Terrific Tulips

Aren't these the cutest?

Again, from EpiCuteBlog..

I need to take some cake decorating classes.. yes!

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The Earth Laughs in Flowers ~ who doesn't love Emerson?

Oh man, I want these shoes. Stupid Nordstrom emails. I mean, really? Who has $120 to spend on these super cute Dansko sandals?! Not me.. that's for sure.. but I still want them. Yes, yes I do.

I love that its all summery now in Utah! FINALLY! Except that its supposed to rain tomorrow.. so it was short lived. But rain can be good too, right? I really do like rain, I just feel like that time should be over now. I'm ready for SUMMER.

I think I have some sort of 'spring fever' or something. I just want to be outside, sitting in the warm sun, not at school or work, being productive! Ick!

Yesterday I went walking with my friend Alisha. It was good. We are going to try to do it on a weekly basis, and maybe that will get me motivated to work out again. I still haven't bought a gym membership.. and yeah, first I blamed it on my debit card fiasco with the fabulous Jordan Credit Union, but now its just like.. I'm.. lazy. I might join in May though. Let's make it a May thing, right? I have all of May and most of June off from in-person school (meaning I have online classes that start in May). THAT in itself makes me so excited! I get to work normal hours at work - YES! I will only be working from 9a to 3:30p - so it better not rain too much in May because I am going to Lagoon dammit!

On Sunday Ash, Tim and I went to Lagoon. It was fun! But for some reason we were all totally worn out afterwards, and we left before the park even closed. Must be something in the Water.. Or maybe we just aren't used to being in the warm warm sun after that loooong annoying Winter, who knows. But aren't we cute? I loves them.

Two of my friends are graduating this week and next week. I love that I will always feel academically inferior to Jihyei and Alisha. Just kidding, just kidding. I am proud of them! Jihyei is getting her Law Degree - LAW degree. WOW! and Alisha is getting her Master's in Education.. but somehow, I doubt either one of them is really finished with school. Silly, silly girls. Jihyei is spending her summer in Maryland with her parents, so we all got together last week. I know I don't see her very often, but I'm going to miss her, nonetheless. Maybe a trip to DC is in my future - what a good excuse to see Jihyei and Barack, right? Just say yes. Here's us at Jihyei's house, we had a lot of fun. I look gynormously tall in this picture.. I really am sitting on the edge of the couch. I swear. Blah.

Lindsey, Suzanne, Daija, Jihyei, Alisha, Me

Alisha's graduation is perfect for me, becaaaaaaause its down in Cedar City - southern Utah. So, I get to go on a mini road trip! How cool is that?! I'm excited. Not that there's a TON to do in Cedar City, but its the act of escaping for a couple days that sounds superb. So, next weekend. Me = Mini Vacation.

I'm also going out to Dinner with Ol' Accessories Dept, Rack people tomorrow. I am excited for that too.. yeah, see? How am I supposed to lose weight when all I do is go out to eat? Should probably fix that.. maybe I'll become an avid bowler. Ha, yeah right.

How is YOUR Tuesday?

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PS: GO LAKERS tonight!

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These Cookies are Adorable.

I want these! How am I supposed to lose weight, when they make treats like this that are so cute! That the Betty Crocker inside of me wants to whip up and see if I can make them any cuter?! Eek!

This might just have to be my Easter project.. hmmmm.

To see more cute food, check out the Cute Food Blog here. I love it. Even if I hate it.

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Consistency.. Please?

This was what the flowers outside my work looked like yesterday morning. No words can describe how angry I was.

I need Weather Consistency! I love Spring, and the new flowers it brings.. but seriously?! We don't need any more snow!

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Frenchy Friday Neuf

FLEUR
(I took this picture in 2008.. I need to take pictures more often)

Aujourd'hui, nous avons un poème français. Le poème dit une histoire de printemps. J'adore le printemps.. et je le veux maintenant!

(en anglais.. today, we have a french poem. the poem tells of spring. i adore spring. i want it now! ~ there's an english translation of the poem below)

Le Printemps
par Théophile Gautier

Regardez les branches

Comme elles sont blanches,

Il neige des fleurs.

Riant de la pluie

Le soleil essuie

les saules en pleurs.

