the family

oh my goodness! i just realized how many things i am so involved in. i won't mention them all because i don't want too. but it's eating away my minutes left and right. it's crazy. i feel bad catching up on sleep in seminary. haha, not really. . . ok well really. but bro.hamilton hopefully doesn't mind too much. haha. i had an awesome adventure in seminary today.
we are rewinding my life right here:
a long time ago, one time during family home evening my family and i were singing "Families Can Be Together Forever". being in the family i'm in, we tend to get a little crazy singing our opening song. but this one takes the cake. in part of the song where it sings ". . . and the lord can show me how i can. . .", my brother and i (one of us, i can't remember) added a quick background vocal repeating "how i can" following that phrase. now that sounds confusing. but it's one of my favorite family memories. . . ever.
we are fast-forwarding my life right here:
so in seminary we sang famlies can be together forever and when it came to the part, i started busting up laughing and couldn't stop for a couple minutes. thank goodness i can be a quiet laugher sometimes. it was very enjoyable! so i texted all my family and told them. dallan told me i should sing the background vocals and erin told me it gets her everytime. same here, i won't be able to not think of my family when singing that song. not because we will be together forever but because of that stupid part we made up. kind of sad, but it makes me smile.
i love family memories, i remember one time we all had to day off and we, as a family played football for the first time. if you know my family, football is not neccisarily our 'thing'.
we traveled to boise and had a picnic, and did shopping and all that good family outing stuff. usually our family trips end up into some what of a fight, and the best part of this outing was that that didn't happen. i'll remember that day for many moons. hahahaha. but really, it was awesome. the morning before erin's wedding day we also had our very last family thing. ha. we went out to breakfast in my car (i drive i van, my teen dream machine), and had a blast of course. don't remember much fighting, so i suppose thats a good thing. it seems as tho our family is finally getting old. no offense to my lovely parents. erin's off, dallan will soon be off, and soon i am out of high school. i mean, aren't these all signs of a growing family? things like this make me appreciate my siblings more than anything in the world and help me realize more that they are some of my best friends. i'm known for being sappy so just bear with me. haha, i even just got teary watching dallan graduate. haha, i'm so cynical and such a pain with my family, but yet i still get sappy. i know, weird. but whatev.
thats a picture when we still lived in our silly duplex, which is like a house, except split in half. haha, between an apartment and a house i guess. thats the backyard we also had the power-ranger pinata in. that was fun. we don't have any really recent shots of us as a family except for the wedding pictures. i always wondered which ways our family would go, and now i am getting a pretty clear picture. being in the middle i kinda get a nice seat to just see both ends of the kids and where they are going. i don't know what i am going to do when i don't see dallan for four years, thats going to be hard. but most definitly worth it.
i remind you that these pictures are not recent whatsoever, so just don't look at my hair. hahaha. i'm just so happy that i was raised in a family where we were taught to find joy in eachother and not things. it makes life so much easier especially knowing you will have them forever, where things don't always last all too long. i'm glad i was raised in a family where when we were young, we were forced to hug one another if we got in a fight. ha! i'm glad i was raised i was raised in a family where my parents didn't care what they looked like, as long as they were raising us right. i'm also glad i was raised in a family where we were forced to eat dinner, even if we dont like it, because now i like mushrooms, aspargus, green curry, etc. haha!

mlk day!

i have never celebrated martin luther king's day. usually i would celebrate by not going to school, however this time i believe i went beyond the usual. i probably had one of the best days of my freakin' life. . . well it was close. haha.
so the first part of my day really has nothing to do with martin luther king's day but it's still worth blogging about.

