Why Are Highlighters So Darn Cool?

Song of the blog: I have no idea today. Summer. Oh! Stir it up_ Bob Marley and the Wailers

3 WEEKS!!!!! Only 3 weeks until I fly away and I don't come back for like 3 and a half months! I'm getting on an airoplane and I'm flyin through the sky away to Kansas. I'm going to love every single second. That reminds me, I need to call Nicole. If you are reading this, I have a question for you. Colby just called and she wants to go pick me up from Topeka from your place. I told her I would talk to you and see how that works. I don't mind either way, I will just be so happy to be home that I will be high on life. I AM SO EXCITED!!!

Love Is My Religion_ Ziggy Marley (O.o)


This. Is. An. Airplane.

I'm the smiley girl with the curly hair. XD

Gosh, life is good. =]

So on my schedule for the summer?

1: Don't think. No thinking. This is not allowed.
2: Possibly get a job. Deffinitly do some work for the Smiths to earn some money over the summer. (Thinking is allowed during this time.)
3: Sleep in. Every single day.
4: Fall asleep in a feild of grass somewhere.
5: Dance in the rain. Every. Time. It. Rains.
6: Listen to music. Constantly.
7: Read books, devour them in a day like I used to.

Stone Love_ Pepper

8: Dance down the street because I can.
9: Go for a run every day. Drag my Daddy along whenever I can.
10: While I'm running, I will visit every place in Parsons that has a memory. This may take all summer. XD
11: Get a haircut from Laurie. Gosh I miss my stylist. ;)
12: Get Joe to teach me how to drive a stick. By the end of the summer, I will be driving that Mustang. XD
13: Paint a mural on the side of my Daddy's house. =] If he will let me. And if it doesn't rain too much. hahaha
14: Go to Warped Tour!!!! Ah!

This. Is.... Warped Tour!!

So excited about this, you have no idea.

15: Go to Peter's Chinese.
16: Go to Coffeyville to that horribly amazing Chinese Buffet with Colby.
17: Go to Long John Silvers with Colby.
18: Do you see why I'm going running every day?
19: Make cheesecake. A lot of cheesecake.
20: Eat Sonic at some point.
21: Run through a field of corn. Just to say I've done it.

Jah Ina Yuh Life_ Gentlemen

22: Take pictures of EVERYTHING.
23: Spend as little time on facebook as POSSIBLE. I want to be doing things, out in the world, living. Not staring at a computer screen.
24: Make a lemonade stand.
25: Sing. Sing. Sing all the time. I can't wait to sing with Colby again. =]
26: Run around Coffeyville with Colby.
27: Visit the Dodds.
28: Play outside with the Dodd children until I'm out of breath.

Intoxication_ Gentlemen

29: Make a cake with the Dodd children. Play tag with the Dodd Children. Drink Orange juice and Apple Juice with the Dodd children. Eat randomly shaped sandwiches with the Dodd children.
30: Make a fort with the Dodd children. Pretend we are pirates. Sail the seven seas. Logan can be superman. I must make him a cape and bring it for him. Read to the Dodd Children. Buy the Dodd children ice cream. Kiss the Dodd children before they go to bed.
31: Learn how to cook some of those amazing meals that Nicole knows how to make. Watch T.V. with Nicole. Talk with Nicole. Do whatever with Nicole.
32: Kick the Dodd parents out the Dodd house for a Dodd date whilst me and the Dodd children trash the Dodd house.;D
33: Listen to cool music with Nicole. Watch sports with Mark. (Maybe.. hahaha) Listen to Mark and Nicole talk about BYU and love it. =]
34: Do random living things, being a piece of furniture in the Dodd's wonderful life. I love doing that. =]
35: Do Not Shop. Too much... ;D

This. Is. Kansas.

Isn't it great? I miss this. Notice there are no mountains. (I like the mountains, but they block my view of the world. Here, you can see forever.)


I could go on forever with this list. Honestly I just can't wait for the magic and the endlessness of summer. There is something about summer that just has everything about it. Anything can happen during the summer. Anything!

I miss Kansas. I miss my ghetto neighborhood. I miss being able to see the stars at night. I miss the fireflies at night. Britta told me to catch a firefly for her and take a picture of it for her. (Actually first she wanted me to send it the mail. We had to tell her that that would kill the poor bug.) (I love my Weird Things. =])

Music Is My Only Friend_ John Brown's Body

Magic. I can't wait for magic. =]

RANDOM QUOTES!!!!!!!

