work

I am working all day on tuesday and thrusday this week. Cause the lady that works in the morning is in Hawaii. jealous. but i'm always afraid that the day will be really long. But really it goes by way fast. I wish I always worked in the morning. Everyone is so good. And calm. umm....homework. there is a lot of it. Kickboxing tonight though!!! fun. I'm excited. I have nothing to say except this blog is really boring. I have my valentines to give to my class and i got my list today of all their names. I am on the list so that means i will get valentines this year and i really am sooo very excited about this. Cause their cute.

i can't whistle anymore. haven't been able to do it for awhile.

in case you didn't catch my note on facebook...

i did that stupid 25 random things post that has been all over facebook. but i did it. and laughed a few times. so whatev. you know you like it.

1. I don't like to share earphones with people. its gross.

2. i like to sleep on a cold pillowcase. so i flip my pillow over every night.

3. i like to curl up into a ball and lay on the floor.

4. chipped my tooth in 4th grade. tumbling. drinking fountain. elbow. bad experience. scarred forever.

5. smelly things happen to me....

6. i walk in my sleep sometimes...it creeps me out.

7. speaking of creepy. i HATE E.T.

8. i like to look in peoples fridges.

9. speaking of fridges. juice! i like juice.

10. i can listen to the same song for weeks...sometimes months

11. i can't spell tmowmw (being tomorrow. had to the spell checker on that one)

12. sometimes me and saren laugh hysterically for reasons we're not even entirely sure about.

13. i think my little brother is adorable. even though he's not so little anymore. i ♥ him.

14. when i paint my fingernails. its really just my left thumbnail.

15. harvest moon baby!!

16. when i registered to vote i wanted to be part of the socialist worker party. my mom said no.

17. online shopping is my friend.

18. whenever the shower curtain is closed i'm always afraid someone is dead in the tub.

19. never had braces. need to get wisdom teeth out.

20. was a cheerleader and on NAL(nerds and losers!) in 9th grade.

21. thinking about jr. high grosses me out.

22. i hardly ever cry.

23. when i am alone in the car. the volume is usually up alllllll the way.

24. i had an emotional break down in the minnesota airport last summer.

25. i can't go to sleep if my feet are cold...which is where i'm going right now. to bed.

tree of tranquility

did i tell you i played harvest moon for like 3 hours this weekend? i don't remember what i wrote and i don't wanna look. But i think i'm going through harvest moon withdrawals. i really really wanna play it. good thing i am going home on saturday. i can play then. it really is the most ridiculous game. you get to be a farmer. and raise crops and animals. i only have a few chickens though...mmhmm. It gives me wicked bad carpel tunnel though cause it makes my wrist hurt like crazy. so its good i can't play it up here at school.

that is all.

ps. birthday was lovely!

happy birthday to me!

Today's my birthday. Thanks to all you nice people that texted or facebooked me. your cool. i guess i'll go backwards for the weekend.

Today. Is monday. i had a test...i did ok i think...and then i left my mittens in the library! and i wasn't going to go get them cause i didn't have time. but i knew that i would never see them again. so i raced back and they were still in my chair happy day. then i went to work. I told my favorites that it was my birthday and she got all excited and was just adorable. then later one of the others went and told the teacher it was my birthday. which was also adorable. it was lady that is the kindergarten aide's birthday is today to. so we got to sit at the front of the classroom and they asked us questions:

do you like to fish?
do like vegetables?
do you like to dress up?
do you like to swim?
what is your favorite food?

oh so very very funny. all so adorable. (have i ever told you i like these little people? i do.) then they sang each of us happy birthday and i liked it.

sunday. i was home with the family. had awesome food. chicken and broccoli goodness. and birthday cake. love cake. then i drove back up to logan and we watched Henry Poole Is Here. which was a way good movie.

