Fishy WIshes & Butterfly Kisses

wisdom teeth OUT

2010-06-28T07:28:00.001-07:00

pretty much.. they hurt like a B. four of them came out relatively easily after i told them profusely to shoot me up with more local anesthetic but the last one was absolutely awful to get out... took nearly fourty five minutes. the next couple days haven't been too bad.. i was eating normal things and doing normal things but now i'm trippin because my mouth is radiating pain.

dry sockets? is this what it is? has anyone else had it who could tell me what it's like? or am i just sore from having been eating normal foods? i can't tell.. all i know is that i'm hurtinggggg and i want it to stopppp.

meow

2010-06-18T23:21:00.000-07:00

these are terrible pictures of me but the moral of the story:
i look like a blonde tiger.

so anyway

2010-06-15T23:30:00.000-07:00

i feel like i should talk about something that's not sports related.. i can't help it though!!! i love sports!!! lakers won by the way... with some nice dunks by farmar and brown. AWESOME.

okay but really something other than sports.. i finished a 7 page paper today and realized my love for the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. he's stellar. basically he incorporates reason and logic with religion. also he believes that our natural curiosity to learn about things around us and what causes them leads us to search for the first cause which is God. ya he's tight.

also what to do with my life right now: take classes and work OR go home for a month or two and just lay out on the beach all day... hmm...

let's go...

2010-06-15T15:17:00.000-07:00

LAKERS

usa v. england

2010-06-12T19:37:00.000-07:00

basically thrilling. what was lacking yesterday when i watched the games came in full force today: team pride. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time!! yelling when england scored on howard but then cheering when he blocked tons of other strikes and cheering the loudest when dempsey went head and scored on that awful green guy goalie.... hahaha what a fool.. slipped right through his fingers.

anyway.. i guess a tie is prolly the best we could hope for against england but we did good. we? is that a team spirit thing to say? include myself in their victory?

i'm loving it.

my very first world cup

2010-06-11T20:41:00.000-07:00

yes i've never been a big sports fan, it's true. but lately i've gotten into basketball. it started with the ncaa championship bracket thing {oh no.. it's only been a month or two since they finished and i can't remember the name} when i was forced to make a bracket and started following it religiously. next i started following the nba playoffs {go LAKERS.. darrell, why you be hatin??} and now i'm way excited about the world cup.

so today was my first day. last night i was SUPER pumped because i was looking up world cup theme songs and advertisements and teams and where to watch it streaming online {i still haven't found a great place to watch.. know of a good site?}. today, as soon as i woke up, i looked up the score of the mexico v. south africa game and then when i went to work, we watched the last half of the uruguay v. france game. i wasn't too enthralled {maybe because no one made a goal the whole game} but this may be because i'm not cheering for either team. uruguay was awesome though.. even though i heard france has one of the best players in the league.

i'm still excited though and you better believe i'll be watching the usa v. england game tomorrow. i can't wait to relive the revolutionary war! woot

i'm really excited about this

2010-06-10T22:59:00.000-07:00

so i'm gonna start blogging again...

2010-06-09T21:37:00.000-07:00

PHSYCH!

firsts

2010-03-04T18:18:00.000-08:00

lately, i have been thinking about moments when i first realized something that now seems really simple.

1. the use of pockets. keep in mind that until the 4th grade, i wore bicycle shorts every day to school and i loathed dresses and jeans ergo i had no reason to think about pockets. the first time i realized the true nature of pockets was after watching cinderella's evil stepmother lock her up and put the key in her pocket.. it would turn sheer sometimes so that you could see in and understand that the key was still in there.

2. animals and humans are made of the same stuff. this discovery happened early in my elementary career and i had just been so excited to buy my lunch. it was fried chicken. i took a big bite and when i looked down at the meat, i noticed a vein. i have really translucent skin on my wrists and i looked from the vein in the fried chicken to the vein in my arms and realized what i was eating. my mom assured me that it's ok to eat meat but i secretly knew then in my heart that it wasn't and now i openly know in my heart that it isn't.

3. college. this discovery actually took a really long time which is a little bit embarrassing but honestly it was undiscussed in my household perhaps because we as a family are not really into college sports {or sports at all}. it was maybe end of elementary school when i decided what i wanted to do in life... oxford university. i'm not sure how i found out but i remember thinking i could just read all the time and study cool things there for the rest of my life which sounded great {still sounds great}. i thought that most people either got a job, or went to oxford. i was headed for oxford. it wasn't until late middle school when my friends were all talking about college that i realized that oxford is for smarty pants and i'd prolly have to plan on going to a crummy state college {i didnt know what BYU was for another year or so when my brother was trying to get in}.

anyway... i'm finding it fascinating trying to figure out what i learned and when.

i love science. fact.

2010-02-18T21:43:00.000-08:00

science project!
so i am a nerd and happily accepted these bacteria loving plates {also called petri dishes but apparently it's not cool in the science world to say petri dishes} as a gift from a friend.

they were lovely... all i had to do was wait until a friend of mine or myself caught strep so that i could do science.

thank you megan!
{she's my relief society president.. and she kindly obliged by wierdness}

this is what grew from my throat swab

this is what grew from hers

this is about as far as i saw this science experiment going but i guess the next logical step would be to take samples from each and look at them under a microscope in order to see the difference between the two.

that way next time i think i have strep i can repeat this whole process to see if i really do or not.
{this is a joke because i think this whole project has taken about a month}

but alas i don't have a lab partner anymore..
ergo
i will keep them in my refrigerator until a future date.

sold paintings

2010-02-15T20:47:00.001-08:00

these are a couple of my paintings from last semester

i will never have to paint again.

WOOT

my thoughts on fashion

2010-02-14T17:56:00.000-08:00

you know how people always say dress for the job you want?

i believe it's the same for seasons too.

it's time to dress for the season i want:
spring.

i was enchanted!

2010-02-14T10:20:00.000-08:00

happy valentines day!

personally i'm not a true fan of this holiday but i have to admit that when i was in elementary school i loved to make a valentine mailbox and go around putting valentines and candy in everyones box.

but i actually had a great time this valentines.. i went on a date with jarett. he got me a dozen pink roses and i got him a swanky pink tie.. after exchanging gifts we drove to salt lake for some delicious fancy asian cuisine and went to Ballet West's Swan Lake.

it was beautiful.. i loved it! i was enchanted.. i will definitely be boring my future husband by having him take me to see a bizillion ballets.

also swan lake is a tragedy!! i had no idea.. it makes the story so much more touching. the only version i had ever seen before is swan princess and i'm not impressed {though i know some people love it}. anyway.. it was a beautiful story. go see it!

my new thing

2010-02-10T20:35:00.000-08:00

personal scholarship slash lifelong learning.

it's true it sounds a little douchey BUT it's been on my mind. there are so many things i want to do and learn and accomplish in life! how am i going to get to everything?? i can't.

this gets me down.

luckily i came up with a solution:

personal scholarship and lifelong learning

where to start? that's the hardest part.

so today in my judaism and the gospel class, Chadwick invited us all to the first club meeting of FISA {friends of Israel student association}. and i went.. and i am sold. we watched part 2 of a 5 part documentary shown above called The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs. i am in love with a. history b. documentaries. i will most certainly be coming to at least the next 3 club meetings in order to watch the rest of it. also Chadwick comes and offers his insight and he is a wealth of knowledge.

but i think this is exactly the place to start.. getting inspired by my current classes to do outside research or activities that will further my understanding of the subjects i'm interested in. good plan?

