Friendship is Rare

(source: Matt Lyon)

I love my friends...

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Dinner with the Girls, and Carmen's Farewell

Lina & Me

Me, Heather, and Lina

On the 6th, my "library friends" and I went down to Gateway for our annual Christmas dinner, hangout. We went to California Pizza Kitchen, and then walked around Gateway to see the lights. I love those girls. They are some of my favorite people. And Carmen's kids are getting so big! Jathan talked and talked and talked! It was adorable. They're moving to Pennsylvania, right after Christmas, so this was our last dinner with them, for at least a year. Very sad.. but I'm excited for them and their new adventures. Jathan said more than once, "we're really going to miss you guys." :( We're all going to miss you too!!

Carmen, Brianne, Me, Lina, Kim, Heather
trying to get warm at Barnes and Noble

Carmen with her cute kids, Brianne and Jathan

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Lagoon 2009

I bought a Season Pass to Lagoon, and this weekend - Saturday - was my first time using it. I love Lagoon. It might be a little crazy, and even a little childish, but I do. I love Roller coasters, and the good food, and going with friends. I went with Kim & Heather this time, and it was a lot of fun. (even if Kim refused to ride Wicked again - geeze)

Here's some pictures of our fun day:

Me & Kim rode the Hydroluge, which I haven't been on in years . It was fun! Heather didn't want to get wet yet..

Log Flume!

After Rattle Snake Rapids. We got so wet! This is Heather trying to dry her hair.. look how wet her pants are! We never used to get that wet on Rattle Snake. Maybe that's why it was closed every time I went last year, they revved it up more.

Being traditional.. and riding The Carousel. I rode a Zebra bare back! haha. Heather rode a Chicken.. who knows how that works exactly.

I didn't ride Catapult again. yet . But this summer.. I'm going to ride it again. ;)

Click here to see more photos from our day.

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Girls just wanna have Fun

I've had quite a lot of fun the past few days. I worked 5 days in a row, so I could have Friday and Saturday off and it was so worth it! Yay! I got paid on Monday, and I have had some extra money, {well.. I had extra money, its now gone!} I bought me some dress pants for work, some blouses, a few scarves, earrings, this AWESOME necklace, from one of my favorite places: World Market and Ash and I got to buy my mom some pretty awesome clothes today for her birthday!

I also got to go to the Nordstrom Cafe with Heather yesterday {Friday}. That was a lot of fun! I haven't seen her in what seems like forever! We planned to goto Lagoon together with other "Library friends" on May 23rd, so I am excited! I love Lagoon {its an amusement park.. for non Utahns ;)} What was really disappointing though was they changed their menu! I'm so upset! I'm going to have to find out who is in charge of such things at Nordstrom. Maybe I'll call Blake Nordstrom myself, because by-golly I was wanting the Chicken Tomato Pasta thing. {tear} see picture here.

Here's some pictures from today, and my new haircut..

Grandma Jo, My mom, Me

{Ash went with us earlier in the day, but by the time Grandma came and we took pics, she was at work ~ sadness}

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Pizza, Starbucks, Good Friends and Christmas Lights

This month, my "library friends" and I kept trying to plan a time to do our traditional let's go out to eat somewhere and say Merry Christmas! to each other. However, with crazy scheduling conflicts and issues we weren't all able to get together. BUT, tonight Kim, Heather and I got together at Gateway and it was really fun. First we fed our faces at California Pizza Kitchen (which, I always try to call "California Pizza CHICKEN" who knows why!). I had the Roasted Chicken PIzza. YUMMIE! I always forget how much I like that place until I eat it, and then I'm like duh! I need to come here more often!!

After our Pizza, we braved the cold to go see the Christmas lights and the big blue Christmas tree at Gateway. It was fun. I really like getting together with Kim & Heather. They always make me laugh. We were frozen after walking around so we stopped inside Starbucks for Peppermint Hot Chocolate. There was a long line, everyone was frozen just like us, but it was well worth the wait. I only like hot chocolate when I'm FREEEEEZING and today's annoying snow storm definitely fit the bill.

