mario brothers and a little princess

my nephews and niece...mario, luigi, and toadette.

I am Iron man...

I'm finally out of class for the semester! I know, that lasted like, weeks longer than everyone else. Yesterday was my last day of my drum class though, so I'm officially out. Oh! And I got way good grades, too. Which is surprising, considering I kinda burned out there at the end.
After class I went with Logan to a rehab center in Spanish Fork that asked him to come play and sing for them. We went and everyone got in a circle and listened and sang along and they were all really friendly and nice.
We decided to go see Iron Man 2 last night to celebrate freedom from school, and also ran into my cousins at the theater, so we watched it with them. I kinda wish I'd re-watched the first one before I went. Not because you need to at all, but just because I couldn't really remember it. Anyway, it was good, I liked it.
This morning my sisters chopped 10+ inches off their hair to donate to locks of love. I went with them to supervise, and seriously considered getting a pixie cut. I'm growing my hair out because I really do want it long, but every time I see a really cute really short cut I want it! We'll see how long I last.

On my way home I stopped at the glorious Winco that just opened in front of my apartment building, and they had samples out like Costco...only, WAY better! There were pop tart samples and fruit by the foot samples, drinks, etc. It felt like my dream store. That place is great.

"Someday you'll be fine. Yes, I'll be just fine..."

so my friend Sarah posted a blog today that made me laugh at her OCD. not because i think she's crazy or anything, but because i do the same thing with my closet.

i have to have my clothes organized by color. they all hang in their appropriate place, sized by color, then short sleeve to long sleeve within that color. i can't help it. i even do it to other people's clothes sometimes...yikes. i know.
don't worry, if i come over you won't walk into your bedroom to discover me rearranging your clothes. i'm not weird...just...organized. i've really only done it to other people if i'm helping them clean, or...whatever. anyway. moving on.
i also have a thing with my books/movies. books should be in order by size, while movies get separated by category. that one is pretty easy since i'm not really one to buy movies, and most of my books are packed away. i only have a limited selection out to work with.
so, next time you ask "hey what're you doing?" and i say "color-coordinating", you don't have to wonder what that means...i just did laundry and i wont be satisfied til it's put away properly. it's not weird! it's perfectly healthy to be organized.

"The end of fear is where we begin...The moment we decided to let love in"

Yay for almost being done with another semester of school! I only have two classes left that are still going but I have them a couple more times. Boo. For my digital imaging class we had to turn in a series for our final project. I couldn't decide what I wanted to do mine on, and in the end I figured love would be the easiest to do last minute. I ended up pulling an all-nighter shooting pictures and editing them but in the class critique my teacher said I'm one of the only perfect grades he gave for the final. hurray! It's nice doing something I really enjoy doing and having it pay off. Here are a few of them:

That was totally my favorite class this semester. And now....I'm ready for summer :)

"she was...an american girl"

The Goo Goo Dolls are coming to Vegas the day after my birthday in June. Um...pretty sure that means I see a roadtrip in store in the future. Please feel free to come along. :)



Okay, I have two stories today. As most of you know, my Dad always wins stuff from these random contests he enters online while he's supposed to be working every day. Awhile back he gave me this coupon for $10 at the Dollar General that he'd gotten. I didn't really know where there was one of those around here, but yesterday I went to Provo and found one.

I kinda wandered through when suddenly I noticed they had an "as seen on TV" isle! I was pretty stoked. I am an infomercial lover after all. So as I was looking at all the choices I told Logan: "oh man...if I find the EZ-Cracker here, I am so buying it!" I kept looking around and was just about to leave when a little box caught my eye. Lo and behold: The EZ-Cracker! (Please refer to previous post) I am now a proud owner!
Maybe I'll make my own infomercial when I try it out...

As for my next story/embarrassing moment yesterday...Ahem. My mom called and said their basement flooded, so Logan and I headed up to help them move some boxes and stuff. When I got there and went looking for my Dad I found him tearing apart boxes, and he stuck this sticker on my shirt:

  I kinda laughed and forgot all about it. Honestly, it's not my fault. I know its big, but how often do you really pay attention to whats up by the collar/shoulder of your shirt? So after awhile we were getting hungry and left to go to Tucanos. MMMmmmmm.

  My goodness that place is meat heaven. I'm still full. Anyway, the waitress was talking to us when we were seated, and she was explaining how everything works there and whatnot. Then she paused and in all seriousness asked me earnestly: "and then, the 'do not disturb' thing, do you want me to leave you alone? I can just drop off your food and not bother you..." I was horrified. It's a good thing for me I don't turn red when I'm embarrassed. I stumbled through a "oh that. hahaha. my dad put that on me..." as I hurriedly ripped it off and tried to act casual. *sigh* thanks, Dad.

"You make me happy, whether you know it or not..."

It's snowing outside, so I decided to write a post about things that have made me happy this week.

1) Playing ball with little Nathan and having him grin at me with the funniest expressions ever

2) Seeing little Isaac liftin himself up. so cute.

3) Carly talking about how she got tweety from the "ice meam truck"
4) Michelangelo creepin up in stealth mode
5) Getting a new Home Teacher with my old BFF HT and having them come visit us for hours cracking jokes and helping us do whatever we want

6) love spell lotion
7) Johnny going on a new tour

8) Seeing the disposal being called an "insinkerator"
9) reconnecting with old BFFs and laughing til my cheeks hurt
10) getting to be a mermaid for class