Surprise! You get to do compassionate service!

So, the other day someone came to our door and it was our RS Compassionate Service Rep. She wanted to confirm that our apartment had signed up to feed one of the counsellors in the bishopric and his wife since they just had a baby. I do not recall signing up to do this. I rarely cook, and when I do, it is certainly not a well balanced meal that will feed a family. But since I was the only one home, I said "umm, I guess. Sure, we'll feed them." I just couldn't tell her no when SOMEONE already said yes. I finally deduced that the two roommates who had signed up to do this are both out of town for the week thus, I get to do it. I'm not really complaining about making a meal and giving it to the family that could really use the help. I'm more frustrated with my roommates. Whatever. I'm moving out in a few weeks.

So with the help of my sister we thought up a menu and proceeded to make it this morning. Ta-da! I made lasagna! Here you can see me assembling it:

I am trying to disperse an equal amount of ingredients over the surface of the now delicious dish. It takes great precision. And a minor amount of OCD.

Careful, I have a wet noodle and I'm not afraid to use it!

PS- I had no idea my hair was so frizzy until AFTER the pictures were taken. I feel bad for the other patrons at Macey's.

Anywhoo... I think it came out well, and I'm actually really excited to take them the food tonight. I'm just hoping that everyone else that signed up hasn't copped out and brought them a Stauffer's Lasagna.

Pictures!

It's about time I post some pictures from the last few months! Enjoy!

Me and Becky are enjoying a drive through Auburn when I went to California.
So beautiful! We had fun taking a drive together.
Now, we have Cujo the beast dog chasing us out of Volcanoville (real place). (We drove as far as we could (note the dirt road). Her Toyota Corolla handled the dips rather well!)
Here you can see him urinating on the hillside as we tried to frantically back up. There was nowhere to turn around for awhile. So he just barked at us. A lot.
He's BIG. That is the hood of the car in the bottom of the picture. Thankfully, we came out unscathed. We also refrained from getting out of said car until we were far away. He sat at the end of the road and watched us leave. He is certainly doing what he was bred for. We decided his owners probably had more shotguns than teeth.

Our roommate Angie (in the patterned dress on the right) got her High School Diploma and we had a little party for her. She is now going to UVU!

(How many college students can YOU fit into a small living room?)
This was on accident, but I thought it looked kinda cool. Can you guess what it is?
Pretty Provo Temple!
Pretty boys at the pretty Provo Temple. (well, really just the guy on the left).
Mom and Dad's awesome plane!

I understand there are instruments in the panel now! And the canopy is done, too. Woohoo!

This is dad's high tech cantilever for the engine. Now THAT is a mechanical engineer at his finest! :)

Here he is again! Sometime you should ask him, "what sound does a baby cow make?" The face comes complimentary to the accompanying sound effect.

(Sorry for the sideways) We went to the Manti Pioneer Pageant. It was good, but we had more fun playing together. PS- Manti is turkey Mecca. They make really good BBQ turkey. It's like the turkeys were born in the sauce. mmmm...

We stayed at a relative's revamped school bus for the night.

Seriously. This is their guest room; the husband and wife live in there home about 10 feet over. By the way, that is the street. Try to dress quickly!

Pretty Mt. Timpanogas Temple! Me and my roommate went here while Provo is closed for July.

This is my lovely room of the last year.

Only a little busy. I call it organized clutter. But I'm getting anxious to move out, so most of my stuff is down now. Guess what I did with all that sticky tack?

If you guessed that I made an exact replica of a dice (die?) you'd be right!!! Well... almost exact.

There was a lot.

Well, thanks for enjoying my summer in one fell swoop with me!!! Hope yours has been equally spectacular thus far!!! :)

Join the Conversation

Hello again! I thought I'd do a different sort of post today, mainly because of an article I read. I think the only people that read my blog are family or friends and all are LDS, so this may not be a big deal. In the July 2008 Ensign there is an article about using the "new media" of today to share the Gospel. We are encouraged to "join the conversation" that is ongoing about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and do what we can to share our testimonies and dispell any misconceptions. So I'm going to try and share what I know and have learned from study and discussions on my blog.

Maybe I'll talk about what I learned in church or whatever, but today I'll just say that I know Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are real and love us. I've especially come to learn this while I've been on my own and must rely on them for comfort, encouragement, and direction during transitions. Whether I get anwers to my prayers immediately or in due time I know that Heavenly Father is listening and cheering for us to succeed. I'm grateful for the relationship I am developing with Him and our Savior all the time and hope it continues to grow everyday. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I hope you all are having a splendid Sabbath and find opportunities to joing the conversation as we try to follow our Heavenly Father and Christ's footsteps. Thanks!

Just checking in

Still alive.

Just lazy.

