Friday, December 23, 2011

I have no idea what this post will be about.

High.
It's been a while, dearest Blog, and all zero of your loyal readers are probably wasting away in misery due to a lack of meaningless posts. So I decided to write a post. I don't know what it's going to be about. Yeah, I'm the worst blogger ever...whatever. Watch this video.



A while ago (around Halloween) I told my homegirl D-Town that I'd write a blog about her. Then I wrote a blog about my family being hilarious instead. Oops. So this will be her moment of fame in Blogdom. Danielle, this one's for you!

One day long ago, back when the world was new and I was a brand new Freshman at Arapahoe High School, I was sitting in in Mr. Rotschaffer's Geometry class, admiring the incredibly handsome Gator (who happened to be a human, contrary to what the name implies) who sat across from me. As I watched his incredible looking face and pretended I knew how to talk to boys, I couldn't help but notice something amazing happening behind his head. There was a short Jew...ish girl holding something incredible. A strange light was emanating from it. Choirs of angels were singing about it. The camera slowly zoomed in on it until it's glory filled the frame. Or something like that. It was round. It was telescopic. It held 150 crayola crayons.

It was the most beautiful thing in that room... aside from Gator's face/body. I knew had to be friends with the Jew who was lucky enough to hold that many crayons in such an incredible container. And Boom. We were friends.  Now, six-ish years, 2 journalism camps, one (or two?) years on the newspaper staff, dozens of mormon dances and zero arguments later, we're still friends. In fact, we're even better friends than we were when I first saw her across the dimly lit Geometry classroom and she was a complete stranger. I'd go so far as to say we're acquaintances.

Probably my junior year is when I started bringing Danielle to hang out with my closest group of friends, who I called The Ranch Kids.  And she fit right in as the token Jew in the group. Thank goodness, because the Jew we had before her was a jerk. Seriously. We've done lots of great things together. Here's a preview.



But anyway, she's short, she's awesome, she likes to beat me up. She took me to an amazing concert for my 19th Birthday.

She came to Lake Powell with me. Her laugh is infectious, she's never-endingly positive, always supportive of not only me but my whole family, and I'm basically super blessed to have her as my closest friend.  And this is the nearest thing she'll get to a love letter from me. But don't worry, Blogland, our love is purely heterosexual... mostly. Okay, entirely...... Now that I have you all wondering about my closet, let's watch a GIF of her beating me up.

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The end. The Blog about you as promised, Danielle. Oh, I should also mention that she was a skanky minnie mouse for Halloween. But she was wearing gloves, so at least her hands were modest.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

WHEN YOU READ ALL CAPS DOES THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD YELL?

My Family is really, really funny. Seriously. Let me share with you some funny things that they say. The first section happened during a game of Catch Phrase with Me, my Mom, Eli, Amber and Lucas.

“A large group of women is called a…” 

“Gaggle”

“She flies with an umbrella and cleans people’s houses” 
“Witch!”

“When you talk too much… it flies out of ships…” 
“cannonmouth”

“When you’re not drunk you’re….”  
 “High!”

“A big whale… It’s also a book.” 
“Muh…. Muh… muh….muh!.... muh…..”

“I have a lot of….”  
“moles”

“The ultimate blank erection”   
“STEEL!”

“Thomas Edison was a …” 
“lightbulb”

“She sings that terrible song….” 
“Celine Dion” 
“It’s about a day of the week…”
“Rebecca Black!”
“What’s the day?” 
“Friday!”

“You’re not short but….” 
“Fat”

“Before you walk you have to “ 
“Run.” 
“talk”

“A Mail…”  
“order bride”

“You put clothes on this to put them in your closet” 
“Mannequin”

“What me and Amber do in the bedroom…..” 
"Uhhhhh...."


(During General Conference) Dad: “So where’s this woman that takes up two places, Eli?”
Eli:“Look for the really big woman.”

Lucas: "What starts with a C and is good to eat? Cookies! Cookies! Cookies!'

Dad: Emily, come rub my shoulders. 
Emily: No 
Dad: You need to.
Emily: Why? 
Dad: Because it’ll teach you how to treat your husband right.

