25 Things

I found this list on a Notes on Facebook. Firstly, I'm not even sure what Notes on Facebook is. And secondovly, I don't even remember putting it together, but alas! earwax, it exists.

1. I still wish I had gotten that letter from Hogwarts. Everytime I blow out the candles I make that same wish.
I don't still wish that at birthday candles & 11:11s. I wish I had a boyfriend.
2. I have to put eye drops in every morning to survive.
Still True - Naphcon A
3. A boy made me cry in 7th grade science class because he made fun of my voice
His name was Steven Weizel or something like that.
4. My 8th grade science teacher told me my voice was so sexy i should do 900 numbers
His name was Mr. Veech or something like that.
5. I have eaten a June Bug just to "be in the cool group"
I was 14
6. I was class clown
I was 18
7. I'm head over heels for my two little brothers
Still half true - paaa just kidding. Still more true that anyone could believe possible.
8. It is completely impossible for me to grow my nails out
I proved this one wrong! For a while at least - they are mere stubs yet again.
9. I broke my leg in high school
I still have the boot I got instead of a cast. I hated it but it healed me.
10. There is a song called "Aubrey" by a group called Bread. And I know every word. Your dad probably has that CD.
I made myself laugh reading the way I wrote this "Your dad probably has that CD"
11. In the 3rd grade Christmas play my character's name was "The Father"
In 7th grade THeater Arts class play my character was the (male) Court Jester
Story of my life?
12. Orange is my favorite color.
Still True
13. I do know every word to the Phantom of the Opera and West Side Story
Still true, and the list now includes Evita, Fiddler on the Roof & Hairspray.
14. I just love SAABs. I don't know why.
indeed
15. I love State Capitol buildings
Still True
16. Dogs never like me. But I will own a Great Dane someday. His name will be Apollo.
I'd forgotten that I even considered that name for a dog... adding that to my list....
17. I was in an Ad for the BYU newspaper every Tuesday and Thursday for 3 weeks. I am still so proud.
and my sister had it on her refrigerator
18. I get annoyed standing in lines
Still SO True
19. Power Pump was the best part about Gold's gym for a while, but than it got to crowded, and now the instructor girl is on bed rest
Now I'm obsessed with Sweaty Yoga at Black Swan Yoga on Monday's with Tyler. For a while it was Body Pump at 24 with Jess and then Spin at 24 with the lady on Saturdays (don't know her name)
20. I love road trips and driving forever and ever
just not short distance driving
21. The NBA is the best thing ever
Kobe specifically 
22. In 7th grade I wanted to be number 7 on the volleyball team, but Kelly Loso got it and I still hate her for it. I was number 21 and I ended up liking that number alot. I was never it again though b/c I just suck at getting what I want. In high school i was 15 and it was a good number
Now I'm numberless.
23. I made Varsity my sophomore year. 
Obviously this will makes me proud.
24. I ate cow tongue in Argentina this summer
It wasn't that big of  a deal.
25. Mallory is the best thing that ever happened to me. Wes is the next best thing.
My Mom, my sister, my nieces, Brittany Anne, Macy G, Shwn, Jenna & Sara Snow are the next best things.




25 New things:
1) Apples & Diet Coke are my greatest obsessions. And yogurt is my sweetest downfall (in any form, normal, frozen, Greek). I often accidently eat apple stickers.
"I wish apples grew on trees" -inside joke with myself


2) Nike is my favorite brand in existence. 
"Just do it"


3)  I love buying cheap clothes - that fit well and are stylish. It gives me such a thrill.


4) I am not possessive of my music collection like most people my age are.


5) I want to marry Jew.


6) It's hard for me to watch TV that is not on Netflix. The Walking Dead is giving me ulcers.


7) The hardest thing in my life is buying swimsuits that support. It's a charmed life.


8) I've been doing yoga for years and I'm still one of the worst people in the class.


9) I have a thing for men with dark eyebrows.


10) I write in cursive.


11) I'm weirdly obsessed with adoption even though I have no desire to adopt myself, and have no real personal connection to it.


12) I don't get full. Ever.


13) I'm relatively healthy with a strong body but I have weak hands and feet. They cramp very easily and hurt all the time.


14) The smell of coffee makes me weak at the knees.


15) I've not owned a laptop in over 2 yrs.


16) Blonde hair - in my dreams.


17) I'm morally opposed to fake baking.


18) When I get stressed, anxious, emotional, moved, I stroke my collar bone.


19) Quotes get me though the day. Everyday. 
"Duh, it's like a famous quote." "From where?" "Cliff's notes."


20) I have no regard for spelling, capitalization, grammar or punctuation. 


21) I've always wanted to be Peter Pan for Halloween. But I always drop the ball.


22) I cannot dance. This brings me so much emotional distress.


