The Dentist!

Okay so yesterday I had to go to the dentist to get a filling and a crown.... I haven't been in awhile because I really don't like dentist because of a long list of bad experiences... speaking of bad experiences, this one was no different. My dentist is very nice and actually this has nothing to do with him or his skills as a dentist. Basically because I get very anxious in that stupid chair I choose to use the gas. Well I have NEVER had a problem before. This time however, without even knowing that I had done it I breathed through my mouth and got some oxygen (which they tell you NOT TO DO) well I really experiences first hand why... because it makes you vomit... yup, I did.... It all went very fast and the assistant handled it very well and kept it clean... but man it was the weirdest... I practically told them to take me off of it for the rest of the visit.. which didn't help with the fitting of the crown... but I did my best.

It's only Wednesday?!?!?!?1

Dear friends who sleep... and to those who don't,

It's the first week of school... It's wednesday... and I am tired! I haven't felt this tired since... well the last week of school in the spring! I have been worse (the mission) however.... third day of school.... seriously?!?!?!? I hope that this is not going to be a pattern this whole semester.

I mostly post this, not for sympathy.... but well that you all will feel sorry for me... is that the same thing? ;)

There are wonderful things that this semester will hold. I have an internship that is going to provide me with the opportunity to be in front of a classroom and teach. It's also a little scary because I was under the impression that I would have a few weeks to observe and prepare.... but then um this happens:

Doug- "So hey you wanna pick it up next week?"

me- "uuummmm NEXT WEEK?"

Doug- "Yes."

me- "I don't think I feel comfortable yet."

Doug- "Great! Make me a lesson plan!"

So here's for jumping right into the swing of things!

Yay for school and getting no sleep!

Love,

Me

Fontana di Trevi

Most of you know that I LOVE taking pictures of all my fun adventures. My friend advise to join flickr to get my pictures more public and get some feedback... Well I posted some of my favorites and my picture of the "Fountain of Trevi" in Rome was chosen to be part of an online travel guide of Rome. You can see my picture on this website:

http://www.schmap.com/rome/introduction_neighborhoods/p=1301D14/i=1301D14_69.jpg

I like it :)

Harry Potter

Dear Friends,

I will try not to add any spoilers for those who may be movie watchers only.... 

I just got to see Harry Potter 6... By far my favorite Harry Potter book of the series... I can't really explain why... mostly because it would give too much away... But There are things about this book that cut deep into the Harry's character. Rowling is a master at linking the audience to the character and their path to growth. You really see the way that Harry is becoming more the man that Dumbledore would have him be... which is more the man that he should be... and you really see his path forming and all those who should be on it with him... I connected with this book... 

As for the movie... it was AMAZING... just like expected... there were still things that I would have liked to see make it in the movie... granted it was already 2 hours and 40 minutes long... 

I still laughed at the well placed jokes... cried when appropriate... and thoroughly enjoyed the use of the word "snogging"... BRILLIANT :)

Ha! And yes the opening scenes of London brought on a huge nostalgic rush... I miss that city! 

Over all it was a great addition to the HP movie collection... 

Love,

Me

Hanging with my niece...

So my job still hasn't started and I wanted to avoid cleaning the kitchen so I decided to go to downtown Phoenix to have lunch with my sister, who works own there. My niece decided to go with me to surprise her mom and make her day :) It was fun catching up with her busy life as a 13 year old. She is a great girl... It is is so hard to believe that she has grown so much! I remember changin her diapers...
We had a good day eatin some over priced government food, huge buckets of frozen yogurt and a lot of walkin... When I got home I was so exhausted I had to take a nap before cookin dinner... haha!

You know someone should tell Taylor that beenies are to keep heads warm... not a problem in the middle of the summer in Arizona!

Stove Top liars

Dear Stove Top,
You lied.
Your baked chicken casserole took me longer than 10 mins prep time. I timed it as one full episode of Charles in Charge... it was the season finale of season one.
There is also the issue of total baking time! 30 mins? That was unrealistic! Even if I had followed the recipe EXACTLY as written, I doubt that it would have only taken 30 mins!
Now I am sitting here hungry and without my baked chicken casserole! Sad day.

Love
me

Cutie patootie!

