Our life....the Jazz

Janae and I have been accused of being obsessed with many things. For instance, Janae has been accused of being obsessed with Aggie Basketball. People tell her she's obsessed with traveling. It's been brought to my attention that I may be obsessed with shopping and hobbits. And collectively we have been accused of being OBSESSive compulsive. Now, if you know us (which you do..because you wouldn't be reading our blog if you didn't. After all, you are the chosen ones)you may be nodding your head, laughing and thinking back on the times where we exhibited some obsessive traits for these particular things/habits.

Now people can continue to throw out these accusations and we will continue to combat them. Janae is NOT obsessed with Aggie basketball...she's missed 3 games since 2004. If she was obsessed she'd have gone to every stinking (yes..stinking. I think they stink) one. She is not obsessed with traveling. She stayed in Salt Lake this weekend...if she was obsessed she would have flown to Chicago this weekend. I am not obsessed with shopping. It has been a 4 days since I bought an article of clothing. An obsessed person would have broken the sabbath to buy a new outfit. I most definitely am not obsessed with hobbits (although I may have, on occasion, said I was. I was misinformed when I did..if I did.), If I were I would be living with them in Hobbitville right now.

But...obsessed with the Jazz...we are.





For the next 6 months every second of our lives will be filled with thoughts of Big Al's mad rebounding skills, CJ Miles flawless free-throws, Gordon Hayward in all his glory and D-Will and his hotness....please see the picture below if you want to argue this last one.



We decided to begin the season by dedicating our pumpkin carving experience (not just the pumpkin...the entire carving experience) to the team.

LOGAN

This is the first fall that I have not been starting a new school year for as long as I can remember. It is seriously painful. I hear people talk about heart break, I know exactly how they feel, my heart was broken the day I left Logan...and it hasn't been the same since. It literally hurts. Geez, it is seriously rough. I absolutely love the fall. Logan in the fall is phenomenal, you haven't been? Then trust me, take a weekend a venture up for a Logan fall experience. I love everything Logan has to offer...Janae can relate most when I say all the things about Logan. I want to write a book I have so much love for that place. Heck, I might ask it to marry me! It's like this magical place where nothing goes wrong, everyone is so blissful, the air is so crisp and delightful, you can go on fine walks around the valley, you can ride the bus for FREE, the mountains are literally right there, oh the wind caves are fantastic with a nice picnic provided by Old Grist Mill, what would a night be without Charlies Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae? The pumpkin walk is a no brainer and big bear or belly bottoms corn maze is a must, even if it is on an awkward date, you want a caramel apple and hot cider, you bet your bottom dollar you can find it at your local FHE, tennis intramurals? Yep, you can join, True aggie night, homecoming, football games, fine activities on the quad including naps and "studying" oh the list goes on and on, I am so grateful I was able to spend 5 years of my life in that gorgeous place, so many memories...please Janae add your thoughts on Logan.

Best Concert Ever NOT Paul McCartney....KELLY CLARKSON

So tonight was quite possibly the most memorable night Laura and I have had since the start of our friendship! (this is huge folks...like 2-ply toilet paper huge!) Yep that's right we went to Kelly Clarkson it was awesome!(think what you will, I know a few of you will not be able to stand in the same room as us after this...I found myself being slightly embarrassed about even going but then I thought..."you know what Laura, you love to sing to Kelly, not just sing, belt actually, there is nothing wrong with that, just be you." Although I'm betting money that tomorrow I will blame my scratchy voice on a football game or something in order to preserve my masculinity!) Not to mention that it was free and we were practically arm distance length away from her. (This was a private concert folks...for all the employees of a company called 4Life, we were some of their esteemed guests, along with 8,000 foreigners..great people watching environment.)As if that wasn't enough, we made some pretty good Portuguese friends...They didn't speak a word of English. (but they spoke the universal language of LOVE) They spent most of the night hitting on Laura's 15 year old sister, Jessica. (lets cut them a little slack, she is a cute 15 year old!) The rest of their night was full of dancing and slowing it down with us during the slow songs. After a great and awkward dance with Joe (we only call him Joe for blogging purposes, his name is probably Steve) he gave me his Portugal flag which is now proudly hanging in our apartment. (actually, he put it around her neck, he didn't try to choke her of course, but rather it was a token of his affection...she later passed it on to Jessica right along with Joe himself.) After a romantic dance with Laura's sister Joe gave her his business card so they could keep in touch. (Did we mention that he doesn't speak a word of English? He wants to keep in touch with her via email...that sounds like a great idea) I thought I was the lucky one getting the flag, but it turns out that Jessica was the lucky one.




Oh, and then there were the Germans.



That was the concert part of our evening, but it actually started out a little more Enlightening.

Topic: Cardigans. Mostly just refer to the pictures below for details. All I have to say is Cardigans on guys look gay. Maybe I am wrong? I don't know you give me your opinion. (I wish we could have made a power point so that we could full convince you, Dave, of how completely wrong you are for even wanting one...or entertaining the thought that you might, maybe someday, want on....let along shopping for one!)




Verdct: Are all cardigans (on males) gay? Yes. Are all gays drawn to cardigans? No. Do what you want but you know where we stand.

My Lonely Weekend

So I thought I would be pro-active and blog. Blog without Janae telling me to do so. I thought it was a good idea a few minutes ago, but now I'm starting to doubt that. But I've started so I can't exactly stop right? Right. Just don't expect anything good.

What a weekend! First off, this house has been so quiet! Yes, that's right..while all my roommates were gone I had our apartment converted into a house. They will be so surprised when they see it. So Janae is off in NYC. I'm a little jealous about that...and my jealous multiplied 10fold when I saw the picture of all the purses Nicole posted. I don't even want to talk about how jealous I am. Ali is on some island with Alex (how romantic) and Michelle just barely got back from a trip to Orange County. I had this place to myself. I lived like a freaking King! Walked around the place in my G's. I even left a bowl in the sink for a day. (I'm actually rather appauled that I let myself do that.) 2 nights I fell asleep on the couch watching a movie (I'm such a rebel)..it was the same movie both nights..I think I only made it through the first 15 minutes the first night and the first hour-ish the 2nd night (I only made it that far because it's kinda hard to fall asleep while painting your nails). It was 500 Days of Summer. A story about love, but not a love story. I liked it. I was supposed to return it today and just now remembered that. But I'm already in my PJ's, it's almost 10:30...I think I'll just eat the late fee. I'm lazy like that.

So I suppose you are all dying to know what I did with my weekend. The previous paragraph makes me sound lazy and that I sat around all day...when in fact the only time I lounged about was from about 10pm until 9am Thursday night and Saturday night. (and a little bit today) I've been at the Bakery cleaning and painting every spare second. It's been pretty intense and I am absolutely exhausted. Which is why I am going to be right after I'm finished typing this.

Kortney, the parade was awesome. Not creepy one bit. I didn't even get the willies. Not even once! I love 200 East. It's the best street ever. There were just loads and loads of people there. We got a spot in front of the library. I have to say I was pretty proud of the good spot we got. It was a rocking good time. I think I got about 3 hours of sleep that night. People are nuts. They never sleep. I'm pretty sure we had people walking past us all night long. We're talking 8pm-8am. I was awoken in the morning by the marathon runners. Such a nice way to start the day. If you can't exercise why not watch someone else do it. The actual parade was great. The Arrow 103.5 booth was across from us so we had good music and the event coordinator for them (Brady) was beautiful. There was also a hot cop in our vicinity. Neither of which were wearing a ring :) Of course I didn't talk to them...just looked. Lovely! Elder Uchtdorf was in the parade. It's always my favorite part to see the member of the first presidency that close. After the parade we went to a family bbq and then headed back to the Bakery.

