yes, I got a playlist. Emily had one and I couldn't stand being left out. Just kidding, I just didn't want to do my homework. They're kind of an odd collection of songs but they all have special meaning to me, except the Man that Can't be Moved song. I don't really have experience with lost love or anything, so I really can't relate, but the idea that there is love like that out there is really sweet.
The Les Mis song is there really just because it's awesome. I was very pleased that they had the version with Micheal Ball and Lea Solonga on it because thats the version I grew up listening to. My mom bought the 15th or 10th, I'm not sure, anniversary edition from PBS and we'd watch it all the time. I just have to say, Micheal Ball is the man. Sorry Nick Jonas, you're cuter, but he sings better.
The Dino song also reminds me of my mommy. She would make us listen to those songs all the time and we hated it! But after years of listening to it, you either have to keep fighting it, or just go with it. Apparently I chose the latter, I love Dean Martin, and other kinds of oldies now.
I guess I lied. The "Be Okay" song really has no meaning to me either besides the fact that its really cute and fun.
O, El Paso. O the memories! This was song of choice for all our car trips. In order to sing this song one must sing with complete and utter gusto. No mamby pambying around here. I don't think I like the story so much for it's twangy music about a lovesick cowboy. Mostly I just love this song because it reminds me of my family, and the times when life wasn't so complicated. Life's kind of funny sometimes.
Anyways, these are just a few of my favorites. They don't really mesh, but I like them :)
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Mission accomplished!
I met with my Impact partner EE and our buddy Jake for the first time on Saturday. Really I don't know what I was so worried about, Jake's a very nice kid.
All we really did was make breakfast and play some wii dance game, but it was really fun. I got some egg shell in the batter somehow, so when we were eating our pancakes some nasty crunchy stuff kept cropping up. Because of this Jake banned me from ever cooking again, which made me kind of sad. He might be on to something though. One time when I made popcorn flames started shooting from the pot, another time I turned on the wrong burner for my macaroni and our only 9x13 heated up and exploded everywhere, and today I forgot about my cheesy bread and when I opened the oven door the bread was on fire. What a waste of cheesy bread :(. I'm a danger to everyone!
Well on a lighter note, Jake is in his school play Pirates of Penzance so we're going to go see it sometime. He also wants to play ultimate Frisbee on Saturday if the weathers nice-pray that its not! just kidding. I can just imagine him banishing me to the edge of the field because I can't throw in a straight line hee hee.
Well, th th thats all folks!
All we really did was make breakfast and play some wii dance game, but it was really fun. I got some egg shell in the batter somehow, so when we were eating our pancakes some nasty crunchy stuff kept cropping up. Because of this Jake banned me from ever cooking again, which made me kind of sad. He might be on to something though. One time when I made popcorn flames started shooting from the pot, another time I turned on the wrong burner for my macaroni and our only 9x13 heated up and exploded everywhere, and today I forgot about my cheesy bread and when I opened the oven door the bread was on fire. What a waste of cheesy bread :(. I'm a danger to everyone!
Well on a lighter note, Jake is in his school play Pirates of Penzance so we're going to go see it sometime. He also wants to play ultimate Frisbee on Saturday if the weathers nice-pray that its not! just kidding. I can just imagine him banishing me to the edge of the field because I can't throw in a straight line hee hee.
Well, th th thats all folks!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
I'm having a thought here...
The other day my roommate and I decided we should be more than menaces to society so we went down to the good ole Y serve to see what we could do. We ended up choosing an organization called IMPACT, which is basically Boys and Girls club. Yesterday I found out I would be working with a guy named EE from Singapore and the boy we would be hanging out with is named Jake.
Today I called Jake's house expecting to talk to his mother, but guess who answered the phone? Haha Right-O! Jake himself! It was quite shocking and I could already see myself saying something so stupid that he would already be wishing for a cooler less socially awkward "big sister". He seems like a way cool kid though, he was very nice and enthusiastic about the whole thing. The only problem is he seems to like things like roller bladeing and frisby. Athletics- O no! Well what do you expect from a 14 year old boy anyhow?
I'm not really sure how this whole thing is supposed to work. I think we're going to breakfast on Saturday, so pray that he likes me!