{i think yes}

okay here is my last concern: does this make me a complete and total nerd?

{i think yes}

like it or love it?

2010-02-08T23:50:00.001-08:00

poltergeist v. the bad seed

2010-02-03T21:56:00.000-08:00

it has come to my attention
that on facebook everyone is doing this thing where they change their profile picture to a picture of a celebrity who they have been told they look like... a doppleganger.

although usually i tend not to follow/notice facebook trends, this one is hard to ignore.
i haven't recently been told i look like a celebrity.. if i have it's usually only to reference the fact that the celebrity and i have the same hair color.

BUT when i was still very wee {like first grade status} i was told often that i looked like someone on tv.. and even later on in my teen years, my friends would mentioned in passing that when i was little i either looked like rhoda from the bad seed or carol anne from poltergeist.

which do you think?
{this is me when i was about the same age as the other girls.. it's the only one i have on my compy right now}

{i sort of think carol anne from poltergeist}
{also poltergeist haunted my childhood and set me up for many of my current phobias}
{what does it say about me that both of the actresses i've been told i used to look like came from scary movies?}

this has been in my head ALL DAY

2010-01-09T02:19:00.000-08:00

true success

2010-01-07T21:33:00.000-08:00

my favorite time of year!

2010-01-04T17:28:00.000-08:00

classes start!!!

i love this. i cannot tell you how excited i always get.

these are the classes i'm taking
they may sound silly

floral design
intermediate sewing
interior plants
christian history
judaism and the gospel
seminar
and ballet!

i have no real, solid plans for the future
so my goal for this semester is to take anything i would regret not taking before i graduate.

i went to ballet today
and yes, i will have to wear a leotard and tights
but i am so ready.

question: do i sound like a valley girl?

2010-01-03T16:31:00.000-08:00

so this is something that i have wondered for years
possibly because my friend bfalc told me i sound like a valley girl when i get really excited.
is it true?

he's not the only one.
i have had multiple close friends tell me i have an accent.
not a cute one!
a valley girl one.

and you know what? maybe i do.
and maybe i might someday admit to it.
and it's true that when i get really excited i tend to slur all my words together like a little kid.
but doesn't everyone?

right?

right??

joke gifts

2010-01-02T09:55:00.000-08:00

i feel as if i'm always wanting to give joke gifts.

but really.. what is a joke gift if you're not going to use it?
if you're just going to throw it away.. it's nothing.

solution: the snuggie.

recently, as a sort of joke gift my friend jarett got me a snuggie
which i lovingly call a slanket because of 30 Rock
{my favortite tv show}

the thing is, this isn't a normal joke gift.
yes, it may have been given as a joke
but i'm sure as h going to use it.

just try to stop me.

nice to meet you, 2010

2010-01-01T07:59:00.000-08:00

so this year was my hardest year.. i don't think i have ever been more challenged. i feel as if i've come so close to failure and yet i'm still standing. the year is over and i accomplished what was necessary with the trials that popped up along the way.

here are 2009's new years resolutions

1. worry more about my health. take appropriate vitamins and drink more water and try to eat better.

2. spiritually i would like to continue to read my scriptures every day and pray with more intent than i usually do.

3. really not worry about grades and just LEARN. also get into the BFA program.

4. read more classic literature.

5. be more open to relationships with other people.

well, i definitely failed #1. i don't take my vitamins and i don't drink more water than i used to and i would say i prolly eat worse than i used to.. my health has been at it's absolute worst this year and i did the best i could considering i had surgery, broke my sternum, got mono, broke a thumb and got swine flu. i'm prolly missing a few but i definitely had a rough year health-wise.

#2 is maybe the only succeeding new years resolution.

oh #3... i decided i don't want to do art ever again in my life. i hate it, i'm sick of it and i think the talents i have can be put to better use. i feel as if in most of my classes i try to just learn at first and then midterms come along and suddenly learning doesn't seem as important as memorization.

i love to read.. i really do. but because of the goings on of this year it was never a priority and #4 didn't happen as i thought it should.

#5 was a toughie and rather unsuccessful.. not only did i have a hard time making new friends with my health challenges but i also feel as if i've neglected a few because of it.

on to 2010's resolutions

1. try to create a sleeping schedule and stop taking sleeping medication

2. continue to ready scrippies and pray daily in order to become closer to God

3. focus on learning at school but also learning as much as i can at the greenhouse as it is my new life goal to be a greenhouse operator

4. make reading a habit again instead of a luxury

5. make new friends but keep the old {one is silver and the other gold}

6. keep a positive attitude

this is my year. it is the year of alyx.
it will go so much better than last year, i just know it.

happy christmas!

2009-12-24T15:14:00.001-08:00

going home

2009-12-19T08:31:00.000-08:00

{cute house eh? check out the huge tv antenna}

i am excited to go home.

happy birthday to my lovely sister

2009-12-17T18:56:00.000-08:00

{i think we would make excellent dinosaurs}

my sister turns 19 today
which is too old.. one more year of tweendom

i once wrote this about my sister going away to college

growing up, kaki and i were naturally best friends. both of our other siblings were nearly a decade older than us and because we needed a partner to catch bugs in the backyard, make believe we could fly around our house, play veterinarian with our pets and play out stories using barbies with, we found ourselves attached at the hip. those were the days when all kaki wanted in life was to marry her make believe boyfriend Tannon who apparently would buy her all the diamonds and barbies she could ever want.

as we grew older, kaki definitely began to find her voice and it became harder and harder for us to remain as close as we were. we grew apart mostly because our teenage personalities would conflict and we would find ourselves squabbling over the tiniest of complications. and whilst bickering and battling with her, i found myself moving to utah to attend brigham young university.

while i've been away, my sister has become my best friend again. she has grown so much that i feel as if i should put a brick on her head to keep her from growing anymore. one of the first times that i realized the difference was when our mum told us that in journalism she had gotten the "little miss sunshine" award. it was a joke in my family for a while because this was never the teenage kaki we knew. but she has become a light in my life because i know that she will always be there for me no matter our differences. kaki is an intelligent, driven and loving sister and i wish her the best of luck at UCLA. even though she doesn't need it!

love you seester

sometimes i always feel soooo stupid

2009-12-15T08:57:00.000-08:00

i think i do the worst on religion tests.
it's so ironic.

but honestly any of the multiple choice answers
COULD be the real answers.

it seems as though i just have to memorize
how my teacher interprets the scriptures.

and i'm no good at it.

and let me tell you, getting a C on a religion test,
especially when that religion in my own,
makes me feel pretty lousy.

new secret plan

2009-12-14T14:18:00.000-08:00

is this not awesome?
i am so going to do this sometime.

i also like the idea of a "yield 'to voldemort'" sign
or "'voldemort,' do not enter"

i'm trying to think of others but i'm blanking
if you think of any good ones let me know.
i'll do it.

sitting in church

2009-12-13T17:26:00.000-08:00

i love church
sunday is literally my favorite day of the week.
and today was awesome!