I went to church late. 30 minutes late actually. I slept in..on accident. I think my body just shut down. It didn't get much sleep this weekend. Don't be ticked Janae..I'm halfway to less active. Thanks for being a good influence.

I went to dessert social tonight with Emily. (remember how forgiving she is. she is so nice to me). It was awkward..just as awkward as I expected. Oh did I mention I watched the rest of that movie finally today. And I'm spent. I'm hitting the sack foos!

Sizzlefest 2010

Blog brought to you by Janae...commentary by Laura

What is Sizzlefest 2010 you may ask. Don't go googling it (seriously...don't..I did, it's not good)just let me tell you all about it. So it was a little campout for the three singles wards around here. They all met to leave on Thursday around 3:00, but Laura and I decided that we were way too cool to ride the buses up with everyone else cause you know we like to make people think that we have other important stuff going on kinda like playing hard to get you know. We want people to think they have to work to be our friends. So we began our own journey up there at 6:00.(promptly) We had the time of our life jammin out to Rascal Flatts and just chattin away about life. So halfway into our road trip Laura starts freakin out cause she forgot to shave her legs. Honestly you could barely tell and who cares cause we are going camping. (not true, the hair is black)The next 30 minutes of the ride was her just stressing inside about her legs. Next thing I know she comes walking out of the gas station with a cup of water, shaving cream, and razors. So she casually starts shaving her legs as we are driving through scenic Idaho. (all of our roadmates driving down the road thought I was so cool and feminine with my freshly shaved legs)



We finally arrive at camp at 9:00. It was dark by then and everyone was up at the concert so we set up our tent and headed up to the concert. It was pretty amazing a little guitar and some rappers.





We creepily sat there. No one knew we were there cause it was dark. The concert and ended and people began having a little dance party and socializing like normal people do. What did we do? We went and laid in our tent like creeps for 2 hours as we listened to everyone socialize. (is it just me, or is that not the funniest thing ever!?) The next morning we woke up and helped with breakfast. We were a big help and cut up 6 bananas. We then played some soccer aka we basically just stood there because there was lots of people. (speak for yourself Janae...these girls already know I have mad soccer skills...no need to downplay it) After that we had a few workshops. Where we learned about being optimistic and making the most out of life and the challenges we face. We also learned how to make music with spoons. Then the fun really began. The world's largest Slip N Slide! So fun! We probably went down it 20 plus times. We were like little kids in heaven. It never got old and it was a great workout walking up that hill all day. See pictures below for details.
















In between the Slip N Slide action we also helped with moving rocks and building a pavilion. Aka Laura passed back the nail gun back and forth and I stood there and hold wood, but someone had to do it other than Dave he had been doing it all day. Laura also participated in in some bow and arrow action. (i'm a natural)We had dinner and then had a talent show. Billy did some comedy and it was HILARIOUS...(freaking hilarious..comedy central worthy...no, more than that...he made Kortney and Rosey seem like bumps on a log)



There was some other weird talents done and we just couldn't help but laugh at the thought of what non members think of Mormons doing crazy things like that. (seriously, on a friday night we are around a camp fire listening to a weird guy sing a jungle book song, with a stuffed monkey on a drum stand dancing for us..mormons are seriously the weirdest!) That is what makes us awesome though. After the talent show they had another dance party and a bonfire. There were some adorable kids there that were up there for a family reunion. They were busting moves right and left. Laura loved them and was mad at herself for liking them since she says she normally doesn't "like" kids. (in fact today i was just saying how i didn't really like kids, yet i want to be a stay at home mom one day, i'm hoping that my love for my own children will override my general disgust for the little brats!) We were social and stayed up there for a bit until this random kid Cole came up that night and needed some help getting his tent situated. So we go down to where the tents were and this random wind storm had blown some of the tents over. Like the hero's we are we helped some people get there tents back up. Laura got injured with some fiber glass slivers. The thought of those still makes me cringe. Sounds so painful. (it was, but i'm a super hero, it was all in a days work) Four hours later we were done helping Cole set up his tent. He was so particular about how it was set up. (he freaking drove me crazy!) Luckily our tent hadn't blown over thanks to our dear friend Hafid who had secured it earlier that day. (he's so ticked when we don't wash our hair!) Did I mention we stole our roommate Michelle's tent from her and made her sleep with some other people? We felt bad, but there was no way we could fit three people in the tent.




We woke up the next morning and we looked beautiful. (Janae forgot one small detail, I woke up with her head in my armpit...she's so creepy) Nothing like stringy hair and natural beauty. We had breakfast and then had a fireside. Sizzlefest was then over and the rest of the suckas had to wait for the buses to come pick them up in 2 hours. We had our own car which meant we hit the road and got the shower 3 hours sooner than the rest of them AND watch the USA soccer game. Which was so sad. Anyway it was an amazing and fun weekend and we made some new friends. We are still recovering and have been taking random deep sleep naps yesterday and today. (dude...being social is so exhausting!

Wow! One of the best nights of my life!

Ok, so have you ever felt the spirit so strong that you just can't smiling. Oh man, I don't think that even does it justice...I can't even think of a good way to explain how I feel right now. Um....there is a song (if I'm thinking of the words correctly) that explains exactly how I feel "I'm so excited...I just can't hide it!" Only my excitement is a spiritual one.

So let me explain. Tonight I went to a fireside by Alex Boye. I've heard a few of his songs and he's pretty good, but this was incredible. You all know that I pretty much have ADD. I can't sit still for very long and I get easily bored. Not this time. This fireside was just under 2 hours long and I could have sat there for 3 more hours. He only sang 3 songs (which were incredible)and he talked the rest of the time. There were times I was rolling with laughter, times I was in complete shock and times when I was near tears. There were definitely moments when I swear he was speaking straight to me.

Because I'm so excited I wanted to share a little bit of what I learned. First off, we are what we think. Whatever occupies our minds most often, that is what we become. It's an amazing concept but it's true. It's in the scriptures, it's something I've briefly thought about before, but nothing I really thought enough to put into practice. In 2 Nephi 24:24 it says (this is the Lord speaking) "surely as I have though, so shall it come to pass..." Now keep in mind that is the Lord, but we are commanded to become like him. And we can. It doesn't have to be in the next life, but it can happen in this one. Now comes some of my personal moments..the big "ah ha" moments that came to me during this fireside. First, it brought me back to my mission when we were told that miracles we experienced and miracles that happened in the lives of people we taught were dependant upon our faith. We literally had the power through our faith to change people. To change our circumstance. It worked. I remember vividly times when I put it to the test and really focused on what I knew were righteous desires. Now why couldn't that work for us in normal everyday life? It can. Alex shared a story of a race he ran, he had serious surgery and was in a body cast for about a year when he was in Secondary School. All of his friends were running track and he wanted to join them so badly. Everyday he would watch them and he run himself (in his head only). Everyday he invisioned himself winning the race. He eventually had the cast removed and he challenged the reigning champ to a race. No one thought it would be close, there is no way he could win after all that time of not running, but guess what..he won. He won because he thought of it everyday. He saw himself winning, he practiced in his head and that was enough. He also shared a story of a guy that was a POW for 7 years. When he finally was released the first thing he did was play a round of golf with his buddies. He beat them. He hadn't played golf in 7 years but he beat them. When they asked him how he did it he said it was golf that kept him alive. That everyday for the last 7 years he invisioned himself playing and winning. And he did.

So, time for application, I want to become an interpreter right? I can't possibly walk around signing everything (how wierd would that be?) But I can go through the motions in my head so it becomes 2nd nature. This works in every aspect of our lives.

