rise and shout...yourself hoarse

The epic game of all games was last night and as always fans on both sides weren't dissapointed....well, at the end they were, haha. Every time no matter what it is a close nail-biting game and this time was no exception. We were ahead for the majority of the game but in the end they came back and tied it at twenty and we went into overtime. They only got a field goal and then we got the touch down clinching it. Everyone rushed the field (i was really high up in the stands so I opted to watch and take pics which you will see below). There were lots of interesting calls throughout the game but at least the refs started calling in favor of us in the end-my fav was when they didn't have a number for whoever that did something wrong- "we didn't catch the number"
apparently max hall raged pretty hard against the utes in the press conference afterwards saying how much he hated them and how they had no class etc.....yikes, i mean we all feel that way sometimes, but that doesn't exactly make us look the classiest either. He was saying how when they went out there last year apparently some ute fans poured some beer on his fam etc. shrug, i dunno- he has to realize he is representing the school too not just his fam. o well- not like there was a relationship between our two schools to ruin to begin with.








Well I took Eric to the airport today so he's off back to his base. IT was lots of fun having him here, eating out, playing games, etc. though I think I won't be hungry for a long time after all those restaurants 8)
hope everyone else had an amazing thanksgiving break like me!!!

that was one powerful nine mm....

Thanksgiving 2009

well it's been an eventful couple of days. Cody, Steve, and I had a fake mini thanksgiving meal. Eric flew in and we went up to SLC to eat with the grandparents and had a great time-beat grandpa in hearts so that was worth the trip alone 8) Then the next day we went with our other grandpa to a shooting range-it kicked more than i thought it would but it was fun and I wanna go again. We got to visit with lindy, aunt kris and her "friend" Jeff and Lindy's ADORABLE kids: finn and lark. Tonight was way fun- we went and ate at a peruvian restaurant that Eric said was pretty authentic, then it was over at my place for balderdash and some crazy movie trivia. Sorry again Dad for calling in the middle of the night for different movie synopsis-it was so fun though 8)

Cody is back and caught a cold up in Ogden 8( but hey, back is back 8)

here's some pics from the past few days:

my best round:

two classes to go...

I'm beginning to realize how hard it will be to get stuff done over the break-it is going to be soooo much fun between hanging out a ton with my spaz and my brothers and the random fun that is sure to take place....hmmm....why do i ALWAYS have to have a bunch of stuff due the day after break?! 2 papers, a presentation + handout for the class......sigh. oh well! I get to eat lunch in good company today and get to go with drea to pick up her wedding dress!!! it's all altered and I can't WAIT to see it on her-sniff sniff. Ok, not really, i'm not a crier when it comes to weddings. In fact, I rarely cry out of being happy-i just get a huge grin on my face that i can't stop and then my cheeks hurt....hmmm, maybe i've just never been happy enough to cry (sad day...) anywho, today is going to be a great day and tonight is going to be a great night! We're gonna go to a restaurant that will be AMAZINGLY GOOD and I'll be able to eat a bird's share ;)

eat your heart out big bird

Tonight was great as always-it consisted of an amazing concert at temple square and some delicious MAN burgers. There were some doubters of my ability to eat the MAN burger from the comments of my last post so I wanted to say: yes, yes i do eat like a bird......














THIS ONE!



heck yes....frankly i don't know how Cody doesn't get sick watching me but that's how you eat a MAN burger! I'm doin the Tim the Toolman Taylor bark right now....ok, not really.
here's to a productive tomorrow morning.
cheers

Who's ready for Round 2!

Yesterday went really well all things considered. My interview seemed to go well and i'll hear about it next week. My dictation went really well and my russian test went really well which is what i needed seeing as that's the only test 8)
My night was full of tedious things like getting my presentation ready for russian, and getting the study guide done so i can now mindlessly memorize it for russian, and i still yet to have practiced for sight singing-test today too. So....keep on prayin for me 8) But no matter how today goes-tonight is going to be great!!! We're going to a concert on temple square and MAN burgers before...i dunno....i felt like i should capitalize it...

