Cool happenings this month:

Trip to England: July 18-30
Moving to new place with Airz and Leah on the 31st
Bought an iPod last week - it's glorious

And that's it, but all of these things are pretty monumental, so I'm ok with that! I will update again once I return from my trip.

I can't wait for Marcus to come help me move, yet again. I cannot even fathom a year going by without him having to do this with me at least once. Good times...turkey-milk, breaking backs, strained necks, stiff joints, and of course, lots of eye rolling, grimacing, cursing, and eventually, laughs. I know he's really excited about it, too. Don't ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right. It's been over 5 months since I've been back to the motherland, a.k.a. Utah. I'm not entirely sure how I'm still functioning properly. The only thing I can come up with is that all of the clean, wholesome Iowa air and sprawling, green fields have numbed my senses into a constant mind-numbing state of euphoria - so what I'm really ( Read more... )

...And here's a tip: you won't find one in the Arkansas/Oklahoma region of the country. Just a little thing I learned this weekend on my whirlwind (less-than-24-hour-but-felt-like-a-lifetime-of-hell) trip with my aunt to pick up her new border collie puppy. She didn't want to go alone, and rightly so, after the things I witnessed/experienced. But ( Read more... )

Ok, as many of you know, my stomach is...finicky, we'll say. It doesn't like certain foods, and gets pissed at me when I insist on eating those certain foods anyway...I think we can all recall Panda Express incidents 3 through 5. And now take broccoli, for example. My stomach, slowly over time, has been building up to what is now a full-blown war ( Read more... )

Hello. The time has come to update my livejournal. Unfortunately, there really isn't much to say that you don't already know. I'm FINALLY done with this semester's classes, which were pure and utter torture up until the very last second. But they are done, and that's all that matters. It feels wonderful to not be stressing out about a paper that I ( Read more... )

So, I was perusing the Jack Johnson website today, and he is going to be on tour yet again this summer. Now, I have been trying to see him in concert for probably 3-4 years now, and every time he has come close to where I'm at, the show was always sold out, or I was out of town. So I'm determined that this will be my year to meet my future husband ( Read more... )

...and registered my car in Iowa. Good bye, festive centennial Utah plates and hello, Iowa blah. The cli-Taurus will never be the same. It was, however, less expensive than getting them in Utah, so for that, I am grateful. In other news, I made a complete fool out of myself today with a certain person I've had a crush on for quite some time. I ( Read more... )

Things are on the up and up. Friday night, I went to Prairie Meadows, the local gambling establishment, with some cohort peeps and watched the elderly folk bump and grind on the dance floor to the tunes of a washed-up oldies band. It was quite entertaining and educational: not only did I get a good laugh, but I also learned that wearing pleather is ( Read more... )

Well, after many months of on-and-off joy, anguish, and everything in between, I no longer have a 'special friend'. It was made official last night. I could go on a male-bashing rampage here, but I'll save that for a later date. After spending most of the night awake, contemplating what had just occurred, I decided it would be in my best interest ( Read more... )