Summerfest

thankful for...

Last week I went to the Orem Summerfest with John. As soon as we got there we scanned to see what our dinner options were. We ended up with 2 quesadillas, 3 sodas, 1 giant scone, and 1 funnel cake. Carnival food makes me sick every time, but is so worth it.

For some reason I wasn't really into the whole Festival thing (we skipped out on the parade even though we had a great view thanks to the Orrs) that day and was just going to convince John we should watch a movie instead. We were standing on the edge of the park deciding what we should do with the rest of the night. It was 8pm. Fireworks started around 10pm. Instead of me convincing John to leave he ended up convincing me to stay. We split up and he waited in the ticket line while I waited in the Ferris Wheel line. Apparently we looked approachable because while we waited everyone was coming up and asking questions to us specifically...

made me laugh...

I looked over at John and saw this. He found this Orem Police sticker badge on the grass. I'm not sure why I found it so funny :)

We saw a few friends while we waited. The line was so long and slow. It was one of those things where you don't think you're moving at all but after 2 hours we finally did it. We got to the front of the line after shooing away 2 different groups of smooth talking line jumpers, taking a lot of pictures and writing fake lyrics for songs about carnivals.

There was a little Asian girl in front of us with her grandma (who I don't think had ever been on a Ferris Wheel before, because they were really excited). Every time the Ferris Wheel went around this Asian couple down on the grass waved really big and had huge smiles. They were waving at the little girl and grandma, but the ride went so fast that it looked like they were waving at us every time. I could NOT stop laughing! It really made the experience.



tender mercy...

We were the first ones on the ride so we went around really slow at first while everyone else was let on the ride. And then we were the last ones off so we went around while everyone else got off too. Before the ride started to slow down something really magical happened....the fireworks started. Yep, we had waited in line for 2 hours. The odds of getting in that line in the right spot so that we'd be on the ride with the best view of the fireworks is so crazy. We wouldn't be able to plan that if we tried. Especially because the ride only lasts 5 minutes anyway. We kissed at the top for good luck.I'm really glad we decided to stay. It was even better than the time I went to the Orem Fest with John 3 years ago...which I thought was pretty great.

work.

tender mercy...

Sometimes I'm really happy that my sister works in the mall with me. So when my least favorite customer comes in to work and repeatedly asks me to make my register do impossible things and then loudly asks for a manager while interrupting my explanation of why there isn't a button that lets me bend the promotion rules for her....I can take my hour lunch and walk to the other end of the mall with a steam trail behind my ears to go vent to someone who'll listen and relate.


thankful for...

I'm thankful that Sean and Tiffany are getting married in 2 days! It is the first thing on my list of fun things I'm going to do this summer and I'm excited to be there when they start their new family and have another sister!

made me laugh...

I went to work with my Dad on Thursday. On our way to the house in Pleasant Grove, he noticed a sign that read "Bump Ahead" and obviously read it "Bump A Head" and started bumping my head with his hand (which was pretty funny by itself). I managed to look out the window and saw a huge speed bump. I told him there really was a bump (while we're still going full speed and I was still a bobble-head) about .3 seconds before we hit it. The truck lifted up in the air and all the tools in the back jumped up and crashed back down really loud at the same time that we crashed back down. We were both a little shocked. We got to the house to find that all of the boxes had opened and the tools were everywhere. It didn't take too long to sweep back into piles though.

when you just swear without realizing

thankful for...

A couple days ago I was sitting in my bed with my laptop watching the latest movie Netflix sent me. My cat Molly came in and went crazy begging for attention, as usual, so I pet her for a while and lifted up the top of my blanket so she could walk in and make herself comfortable. (We have a reputation for spooning from time to time). She's especially nice to have around when it's cold since she's a nice little heater on my legs.

She laid down and I forgot all about her until I felt this weird thud on the side of my leg. I lifted up my blanket to see what was going on. She was curled up on my lap with her head upside-down hanging off to the side. I started petting her but she didn't respond at all. I tried waking her up and literally lifted her head up in the air...still with no response. I panicked and couldn't stop whispering, "shit shit shit" to myself. Had I just suffocated my cat? I started to get out of bed when she regained consciousness and was all startled and upset because I was moving around. I swear she passed out. There is no way a cat can sleep that deep! She's a real trooper.

I'm thankful that I didn't suffocate my childhood pet.



made me laugh...

I was walking with John over to his house after dinner tonight. He always makes fun of me because I walk up the street right in the middle of the road rather than on the sidewalk. I got in the habit of doing that back when all the neighborhood would get together and play night games because I was afraid of getting kidnapped or something from walking so close to the shadows and fences. Now it's mostly habit, but I AM still afraid to walk past the neighbors RV at night ... it's just dark and creepy.

Tonight John started to pull my hand toward the sidewalk and I told him I didn't want to step on all the worms that were out, since it had been raining, and insisted we keep walking in the road. I was wearing open toed shoes so the thought of stepping on one of those huge worms and getting it on me wasn't worth the risk.

I was watching my step when John started to step down, noticed something under his foot, tried mid-step to make his feet land somewhere else, did sort of a goofy hop while yelling, "HOLY SHhhhiii!"

There was a long twig in the road which John thought was the longest worm he'd ever seen.

bright, orange and cheerful

thankful for...