saturday. I drove home. parents bought a fireplace to put in new part of house. then we went shopping for my birthday. i got my shoes! they only had one pair left! in my size! i was lucky. that doesn't happen very often. and i got a new skirt. and itunes gift card and a couple other things. and we bought cake. and ate it. go cake. it was my dads birthday on saturday(31st) i like him to. he's an awesome dad.

friday. carl's jr. and hockey game. and. i think that was all. i don't remember.

so that was my weekend in backwardness. i'll have to post pictures of the adventures of tonight if i take any. and of my cake. cause everyone likes to look at cake.

ehhh

oijafdoi ehhhhhh. today. at school. someone threw up. and it got on my shoe and pants. ehhhh. it was awful. it smelled bad. and i had to help. and almost threw up. and now i'm just sitting on the couch wanting to die. i don't want to move. please make it stop. why do these awful smelly things keep happening to me?

yikes

My birthday is coming soon!!! feb. 2. which is groundhogs days. what-what. I am kind of excited for my birthday this year? (oh gosh, i'll be so old.) My family has never really made a big deal out of birthdays but maybe its just more exciting cause i get to go home and eat real food and awesome cake and people buy me things. but i am excited. not sure why. don't even know what i'm doing for my birthday. maybe nothing. BUT my 16th birthday was totally awful. I don't think i have ever had a worse birthday.

I had to do my part of my driving test that day cause they lost my name or never put me on the list or something. So i had to drive around with Coach don't-remember and tony kent for 3 hours. so exciting.... and then i was all excited to go home and eat cake and my mom got the wrong kind of frosting. that whipped crap. yeah, awful. I think i almost started to cry. i don't remember anything else. driving around and the wrong frosting. geez. my mom knows what to get now though.

Scotty got saren some yogurt cause he's nice. its blueberry acai. i ate some. no one's home. she'll never know. but it tastes like a blueberry bagel with cream cheese on it. only in yogurt form. so it was good...i think? i couldn't decide. it was decent though. its Yoplus+digestive. so i guess i'll let you know how it digests.............

i am attempting to apply for scholarships this year with the CNR cause no one applies for them so i figure i might have a chance. its ridiculous though cause i have to write an essay about why i'm so cool and a school resume...which has nothing on it...i don't do clubs. so yeah. its stupid. but im doing it. just to see. cause money is nice.



This is from my birthday last year. My hair was short.

go back to your sinful card playing

So i was just looking through the free on demand movies and guess what was there? Far and Away!! I love this movie a lot. Me and millie always used to watch it at her house when i was little. and then i watched it once with becki and....shelby? and it was hilarious. so thats what i am doing now. watching far and away. cause its awesome.

for my class called, environment and society we have been reading this book called guns, germs, and steel. we have read the whole thing in 3 weeks. i have had some pretty insane reading assignments. i have actually read the whole thing minus 1 chapter and some skimming of a few other chapters. so i will tell you know what the entire 400+ pages are about.

ITS ALL ABOUT FOOD PRODUCTION

everything, EVERYTHING goes back to food production. there. now you don't have to read it. the book is...interesting. but yeah. exciting.

i think i might make rice krispie treats tonight. want one?

boardin' at the beave

i went snowboarding yesterday!! it was sooo very much a lot of fun. really i want to go again. Saren had free tickets so that is awesome(cause she is awesome. ha!). I just had to pay to rent my board. The first time i went was in like...9th grade or something. But i thought i did a pretty good job. I only fell a few times. Which is pretty good for the second time in like 5 years. I really only fell when i would try and do something, like going backwards. OH YEAH! I actually didn't fall off the list!!! well i did few times....buy i made it like 13 times!! Saren had to hold on to me every time. but yeah. i didn't fall, thats all that matters. The weather was awesome. We were in our hoodies the whole time, didn't even need our coats. uh....i want to go again. i thought it was so super fun. funner than the last time i went skiing. i feel like this blog is boring.

i went kickboxing that same night. holy cow. i hurt. my arms and back are really sore.

lets see...i have lots of homework. which i haven't started. and i have a show to go to tomwowm for art 3300...so less time for hw tomwowmw....so i dunno when i'm gonna do it...

oh yeah! saren cut my hair today. and she even curled it for me! it looks really cute. i wish i could do hair. but as we all know. i can't.

done.

ps. i am selling one of my prom dresses from high school on ksl.com. so if you need one. you should buy it.

weekend? half of it anways...

