The birds have returned from their winter sabbatical...

and I am seeing a lot more of this everywhere:
grotey!

love Love LOVE

Today my roomie and I got home from Stake Conference and she had an email from an admirer. She was in the mood for love. So I made a "love Love LOVE" playlist on my Itunes for us to listen to. It was so fun. I spent at least an hour searching through all my music to pick the perfect songs.
Total songs: 70
Some of the Best: Love by G.Love and Special Sauce
My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder
Love At First Feel by Mark Kozelek
The Sad Waltzes Of Pietro Crespi by Owen
Two Fine People by Cat Stevens
Tekno Love Song by Coco Rosie
Friday I'm In Love by The Cure
Digital Love by Daft Punk
Always For You by The Album Leaf
Passing Afternoon by Iron & Wine
and Like Gold by Erlend Oye.
Ohohoh I almost forgot Love Love Love by Mountain Goats.....etcetera.

I might as well write all 70 titles.....
jk
I love Love LOVE everyone of you!

I LIKE FLAN!!!

There is a package of flan on my kitchen counter. It is open and sitting in the pie plate, just waiting for me to cook it up. It has been waiting for almost 2 weeks!! I want it sooooo bad, but I don't have a pan big enough to boil a whole quart of milk. How can I get that flan into my stomach????

confession.

I really DO NOT like that movie Juno. It doesn't even deserve its own post but I have been so annoyed with all the advertising on Myspace and Facebook right now. That movie was so bad.....and I was mad I even wasted my time. Luckily we got in for free, so I didn't waste any money.

I have been teaching school all day and swim lessons all night. I really love swimming, but I don't like how my hair is turning into green straw. yuck.

I get free swimsuits as bonuses. Maybe money bonuses would be better, but I love swimsuits, so it suits me.

I taught Gospel Doctrine last week and I really loved it. I subbed for one of my friends and then this other girl asked me to sub for her in a couple of weeks. SOoooo great! I just got released from my calling, but I could do this 'sub' thing forever. I love teaching.

I gave Susan Mark Kozelek's lyric book that was just published for a VERY early birthday present. I just couldn't wait. It is called Nights Of Passed Over and I loved it soooooo much that I bought my own. I love his song Lost Verses Lately, that's all I listen too.

I guess that's my life update. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except for that fact that I am addicted to boggle.

See if you can find the hidden word in here. It's my passion.
Here's a piece from my Boggle Birthday Cards. This one is for Stefan. Happy e-Birthday!



I miss all my friends soooo much all the time and just wish we could all be close by forever. I read all of your blogs and love to hear about everything that is going on. Loves. much loves.

I have been singing this song all week....

Then I went to Laura Viers' Myspace and she had taken it off. Luckily (exclamation point) I found it elsewhere/HERE and have been listening and dancing along ever since. GO! LISTEN! DANCE! or else.


yum yum gimme sum

I am way more exctied for The Office....

every since I watched all the episodes in all the seasons in 3 days. They were sooooo good. yes, y-e-s, YES for tomorrow.

Perfect Purchase

Last night I bought Perfect Strangers on DVD. Graham and I watched it while we ate dinner. It is still, every bit as funny as when I was little. Larry is still annoying and Balki is still really entertaining. I laughed and reminisced and now I recommend that everyone buy it.
Now all I need to make my DVD collection complete is "Out of This World".

My favorite holiday....

Some would say Christmas. Which is enjoyable, yes. But, my favorite is April Fool's Day. In Uruguay they had a type of April Fool's Day. I can't remember the actual date (maybe Dec 28th), but it was called "El Dia De Los Inocentes" or "The Day of The Innocent People" Whenever anyone tricks you, instead of saying "April fools!!" they say "que la inocencia te valga!" or "may innocence always be with you."
I like looking at it like that. I am pulling pranks to show how innocent and wonderful all my friends/family members are. I love being innocent. I think everyone should, really.




Here's a picture I just found of my sister, me and my brother with our Christmas beads that I made out of garland. I like it.

Flightless Bird.

photo by Leif Anderson


When I fly, I soar. I flap to get to the right height and then look down at the ground and glide around with my arms out stretched in airplane mode. Every once an a while, if I dip too low, I have to flap my arms again, just like a bird to return to cruising altitude. At least that's how it is in my dreams.
I wish, wish wish, to be able to fly.

yyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeesssssss!

I love ROCK BAND!

2008 really is great.

Mark Kozelek's new album "April" comes out on April 1st. What a wonderful year!

My mom said...

and I quote, "Owning a small business is great because you get to pick which 18 hours of the day you want to work."

I laughed out loud.

Then I thought, "But isn't it worth it if your business is 1. really awesome, 2. in Denver and 3. with Mandy and Mikey."

I say yes!

Also, I said yes to a family in Spain. I will be an au pair in Gorliz, Spain from July 1st-Sept 25th. I have 15 days off in August, so if you are in Europe in August find me in cyber space and we can vacation together. We can play soccer with these kids on the beach. I am sure they are still there.
yahoo.

Roque Mountain High

I am in Denver right now, visiting Roque. Soooooooo fun. It is beautiful weather here and Denver is just as great as I remembered. I still love it, although I wish Aaron could be here with me and we could stay in the hostel down by the train tracks and see Mark Kozelek. Ok, actually I don't want to stay in that hostel again, Roque's house is much better and her puppy Gyrdie, is soooooo cute.

I love Denver!!!

it's a little esoteric...

I missed the movie. It went in and out of the theaters, but I couldn't stop thinking about Persepolis, so I checked out the two books that were the basis for the movie yesterday at the library.

I couldn't be more happy.
I am in love with these books.


They are in comic book form, easy to read, very informative and entertaining, a personal/truthful narrative of the life of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian/French girl during the Iranian revolutions.
This will hold me over until the movie comes out on DVD.

Plus, Sandra Cisneros wrote a review on the back, and you know how much I love her!!! Maybe you didn't know, but I love her a lot.

Wowee.

I got a new hair-cut and color. woo hoo. It was my birthday present from Peedle.

Wish I could tell you about the distance between, how my life is unfolding and how I thought it would be.

So I always seem to make plans and then they fall through. It's ok though. Mostly because I just love the plan-making process.
I was planning on going to Europe, but two families fell through. I think it's off.
I was planning on working at Bubble Swim School, but my school asked me to teach an art class on my day off.
I was planning on NOT going back to BYU, but now that is my only grad school option (I am still waiting to hear back from them).
I was planning on going to the gym tonight, but when I got home from teaching swim school at 8pm, riddled with hunger, it was off.
There is always tomorrow.
oh
I don't know what's happening to me.
Is it a symptom of disease?

For Air-y Bair-y

RELEASE DATE: November 21, 2008....That seems like forever away!

We need a break....

I am still in shock!!!

Here's what happened according to the news. Wednesday night my roommate received news that her sister and family were traveling to the hospital in an ambulance because their house had just exploded. I was so nervous as my wonderful roommate talked to her family, and I just prayed that everyone would be alright. She left the next day to drive to Idaho with tons of good things we found around the house to give her, since EVERYTHING she owned exploded or burned. It is amazing that they will all eventually be healed and whole, but please, keep them in your prayers!

I like it like that.

I saw CTFTPA in Phoenix last summer. It was such a good show. He was touring with the Donkeys, but I like him better like he recorded yesterday on Daytrotter. All electronic, all the time. Listen to his great version of Nashville Parthenon HERE. Soooooo great.
Today my principal asked me if I would want to teach an art class to the 6-8 graders on Thurs mornings. ummmmm yes!! of course. I can only imagine all the fun projects we are going to do. YEAH! I love art.