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. 

Mary MacCracken

 

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. 

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair

 

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

 

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

He who laughs, lasts! 

Mary Pettibone Poole

 

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

 

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. 

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003

 

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? 

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

 

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. 

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

Unicurms.....

Song of the blog: I'd Like To_ Corinne Bailey Ray

Hold music. Elevator music. It's interesting. Usually it is from a ballet, did you know that? It is always, in my experience, either a ballet, or a Romantic symphony. Yeah. I want to get into an elevator one day and hear a Gregorian Chant. That would make my day. =]

This. Is. A. Building.

 Can I LIVE here???? Please???

So, it's Wednesday. I love Wednesdays. But today I am still in this mood of random whateverness. Yes, I am going to see Guy today in class but I'm not excited and I'm not nervous and I'm not... anything. I was talking to my mom tomorrow and she had this to say, "For the next two months say you have a date every weekend. 2 full months. At the end of those two months, he will want to be one of those dates." And my thought? I don't HAVE two months. This made me think of the fact that I will only be here for 3 more weeks and then I will be in Kansas for like 3 months. So what am I doing? Sticking around, waiting for him to decide he wants to be in my life? When I get back I will probably never see him again. We won't have a class together anymore, and he won't call. (Why am I so confident that he won't call?)  So really, what am I doing? I wish there was some miraculous way for this to work, but it won't. So why cry over spilled... heart? hahaha I'll remain friends with him. But really, I need to face the music. Blurb.

And now, I leave this short blog with my...

RANDOM QUOTES!!!!

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. 

Harold Taylor

 

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. 

 Don Herold

 

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. 

 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'

 

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.

Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

 

"E Means Epic Fail." I Quote.

Song of the blog: What The Hell_ Avril Lavigne

It's Tuesday. I don't really like Tuesdays. Bleh. Normally. But today I am oddly in an ok mood. It's a sort of melancholy happy. I just am. I be what I be. I feel like dancing around just to be dancing, not really in celebration of life or anything, just cuz I can. It is what it is. Life is. I am. We are. Existing. That's the only way I can explain it. It's chill. Acceptance of the universe. (It must be hippie day? No. I'm not a hippie. =p)

This. Is. A. Teapot.

Ninja Teapot.

Last night I was not so chill. I was reading my Economist for Current Events and there was article about Japan and the death toll and the effects that the radiation could be having and the nuclear plants that were damaged and how it could damage Japan's economy. And then I was telling Eliza some of the facts that were daunting. Then Eliza got something in the mail from the Navy, "Join the Navy!" it said, "No way!" she said. "OH MY GOSH EMILIO!!!!" I said. Immediate panic. I don't have his number, all I can do is friend request him on facebook 6 months before I am supposed to and make sure he is alive. He is. He still hasn't answered me, but at least he is alive. I was freaking out. He's right on the coast too. I don't know why I didn't realize this before, but I didn't. But now I do. He seems fine, I just want to talk to him. Make sure. And such.

This. Is. A. Toilet Paper Holder.

I have mixed feelings about this....

I love this song. The song of the blog currently today at this time. It's fun. When I dance today, I will dance to this song. I danced this morning to this song. Fun stuff. Fun stuff.

To be a tad on the silly side is a great blessing. Why be so serious all time? Why worry so much? I don't know. I get out of bed and I usually think, "Dang, woke up late again." Then I look in the mirror and I think, :Dang." ('nuff said.) Then I eat some Special K and think, "Strawberriiiiiiiiiies. Happinesssssss." Then I turn on some music and turn on my curling iron and I do a jig cuz life is living and I am breathing. I dance in front of the mirror and watch my curls bounce. I love that. Bouncing curls. Yeah. Then I get dressed and put on my make-up and all the while I check the clock and I think, "Dang, I'm gonna be late." Then I grab my back-pack, turn off all the lights and shut down my laptop, and I walk out the door. I turn on my ipod and I think, "Yes. Tunage." I turn it up as loud as I can without blowing my eardrums. I walk to the light and I think, "Which way shall I walk today?" The white man will appear and I'll walk in whatever direction he appears first. I look at the sky and I look at the mountains and I think, "I wish the mountains would disappear just for a day. I miss Kansas." I keep walking. Maybe a song will come on that speaks to me and I will listen to it twice. I always get to class on time, or 3 minutes late, never more. There is no need to rush this process. Enjoy life while you have it. Look around you and pay attention because when you are old and gray and laying in your death bed you are not going to think, "Yes. I was on time my whole life. I hurried everywhere and made every deadline. I accomplished so many things in a timely manner. I love my timeliness. I can now die happily." No. If you do, you have some serious problems that should be taken care of now before you reach that point.