i started my day out wearing my frosted flake pajamas! i love these things! not the cereal, the pants. they are pretty rad so i would highly suggest going and getting a pair before they are ALL sold out. haha. i had a couple chores to do before i could head out on my adventure. so i did those, and i decided that i was going to go see bed time stories at noon. what a funny movie. not the funniest or the best, but worth seeing. me and melissa got in for free so it was not a waste of our time or anything. there was also a preview or two that were interesting so i am stoked to go see more. and i'm sorry you have to turn your head to see my picture the right way up. (: your face should look something like that. as i was headed to the movie theaters i totally forgot to brush my teeth. how gross. so me and marie rushed into walgreens and bought the most fantastic and pearadise tasting gum on the planet. i only used that word because thats what it is called. melissa hates these glasses. they have leopard print on the inside of them. oh yeah. totally sick. i think they are fun to wear, but i only put them on in certain occasions. i am almost out of this gum, which is not bad because it was only seventy cents. i thought because of the wicked packaging it would cost more but i think i found a deal. . . on gum. melissa took this picture, and she doesn't like those glasses on me. haha. that's mostly why i wear them. not to mention the leopardhaha. anyways, i decided that i would make a cake to celebrate that day. after all i wasn't doing anything all day so why not. and then, just as i was thinking about the cake i had a revelation. we would make marble cake, to represent the integration of african-americans, hispanics, and americans. in a cake!!! but wait. we would take brown frosting and cover it, and then top it off with a drawing of MLK in white frosting. i was amazed with my brilliancy. so me and melissa had to head to wal*mart to grab a few items before we could start. this is my tour guide, because i kinda didn't know how to get to wal*mart efficiently enough, so she kinda helped my get there. i was pretty excited to find this hidden road because it is a lot quicker to get there now that i know. haha. so we were in wal*mart and totally were too busy talking that we walked past the cake mix aisle, but we eventually found it. and then, when we got there we couldn't even find the marble mix. i was worried! some lady moved her cart and then it appeared. it was kinda funny. but we eventually found it. we were pretty happy because any normal cake mix wouldn't be all that cool. it was pretty neat-o i will admit. we felt like taking a ridiculous amount of pictures so just be prepared. so after buying our moist deluxe cake mix, we both saw a pack of diego cake. . . things. i don't know what they call them but i was really tempted too buy them because diego was african-american, or so i think. and i also could have drawn other races amongst the top of my cake too, but i didn't want to spend the money. but they were rather cool. but not totally worth. it. we went home and made the beautiful cake. it was looking way sick before it was baked so i just had to photo. it was so amazing! look at that! it looked like real marble, i think. except it was edible! thats the coolest part. melissa kinda had a problem with me licking the spatula, or the knife even tho we were totally done using it. haha. it was a pretty cool looking cake before we baked it so that was neat. so i have been in kind of in need of a hair cut, to reduce my poofness, i went to my friend chelsea. i've known this chick since i was probably two or younger. i think. i mean, she's that kid that you have known all your life, and are really freakin' good friends with. but its a brother sister kinda thing. so i trust her with almost my life. . . that's why i trusted her cutting my hair!!! i appreciate her style 100% and so i wasn't worried and just let her do whatever she wanted. me and her are going to probably know each other 'til we are wrinkled. gross. but my hair cut went prett fantastic. i sat in her kitchen and she cut away. i saw her cutting emmy's hair before and emmy's hair was looking hot, so i had no fear. chelsea actually fixed my hair instead of messing it up so i was excited. oh! and i met a new person named emmy. i told her to read my blog so hopefully she reads this and is proud of me. she was a pretty rad chick and we got to hang out for a good amount of time, but she was pretty cool. i mean, if she's chelsea's friend she might as well be mine. haha, just kidding em. but we had a wicked high five i'll admit that.
chelsea looks like a freakin pro cutting it. it looks so hot now. haha. but it will look even hotter when it gets a little longer so we can do more stuff with it. haha, yeah. so i was i decided to rush home so we could frost our cake. i had almost forgot about. luckily my mother was kind enough to take out the cake so it wouldn't burn. and with a couple genius's and some frosting our masterpiece was finished. . . .
going to try to do something like this again. and to finish they day, we took a cheesy smile picture. which actually kinda turned out good. beautiful i must say. it was about five or so, when melissa's family and the cincineros were invited to family home evening. it was loads of fun. holy cow. we played an awesome sentence game with not so awesome outcomes. somethings had to do with giving birth, bishops, dancing under tables and fish hatcheries. it was quite a long day, but it was pretty freakin' amazing. and of course i took even more pictures. i was in the mood anyways. i have never went to such full extents to celebrate such a holiday but it felt great! i am definitelyhaha, so happy martin luther king's day. and if you got the day off, then hooray.