Weekend = good.

hmmm lets see. friday....i don't even remember what....it must have been good.

saturday was good. i went home to do my laundry. 4 loads. that is a lot. then my family came up to logan to go to the basketball game. we went to the maddox drive-in place to eat. i thought it was good. but my mom doesn't really like it there. but i enjoyed myself. then we went up to logan. i didn't sit with the parentals since they had to buy tickets and i get in for free. game was excellent...half court shots...the ref hurt himself and had to be helped off the court....and good looking sweaty basketball players, i mean what more could you ask for??

again with friday....i still can't remember. really. friday night didn't happen? maybe i was drunk and passed out? drugs? i was asleep? nothing is coming to me.

today is sunday. i had to go to church by myself for the second week in a row. this is not an enjoyable experience. i would please like it to stop. k really its not that bad but still.

tomwomw there is no school!!! or school!!!! being work!!!! yaaay. so that means i get to do homework!!!! which is good. reading. lots of reading to do.

kk. so my brother went on his mission to mongolia. and two years is a long time. so he comes out with these crazy random stories all the time. and he's been home for...9 months or something. (wow that is a long time. wow.) so the other day in the library when i saw him he got talking about his mission...oh we were talking about drunk people? anyways. i guess this one time(and who knows its probably happened more than once) but this drunk guy came into his apt and was like going to kill him and the other missionaries. and one of the missionaries tried to tackle him or run out of the room and got punched. and somehow they got around him and were running for their lives down the dark hallway(cause they don't have lights in the hallways) and he was trying to chase after them......yeah crazy weird scary, i don't even believe half of the things he tells me cause they are so crazy. he has tons of stories like that and just pulls them out of now where and is like, oh yeah, this one time when i almost died.......anyways crazy stuff that doesn't seem real. cool.

friday....

TUESDAY! me and saren are going snowboarding!! cause she has free passes to beaver. so i am going to snowbaord! and fall off the lift a lot! cause i don't have to work on tuesday! go teacher work day!!!

FRIDAY! i have just remembered. that was strange. i think i am going crazy. we went over to austin/jason's for a root beer float shindig. that is what we did. had root beer floats. mmhmm. then we had pizza. cause brad is awesome. and likes to always have pizza. cause he works at papa murphy's.

the pain...

As you all should know, Saren and myself went to kickboxing last week. Now it was a pretty hard workout but tons of fun and I wanted to go back for sure. So today rolls around and Saren had to go meet with people for stuff...so she wasn't going to be able to go to kickboxing at 6:30. So we decided to try out the 'power toning' class at 5:30. Now I have gone to classes like this before, when I worked at the gym. They were hard but I really liked them. so... i figured it would be something similar. HOLY. COW. I almost died. It was INSANE. I told Saren I hated her like 4 during the class. And I meant it. It was one of the freakin hardest things I have ever done. I was shaking and weak and towards the end I couldn't stop laughing because it was just so ridiculous. She worked every single muscle group and we would do about a million reps with each one. And I should have used lighter weights. But 5 pounds? I figured I could handle it. She kept doing all this crazy stuff. And the abs went on for about 15 of the longest minutes of my life. We did all this crazy stuff and I was just laughing on the ground by this time. Thinking about how much I hated Saren for making me come to this torture chamber.

The class FINALLY ended and I slowly stopped hating Saren. I am still kinda shaky though. And I am already getting sore. The chances of me not being able to get out of bed in the morning are pretty good I would say. So moral of the story is: I am in terrible shape. I'd like to think I used to be in pretty good shape in my youth. I used to dance and tumble about 4 days a week. And yeah...I used to exercise I guess. Then the summer I was working at the gym I would go to the classes all the time. Yeah...anyways you don't really care about that. But I am gonna keep going cause its fun. To kickboxing. I won't be going back to that class of evil for awhile. Not unless Saren wants me to actually harm her.

