I can't lift my arms higher than my shoulders

My dad is fine. He has a major infection, but nothing antibiotics can't cure.

My sister is also fine. No letter. Tony will also be fine, as apparently you have spend 16 + hours a day for 6 months with someone who has TB in order for you to catch it.

Krisface left on Saturday. :( I was not there to say goodbye. I miss her already.

My family did end up going to the Condo. We had a blast. I will post pictures and details in my next blog.

On Sunday Drek and I drove down south to go Canyoneering with some of his friends. We spent 13 hours on Monday hiking, climbing, rappelling, swimming and something where you wander around, having no idea where you are going or how to get there, using no trail, and scratching yourself to death on branches and rocks. They called this "bushwhacking". I had a blast!! But now, I am more sore than I have ever been in my life. Ouch.

You told me this would be a happy day.

How today was supposed to go:

Wake up, got to work, say good-bye to be bestest friend Kris, go home from work, go on vacation!!

But no.

Stayed up much to late because of the excitement of Pirates. it's very worth seeing by the way.

My little sister should be getting a letter from the public school system today, telling her if she has been exposed to a public school student with TB. If she has, she cannot go to EFY, she cannot go anywhere, and my niece will not be allowed over for a very long time.

Krisface is also stressed because her house is not "move ready." They are not leaving today, maybe.

I am at work, and my mother calls to say my dad is in the hospital. He has exploding appendix.

Not that I'm stressing or anything...

This week in review. . .

Monday was movie night. Drek finally got me to watch Sgt. bilko, which was so much better than I thought it was going to be.

Tuesday was Kratizling's good-bye party. We had a great time playing laser tag, and then went to Red Robin for a delicious dinner. Ah, Red Robin, so many memories.

Wednesday was the 2-hr season finale of LOST!!! And oh what a great finale it was. Drek and I went over to Kratizling's house for a delicious crab and shrip alfredo pizza and to watch the show together. We were joind by Panda and Bamboo, two newly adopted kitties. They were both darling, until Bamboo decided he wanted attention and would not stop meowing during the show.

Today is, of course, Pirate day. Drek and I have tickets to go see At World's End at 8:00 tonight. I am so excited. Arrr.

Friday I will be off to another city, where I will come back only breifly on Sunday, and then flee South to go on my first Canyoneering adventure. That will be on Monday.

Dedication

Working under my boss today was extremely frustrating. So I dedicate this picture to Bradley.




and this one to my boss

60 days, 15 hours, 49 minutes

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harrypotterandtheorderofthephoenix/trailer2/

On Thursday I forgot to put my ring back on after I got out of the shower. I left the house without it. It bothered me all day. It wasn't just a little annoying, having the ring gone, it was grating. I kept checking my finger with my thumb and then panicking because I thought it had fallen off. All. Day. Long. Remind me never to do that again.

Today I am a bridesmaid in Megan's wedding. I spent all of yesterday afternoon and most of the night with her. Wedding stuff is insane. Why doesn't everyone just get married on a boat? All the cool people do.

I'm supposed to wear these stiletto heals to walk down the isle. The problem is I have a hard time with heels. Example : last time I wore heels I fell flat on my face walking from the Jury box to the witness stand. Pathetic. Megan promised to give be the strongest groomsmen to escort me down the isle. The idea is that then if I fall, it will be his fault.

Kitty!

Acouchi woke me up this morning by biting my chin. I think she remembers what happened last year around this time and is hungry for blood.

Bells had babies!! They are adorable! There are four little kitties; three girls and one boy. They were born three days ago.


After much deliberation, I have decided how I feel about having a reception:



So there will be no reception. There will be a BBQ with fireworks, and a waterfight. This is how I feel now:

New Arrival

Megan Anne


(I'm an Aunt!)