work

HA! my dear mother was going to bed and she just said "ciao[chow] for now". it was so funny, don't ask me why, it just was. mothers. . . they are so funny.
so i really don't know what i'm blogging about quite yet, but what i am sure of is i want to blog. i usually don't like writing daily journals or events because my life can get pretty boring. especially when you work and you have ridiculous customers. i've noticed something old people. . . excuse me. the elderly. they are very specific. it drives me up the wall, i swear. whenever a old buick pulls in front of my work, with two senior chaps i cringe. or i pretend i'm on the telephone with a customer so shirline can deal with them. they also try to get the most out of their money. which is not bad, but still. i think when people hear "cents" they think they have all the money in the world. that's mostly why restraunts and stores have 99 cent items on their menu's. well at thorne printing, color copies are 69 cents. that's all, right? if it's under the dollar amount might as well make millions of copies right? wrong. so when i tell these people that their total for 80 color copies on regular paper is $55.20? (no tax i remind you). they automatically question where i came up with a ridiculous price. like i'm trying to rip them off. their faces scare me when they get mad. urg. so it gives me somewhat of a delight when they pay with credit or debit because they don't carry that much cash. that sounded mean. another pet peeve is people and manners. i understand peoples love for pets, and especially dogs. i'm down with that. but don't bring your chiwawa into the shop and let it run behind the counter, past the press, bindery and into the break room. it's really not a fun adventure (yes, i'm speaking from experience). . . OR i hate those men who think they are big because they drive trucks. i'm not anywhere big myself so i probably should not be speaking. but they walk in and expect everything to be there way. when they arrive to pick up an order and i don't find it, they skip the counter and come in the back to help me find it. what a freak, seriously.






and my number one pet peeve. . . (insert drum roll). . .
stupid questions!

"do you sell american flags?"

"do you sell trash bags you can put in your car?"

"are you open on saturdays?" (on saturday)

"how much would it cost to spiral my priesthood manual?" (not everyone is mormon. . .jeez!)

and 1st place goes to. . .

"hi, i have an mp3 player i bought for my kids, i was wondering if you guys could put some songs on it for me, and i could just pay for the songs, can you do that there?"

these are a just a few examples of some of the things that happen at good ol' thorne printing.
i probably shouldn't complain though. after all, at least i have a job. ciao for now!

ricola

holy cow, finals are over! what a relief. and i never get excited about how well i did, because when that happens, i bomb it and then i don't feel all that hot. so i'm not telling everyone how i felt. but i do have all a's for this semester, so far. haha. speaking of relief, i was introduced to a mind-blowing cough drop yesterday by my band director. yes, it's mind mind blowing! they call it ricola. they say it's natures way of healing your throat becuase its made with herbs. . . or something. i think i can't go back to any other way. it's everything it says on the bag. soothing, refreshing, and of course it relieves my coughs naturally. haha. i thought i would share my amazing discovery with all of you. sad thing is there are only 19 drops. . .at least that i can find. the picture says theres 21 but whatev. anyways, i'm headed out. i need to take a power nap before my weekend. go try some ricola, its mind blowing.

sunday morning post

it's almost sunday, so this might be short before i go hit the sack.
if you look at my music up top the page, the last song on the play list by 'the very most'. yes, that's a rockin' band. and best part about it? their local!!! my old private teacher plays drums for this band as well as back-up vocals. musically brilliant. i sometimes wonder what would have happened if i never did music. i probably would have been a photographer, or maybe a broadcaster. seriously, i can envision myself loving both right now. i already love photography, but i never considered myslef a photographer. photographs show amazing things. i seriously can't get enough of good photography. these are some of the outcomes of me pretending to be a photogrpher. mostly my boring saturdays or days off. you may recognize one of my pictures as a background. i just decided that me and my friend chelsea are going to begin a graphic design and photography studio when we both graduate. ha!! and she does'nt know that, but that's ok. anyways, i must be getting to bed. so cheers. excuse the photo quality on the blog.