Emily: “We were playing with Eli’s robot, and that’s way more exciting than cheesecake bars.” 
Mom: "NOTHING is more exciting than cheesecake bars!”

Amber once woke up from a nap and says this: “Okay Moose, here’s the deal buddy. If you can fly there, get me a scoop of ice cream and a ounce of Rootbeer for every scoop of drink.” She then rolled over and went back to sleep.
 
Lucas (regarding Amber, his wife) : "Have you ever thought about how GREAT kissing your sister might be?"

 Mom: "I don't want to hear any singing, or happiness or ANYTHING!"

Dad (to Mom): "You just get in the attic and be quiet!"

Mom: When plums are good they're good, but when they're bad, they're DUMB.

Dad: Who are you going out with tonight?
Me: Jordan
Dad: You can't. He has the wrong name.

Mom: You have too many friends with the same name. They either have to change their names or you have to get new friends.

Maybe you didn't find that as funny as I did. But I don't care because this is my blog and I'll post what I want. See you next time!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Date.

I went on a date the other night. We went to a Vietnamese restaurant. Since I'm culturally inept, he told me what to get, and whatever it was looked like this:(I think it's called Phu. Or Pho. Or something.)

And it had a thing called tripe in it. 

"You don't know what tripe is?" he asked. 
"Nope. Possibly a fish?"
He shook his head.
"Then I have no idea."

"Great. You're getting it."


Tripe looks like tiny little white tentacles complete with sucker bump things. It's not easy to chew and kind of reminds me of rubber bands. It has no flavor, aside from the flavor of the soup (which was ridiculously delicious.) But the bumps made me feel like my food was licking me.

"What is this?"
He smiled. "Do you like it?"
"It's weird, but not bad..."
"Will you finish eating if I tell you what it is?"
I promised I would.
"It's cow stomach."

Seriously. Which is pretty gross to think about, but also kind of exciting. And I finished my soup, as promised. (actually I brought some of it home in a doggy bucket and ate it for lunch the next day, since it was a HUGE portion.)

The End.

P.S (The rest of the date was good. We stayed at the restaurant until after it closed. We only left when I felt guilty because the employees were staring at us with those "I'm trying to hide how much I hate you for still being here" faces. (Hey, eating with chopsticks is sloow.)
We got Frozen Yogurt. 
We went to a park and climbed rocks
We talked for who knows how long on top of rocks.
The cold surface made me lose feeling in my legs, so we climbed down and went home.)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Embarrassed-ish

You know when someone has something stuck in their teeth, but they don't know it? And you sit there and stare at it, feeling weird because you don't know them well enough to decide if you should tell them or not? You know when you are actually that other person? Well I do.

Today during my second break at work I went to the bathroom. While washing my hands, I smiled at a little girl who had just walked in. When I glanced back to the mirror, smile still on my face, I saw to my complete horror that there was something stuck in my teeth. Not a small something either, but a big, green, highly noticable something right in between my two top front teeth.


"Crap," I thought. "How long has it been since I ate lunch?" 

Mentally I backtracked through my day.

I had started my lunch at 4:50 pm. I ended my lunch at 5:20 pm. I then took a break at 6:45. That means I had been walking around with something big and green and gross between my teeth for at least an hour and 25 minutes. Highly embarrased, I made a list of the people I smiled at.

  1.  The boy in the back office who was clocking in at the same time as me.
  2. A manager
  3. My coworkers Andrew (We even walked back to produce/bakery together and he didn't say anything??), Marie, John, John's cute friend, guy working the lanes, and the other Andrew
  4. The lady who had the security things at the doors beep at her
  5. The guy who works at Starbucks
  6. At least four random customers
  7. 5 children asking for cookies
  8. A lady who ordered a cake (we talked for at least 10 minutes and yet did she say anything? Not a word.)
  9. Two ladies and their children in the bathroom
That means I communicated with at least 23 people over the course of that 80 minutes and not one of them bothered to point out the unsightly blemish in my mouth. That's not to mention the other people who could probably see the thing in my teeth from like 30 feet away. Have I mentioned that a significant number of the people I communicated with were highly attractive?

Thank goodness I always start my day like this:

So I can handle an embarrassing moment or two.