So I was two hours late for dinner today. I told Matt Haggard I had two different explanations as to why I was late for dinner. Here are the stories.
I was scuba diving at the Crater in Midway. Its about 40 min from Provo, a hot spring so although its not particularly deep (just about 60 ft), its warm enough to swim in without a wet suit. Well, the dive was just about over. I was the last one to climb out of the water when all of a something slimy latched onto my leg.
I look down in horror to discover a mutant zombie has clung to my flipper and is dragging me back into the water. I have only a brief moment to force my regulator back in as I drift down, down, down...
I'm surrounded by the zombies. They make me think of zombies on gillyweed with their webbed arms and legs... well, for those that still have all for limbs. I wriggle and writhe as they drag me deeper down. With a spot of luck I notice a glimmer across the pool. A mermaid! Her purple hair swirls about her as she does loop-da-loops, somehow invisible to the monsters in the pool.
Being fluent in porpoise among other things, I cry out a plea of help. She seems rather confused at first so I try a different language, beluga whale to be precise. She nods and begins to sing like a siren. The zombies pause a moment then start charging the mermaid. She vanishes without a trace and a second later a pirate boat teleports into the crater.
The ship is rather impressive although my views are a little biased. It might have been the billowing fog wafting by or my astonishment that it had gotten there at all. Well, in either case the zombies begin to charge the ship. I'm still struggling to escape my captors, especially since I'm afraid the pirates will whip out their cannons.
The pirates don't whip out the cannons. With a yo-ho-ho they whip out something far more potent, Shark-Repelent Bat Spray. Everyone whose anyone knows this is also effective on Mutant zombies as well as lochness monsters and extra terrestrials. As the spray permeates the pool, the zombies errupt into bubbles and the whole pool seems like a jacuzzi. A thick hand reaches down and lifts me out of the water. I'm face to face with the dread pirate Roberts. In a split second he has me wrapped in a polarbear fur and drinking hot cider with the crew. We had such a jolly time beneath the Jolly Roger that I plum forgot to come to dinner until an hour later.
Explanation 2: Got lost on the way back home. Took a wrong turn and ended up by the Strawberry River (I didn't even get any strawberries! Terrible). With the help of a police officer I managed to get back two hours late for dinner.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Update 11/29/10 Successes and Failures
Hello all!
This month has had its successes as well as failures. Heres the news.
Failures
-I attempted at National Novel Writing Month and failed... in a sense. The goal is to write 50,000 words and I got about half way there... No, I'm not going to spend the next night and a half writing 25,000 words. I figure this was supposed to be more of a long term goal anyways and I know I'm not a particularly fast writer. At this pace, I'll reach 50,000 words by Christmas and if I finish at all I'll be happy. If I do something good enough to be published I'll be elated (and able to check something off my bucket list).
-Tuesday I was supposed to go scuba diving followed by some frisbee or at the very least dancing since the weather was supposed to be bad. Well, the "blizzard" aka flurries with a decent wind, resulted in EVERYTHING getting cancelled. I watched a BYU basketball game where we slaughtered the Delta Devils but that was kind of a downer when I could be scuba diving in a hot spring, chasing down frisbees, and dancing the night away. I guess they did have a legitimate storm in SLC so it was probably good they were paranoid.
Successes
-Got a haircut and my hair colored today. Its a darker color with a hint of red so it looks really nice. Hopefully it'll still look good for Christmas.
-I am almost done with my goal of staying off of facebook for a month. Go me.
-Thanksgiving was delicious. Ate it same place I did last year, Alta Apts with a group of friends. I spent, oh... 20 min making the stuffing and so I felt good about staying up most of the afternoon with friends talking and eating. We watched the Scarlet Pimpernel which was fun. I wonder if the phrase "sink me" will ever come back into fashion or if some guy will ever tell me "I want to know everything about you, but you must tell me ever so slowly since I want it to take a VERY long time" (at which point I wouldn't be able to keep a serious face).
