July 8th, 2008 at 12:49am
One of the strangest, yet fun family traditions that my mom started 7 or 8 years ago is on the 4th of July to hand out root-beer floats to random strangers. My mom lives a few blocks from Sugar House park and when the fireworks are over we give root-beer floats to people walking back to their cars. It is so funny to see the looks on people’s faces when we offer them a free root-beer float– I imagine I would be a little suspicious myself. The reactions we get range from a confused “no, thank you…,” to “Wow, this is awesome, you made my day!” We also have people telling us that they look forward to root-beer floats every year and each year they hope we will still be there. It is totally random, but always a blast.
My Mom, my Aunt, my hot Husband, my Niece, and my Eleanor.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:35pm
Today marks the first official day of Utah Valley University! The past two days have been a full of celebrations to ring in the new era. I came to UVSC as a freshman in 2001 and graduated with my BA degree in 2005. After graduation I got a job interpreting at UVSC, and it’s hard to believe that with school and work I have been on campus for 7 years! That is a very long time to stay in one place. I am glad I have been able to witness the changes and be part of them at this school over the last 7 years, it had provided me with opportunities that I wouldn’t have had any other place.
Today at the the official ceremony and ribbon cutting there were politicians and big wigs from all over the state as well as President Monson who dedicated the new building. I had the opportunity to interpret the event and I will never forget it.
GO UVU!
My awesome co-workers Carol, Jason, and Sonya
The new library
There are tons of new bronze statues at the new library
Sonya and I looking hot in our free UVU visors! Nerds!
June 9th, 2008 at 11:01pm
Two Saturdays ago I had my first scurfing (or skurfing) experience. Scurfing was introduced to me by my good friend Sam who is pretty much an expert at it. Sam wrote a blog post about the first time he went scurfing and there is really sweet video that I highly recommend you watching.
I was really nervous considering I am not what most people would call coordinated or athletic. I thought for sure I would end up falling and breaking my arm or head. Knowing my own awkwardness I don’t even normally attempt these kind of things, but I am happy to report that I survived will only a few scratches and very sore arms from holding onto the wall for dear life for about 10 minutes until I got the courage to let go.
Here are some pics for your entertainment.
“Look, no hands!”
Sorry ladies, he’s taken.
Dean pulled off his first 180- it was sweet.
Don’t let the fact that water is lower and slower this time of year trick you into thinking it is safer, right after this picture was taken Sam wiped out real bad and messed up his shoulder. He has an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow. That really put a damper on the fun.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:20pm
Almost a year ago I wrote a blog post about gas prices . I shocked many of you when I said that I hope to see gas prices continue to go up. Well, as we all know they have, and as I suspected, we are seeing some positive changes despite the immediate strain it is causing all of us financially. On KSL.com there was an article that reported “Americans drove 11-billion fewer miles than they did at this time last year”–this is the biggest drop seen since 1979. Not to mention that greenhouse emissions were cut by 9-million metric tons. Awesome.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:52pm
Every (nearly) Sunday night, Stephe and I have “Cookie Night” at our house. Cookie Night has been a long standing tradition with Stephe’s friends starting over at Jeremy and Bethia’s, then rotating to other places and now we have been the honored hosts for over a year. Anyway, this last Sunday was a special Cookie Night because Sam and Dean introduced us to their couch surfer– BJ Hill.
BJ is walking across America and asking people to write in his note-book thoughts, comments, and messages to the future president of the United States. He is a really, really nice guy and has amazing stories. He did something similar 2 years ago for the Massachusetts elections. After he was done, he presented the book to elected Governor and the book is now kept in the Massachusetts state archives.
So, last night we all got the opportunity to write in the book and be part of history. Writing in the book was very intimidating for me, and I had a really hard time thinking of something to write, and with all the commotion going on and listening to BJ talk it was really hard for me to write anything even somewhat intelligent. Even though what I wrote was really dumb and probably didn’t even make sense, I am really glad I got to be a part of something so cool.
This is BJ, check out his blog.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:36am
I have known for sometime now that Fox 13 news is the worst news channel in Utah, and seeing as how it is the ugly step-sister of the evil that is Fox news I shouldn’t have been surprised tonight when I noticed something very backwards about the news cast.
Tonight I was watching Fox 13 News and they have a segment called “World in a Minute” where some guy talks as fast as the Mirco Machine man and they speed through all the world events in 60 seconds.
“World in a Minute” is a ridiculous feature if you think about it- in an hour long news cast they set a whole 60 seconds to tackle all of the world headlines. To add insult too, the following 2+ minutes (I actually timed this) was devoted to American Idol and some charity thing they did. That’s not news! Anyone else find that unsettling?
Fox news, and Fox 13 news in Utah=InfoTainment.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:20pm
If any of you in Utah county are looking for someone to cut your hair may I suggest Shalee Price- she is great. Shalee is a good friend of mine who just started assisting and cutting hair at Von Curtis. Not only did she do a good job, she is also one of the hippest, nicest people I know. If you’re interested call me and I’ll get you her number.
This picture is awkward- but I wanted to show the A-line cut Shalee did.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:16pm
This post is for all of my non-computer nerd friends out there.
Over the past few weeks I’ve talked to 4 friends that read blogs everyday and they don’t know about feed readers. If this includes you, keep reading because I’m about to simplify your life.
So, what a feed reader does is update you every time someone writes a new post on their blog, thus saving you from wasting your time checking people’s blogs who rarely write (I know I’m guilty of that).
The easiest way is if you use gmail you can add the blogs that you normally read right there on your e-mail account. Along the top of your e-mail page are different features you can use through gmail, and one is reader. Once you’ve opened the reader feature you can copy and paste all your favorite blogs by clicking on add a subscription. From then on, anytime someone updates their blog the name of the blog will be in bold.
If you don’t use gmail (shame on you) then another good place to get your feeds is www.bloglines.com. Simply set up an account, add your favorites and log in anytime to view all the pictures your friends post of their kids!
P.S. As another helpful hint, those of you who have music on you page, you might not know that it is internet etiquette to allow the viewer to play the music instead of automatically starting.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:10pm
Are you thinking, “I didn’t even know Johnny Appleseed day existed…” ? Honestly, I thought that same thing until Sunday when I went to my mom’s house for dinner.
One thing that I love about my mom is that she is always looking for an excuse to have a theme party. This last Sunday we had a Johnny Appleseed themed dinner to honor Johnny Appleseed day. Just a few weeks ago we had a Chinese New Year themed dinner, complete with chopsticks, fortune cookies, stir fry, Chinese rice candy, and even traditional red envelopes.
Two of my all-time favorite theme dinners that my mom has done have been the “Y2K” dinner (we couldn’t use any electricity to cook the food or while we were eating), and when Salt Lake City had a big tornado my mom hung slinkies from the fans and everything we ate was twisted.
Anyway, back to my point– go eat some apples, make an apple pie, climb an apple tree, or do something fun today to celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day!
February 13th, 2008 at 10:12pm
Today happens to mark the 8th anniversary of the last original Charley Brown comic strip that was printed. What I have been recently annoyed by is, not only is Charley Brown “tenderhearted” but he’s bald too.
I must say that I am a fan of these awkward youngsters, but I am very confused by the baldness. Look at that picture, that is not a kid with a buzzed head– we are looking at Homer Simpson hair. What gives? Also, Charley’s little friend Linus is not doing much better, look at his thinning hair!
I have no problem with baldness at all– I love bald people. But, a balding eight year old…
Did I miss the Sunday paper the week they said that Charley Brown had cancer?
