Monday, December 15, 2008

Milk Again!

I did it! I made it 21 days without milk and drinking a ton of water! I am so glad to have my milk back! Chocolate will taste better... And I am going to love butter rings with milk! :D

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Youtube

Ok, this will be the most random post, I'm sorry. I'm pretty much going to share with you seven of my favorite videos. There are so many great videos on Youtube and I think I might post my most recent finds on Youtube at the end of my posts. (I'm not sure, but I'll try) It's just so you can have a good laugh (or whatever) everytime you visit my blog.

I'll understand if you can't watch all these, but perhaps if you can watch one here and there, maybe like one a day to give yourself a happy boost for the day or whatever (I am being so articulate aren't I?)

Let's just delve into the 7 I have chosen for this post:

1 - This clip reminds me of Nate. The instant I saw this I thought, "Nate! This movie was made for you! Sarah, too!"



2 - This made me laugh and I think it has pretty good acting (Better than many people in Hollywood).



3 - Ok, this one is just plain weird... Honestly, I sat back in agahst when I saw this for the first time. I'm sure you'll be watching and think, "This guy has a good voice. He sounds like the guy in the movie. Is he lip synching? (He's not) What is Andrew showing me?" Just wait. Halfway through you will understand.



4 - Ok, this made me so happy... I almost cried! (Ok, I didn't... but seriously...) It combines two of my favorite things into one.



5 - Ok, who doesn't love John Williams? Well this is a musical tribute to him and all his amazing music. (Oh, and the song was performed by Moosebutter who are native to Provo!) The guy is just lip synching... but he did a good job.



6 - Ok, only watch this if you've seen The Ring. Someone took clips from The Ring and edited it into this tearjerking preview.



7 - This is the last one, I promise! Everyone has seen Mary Poppins, right? Well this is a preview for "Scary Mary."



Well I hope you've enjoyed these movies! And thank you for allowing me to use 20 minutes of your day!

Monday, November 24, 2008

Milkless

Ok, I did it! I just drank the last drop of milk I will have for the next 21 days! I know! TWENTY-ONE! 3 weeks!


I don't know if you realize how much milk means to me. I drink two gallons of milk a week. Easily. I definitely drank more milk than water. Milk goes with anything! Anything! I proclaimed it the "Nectar of the Gods" regularly. When I told some of my friends what I was doing they looked at me as though I was pinching my oxygen line that was keeping me alive.

Am I crazy? Definitely.

Will I be better for it? I better be.

Was this my crazy idea? Definitely NOT.

It was actually Christine's. She told me all about the health things concerning milk and somehow convinced me to try going milk free for 21 days! We both set goals to do for 21 days straight and we both started today at 12 am... She's probably asleep so she didn't realize the impact of midnight, but it's ok. (Actually she started an hour ago because of the time difference) The prize of keeping our goals? Well of course self-improvement and the satisfaction of doing something amazingly difficult, but also if the other person reaches their goal, the other has to blog more. Three extra posts for the month of December! (Since I'm sparatic on my posting and sometimes just go crazy I'm not sure how many that adds to for me... but we'll figure that out later)

I know we all want Christine to post more, so root me on! :D

Sunday, November 23, 2008

My Calling

I have finally received my calling and I'm so excited! I am the Librarian! It seemed like a really nice calling when I first heard I was going to be the Librarian but when I went in to get set apart I heard a little more about it and it seems like a hard calling, but I'm pumped for it!

Oh! And I get an assistant! How cool is that!? Anyway, I was pretty excited, and just wanted to let you guys know!
Do I look like a librarian?

The Un-Testimony

So, today we had a very interesting incident in Sacrament Meeting. The first counselor got up to conduct the meeting and said that there were some announcements that he needed to share with us but first a girl had asked if she could share an announcement with us. He has said yes and so he turned the time over to her.

She stood at the pulpit and then started reminding us of her testimony that she shared last Fast Sunday about how she knew that Joseph Smith was a prophet of god and that the Book of Mormon was true and so forth.

Well then she said, "I'm sorry, I take that all back. Those are things that I have asked the Lord to reveal unto me but I haven't been answered yet and so I should have said that I believe those things were true not that I know they are."

And then she sat down... It was probably one of the most awkward things I've ever seen happen in Sacrament Meeting...