Today I called Jake's house expecting to talk to his mother, but guess who answered the phone? Haha Right-O! Jake himself! It was quite shocking and I could already see myself saying something so stupid that he would already be wishing for a cooler less socially awkward "big sister". He seems like a way cool kid though, he was very nice and enthusiastic about the whole thing. The only problem is he seems to like things like roller bladeing and frisby. Athletics- O no! Well what do you expect from a 14 year old boy anyhow?
I'm not really sure how this whole thing is supposed to work. I think we're going to breakfast on Saturday, so pray that he likes me!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
nice people doing nice things ;]
Have you ever known someone and you just wonder how they can be so amazingly wonderful? Somehow these people just light up the world around them. Instead of complaining and focusing on everything that's wrong with their lives they're focusing on other people, and how to make them happy. I've always wondered what their secret was. When did they get to the point where their focus went outward instead of inward? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they always seem happy and optimistic. It reminds me of something my seminary professor used to say: "the surest way to make yourself unhappy is to only focus on yourself". Its so easy though to sit down and think about everything that's going wrong in your life and everything you wish was different and all of that jazz, but as sickeningly pleasing as that is, it just makes you more and more displeased, and more and more-for lack of a better term-morose.
Let me tell you about my friend, who works at the Sugar and Spice in our school eatery. He is one of the nicest people in the entire world. While he works he does his best to compliment everyone he meets. Like today I was getting ice cream there was a family in front of me, so he complimented the father on his jacket and even when the mother told him that they had dropped some of their cone and had pushed it kind of out of the way his response was just "thank you so much, that's really helpful of you!". And he was so sincere too! Call me scrooge here, but goodness if someone dropped cone on the floor my first reaction would not be to tell them how helpful they are. Now I'm not that terrible of a person that I glare at them or anything but I'd probably say something more like "o that's fine, don't worry about it" but to tell them they're helpful! blows my mind! I just realized I probably sound like some kind of nazi that feels like they have an obligation to decide what kind of actions deserve compliments, but that's really not the point I swear!!! I'm just trying to understand how people can be so good!
But thats just how he is. He's the kind of person who wants everyone to feel beautiful. Like today when I went up to the register and he told me "you know, you're one of the most beautiful people I know, you always look so nice". I know he was kind of stretching things. Almost every time he sees me I have hardly any makeup on and I'm wearing my "I hate life and it's cold outside" outfit. But still, the fact that he cared enough to tell me I looked nice today really made my day. It just makes me think of all of the opportunities I have to tell someone they look nice or that they have a great smile, and I never say anything because I don't know the person, or I'm afraid of sounding insincere. But really what could it hurt? I'm almost positive that no one would be offended if they were to be complimented. Chances are you might make their day, like my friend did for me. A little kindness goes a long way, so I think maybe next time we see someone and we feel a compliment coming on, what the heck- Let it out!
sorry, this talk is really long. But on the bright side, I'll always have a back up relief society lesson to stick in my back pocket for rainy days :]
Let me tell you about my friend, who works at the Sugar and Spice in our school eatery. He is one of the nicest people in the entire world. While he works he does his best to compliment everyone he meets. Like today I was getting ice cream there was a family in front of me, so he complimented the father on his jacket and even when the mother told him that they had dropped some of their cone and had pushed it kind of out of the way his response was just "thank you so much, that's really helpful of you!". And he was so sincere too! Call me scrooge here, but goodness if someone dropped cone on the floor my first reaction would not be to tell them how helpful they are. Now I'm not that terrible of a person that I glare at them or anything but I'd probably say something more like "o that's fine, don't worry about it" but to tell them they're helpful! blows my mind! I just realized I probably sound like some kind of nazi that feels like they have an obligation to decide what kind of actions deserve compliments, but that's really not the point I swear!!! I'm just trying to understand how people can be so good!
