Wednesday, February 28, 2007
So, lately I've been thinking it would be so cool to be a
Stampin' Up! demonstrator. (Don't laugh. Yes, I'm talking to you, My K.) But here's the thing.
1. I don't know anyone who would buy from me
2. I'm not great at going door-to-door to meet people, so that wouldn't be likely to work real well
3. I'd probably go broke
real fast.
4. There are probably a million Stampin' Up! demonstrators in this state already- I don't think I could handle the competition.
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Labels: crafts, work
It DOES snow in Santa Horhe! Who'd've thunk?
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Labels: weather
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
I've been trying to head to bed for the past 10 minutes or so, but the internet won't go away. Neither will my computer, for that matter. And I still want to eat a cupcake. With frosting. And maybe extra frosting on the side. And then I'll cough a lot and feel sick a lot and wish I was in bed.
But mostly I just want my computer to go away so that I can leave my desk. Will someone come turn the power off?
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Monday, February 26, 2007
BYU's new webpage annoys me. It annoys me because it does not automatically adjust to fit my browser window. I think it should do this. Blogger does. Google does. Hotmail does. Why doesn't BYU?
P.S. I've been either burning cold or freezing hot all day. Go figure. I think Face's disease has mutated within me.
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Labels: health, Odds and Ends
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Hello. It's me. Outside it is snowing. Inside I have "a smidge of temperature" (that's from
It's a Wonderful Life, if you didn't know). But our heater works again and my dinner is beginning to smell scrumptious. I love beef. It's what's for dinner.
My fish wanted you to see how gorgeous he is. That is all.
I must now leave to go get my Ecclesiastical Endorsement should I for reals decided not to drop out of school.
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Labels: food, Odds and Ends, weather
Friday, February 23, 2007
It is late. I am tired. I am cold. I am not hungry because I ate food. I am poor because I spent a lot of money today at the craft store, but I'm OK with being poor because I like what I bought and I'm willing to accept the consequences. That's not the point of this post, though.
Here's the point. In approximately 10 hours I have to, nay, GET to, teach some random ward's Enrichment on Floral Design at an apartment complex I have only ever driven past on my way to the grocery store. I don't even know any of the girls, I don't think, except that one of them is one of my students only I don't really know any of my student's either (sorry if you are one of them). I expect that they will find
1. How very dull I am when I teach (not to be confused with droll, especially in my case)
2. That it will not last as long as they are wanting it to
3. I am not a very articulate teacher
Ah, well. At least there's free breakfast involved.
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Labels: Service
Ohmigosh! I am so excited! I just discovered that Disneyland is turning their old submarine ride into a Finding Nemo submarine ride to be opened this summer! Cool!
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Labels: Disney
I accepted
Master Fob's challenge just now and figure I better get on with it before I forget. We all know how tragic that would be. Plus, since I just composed a list of 100+ items (minus six lies) of "interesting" (I say "interesting" because you may or may not agree) facts about myself, this is more of a challenge than it would normally be. Here goes.
- I am currently comprising a list of phobias and fears (in order) much like Monk's. Because I can.
- I love to count. I count my Eeyores, Manatees, Precious Moments stuff, movies, books, lamps, pillows, blankets, plants, and innumerable (pun not intended, but it is funny) other things on a daily basis.
- I do not have pierced ears and never will have pierced ears for as long as my body is in any form of existence.
- As a small child waiting for the school bus (this would have been about... First or Second grade) I had a bee climb up my nose.
- I remember the exact shirt I was wearing the first time I went on Splash Mountain. It was white with little pastel stars on it.
- One of my first memories was when I was about 1 or 2 years old. My family and all of my cousins had gone to my great-grandma's house. I can remember sitting on the rag rugs.
I hereby extend the challenge to any who are brave enough to take it upon themselves. Please notify me of your acceptance.
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Labels: lists, Odds and Ends
Thursday, February 22, 2007
I may be a day late, but that's better than never. Anywho, I've decided as a part of this Lent thing that I am going to refrain from speaking ill of any of the people I live with for a whole, what is it... 40 days. Please support me in my endeavor.
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Labels: goals, Holiday
I had the coolest dream last night where I logged into the
100 Hour Board and discovered I was suddenly a writer. Maybe someday.
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Labels: Odds and Ends
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Check out my dang awesome
wallpaper.
And now I'm going to find out precisely how capable I am at reading with one eye closed as I attempt to treat my
blepharitis.
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Labels: health, Odds and Ends
Why I will never get married while I am in this class (or probably even at BYU):
- I Don't Want to. Yet. Maybe in a few years, but for now I'm enjoying the single thing.
- I think I'm going to fail the class. Yeah, that's right. Because I don't care to be social and I hate the assignments that want me to be.