-Went black Friday shopping with a friend right after work. It was successful though I was a little tuckered out afterwards. We both got winter coats and I managed to get new running shoes, snowboarding gear, and Christmas gifts all in a single day. I think it'll probably end up being worth the expense and I'm determined not to have to go shopping for the next month. : P
-Saturday I went scuba diving at a place called the Crater in Midway (this was the trip that got cancelled on Tuesday) and it was rather awesome. It was a hot spring so it could count for our open water dive and not be frigid cold (water was in the high 80's so we didn't even need wet suits). I got to about 40ft which was pretty cool. I realized that having allergies will have to be a consideration since it did make equalizing my ears a little harder, in spite of the fact that I feel like I'm fine more often than not. But yeah, I'm excited to travel and catch lobster, look at reef, swim with manta rays and such.
-Saturday I also got a Christmas tree. Its beautiful with all the lights and bulbs and decorations Grandma and Grandpa got me a few years ago. I'll probably get a picture of it and post it on facebook when the month is up so you guys can see how beautiful it is. Plus, it make the whole apartment smell like Christmas. Mmmmm... : )
-Sunday I helped my friend prank a guys apartment. We basically made a wall of snow in front of their apartment. Considering how powdery and unpackable UT snow is, you should be impressed. I'll post pictures of this as well.
Well, dinner is in a few minutes so I'll wrap this up. Love you all and hope you enjoy the start of the advent season.
Jill
This month has had its successes as well as failures. Heres the news.
Failures
-I attempted at National Novel Writing Month and failed... in a sense. The goal is to write 50,000 words and I got about half way there... No, I'm not going to spend the next night and a half writing 25,000 words. I figure this was supposed to be more of a long term goal anyways and I know I'm not a particularly fast writer. At this pace, I'll reach 50,000 words by Christmas and if I finish at all I'll be happy. If I do something good enough to be published I'll be elated (and able to check something off my bucket list).
-Tuesday I was supposed to go scuba diving followed by some frisbee or at the very least dancing since the weather was supposed to be bad. Well, the "blizzard" aka flurries with a decent wind, resulted in EVERYTHING getting cancelled. I watched a BYU basketball game where we slaughtered the Delta Devils but that was kind of a downer when I could be scuba diving in a hot spring, chasing down frisbees, and dancing the night away. I guess they did have a legitimate storm in SLC so it was probably good they were paranoid.
Successes
-Got a haircut and my hair colored today. Its a darker color with a hint of red so it looks really nice. Hopefully it'll still look good for Christmas.
-I am almost done with my goal of staying off of facebook for a month. Go me.
-Thanksgiving was delicious. Ate it same place I did last year, Alta Apts with a group of friends. I spent, oh... 20 min making the stuffing and so I felt good about staying up most of the afternoon with friends talking and eating. We watched the Scarlet Pimpernel which was fun. I wonder if the phrase "sink me" will ever come back into fashion or if some guy will ever tell me "I want to know everything about you, but you must tell me ever so slowly since I want it to take a VERY long time" (at which point I wouldn't be able to keep a serious face).
-Went black Friday shopping with a friend right after work. It was successful though I was a little tuckered out afterwards. We both got winter coats and I managed to get new running shoes, snowboarding gear, and Christmas gifts all in a single day. I think it'll probably end up being worth the expense and I'm determined not to have to go shopping for the next month. : P
-Saturday I went scuba diving at a place called the Crater in Midway (this was the trip that got cancelled on Tuesday) and it was rather awesome. It was a hot spring so it could count for our open water dive and not be frigid cold (water was in the high 80's so we didn't even need wet suits). I got to about 40ft which was pretty cool. I realized that having allergies will have to be a consideration since it did make equalizing my ears a little harder, in spite of the fact that I feel like I'm fine more often than not. But yeah, I'm excited to travel and catch lobster, look at reef, swim with manta rays and such.