I promise I check other peoples' blogs, but I tend to ignore my own. If I had anything exciting to tell I would. Let's see... I bought some eye liner today (a good kind) but I don't know how to use it yet. (Although I have used some before to write messages to my roommate on my face.) That's about it for now! Eventually I'll get some pictures up that have been on my camera for a while now. Maybe I'll dedicate some more posts to my other "favorites". My favorite stores to be exact. There are three. oo oo! Maybe y'all could guess! Melissa and Nancy are not allowed to play. But seeing as they make up a significant portion of people who read my blog, this may be a short guessing game. :)

A toast to toast

I love toast. No really- it is perhaps the happiest food in the world. If you feel sick, eat toast. If you feel fine, eat toast. If you are hungry, eat more toast. Toast with butter (a decent spreading of it, too. Not mom and dad's definition of "necessary butter mass"). But is must be fresh or the more desirable qualities of toast (warmth and toastiness) begin to decline. I love toast. I better get a toaster for my wedding. In fact I would be fine with 12, unlike most people.

Toast rocks, and I know of no one who loves it more. Except maybe the owner of Toastmaster. I'll armwrestle him/her for the position.

Oooo- this reminds me that I'm starting to get a little low on bread... :)

She is risen...

What?... What is this? A whole website dedicated entirely to ME? How can this be? I must be under the influence of some sort of amnesia that causes me to neglect my readers!!!! Ah- being a superceleb is hard work.

JUST KIDDING! I'm not that conceited... I hope.

Wow- I even emailed myself a topic to post about because I didn't want to forget what it was but I also didn't want to post to frequently. Apparently I took my own prompting to slow the posts WAY to seriously. That email was sent... 3 weeks ago. How sad.

So I might as well tell you about it now! Nancy said that Blogapalooza people suggest you write about things you enjoy! Well, I enjoy playing minesweeper and solitaire on the computer. I'm not even joking. But I do promise that I did not spend the entire last three weeks playing these games. Still I will tell you all the saga of my love affair with Minesweeper and Solitaire.

During Freshman year I fell in love with these two wonderful games and would spend a lot of friendless time playing. (Maybe THAT's why I only have a few friends from that year!!!) I must say that my clicking time improved and my right index and middle fingers grew in strength and stature that year. I grew to have a slight addiction to these playmates, but I was a little biased on minesweeper. I only felt truly challenged by the expert level and now completely ignore beginner and intermediate. Unless of course I need a pick me up and play them to feel like a winner. In my first apartment my roommates could always tell when I was playing minesweeper because they could hear me clicking my mouse... very fast. And every so often, I would utter a frustrated "dang it!" I still enjoy this wonderful, and oh-so-productive pasttime and will now present one of my latest victories:

I know it is hard to see ( I had to take a picture of a screen shot on my computer), but I did win all 3. :) (Becky has the true boasting rights to this game really since she typically wins the expert on the first few tries... unlike me)

But this game can get tiring due to the low win:loss ratio. So I must challenge myself with Solitaire. The game itself is not the challenge, but I like to try and win it in under 60 seconds. A feat achieved several times. I will confess that I have it set on draw one with the auto right click thing. But still- it is challenging enough. To prove that I have accomplished such an outrageously awesome thing (I'm in the dork club too) I have taken a picture of a recent win here too:

I believe that this is the fastest I have ever won the game.

I fully accept my dorkhood award and embrace it with pride. Perhaps in another three weeks I will tell you what I did during the LAST three weeks I wasted playing these games... I mean... doing productive things 24/7 that will better mankind.

and then I found $5.

Surprise! Or maybe not.

Howdy all!

Yesterday was my birthday and it was fantastic! The night before was my birthday eve and it was a little interesting. My roommate was asking about when I would be home from work (unusual) and so I started to suspect something was up. I got home to see some birthday decorations up and one of my roommates home. I quickly banished myself to my room. I did not realize however that it would be another three hours before I would reemerge. I got a little hungry. But my roommates went all out and had a little surprise party for me with some friends over. We watched a movie (Mr. and Mrs. Smith), ate cake, and had lots of fun. There were only a few of us, but it was perfect!

Beka, Angie, and Kari (my fabulous roomies)

Dallin and Matt (some friends from the ward)

This is a better picture of Dallin (this is the guy I told my roommates I went to Vegas with).

They had very festive decorations :)

The next day (my actual birthday) I had breakfast with Nancy and Will-Yay!
Are you gonna be okay Will??

Make a wish!!

It was very fun! Then I proceeded to make a few mixed CDs from their music collection. We made 2 CDs...

...plus 6 others. :) I have now added 147 hand picked songs to my music collection. Woohoo! Now I just have to go thru Melissa's stuff. I'm really happy to have more fun tunes.

That night I went to dinner with Melissa and Hannah and totally loved it! She gave me the first to books in a series I LOVE (Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and New Moon).

Then I got to hand out with my roommate and listen to fun music (she had to hear all the stuff I got!). The funny thing is that I have no idea which songs are which because they come up as unknown artist on my computer. So we enjoy playing the guessing game about who or what we are listening to. She's way better at it than I am.

This is her reading in bed my headlamp-light. She is really proud of that purchase.

So I just want to say a little...

to everyone who did or said such nice things for me on my birthday- it was GREAT!!!

ps- this is one of my favorite little treasures I got from another friend in the ward (Dan):

Thanks Dan. :)