love.

i love when friends leave comments that are not appropriate to actually post on the blog....as in funny to me but not anyone else....as in no one else needs to read it...it makes me laugh. thanks, A.

ha. ha. ha.

cat's outta the bag....i think, anyways.

that's right folks. i know you've been dying to know the "secret" i mentioned on the blog a while back. let's be serious...you probably skimmed over it, or completely forgot. i forgive you.

i'm transfering over to the tax department at work. okay, so you don't think that's a big deal. at this point, i really don't care what you think. it's a big deal to me, and i'm excited about it. it's a larger department than where i am now, so will allow for alot more social interaction. i get to share a workspace with my friend (major plus) and it will be nice to be doing something a little different from the usual. best part of this little transfer is that it happens a week after the tax deadline. i will have the summer to train and become familiar with things before we hit another deadline...which will be nice.

i repeat. this transfer is a big deal. and just to clarify, this is not a promotion....only a transfer, but i'm still excited about the new things i will learn and the new people i get to work with. let the good times roll....after april 15th anyways..... :)

chippy dippy

i get to spend this weekend with my cousin/bff. do i have words for this? try "perfection". don't be confused. i have two cousin/bffs (how lucky am i?!?!?) one in utah. one in nevada. this weekend with utah cousin/bff is long overdue. chippy dippy, doris day, guitar hero, conference...could the weekend get better? i think not.
lately i've had a weird craving. and now, i want to make these. but why would i do that when i could buy this? but when you get down to the nitty-gritty, i'll probably be getting a few of these red velvet babies (sweet shots) ....yeah, like 3 to be exact.

now that i've got that out of the way. it's time for me to drink my water and eat my fiber one bar. livin' the dream.....

have you ever had to learn the same lesson twice, the hard way? duh.

ps....i'm considering turning this hot spot into a private blog....any thoughts?

ian's hips.

at about 4 o'clock i got a text telling me i had special tickets to see the byu luau tonight. ryan and i had wanted to go ever since we found out cousin ian was dancing in it. we started out the night with a trip to j dawgs.

and what a show it was. we saw alot of brown skin (including ian, that little stinker)

and even got the boys to show me a little leg...good thing ryan cut the picture off where he did. nothin to see here folks...nothin to see. thanks for a fun night night E! thanks for tickets and front row seats, A. and ryan, thanks for the jungle fever. do you know a jungle war cry?? i do.

raise your right hand....now slap yourself.

i think most of you know that i live with roommates. ali from hoodbridge, patty from portugal, and nathalie from the netherlands. we are so cultural. it's been interesting to live with people from different cultures, but it's been great. (nothing like jule) I really am lucky to have normal roommates.
The other night i was sewing my little heart out, and my two foreign roommates sat down at the table for dinner. the following was our conversation:

N: oh yeah, we were talking about something in class today and i didn't know what they were talking about. my teacher told me to come home and ask my roommate. B, what's a twee---a twin-kie??
B: WHAT?!?!?! What's a twinkie?!?!? it's this little yellow cake with this filling inside. you get it in your lunch in elementary school....
N: Oh, like the cake is rolled around filling?
B: no no no. it's squirted in from the bottom....kind of like a ding-dong. (bad idea)
N: a .....ding-----dong?
B: a little chocolate cake hockey puck wrapped in foil???

That's when i found out that Patty didn't know what a slurpee was....and actually asked what one was IN 7-11. oh the horror.

That's when i told them to both raise their right hands....and then slap themselves. okay, so i really didn't make them to that. but i did tell them that next time i went to the grocery store, i would buy them twinkies and ding dongs....just so they could experience them.

The next day, cute Nathalie said, "i remember the twinkie. don't make me slap myself, but what was the other thing???"

I laughed. "The ding dong, girl. the ding dong."

love. those. girls.

to blog, or not to blog...that is the question.

i've felt like i have nothing to write about...but seeing those fiber one bars every time i log on is not helping anything, so here we go.
This past weekend was a busy one for me. Heather loved her gift, and it was fun to be able to spend time with family at the shower. I was able to go out to dinner with a good friend. It still suprises me a little bit how much peoples lives and priorities can change (or appear to change) when you don't see them as often...me included. It was a fun time to catch up and giggle about things. Went on a run. held a cute baby. and went to bed.
Sunday's church schedule was a little different with the Draper Temple Dedication. We only had our sacrament meeting, and then we headed over to the Marriott Center at BYU to get seats. I was lucky enough to sit with my two brothers, sister-in-law and cousin. It was a cool thing to attend in such a large crowd. I loved it.
And now the weather has turned cold. Where did the 70's go?? I'm trying to not let my running schedule go out the window without losing a finger (or more) to frostbite. wish me luck.