Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Pantry Peepers

tender mercy...

Yesterday I was in my last Floral Design lecture of the semester and we were talking about funerals. I guess we need to talk about funerals because it's a big floral event, but she was going off on everything else funeral related...picking a casket, which direction the person lays in the casket, etc. For some reason I just felt really uncomfortable and queasy (maybe because it was my first class of the day) and I was looking at the clock the whole time waiting for the bell to ring. And then my tender mercy happened. There was a fire drill. The alarm went crazy and everyone ran out of the class super fast. It really was the best way to end that lecture. With all of us running to the door.


thankful for...

I'm thankful that my cousin Ginny found these little snack boxes for me at Borders and bought them so they didn't sell before I got there. There are four boxes with goofy "pantry peepers" on the lids (pieces of food with giant eyes). My favorite is the winking croissant. I brought Wheat Thins to school in one of the smaller ones today...

made me laugh...

I've been watching the fifth? season of The Office lately. I didn't start watching that show until it was 3 seasons in and I would watch the dvds before I went to bed. It really is best that way. No commercials and you can watch as many episodes as you want. I stopped watching the show mid-fourth season. But it's been a while so I thought I'd catch up again. I was watching it with John and we could NOT stop laughing. Seriously. That show is just so funny.... As soon as the episode ended John started tickling me (it happens a lot) so I was laughing even more and I couldn't help being in a really good mood for the rest of the night. It didn't hurt that he bought me dinner either....

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

very superstitious

tender mercy...

I have a lot of superstitions that I've made up for myself and completely believe in. Since I was little I've considered it good luck to have a matching cereal bowl and cup. It's not something I mess with; I don't find matching ones. I just open the bowl cupboard and take the first one on the stack and do the same with the cup cupboard. When they match, I know I've started the day out right.

A duck crossed my path as I walked on campus this morning. That has to be the ultimate sign of good luck. Every time I see ducks they make me laugh. That Dawn commercial where they are cleaning the oil off of the animals is my favorite because at the very end a duck quacks and it cracks me up seriously every time. One day me and John told each other what our patronuses would be, and we joked that mine is a duck because they make me so happy.


made me laugh...

John likes to tickle me (because I'm super ticklish and it doesn't take much) but he isn't ticklish so I have no fair way to fight back. And I seriously have to fight back because it gets to that point where it hurts and I can't breathe because I'm laughing so hard. So I usually pinch. I'm an awesome pincher and he's always the one to start these fights so I don't feel bad about hurting him. He knows what he's getting into.

Last night, I don't know if it's because it was time for me to go to bed or what, but he started tickling me and I just laid there and laughed way loud. I didn't have any energy to pinch back and my laugh was making him laugh way hard, so he wouldn't quit. It wasn't even close to the painful tickles that he usually gets me with and actually turned out being.....pretty funny.

Monday, March 21, 2011

a little art history

thankful for...

I'm thankful Conference is coming up, for many reasons.

1. I don't have to go to work Saturday
2. I'm going to Gloria's Little Italy with John, Sam, and Samantha, after the priesthood session.
3. I don't have to get dressed Sunday
4. It's a sign that the semester is almost over finally
5. It's a sign that spring is here
6. It's a sign that there is plenty of Easter candy
7. I get to work on the blanket that I started crocheting 2 years ago.
8. And the obvious reason that we get to listen to the prophet :)


just learned...

I learned about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Impressionism today. And along with Degas and Monet, I added John Everett Millais to my list of favorite artists. Specifically his works, Christ in the House of His Parents, 1850 and Ophelia 1852.


In this painting, a young Christ (maybe 8) cuts his hand on a nail in Joseph's shop. Mary is concerned because she knows the wound on his hand is foreshadowing his death. The sheep outside the window are also anxious because they know what his wound is foreshadowing as well. Joseph leans in taking Jesus' hand by his fingers to take care of him. A young John the Baptist walks in with a bowl of water, also symbolizing his future role of cleansing and baptizing Christ. An older woman (probably John's mother) reaches forward with pliers to pull out the nail that cut his hand. And the figure to the left is James, the older brother to Jesus (Joseph's son from a previous marriage).

The whole painting has amazing detail with everything in focus, even as you look out the window. It is a unique image of Christ's life.


tender mercy...

We played pictionary in French and I got the word "une pizza".... LOL. Last time we played my word was "de l'ail" and I just stood there until the time was up because I had no idea what de l'ail meant...... It's the word for garlic. Like anyone is going to go to France and need to know how to say garlic anyway. Une pizza is much more practical. And this time I didn't look like a tard in front of the class.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

brooms eye view

made me laugh...

We were studying the houses of parliament in Art History and as my professor is showing us all these different views of the building he says, "And here's more of a broom's eye view" and plays this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy02K6x04N8

LOL. The building is at the very end.


tender mercy...

I got 9/10 on a quiz in French today. And on the one I missed, I only forgot an l'. Just so it's clear how big of a deal this is, I'll show my last few scores.....[0/6]....[1/5]....[1.5/5]....[5.5/14]....[3/9].