Another thing he talked about was how we attract what we are. Whether it be in a spouse or a friend, etc. If you want to meet someone who is angry, just be an angry person and you'll be sure to find another person who is angry. If you want to meet someone who complains, just complain about everything, he'll come. If you want to meet someone with a strong testimony, someone who isn't a jerk, someone who has their priorities right in life, someone who laughs a lot and knows how to life and love life, then you need to gain a strong testimony, stop being a jerk, get your priorities right, laugh at things and learn how to live and love life. You will attract that kind of person.

Let it go. This one was a real eye opener for me. If someone walks away from you (whether it be a boy, a friend, an acquaintance, even an enemy) let them go. It's not worth it to have them in your life. Don't try to talk them back into your life, they chose to left, let them go. Let grudges go. If you had a bad day or said something stupid, just let it go, don't dwell on it. If you often get down on yourself and pitty your sad little pathetic life, let it go. You shouldn't let those things decide who you are. Until you let them go, they will control you. They will be who you are.

Sorry, this is just about a novel. I'm writing this more for me than any of you really. It's pretty much my journal entry. I'm going to print it and put it in my journal (the same journal I haven't written in since a few months before I got back from my mission).

There is one more thing I want to share with you. This was the most amazing part for me. When Peter walked on the water, as he was walking to Christ he said the stupidest thing ever "Lord, how is it done?" (or something close to that) At that precise moment he began to sink. The Lord responded and said "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst though doubt?" Peter was doing just fine until he asked "how?" That's when he lost his faith. I think we spent so much time wondering how will meet our FEC, or how we'll get get through a tough day at work, or how we'll teach that lesson at church, or how we'll even talk to that boy (yeah...B), you know what I mean. We need to stop asking HOW. Just do what you know you should be doing and don't worry about how.

So that's it folks. It was incredible. I don't really want to stop feeling like this, but I know tomorrow it'll start to fade, I'll get distracted..and I'll have to come back and read this to remind myself.

I used to love to blog

My password for my SLCC login is actually an expression of my love for blogging..weird I know. They did this weird change with what was required for a password, and since I just started blogging and loved it I thought it was appropriate. Well...clearly my love for blogging has dropped considerably. I can't believe how long it has been. So much has happened, yet nothing is fresh on my mind enough to be witty. I'll try my best but I don't promise to entertain you..so just be nice and keep reading, pretend like you are interested, it will make my day.

So today is Fathers Day. First off, my dad kinda rocks. I got him socks. (That's true...didn't even plan that rhyme). Church was pretty good today, although I want to kill myself because I missed Elder Oaks. Apparently he came and spoke in the other singles ward while we were completely clueless to that and chilling in Relief Society. And then I'm told him went into one of the Sunday School classes...the one right behind the one that we went to. Dang it. Elder Oaks came in the building, hung out for a few hours and left without me even knowing he was there! I'm sad about that.

So B is adorable. I love that I'm giving him a code name now. Yet I still haven't had the guts to talk to him. We went to a bonfire last night and I had a few opportunities, but I let them slip by again. Janae is so ticked and I'll forever be single I'm sure because I'm so chicken. Not that me talking to him would make me un-single, but I think it maybe just is some sort of a test. A test that I'm failing miserably. On the plus side we met a new kid today and he's cute. I know, real shocker there. (considering we went through the ward directory yesterday and I think there was a total of 1 cute guy in the ward..it was rather depressing). Oh my goodness...I sound like a freak. I'm glad this is a private blog, but just in case something is leaked private (because we're basically like a CIA operation) I need to make a little disclaimer. We really aren't as hopeful nor psycho as we sound. We don't usually fall in love with people we just barely met, nor do we stalk anyone...not a single soul. It just makes for good reading! Get off my back dude!

Let's see...I went to visit old people at Highland Cove today with some people from the ward..no, he wasn't there, but I went anyway. I'm such a faithful little girl. It was a riot. Old people are hilarious! Friday we decided to be social and invite some people to go see "Star Trek" for this outdoor movie thing. We got rejected by a few handfuls of people. Where'd all our friends go? Even Ko's brother rejected us. (BTW we invited him to the bonfire thing on Saturday...slam, another rejection! Don't worry Ko, I'm not going to crazily text your brother daily....I can only imagine how crazy he thinks we are, but we may keep inviting him to things. It's about time we met this phantom Ben) The movie was ok, I'm told...me and Janae both dozed off occasionally. We didn't have a huge crowd with us, just Ali, Awkward Aaron who dreamily laid his head next to Janae's, Dan the Man and a few other people with him and Daniel and a friend of his. There was a huge group from our ward in front of us, but a very clicky group, we talked to 2 of them (the nice ones) I think they felt bad for us when they first saw us because it started out with just the 3 of us (see, we don't even care, it's only embarrassing because they are embarrassed for us. It was cool though, Janae got engaged to Aaron. Bad news though, the next day Aaron reverted back to his awkwardness. Janae cried, she's still crying.

One final thought, I'm super excited to do some missionary work. Not with just the normal crew like Theang and Rina and such, but someone new. I haven't been doing awesome at praying for opportunities but after today's PMG lesson at church I'm starting fresh. Who shall I share the gospel with next? Janae is going to share it with Suros (however the heck you spell the kids name)...I'm behind. Peace out sistas!

Wonderful Sabbath Days

I love the Sabbath! Such a wonderful day. Very rejuvenating and helps renew life's perspective! Not to mention the church is true. By the way, have you heard of radio.lds.org? its fabulous, all sorts of things to listen to! Check it out sometime...

so I am back to liking Space Cowboy...why did he have to sit by me at church today? why did he have to come over for dinner? why did he have to be nice and funny and easy to talk to? I don't get it...I would probably marry him tomorrow if he asked..he is just that kind of guy, that I am not worried about...but it creates more clarity in my life in a weird sort of way. Does that make sense?
It's interesting how we have feelings, not just feelings like I like him, but feelings that I like YOU and I can feel, because I am human. how sad to never feel.

Oh and I am back into family history yet again..I found all these names today from this site. It's amazing how much work there is to be done. Very overwhelming! But its very exciting, and I hope to keep finding names.

That's all for now, have a great week!

Life.Is.Good

I just wanted to take a moment to say hi and to say that Life is Goood!!!!! Everything is following into place...I feel great about everything, I feel great about being here in Houston, I feel great about where i work and what i am doing, I feel great about the people I am meeting and experiences I am having, I feel 100% assurance in life. Laura, thank you for sharing that talk on "timing" so many things he said hit home! Life will definitely take its twists and turns, but as long as we are committed and anchored in putting the Lord first and always remember him, and live a life where we are able to hear the promptings, then everything will be a-ok! Keep having faith and hope! Love you and miss you both! xoxoxo

I want free cake balls

Janelle is doing a cake ball give away....and I want to win, posting her blog on my blog is a requirement...but you should check out her blog anyway if you haven't already. justeatitcakes.blogspot.com

WELL this weekend started like any other weekend. Waking up Friday morning and going to work and then getting off early. Except this weekend I was headed for the airport after work. Our dear beloved friend and roommate Ali Barker so kindly took me to the airport. Little did I know I would run into my favorite coworker of past time and have someone to talk to as I waited for one of the longest awaited plane rides of my life-Houston, Texas! Now some may ask, "Why are you going to Houston?" "What is there to do there?" My response is, "Why wouldn't I go to Houston?" My good ole friend Kortney Teigen lives there! So i hopped on the plane and had a great old time. We arrived in Houston where Kortney came rolling up to the curb to pick me up with her car now sporting Texas license plates. First stop: FOOD. Greek food. Delicious. Next stop: Dueling Piano bar. Awesome. Now this is where I first met Marc. Kortney's FHE husband. He was having the time of his life. Martin was also there and boy was he loving life. He loved clapping and singing along. Well we jammed out there all night and just had a great time dancing, singing, and clapping right along or in Marc's case tapping your feet right along. We came home (yep i just called Kort's apt home) and I met the roommies. Next day we woke up and headed straight for the beach. Yep you heard me right I said beach. We laid there in the blistering sun and I couldn't get enough of it. I couldn't have asked for more except maybe a Pina Colada.

