determining a favorite movie.

LET'S COMPILE A LIST!! (It's what I'm good at)

Favorite movies:
o Hook
o What Dreams May Come
o Fly Away Home
o Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (He he he... Drives my family nuts...)
o The Court Jester (starring Danny Kaye, one of the most beautiful persons I can think of)
o The Little Mermaid
o Benny and Joon (Johnny Depp)
o Strictly Ballroom
o Ever After (Duh! His name is HENRY! My favorite name!)
o March of the Wooden Soldiers (A Laurel and Hardy film)
o Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
o Life is Beautiful (Thank you Lord, it IS beautiful!)
o The Pagemaster
o Star Wars: Episode IV, V, & VI
o Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp again)
o Titanic (another DUH)
o Am I allowed to say ALL Julia Roberts movies? Her and Kate Winslet tie for most gorgeous woman in my book. :)
o What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Interesting movie to swallow but, again, Johnny Depp hahaha)


Oh dear... Well, I'm certain I'll keep editing this list over and over. But, that's what lists are for, right? So we can check off, discard, rewrite, scribble on, reevaluate, discard again, rewrite, get it perfect, accidentally rip it, get frustrated, discard, start list about something else, get bored, come back to original subject, and REPEAT! :)

Song of the... evening? Early morning? I need to get off this blog... "Higher and Higher"- Jackie Wilson

A very productive day!

7a- Up and at 'em!
7:45a- religion class
(homework, homework, research, homework, package)
11:30a- art history class
(research/work on family home evening jeopardy board)
3:15p- german
5:00p- cooking delicious potato goodness



5:35p- consuming potato goodness
(cleaning, sweeping)
6:25p- attempting churros
6:55p- fail at churros
7:00p- family home evening

And the lovely nails I've been sporting for 3 days!

(pssssst... Believe it or not, I did'em myself!)

Song of the day- "If You Could Hie to Kolob" -LDS Hymn

OREGON!! (That other shape..)

So! Unfortunately my time in Oregon was during one of the worst weekends of the year (weather-wise). Cloudy days, fog, rain.. Ick.


Ahhh... The open road. (David's hands)

The Wax Museum in Newport!

Where we saw MJ:


Monsters:


And Marilyn!:


Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum (next-door to the Wax Museum):


Ever hear of the mermaid that Barnum and Bailey's showcased? That they made by sewing together half a monkey and half a fish? This is it. Ew.

THEN, we made our way down to the Pacific, the other side of the country from where I've lived my whole life... It was so close, I could almost claim I'd been "from sea to shining sea"... But it was rainy, and not so shiny...

But, it was still my moment to cherish. :)


We adventured later on and discovered a flooded playground/jungle gym which, OF COURSE we went and played on! (Note that this is a double slide... where children can enjoy themselves by hurling towards a foot of water!)


Memories aside, my greatest treasures from a weekend of spontanaity is the documentation of the dozen or so rainbows we saw on the way back to Idaho...


And this wicked sweet statue of my right hand immortalized in wax!


Song of that weekend in particular? --> "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello Dolly

Fresh Start>>>> *happy dance*

After a leave of absence and debating about the demands of blogging, I've decided... WHAT THE HECK! :) If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger. Besides, it gives me the opportunity to write, of which I love to do.

What you've missed------>

I CLIMBED MT. WASHINGTON!!!:

With my friend's Chris and Teri Goyette (center rear and center front respectively), and Chris's friend's: Chris and Shane.

Flights to and fro (NH to UT):


Trip to Jackson Hole, WY:

Fairly spontaneous trip with my roommate Jordan Smotherman, her family, and one of my other roommates, Maria Bustamante. Mainly they deck out their lives with deer antlers in "deer" old Jackson Hole... Most interesting.

Tryouts for the Disney Internship in Salt Lake City!!:

Unfortunately, I didn't get a character part (the point of the tryout) and I didn't get the letter that said YES! I received the "sorry to inform you..." poo. Hahaha which means I just get to try again next year!

Hanging out with my buddy Joel Acker before he left for a two-year mission!:

I tried out the Lava Hot Springs in Lava Hot Springs, ID with him, his brother Josh, and his brother J.J's family.

Danny Drysdale's wedding at the Logan temple:

It was more than beautiful and fairly funny considering I stayed at their home just the week before in order to make it to the Disney tryouts on time. THEN I hung out with Joel, he showed me Salt Lake City at night and Ensign Peak, then Lava Hot Springs the next day on the way back up to school! Best weekend in a long time.

New Year's at Trina's and Charlie's:

So, so fun and ridiculous!! Long lost friend's that are now... NEW lost friends!

Heading to Newport, Oregon at 2am:

Funny, short version of the story---> I was invited to the African Awareness Society by my old roommate, Karen, where we were then invited to go watch a movie at her friend Cecil's apartment. We went and were then invited (re-invited in her case) to go to Newport, Oregon with Cecil and another friend, David, of whom was going in order to visit his girlfriend/future wife. Soooo... 11pm and Karen and I rush to pack, get back to Cecil's and OFF WE GO!!

Oregon... Where I met Johnny Depp!!:

Just kidding... I wish. We visited the wax museum next to the Ripley's museum and there were celebrities galore! Although,I managed a fairly convincing shot, eh?

For now, that is plenty. Since the Oregon trip was so recent, it seems necessary to catalog it further... Eventually.

Until tomorrow!

Song of the day: "September"- Earth, Wind and Fire