technicolor dreams

i've been thinking about life. but then again who doesn't. so i am sure anyone reading this can relate one way or another. there are certain events that make you reflect upon life. it's like that feeling when you realized you just turned in a bad essay, and wish you could start blank again. haha, just a random thought here, but i love acoustic music. i think that's the music that makes me feel most down to earth. not because of the natural raw quality it has, i think its just the fact that the musician has nothing but a simple guitar, and a simple voice. i love that, i wish i could pull that off, and still sound good. so while i'm listening to acoustic music, i think about life. mostly because its so organic, that it puts me in this state where i am only thinking about my window of life. unlike other genres which encourage certain personalities. acoustic makes you feel at home, wherever your home is. i think life is more simple than what people make it to be. really. you can fill your life up with glamour and glitter, when in all reality, we all live on the same place. of course, you can have fun, sure. but don't do the unnecessary. i think we just work our way out to figure out who we are. which takes a long time. i'm really not quite there yet, although i like to think that every now and then. the more people i meet and the older i get (constantly), the more i realize that less people really don't care for your triumphs. and thats not intended to be depressing and negative. i'll explain. my family loves me and supports me, encourages my activities and celebrates my victories. outside of that arena, i think everyone else are spectators. not fans. ok, ill put friends and families in that arena. however, there are fans, and they are the only ones celebrating your joy! i am not a big fan of show-offs or braggers. i'll tell you that much. i sometimes wonder what they are trying to accomplish by displaying their abilities in un-welcome situations. i totally understand large ensembles, competitions, practice, showcases, etc. i've noticed that people tend to subliminally show-off or brag, at which in cringe! yes, cringe! i appreciate talent and ability, i just don't appreciate it when it's an insincere display of it.
wow, i'm really speaking my mind today. i guess that's what listening to acoustic death cab for cutie does for you. on of my favorite quotes, sung by sondre lerche and regina spektor explain this kinda well.

"forget all your technicolor dreams, forget modern nature, this is how it's meant to be".

yes! i love love love this quote. perhaps i am not reading this quote as it was written. but if i'm not, i like my own personal take on it. forget all your technicolor dreams: ok, this makes sense, right? basically, forget all your past dreams that are full of glamour and glitter. that's not how life really is. of course you can expect certain things in life, and how you want them to go, how you want them to happen, who you want to be with. but don't create a concrete image in your mind how things are going to happen. forget modern nature: referring to the current trends. forget it, do what you think is right, and what everyone else is doing. just because everyone is doing something you're not happy with, doesn't mean you have to participate. this is how it's meant to be. yes! yes! yes! this is how its meant to be, because in all reality its everything you wanted. if you were to live with your circumstances in a world of no 'technicolor dreams' and no 'modern nature' that's exactly what you would want. what a fantastic quote, brilliantly written. cheers to them. they delivered a great message! do what you want to do, and forget outside distractions. do what you know you need to do regardless of what situation you are put it in. we are all sent here at this specific time, because it's the best time an all the time in the earth's existence to be here. so i say do the best you can, and let yourself be the best you can be, we only have one shot. i learn things like this from amazing places, amazing music, amazing quotes, and amazing people.
thanks for reading,

im out.