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Presidential Election


So, Obama won. I'm a little disappointed, but I'm not surprised. I wasn't sure who I was going to vote for until the day of. I knew I wasn't going to vote for Obama, but I didn't know if I was going write in someone or not... At the very end I decided I enjoyed SNL's skits of Palin so much that I would really like another four years of those skits. Too bad... I hope they'll still continue somehow...

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Hi! I'm still alive! (in case you were wondering)

Wow! How long has it been? Alright to get you caught up really quickly. After I returned from my mission to Quebec, Canada, I got married to Cynthia. I graduated from USU with departmental honors a while ago. After applying to many graduate schools we found out we had been accepted to Eastman! So we've moved into a small apartment in Rochester, New York. And, big news, we're expecting our first child! We're not sure if it's a boy or girl yet. We're going to wait until the baby's born. Just five more weeks! (yay!)

Ok, so seriously...

Oh! I have way too much to talk about! This may be a long post, I guess it depends if I can just keep myself going or if I get sick of it. You'll have to judge for yourself once I'm done.

Ok, actually the thing that has taken me the longest to post is the fact that I don't have all the pictures that I want. Josh has them all, but seriously........., I don't think I'll ever get them so I'm gonna post now! :D (Just not as many lovely pictures... sorry...

Alright! First week was connections and that was way fun. We had the author of A Long Way Gone come and talk to us and sign books! I was in line for ever to get him to sign my book! He stayed way longer than he meant to, but when he cut the line off, I was the next book he was going to sign! So I never got it signed but I did get majorly cut off... sadness... :'(

Classes are just fabulous up here! I'm taking Keyboard Harmony, Music Theory, Aural Skills, Private Vocal and Piano Instruction, Planet Earth, English 1010, and Book of Mormon 1st half.

Logan is a beautiful place! I love the fall colors! Actually it was beautiful before the leaves changed as well. I absolutely love trees! It has rained a few times while I've been up here and it's been fabulous!

We had a pancakes at midnight party too!



We've had a lot of fun up here and I can't tell you everything we've done. I can't remember it all! We have had some wicked sweet rounds of press conference (Mckay swallowed a pregnant raccoon which had babies in his stomach)

Here's our trunk or treating night and halloween:



BTW Ryan's shirt says:

Shirt: $25.00
Pants: $45.00
Shoes: $60.00
Having a costume that took minimal effort: Priceless

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Mikado

So last Thursday my Priest Quorum adviser took the graduated Seniors out to dinner. There are four of us in our ward and only 2 could come. Jameson and me! So he asked us where we wanted to go, so we decided that we didn't want to go too fancy because we knew he had a family, but if we tried to go too cheap then Wadley would say no. So Jameson and I decided that Olive Garden was the perfect mix!

At seven o'clock we headed out the door to Wadley's house and then headed off to the Olive Garden in Salt Lake City. When we arrived we were informed it would be a 30-40 minute wait! Well, no one wanted to say it was too long but I'm sure we all felt that way. (actually I didn't feel that way too much, after a two hour wait at the Cheesecake Factory, half an hour was nothing) I knew that Jameson a pretty impatient guy but we sat down and started talking.Wadley brought up that he thought we were going to go to a fancier place (apparently Jameson and I didn't get the right range we were going for). When he brought that up I tried to persuade him that we were fine by joking about Grand America and La Caille. Well it sorta worked but then he mentioned shushi. He found out that I had never had sushi. I quickly informed him of the reason I never have had sushi. I don't like fish. Cooked. Let alone raw. Well he said that one of his favorite Sushi places was only a block away if we wanted to walk a bit... I consented. (Honestly it didn't take much to persuade me. I was in for adventure and actually had to convince Wadley that I was ok with it.)


We walked up about a block and headed into Mikado. We were seated right as we walked in. I couldn't help but point out that there was no wait... and probably with good reason.

Well we sat down and got our menus. And then were asked if we'd like to see the liquor menu. Jameson and I said at once "Of course!" Then we both looked at Wadley to see his reaction (I promise we had no intention of drinking alcohol, we just wanted a reaction and we got the one we expected. Both Wadley and the waitress could tell we were joking. Oh... Wadley told us not to tell anyone we were offered the liquor menu, but I think you guys can handle it).


Wadley had us each get a traditional American entree and then he ordered four rolls of sushi and edamame. I got ribs (note to self... I don't like ribs as much as I used to... too messy... and no one can beat the Bar J when it comes to ribs...) The entree came with a salad and soup. They were pretty good. I liked whatever was on the salad and the Miso Soup had cubes of tofu in it. I felt exotic already.

