major events

I was reading back in my journal the other day and I realized that I never write about the things that are going on in the world, just in my own little world. Well I guess it's obvious that I would write about the Virgina Tech shooting, it's the major thing going on right now. As sad as it is to say, this almost doesn't even phase me anymore. This was the worst shooting in American history but yet it seems like just other one. I feel like the Columbine Shooting was worse but I guess that was just because it was kind of the first big thing to happen with shootings in schools. It REALLY makes me mad though that people told the police about this guy and they couldn't do anything till he made a threat or did something violent. Doesn't that seem stupid to anyone else?? That the police can't do anything till the guy does something but when they usually do finally do something it's big and they usually die anyway. I'm pissed off by that. It's a catch 22. Anyway I also think it's so weird to think about each individual person. It's one thing to see a list of names, or hear the number of people dead, but when they start showing pictures of these people and telling stories about their lives they start becoming real. They were kids just like me, going to school and then all of a such it's all over. It feels like we have our own suicide bombers now. Like they could be anywhere and no one knows when they are going to strike. It's getting scary. Can you believe that one girl at Virgina Tech was also at Columbine when the shootings happened there, how unbelievable is that? She must feel very unlucky. Well I better get back to work...

The West Key

This vacation was full of music. When I was flying into Miami on Friday night I of course couldn't get the Will Smith song "welcome to Miami" out of my head. Then when we were driving down the keys we were singing "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys cause it mentions Key Largo. And while we were on the island we drove around a lot and the only decent radio station played the same 3 songs over and over again, Glamorous by Fergie, The Weeoooohh song by Gwen Stephani and Take a look at my Girlfriend. We were constantly singing these songs and annoying the crap out of each other! The Florida Keys are beautiful! The water is so many different colors and it's so green, just amazing. I was a little bummed about there not being very many beaches or waves but it was still pretty. There's not a whole lot to do in Key West, there are a lot of stuff that the people have made for you to do, like renting wave runners or going on the glass bottom boat seen here.
But as for like hiking or seeing natural wonders, that stuff just isn't there. People do a lot of shopping (including us) and laying in the sun. The weather was pretty nice while we were there, it was warm but not HOT but the humidity was horrible. I HATE humidity because it feels like I have no reason to be sweating through my shirt because it's not blazing hot, but none the less I do. We also got to see the Southern most point of the United States which was cool and strange because they have fake people standing around the monument (you can't see them in the picture) like they want you to look like you have a lot of friends in your photos or something. SO weird. We did a lot of relaxing things like swimming in the pool and laying out, taking a tour bus around the island, having a bbq, going to the sunset celebration (which happens everynight when the sun sets), taking the glassbottom boat (though that wasn't very relaxing for Summer and Janette, they both got sick and Janette threw up), shopping, eating REALLY good ice cream, playing games, sitting in the hot tub, yadda yadda yadda. It was a really nice week! Let's see, random things that happened....we went to rent scooters to drive around the island and the guy asked us if we knew how to drive them. Janette had but Summer and I hadn't so he goes "well I will be the final judge to see if you can rent them, we had a girl crash yesterday, break her collarbone and have to buy the whole bike because she didn't know how to ride." We didn't end up renting the scooters :) What a salesman that guy was, totally made us feel safe and secure...whatever! We had a bbq at 10:00pm where we ate shrimp and steak while Aaron caught live shrimp in the ocean right next to us. There were street performers at the sunset celebration who were CRAZY...literally. This one guy was hopping around yelling and talking to his cats. We went to the cemetary where there was a headstone that read "I told you I was sick". Janette lost the keys to the car in Kmart, we found them but it would have sucked it we didn't...we rented that car in Miami (4 hours away), we ate at a place called Crabby Dicks which Janette accidentally called Hairy Dicks, and a place called Hog's Breath, we did a few Geocashes while we were there and found some travel bugs with them...one named Captain Morgan and the other was Olive Oil, oh and we ate Conch fritters which are the slugs out of a conch seashell. Yum! In a nutshell that was my vacation to Florida, I'll post pictures soon.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Last night at school we were all sitting around studying for our test when a girl came in who wanted her eyebrows waxed. Just the thought of it makes me sweat because I'm not comfortable/confident in my eyebrow waxing abilities at all. Well it was either Lexi, Brittany or me that had to do it and Brittany and Lexi were dragging their feet also. I'm not even passed off to do clients yet so I thought maybe I was off the hook but no way would they let me out of it. So Chrisi, our teacher, said we should just rock, paper, scissors it. That sounded like an ok plan since I thought I had a 1 in 3 chance of actually having to do it. So 1,2,3 and it ended up me with rock and Lexi and Brittany with paper...crap!! So I had to go do this girl who came in saying that she had been letting her eyebrows grow and and she really needed them shapped (great!). I hate doing eyebrows because if you take away one to many hairs it screws up the whole thing. This girl was really patient with me though so that was nice. I took like 30 minutes to get it right and yes I was sweating :) They turned out fine and I'm glad I got the practice but I was SO nervous. Bonus, Chrisi said she'd get someone to give me any treatment I wanted for taking the client...score! It pays to not have a choice and be forced into something :)

Aeroscraft

Can you believe this thing? It's a new way to travel. It's suppsed to be done in 2010 or something.