My sister-in-law came out from Boston this weekend and brought her two girls with her! Then my other nieces came to play... It started to get pretty funny when I was doing the girls' hair after a swim... because then there was a call for makeup... and then they found my heals... hahahaha and that is when the Princess Talent Show planning committee got busy! The clicked and clacked around the house in their pretty princess shoes for a good two hours! ha!

The Princesses:


I love this picture... mostly because Lexi on the left... ha!


Sadie followed them around... a little princess who enjoyed a good blue candy cane...


Scott wanted nothing to do with it.. hehehe... he played manly wii games...

Bored

Dear Office Max,
Please call me... and soon! I am so bored! I need a job to keep me from going insane this summer... and even though I swore that I would NEVER enter an Office Max wearing kaki and blue ever again... At least you're not McDonald's!
So call me!

Love
Me

Charles in Charge

Dear Charles... in charge,
I just want to tell you how much I love you.
Your witty banter and charm are one of a kind.
My heart especially races at the sight of your gold necklace...
Your sweater vest and pleated tight slacks are all a girl could want... and don't forget the suspenders!
You may be 50 now, but I still remember the joy of watching you try and keep your sanity while being... in charge.
How you ever juggled college... especially since you never displayed a moment of study... girls... to which it seemed you were always studying... and children... that were not yours and their never ending "problems"... I will never understand! You are my hero!
Thank you Charles for being... in charge.

Love
Me

Dear Scorpion

Dear Scorpion,
Thank you so much for not stinging me when I almost stepped on you during my run! Even thought you are big and I know tat it wouldn't have killed me... it would have hurt like a crazy bean and I'm glad that I don't have to go through that....
Also will you tell your friend, the toad, that he really shouldn't settle himself in the middle of the sidewalk... I almost stepped on him... twice!
Thanks again little guy with a big stinger.

Love
Me

Dear Running Shoes

Dear Running Shoes,
I know you are tired... mostly from sitting in the closet too long... But I need you now.
I need you guys, holes and all, to carry me outside this house... on a friday night... and onto the road...
I need you guys to keep me going even when your friends, my legs, tell you to stop!
So let's go, running shoes, and burn some booty fat!

Love
me

P.s. that rumor about being replaced for better models... don't worry... that motion was denied due to lack of investment :)

My Renewed Fascination Of Blogging...

Dear faithful... and not so much... readers,

For anyone who has lately visited my blog... you can see that it is changing... I have purpose with this... also for my new fascination with blogging....

I have realized that I have been gloomy as of late.... normal worries of the human race... money, education, the cost of education... love or the lack of it... friends, those you love and the decisions of their lives... like I don't have enough in my own life to worry about ;)

So I have decided that I am going to change some of my focus in life.... and that might reflect a little in this little blog that noone reads.... yay for outlets!

Love
Me

P.S. I have posted more pictures- some great- on my new foto blog... check them out :)

Reading

During the semester at school I have a rule that I am not allowed to read any book that is not assigned by a professor. So when I am not in school I have an opportunity to read whatever I want... because there is actually time to do it :) So after 9 months of reading books about tragic priest in Renaissance Florence, The everyday japanese peasant during the 17th century, and a very unfair xenophobic trial during the 20's; I needed a more entertaining book :) So what do I choose? Twilight.... hhahahahahaha
I don't know why decided to start reading the Twilight books... but I am actually glad that I did... After about two years since the last time that I read these books, I find that I am enjoying them again... hahahahahahahahahaha
I have to laugh at myself and i find my self unrealistically wishing that I had a greek god to woo me... hahahahaha I don't have unrealistic expectations of men... no not me!
Well I am enjoying this leisure reading non the less, because soon I will be back to the grind reading books that were picked out by history professors, who I think purposefully pick the most boring books just to torture the obeying student... one day... I will do it too :)

Another Blog...

Lately I have begun to really enjoy photography. I love taking pictures! I am not the best... but I am trying to get better... I have some pictures though of my travels that I love and would like to share... so I made a new blog... to check it out go to http://myforayinphotography.blogspot.com/

Please comment and let me know what you think... just remember that I am an amateur and without formal training... for right now this is just for fun and my own amusement.
I already have some posted :)
Check it out!

My summer so far...