On our way back to our cars we saw Santa's Elves! Crazy people.. they're everywhere!

To see pics of the elves and the rest of my pics from tonight click here to see my Facebook album.

15 days to Christmas!

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The soul cannot think without a picture ~ Aristotle

Mosaic of Sep & Oct 2008



I had so much fun making a mosaic a few months ago.. I decided to make a Mosaic of pictures from September and October of this year. Yahoo. To make your own click here.

PS: Did you vote yet?

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October has been Good

I usually like October. And this October has really been a pretty good month, so far. And we still have Halloween left! And the entire point of my job: the Book Festival. I love the crispness of the fall air, and the colors of the Leaves. I have practically become addicted to taking pictures of the different colors. I just love it!

I've also had some fun with friends and family this month. I love hanging out with my brother and sister, and the random fun we have. This last weekend, we played Clue over and over again and it was a lot of fun. We even have fun watching the Presidential debates together. I love watching things like that with my brother and sister, and especially lately. My brother is at a point where he wants to LEARN EVERYTHING and I love it. I never get sick of answering his questions, and this month has been full of them. "Wait, what's the DOW? and, why is it dropping?"

This month, I also went to dinner with Heather and Kim. I wish I had brought my camera! I had planned on it, and somehow the camera didn't make it to Paradise Cafe with me! I love those girls. It's so great to have friends you can talk to about just about anything! We talked for hours about politics and our love for Barack Obama, but mostly our hatred for Sarah Palin. We talked about our TV addictions, and the beauty of DVR (ok, well I talked about DVR. hehe). We talked about our old work, and how each of us has definitely grown out of the people we were when we worked at the Library. Sometimes I am still surprised that after leaving the Library 2 1/2 years ago I still have strong friendships with some of my favorite people from that place. It's awesome and I love it!

School has been kind of hard, I feel like I have to try SUPER hard on my Grant Writing class. Which, frankly, isn't something I've always had to do. I hate when I have to try to learn things! haha. But in reality, it will be a really good asset for me, to know how grant writing works, and be able to apply for them. I've seen how much drama a grant application can cause at a nonprofit.

Work has been fun. I have done things that I have never done before. Like learning how to do public relations, writing press releases, organizing signs for a big event, designing and organizing book marks, postcards, etc for the event and making sure they all get to production on time - with everything spelled correctly, and no sponsors missing. I have really enjoyed it. I will be glad when it's here, this Saturday, and we can focus on "festival wrap up." However, I don't really have a plan for after this job. So I need some time to find a new job! I've been applying, so hopefully something will work out, and I will be able to work it with my class schedule for next semester.

A woman in the Development department at my work has asked me to work part time, from home, just kind of catching them up in their data entry, after the book festival is over. It won't make me rich, but it should be a good experience, more experience with a different facet of a nonprofit can't be a bad thing right? Plus, it will be a little extra money.

I am also starting a new 8-week volunteer assignment on Thursday, with the International Rescue Committee (the IRC) and I am excited! A little nervous, because it is working with kids from different countries, and we work with them, tutor them, etc. I think it will be a lot of fun, I just hope I can understand the child I am placed with, and he or she can understand me and that I start a new friendship.

Well, that's my October so far. How was yours?

Last thing: I am fund raising for UNICEF again this year. If you'd like to donate to my Halloween fund raising effort click here. Make Halloween Count. :)

Haha, one more thing... I know that anyone that even kind of knows me knows that I believe in Obama, and I love him and support him very very much. I love that Colin Powell has endorsed him (see video below). However, I do have to say, no matter what EVERYONE should Vote! It's despicable to me that anyone would not use their voice. I used to have a sign in my Apartment that said: "Don't Vote? Don't Bitch!" and I firmly believe that.

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