Well, I just dropped Janae off at at the airport, probably one of the saddest days since moving to Houston! Although I have made some good friends here, it was very refreshing to have a not-only familiar face around, but someone here that gets me completely.

Ok, so picking up where Jan left off....so we were at the beach and you know it was kick back, then we grabbed some food at Jack in the Box and of course some Marble Slab ice cream before heading back to Houston. For once, i must mention this, that Tropical Storm Fay did not greet us this weekend and I think my curse might be broken....or maybe it only occurs when I travel somewhere? Who knows, but the weather was perfect this weekend. So Sat night we went to a baptism, Thanks Janae for going, for this guy named Alex that I help teach with the missionaries, it was great to see a baptism again, its been years! And he was baptized by a new member of like 8 months so that was really neat!. Next, we ventured to dinner...we of course had to have Tex Mex so we went to Pappasitos and had some great food, then we ended the night at the Chocolate Bar where we had some fabulous Frozen Hot Chocolate. mmmmmmm

Sunday was just a riot and you can ask Janae for details, but she was able to see all the funny people and she couldn't help but laugh. lol oh And JAnae was able to inform me that my ward isn't weird and it is a mostly normal ward all around so that provided comfort because i was starting to wonder how it was perceived by others. This guy sat by Janae in the 3rd hour and he was pretty shady, he kept looking at her and was all mischevious. And after he wasn't even scared and asked what her name was. lol she might have a stalker in UT now! We had a fabulous dinner all complete with Sunday fixins and our usual dessert of Fruit Pizza! Hooray! Sunday evening we went to gare bear's place and Janae was able to meet some more friends and we were able to enjoy each others company. Oh Janae was able to see Bryant in person and informed me that yes he is a cute blonde, how sad for me, and she was able to meet Spencer too, its so helpful for her to see people in person. I can't wait for you to come to meet people and see houston so you can know better who these people are I talk about and Houston in general. Monday was sad because I knew I had to say goodbye eventually, and although that time has come, we were able to have a fabulous shopping trip to the outlets where Janae bought the CUTEST outfit and we have the same running shirt now, so cute. And i couldnt let her leave without showing her another Texas treat, Barbecue! yep, Rudy's BBQ was our friend as we filled ourselves to the brim.

The weekend seems like it was such a long time, yet it went so fast. I was able to forget about life for 3 days and just have fun! Now on to face the real world, and face life, and face the challenges of living, right? .and of course back to finding our EC's. Oh such a journey!

Because 2 people fell in love...I'm left all alone :(

Today you will be privileged to get a raw, un-cut blog. Believe it or not, we've been holding back. You see, typically Janae and I compliment each other. Now I'm not talking the "you look so good today Janea" or "Laura, you are amazing, I can only dream of one day becoming like you" kind of compliment. I'm talking the yin and yang or the cookie and milk kind of compliment. We balance each other out...like like Glenn Beck and Stu, if you will. (hahahaha I think I'm the only one laughing...my followers (and Janae) are lame and I don't think they share in joys I do listening to Glenn Beck daily). Anyway...today, well really this entire weekend, the cookie is missing the milk. So the cookie is unusually dry. So the cookie (that's me...oh, in case you haven't guessed it yet, I'm Laura) has a few options...I can be a dry cookie without milk, or I can try to be a cookie that doesn't need milk...maybe like a snickerdoodle or a sugar cookie. I attempted to be the cool cookie, call me snickerdoodle for a minute.

If you are still following me..which you probably are because that opening paragraph was far too intriguing to just give up, if you are still following me, well, let's face it..you are probably confused. So let me explain myself. Janae left me....because a few years back she fell in love with Kortney. My best friend! What a jerk huh? Well...of course she has to one up me and decided she would take the first available holiday weekend and still my friend..so while Kortney and Janae are in Houston (gasp...I'm just going to come right out and say it, even though it hurts me so) frolicking about the dewey meadows singing "hello, lalala". Hold one a minute while I wipe the tears from my eyes.

So what is the first thing one does when her milk is out of town? She heads straight to HELL (aka provo..as Janae puts it) not because she is miserable but because, quite frankly, she misses it. So I hung out with few friends, Kelly (aka sister bradfield), Amber and Chelsea, and an ex-friend, Rosey (psyc!..the cd rocks..and I've listened to American Honey twice..it's ok). Then I had movie night the next day with my crazy cool sibs..nothing like Rush Hour with a tasty Pina Colada! Then came sunday. Those pictures up there...let me explain.

The first comes after a lovely day at church. I went alone...ah...finally! Janae was getting on my nerves anyway. I only stayed for the first 2 hours because I went to see a friend speak (or sign) at a deaf ward, but the first hour I was sitting on the 2nd row, relief society and priesthood were combined because it was the 5th Sunday (you'd know that Janae if you'd actually go to church long enough to make it to a 5th Sunday ever now and then). There was 1 available seat to my left and about 6 to my right. A girl named Kristed asked if she could sit to my right..I politely said yes, and then...B...yes, B comes and asks if he can sit on my left. It was a heavenly experience...he's just so stinking cute! So I say sure, and we have some awkward exchange of words in which he asks me how the hot tub party was...I say it was good and that he should have stayed, he tells me he was hungry and he gets cranky when he's hungry so he didn't want to stay very long...how cute is that? Then I proceed to freeze up because I get so awkward next to cute little guys. But that was ok because the lesson was starting. We exchanged a few words during the lesson, but when the lesson was over and I had the prime opportunity to talk to him, I freeze. Same reason I did it the first time. But no worries, I don't think it raised any red flags in his mind because I had to run to my car to get the checks for sizzlefest so I looked like I was in a hurry. That was the end of my church experience and although I felt like a moron for not saying anything I was still feeling pretty happy he sat by me. Hence the happy picture. (dude...if anyone in the ward ever gets a hold of this blog...I'm going into hiding.) (Under my couch or maybe in that little hobbit closet we have).

So I decided I would drag Jamie along to the dessert social with me. We met up with our neighbors, Val, Jessie, Ali and Megan (in no particular order because I don't play favorites). We walked over with them and began to not socialize. Ali and Jessie were keeping me entertained for the most part so things were ok. I talked to Dan the Man, of course, and awkward Aaron made an appearance (don't worry Janae, he definitely asked about you..and no, i'm not kidding). I met a few other guys...Scott, who is roommates with that kid that is in charge of the sacrament..the cute one, but the one that sounds gay (I had a little conversation with him too). Anyway, so I'm standing with Ali and Jessie and Megan at the end and we're just a chattin' it up and over walks Bryce. He starts talking with Jessie and then it turns into a group thing. We are all just talking and laughing and we start walking home together. Hafeed joins us. Well I guess me and Ali and Hafeed were walking too slow for Jessie and Bryce...so the rest of the way home I got to watch them walk ahead of us. Laughing and talking and having a good time. So the sad picture up there is of what I look like now. The end.

so I have a couple of random stories from work, they have to do with the language of Spanish. So I have become good friends with the garbage lady at work, Maria. She comes by every afternoon around 1pm and always says "mucho trabajo?" and I say "si" and she says "mucho dinero" and I say "no" and then we proceed to talk to each other in spanish (really me listening to her and trying to speak spanish. the other day, she was on something, she comes in and sits down, and starts asking me about God and asked me if i was "catholica" then she starts singing, "no me gusta el diablo" and she was singing a song she sings in church and kept asking me if i prayed and sang at church, mind you this is all in spanish. she was singing really loud, and i was getting embarassed, like i know I have an office, but still the walls are thin, anyway, maria es mi amiga. my other spanish friend works in argentina, his name is pedro. i wrote him an email yesterday that said "tienes bueno fin de semana" he got a kick out of it and we wrote a couple of emails back and forth in espanol, i hope to dust off my spanish skills with the help of maria and juan pedro.

