Sorry this took sooooooo long.

JOYS-

* Music. Music is powerful!

* The gospel for sure.

* My family and friends. I know people say this all the time but I trully believe I've got the best family and friends ever.

* Sandwiches. Hot or cold.

Fears-

* Loosing bonds with people (if that makes sense at all). I hate loosing a friendship or a closeness to someone.

* Loose gravel.

* Coming across as insincere.

Goals-

* Be able to back a boat down a boat ramp...like a man.

* run a triathlon.

* Be good at pick pocketing.

*Learn to play the harmonica

Current Obsessions-

*Gilmore Girls

* C.S. Lewis

* Ice cream

* Summer.

* Regina Spektor (a singer)

*Andrew Bird (another singer)

*skirts and dresses

Random Surprising Facts-

* I live in Logan but I hate the snow.

My first week in Jackson Hole....

1. I live in Jackson Hole...It's weirder to say I live in Wyoming though.

2. I can already cross something off my list off life goals (I learned how to fold T-shirts retail store style at work).

3. I went to church on Sunday and I have never seen so many Bolo ties in one room.

4. There are statue bears EVERYWHERE you turn around here (check out my picture...that is in the grocery store by the bread).

5. WY stands for Wendy York and Wyoming.

Five facts about concerts:

1. Wear two layers of deodorant

2. It is not very advantageous to be 5'2.

3. I just used the word "advantagous".

4. Ben Folds is GREAT...and so is Ben Lee.

5. Maybe bring an extra tube of deodorant.

Na na na na, na na na naa. Hey hey hey Goodbye.

A little peice of my heart drove away in that Animal Control vehicle.

An ode to Margarine, Templeton and Lucifer

Six kittens were found on 800 north on the afternoon of Friday, April 18th. On the afternoon of Saturday, April 19th, only three were left and the stray cat mother was no where to be seen. These baby cats needed food, shelter, warmth and a mother (which came in the form of my friends Ali, Anne, Kristen and I). It's my shift to take the "children" tonight. I will experience what Ali, Anne and Kristen have been doing. They have proved to be wonderful parents. They have fed them every two hours since that fateful Saturday afternoon and tried to make these kitten's experience as close to a normal kitten's their age. Even having these guys sleep with a battery powered clock to resemble a mother cat's heartbeat. Tomorrow we take these little guys to the Humane Society. And to Margarine, Templeton and Lucifer we say farewell, goodluck and godspeed.

I eat ice cream for dessert.

Imagine you are at a sit-down restaurant and your friend comes to meet you there. Your friend sits, the waiter (or waitress) promptly comes to your table and asks you what you would like to drink. Your friend quickly replies that they would like a shake. The server looks puzzled. You then ask the server what the list of beverages are to choose from. The server runs through a list of coke or pepsi products and possibly some lemonades. Does the server mention shakes on the list of beverages? NO.

Why? BECAUSE SHAKES ARE NOT BEVERAGES. You would never go to a restaurant and order a shake as a drink.

"What about fast food?" you think.

I will admit, after doing research on the matter, I have found that shakes are listed under the beverage section at fast food restaurants such as Carl's Junior and Arby's. BUT, they also list them under desserts AND if you ordered a combo meal (which comes with a main dish like a hamburger and a side dish like fries and a beverage) they do not offer the choice of a shake as your beverage. You would have to order that separately (just like you would have to order a dessert item separately).

Conclusion: Eat ice cream for dessert.

Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars

This is a story about my bicycle.

It was adopted on October 12th after me and three friends slept over at the Logan DI grand opening (a DI grand opening only happens once in a life-time). At nine o'clock on a Thursday morning, after a restless night.... in a tent....on cement, it was time for the opening ceremonies. The ribbon was cut, the doors were opened and the mass of eager customers who gathered in front of the doors in the morning hours previous to the ribbon cutting rushed in the store. The first thing I did? I scurried to the back of the store where I could see the sports equipment was located. I was looking for one thing and one thing only. A bike. On the rack of two-wheeled vehicles I saw a pretty great looking curvy-handle-barred, skinny- tired, pink bicycle.

And that's when I knew.

The adoption papers were signed right away (aka: the debit card receipt at the check stand) and ever since the Caliente Schwinn has been my most prized possesion. And lucky for me it's April 2nd... you know....warm weather time.....bicycle season.

Queen says it best. Here's to you Caliente Schwinn:

I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

Spring Break Results:

The following is the COMBINED results of Anne and Wendy's Diary Queen Blizzard tasting experiment. The experiment involved trying one blizzard on Diary Queen's menu every night until all thirteen blizzards had been successfully tasted and ranked on a scale of 1-5. Five being the highest possible score and one being the lowest (unless we are talking about the "chocolate extreme". Anne gave that a zero....ooooh snap chocolate extreme).

Mint Oreo: 4 stars

Buttarfinger: 4 stars

Heath: 3.5

Banana Cream Pie: 3.5

Strawberry cheesecake: 3.5

Oreo: 3.5

Snickers: 3.5

Reses: 3.5

Cookie Dough: 3

Turtle: 3

M&M: 2.5

Hawaiin: 1.5

Chocolate Extreme: 1

Mexico doesn't equal happiness

This school year (2007-2008) has been a year of traditions for me. September 2007 was the third time I have attended 80's night in the TSC on campus (and the second time reaching for "Neil Diamond's" shiny pleather pants while singing along to "Coming to America"). This is the third year me and my friends have collected strings of multi-colored plastic beads at Mardi Gras. The third year of midterms, third year of finals, third year watching "The Skeleton Key" on a cold Logan Halloween night. This is my third year attending Utah State University.

This is the first year, however, that I have no plans on the week long vacation from school, studying and the bone chilling cold of Logan (otherwise known as Spring Break). So....I have to make the week of March 9-March 17th memorable somehow. So while everyone else has getting tan and playing in the beaches of Mexico on their agenda, me and my other non-Mexico-going-Logan-bound friend Anne have made a list of exciting and midly adventurous things to do.

Among other things on the list, like eating Diary Queen blizzards everyday for lunch and making bouncy balls (yes MAKING them) is creating a blog...for me. It's all for the sake of spring break 08. Man, who needs Mexico.