New Favorite Picture

Don't you just love the look on his face? It makes me so happy!
(click the picture to make it bigger)

Cure for a bad day!

So today wasn't a very good day, but this commercial made me feel better! Enjoy!

Bumper Sticker

I was driving home tonight when I noticed the car in front of me had a bumper sticker. It read "Voldemort Votes Republican" for some reason that just really made me laugh!
You can get this bumper sticker for your very own here.

Classics

So the genre study we are doing at work for April and May is on Literary Fiction and Classics.

I'm not a big fan of the classics, although admittedly I haven't read very many of them. So I am looking for suggestions of what to read. What have been your favorite classics to read? Which ones did you hate?

And yes, I'm just going to admit right now (I feel like a high schooler saying this!) that the shorter the book the better (although if it is a really good story I can probably do a longer one) since I have a lot of other things to do at the moment.

Thanks for your help and I look forward to your suggestions!

That's just wrong!

So I was at Shopko this morning and I happened by these strange socks. They look like mittens for your feet. Weird!

Then I looked at the add next to the socks and realized that they are socks to be worn with flip flops! That's just wrong!!!


This sort of behavior should not be promoted!

Ouch

Pretty much every day that I blow dry my hair I hit myself in the head with my blow dryer. You would think that I would learn to not make jerking motions that close to my head, but I sure don't!

Does anyone else do this or am I just special?

Funny poem

So I'm trying to memorize this poem to use for my storytelling class (I have to tell 2-3 stories (I'm using a poem as well as 2 stories) for children, 2 stories for teens, and 2 stories for adults). I just thought I'd share this funny poem with all of you!

Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face by Jack Prelutsky

Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose,
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze
your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose instead through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
Not pasted on some other place--
be glad your nose is on your face!

Chicago!

So I went to Chicago for 4 days a couple of weeks ago. It was so nice to get out of Provo and go on vacation! I went with 2 of my co-workers and ignored homework (for the most part) and loved it!

We did tons of stuff, but here are the highlights with pictures.

We arrived at the top of the Sears Tower at sunset. Beautiful!

President Obama was in town!

We went to the Art Institute of Chicago twice (it was free February!) We saw some awesome artwork.



The bean sculpture (aka Cloud Gate) in Millennium Park.
We went on a walking historic skyscraper tour. It was really interesting.

The Chicago Theater.

The skyline from Navy Pier.

We rode the public transit (elevated trains and subways), went to Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, the Chicago History Museum, and lots of yummy restaurants.

We had a great time!

Remind me to tell you the story of how we almost missed our plane back to SLC.

Love is in the Air....

or can be if you go to this site. I found this while doing homework the other morning. It made me laugh!

I didn't know Google offered that service! Also don't miss the tour, it's amazing!

Pondering

Why do people push the elevator button multiple times? It doesn't make it come any faster.

Happy Birthday Cruz!

Today is my nephew's 1st Birthday! Enjoy these pictures and video of the cutest nephew on the planet! Also disregard my voice on the video, I know I sound dumb.

Just a few pics from 2008

Here is a small sample in pictoral form of what I did in 2008.

2008-A Year of Vacations and New Experiences

So 2008 brought a bounty of vacations and new experiences for me. Here’s a run-down of what I did this year.

January- Kat and I took our annual “get out of Provo and go somewhere warm” trip to Arizona. We got to hang out with Ritz and Leah and had a fabulous time! On our way to Mesa we slept in a wigwam on Route 66! That was awesome!!
I became an aunt on January 13th when my first nephew Cruz was born!
I began grad school at San Jose State University.

February- My co-workers and I went to San Antonio Texas for 4 days. We enjoyed the warm weather and eating outside on the Riverwalk.

March- Shelly, Eric, and I drove to Seattle for Cruz's baby blessing. My parents flew out for the blessing as well. It was fun to see Seattle and visit Brendan and Tatem.

April- Caroline and I took a "vacation" to Salt Lake. We went to the temple with Jenny and hung out at the zoo. It was a really fun hometown vacation.

May- I relaxed after finishing my first semester of grad school, then 2 weeks later began my 2nd semester.
I went to Goblin Valley and Natural Bridges National Monument on Memorial day with my co-workers.

June- Sariah and I went to a concert at UVU. It was a lot of fun!