Then rolls came. We got four different rolls. (I know I already said that but just reiterating) One was a Rainbow Roll. It had snow crab, avocado and sesame seeds in it, surrounded by rice and then had an assortment of raw fish on top such as tuna, salmon, shrimp and some other weird fish... One was a connect roll which had albacore (tuna), cream cheese, chili sauce, crab, and then was deep fried with a J sauce, it was riceless. Another roll was had was a sunset roll which had Unagi (eel), smoked salmon, and avocado. I don't remember what the last roll was but I remember it was mostly crab and rice.

When the rolls came they looked really colorful and exciting. I wasn't' fooled. I knew what they were... Anyway Wadley decided to show us how to eat sushi so when we get into the corporate world (yeah, right) we would know what to do when we went out for sushi, because apparently it's a popular thing to do. We got our little dishes filled with some soy sauce, and got some spicy green stuff mixed it with it. Then he pointed to a roll and said "That one's cooked, you probably ought to start with that one Andrew."

So I picked it up with my chopsticks (by the way I totally beat them all with chop sticks. I had the best control and dexterity with the wooden utensils. It's not too surprising really... I've always loved chopsticks) I popped it in my mouth and started feeling the flavor. It wasn't half bad. Then I bit down and there was something really crunchy. When everything is soft in gooey in your mouth and all the sudden there is this thing that crunches in your mouth... eew... I just had to swallow at that point. I swallowed and Wadley congratulated me on eating my first bit of eel... eew... I started thinking about the crunchy thing... eew... was it an eye? Well I picked another piece from that roll up and looked at it. Then I found something I felt was relieving. The crunchy thing? Cucumber... that's it... *whew*

I went on to the connect roll and it tasted like something you could get at McDonald's (Ok, not exactly but it didn't feel exotic enough... If I was eating fish I wanted it to be fun and exotic!) I moved on to the crab roll thing and It tasted the most "normal" to me. Not this deep fat fried thing, but not eel. It was nice. Then I moved on to the California roll. I thought I could handle it. I have eel right. Well this one was the worst. I picked it up, dipped it, and then it was in my mouth. Actually the roll itself was fine. it was that raw fish on top that disgusted me. It wiggled around in my mouth and was incredibly slimy... eew! I couldn't get a good bite out of it to swallow so it would be out of my mouth, it kept wiggling away! Well I finally swallowed it was fine.

I definitely want sushi again sometime. The taste? Not my favorite. The experience? Definitely worth it!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

College and stuff

Oh my heck! I'm heading up to college and just a few weeks! This is so exciting I don't know how to put it. So I'm just not going to because not only am I going up to college but I am exhausted. Now, I know that probably seems lame especially to you mothers out there, but really, I am.  I am working 3 jobs (sorta, I kind of put one job on the back burner and I'll bring it back when I'm in college and I don't have the other two jobs) and I still have to find fun time with friends. I know that sounds lame but it's my therapy.  

Also I've been preparing for a huge competition. The State Fair. If I place in the top two I will also be invited to sing with Salute to Youth and the Symphony will be accompanying me on my two songs. (Which would be the most amazing experience ever!) I love both my songs they are:

This is E Lucevan le Stellle sung by Pavarotti (he is my idol).




And I'm singing sea fever but there aren't any good renditions on youtube, so I'm not posting any.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

B.A. Meeting...


Ok, so during a recent Sunday gathering of the family and everyone that could be was there! Yay! Thank you all for coming!

During dinner we had a discussion that I thought would never come up during a Moon Family Dinner, and I had no idea that mom would participate of all people! We discussed: The Bachelorette. (I use the term "we" loosely. I was never really into the conversation, since I don't watch it but yeah...)

Well, last Monday we are having Family Home Evening. We actually were having an okay discussion about... Hmm... well I forget, but out of the blue Mother sits straight up, her eyes bulge, she slaps the couch with both hands, and screams out "WHAT TIME IS IT?" I look at the clock which read 6:56 pm and wondered what mom would be so worried about on a Monday night, you know, family night.

I told her what time it was and she leaps off the couch and scurries off to her room saying something about pushing "record." When she said record I started thinking of all that shows that play on Monday. (I'll bet you already know where I'm going with this, but I wanna finish) I started thinking about channels 7 and 11 since those are the ones mom usually watch. I guess it could be some talk by a general authority... but I think mom would not have had such a reaction to missing it if it was. So I continue to think. "Is masterpiece theatre on? I don't think so...