- One of those assignments is due in two weeks. I might not even get it done.
- Dating is awkward
- I have crooked teeth.
Why I might get married someday:
- The way I figure, it's bound to happen to everyone eventually.
- I need someone to kill the bugs.
And, oh yeah. I guess LOVE figures in there somewhere.
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Labels: relationships
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I thought about participating in Lent last year. And then I didn't. This year will be different, though. Mr. Gymnast? Just for you I am going to give up my non-smiling face while I'm at work. Yeah, I smile.
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Labels: goals, Holiday
Sometimes I pretend that I am really cool. Actually, it's more that I like to think to myself that I am. And then I remember that in sixth grade my favorite thing to wear was spandex (ie: knit pants/shorts), my favorite game consisted of pretending to be an alien and hiding sticks in a tree for my friend to find, and then walking around said tree until break was over.
Yeah, I must have been pretty cool back then. Too bad my life now consists of school, work, and, oh yeah, school. I can hardly wait to spice things up by learning to belly dance with My K.
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Labels: Odds and Ends
Monday, February 19, 2007
100+ things you may or may not know about me. 5 of them are lies. Can you pick them out?
1. Thinking about shots makes me shudder.
2. If I start thinking about them too long I begin to black out.
3. The first time I got my blood taken, I passed out in the middle of the hallway in the doctor's office.
4. I collect stickers.
5. I especially like the stickers you can get at the doctor's office and I have never used any of them
6. I played with my Barbies until high school
7. I didn't learn to swim until eighth grade
8. I am terrified of deep water, especially ocean water where there might be THINGS down there
9. I love the beach
10. I want to be a Disney Princess when I grow up
11. I am an inch too tall for the afore mentioned job
12. I don't read books. I devour them.
13. I own over 100 movies and have acquired all of them within the past three years
14. I hate potatoes. I will not eat them even if they are the only food on earth.
15. I like potato chips. Especially with cottage cheese.
16. Tomatoes gross me out. I won't eat them
17. I eat ketchup only with my roast or steak. Never on hamburgers.
18. I get my pizza without sauce.
19. I put sauce in my lasagna, mannicotti, and stuffed shells. And eat it.
20. I despise vegetables.
21. I could live off of pb and honey sandwiches for months.
22. I have lived off pb and honey sandwiches for months.
23. Scary movies don't scare me
24. Ghost stories do.
26. When I was 5 I got locked in my bathroom with a friend with the lights off. Neither one of us were tall enough to reach the light switch. My sister's friend did that bloody Mary thing and I've been terrified of dark bathrooms ever since.
27. I used to eat paper
28. I hated primary
29. I hated Young Women
30. I started going to Relief Society a year early
31. I got my first job my Senior Year of high school
32. I went on my first date in 2006
33. I thought I was in love once
34. I'm severely allergic to some smells, but I don't know what they are because as soon as I get a whiff of them my whole respiratory system shuts down and I pass out. I tell people I am allergic to Pier One for this very reason.
35. I've never been outside the US, unless you count the Canadian side of Niagara Falls
36. When I was little and my dad had the video camera out, I'd start crying.
37. I still hate cameras. I almost bit one of my friends once for tackling me to the ground just so someone could get a picture of me. I didn't, though, because I wasn't sure which friend it was (I was ganged up on) and I didn't know where that arm had been.
38. I read "Cry the Beloved Country" out loud at super human speeds Sr. year of high school. My teacher didn't believe I could comprehend any of it until he quizzed me and realized I could and I did.
