must have been musk

cami gave me some candy from australia. apparently, a lot of people there like it. couldn't tell you why if i tried. cami made me promise to take pictures of my friends trying them. here are some of my favorites:

oh happy day!

amber got a call while she was at work from diana, the manager of where we were planning to live.

diana called to say that the only other apartment there that she managers has one girl who decided not to sign. one free spot. then she was looking through her paperwork and found that another girl just hasn't resigned yet. another free spot. she's going to save them for us.

yay! we have a place to live again!

new office

we have a new office at work. they moved us upstairs and now we have a new view. pretty, ne? we're on the third floor and the time clock is on the first so it makes it a little hard to clock in and out for lunch, but i think the view makes it better.

the only problem is that around 5.30 the sun starts shining in the windows so that i can't see unless i put on my sunglasses. in my office. yeah. but there's less noise and cooler temperatures (not sure why but it's cooler up here than it was where we were before). plus, there's more room. word on the street is that we'll be getting a plasma screen for the office, but i'm not sure when or if that will happen. it's pretty nice up here so i don't mind.

accepted

i'm leaving la. rather, i've already left. but i have a new story to tell.

we were watching accepted (a movie that i think is hilarious but have only before seen edited) non-edited when i got a call from the manager of my new apartment. or, she was the manager until the owners of the condo decided that they wanted to run the managing of it and put their own kids in. the manager said that she had our (amber's and my) security deposits and wondered how we wanted to get them, either to have her mail it or we come pick it up. i was in shock so i had to tell her i needed to talk to amber.

so i called amber and had to leave a message. then i sent her a text a while later because she hadn't called back and explained it again. she freaked out. read the contract and found out that the contract states that before 90 days before the start of contract, if the owners back out we get $50. after that - i.e. 90 days before the start of contract - they cannot break contract. amber's going to talk to the manager, diana, and figure this out.

in the mean time, after we finished watching accepted we all piled into the car and went to souplantation. this most delicious of places to eat. they have soup and salad and pasta. they also have these really little ice cream cones that were a source of conflict for cami and i. by that i mean that while i was eating mine she reached over and hit my hand so it went in my face a little bit. it wasn't much so i just played it off until she wasn't looking so i smeared the side of her face. a battle ensued that ended with ice cream covering our arms and faces. then she got out the butter and smeared my face with it before we finally decided to just go wash up.

then we went home and i got all packed. clint and cami drove me to catch the flyaway to go to the airport to fly home. i talked to a bunch of friends and read a little bit before catching my flight. mom picked me up from the airport and we met dad for dinner at the littleamerica hotel in salt lake. then we drove to my little sister's house to sleep. tomorrow i have work and then friday i'm going home to ogden to do laundry.

it was a really fun vacation and i am so, so happy that i was able to go. thanks to eden, clint, flynn, cami and christianna for making it so very much fun!

wicked awesome!

christianna and i went to wicked tonight! it was so good. it was a little bit different from the cd, but it was good different. the only thing that bothered me really was that the lady playing madam morrible didn't really sing so much as just talk. actually, she would start to sing and then stop half-way through. yeah, not so good.

it was really cool to see the play that i had heard so much about. my roommate, amy, saw it in both la and new york and said that she preferred the la version. so i'm glad that that was where we were so i could see it. i hadn't really thought that we'd go when i was planning the trip, but then i texted christianna about it and she got really excited to go. so we did! it was so good! there were a few slight changes that made things funnier and made you realize that this was so much better than watching a movie could ever be. i'm converted.

anywho...

on the way home we stopped at jack in the box because neither christianna nor i had had dinner and hey, we don't have one in utah. i miss it. love the tacos, funny enough. we got home pretty late and i made sure that christianna would be okay to drive home since she had had some trouble on saturday. and then we all went to bed. it was a wonderful day.

glasses

so, sometime last night i put my foot up on the back of the couch and i heard a clatter. it was my glasses. i opened my eyes, realized it was still way dark so i wouldn't need them. i went back to sleep.

when i woke up to flynn, i decided to wait on finding my glasses until after he'd had breakfast. so after he was fed, i looked behind the couch to see if i could find my glasses. hmm. not there. maybe they went under the edge. i couldn't get the angle right to look. okay. i moved the rug and pulled the couch out. i still couldn't see them. maybe that was because they were my glasses. around this time flynn decided he wanted to help so i brought him over the end of the couch with me. i went out to the front of the couch thinking that i might be able to see them.