Channel 2? Nothing special...

Channel 4? What is on channel 4? and then.... I remember... The Bachelorette! Oh. My. Heck!"

Mom walked back in with a guilty smile on her face when I confront her about disrupting Family Home Evening for the sake of recording the Bachelorette. Sure enough, mom admits to it and starts saying something about how she wants Jason and blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, I found it really funny and wanted to let you all know that:

"Hi, this is Diane Moon, and she is addicted to The Bachelorette."

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Graduation

Ok, well not much to say about graduation except that it was awesome! I'm so glad HS is over, but really sad at the same time. It was held at the Dee Events Center in Ogden and here are the pictures.




The all night party was a blast! There were coke machines, ice cream makers, food galore, segweys (super fun! I would get one if I was rich), climbing walls, tramp basketball, frozen chicken bowling, cork guns, bean bag toss, catapults, obstacle courses, karaoke, minigames, drawings, texting races, and a cash cube! We pretty much just played all night. It was way fun! I wish I had pictures to show you...

Prom



Ok, well I gotta say Prom was awesome! 

The day before Prom:
We took the girls down to boondocks for the day activity. Boondocks is pretty much amazing. We did everything we could. I beat everyone at the go-carts! (I even lapped people, which is pretty amazing for a little cart to lap others with my weight) We played miniature golf and I won but everyone was able to get hole-in-one's except me. But I did get an amazing hole-in-two. Anyway. When we played laser-tag our team won by a landslide. (What can I say Emily and I pretty much rocked their world. We were able to pair up and get on the enemies side and kill all those who tried to near while we shot their towers.) We played some awesome arcade games. We also played Deal or no Deal for tickets in the arcade. We made it out with 100 tickets! (The grand prize was 200 but we felt great about 100) We then went to Lindsay's house and had pizza and soda then headed to the basement and played glow-in-the-dark volleyball. Our team had trials but we were definitely upbeat.

The day of Prom:
We dropped off our cars at James's house and then went over to Ryan's where our limo's picked us up. The first house our limo went to was Emily's so I got to see my date's reaction first. (I was pretty sure she already knew, but you know...) Anyway, I got in there and said to Debbie, "Oh you must be Mrs. Randall." (Ok, just so you know I pretty much hung out with Debbie every other day since she worked as a teacher at Viewmont. We knew each other very well)

We did the whole flower exchange and then headed out to the limo. Our driver was there to open the door and everything. It was pretty dang awesome! I felt so fancy!

Well, we picked everyone up and the best reaction we got about the limo would be Sarah's mom and dad. They were open mouthed gaping. It was awesome!  We think she said, "Oh my gosh!" but it was hard to hear from the limo and the awesome music we had playing.  We then headed off to Ruby River which was a steakhouse but it was really nice and since the company the Ryan's Dad works for own the restaurant, we got the executive suite to eat in. It was, again, awesome!

Many people were trying to be all fancy and formal but my date and I were there to have fun. We got really yummy food and didn't worry about messiness, it was way fun. I'm glad that she was my date it was very relaxed and fun.  It wasn't about impressing each other, it was all about having fun. Best dates are that way. (Ooooh! I got a mock-a-rita it was really good!)

So then we headed to the dance and got pictures before we got all hot and stuff from dancing. Emily and I did a cha-cha pose for our single pictures and had a really "cute" (that's the word others have used) group picture.

We danced the night away! She had to take off her shoes because they weren't for dancing, so I followed suit and took off my shoes (I never really have had smelly feet so I wasn't afraid and they didn't smell, so it was good). When things started wrapping up, we walked outside and our drivers were there waiting. (yay! I love limos!) 

We went to James's house and his mom had everything ready for us and we got cheesecake and homemade ice cream and then headed downstairs and played a few games until it started to get early. (about 1 am) and then we took our dates home. (Mom and Dad even let me use the new camry!) 

