BFF's

I love these two! Heather is my roommate and George is her boyfriend. They've been dating for about six months now and I don't remember life without George. We are like the three amigos, we do everything together and I love it. I just adore these two and couldn't imagine not having them in my life. And, today is George's birthday!! Yay!

Happy 21st Georgy!

hahahaha...

...so have you ever mis-typed a web address? Unfortunately, I do it all the time...I end up at www.blogpsot.com the mega site of Bible studies at least three days a week because of my fast paced fingers. It reminded me of a time that I was talking and typing and intended to check my email but instead of typing hotmail I typed hot male. Haha, don't do it...I don't remember what came up, I just remember covering my eyes and shutting the web browser as fast as possible. :) haha makes me laugh.

inspire.

Last year for a New Year's theme one of my friends chose a one word per month to focus on. I loved that idea because I love words and how one simple word can have so many meanings. I have a word for the day. inspire. I was just inspired.

So I love reading others' blogs and some days when I'm bored and curious (an interesting mix..) one blog will just lead to another and soon I'm reading someone's blog who I don't even know, but I know someone who follows their blog who knows someone who commented on that blog-and so on. Well, along this trail of blogs I have seen a button of NieNie numerous times. It seems that everyone has this button, everyone is reading NieNie, what is it with this blog? Then, this morning I was reading in the Utah Valley Magazine and they list the best things to do in Utah Valley-places to eat, shop, best bloggers-that's where I saw her. Her name is Stephanie Nielson. She blogs on http://www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/ and has a tremendous story. From what I got from a quick google search, she and her husband were survivors of a plane crash. They survived but not without injury, she was badly burned. It's funny because she doesn't inspire me because she survived a plane crash, but reading her blog, I was inspired by the simple things that make her happy and the raw sense of life she has. She is refreshing. I'm hooked. I highly reccommend reading her blog. She's inspiring. :)

Other January news-my schedule has been crazy busy lately due to basketball starting up again. Now a few days a week my schedule is as follows...work from 9 to 5:45 then grab dinner and basketball scoring from 6:30 to 9 or 10:30. I complain about it being so hectic but really I wouldn't have it any other way. I love to be busy and I love both my jobs and am just grateful to have a job so no complaints here, just sometimes....it's exhausting. Good stuff though. Last night we had a Wii party. It was a blast. I'll have to get pictures developed to post--that's right-developed. I still use a film camera. Ha ha yeah, we were in Wal-Mart and I asked a worker where the film was and he just looked at me with a blank stare. I guess I need to get with the times, eh. Anyway, our most favoritest Wii game is Just Dance. Seriously, everyone should play it-it is amazing :)

2010

Whoa, has it really been 3 months!?! Ok, New Year's resolution numero uno-blog more. :) It's been a crazy life lately, but good as always. I cannot believe that 2009 is gone, and that 2010 is here. CRAZY! But there's lots to catch up on, so here goes...

::FAMILY:: So I went home for Thanksgiving. It was great! I love home and my family and Thanksgiving so this trip was destined to be all good. My first day was spent helping my dad prepare for Turkey Day and then being the 'moral support' to my little sister getting a tatoo. Now I don't support tatoos but I do support my little sister. She turned 18 that Monday and had decided to get a tatoo, she'd been talking about it for a while and had planned it out and everything, and she's a pretty responsible girl (this is the same sister who got a 32 on her act..) so I told her I'd go along to be supportive because I knew it would hurt like h-e-doublehockeysticks... And it looked like it did. I was pretty proud of her though because I'm a big baby when it comes to pain but she took it well, we just had to keep talking to her to keep her mind off it. Fun stuff. Then it was Turkey Day with all the family. My parents are divorced so every holiday is a day full of each side of the family-First it was dad's side, then mom's. It was nice seeing everyone and getting full and just relaxing. Aaahh...So nice! Then Friday we did a little shopping and I met up with old friends. Saturday the whole family went to eat at Red Lobster for Michelle's b'day. YUM! And Saturday night we partied with my aunt and uncle playing poker--who knew I could play poker! I whipped them all! And then Sunday I flew back to Salt Lake. Whew. Oh and did I mention-I had a horrible head cold the entire week.....Yeah, fun.