so then i hear flynn, "i see it!"

hmmm. this could mean one of two things. either he sees my glasses, or he wants to see them. right around then, cami wakes up and i make her go look. she didn't see them. and then i have this brilliant idea that maybe i didn't put my glasses on last night. i went to my luggage and looked. there were my glasses.

what i heard, i still don't know. but i put the couches and rug back and then proceeded to feel like an idiot.

disneyland

okay, getting tired, can't think of better titles.

we went to disneyland yesterday! surprisingly, it was a pretty slow day. unlike last year we didn't run around crazy, and i think it was more fun. not gonna lie.

we started off slow by going to the finding nemo submarine ride. cami got a big kick out of the "real" australian accents. we all thought it would make more sense for them to just get real australians to do it since it was all recorded anyway. but whatever. flynn seemed not to care. it was fun though and cool to see all our favorite characters in the water.


the rides i remember going on (sorry, not a very good memory) are these: submarines, that one rockety thing, space mountain, splash mountain, grizzly bear thing in california adventure, california screamin' (twice), soaring over california, mike and sully save the day, buzz lightyear, indiana jones, jungle cruise (have to go at night!) and then the reagans went on a few rides for flynn. i can't remember if we went on anything else, but we got to see a lot of other things like how sourdough and tortillas are made. we saw a few parades and the fireworks. it was a lot of fun.

we also got these pineapple whip ice cream things that were so good! we got them the last time we were all at disneyland and so had to get them this year, too. not entirely sure what they are, almost a sherbet, but not quite. if anyone's going to disneyland soon, they can be found by the tiki room. there's the whip (pictured) and then a float with pineapple juice on bottom. i prefer just the whip because the juice doesn't seem as sweet when the whip is on top. but they are absolutely fabulous. try one!

we left the park around midnight, grabbing some last minute provisions in the form of cream cheese-filled soft pretzels. mine was a jalapeno one that was really tasty. i have no idea when we got home, but i fell asleep still dressed.

this morning eden woke me up to ask if i could watch flynn while she and clint took clint's car to the shop to get some work done. i woke up to hear flynn crying so i hobbled my way to his room and got him up. we had breakfast of cereal and yogurt and then cami woke up. i think today we were planning on making a movie, but i think we'll just be recuperating.

happy birthday eden!

i'm so glad you were born so you could be my sister. and i'm glad you have help to blow out the candles. and congratulations!

we need to get to sleep early so we can wake up early for disneyland tomorrow, so i'm going to go to bed. i hope today was wonderful for you.

beach

wow, long day. but it was really fun so it didn't seem so.

we started off by going to the beach. christianna had planned on us going boogie boarding while i was out in la, so we all went over to zuma beach to meet her. there was a little trouble finding christianna and her friend because for some reason, there are two #3 guard towers. weird. that was the one they were by, just fwee.

anyway, we found her...well, part of her at least:

it was a fun beach day and we all got covered in sand. christianna got a monstrous bruise on her shoulder from being thrown onto the hard-packed sand. i still had bruises from climing through the window. flynn (and therefore clint) built a fortress to keep the water at bay. cami took on an awesomely huge wave on her boogie board and impressed a bunch of guys who were watching. and then all three of those in the back seat (cami, flynn and i) fell asleep on the way home. that is, after we took wierd pictures of the landscape. i'm not really sure why we did that. meh.

after the beach we went to vincenzo's pizza experienza and listened to the grateful dudes bluegrass band. once there we met with a few friends of eden and clint's and went to their house to play rockband. so much fun! i was really bad at playing the drums because i always forgot to use the foot-pedal. the guitar wasn't so bad because i've played guitar hero before. but the vocals were okay, if you know the words.

we were there until about 2 and then we left to go home. church is at 9 so we'll see how well we do getting there on time.

promenading

after recovering from magic mountain (cami and i totally trashed our feet when we went) we spent the morning doing nothing. that's right, nothing. eden went to aerobics, but we stayed in bed. and when i did get up i had to hobble around for a little while. that wasn't so fun as it may seem.

but after that we - eden, cami, flynn and i - went to little tokyo. we wandered around the grocery store for a little while and got an absurdly large amount of the fruit gummies, at least on my part. and then after we ate a delightful lunch of curry donuts (so good!) we went to the hello kitty store for a little while. and cami and i got something very special there.