This. Is. A. Box.

I know that the box says linux, but I don't care. It's about the penguin. And it's about the box itself. This box is your life. Now close your eyes. Well.... ok, don't close your eyes. You have to read the next step. Let me start over.
1: Hypothetically close your eyes. Your... mind's eyes...
2: Picture yourself in a room with Jesus. You are sitting in a mansion in Heaven.
3: You are chatting and you have so many questions that you don't even know where to start.
4: He says, "This is where we will start."
5: He points to this box.

That's it. The deep story. He points to a box. But remember, this box is your life. How will you look at this box? What will be in this box? I assure you that I do not think being on time for everything is NOT important. It is very important. It shows character and commitment. But it also what you were committed to. If I open my box and it says that I was on time for work every day and I never missed a class in my life. (Which it will not say.) Then I would be happy. But if it said that, and then I was late to even one birthday party, one anniversary dinner, one school play, one sports game, then I would say I had lived a sad life indeed.If I'm going to be on time for all career related things, then I better be on time for the most important things. I will never miss a game, a birthday, a worry, a trial, for my family. I do have a career that I want to pursue but once I become a mother I will be a mother before anything else. I want my box to say that. I also want my box to say that I never gave up. Since knowing Guy, I have realized that when you close your heart off then you are hurting yourself and those who care about you. I don't think I will end up with Guy, but I have learned that the fairy tale is worth never giving up on. I will meet the right person someday and he will treat me how I should be treated and so on and so on. So if I give up on the fairy tale then really I am hurting my own future. I also want my box to say that I followed the Savior. When Christ points at my box, I don't want to be ashamed and say something like, "Lets have lunch first!" I don't want to open my box and see things I never repented of, and see people I hurt because of my carelessness. I never want that. My bishop's wife has a saying that I love sooo much. "You don't have to be perfect. You just have to be perfect at repentance." Now, this will be a lifetime of work, but I can't wait to live tomorrow and the next day and the next day and keep working on myself. I can't wait to keep getting better.

This. Is. A. Shovel.

Yeah, weird....

Anywayz. That is only half of what I want my box to say. What do you want your box to say? Everyone has something. Something they strive for. Some quality that they wish they possessed. The thing is though, we can't ever give up. That is accepting defeat, that is letting Satan win, that is cowardice of the acutest kind. It's not just giving up on the fairy tale, it's giving up on life. On striving to be the person you know you can be. It comes a little at a time, and I know that I have yet to be very good at his always progressing concept, but we can't give up. I refuse to look in the mirror and say, "This is who I am. This is who I will always be. I will never progress more. And I will never be any worse. I am this person forever." I love who I am. I accept who I am, but I want to progress. I want to always move forward. I want to keep learning and trying and living my life. Maybe this is why Guy and me just will never work out. It seems like he has given up. I just can't comprehend that. I hope he will learn someday that giving up is not getting out of the way of another failure. Giving up is letting failure take over your life.

This. Is. A. Car.

I saw lots of pictures of really cool cars, and some that are supposed to be cool but just....aren't. And then I saw this car. It's amazing. In a very amazing sort of way. Amazingly, I want it.

I want my life to be full of, "There was this one time...." s. Plural...  I want lots of experiences, lots of times to tell about when I'm old and gray. And when I'm old and gray, I want to have more times. I want to keep having times until the day I day. And when I die, I want to think, "Dang. That was certainly a time."

Rainbow Bridge To Rainbow Clouds To My Rainbowy, Sparkly Castle.

Song of the blog: Hands_ Jewel

I don't know why I haven't made this a song of the blog yet. I have loved this song since the first time I heard it, which was in... middle school? Wow.... I'm getting old guys.

Anywayz. Life is good. I keep myself bus at work with my friend Kaleb, who is quite funny. I keep myself busy at home with homework and with Eliza, who is becoming a better friend every day. This last weekend was hefty though. haha

Friday. Guy canceled. I'm trying to tell myself that I don't care. It was nothing. Whatever. But I cared. In other news, there are still starving children in the world.

