COME VISIT!!

Fall update!

As some of you know I have a job in politics, and every other year we have an obscene amount of work from Labor Day to Election Day. To be more useful at work, my home away from home for the next two months is right down the street. I am excited to try out the breakfast tomorrow morning (been here a week and haven't tried it yet... always out the door before it opens!). Anyway, visitors are WELCOME! Free breakfast if you want to sleepover!

The two things I miss the most while here:

1. The neighborhood! It is a way cute place, great for walks ;)

2. DE LA HOYA!! Unfortunately, the hotel will not let me keep my little fish here. He is at work, so not far but I still miss seeing him every day :'(

Not always a bad thing

As soon as my most-hated summer class ended a few weeks ago, I got the heck out of town to go camp in the Arizona wilderness with my oldest friend Rachel. It was a little weird at first to have ZERO cell phone reception but after about five days I hated coming back to it. It was so nice to just zone out and not worry about checking for missed calls, what time of day it was, NOTHING... just sit by the campfire, bike through the rain, and enjoy the pine. It was heaven packed into one little weekend.

Heaven also had a hand in saving my life.

The day I came home home dawned bright and HOT (gotta love mid-August in Mesa). Rachel was helping me pack up my car, and then we headed back into the house to get the last of the stuff. Wouldn't you know it... LOCKED OUT. There was no spare key stashed outside, no way to get a hold of Rachel's roommates; temperature was rapidly approaching meltdown level, and I had a ten hour drive ahead of me. So what did we do?

PRAYED, of course!! For a way to get in the house, for someone to come that could help, something.

We proceeded to pry off window screens, rattle door knobs, etc. to no avail. Rachel decided to try fetching a neighbor for assistance and I tried the kitchen door one more time. There was a small window set in the top half of the door frame, and I tried pushing up on this hoping to spring the window lock and reach through to unlock the doorknob. I was thinking in my mind, "This HAS to work... it's the easiest way into the house, I need to get on the road, I know we can get in w/o having to pay a locksmith," etc. After a few minutes of pushing UP on the WINDOW...

the DOOR just popped open... BUT THE KNOB WAS STILL LOCKED. I tried to re-create the scenario a few minutes later, but try as I might could not get it to happen again.

CUE SPOOKY MUSIC!!

So we were able to get back in the house with a little help from above. I got on the road and started back to Utah. An hour later, I came across a ton of cops setting up a roadblock at the entrance to the canyon I needed to take. Turns out there was a massive landslide in the canyon that wouldn't be cleared for hours. Luckily, there was an alt route available that I could take home. About 30 mins along this road I thought to myself, "Wow, good thing we were locked out this morning, or I probably would have been driving through the canyon when that happened."


As I thought this, a vision opened up in my mind: My little car (and myself) getting smashed to pieces in the landslide. I got the impression more clearly than ever that the incident of that morning was a test: to see how I would react to the disappointment/frustration of being locked out/delayed, Who I would turn to with the problem, and if I would recognize the situation and give thanks back to Whom it was due.

I was delayed departing just long enough to avoid the accident -- no more, no less. I drove on my detoured route for the next 12 hours with no music, no radio, just my own thoughts and prayers that can't seem to comprehend God's love for his children, and how he sends instruction and warns of us danger all the time if we would just listen.

Getting locked out is not always a bad thing.

Hoist with my own petard!!

I've been remiss!! I'm always like, "Hey everyone else, you need to update your blog" when I haven't posted in MONTHS!! Bonny called me on it last week and it was totally deserved ;) So here's the latest!


My summer was completely sucked away by the world's most heinous English 2010 class EVER. It felt worse than all the other times I'd tried taking it put together (well... almost). All I wanted was a passing grade (which i GOT!!!) and now I will never have to look at it again. I guess one good thing came out of it: I finally watched "An Inconvenient Truth" and no longer harbor an unfounded abominable hatred for Al Gore's voice/face. He's Ok, I guess.

Just Say

Do you know where your heart is? Do you think you can find it?
Did you trade it for something, somewhere, Better just to have it?
Do you know where your love is? Do you think that you lost it?
You felt it so strong, but nothing's turned out how you wanted.

