My Day Off

So, yesterday was my day off. And normally when I have days off I sit around the house, clean a little, play games a little, but I don't generally do anything outrageously fun or odd. But yesterday, ah, yesterday was a day off to remember!

It started off casually, Tiffany and I went to the Pita Pit for lunch (where we met the elders for my ward oddly enough) which was delicious! And then we went to Jakes for dessert (where my shake fell of the table, which was so sad!)

We consorted at Jakes for a little while and then Tiff and I went to Happy Hour Bowling at Weber State. Boy oh boy, do we suck! We really suck. I mean, alot! Of the two of us Tiffany sucks least though- she only had 4 gutter balls in a row- I had 8. Granted the reason I had so many was that I was laughing so hard that my throws were very inaccurate....although we did find out later that you can change the scores to be what you want them to be! I mean, this technology is really there for if the sensors miss one of the pins or what not, but we had fun...we tried to be fairly honest though. But the sensors were out to get Tiff! They wouldn't count half of hers!!

After bowling we went shopping for a little while, looking at hair dyes, and stopping by dollar stores (I LOVE dollar stores! Holy fun!) and we stopped by my house, and her house, and did some more shopping and bought a rose red hair dye and a turquoise hair dye. And thus began the hair dying party!

We went over to Tiffany's house and then managed to consume massive amounts of sugar and salt while dying each others hair. Tiffany did the whole bottom half and then one section at the top. I only did one section at the bottom and one at the top (I would've done more but for the fact that a) I didn't know how the UCMT would take it and b) I didn't know how dad's heart would take it!) We both did our hair a lovely shade of rose red (which turned purpleish in my hair and pink in Tiff's)

At around 9 Mistie came by and we did three strips of turquoise blue in her hair (which really complimented it quite well) and then we downed more insane amounts of sugar and salt followed by crazy pictures and watching She's the Man. (Unfortunately for the picture section of the blog we didn't get any after pictures of any of our hair- the camera died. Sad eh?)

All in all it was one of the most unresponsible, unproductive days that I've had in a long time! I think I realized that these days were coming to an end and I should make the most of it...I don't really know what exactly brought it on, but man was it fun!! :D

We went out to lunch at the Pita Pit! Like Subway, but...greekish...and more expensive...with freaky paintings on the wall!! :D

She was trying to imitate the eyes on the crazy, creepy, ham!

Mistie stole some of my shake! Serves me right for going there on my day off!

And then she rifled through my purse. She got pretty engrossed doing it too

Aw, I think I'll keep 'em both!

So, I know the picture is crooked but it's one of my favorites!

And THIS made going to Jakes all worthwhile!

So yeah, Tiff and I both way suck at bowling! But cameras are fun!

And for some reason, smiling with a bowling ball in your hand is just more fun

I um...get VERY into my game. I think this particular picture was taken when I was trying to get my bowling ball to change directions with my hands...it didn't work. *hangs head sadly*

And Tiffany got a strike!

SO much hair dye!

Our creepy red muppet glove!!

Yeah that's right- there was so much it made her hair stick straight out!

Originally I just did that one little piece. I upgraded later though :D

It looks a little like a murder

And the red stained EVERYTHING! What the heck right? I mean the turquoise color did NOTHING like this!

It took her 8 shampoos to get it out...heeheehee. Even after she was done her face looked like one of the smurfs pink faced cousins. We named her Rosy

Mistie's 'before' picture! Unfortunately we don't have an 'after' picture

But we have a 'during' picture!

Ah yes, my top strip!

Hmmm, short shorts, short skirt, and then jeans. Which one is the mormon?! :D

We learned quickly, just don't give Mistie the camera

Waiting for the dye to dry

Our professional dyer- she was way good. And this picture kinda shows her hair- it turned out really pretty!

Getting ready for She's the Man to start

This was the part of the night where all the massive amounts of sugar and the complete lack of real food started to sink in

We wanted to do a Charlie's Angels pose, but there's wasn't a fourth person to take the picture...sad :(

Cooking popcorn!!

