Love the Life you Live, Live the Life you Love

I would like to officially retract a statement/admit I was wrong. Chris was right...Sir Henry has a bacterial ear infection. My poor baby... Did everyone read that? I admitted Chris was right and I was wrong. That will NOT happen again. Love, me

I have officially found the perfect, most reliable test to see what type of parent a person will be: give them a dog. Chris is absolutely cracking me up right now. I would have never guessed he'd be such a worrisome parent - but you should hear how worried he is about Sir Henry right now. Who, by the way, just has a bad case of itchy ears. Chris is practically putting a hot towel on his head, throwing him in the car, and speeding to the emergency room. Meanwhile, I'm in Utah rolling my eyes saying, "Is he bleeding out? Are limbs missing? He'll live." A while back Chris told me his dad was the type of dad who would never let his kids "cry it out" and his mom had the "they're fine" attitude. If one of them cried in the middle of the night, his dad would sneak out and hold them until they fell asleep - meanwhile if his mom was just home they'd sit in their crib crying all night until they learned to self soothe.  If someone wou...

Dear worldly citizens, I am now officially accepting donations for my mountain bike fund. Feel free to donate any amount that your heart tells you. And if that doesn't tempt you? Perhaps this puppy will pull at your heart strings in a way that makes you just desperate enough to do something a little crazy - like send me some full suspension and some carbon. I actually that's what my face looks like when I see people riding by on a really nice mountain bike.  It's either that puppy, or this bird: Probably because all the people that ride past me on a $1,000+ mountain bike are 1 of 4 things: chunky, not riding on a trail (which is where mountain bikes are meant to be...duh), retired, or looking like they're going to keel over on their side any minute from moving so slow.  My thoughts? "GIVE THAT FINE PIECE OF CARBON TO SOMEONE WHO DESERVES IT! Ohhhh hayyyy!!!!"  *sigh* ...one day. Until then, I'll enjoy my bike rides with my o...

Real quick post! Last night I got home from class around 4:30, passed out until 6:30, woke up and went for a run. I was planning on doing around 4 but it felt so good to be out in the fresh air and moving I went ahead and added a few miles. So I'm around mile 6 in this really nice neighborhood, just joggin' along the sidewalk having a merry old time - jammin' to some Talking Heads, not really paying attention. And I'm runnin' and runnin' and looking at the houses. Now people in Logan have the oddest things in their front yards- lawn gnomes, scarecrows dressed up like high school graduates, gardens that could put Martha Stewart to shame, horses, cows, pigs, etc etc etc. So I'm lovin' looking around at all the stuff. At the last second as I approach this house I notice these 3 plastic ducks sitting around a mail box, and I oogle at how realistic they look. So I look down and stare as I pass, obviously. Well, they looked realistic because they were real. ...

I'm sorry I haven't blogged! The past week my life has been 100% consumed by school - literally. I wake up at 6, do work until 8, go to class from 8-12, have a 1 hour break where I sit in my cubicle and do work, go to class from 1-5 and then come home, work out (maybe...if I can muster the energy) then do work until 10 or 11, go to bed and do it all over again. I was craving Friday like a pregnant woman craves fried pickles until I realized that this Friday we have the Sound Beginnings summer camp from 8-4. Good thing I love it. I think? So Saturday. Saturday I'm going to sleep in, stare at a wall, eat a decent meal, and maybe go for a walk. I might even get to go for a bike ride! Oh the luxury. Why did I chose to go to grad school? I was delusional and naive. But all is well, besides not having time to do anything except read read read, do projects, papers, study guides, and study- including going to the grocery store and run errands - it's really not that bad. The...

...and then this happened God I love Utah.

Wow. Just wow. Words can't even express how in love with and how much I am blown away by Utah State. Coming here was by far the best decision I've ever made in my life. Not only is it absolutely stunning - and I mean ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. But the people are incredibly nice and campus is out of this world. Yesterday I dropped mom off at the airport and pretty much cried the entire way home - I said before I would allow myself TWO cries this summer. And I already used one. So the next one has got to be a good one. But after two phone calls - first one to Christopher and then later one to Ian - solved everything and made me feel much better. Of course Christopher tried to be my knight in shining armor and offered to fly out next week to help me out but I know that this is something I need to do on my own. As much as I love Chris for always making things 100% easier for me and always being there, I know that if I let him fix everything I'll never be able to do things on my own...