-Saturday I also got a Christmas tree. Its beautiful with all the lights and bulbs and decorations Grandma and Grandpa got me a few years ago. I'll probably get a picture of it and post it on facebook when the month is up so you guys can see how beautiful it is. Plus, it make the whole apartment smell like Christmas. Mmmmm... : )
-Sunday I helped my friend prank a guys apartment. We basically made a wall of snow in front of their apartment. Considering how powdery and unpackable UT snow is, you should be impressed. I'll post pictures of this as well.
Well, dinner is in a few minutes so I'll wrap this up. Love you all and hope you enjoy the start of the advent season.
Jill
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Focus
So this month is National Novel Writing Month. I decided I wanted to try to write a book.
Issue: I'm not the fastest writer, I'm REALLY critical of my work, and I'm always rather busy.
Result: I'm supposed to have a word count of 33333 and I'm at 15998.
Its very tempting to just say "I'm not going to finish so I might as well give up now..." but the idea is eating at me. This is me publicly saying I need to toughen up, be a real woman, and do what it takes to finish.
"My name is Jill and I wrestle bears in the mountains, eat rocks, and finish novels by the appropriate deadline." Alright, lazy self, get to work!!
Issue: I'm not the fastest writer, I'm REALLY critical of my work, and I'm always rather busy.
Result: I'm supposed to have a word count of 33333 and I'm at 15998.
Its very tempting to just say "I'm not going to finish so I might as well give up now..." but the idea is eating at me. This is me publicly saying I need to toughen up, be a real woman, and do what it takes to finish.
"My name is Jill and I wrestle bears in the mountains, eat rocks, and finish novels by the appropriate deadline." Alright, lazy self, get to work!!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
And the World Keeps Turning
In spite of everything, the world will keep hurtling forward at 2000 mph. Most of you won't feel a thing but if you pause and sit very still, you might feel a slight breeze.
-This last month two couples I know broke up. I am friends with all of the people involved which makes things feel a little weird and delicate, like treading over eggshells in stiletto heels or participating in a tug of war and I'm the rope.
Both breakups have a similar synopsis: The guy kept going off and on and finally, with a rusty relationship cleaver, severed everything leaving his previous girlfriend practically broken, an emotional mess. I don't see either girl being single for long since their both young and beautiful, the sort of beautiful that will get asked out every weekend for the rest of her life. In spite of this, both are stuck on their ex and the lingering emotions is where things get tricky.
In the first couple, the girl has been really depressed. She has dropped by a fair number of times and I've fed her ice cream, given her pep talks, basically been an emotional support for her. She feels like she can depend on me which I find interesting since at different moments during their relationship, my spidey sense convinced me she was jealous I was so close to her ex. He is my co-chair so we work a lot together. He's a really good guy and we do work really well together but I've always encouraged their relationship if anything and he hasn't ever acted interested in me in that sort of way. In some ways it feels like each is now hoping to show the other that I favor their position in the break up... Hopefully that isn't true. I'm friends with both of them and I don't want
In the second couple, I still remember the girl coming into my kitchen to tell me I was the second person to know she was engaged. Part of my gut was wary of the situation since he didn't seem to be where he needed to be emotionally for things to work, but I liked them together and hoped for the best. Now things have fallen apart. The guy is my old home teacher and a really good friend and last night I rode home from Bishop rick FHE with him on his motorcycle. At one point I remembered an entirely different conversation where my roommate said we'd be good together if he wasn't engaged. I can think of a few solid reasons why things won't happen in that realm but I sort of wonder how his ex will see things that way. Hopefully she won't forget that I've always was supportive... I encouraged my roommate to invite her apartment over for dinner.
-On Friday I bought the coolest shoes in existence. They light up in a way that looks like I'm about to go into turbo speed. You may think I'm a little ridiculous but I assure you, the seven year old in my heart is VERY happy right now.
