Show and Tell

yes, i was the cowardly lion and i'll have you know that I only spent 2 something for the tale. (and technically i didn't spend it cause elise bought it...just kidding elise i promise i'll pay you back!)




















In other news I'd like to introduce ya'll to my boyfriend:
He is known sometimes as cody, spaz, or psycho sleep-walker (just for you cody haha). He's pretty much amazing. He's a cook, hilarious, a computer genius (trust me, it takes a genius to not get frustrated with computers), and is especially talented at making me feel special. I won't bother to mention how surreal it feels due to how looooong ago my last bf was (whoops, guess i just did). Needless to say it has been a good weekend so far 8)
In sadder news, I came down with something yesterday. I woke up today feeling slightly achey and have this cough-ugh. O well, it was still a great night (plus i totally got 2 wholes in one at miniature golf!)

Today was a great day. All classes were cancelled except for my thirty minute sight singing class plus a ten minute test. All went well and if I can pull of an A on the next test I won't have to take the final which = happiness. The nice part about my music classes is all the finals are done before finals week normally. I studied a bit for a russian test that I'm taking tomorrow and then had some scrumdidliumptious (first time i ever attempted writing that word)fajitas at Cody's. I saw some pics from his mish in korea and it's so crazy how similar certain things looked with my mission which i guess makes sense since they're both way over in the eastern part of the world-just interesting.
so i'm applying for an internship at the MOA on campus (museum of art) and figure it's a long shot since lots will apply and they only take a few for each department in the museum but cross your fingers for me! It would be soooo cool if I got it-seriously dream come true since that is what I want to do after byu pretty much-that is work in museums and have no idea how one goes about getting ready for that, but this would be great!
alright alright, going to bed.

more mafia mania

It's all in the family

So friday was, hands down, the BEST group date I've ever been on. It was planned out so well with so many great details and little touches (all of course thanks to Elise my AMAZING roommate!) She wrote us a murder mystery dinner. It's theme was the mafia-the head of the italian mafia had been "whacked" and all the different bosses around the world were coming to pay respects and figure it out. We had a few different italian mafia families, chicago, new york, and of course: the Russian mafia. So naturally me and my date were the mafia bosses of the russians. Here's the info that we received on our characters:

"Dimitri and Natasha Bugrezava
(mafia nicknames: Sugalips and Spaz)

Dimitri and Natasha are the head Capo's of the Russian Mafia. Natasha did not grow up in the mafia, but went to Sicily Italy to study, while there she met Dimitri who was working on a "job" with the West Sicilian Mafia. The job didnt' go as planned and Natasha and Dimitri fled back to Russia where they married. Natasha also befriend Alessandra (Andrea-my cuz) while she was there-a stifled Sicilian Mafia member. Their friendship allowed communication and importations to continue between the two countries despite the previous disastrous job. Dimitri's specialty was the exportation of Opium into the Italian, New York, and Chicago markets. He never touched the stuff himself because he saw what it did to his clients, but his clients were all crazy so the "normal" dimitri received his name of Spaz because he was so put together compared to the rest of them. In his own inner circles, however, he is quite vocal and unafraid to speak his mind."

Choice of Weapon: Dimitri: Machine gun. He loved the power behind its kick. Natasha: Revolver.

Relation to Giovanni and thoughts on him:
Giovanni has never been a threat to my operations. He is a fair mafia capo.

Where were we the night of the murder?
We were beginning a new day in Russia. We had just placed a large order of opium in the states, so things were pretty relaxed.


As it turns out we sort of did kill him. The twist was that Dimitri gave his key inforcer someone to whack (his wife who was a double agent) the key inforcer was upset by this and started planning to take over the russian mafia when I found out and told Dimitri. He was upset but realized that it was his wife and that that was against the rules of the family so instead he had the guy kill the head of the italian mafia to prove his loyalty.

It was a way fun night-we made our own pasta/dinner stuff, played games to get clues, played mafia (of course) and took tons of pics which hopefully i'll get them all-i only have the few that we took afterwards but they give you the idea. Cody was awesome and spoke in a russian accent the whole night and pretty much made people laugh non stop all night.