Now I must write a definition of "what is geography" gag me. I think I am just not liking this class I have cause I don't really like the teacher. She just...i dunno, bugs me.

I had something else to write about......work was awesome today! There should be more days like that. always. There was something else though....darn. to bad.

thats what i think too.

i wanted to write a blog but i don't really have anything to say.

i know what i can say. i almost threw up at work today. yes it was one of those days.

and if i were to tell the story, which i won't, it would make me nauseous again. and i just ate dinner.

we just rented house bunny. i have seen this movie before. its kind of a dumb show but its pretty hilarious.

my toes are cold. they're always cold. good thing i have awesome slippers!!

i went to bed at 1 last night. and i didn't fall asleep till almost 3. then i work up at 3:30. and then again at 4:30 and i swear ashley was rummaging around doing something. i don't even know what.

i must go on to do my homework. bleh.


ahhhhhhhhh my scroller thing on my mouse pad isn't working. gaah

the new year.

I should be reading the rest of my homework. But i am angry at it cause its sideways and it doesn't turn around. and i'm not gonna print it off. plus i know its going to be stupid. cause all the other articles i just read plus the book i am reading are stupid. i can't say that i don't think they're not interesting. cause i guess some of it is. but other stuff is just stupid. like the chapter i just spent the last hour on. it was about the wilderness....and how there is no real wilderness....and we have created this romanticized idea of what the wilderness really is....and then i kind of stopped caring and so i couldn't tell you what the real point of it was about....

i got slippers!! they are pretty awesome. i would take a picture but i don't know where my camera is. they are boots. that are slippers. and they're grey (of course) and yellow stripedness. so very lovely. and fleece. and warm. no more cold toes!

i need to go grocery shopping...i don't really have food. but have somehow managed to survive the past week without it.

me and saren went to kickboxing at the rec center on tuesday. twas awesome. only 2 bucks! it was so fun. i miss working out like that. i was sore, still am. so fun, will be going again. and again. you should all come with us cause its so great!

hmmm...i guess i have run out of things to say. so i'll just be flipping the computer over so i can read my last article.

school begin

i had 99 posts last year. i almost made it to 100.


so....the semester hasn't gotten off to the greatest start ever....it stood outside for like 20 min and FROZE MY FACE OFF waiting for the shuttle. i should have just walked. no...it had to have been longer than 20 min, more like 25 - 30 minutes. so that made me almost 15 minutes late for class. then she only talked for 10 more minutes and then we were done. and i'm not even going to class on wed. oh dear. this is ridiculous. but not to worry. that class is going to be really....i was just going to say stupid, but i guess i'll give it a chance. so now i'm chilling in the library cause i don't have class till 10:30. but not to worry...i already have homework!!! so i'll just go get started on that......

something

Lately I've been feeling kinda....blah I guess. I feel like something needs to change. I need some change. But I don't know what. No idea. Something though. Something needs to change.


1- i like enya.
2- school is starting soon.
3- math sucks
4- i like my roommates. they're cool people. thanks roommates.
5- i like blankets
6- i need a haircut
7- i'm taking arts symposium again this semester on account of having no classes. is anyone taking it? i'd rather not sit by myself at all the shows again. anyone??
8- i like shoes. a lot.
9- i like to read. a lot.
10- i need to go to the eye doctor.
11- my hands are cold.
12- i like green beans.
13- nilla wafers are pretty good too.
14- i love my job. (even when it sucks.) those kids are just to stinking cute.
15- i need new pictures to put in my room.

