Haysi

For someone who is super unattractive, he sure makes my hips want to dance. I love this song.

From the mouth

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.. -Buddha

I just think this is a beautiful quote.

L 

Vows

As I perused some blogs of former friends from high school that have been married for almost as long as we've been out of high school....I decided that I have a decent list of things I vow never to do. Sorry if you thought I was engaged and posting about my vows to my nonexistent fiance...you clearly do not know me very well ;) haha. Ahem.

1. I am not a princess (clearly, I would be queen), so I vow not to attempt to dress as one on my wedding day. Something classy and blue-white for the ceremony, something fun and short for the party!

2.  I vow to have an engagement party and, while I'm at it, an engagement longer than 3 months.Only in Utah is it socially acceptable to announce your engagement via facebook.

3. I vow to have a plated dinner. Dessert spreads are tired. Now a popsicle bar is something I could get behind.

4. I vow not to have a fondant wedding cake. It's a texture thing.

5. I vow not to wholly disregard my own hopes and dreams for that of my partner's. It just leads to spite, regret, and other sad and upsetting feelings.

6. I vow not to rub it in these women's faces that I have a bachelor's degree. An honors bachelor's degree. Ok, take that back...I will try really, really hard not to.

7. I vow to be very excited for them all to have kids. I have nightmares about having kids. So the fact that having them makes these girls so happy is just great. 

8. I vow not to have any type of taffeta/silk/ugly-non-earth-friendly material in my home. period. Not in the form of window curtains, and certainly not in the form of bedding.

9. I vow not to have more than one hand towel on any hand towel rack. More than one is awkward. And let's be real, I plan on not having many house guests for a while...I am going to take full advantage of my newlywed status and the excuses it will make for my ridiculous behavior.

10. I vow to reserve the right to get married at a courthouse if I feel like I'm going to bolt at the real deal. As my friends and family, I'm sure you'd rather have me do that than bail on my own wedding. Let's be honest, I'm a flighty deer in these emotional situations and chances are, if I get scared I'm going to bolt into the nearest thicket. Like bambi was told to do. 

So those are the ten that come to mind. And while I'm far from marriage or married life, at least I hope so, I still think about these things. It happens when all your friends are married or engaged. Meh.

L.

Avatar VS. Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

My roommate Erin and I just had a heated discussion brought on by looking at pictures on Liz's blog from China. She went on a trip to the mountains that inspired Avatar scenes and they have a replica statue of the bird-like things the navi ride on in at this park in the Chinese mountains. I was trying to describe said creature when it came out that Erin has never seen Avatar. This pro/con list is inspired by our convo that followed.

AVATAR                                                                       FERNGULLY

Pro: sweet CG effects                                                  Pro: the original

Con: giant blue people                                                 Con: corny 90s music  

Pro: sweet wormy connections to the earth                   Pro: matriarchal society

Con: long                                                                    Con: mullets

Pro: Sigourney weaver                                                 Pro: Tim curry

Con: guy who plays norm                                            Con: guys who play workers and pip

Pro: beautiful fake scenery                                           Pro: Batty's rap

Con: stole story-line from ferngully                               

Well, that's what we could come up with. And since Ferngully is the original, and has one less con, it wins.

Score one for planet Earth.

L 

Springing

It was WARM today.

yay.

L

Our kind of love

I'm not a girly girl. I'm just not. The same way I'm not a "huggy" person or do not say "I love you" a lot. But I had a revelation.

My kind of love is summed up in one perfect line of a beautiful song:

"All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes. They're all I can see."

Call me corny. or say that having all the girls I graduated High school with getting married has finally afflicted me with the sentimental bug. or whatever. 

but I think it's real. and it's what I want my love to be. 

L

Back from break

Well, Spring break is over. Sad day. If I didn't have spring fever before....

I went to my class this morning and when I came out of the lecture hall, it was blizzarding.

BLIZZARDING?!       Eff that. 