It carries like 250 people and flys at 8,000 ft so you can see the landscape you're flying over. Google Aeroscraft and read about it, it's crazy!

reunion

So it's conference weekend and there are mission reunions going on like always. I've always felt a little left out because l didn't serve and all these people talk about going to their mission reunions and I usually do nothing on the Friday of conference weekend. Well tonight i have my own reunion to go to...The Willey reunion. We're having a reunion for all the people that worked together at RC Willey and I finally feel included :) Just kidding. I didn't even realise that these were happening on the same weekend but it's kind of funny. Theens is coming into town this weekend so we're all getting together to see her. I only hung out with a few of these girls that we worked with but because we worked long BORING hours together at the Willey we all knew each other pretty well so we're all getting together to celebrate our Willeyness. We'll see how it goes.

Mr P. Diddy

I had a dream last night that I was trying to get a job with Mr P. Diddy himself ( that is what we had to call him in the dream). Where this came from I have no idea. I don't spend my days thinking about Diddy and I most certainly wouldn't want to work for him, but none the less the dream was about me competing for one of those internship things like a reality show. I remember wanting to impress him so much and being really stressed but that's about it. Oh I remember walking into a room where I was going to make breakfast and a man was sitting on the couch watching tv and I said "Good morning" really sweetly because I thought it was Diddy but then I noticed it wasn't and was angry that I had even wasted my time talking to him. Totally sounds like me huh?! :)

50 things you might not know

Inspired by Cassidy and Mira...50 things you probably don't care to know but you get to anyway:)
1. I wear two toe rings at all times. One says ALOHA on it and the other is a green stone
2. I LOVE rice crispy treats
3. My eyes look really green when I cry
4. I'm dying my hair dark brown on Saturday!!
5. I like it when soda is flat
6. and I hate it when it has ice in it unless i have a straw
7. I like getting tan cause my freckles come out
8. I love rollarcoasters and amusement parks
9. I spend probably 5 out of my 8 hours at work not doing any work because I don't have any to do
10. I'm very organized at work and very messy at home
11. If someone around me starts to cry I will tear up...I can't help it
12. My favorite time of day is twilight, right after the sun sets, magic hour!
13. I LOVE the ocean
14. and I'm naively not scared of sharks...at all
15. my favorite season is Spring because it's not too hot but you know (unlike Fall) that it's not going to start to get cold soon.
16. I hate wearing high heels even though I know how to walk in them
17. I've kept a journal most of my life
18. I've been to the town in Switzerland where my first ancestor joined the church
19. If I could have any job in the world I'd be a travel photographer
20. I can never find rings that fit my fingers because my fingers are shaped like little cones.
21. If I ever got a tattoo I would get a small purple hawaiian looking flower on my hip
22. Me and my best friend growing up used to try to dye our hair with food coloring to look cool!
23. I could float in water for hours if I needed too, I'm really boyant
24. I love lights at night, like looking at a city at night, or fireworks, or something like that.
25. I can't believe I'm only half way done with this list
26. I've lived in 6 different towns, Rio Dell CA, Vancouver WA, Rexburg ID, Orem UT, Laie HI and Wollerau Switzerland.
27. I watched part of Saved By the Bell this morning. How did we watch that as kids?
28. There is a girl at work who pages "9198" and it's REALLY annoying. I want to reach into the speaker system and strangle her.
29. I fall asleep within 5 minutes of getting into bed and I wake up pretty easily
30. I love it when I'm sitting around on Saturday, I turn the channel to MTV, and it's a marathon of the Hills or Real World or something. Jack pot!!
31. If you want to piss me off...be late to something. I can't STAND when people are late for no good reason. Just be on time, it's not that hard, I do it all the time.
32. I yell at people in other cars. Mostly things like "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" and "MOVE YOUR BUTT!"
33. I love having long nails but I can't because of school, and my nails break pretty easily anyway.
34. My prom date turned out to be gay...he came out a few years later.
35. I ate a slug when I was like 2 or something
36. I find it really strange that no one at my work recycles. We use A LOT of paper here and people just throw it away. I have two boxes full of paper next to my desk that I need to take home and put in our recycling.
37. It's a law in Switzerland that you have to recycle.
38. I mark everyday off on my calendar at work with a big black X through it
39. I drink barely any water through the day, maybe two 9 oz bottles worth, but usually less then that.
40. My purse is large and white and I carry pretty much anything you could need in it. I used it as a carry on on one of my flights when my checked bag was to heavy.
41. My favorite desert are brownies but I LOVE chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
42. I've been to the place in Ireland where the myth of Halloween supposedly started.
43. I also went to a place that was 5,000 years old.
44. My younger brother Sean is finally going on his mission, he's 21.
45. My dad is the funniest person I know.
46. At least once a day (usually a lot more then that) I talk to the following people on the phone at work...Brittney, Kelly, Kelli, Marie, Alex, Rod, Ann, Suzanne and Darwin.
47. I write about 25 work related emails a day...social related ones...none!
48. I really want the theme to the Office as my ring tone.
49. The last movie I bought was The Holiday
50. I eat hot cereal (wheat hearts I think) every morning for breakfast.