Archive for March, 2009
dreams
March 31, 2009
My brain is interesting, to say the least. Usually it will take several different things going on in my life, jumble them with a bunch of random events/stories/overheard conversations that I have recently come across, and then turn them into an obscure mess/weird dream, and I almost always remember them. My trick to remembering my dreams is that I half wake up when my alarm clock goes off in the morning, and then I quickly (in my mind) tell myself the story of what happened in my dream. I then repeat the story to the first person that I come in contact with in the morning (usually Luis). Once the dream has been repeated 2-3 times, I am able to remember it for the rest of the day. This probably sounds weird, but I like to remember what went on in my brain while I was asleep. I wholeheartedly believe that people can have prophetic dreams that tell them about things that will happen in the future. Unfortunately I am not one of these people, but I like to pretend that I am so I sometimes try to interpret my dreams to mean great things (or not-so-great things just so that I can tell people about it and get a reaction out of them).
I had a dream last night that I couldn’t find a job anywhere and I ended up having to work in a grocery store (my brain took the fact that I’m currently job-hunting and meshed it with Spencer’s job at Smith’s). They wouldn’t let me be a manager or a cashier. Instead I had to work the stocking/cleaning night crew. But they made us wear a button-down white shirt, a black tie, and a blue vest and we weren’t allowed to get our uniforms dirty. So all night long I had to stock shelves and clean up spills. And then this boy who was also on the crew started flirting with me and one of our co-workers asked me if the boy knew that I was married. I looked down at my ring-less hand and told the co-worker that it wasn’t my fault if he assumed that I wasn’t, I couldn’t wear my ring because I was scared it would get ruined by all the cleaning products we used.
fruity
March 30, 2009
The thing that I find interesting about Jamba Juice is that it is billed as this healthy alternative to fast food, but then they have a “Jamba Light” section on their menu. If the whole purpose of the franchise is to sell healthy drinks, why do they have to have a “light” portion of the menu. Shouldn’t it all be good for you? And why do they sell cookies and pretzels? Neither one of those things are particularly good for your health. This, of course, doesn’t stop me from occasionally purchasing one of their smoothies (like today when I was really wanting something fruity and all I had in my purse was a Reese’s, some saltines and a cup -o-noodle). It is also a much more convenient alternative to making my own smoothie at home because, lets be honest, cleaning a blender is a hassle. Plus I can never figure out how much of each ingredient to use in order to make a single serving, and I end up with a ton of left-overs that just get poured down the drain.
5 Random Things
March 30, 2009
- I’m kind of (very) tired of this WordPress theme. So, I’m going to continue and try to design my own. We’ll see what happens.
- My birthday is this week. I’m turning 25.
- I’ve been watching Power Rangers in Space on YouTube. (Go ahead… laugh, and then get over it)
- I worked 13 hours on Saturday.
- I have the bestest wife in the world.
sunday traditions
March 29, 2009
I need one. When we were little my dad would force us to walk up to the Provo temple together. We hated having to drop what we were doing to go, but then ended up having fun rolling down the hills when we got there. Eventually we moved away from Provo and did not live close enough to a temple to take an afternoon family walk anymore. This then evolved into a mom/dad walk around the neighborhood by themselves. They still have this little tradition, and I’m jealous. I want a cute/fun Sunday afternoon tradition all my own. Ideas?
spencerarium
March 28, 2009
I spent the majority of the day yesterday putting together a massive game of Cranium for Luis’ best friend’s (Spencer) birthday. Since we used his birthday gathering last year as a engagement announcement party, we felt that we absolutely needed to do something special for him. Coming up with an idea for this party was really, really hard because the older we get, the more boring everyone seems to get. The fun kind-of off the wall things that we used to do are no longer an option because people just don’t want to get out of their comfort zone. This has really been bothering me lately, but that is a whole different story for a whole different day.
So we had been bouncing ideas around for a couple of weeks. I would come up with something, and Luis would find a way to show me how it would never work. My favorite idea was to drive down to St. George for In-n-Out and a concert, but Spencer was going to be working so that was not possible. Eventually we settled on going to a piano bar up in Salt Lake. I was pretty excited for this idea because I have heard this place was really great. But then at the last minute we ended up changing this plan because most of Spencer’s friends were not going to be able to come. So then after multiple disagreements and “conferences” we finally came up with the idea of putting together a game of Cranium. For any who may not know, Cranium is a board game that mixes a bunch of different games like pictionary, trivial pursuit, charades, etc. But all of our questions had to be centered around Spencer and the things that he enjoys doing. I think that all in all, the game ended up working really well. I had to miss dinner with the group, but I was able to finish putting together the entire game which included a massive game board (made out of a tri-fold display board), homemade play-doh, and power point slides.
So now on to the next birthday… ugh. I hate that we end up getting so birthday’d out. I think that about 3 out of 4 people in our little group of friends have birthdays in the March-May season. Mine is basically the last and by the time we get there I just want to crawl into a hole and be left alone.
Morning Show Woes
March 27, 2009
The main reason I’ve decided to make this post was because I’ve heard several people report on how much they enjoy X96′s Radio From Hell (RFH) morning show, and I simply can’t fathom how! About 2 years ago, when I started to get big into listen to podcasts, I came across the RFH podcast on iTunes where the entire 3 (or 4) hour show was put online and available for download. So, naturally, I downloaded and thought I was in for a treat (since I’d heard good things about it)… boy was I wrong. I literally could NOT stomach 10 minutes of it. I fast forwarded, thinking they might have started out a bit slow… still crap.
So, I thought, “Maybe morning shows in Utah, just suck…” but this wasn’t the truth. After Natalia & I got married and I found myself in the car in the morning alot… I discovered 97.1 ZHT’s The Morning Zoo, which is 2.5 million times better than RFH. What I don’t get is why I hear such great things about the boring and wrist-slit-inducing RFH, and nothing about the much better and ALIVE Morning Zoo.
Of course, nothing compares to Kidd Kraddick in the Morning, which I’ve listened to for the last 15 years. They are hands down, the best.
just take me home
March 26, 2009
I love my friends. Really, I do. But sometimes they do things that really bother me. Last night (prom night) happened to be one of them. There were a few of us who had planned on going to law school prom. Law school prom consists of a dinner, some awards, and then dancing. They all got there on time, and I (of course) was really late since I had to flat iron my hair, pick up Luis from school, go buy a curling iron, go buy a shirt to wear underneath my dress, etc. When we finally showed up to the Provo Library, I found my friends and quickly discovered that someone had taken our seats at the table. While I’m sure these were very nice people and they probably all enjoyed their time together, the point of us all going to prom was to be able to have fun together. I’m not sure why they didn’t think to just go grab our name cards and place them on the table so that no one sat there. Maybe they just completely forgot that we were coming (though I’m not sure why they would since we had spoken about it earlier in the day). Maybe they just didn’t want us to sit with them. But here’s the thing, if it had been one of them, they would have been super mad if they were forced to go sit somewhere by themselves.
Either way, this left us with the task of finding another table with two empty seats. We eventually found one… full of people that I have never seen in my entire life. So we sat there feeling awkward. At this point, I was really upset and just wanted to go home, but since we had paid for our tickets, I decided we should stay to eat and get my little award. On our way back to the table, I noticed another table with a few of my classmates (whom I’m not really friends with, but we are facebook friends, they’re nice people, and I knew they wouldn’t just ignore us). So we quickly sat at that table and then went to swap out our water glasses (which we had already taken drinks from). We ended up having a lovely time and getting to know these people a little better.
P.S. Jordan’s plaque is bigger than mine but that is ok… at least I got something :)
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