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. :)

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!! :)

GUYS.

life.

life. is amazing. :)

I. LOVE. THIS. KID. :) :)

nephews. simple joy of life. :)

I like to dance.

I've always been somewhat extremely flexible.

Limbo?

I win.

ALWAYS.

except on Friday...

there was a guy that was INSANE.

CRAZY!

Wicked good. Better than me.

He won the limbo contest at our stake institute dance.

BARELY.

I took second.

And I wouldn't have a problem with this at all,

except that

this was a YSA stake institute dance.

YSA.

Emphasis on the SINGLE.

HE WAS MARRIED.

What the heck was he doing there??

It's not like he was a chaperone or stake leader or anything...

He was like our age!

I don't know for sure if he has any affiliation with my Young Single Adult stake,

but I'm pretty sure he doesn't.

And I'm pretty sure I should have won.

whatevs.

Perry would have wasted him. :)

 life?

life is good. :)

Food Network!!! :) MAJOR points if you read this whole thing.

...hhhhhi. :)

I've decided to come back to the blogging world!

My sincerest apologies for leaving... I actually love blogging

[if you can call it that- my posts are a little less than traditional. :)]

and I just got out the habit of keeping up any of the

THREE

blogs that I have.

What happened?

Well, for a while my absence was due to crazy busy-ness.

Heard that one before?

Take a small glimpse of what I was looking at:

FALL SEMESTER
 Mondays and Wednesdays:

6:00AM: Running with brothers and sister-in-law.
6:30 - 730: Get ready for classes. Usually just wore sweats or basketball shorts. Ate breakfast, gathered materials, tried to do something quick but not completely sloppy with my hair. Gotta impress the boys, you know? ;)
7:30: Walk with roommates to campus.
8:00: Flexibility Class (disclaimer... my classes this semester were fun classes... long story. basically I was in between majors and couldn't do much else.)
9:00: New Testamant (LOVED.)
10:00 - 11:00: Homework time. There was always a plethora.
11:00: Weight Training. Teacher was BOMB. :)
12:00: Living with Plants. yes. Living with Plants. Filled my GE biology requirement.
1:00-2:00: Homework break #2.
2:00: Bowling. So much fun in this class. :)
3:00: ASL (American Sign Language) LOVED!
3:50-4:15: Walk home.
4:15-5:15: Take a cold shower. Literally. After walking 25 minutes to and from campus, Flexibility (we actually did get sweaty in that class, though minimally), Weight Training, walking up and down a 105-step staircase four times walking to and from classes, and doing this all in 85 degree weather, you tend to get a little... gross. hence, sweats/basketball shorts. hence, cold shower (which was DIVINE) with blasted music. more fun that way. :)
5:15: Back to campus. Usually drove.
5:30-7:00: Samoan (LOVE THIS LANGUAGE!!!)
7:00-7:30: FHE (on Mondays)
7:30: Leave for work.
8:00-12:00: Work


The other days of the week were just about as marathon-ish, but these were my worst. And, if you can imagine, Winter Semester was WORSE. Absolutely a nightmare. I still took 15 credits, but my class schedule was actually a lot more consolidated. However, due to opportunities that opened up, I found myself working a new job from 9:00-1:00, (with running and an 8:00 class before that on Mondays and Wednesdays), class almost nonstop from 1:00-7:00 on Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-5:00 on Tuesdays or 1:00-8:00 on Fridays, and then work at my original job until midnight except on Mondays and Thursdays. And then Fridays I had Lu'au practice from 6:00AM-8:00AM. Then Saturdays I had Lu'au practice #2 from 2:00PM-4:00PM. Mix in planning activities for my ward in there with its respective meetings and responsibilities, and you get crazy busy-ness. There was one week in particular where I had 5 hours of unscheduled time. FIVE. THE WHOLE WEEK. (not including the few hours of sleep I was getting every night) I constantly had to be somewhere! I will NOT be doing that again.


So that was my school year, and summer has not been much different as far as being very scheduled. I do have LOTS more unscheduled time now, but my days are still pretty full. However, they are filled with fun things like rock climbing, baseball games, FHE, ward activities, work, Zumba, Institute, movie nights, and spontaneous fun times! I'm usually doing something, and it's usually something I love. :)

So. I am now incorporating blogging into my schedule of fun. Because I like blogging. And quite frankly, I need to come back to my little realm where I just spout off whatever the heck I want to without fear of judgment because

let's face it.

you all love it.

:)

And I love it!

bloggers,
it's good to be back. :)

what's green and has wheels?

...grass. I lied about the wheels. :)

I CAN FINALLY DO THIS BRAID!!! Learned this on Youtube. Took me forever. So. awesome. I love braids! :)

ladies and gentlemen,

life? life is good. :)

HOLY BLOGGER. I've obviously been gone for a while.

ROCK CLIMBING.

holy cow,

I'm obsessed.

Bouldering?

goodness-

it's a blast. :)

So I go to work,

get viciously waved at by people 

that make me smile SO big,

buy a Jamba,

sit outside on a bench 

underneath a beautiful tree with purple buds

and write love notes.

Then I go to work,

get a ride to my car by a beautiful loved one,

drive home on a gorgeous spring evening,

and go rock climbing with my siblings.

5.9 and V2 = my max.

makes me happy. :)

Pitching practice on the front lawn follows

until the sun goes down,

and then a chocolate cookie 

with Farr's vanilla ice cream on top.

Run-ins with viciously waving people again. :)

and all the while I can't help but think to myself:

(you know the words)

life?

life is good. :)

I took these a couple weeks ago,

but look at the gold on the branches on this tree! SO beautiful!

this is beautiful. :)