After Michelle's Tatoo

Mom and Michelle on Thanksgiving

Me and Ali on Thanksgiving

::FRIENDS:: So this was my roomate Heather and I's first Christmas in our apartment. It was soooo fun! In early December we ventured out to get a REAL Christmas tree and totally succeeded. We got the best Christmas tree there ever was! And we decorated the whole house and it was all sorts of fun. We also got to do a couple other Christmas-sy things-We got to go to a Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert with Natalie Cole and we saw the lights at Temple Square and at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. Fun stuff. Christmas Eve was the best, Heather and George (her boyfriend) got home from her parent's house around midnight and I had dozed off on the couch so when they got home I woke up and we were like little kids, we decided that since it was after Christmas we could legally open all of our gifts. :D And thats exactly what we did. Heather and George had gotten a Wii so we stayed up playing that until about 3 am. Best. Christmas. Ever. :)

Our Stockings

Oh Christmas Tree!

::2010:: I'm pretty excited about 2010. It's even more excited that we're starting a new decade. Wow. And, 2010 marks my 10 year anniversary of being a member of the church too so thats pretty amazing to me. Where did that time go!?! Also, I am kind of obsessed with resolutions. I looove making them. Keeping them the whole year through is another story. But I've made a few already.... 1-Blog more. 2-Date more. 3-Get fit Haha, thats it. There's other things I started doing last year that I just want to keep up, like going to the temple weekly, and working out but hopefully those are already habits and not resolution material.

I think thats all for now. :) Happy New Year!

Emotionality of Hair...?

Hello again. So, October has been good :) Fun stuff. And November is almost here! (Can you believe it? Me neither!) I love October and November-they are high on my list of amazing months. Good stuff happens in these months. I'm especially excited for November because I'M GOING HOME FOR THANKSGIVING! Wahoooo! I was planning on not going this year, actually. After my trip in May I decided that I spend too much time, money and energy going home. Yes, it's totally worth it, but really, it's exhausting sometimes. And the emotions-ah! Anticipation of going, Being there and splitting time between soo many people (all of whom I love!) and tearing away to come back to my own life here, its just draining. So I came up with a genius (at least in my opnion) idea that after all my trips to go there, my family should come to Utah to see me. *Aaahhh* (Those are angels singing : ] ) Unfortunately, no one-except for my super supportive little sister Ali-agreed with me. 'But it's easier for one person to travel than for five' was my mom's argument. It makes sense but it's not what I wanted to hear, so I persisted. I said I refused to go there until they came here just once. There are so many things in Utah I want to show them. My life, for one, and the mountains, and the malls and the restaurants, everything! I have so many plans for us, so many fun things for us to do together, but they wouldn't reason with me. So, my dad stepped in (he's pretty diplomatic) and said that he would buy my ticket home if I would simply get the time off and get on the plane. How could I argue with that. I'm a pretty independent person and I hate parents paying for things, but this was just too hard to turn down, so I caved. And now I"m suuuppppeeerrr excited! I can't wait to see everyone and spend Thanksgiving at home-where my heart is! ♥ Ok, this post isn't about me going home though, but rather one preparation before I go....I need a haircut! I decided right before I go home would be the optimal time because I want to look good when I go to So. ILL. :)