39. I had a friend force me to go to Jr. Prom with her. Stag, mind.
40. I learned to read before Kindergarten.
41. I have been the ward "project"
42. I have never been to the Atlantic Ocean
43. I have never been to NYC
43. I have never been to DisneyWorld
44. I almost always put my right shoe on first
45. My doctor tells me I have an obsessive compulsive disorder.
46. I was afraid of Darkwing Duck when I was a small child.
47. I have met two of my great-grandmothers
48. I have met 4 apostles of God, one of them being President Faust
49. I was at the mall when I met two of them and mostly asleep.
50. I am a cat person
51. Until I remember that I have really loved our dogs and then I can't decide.
52. I've been known to hold funeral services for goldfish, complete with engraved headstones.
53. My dad dug the fish up afterwards and threw them in the trash.
54. I know what a truckload of dead cows in the summertime smell like. Believe me, it isn't pleasant.
55. I have never been to Idaho.
56. I didn't get my driver's license until I was almost 17.
57. I love Chocolate Klondike bars but can't find them anywhere in the west.
58. I've been in lock down before.
59. I weighed 100 pounds for the first time my sr. year of high school
60. I have read the Book of Mormon cover-to-cover 5+ times
61. I read the Book of Mormon in 100 days once
62. I no longer know what I want to be when I grow up (as far as getting educated goes)
63. I love oriental things
64. And porcelain dolls
65. And chocolate
66. Manatees are my favorite. I collect them
67. I collect Precious Moments, too
68. And snails (figurines. Not real ones)
69. Not to mention Eeyore
70. I am often times a penny pincher. Until it comes time to buy stuff for Baby and her Mom.
71. I knit
72. I crochet
73. I really enjoy embroidery and am decently good at it.
74. Sometimes I sell clay figurines for big bucks
75. I've touched a dead person
76. Sometimes I am really funny
77. Usually without trying
78. I laugh at my own jokes
79. I have told four falsehoods thus far in this list.
80. I know how Sabrina the Teenage Witch ends.
81. I firmly believe that everyone picks their nose when they think no one is looking
82. I have a book of quotes
83. I was an extra on
Promised Land once.
84. All of my school mascots have been cats of one sort or another, except for the first half of elementary school when I was a Buccaneer
85. Horses scare me
86. I have been to numerous Y football games
87. Sports are not my friend
89. Sometimes when I'm all alone and my bedroom door is locked, I practice my waltz.
90. I felt all four wisdom teeth being pulled but couldn't do anything about it
91. I have known my best friend since 5th grade; I even took her to Disneyland for her first time
92. I hated my other best friend from the 1st grade until 6th grade when we were on TV together.
93. It is my goal in life to own nearly every Disney Movie
94. I think the Build-A-Bear workshop is evil
95. I still have a crush on one of the guys that was in my high school
96. The submarine ride at Disneyland? Yeah, I used to think the mermaids were real
97. I am in the
IMDB98. I went to Hawaii once for two weeks
99. My house flooded when I was a small child. We had to get huge fans installed to blow air under the carpets and I would try to pop the "bubbles" they made
100. I tan very easily but don't burn often. I expect to have a flip-flop tan line on my feet within the next few short months.
101. A big, fat lady swam over me in the deep end of the pool when I was a small child.
Morbidly Obese people scare me now.
102. I prefer colored gems over diamonds. I plan on NOT having a diamond in my engagement ring.
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Labels: lists, Odds and Ends
Sunday, February 18, 2007
In recent days I have come to understand why so many single females (especially those attending the Y) feel ancient and old. It comes from looking around and seeing so many girls YOUNGER than you are getting married/dating seriously/seriously have someone interested in them (at least a little) and you are totally single (which isn't so bad, really, despite what some may think) and not even that old (I mean, let's be honest here. There is NO WAY any company is going to let me rent a car from them. At least not for a while.)
I've also recently come to the conclusion that the guys in my high school really weren't that bad. Too bad I was so intent on getting that 4.0 and too bad I am so intimidating. Still, there is hope. Especially now that so many of them are coming home.
Oh yeah. That's another thing that makes me feel old: when I look at all the missionaries and it dawns on me, "Dood, [Katria]. Every single one of these elders is younger than you. Freaky."
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Labels: Odds and Ends, people, relationships
It's been 70+ degrees this whole weekend. We've had our windows open. I've spent time OUTSIDE! I am so not ready to go back to the snow and nastiness. And the county in which I generally dwell needs to get an
Iggy's because, dang! That was some GOOD chicken I ate yesterday. And, you know, I could use somewhere other than P.F. Chang's to get my take-out. (Though, I suppose my roommates and I could go on another jaunt up north for our next KFGD. What think you, My K?)
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Labels: food, weather
My dad took me to see Bridge to Terebithia yesterday. We cried. A lot. I'd remembered very vaguely how the book ended, but I still wasn't prepared. Anyway, I believe what the dad tells Jesse after said incident is true: God will not send any good person who tries their best to Hell, even if you haven't read the Bible. And that is all.
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Labels: Svithe
Friday, February 16, 2007
There's news of my sister killing the internet at home, so I may not be around for a few days. That's all.
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Labels: weekend plans
Thursday, February 15, 2007
I hope you noticed that I did not once even mention Puke Day (Fine. Valentine's) yesterday. In fact, I wasn't even going to blog yesterday in honor of the occasion, but then I almost got kidnapped and felt that warranted a special post. Especially considering
recent events and the fact that I do live near the river.
Pretty much yesterday was like any other day (well, you know, other than almost being accosted). No mail, took a test.... Stayed home, as usual. Yeah. 21 years of Puke Day and I only see them getting worse.
And, oh yeah. Scary man is actually stalking my neighbor, but that doesn't make me feel any better.
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Labels: Holiday
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
I was walking home about an hour ago. I climbed the stairs up to my apartment and turned around. There was a Scary Man standing behind me, staring at me. I slammed the door in his face and locked it at super-human speeds.
