Bowling Champion

Last night I went on a sushi/bowling date. Score: 92. Though not very good, that is definitely a personal best. A normal round for me is never breaking 50. Maybe my life calling has changed from indecisive wanderer to bowling champion!

Probably not.

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As a college student, I have carried on very few new traditions. The only ones I can think of are free Denny's in Tremonton, which I actually skipped last year so maybe that one doesn't count, and going to the Preston rodeo.

Last year Kewwi, Macky, and I went, to the rodeo that is. [I would link to it.. but am just now remembering there is no post concerning the matter. Okay, I'll tell you why: BECAUSE KEWWI WAS WEARING KELLI'S HAT AND SHE DIDN'T WANT HER TO KNOW ABOUT IT. LOL. Just kidding. Kelli is on a mission, so she can't read this- plus, I think she found out anyways.]


And this year I went to the Preston rodeo with Levi, who has this strange and totally non-secret love for mullets.

(:

N E ways, talk about random dead end to a blog post. I hope the summer has been good to everyone. Everyone like.. Mom, Carli, Matthew, Kewwi, and the few other random dots I see on this super sad map:

I'M NOT ASHAMED. Okay?

PS. A surprising amount of people have never A) seen Footloose and B) been to a rodeo. FOLKS! Are you American? Or are you American?

Losing My Artistic Bread Braiding Ability

I got home from work at 6:30 this morning. Was it worth the $7.25 to go in at 5:30 and help for an hour? Mmm.. Not really. I always get myself into these things. I'm going on strike, right now. No more volunteering for me, at least until someone is willing to cover one of my shifts. The only days I've been able to get off this whole break were Christmas eve, Christmas, New Years eve, and New Years-- KK gave me 3 days off this last week and since I wasn't double shifting at Curves anymore, I figured I'd try to get my minimal two shifts off so I could spend some more time with my family. Nope. No one would do it.

I covered one of the employees shifts for 2.5 weeks in December and she wouldn't cover 2 weekday shifts for me because she had "plans". Plans? GIRL, you just went on vacation for almost the whole entire break. UGAH. On top of that, I have one of these to pick up tomorrow morning, so I asked the same girl if she'd switch me Saturdays [because the pick up time is right as I get off, and if I don't pick up my basket right then, it gets donated] but, nope again, she's got "plans".

This is the girl I volunteered to help this morning. At 5:30. AM. And yeah, I had plans. I was planning on staying up as long as I wanted to. and sleeping. UNTIL NOON.

Sorry, girl. Never again. Totally striking. Rightn ow.

Since I was up so incredibly early, and couldn't get back to sleep, I decided to check an item off my list and make a few loaves of cardamom bread. [Side note: Cardamom bread is a Swedish bread my family makes every winter. Delicious tradition!] This, my friends, is a 3 hour process. Or takes me 3 hours anyways. Before 10 am, I had also done the dishes, cleaned my room, read from These Is My Words, gone grocery shopping, and listened to Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, ke$ha, and Justin Beiber. Good morning!

[It's supposed to be braided 4 way. Not very pretty, but still, it's an improvement from last time and that's given me hope.]

- Maybe It's A Tradition -

Sometimes I wonder why I would stay up all night so I could ride in the car 30 minutes to the closest Denny's (Tremonton) and have free breakfast at 5:50 A.M. then ride in the car 45 minutes (we missed the exit the first time, ha) to home. Maybe it's tradition, since Elicia, Megan and I went last year also. Free breakfast that early in the morning seems a tiny bit crazy.. I don't usually eat until 9 anyway, at which point I would still be hungry even if I ate at 5:50 in the A.M. Get what I'm saying? Ha.

^ Macky, the roommate one who drove to Denny's.

^Megan Bell closing her eyes to the brightest flash you'd ever see.

^5:00 looking like a huge stoner.

^So cold and icy outsidE!

^ MMMM.

The last time I stayed up for all hours of the night was probably last spring. No doubt I only do it when I have good cause to, and last night that was the case. A) Because I had to be awake long enough to go to Denny's. B) Mackenzie and I beat a level of Katamari Damacy that I've been STUCK ON FOREVER. C) Mackenzie and I baked the pieces out of cookie dough ice cream to see if it would make cookies.. And THAT my friends.. was an event worth while. Ha.

^ Abigail tried to stay up all night but wasn't successful.

^Our little cookie dough morsels. ^Not cooked.^Cooked.

^ The result.
Rock hard wanna-be-cookie chips.

*100% Wouldn't recommend the above activity.

- Weeee Denny's -

Sometime around this post we (Elicia and I ...kind of Megan Bell too) pulled an all nighter (3rd one) and went to Denny's in Tremonton (we had no idea where it was, we went through the canyon and headed north) at 5:30 in the morning and arrived at 6:30 so we could wait in a huge line and get a free grand slam breakfast. We almost got killed by a sleeping semi on the way there. Anddd we got home by 8:30 and I still was late to class because I didn't finish my project (cause for all nighter) before we left to Denny's. It was fun. and I was really tired.)

P.S. I called the plasma donation center and they aren't run through a stable program so I'm not gonna go again unless I get another 50$ paycheck from my minimum wage job.

I'm getting way behind on my blogg...
too too much homework.

- Honey Candy -

On Sunday I went home for the Superbowl and got to spend a little time with my family. While I was there, we attempted to make honey candy for a third time. Our candy turned out super delicious but it wasn't near as nicely crafted as grandmas always is. Maybe one day we'll perfect the art.