today was a good day

i have a new keychain:

my last one had rosie the riveter on it. we can do it. i accidentally smashed it when i closed the front door on my keys.

the bear is from a gift shop in salt lake, it was in a conference center or something. cool.

i've been going to the gym again, 3rd day in a row! go me. i have a schedule. these next 2 months are pretty flexible and open so i'm taking advantage of the opportunity to go as often as possible. it feels really good. i can't wait for the pool to open (it's JUNE and still closed. boo. any day now....).

today:

- watched "sisterhood of the traveling pants 2"

- started editing a wedding shoot

- pilates!

- ate good food (i'm starting to cook again! go me!)

- saw efy kids traipsing around campus.. wanted to cry of happiness for them, and sadness for me. i'm devastated that i wasn't hired this year. oh well, there's always next summer!

- and the highlight: talked to one of my best guy friends from high school, JAY bird!!!! oh how i've missed him. he spent the past 2 years serving a mission for the LDS church in RUSSIA. amazing. talked for 1.5 hours, for the first time since he left. can't wait for him to come back. also, my other amazing friend andrew will be here as well, he spent the past 2 years in samoa for the same reason. miss miss miss. my brother is also serving a mission, in colorado. i miss him SO SO much. he has a year left.

last weekend

quoting hitch, "life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away."

i've been having a lot of really awesome moments lately.

what the...

it's the end of may. and it's snowing.

what the crap.

moi

i've been watching america's next top model all morning while working. am now prancing and being fierce around mirrors.

image 1: too "cutesy" in the eyes. also, not model enough to handle the hair, getting lost. image 2: really working it. i am still in the running for becoming america's NEXT TOP MODEL!!! image 3: lost neck. worst image seen all day.

sunday

i love sundays because everyone is in a better mood than the rest of the week, and there is better food (these might be related). for example, my roommate amie made delicious banana chocolate chip muffins from scratch today. also, i made this for dinner:

let me describe it to you in detail, first there is a white corn tortilla. i spread refried beans (with chili peppers) on top, covered it with cheese, and then put onions and chicken (cooked in taco seasoning) on top. covered it with more cheese. put on another tortilla. once it was done i poured on delicious salsa, slopped a dollop of sour cream and another dollop of guacamole, and then devoured. aMAZing.

my friend david came by to see how amie and i were doing. my sunglasses were on the counter so of course he had to wear them. ta-da:

also, i met up with an old friend, bergen. he bought a snake since the last time i saw him. it's name is loki. he's some kind of constrictor or python i think. here's what i think about snakes: they're incredibly fascinating creatures.. i mean, what the heck, snakes are amazing. will i ever own one? no, i could not feed it mice or other small creatures. uh-uh.

the way this week has been

has driven me to the ice cream more than once..

today's variety is store brand cake batter. it definitely tastes like cake batter, it tastes like they took a chocolate cake powder mix and dumped it in the ice cream. mmm.

look who i met today,

and who totally loved me:

ignore the fact that they are slightly leaning away from me and that my head is tilted more towards edward. i'm definitely on team jacob. i mean please, when the decision is purely based on levels of attractiveness, jacob wins. based on personality, jacob wins. based on their humanity, jacob wins. the major and shared downfall which keeps them from perfection is that they are are both creepy; in the end, jacob falls in love with bella's baby, but edward is 80 years old, so you tell me who wins on that scale.

also ignore the fact that i am wearing (as my aunt calls it) my "uniform" - sweats from top to bottom. i know how to clothe myself appropriately in public, but today i just didn't care. deal with it. at least my sunglasses are cute.. despite the fact that it was cloudy today.

note the white-ish spot on my pants. it's sauce from a bean burrito, don't eat and drive. bummer.

jonathan, my good friend, let me come to fye with him today. he also took me on a scenic drive to make my day better. he's the best.

also, i read an interview with alicia keys in TIME magazine recently, while waiting for my car to be washed. they never told me it was finished so i sat there waiting for an hour, only to look out the window and see it gleaming in the sun where it had been for 45 minutes. anyway, the interview inspired me. especially the questions about school and about inner city kids listening to classical music.

other things that have happened lately:

me and my friend chris, enjoying late-night sparkling cider in his amazing car (it's a black mustang. i like it because of the leather and BEAUTIFUL sound system). notice his cool eyes, they're different colors.

i babysat my cousins for a few days. this is sophia. she calls me like this "my header, my header" and i melt.

ALSO, i bowled a TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have always wanted to do that!!!!!!!!!!!! OH EM GEE (<-- i just said oh em gee!) i bowled a turkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's three strikes in a row, and they were my first three turns no less. i'm not usually good at bowling. i am in the 60-80 point range, but i will admit that once i bowled a 13, and another time (pictured above) i scored about 110.

found this statue of a moose in a cul-de-sac behind rock canyon park. WHY?

my old roommate cara had a peep jousting match...

those are the important highlights right now.