I got home from Mexico yesterday. In Mexico, it was 80 degrees and gorgeous every day. 

Quiero regresar a mexico. 

L.

List

This is my list of things to buy. Gotta put it down somewhere or I forget.

1. Exchange sweet tribal sundress/possible buy additional one
2. Bright red lipstick
3. Sparkly anything
4. New tank top
5. New book/audiobook
6. Spandex
7. Weird hair accessory

Note: items 2,3,6, & 7 are all for the Gaga concert. Others are para Meh-hico.

Junebug

There is a sweet song called junebug. I got it for free from iTunes some time ago. But I was thinking about it today. I'm listening to the USA-Ghana World Cup game as I tie a blanket for my coworker's daughter. She is having a baby in like 3 weeks. She looks like she's going to pop. The hawaiian party went well and was very fun! I'll have to post a picture or two soon. We bought a flamingo mural at the dollar store and we decided to keep it up in the apartment until we have to take it down for some reason. I got sad news this week. My roommate Bre is moving out next month :( so I have been scrambling to find someone to replace her on the lease!!!! My friend from RAing days in the Dorms, Erin, wants to move in so she is coming to check out the place next week and hopefully she'll be delighted with it! I leave for El Salvador in two weeks....I'm so excited!!! I bought a cute new swimsuit to take down with me. I need to go grab odds and ends like bug spray and a sleeping bag liner but I'm ready to go other than that :) woot woot.

L.

A not so personal statement

Writing personal statements suck! How are you supposed to adequately capture yourself in 5300 characters? I kinda just wanna go to disneyland right now. We're having a little get together for Lana at my apartment tomorrow and I'm very excited! It's hawaiian themed...bahaha let the lei jokes begin! We have to go to the dollar store tomorrow and get decorations and the DI to get sweet hawaiian shirts! Or grass skirts and coconut bras...ha. I have a very long day of work tomorrow so I'll go and post a post after the party!

L.

PS finally got new carpet and my room looks better than ever!

Well, it has been an eventful week! Water flooded my bedroom, kitchen and bathroom last Monday so I've been kickin it on the couch, homeless style. I also have all my clothes and such in our kitchen...our apartment is a disaster and I apologize to anyone that comes by. I've been keeping busy with summer classes, being a TA for human physiology, doing research, and volunteering at Utah Women's Clinic...you know, the usual. New boys have entered the picture and some have drifted back unintentionally....the river guide, the climber, the soccer fan, the corner-back, the blue-eyes, and the surprise.....yeah I've got my hands full. Hahaha. Hannah, one my best girlfriends, came home today for a week from DC! I'm so excited to see her :D We're grabbing a bagel at Rich's tomorrow...Can't wait! LIZ is being a bum and won't call me back, yeah I'm callin you out! Hmm what else is new? Besides loving every second of my life (minus mildewy carpets)...not much! Oh, it's wedding season. Should I be upset? No. Want to know why? Because I get to go to all of the receptions and eat tons of their desserts and not bring a gift. BOOM.

L.

Free time

You know what rocks? Free time. Time to myself where I can do whatever I want to do. Do you realize how long it has been since I have had free time? Since January. Ew. Does that gross you out? It grosses me out. Tomorrow is going to be quite a long day. I have to administer two final lab practicums tomorrow. Not too excited about that. And then I have grading to look forward to.
I love talking on the phone with Hannah. She cracks me up. I only say that because I just got off the phone with her. Speaking of weed, I saw Netelbeek today and he acted like a jerk. I guess I should not be surprised. Speaking of chocolate, Liz went home without saying goodbye and because I know she's probably the only person reading this I am going to add a big BOO! to that. Ya heard. You know what else about chocolate? I had some super good chocolate at the climber's last night. Yum. Bahaha. I just need to survive until the summer. Summer = sun. Summer = pool. Summer = a very happy Lisa.

L.

PS I had two ice cream sandwiches for dessert. Don't judge me.