She burned the first bag- the second turned out much better

Heehee, you can do lots of things with Bugles!

And Swedish Fish!

And mini Charleston Chews!!

...and popcorn!

Again, why give Mistie the camera? Well, besides the hilarity that ensues!

And there we have it! My day off...ah, good times good times! So glad we had a camera!!

Life

Life is moving at an alarmingly fast rate here....alarmingly fast!

You know this is my last full week of work at Jakes Over the Top for, well, potentially ever! Next week I'm going to Bear Lake (which I am SO SO SO excited for!) for half of the week and after that I will have started college and will only be working two days a week.

Yeah, I start college in less than two weeks! *eek*

Life is crazy! And going really fast! I hope the school year goes as fast as this summer did!

In others news I ran across a list of books that BBC has listed (100 total) that they reckon the average American will have only read 6 of. (They really don't have much faith in us...) I myself have only read roughly 16 of them, I think, but I recognized almost all of them. And it is now my new goal to read all 100 of them! :D How long do you think it will take me? Here is the list:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Now I have to read them! Tell you what I thought of some of them- whether I think they should have made it on the list or not! It'll be fun! It's like my main project for while I'm in school! Wish me luck! :)

*sigh*

*sigh* I hate money. And I'm not too fond of banks. Or being poor.

I wonder how long I would be in jail for embezzlement...not that I know how to embezzle- or even what the technical term of embezzling is! I just know that people who embezzle get money-albeit illegally.

*sigh* I hate money.

Harry Potter!!

Woot woot!! I actually saw it! I saw the midnight showing! And (best of all in my opinion) I didn't have to pay!!!

So here I was, last night at 10ish, bemoaning the fact that I couldn't go see Harry Potter. (Well, in all truthfulness I was thinking about going to bed and I really wasn't too distraught about it.) Anyway, so I'm on facebook and I see my friend's status which was something along the lines of "I now have a spare ticket for HP 6" So I questioned him and it turned out that he was going to go on a date but the girl is having heart surgery on Saturday morning and really wasn't feeling well. So, jokingly I said, "Ooh ooh ooh! I'll go with you!" Next thing I know I'm getting a phone call and later asking dad if I could go on a date with a male from about 11 to 3....which by the way went over absolutely hilariously! Especially since this male was one that dad had taught who had graduated last year, and well--dad didn't have HIGHEST opinion of him per say.

Anyway, so I finally got permission and off I went on a date to see Harry Potter!! It was a really fun date and we chatted in line and we chatted waiting for the movie to start (to be truthful again, it was mostly me chatting) and we almost strangled the kid sitting next to us halfway during the movie, and we laughed at the poor couple that got popcorn dumped on their heads right at the climax of the movie (which caused the girl to scream), and we laughed at the people sleepily staggering down the stairs at the end of the movie. It was really fun!

The movie was excellent- of course it differed slightly from the book but what movie doesn't? But overall I quite liked it. That's all I'll say because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but it was good! And I got to see it!! And I got to go to the midnight showing!!

Ah, awesome days!!!

(And can I just say that I find this even more ironic because at about 9:30 I had been talking to Dieuwke and she asked me if I was going to go see it. I mournfully said no because I hadn't been invited to go see it with anyone and I wasn't going alone. She sympathized with me and the phone call ended....an hour later.. :D )

Quite the Absence

I just want you all to know that my title speaks for more than one thing. It does refer in part to my long absence from the wonderful world of blogging...in fact I am writing this for one person and one person only *significant cough--you know who you are* but the absence refers also to family.

Kim left tonight and she'll be gone for quite some time. She goes straight from Boot Camp for the Navy to her training for the Navy with no break in between (in fact, we're not even certain if she'll be coming home for Christmas) and her absence will be for a huge length of time.

And while we're on the subject of absences let's not forget to mention that starting August 10th Dad starts his job as a truck driver, and then he won't be home for 2 months. Also quite an absence.

