Frenzy

Wow, cleaning frenzy. I'm in that mood. Thursday morning was spent completely on my room. I went bezerk. Finally got rid of my electric blanket. haha bout time right. cleaned out my closet shelves, organzied my school crap, vacumned, organized EVERYTHING in my sight. It was sweet. When i get in these moods, i love cleaning and organizing. I like things to look good and clean. Well, we're onto saturday and now we get the whole house. Blast some Mamma Mia! and get to work. No biggie. That's how i roll.

SUMMER!

Summer started with rain...not surprising with the insane utah weather we've been experiencing. But that's okay, rain's pretty. And hey, no school. So i'm not complaining.

I finished reading The Host, by Stephenie Meyer. Another amazing, suck-you-in book to add to her list. I don't know how she does but i love it. She created the most complicated love triangle i've ever read or seen in my life. That's a skill.

New found song i love = The Call by Regina Spektor. It's at the end of Prince Caspian. Which is another good movie also. I thought they did a fabulous job.

This is so weird..no school. I don't think i've completely grasped that idea yet. I feel like i have something i'm supposed to be doing. Obviously not since i'm rambling on here.

Kite Weather

So our family went on a camping trip to Antelope Island, in the Great Salt Lake. Yeah, i will admit i thought it was going to be questionable. But truth be told it was pretty fun. We had intense wind. Ooh the funness of wind.
Well my dad being the kite man he is, brought up one of his older kites and a new stunt kite we got him for his birthday. They were sweet! There was so much wind you were literally pulled. You'd have to stop yourself from blowing with the kite by pushing against a rock.

I've never flown a kite before and let me tell you, it's tricky. I had a lovely share of straight down plummets into the ground. But i'm learning. I got the spinning down, and am working on the sideways flow...trying to get it close to the ground and stream past people. It's awesome. But kites i've found are a new love. I'm gonna buy one and stick it in my car, along with my racquettball, tennis and soccer equipment. Oh, i'll be ready for that wind. Bust out my kite! BAM! We're good.

What happened to my sun!

Brr. It's freezing and the wind is kicking up it's gear. 19 mph. I went to the lacrosse game, and the left side of my face was frozen. Yup, only that ear. Weird sensation. We lost, last game. hoo-ray,, kinda.

So my sister is coming home tomorrow! We're gonna play. Dye hair, watch 27 dresses! Yes and we will splurg our faces out. I'm excited. muchos.

Soccer tonight, not going. It's over at our "home" field. aka Lehi. Lame lame lame. It's too cold anyways. I didn't even watch the whole lacrosse game and i was frozen. I'm a wuss.

We only have a month left of school...weird. I'm ready for warmth.

Sweet updates..soccer 2-0 at half time. We're playing Spanish Fork. Go Vikings!

warmth

Homework is utterly impossible with weather like this. As if i don't have enough distractions. Math took me an extra extra long time because
1: it's new stuff that my mind hasn't comprehended yet.
2: i didn't even want to try to understand.
3: It was way to beautiful outside to do math. So i layed there.
And my camera found it's way to my hands so vola! Another distraction. Yes, so far i've got 6 problems done,...only because they're multiple choice in the book and they have the answers in the back for the odd. Yes cheater-face i know but i do try the odds and then check to see if i'm right. Of course that was until i was almost done with my assignment...then i got the hard part of the answer from the back. I really had no idea how to get the full thing.

I took nate out driving today, he's doing good! Trying to get the braking part down, not that the 'stop the car' part is hard. It's stopping it without the jolt every time that he's frustrated with. :D oh the good ole days of learning how to drive. But while we were out driving in circles in none the less parking lot, the weather was fabulous. Warm, kind of windy, the suns going down...perfect. So i decided to go running/walking. Whatever my body felt like going for. I got some good time in, haven't been running forever so i was proud. But of course the moments that have all the natural beauty, i don't' have my camera. There's this tree full of white blossoms, gorgeous looking and behind the sun is down and the sky is lite up in a mass of pinks. So this white blossomed tree was silhouetted against a pink arrayed sky. Oh it deserved a picture. But no, who takes their camera with them when they go running? Not me.

ACT

You walk in either feeling positive about the score you'll earn, or you're just there to get this dang test over with and go back home to sleeping! I walked in, feeling like, okay. i'll give this a shot. Just take it, do your best. And honestly i was hoping for at least a 25. So anticipation has been building up knowing i can find out my score on the 23. Today!! I'm at the computer lab for english..supposed to be taking the Core testing over a 3-day span. Yup finished the first day. So I decided i'm gonna find out my score! But of course, i've forgotten my password and login name. Great. I get to wait for them to e-mail my information to me. Yes it's here! The anticipation builds...i click the "view you scores" button! And it all plumets to the bottom of my stomache...23. ouch. Sure that's "good" but not what i was hoping for! Reading:24. English:22. Math:23 and Science:21

Rants!

