So I've had some fun and adventurous last couple of days!! I had a couple of hilarious instances that made me laugh!!! HARD!!!

So Marne had surgery yesterday. The surgery was good, and it lasted quite awhile, but it went well. I had some tasks that I had to do while she was gone, and one of them was to bring Marne's bed up to my mom's room. Which entailed cleaning the sheets. HA!

Brimley, our lovely monstrous pup, has this love/hate relationship with our cat Angel a.k.a Satan. And Satan just happens to sleep on Marne's bed. Constantly. So when I went downstairs to pick up the sheets Brimley followed me and tried to snatch the sheets out of my hand while I was taking them off. As I attempted to walk up the stairs Brimley, once again tried to snatch them out of my hands. Dumb dog. I get upstairs, and throw them into our washing machine. We have one of those new front loader sets (which are super nice), so the basin of the washer is much easier for say an animal to jump into. And that is EXACTLY what Brimley did. He jumped right into the basin of the washer with his back legs hanging out and his bob (his tail got bobbed so that's what it literally is. a bob) was moving from side to side hideously fast. And than he started to whine/bark and that just made me laugh. Oh how I wish I had my camera upstairs at the time. But I didn't.

I should've just thrown him into the wash and let him have a tumble with the sheets. But I had a nice heart that day (even tho the rest of the day I was regretting not putting him threw the wash) and pulled him out. And even after the sheets were washed, he still tried to snatch them out of my hands.

And Now about today. First I'm going to say...Sorry Jodi this part is about sports. But it is NOT about football. I know, the world is coming to an end. LOL!! Anyways....

I had to go into work early because I had a blind date in the afternoon. So I was at work at 7:30 til 11:30. And during that time, Madness started. Madness meaning March madness. Meaning BASKETBALL!!! During the conference title tournaments I was so annoyed with the 40-60 second update that ESPN would do. If I'm going to watch a game, I wanna watch it live!!! Or not at all. And there was one game this morning that I was NOT going to miss!!! And of course that game was Texas A&M vs. BYU. So I said a couple of different things to coworkers and some of them said something to the effects of me needing to get my priorities in line. Hello!! They are in line! Work and sports share the same number on my priority list. And the best thing is that unlike guys, girls can multi-task just fine!! In fact, I would like to think that I work better if I have sometype of sports issue going on. An article on my desk, stat sheet from the previous game, or even a live feed video off the internet. Yes that's right. I was able to get a live feed from the game(s) and watched the game(s). The best thing is... I got a double amount of work done during that time I was watching the game than when I wasn't watching the game. (I also switched to the Butler game occasionally!!).

So that is what has been going on lately. Yes, I know I'm a dork! But hey, you're reading this so you can't blame me!! :-) More to come in the next couple of days with my blind date that I had today, and a... interesting soccer game with Ben and Jerry's.

Peace!

Sugar

I am sorry!!! I have been non-existent for so long. Life has been quite busy and I just let time get away from me. It happens to everyone right?

Anyways, it has been quite a ride the last couple of months. I have had trying lessons, hilarious experiences, and friendships built in ways that I never thought would be. Its a lot to say, and hopefully I'll be able to really sit down and tell the stories that NEED to be told.

he Sugar Bowl was amazing!! So many MANY different memories that make me love my guys ten times more than what I did before. I had my challenges down there, but I had people to lean on to help me get back up. It was not an easy thing to really ask for that strength to lean on tho. I'm not someone to admit that they need help. When it comes to working together at football as managers its kinda sixes. We set up for practice and take down, but during practice we do our own responsibilities. Over this past summer (that's like four blogs in and of itself) I learned to work independently more than what I already did. I relied on people to help me, but a lot of the times I just did certain tasks by myself. So down in New Orleans, it was really hard for me to ask for help; I'm not someone to do that willingly. Today when I see them, I can't help but smile, and think of the friendship that was built a little bit stronge. Even tho they don't really know exactly why, I always thank them. I've been doing football for almost three years now! Longest I have ever had a job! And I don't plan on quitting anytime soon (sorry guys).