Et le ciel reflète

Dans la violette

Ses pures couleurs…

La mouche ouvre l’aile

Et la demoiselle

Aux prunelles d’or,

Au corset de guêpe

Dépliant son crêpe,

A repris l’essor.

L’eau gaiement babille,

Le goujon frétille

Un printemps encore !

Springtime
By Théophile Gautier

Look at the boughs,
How white they are,
It’s snowing flowers!

Scoffing at the rain,
The sun dries
The weepy willow.

And the sky reflects
In the violets
Its pure colors…

The fly opens its wings
And the dragonfly
With the golden pupils,
And the wasp-like corset,
Unfolding its silky wings,
Has resumed its flight.

The water happily babbles,
The tiny fish wriggles
It’s Springtime again!

Au Revoir,

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Tulip Fest 2009

As I mentioned in this post, I have always wanted to go to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. But never really had the chance, or I'm always like "I want to go!" and then by the time I remember again, its over. {I still think its lame its only for about a week} but this year I was able to go! Ash and I figured out that we could only go one day, the 28th, where we'd be able to go together, because of our crazy uneven work schedules. So we went on Tuesday, I was so excited! Here are a few of my pictures of all the pretty gardens. I really liked it there. I have never seen the Thanksgiving Point gardens, and now I'm like Dude! I love it. So.. here they are :)

I was pretty excited!

Ashley

It was starting to get kind of windy, and the clouds were looming over head, but it really was a lot of fun!

There were actually quite a few cute little old couples at the Festival. I loved it. I hope when I'm old and grey I have someone to go with me to see the Tulips and hold my hand. They were so cute.

Click here to see more of my pictures.

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Easter 2009

Easter really is one of my favorite Holidays, probably for four reasons:

• Coloring Eggs (I LOVE to color.. and decorate things!)
• Easter Sugar Cookies
  
• Hanging out with crazy family
• Grandma's rolls and yummie ham

Here are some pictures of Ash, Tim, and I enjoying our Easter Arts N Crafts on Saturday, and a few pictures of flowers, mountains, and clouds from Easter morning. Kind of forgot the camera for actual pictures of people on Easter Sunday. Oops - But still, enjoy.

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Spring has Sprung

Back to bullets, Yes I am.

• I worked 8 days in a row at the rack. From the day we opened, last Thursday, until I got my first days off yesterday and today. My feet are swollen because I stood too much, for too long, for too many days. Awesome. I only have to work tomorrow, and then I'm off again for Easter Sunday. Hallelujah!
  
• Yesterday was a fun day. I hung out with my little brother Timmy for most of the day. We went to Wendy's, investigated world populations together {who knows where that came from: his idea, I swear}, and then belted it out on Rock Band. I love that little man.
  
• This somewhat sunny weather, {well, there's not any snow.. } plus the swollen feet problem, has me wearing flip flops. I LOVE flip flops! Probably a bit too much.. but what can ya do? I think it is the freedom of them, the part where if and when I paint my toe nails people can actually see it, while I'm being all proper and still wearing shoes - which I loathe - I hate wearing shoes!
  
• .. and the flip flops led to think about Spring and Summer and how I want to do everything awesome this summer! The family has been talking about going back to Disneyland in September-ish, but I don't know if it will be able to happen or not. We will see. We will see.
  
• So while I wait on the Disneyland idea, here are a few things that I am excited about, now that the weather is a little better.
• Thanksgiving Point's Tulip Festival is April 17th - May 2nd! I have never been to the festival, always wanted to, but somehow missed it. Last year I was all set to go, but then the ground still wasn't really thawed, and the rumor was that the festival sucked because it was lacking in tulips.. so I didn't go. But I am going this year!
• The ZOO. I love the Zoo, I really do. And they have a new baby of my favorite monkey! The Colobus monkey. It was born August 11th last year, so he should be all cute this spring / summer. When Tim, Ash, and I went last year there was a baby Colobus too. So it should be cute for there to be two young ones playing around still. I love it. They also have somewhat new Golden Lion Tamaran Twins that were born March 2008.