BUT
i realized a couple of my weaknesses

weakness #1

i am terrible at comforting people.
my roommate was in distress during sunday school
because she and her boyfriend were in the process of breaking up.
she started crying during the lesson
and there i sat.
completely rigid.
like a robot.
not knowing what to do but knowing exactly how she felt.
{i did the same thing to my roommy maria not too long ago}
anxiety filled me as usually there is another roommate
there to hug and whisper comforting things
and generally be awesome.
i am not that awesome.
i just got up, went to get some tissue for her,
handed it to her and prayed that was enough.
afterward i said "well i hope things work out"
and she said "no they won't"
oh.
um..
what am i supposed to say? what do people say?
why am i the worst at emotions?
maybe because if it was me i would rather people just leave me alone
but most people aren't me.

weakness #2

i laugh inappropriately too often.
today there was a ghostly
OOOooooOOooooOooooOoooing
noise coming from the walls of our relief society room.
clearly caused by some sort of sound electronic mishap..
and yet i would laugh
and laugh
and laugh and laugh and laugh.
i swear we had casper in the room
and he would make his ghostly sound at just the right moment.
ps. we were talking about joseph and hyrum's martyrdom
which is not something to laugh about.
especially when ghost noises are sounding.
i am the worst.

weakness #3

chocolate.
we went to the bishop's house after church
for a christmas feast!
there was so much good food and fun people
and on my way out i grabbed a plate
and filled it with as much of the chocolates and treats as i felt comfortable grabbing.
which was a lot.
so much that i couldn't eat all of them.
and now i feel guilty and it reminds me of the plates of meat experience.
if you ever want to hear my favorite college story to tell,
ask me about the plates of meat story.
it is probably the best story i have to offer.

all in all, great sunday!

and love me i pray

2009-12-11T21:22:00.001-08:00

and still i have so much to do

2009-12-11T16:09:00.000-08:00

i finished all my paitings!! hazzah!!
when i have time i will post all of them.

but now i have so much to catch up on in my other classes..

i have no idea how i'm going to get everything done.

good luck with finals etc.!

very soon

2009-12-09T20:47:00.000-08:00

i will never have to paint another painting
again in my life..

.. unless i want to.

and i can graduate whenever i want to..

.. but for now i don't want to.

it's a nice feeling to be soon able to do
whatever i want.

i'm 18, i do what i want.

who am i?

2009-12-08T17:00:00.000-08:00

today in class i had forgotten to bring a pen
so i turned to the girl next to me
and asked if i could borrow one.

i should have known better..
five minutes into class that pen was at my lips.

why do i feel the need to bring my writing utensil
to my mouth?
especially during this semester
when not only have i been constantly sick
but so have others?

when will i learn not to borrow pens from strangers?

and yes
i may have pretended it didn't happen
and returned the pen to the girl
as if nothing had happened.

i'm a terrible person.

birthday bashhhhh and temple poop

2009-12-07T16:18:00.000-08:00

{friendsies!}

so for my birthday
my friends and i went ice skating
at the gallivan outdoor ice skating rink in salt lake

it was a blast!
justin showed off some awesome moves
{he played hockey when he was younger, either that or he was a professional ice skater and one time in his life}

we had a lovely time.. thanks everyone!

{niev looking so cute with her temple poop}

so my niece is the greatest
and this is how i heard the story go:

niev yells to her mom
"come here!"
her mom.. lora.. went to see what had happened
and says "what niev?"
and niev goes "look! i pooped a temple!"

hahahahaha...
ya you may have cute nieces and nephews
but do you have any who poop temples?
i doubt it.

seriously doubt it.

kitten mittons.. you'll be smitten

2009-12-06T10:04:00.000-08:00

it's ma birthday tomorrow!

2009-12-04T16:36:00.000-08:00

turning 21... yep.

when did i get so old??
i think i'm getting wrinkles around my eyes!!

but i also think that i thought that last year..
and lei had to talk me out of it

and then the very next week
she came to me nearly in tears
telling me how she has wrinkles under her eyes.

hahahhaha.. we're fools.

anyway. things i have learned my 20th year:

1. they're called plates when doing science, not petri dishes
{wait.. right?}

2. if i lose something, there's no real guarantee that it'll just turn up
{ie. my glasses..}

3. money doesn't grow on trees..
..unless you're growing trees for money

4. making paints and mediums is basically black magic

5. if i think to myself "no, i don't need to go to the doctor", then i probably a. have to have surgery b. broke my sternum wrestling my best friend c. got mono d. have swine flu e. broke my left thumb

that is all

my name is niev and i like to make drawrings

2009-12-04T05:45:00.001-08:00

i know a lot of you prolly have
nieces and nephews

but i have the most TALENTED niece!

her name is niev

{niev and her dad.. my brother ian.. laying in bed with pillows}

{niev's friends playing}

{niev's self portrait}

{her family}

i was having such a bad day yesterday
and these cheered me right up.

my niece is the best.

oh to remember!

2009-12-03T18:36:00.001-08:00

remember that time i laid
in bed
most days with
terrible fevers
and all i did was read?

well i had completely forgotten!
i LOVE reading!

reading is like breathing

and i have been holding my breath for a long time.
so much school
so much work
so much sleep

this is what i'm currently reading
and it makes me smile and laugh quietly to myself
which is also something that's been
hard to find time for too
unfortunately.

farewell best friend leilani fisher!

2009-12-02T16:51:00.000-08:00

my absolutely lovely best friend
left to go on her mission this morning.

she's going to the Cherry Hill, NJ mission
and she's going to be a
fabulous missionary.
trust me... just trust me.
ps. kevin and rikki hein.. you better take good care of her!!