Well June is almost over and I have to admit that this summer has not gone as planned... I was expecting to have a job by now and not be a bum. I had planned to have lost a good five pounds and not have gained it :) And I had also expected that I would be having the best summer ever!
Things are turning out to not be the easiest... which I know that easiest doesn't always make it the best... but there are the good aspects of my summer....
I have had a lot of fine days soaking up the Arizona sun... a chance to take time to get back into exercising... a opportunity for change....
I don't know where my summer will go from here... I almost just wish that school was already here so that I could get this final year over and done with! But that is another story all together...
So I am just using this time for my best benefit... and I have job interview tomorrow...
Gotta love college summers...

The Future and its possibilities.....

Finishing this last semester set something off in me. My best friend graduated (that was a bummer since I have a whole other year left) and with her quest to find what the future held for her, I started to look at what mine held. I have always just assumed that I would go to graduate school. However, all of a sudden the thought of another three years (remember, I still have 1 year left of my undergrad) at ASU was depressing and also, didn't feel right. So I started to think of alternatives. One: Not going to Grad school and just getting a job and working for awhile. This may seem like a good option, but, again, doesn't feel right. The job I have always wanted to do was teaching high school and I can't do that at the level that I want without that Master's. And what would be the point to delay grad school with the possibility that I will never go back. so then there is TWO: Go somewhere else. So I have begun looking into other universities that offer a master's in education and can get me certified. The great thing is that I have found a couple programs that would be amazing... but they are both on the east coast and yes, expensive. One is Boston University, and the other is George Washington University. Now, anyone who knows me or maybe even not... knows that Boston would be a dream destination. Some would say that I would just go for that reason. I have to say though after looking at the program, it is everything that would help me reach the goals that I would like to achieve with Grad school. The same can go with GW, however, more Boston. But it is so expensive. Besides that, I have a lot of hope... with is not like me sometimes... So that spurs me along and I am going to go ahead and apply and see if this road goes anywhere. So my future is completely unreadable... but full of possibilities :)

Feeling Better :)

So I am feeling a little bit better... although recovering from my Tonsillitis I got an sinus infection... But that I can handle better than the former. So I have no more classes to attend, just papers to right... and I am actually feeling okay. With everything that I have to do... there is finally enough time to do it :) yay! So I am feeling more optimistic about the end of the semester and extremely grateful for this peaceful feeling of possibility that I have!

Sick Finals

Now what is the worst thing that could happen during the final week of school? You got it... get sick... with strep! Stupid Stupid Tonsils!!!!!!! So for the last 3 days I have been in bed suffering... not just because me throat is killing me, but also because my school work is suffering... I had a paper that I am pretty sure made no sense what-so-ever....
So here I am Sunday night... Right before one of my last and pretty hard weeks in school, with two papers due and Jury Duty to juggle, here I am feeling like CRAP!
Mostly this post was just for pitty :)hahahahahaha

A new resolve.......

Okay... My dear friend Kelly always says "Blog without obligation." Even having said that I fell EXTREMELY guilty for not keeping a up more on my blog... Its not like anything new and interesting has happened since the last post... I am still going to school... and it is still crazy and stressful... I still and single and LOVING IT! I haven't gone anywhere knew... and y'all know how much I lHTE staying in one place too long... the only thing I have to say is that I have this wicked paper cut on my right middle finger and it has been KILLING me as I type this!!!! Aiya!
I am making anew resolve to keep up better on my blog... even if all I do is keep my limited audience amused by my witty banter...
So stay posted!

Its been awhile...

Wow its been awhile since I have posted... don't worry I didn't die gettin hit by that car!!! hahahaha But man has life been busy... Mostly school just killin me... Finals are coming up and term papers are coming due... and I feel so far a way from being ready for all that. Its funny even with all that is going on and the pressure that I feel... It doesn't seem to break through the happy layer I've been sporting lately!!!!

Today was Thanksgiving... now since everyone usually knows how I feel about Thanksgiving and it's importance... I won't go into that here :) (I think I heard a few sighs of relief) It was a wonderful day... relaxing and nice to spend time with my family... and spend time with my NEW MAC.... Okay... the important thing was the family though... It is strange how when you get older and don't spend much time with your family you some what wish that you could go back in time to the days when you DID spend more time with them... of course without all the fighting that went with it... Guess you can't have both...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

HIT BY A CAR?!?!?!?