So...I never had long hair growing up. It was super long and beautiful when I was about 3 or 4-just gorgeous with banana curls and all, but apparently I didn't take very good care of it. I didn't like brushing my hair very much, so my mom told me if I didn't take care of it, she would cut it. For the longest time I kept it short and didn't do much with it. Not that I didn't try, I just have very difficult hair. It's naturally wavy, very thick and sometimes unruly. I love it now, but thats just because I've learned to manage the unmanageable :) (If that applied to every aspect of my life, I'd be a much happier person but thats a whole other subject....) Anyway, so for the longest time I kept it short and then in Jr. High and High School I would grow it out only for a certain period of time and then chop it short. And the coloring, ah! I know some people my age who have never colored, dyed or highlighed their hair. I kind of envy them. I first colored my hair in 6th or 7th grade. I preferred red then. :) But, to get to my point, most of the changes with my hair, chopping it short, coloring it unnatural colors, revolved around emotions; err, rather boys. I didn't really recognize this pattern until February of 2007. Yeah, it took me a while :] I had had this huge thing for this guy I worked with and crushed on him for a while, until in February, right before Valentine's Day I came to the realization that it just wasn't going to work, he wasn't interested. And the first thing I did was went and chopped all my hair off. Granted it was a way cute haircut, but that was the first thing I wanted to do? Weird. Then I traced back the pattern, everytime I wanted to impress someone or show them I was better off without them, I had either cut my hair way short or colored it. Blonde highlights seemed to be an ongoing theme too... Interesting. So what is with this emotionality of hair? It's pretty obvious that women are attached to their hair, but why? And why so much? Does our hair really define who we are? And so now I've been growing out my hair, it's getting longer and longer, probably at the longest I've ever had it, since the 3 year old banana curls (and yes, I brush it these days : ] ) So what does that mean, if anything at all? I'm interested to hear what you think. I've heard from others that they are emotional hair choppers so I know it exists outside my own sphere but why do we do it? Maybe it's one of those unanswerable questions of the female kind, but I was just wondering and thinking about it. Hm....

By the way, I'm planning on cutting it before I go home and this is what I want it to look like.... It's Meg Ryan from the movie The Women (excellent movie, I loved it!) and I love how it can go straight and curly. She pulls it off flawlessly. Just ignore the facial expression :)

September: Lunching and Brunching

So if we are friends and haven't had a lunch date yet, we should. I love lunching! Especially with friends and those I love-what could be better!? And this month I've been so lucky to have lunches and brunches with some really great people. First, Kristine and Meg. These are my girly girls. I think it was around Fourth of July last year that Meg and I learned a statistic that when girls talk among each other a certain "happy hormone" (you brainiacs may know what this is, but to me it's just a happy hormone) is released. So we decided that monthly lunches would help us in getting together to have our "happy hormone" time :) Unfortunately due to schedules and Kristine moving to Idaho these outings have, over time, become bimonthly, then semi-annually. The good news is that we were able to get together this month for brunch on Labor Day! It was such a good time. We met at Mimi's Cafe and got to catch up on a good six months worth of life, jobs and of course relationships (..or lack thereof..) So not only was the company great but the food was fantastic too! I highly reccommend Mimi's for brunch. Okay, next lunch outing of the month: September 11. To commemorate Patriot Day at work we decided to have a potato bar luncheon. Kudos to our manager for such a good idea! It was fantastic. We all signed up to bring either toppings or salad or something to go with our baked potatoes and our boss Kris made the best banana cream pie I've ever had. Yumm! Good stuff. And then there's today. I had the opportunity to go to lunch with my old roomie, Maryvonne. She has been in Southern Utah all summer and spent the day in the Provo/Orem area before heading off to Europe tomorrow! So this was the only time we had and we seized it. We met up at California Pizza Kitchen and had a yummy Italian lunch (my aunties would be proud!) Ah, catching up is oh so much fun! It was nice to hear what she's been up to and hear all about her adventure to Europe. Fun stuff! So, bottom line, lunching with friends is one of my favorite things. It's also one of the things I miss most about home. I miss lunching with my mom! We have the best lunches. In college I would call her on my way home and be like "Meet me at South Side in 15 minutes" and we'd have a nice lunch just the two of us. Good times.

Summa's Over...

I really should be more committed to this blog...

So summer is over :( Boo! It was one heck of a summer for me. Lot's of new things, meeting new people and making new memories. Fun stuff. Gosh, it went so fast. But now it's almost fall and more new things to come.

::valuable lessons learned this summer::

: work can also be FUN! who knew!

: living in EM (eagle mountain) = good times! (Except for their stinky hard water)

: rock band is for those with musical talent. i have no musical talent....

:4 hours of sleep is not enough for miss amy-even in the summer

: even a stay-cation is worth it. i'll take r&r in any way i can get it

: dating is difficult.....but very rewarding :)

: roots keep you grounded

: friends make all the difference!

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