Yo Ai Lo'u 'Aiga. :) (Spanish, Chinese, Samoan)

Dating.

dating is the worst.

Boys are dumb.

No, I'm not in a heartbroken state or anything like that. Truth be told, I actually don't like anyone right now. I'm not dating anyone. I haven't broken up with anyone recently. I don't have anyone interested in me. There's nothing going on in that area right now.

I'm just living and loving life!

But I have something to say.

To guys: MAN UP. ASK GIRLS ON DATES.

My dating life has consisted largely of either me asking guys on dates (girls-choice dances) and blind dates (set-ups). I AM DONE.

It is not my job to initiate my entire dating life.

Guess what happens.

I'm sitting in Relief Society and they announce that the Elders Quorum is doing a dating activity thing and they want all the girls who are available on October 11 to sign up so that the guys can pick a girl from the list and take her on a date.

I don't have anything against going on dates.

But I HATE the way this was set up.

Boys will NOT ask girls on dates, so the GIRLS are basically giving their PERMISSION for guys to ask them out!

We're saying YES to the date before they even ask us!

Initiator: girl. again. 

AND, if that's not aggravating enough:

There are more girls in our ward than guys.

Not all of the girls are going to be picked for this thing either!

So here you have this group of girls excited to go on a date with some guy in the ward, and what happens if nobody picks them? That's heartbreaking! Not for me though. If I hadn't been asked, I wouldn't feel too badly. I'm USED to that. I'd be fine. But not all girls are so immune. It's like not getting asked to Prom. It SUCKS to have that opportunity, ESPECIALLY for those to whom it never comes anyway, and then never get the chance to take it! What about those girls who have signed up that won't get dates? What does that do to them?

This whole thing was not thought out well, in my opinion.

Thoughts?

life is still good.

I wish I was in Disneyland right now with my family. I've been craving it for weeks.

Dearest Lisa. I read your blog yesterday and wanted to hold Baby Alice.

I watched a tv show Thursday night called Elementary.

Sherlock Holmes deal.

Series premier.

Where I live, we have free cable. We just don't ever hook it up to our tv. I never watch tv, except for when I go home, in which case Sports Center dominates the screen.

 

I've seen more top ten plays than there have been contestants (and judges) on American Idol.

I haven't followed a tv show since Smallville and Gilmore Girls. This is fun. :)

 

I was doing Chinese homework while watching it, so I wasn't paying super close attention.

So the whole mystery thing... I saw it get solved in the end but I wasn't even trying to figure out the "whodunnit."

 

So I liked the show fine.

It's just the girl...

I like the Jude Law version of Watson WAY better.

I love Asians,

I loved Johnny Lee Miller (Sherlock),

but I'm not sold on Lucy Liu's Watson character.

 

But first episodes are typically not the best ones,

so next week should be better. :)

 

In the meantime:

Studying for tests/doing homework to the Sherlock Holmes soundtrack (with Mr. Law and Robert Downey Jr. just to be clear):

best. ever.

Rissa and I did that this morning and then went to take our tests

and we totally owned them.

BoMB. :)

 

Also,

I love my family. :)

weird picture to post after I just express my love for my family, right?

But I'm at work, meaning my options aren't as extensive,

AND,

my sister introduced me to this song and I became OBSESSED with it. :)

 

life is good.

family is better. :)

 

I have a favorite hotel, and that hotel is the Embassy Suites in La Quinta, CA.

I iz a collej stoodent.

And yes, I still get some joy out of intentionally spelling words horrendously and abhorrently wrong. :)

But as I was doing homework,

and falling asleep because I was up until 4:00AM (I wish you could capitalize numbers) this morning working on assignments for another class,

I somehow ended up at my blog.

I started reading posts from my high school days-

the days when I started this blog. :)

A flood of thoughts went and are still going through my mind.

However,
I found this post

and decided to re-post it. :)

For my answers from four years ago, click here. :)

Four Places I Visit Over and Over:
1: Work. yay.
2: School.
3: The hill by the stadium. :)
4: HOKULIA. :) :)

Four People Who Text Me The Most:
[yesh, I changed this from "Email" to "Text"]
1: Rissa. easily.
2: Twitter
3: Skweez
4: Michael (muh bro)

Four of My Favorite Foods (if you know me, you know how hard this is for me to pick just four)
1: My mom's cream of broccoli soup. :)
2: Pizza
3: SHAVED ICE. :) I'm counting it.
4: ummm... seriously, I love/eat everything... I'll sayyyyyyyyy... Oreos. good shtuff. :)

Four Places I'd Rather Be Right Now:
1: Disneyland
2: Lake Powell
3: Hokulia
4: IN BED.