Okay so Tuesday, yes, I got hit by a car... not while in MY car... I as in ME got hit by a car... It is the most random thing in the world... Okay so let me tell you the story...... I was walking in a crosswalk at ASU (quite a major street- Rural for those who know the area) and a girl in a mid size SUV approaches the crosswalk... she stops for the girl in front of me... but I guess she didn't she me right behinf her and hit the gas... she hit me hard enough to knock me down and make the aerosol can of hair spray in my purse explode... It was all very strange... I remember as I was getting up out of the middle of the street, I was thinking "ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!?!?!?!"...
Well its been a couple of days... The girl that hit me has been really nice... I mean she did hit me with her car...
I would like to end this post by assuring everyone that I am doing alright... I have no lasting injuries... just a slight pain in my shoulder... the only bruise is one the size of a quarter on my knee... I have already been to the doctor and recieved an all clear and a declaration that I AM A MIRACLE... which I agree with!
I love how the Lord didn't exactly prevent the car from hitting me... but.... I am doing good!
This is by far the most exciting thing to happen to me in a couple months.... ahahahaha!

A new semester... new stress!

Okay so zeroin in on the start of a new semester I thought that everything was set... I had registered and bought the books and just had a few, percieved, easy kinks to work out. Well, those kinks turned out to be a lot more than easy. After talking to my Advisors, I had to redo almost my entire schedule! And now I still don't know if what I have is good enough? Well yeehaw for school and all the hodunk that comes with it!

Beijing 2008

I am going to start by saying that I realy love the Olympics... I have to admit with that litle statement that I never get around to ALWAYS watching it... but I really like them!!!! I love what they stand for... a chance for athlets all over the world to come together and prove their excellence. Looking past that even, I become a romantic idealist. I believe in what the Olypics are ment to stand for. People from around the world, putting aside all politics to meet together in hormony for two weeks. I think that it is symbolic of what we are capable of.
I mean if you look at the turmoil of even these olympics... Tibet and China and how the rest of the world sees their acts. However, to put those aside to engage in these friendly competitions that focus on the athletes and their struggles and achievements. This is why I love the Olympics... when else can you ignore the decisions, right or wrong, of the political bigs of the world and focus on the little people! Yay for Olympics!!!

By the way I realy like the gymnastics... I mean... even though it is totally unnatural for someone to be able to flip and twist themselves up in the air and still land on their feet... and then, when they don't... HA! :D
Enjoy the Olympics Everyone!

Discovering Arizona

So while at work today, some friends and I (I love the people I work with... SOME of them ;D ) were thinking that we should start discovering things that are right around the corner... you know little day or weekend trip around this history rich state, and educate ourselves on what the Arizona landscapes have to offer us.
We hae decided our first stop is going to be the GRAND CANYON... okay, okay... its not like I have never been to the Grand Canyon before... but I have never camped there before... and that is what we are going to do... camp on the North Rim! I think that it will be a lot of fun!
But hey... I have lived here almost all my life and seriously am lacking in knowledge of what is out there... to tell you the truth... I have always said that Arizona is the DULLEST state out there... that there is nothing but dirty dirt and desert... with more dirt:D and although that is still true... hey give me a break, I am still burning from today's 105 high... But I would like to know more about the dirt!!!
So if anyone has suggestions on what to see I would love to hear them :D
So here's a harty har! for Arizona and what it may have to offer me :D

Finally finished

I just finished "Breaking Dawn", the last book in the Twilight series... How come then, am I hesitant to BE finished... to close the book and brush off my weary hands (from holding the book in weird positions to keep the reading time going) and move on? It has always marvalled me how books, stories can draw me in and become a part of you. Over the last few days I have found myself silently contemplating (haha because i sit by myself at work... so if I contemplated OUT LOUD.... it would be just wierd) the story and what has happenned. What I think will happen... Now, what I think SHOULD ( :D ) have happenned. I am not the first, or the last, to have this sensation sweep over them (ha! especially just about this little series of reads). Luckily as well, its not the only, or last, story to grip me.
Interestingly enough, my next book is going to be "Harry Potter: e Il Principe Mezzosangue"... HP 6 in Italian... a douple prep for Italian classes startin up in a couple of weeks and my favorite HP coming to screen in Novem!!! Talk about a book that draws you in!
So to all those Twilight fans still getting into the read (my mother... who has given in at last and is finishing number 2 tonight) keep on reading and see what you think about the ending... BTW I will not mention here what I think... because I feel that too many people, even though they did not TELL me what happenned... influenced me in how I felt about what DID happen... so just read and wait and see :D
For those who have not yet begun to sink their teeth ... hahahah... into the series... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!?!?!!?!?!?

