A Perfect Morning for Sigur Ros.

It's been a good winter. Thinking back on this time last year, I remember mud rain and feeling like I shouldn't breathe because air quality was so poor. Though frigid, this year we've had a constant amount of good, clean snow and a fair amount of sun [at least enough to remind us that sunshine exists].

SHLOVE.

That's not the weather today, of course-- we're currently having a nice episode of snowrain. Which is still nice.

IS IT SO LAME I HAVE NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT BUT THE WEATHER? If my blog were private, believe me I would have much more to say. But, in its current share-with-the-world state, I just can't bring myself to post about anything real.

PS.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MIKEY

AND, because I probably won't blog for the next week, to::

Eric on March 4th, ROSSY [my little brother] on March 5th, and Tomas [best friends forever] on March 6th. oh and Happy Birthday to Ben, whose birthday didn't exist this year (February 29).

BEAUTIFUL.

- Rumpus -

Easter is wonderful.

Picky's:

Easter egg dying party!

Paige, Tori, Jake, Heidi, and my best friend Tomas- I love them all.

^ Geeks- No doubt!

^ Grossest mustache ever. Sickest goggle lines ever. Most creative creature egg ever.

^ Mine were the top row. Tomas' were the bottom.

Easter Morning/Day/Night

That picture is the epitome of my family. Goose fighting Jake's sock. Jake making a weird face. Half the family not even paying attention. Me smiling in the background. And Nate in the middle of it all.. He's not even part of our family. Why he was eating Easter breakfast with us? .. I don't know. CLASSIC.

We spent the evening at grandma's eating, playing games, and Easter egg hunting... So what if I was the only one over the age of 15 participating. I do what I want, okay? Ha.

^Almost ever egg I picked up someone would say "Mandy- That egg is too easy! Leave that one for the little kids!" .. Which is totally lame because- since I kept having to put them back- by the time everyone was done- I only had 3 eggs.. When I was supposed to have already gotten 20! [I never did find all mine, I stopped at 16 and gave up- story of my life.]

^So in 'love', it's disgusting.

^This is one of my favorite girls on the whole planet. Her name is Jordyn. And in this picture- she's pretending to pick up dog poo. GROSSY.

^ This is my cousin, Megan. She sleeps with her eyes half open and crossed.

^My bestie cousin and I.

^I love my grandparents. They're the greatest people ever. And every time I go see them- my grandpa gives me homemade berry jam because I love it so much. (: Best part of my life - no doubt.

- A Plus -

Spending time with people I haven't seen forever is the GREATEST!!

WEEKEND:

A) Megan and I went to Linda's bridal shower. I'm REALLY glad and grateful someone took my shift at work so I could go down for it. Linda is the best, I hope she has the happiest of marriages because she deserves no less.


(^ Linda, Kristin, Me, and Megan at Linda's bridal shower)

B) After the bridal shower Kristin, Megan, Angie, and I spent a bit of time together. (: Even though all we ever talk about, everytime we get together, is how bad the summer sucked- the conversation and jokes never grow old!


(^ Me, Kristin, Megan, and Angie in Provo later that night)

C) Tomas is back! And even though we live more than an hour apart, I like it better when he's home because we can be best friends forever and go to Empire for lunch (like we did Saturday). Best of times!

- 80's Night -

We went 80's dancing last night. ULTRA FUN.

- I Love Iron And Wine So Much -

I am seriously getting worse and worse at this bloggin thing.

Let me just first say that.. my blog looks the way it does because I deleted my original everything and now it's just.. major league under construction and I don't know what to do with it yet.

Next-

I moved into my apt on Monday. That is something I've been anticipating for the last 15 weeks so.. I'm super glad it finally happened.

Remember how I said I'm documenting things with my phone? Well, I've got more pictures from such events as- elementary school cleaning, the Davis County Fair, desk finishing, Iron and Wine concert, the pie afterwards.. and I think that's all. Here they are:

^Awww.. Elementary.
^Doing the garbage rounds. Don't know what happened in this portable but.. their pink framed mirror was smashed all up. While I was walking around with this, I kept getting '7 years of bad luck' jokes. "Hellooooo, I didn't break it."
^They had a really neat petting zoo at the County Fair this year. I touched this cows massive amount of neck flab sickness.
^And I also touched this little buffalo.
^And I touched this mammoth.
^And I got eaten by an alligator while having a mini body and wearing a shirt that says I love Davis County?
^I had to move my desk onto the grass before I painted it purple because I got white all over our cement. .. And I'm supposed to scrub it off but, how.