and then we left to meet clint at his work down in santa monica where christianna was to also meet us. we got there, clint came out to meet us and eden immediately made him guess what cami and i bought. his clue? what is the silliest thing he can think of to do there. funny enough, his first answer was correct.

yup, that's right. we got underwear. this is actually the $1 pair i got because i thought it was funny. we also got normal-people sized underwear.

and i must say that although christianna's suggestions - taking off all our clothes and running around screaming, dressing up like hello kitty, painting hello kitty on our faces but then being so embarassed that we had to wash it off - were still good, i like what we actually did.

so after meeting clint at his work and finding christianna, we all walked down the to the 3rd street promenade. there were some pretty cool things there. a couple of guys were dancing in the street so we all stopped to watch them for a while. it was insane! i cannot describe to you what these guys did. crazy-sauce! we also found a games store that had some pretty fun things, but most of them were fairly run-of-the-mill.

it started getting pretty late so we decided to find some dinner and then keep looking. clint told us that as we walk along if we see something we want we should just call it out so that we can stop and eat. but because it was really busy, there pretty much wasn't any room once we did stop. so as the night wore on, we were getting more and more hungry and even the places that didn't have a wait didn't have room for six people. so we walked back to the cars. and then we went to this place called norm's that used to be a denny's. there we found that there was a half-hour long wait. so then clint ran across the street to see if the same was true for denny's. it wasn't so we went there. that was an adventure. we got in there, sat down. decided what we were going to eat and then since we were already all tired, clint ran off to get someone to help us. perry came then. this really um...interesting man. he was very friendly, but then he got in major trouble with these two people i suppose were the managers of the place. apparently, he was taking tables that weren't his. however, no one was helping us, so what was the problem if he did? it was really dumb.

clint made sure to tell the managers that perry was just doing his job and doing it very well since whoever was supposed to help us didn't. i was really glad that he did.

magical

today we (cami, troy and i) went to magic mountain, six flags. it was a lot of fun. we went on a lot of rides--a few i didn't really want to go on--and got to see some fun things.

one of the rides i didn't want to go on was tatsu. for serious, never go on this ride. i kid you not. i had my eyes shut pretty much the whole time. it's one of those feet-dangling rides, except that the seats move so that you start the ride on your stomach. i almost died!


cami and troy also went on goliath, which i also loathe. i made them go alone while i went looking for superman capes. i don't like this ride because the only restraint is a lap-bar and since it goes so high i don't feel safe with that. last time my family went i could have sworn i would go flying off. so there was no chance that i was going this time. troy and cami kept wanting me to go, but that wasn't going to happen, nope! so i found my capes and - suprisingly - they didn't die.

i did like the ninja ride. it was sweet and simple and i didn't really fear for my life while we were on it. which was good.

moral of the story? stay clear of the killers. oh, and when it gets really hot, go into the waiting line for superman. it was amazing. i didn't even go on that one, but the waiting line was absolutely worth the wait. ...right.

amy

i flew to la tonight. my flight attendant was really funny and put me in a really good mood by his sense of humor. unfortunately, the good mood didn't last.

as i was getting off the plane i got a call from amy, my roommate. she asked me when i would coming home and i told her a week.

she told me she is moving out this weekend. going home to idaho falls.

while i'm gone.

in la.

i haven't seen her since last week, wednesday. i told her that was fine and that she needed to drive safe. she told me to come visit her.

once we got off the line, i started to cry. for some reason too little sleep and bad news don't mix well. i got off the plane last and went in search of my luggage, hoping no one noticed the ninny-ness of me. got to the baggage claim, walked immediately outside so that i could cry in the semidarkness. called my mom and talked to her about it. she didn't really agree with me when i said it was the best thing for amy, but she let me cry. she told me to call my dad since he is always very calm. i told her that i usually am.

but then i had to get off the phone and find my bag so that i could meet my brother-in-law, clint. i also had to stop crying so that clint wouldn't think me a ninny. by the time he got there i had stopped crying enough that i don't think he knew that i had been. we drove to his house and i got to see eden, flynn and cami.

we joked and had some fun before going to bed. the end. :)

grrr

okay, i'm going to complain a little bit...

i'm flying to la tonight. right after work. as such i needed to do laundry last night. being me, i waited until the night before i left to do said laundry.

about 10 o'clock last night my roommate came in from wherever she had been, grabbed her purse and the mail key, and then left again with her friend who is leaving for a month. now see, the mail key has the laundry key attached, but i didn't think much of it.

because of cleaning checks this saturday, i had to clean my room before i left for la. so i started doing that. around midnight, my roommate still wasn't home. she still had the mail key. so i just started working on something else. i brought everything i needed to pack that was not laundry into the front room with my suitcase so that when i finished my laundry, i could just put everything in and zip it up.