My roommate was walking home last week. Scary Man started to follow her. She was rescued by some random neighbor in our parking lot.
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Labels: people
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
A student wrote "wicked sweet" as an answer on one of his quiz questions today. Totally wrong but, yeah, wicked sweet.
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Labels: School, work
Monday, February 12, 2007
I have just stumbled upon the identity of one or more writers of the
great and magnificent board. Completely unexpectedly, too! Blame it on (or thank, in my case) Duchess. It's her fault for being in my... umm... "not ward."
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Labels: people
I'm really not too sure what's going on just yet. It happened just as I was leaving to get my meds from the pharmacy, so I'm still a little behind. Anyway, there was a shooting at Trolley Square like... an hour ago or something.
Go here for
details.
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Labels: news
My K emailed this to me last week because she knows that manatees are my favorite animal of all "wild" times. Read it until you get it.
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Labels: animals, humor and jokes, quotes
Today in D&C I received a great hurt in my heart. A student wrote "Suprise" on the board for all to see. Ouch.
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Labels: Odds and Ends, people, School
Sunday, February 11, 2007
I have elected to post my paper for D&C tomorrow as tonights Svithe because I really don't know what else to Svithe about right now. Except for the fact that I'm reading Alma again. Only I don't know why. And as a reward for getting this paper done I am allowing myself to blog another entry when I'm, well, you know, finished. If I remember. Anyway, excuse the linkless scriptures and the rather dull tone. Despite the latter statement, maybe you and I will still learn something from this.
“For his word ye shall receive, in all patience and faith. For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good and his name’s glory.” Doctrine and Covenants section 21:5-6
Both of the scriptures I have chosen for this insight paper are quite similar. In this scripture it hit me that I have to receive the Lord’s counsel with faith and patience. I think what he is saying is that it may not make a whole lot of sense what he is counseling now, but in time, his time, it will. I need to have faith that this is the case and patience that He knows what is best.
This is a scripture that easily fits into my life right now. You will probably feel as if I am repeating myself from the last insight paper, but I am still learning about the concepts Trust/Faith and Patience. In the two verses that I have just quoted, I feel as if there is a strong emphasis on the word “faith.” I know that the Lord must have a plan for me because I don’t believe it would be in His character to send anyone or anything to this earth without a plan and a purpose for that person. I just need to have faith in the Lord. I need to remember that he does have a plan for me and that certain events that have been promised to me will come to pass in his time and not my own. I think that by doing this, as this scripture seems to tell me, that my little personal issues will go away in time and “the heavens [will] shake for [my] good” so long as I glorify the Lord and trust on his name and his word.
“Be patient in afflictions, for thou shalt have many; but endure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of thy days.” Doctrine and Covenants section 24:8
Everybody has afflictions, there is no escaping that. The Lord has even promised us “many” afflictions in our lives. This is OK, though. The Lord is there to help us, clear up to the end of our days, to endure these afflictions. This, to me, means that the Lord will be with us for eternity! The way I understand things, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and for us to become like God we will also be the same “yesterday, today, and forever” when we have completed our course and endured to the end.
The way I apply this to my life is probably pretty obvious. Afflictions will come and there isn’t really anything I can do about that, as I said before. What I can do, though, is “keep on truckin’” and realize that someday my endurance will have paid off because I will be with the Lord once again. It is also comforting for me to know that the Lord is always there for me, even when it becomes hard to endure with patience. I think that’s part of the journey, though, learning that patience and applying it into our lives.
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Labels: Svithe
So, I'm thinking of changing my layout/background again. I know, I know, I just did like.. two months ago or whatever, but Mm. No. Need something different. Help.
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Labels: Blog
Thursday, February 08, 2007
I came to the conclusion at work today that very few people understand my dry humor, sarcasm, and general way of making life humorous for myself.
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Labels: Odds and Ends
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
October 14, 1991-February 6, 2007
We will miss you, faithful friend.
Labels: animals
Why is it so hard to believe that not all 20-something girls know anything about what Valentine's day could be like? Sheesh.
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Labels: relationships
Monday, February 05, 2007
I think sometimes it's the little things that remind you Heavenly Father loves you and is watching over you. Like when your favorite song comes on the radio (twice!) when you're coming home from
burying a loved one.
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Labels: Svithe
"Once you can accept the fact that the universe is nothing expanding into something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." -Anonymous
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Labels: quotes
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Despite what our dear ol' friend predicted, I'm convinced spring isn't too far off. Especially since tomorrow's high is to be near 50. It's like Heaven, only slightly colder and much less tropical than what I imagine.
No, I'm not back to blogging.
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Labels: weather
