6/30/08

Dominoes Domingo!




Not a whole lot of news here from Alice. This weekend, my friend, Marla(have you made the blog yet, Marla?) came to visit. We had a good time playing dominoes, going to a movie, and just visiting! It is wonderful to have friends that know who I really am and still want to be my friend. It is also really cool to have a few close friends from high school. Man, Marla knew me when I was pretty awkward and weird, and she is still around. Shocking! Oh wait I am still kinda awkward and weird! Oh well!

We saw the new Steve Carell Movie, Get Smart. It was very good and pretty much Hilarious. I don't think I have been to a Steve Carell movie that didn't make me laugh. I sure do like that guy! I made my mom watch Dan in Real Life with me on Friday and I think I might actually get her to watch The Office now. Let's hope she gets and likes the humor! :)

I found a really cool little mountain bike trail that is very near my parents house. I went thinking that it wouldn't be much(it is maintained by the local high school for cross-country skiing), but was pleasantly surprised to find that it is a pretty cool little system of trails. Many of you are probably bored already with the talk of trails, so I will move on.

I made my bed today. That is news sometimes. What else? I have been looking for hotels in San Francisco. I am very excited to go with my mom. We are going to have a blast. The only trouble with going is that I have to go to a conference. SIGH. Does it make me a bad person to dread the conference but be really excited about a free trip to California? I get to see the ocean for Pete's Sake! :)

Well, I think that is the major news of the day. You are all nice. Have a superb day!

6/26/08

Five Fish, Two Turtles, and Bluegrass. Quite a Day!



What a fun day today was. At about 1:30 pm Central Daylight Time, Don picked me up and off we went to the fishing hole. Don is one of my mom's friends. He is like a grandpa type to me even though he is not my grandpa. He is hilarious and an amazing angler. He taught me lots of tricks today out on Perch Lake. In fact, he got me so good that I actually caught five fish throughout our four and a half hours on the lake. Two of the fish were bass that were actually big enough to keep, if I had the keeping attitude. I personally love the whole idea of catch and release. It is all about the fight, if you ask me. The last one I caught was also the biggest(see pic). He gave me quite a fight. What a fun time it was even if the turtles kept trying to eat my bait and actually got "caught" twice. I felt bad for them, but why did they have to like my worms so much? Poor little guys.

When we got back we headed to The Claridge because Don thought we should go seeing there was about 15 minutes left in happy hour. Cheap drinks are a big thing at the bar. The funny thing was that as we drove up to the bar, my mom was walking in with her friend, Pat. So, I was able to have some rootbeer and nachos with my mom. Good times.

Later, my parents and I went to a bluegrass concert by the local grocery store. They have concerts every Thursday night. Notice that Dad and I were twins with our matching caps. I didn't notice until we were on our way home. Funny. We also stopped for some ice cream on the way home. Wonderful times!

What a fun and beautiful day. I think this is what makes being a teacher really worth it. Who cares about the whole touching the future stuff! Just kidding. I do love my job; I just also like Summer Alice! :)

6/25/08

Softball, Family Bonding and Mastering Ladderball



Howdy Neighbors. I hope you have had as an enjoyable day as I have.

Last night, I got to play softball. Man, it is just so fun to be a part of a team and play. I am very lucky for that. We actually also won, so bonus. I wore pink socks and got picked on endlessly for it(our jerseys are red!). If I missed a catch at first base, it was because the socks created a glare. If I hit a foul ball, it was probably because of the curving power of the socks. I do have to say that I like it when people pick on me like that though. I know that they only pick because they like me! It was also fun to enjoy dinner with my teammates after the game at the concession stand. I mainly hung out with my friend's(Kim), little boy, Ty. He is so cute and funny.

Today I wasted time as I do most summer days. I get up, check my email. Then I eat breakfast, and then change into workout clothes and then check my email again, and then finally get around to biking. I then ride for an hour and it is already about 2:30. I realize I am hungry and eat lunch and then watch my new addictive TV show: What I like about You. It is then four o'clock and I have wasted most of the day. Dang Alice.

