so long and thanks for all the fish

I have a secret too...I'm pregnant.
You guys, we have to save the honey bees!
Okay, so how much chocolate sauce do you want?
Seriously? What if I was really pregnant?
[no response]
Okay, if you were really pregnant I would be sad.
I would be happy, for your child.
I wouldn't. I would probably encourage you to put it up for adoption.
I would be glad that her child was going to a good home.
How am I a good home?
Well, you'd be a better mother than a meth addict.
Yeah, slightly above a meth addict.
Thanks...?

Angela and I went grocery shopping today.
And about five different guys made fun of us for having such a full cart.
Then all that was open were 15 item or less lanes and self check-out.

Also, I have been attracting Italian speaking people to me left and right. Every new place I've gone someone has ended up speaking Italian. Today in the grocery store I was telling Ang how Alfredo doesn't actually exist in Italy and this guy spins around, "so you lived in Italy?" "uh, yeah..."

Trying to edit mini-mentary but Iz's Mac is failing me and I got the wrong cord to put it on my compy.

Our couch eats people.

the spark for all i've done

the need to be spontaneous and ridiculous is running through my veins.



anyone wanna go play at the duck pond?

when i ruled the world

I own at life.
Oh, sorry, where is my humility?
I have made some great accomplishments lately.

Do you recall the week of death and the writing of two papers in one hour each?
Well, got them back. And I owned them! Got an A on the Humanities one and 100% on my film paper! Huzzah!
I might, just maybe, be a better writer than I give myself credit for, but more likely than that it's luck, and being incredibly charmin'.
And! I got 98/100 on my Italiano esame, even though I didn't even finish reading the stories.
But I probably should stop flaunting my luck or I'll be struck down or something.

I am going to Mexico over Valentine's weekend! For, you know, a romantic getaway with my SO. Ha! Psyche. I'm going to go and play with orphans!!! Help build a school and entertain them. Which is great because I've actually been missing my camp counselor days.

It's perfect. Because when I got back from Italy, my thought was, "next stop...Mexico." I have no idea, I never wanted to go to Mexico before that.
My one wish when we were travelling after Italy was to sleep on the beach (but it was too cold).
I have been wanting to help a third world country really bad and go somewhere warm.
And I had a feeling I should bring my passport to school with me.
Basically it's perfect.
AND this trip the theme is Hollywood and we're making mini-movies with the children!
:)

And, life is amazing.
You want to know why?

Come to Life Club this Thursday. 5.30 pm.
202 in the Maeser Building.

We're about improving lives, starting with our own.

You know those days where you feel like you can conquer everything?
That should be everyday.

25 Bad Habits/Flaws I Have

1. I like to talk during movies (but usually restrain).
2. I like to talk when other people are talking.
3. I like to talk when no one is supposed to be talking.
4. I tell really long stories with no point.
5. I draw attention to myself saying things like, "Okay!" and then have nothing to follow.
6. I actually embrace poor grammar and mispronouncing things because I think it adds character to one's speech.
7. I put bread in the toaster and then forget about it until the next day
8. I leave my shoes in the front room and then wear different shoes until soon there is a mountain of shoes in the front room (it has happened in every place I live).
9. I put things in random places and forget what I did with them and as I result sometimes find my toothbrush on the bookcase or my socks in the refridgerator.
10. I write small and it annoys teachers sometimes. It also looks like a guy's handwriting.
11. I don't like putting my clothes away after doing laundry.
12. I don't eat breakfast most days.
13. I like to be the center of attention in social situations but freeze up in front of a camera.
14. I chronically run into people/things.
15. I get immediately attached to people upon meeting them and love people immensely before I even really know them
16. but get anxious about seriously committing to one person.
17. I make impulsive decisions about big things and think too logn about unimportant things
18. I am stubborn and most likely to do things when people tell me I can't.
19. I am a sucker for flattery and will probably love you forever if you do one nice thing or give me one compliment. It's a little pathetic, ha.
20. I can't play most sports...or the piano.
21. I make fun of people a lot! without even really meaning to.
22. I sing, even though I am no good at it.
23. I am kind of a bad driver.
24. I don't eat enough vegetables.
25. Today I was gloating about how I wrote my paper in the hour before class (not because I am a slacker, but because I wrote down that it was due another day!) and still got 50 before I glanced over and noticed the girl I was talking to got a 49...And probably spent more than an hour on it. Oops.
26. I waste time doing things like this...And will never tire of writing about myself.

you can have it!

