An Update Type Thingy

It's been a long time since I posted anything here. And it seems like every time I do post something, I always say I'm going to be better at posting more regularly. Yeah, Sure I am. This time I make no such promises. Not that it matters as the only person who may possibly read this is Crystal and she's two feet away from me mocking Snow White (the Disney one). So an update on my life.

School

I GRADUATED!!!!

I look at this every morning to remind myself that it really happened.

Notice how it doesn't say anything about pre-med? Yeah I finally came to my senses and realized I'm a social science person. I loved everything about the criminal justice program at Weber. Even statistics and research methods. Now I have to start paying back student loans in February.....

Work

Even though I now have this fancy shmancy piece of paper now, I'm still working at Ogden's Union Station as an office assistant/event coordinator. I alternate between loving it and loathing it. It all depends on the day. The community events are my favorite to work on and there have been a bunch lately.

We hosted the annual Zombie Prom fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Last year a hearse ran over a water pipe some how, broke it and we had a lovely ten foot geyser in front of the building. This year we kept waiting for something strange to happen but the only bad thing that happened was the wedding (which was informed that there would be a large amount of zombies on property that day) decided to freak out and we almost had to call the cops on the father of the groom. Steve and Trish Strank have made this event so amazing each year, that even with my dislike of zombies, I look forward to it every year. I didn't get any pictures of the zombies, but Tracy and I got our picture taken with the Ghost Busters.

Who ya gonna call?

We had the 844 steam engine visit and Ogden was declared a Train Town USA. This day we had more events going on at one time then we have ever had before, or ever will again.

The Past and The Present

I see void stuff.

Me, Roberta and Tracy

The 844

Mayor Caldwell helping uncover the Train Town USA sign

The Ladies of the Station
(all our staff minus Jarred)

It was also Harvest Moon Festival the same day

Two trips are for sissies

This happened one night. It had been raining non-stop all day and then suddenly, nothing. I looked out my window and saw the rainbow and had to go outside to take pictures because everything looked so amazing. 

I work here

While I was outside I saw a blonde woman come running at me with her arms open. I'm so used to crazy things happen I didn't even pay her any attention until she called my name. Then I realized it was my old rommate Amy. If you look closely at the picture below you can see Amy and her husband Chris standing by the road under the stop light.

There were actually three rainbows all at the same time

 

While the other pictures above were run through Instagram (because I love it), this one is straight from my iphone. The sky was this pink/orange

 

 Last night was the third annual Zombie Crawl so my building was once again invaded by zombie hordes. But this time they all wandered around downtown Ogden.

Sorry people trying to use Wall Avenue. Zombies move slowly.

Zombie hunters

I don't know why I look so happy.
I really don't like when people are in full
makeup and I can't see their faces.

Now it's time for the events that we host. This week we have the paranormal tours of the Station, Witches Tea Party and Witchstock. Thankfully this year we aren't fully in charge of Witchstock. It was WAY too much work last year. We are however trying to win first place in the decoration contest so we've been staying late at work almost every day working on the front of the building.

Larry

Tracy

Creepy child-sized skeleton

Heck yes.

The whole time we were out doing this,
I kept singing "you and me spray paintin' in the dark"

It looks even cooler now. Last night I overheard so many positive comments which makes all our hard work worth it. Now if we can just win first place, get the $200 prize and pay back the $200 we went over on the budget......

Friends

They are awesome.

Lori, Amanda, Don, Me and Amy

Robin, Dave, Don, Me, Christa
Alex, Al, Rochelle, Amy
Amanda, Lori, Jason

Amanda, Me, Al, Christa and Alex at the Air Force Academy Chapel

Meagan, Crystal, Christian and Me watching Raiders of the Lost Ark IN THEATER!!

Why yes we wore tiaras while grocery shopping. We are princesses after all.

The last night in our old house
Crystal, Me, Kiralei and Meagan

Because capes are awesome

Family

We actually got family pictures taken on Amy's birthday. I haven't seen them yet but I hope at least some of them turned out good.