Tonight I played trivia at my favorite bar The Claridge and then had dinner with my parents. After dinner, I convinced them that it would be fun to play Ladderball. It was fun but I keep beating the two of them. I do have to say that they are getting better and it is our goal to be masters when we play against my dad's side of the family come The 4th of July! We will be on the next Olympic Ladderball Team, I am sure of it!

Fun times keep coming here in hot, muggy Wisconsin. I am glad it is finally summer! :)

6/24/08

Oh Gary, You have stolen my heart!

Well, I knew you all were waiting for this moment: I have found somebody! He is tall and rugged and loves the outdoors. He is still finding himself so he doesn't have a steady job, but he really is motivated by adventure. He is everything I have been searching for!

I guess you shouldn't get too excited though because I am talking about a bike. My mom bought me a bike to ride while I am home and I love it. (DO NOT tell my other bike, he will be very jealous that I am seeing other men!) It is a Gary Fisher and it has front shocks and is a very smooth ride. I love it!








I rode the bike home from the shop and already had fallen in love. Unfortunately, I did not have a helmet, so I had to go get one this afternoon. I had a nice little ride around Rhinelander. It was fun!

My mom is very kind. Thanks for always taking care of me and for "Gary." He is an Orange Dream. I will call him my "Dreamsicle!"

6/22/08

Little Alice!



Well, it has been an uneventful few days. Just chillin' as you should in summer, I guess. I decided to take my fun co-worker up on her tag. I hope you like the fun picture of little Alice(notice how I look just like my mom in the train picture from a previous post!). Little Alice was quite a character. She would always be carrying around a cat even though she was very alergic to cats. She also liked to go "Farmering" with her grandpa, which pretty much just consisted of chasing cats and petting baby cows; no real farm work was involved!

Here are the questions from Cassie:

1. What are some of your favorite memories of summer?

The Fourth of July is very special in our family. My grandpa(on Dad's side) loved this holiday. He would always have firecracker wars with the men in the family. I remember being woken up many Fourth of July mornings thanks to firecracker in the window sill of the room I was sleeping in. We stil honor him to this day by lighting firecrackers on his grave on the 4th. Sounds weird but it is a family tradition and I love it.

2. What are some of your favorite treats from your childhood?

Blue Moon Ice Cream for sure. It is actually blue and tastes like fruit loops and milk mixed. I also love Nerds candy and candy buttons. They were little pieces of sugar candy put onto paper. If you were lucky, sometimes you would even get a piece that didn't have paper still stuck to it.

3. Where was your favorite place to be as a child?

My favorite place would probably be the crabapple tree we had in our front yard. I used to spend hours up in those branches. Having crabapple fights were pretty fun too. My other favorite place was on our driveway playing basketball. I became quite a good shooter because of the hours I spent there.

4. If you could show your children a glimpse of your childhood what would it be?
Man, if only I had children to show a glimpse to. I think I would just have a fun time letting them know about all my adventures and how I really had a fun childhood and was able to be a kid. I don't think kids truly get to be kids these days! (I really want kids by the way. It is like a disease. I am always making faces at kids and trying to get their attention in public. I am sure their mothers think I am weird!)


Well, that is it for now. I need to find some motivation to do some work that I need to this summer. It is hard sometimes to be motivated!

6/20/08

The Train, The Train!



First we will start with breakfast. I had lasagna for breakfast. I love to be home and eating real food. Of course, it does not help me lose weight but it tastes good. I love to eat leftovers for breakfast. Very yummy. It beats Mini-Wheats.

We will then continue on to adventures. Today my mom treated my sister, her daughter and daughter's friend, and I to a train adventure. It was so fun. I think I turned back into a five year old. We got to ride on a real live train(well trains aren't really alive!) and go to a place where it was like stepping back into time. Camp 5 is a logging museum in the Northwoods of Wisconsin located in Leona. The highlight was sitting in the cupola on the caboose of the train on the way to Camp 5(see pics). Actually, I think actually saying cupola was even more of a highlight. My seester and I kept using the word cupola as much as we could while sitting in the cupola. It was cupolaishious. The second highlight was the petting zoo. I know, I am 31, but it was awesome to pet a baby goat and hold a kitten. I have always loved those things. I think baby animals raise endorphin levels. It was a beautiful day to spend time with my family.