Prom is soo over-rated!! >:[ I don't know if it's just been this year, some fever going around, but i have no desire to go. I'd rather party up in Salt Lake with ma girls. Prom is fabulous wonderful if there's someone your likin and that whole she-bang but hey, that's not everyone! grrrmehmehmmmmgrrrr

So i decided to add up all the money i've spent on gas from the past 7 months. What a bad idea. 300 bucks shot up into the sky by my car. How depressing is that. But the crap thing is, there's not a whole lot i can do about it. You can drive less of course, but you still have school, and work, and a life.. But i'm already at the cheapest place i know, with a card getting cents off for buying groceries at Maceys. I'm already doing as much as i can. And that's how much gets wasted! Urghh!! It makes me nauseated. That's a lot of money.

So i also heard for the first time about the polygamists in Texas. What the heck!!? They disgust me. Freakin sac-religious, "The LDS church has strayd form its original doctrine by abandoning the practice of polygamy in 1890..." Are you kidding me? And you call yourself part LDS going off and getting 14 year olds pregnant. Yeah...good one. But sorry that's a negative ghost rider. They had over 400 kids in that little community, who knows how many actual wifes and husbands.. ughhh*shivers*. That's disgusting.

I probably shouldn't read the newspaper because i get annoyed with what idiotic things people do! Like the great-grandfather charged in child sex-abuse case..to the great-granddaughters...ahh!!! Sicko freak of mind! Psychotic unnatural horrific old man!
see..this is what the news does to me. Not good.

spring break

Spring break = work, lazyness, work, sand dunes, work, work.

But! I found the craziest thing while work was slow... check this out. http://www.petercallesen.com/index/A4PAPERCUT_000.htm Pretty much i am unworthy to touch a piece of paper again. This guy has insane talent, and lots of time... But i must say i'm impressed. I wish i had some mind boggling talent like that..

So today we went up to the sand dunes with cousins. That place is genious. Some random out in the boonies spot and magically there are giant piles of sand. Everywhere else has some sort of life..trees, but this giant sand bowl just sits in the middle of nowhere. It's awesome. I've only been there once before and it was a long time ago..when i wouldn't drive the 4-wheeler myself in the dunes..everywhere else was fine but the dunes are freaky. I would sit behind my dad..(i swear it's worse sitting with him that it probably would've been actually driving) He likes to stop and hover right at the top edge, as you peer down to a gut wrenching drop, He lingers,..and plunges! And you clutch for dear life and you fly down this hill of sand and speed up the oncoming side.

People are crazy drivers at the dunes. Your scared to rush up over the side because some moron might be plunging down toward you. So you can see why i would much rather ride on the back with my dad...then try finding my way around there. So i get myself ready to head up on the 4-wheeler with my pa..but nope. I'm immediately let known that i will be driving my own and will be following dad. Okay, i can do that..at least i'll be behind him.... So to get up into the dune area you have to speed up a hill...yea i didn't have enough momentum, my 4-wheeler stopped right near the top..so close to making the hill! So lucky me, i get to reverse back down and floor it up! But ya know, i actually like driving it myself. As long as i'm following someone, my dad can find good hills. I love the way your body naturally flows and moves with the landscape while you drive over hills and turns. You feel like you've been doing this your whole life.

So today was only a day trip..drive up in the morning, play around, have lunch, play and go home when you want. So we only brought food for one meal. um yeah..one meal that could feed people for 3!! I'm tellin ya, we definately have a thing for food.
So i got sunburned today, only on my face, mostly on my cheeks. And now i look like some ditsy bubblehead who puts on too much blush. ugh

spring break!

I love breaks from school. Heaven on earth. I slept in till 10..woke up to french toast for breakfast..Yum oh deliciousness.. 20 min. showers are divine and i had to cool the water down cause my body was so relaxed i couldn't move. Taking as long as i want to get ready makes a long time of music listening/book reading inbetween the hair straightening.

I'm now onto a new book, having just finished Moment of Truth. My next book is one i mooched off of bookmooch.com. It's called The Secret Life of Bees. And i love it so far. The language in the book is so rich and velvety, it flows just like..honey. The pictures in my mind when i read it are so vivid and picturesque i want to be there. It's that fantasy summer where everything has a yellow glow to it, the air with specs of sparkling sunlit dust that move lazily. You feel wrapped in warmth and nature.

technology

You love it, and never realize how much you depend on it, until it crashes leaving you nothing. Yes this is what happened at work. The program we depend upon to ring up all the transactions..decided to take a break. I have no idea why, but of course it's during a time when we're busy and the bosses are gone. So we bust out the calculators and start doing the math! Praise the heavens for old fashioned ways. We finally got the system to boot up again and to stop kicking us off the program after kendall deliberated with the phone for some time. He at least feels proud for rescuing the system. (even though the lady on the phone was controlling the mouse on the computer. He just watched...Hahah punk) We might as well let him have this small glory, he doesn't get much very often ;) But at least the customers were somewhat understanding. Now no one likes to stand in a line and give us their credit card number because they don't have cash, but they were all understanding enough. It didn't ruin my day at all. In fact, work went by so fast! Yes! That's the best, 7 hours of work felt like 4. Miracle.