-I went to the Carl Bloch exhibit yesterday. I made a friend (who liked my shoes) and enjoyed just discussing each of the different paintings. I'm no artist, but I do get paid to look at images (slides in particular), and pick apart all the details in order to make sense of everything. She asked if I was studying art history which made me laugh. I think I would have had fun with a field like that but I'm content wondering what each person is thinking, why the children look you in the face, why that healthy looking woman is carrying water at the pool inhabited by the ill and infirm, why that man is eating a melon, etc.
-Life is good. Have you ever taken a good long moment to really let that thought sink in. I feel like so often I get caught up in things that I don't take enough time to let that idea sink in. For example, I'm communicating with you using a pile of plastic and wires which will send all of this into a box which will send it to your pile of plastic and wires and put it into pictures and words again. I don't have to pay a cent to post this and the cost of internet is something I pay off in less than half an hour at work and lasts the entire month.
-I'm going to eat ice cream now. Its one of my favorite flavors called "Everything but the..." I sometimes feel like I get into that sort of mental rut. I say i have "Everything but the..." man I'm supposed to marry, direction of where I want to go with my life, time to catch up on sleep, etc. May we all do better to avoid the "Everything but the" unless its chocolate and vanilla icecream with white chocolate, fudge, reeses cups, heath bar, and chocolate covered nuts.
-This last month two couples I know broke up. I am friends with all of the people involved which makes things feel a little weird and delicate, like treading over eggshells in stiletto heels or participating in a tug of war and I'm the rope.
Both breakups have a similar synopsis: The guy kept going off and on and finally, with a rusty relationship cleaver, severed everything leaving his previous girlfriend practically broken, an emotional mess. I don't see either girl being single for long since their both young and beautiful, the sort of beautiful that will get asked out every weekend for the rest of her life. In spite of this, both are stuck on their ex and the lingering emotions is where things get tricky.
In the first couple, the girl has been really depressed. She has dropped by a fair number of times and I've fed her ice cream, given her pep talks, basically been an emotional support for her. She feels like she can depend on me which I find interesting since at different moments during their relationship, my spidey sense convinced me she was jealous I was so close to her ex. He is my co-chair so we work a lot together. He's a really good guy and we do work really well together but I've always encouraged their relationship if anything and he hasn't ever acted interested in me in that sort of way. In some ways it feels like each is now hoping to show the other that I favor their position in the break up... Hopefully that isn't true. I'm friends with both of them and I don't want
In the second couple, I still remember the girl coming into my kitchen to tell me I was the second person to know she was engaged. Part of my gut was wary of the situation since he didn't seem to be where he needed to be emotionally for things to work, but I liked them together and hoped for the best. Now things have fallen apart. The guy is my old home teacher and a really good friend and last night I rode home from Bishop rick FHE with him on his motorcycle. At one point I remembered an entirely different conversation where my roommate said we'd be good together if he wasn't engaged. I can think of a few solid reasons why things won't happen in that realm but I sort of wonder how his ex will see things that way. Hopefully she won't forget that I've always was supportive... I encouraged my roommate to invite her apartment over for dinner.
-On Friday I bought the coolest shoes in existence. They light up in a way that looks like I'm about to go into turbo speed. You may think I'm a little ridiculous but I assure you, the seven year old in my heart is VERY happy right now.
-I went to the Carl Bloch exhibit yesterday. I made a friend (who liked my shoes) and enjoyed just discussing each of the different paintings. I'm no artist, but I do get paid to look at images (slides in particular), and pick apart all the details in order to make sense of everything. She asked if I was studying art history which made me laugh. I think I would have had fun with a field like that but I'm content wondering what each person is thinking, why the children look you in the face, why that healthy looking woman is carrying water at the pool inhabited by the ill and infirm, why that man is eating a melon, etc.