There are way too many stories to tell about New Orleans, but I'll share some of my favorite ones. There was a group of players: Greg, T.J., Zach, Tage, and Grayson (Pictured left to right). When they are all together it is quite hilarious. Anyways, the guys wanted to go on the boardwalk, and us three girls (Rachel, Kelsie and myself) decided to tag along. The boardwalk ended up being closed, so we wondered down to Cafe Du Monde. We ended up losing all the guys but greg on our way down to the Cafe. We got our beignets and were starting to walk back to the hotel when we here this obnoxiously loud horn next to us. We figured it was a boat or something really cool, so we run up these stairs, holding a bag of beignets in one hand, and the other hand an actual beignet. Sounds retarded but it was hilarious. These bags of beignets was half way full of powdered sugar! Powdered sugar was flying everywhere! We get to the top of the stairs, and it was a measly train (I think) that was going by. We were just laughing!

Other favorite story: New Years Eve in New Orleans. It was nuts crazy but I loved it!! We had a pep rally that we were expected to go to. Which turned out to be really fun. There was a field goal set up to do some kicking. Colt Sampson almost took off one of the 'refs' heads. I was laughing fairly hard. Schlauderaff kicked it fairly well from what I remember. And for the majority of the players... there is a reason why we leave the place kicking to Louie and Vroman. Sorry guys. This was a really relaxed and fun thing to see. Some of my best pictures from the whole entire trip came that night. After the pep rally, we had a riverboat cruise up the Mississippi River. After the dinner, players were roaming around on the boat taking pictures, talking, and goofing off. I was talking with a few players (to keep from their humiliation I won't mention their names), and all the sudden one was laughing so hard and so high I could not believe it was coming from him. His physical appearance would lead on to believe that he laughs, just not so high. He is one of the funniest guys that you will ever meet! And if you ever get him laughing really hard, the tears will be falling!!! I think what triggered it was Coach Hill's son was making faces through the windows and one was absolutely hilarious. I wish I had taken a picture of it. But it just didn't work out.

Okay, I think I am done boring you all for now. I will really try and work on more stories later. I need to get to bed. NIGHT!!

POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME!!

i'm pulling the e.e. cummings deal, and i can't really say that much, just cause I'M SO EXCITED!!!

the university of utah football team is going to the allstate sugar bowl in new orleans, la. it is going to be crazy crazy fun. new years in new orleans!!! 

I know these are late, but atleast i'm getting them up.

Qualcomm Stadium. It sits 70,000. I dont know where i got 55 thousand. some security guard

View from the Hotel. It was gorgeous! it was dark by the time we got to the hotel, so we enjoyed this view the next morning for just a couple of hours :/.

my attempt of a fancy picture of a helmet. not

another view from the hotel. it was a crazy boat. i can't describe, cause i don't know the technical terms so i would sound like a dumb nut. more so than i usually do

yet another view. big harbor. all around

p-i-r-a-t-e ship! THERE WERE THREE OF THEM!!

padre's old locker room. 

after the game. 

some of the fun excited expressions during the fourth quarter. ha ha

once again, fun excited expressions of our defense during fourth quarter

after the game in the locker room. yes they let me in the locker room. for about five minutes, and than i leave. ha ha 

Ignorance, Idiocy

OY!!! Never do I want to go shopping on a saturday in December again. and i think i'm going to be e. e. cummings and not capitalize anything. just simply because i'm tired, lazy, and i really don't want to throw off my groove. ha ha ha. anyways so i hate really shopping on saturdays. i mean h-a-t-e! and i think that shopping on saturdays just got ten times worse cause its the first saturday in december. so everybody and their dog was out there shopping, trying to get all the most amazing deals ever.

story one: jcpenney. i've never been a huge fan of their clothing, some of it is s-u-p-e-r over priced. there was a single rack (a four way rack) that had a large variety of different clothing items. it probably had one of everything on this rack.  i was going through it, looking at the different items, seeing if there was something exciting hidden inbetween the over-priced velour loung set and a piece of clothing that was titled 'a skirt' when it could have been a belt. anyways, this chick literally shoved me out of the way to look at the same rack i was looking at (this rack was 90% off). so i politely said, oh excuse me, didn't see myself standing there and moved over to the other arm on this rack. she just kept shoving me! not even saying anything, just kept shoving me. whenever i did hear her talk she was speaking some random language that was not english or spanish or french. needless to say i was sick of it. so i said something. if you were wanting to look at something you can just ask me to move, i'd be much more willing to do than that have you just shove me out of the way. than she went off in her random language. i just walked off. there wasn't even anything good on that rack.