There were great nicknames like: lost innocence, gaurdian angel, sudden death, dancin' danger, silencer, sweet eyes, kriplin' kip, killem kindly, etc.
It was WAY fun and I think we totally won the coolest dressed award ;) but really all were decked out pretty good.


Well, so I get to spend my relaxing sabbath afternoon redoing our project/presentation because our teacher didnt' like how we did it-yikes. o well nothing like a good adrenaline rush to get you started with your week-hopefully it's not an indicator of how this week will go because I have a lot of test/paper stuff goin on.


What you've all been waiting for:







just because I could 8)

what the creep-o

so i'm sitting in the library hashing out a rough draft for humanities and after awhile i notice this guy who is sitting across and to the left of me at another computer and every time a girl walks by or gets up from her computer and goes somewhere he stops what he's doing and watches her. not subtly, but blatantly watches her go and come back. I mean if it happened once-not a big deal, but every single time with all different girls?? I just wanna through my pen at his head and yell: "FOCUS!"
much longer and better posts soon to come 8)

what goes around comes around

So I went to the vending machines-the infamous ones. The one where I accidently got a snickers when i wanted m&ms. I took the extra five seconds to make sure i picked the right number and then the machine gave me two bags of m&ms for the price of one-as if to say: i'm sorry about last time-i know that i'm confusing.
and all is right with the world 8)
I would just like to apologize for any mention i've made in the past of my homework etc. Who wants to read that? no one...i don't even wanna read about it after the fact-no one likes those journal entries that are all about homework or those to-do-lists etc so I vow to never again speak of them again cause...it never ends it will be an eternal list so never again 8)

sympathy pains?

So I have this dull ache that only gets like an actual ache when i bend over in my lower right back. I don't know if that's exactly where the kidneys are located but maybe i'm feeling sympathy pains for dad-only he gets narcotic pain killers and I've got nothing. Maybe plasibos would work...
sigh, watching return to me-it's been so long but it's sooo funny-i luv the old men in it and her friend and her friend's husband-soooo funny. and of course david dachovny-soooo dreamy.
good times.
i'm so excited-i get to actually sleep in tomorrow. that's right i am NOT setting my alarm-i know, it's a momentous occation for me. 8)

oh help me! (high girly voice)

Watched stardust (when i should have been studying) and LOVED IT! After we got done with it my roommate mandy said: you'd be a good damsel in distress. I naturally made her explain that random statement and she said that i wouldn't be some useless ragdoll that the guy would have to drag around but could help/be useful etc. That's me ladies and gentlemen-useful! haha seriously it was soo funny.

lightened load

Well as it turns out I think the extreme pressure i was feeling this week was my stressing about dad. We found out back in august that he has kidney cancer though they caught it VERY early thanks to some kidney stones (yea, not a good summer for him) and he had surgery today (don't feel bad if you didnt' know-i didn't talk about it with anyone really and normally do that until there's something positive to report). Everything went great though-like clock work and he'll go home friday-ish so now that that's done, i only have two tests and a paper to get done and it's amazing how much lightened the pressure is-like the work is nothing.

To TOTALLY change the subject can I just say HOW much i hate and HOW dissapointing it is when you go to the vending machines wanting something very specific like say...oh i don't know- peanut m&ms and the numbers are slightly off and you accidentally select a snickers. now don't get me wrong- a snickers is totally acceptable...i like them (tho not as much as i like Russian snickers but anyway-yes I'm a candy connoisseur) but i wanted peanut m&ms for many different reasons such as: they're more subtle to eat during class-pop 'em in ur good, they're healthier-not that i really care about that but it makes me feel good about my choice, and oh, i don't' know....that's what i wanted!
So yea...i sat there and sadly ate my snickers and was totally NOT satisfied/fulfilled. sad day...

gasp

I'm keepin' my head above water but am one step away from having the lifegaurd hand me that long pole thingy...but really, that happened to me once at the YMCA when i was little-tried to swim into the deep end after mike. anywho, this week is a real piece of work. There's the usual load of homework plus two tests,a quiz, a project, and a paper plus there's family stuff goin' down tomorrow that makes it hard to concentrate. This too shall pass right? I am however allowing a lil distraction for myself and will watch X-files a lil later since it is 10/13.
off to memorize some painters and their works.