-Life is good. Have you ever taken a good long moment to really let that thought sink in. I feel like so often I get caught up in things that I don't take enough time to let that idea sink in. For example, I'm communicating with you using a pile of plastic and wires which will send all of this into a box which will send it to your pile of plastic and wires and put it into pictures and words again. I don't have to pay a cent to post this and the cost of internet is something I pay off in less than half an hour at work and lasts the entire month.
-I'm going to eat ice cream now. Its one of my favorite flavors called "Everything but the..." I sometimes feel like I get into that sort of mental rut. I say i have "Everything but the..." man I'm supposed to marry, direction of where I want to go with my life, time to catch up on sleep, etc. May we all do better to avoid the "Everything but the" unless its chocolate and vanilla icecream with white chocolate, fudge, reeses cups, heath bar, and chocolate covered nuts.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Update 11/14/10
Hey everyone,
Things are good my life. Here are the highlights.
-Grand Canyon Trip got cancelled which was lame... I guess I'll have to wait and see if it gets rescheduled in a few weeks.
-I'm still trying to do my whole national novel writing month thing but its a little slow going. This week i have a few extra days off since I'm covering Thanksgiving so I'll have some extra time to play catch up.
-I started my scuba class which is basically amazing. Heres a poem I wrote about scuba on Thursday at poetry club.
Scuba
They say it’s like breathing for the first time.
I don’t know how they’d that since they’d be too young to remember,
But I recon it’s probably so.
You feel out of place, awkward.
Big and bulbous, like a beached whale
Fins flop as you enter the water.
You take your role, don your mask, and become a fish incognito
Air fills your lungs.
The initial panic dissipates with each breath.
You take control.
You’re an acquatic Vader, dark and suited
Keeeesh Koosh
You are the master of a new universe.
With the touch of a button your suit deflates and you descend like an astronaut into the great unknown,
You lean forward and flutter,
What was once ugly and sluggish is now graceful and beautiful
Like a butterfly taking to the air
Your life as a caterpillar is completely forgotten
Yeah, basically, I'm stoked about swimming with the manta rays, diving for lobsters, and all that good stuff which will happen someday hopefully.
-My friend Kenny and I are going to take up snowboarding. I'm rather excited to get seriously into since I got a small taste of things last winter with Deseret Scott.
-I've been doing a fair amount of knitting as of late. I'm also planning a few other sewing projects. ^_^ we'll see how it goes.
Ummm... I guess thats all for now. Next week I'll be seeing Harry Potter midnight showing ::girlish squeals of delight:: and the ward talent show : P . Action and adventure are on the horizon. I guess its time to wrap up another week.
Jill
Things are good my life. Here are the highlights.
-Grand Canyon Trip got cancelled which was lame... I guess I'll have to wait and see if it gets rescheduled in a few weeks.
-I'm still trying to do my whole national novel writing month thing but its a little slow going. This week i have a few extra days off since I'm covering Thanksgiving so I'll have some extra time to play catch up.
-I started my scuba class which is basically amazing. Heres a poem I wrote about scuba on Thursday at poetry club.
Scuba
They say it’s like breathing for the first time.
I don’t know how they’d that since they’d be too young to remember,
But I recon it’s probably so.
You feel out of place, awkward.
Big and bulbous, like a beached whale
Fins flop as you enter the water.
You take your role, don your mask, and become a fish incognito
Air fills your lungs.
The initial panic dissipates with each breath.
You take control.
You’re an acquatic Vader, dark and suited
Keeeesh Koosh
You are the master of a new universe.
With the touch of a button your suit deflates and you descend like an astronaut into the great unknown,
You lean forward and flutter,
What was once ugly and sluggish is now graceful and beautiful
Like a butterfly taking to the air
Your life as a caterpillar is completely forgotten
Yeah, basically, I'm stoked about swimming with the manta rays, diving for lobsters, and all that good stuff which will happen someday hopefully.
-My friend Kenny and I are going to take up snowboarding. I'm rather excited to get seriously into since I got a small taste of things last winter with Deseret Scott.