I'm thankful that my truck didn't get a boot/ticket last night. After work yesterday John picked me up, we ate at Iggy's (The Chocolate Lava Souffle is delicious by the way), went to Walmart to buy movie treats, and saw I Am Number Four. After the movie he drove me home. This morning I decided to walk to church before I realized that my truck was missing. I left it at work. After church we drove up to the mall and thankfully my truck was still intact. Nothing was stolen even though the windows were all down and I didn't even have a warning on the windshield. I even felt a little guilty like I'd been rude forgetting about my truck like that....but then I reminded myself that even though it's bright, orange and cheerful....you can't hurt it's feelings.

tender mercy...

Yesterday I met my goal at work, which means I do NOT have to wake up at 6am Sunday morning to go to work and be lectured for being a slacker.


made me laugh...

John only faked 4 seizures today while playing guitar after church. Lately I've been critiquing him so they look more realistic. We discovered that he can't keep his eyelashes from twitching when he fake dies no matter how hard he tries. I've figured it out. I used to just tell him the story about the boy who cried wolf, but now I know the secret to knowing if they're real or not so I guess it's ok.

a night out

thankful for...

I had the best night Saturday with John. We go to a different restaurant for dinner every week. Saturday we went to Roll Up Crepes. Apparently it's a fairly new place (I hadn't even heard of it when John said that's where he wanted to go). I got a delicious turkey and spinach crepe with pesto and cranberry sauce on top. It was amazing. And we shared a Nutella crepe for dessert. After we finished eating we looked up movie times and couldn't decide between Water for Elephants or Something Borrowed, because we really didn't know what either of them were about. Neither of us had cash but felt bad not leaving a tip at the restaurant because the band and the service were both pretty great. John had a gold dollar coin in his wallet so we left it on the table.

We stood outside of Wynnsong and did Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide which movie to see. John won so we got our tickets to Water for Elephants. (I later found out that Something Borrowed is a predictable chick flick, so I was happy John won). We had 45 minutes to kill, so we walked to Provo Beach Resort.

John had $10 left on his card from when he went there with Sam a few months back. He played some game where you throw balls in a dogs mouth and won 9 tickets. I noticed this stuffed animal of the yellow M&M in a claw machine. It was wearing glasses like mine. John tried 3 times to get it with no luck. (I still have a bear that he won for me from a claw machine at Denny's on Valentines Day my sophomore year). He had $3 left on the card, which was exactly enough for this.....
We took our 9 tickets and purchased 2 tattoos (a puppy for John and a dinosaur for me) a Chinese finger trap, and a little poppy. By then it was time to go to our movie.

I don't know what the book is like the movie Water for Elephants was super intense! John made me feel his pulse at one point because it was going so fast. The movie wasn't predictable at all and all of the bright circus scenes were really beautiful to watch. There was one point were Jacob acted like Edward (in twilight) and I had to hurry and snap out of it. He's obviously a good actor but those Twilight movies are terrible.

John put on some Wilco and we drove to Walmart, picked up a couple Mother's Day things, and headed home. It was a really great night and I have 4 really great pictures to remember it by.

summer break

thankful for...

I'm thankful that it's summer. The only thing I have to do is go to Gap, but it's been slow this last week so I haven't even had to do that. It's great. I can already feel the joy of freedom starting to be replaced with boredom, so hopefully I'll start working more hours. But in the mean time I'll just keep making cookies and watching 30 Rock on Netflix.


made me laugh...

Whenever I ask John if he wants to do something (and he really doesn't want to), he doesn't just say no. Yesterday I asked him if he wanted to do something (I honestly can't remember what) while we were walking over to his house and he quickly replied, "I'd rather cut off both of my legs, sew them on backwards, then swim the English Channel."

It caught me so off guard and I couldn't stop laughing.

a day full of finals.

learned...

Today I learned that 7 am finals are the WORST. No one can think clearly that early. I got the scantron in french and of course did the whole thing with pen (Seriously? I've known since 1st grade that you can't use pens on those things.) And I didn't even fill in the tiny circles neatly like I usually do either. I made a huge X over each one. Even if it was in pencil, the computer wouldn't read the huge marks I made. I think my subconsious was pissed off that I wasn't still asleep. I honestly didn't realize what I was doing until I was half way through... so I just finished and said sorry to my professor when I handed it to him and he realized he'd have to grade it by hand. I don't even feel bad about it after seeing that guy everyday for the past 3.5 months. To make my sleepiness worse, it's 5 pm now. One more final before I can call it a day. Luckily this one won't use a scantron.


tender mercy...

I haven't been sick all semester and it finally caught up with me. Getting sick isn't the tender mercy, it's that I lasted a whole semester before today.


thankful for...

I'm thankful that my mom woke up early and brought me to school at 6:30 am this morning!

I had the funnest day with John this last weekend, and I wish it were today. We went on a really long bike ride. Our first stop was the Provo Mall for some shoping (for him) and lunch at Hot dog on a Stick. Then we rode to the Provo Library so I could pick up a tax paper. We considered a Slurpee but were too full from lunch. We strolled to Heidi's house and said hello to her roommates. I remembered a potluck that one of my classes was having, so we got back on our bikes and headed to BYU. We saw Kellie and talked for a second, learned about funny English words and had amazing Indian Food. Since we were already at BYU, we went to the MOA and I showed John the "Matter of Words" exhibition (which is really cool). Then we made our way home. It was a really great, relaxing day. And it was nice to spend most of it outside.