Bridesmaids

Life is moving along. Things are falling into place for the wedding.
It occurred to me that all but one of my bridesmaids are far away. This is fine, but makes the dresses part difficult. Thank goodness we live in an age of picture-messages, IM, email and long distance phone calls.
Even more amazing, all of them are going to extremes to accommodate me. Rissy will be in Japan up until the day before the reception. It has been her life long dream to go, (she's leaving next week) and she's coming home early just for me. Not only that, but she rearranged her entire plan to come back early and had to pay hundreds of dollars in fees to switch her plane tickets. Kara will be at Yale until a few days before (I think, I'm not sure when she's coming, actually, I'm just glad she's coming. I'm so excited to see her!). She is a grad student and is supposed to be doing research in a lab when she comes out. She was going to use her time off of work to drive her best friend across the country, but now has to worry about coming here.
Krisface will be back from who-knows-where who-knows-when. She might even bring hubby-what's-his-face with her, but that is uncertain.
Megan will actually be here. Mostly. She's leaving to go on her honeymoon, but will be back a month before my wedding. I am a bridesmaid in her wedding (in May) and she has had to adjust us talking about her weeding plans, to listening to me talk about my wedding plans. Not only that, but being apart of two weddings in two months has to be stressful.
But they are all wonderful and I am very glad they all agreed to be my bridesmaids.

So . . . Very. . . Tired

Krisling and I have developed our own language which consists mainly of kitty pictures. Examples forthcoming.
I am so sick. I have decided having mono this time will not be fun like it was last time (but this time, I am not contagious).
Saturday is Haunted house day!! Everyone should come. We're going up SLC for the very last day Rocky Point is open.
Drek and I are reading Dr. Doolittle. Or rather, he is reading it to me while I am sick. It is very nice to be read to.

1 hour, 11 minutes

The Quark social today was a lot of fun. There was a great turnout, everyone had a good time, and the highlight of the afternoon was Cardassin's arm's suddenly spewing blood. That and Krisling's mad goalie skills.
My plan was to spend the rest of the driving up and down the freeway, hoping to run into a drunk driver, or rather, having the drunk driver run into me, but instead i went home and slept for three hours. Oh yes, I have Mono again. Joy. I was so tired yesterday at work that I came home and decided to take a ten minute nap. That was at 5:00pm. I woke up at 9:00am the next day.
Drek came home early today. He had gone canyoneering down in South. It was good to see him.

My Brain Now Goes Every-which-way

I shall start this blog by saying Conference was amazing. Also, I have the most wonderful boyfriend in the world.

I've decided that I should stop worring about how old I'm going to be and enjoy the last few precious days of youth I have left. I would never wish to go back before I was eighteen, being that old was just no fun. But eighteen and nineteen were good ages to be, and I especially lke being 20. Besides, I think my wonderful boyfriend wouldn't have dated me if I was nineteen.

In conclusion, Linkin Park has a new album coming out. It is amazing.

As I Remember It

Around 5:30 Drek comes to my door. He has with him three red roses. "The best part of my day is seeing you."
Our first stop it a Frisbee golf course. We had a lot of fun, it was a beautiful afternoon and I did much better than our previous game. When that was finished he hands me three more roses. "The funnest part of my day is playing games with you."
Next we go out to dinner, which was wonderful. Afterward I got three more roses.
He told me he had looked up another geocache. He had already programed the coordinates into his GPS. when we drove up the canyon he handed it to me. The title was my name, the description was "I love you."
He also said this geocache was an Easter geocache.
We hiked up the mountainside until we came to a bunch of rocks. Instead of looking for the geocache we went for a short walk where he asked me what three things I wanted most in life.
Around 8:00 went back to the rocks. I searched one side he searched the other but it was getting very dark. He finally came over to my side and found it right away. It was in a peanut butter jar (a perfect Claire and Charlie peanut butter jar). Inside was the Easter grass and lots of plastic eggs. The things with geochaches is there are a lot of items inside and you pick the one you want.
Inside the eggs were little pieces of paper with things written on them like "become a professional puppy-killer" and "move to Alaska". things I would never want to do. "You have to pick one." he says. "or, I may have another option. It will take a long long time. It will take a lot of effort. But we are perfect for it." And he hands me an egg with a ring inside.
Oh yes, and I got three more roses.

Let the whole world know
that today is a day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong,
let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay,
It's (Liberation) day

Hooray! Two years today! and oddly enough, the past has repeated its self. hmmm. . .
Anyway,
Dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory at 7:00, games at my house at 8:30. Everyone is invited.

Life Continues On

-I am so ready to be done with training. It's not really that bad, I'd just like to get through the work day without having to listen to a conversation about lesbians and sex with pillows. It would also be nice to make it through a work day without hearing the F word half a dozen times.
-I want to run away to Texas. My Grandma is encouraging this. I hope it works out.
-My diet is now almost complete. I am no longer allergic to cheese, milk, chocolate, or preservitives. Tomorrow we shall find out about corn.
-Movies!!!!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/oceans13/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/harrypotterandtheorderofthephoenix/

http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/blpirates3trailer.htm

Also, the guy from Flight of the Conchords (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5tmnBeNv18) is in a new movie:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/eaglevsshark/
It's very exciting.