-I've been doing a fair amount of knitting as of late. I'm also planning a few other sewing projects. ^_^ we'll see how it goes.
Ummm... I guess thats all for now. Next week I'll be seeing Harry Potter midnight showing ::girlish squeals of delight:: and the ward talent show : P . Action and adventure are on the horizon. I guess its time to wrap up another week.
Jill
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Visions of a future self
I am one of those people that can get distracted easily. One of life's great distractions is pondering answers to those "What if" questions or visualizing yourself in weird situations that could potentially happen in the future.
So I'm taking a scuba class. Its really out of this world amazing breathing under water. The sensation is hard to describe. I'm super excited to dive in the open water. The instructor was showing us pictures from Cape Cod and the clarity of the water, variety of wild life, colors, vibrancy, were so beautiful they didn't seem real.
Well, at one point they got on the topic of lobsters. Apparently in many oceanic diving sites, you can go diving with a bag and catch lobsters. It seemed pretty straight forward, grab it, stick it in the bag, make sure its big enough, and its yours.
Next thing I know, I imagine my life as a future wife. My husband comes home and says, "Boy, that smells good honey!" and I reply, "Thanks sugar plum, it's lobster. I went scuba diving and grabbed it out of the ocean this morning. Oh, and I picked the asparagus from the garden." I told Jackie Warner about this idea and she said my spouse will have to end up being quite the man. He will be. Maybe he could collect cream from his own milking cow, use my kitchen aid mixer and liquid nitrogen to make us homemade ice cream. I'm rather fond of ice cream. Oooh! Brownie sundays. I guess he could make the brownies from a box.
Another beautiful train of thought just as I started writing this entry. I was thinking about how to describe scuba diving. Things like weightless, unreal, and imagine walking on the moon popped into my head. I then imagined that lobster dinner taking place on the moon. It could be a whole family outing. My husband and our ten children could leap across the moon craters, exclaiming how this is just like scuba diving, and then go hunt for aliens or moon cheese or something.
If any of you guys meet my ice cream making, alien hunting astronaut with a love of broiled lobster smothered in a garlic herb butter sauce, you should probably send him my way. In the mean time, this Med Tech needs to get her scuba homework done and a novel written. :P
Peace out.
So I'm taking a scuba class. Its really out of this world amazing breathing under water. The sensation is hard to describe. I'm super excited to dive in the open water. The instructor was showing us pictures from Cape Cod and the clarity of the water, variety of wild life, colors, vibrancy, were so beautiful they didn't seem real.
Well, at one point they got on the topic of lobsters. Apparently in many oceanic diving sites, you can go diving with a bag and catch lobsters. It seemed pretty straight forward, grab it, stick it in the bag, make sure its big enough, and its yours.
Next thing I know, I imagine my life as a future wife. My husband comes home and says, "Boy, that smells good honey!" and I reply, "Thanks sugar plum, it's lobster. I went scuba diving and grabbed it out of the ocean this morning. Oh, and I picked the asparagus from the garden." I told Jackie Warner about this idea and she said my spouse will have to end up being quite the man. He will be. Maybe he could collect cream from his own milking cow, use my kitchen aid mixer and liquid nitrogen to make us homemade ice cream. I'm rather fond of ice cream. Oooh! Brownie sundays. I guess he could make the brownies from a box.
Another beautiful train of thought just as I started writing this entry. I was thinking about how to describe scuba diving. Things like weightless, unreal, and imagine walking on the moon popped into my head. I then imagined that lobster dinner taking place on the moon. It could be a whole family outing. My husband and our ten children could leap across the moon craters, exclaiming how this is just like scuba diving, and then go hunt for aliens or moon cheese or something.
If any of you guys meet my ice cream making, alien hunting astronaut with a love of broiled lobster smothered in a garlic herb butter sauce, you should probably send him my way. In the mean time, this Med Tech needs to get her scuba homework done and a novel written. :P
Peace out.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Update 10/26/10
Hey everyone!