{leilani and meliscious at our chanukah party.. "happy birthday jews" -meliscious}

{the beginnings of the fight}

{this girl can MOVE}

{this was taken in a mall where the photobooth wasn't working so we made our own!! also it was the night that leilani spoke jokingly ironic unkind words about small people and we had to run away as there was a small person listening behind us... keep in mind lei is maybe 5ft tall}

{ice skating in salt lake city! so fun!}

{i love this because a. allison is such a dork and b. lei looks like edward scissor hands... which she was one year for halloween}

{i honestly don't remember how this happened but i love it}

{sword and the quill festival thing! lei was so happy to be there... but actually i think she was the one who forced us to go. hazzah!}

{meeting a horse for the very first time... his name is Cortez. she still hates horses to this day}

{very convincing}

{she's a charmer that one}

{okay so i think this deserves some explanation... it was late. it was after the chanukah party and we were all a little crazy but especially leilani... she provoked this fight. also the part where she tries to smother elise she is actually saying "don't breath" in a creepy children's choir sounding voice.. sometimes leilani always sounds like a children's choir. also she would be so embarrassed if she new this was on here... but she's at the MTC now isn't she?? sucka!}

i am going to miss this girl.
ya ya!

if you know her and would like to send her some snail mail
i have her address
just email me and i'll send it to you.

my email is alyx.strawn@gmail.com

can i be ira glass when i grow up?

2009-11-30T18:11:00.001-08:00

thank you ira glass for entertaining and inspiring me while i paint!

{if i wasn't lds i would get this tattoo so fast.. does that make me the biggest nerd?}

you can listen to my favorite episode here
the following video was added at my friend luke's suggestion.. it rocks.

dawg

2009-11-30T17:03:00.000-08:00

{my newest painting.. it's little but it has a dog! it's entitled
To Say Nothing of That Boy's Dog
which is a quote from The Point!}

{sorry the lighting and cropping are terrible but i thought i'd throw up some pictures of what i'm doing and why i'm not blogging as often}

a couple other paintings are in the works
so check back

the best things

2009-11-29T11:04:00.000-08:00

my thanksgiving

2009-11-27T18:35:00.000-08:00

no tegwyn, i was not raised by wolves.

{but i understand why you would think so}

so i didn't have the moneys to go home for thanksgiving.. i never do.
{don't worry.. i plan on marrying rich!}
and so tegwyn insisted i come eat thanksgiving dinner with him and his family.

it was so nice of
him and alisa..
all the food was delicious!!

but my favorite part {meaning the most outrageous part} was when tegwyn and his brother in law tim started to make suggestive jokes right in front of me, forgetting that i was still in the room.

uhllllllll....
hahahhahahhaha

things i am thankful for:

ponies, popscicles, ranunculus flowers, kittens, christmas lights, magic, black magic, jump rope

oh and also
my family, friends, roommates, coworkers and my cat milo.

happy thanksgiving

2009-11-25T16:07:00.000-08:00

i am constantly listening to this

2009-11-22T22:24:00.000-08:00

listen here

read here:

Grace Cathedral hill

All wrapped in bones of setting sun
All dust and stone and moribund
I paid twenty-five cents to light
A little white candle
For a New Year's Day
I sat and watched it burn away
Then turned and weaved
Through slow decay
We were both a little hungry
So we went to get hot dog

Down to Hyde Street Pier
The light was slight and disappeared
The air, it stunk of fish and beer
We heard a Superman trumpet
Play the national anthem

And the world may be long for you
But it'll never belong to you
But on a motorbike
When all the city lights
Blind your eyes tonight
Are you feeling better now?

Some way to greet the year:
Your eyes all bright and
Brim with tears
The pilgrims, pills, and tourists here
Will sink fifty-three bucks to buy
A brand new halo

Sweet on a green-eyed girl
All fiery Irish clip and curl
All brine and piss and vinegar
I paid twenty-five cents to light
A little white candle

And the world may be long for you
But it'll never belong to you
But on a motorbike
When all the city lights
Blind your eyes tonight
Are you feeling better now?

exhibit at the jfsb

2009-11-20T20:31:00.001-08:00

my 480 class put together a collection of pieces for Education in Zion that related to
truth and light

{we worked on this installation piece together.. it took us 8 hours which is a lot of hours}

{the final installation.. the concept had to do with how we acquire a secular and spiritual education and how Christ also acquired knowledge by descending below and ascending above all things.. it's put more eloquently on the statement. go see it!}

{this is my piece.. oh how i loathe it. it's just so different from what i normally do that it just doesn't sit well with me. but it's about how the veil is lifted from us in order for us receive more light and truth and as the veil is lifted and we obtain more knowledge, there is a greater weight of responsibility put upon us}

{Sunny Taylor}

{Naomi Deighton}

{Melissa J}

{Morganne Wakefield}

{Paige Crosland}

{Ashley Isenhour}

{Anna Boughtnton}

{Tiana Birrell}

so there you have it
go see it!! it'll be up at the bottom of the JFSB spiral staircase until January 30

no way this is something that really happened

2009-11-18T18:00:00.000-08:00

so i have been trying to have a good attitude about this semester.

but let me let you in on a little secret:

my life right now is a
comic tragedy.

it is the truth.

example:
today i went to class late as i was having lunch with leilani and catching up. this class is like 3 hours long so no real biggie. i was about to step out of the elevator towards my class when i realized that i had my keys in my pants pocket and took them out to put them in my coat pocket so they wouldn't accidentally fall out.

they are in my hand when they literally slip out of my grasp and
{i knew they would before it hit the floor}
fell down the crack
and into the elevator shaft.

things i've been thinking about

2009-11-16T19:30:00.000-08:00

these are the top 5 things i think about instead of doing my homework

1. i absolutely adore everything david sedaris writes and i want to be amy sedaris when i grow up.

2. remember that time pope john paul invited break dancers to the vatican and then blessed them while they did their routine??? yeah.. good times

3. aliens on mars? yeah.. check it out. looks like big foot.

4. did this really happen??? really??? hahahhahah

5. lady gaga... this one is slightly embarrassing but i think she's great. 4 hit singles on her debut album... outrageous right?? i love the song paparazzi maybe to much.

um.... excuse me?

2009-11-13T10:38:00.000-08:00

so i was feeling pretty glum this morning
{possible because tegwyn had us all come in an hour early for work to do a setup}
and i was walking home from work..
deep in thought and apparently looking exactly how i was feeling
when i noticed that the boy walking towards me was talking to me.
at first i couldn't understand him
and i'm not sure why but i stopped to talk to him for a second.
mostly because he looked like my friends back in high school.
{leather jacket, headphones, metal band tshirt, heavy boots and tatts}
he then proceeded to ask me if i knew who the wrestler Raven was..
no. no i don't know that one.
so he proceeds to tell me a "funny" story about Raven and his wife.
i laughed and all he said after that was:

"i just wanted to make you laugh"

and he walked away.

i smiled all the way home.. and i forget that when you look happy, people want to talk to you. so a cute girl said hello to me and a cute boy on his bike said hi.. and i said hello right back.

i wonder what enticed him to start talking to me. i wonder if afterward he knew the positive effect it had on me or if he felt embarrassed for having stopped a complete stranger to tell her that.

but remember this talk?

i think he was one of those.

it's about time it snowed

2009-11-12T16:51:00.000-08:00

i was reading this.

which led me to this..

which i adore!

my little projects!!