It's pointless to dwell on this stuff. That is what I'm learning. I need to just live my life and if he wants to be a part of it then he will, if not then it was never meant to be in the first place and I should move on. So I went on a date with someone else on Saturday. I don't really like him like that, but Tim set it up so that he could get a date with Eliza, which didn't end up happening, and I also discovered the not so nice side of Tim. All in all, the date was kinda awkward. But I liked shooting at the CD's. I was the first to hit it. =] I still don't appreciate guns as use for killing things, but clay and CD's are fun. The date itself though backfired, the whole time I just wished that Guy was there. Which is not what I was going for.

This. Is. A. Tie.

I want one. =D haha

So I have to proctor in about 20 minutes. I hate proctoring. I don't know why. I could get so much done in there, and I can get on facebook, I've even watched an episode of Invader Zim before (Which I felt very guilty about and have never done again because it's wrong.). Everyone loves proctoring. Then there is me, the exception it seems to every of thumb. My thumbs don't do rules.

This. Is. A. Rule.

Don't Do It.

Man. I am starving. I'm going to take my break here before I proctor and eat something. That sounds fantastical.

RANDOM QUOTES!!!!!!

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. 

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)

 

Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows. 

Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

 

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. 

Russell Baker (1925 - )

 

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. 

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare

 

And finally, this dance. The judges are on here too, but I don't really care about them for this dance. I could watch this dance all day long. It is magic, and love, and perfection. I heart this dance. It is what we all want, this is what we all long for on the inside. In 1 and a half minutes, it captures so much! (By the way, these are mormons. ;) 

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. 

Rita Rudner

Smile, You're A Flower!!

Song of the blog: When You Say Nothing At All_ Allison Krauss

TODAY IS FRIDAY!!!! YAY FRIDAY!!!!

I love Fridays. Seriously.

In case you didn't notice.

This. Is. A. Frame.

hehe cute. =]

News: I don't know what to put for news.
Wait. Well, this is bad news. I decided to look at my credit card statements yesterday because I got a piece of mail that said I was overdue on a payment. I don't HAVE payments. So I got online and low and behold it says I owe 500 dollars. I SPRINTED to my room where I keep my credit card deep in a drawer never touched. It was there, so nobody stole it. Still. I haven't bought anything on that card since Christmas and then I made a huge payment that should have added like 100 dollars to my credit. I made sure online that my payment went through, and it did. Months ago. They should owe ME money. So I am going to the bank as soon as I get off of work to file this, because I am not paying this random 500 dollars to the bank. There BETTER be some kind of mix up, because I really don't want to be a victim of fraud at only 19 years old. That does not sound like a fun time. Pray for me guys.

But I'm still in a really good mood. What in the world is wrong with me?

This. Is. A. Shoe.

Yeah. I want a pair. Bad. No. I want a huge one that I can live in. ;D

Tonight shall be the all night reading of the BoM. I'm quite excited for this. For multiple reasons. One being that he will be there. DTR guy. I need a new name for him.... Wendover guy? I don't know. Any suggestions? I am open to them. But I can't wait to see him. x ) It will also be just an awesome experience in general. =]

RANDOM QUOTES!!!!!!!

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. 

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)

 

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. 

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

 

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French military strategist, 1911, July 18 2005 Information Week, P.72   (How wrong was HE???)

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. 

Marie Osmond

 

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. 

Arab Proverb

 

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Astor

Silver Boom

Song of the blog: All Star_ Smashmouth

Today is a dreary day. I want the sun back that was out yesterday. haha Yesterday was SUCH a good day! I love Wednesdays!! Thursdays on the other hand kind of stink. Thursday is when you are looking forward to Friday and you want it to be Friday and so you get nothing done because you just want it to be FRIDAY!! At least me anyways. I want it to be Friday. Quite Badly I want it to be Friday.

This. Is. A. Calender.

Yeah, it's kinda cool. haha

In other news. Current Events Class. Yesterday. Was brilliant. I am in very deep like. haha I really hope that this keeps going like it did yesterday. At this pace. Moving forward. That would be perfect. No more back and forth, just let it turn into what it wants to turn into. Flow. =] But yeah, deep like. Very deep like. And happiness when he is around. Pure happiness. =D

This. Is. A. Plate.

Kind of cool.