friends

when i started blogging i always felt the need to express gratitude for friends. of course i love my family, but i love my friends in a different sort of way. ha. ill just talk about them. but in no particular order. my good buddy, josh jarvis. i think i've know this kid since early early middle school, and we have always been friends since. me and him kinda get a little silly around each other but we do like to make up songs that we think are amazing. and then yeah. but he along with my other good friends make me laugh a pretty good amount. and then, along with him i have chris. idk even know when we stumbled upon eachother, but i guess we became friends. haha. he has probably given me many insights to many different subjects and been really silly. we like to do homework together but that never happens. and then we start ridiculous clubs that never really go far. and last but not least melissa. melissa is pretty freakin' amazing. known her since she was fresh in high school kinda. melissa always makes me smile, and even more so makes me laugh. but we laugh together. haha. she gets my humor and i get hers. which is probably one of the best things ever! i really appreciate her and everything she does for me, and thankful she is still my friend especially when i can be a real dork.
i'm thankful for all my friends, especially right now, senior year when i could use the support. it's awesome!

my thoughts about life

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i never realized how much i freakin' love norah jones. who wouldn't want to listen to her voice, its magnificent. just needed to put that out there.

when i was younger, i went through many different points where i decided what my career would be. the furthest i can remember back was when i wanted to be a freakin' gymnast. not to proud of that one! at school they passed out free circus tickets and me and my dad. after seeing the people walking on ropes and being all flashy and stuff i knew that was my destined career. i even had my mother make me a gymnast costume for halloween. i'm not sure why she supported my dream of becoming a gymnast wearing leatards but that's ok. i was happy. it was bright teal, with silver sparkling sequences lining the sides and my collar. . . and sparkling footsies. yeah, i'm not sure why i'm digging myself deeper.

those were my two thoughts for today, hopefully i can blog something more interesting next time.

the radio

in the car, i always listen to the radio. unless someone is in the car and they are more interesting than the radio, but if they are not, than i'll listen to music at a decent level of volume. OR if there are people that are annoying in my car and i can't stand but they don't know it, ill turn it to a gay station and leave it there and they tend to sing along. idk why i have given them rides but whatever. so i was bored in gov't class, so me and chris started listening to freakin npr. yeah, i know. the last thing i usually listen to is npr. turns out i freakin love that station. i learn the coolest things every day! i am amused and kinda pinching myself at the same time for not listening so often. perhaps the only segments of npr i have listened to before-hand was car talk, on saturdays. but since i work saturdays and my co-worker hates npr, i think i'll leave it on in the car. and if people complain about npr in my car, i'll throw 'em out my window and make them walk. not really, but ok. i have always had a problem with radios, they never play my kinda music. and that sounds self-ish but it's not. they really just don't play my music. back in middle school, i used to think it was cool to listen to classic rock, just 'cause i thought that was cool or something. . .?? i was kinda weird you see. but i really didn't like it. i just thought the lifestyle was cool. man, i was really weird.



this was me during my . . .' stage'.

so i tend to change my musical taste. you know your'e a true fan when you like the same band that you did in sixth grade, now. relient k is pretty freakin' rad. so i'll play them & npr in my car any day.

pottery

i just had a brilliant revelation.

life is like. . . . pottery!!!
it's like one of those pots on those wheels,
and with every thing you do, or spend time with,
it's like putting a dent or crease in the side of that pot.
so by the end of life, you have this cool,
or not so cool-looking piece of pottery.
plus, its hard to get rid of those mistakes
but its still possible! and you can make it
look however you want, and no one is the
same. sorry if that's the lamest life metaphor
you've heard yet. but i admit it's better than
life is a highway.
does that make sense?
if not than i probably look like an idiot but ok.

and this what your life-pot would look like
if you lived a very boring life.

i get to make something!

woo, i get to make more decisions! raise your hands if you hate decisions?