Then, in August Pam will put her mission papers in and will presumably there after be leaving for a year and half. So very conceivably by Christmas time or earlier it'll just be dear ol' mom and I at home. (Thank heavens we like each other eh?)

Absences are funny things- they almost invariably cause you to look at the people who are absent with more fondness and good humor. You forget the things about them that you can't stand and remember only all the good (although Thom hasn't been gone so long that I forget that he woke me up by putting ice down my shirt and flipping over my bed...)

I was actually contemplating leaving home for a while but first of all, well free room and board. Who wants to say no to THAT while they are going to college? Also I think that being all alone would give mom a shock (probably a good one, but we won't dwell on that right now, we'll think that she still needs me around--makes me feel better about mooching off of the food and room right?) I mean she's had so many people around the house for the last 30 or so years. What would she do? (Besides be able to take more leisure time for herself....)

Actually I'm rather looking forward to it. I mean, can't you all just see it now? I come home from a long day of school and she from a long day of work. We make dinner in the kitchen, eat together, clean our dishes while laughingly splashing each other with water then we go off our different ways for an hour or so while I do homework and she gets things done she needs to do (you can already tell this is a dream since it only takes me an hour to do homework) and then we sit down in our impeccably clean house (since it's only going to be the two of us it will stay impeccably clean) and watch a movie together. Occasionally the movie watching will be graced by Ben and Jerry's. Hmmm, isn't it sweet? I mean in all likelihood this won't happen- but doesn't it paint a nice picture?

You know, back when I was little I was afraid of the future and what it would bring. Now I find myself anxious, curious, and most of all--excited!

Nothing is Private

Jossi is so right- nothing is truly private if it's on the internet. More so even if it is on a blog. So you can't really write anything about what you are truly feeling if it is discontent or anger because someone could find it and it could come back to bite you. You only have to write happy little stories, or life-changing lessons, or something along those lines (my oh my isn't it a good thing I still have a journal! :) )

I haven't really had any life changing lessons lately. I've realized a few things. I've realized that first of all I'm going to be basically all alone on my 18th birthday! Dad will be driving a truck, Kim will be in Basic Training and Mom and maybe Pam will be up helping out Steph with her baby (sheesh what timing Steph :) ) So- there one of the biggest birthdays ever and I'll be at home...alone...well actually it's on a Sunday so I'll go to church and then be all alone....

I also realized that I have more courage than I thought I did and that it is indeed possible to prevent a conversation from becoming awkward- all you REALLY need to do is just keep chattering about random things. Then no one has any time to think about what you're saying and it just doesn't get awkward (and as we all know I'm the queen of mindless chatter)

Also, something being awkward is just your fault. Awkwardness is mind over matter- if you don't let it get awkward then it won't be awkward. It's all about the attitude.

Oh, and I have a wedding this week! Good days!

Bridal Showers

Oh yes! Go Bridal Showers! Over the past three days I have been to two of them-- it seems to be the summer for getting married. I know 8 (EIGHT!) people getting married this summer- some that already have and some that will. Isn't that crazy? (Haha, perhaps it's a good thing I'm not getting married this summer- it wouldn't be as special)

And of course along with lovely brides comes lovely bridal showers. I've been to many different kinds now, ward ones (completely clean) friend ones (also clean) and then different friend ones (much more risque) and they've all been so much fun!

We've played guessing games, dancing games, writing games, memory games, and I've twice now done the toilet paper wedding dress. The first time I was the model (complete with bouquet and toilet paper ring-I get telling everyone it was 50 carats TP) and a very lovely dress it was too. The second time my boss, Lisa, was the model and my goodness I did enjoy that! She too had a lovely bouquet and ring (although I think my veil was better than hers, but what can I say? My mom is good at veil-making) and she even did the model strut for us and held several bridal poses so we could all get good shots! (Have I mentioned yet how much I absoultely LOVE my boss?)

All in all it's been a very fun week and I've quite enjoyed all the chaos and glamour generally associated with weddings! I love them! One next week, one the week after that, and then we're quiet until the beginning of August. I love this!