I'm gonna get a little deep on ya...

Hello. It's me, once again, as the title of this blog implies. I have been thinking...and therefore I shall share my thoughts on this here bloggy blog. Ok, here is my thought...
I have made a wonderful realization that I am more or less a composite of the people around me. Each of my quirky little personality traits is simply something I have picked up from someone else. I love meeting new people, even if I may never see them again in my life, I feel like just meeting someone new has enriched my life in some way. Maybe I am too impressionable, but people leave me different. Like little kids that repeat everything you say, I catch mannerisms, phrases, theories, or even just smiles that people aren't meaning to send me, they are just being themselves. I am so grateful for this though, cause how boring would I be if I were just...the original me? I guess I might be cool, but I like myself a lot more as an accumulation of the imprints others have left on my little heart-and how would I ever know what the original me was like when I have such awesome influential people around me.
People do things that I notice and say, "Wow, I want to be like that!" Just to name a few...I want to make friends and be involved cause of Nicole, I say "dude" all the time cause of dan, I pay attention to lyrics cause of kristi. I try to consider people's needs and plan well cause of sylvia, I try to be loyal cause of Em, I want to learn to speak in public cause of Lisa. I learn to love the little things cause of staish, and I want to be good with domestic things cause of kate. I want to be unselfish like kyle and steve, I want to be random and funny like kallie and natalie. I want to focus on people's feelings like Aaron, and be grateful like sarah. I want to be enthusiastic like brad, but a deep thinker like allie. I try to eat healthier cause of mindy, and I want to be a good student like jay. I want to follow the jazz cause emily does, and I want to go on a mission like holly and kim. I want to laugh like my mom, and go the extra mile like sandra.
I couldn't list all of the things like this cause there are FAR too many, and I could never say thank you enough for all the many ways the people I know have affected me. You have all truly changed my life for the better whether you know it or not. I'm lucky to know such cool people. :)

I Simply MUST Be A Teacher!

I have spent a lot of time in classrooms around utah county, mostly upper grades, but some kindergarten, and I absolutely love it. I have wanted to be a teacher all of my life, but I never realized what teaching actually included. I have had so many fears about it-there are aspects of it that I don't know if I could do very well, and so I have been studying it out to make sure that is right for me. I have most definitley looked into other careers that I think I would enjoy-ya gotta keep an open mind ya know. I love culinary arts, and have dreamed of going to culinary school. I love physiology and biology and would love to be a nurse. I think nutrition is fascinating and dietetics would be a fun career. I have searched out these different careers and thought they seemed great, but when I step into an elementary classroom I am a fish who has found the ocean. It just fits perfectly and I get so stinking excited!! I got to go tutor at Canyon Crest Elementary yesterday, and though I was only there for a little bit, I got to tutor, talk to the teacher about her job, and watch the kids out at recess and I just flipped. I HAVE to be a teacher!! I MUST!! I CANNNOT WAIT!!! I had the giggly/screaming thing (many of you have heard it...) coming out of my mouth in my car the whole way home cause I was so excited that I was going to be a teacher. I love everything about it. The kids, spelling, reading, writing, science, the creativity of it, the organization, the learning, the classroom, the friendships, the humor, even the paper work/grading part of it. I have never been so excited about it. Ok, ok, my point. I have lots of hobbies that I will enjoy as just that-hobbies. Of course I will have doubts as well, as school gets hard, and unexpected bumps happen, but that is why I'm writing this. I don't want to forget moments like this where I know I want to teach. So, I hereby declare that for my life's work, I want to spend my time in a classroom teaching kids. I am willing and excited to take the good with the bad in that all around package we call elementary education. I can't wait. :)

The Hierarchy of Trail Mix

At work today, there was some trail mix we were all delightfully partaking of. This sparked a thought...there is a definite hierarchy to trail mix. Some parts are just better than others. Sure you may say you are unbiased and that you take an entire handful and eat the whole thing equally...but I know you are lying. No one does that. I doubt Ghandi even does that. So put away your little equality shpeil and come explore trail mix with me! (imagine a theme song ending that sounds similar to reading rainbow...)
The Hierarchy of Trail Mix
Most Delicious to Grossest

• M&M's. Always the first to be picked out.
• Chocolate covered raisins- but only because they are covered in chocolate..raisins will come in later.
• any dried fruit included
  
• the little bread rods
• goldfish
• bagel chips...I don't think anyone really enjoys them that much, they just look so intriguing and curious that you want to see what their texture tastes like.
• cashews or nuts. if there are not cashews though then the nuts goes down a level, cause cashews are the pride and joy of the "mixed nuts" label.
• pretzels. they are generally delicious, but so ordinary that you get distracted by all the other things in the mix that you procrastinate them until you are done exploring the other options.
• the random little shapes that you really don't know what they are, but you aren't ready to take on the raisins yet, so you eat these 'randoms' first, hoping that the mystery will be solved as to what they are.
• raisins. honestly, I think they just throw those in so that it seems healthy. who really even likes raisins? they are a contaminate to the rest of the mix. I would vote they be taken out, but trail mix isn't the same without their little flair. It makes you appreciate the other pieces.
• craisins. gahh. the only thing lower on the scale than raisins is craisins. cranberries are ridiculous, but dried cranberries are absurd.

Well, I'm sure some of you will disagree, but this is how I see things on this very important issue. Thank you for reading, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Why on earth is it so funny!!

Kristi and I have been addicted to this show. I love how things from the very beginning of season one come back and are important in season three. It's all connected into a funny blend of wonder. Here are some of the best quotes I believe as I can guarantee you they have been said in our apartment sometime in the last week.

• "You must always read the label! Always read the label, in the most DEliiiiiicious way!"-tobias singing as the british nanny.
  
• It's the glasses, they make him look like a lizard. and he has no self-esteem. -lucille
• I'm a MONSTER!!!-Buster, because he is half machine. :)
  
• Taste the sad!....it tastes a lot like the happy.-Michael and GOB
• marry me!
• you're right, it hurts more to know.
• the pure fact that buster got his hand bit off my a "loose seal"...lucille...:)
• the awful chicken impersonations followed by michaels' "has anyone in this house even seen a chicken?"
  

Oh dear. It just makes me laugh. there are so many more that we be added when I stop laughing. For those that know what these even mean please contact me, we will discuss it further. :)

My cake creations

I enjoy decorating cakes. Therefore, it is splendid when it is actually someone's birthday!

I decorated these for Kate and Keri, their birthdays were within a week, so it was a really fun week for me!

What a weekend!

Well, here are some pictures that speak volumes about this weekend! On thursday I had my efy interview. I hear back in 2-3 weeks about whether I made it or not. I sure hope so. Well, perhaps the nerves of that made me a little loopy, because right after I got out of the interview I decided to go get my hair cut. I cut of about five inches, and I got bangs-the little shorty kind halfway across your forhead. I feel like I look a little bit like a little girl, but I think it will grow on me. :) It's a lot healthier at least. Kristi and I, in a drastic attempt to procrastinate, just randomly went bowling. It was fun, but the real treasure was finding the photobooth. There is never a better experience than funny pictures in a photo booth!

Then friday night we got dressed in our neon best for the Neon dance at Studio 600 in salt lake. It was a jammin time, and by the time we got home I could think of nothing but sleep. I was pooped. How was your weekend everyone? I hope it was fun!