Ok, I have to stop- I'm totally obsessed and addicted with Gilmore Girls-argh!
I'll tell you what's bad about these types of shows too, they make you want the same things to happen to you but oh-not so fast, you can't cause you're sitting on your couch watching it happen to other people-argh!

...so my sunday was good, very relaxing and can I just say that I hate having to choose between options. Hate it, absolutely hate it unless of course it involves choosing between different candies or movies cause that's easy- you can have it all, but you can't always have it all in other categories. I'll just handle things like I always do...um...by not. handling them that is until it's absolutely necessary and then it tends to become more clear

Plan 9 from OUTER SPACE!

Ok, so you need to go and find this movie and watch it and bask in all it's horrible glory!
I just saw the MST3 reading of this movie and it was HILARIOUS (mystery science theatre 3000-look it up and never say that I didnt' do anything for you).

anywho....just quotes from the movie are great all by themselves like:


Paula Trent: ...A flying saucer? You mean the kind from up there?
Jeff Trent: Yeah, either that or its counterpart.

Paula Trent: Now, don't you worry. The saucers are up there. The graveyard is out there. But I'll be locked up safely in there.

Air Force Captain: Visits? That would indicate visitors.

Colonel Tom Edwards: This is the most fantastic story I've ever heard.
Jeff Trent: And every word of it's true, too.
Colonel Tom Edwards: That's the fantastic part of it.

Lieutenant John Harper: I'll bet my badge that we haven't seen the last of those weirdies.

The Ruler: Plan 9? Ah, yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Long distance electrodes shot into the pineal and pituitary gland of the recently dead.

Colonel Tom Edwards: Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?
Eros: Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.

Jeff Trent: So what if we *do* develop this Solanite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.
Eros: [with disgust] Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Jeff Trent: That's all I'm taking from you!
[pistol-whips Eros upside the head]

oh my my my....good laughs, good laughs.
plus imagine lots of randoms scene changes, the constant change of pure day light to night in the same scene and shiny purple tunics with black tights and boots and you've got yourself an academy award winner!

harvey, harvey, harvey dent

I'm missing a class for the first time-ghasp, I know I know, you're thinking: so you are human. Technically I could be in the last twenty minutes of my class but felt that my time was better used in describing my messed-up smile 8)
I went to the dentist to get a filling and then I was just gonna ask about some take home trays for whitening cause apparently tea stains-who'd a thought. It was funny when they asked if I was a tea drinker etc cause at first my reaction was: no, not at all because I hate tea-if i want something hot i'll have hot cocoa which actually has a flavor. Then I stopped and realized no wait...a year and half in russia with russians forcing tea down my throat every day-yep i guess that would explain it.
For those mormons who are thinking all tea is prohibited and are less familiar with tea since well...this is america, I'll explain. Green tea and Black tea is what is bad-most fruit teas and some herbal teas are just fine if you feel so inclined. I learned more than I wanted to about tea cause everyone is just so tea-crazy over in russia. It's culture. you visit someone they put on a pot of tea...prolly cause their water needs to be purified and it's freaking cold!!
anywho, so I walked in to the dentist and apparently mom had already worked it all out cause there they were stuffing all this stuff in my teeny tiny mouth and shining a very bright blue light on my teeth in 15 min increments. Then they did the filling in like 2 minutes and I was out of there with a fat lower lip (right side) and trying not to breathe through my mouth cause my teeth are way sensitive. When I smile I look like harvey dent or...rather two face-tommy lee jones' version of him cause one side of my mouth stays the same and the other curls up-it's kinda freaky.