If anyone happens to be running out of things to pray for-ya know, world peace and such things, feel free to pray for me tomorrow: interview at the MOA for an internship in the morning, then a wicked Dictation test (i need to do good!) and then a russian phonetics test-the only one of the semester (obviously need to do good).
if I had 5 more hours and energy i'd be so happy/excited to keep studying but as it is, i think i'll call it a night.
p.s. i got a hit from saudi arabia-what the random??

hoot hoot

hello little night owl-what are you doing up? Your eyes are burning and you need to get up early tomorrow so what are you doing up? There is nothing that interesting on the internet. Be honest with yourself-you are not studying or being productive. You will regret this tomorrow. So what are you looking for/waiting for. What is it that is more important than a good night's sleep? Why are you restless? Your body is ready and willing so why is your mind fighting it? Going to bed is not admitting defeat. Going to bed is not being lame...however sitting on the couch staring blankly at a computer screen is. Alright, one more listen of "I miss you" by Incubus and then it's off to bed lil night owl. You heard me, go on.
hoot hoot

"I miss you" (acoustic)
-Incubus

"To see you when I wake up is a gift I didn't think could be real.
To know that you feel the same as I do is a three-fold utopian dream.
you do something to me that i can't explain.
So would I be out of line if I said:
I miss you.
I see your picture, I smell your skin on the empty pillow next to mine.
you have only been gone ten days, but already i'm wasting away.
I know I'll see you again whether far or soon.
But I need you to know that I care,
and I miss you."

alright alright i'm going i'm going....

79!!!!!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh so frustrated, and yet relieved. sigh....So I took my russian challenge exam today and it feels good to have it over but not that good (see the title). Luckily, this means that I got A's for 4 of the 5 russian classes but the 5th one I got a 79 in. Ok, so I did the math and it won't really affect my GPA THAT much (thankfully since the more credit hours you get the less impact individual grades have on your GPA) but STILL. A 79! I don't get 79's in classes- on a hard test/or fluke paper maybe (but not really) but not in a class, not as a final grade. Even though I know it won't REALLY affect my GPA all that much and I'll have my language requirements for my major etc, it still just erks me that somewhere on my transcript will be those two little numbers mocking me: 79 amid all the As and Bs. sigh.....o well. It's so ironic cause I said if I just get an 80 or higher i'll be ok with that. Come on! a 79?! sigh.....fine. The reading part was way easy, just the grammar part was tricky-even tho i actually felt like it wasn't that bad, but apparently it was harder than i thought. O well...at least i didn't fail-not bad for being home for almost a year without any practice/studying up not to mention not really investing myself in the grammar while out in the field-that grade is pure immersion in the language baby.
sigh.
This one is gonna sting for awhile....oh 79 how you mock me.
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Walks, Talks, and the SMA

This weekend did not last long enough, sigh. It was full of walking, talking, and smiling which are all activities I always seem to enjoy. Spaz totally outdid himself Saturday and took me to the Springfield Museum of Art which was totally inspired because as it turns out-it has one of the largest collections of soviet art in utah-what are the odds right? It's also were the russian choir is going to sing on Dec 2 so now I know where it is 8) and I thought I couldn't enjoy going to museums any more-turns out I can. Then we got amazing chinese food that i'm excited to eat tonight-yea for left-overs- I guess eating like a bird has its advantages. Then it was time for some amazing LOST and a free dessert from our pal Nick who apparently can tell if you wear express jeans by just looking, shrug. Sadly the night didn't end on a huge high due to BrideWars-oh my goodness, do NOT watch this movie-the only way I could get through it was thinking: well, at least i get to sit here with cody, haha. ugh, i want those 82 minutes back, sigh o well. Besides that though it was an amazing weekend with some good walks in between. Now if I can just get through this week without too many scratches i'll be good 8)