(squeak...squeak...squeak)

Ok. so on monday i think i almost burned the house down. i decided to make cookies. oreo cookies. you know the ones? with the cake mix and cream cheese frosting. the amazing ones. yeah those. So i was baking away, making awesome cookies and then i had like 2 cookies worth of cookie left over. and i didn't really feel like eating them. So i thought to myself well i'll just put them in the microwave. Now listen i have done this before and found out what happens, although not quite to the same extent, but i didn't think about that previous experience. So i put the blob of cookie dough in a little bowl and stuck it in the microwave and hit the 1 so it would cook for 1 minute.

i turned around and was getting the other cookies off the pan so i wasn't paying attention to the microwave. And should i have to watch the microwave every second?? So just as i am finishing with the other cookies there is this awful smell. And i think, did i leave something in the oven? I turn around and there is smoke everywhere. and i think, CRAP i forgot when you put cookie dough, or cookies for that matter in the microwave they cookie VERY fast and then start on fire. or start on smoke i guess would be better way to say it. So i open the microwave door and smoke comes BILLOWING out of the microwave. my next thought, CRAP the fire alarm! so i reach for the nearest pan, oh yeah, i just took that out of the oven so its HOT. i drop it on the floor and...maybe almost did say a bad word, kind of like in the christmas story, in slow motion. Only it was NOT the f--- word. so i reach for the other one. Then i start fanning and fanning like a crazy person. I open the door to the garage so the smoke can go out there. people there was A LOT of smoke, i mean A LOT of smoke. I opened the door the addition to let the smoke out there. I go fan by the smoke alarm a bit but it clearly isn't concerned that i almost started the house on fire with a blob of cookie dough so i leave that and go tie the door to the garage open so it can continue airing out the house.

I continue fanning for the next bit. The house reeks of burnt microwaveness. Most of the smoke is out of the house although its still a bit hazy. There is a large hazy cloud in the garage just chillin out. At least it wasn't in the house though. So I learned a few things through this wonderful baking experience.

1-Never put cookie dough in the mircrowave for more than like 6 seconds, cause it will try and kill you.

2-I now have zero faith in my smoke alarm. That thing should have gone off like 4 times with all that smoke. I will die if there is a fire.

3-Its only ok to do all these things if your mom's not home. Cause then she can just ask. What is that awful smell? Oh, sorry mom i was just making cookies and...burned...one....yeah....(no i really told her what happened. and laughed. a lot.)

4- i might have sustained some smoke inhalation injuries.

In other news, MY. BED. SQUEAKS. the squeak needs to die NOW. before i go insane. I already hate my bed and the squeak just makes it worse. I only have to think about moving and it starts squeakin away. ahhhhh. squeak isn't even a word anymore now that i have looked at it for so long. is that even how its spelled?

White Chicks is a very funny movie. Over the past year or so my family has seen it a few times on the tv. Everyone in my family likes it. Even my grandma thought it was funny. So, awesome sister that i am, I decided to get White Chicks for my little brother for Christmas. Its hilarious. It's just so ridiculous that you have to laugh. If you haven't seen it, quick, go rent or buy it now. Or we can watch mine! If my brother is willing to part with it...

christmas time

Happy Christmas!! My Christmas was wonderful and I hope yours was too! I like all my presents. I even got all my books!! I think one of my favorite presents though are some mittens my mom gave me. Cause. They're mittens. And they are made out of old sweaters. So very cute.

For some reason I am getting a cold again. And my last cold isn't even gone yet.
My pictures are being weird. Me and saren and a bunch of other people went skiing at the Canyons after school was over. This is the only picture I took. We were tired.



This is my brother with my hat on. I like him. And the hat. And Christmas.



Sometimes I try to be crafty.



Family Christmas party was last night! Twas a grand event with baked potatoes and cheese. My cousins from Arizona were there. And they were all grown up. And it was weird cause I swear they will always be like 3 years old. I didn't even know all of their names.