Well, bless my soul, You're a lonely soul
Cause you won't let go Of anything you hold
Well, all I need Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest My head

Do you know what your fate is? Are you trying to shake it?
You're doing your best and your best look you're praying that you make it
Well, bless my soul, You're a lonely soul
Cause you won't let go Of anything you hold

Well, all I need Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest My head
I said I all I need Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest My head

Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Better than you had it?
Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Do you think you can find it?
Yeah, better than you had it (Better than you had it)

I said I all I need Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest My head
I said I all I need Is the air I breathe
And a place to rest My head

Whenever the end is, Do you think you can see it?
Well, until you get there, Go on, go ahead and scream it
Just say

The warped and twisted inner workings of my wind... in one word!

*Enjoin!*
One word... that's all you can write as your answer... can you do it???

You
Can
Only
Type
One
Word

1. Where is your cell phone? Printer
2. Your significant other? yaright
3. Your hair? Smexy!
4. Your mother? Adversary
5. Your father? Deathbed
6. Your favorite thing? Driving
7. Your dream last night? Sad
8. Your favorite drink? Tang
9. Your dream/goal? Joy
10. The room you're in? Freakshow
11. Your ex? MISTAKE
12. Your fear? Meatloaf :(
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Happy!
14. Where were you last night? Canyon
15. What you're not? Fancy
16. Muffins? DIRTY!
17. One of your wish list items? BFF
18. Where you grew up? 'Burbs
20. What are you wearing? Silver
21. Your TV? Underused
22. Your pets? Tasty
23. Your computer? Testy
24. Your life? Meh
25. Your mood? Pensive
26. Missing someone? Si
27. Your car? HOT!!!
28. Something you're not wearing? Tiara
29. Favorite Store? Maestro's
30. Your summer? Ready!
31. Like someone? *snort*
32. Your favorite color? Red
33. Last time you laughed? Lunch
34. Last time you cried? *secret*
35. Who will repost this? Dunno
36. Who will not repost this? ...

Whoo!

On my mind

-It feels like a Thursday and it's only Tuesday. Yeesh.
-WHY WHY WHY was I up so late last night! Fun? Yes. Tired? Hellayes.
-When was the last cool Halloween party I went to? High school maybe? LAME
-It's totally rude to ignore phone calls for six months. I'm onto you.
-DALLAS IN NINE DAYS!!
-Why did the dang dog try to take my hand off this AM? I thought we were friends! :'(
-Stupid, stupid, stupid. How could you screw up the fake text file for prog/test verbs?
-You're not as sly as you think. I see everything. And you will get caught.
-Tomorrow the stupid debt to the stupid community will be paid and GOOD RIDDANCE TO IT.
-I have always wanted to go Goth. Now is the time, maybe?
-What's a monkey wrench for anyway?
-Sock monkey! Sock sock Monkey!
-In the eyes of a Ranger, the unsuspecting stranger, had better know the truth and wrong from right. 'Cause the eyes of the Ranger are upon you! Any wrong ya do he's gonna see! When you're in Texas look behind you! 'Cause that's where the Ranger's... GONNA BE!!!
-Saturday, November 17, 2012
-Park City and Disneyland!
-Remember how the Wallflowers Vanilla Bean Noel doesn't smell anything like the lotion Vanilla Bean Noel? GAG
-I am easily distracted by shiny objects @_@
-WEST SIDE PRIDE!!

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So you may have noticed that I recently added a music player to my blog. You may have also noticed that every song on it (with the exception of about two) are complete stab-me-in-the-gut, kick-me-in-the-teeth, punch-me-in-the-face, horribly depressing songs. This is all by design of course.

At the end of last year I decided to make a mix that was "all sad." It was labeled simply as:

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and called "Sad Face." When I finished I realized that I had even MORE songs that I didn't have room for, so the 2nd installment was called "DOWNER" though it is also referred to as:

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And you guessed it, there was even enough for a third which is called "BROKEN."

When I'm totally depressed, upset, or angry I like to go for drives, and sad music is perfect because it seems to say all the things that you can't.