A public resolution...

I am publicly stating my resolution... hoping that it will deepen my resolve to live up to it... Last year I was able to loose a lot of weight. However, in London I got a little lazy and gained some of it back... I thought coming home would give me a chance to get back into the habits of running and eating better. I haven't been doing to bad... but not as well as I had hoped...
So hey y'all here's to resolutions and stickin to 'em!!!!!

Fun at the movies :D

I love when you can go out on a Friday night... just with the gals and have fun... even with a plastic Hulk...



Just the girls...



Look it's The Hulk!!!



He was jealous of my strength!!!!



She didn't know how to react...



All up for fun!!!

SO it was a fun night at the movies just waiting for our movie to start... hahaha the laughs kept on going with our movie "Get Smart"...

Because I like to steal things from other people's blogs....

This one is thanks to my dear pal Christi...

20 yrs ago
1. I was 4 and learning how to swim.
2. Moving again...

10 yrs ago
1. I was a punk kid
2. I was in 8th grade...
3. I was learning Spanish which still, to this day, has not sunk in :)
4. I had braces... at this point for 2 years... I will have them for another 4

5 yrs ago
1. I visited Boston
2. I was writing a missionary
3. I was going to MCC
4. I was living on my own
5. I was working at a bank...


3 yrs ago
1. I was in my first half of my a mission
2. I was loving the Italian life

1 yr ago
1. I had my first semester at ASU
2. I went to Disneyland!!!!
3. Went to Utah
4. Was a lot skinnier than I am now.

Yesterday I
1. Went shopping with my mom
2. Mopped the floors
3. Cleaned my bathroom
4. I did NOT go to the gym as planned
5. Read my book "the HOST"... I am almost done

Today
1. Helped my mom watch my neices and nephew
2. Talked to my sis on the phone
3. Read ... still not done
4. Took a nap
5. Ate steak :)


Tomorrow I will
1. Go to work
2. Finish my book
3. have no idea

In the next year I will
1. Loose the weight I gained back...
2. Move out
3. Pay off half my debt
4. Take a vacation... always on my list!

Beware!!!

My niece.... Yeah that's how I felt when today my sister sent me an email... She starts explaining how she went to check a new post and saw something about the Arizona state flower... and then popups started to go off like crazy... she knows the "alt f4" trick...and so was able to get out unscathed... well FIRST of all... I NEVER posted anything about the Arizona state flower... obviously, SOMEONE HACKED ONTO MY BLOG... well I checked it out and sure enough there were about 6 new post about random subjects... all post that I did not post myself... I thought my blog was lost... maybe it still is... I hope that I can keep this blog going... Just a little message though, beware that those hackers are busy... wish my blog luck!

Hey and THANKS sis for the thumbs up... Hope nobody else had any problems...

A favor from those who read this!!! Do before the 15th!!!

Just a little thing you can do to make a big difference in your friend's life...

Hey everyone... for those who remember last year and helping me out with this... it would be awesome for your
help this year as well! Just follow the instructions below to vote for the Agency that my family works for to because the number 1
independent agent in Arizona... No worries you are not committing to anything but helping a friend win a cash reward ( like $500/ £250) I need your help...
Really if you just do it know it will take like 3, max 5 minutes!!! Also get your friends to vote too and let me know their email addresses ( a little important thing
I have to have :) ) another note... the voting system will atomatically throw out a duplicate vote from a previously used IP address... so be sure to use different
email addresses and computers! Thanks you guys! the deadline in 15 July 2008!!!! So please vote soon!

NOTE!!! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A RESIDENT OF ARIZONA OR EVEN THE US TO DO THIS FOR ME!!!!!!