Didn't do much beside that. I did have a fabulous all-beef hot dog my dad grilled. I love grilled food. Summer with the parents is famous for grilling out! :)

I am going to Carrie Underwood in November in Salt Lake. I am very excited about it. Thanks Cassi for the insight to the concert; I had no idea she was even coming to Utah! Yipee.

6/19/08

Relaxation!




I have a favorite place in the world.
It is not exotic or foreign
But simple and soothing.

In a land of Hodags and paper mills
My paradise beacons me.
There I hear water
lazily lapping against shore
I feel sun rays bronzing my skin
I see large trees and fluffy clouds

This is a place where it is okay to be
Flip-flopped
Non made-up
And care-free

I have a favorite place in the world
It is not exotic or foreign
But simple and soothing
It is home.


***I didn't really have much to write about today. I took those pictures at my favorite place: Hodag Park. The specific favorite place is a dock that goes out onto the Wisconsin River. My favorite thing to do there is lay on my back and close my eyes and listen and feel. It is one of the calmest places in my hemisphere. I think poetry is one of the only ways I could really describe it! :)

6/18/08

Antique Treasures!



Marla and I went through memory lane as we went through the boxes that were in her living room last night. All of these things brought back childhood memories. I personally wish I had those Barbie books. Flipping through them and reading them was fun. Barbie truly can do anything! My favorite one is Stories about the Fabulous Barbie and her Boyfriend Ken Very well written! :) I loved that movie viewer too. I put the Mickey ghost one in that pic because it used to freak me out as a kid. Spooky. Speaking of spooky, that dang mannequin scared me this morning as I walked down the stairs into Marla's dining room. She is very well dressed though, don't you think? Marla's mom puts her out on the porch while they have their annual rummage sale. That is always a hoot because Marla's mother is so very silly and fun. She truly is friendly to anybody she meets. I wish I could have been there to see the mannequin's head blow away. I guess it was pretty windy that weekend. Marla was very proud of her new pans so we had to showcase them! They are very nice pans! It was spooky to first see my bed and have those Wizard of Oz dolls staring at me. They just creep me out with those little beady eyes. Creepy! I have to admit it was pretty funny, way to go Marla!

We played softball last night. It was so very fun to catch up with all the cool ladies I play with. Some of us have been playing together since middle school. It is truly a very special thing I am able to do here each summer. Best 37 dollars I will spend! We lost but it was still a blast. It was our first loss this summer and I think it is my jinx. My team out in Utah only has won one game. Sad! Hopefully, it really isn't me and my bad karma! The coolest thing about the game last night is that I ran into one of the girls I went to school with. We attended grade school, middle school and high school together(I hope she doesn't remember how weird and awkward I was back then, hehe!). She got to first early in the game and I looked over at her and thought she was familiar and when her teammates called her "Billie" I thought to myself that she looked like "Bille Jo" but I wasn't sure. I then asked one of my teammates if it was her and come to find out, it was. I approached her between innings and it was so fun to re-connect. We chatted for a few minutes after the game. I loved that. It is cool to know that the world can be pretty small sometimes and you can find and re-connect with people from your past. Awesome.

It was a beautiful day. Marla and I went to lunch and shopping. I got a pair of shorts out of it and that was my goal. Go me. I then headed back up to Rhinelander and had dinner with the family. I am loving the good food! Beef barley soup is one of my favorite things! Then I ran to the river(funny thing was that I wasn't even being chased!) and met up with my mom and niece. My niece is cute and silly. She loves playing down by the river on the beach there. She can keep herself occupied for hours down there finding rocks and sticks and playing in the sand and water. Good times.

I am loving being home. It is a great place. Stay tuned for more adventures!

6/16/08

Home




Pic #1: Me in Chicago airport. I hate Chicago's airport. I always get delayed there. It as only an hour but still, why does this airport have to be so retarded?

Pic #2: Me in pajamas on my bed in Wisconsin. Yes, I do have lots of lighthouses on the wall, it makes me think I am from the East but I am not. It is calming though.

It is good to be home. My family picked me up, we drove to Rhinelander, ate some pizza, mom and I bonded over pictures, I blogged, and now I will sleep. I hope you all are ready for some adventures this summer; I sure am!