1 o'clock, still no roommate.

okay, i'll sit on the couch and wait for her. fell asleep. some time before 3.30 i heard a sound and sat up on the couch. didn't see anything. fell back asleep. heard the same noise again. sat up, this time sure that it was the door. still didn't see anything. lay back down. at 3.30 i woke up and decided that if she were to come home and i was asleep she wouldn't know what was up. so i got up and took a shower. got out about 4 and there she was. complaining that she was so stupid for having stayed up until 4 when she needs to work at 8.

whatever, where's the key?

she still had it. in fact, she had come home and seen me on the couch, but didn't think about it. she gave me the key and i put in the first loads of laundry (getting it all done in one go if i could). when i came back she apologized profusely and said that she would put it in the dryer for me so that i could sleep. i told her it was fine and she didn't need to do that since i would need to finish packing tonight.

then i went to put everything in the dryers. came back to my apartment. discovered that i had locked the door on accident. i had also left my phone in the apartment so i couldn't call my roommate. fine. she hadn't been asleep that long. i rang the bell. nothing. rang it again. nothing. made a whole lot of noise for about ten minutes. still nothing. fine! she had probably fallen asleep (she was the only one home). so i climbed in through the window.

hurt my stomach, have the bruises to prove it.

at this point i was pretty tired and irritable. angry is a better term for how i was feeling. but whatever, i just was ready for the night to end. since i still had some time before i needed to pick up my clothes to fold them, i decided to get on my computer and check my email or something, just to stay awake. but the internet wasn't working. i went into my roommate's room to powercycle the wireless router.

she was still awake.

her light was still on. she sat up and looked at me. but she didn't have the look of someone who had just woken up. or really even someone who had been dosing. she was fully awake. which means she had to have heard all the noise i made earlier, but chose not to come open the door.

now i can understand if you think it's scary to open the front door of your apartment at 5 in the morning when you don't have a way to find out who's there before you open the door. but if it were me, i would have been so mad that someone was making that much noise so early in the morning that i would have just opened the door to hit whoever it was.

but no. she didn't even do that.

i cannot tell you how angry i was. but i didn't say anything because i don't do that. i just finished with the router and left. i was livid!

finally got to sleep around 6.30, woke up at 8.30. now i'm at work and still mad at my roommate.

finally

amy sent me a text this morning saying that she was okay and in salt lake staying with a friend.

i love the girl, but i really wish she had told me this before i had spent most of the night and some of the morning calling her. i was up until 2.30 calling her - every half-hour - and then i started again at 7.

i'm glad she's all right.

friend

my roommate, amy's engagement broke off last week at her fiancé's instigation. he feels like he doesn't really know her.

and then today i found out that a friend drowned in utah lake over the weekend.

amy is taking this all pretty hard. i haven't seen her yet today. not sure where she is.

yay

i got approved to take off work from the 10th to the 16th. i'm going to la!!!

fly away

i checked the flight information for going in july and for going in august. i can go either time for the same price. which means that i just need approval from work to take off for a while. that will help me decide when to go. maybe i can go when cami will be there.

california and cami

so eden called me a few weeks ago to let me know that cami - a friend from australia whom i met last year when i was visiting eden and clint and flynn - was coming back for about two weeks at the beginning of july.

last year we had a lot of fun getting to know each other and playing and being immature. so i thought it would be a lot of fun to see her again.

hmmm, problem. with the change in email systems, they don't want anyone to leave between june 21st and july 11th. eden said cami was coming the first two weeks of july. that means that i couldn't be there when she was.

okay, well. now that eden mentioned it, it would be a lot of fun just to go see clint, eden, flynn and christianna. so then maybe i could go in august.

not sure what all i'll be doing, but i'll let you know.

ew...some more

and i thought yesterday was bad.

who wants to start at 5 in the morning? not me, i tell you what.

i was going to come in at 6, but then emily (who drives me to work) was asked by her boss to come in early to help set up breakfast. so--since i would have had to get up and leave by 5 anyway to catch the bus--i went with her then and helped her set up.

it was gross.