moonlight serenade

i am loving ballroom dance!  though i feel like one of the most uncoordinated girls in the class, it is probably one of my favorite classes i've ever taken.  friday at the dance, jamin and i did the cha cha and the tango and some country swing and the waltz (i'm in LOVE with the waltz!).  last night at the dance danny and i did the tango and the fox trot and i taught him the cha cha then john and i did the waltz and richard taught me how to do this east coast crazy three step dance that i never got down... haa... let me just say that dances have reached a whole new level of enjoyability now that i semi-know what i'm doing. . . can't wait to show my daddy what i've learned :)  i think this class has reminded me how much i utterly and completely love jazz music!  last night at the dance that's all they played and it was amazing.  reminds me of wedding band music, hah, but i could honestly listen to jazz for hours... and i do... jazz instrumental, jazz vocal, anything.  best. music. ever.  

overheard at byu

i really, really like reading MLIA.  
but, my new favorite website
can be found HERE.  

l.a.m.e.

i hate that sometimes the people you want to talk to the most
are the ones you don't have anything to say to.  l.a.m.e.

stripped away

"when you strip away everything, we are so similar"
this line from 19 minutes describes my feelings about
testimony meeting in church.  we are all split by differing
interests, personalities, struggles, talents, but we are bound
together by one thing - the gospel of jesus christ.  when you
take everything away, what is left is the conviction and the
testimony.  the love and the desire to do good.  i love fast
and testimony sunday because we get to hear from people
that are inspired to stand up and share what they know,
what they feel.  during the week sometimes i forget how
many people here are so similar.  when you strip away
everything, we are so similar.  but maybe if we look
hard enough, we don't have to strip it away, just look
past it.  i love the gospel of jesus christ!  it changes me.  

chacha is my mobile bff

today i learned how to ride a unicycle.  battle wounds.  thursday i slipped on ice.  hurt hard core.  tai chi was really hard this week too.  my legs do NOT like me today.  

the dance last night was fantastic!  "i was born in a refrigerator... bock bock..." need i say more.

just realized how funny it is that the crestwood leasing office is a motor home... 

facebook changed profile layouts yet again.  not ok. 

mom sent me cookies and argyle socks yesterday. love her.  

walked behind an indian man yesterday singing the whole way home.  easily made my day.  

if you could be exempt from one law without implications, what would it be and why? 

i decided i'm not a fighter, and since kaylee is waay to anxious for her own good, i'm done with that conquest.   

BTS cake with ben tomorrow <3

monster concert tonight... all the small children on stage at the same time playing piano? stoked.  

i have to draw a self portrait today for art class.  

"for guys who love grilled cheese but hate ordering off the kids menu", carl's junior loves you.  

jackie sent me some sweeeet music this week!  

the kids at edith bowen lab school do yoga.  totally jealous.  

jealous also of jamin going to europe solely to take pictures!  :)  

desperately need a skype date with annie!  pronto!  

pandora heartless station = new favorite.  

-- "viva tossed salad!" --

fridays!

i have 4 million things to do today...
and not much time to do them in...
don't you love days like that?!
but.  it will be a good day!
fridays always are!
and, date tonight :)  

vegetable shelf

the other night i was remembering vegetable shelves.  when i was little, i didn't like vegetables, like most children, right, and when i would tell my mom i was too full to finish my vegetables, she would say with a fake disappointed look that if i was too full for vegetables i must be too full for dessert too.  my quick reply would always be "but my dessert shelf isn't full, just my vegetable shelf!"  i think there was a time when i actually thought my ribs were my shelves, storing food neatly in a row and when one was full, there was no debate, it was full.  some days i get really bummed out that we lose our imaginations as we grow up.  i want to keep mine forEVER!  

drill team

 holy cow.  read this story.
for some reason i started
crying when i did. 

blabber t'yer mates

 i've been converted

back to

pirate language

on facebook. 

yes, i have

missed it that bad. 

drink up, me hearties,

yo ho!

not a big deal.

 so there's this guy that's been coming into work a lot lately to take tests and study for tests.  he's one of those types that is pretty anxious about testing and wants to do really well on them... and also he's really beautiful.  he came in today to study.  i may or may not have looked him up on facebook (i'm really good at facebook stalking, don't worry) and found out he's married (figures).  he printed something off, and when i went to give him his ID card back, he dropped it because i let go too soon.  so, naturally, i went to slide the card toward him.  he went to grab that card at the same time and our fingers went between each others for a minute.  i went bright red and felt REALLY awkward.  i said sorry and he said no worries bye.  ha ha ha ha ha.  i can't stop laughing about it.  not a big deal, but i was totally embarrassed.  who tries to hold hands with married men, i mean honestly. 

barefoot. is. better.

 i love to be barefoot.  if i could, i would walk around barefoot all the time.  yes, even in winter.  but i like my feet too much to freeze them off like that, he he.  talking to my dear katie yesterday, she reminded me about barefoot days.  in high school we used to think we were so cool and we've have barefoot days at school.  that's right, we wouldn't wear shoes to school.  people thought we were gross when we'd walk in the public restroom with no shoes or outside on the pavement, but i miss those days!  one day at usu i read they were having a barefoot for africa day.  i was excited, but not many people participated.  it was lame.  i miss high school sometimes.  mostly the closeness of high school.  and people that didn't care what people thought of them when they walked around all day barefoot.  i can't wait for this wretched snow to melt so i can be barefoot again!  after all, barefoot is better.

february.

 today is february.  i've been looking forward to february 2010 for a very, very, very long time.  and now that it's here, i feel:

n e r v o u s

happy

scared

relieved

hesitant

ecstatic

reserved

calm

worked up

emotionless 

determined

grateful 

anxious

but most of all  E X C I T E D 
:)  it's going to be a good month.