6/15/08

"Did I make the blog?"


This is my awesome friend Elizabeth and I. She is quite a spectacular lady and a fabulous mother. She is hilarious. Every time I am with her it is an adventure. Even at Red Robin she had me laughing so much in the short time we had together. I am so glad to still be in touch with her and to be able to see her every once in a while (even if she didn't have a cool glass to drink her drink out of at Red Robin).

I am in Salt Lake City tonight because I fly out tomorrow morning. Crazy and cool all at the same time. It is weird and I don't know how to explain it but it feels different to be leaving right now. I think the past few weeks have just been weird and this is just a part of it. Huh. Anyway, I am excited to go home and see people. I like my family and I have great friends back home, too. I worry I will be too bored though. I am definitely going to have to keep myself plenty busy. I do plan on fishing everyday. I think that may be what my gift card may go for. Gear and license will be about a hundred dollars I am thinking. I just want to relax I think. It will be nice.

Not much else going on here. Just waiting for the morning, I guess.

Memory Lane



Graduation seems like it was a long time ago already. I just finally rescued my pictures from my camera. My dumb Mac started to give me issues because it hates me. Anyway. Here are some pics from graduation. The two students are my favorites, but don't tell any of my other favorites. One is Jake. He was the only kid ever, in the history of me teaching, to be able to call me Al. He'd come in everyday and say: "What's up, Al?" It made me smile. The other student is David. He was just so positive all the time and had a great dry sense of humor like me. He made Boys' PE bearable. He is in England right now and I am jealous. The other pics are of cool people I worked with this year. They are nice people. I bet you wish you knew them. Unless, of course, you do know them, then you probably don't wish that. I mean you are glad about it but you already know them. Whatever. Anyway. There is a little trip down memory lane.

Hiking the Y



I went hiking at 9 this morning. It was awesome. I didn't think it was that far to the big 'Y' on the mountain here in Provo, but it was. I liked the hike though. As you can tell by the pictures, we had a lot of fun and it was a nice day!

I also got to go to lunch with my friend, Elizabeth. She is real cool and loves to read my blog. She really wanted to get on the blog and kept saying "Is that going to be on the blog?" So, you made it Liz! I will put a picture of us on tomorrow, seeing I can't get my camera to connect to this computer. Have I mentioned that I hate Macs? Anyway, it was real nice to catch up with Elizabeth because she is so cool. I am so lucky to have so many cool friends in my life! We reminisced about how we used to steal things from each other. It started with Elizabeth stealing all my underwear, then I stole all her food. College times sure were good times! We went to Ricks together.

Well, it is late and I need to sleep. I will write more later. I did also get to go up to Sandy and watch a movie with Janette. It was nice to see her one last time before I leave. I hope she will come visit in Wisconsin!

6/13/08

Fabulous Funerals and Wonderful Wisdom Teeth




When asked how my friend's mom's funeral was, I said "It was fabulous!" I guess you are not to say such things about funerals because I got a pretty funny look. But it was a wonderful funeral, it was very peaceful and calm. It is times like these where I am very thankful for my knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is very sad to see people die but it is very reassuring to know that death is not the end. The fact that we will all be together again through the power of Jesus' atonement brings much strength to my life and I am very thankful for that. Janette found an awesome dress to wear and she looked very good today by the way. She sure is a trooper and I admire her strength!

Josh Bills(aka by brother from another mother) got his wisdom teeth out this week. I hope you enjoy the pictures of him "icing" his face as much as I did seeing him in his head gear. He walked down the stairs last night and I couldn't help but laughing when I saw him. I had to apologize because it is not nice to pick on people who are sick.

6/12/08

Just Here!



Yesterday I did some major hanging of pictures. Man, I really love my drill. I know that wall is pretty cluttered but I think it works as a baseball shrine. My favorite thing is the saying my friend gave to me before she left town it reads: "The most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. Not necessarily in that order." The funniest part about that is that said friend didn't even know what a bullpen is but she knew it was about baseball. For those of you who don't know what a bullpen is, here is a quick definition: A bullpen is a place for the pitchers to warm up before going into the game to relieve the current pitcher. For those of you who don't know what a pitcher is, he is the one who throws the ball for the batter to try to hit. It is nice to have friends who appreciate my love for sports and respect it even if they do not have the same passion. I also like educating them all about sports. I think it helps them with men! :) (Well, maybe not because it hasn't helped me much!