Countdown to Day O'Doom: 18 days, 1 hour, 43 minutes

Invitation

I'm thinking about having a St. Patrick's day party next saturday, the 17th, maybe 6-ish. There would be dinner and some form of games. would anyone be interested in coming?

One Month to the Day of Doom

I have a life list of goals. This list was supposed to be compleated by April 8, 2007 a.k.a. my 21st birthday.
I'm so not going to make it.
Not only that, but 21 is just old. I don't want to be 21! I like telling people I'm 20, it sounds nice. I've always hated birthdays, but this one looms more dreaded.

Óglaigh na hÉireann

Of course I want more!!

This miliatry organization's first demonstation went something like this:
Weapons were supplied by Germany under the auspices of a leading human rights campaigner - including over 20,000 rifles and 10 machine guns. However, the plot was discovered and the weapons were lost when the ship carrying them was scuttled to prevent the arms from falling into the hands of the ememy.
When the Rising broke out, the Volunteer leader found out about the plot at the last minute and issued countermanding orders to Volunteer units around the country. As a result, less than 2000 Volunteers out of 12,000 turned out. The plan was to seize a compact area and launch simultaneous Risings around the country. In the event, the rising consisted of a week's street fighting in the capital after which the rebels surrendered. The enemy used overwhelming force, including over 16,000 troops, artillery and a naval gunboat, to put down the rebellion. Over half the 500 or so killed were civilians caught in the crossfire.

If You Act Like It's Summer, It Will Be Summer.

Yesterday Drek and I went a snow hike. It was very peaceful. We saw lots of dear and somewhere around a thousand wild turkeys.
After the hike we decided to sit in an outdoor hot tub and eat ice cream. It really wasn't as cold as I thought it would be. That is until I had to get out of the hot tub and walk around barefoot and wet on snow.
Later we went out to dinner with Krateizling to Red Lobster. It was delicious. And very warm after being so cold.

Countdown to St. Patrick's day: 13 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes
Countdown to Day O'Doom: 35 days, 6 hours, 37 minutes

Not-So-Quick Update

I went to San Diego. On the flight to Las Vegas I stared at the guy sitting in front of me, pretty much the whole time, trying to figure out if he was someone I knew. At the Las Vegas airport he came up to me. He was!! It turned out we were both going to San Diego so we sat next to each other and watched an edited version of "Little Miss Sunshine" on my laptop. It made the flight bearable anyway.
I stayed in California for three days. The first day I got to take the train up to Anaheim and a Taxi to Disney land.


I know it's blurry. This is a pidgon inside the Train Station. As in "Zim. There's a pidgon on your head. You have head pidgons. Leave before you infect the other children."


Waiting at the Train Station

The kids were great. We were exhausted by the end of the day. Posh Spice cut in front of us in line. I only know it was her because the people behind us completely freaked out. Even after I told the kids who she was they didn't understand. They had never heard of the Spice Girls.
Day two was a Mardi Gras party were I had a very strange green drink. It was supposed to be "the Disneyland version because this is a family friendly party." It was still strange. I wrote my story for the ESSC that night. Maybe that will explain why it was so weird. The story, not the drink.
Day three we took a hike in the canyons. It was beautiful. Later that day was my flight home.

The next weekend Drek and I went drove to Las Vegas.



The drive was fantastic, so much better than flying. We stayed with my Aunt and Uncle. They were so wonderful to us. We visited the Casinos, watched the fountain show at the Belagio and visited the LDS temple. The temple was the only place we took pictures.






That night we went on the thrill rides on the Stratosphere. It was amazing. we had so much fun. Another life goal completed. On Sunday we went with my Aunt and Uncle to their Methodist church. That was amazing. The songs were wonderful and I even got to do Communion because the "wine" was just grape juice. We drove home that day. It was a wonderful trip.

I didn't watch the Oscars. It was a sad habit anyway. Time to give it up.

Krisling got me a job at her work. I'm so excited to start!! It means I'll have to quit my Nannying job, but that is a good thing.