A party for people we don't know

Kortney...this is you at our party. You were at the fridge..watching the whole thing!


This blog is brought to you by Laura..commentary by Janae.

Nothing lately has been very blog worthy. So sue us ok? It's not like you ever write. We don't even know you anymore. So where do I start with this whole thing? Turns out it was Janae's idea to have this dumb party anyway (umm who said it was dumb besides Ali??). It all started last weekend. I was so excited to go to all these social things and make buckets and buckets of friends. Friday night was a pig roast...who doesn't have fun at a pig roast? The biggest names in our ward would be there...for one..Billie (You are in love with this kid, but you don't know how to spell his name??? And you wonder why BILLY didn't come to our party?). Where Billie is, there is the big party. So we went, and it sucked. I don't really know how else to put it. It sucked. It was awkward, we, as in me, Janae and our guest of honor, Amber, ended up shooting hoops by ourselves, then we went home (We invited Billy to shoot hoops with us, but then he saw how bad we sucked and went inside). It was utterly depressing. So we went home and I began to do what I always do. Actually, I started doing it on my way home, whining, you know, the whole self-pity thing. Janae began to do what she always does, tells me to shut up. (I told you too not get upset over things you can't control) But deep down inside Janae is not the mean heartless person she pretends to be. Deep down inside Janae loves me more than her own life and she wants me to be happy. (I sure do.) So she used every last bit of creativity in her to come up with an idea to cure my blues. (It didn't take that much thinking. Trust me I would not TRY that hard to come with things to make you happy.) That idea was a fondue party for the ward. At first when she suggested it I thought she was batty. Crazy, if you will. Acutally, I still kind of think that. But, I latched on to that idea as my last chance to become someone in this ward. This could be our breaking out point. You know, the event that gets us noticed..so when we walk into church people look at us and think, "Wow! Those are the girls! Those are THE girls!" So it was a done deal. The party planning began.

How could we pull this off? We, average girls to begin with, how would WE become the amazing superstar-like people we needed to be to pull this off? There was so much to get figured out. Aside from how to make the stinking cheese..and don't even get me started on the dark chocolate fondue. (You thought you we so funny spiking to fondue with coffee! Nice was to get yourself some attention!) I don't even want to talk about it. Man, I don't know how many times we flip-flopped on when we would send out "THE" email. Should we send it out a few days before so that people would keep their calenders open for THE social event of the year? Or would that make us sound too excited and take away from our obvious coolness? We could follow it up with an email the day of to make sure people remember? Or is that too wierd? 2 emails? yeah..not cool. Should we send it out the day before so that the people who only check their email once a day will get it? Or should we send it out the day of so we seem really cool throwing this thing together last minute, without much thought? We finally decided day of was the best because, well, that's just what people do around these parts.

Everything was coming together so nicely. We successfully stole a chocolate fountain and chocolate from Janae's parents house...they picked a lovely time to go to Europe..Suckas! v(My mom would buy me a fountain and chocolate of my own if she knew boys would be coming.) We went to ghetto Walmart that Janae loves so much, (I do not, but I accept people unlike you. People of different backgrounds. I however don't like Wal-Mart nor the workers.) and got all the fruit and veggies. We were rearin' to go. So the night before, we encounter our first scheduling conflict...scratch that..our 2nd scheduling conflict..The Office has been scheduled since the beginning of time, but don't worry, we found away around that one. Bro. Larsen decided it would be good to try to ruin our lives and schedule basketball over our activity..the activity he didn't know about since we hadn't sent out the email yet, but still...he's a life ruiner. No worries though, we are soldiers, we can work through this. Thursday morning I was feeling pretty good. I stretched my fingers and sat down at my computer to send out the email....see below:

We are having a little shindig at our place at 8pm tonight. Therewill be chocolate and cheese fondue, so you should probably come! Weare aware there is a conflict with basketball and The Office...noworries, you can get all 3 in. Come at 8pm and watch The Office with us, grab a few things to eat, then head on over to basketball.
Feel free to bring stuff to dip!
-The Girls of 4408 Muirfield, #31Janae, Laura, Ali & Michelle

How chill do we sound? I mean, really. Yeah, we are cool. Literally 10 min after I posted that we encountered another scheduling conflict. Stupid kid...I want to say it was Tommie..or Tony..geez, I don't remember. Anyway, many many years ago his or her mom decided to try to destroy our lives just has Brother Larsen had attempted. She had the nerve to give birth this very same day, just so that in the future, some 25-30 years down the line there would be a birthday party just an hour after our party. Grrr...I hate tommie or tony's or whoever it was's mom! But we remained strong and hoped for the best!

It's 7:30. We are freaking out. I'm freaking out anyway. Janae is holding it together for the team. (Meanwhile Ali is sitting on the couch trying to watch her show and getting ticked at us for being loud.) We frantically make chocolate..burn one pot, I screw up the cheese, Janae and Ali work wonders on the fountain, Janae cuts the fruit..and we are set to go..except there is a giant pile of dishes in the sink...it's sick dude..we're talking green and orange crap in that sink from the avacados and carrots. (It looked like throw up.) 8:00 arrives and we're almost ready..don't worry, no one is showing. Michelle gets home, cuts our pineapple and starts texting everyone she knows to come because she feels so bad for her pathetic roommates who think they are so cool. To our credit, we are every bit as cool as we think we are. Guest #1 arrives...we don't know her because we threw a party for people we don't know. Michelle does, they go to Michelle's room probably just to feel sorry for us in private. It's now 8:15...Janae's favorite ex-roommate shows up with Janae's VT companion...the ex-roommate...let's call her Amy, says "where is everyone?"(She is so snooty. LIKE she had that many people come to a party she threw last Summer.) Janae laughs...I choke back tears. The good news is the party got rockin' pretty quickly after that. Droves and Droves and Droves and DROVES of people show up! Ok..you got me, it was maybe 20 people total filtering in and out. We socialized...Ali was forced to join, she hates us now. It was good...my favorite part was the coffee flavored fondue. (Two days later we are still the coolest girls around. Today we were out playing Tennis and not only did 1 person walk by and say hi, BUT 4 people. Not to mention our new 8 year old friend that played Tennis with us. She must have heard how cool our party was and wanted to be friends. She even gave us gifts. I think it was a gift for being the coolest people around this part of town.)