Not much else. Today I need to do some major laundry and bike before heading up to Salt Lake for the funeral stuff. I hate funerals, but it is why I am still here so there I will be.

I hope you all have fabulous days!

P.S. I found a reasonably priced flight to Wausau, WI for Monday. Yipee!

6/10/08

I Have a Drill and I Know How to Use It!



I am quite proud of myself and my handiwork today! I bought a new drill this weekend. It is a cheap drill (from the Walmart for 15 dollars) but as you can see by the pics, it does the job. I have hung some pictures, speakers, and my proudest project the shower curtain rod. My new shower is a little narrow and I was very tired of having wet curtain against wet body while showering, so I went and bought a fancy curved rod. It is marvelous. So much room in the shower now! :)

I thought that having a drill could also make me more marketable on the dating market. Men should be impressed by women with power-tools, right? I thought I would even use the box as a bag to bring all my stuff to church on Sunday. I didn't but that would have been a sight, eh?

I really haven't accomplished as much as I should have today. It is weird, I just have no motivation to do anything the past few days. It is like it is winter and I just want to lie on my couch and watch hours of T.V. What is up with that? I did go biking yesterday but today I didn't feel like it. I did make a few phone calls and changed my address with the insurance company and my bank. I guess that was pretty responsible. I also paid a few bills. Real exciting.

I am hoping to head back to Wisconsin this coming weekend. The only problem with that is trying to figure out how I am going to without paying over 1200 dollars to do so. Man, I think that is how much I paid to fly to Moscow a few years ago. That is pretty much pathetic! So, if any of you are real good at finding flight deals, look away for me! My friend's mom's funeral is on Friday. It is sad but she is in a better place now and painless. I hate funerals, but they are a necessary thing sometimes. Tomorrow Janette and I may be going shopping together. I am excited to spend some time with her during her hard time.

Well, I am watching basketball right now. I have gotten roped into watching the NBA Finals. I was always a Boston Celtic fan when I was little. Larry Bird was my hero. I wanted to be just like him when I was young, just without the mustache. I used to shoot baskets in my driveway for hours each night. My mom even helped create a Larry Bird uniform for me. Those were good times. Seeing the Celtics in the Finals again is awesome. I hate the Lakers but it is fun to see those two teams battle again.

Wow, this is quite the lengthy blog. I will get back to the game and playing with my drill! I mean, hanging more pictures. You don't just play around with power-tools; it is serious business!

Phone, Life, and Mortality.




I got a new phone this weekend. I am quite fond of it. It lets me dial, talk, and text. I don't really know why I got a new phone, I just did. I guess I am one of those trendy people who needs new phones every two years. Weirdo.

Today was a good day, and a surreal day. I cleaned a bit in my house. I have a lot of projects I want to get done before I head back to Wisconsin(which will be in the next week, I think...more details later!) Here are a few of the projects: 1. Finish putting up towel racks in the bathroom 2. Install the curved shower curtain rod(hello, shower curtain pressed against wet body is no fun) 3. Either get thicker curtains for this place or do something to make them more manageable and less see through! 4. Get unpacked. It is quite the process to move, I hate it. I don't think I am going to do it again for a while...maybe even a long while!

My friend's mom died today. Dying is a hard thing to face for the living. That was an awkward sentence. I think death is a very hard subject though. Sometimes it is better for people to go instead of being in so much pain, but it is also awkward to think like that about somebody. You don't wish dying on people, or at least you feel you shouldn't. I don't like to think about dying or the deaths of those close to me. This whole experience has made death a little more real to me. I will try not to get too morbid. I am glad that I will be able to be here for the funeral though. I have been worried about the whole logistics of being here for it. I would have flown home today and I am glad I didn't. I can't imagine how I would have felt being there and getting the news. It feels like the timing worked out well for all of this. Moving and funerals. Now I just have to figure out how I am going to get home in the next week or so.

Well, I think that is all for my practically 2 a.m. post. I like my new house! Have I mentioned that?