23) I'm turning 25 this year and this is how I picture a perfect day: breakfast: egg mcmuffin. lunch: cookie cake. dinner: rudys. dessert: pf changs great wall of chocolate.


24) I'm obviously totally messed up that on a perfect day, only food matters.


25) I still don't know Spanish.

Love Walked In - Vocab Test

I read a decent book. Perfect for airports becasue the writing style was so easy to focus on and conversational. I did have to look up a zillion words though. Not really that I didn't know what they meant or couldn't at least figure it out from context clues - but if I didn't know EXACTLY what it meant I liked to highlight it and see what my good friend dictionary.com had to say about it.

Marisa de los Santos, the author, took some liberties in stretching what some of the actual definitions meant so it was pretty neat to see what they actually meant and how she was using them.

Clever.

Here they are:

• rueful: pitialble
• palpably: tangibly
• harbinger: one that initiates major change
• denizen: inhabitant
• blowsy: sloppy, unkempt
• beseeching: beg urgently
• spangly: small piece of glittering matieral to decorate with (especially a tree)
• hackels: erectile hair on back on neck
• futility: uselessness
• fluted: having grooves, like a column
• auteur: filmakers personal and unique stamp
• benighted: intellectually or morally ignorant
• imperially: pertaining to an empire or whole
• mellifluous: sweet/smoothly flowing
• stentorian: loud powerful sound
• sonorous: loud, deep, resonant sound
• conduit: pipe to convey liquid, passage of liquid
• tumult: violent/noisy commotion
• trepidation: tremulous fear
• lithe: slim
• aria: elaborate melody
• superlative: highest quality
• unimpeachable: about suspicious
• unassailable: not open to attack or dispute
• lilting: rhythmic swing or cadence
• convivial: friendly
• restive: impatient, resltess
• enervated: without vibor/force/strenth
• attrition: reduction
• obviate: to anticiapte and prevent or eliminate
• unregenerate: opposing new ideas, not renewed
• ostensibly: outwardly appearing as such
• claret: a burgendy color, or wine
• garish: crudely/tastelessly colorful/showy/bright
• ellipsis: ommion of words that would have been repeated
• prescient: knowledge of things before they exist or happen
• solicitous: anxious or concerned
• bereft: deprived
• incorrigible: bad beyond correction
• asinine: foolish
• obliquity: divergence, sometimes from moral conduct
• chaise: carriage, lounge chair
• accretion:growth in size
• extemporaneous: done without advance preparaton
• peignoir: womens dressing gown
• petulant: sudden impatience
• plaintive: expressing sorrow, melancholy
• blithe: joyess, merry, carefree
• beatific: blissful, bestowing happieness
• cheogsam: oriental dress
• ad nauseam : to a disgusting degree
• ad infinitum: without limit
• transubstantiation:changing of one substance into another
• capacious: capable of holding much, roomy
• inscrutable: incapable of being investigated, inpenetrable, not easily understood
• sluiced: artificial channel for holding water

I love a good intrigue

I looooove questions so I had to copy Brittany Anne's blog.

i thought about this all day after i posed it so i'll make some edits in orange

Thirty Questions

1. Favorite Song.

Nearly impossible to say. Let's go with "The Spirit of God" - Hymn #2

also - Rufus Wainright, Hallelujah

2. Favorite Movie

Edward duh?

Scissorhands that is.

3. Favorite Show

currently: X-Files

4. Favorite Book 

The Picture of Dorian Gray

5. Favorite Quote

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it"

6. Favorite Food

Apples

7. Favorite Beverage

Diet Coke

8. Favorite Place
The Capitol Building, of Texas

9. Favorite Thing to Wear

Yoga Pants

10. What I Wore Today

some old mustard flats

my birthday dress from Anthro

a gold & silver grandma watch

11. What I Did Today

so far... awoke,

dressed,

packed lunch,

ate,

tried to get the dog to eat,

chatted with my parents,

dropped some stuff off at the dry cleaner,

got to work,

chatted with Karla,

worked,

renewed my registration at the tax office,

ate lunch,

started to blog.....

worked
drove home in traffic
snacked
fixed my tire pressure with my dad
went to the car part store with my mom and dad
went to Wendy's with my mom and dad
went to HEB with my mom and dad
put the new brake light in (well watched my dad do it)
unloaded groceries
changed
volleyball

12. What I Ate Today

thus far

Oatmeal with apple cooked into it.

Soup, carrots, an apple.