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Colobus Monkeys, Hogle Zoo, March 2008

• I also want to go to Lagoon again this summer. I think I want to buy the Lagoon Season Pass, for $95, since if you go more than twice in the year, it makes the most sense money wise to just buy the pass. I'm not sure if my friends are buying them this year though, so we'll see what happens. Me & Amanda really need to ride the Catapult again. That was so Awesome!! Click here to read the stories of Lagoon fun from last summer.
  

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• I also want to go see Miss Saigon at Pioneer Theatre Company. I really really do.. I hopes I cans.
  
• The NBA playoffs start in ONE WEEK! Go Lakers!!
  
• Last but not least, the movie Fast & Furious. Its. Awesome. Yes. It. Is. Loved. It. :)
  

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Fling off Thy Sadness!

I have been reading a lot lately. I got into a few girly~girly novels, and read one of them in just one day! So I have updated my 50 Books in 2009 list again. I've read 11 books now. I'm slowly creeping towards my goal. I hope I can really make it! Eek! At the rate I'm going, I don't know if it will work. Guess we will see. I think since I'm taking the Summer off from school I will have more time to read books and catch up.

Today is April 1st, and it still snowed here most of the day!!! WTF?! So not cool! Its like some sort of April Fools joke, by the Weather Guru or something. I don't know! But it better stop. This poem is perfect for today:

"Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!"
- Thomas Blackburn, An Easter Hymn

Tomorrow is The Grand Opening at The Rack. I hope there's not too many people! Ick. I worked at the Sugar House Rack on Saturday. It was interesting. I got to go with Lindsey from work, and she's pretty awesome, so it was good. I'm glad it was her I got to go with. The manager of that store, Bridget, took us out to a cafe nearby, and paid for our food. Way nice. The actual manager of the Accessories department was totally weird though. Our actual manager from the Sandy Rack called while we were on break and wanted us to call her back, the manager at Sugar House told us not to! She's like "oh, we need you to keep working, don't call her back." WHAT? So so strange. Yeah, here, let us disobey our actual manager, sure that makes sense..

I finally watched MILK the other day with Ashley, my sister. I can't believe how crazy this world is! WHY do some people think they are so important, and that they are so great and religious and wonderful, and think it is their right to belittle people that are "below" them!?!? I don't understand. It made me so mad.. and sad.. and happy that we are actually getting somewhere in the Gay Rights struggle. BUT at the same time, I was like dude! there was a proposition (Prop 6) that had similar arguments to Prop 8, and people are still so super bigoted?! Guess we haven't changed that much. I mean, Prop 6 was almost thirty years ago!! Ah, it just amazes me. My sister wrote more about the whole struggle, and the crazy woman, Anita Bryant that was the voice for the Religious Right during the movement. Click here for her blog post about it. All in all it was a good movie, and I am glad that it was made. We all need to be reminded of the different struggles for equality in this imperfect country.

In other current events, the G-20 starts tomorrow in London. I hope that people will protest for their causes peacefully, so that their voices can be heard, and not be overshadowed by not-needed violence and disruption. Although, I would love for someone to be like HEY Why didn't anyone arrest al-Bashir when he traveled out of The Sudan to Qatar, this past week?! Argh.

But the best news of today, I don't know if I said anything recently but I have been talking to my adviser at school about doing an Internship next Spring for my Social Work degree. It will get me so much closer to graduating. Well, last Wednesday, an opportunity came up in New Delhi. I thought it was a total long shot, but I thought what the hell, I'll apply. My adviser called me this afternoon to tell me I got in. So I will be in New Delhi, India from January 2010 to April 2010! Wahoo!! I've always wanted to go to Delhi! Now we're just trying to get my sister over there doing something, so we can go together. I'm so excited!
Just Kidding! APRIL FOOLS! :)

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Spring

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain

Fall is my favorite season. But Spring comes in a close second place. I love when winter goes away! I am not a big fan of winter that is for sure. Yuck. And today, it is so nice! I hope it stays this way and we don't have to have any more winter, but as Utah weather usually goes, it will be snowing in a few days.

And I really don't have patience.. Especially for things I hate, like snow, coldness, frigid wind. Yuck! I do love rain though, so I'm okay with some great thunderstorms coming my way, just no more snow.

In other babbles, Ashley R., my blogging friend has given me a blogging award, the Cute's Blogger Award. Thanks Ashley!

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