6/6/08

New House



Today was big moving day! My landlord helped me move all the big furniture because he felt guilty about me not getting in to the new place until today! I was very grateful for that. Right now my friend, Moo, and I are watching 27 Dresses in my new front room! I am so excited for that! There are no kids running up and down the stairs or screaming. I love it. I keep telling Moo that I love it that I do not share walls anymore. This is my very own little one bedroom house! I am so excited to live here. I do not even care that most of my stuff is in random boxes. Nope, doesn't bother me. I love it..have I mentioned that?

Besides moving, I also was able to go to a friend's birthday dinner at Applebee's and play softball. We lost again, but I really had a good time playing tonight. We actually played very well! It as fun. I also played catch with another friend earlier in the day at my school. It was nice to have a little break.

Tomorrow is going to be all about getting the rest of my stuff out of the other apartment and then cleaning it. I also need to get some towel rods and curtains for the new apartment. Good times.

Well, I think that is all for now. I talked to the Janetteo last night and she seems to be much better even though her mother is dying. It was nice to talk to her. I keep worrying about her. I am probably delaying my trip home so I can be around here for the funeral. It is a mess trying to cancel my flight but I feel like it is the right thing to do. It is weird just going with the flow. I think I am learning to be more flexible and patient through all of this!

Well, thanks for reading. Check out Alyssa's blog for some great pictures of Alexa and I. I had a lot of fun hanging out with them last night.

Fists at 3:30 a.m.



Hi all. Today was a much better day. Sorry that the posts have seen a little down lately.

I didn't sleep well last night. (I know this seems like it will be a down post again, but I promise it isn't) At 3:30 I was suddenly awake. I didn't think much of it but then heard laughing from the children next door. This made me angry. Why are ten year olds awake at 3:30 a.m. Well, being as comatose and angry as I was, I got up and hit the wall really hard. At first, I thought I had started to bleed. Then after feeling the pain for a few minutes, I thought I had broken my hand. Luckily, there was no blood and I could still move my fingers. I guess I am not that wise at 3:30 in the morning. I have to laugh at myself because I yell at my students all the time for hitting walls and other objects when they get mad. I tell them that the wall will always win. I guess my own advice happened to me this morning. The wall won. I wish I had more of a war wound but it is only a little red, but it does hurt so that should count for something. Good thing is that the laughing stopped and I got back to sleep eventually. Another good thing was that I was reminded that there is a reason for my madness in moving. I will like not having to share any walls with neighbors. Yes, I know there has to be good neighbors somewhere in the world, I am just not feeling it right now.

Today I bowled, ate wonderful ice cream, talked with a friend who is moving and it was awesome as usual, talked to my friend whose mom is dying(it was nice to talk to her, she sounded a lot better than she did earlier in the week), I also had a much needed nap on my futon midday, and I was not very productive when it comes to the whole packing thing. Oh well! I am sure I will get some stuff done tomorrow. In fact, I can start moving stuff in tomorrow afternoon, even furniture if I want to. That will be good.

Anyway. It is late. I like summer though; I don't have to feel guilty for being a night owl!

6/4/08

Superb Ruben and Holy Cannoli!




Today was a good day. It seems that lately that has not been the case. No tires blown, no random tears(okay that is a lie, I was weepy as I talked to my mom about adjusting flights), no water leaks, etc.

I had a fabulous dinner. I have found a superb Reuben sandwich in Provo, which is a very hard find. It is from Kneader's and it is fabulous. It truly made my day. I also chased it with a cannoli, oh my goodness...I couldn't believe how good that cannoli was, I think that could become a new addiction. I may weigh a ton this time next year!

So dinner made the day today, yesterday(I forgot to mention it) my sister made my day. Her students were reading the book:
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians and decided to call me because I live in Provo, the same place the author does or did at the time of writing the book. I also know a librarian and she may know the author who also is also a librarian. (funny how a librarian would write that book, ha!) The little first graders were so cute and really made me feel good about knowing somebody who may know the author of the book they were reading. Isn't cool how you can be a hero to little kids through association? I like it.