I was talking to my wonderful friend and neighbor, Shayli, yesterday. We realized in conversation that we love everyone. Everyone. Really. There is not a single person on this earth that we do not love. I think that's pretty cool. And then we commenced to be the most awesome dorks the world has ever seen. Can't touch this! And Shayli might come to Kansas with me. I am fully encouraging this. We would all have so much a blast. And her presence will help me to be a good girl, even when I don't want to be. =] She flipped when she found out we are going to Warped Tour too. I really hope she is for cereal and she will come. That would be most epic. An epicness of most epic proportions. =D

This. Is. A. Cloud.

Such a cute lil cloud. XD

So Friday. What is happening on Friday? Everything is happening on Friday.

On Friday I might go to the temple right after work. Because I can, and in preparation for the other thing that is happening in Friday.
On Friday my ward is having an all-nighter read-the-Book-of-Mormon-in-12-Hours Activity. And he is coming. My guy who is not yet my guy, but will hopefully soon be my guy. He will be a little late, and honestly I don't want to get my hopes up in case he just randomly decides not to come, but come on, I am me. My hopes are up. Way up. That he will come. He said he would, but I always have to doubt and yet believe. Because I am weird.
On Friday I get out of work at 2. I love days that I get out of work at 2. The day just goes by faster. Unlike today, when I get off at 3, and I just glanced at the clock and it has only been 17 minutes since the last time I glanced at the clock. Ugh!
On Friday, it will be Friday. There is something about Fridays that are just amazing.
On Friday I only have ONE class. Biology. Which may have been canceled now that I think of it because out professor is out of town. That would ROCK! I would have no class! Woo! I love Fridays. =]
On Friday, everyone is happier, it's never boring, and life in general is just better. Yay!

This. Is. A. Hat.

RANDOM QUOTES!!!!!!

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost. 

Isak Dineson, 'Babette's Feast'

 

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. 

Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963

 

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. 

Erica Jong

 

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. 

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, first line

 

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. 

Charlotte P Gilman

The Pursuit Of Mangos, Which Are Happiness. And Oranges, Mayhaps Extra Happiness.

Song of the blog: If You're Gone_ Matchbox Twenty

So I noticed that my titles haven't been making much sense. So I decided to keep that little theme there. I dig it. ;D

I am soooo glad that I decided to just be my happy self yesterday. I am a happy person. It is my nature. So making that decision to just let the pieces fall where they may made all the difference in my countenance. Today I walked to school and the moon was stark in the sky, it was so beautiful! And then my bio class was canceled so I ate breakfast (rare) and I walked around until work. This was such a good walk! Especially since I had this wonderful view of the temple as I walked and it just made me so happy that I thought my heart would beat out of my chest. I'm so excited about life! To live is such an adventure and I love every second of it!

This. Is. A. Bear.

So heartrendingly cute.

Today is Wednesday. I dig Wednesdays, they are a digable day of the week. You know what happens on Wednesdays? Well, let me tell you. ;)
On Wednesdays, I always wake up in a good mood. I don't know why, it's been like that for years.
On Wednesdays, I watch Glee on Hulu and it makes me so happy inside. =]
On Wednesdays, I tend to dress my cutest because I'm not stuck in the proctoring room anymore and I want to celebrate.
On Wednesdays, I am a morning person.
On Wednesdays, I realize that when today is over, it will be Thursday, and when Thursday is over, it will be Friday. I LOVE FRIDAYS.
On Wednesdays, I have Current Events Class. <3 
On Wednesday, I count the seconds until another second and I don't even know what I'm counting down to. Another second of life mayhaps? Pure enjoyment. =]

This. Is. A. Card.

Haha, cool business card. =p

Me and my roommate have gotten along really well lately. I'm not sure what it is that made us not get along before, but now it's great. I actually wish we had more time in that apartment to be happy like this. We talk about everything, and it's made both of us just generally happier. The saying is true that if you like being home you will like being... um, what is the rest of that saying? I don't know. haha It's been good though. I really like it.

This. Is. A. Sign.

I want this sign. Really badly. haha =D

Calls are really slow today, so I have plenty of time to add some wonderful wisdom to this blog. To teach you about life and make you want to go and kiss a baby and plant a tree!

.............. Wisdom seems to be lacking today. =p But you should kiss a baby and plant a tree anyway. Because those are all good things, and who doesn't like kissing babies?

RANDOM QUOTES!!!!

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. 

Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over

 

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. 

David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)

 

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)