not january 8th yet

early birthday gifts.
-sharpest bread knife i have ever seen
-my very own fleece cumpleanos
-pretty earings
-how to cook EVERYTHING!
a very merry un-birthday to me!

late at night

let all bloggians be aware, when it's this late at night... and there is nothing to do, i look to blog. what about? lets see:
vacation
high school friends
goodbyes
blogoshpere

- vacation, not exactly sure what it means anymore. i'm always worried about something. but it is nice to be worried about something other than school work.
- hs friends, i've missed them. its nice to chat. we are getting old, and it is definitely a surprise how things have turned out. never would have guessed.
- goodbyes, more like see-ya-laters. kinda sucks, but, things get better. and goodbyes are never really for forever anyway. so, at the very least, we'll see you on the other side.
- blogoshpere, a great place for ventilation of the mind. catharsis if you will. something i have come to learn and love. now tis time for journal writing. sleep well bloggers...

9 tooters

i love my sister-in-law. she is the best. and we annoyed pretty much everyone at church today. we were being too rambunctious. apparently. i've missed her.

i'm a bad sister

i forgot my brother's birthday. 4 days before christmas, the day i go home. and 26 years ago, the day my oldest brother was born. i sorry cameronay. i sorry. i love you, even though i've heard through multiple people, at multiple times, that you are worried i will forget the pink slips. i love love love you cam. thanks for being a great older brother. hope you had a good one.

being an art major

the glory
no real finals. with the exception of your religion or gen. ed. courses.
done tomorrow at 2. but, essentially, now.
get to have homework like: build this, make that, bend this, paint that, make something really cool out of glass...
you either listen to your ipod in the studio or listen to your computer at your house while doing homework.
more time for blogging.
you are always doing homework by "thinking up your next piece"
learn philosophy of art in every class.

the bane
long A classes.
time consuming.
LONG A CLASSES!
pretty taxing when it comes to being frustrated or fine. most of the time you're frustrated.
class scheduling is WACK!
they make you apply more than once.

left here

as i sit here listening to our heating working its magic, i ponder the posibilities of the future. such possibilities as: getting a's next semester, staying here all year round so i can serve a mission and not have the fact that i'm not in the bfa weigh on my mind, getting married....weird, having funny funny babies, growing old and being so so smart because i have experienced it all, etc.
i tear up every time i start to get overwhelmed with next semester. i feel underwhelmed now. and i would much rather just be whelmed...
[that was an allusion to 10 things i hate about you for those of you that both read this, and didn't get it....]

youtube-er

i'm sorry. but this is THE funniest baby i have EVER seen.

the evil eye.

just watch it.

sytycd

or, so you think you can dance, for all you non-believers. here is our trip in a nutshell. jules, britt and me. all the way baby!!!
just so you know... we only took about 20 pictures like this. and yes, the car is fine.
britt and her silly attempts at taking good pictures...me and britt's nasty mc nast nast feet. so gross...
jules at the wheel. thats right. she's singing. out loud. what else do you do on road trips??
we all look soooooo cute!! whoo hoo ichiban!!
tapanyaki yah!the shirt poses. each shirt has a different pose. so we did em.
sunset on the salt flats. could you ask for a better end? i think not.

jules+britt+me+amigo+high society+sytycd= BEST WEEKEND EVER!!! love you girls!

coming soon...

so, my best friends julie and brittney and i went on a little road trip this weekend. [please think of the viva las vegas song when you read the next two words...] RENOOOO Neh-vaada! thats right! we went to the so you think you can dance concert in reno. it was awesome. it was our first trip by ourselves and our first hotel room without a parent.
we went to ichiban for dinner. tahbinyahki yaaaah! hilarious. we told them it was britt's birthday and she got a candle in her ice cream. aren't restaurants supposed to treat their birthday guests with the utmost respect?? i don't get it. all she got was a candle... so depressing.
anyway, the night was awesome, and the road trip was even better. snow coming into salt lake though, kinda rough. i was really struggling to see the road. it was hard. but! i made it.
now, the whole coming soon thing is the album to go along with it. you gotta have pictures. those pictures, are coming as soon as my computer is fixed.... so there you go.

web gem

frosty fleece. gotta have it.
here.
love it. similar to the pug vest no?

airports

how anyone gets anything accomplished in an airport, i do not know. the people watching is just overwhelmingly available. i could not write things down fast enough. there was a woman with a small boy. just learning how to walk. she was on the phone and pushing her rolie bag like a stroller. and her son was holding onto the bag and walking next to it. pretty funny. then an old man saw it and laughed. was trying to get his wife's attentiona but couldn't. he was looking back and forth between his wife and the baby. once he realized he had no chance in getting his wife's attention, he just stared with a smile at the baby... i enjoyed watching it all.
the same older couple, as i was walking out of san fran airport, was walking in front of me. as we were going up the escalator and he was worried about losing his wife. so he grabbed the collar of her jacket. really cute.
also, airports are a pain now... don't wear belts when flying... or shoes... or jackets... or bring your computer...

recent discovery

so, this morning i burnt the H out of my bagel. then realized i had no cream cheese. so, naturally i look for a substitute. i found the little triangle swiss cheeses i used to eat at my brother's house[katie, you know what i'm talking about!]. then, the brilliant idea strikes. spread the amazingly tastey and softy cheese on the bagel. so i did. it was fabulous. note to self: yummy little swiss cheeses are a substitute for buy-in-a-tub cream cheese. amazing.

things i notice... then smile.

walking to school last week, i believe it was thursday. i was walking into the jsb and saw a man on his cell phone. this is what i heard of his conversation.
" no! no, thats apples and... pick-up trucks! thats not even apples and oranges!"
he seemed pretty upset. but, pick-up trucks?? seriously?

waiting outside the same building, this week, i saw a girl who was all dressed up for some presentation. nice top, stinkin tight pencil skirt that was half slit, and black patent leather stilettos. these shoes were probably at least a size too big. there was about a half-inch of shoe behind her heel. also, with every step she took, she looked like she was about to topple over. the head bobbed and everything. pretty funny.

i asked reza aslan, author of No God but God, to sign my sketchbook because the bookstore was all sold out of his book. so, i had him sign an empty page of my book. this is what he wrote, " I did not write this book! -reza aslan" funny right? he was awesome. thats right, i have met and shaken hands with a man who has made appearances on both the daily show and the colbert report. i'm awesome.

my new favorite sculptor. liz larner. check her out. 3rd of 11 is my favorite.

i wonder if there is a way to indicate raspy-ness when writing a blog... i halfway lost my voice. it has been progressively worse and ridiculously drawn out.
okay, so, the weekend.
friday night- i saw regina spektor in concert. music was, as expected, fabulous. she as a person was, outrageously unexpected, crude and mean. weird right? such a tiny little person and yet such anger and language came out of her. lesson learned, i am not a concert goer.
saturday- football game! kind of uneventful. but fun. sat with julie the whole time. we discussed much. we, byu, won. it was pretty good.
saturday night- stake conference and a hang out session at le bourgeousie. fun boys. probably the highlight of the weekend.
sunday- stake conference. and le boys of le bourgeousie come to la casa de las mujeres del amazon. how you like dem apples?
sunday night- over to daniels to watch the fountain with rendon and jeremiah. good times.

ps- still don't have a voice... also, happy early birthday katie!!! love and miss you immensely!

mega mistake

i pretty much CAN'T write anything without using 'pretty much' or '...'