Just a few updates on the happenings in my life.
-November officially started which means that National novel writing month started so I've been trying to write a 50,000 word novel this month. I'm a little behind right now (I'm at a little over 9000 words and I should be about 3000 more words ahead...) but I'll hopefully have some time to catch up on things once my work week ends. I hope to someday get it published so we'll see what happens. For now, November is for regurgitating my ideas onto Microsoft Word so I get things done on time.
-I start my scuba class tomorrow. I'm REALLY excited! : D I've been reading my scuba text book so hopefully I'm ready for it. With all of my novel writing, text book reading, and my going to Orem institute on UVU's campus, it almost feels like I'm back in school again. : P
-Went to my book group this Friday. We'd read two books, "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Charms for the Easy Life", which were both good reads. Two of my friends brought their kids so it was fun watching Annie and Lorenzo get into EVERYTHING.
-Last night I we had a bonfire/fireside. It turned out really well except for the fact that construction on the highway was bad so a lot of people got lost. Oh well, you live and learn.
Well, I need to keep hacking away at my book. Until next week then.
Jill
Just a few updates on the happenings in my life.
-November officially started which means that National novel writing month started so I've been trying to write a 50,000 word novel this month. I'm a little behind right now (I'm at a little over 9000 words and I should be about 3000 more words ahead...) but I'll hopefully have some time to catch up on things once my work week ends. I hope to someday get it published so we'll see what happens. For now, November is for regurgitating my ideas onto Microsoft Word so I get things done on time.
-I start my scuba class tomorrow. I'm REALLY excited! : D I've been reading my scuba text book so hopefully I'm ready for it. With all of my novel writing, text book reading, and my going to Orem institute on UVU's campus, it almost feels like I'm back in school again. : P
-Went to my book group this Friday. We'd read two books, "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Charms for the Easy Life", which were both good reads. Two of my friends brought their kids so it was fun watching Annie and Lorenzo get into EVERYTHING.
-Last night I we had a bonfire/fireside. It turned out really well except for the fact that construction on the highway was bad so a lot of people got lost. Oh well, you live and learn.
Well, I need to keep hacking away at my book. Until next week then.
Jill
Monday, November 1, 2010
Update 11/1/10
Happy November Everyone!!
This last week was all sorts of busy crazy and this month looks like it'll be a zoo keeping up with everything but here's the latest.
-Wednesday Night I went to a play called Stage Door. I was very impressed. The entire play was designed to look like a black and white film with grey scaled costumes and make up, lots of humor, lots of drama, etc. The basics of the story line: Follows a group of girls trying to become actresses on the stage during the great depression. Roller coaster of emotions but definitely worth the ride.
-Thursday Night i went to the Corn Maze at Thanksgiving Point. They had things from bikes, go cart type bikes you peddle, pig races, chicken shows, slides, jumping pillows, and of course, mazes. I wanted to see the haunted maze since it was supposed to have a Fablehaven theme (Fablehaven is a book series... Think Spiderwick Chronicles type of books) so I thought it wouldn't be too scary with goblins etc. Turn out it was only designed to say Fablehaven and was going to just be a standard corn maze with chainsaws and such. My friend Kami was under the same impression I was and got really nervous. I told her it wouldn't be too bad but I don't think she believed me at first the way she clung to my arm. The entire maze we just made jokes to the actors. We commented about their math homework (since most of the people working the mazes are poor college/highschool students), snacks, their costumes, their wages, etc. In the end Kami was joking along with me. My favorite guy jumped off of a huge hay bale wall (must have been as tall as a single story building and started to growl at us.
Later that night I discovered I'd left my wallet at Thanksgiving Point. I freaked out for a while thinking it was lost forever in the corn maze but thankfully a few people sent me e-mails saying they'd been called and that my phone was in the Corn Maze's Lost and Found. That was a relief.