Dear snow,

stop.

ehhhhhhhh

today i wrapped all the families christmas presents. well the boys of the family. it was really fun. i like wrapping christmas presents. they are cute.

my family is charge of the Stringham family christmas party this year. so were making snow men out of 2x4's to put on the tables and then everyone will get to take one home. we are doing this cause we are adding on to my house and have lots of wood laying around. for some reason i think that its hilarious. we are being green....or recycling...or we just have lots of wood laying around...anyways i have been home alone all day. so thats why have been doing all these things to help my mom out. i even made dinner. in the slow cooker. and then i have been reading. my second book of the break!! i read the third peter pan book, that i got from the elem. library. seriously i love those books. i almost cried at the end. and now i am reading the third eragon book! its pretty good....he likes to use big words in his books. cause he thinks he's smart. and i asked for a bunch of books for christmas cause hi, i'm a nerd. but hopefully i get them. cause my mom has a hard time buying books for me. who knows why.

um. i wish i had a picture to post that was christmas related....its snowing. its been snowing alllll day. i like snow as long as i'm inside and warm. but for some reason i feel like shoveling the driveway? i have no idea why. i'm crazy.

christmas is coming!

ok. I admit. I was totally just listening to Camp Rock music. Cause I totally just got finished watching the movie on tv. Yup, thats what I do when I come home and everyone goes to bed. I watch Disney channel movies. Admit you know you've done it before. So after that fun movie watching experience, I am on the computer. It doesn't even feel like a Friday night. But it never does when I come home. Oh yeah. I am home! Today was the last day of school. It was really fun. Elementary is so fun before Christmas break. We made ornaments, and cookies, and watched a movie and had an assembly and sang Christmas songs. Its fun cause I am totally psyched for Christmas. And little kids are cute. Adorable. Even when they tell me i'm not their friend.

(ok. i am going to talk about school for just a tiny little second. did I mention that one of my classes has been canceled. As in. it no longer exists. Something to do with the current economic strain...yes it really said that...or something. so i only have 7 credits right now....i need more than that. I am taking the math review thinger...so i might be taking math next semester....gross. also...i am considering resigning up for ballet....ok. end school)

back to music. there is this song. that i really like. and it really is an awful and stupid song. but i really like it. its by akon. i really like it when it comes on the radio. with the volume all the way up. so there. get over my bad taste in music.

its cold outside. and there is lots of snow. there is a lot of snow in logan. lots and lots. but i wont be up there for a whole week.

i had something else to say....argh. i still can't think.

cold

first off. i'm sick. i have cold. a head cold. well. yes a head cold. my ears are plugged, i can't hear anything. My nose is just awful. and my eyes hurt. and my voice sounds like i just woke up, even though i've been up since 8:30.

but i went skiing yesterday at the canyons. for free! it was sooo very funny. it was really cold but the weather was perfect. i would go into more detail but my hands are cold. i love park city. i wish i could live there....or be reach and have a 2nd house or condo there. cause i love it.

i am very very sore from yesterday. and i think being sick has made it worse.
today at work was the teddy bear picnic! it was fun. i didn't have a teddy bear though.

i was talking in my sleep last night. i think i do that when i get sick. i think its creepy.

i can't think right now. so i'll be done.

sad day.

so i got my computer grade................its not good........yup.....i failed. Yes its true. I failed. i got a D. a D. dee. D. 66%. (i got 78/150 on the final. really that is soooo awful. i didn't think i did that bad though so i was kind of sad.) oh it really is horrible. but really i don't care. its over. and really thats all that matters. I feel like a HUGE weight has been lifted off my shoulders. really. so yes. the second of my schooling career. sigh. like i said though i'm just glad its done. but i did get 142/150 on my other final. which is quite good if i do say so myself.

um. its really nice not having school. Its soooo nice to get to do whatever i want and not have to worry about the homework that i'm not doing. i haven't even been on the the computer in like 3 days cause i don't have to be!!!! so very nice.


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i have to work all days this week. but i get to go skiing on wed in park city!!

it snowed. lots and lots of snow. and more snow and ice. cold.

I have nothing left to say. no school!!!!!!yaaayyy!!!!!