story two: macy's- this one was a similiar story, but not entirely. my goal in macy's was to find a sweater/jacket, or even a dress! i was looking on the clearance rack, once again, and this guy, yes a male, comes up to the rack and starts rummaging through. i thought, okay he's looking for his daughter, or his wife no big deal. ha was i ever wrong. there was a  mauve cable-knit sweater that i had been eyeing that i liked, and had picked one up to try it one. this guy picks one up as well, and just puts it on right there. he takes his shirt off (yes he was wearing a shirt of somesort underneath) and puts the sweater on r-i-g-h-t there. i was appalled. i couldn't believe it! needless to say, i quickly put that sweater back on the rack and very swiftly and non-discreetly left the department. i was about to throw up. i was dry heaving when he put it on, but if i had stayed in that department i was going to lose it. 

story three: my gold lovely van- hot headed drivers bug the crap out of me. i hate the intersection of main street and hill field road (isn't that an oxymoron?). its always horribly busy and it makes people very impatient. and i don't think i'm helping with the case. i can always tell when people are driving and they are in the hurry. it'll probably get me introuble someday, but so far it hasn't :-). anyways, if people are trying to get over into my lane, i slow down and i let them in. this car behind me did not appreciate the fact that i was being nice and letting people in. and he laid on his horn and gave me the birdie when i lookin in my side mirrors to see who was honking. i was so laughing. and that made him just more mad. but don't even worry, i got my pay back. see people think that since i drive a van, that i automatically slow. but i don't, and they are dumb to think that i do drive slow. when we got up to the line, we did what every us citizen does. we raced off the line. i naturally won, and once we got past the 25 foot line i leveled off with the speed and just kept driving. no, this man thinking that i'm going to be the big-bad-man-who-can-beat-the-mini-van-after-the-twenty-five-foot-mark just kept on with the speed. twenty seconds later a big-bad-cop-on-a-motorcycle pulls him over. i'm thinking he was going about twenty over. ha ha sucker. never, i repeat never mess with a single chick driving a mini van. if you underestimate her, she'll just rub it in your face. with a speeding ticket! 

and those are the stories thus far of my shopping pleasures. ha ha, hold on shopping trips. not pleasures.

Only thing to say....

I think there is really only thing to say right here.....

BLACKOUT!!

Finding the right... yeah

Wow, I can already tell I'm going to spend WAY too much time on this thing! Two blogs in one day... with like two hours apart, I'm doomed...But what can I say when I'm listening to Jon McLaughlin and artist like him, and I just want to write/type? Who knows. If you do, let me know!!

Finding the right... yeah pretty much says EVERYTHING that I'm trying to figure out right now. My professor has it in his mind that I'm going to be a lawyer some day, and I'm not going to lie. I've actually looked into a little bit. He did help me decide that I am going to major in Political Science, which doesn't make me stressed at all. With everything else I was super stressed about all the classes, tests, projects and everything. But with this, its just there. I'm a little frustrated with the timing and lack of time that have on some days to really focus on the reading and studying that I should be putting in. But I have been able to find time to catch up, thank goodness for buses right? One thing that I think I have 'found the right' area to go into is cause of my test scores. I was looking over my test again from my class, and I was amazed at how WELL I did. All my tests but maybe 3 or 4 were below 65, and those tests were math test in High School that she was able to curve my grade because of my explanation of how I got the answer *Thank You Merch!!* I know its a weird way to think that I figured out what my major was cause of that, but I can't 'find the right' words for it.

And the last 'finding the right....' is finding the right way to get to sleep!! T.V. on the internet is not working, I'm sorry Ned, Chuck, Gibbs, Abbey, Martin, but I just can't anymore. If i read, I STAY UP ALL NIGHT!!! Stupid Climaxes that last the whole book! So i have found that writing makes me tired...