My 28th birthday dinner

Garden of the Gods
(before it caught on fire)

"Act Normal"

Love this kid

My beautiful baby sister on her 21st birthday

Admiring the fountain at City Creek

Peach Days 2012

Jason and Amy with her first legal drink
(Technically that one is Jason's since she didn't like the mojito she ordered) 

Amanda, Amy and I at Stephanie and Ryan's wedding

Random pictures I took that I like

Downtown SLC

Not the right shoes to wear to the beach

Breakfast

The path for our photo-adventure

The best picture I took of the solar eclipse.

The Great Salt Lake from the deck of Saltaire just before the Mumford & Sons concert.

Whew. That was a REEEAAALLLYYY long post. I'm going to bed now.

Ariel and Corey June 2008

These are pictures from my cousin Ariel's wedding in 2008.

Walking down the asile

The Newly Weds

Wow.

It has been a long time since I posted on this! I've been super busy with school and work. Cindy and I had to go to breakfast at 8 am this morning just to be able to hang out for a few hours. Hopefully this blog will start becoming more geared toward my photography and maybe a little bit of my craft stuff (if I ever pull my craft trunk out of my closet...)

Cindy and I will be shooting a couple of our friends' upcoming weddings. I love doing the engagements, bridals and the receptions but the ceremony scares the crap out of me. It's the only time in the whole process that you can't somehow recreate the moment. The second wedding I did, I missed the moment of the father lifting the bride's veil and kissing her cheek. We tried to do something after the ceremony but it just wasn't the same. I got lots of great pictures that day and the bride didn't mind that I didn't get the picture but it still bugs me to this day.

The weather here is Utah is beautiful today which is so strange in comparison with what is going on in the world. How am I so lucky that I get bright blue sky when the people in Japan have death and destruction and the people of Hawaii have tsunami warnings today? My heart breaks for them, but I look outside and see the first signs of spring and it makes me happy. How can I feel both these emotions at the same time?

Wreck This Journal

There is a book called "Wreck This Journal". I had looked for it around Christmas to give to a friend as a gift and couldn't find it. Then on Sunday night I met my new best friend while hanging out with some other friends. She had the journal and had been doing it for a few months. I told her I had been looking for it but couldn't find it so we made plans to go to Barnes & Noble the next to find it.

If you don't know, the "Wreck This Journal" is a book of all kinds of random ideas on how to destroy/improve the book. The instructions are totally open to interpretation. Like for instance, there is a page that says "Write one word over and over again". This could mean pick some random word that strikes your fancy and write it all over the page. Or you could literally write "one word" all over the page.

Doesn't seem hard now does it? I didn't think so. Until we went to B&N on Monday and found the book. Now I have a dilemma.

And my dilemma is two fold.

One, it is a book. I have spent my whole life taking care of my books. I like them to be all clean and pretty. I love the smell of new books, the way the pages feel when they're still all crisp, but this book is telling me to do all kinds of things like smear dirt on one page or to "pour, spill, drip, spit, fling your coffee here" and to "cut through several layers". What?! You want me to do what to a book?

Two, if I can some how manage to get over my weirdness about defacing a book, am I creative enough to come up with cool ways of following the directions? I've looked up pictures of other people's books (Yes. They post the pictures. Type Wreck This Journal into Google and click on the Flickr one). What if I come up with lame ways of following the instructions? What if my book just turns out stupid?

So for now I just stare at the book. I mean I do open it and read the instructions. I was even going to do one of them tonight. Something easy to ease me into it. One page simply says "Crack the Spine". I have tons of books that have had the spine cracked while I was reading them. But none of them have intentionally been cracked. I couldn't do it. I put the book down. I can't even do the page where it tells you a bunch of different ways to write your name.

I failed.