If you want it, you can have it
But you've got to learn to reach out there and grab it

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, even as you desire of me so it shall be unto you; and if you desire, you shall be the means of doing much good in this generation."
-Doctrine and Convenants 6:8

I am here to tell you that you can have anything you want.

Not in the sappy if you can dream it's yours, way.

But, in the literal power of positive thinking way. Now, if you want to win the lottery, I can't promise you that'll happen. But there are so many things that are there for the taking and the only thing that's prevent it is that no one is taking.

So yeah, to quote Ben Lee, just do it, whatever it is...whatever it is. just do it!

you love me and you know it.

it is easy to come up with names that come up with J

jess, jebediah, jacklyn, jacob, jessica, jeff, jim, johnny, jaden, jordan, justin, jethro, jude, jill, jamie, julia, joy, joslyn, jared, jed, jackson, jenna, joseph, jean, jan, jane, etc...

so if you're going to name your kids names that start with the same thing, don't choose j, it's a cop out.

like R
try and come up with ten names that start with R. Or Q.

also, i am going to make this goal right now...i am not having 18 kids.

this is why i love megan

we had a text message conversation that lasted about 40 texts, in this format:

I miss you like Wallace misses cheese.
I miss you like Simba misses Mufasa.
I miss you like Marlin misses Nemo.
I miss you like the Beast missed Belle.
I miss you like a movie star misses her hair extensions
I miss you like HSM misses good jokes.
I miss you like Vanessa misses her good reputation.
I miss you like Gollum misses the ring.
I miss you like a kid misses his balloon in the air, at the fair.
I miss you like jelly misses peanut butter.
I miss you like a person on a diet misses cake.
I miss you like Roosevelt misses being able to walk.
I miss you like I miss free rent.
I miss you like I miss you like Angelina misses adopting children.
I miss you like the Earth misses the Ozone.
etc. etc. etc.

you're the top

E'ery day I am more and more glad that I am applying to the film program.
Because film classes, film people, and making films is...well, the best thing ever.
and .... if i don't get in, it is/will be still dam-buildingly worth it.

Today in class, in order to analyze characters, we watched people make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We critiqued their techniques (say that five times fast). How many other classes do you get to make fun of people? Well, I guess Bro. Bott does it all the time in Mission Prep. But, other than that...

Things I Want to Be (#1)

On another note I am semi-embarassed of the email address that I adopted back in 7th grade (compliments of my bff Hilary) rescuedog89@hotmail.com because well, it's a bit silly really. My host sister asked questioningly, "cane salvatore?" Yeah.. But I was thinking about it recently, with events in life and such. And I really would love to be a rescue dog. In Italy we were always making up ridiculous questions to ask people to entertain ourselves on long journeys. I once asked, "if you could have any job that doesn't exist what would it be?" professional movie watcher, world beautifier, cookie taste-tester, someone who lives in a tree., etc.

Well, now I know what I want to be. I want to rescue people. Rescue them from things that make them sad.

I want to feed all the people in Africa.
I want to patch up the broken hearted.
I want to hug homeless people (okay, not really, but I've thought about it)
I want to teach people how to enjoy life.
I want to encourage others to frolick down breezeways and skip to class (or skip class, if necessary)
I want to be there when people need me.
I want to stay up until 3am because you need an ear, whether it's driving around, or on the couch, or laying on the pavement under the stars.
Once, in elementary school, I told my friend she could borrow my stuffed hedgehog for a presentation she was giving the next day, but that night I couldn't find it. So I constructed one out of a tennis ball and toothpicks so that she'd have something.
I just...want to help people.
Lame stuff happens all the time. and it sucks.

Mostly, I want to make people laugh. Because sometimes, most of the times, that's all you can do.

sappy, eh?

woof.

i'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Smart words from Lauren from today:
"That is the problem to my solutions."

Oh, and I highly recommend this book:


Especially if read by an adament and expressive storyteller.
Which was even more amazing considering it took him about 2 hours.
It tells six different versions of Rumpelstiltskin...Because, you know, the real story doesn't really make sense.

Good laughter was exactly what I needed, because nothing went as planned today.

They used the kid code and now they're together!

I decided that I still want to marry Jess.

p.s.
today I pulled a Lorelai and definitely would have run into a door if there had been one handy.

p.p.s.
also yesterday we stayed up until 3am watching Gilmore Girls and talking about boys.
because that really is what girls do.