Yogurt & cottage cheese.

but the days is still young
pop tart crisps
fruit leather
nuts
cheerios
apple
cherries
frosty (chocolate of course, they ask you which flavor as anyone would chose anything else)
another apple
another apple after vball

13. What's in my Purse

head band - phone - pens & pencils - sunglasses - directions - keys - an eraser - bobby pins & hair ties - wallet - camera - ipad - business cards - temple recommend - gun range entry card - cash - pills - paper - clips - tampons - lips glosses - chap sticks - comb - bandaids - mirror - eyedrops

14. A Bad Habit

diet coke

15. A Pet Peeve

that scatching your throat noise

the taking off of shoes at a front door
(whether my door or the expectation of me having to do it elsewhere)
the cutting of gum in half

16. A Memory

We went to visit my grandma in Argentina when I was 7. That year, while we were there, Argentina won the world cup. Being woken up in the middle of the night and standing on the front porch in my nightgown dress watching the dancing and partying in the street.

17. A Goal

Lose weight

18. A Secret

I think I'm very beautiful.

19. A Wish

That Pushing Daisies had never ended.

20. A Hobby

Yoga

21. A Recipe

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/02/crispy-black-bean-tacos-with-feta-and-slaw/

22. A Blog

http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

23.  A Piece of Art

This whole movie.

24. A Tumblr Crush

www.thoyt.tumblr.com

25. A Tumblr Favorite

www.thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com

26. A Dream

When I run I day dream, sometimes about digging for dinosaur bones.

27. A Quote from a Recent Chat

"Well listen to this crock: I'm the employment specialist in my ward. How's that for a made up calling? And don't they know I don't find jobs, people just give them to me."

28. Something That Made You Laugh

that last quote-  out loud - in church

it was embarassing

Also - George W. Bush

29. Something that Gives Me Wanderlust

Stephen being in Argentina & Austin going to Japan.

30. An Anonymous Shout Out

I don't know what I'd do without you - so I just don't even want to think about it.

Contact Us

"Never mistake movement for action" - Earnest (best name ever) Hemmingway





I frequently come across, even at some of my favorite business institutions,  bad customer service. So what is there to do about it? Complain of course. But complaning, like EH said, is not action unless you do something about it.

That is why I love "Contact Us" on business websites.

Once at Costco (Heaven on Earth) I had an uncharacteristically bad trip. Long story summed up - everything that could have gone wrong before even getting to the door did - but everyone was nice and apologetic and basically made me feeel good about being a customer there even when they were having problems.
THEN
at the door - the employee couting items realized that my water bottles were not on the reciept. They forget to charge me for the water bottles under the cart. So instead of appologizing for the inconvenience and letting me know of my options of going back and paying or leaving the water the horrible employee does this - in this accusitory voice he says"
"You didn't pay for those"
pointing at the water.
I didn't really know how to respond
I paused
so I just said "I just won't keep them then"
He just stood there... tapping his foot... waiting... for me to take it off my cart.

I got in my car, called Costco (you know I had that number in my phone), and I let them know how that whole thing went down.

I DO THIS TYPE OF THING ALL THE TIME!
People think it's weird.

But if I go to Jimmy Johns and the Coke tastes bad - I email them.

If I go to Central Market, and have a great experience all around, except for the abrupt awful rudeness of the catering people. You know they get an email about it.

If bathrooms are in a state of disrepair - you bet that place gets an email about it.

I love it.

I email businesses more than I email friends (that's not true, but lying is fun)

Through Being Cool

once, maybe two or three years ago, some dude told me i was "too cool"

the irony of it was

only a week or two before I'd gotten really back into my high school love

Saves The Day

and decided i needed to be

"through being cool"

also, i don't mean "uncool" as in the nerdy yet trendy things people act ashamed to be knowledgable about (when really i usually suspect it's more of an image thing)

(and this usually applies more to girls that want to be seen as more tough and guy like)

(examples: sci-fi, anime, video-games, the spice girls)

uncool things about me:

i don't like 30 Rock

i am TOTALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE ROYAL WEDDING TOMORROW

(and can't stand girls who go around talking about how much they do not care in order to look so above the lame-ness of all other girls. obviously you care enough to write about how much you don't care in your facebook status)



love them







 

i always want someone to be there documenting with pictures and posting them on facebook with lighting speed and tagging me up

i don't like the Arcade Fire

twitter

i'd rather read a people/us weekly/glamour/in style/allure etc than anything current event related

i get excited at the thought of seeing/meeting celebrities (from Perez Hilton to Mack Brown)

twilight

i didn't understand inception - i only liked the suits

Lomography

I bought myself an old school plastic film camera

It's supposed to take pictures with interesting color

and weird edges

or you can take pictures on top of each other

So I was out and about on Saturday and I found the most beautiful tree! I went home and got my mom and brother and made them come with me to the tree and took tons of pictures.

Then Grey and I did some other photoshoots, harassing my dog into being my subject,

picutres my fences, etc etc

I thought I knew what I was doing when my film was done.

Nope.

I exposed it.

Oye Vey! Beter luck next time..