What to do!
Happy with the service you received? Help us become #1! Here's how to vote:
1. Go to www.azbusinessmagazine.com/raz
2. Select general category "Finance and Professional"
3. Select sub-category "Insurance Brokers"
4. Under "1st Choice" pick The Adams Agency
5. Enter your email address and click vote.
6. Comment to let me know you voted... and please either email me your email address or put in here just in case I don't know it... I need it for it to count! THANX!!!
Once again thanks and please pass this on to friends that can help!

Memories!!!

I thought this would be fun!


1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you!

Getting back into "real world" mode...

So I have started back at my old job, "The Adams Agency"... I really don't know if its nice to be back at work... But I realy love my co-workers... the make everyday drudgery so... much... more... laughable...
I have also been interviewing for a second job to try and fight of debt and get back to a little financial normalcy... but its a no go so far... We'll see!
Also since being back I have regained my usual love for Prime time television... my latest craze... "Bones"... mostly because of David Boreanaz... who I majorly crushed on when I was 12!!! He's still got it!!!
I kinda miss England... but I have to say that I am adjusting well!

Long Time Coming...

SO I am on my way home... YaY?!?!? I have had a blast in London... Where history and culture abound and there is something around every corner (the fact that I lived in the Neighborhood notorious for the "Jack-the-Ripper murders"... that should tell you of the rich history of "my" corner of London!). I will take this time to admit that I really began to love the quirkiness of the English and their traditions and way of life... It can be percieved as ordered and structured but underneath it, revealed to be laid back and relaxed. Even the weather, with its daily drizzle, will be missed within the confines of the western heat.
These last 5 or so months in England have truely been adventurous and life changing. I am so grateful for the blessing that I have had to experience new things and grow through them.
Coming home is not quite like a mission return... for one thing, I really haven't been gone THAT long... so back to life it is for me... a job or two... is my plans for now... hopefully ... tomorrow :)
Now I plan to focus on different aspects of my life... maybe learn a little about finances (I have discovered this is a life long lesson ;) ) and maybe throw in a little romance ;)
I am happy to be home... and I hope home is happy to have me! ;)

Creeping myself out!!!

Okay so I think I am sometimes pretty stupid! It is almost midnight at my sister Sister's house (note: Sis, you will probably laugh at this post! ;) ) and me and my nephew decided to watch some good ol' Ghost Hunters. Now I am not going to get in a discussion on the reality of Ghost and the whole interaction of the "dead" and the living... I have had my share of such "debates"... but I am just going to share my current psyche... We just watched a freaky episode full of paranormal "evidence" ;) and after I needed a little potty break... I have to say that I freeaked myself out alone in the toilet... As I RUSHED ( inconspicuously) out of the toilet... I had to laugh at myself... it just proves how we are ( or at least I am) psychologically susceptible to weakness :) Anyhow... This was just a fun little post...

Italy 2008

Catching Up?!?!?

So I know that I havent written anything in a long time... I can leave that to being busy (exams), traveling (yay Italy) and just being tired... and maybe lazy... so sorry for the last one :)!
It is really impossible to write in this blog EVERYTHING that has happened since Stolkhom... I think it would produce and over load sensation... but I will give a little highlight session...

1)Classes finished at the end of March. The last week I had four papers all due within 2 days of eachother and after working nonstop (library sessions lasting until 2-3 am) I did finish and I think I did a good job. It is wierd having classes done but not being finished... Two months still to go...

2) I went to ITALY!!!!
This was a great adventure. Kara Palmer a sweet and lovely friend from my ward back hom (who is studying in Birmingham) went with me to give me a little companionship and of course see the wonderful country of Italy! We started in Sicily (MY HOME) and went to Ragusa the last city I served in... this blog can not hold all the feelings that I felt in returning there! I love those people still...
We then went to Toarmina... a beautiful city that I never got to see while I was on my mission. We then went to Napoli and Pompei (Pompei was very cool... being a huge historical rich city)... we then went to Rome (where I almost got robbed... asked me about that personally... its a good story!)And I got to see my mission mommy!!! Then to Florence and Venice. We then went to Brescia (to see more mission people! and my mission Daddy! :)) and then to Como... Como is so beautiful... I now know why George Clooney has TWO houses there :) We even got a chance to see a companion and her husband(who I also served with :)) in Switzerland... I got to see the alps!!! AWESOME...
Lets just sum up and say that this trip to ITaly was all that I dreamed it would be and I am so gratefull that I got the chance to go again and see knew things as well...