Summer and school shouldn't mix

Ah summer. Remember summer? Back in elementary school when summer actually meant something different? Not just you doing the same old thing that you always do just with hotter temperatures. Now it's still the same work everyday and school. Yes summer school. It used to be you only had to worry about it if you did poorly during the school year. Now you pray that the one class you need to keep you on track will be taught in the summer. It's most likely not but if it is it will be Monday, Wednesday and every other Friday from 11:45 to 1:22. At the Davis campus. Ok so mines not that bad. It's online. But the other one I wanted to take was at the Davis campus on tuesdays and thursdays from 5:30 to 8:10. That doesn't sound too bad until you throw my stupid work schedule into the mix. I know I know I should just be happy that I have a job with more hours than I want. Lots of people don't even have a job. But honestly some days I think this job will be the death of me. I can't even tell you really what the problem is. I just feel like the life force is being sucked out of me. I wish I could be a full time student. I'm jealous of my sister. So jealous. She started college right out of high school so she's going to be done this next winter. She works part time and goes to school full time. Me I work 50 hours a week and try to fit school in there somewhere. It's been so long since I did full time school, I'm afraid I've forgotten how. I know that sounds silly. I'm just in a very strange place in my life.

More Random Thoughts

So I decided that I needed to update my blog but I just couldn't decide what to write about so I'm going to write about a bunch of random stuff. 

1 - Jazz games rock. I went to my first one last night and I had so much fun. Thanks to Don I knew everything that was going on even though I don't follow basketball. That boy knows more about sports then I could even want to know. He could tell me where every player on both teams went to college and what draft pick they were as well as other random facts. It was really cool. Thanks to Figge's boo button, I successfully prevented the Hornets from scoring a few baskets. If only it would work for free throws......

2 - Youtube sucks for allowing the leaked pictures of Rhianna to be on their site. I didn't want to see them. That poor girl deserves to have some privacy, not the pictures the police took to be all over the internet. All I wanted to do was look up a video and they were right there with over 700,000 views. People are sick.

3 - My mother has a Facebook page now. It's funny. I helped her set it up the other day and now a whole bunch of my friends have added her as their friend. 

4 - Work has been insane. So much crap going on. (note for Tylin: Everything that I used to tell you times 1000). It's only going to get worse in the next few weeks. I'm exhausted.

5 - I want to go snowboarding.

6 - The sweater Ziva is wearing in "Suspicion" is butt ugly. It should be destroyed. I think she actually wears it in another episode. :0(

7 - Speaking of NCIS, I think that I need to come up with my own list of rules like Gibbs has. 

8 - This last week's episode of Bones was funny. Boothe was "incapasipapated" by back pain and vicadin. It was funny.

9 - My boyfriend needs an attitude adjustment. He was so grumpy yesterday.

10 - Bell choir is out of control. I really do love playing bells but practices are so aggravating. We have a ton of music to learn for the Spring Ring in a few weeks but between Cathie, Doris and Kathy Ebling all running their mouths it takes twice as long to do ANYTHING. Then they argue and the girls up top stop paying attention and start talking then the same people who are causing the ruckus yell at them. It's so stupid.

Well I think that's it............ for now :0)

Bones

So I was all kinds of excited to watch Bones tonight. I was already disappointed to find out that it's now on at 8 pm instead of 7 pm like it has been. But that's ok. I'm flexible. It comes on and I'm watching it and then something dawns on me. Zach was on it. He's in prison for murder (which he didn't actually do btw. They kinda dropped that story line. The most he should get is conspiracy to commit). I wish he'd come back. They need to bring back that story line, clear him and get him working at the lab again. That's my opinion. I miss Zach. I miss Angela and Hoggins being together and Hoggins being in a good mood. I still like the show but I have a lot of issues with the directions that it's going this season. Luckily, NCIS has been exceptionally good this season. I think I've yelled at the TV at least three episodes so far this season. That's a good sign from me. Although. This episode of Bones has been pretty entertaining. I like Dr. Sweets. It's also funny that he's the geeky version of Ben.