2009-11-07T08:03:00.001-08:00

these are the diddies that i've been working on for the past semester.

{this is for an exhibit that is going on campus at the bottom of the JFSB spiral staircase. it's a religious piece about the responsibility that comes from having more truth and light in our lives}

{i have a lot to do but i swear i can finish! it'll happen}

{my workspace!! hazzah!!}

{also i've been working on new paintings. this one is hardly finished but i'm loving it so far}

{close up.. it's inspired by a photo that i took of strangers at venice beach, ca}

so now that you're caught up.. any thoughts?

not in my house

2009-11-06T15:43:00.000-08:00

SPIDERS: fascinating.. in theory i love them, outisde i love them

in my room: not cool. not cool, spiders.

so while i was sitting on my bed, maria had just come into my room when a HUGE SPIDER came down from the ceiling and plopped onto the floor.

maria went to inspect while i was absolutely furious!! how dare this spider be in my house and how dare it be so large and how dare it drop from the ceiling!!!

so maria was trying to touch it with her shoe but accidentally scared it so it ran under my shoes and some of my clothes. that's when i flipped.

i screamed and i think i yelled "NOT INTO MY CLOTHES!" and then jumped {while screaming} on top of my clothes and crushed my clothes down until i was fairly certain it had died.

then i felt bad for having killed a living thing so violently.

but i literally panicked at the thought of a spider in my clothes. but literally i was out of my mind and my roommate looked at me and said "are you really afraid of spiders?"

no.. not really.

am i afraid of spiders in my clothes and in my shoes?

yes. because they should never be there.

{ps. i was going to post a picture of a spider but a spider does not belong on this blog.. plus i google imaged "spider" and the results were disturbing... too many spider wounds}

alyx lauren the broken lady

2009-11-04T21:14:00.001-08:00

{not exactly my actual xray but it looked very nearly like this}

it's official. went to the doctor today and a couple xrays later fairbanks tells me i've fractured my thumb.
ONLY i didn't just break it.. i may have ripped or torn a tendon that allows me to bend my thumb.

so off to a specialist in a couple weeks to see how we can fix that.

my life is still a comic tragedy.

question: i have found that i've become hyper emotional about my health lately. is this something that happens to everyone?

emunah

2009-11-03T21:54:00.000-08:00

{i secretly love crosses... especially churches with crosses... especially this church with a cross}

during house prayer tonight {it was my turn}, i may have prayed for the strength to conquer work and school.

just let me go get my bow and arrow.

bring on the new year

2009-11-02T19:42:00.000-08:00

{it's a rainbow!!!!}

so everyone is really excited about the holidays.
i think that is great! and deep in my heart i am also pretty excited about the holidays.

BUT. all i want is the new year. i want it to be the new year so bad.. i want to be washed clean of all of the heartache and comic tragedies that occurred.

i want new years resolutions and i want to be finished with school whenever i want to be.

i want to make BIG life changes! i want to find small ways to change the world!

i want to stay up until midnight and relish the first few minutes of the year of alyx!

next year is my year.

get used to it.

so here's what i learned last night

2009-10-31T11:05:00.000-07:00

{married to the sea}

so i have always wondered why in the movies there's sometimes a foolhardy light character who grabs the gun out of a cop's holster. i mean.. who honestly would do something like that? right? i mean if the character didn't intend on actually shooting the gun then why would anyone in their right mind actually do it?

but then last night i couldn't resist.. i pulled a gun out of the holster of a cowboy at a halloween dance party.

and that's when i realized: oh because it's fun.

not nearly as serious an offense as pulling a real gun off a cop but now i understand the allure.

remember when i used to be fun?

2009-10-31T00:47:00.001-07:00

all these dance parties are killin me.

SNOW

2009-10-29T10:31:00.000-07:00

it snowed!! i cannot express how much i love it when it snows.. it's like magic {even though i know that in a few weeks i will hate it all over again}.

here's why i love snow:

1. it kisses my nose
2. every clump of snow is just a clump of snowflakes! and they really do look like fantasia!
3. everything gets really quiet and almost reverent when the snow falls
4. you feel like you're in a snowglobe!!
5. when it first sits itself on the ground and stays.. it is so fluffy and fun to walk in

{i took some pictures outside my window.. it's hard to capture snow!}

{i love it when it snows.. but not when it gets all icy on the streets}

remember that time my cat gave me a black eye? i do.

2009-10-26T16:17:00.000-07:00

{my lil cotton face}

i was maybe 8 and it was thanksgiving. tons of family came into town and everyone was having a good time eating enchiladas, sipping coke from red plastic cups and playing cards. it's what we do.

my aunt willy and uncle bud had brought woody their dog at the time {rip.. best dog ever} and so our cat milo was confined to the back room so that he wouldn't attack the dog {milo is viscious}.

well he got out one day and i picked him up to take him back to the room. i was walking down the hall just when woody comes out of one of the rooms. milo freaks. he instantly got out the claws to brawl and in his panic he clawed my face and punctured me right below my eye. his claw got caught on my cheek bone and so i had to pull his claw out while he struggled.

i ran {with milo still in my arms} to the back room and then sat in the bathroom with blood all over me and my eye swelling up. i didn't know what to do. how could i ruin the party like this? my mom would get freaked out and she'd have to help me instead of having fun during the thanksgiving get together.

i sat there for a long time.. until my little sister found me and went to get my mom.

i had a black eye for a week.

my cat gave me a black eye.

they may as well be called bad mood cookies

2009-10-25T17:56:00.000-07:00

{these are my favorite kind of cookies to make.. when i'm emotional}

it helps you know? making cookies just helps me emote. and they are oh so delicious.. but when i make them when i'm happy, you better not eat any. because they're just better when i'm upset.

BABIES

2009-10-25T09:59:00.000-07:00

{allison helping this poor lady lift her baby}

{i saw this statue almost every day}

LMU has some weird baby statues.

my beef with burr

2009-10-23T09:02:00.000-07:00

{exhibit A: he does not look like a good guy... the glasses, the satanic collar and to top it off, the raised eyebrow}

what is my fascination with aaron burr? it's hard to say. i will say this though... i make an exorbitant about of jokes about him.

"oh no i got an aaron burr caught in my hair"
"watch out for those aaron burrs!"

anyway.. exhibit B

oh to be a cute little fishergirl

2009-10-19T20:48:00.001-07:00

fall colors are here!!!

and to celebrate, darrell and i went fishing up provo canyon.