What else did I do today? I have sometimers so sometimes I remember, sometimes I don't. I moved most of my kitchen and quite a bit of my stuff laying around over to the new place. Due to the water damage, I can't move furniture until Saturday, but I was able to move a little stuff in, which made me feel like I was being productive. Not having school and just being here is weird for me. I haven't done that in a few years. I get a little stir crazy at night. Weird. I will be glad when the move is done. As I type, the carpet is being ripped up in the new apartment. My landlord decided to replace the carpet seeing the living room carpet was soaked thanks to a leaky swamp cooler. I see it as a bonus. I will have new carpet in the front room and the landlord thought it would be a good idea to re-carpet my bedroom too, BONUS! I guess something good is coming of this late move.

Well, I think that is all for today. Life is good, even when it is hard! Remember that!

6/3/08

"When it Rains; it Rains!"




That quote is from a wise roommate I once had. She said that one time when things were going bad for her. "Man, when it rains; it rains!" I like that better than "when it rains; it pours." Just seems more logical doesn't it? Maybe not. Anyway, while I was on a wonderful bike ride my tire popped. Okay, that may not be the whole story. I was getting back onto the trial, after I had gotten a drink of water, and wasn't watching where I was going, and ran into a rock the size of Pluto. Okay, maybe it wasn't that big but it felt like it seeing I knew I saw the rock and felt I had given myself enough room to go around it. I guess not. Luckily, I got to have a lovely hour walk back to my car. And, 25 dollars later I have a new tire, inner-tube and slime. All in a days work(or days play) I guess!

I went through my new apartment today. I am definitely giving up a little space for a little peace and quiet. Today would be moving day, if there wasn't a leak below the living room. I think it is going to be a fiasco to fix. SIGH. I think I am just going to move stuff into the kitchen and bedroom and hope for the best. My wise friend, Moo, made a good point. I am glad that I had not moved all my stuff into the apartment and then have it flood. I am a fan of non-soaked stuff. I guess it is okay timing too because really I won't be around much to be in their way while they fix it!

I think I will go to a movie tonight. Some people think it is weird that I will actually go to a movie by myself. I figure that you aren't supposed to talk during the movie anyway, so what is the big deal? I have some free passes and I figured that I will go, seeing I can't do much moving at the moment!

Well, I hope all of you had a day filled with no flat tires! :)

Rollercoaster of a Day!




Happy summer to me. Funny how I think that because I am now on summer break I should have less stress in my life. Not so. Well, I did have a pretty good day. I stayed up in Salt Lake last night because I was sleepy when it came time to drive home. Driving and Drowsy do not mix. I then came back to Provo this morning and had breakfast with one of my friends and her little boy. It was yummy and nice because I did not see them in a while. I then went on a wonderful bike ride in the canyon. Note the beautiful pictures of the sky I saw along the ride.

Then came the low part of the day. I kept noticing that the apartment that I am supposed to be moving into was not having the carpet cleaned like it was supposed to. So, this evening I finally called my landlord in a bit of a panic, seeing Dish Network is supposed to come tomorrow and move my dish over there. I guess there was a major water leak, so I cannot start moving in tomorrow. The bad thing about that is that I am on a little bit of a time limit. Meaning, I fly out to Wisconsin on Monday. Hopefully they will figure out the problem and fix it so I have a few days to get moved...worst-case scenario, I have to box everything and have the landlord move me. Can we say awkward?

Another low point, one of my friend's mom is dying from cancer. For some reason, that made me cry and cry and cry this evening. I just am feeling very bad for said friend and her family. Life just sometimes does not seem fair at all does it? I think the hardest part of this whole ordeal for me is that I feel so helpless. Life is hard when we can't control things, huh?

Then there were good things again. One was a nice walk with my former roommate. She is so cute and so pregnant. We walked on the river trail and it was nice. I then went and watched A league of Their Own with Alyssa. That is one of my all-time favorite movies.

At least the night ended well, I guess. Now it is nearly 2 a.m. and I just feel like sleeping all day tomorrow seeing what I had planned on doing(moving) is not possible. Kinda bummed about that!

Let's hope things all work out! I guess my favorite quote will come in handy the next few days: "Things always work out in the end. If things aren't working out, it isn't the end."

Cheers to you(and I hope you are having a better day than me!),
A