Better With The Lights Off

I think that when it's dark most people lose a lot of their inhibition or their entire mind. (^^obviously got dressed in the dark)  In some cases all of their inhibition.  Maybe their conscience just disappears.  I went 80s dancing this week and literally had a pit in my stomach for the sickos in the corner.

I don't think I even want to call it dancing.  Dancing doesn't go on at "dance parties" anymore.  It's more entertaining than that.  If you have ever been dancing with someone and had people surrounding you clapping and yelling to keep going--you should definitely be ashamed, because you were probably embarrassing yourself.  Sorry if that sounds rude, but you were probably dancing/kissing like the pair above.  Every time I go to a dance party I feel like I'm 18 again, but I'm 21.  I refuse to ever date anyone that I meet on the dance floor.  If there were a boy at a dance party that didn't have on a basketball jersey, sunglasses, a flat brimmed hat, high tops, or extra cologne--then I might consider it.  Because boys without those characteristics don't usually attend college dance parties I don't plan on meeting someone.  Ever.  Seriously no exceptions.  Meeting someone like that is as embarrassing as meeting on Facebook in my book.  Well, almost.  Maybe.  This is the reason that I dance like I don't care, and push people out of the cages, and kick boys who are trying to photobomb pictures.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Here's My Email

Those words above always make me nervous when someone in a class say them.  You know, you're working on an assignment or project and need to be in contact with everyone.  There are two types of bad email addresses that could follow this statement.  First, their school ID address.  Who uses those?  I have checked my Umail maybe three times each semester of college.  Maybe I am just a lousy student but I probably won't check it till spring break.  At that point it usually is pointless mail anyway.  So when someone gives me their email address and it corresponds with the university I'm a little confused as to how they have an outside life from school.  Maybe they don't.  Or maybe they are too embarrassed by their alternative one which brings me to the second type of bad email addresses.  The ones that are too personalized, too personalized since the 8th grade.  I'll use mine for example: soccerqween8@hotmail.com.  I realize that qween is spelled wrong but with queen spelled right the address was unavailable so I had to be soccerQWEEN8.  Of course it was at hotmail.com because my address had to be compatible with MSN Instant Messenger.  @msn.com was too hard to figure out and I never understood the kids who had email addresses @aol.com because that seemed so adult like. Just the other day my friend borrowed my computer to check her facebook.  She typed "prettykitti@yahoo.com" and I could not stop laughing.  We're 21 here, but I love her--and it's just Facebook, she does have a professional one too.  I will be that any girl reading this blog had an email address consisting of one of these four words:  surfer, dancer, queen, gurl.


Don't lie and say you didn't.




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Everything But Productive

I skipped a class this morning for no reason other than to watch YouTube  videos at home.  The class I went to was scheduled for a field trip.  In my book that means cancelled.  I got to  campus at 10:00 and didn't get home till 11:00 tonight.  It's fun, and partially by choice.  This semester I have more down time than last and so I've finally started to use the library.  I did not know that I would see the majority of the people that I have ever known just sitting in a chair.  I've been in the same chair for almost four hours.  My eyes are burning from looking at this screen--all I want is a nap.

What have I done in the library for the past four hours on my unproductive day?  Everything but homework.  I got a business idea from a friend I made here though.  If you're a student at the U go "like" the OGIO page he is promoting.

What I've accomplished today:

• Shower
• Blog
• Eat
• Field Trip
• Watched a 3-D movie
• Played a McDonald's video game
• That's it

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Become

I want to be:

• Happy with my past choices
• Healthy
• Able to say all that I'm thinking
• Financially stable
• Musically talented
• The best friend I can be
• Able to make anyone laugh
• A hard worker
• A good example, consistently
• More charitable
• Without any regrets
• An entrepreneur
• Forgiven by anyone I have offended
• A mom and wife
• Someone to confide in
• The inventor of an app
• Loved and appreciated
• A good conversationalist
• Well educated and teachable
• Approachable
• More patient
• Polished and nice looking (currently at school in rain boots and a beanie :/ eh)
• Full of life, with a sense of humor
• A good, strong member of my church
• A lady
• Able to sit and play anything on my piano
• A good cook

