Better Luck Next Time

My car gets 17 mpg and my job in SLC is exactly 17 miles away from my house = it costs around $7 for me to get to work and back. Yuck! So, yesterday I decided I'd take the FrontRunner and save a few $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Well--- because I didn't drive my car I ended up spending $5.50 for my round trip on FrontRunner, which I was only able to use one way of, $7 at Rite Aid purchasing a most needed item that I normally keep in my car [+ sourpatch watermelons, which I wouldn't have bought had I not seen them hanging so deliciously in the candy isle] and $27 at Gap, which I wouldn't have gone into if the FrontRunner hadn't had technical difficulties [wrecked] on it's way to pick me up and take me home/if I hadn't been hit on by the most creepy man ever on Trax, forcing me to stay and wander around the Gateway whilst waiting for Jake and Heidi to pick me up.

UGH. Point is, I most definitely did not save money.

- So, Tell Me.. -

- Barnacle Goose -

Two years of school done and still I have no idea what to do with my life. How come? Where is the confidence I need to succeed? Time is going by so fast.

And I'm frustrated with myself, but I can't change.
I don't want to be me anymore..

- Fishing Failures -

7:30 a.m. = got up and took a second attempt at fishing. This time we were equipped with cheese marshmallows, smaller hooks, weights, and wd-40.

Great, right?

I don't know why being prepared wasn't something we wanted to try our first time around.

Though we still didn't catch anything, we seem to be improving as fishers. Last time- we didn't get close to catching anything. This time- we had fish checking out our bait the whole time. We also experience the occasional bite that didn't hook.

That's good news for us!

^ = my fishing station.

[I always keep a camping chair in my car and it's surprising how often it comes in handy.]

^ Truth be told- I absolutely hated working with the worms. What nasty creatures.

Two things left to say:

1. Maybe we'll have better luck next time.

2.Life is so good.

- April's A Fool -

How do I feel about April Fools day?... I love it- I want to hold really soft things- like my cat. It makes me feel really pure. Sometime's I just want to run on the beach. I like to twirl- maybe in slow motion. Ha.. Had to throw that in. Makes me laugh every time.

Back to April Fool's-

My pranks always fail.

Last year I put Vaseline over Megan King's toilet seat -And she didn't even notice! HOW DO YOU NOT NOTICE? Ha. And this year I short-sheeted my roommates bed. AND SHE NEVER CAME HOME. She went to Bountiful for the weekend- on a Thursday!

How anticlimactic.

And even though my pranks never work- others' seem to be rather effective.

My dear friend- Benjammin' Rasmussen- put an add for a free ipod on KSL with my contact information on it. Within 1 hour I got 9 phone calls. Sad thing was- joke was on me- but they fell for it! A) Free ipods do not exist. B) Especially when it's April Fools day. HAA.

The worst part of it all was - one of the guys called about it and I thought he was just kidding. So... Like a fool I went along with it. My side of the conversation went like this- "Yeah, it's a 30 gig. Feel free to come pick it up whenever you want." After that phone call is when I went online and found out it was actually an add. I couldn't stop thinking "WHAT. I just told a stranger I'd give him my ipod!" HAAA.

So I had to call the guy back and tell him April Fools. The poor man sounded so disappointed.



The only other thing that happened yesterday was- our home teachers put a duck in our apartment. So that was neat- except it crapped all over our floor and was the most scared thing I've ever seen. They stole it from 2nd dam-

Poor thing.

- Truth Or Dare Me. Please. -

[ TRUTH ]
A facebook slave-------> That's what I am.

No doubt- I have been on it from 7:00 p.m.---->now.

[ TRUTH ]
I can't wait to star-see tomorrow night on the quad.
Thanks for inviting me Carli Bahm.

[ TRUTH ]

I bought a deck of Truth or Dare cards while I was in elementary school.

Just dying to know what some of them they say?..

Truth

-Do you think any of your friends snore?
-Who was the first friend you ever had?
-Which friend do you think is most likely to become a doctor?
-Name one thing you like about each friend.
-Which of your friends is most likely to become an astronaut?
-What is the silliest thin you've ever seen the friend across from you do?
-Make up a dream vacation for the friend on your right.
-Which friend would you most like to have as a roommate, and why?

- or -

Dare

-Call someone you'd like to be friends with and ask that person to come over. [I admit I'm still -not brave enough to do this one sometimes.]
-Sit on the lap of the friend on your left until your next turn.
-Close your eyes and have a friend volunteer to let you feel his or her face, then guess who it is.
-Describe a dream you had about a friend.
-Name each of your frineds birthdays. If you can't, stand on one leg until your next turn
-Ask each friend what nickname they'd like to call you.
-Name what you think each friend will be when he or she grows up.
-Act like your friend when he or she is mad.
-Try to hold your breath for as long as it takes a friend to tell the story of Cinderella.
-Let a friend predict your future.
-Make up a joke about the friend across from you.

All pretty classic, right? I brought the game up to college a few months ago and I hope to play it soon. Actually I want to play it right now.. but Carli Bahm just left so.. that's the end of that. Ha.

P.s. Not trying to be a huge complainer or anything but- my knee has been hurting+bad. I can't decide if it's because I went scootering over a pothole in Seattle [and tripped it big time]- or just have the joints of a grandma. ---------> The more I walk on the knee the more it feels like it's going to explode into a thousand pieces of hate. Or something. OUCH.

- My 200th Blog Post -

I was reading through my blogs recently, labeling them and what not and realized I'd promised pictures of our Seattle trip last July but I never put them up SO.. I did that finally. The post is dated in July so that's where it lay in the archive. But you can also see them if you click HERE.

Earlier this week I announced that I finally have my fishing license! And I'm proud to say- Macky and I put it to use yesterday. We went out into the wild, made ourselves a few fishing poles, and worked 3 different fishing locations. Though the 4 hours of cutting worms and standing in the freezing cold turned out to be a no-fish-failure, the experience was enjoyable. Macky and I laughed so hard and so frequently that I'm surprised neither of us peed our pants over the trip.

- Grades -

I know in reality that D+ is a huge bummer, an utter disappointment, some sort of distress signal, a reason to be mad at your child, meaner than hate e-mail, etc..

But, I'm actually pretty happy about it... Because it could have been worse.

- Greener With The Scenery -

I'm so excited to be at Utah State again in a month. SERIOUSLY-I CANNOT WAIT. After doing this summer sales job, I miss even the worst of my USU memories. Ahh! School, please come already!

A few pics of freshman fun:



Oh and.. 1/10 of the LDS doors I knock on have pleasurable people behind them. And it's really fun talking to 9 meanies in order to talk to that 1 likable person but.. it's just burning me out. So I've decided to make the long journey home a little bit early. I'll be heading home on Monday. Bye bye Moses Lake! I hope I never see you again. Ha.