{so there were these fantastic red bushes that grew next to the river.. the color was remarkable next to the greenish blue of the river}

{i think these colors are my favorite... the yellow with a reddish tone with the blue sky and greys of the mountains}

{provo river in fall is absolutely lovely}

{hazzah for my photography class that showed me how to do this!}

{darrell got three bites and caught a fish... a brook trout perhaps}

{the loot.. but we threw him back}

so no i didn't catch any fish. i don't know what i would do if i actually caught one. probably feel really guilty for making it's life yucky for a couple minutes before i throw it back.

it might all be in the attitude though.. i don't really want to catch a fish and so i don't catch one. darrell and i did have the exact same pole and lure pretty much so i think it's true. the only difference was 'tude.

so darrell caught a fish.. it was cute and slimy. i almost touched it.

almost.

i wanted to.

but i didn't.

anyway.. so darrell caught a fish and then a couple minutes later he was back at fishing. i called over to him as he was casting and said "i better be the one to catch the next fish" JUST as he gets a bite and the fish flopped out of the water.. but it got away. get. out.

so i loved it. the river was lovely. darrell was good company.. it was a grand way to spend a monday afternoon {or any afternoon for that matter}

thanks for fulfilling my wish darrell!

what's in a word {the final part}

2009-10-19T14:49:00.000-07:00

i think that being truly homesick is missing the people we love.

{kelly's wedding.. disneyland edition. i miss my sisters and my mum}

{dad.. i wish i was playin cards with you!}

{my nieces got into the Desitin.. niev was found desperately trying to rub it into rowan's face.. i have never met rowan... and it's a shame. i wish i knew her!}

{see! a nephew that i have never met... hudson is adorable and i don't even know him}

{niev looking adorable.. i wish she was here to give me fashion tips}

{my seeeester.. i call her every day but that doesn't mean i'm not homesick for her}

{friendsies!}

{my bestie... i miss everything about you alisha and i miss my second family the sabrowsky's}

of course we can be nostalgic for the city we grew up in or for a certain place but when it comes down to it... being "home" is being with the people we love most.

right now i am with people i love... i love the friends i have here. but i'll admit that right now i may be truly homesick for the people i don't get to see.

brothers, brothers.. never were there such devoted brothers

2009-10-17T05:12:00.000-07:00

{when i went home this summer we all ended up going to the beach and then making our way to CPK.. mmmmmm CPK}

somehow this picture worked out just great.. the two in black are brothers and the two in white are brothers.. but also carly is punching sean in the face.

good work team.

knife in the mouth

2009-10-16T16:28:00.000-07:00

{summer}

yeah.. about that.

rhinestone glasses come back to me!

2009-10-15T14:43:00.001-07:00

{i look so silly! how old was i? oh yeah 16}

so i miss these glasses... i wanted them so bad and i finally found them and then after a while someone stole them while i was at the beach.

sad no? i wish i was wearing them. i would rock those rhinestones!

what's in a word {part 2}

2009-10-15T14:36:00.000-07:00

maybe home is where all of your things are? all of these are places i've lived while i've been in provo. i think there's definitely something to be said for where i keep all of my things and where i sleep. this is home.. but i still feel homesick right now.

al borland

2009-10-14T18:58:00.000-07:00

{tool time!}

so a while ago allison charlie and i went to the santa monica pier and went on the ferris wheel {one of the most terrifying rides i've been on as i'm afraid of heights and it goes over the water}. when we looked back down.. the following is what we saw. look familiar?

it's AL BORLAND from home improvement!
goodness gracious

bahahahahahahahahhaahhaha
{does it even really matter if it's him or not?}

the lmu library has many treasures

2009-10-14T08:18:00.000-07:00

{found by a miss carly in the lmu lib}

i want to read this book. i want to know if the saying is true "you can't judge a book by it's cover". i really hope you can.

also when i grow up i want a pet space caterpillar.

pa pa pa poker face pa pa poker face

2009-10-13T21:36:00.000-07:00

this lady has talent.
check it

what's in a word

2009-10-13T20:46:00.001-07:00

lately i've not felt quite right.. and so when i felt this way before it was mostly because i was homesick. am i homesick i wonder? all of this used to be home to me... i don't think this is home anymore.

ps. wasn't i so lucky though? it's beautiful.

please say you love it?

2009-10-13T20:01:00.001-07:00

{all i want for my birthday is a replica}

this embroidery currently resides in bfalc's house and i wish more than anything that it could reside in mine. isn't it great? i feel a sort of kinship with it.

i cast a patronus!

2009-10-12T17:47:00.000-07:00

{my seeeester going off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.. yeah don't worry about it}

so i happened to look at some of kaki's recent pictures on facebook and this is what i found. on the other side of the wall it says "platform 9 3/4". i know right? so of course i love it.

but something that perhaps i love more is what my sister said about maddie's picture of her. her comment to her friend was "what you get me to do, maddie...it's really sad that i take orders like "go walk into that wall"."

i wish you took orders like that from me, sister.

this blog post has about 14 centimeters until it self destructs

2009-10-12T17:26:00.000-07:00

so tegwyn {my boss and friend} and us greenhouse ladies have a new joke.

recently jenna went to an interior plant conference {who knew such a thing existed?} in las vegas and returned with swag. one piece of swag was a measuring tape key chain. tegwyn grabbed it and brought it with us to an event we were setting up plants at.

i asked him how much time we had left before we needed to leave and he pulled out the measuring tape, examined it for a minute and then said "oh i'd say about three inches". so now we are always 21 centimeters to the hour or 8 inches behind schedule.

in a world of my own

2009-10-10T19:22:00.000-07:00

today i was so happy to take pictures of kelly. bryan came along too and we had a grand ol' time.

i payed her in pansies {we have some left over so i let her take a few home for her yard}.

my projects

2009-10-09T19:06:00.000-07:00

so i've been sick for the past.... oh i don't know... about seven weeks now and i've probably spent MOST of that time in bed. it's been an interesting few weeks.. you know how we're always told that we go through trials for a reason? i have learned so much but i'll save that for later on.

so i've spent a lot of time in bed... and from the start i knew i needed things to entertain me {while i'm awake} so that i don't go crazy from being alone and unable to move.

{i destroy books}

my first project was steinbeck's east of eden... oh my goodness it is one of the best books i've ever read. definitely a favorite. yes yes it's an intimidating 800 pages but to a sick girl, every page is gold. it has one of my most beloved fictional characters samuel hamilton and the most malicious foul character i've ever read about cathy trask. also i loved the idea posed in the single hebrew word timshel... we have the ability to choose {2 nephi 2: 27}.

i loved this book. read it.