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Getting All Churchy For A Sec

My dad sent me the link to this video on Facebook this morning.  It has some of my favorite music in it :/ and is a comparison of life to running a marathon.  "How many people would sign up for a marathon if they didn't think they could really finish it?"  I know it is directed to the youth and that I'm....not technically "the youth" anymore.  I'm TWENTY-ONE, an adult, it freaks me out, shouldn't I have my life all figured out and onto the next step by now?  Nope, sorry.  It's not that I'm "coasting", I know that I'm still progressing towards bigger and better things but I also am content with where I am right now and who I'm becoming.  Even when I hit frustrating experiences I don't feel stuck in a rut.  I came to Earth just like you did because "we must have thought we could pass the test."  And we can, you will.  So please appreciate this encouraging and heartfelt side of me because it's not likely to come out on my blog very often.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Three Questions

1. How and why does Nickelback still exist when I only ever hear jokes about that freaking Canadian rock band, eh?
2. Why do some of the songs that blast through my speakers from my iTunes completely make me question my wellbeing? 
1. Entire Glee soundtracks--where did those come from
2. Every Nelly song ever made?
3. Linkin Park, Enrique Inglesias, Saosin, and all those Track ** so frustrating.
3. I laugh so hard at tweets like this but genuinely enjoy Bon Iver sometimes.  Most of the time.  But the tweet is so true.

follow him on twitter

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PC

Political correctness.  I can't handle it.  It is a good thing, but too much of it is exactly that--too much.  So the University of Utah is considering changing the mascot of the Ute Indian with the drum and feather as the logo.  If this takes effect I wouldn't be surprised if next up someone stands up for the brown bear and SLCC has to change their name from the Bruins.  Well let's be real, who cares about SLCC.  It's a great school. 

Sign the petition to keep the drum and feather around!

CLICK HERE

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

The Hinckleys

They have the best words of advice.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

If I Had A Talent

Make Me Happy

sometimes i wish i had more siblings, but then i realize how perfect these three are. love them. thanks for all the laughs.

currently listening to: 

Cheap

I don't know when this lifestyle started, but I definitely don't see myself going back.  I used to be able to buy anything if it was within a reasonable price and I loved it.  Now?  Oh now I buy nothing over $12.  Ok there are occasional exceptions, but buying things over $12 sends me into a bad mood.  A lot of my friends or even my mom will have on a t-shirt and say, "Oh yeah it's cute huh and it was only $20!"


Silent.


That is not a deal.  I don't know how to react to this.  They think they have found a bargain but they haven't.  How do I find these deals that I do?  Consistent shopping.  And only in the sales.  AND only at places where a discount has already been taken--T.J. Maxx, Nordstrom Rack.  I go here so much that I'm even considering the forbidden--getting an IN STORE CREDIT CARD.  Is that a sin?  Idon't know.  Like I said I'm just considering.  It's so tempting.  Free $20 in the mail?  It's too bad.  I'm not doing it, promising right here and now.

All-time favorite?  Furniture on the side of the road.  Maybe I've done it once, or twice.  Or maybe a few things in my bedroom are from the side of the road and you'd never guess it?

Finding deals is like finding $10 in your coat pocket--such a pleasant surprise.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Biff

Should I  be embarrassed that I was going too fast and had to dive off of a longboard onto asphalt to save my life from an intersection in front of a cute boy?  And then ripped my shirt, scraped my hand, got raspberries on my stomach and legs, tried laughing it off, and had to be pulled the rest of the way home?

Probably--I should be, but I'm not.  He was too great about it.