But thats just how he is. He's the kind of person who wants everyone to feel beautiful. Like today when I went up to the register and he told me "you know, you're one of the most beautiful people I know, you always look so nice". I know he was kind of stretching things. Almost every time he sees me I have hardly any makeup on and I'm wearing my "I hate life and it's cold outside" outfit. But still, the fact that he cared enough to tell me I looked nice today really made my day. It just makes me think of all of the opportunities I have to tell someone they look nice or that they have a great smile, and I never say anything because I don't know the person, or I'm afraid of sounding insincere. But really what could it hurt? I'm almost positive that no one would be offended if they were to be complimented. Chances are you might make their day, like my friend did for me. A little kindness goes a long way, so I think maybe next time we see someone and we feel a compliment coming on, what the heck- Let it out!
sorry, this talk is really long. But on the bright side, I'll always have a back up relief society lesson to stick in my back pocket for rainy days :]
Monday, July 26, 2010
Pineapple Dole whips
Yo tengo un problemo gigante. firstly, I've had headphones in for at least five minutes and I still haven't started listening to music, and secondly, I've run out of spare contacts. Well, I have one more, for the left eye, but none for the right eye. Worser still, I dont have my glasses with me. See, I left them in my apartment in college and my roomie was supposed to mail them to me but i didn't give her my address untill a few days before she had to leave for mexico. This is yet another example of how the common sense gene must of skipped me. I'm a little afraid that I'm going to go blind, not going to lie. I dropped my contact on the ground twice today because the stupid fans in adventurland dry out my contacts so that when I blink too hard they fall out. But what choice do I have than to put them back in my eyes? Its terrible.
Tommorrow is my program graduation. Whoo hoo!!! I've had a ball, and I really wouldn't mind staying, but I must get on with life and such I suppose. At least I know that If theres nothing for me after graduation, I can fall back on Disneyworld :D.
Nothing else is terribly new. Like I said, I did start working in Adventureland, the Land of the Pineapple Dole Whips, this week though. I love my new costume, even if all of my roomates and co workers say its hideous. I think its freakin awesome. Some day Ill take a picture of myself in it. I must say, I thoroughly enjoy making ice cream for people. I do feel very bad some times when I make one pineapple float huge for one guest, and not so huge for the next. But hey, I'm doing my best and thats what counts right? My armsactually hurt from making so many ice creams, sad huh? A true testimate of how much I need to exercise. The only bad thing about it is that theres no air conditioning, and in the middle of the day, the sun becomes perfectly alligned with the side window, so not only is it hot, but theres a gaint glare off of all of the machines. I admit, at those times I really hate working, and I find it really hard to be enthusiastic about making pinapple floats. Another thing that kind of stinks is that its so hot that pretty much as soon as I give the guests their ice cream it starts melting. I almost feel like I'm ripping them off because their ice cream is almost completly melted in just a few minutes.
I didnt make that pinapple float, but thats what they look like in case you're wondering.
Well I suppose I should go to bed, I do have to go to graduation tommorrow! ttfn!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
inception
I just have to say, I love movies. Nothing gives me more pleasure than seeing a good movie every once in a while with some friends. I love how when you see a movie, it's all of a sudden not about you anymore, its about the characters and their lives and the mistakes that they make. I love being able to sit and eat popcorn and know that everything will most likely fix itself in the end. And if it doesn't, shoot, it's not my life anyway, why do I care? Anyways, I was just thinking about this the other day when I went to see the movie Inception with my roomie Tina. It was a very good movie with a plot that blew my mind, though it was quite confusing and had one of those endings that makes you want to scream. The movie really had no relevance to my life or anything, and I really didn't think there was much of a take home lesson to be learned or anything, but as I sat there chewing on my delicious, hot and toasty Wetzel Pretzel I was just savoring the fun and excitement of it all.
Just for kicks and giggles I decided to throw in a few of my most favorite movies to this weird and pointless post. Most of these movies I love, not only because theyre good movies, but because the remind me of the people I was with and the memories we had while I was watching them. Don't judge me on them okay? Keep in mind they're my favorites, so no insulting them either :D Here they are in no particular order:
Just for kicks and giggles I decided to throw in a few of my most favorite movies to this weird and pointless post. Most of these movies I love, not only because theyre good movies, but because the remind me of the people I was with and the memories we had while I was watching them. Don't judge me on them okay? Keep in mind they're my favorites, so no insulting them either :D Here they are in no particular order:
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