CrAzY

I have so many assignments due that I don't even know where to begin. I can feel the stress beginning to accumulate in my shoulders. This is the point in the semester when I just want to cry and drop out. Not to mention it's freezing outside. I'm going to go sit on the couch and start one of my assignments and throw myself a pity party.

Flashback Friday

Youth Conference at Snow College
2000

S.O.S - Gas Leak!

So, yesterday I had just settled into my last class of the day when a guy burst through the door and told us to evacuate the building because their was a gas leak. We gathered our belongings and shuffled outside in front of the building. There were 2 helicopters circling above, 3 fire engines filling their hoses, and a bunch of students and faculty just wondering what in the world was going on.

We decided to walk over to our cars which were parked in the small lot just east of the stadium. There were several fireman who told us that there had been a natural gas line break and we could not start our cars but we could push them to the road and start them there. We pushed several people out when another fireman came running into the parking lot telling us that if anyone tried to get into their car he would have them arrested! Yikes. I guess starting our cars could have caused an explosion! (once we saw the news we realized our car was only about 75 ft away from the break) Anyway, we were all shooed out of the parking lot and I called Nate, who was studying at the Union Building, and we headed up to the Library only to see everyone coming out because it too had been evacuated. It was crazy!

I called my mom and she immediately told me about a show she and Jacob had watched called something like, "Explosions Gone Wrong" and she told us to run far far away. We started walking down 400 S and we were stopped by several news crews who interviewed us. We were live on KSL around 4:15 and then they showed a clip of me on Channel 2 shortly after, and on the 10pm news. However, I can't find any of the clips of us online :( So we walked down to Whole Foods to get some hot chocolate since it was absolutely freezing out and we hung around for several hours before riding Trax back up to the school where we were finally able to get our car and go home.

What an adventure!! I can't tell you the look of joy on Nate's face when we got the emergency alert text from the school that said all classes had been cancelled until the following day. Nate was so happy he didn't have through 3 hours of Asian Economics that night.

Here is a link to the story: (at about 50 seconds in you can see in the top left hand corner the parking lot where our car was parked)

http://www.truveo.com/Gas-leak-fixed-at-University-of-Utah/id/3575936110

Sea of Galillee

Found a sweet new P.J. shirt for $5 at Pibbs!

Flashback Friday

Totally Random Collage - Part II

Great idea!

Alphabet Soup

Got a new addition to my alphabet collection in the mail this week. The lovely lowercase "e" was a great buy off ebay - only $4.30! It's a surplus highway sign letter from New York. Only 17 letters to go! I am really wanting some bright colors in the mix so if anyone sees any spunky letters let me know. I also want to find an old round sprinkler head, like the one below, for my "O".

Flashback Friday

Totally Random Collage - Part I
I made for this some project in
Mr. Cottle's seminary class.
2000

(I had to scan this in sections because it's on a piece of posterboard
that's too big for my scanner - tune in next Friday for Part II)

I can't believe...

...we have had a copy machine for 8 months and haven't tried this.
Nate wins for best profile and I took the trophy for most creepy.

Rubio's

On Tuesdays Nate and I are both in school from 9am until 5pm. Then we have an hour break to eat dinner together before Nate has another class from 6pm-9pm. Good times. Anyway, trying to bring lunch and dinner to school is a nightmare (my backpack already feels like I am carrying around a baby walrus) and the cafeteria at the U is pretty much closed by 5pm (which I think is ridiculous) so Tuesdays have become our out to dinner reward night for such a long day in class. Luckily 400 South, which is only a few blocks from campus, has a pretty decent selection of places to eat.

Rumbi became "our spot" (their Aloha salad with tofu is awesome!) and then one day the parking spots in front of Rumbi were all taken so I parked in front of Rubio's which is right next door. We both saw the sign at the same time: "1/2 Price Fish Tacos Every Tuesday!" We thought we would give it a try and have been going every Tuesday for the past three weeks! A lime wedge is included with each taco and the sauce that they put on is finger lickin' good! For those of you who like fish tacos this is an awesome deal - $1.25 for a fish taco (you get the option of corn or flour tortillas - we like corn - and we ask for lettuce instead of cabbage) and 50 cents for chips ---I happily said goodbye to spending $17 at Rumbi! Yes, we live in Utah so of course there is no comparing these fish tacos to Wahoos, and their salsa bar is no El Chubasco, but for $1.25 I'm not complaining too much.

Don't Judge Too Quickly

In one of my classes last week we had a guest presenter who works for the Division of Child and Family Services. She is a CPS worker (Child Protective Services) and she shared several fascinating yet heartbreaking stories about her experiences at DCFS. She was very professional yet approachable, and seemed to be an awesome social worker. (I was inspired) At the end of her presentation she showed us a few videos that did a hilarious job of illustrating the fact that you can't always judge a situation on how it appears. In most of my classes we are constantly deconstructing our assumptions, biases, and any other prejudices that could effect the way we impact a client. I thought these videos were clever!

Construction Site!

Changing things up a bit....stay tuned!

Flashback Friday

Senior Year
Pudding Wrestling

"Take em' down, down, down
To the mat, mat, mat!
Take em' down to the mat lay em' flat!"
(complete with hand motions)

America's Best Dance Crew

I'm totally into this show.

Here's who I think should win:

Has anybody else watched any episodes? I think there have been several seasons--I randomly stumbled upon it after my brain exploded one night from too much homework so I decided to veg-out in front of the TV. After each show I have the urge to bust a serious move.

Go Quest crew!!!

Kittens, Inspired by Kittens

Saw this on Hilary's blog and just couldn't get enough. I think I've watched it a dozen times. I think the screams are my favorite.