Billy's Invite

Have You Ever Been to a Birthday Reception and Drank Margaritis

This blog is brought to you by Janae..commentary by Laura the Great.
Bloggin makes me happy unlike grumpy Laura! (I'm not grumpy)I love sharing my life and journeys with all those around me! I feel like our readers can learn so much from us and grow and become a better person with each post. (all 2 of our readers..one of them doesn't really read them...cough cough..Ko, and the other is a stalker..you know who you are you little creep) Anyway now on to our latest stories/social events. Well Sunday started out like any other Sunday...Laura making us late to church, (we weren't late) causing scenes at church, etc. Ali saw her blind date from the night before in Sunday School so that was fun for her (i felt awkward for her)....and like we learned tonight dating in the ward is like peeing in the pool it's REALLY convenient, BUT everyone has to swim in it. (hahahahahaha don't you love that? I love it..I can't wait to pee in the pool!) So hopefully Ali learned her lesson from being set up on blind date with someone in the ward. He isn't really in the ward, but the same ward that meets in our building. Part of the H-4 if you will. So after church we came home and plopped ourselves in front of the TV for the Jazz game and admired all our boyfriends on the team. (I want a new boyfriend, my current boyfriend sucks at basketball...he actually sucks at life...any guesses as to who it is? Hing...his name rhymes with Morver) I just realized I don't know why I talked about Sunday because no other social events happened that day. (actually..i was social..I went to the CES fireside with Ali..even invited the new girl Janelle to come with..she came..we went..watched and then promptly left without being social with anyone else)

Moving on to Monday now, we went to FHE. That's right FHE...and ALLISON BARKER came! (are you serious?) Big leap of faith for her AND she even read a scripture. (She had to..the scriptures were thrown at her..you can't really turn that down..and Bryce was the one who threw them..he's so cute) So proud of her! So our good friend Billy taught the lesson (she forgot the funniest part of the lesson..so billy tells us he would integrate an ensign article into the lesson...he hands a girl this ensign and assigns her a paragraph to read..turns out it is a quote from himself..yep...dang kid got in the ensign and quoted himself for the lesson! How great is that!?) because it was his birthday and who doesn't want to teach the lesson on their birthday? Billy just loves life. (he really does) I don't even know how to describe him. I will let Laura do the honor of that. (Billy cruises around the apartment complex on a long board wearing bright green converse...yes..i think that about describes him...the rest of this portion of the blog should answer any other questions you may have about this character...my favorite character) So Billy sends out an email about his party which I think we may just have to post the email on our blog just so you get a better feel for him. Anyway Laura and I discussed whether or not we would be attending his party that night. I told Laura we would go if he announced it at FHE. Not only did he announce it he personally invited us to come! (i cried i was so excited) That's right the one and only Billy invited us to come to his very formal birthday party. He informed us that the Birthday Line would be starting at 9, the slide show would be at 9:30, and the cutting of the cake would be at 9:50. So we arrived at the party about 9:15, we had to be fashionably late. We get there and sure enough Billy is standing under a balloon archway. (you forgot about the crown on his head..it was a burger king crown..it was great) As soon as we signed in on his guestbook we had the honor of going through the line and congratulating him on his life. The slide show was next and boy was that the funniest thing I have ever seen. Once again I will let Laura describe this more in detail. (I don't have time for more detail about it..it's freaking 11:20 and my alarm is going to go off at 4:50 am....that's what it takes to look as good as me) (the slide show was hilarious. We got to know billy intimately from the day of his birth until this wonderful party we attended. It was a raw/uncut version...some of it was obsene...though that was the best part) (we also got to watch him serenade us with a weird song in a video of an ipod party...if you don't know what that is you should text me....right now...i'm serious..send me the text...hopefully I'll have more time to explain it then I do right now...but I think everyone should attend and/or throw their own ipod party..we're going to..very soon..but ko can't come because she's in Tejas and Ro can't come because she's dead to me) I feel like she would have better words to describe this event. Basically just incredibly funny is the only words I can think of. (geez...you left out so many details...he cut the cake, then fed himself...and then he did a sock toss instead of the traditional garter throw..though we didn't stay for the sock toss)

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!!!! Well naturally we had a few parties to attend. First we hit up Bajio Mexican Grill and this girl in front of us tells the worker, "Happy Holiday!" (i felt so embarassed for her!) Oh people are so stupid. I felt so awkward for her the worker probably wasn't Mexican. (i got the christmas drink) We came home and tried to get Ali to come with us, but she "had too many things to do." Ya I called BS on that! (you were ticked dude!) She is just racist. (what? she's racist?) We hit up the first party and it was awkward for quite some time. Except for when they did the pinata it wasn't awkward. Laura kept telling me I needed to turn around and talk to people! (because it was bryce..bryce is so cute) As if that would have eased the awkwardness! Seriously did this girl miss the class Social Skills 101?? (I tested out of that class..i went straight to 1020) We continued to stand and in walks DAN THE MAN! (so much energy that character...so perfectly demonstrated by Jared) He had some friends to introduce us to and for those few moments the awkwardness was gone. It got awkward again so we decided to go to the other party with our new friends Josh, Branton, and Spencer. They had margaritas there so we stood around drinking the night away. (no alcohol...geez...janae..don't make it sound like we got drunk) The more we drank the less awkward things got naturally. (oh boy...you're taking this too far) They also had a pinata, but it was outside. We froze our butts off since not all of us live in Texas and it still is below freezing after dark here. Well this is when we heard that famous quote from our friend Jared W. that I quoted earlier, "Dating in the ward is like peeing in the pool it's REALLY convenient, BUT everyone has to swim in it." (hilarious..i can't even get over it) Jared is also our new friend tonight and he told Laura the reason she doesn't have friends is because she hasn't announced that she is new in the ward. (how do i do that...ok..sunday during sacrament meeting I will stand up...put my hands in the air ...and wave them like i just don't care..naturally...and tell everyone I'm new..maybe that way i will get some dates) Seriously Laura EVERYONE knows they are suppose to do that when you move into a new ward. Well Laura and Josh got talking about he work and the rest of the night was history. I actually am just sick of typing so I will leave it to Laura to add to the story if she wants to! Adios! (one last things she forgot..we were at the cinco de mayo party for ever and a day...we stayed til 10:30...I'm so proud of us. Michelle is proud of us too...I'm sure our mom's would be proud if they knew)

Blogging makes me angry

These boys are aspiring to be WWE wrestlers. I think that is an amazing goal to aspire to. (This was the most retarded thing EVER. I hate wrestling, boxing, etc. SO STUPID) I think I may join their fight club. It was incredibly entertaining. (You just liked looking at Jose in his spandex.) We went to a Cinco de Mayo celebration today with a random mix of people from different walks of my life. Janae who is probably my newest friend...not counting all my new best friends from the ward; (Your newest friend? What is that suppose to mean??) Theang and Houng...my favorite asian buddies; Jess..aka Sister Rancie; Elder Burt aka Ryan; and 2 of Theangs friends...aka the hispanics..not Mexican though so I'm not entirely sure why we were celebrating Cinco de Mayo. (Because we are cultured!) Anywho. Technically it is Janae's turn to blog..but she thinks because of my date yesterday that I should take the initiative. And because I am responsible and productive type I agreed to blog. (Ya REAL productive if you consider painting your nails six times a week) So, this wonderful blog is brought to you by me, that is Laura..the cool one. Commentary by Janae....again. (Commenting makings me angry. I always have to think of funny things to say to try and add to Laura's boring posts.)