3) Birmingham: I went to birmingham and saw Kara and the city that has becoe home for her the past few months... It is always good to be with friends and people you love and who love you in return!

4) Studying, studying, studying... sort of... so the last like month I have had this studying break... I just had one of my finals last week and it gutted me!!! It is so wierd to have this huge break in between classes... it kinda takes away your motivation to keep going :)

So that is a little catch up on what has been going on in this little adventure that I am on... stay tuned... I promise... more stuff to come... and I promise as well... if you ask I will tell you more :)

Something I found funny

This is me sliding on the Ice in Sweden... It was so frickin cold and all over the ground the snow turned into dangerous... but sometimes fun snow... luckily I never felt although Ashley, who is taping, was hoping for it :)

A Stolen Tag

I stole this tag from a friend because I thought it was fun... and I was bored! :)

5 things on my to do list today:
1-Write a paper for class
2- write another paper for another class
3- Write a 3rd paper for a 3rd class
4-Exercise
5-Finish "Persausion"

5 things I enjoy:
1-afternoon naps
2-good friends
3-Chocolate and Peanut Butter Combinations
4-traveling
5-Pictures

5 of my bad habits:
1-Sleeping in
2-laziness (I admitt it!!!)
3-Putting off work
4-eating chocolate and peanut butter
5-spending money

5 places I have lived:
1- Carterville, IL
2-Mesa, AZ
3-Boston, Mass.
4-Southern Italy
5-London, England

5 jobs I have had:
1-Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
2-Office Max
3-Teller @ Bank One
4-Office Clerk @ The Adams Agency
5-Student (that is all I do right now... it's a job!)

5 things people don't know about me:
1- I was brought home by Police Officers 3 times before I was 3
2- I was a punk as a kid (not using this moment to lay out trangressions)
3- I sleep with a teddy bear that is older than me (even brought him to London)... it is a good third pillow
4- My first hollywood crush was Kevin Costner when I was 8
5- I really love bread... I crave it almost...

Okay now to get back to that "To Do" list you see there on the top and those papers that I havent' even started that are all do in a week!!! WOOHOO I LOVE COLLEGE!!!

Blogger Advice

My advice for bloggers would be to never blog when you are sick, cranking and sleep deprived... You come off a little whiny and pretty rude... So just ignore that little entry below this one... Sweden was really beautiful and a fun... adventure!

Sick in Stockholm

Okay so this little trip to the capital of Scandanavia has been very interesting. The first night was a disaster considering when I arrived my party that was waiting for me was wasted and very obnoxious (I think that is how you spell that?)Anyhow, I couldn't sleep with all the laughing and childish antics and then there was the snoring after they passed out... and I was sharing a bed... not good when you have developed a slight sense of claustrophobia (again, spelling?). Hahaha this trip is sounding great!
Thursday was amazing... this city is really beuatiful. We had a lot of fun walking around and just loving the city. They views are so breathtaking. That night I decided to go back to the room while they went and had a night at the bars and rest a little. It was nice to just chill and watch a movie on TV (Apollo 13) still didn't sleep... couldn't with them out...
Today was a bit intersting... we all slept in way too late... and my day started with setting a napkin on fire at lunch... right in the middle of the cafe... oddly enough nobody seemed to notice... I was still very embarassed... Then I burnt my tongue on the food at both lunch and dinner... and got walked in on while using a public bathroom... yeah I know... this wasn't a good day for me... and to top it off... it is like 4 in the morning and becuase my travelling companions are passed out in the room (one in the bathroom) I becoming very sick had to come down to the bathroom in the lobby which I didn't leave until I was sure that I would not throw up... I'm sorry if this entry seems a little depressing... hahaha it really doesn't make my friends come off nicely... which I feel bad... they are just having fun their way... it's not their fault that I am sick... I should be able to go up and sleep... at least a little...
This trip wasn't a bust either... I really feel lucky to see such a beautiful place... I hope to never forget the view!