We said goodnight, hugged, and went home. Probably one of the best dates ever!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Asking to Prom

Well, in recent days (ok, not so recent, but I started this post about a month ago) I asked Emily Randall (not the Valentines one) to Prom! I asked her though a scavenger hunt. It was great! (It was a little pathetic too. My friends and I had problems writing poems... we were a little lightheaded or something)

Well, I had been trying to find a good night to ask her for quite a while and couldn't find a really good night. Well, I realized that she was leaving for New York soon and I had to ask her before she left so I just kind of picked that night. (The night I realized I had little time)

Well, my friends had all gotten back from taking down the Millie set (I wasn't there I had all my hours and I needed to get the rest of the hunt ready.) Well, when they got back, I asked them if they would be willing to help and of course they all said, "Heck, ya!!!"

Well, I only had an hour until I had to be home and ready for my Eagle Board of Review. (side note: Too ALL of my nephews, get your Eagle as soon as you possibly can! It will be so much easier!) So we had to work quickly. I sent people to different places to place the clues and I went to give Emily the first clue (doorbell ditch style of course).

Here's the scavenger hunt layed out for ya:

Emily,
So there's this guy and he wants to ask you to prom. Well here's what you have to do to find out who it is:

Follow the clues and out. Easy, right?
Not Quite...

If you get stuck anywhere you can always text 801-808-0712 for help.

Clue #1(attached to the letter)

(I don't have the poems anymore. They were pretty awful, but it hinted toward a movie called "Noises Off")

Clue #2
A Poem about Beth and Death and stuff... And a picture of a tombstone of Beth Porter in the Centerville cemetary.

Clue #3
A Poem telling her to go to Centerville Library and look for a book. This picture was a hint:

Clue #4
A poem about wicked and bountiful music. This picture was the hint (I decided to make it easier):



Clue#5
A poem about her house and it being full of gnomes. This was the hint (pretty straight forward... it's her house)

Then I decorated her room with gnomes (on the back were the letters of my name) and left cookies on her bed.

Well, since the time crunch after I gave her the first clue I realized I only had ten minutes to be at my board of review. I had to delegate pretty much the rest of the asking. My friends were great and did a wonderful job.

When Emily got to 3D, however, she couldn't figure out which movie to look for so she texted me while I was in the board of review. Since I wasn't able to answer it she started to get "mad" (she didn't really get mad but she really wanted me to answer the phone) Well when I got out I quickly texted her the name of the movie and she was off to the cemetary.

Well, since it took so long in 3D it was dark when she got there and it was Emily, her mom, and her dad with flashlights combing the cemetery looking for Beth Porter's Tombstone. I had to text her eventually and let her know exactly where the tombstone was.

The Library had closed by then and I had to give her clue over texts.

Bountiful Music had closed long ago but Josh had taped the clue to the outside so it was ok.

When she got home she just lauged at the sixteen gnomes around her room.

So there were a few problems but it was great! :D

Here was her answer:

Friday, June 6, 2008

Growth

Ok, so I was surfing the internet today and I thought, "Hey! I'll go to Sarah Maughan's website!" So I went and got on. Well, on her website are some audio clips of a recital I was in long ago. It was the Broadway Recital from 2006. So I thought, "Hey! Let's listen to my song, Man of La Mancha, I remember I loved performing that song!" So I opened it up and well.... here it is....



Yeah! Wow... I have gotten much better than that... It's a little embarrassing even... Ok, it's a lot embarrassing (I know it isn't proper english but I decided to go for the parallelism) I am very flat for most of the song. If I had just a bit of vowel modulation or would just lift it would have fixed a lot of problems... I have a few good notes but yeah... wow.... But it's nice to see how far you've come, right?

P.S. I will post my Prom stuff, Graduation, All-Night Party, and Las Vegas stuff when dad gets back from Florida. He took MY cord to load the pictures from my camera.

P.P.S. I think you may have to "log-in" to hear the clip. The user name is "sarah" and the password is "sarah"

Monday, June 2, 2008

Morp

Wow! I know it's super late but I've been a little busy, as I'm sure many of you have been as well.

Ok, so first, I was in my fit for life class (I know, I put it off until the last minute, but whatever) and we were rollerblading. (By the way, I'm awful at rollerblading! I have no balance whatsoever and so my progress was really slow. It was great to watch all the sophomores pass me by as I struggled to go in a straight line.) Well, there were actually a few of us that were struggling... I was just the worst. One of the other ones was Karlei Clement. She's a senior as well who decided to put this class off until the last minute. (Actually there were a bunch of seniors in there with me.) We decided to stick together (which was probably not a good idea since our instincts both told us that if we fall we should grab on to the person next to us, well the closest thing we had was eachother and all we did was drag eachother down, but that's ok, whatever right?). Anyway, we got separated because she fell down and didn't grab on to me and I didn't really know how to stop... Well she called out my name so the next chance I could I latched myself to a wall and waited for her to come around the corner. When she came into view she said, "Hey! Wanna go to morp with me?" So I said, "Of course!" Yeah it was a pretty simple, very relaxing way to ask. Very easy to think of a way to answer her.