These blogs really do make me angry. I've got too much to tell. I'm annoyed. So, where to start. Yesterday I went on a date. It started just like every other date I go on. (You talking about yourself, telling him how great you are, proposing to him, trying to win him over by telling him you have a couch, table, and TV.) It started with me not wanting to go, even dreading the date and stressing about keeping conversation going, stressing about not being boring, stressing about all sorts of things. The next thing that happened was pretty typical of my dates as well. Things were good. There was no awkwardness and I had a really good time. We went to dinner at Sawadee Thai, it was delightful. I had a really good time, the conversation was awesome...he smiled a lot and has really pretty great dimples. Oh..his name was Lem. He's filipino. He's tall for a filipino..5'10" lucky kid...unlucky me...had he actually inherited his parents height gene's he could be hobbit size, I would have been overjoyed. (Seriously why don't you just go work at Hatch Family place and marry one of them.) We had plans to see the movie "Date Night" but we had about 1.5 hrs between dinner before the movie started so we went to Skybox and watched the Jazz game. We didn't see the end...it killed use as we walked into the movie, but luckily Janae was good and keeping me updated via text. (Where are your priorities??? A movie over a Jazz game? How would Jerry feel about that?_ I really appreciate that Janae. (You are welcome! I took a lot of concentration to text you while being stressed about the game.) So, we watched the movie. It was good, yet very crued..I guess it's to be expected, it WAS Michael Scott. We got back to my apartment around 12:30. He came in and we watched the office..he missed the last episode, one that I had already enjoyed, so we just got him caught up. We sat in the love sac and it was awkward. I don't even know how to explain it. So he sits on the love sac, so I figured we might get a little cozy...but then he didn't get cozy at all..his hands were beside his head....and yeah, it was wierd. Then later one I told him he was cramping my style because his right arm was all awkward like and in my way...so he says "I don't know what to do with my arm" so I told him to just put it behind me...not in a creepy "lets cuddle" kind of way, just a "it's annoying me where it's at so put it somewhere else" kind of way. I mean..he is an awesome guy..I would have let him hold my hand and I would definitely go out with him again..but I just don't know. So he stayed here until about 2am. We just talked and stuff..it was really good, really comfortable, but yeah. I sent him on his way. So he walks without even giving me a hug...so I made him hug me goodnight, then he left. (Well maybe if you wern't so anti-hugging he would have hugged you!) I don't know what to think. We're just good friends I guess. But why would he ask me out if he didn't like me...it's not like he didn't know me. We went to stake conference together and he came over and watched conference...I don't know. I don't get it. Friends it is then I guess.

So Janae flaked on her calling as a service committee member, so I went to the activity this morning in her place. (YA RIGHT I was off doing service elsewhere and wanted to give you the opportunity to find your EC. So I in a way was doing double service...walking a 5k for Autism and allowing you to take my place and give you the opportunity to meet your EC.) I prayed it would rain so we wouldn't have to do the service, it was yard cleaning. Well, my prayers were answered, it rained..but I forgot to pray that the activity would actually be canceled if it rained. It wasn't. I spent the morning with my new bff's Hafid, Julie, Alana and Bryce. It was cold and wet. But it was fine. I felt productive...did my act of service for the year. (You aren't getting off that easy! You forget you live with me and you need to help me fulfil my calling!) I guess that's it for now. Oh best news of the week..the Jazz game is on ABC tomorrow. (Kort I am sure is thrilled about this!)

Egg Jousting

Doesn't the title of this blog just intrigue you? It should. It was quite the adventure. I was in the top 6! (Okay we get it already! You were in the top six! Sto p talking about it already!) We egg jousted as an FHE group..it was pretty stinking fabulous. Look it up on youtube. Egg jousting will soon be brought to an FHE group near you. (Kort please do this for you FHE one time) Janae told me yesterday that she was ditching. She likes her current family more than she like's her future family apparently because she ditched FHE to play tennis with her mom and to meet her new sister. I was ticked, yet determined not to give up my eternal family just because Janae lost sight of her eternal goals. (Are you saying that the Bedke Bunch won't be my family anymore after I get married?? Pretty sure they are still part of my eternal life) I had made plans to go with Michelle...but at 7:55 (just 5 min before FHE was to start) she wasn't home. I didn't want to go alone...I would look like a freak. And of course I'm not a freak so I didn't want anyone getting that misconception. Kortney saved the day as she gave me a pep talk on gmail. I made the decision to go, and nothing was going to stop me. And then Michelle showed up!!! Yeah! We went together. Of course..our good friend Dan the Man was there..he inquired about our battery powered candles. (Would you just ask him out already! He is never going to give up!) I'm a slacker. The lighting in our apartment comes from light fixtures, connected to the ceiling. I know...how lame is that? And how unromantic. (Do you actually expect to ever get married if you don't have candles on your table? Which by the way it's ruined now thanks to your obsession with nail painting.) Well...to sum up my evening in a Nutshell...I met a few new people, Nicole, Melissa, Sarah, Janelle, Zach, Jared W., Billy, Michelle and...I think that's it. I thought that was a pretty good list. (Pretty sure you couldn't remember half of their names nor will you remember them next time you see them, but nice try. Oh and my name is Janae. Janae? no Janae. Janae? no Janae.)

So I got home from a pretty intense egg jousting tourney and decided that Ali and Janae should miss out because of their busy schedules...so I boiled up some eggs and we jousted again. It was less fantastic than the first time..I chalk it up to beginners luck. Ali had the most luck.

In other exciting news..I have a date Friday. And as usual, I'm less than excited. (Only because it's not with Dan the Man.) Lem is a nice guy, pretty good looking too, but my lack of excitement is nothing new. I'm always like this on first dates. Seconds as well. I'm be more excited for date 3 if I ever get one of those again! Ah...and I didn't make it to the gym today. I forgot to set my alarm. It pretty much ruined my day.

So I decided that as you are finding your FEC's I will take this time to learn how you do it then apply. For now, I will use this blog as "self-discovery" to document who I really am, discover goals I never knew I had, find hobbies that will help prepare me for meeting my FEC and will help me develop invaluable skills. It's going to be a journey of a life time and I need you to help me find out who that person is that I am becoming! There are several things in my life that I want to change and some of it is already happening. It's so interesting how change can happen so fast yet not be noticed until i really stop and look. anyway, its rather an exciting process, the whole concept of change, its quite rejuvenating! How exciting life is! I love living!

Today was a good day! Ali got home last night. I ran and gave her a hug like normal people do after not seeing each other for a long time. (dude..you're not normal people. hugs are gross) I hugged Laura when she got home from her vacation just to make her feel awkward! (creep) I was really tired when I woke up today, I didn't even hear the ducks quacking this morning. They are such a good alarm clock. I think the ducks are going to become my best friends this summer. (sorry about that..i took the ducks out for a walk) Anyway onto the day. I left work at 5:30 and just couldn't bring myself to come home to Laura, she is so grumpy after work. (not when she finds a pair of luckies for $2.95) So I headed to Maurices and bought some cute shoes. I finally used my gift card from Mark that I had from Christmas. Then I headed to SmithTix to buy TIM MCGRAW and LADY A tickets! It is going to be the concert of the year! It's on July 30th if you (Kortney) want to come! (i feel like i need to conform and buy tickets...but i wont) Laura thinks she is way too cool for country music! (you know how i am kortney..i will listen to it..i even try to like it..like when i've asked for multiple "laura loves country" cd's...i'm just not feeling it) Then I arrived home to Laura sitting on the couch as usual. (hmm..i don't remember that) It's not like she didn't work out three times today. (yes i did..i feel lovely..and i need to get to bed so i can wake up tomorrow and do it again :) Freak. While I was enjoying my Fuf Chair someone knocked at our door which is very unusual. Laura opens the door and it was Awkward Aaron from the ward. He proceeds to think that it is okay for him to sit by me on the Fuf Chair. (you forgot to mention that he said he could be the first person you cuddle with on the chari) (he was cute)Laura then leaves the room like a jerk. (nope...just giving you your privacy) I thought friends were suppose to stick by your side during times like these!!!! (i couldn't help it..i had to go to my room to laugh) Anyway Awkward Aaron stayed and chatted for awhile. (a long while..too long) Laura decided to come chat with us (she made me stay..gun to my head kind of "made") and I even convinced her to postpone going to the gym for a bit. He left and Laura left. Laura got home a hour later and we headed up to the track to run. (i got janae a day pass so we can work out on saturday..she's bailing for the kids..again!) Laura's third workout for the day. (i really don't know what got into me) She is my inspiration. (i'm the meaning in her life, i'm her....you know the rest)Now we are home and I sitting on the Fuf Chair again and Laura is singing on her couch. (pretty much how we end every day)Would you rather sit on Laura's couch or my Fuf Chair??? (my couch..it's bigger..and greener)

Where'd all the good people go

This blog brought to you by Laura..commentary by Janae.