^Purpleeeeeeeee.
^The finished work of the worst desk painting job the world ever saw.
^Moving up to school. :)
^Delicious strawberries and raspberries I picked to eat during my first few days back at USU.
^I saw this shirt at Walmart in Logan when I went there to get a shower curtain. Notice the little green sticker on the tag? It's discounted. Maybe because we have the worst football team in the nation.
^Notice this kids name. Beto. :) HAa.
^That tiny, tiny glowing dot in the middle of this picture is Samuel Beam, A.K.A. Iron and Wine. :)
^Here is our 23'' pizza from The Pie. Those last seven pieces were gone within minutes of this picture being taken.
^BFF Tomas and me at The Pie.

I'M SO BORING. THE END.

- Phone Picture Update -

I have recently started documenting everything with my phone because I never lug my huge camera around. Here is my record of the past few days events.

---------------August 5 2009---------------

Tomas and I set up an appointment with my old roommate, Megan Flint, to get our hair experimented on for $5.oo at the DATC. Tomas and I had a jolly good time but, I have often times wondered since then if we gave Megan more hair doing experience than she had wanted. Ha. Reason 1- because I wanted a section of my hair dyed white (impossible). Reason 2- Tomas wanted a lightening bolt on the back of his head. Yes. A lightening bolt. No one in the whole building new how to do it, so she just guessed. HAAA. I thought a lightening bold was the worst idea I'd ever heard but, it turned out pretty rad.

^Tomas with a lightening bold shaped bleach spot on his head.^Me with tinfoil covered bleach on my head. ^Tomas and Me under hair dryers, reading magazines, next to our mannequin friends. CLASSIC.^Tomas and Me. I hate when I make pictures blurry :( .^Tomas and Me side-ish view. ^Megan Flint washing bleach out of my hair. ^Tomas' pikachu (<=peekaboo + lightening bolt) --------------- August 6 2009 ---------------

Mom and I went out and picked strawberries and raspberries from our garden and I turned them into jam for college :) . Well, it was supposed to be for college, I keep eating it because it's so good! Hopefully there will be some left.
That evening after Jake Burch, Koga, Ben, and I went to the Summerfest in Bountiful, I was really craving some toast with jam, so... we dropped Ben off at home (his request), then went to my house BUT we didn't have bread. BUMMER. So we went to the store, got icecream, and Mom ended up making us yummy strawberry jam and raspberry shakes! So delicious!

^The wonderful jam I made.
^Mom making us shakes. :)^Jake Burch and Me, it's impossible for us to have a picture together that isn't blurry. It's the weirdest thing.^Koga, Jake, and Me eating our shakes.

--------------- August 8 2009 ---------------

First event of the day was Summerfest, again. While Tomas and I were there, we spun this wheel of fortune type deal to see if we could win free food at Chipotles (or whatever). Tomas spun first- He won a stress burrito. Some of us may wonder- "What is a stress burrito?" and I am here to tell you that it is a stress ball, that is in the shape of a short burrito and looks like it's wrapped in tin foil. HA. Lucky, right? Then I spun, and I won two gift cards for free burritos. WHOO. Now, what I won isn't really important. But Tomas' stress burrito on the other hand, played key importance to the days entertainment.
After Summerfest, Tomas and I went to Home Depot so I could get a plastic screw thing for my mother. While we were there, Tomas' was throwing his stress burrito randomly at fragile things, which was so risky in my opinion but he didnt' seem to care.
One of the times, he chucked it up and over the isle. This might not seem funny to anyone who wasn't there but, when we went to get it, we turned the corner and this guy had picked it up and was looking at it like "WTF?", keep in mind this is a stress BURRITO, something that no normal human has seen before. We went up to him, and as we are standing 1.5 feet away, Tomas doesn't say one word, he just sticks his hands out in front of him and waits for the guy to put the toy there. and the guy doesn't even notice for like.. a whole minute. HAAAA. I was way awkwarded out, but what could we say "Hi, sorry, can I have my stress burrito back? Ya, that's the silver turd thing you're holding". HA. It took long enough but the guy eventually looked up and was like "oh..." and gave it to Tomas.
After a few more adventures with the stress burrito, I put it on the kitchen table at my house. And not even an hour ago, I asked my mom what happened to it and she told me they'd thought it was a part that came in my dads new shoes' box, so that's where it now was. Ha. wow.

^Toilet at Home Depot. ^Tomas using the toilet at Home Depot. ^Tomas threw the stress burrito into a pile of .. stuff at Home Depot. ^I had to rescue it. ^Whoo stress burrito retrieved!

The End.