So morp rolled around and the theme was "Around the World" we decided to dress up as- drumroll please- *drumroll* Americans! Very easy!

She picked me up at sometime (Sorry I don't remember every detail at this point...) And we crammed into Aimee's tiny little- I don't know what kind of car it was but trust me... it was small. We headed off to Lazer Quest! Yay! When we got there we had to think up aliases for ourselves. I was Dr. Jekyll (The girl at the counter couldn't spell so I was actually Dr. Jackel but whatever) Karlei was Hotstuff. So we went in with intent to kill and twenty seconds into the game we got separated. Oh well. I found two people from our group on a tower and formed an alliance with them. We held our tower well. It was great! We were in a very nice spot to snipe many, many people and could ambush people below us. The walk way up to our tower was a long winding path so it wasn't easy to get up there. Anyway I ended up fifth out of twenty and so I felt pretty good. Karlei was around sixteen but she was pumped that she didn't get last. So that was good! :D

We went to eat at Empire! I love that place! It has great food! We got Chicken Lo Mein and cream cheese wontons which I had never had! It was really good. The wontons left the best aftertaste ever! YUM!

Well, the actual dance was awesome! Each section of the gym had a different part of the world. We went and got group pictures and headed back to the dance. It was super fun! We pretty much danced and danced and we saw our friends, said hi, you know the usual stuff you do at dances.

Well after the dance we were all pretty tired so we went home! It was super fun!

Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Awareness Test



Psycho!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Ooo! Charlie!

Ok, so I saw Camille and Cody's blog and it reminded me of this movie, so here it is!

Monday, April 14, 2008

LOST

Oh my gosh...

Well, I've always wanted to see Lost, but I missed the first few episodes and never really got into it. Then Sarah, my kind sister-in-law, informed me that they had all the seasons on the internet! Well, I thought I might look at one and see how I like it.

Oh my gosh! Addicting!

I want to recommend it to all of you, but at the same time I want to say that you should stay away if you get hooked on shows the way I do. But it's so worth being hooked on!

Anyway, random little post! :D

Monday, April 7, 2008

General Conference

Isn't our church amazing? We lose our leader and we never lose our footing.

In the past weekend it was nice to see President Monson step up and take charge. He assured us it was okay to laugh.

I like how some speakers commented about President Hinckley, and of course we will never forget him, but we must push on!

Ok, so now to the meat:
My favorite talk was definitely President Monson's during the Priesthood Session. It was the first talk since being the prophet and it was a great way to start off. It was brilliant in it's writing. He started off with a joke, grabbed our attention and when it was about time for the deacons to start drifting off, he came up with another joke. I love how he has this incredible gift to tell jokes and quickly bring the spirit back. Of course I loved the message of the talk and I do remember a lot of it but I'm definitely going to read it once it comes out on Thursday (isn't the internet amazing?) since I didn't take notes like I should have.

This was my favorite General Conference ever. I'm not sure if it was the content or that I may just be maturing (gasp!). I can't wait for another six months!

Now it's your turn! I want to know your thoughts and feelings! What was your favorite talk (or two) and why?

6,659,891,661

Six billion, six hundred fifty-nine million, eight hundred nintey-one thousand, six hundred sixty-one. That is the population of Earth according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Isn't it great to know, that you are just as important, terrific, and amazing as anyone of them in Heavenly Father's great plan?

Just thought that everyone could always use a lift-me-up.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

My Wicked Weekend

Oh my freaking heck! I finally have seen Wicked!

Well since everyone knows the basics from Nate and Sarah's Blog, I'll just do the lovely little details and insert my thoughts and such.