Kortney...kokat...Kdawg...Kortdoubt...Ko...Where did you go? You are the good people I was referring to in the title of this blog. It has been many long long days since I've last spoken to you. Rumor has it you texted Janae yesterday, and I am very jealous (seriously Laura do you really get up at 5am and read my texts? You need to mind your own business). Green with envy if you will.(Not to mention I hung out with Kortney's parents last night) My poor little heart is breaking. When will you call my love? You're probably sleeping now, so I'll let it slide for a minute or 2.

My day began once again at 5 in the a.m. at the local Gold's Gym. (Or in my room reading my texts, creep) It was lovely. I am feeling less fat already. Although I am sitting here eating Ice Cream as we speak. I figure the sooner my ice cream is gone the sooner I'll stop eating it. Or the sooner I buy more. One or the other. I feel ok about that. (I feel great about it. I love eating your icecream) Anyway, work went about the same as usual. Then I headed off to school. Because I'm responsible like that. We played BS for the entire class and the entire lab. 3hrs of BS to be exact. It was great fun. Then I came home and tidied up the apartment. Janae is such a slob. (Psh I haven't even been here for 2 days) I always have to clean up after her. And to make matters worse, I had a big giant love sack stuffed in a box sitting in my car, waiting for Janae to get home and help me carry it up the stairs. (She is just jealous that I have a social life and she doesn't. Don't tell her I was out hanging out with Ty Ty The Backhand Guy) Well, long story short...she sucks. I ended up waiting around, worried sick for my beloved roommate for hours, in resorted to my least favorite past time...one word...HULU. She finally comes rolling in at about 10pm. And get this, she has the nerve to call me and tell me to get my butt down stairs to bring it up. So I scolded her for being so rude and demanding, then quickly hurried down the stairs. She whined like a baby on the way up. "This is so awkward" "It's hard to carry" "My fingers hurt" "Owww!" "I can't do it" "My muscles are hurting so bad I think I'm going to die!" "I don't think I've ever done anything so hard in my life!" "I'm pretty sure I am going to drop the box and it will smash me. Goodbye. It's been nice knowing you" Yeah....are you annoyed yet? Cause I sure was. (Get over yourself. Just cause you go to the gym every morning and I don't. I am so sick of hearing about how much better and more fit you are than me!!!)

Finally we get the sac up the stairs and stuff it in the cover. We jumped about like giddy school girls and threw it like an old potato in the corner. It's a bit lumpy, and not to it's full size yet, we are told it will take a few days. If Janae sticks to her "fuffing schedule" and gets up a few times tonight and for the next few nights, and maybe comes home at lunch to fuf her baby, I think we'll be just fine and be rockin' and ready for a movie this weekend! (It's already more fuffy, I am slowing sitting up straighter and straighter)

Laura is Gone

I wouldn't mind going for a paddle boat ride today.


Well hi, hello, how are you? Nothing like sitting on your bed by the open window with the breeze coming in other than the fact that I can't stop sneezing cause of the popcorn on the trees. Laura says the popcorn stinks like butt, but obviously she doesn't remember the primary song about Popcorn Popping....it would smell SO SWEET. Yesterday I went to the SLC Marathon. I didn't run like Kort though. I helped with some of the ward memebers. Marathon runners are incredible/inspiring/insane. It was insane there were so many runners there. I think they said they had around 4,000 that ran the half not to mention all the full marathon runners. That was my social event of the day. I was on the lookout for my FEC runner, but he was no where to be found. I then went to a baby shower at the Halligans. Garrett loved that it was at his house so he could attend the shower and eat the food of course. We talked about you and I rubbed it in their face that I was going to Texas to see you. They claimed they would have come if I told them before I bought my ticket. I think they are lying. Then I went to my soccer game. Garrett scored all of our goals and we only lost by 1 point. We are getting better. I came home and watched the Blind Side and stayed awake for the WHOLE thing. It is a good movie it made me tear up a bit. Awkward. This blog post is going to feel empty without Laura's commentary. I am debating whether or not I should post, but I will. I just had a piece of Texas Toast. My roommates need to come home from all their travels. I feel lost without them and I am sure they feel they same too. We definately need to have roommate inventory when they get home. I think it is something you should start doing with you roommates if you haven't already. I will let Laura explain more about RI (roommate inventory) in a future post.

Bluebonnets!

I.AM.SORE

So I have never blogged before, so just deal with it okay? also just a warning, my left shift key on my keyboard no longer works and i have grown up my whole life typing with only the left shift key so there will be a lot of lower cap letters...dont be ticked.

So yesterday was quite the treat. I went to Brenham (a little country town about 1 hr north of Houston, has a similar small town feel as Logan, but even smaller, doesnt even have a walmart) We stayed in Brenham on Friday night so we could be well rested for the run saturday morning. we stayed in a place called the coachlight inn. i was pretty sure it was the same motel on the movie Psycho, pretty freaky, but for some reason not scary because it was a small town. anyway, i wanted pie, because small towns always have great places with pie, but apparently small towns close up shop at 8pm so no go on the pie, it was watching "what not to wear" instead, love that show, i learned that you should wear tee shirts with embelishments. so Saturday morning rolls around, i was able to sleep in til 7am yahoo. The 5k was suppose to start at 8:45..it got pushed back to 9:15. So we had about 45 mins to kill.. let me explain that the sponsor of the race was Blue Bell ice cream....pretty much THE ice cream of TX. If you try to argue with any texan about blue bell not being the best ice cream (or best state) they will rip your head off. dont you worry that they were giving out free ice cream bars left and right (rocket type popsicles, strawberry smoothies, great divide(milk and white chocolate, Krunch, and ice cream sandwich). Since we had time to kill, i decided to eat the healthier of all the choices, the strawberry smoothie, before the race. Maybe a bad idea as i felt the sugar churning in my stomach about mile marker 2, but it was fine. So the race starts down hill, i am cruising listening to "all the small things." It was a surprise to me that there were hills included in this race, something i have never tried since houston is flaaatttt. Let me explain another TX tradition to if you will let me. Blue Bonnets are the TX state flower and they come out this time of year. Brenham is THE place to see them, there are fields of blue flowers and other wild flowers. It is quite the site. The run took us along side this countryside of bluebonnets. It was gorgeous, i felt like i was in another country. The race was pretty hard, i really pushed myself, especially through the hills, but i was able to shave off 11 mins from my previous 5K and run this race in 29 mins! And yes, i had more ice cream at the end of the race, it was delicious. My friend took pictures so i will have to see if i can get a copy. I really need to buy a camera sometime soon so i can start documenting my life.

last night we had "oscars nights" fhe groups made videos and we watched them, voted, etc. WE dressed up formally, i wore my crushed velvet shirt that i wore to my very first prom with Lanque. I also wore my 3.5 inch velvet shoes. I didn't know there was a dance after, but you know me, i like to get down, so I danced until i hurt and dancing in 3.5 inch velvet shoes was a bad idea. dancing is a great way to meet people, i met 3 guys in the ward last night. 2 of them are youngins though...and one is really short, so not much potential, but fun guys. Space Cowboy was there, he wore this sweet tuxedo (just like the one in dumb and dumber, the blue one), I thought it would be a great opp to talk and bust a move with him, but him and his social butterflyness was flying all over the dance floor, I think its clear he is over it, but I just can't let him go yet. So now i wake up and am sore from all the movement, good movement yes.

wishing you were here....kt