I've decided that I need to do better at blogging and my witty banter is slipping.
So I'm actually looking forward to thanksgiving break. My oldest bro Eric is coming down to hang out with me and steve and we have dinner over on dad's side which should be highly entertaining 8) with hot topics such as: why is Steve sellin his plasma, who is my boyfriend, and why can't eric just settle down and find a nice girl-not to mention the fact that I eat like a bird! (oh how i loath this statement-they always told me that (rather grandpa always said that) hehehehe it's gonna be hilarious 8)

hey soul sister

Ok, so I just discovered this song today on the radio and I am OBSESSED wih it!!! It's such a happy go lucky song-just great hats off to train for comin up with it. Other things that are bringing smiles:
the new pumpkin smash at jamba juice-AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and hanging with codester ;)

steel magnolias

I highly recommend this movie. It's one of the classics that me and mom would always watch together. It has everything- it will make you laugh it'll make you cry and you feel so good by the end of it...or at least i do 8)

Some nice quotables:

Clairee: I've just been to the dedication of the new children's park.
Truvy: Yeah, how did that go?
Clairee: Janice Van Meter got hit with a baseball. It was fabulous.
Truvy: Was she hurt?
Clairee: I doubt it. She got hit in the head.

Truvy: Honey, time marches on and eventually you realize it is marchin' across your face.

Ouiser Boudreaux: I am just about at the end of my rope with you.
Drum: Well, then why don't you tie a noose and slip it 'round your head?

Truvy: There's so much static electricity in this room, I pick up everything but boys and money.

Clairee Belcher: Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
Truvy: I'm just screamin' at my husband; I can do that any time!

Ouiser Boudreaux: You are evil, and you must be destroyed.
Clairee Belcher: Mother Nature's taking care of that faster than you could.

Ouiser Boudreaux: He is a boil on the butt of humanity!

good stuff good stuff...I hate it when I feel like watching a movie and I swear I have it but I don't really-just grew up with it and forgot to get my own copy. It'll take a lil while but I have to build up my library-especially the classics that I'll always go back to-so nastolgic (sp?)

I'll always remember laying with mom on the couch watching our movies like: steel magnolias, how to make an american quilt,little women, the horse whisperer, what else would we watch...hmm can't remember now, but all the girly ones for sure.

Gilbert and Sullivan

So last night we went to the men and women's chorus concert and it was AMAZING and surprisingly short-just an hour and that's with each choir doing a set or two and singing a set together (shrug). Man it was sooooo good! My fav of the men's was this civil war song called reconciliation-they had a trumpet player playing a taps like tune off stage and it was sooooo gorgeous and just sad-reminded me of Glory (another amazing movie and made me want to listen to the soundtrack but i don't know if i have the music with me...) anywho, the women did a great italian duet that i can't remember the name of but charlotte church did a popular version of it with herself-so pretty. Then comes the best part!! so the night was a tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan- so that means pirates of penzance! there were others too from gondoliers which we totally sang when i was in the choir only this was a different version since both the guys and the girls sang it together-it was sooo fun tho, they had great choreography and did a great job. It put me in the mood to watch the movie so i showed cody a few clips from it-of course he was converted instantly 8) i'm tellin' ya, there's no other choice with this musical.
anywho, a great night and i gotta run cause i slept in after staying up and watching a episdoe of 24 with my roommies (totally addicted-makes me happy 8)

whoo what a weekend.

So the second I got home from a great date friday night I started coming down with something, well, ok to be honest i felt like i was coming down with something all night but i ignored it cause it was a great date 8)
So anywho, Saturday i woke up and it was a lot worse- da-da-DA! Cody to the rescue-brought me lunch and medicine. We watched watcher in the woods that night with everyone-is it just me or are all movies made in the seventies trippy?? why is that? Anywho it was good though. So i went to sleep and woke up Sunday morning and felt SO bad. ya know when your head feels dizzy and light-headed, and if you make sudden movements you might lose your balance-yea it was crazy, plus the other aches of the flu so i stayed home from church and slept allllllll day....it was glorious.
Cody saved the day again and brought me some dinner and we watched the broadcast (ok i watched/slept through) but it was good...the part that i saw and then i got massacred at phase ten-sad day. Today I think I feel a lot better-i'll try to take it easy but there's a few classes that i can't miss at the end of the day so i'll gradually get back into the swing of things.
all i can say is thank goodness for Cody and that he's immune to my flu ;)