The girl who peer reviewed my Modern Art paper said nice things in her comments, even when she was telling me to fix something. This is the opposite of my Art History peer reviewer last week. That girl was rude.


thankful for...

I'm thankful that I got to spend all day Sunday with John. I went to his house in the morning for a Dinobite breakfast, we went to church, came home from church and made mac and cheese and leftover potatoes for lunch, watched the rest of Back to the Future III (The one where they're in the wild west...I fell asleep before it ended the first time we watched it.), fell asleep right after it ended, walked over to my house for a roast and potato dinner, hung out with my family, went on a walk around Slate Canyon to work off some of the food we ate, then ended the day back at John's with his family watching the season premier of Sister Wives (the show totally freaks me out, but is extremely entertaining) and drinking Pepsi. :)

Friday, March 11, 2011

what I learned...

I added a new category.

what I learned...

Yesterday I made this Japanese floral arrangement. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, especially for my first try. There are 3 main lines in the design; the line going straight up represents heaven, the lowest line represents earth, and the middle line represents man.




thankful for...

I'm thankful that someone took my inconvenient 3 hour shift at work today. Because I stayed home I made homemade oreos. I love when I don't have something that needs to get done right this second and I can make cookies and watch Ellen.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

midterms? check.

thankful for...

I'm thankful that I finished my art history midterm today and won't have another test until finals! In french I had to write a letter (in french) to a friend telling them about this semester. My whole letter was like, 'I can't wait until May', and 'we'll have so much fun when it is summer and we can ride bikes' ....I didn't realize that the assignment was to actually talk about our classes......Hooray for summer!


tender mercy...

Yesterday I was out in the hall of the JFSB, sitting on the floor (by the outlet) studying for another French test. (We have a huge test every 2 weeks....that's why I'm always freaking out) I still had an hour before I was scheduled to go in and this guy from my class walks out. He tells me what to study (which totally isn't cheating because I was already studying the same thing) but just talking to him about the test made me feel so much better. He said it was easier than the last one, so I didn't even think about doing badly...and I didn't. It went really well and so did my interview in French today. C'est chouette!


made me laugh...

The past few weeks when I leave for school my dad tells me not to get in any fist fights....LOL I guess there's always the possibility that I'll crack and start beating someone up, but it isn't very likely.

He posed for this picture a while ago so I could show it to boys...haha

Sunday, March 6, 2011

church today

tender mercy...

For some reason I have been really sad this whole weekend and angry (with no real reason). I went to church today and found myself irritated by everyone there. I highly considered leaving after sacrament meeting, and if I wasn't John's ride I probably would have. Of course all of the testimonies and lessons were perfect, but I just had this anger that wouldn't leave. At the end of relief society there was time to share testimonies and a couple people went up. I was interested in what everyone was saying, but nothing really hit me.

Then one of the last women got up, and as a side note of her testimony about prayer, she said to tell Heavenly Father what hurts. I immediately started crying and couldn't stop through the closing song and prayer. Apparently I have something that hurts. I'm still not sure what it is, but I feel better at least having a hint for why I've been in this terrible mood......Lex was a true friend and got all of the mascara off of my face before I had to talk to anyone.


made me laugh...

During Sunday school John typed on his phone, "That picture freaks me out...," and handed it to me to read. I took his phone and wrote, "Yeah....Lets go." He bust up laughing which made me laugh. I was serious about leaving....but whatever. I guess the story above proves that it's good I stayed.


thankful for...

My hard drive froze today and would only make this beeping noise...it was weird. I'm not positive what exactly was really happening, but it made me nervous because I have all of my art pictures are saved on that thing. My dad started playing with it and all of a sudden it just...worked. He didn't do anything different, but I was able to save the pictures somewhere else just in case it ever happens again, I have a back-up. I'm thankful it isn't permanently broken because it would be a pain to taken pictures of everything again.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Crazy Planes!

thankful for...

I'm thankful that I've only sniffed 8,000 times and sneezed 80 times today instead of the 23,000,000 sniffs and 2,300 sneezes that happened yesterday.

made me laugh...


Last night I was over at Johns... we'd been watching tv but King of Queens got real boring real fast, so we tried playing this terrible puzzle game, got extremely frustrated because the stupid planes never matched, then he says, "Do you want to color?" (like I'm 4... lol) But obviously I did and he gave me a ton of markers and some paper. We drew pictures for each other. He drew me sculpting the David while wearing a beret and I drew a picture of us whale watching and him getting sick (which actually happened one time). It was really funny to reveal our pictures to each other.

This is that one time when we really went whale watching....


tender mercy...


Yesterday I needed to meet with a Financial Adviser so they could talk to this scholarship and tell them about my finances, blah blah blah. BUT, I totally forgot. And like 2 hours before I was like, oh I need to meet with Lynn today. It was that simple. This thing that I wasn't even trying to remember just popped in my head. And it's a good thing too, because he was super nice, it only took like 10 minutes and it may get me a little money for my study abroad.