July- My entire family (except for Gary and Eric) went to Seattle for a week. It was so fun to see Brendan and Tatem's new place and of course play with Cruz. We got to see more of Seattle and just have a fun time together.
I also went to an Opera (my 2nd one) in Logan with my co-workers.

August- I went to Cedar City twice. Once for a work conference and the second time for the Shakespeare Festival with my co-workers.
I went to the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival something I like to do yearly.
I began my 3rd semester of grad school.

September- I went to the Sheepdog Festival for the 2nd time. Last year it was blistering hot, this year it was freezing cold! But we still had a good time!
My mom came to town and we spent time going dress shopping with Shelly and working on wedding plans.

October- A bunch of us old 2nd Warders got together and had a great time reuniting!
I had my wisdom teeth removed, it wasn't super fun, but it's over!
I went to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in American Fork with my co-workers.

November- I had Thanksgiving at my grandma's house in Payson.
Shelly had a family bridal shower and I continued helping her with wedding plans and getting her bridals taken.

December- I helped at the Festival of Trees in SLC. It was a really neat experience.
I went home to Missouri for Christmas.
Shelly and Jershon got married in Nauvoo on the 20th.
Gary and Carla got married in St. Louis on the 27th.
I got to play with Cruz for a whole week!

"How to Talk to Girls" by Alec Greven

I just saw the cutest clip from the Today Show...check it out here:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/28050331#28050331

You can also read the accompanying article here:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28038281/?GT1=43001

He's got some pretty solid advice!

Homework

WEEK #11 THOUGHT BUBBLE: You are on a mission…
Go to the mall and visit a teen-centric retail store (and can someone please tell me why at Hot Topic are all the t-shirts from all the bands I listened to way back when...?). Look at the place with your librarian eyes.... What, if anything, is going on there that isn't typically found in a library's teen area but would work in the library setting?

This is verbatim my homework assignment for today. I literally spent 1.5 hours doing "homework" at the mall this morning.

Best. assignment. ever!

Selectively Sleepy

Lately whenever I try to study, I keep drifting off. This morning I was reading through some PDF articles on my computer and I just couldn't stay focused and alert.

However, when I decided to give myself a break and look at blogs, suddenly I was awake and ready to read blog after blog.

However how can you not stay awake when you get to see cute Cruz army crawling? You can check it out for yourself here!

Learn Something New!

Although I'm currently in school and swamped...that doesn't mean the rest of you can get off so easy! I've recently found some cool websites that I wanted to share.

This is a list of 100 Useful, Free Web Tools for Lifelong Learners. If I wasn't in school right now, I would love the explore some of the awesome FREE courses that you can take through schools like MIT, Harvard Medical School, and Notre Dame just to name a few!

In reading one of my textbooks for my Programming and Services for Young Adults class, the Louvre Museum website was mentioned a few times as being spectacular. Check it out.

Tag Galaxy is a site that combines tags on Flickr pictures with a sort of visual dictionary. It's pretty cool!

So while I'm doing loads of homework this week, I expect you guys to learn something new and tell me about it, because I won't get a chance to really look at these sites until, oh, about 2010.

Mini 2nd Ward Reunion

So last night a bunch of us got together at TGIFridays and just had a blast catching up with each other. It's amazing how many of us are still around in Provo/SLC. I had such a great time just seeing everyone. It made me miss old friends and cherish the times we spent together!

This is maybe 1/3 of the group! I think we had over 30 people come.

Apt. 63 (minus Ashley) and 41 together again!

Jake and I. So fun to hang out with Jake again!

Seriously? Do you have to do that here?

I like to study on campus because it gives me a break from studying at home and I tend to be less distracted.

However, sometimes I wonder if I really want to submit myself to being on campus. Like today, I'm at the library reading and minding my own business. When a couple (they were either engaged or married) sat at the table with me. That's fine. I can share the table. But then they proceeded to whisper sweet nothings, and kiss, and cuddle and just basically annoy me for over an hour!

Seriously? Did they have to do that here? Couldn't they go find some spot of grass to cuddle on?
Blech!

Things that make you go hummm....

I was looking at a library blog today and ran across a posting on anniversaries and gifts to give for anniversaries (like the first year is paper and the blog was saying that books would be the perfect gift) anyway, apparently the couple pictured below does this every 5 years.



They call them "tunnel" pictures. They actually get a portrait taken of themselves holding the portrait from the previous 5 years. I'm not sure how I feel about it...but I thought I would share!