MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I can say it now! I love this season so much. I went to see Christmas Carol and the Hale Center Theater in Orem twice last week. I couldn't find Tiny Tim the first night (pre-bang era), so I just got a picture with Brenna, who played the beggar girl, and the ghost of Christmas Past. But the second night I got one with Mark. Mark and Brenna Jeffs are my BYU bishop's kids, and everyone in their family are good friends.

Mainie loves trivia questions so I'm following suit...

What year was the Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens? (no help on this. period.)

let me try to explain

what happened on thanksgiving. it was fun. it was wild. and it was most likely completely normal. Sandy's charming house, noon, turkey day. Tay made like 200 stuffed mushrooms. Sandy made amazing turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and sweet potato pie. and the bestest salad with green beans, bleu cheese, pears, and walnuts. mmmm baby. i can't forget to tell you about tay's cheese ball, dani's chocolate cheesecake, sandy's pies, and i'll stop.

matt poured coke all over himself and said:
"ahhh i porked cork all myself!"
so when haylie opened the bottle of coke and it shot across the ENTIRE kitchen and soaked haylie- aspen and i could only try not to pee our pants and say "haylie! why did you pork cork all over yourself?!"
the elders came over and aspen and meg kept telling us how hot they were. when they got there, i agreed they were cuties. i happened to be in the basement helping (and trying not to laugh) haylie get cleaned up from the 'cork' mess. i came up the stairs and waited for the hall to clear so i could get by, i was waiting behind sandy, who was behind the missionaries. Sandy turned around and looked right at me and said, "get up here, and start flirting"

i had tears in my eyes all day yesterday. it was way too much fun.

i feel like i'm taking crazy pills

truer words have never been spoken

greg sent an email to me

within the last few weeks, and it had an animated cartoon of dilbert. it was hilarious partly because it was true. in this cartoon, a doctor diagnoses dilbert with 'the knack' he says 'he has a profound understanding of all things mechanical and electrical coupled with utter social ineptitude' late one night, while working on a homework assignment i showed this cartoon to dustin, another chemical engineer, and we laughed our heads off. 'utter social ineptitude' is precisely what is plaguing the clyde building. i'm serious...

me: (hummin a little kanye west) "do you like kanye nick?"
nick: "who?"
me: "kanye west, he's a rapper"
nick: "who?"
me: "he's a black rapper, kanye west...?"
nick: "is that a band?"
me: "no. he's a... nevermind"


me: "hey guys nick didn't know who kanye west was"
"dustin, dan, did you guys hear me? nick doesn't know who kanye west is"
dustin and dan: "um"
me: "seriously?!"
dan: "who is that?"
me: " he had a hit called gold digger way back when"
dustin: " oh that guy. i always thought his name was kane"


me: "tyler, your shirt is pretty"
dustin: "that is classic cowboy, with the pockets, and points coming off your shoulders"
me: "and the mother of pearl snaps"
dustin, tyler: (silence)
dustin: "haha... what?"
me: "that's mother of pearl on the snaps?"
dustin: "what's mother of pearl?"
me: "what?"
"tyler do you know what mother of pearl is?"
tyler: "uh-uh"

long time, no blog

i feel like it's been way too long since i said hello. i have really hit some milestones in the past week. for starters i watched almost an entire season of alias this weekend. aren't you proud of me? it takes dedication to sit home on friday night watching episode after episode, then staying up late into the night on saturday. but seriously, tv on dvd is so amazing, and that is why it is so bad. no commercials, no credits, just michael vartan standing there with the same look on his face he always has (literally, the man has one expression) and making me love him anyway. the only drawback to this weekend of productivity is that haylias wasn't there to be productive with me. she was wasting time visiting jodell, and her family. and now she's sick as can be! i'm really sad! she's been at home since friday, and i just want her to get better and come back to her real [temporary] home. GET WELL SOON HAY-YAY!

the weekend update (with photos)

this saturday the cougars creamed san diego state. Haylie, Brian, Cath, the fetus annabelle, Haylie's friend Jeff, and I were there to witness the massacre, and the marching bands rendition of popcorn popping on the apricot tree. Brian also spied another zoobie freak, and if you watch this video, you'll understand where cool kids like me get the bad wrap.

power of the wasatch's interpretation of guitar hero...see it? see it?

Tetris...

MORTAL COMBAT!

Brain and Cath. (he's giving them the crazy eye!)

The two cutest girls in the riv! (the cutest one is on the right)

weekend highlights

Dad: "I was watching the funniest show the other day, there was this really bratty rich girl, and her parents sent her to mongolia to teach her a lesson..."
Me: "are you talking about MTV's exiled?"
Dad: "I don't know"
Mom: "honey, i don't let matt watch MTV"
Dad: "it wasn't bad"
Matt: "see mom?!"


(on the way to the football game, a few minutes late)
Me: "I wonder why it is so quiet, usually you can hear the band and the announcer from my apartment. Oh, they must be saying the prayer"
Haylie: SHUTUP
Me: "it's BYU, don't act so surprised"

Me: "you'd only be so lucky to hear the band play popcorn popping on the apricot tree today haylie"
Haylie: "NO. shutup. seriously?!"

I'm part of the 2% of people with an abnormal brain

according to an email forwarded to me by aunt mainie. It had you add all these numbers consecutively, then asked you to think of a color and a tool. I thought of a red something, then i finally remembered those are called wrenchs. red, wrench. well apparently 98 % of people who take this survey (possibly even those who do not take said survey) answer red, hammer. i have no evidence to support this other than that is what the email claimed. and aunt mainie said she was part of the 98% in the subject line of the email. may i suggest, before any of you go getting the wrong idea, that i only have half an abnormal brain. my social skills may be getting rusty due to the amount of time spent in the engineering building, but i assure you my political and fashion judgement has never been keener.
on another note, i realize that some of my posts might leave my readers with feelings like "that wasn't sensational" or "man she's a downer." i promise you, that was never my intention. as a matter of fact, i'm really optismistic about the possibilties of wild and crazy times in the next two months. A) Turkey bowling on Turkey day 2) december. period. (well let me elaborate) 2a) after finals, I have a BREAK! 2c) Christmas with my family rocks. (well any weekend with sibling sleepovers really are the best-- wii, garrett, some youtube videos, mike teasing matt, mike teasing dad, dad occasionally swearing at mike over wii tennis, more trilogy time, etc, etc) 2e) I'm turning 21 this december so we're all gonna get loaded for new years (legally this time) (I'M ONLY KIDDING) and you know what else would make 2008 an awesome year... if Mitt Romney were elected president... I'll settle for McCain. And sexy sarah palin. (It's my first time voting in a presidential election tomorrow. I'm such excited)