Tonight looks like international cinema for me-they're showing a russian one and i can get extra credit. вот это да!
There's tons of seminars/presentations from the FBI and CIA this and next week...hmmm, would be interesting but my vocabulary is not up to that yet i don't think...who knows though, maybe some day ;)

two birds on a wire

why am I still up? i'm tired. I know that if I just go and get ready for bed I can fall asleep in ten minutes flat (that's quick for me) and yet I still am sitting here. There's nothing interesting on my computer and yet I'm still here. I'm in one of my restless moods and wish it were earlier so I wouldn't have to feel so guilty about being up still.
Regina Spektor-two birds on a wire gets two thumbs up.
so where can i find me a restless friend hmm? I wish I knew.
Man, I really wanna see that one part from the proposal (and no, it's not any of the parts you are thinking of-sheesh). I love it when parts in movies affect me in ways that I KNOW weren't intended.
oh alright I'm goin...

Mistake or Miracle

So I went to the dreaded dentist today-ugh and I told them that I was fully aware that I would prolly need a lot of stuff done seeing as this is my first time back from russia and not to mention a dentist in houston just looking at my teeth in the summer said I would need fillings and possibly a few root canals. The girl that cleaned my teeth was way cool and I actually wasn't bored. They took x-rays of everything, the dentist came out and said they could do a filling for this part of my tooth that chipped while on the mish and that was about it...and gave me sensodyne for my sensitive left side....um....ur telling me that my left side of my mouth has been throbbing off and on just because it's sensitive??? yea...i was floored. I guess we'll see-i go back in on wednesday for that lil filling so maybe i'll double check and make sure that everything is really ok because the only thing to explain it if it is in fact true is that it's a miracle-cause cavities etc don't just go away. Let's just say i'm not celebrating yet.

The Truth Is Out There.

So not too bad of a weekend. It started early on Thursday with a mission reunion and getting to see all my old companions and virginia staying over for the night. I hope she decides to move in in January! The next day was showing her around campus along with jeff and getting jamba juice and finding....REESE'S STICKS!!!! ok, they have stopped selling them back home-at least, I can't find them anywhere! and there they were in the byu bookstore-it was a happy day 8)
Then there was that quiz that I totally forgot about but I think I did ok-ish on...
Then there is Friday and the game that we won-yes! Then I went and killed a couple of werewolves with Harvey and saw a cute alien.
Of course it's conference weekend and the Saturday sessions were amazing! Afterwards I got together with some old friends from before the mish- most of whom were married and or engaged so it was fun to listen to all their different engagement stories and first temple experiences etc. Then it was over to the Vaughn's to watch some mulder saving scully action 8)
sigh, just can't get enough of it....so great. The perfect mix of tense, light-hearted banter, cool cop-ish drama, and supernatural= amazing show. and of course they tease you every now and then with the chemistry between the two.
anywho, between sessions today it's off to aunt diane's for dinner and family time which should be fun.
I won't ruin it quite yet just incase he happens to randomly read this before the session but I got a cool present for Steve and I can't wait to surprise him with it!

yes...it's actually 6:35 in the morning and I'm up and have make-up actually on my face. No, you have not entered the twilight zone but I wish I was cause maybe it would be warmer-i don't wanna go outside!
So the point of all this being that once or twice a week i'm gonna do odd jobs around my mish pres' house to make a few extra bucks and today is one of those days.
But speaking of twilight zoney- yesterday i was walking home from campus and they started playing the star-bangled banner and normally you're supposed to stop where you're going on campus and put your hand over your heart and listen. Well I do this and most people around me do this but then all the sudden it cuts out...then a few seconds later as people started walking again it started again and again we stopped. It happened like this 4-5 times like a crazy game of red light, green light. Eventually people figured they had shown enough respect and kept going, but it was just so funny cause people were looking around like...what do we do? i wanna be patriatic but i've got class...someone said that it was the band practicing for tomorrow's game but i'm not sure...no matter what band-they don't all immediately stop when suddenly cut-off, there's always that trumpet player that keeps playing a lil etc.
anywho, it made me smile.
off into the tundra!