Things I learn at work...Volume I

Good things to put in trailmix:

• Goldfish crackers
• Craisins
• Cashews
• Limited pecans
• M&Ms (Lots)
• Salty raisins
• Dried pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, etc.
• Dried edamame

Bad things to put in trailmix:

• Too many peanuts
• Too many raisins
• Walnuts
• Coconut
• Wasabi
• Yogurt
• Pretzels

Bucket List Time!

My List of Things to Do Before I Die

• Participate in a zombie walk
• Go to Harry Potter World
• Design my own Converse
• Learn to play an instrument
• Go to a drive in movie
• Cross-country roadtrip involving stops at random landmarks in all 48 continental states
• Model something
• Move somewhere on a whim
• Complete the cinnamon/milk challenge
• Make a floating lantern and release it
• Go on a hot air balloon ride
• Have a fun-colored front door
• Be a mascot...again
• Pull a Ryan Gosling and lay in the middle of an intersection at night to watch the lights change
• Keep a journal
• Plant a fantastic garden
• Own a hammock and take lots of naps in it
• Visit eastern Europe
• Study abroad
• Own a vespa
• Adopt a dog from the animal shelter
• Send a telegram
• Wear more red lipstick
• Stay out all night dancing
• Try sushi
• Participate in a dance marathon
• Learn to make stellar lemonade
• Do a photo a day challenge for an entire year
• Ride in a taxi
• Pay someone else's tab
• Send flowers anonymously
• Make a scrapbook
• Waitress
• Finish Wreck this Journal
• Watch the northern lights all night
• Go blonde
• Go to a Goo Goo Dolls concert
• Live in a apartment
• Take pictures with a Polaroid
• Walk through a drive through
• Smash lots of plates
• Grow out my hair again
• Go to the airport and fly to the destination of the next available flight
• Kiss someone under mistletoe
• Hang Christmas lights all over my house
• Have a closet full of fantastic vintage dresses
• Build a blanket fort
• Learn another language
• Exercise more
• Take smooching pictures in a photobooth
• Have a pet owl
• Participate in a flash mob
• Throw a surprise party
• Make a Christmas card that involves people tangled in lights
• Send a message in a bottle
• Run a half marathon
• Drop stuff off a tall building
• Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland
• Have a job where I have to dress up everyday
• Remodel an old house
• Go to a fashion show
• Build a treehouse
•  Recreate the Beatles' Abbey Road cover
• Go to a masquerade
• Solve a Rubik's cube without help
• Donate hair to Locks of Love

Valentine's Day...Take 2.

A-Z Random Stuff I Like A Lot (Because Valentine's Day is about people and stuff you like)

• Acoustic covers of pop songs, "As Long As It Takes" by The Spill Canvas
• Being sung to sleep, blanket forts, bikes
• Concerts, Clue (Best. Boardgame. Ever.), costumes
• Driving in the dark/ in the spring when everything is still muddy/in the rain, dancing
• Exhaustion to the point I can't even think anymore, Etch-a-Sketches
• Film photography, fresh flowers, fun earrings, family gatherings
• Green beans, gardening, good lyrics
• High heels, holding hands, hugs, haircuts
• Inside jokes, Ireland
• Jackie O's style...she was a classy, classy lady, jumping from the sauna into the pool
• Kisses
• Locks, Lemonheads
• Movies that are slightly sad (Garden State, Where the Wild Things Are, Remember Me, 500 Days of Summer, you get the point)
• New jeans, naps
• Oyster crackers in tomato soup, old people in love
• Polariod cameras, painting
• Quirky friends, quilts
• Reading, red lipstick, road trips, rain hair, realizing it's going to be ok
• Starting over, star gazing, sun rises, sun dresses, sudoku, sleeping in the car on the way home
• Teddy bears (mine specifically), traveling
• Ugly little dogs that are adorable
• Vintage clothes, Vespas
• Walking and exploring, white watches
• X (<---nothing starts with this letter, for real)
• Yellow tights/purses/camera accessories/shoes...pretty much anything yellow
• Zoos--manatees are the coolest

Valentine's Day...Take 1.

In lieu of Valentine's Day tomorrow I will be gracing you with a superrrrrb playlist of songs for you and your lova. Or just you. They're still good if you're single :)



1. "Bob and Bonnie" Houston Calls
2. "Step Right Up" The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
3. "Our Song" The Spill Canvas
4. "Time and Confusion" Anberlin
5. "The Longest Time" Billy Joel
6. "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" Bowling for Soup
7. "Hands Down" Dashboard Confessional
8. "Roll to Me" Del Amitri
9. "Would You Go With Me" Josh Turner
10. "Sweater Song" Hedley
11. "Living Our Love Song" Jason Michael Carroll
12. "First Time" Lifehouse
13. "Best Days" Matt White
14. "My Favorite Accident" Motion City Soundtrack
15. "Your Love" The Outfield
16. "All for You" Sister Hazel
17. "Accidentally in Love" Counting Crows
18. "You're All I Have" Snow Patrol
19. "Can You Find Me" The Summer Set

To come tomorrow:
Random Stuff I Love

Sorry for the Sabbatical...

I haven't posted anything in 2012. Sorry. I've been getting distracted by life--I made New Years Resolutions and have actually been keeping ALL of them! It's amazing! What are they? Oh I thought you'd never ask! Ahem. Every day I will: practice the guitar, exercise, read my scriptures. There is no minimum time requirement for any of these I just have to DO IT. And it's working! So far I've kept them all except for yesterday...my guitar needed new strings so it was out of commission then I got distracted and the other two didn't happen, but that is perfectly ok--other parts of life got in the way of doing them ;)

Anywho, just in case any of you have ever, ever sat next to me in church, I apologize profusely. So the whole learning to play guitar thing has been working, so I decided the next step was to learn to sing the songs I can play. Ok, simple enough. Then I wanted to hear what it all sounded like (not in a weird narcissistic way, but because I've always been kind of self-conscious of my voice, both speaking and singing) so I recorded myself. Bad idea. Whoa buddy. I made it about 20 seconds and was absolutely mortified at how tone deaf I did not realize I am. It's a fact of life, so I'm totally ok with it, but I apologize if you have ever been subjected to that at any point ;)

Other news, Valentine's cards are being made, I had a slight mishap with melting crayons in a glue gun (think red crayon sprayed all over a textured white wall--try getting that off), Parks and Recreation is my fave, and that's about all for now. How 'bout I leave you with a good picture? Ok? Ok.

This is pretty much the best picture ever. DQ + a classic car limo station wagon thing? And taken with my Diana mini? Heavenly. Enjoy.