We drove into Hollywood and I saw the Hollywood thing on the mountain and it was really then that I felt like it was California. It seemed an awful lot like St. George before then (just with out seeing the red rock and stuff) After I saw those letters and got over the shock I turned and mom and dad were freaking out that we were at Hollywood and Vine. (Apparently it's famous... I never knew, but now I do.) Ok, so at that intersection we turned left which felt like south... I'm not sure but I was trying to orient myself with the mountains and that seemed most logical. When we did turn my body started to pump with adrenaline. What I saw was

WICKED

Ok, so we quickly parked and headed into the theatre. I wish I had my camera. I would have just taken picture after picture. The lobby was decked out with Ozian things. They had Oz dust boutiques everywhere and it was decked out with green stuff. (random side note: A bottle of water was $4.00!) We did take a few pictures that you have seen on Nate and Sarah's blog. Here are a few things we saw though...


Just a little advertisement for something I would love to see that was advertised in the foyer.


Well, I got a playbill and headed into the actual theatre. What I saw was...


Oh my heck! I was dying by this time! I pinched myself a few times just to see if it was just a dream, but it wasn't! So we sat down and I was just dying, like seriously, dying. I couldn't believe we were actually there. The lights went down and, if it were possible, my body gave itself yet another shot of adrenaline. And then....

BOOM! Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh! BOOM! Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh!
GOOD NEWS! SHE'S DEAD! NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED!

(Oh my heck! YAY!)

LOOK! IT'S GLINDA!

We're gonna make you Popular!


Dancing Through Life!


One short day in the Emerald City!


Defying Gravity! (I've gone through, like, seven pairs of pants by now)


After Dorothy's house crashes down on Nessa.


No Good Deed goes unpunished!


March of the Witch Hunters! Wickedness must be punished! Kill the Witch!


I have been changed For Good.


Oh my heck! All, I have to say is that my life is complete and I wanna go again! :D

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Thoroughly Modern Millie


Ok, so Thoroughly Modern Millie opens on FRIDAY!!!! This Friday! How crazy is that? It's gone by so quickly! I'm lovin' every minute of it! (Well, almost every minute... there are those mornings after rehearsal where I'm like "Bah! Why? Why did I do this?" But those thoughts don't last long because I'm freaking loving it! :D


Tuesday, February 19, 2008

TAG! I'm IT!

A: The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B: Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C: At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

What were you doing 10 years ago?

I had just turned eight and was doing everything that a normal LDS eight year old would be doing. I got into cub scouts, I got baptised, I broke up with my girlfriend because I wanted to be pure.


5 things on my "to-do" list today...

1. Do Homework for all my classes (I'm not going to do it though, probably just the stuff that's due tomorrow)
2. Figure out what I'm going to do for the modulation between "Fanfare" and "Save Them".
3. Practice Voice, particularly E lucevan le stelle which I've been avoiding for some odd reason... I actually don't know why...
4. Start eating healthily! (I like my words!)
5. Get to bed on time.



6 Snacks that I enjoy…

1. Chocolate

2. Cereal

3. A glass of milk

4. Anything really... Depends on my mood...

3 Bad habits...

1. I bite my nails. (But after looking at pictures of people's nails when I was looking for a picture to put on here, I think I'll stop forever.... ew! Never look up nail biting on google images!)

2. I worry about what people think of me too often.

3. I don't live the most structured life...

If I were suddenly a billionaire I would...

Buy myself a PS3, a few games, Go to Juiliard, Go on a mission, Invest/save the rest.


5 Places I've lived…

Centerville...

Centerville...

Centerville...

Centerville...

Ooo! And Centerville!

5 Jobs I've had…

Piano Teacher Extrodanaire-ish

Cook at Nauvoo Cafe!

Son of Richard and Diane Moon

Uh... Actor of amazing-ness!

Creative Title thinker-upper!

5 Things people don't know about me...

1. I love pillows! I have about five of them! I got a new one for my birthday. It's really nice and soft of fluffy, but the thing is... if you use it... it becomes less soft and fluffy but then what's the point of having a soft and fluffy pillow if you're afraid of it losing it's soft-and-fluffy-ness? Sorry I tend to argue with myself a lot... Ooo! I know what to put for number two!

2. I tend to argue with myself a lot!

3. I tend to over use "!" a lot, so I've been trying to really judge whether certain statements desereve an "!".

4. I think my friends think I'm not as smart as I actually am because many of the times they something and it would be really funny if someone acted stupid so I nominate myself to take the part... I have no idea if that actually made sense...

5. I can find the good in every situation... I just sometimes ignore it...

5 People I'm tagging...

Anyone who didn't take Jen's tag and do it! YOU'RE IT!