{i cannot express how much i love this show}

my next project is probably the most embarrassing. while i loved east of eden sometimes i just needed a break. whether the reason was i had been reading for 4 hours straight or i loathed cathy or i had a high fever and needed an easy distraction... the answer to my problem was veronica mars.

her dad is a PI and she solves the murder of her best friend lilly and she's in high school and she's friend's with a gangster and she's a smart a. i just loved how clever and well written it was and kristen bell is a great actress.

even though i love it... i will admit that watching 3 seasons {22 episodes each} was a bit much. one time i looked at my shower and thought "how long ago was it that i was hiding in the shower while holding a puppy?" and then was like no no that was just a dream. oh but no wait... IT WASN'T ME. IT WAS VERONICA MARS. oops.

sorry that i have been absent.. i will be back in business soon enough!

my lovelies!

2009-10-08T16:10:00.000-07:00

{these...}

{...and these...}

{... and ALL of these are gone! they've grown up}

so we finally planted all of my pansies.. they were so fun and lovely. but they tended to be a little tough to water when they were older. i am so proud of them! they now are planted in the BYU flower beds.

i wonder if this is how it feels to have children go off to college. i simultaneously miss them and i'm glad they're gone.

ps. now the greenhouse is FULL of poinsettias for christmas. much easier to water because finally we're using the drip system! hazzah!

im a creep

2009-10-07T21:32:00.000-07:00

so for my photo class we had to take creative pictures with tungsten lighting. it had to be pictures of the lights and i accidentally caught an image of me with the light reflected in my bedroom window and shot a couple more and got a look i wanted.

my teacher said to the class.. "so if you were going to rate these on a scale of 1- 10 from normal to creepy, 10 being creepiest, what would you rate it?"

10.

i have a confession

2009-10-06T17:58:00.001-07:00

{rolo's the candy! so yummy!}

last night i ate so many rolo's while writing an essay that this morning my jaw hurts SO BAD.

SO BAD!

princess peach

2009-09-30T17:48:00.000-07:00

{is it not a tragedy that peach season is over which means that summer is gone?}

so this morning for a photo project i shot some peaches that were rotting in our fruit basket downstairs... such a tragedy, no? anyway.. it reminded me of princess peach from mario brothers which in turn reminded me of the time that i rode Princess the wiederhold's horse for the first time.

i remember being awoken from a nap by healey who was going to take a group of us riding. he asked me if i was ready to ride Princess and i said sleepily to him "do you know what i learned last night? last night i watched the movie the little princess and learned that all girls are princesses and so yes i'm a princess ready to ride Princess." and he laughed.

gone are the days of summer.

i very nearly...

2009-09-27T21:04:00.000-07:00

{...cleaned my room}

{...made a little outfit for my pet stuffed squirrel who still needs a name}

{...fixed the eye of my kit kat clock}

{...developed the photos from my HOLGA}

{...properly looked through some old memories}

{...wrote postcards to my friends}

i live in a world full of "i very nearly" 's.

the cheeseburgler

2009-09-25T22:05:00.000-07:00

{before}

{after}

yes. me.. the vegetarian ate a cheeseburger at burger supreme over the summer.

{and then tossed my cookies that night}

it didn't taste how i remembered it.

little did i know that what i really remember a cheeseburger tasting like was at mcdonald's.

depressing? tragic? just plain sad?

{definitely maybe}

mutual weirdness

2009-09-24T18:54:00.000-07:00

i saw this once on a blog and i haven't been able to get it out of my brain {lightning has just struck my brain}.

i think it's true.

gotta catch'em all

2009-09-23T19:01:00.001-07:00

{please tell me i wasn't the only one who collected these?}

{definitely one of the best pokemon... body slam?? yeah.}

so can anyone else remember the first day this came on tv? it was on at 7am right before school started and yes i remember the day it came on. what a phenomenon right?

that very day my friend dominick asked me if i'd seen this show and of course i had {what else do 10 year olds do while eating cereal before school?}. and then the cards came. i've actually never played the game but i definitely collected more than a hundred cards at one time {and i never had to spend a penny on them} but trading them on the playground was what we did.

so anyone up for a trade? i never did get my hands on a charizard.

"you look like a cute little fishergirl"

2009-09-21T20:32:00.001-07:00

is it weird to wish more than anything in the world to be fishing?
let me rephrase that... is it weird for ME to wish more than anything in the world to be fishing?

i've never caught a fish, never really want to catch a fish, i'm afraid of rivers and i dislike it when bugs touch me.

and yet...

i wish i was fishing.

why do we fall?

2009-09-20T10:01:00.000-07:00

{about to go out with ma scarf and sweater on!}

{these are a few of my favorite things}

Q: why do we fall?

A: so we can wear scarves and sweaters!!

oh how i love fall with all of it's blustery coldness.. i love bundling up in sweaters and jackets and scarves to go outside.

i love crunching leaves under my shoes and i've always had a dream of jumping in a pile of leaves. also bonfires are the best in the fall because it's just cold enough to want to be near a fire but not so cold that you can't feel the warmth of it.

it's such a lovely time of year!

do you love it.. kevin? please say you love it.

2009-09-19T19:39:00.000-07:00

you have no idea. this video is legendary and i'm so excited to have found it!

riddle me this

2009-09-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

why does this happen???? it was whole when i bought it!

ps. i am reading east of eden right now.. AND LOVING IT. please read it.. or if you want a book that is less daunting.. read cannery row. it's fabulous too.

this is how we play

2009-09-15T17:30:00.001-07:00

so there's now a new park right next to my bus stop.

it popped up so fast and i can't wait! it has a jungle gym, rolling grassy hills, bbq stations and lovely tall trees to lay under.

{jungle gym.. of course primary colors. why?}

{sun poking through trees}

{i have a thing for lying under trees with pretty leaves}

{my two favorite trees}

you will find me in this park throughout the fall.

heeeeyyyyy sister.

2009-09-13T18:53:00.000-07:00

{kaki alisha carly and i about to shop the lovely third street in santa monica}

{sisters... sisters... never were there such devoted sisters}

{that's just the way we sound}

{gettin ready for prom... so stressed out}

{doesn't it kinda look like the brush is actually a mustache?}

{milo love!}

{YES.}

{this was pre prom.. lookin cute}

growing up, kaki and i were naturally best friends. both of our other siblings were nearly a decade older than us and because we needed a partner to catch bugs in the backyard, make believe we could fly around our house, play veterinarian with our pets and play out stories using barbies with, we found ourselves attached at the hip. those were the days when all kaki wanted in life was to marry her make believe boyfriend Tannon who apparently would buy her all the diamonds and barbies she could ever want.

as we grew older, kaki definitely began to find her voice and it became harder and harder for us to remain as close as we were. we grew apart mostly because our teenage personalities would conflict and we would find ourselves squabbling over the tiniest of complications. and whilst bickering and battling with her, i found myself moving to utah to attend brigham young university.

while i've been away, my sister has become my best friend again. she has grown so much that i feel as if i should put a brick on her head to keep her from growing anymore. one of the first times that i realized the difference was when our mum told us that in journalism she had gotten the "little miss sunshine" award. it was a joke in my family for a while because this was never the teenage kaki we knew. but she has become a light in my life because i know that she will always be there for me no matter our differences. kaki is an intelligent, driven and loving sister and i wish her the best of luck at UCLA. even though she doesn't need it!

one quest over

2009-09-13T17:30:00.000-07:00

i finally found the supercomputer hidden away in the crabtree building at BYU.

lo and behold it's a dell.