-Friday Night there was a huge Halloween Dance i got to help organize. It was kind of a mess since less of half of the wards in the stake realized they needed to send people to help with set up before 5pm.... The dance itself turned out really well and I think people had fun. My ward was in charge of karaoke. Pretty straight forward and this year I had a lot more man power to help me guard the machines. Good night of dancing, singing, partying, etc.
-Saturday Morning... Oh, I forgot to mention. This year for Halloween I dressed as a Garden Gnome. I ran a Halloween Half Marathon wearing this costume. It was not my best race time but it was still a lot of fun to run surrounded by so many crazy costumes. I think next year I'll dress like the gingerbread man or something I can make a little less hot...
Later that Night I played a game called Werewolfs and was destroyed every round. I got the role "Teenage Werewolf" three times in a row. This meant I had to say "werewolf" each round. They'd basically wait for me to say the word and I'd get lynched... Brutal, but I guess I can't blame them...
Thats all for now. This month I'm writing a novel, taking a scuba course, playing in a Messiah concert, and going to Harry Potter Opening Night for starters. Lets just say theres a lot to do and not enough time to do it in. : P
Jill
This last week was all sorts of busy crazy and this month looks like it'll be a zoo keeping up with everything but here's the latest.
-Wednesday Night I went to a play called Stage Door. I was very impressed. The entire play was designed to look like a black and white film with grey scaled costumes and make up, lots of humor, lots of drama, etc. The basics of the story line: Follows a group of girls trying to become actresses on the stage during the great depression. Roller coaster of emotions but definitely worth the ride.
-Thursday Night i went to the Corn Maze at Thanksgiving Point. They had things from bikes, go cart type bikes you peddle, pig races, chicken shows, slides, jumping pillows, and of course, mazes. I wanted to see the haunted maze since it was supposed to have a Fablehaven theme (Fablehaven is a book series... Think Spiderwick Chronicles type of books) so I thought it wouldn't be too scary with goblins etc. Turn out it was only designed to say Fablehaven and was going to just be a standard corn maze with chainsaws and such. My friend Kami was under the same impression I was and got really nervous. I told her it wouldn't be too bad but I don't think she believed me at first the way she clung to my arm. The entire maze we just made jokes to the actors. We commented about their math homework (since most of the people working the mazes are poor college/highschool students), snacks, their costumes, their wages, etc. In the end Kami was joking along with me. My favorite guy jumped off of a huge hay bale wall (must have been as tall as a single story building and started to growl at us.
Later that night I discovered I'd left my wallet at Thanksgiving Point. I freaked out for a while thinking it was lost forever in the corn maze but thankfully a few people sent me e-mails saying they'd been called and that my phone was in the Corn Maze's Lost and Found. That was a relief.
-Friday Night there was a huge Halloween Dance i got to help organize. It was kind of a mess since less of half of the wards in the stake realized they needed to send people to help with set up before 5pm.... The dance itself turned out really well and I think people had fun. My ward was in charge of karaoke. Pretty straight forward and this year I had a lot more man power to help me guard the machines. Good night of dancing, singing, partying, etc.
-Saturday Morning... Oh, I forgot to mention. This year for Halloween I dressed as a Garden Gnome. I ran a Halloween Half Marathon wearing this costume. It was not my best race time but it was still a lot of fun to run surrounded by so many crazy costumes. I think next year I'll dress like the gingerbread man or something I can make a little less hot...
Later that Night I played a game called Werewolfs and was destroyed every round. I got the role "Teenage Werewolf" three times in a row. This meant I had to say "werewolf" each round. They'd basically wait for me to say the word and I'd get lynched... Brutal, but I guess I can't blame them...
Thats all for now. This month I'm writing a novel, taking a scuba course, playing in a Messiah concert, and going to Harry Potter Opening Night for starters. Lets just say theres a lot to do and not enough time to do it in. : P
Jill
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