It was bound to happen with how invincible I think I am. What was worse than the fall?  Well, it's a tossup between the hydrogen peroxide I cleaned it with last night and the mint shampoo and face scrub that I used this morning.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

paint till you drop

literally, paint till you drop. i mean i just ran into the doorway at work because i was yawning. i stayed up till 3 thursday night. SIX IN THE MORNING on friday night/saturday morning, and 2 on saturday night.  our house is completely freshly painted and CLEAN though! 

we are so proud of this. SO proud. it's not quite done though yet.

during the strange "friday night/saturday morning" lack of sleeping time frame amanda and i went to walmart.

looking like this. seriously.

who buys sunny d? amanda fabrizio.

we were so tired, 6 am, no food for 2 days, we had forgotten to eat. All we ate was McDonalds, consistenly--new trend? yep! I lost 5 pounds, my mom even noticed.  

still, no excuse for pringles in bed when the lights are already off. but it's what we do so what?

finally decided to venture out into the real world late saturday night and try to be social. so i went with these two "the most (un)social boys i know" it helped. love them.

country music

i hate it.
if i were to write a country song it would go something like this, "i was married once, we grew up together, fallin' in love since the 4th grade. we both had dogs, then hers died, and then mine ran away and i drank my life away but i was happy cause i was playin' my fiddle by the campfire and had my good ole' blue jeans." or, "once upon a time i was growin' up in a little family on the country side of montana and ma' gramdma lived with us and i had a rough growin' up but i made it, and let me tell ya how i made it, i prayed and i rode ma' horses and i played my geetar and had ma' DOG, and now i'm just thinking of these memories."

there are only 3 cases in which it is acceptable.
1. while camping
2. if it's taylor swift
3. DIRT ROAD ANTHEM BY JASON ALDEAN

why do i love it? i have no idea, and i'm ticked about it. but i can't take it off of repeat.

some cowboys are cute though, like my brother.

currently listening to:

OBVIOUSLY.

einstein

einstein was genius. once you hit a "milestone" in your life don't celebrate or relax for too long, you'll get stuck in a rut. or things that are important will begin to seem unimportant and vice versa. start progressing towards your next goal, because relying on success of the past can only make you feel or appear successful for so long.

currently listening to:

The Great Saltair

We had to pretend to fit in with the crowd.

what a crowd.  and he kept just telling everyone to relax and smoke :/

parents of the 15 year olds who were there would die. was it worth the $35? maybe. sure.

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We Were On A Boat

Pineview Retreat: 2011

After hiking through a field and someone's backyard these dozen or so girls waited for an hour on a log for the boat to pick them up, just to avoid paying the entrance fee.

We had a good time until we got in trouble for:

1.  Being in a no-boat zone.

2.  Having 11 girls on a 8 passenger boat.

3.  Not having proof of insurance.

4.  Not having enough life jackets.

5.  Not having registration on the side of the boat.

6.  Probably more, we just had no idea.

3 girls had to drive away with the sheriff who let us off with a verbal warning, not even a pink slip, we're so charming.

We were good to go.

Until we ran out of gas in the middle of the lake and had to be towed.

We finally made it to Meg's cabin and took sparkler pictures on Brynn's camera.  This one is particularly hilarious for some reason.

Saturday we all made it to the beach, FINALLY.

While picking the girls up from the log I received this bruise, pictures don't do justice.

FINALLY spent some time with my fedora q-ing eskimo sister after a long separation of her being home in L.A.

Then I planked on the tube, everyone just about had a heart attack.

And we ended the amazing weekend with the Fireball, the greatest roller-coaster ever.

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

World Traveler

Remember when I went to St. Thomas over Spring Break to visit Hillary and Katherine who were working for Del Sol?  Well Katherine just decided she loves Del Sol so much and moved to San Francisco today for another internship! Since we have been bored basically all summer we decided to do something exciting last night. A drive in! drive-inn? I don't know.

Boys came later, we aren't losers.

currently listening to:

[good day]

i have had way too many awesome conversations with random friends today. plus i have a diet coke, it's great. also i get to call my officers tonight.  and it's finally acting like april outside.

no more of.....

THIS.

wretched snowstorm on april 9. 

and some more of...

THIS.

via

spring blossoms. fave.

on top of it all i had 26 facebook notifications, how killer is THAT?

(thanks baba and elise)

good day. good day. right on.

oh and ps i like this song.

[four chords]

i think i'll go write a hit song now. thanks uncle rand.