{this isn't it... but it looks like four of these put together with...}

{... this logo on the front}

so it has been my personal objective to find this fabled supercomputer ever since curtis wiederhold told me of it's existence. so for my job we water all of the plants inside of the buildings on campus and this building has a few. with the help of my coworker jenna standing, i have searched this building, gotten lost in it and embarrassed myself in front of countless engineers in the hopes of finding it.

but that changed last friday.

jenna, liz pletch and i were all standing in the crabtree elevator together when an engineer also stepped in with us. while we waited for our floor i burst out and said "so jenna, too bad we never found that super computer". then the engineer {his name was mike} looked over and said "oh i know the code that gets you into the room where you can see it through a glass window". "oh do you? would you take us" i said. "now?" mike said and i batted my eyelashes real nice and before we new it we were upstairs and he was typing the code into the door.

we all walked in, feeling a little bit awkward because it was a room full of engineer students {guys} in the computer lab. but then the tapping of their fingers on the keypads seemed to turn into little prayers up to the behometh that was the supercomputer called mary lou.

it was beautiful.

the girl with the dirty face

2009-09-10T20:30:00.000-07:00

i have decided to return! {we'll see how it goes..}

i work in a greenhouse and it's the best job i've ever had and one that i would want to keep forever. i wish it was possible. basically i water plants all day but in the past couple weeks i transplanted pansies. we get them when they are just baby seedlings and we have to put them into larger plots so they can keep growing.

we finished transplanting and now we're just letting them grow until they're big enough to put in BYU's planters. they'll probably be done in a week or two..

{this is the north house which is FULL. it takes the longest to water}

{they're just so pretty right?}

{this is the south house.. the first room only has tropicals and the farther room has my favorite pansies}

{this is the citrus mix and beyond it is the sky blue}

{i just expect them to start singing to me like alice in wonderland}

{i adore these pansies}

so i think when i finally have to say goodbye to them i'll be a wee bit sad to see them go... but not too sad because watering them all takes FOREVER.

my favorite artist ever Dan Witz

2009-04-06T18:36:00.000-07:00

{his hummingbird series around NYC}

{realistic mobile paintings}

{wider shot}

{wider shot}

{gloves around the city series}

{caution sign series}

{self portrait}

{my favorite piece of work he's done}

{work in progress}

{self portrait}

picnics are a lovely time

2009-03-19T20:17:00.001-07:00

tis the season

{allison kelly and i had a lovely lunch on luke's lawn}

we decided to spend the saturday out in the sun with yummy oranges to satisfy our hunger.

on another note: i was cat-called from a passing car and my only thought was "it's officially spring"

st. patty's day

2009-03-18T19:46:00.001-07:00

hello dearies! happy st patrick's day a couple days ago... i actually didn't do anything interesting for the holiday but i thought i might share some memories.

{just for decoration}

actually a specific memory. this memory embodies my entire feelings toward the holiday:

when i was little, my mother would make my sister and i green peanut butter and brown sugar sandwhiches.

it was magical! i hope you had a good st. patty's day

creative genius

2009-03-16T19:28:00.000-07:00

we listened to this in my painting class and i absolutely love it. it's so inspiring. have a listen!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

i love what she says about how our "genius" isn't something that comes from US. it comes from God. i truly do believe this and i am so lucky that God has loaned me a creative talent.

enjoy!

huzzah

2009-03-14T10:43:00.000-07:00

one night, leilani, misty, a friend of theirs, allison and i went to an activity on campus being sponsored by the sword and the quill club. this club is a medieval fanatics club. you can often find it's members in medieval garb walking around campus. it truly is a sight to behold when a person walks around with a full cloak instead of a normal wool jacket during the winter. i personally don't understand it.

{castle/fort photo op}

{only our ferocity and leilani's boredom saved us}

march madness

2009-03-12T20:07:00.000-07:00

march is here!!
and so is this lovely new addition to the cat calendar

{the cat... is beautiful}
{this comment is in a brad neely voice}

march is here and the long month begins. why is it that march always seems like it takes forever to be over? oh yeah it's because there is NO HOLIDAY and NO FUN in march.

good luck with the whole march madness.

wilkommen.

2009-02-19T17:27:00.000-08:00

so a couple weeks ago, i got my macbook. her name is maggie and i love her very much. she is the new addition to my family {consisting of a polaroid camera named harold and an external hard drive named harrison}.

i documented the occasion and luckily, kelly came over right as i was unpacking my new beauty.. she was able to take some pictures of the event.

{this is the note that i left for the ups guy just in case.... i REALLY wanted to ensure my new compy's safety}

{look at this box! smilin at me like it knows what's inside}

{way too ready to be cutting up the box}

{very carefully i opened... for fear of scratching my new computer. that's a silly fear huh?}

{there was tons of plastic packing pillows}

{ugh... i was way too scared to open the box. too scary to actually have a nice compy}

{the packaging was lovely}

{again with the knife}

{sucka whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat}

{so soft}

{then for the next few minutes it said hello to me in many different languages. yes i filmed it. yes i'll spare you and not post the video}

RIP MONA {my old computer}. she was good to me.

wilkommen maggie!

HORSES.

2009-02-16T13:47:00.000-08:00

horses horses horses horses.

i love them. so does allison. so does dave.

curtis hates them.... so we commandeered them. so that we can pet them and ride them during summer. i can't wait!

{cortez is the leader of the pack and is very selfish and wanted all of the treats}

{an olde timey photo of allison feeding princess}

{i don't feel like my secret was very secret but dave, allison and i all whispered our secrets to the horses in order to build trust (oh how the wine talks)}

{dave and i can't handle secrets and so we ended up telling eachother our secrets later on}

{this is horses round two: leilani edition. she hates animals}

{oh what a delight it is to see the horses}

{friendships forming. there is still hope for leilani and animals to peacefully coexist}

{cortez is a greedy baby and he bit me but it may have been my fault}

{what is allison thinking about???? i WANT TO KNOW}

{i love this one}

{princess and i bonded this last time... she will most likely maybe allow me to ride her this summer}

so there are our horse adventures! these horses are going to be good friends.