Four Movies I'd Watch Over and Over:
1: The Sandlot
2: Heavyweights
3: Napoleon Dynamite
4: BABY MAMA!!! :)

Four Bands/Singers I Love to Listen To:
1: BRAD PAISLEY!!! :)
2: Imagine Dragons
3: Scotty McCreery
4: Enya :)

Hope Ya Know, We Had a Hard Time

I'VE BEEN ABLE TO EAT SINCE WEDNESDAY! sweet. :)

small secret:

 

I actually LIKE losing my voice.

 

I think it sounds cool. :)

 

I get called many things at work. :)

 

life?

life is good. :)

...cause my ride is better than yours. ;)

guys.

I can't eat.

Like at ALL.

Wanna know what I had yesterday?

7:00AM: Half a glass of orange juice. And by "glass" I mean "paper cup." aka: small.

(I LOVE orange juice. Only half a glass??)

7:20AM: One piece of bread.

12:25PM: A chocolate Cadbury cookie thing with carmel in it from Europe.

(yay for friends who just got back from Study Abroad!)

6:10PM: Shaved ice.

(Oh my DIVINE. Snow cones = the worst. Shaved Ice = Heavenly. :) Polynesians are the shiz. :) )

(ps: it was half pina colada and half blue raspberry with coconut. Next time you go, try it. It'll change your life. :) )

10:00PM: Grilled cheese sandwhich.

(but it also had tomatoes, italian seasoning, and a teeny bit of garlic salt. That is how you make grilled cheese sandwhiches. just sayin.)

That's it.

I am SAMOAN. I EAT. A LOT. But lately, eating has been a chore. But I (try to) eat because

1: I don't want to go anorexic.

2: I don't want my metabolism to slow down by not eating so that when I can eat again I won't get fat.

So in the meantime, I basically force food down.

This has happened to me before,

and I did get over it,

so I just have to give it time.

It's just kinda sucky.

I drew this at work for Greta at a time when a toaster struedel sounded so wonderful. :)

But still, you guys,

life? life is still good. :)



My Beast brings all the boys to the yard...

So the other day,

(actually, last Friday)

I was walking on campus

and saw these two EFY boys.

No, it's NOT going there-

I was not smitten.

However,

they made me smile SO BIG

because they were both walking along,

singing a song,

each with a ukulele in hand.

Sometimes I smile to myself because I know

that God loves me. :)

(especially when things out of my control get hard to deal with.) :)

life?

life is good. :)

I'm very sensitive to people's energies.

I like sunglasses.

I currently only have three pairs.

[Is that a lot?]

I intend to collect more.

cHECK iT.

Pair #1: Butterflies

On Wednesday May 12, 2010,

I got contacts.

Big step.

It was actually another pair of glasses that led me to this decision:

I got these for free at a basketball game.

BYU Basketball, you have changed my life. ;)

Once I got contacts, the first thing I had planned to do was to get sunglasses.

I think I had originally planned on getting white ones,

but then I saw the Butterflies.

Love. :)

Pair #2: THE B-A'S

my favorite. :)

I was at Buckle with my brother.

He was looking for a new shirt.

I fell in love with these bad-a aviators and a cowboy hat.

[cow...girl... hat]

[I think I feel a Johnny Lingo reference coming on]

I wanted both, but didn't want to spend my money.

Michael bought me the sunglasses,

and I bought the hat. :)

We refer to any outfit that includes these two wonders

as my bad-a outfit. :)

guys,

I'm actually a country girl at heart. :)

(ps: these aviators are the same ones on my cover photo on fb!)

Pair #3: Fake Ray-Ban's

My brother's wife's half birthday was about a week ago.

My brother wanted me to buy her these sunglasses for him so that he could give them to her as an inside joke.

She got teal ones.

They had a sale.

I got white. :)

Funny story:

I had sent my brother a picture of the glasses to make sure they were the right ones.

He called me back and confirmed it.

At the end of the call, he said,

"Thanks, Ben."
Ben?

He was talking to someone at work.

Guess who picked up a new nickname? :)

_________________________

So I keep all of these pairs of sunglasses in my car.

If anyone wants to wear them,

I simply ask,
"Do you want Butterflies, B-A's or Bans?"

It'll be interesting to see how the next pair fits in.

haha- love random obsessions. :)

ALSO FLOWERS. :) :)

life?

life is good. :)