(i'm raising both hands quite high and they are both waving). because i hate decisions. unless of course it's like a choice between a nice car and a nice house. of course im taking the car. i wish there was an expression in text in which i could express some frustration, of course i could always make some up, but they might look weird on the screen. so whatever. here's the funny thing about decisions. let's pretend we are on a highway (only the perfect and most overused metaphor) life is a highway. . .anyways. but we are on a highway and there are two roads, and one road from the first road leads to another road which leads to another road. so if we are starting in nampa, one path could take me to new york and one could take me to austin texas. i know, it sounds so clichés. so basically i'm stuck in a car, at a rest stop waiting to decide what to do. it totally sucks. atleast i have narrowed down my options. i feel pretty tired of having to keep making them, which totally sucks because right now is when i have to make the most and decide who i want to be. it's ok though, ill do it. i know, especially now, that whatever do i can do with confidence. i really don't have to be dependent on anyone-else to make decisions for me, which is totally rockin'. not that i didn't before, but its good to know that i am not always asking for advice because i know what i want. hard to explain. stupid decisions, it would be cool if i could tell the future, figure out what i have already picked and then pick it. and if that doesn't make sense to you, then don't worry about it. my new life outlook: be who i want to be, and people who really care will accept it. oh and realy quick, kanye west is so cool, and so is his music.

go check it out.

im out.

sunday mornings

sundays just got better! usually every saturday i do something, and don't follow my normal sleeping pattern because i don't have school the next day. last night me and melissa watched eagle eye, pretty interesting movie. my second time and her first, but i wouldn't consider buying it, and then after that i watched snl as well, so i was up later than my usual 'bedtime'. church used to be at nine, which isn't as bad as school, but still pretty early. . . for me. ha. but now church is at eleven and i was very pleased to wake up without restraint this morning it was very nice! so i went straight to the fridge (becuase i forgot dinner last night). . . and opened a yoplait, and when i was looking for a spoon ana reminded me it was fast sunday, and i totally spaced for the few minutes! so i suran-wrapped the cup and put it back.
there are two types of sunday mornings in my house, hectic or easy-going. today was easy going, partially due to the fact that we have two more hours to get ready! but on hectic days we end up taking three cars, arriving at three different times, and some of us forget scriptures. it's not very fun, especially when we have to fight for the shower, but today it wasn't bad at all, its went really smoothly, so good way to start the year (:
our shower has three settings: regular, massage and. . . i don't know how to describe it. . . let's call it "jetstream", because its in the center and it comes out faster. so i figured out how to make go in between jet stream and regular. it feels really freakin' awesome when i wash my hair, i don't know why but it just does, but yeah.
i also go back to school for the first time since christmas break tomorrow, we will see how that goes, and hopefully i don't have any test when i get back, that always seems to happen to me.

sick families, bad drama teachers and amazing boulevards

this morning i woke up with a slight cold. i think it's my turn now, because my whole family has been sick at one time. it started with marie, who couldn't even down sprite. and if you know marie, not drinking sprite really means she's sick! then dallan, dad, and this morning my mom. poor thing, i felt realy bad for her. so today, i got all my chores done before eleven, made her tea and cleaned part of the kitchen. i don't mind when my family is sick but when they get sickt hey get grumpy sick. they don't lay in their bed quiet just waiting be good, they take it out on the family. me and my mother however just sit and wait for it to go away. it's a strange thing how sickness makes people act. so if i did work today, i would be able to because i feel pretty fine. but for some strange reason thorne printing closes three days around the holidays. so in jan, my work is close jan 1st, 2nd and 3rd,. . . yeah. everyone forgets that its even 2009 by the time that january third comes around, so either they are loosing a lot of buisness, or there is a line outside of thorne printing when i go back to work. haha, i begged them to switch me days because i now am in the process of doing the school musical. and if you have done one, you know it eats up like all of your time. our drama teacher here is on "adminstrative leave". . . he's fired. i guess he hit kids with a plastic bat and broke the bat, all out of anger. i think i'm officialy scared to work with that guy. of course, rumors went flying around like a wildfire, so i could be wrong. but he really did get arrested and all the admin. leave and stuff. so i don't know if we are ever really doing the play. my choir director says she will take it under her wing, but it doesn't seem like we have made any progress. and knowing the cast, it would be hard to pull out a quailty show before the end of the year. . .ha! maybe i am underestimating, myself and the art dept. but who knows. on monday i will probably find out what is going on (or i hope) and see if the choir director is being serious about the play. . . either way, if we do it or not, i'm totally ok. (:

*oh and let me not forget, there is this amazing boulevard called 'garity blvd'. (excuse my spelling if you need to) but it's my favorite one in nampa. . . hope that makes my aunt feel somewhat better. ha!

nampa

i went to boise today, and because i went there i realized how much i love why i don't live there. i used to live there but eventually moved to nampa, obviously.  i love it here.  a lot of people i know tend to complain about this place, and that when they can they will move out!  i disagree, nampa is so amazing.  there probably isnt as many things to do entertainment-wise, however oppurtunity wise nampa is a thriving community. everyone knows where everything is, where 12th is, where Greenhurst is and where different buildings are located, unlike some cities or towns.  or course,  i would like to get out, and i dont wish to spend my whole life in nampa, but growing up, i think it is definitly a place for oppurtunity.  nampa has a lot of things that most communities need, and it's not like we are deprived of anything that most cities do have. . . except for an ice skating rink. haha. maybe thats what i'll do when i grow up. . . build nampa's first ice skating rink called "j's skating corner". HA! no, that's just weird, anyways! nampa is a great place, thank goodness i still have a while before i have to leave!

v v v v  nevermind those post, it was some stuff for my template (:

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breaks

it happens every time i have an extended break in the middle of school, christmas, summer, spring, thanksgiving, all of those. i get really bored and it just brings out how un-creative i can be. so today i am going to boise while my family watches hsm-three (i have already seen that twice) and i refuse to watch it again. first two times were great but i can only handle so much of one movie before i become irrated. so i am taking my mom's car and finding something to do down there.
on breaks i usually tend to clean my room a lot, and it has been happening these last few days, but somehow, sometime it gets dirty and i don't know how! its pretty frustrating but i manage. and since its break i stay up however late i want and dont worry about sleep anymore, so last night i watched eagle eye for the first time. dang! it was so packed with 'action' that there wasn't a minute in the movie that i really felt calm, because it wsa so intense. compared to vantage point this show is a knock-out. it was pretty well planned. i think you all need to watch it, and if you don't like it, thats ok too. (: so for these last few days of break i am going to sleep in and stay up as much as i can, and not worry about anything. hopefully i don't have a hard time going back to school and waking up at seven a.m. so far i have a had a pretty amazing break. (:

its january first!

it's two-thousand and nine! that means another year closer to becoming grown up, kinda scary but i'll live. i figured out that sledding makes me sore...weird, i know. me and melissa went sledding with my family on christmas eve day and the next day we were both sore! i was laughing and i felt quite stupid when it hurt to tie my shoes. anyways, after that we played scrabble at the flying m and i learned some new words, thanks to harrison. "funder" and "vizit" are both new words, both with real meanings too! funder is a mix of fun and thunder. . . so if you ever need to combine those two words thats when you would. and vizit is just fun to say, but it's a spin on "visit", and with the z substitution, it makes the word that much more cool.

i've been reading (or looking. . . well both) at this amazing book. it is basically a collection of the best one-hundred photographs ever taken. it seriously amazes me, even when the photo seems random. many of them have to do with historical events throughout america's history, and sometimes even world history. my favorite photos are of marylin monroe, and not for that reason. she was such an icon that any photo of her kinda became a classic, idk, just that era must have been amazing to live in. thats just another thought.

so whenever i go to a good resteraunt i always think to myslef: "i could do this...easy". in fact i have always thought it would neat to own my own resteraunt but have never really had too much interest in the culinary field. i just kinda dream about it, but today those dreams were ruined. i made a batch of basic chocolate chip cookies today and didnt realize how much work it took. that sounded really lazy but anyways...by the time i was done cooking my black shirt was covered in flower and my hands were quite sticky. i had to wash all the utensils and sweep a little bit too. not that im lazy, i just never really knew how much work actually went into cooking i thought was so simple, or maybe it's just me. i was pretty excited that they turned out so great. . .mmmmm.