back in the day...

today i was just thinking about the trends of my generation.
ya know, like your parents say what the "big things" were back in the day.
i'm sure we will tell our kids about facebook.
i found this satire website and it was making fun of facebook...
saying that someday in text books it will talk about the
facebook massacre of 2009. when the layout changed and there was
uproar and uprising. no one liked it and everyone voted.
then it eventually died down and people got used to it.
but still, it made the history books.
then again, by then our kids probably won't be studying out of books.
there'll be laptops on every desk, or some other crazy technology
we can't even dream of right now.
i can also see myself saying to the kids,
"back in my day we had to actually drive the car to the gas station
and fill it up with gas. prices always rose. then fell.
and it was always in the news."
can't you see it??
i already feel like i'm behind the times in what i can do with technology,
so i can't imagine how much my children will make fun of me
for what i can't do in terms of the computer, gps, cell phone world.
even on my mac. i don't use it for 3/4ths the things it can do.
"i love technology, but not as much as you, you see" blahh. technology.

disney.land.

i want to go back.

it's been way too long.

blueberries in milk

muah moment #5: 

laying under the stars like old times.  

the england lawn is such a happy place.  

blueberries in milk.  stars.  friends.  

i am happy.  

wesley

today i talked to a friend i haven't talked to in 

2 and a half years.  ( no letters, even )

it was weird.  but familiar.  

weird because it's been so long, familiar because 

everything came back so quickly: 

memories, feelings, emotion, pain, joy, 

excitement, disappointment, history.

we didn't reminisce.  just looked ahead.  

i feel like so much time has gone by, but at the same time, none.  

  

we talked today like we'd been best friends for years.  

like we were never apart. like he had never left.  

like he never got mad and i never reacted.  

like he had forgotten what had been and let me be what i've grown into.

like he cared.  like he knew.  like he had changed.   

amazing how two years can change you so much, 

yet keep you so much the same that things can pick up 

right where they left off without a second thought.  

i experienced a time warp today.  

is it really time for them to start coming home? 

registers

muah moment #4: 

counting money at the end of the day 

and realizing you're dead on

especially after you made a very large mistake 

the day before and were $80 short. 

a little extra time and effort really does go a long way. 

especially in the cash register world.  

happy endings

muah moment #3: 

happy endings

not gonna lie, i'm a big sucker for them. 

tonight i just might have shed a few happy tears

when ryan seacrest announced that 

kris allen 

was the next american idol. 

call me crazy for crying.  

but who doesn't love a good happy ending.

a little venting never hurt anyone

time for a little venting session. 

i'm in a singles ward for the summer 

(in my opinion this is very different than a student ward).  

the average age i'd say is 25, 26...

i've been here 3 weeks and i'm already sick of the 

ridiculous fixation on marriage and dating.  

EVERY WEEK in the lessons, lack of marriage or lack of boyfriend

gets brought up in class after class with a prefix:

"i know everyone is thinking this, so i'm going to be 

the one to say it. . ." then onto a rant about 

the hardships and trials of single life. 

 i am sick of generalizations that EVERYONE is thinking that. 

no... not me... not jessica... not sarah with an h... not mary.... 

to name just a few.  i'm sure for the 30-year-old women in the ward

it truly is a hardship they think about day after day. 

i'm not saying it's not a real thing to hurt about.  

it's very real and painful, i'm sure.   

but not all of us go to church to find an eternal companion.  

not all of us enjoy attending the meet market 

sunday meetings of the ysa world.  

and not all of us are ready or even wanting 

to get married any time soon.  

the number one pull for activities: 

"you might meet your future spouse there". 

the number one push for home teaching: 

"you might teach your future wife". 

and what is this about asking the newly engaged 

to give sermons from the pulpit about dating advice. 

last time i checked it took them till they were 32 to find "the one"

and i didn't come to church to learn how to date 

or hear any more "adorable" stories 

about how during ward clean up 

the love-struck couple met 3 months ago. 

but most of all i didn't come to church to be told

 i would meet my future husband

at a singles ward activity. 

 when i was younger, 

i swore i would never attend a singles ward 

for this very reason.  

i will find my husband in the right time in the right place,

 when we are both ready, 

and when the Lord's timing is supposed to come to pass.  

it's not the same for everyone and i believe it's not only inappropriate, 

but extremely annoying

when couples stand at the pulpit and tell me to 

"hang in there, if i can find a spouse in the singles ward, so can you."  

{  vomit  }

sometimes the singles ward makes me want to

 SCREEEEEEAAAAAM

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 

green turn arrows

muah moment #2: 

green turn arrows. 

just when you're anticipating a tricky 

left hand turn, 

a glorious green turn arrow 

pops up and relives you.  

green turn arrows are a good friend.  

cold cereal

muah moment #1:
eating rice krispies at mignight
under the stars. what could be finer, really.

muah moments

i love  the blog "1000 awesome things". 

i think it is beautiful.  

for the next however many posts i feel like 

i want to write my own awesome things.  

things in this life i like to call 

muah moments. 

moments when the world is a splendid place

because it's in your favor,

for however short a time.  

stay tuned for muah moments to come. 

p.s. go kris allen!  woot.  love.  

telemarketing

today i spent 5 hours on the phone 

making 150 calls to career colleges

in the name of the newly created

career college association of utah.

  

who knew requesting information 

could be so time-consuming?! 

200 more tomorrow... 

i'm SO glad i'm not a telemarketer.