I'm addicted to blogging. I admit it. Where this addiction comes from I will never know.
Anyways, I just wanted to let you all know about two new blogs that you MUST read!!!
The first is a blog that I am co-writing with my friend Taren:
www.advicealamore.blogspot.com
Yes, it's a love advice blog. Given only by the best :-)
Next is my new blog.
www.apinkypromise.blogspot.com
No worries I am keeping this blog too. I know you were worried.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
He's Just Not That Into You
I was excited for this movie. The trailers made it look hilarious! Granted, there were some pretty funny parts, i.e. Gigi's horrible phone message to Connor, but it really didn't end up being what I had hoped.
This film stars: Jennifer Anniston, Ben Affleck, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Long, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Connelly, Drew Barrymore and the ever slutty Scarlett Johansen. Yes I said ever slutty... I'm obviously not a Scarlett Johansen fan :-)
Each of these characters have different relationship dramas that they are navigating through:
Jennifer Anistons', Beth, and Ben Afflecks, Neil, have been in a relationship for 7 years and Neil has yet to propose. He loathes the idea of marriage and this, alas, drives Beth away after 7 years of patiently waiting.
Ben and Janine (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Connelly) have been 'happyly' married since college and are building a new home together when, lo' and behold, Scarlett Johansen (Anna) shows up on the scene and seduces Ben. Now I know it takes two people to have an affair and I may be being a little biased when I call Anna a slut but, come on, she is! She strips down naked in front of Ben and jumps in the pool, even though he has told her multiple times that he is married. I guess Ben shouldn't have been in that situation anyways... So it's both of their darn faults. (Yes, darn faults.)
Drew Barrymore's plot line was a little weird and not really noteworthy. She has horrible luck finding a guy online and then finally meets one at a cafe. The end.
My favorite plot line of the whole movie, and the plot line that saved the show, was Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Long, or Gigi and Alex. Gigi is the typical crazy girl who waits by her phone 24/7 when she is hoping that a guy that she went on a date with it calling. She is so clueless when it comes to the dating world it's hilarious. Alex, on the other hand, knows everything about the dating world and loathes it more than anything. During a chance meeting at a bar that Alex owns they meet and Alex becomes Gigi's go-to-guy when it comes to dating advice! You can only imagine how this turns out :-)
On the whole the movie was... ok. It was definitely too long and could have lost some of the storylines and been fine (*cough* Scarlett Johnansen and Drew Barrymore *cough*). But I feel that the other storylines made it worth watching: once.
My rating: 2.5 HsM's out of 5 HsM's
* My rating scale is 1-5 High School Musicals. 1 being on the same level with Twilight and 5 being on the same level as High School Musical 3!
A Good Read:
A Review From Publishers Weekly:
Mirandette made headlines when he and two friends were severely injured by a terrorist bomb in Cairo, Egypt, in April of 2005. His brother, Alex, who was weeks away from his 19th birthday, died in the attack. It was a tragic end to a journey that began in Cape Town, South Africa, months earlier when three young men (a fourth joined them later) set out on the journey that would change their lives. Mirandette had felt God's insistent call while studying at the U.S. Air Force Academy; he left the U.S. to help a relief organization in Melilla, Spain, then to assist earthquake victims in Morocco. But he felt he needed to see and experience the rest of Africa, so the young men took off together. His account of their 9,000-mile motorcycle journey is riveting. They faced wild animals, hostile people, civil wars, a lack of food and several crashes along the way, but this intrepid group never wavered in their resolve to finish the trip—until a bomb ripped their worlds apart. Mirandette reveals his own religious searching, questions and qualms, yet urges readers to make the choice to "follow and believe." This is a tale of spiritual quest and huge adventure that ends in tragedy but not regret. (Apr.)
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Another Good Read:
Description from Amazon:
From the author of "Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism" comes this exuberant and groundbreaking autobiographical novel about the modern Mormon convert experience. Revealing the author's hard-won path to meaning, faith, and forgiveness, "On the Road to Heaven" is a love story about a girl and a guy and their search for heaven-a lotta love, a little heaven, and one heck of a ride in between. In a style reminiscent of and offering homage to Jack Kerouac, "On the Road to Heaven" traces an LSD-to-LDS pilgrimage across the geographic and cultural landscape of two continents in the late twentieth century. From the 1970s hippie heyday of the Colorado mountains to the coca fields of Colombia, it's a journey through Thoreau ascetics, Ram Dass Taoism, and Edward Abbey monkey-wrenching to the mission fields of one of the world's fastest-growing-and most trenchantly conservative-religions. Few stories have ever described a more unusual road to redemption.
I just finished this book and WOW!!! It was definitely one I was marking up along the way!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
A New Era
I changed the name of my blog. Yes, I have conceded and made my blog a "couple's blog" as Taren so nicely coined it. My reasoning behind this is quite simple: I love Devin, and I want him to be a part of basically everything in my life, and my blog follows my life so.... it's now Devin's blog too! (Even though I don't think he will ever post anything on it... but he's allowed to if he wants to.)
Here are some pictures to show you how happy I am :)
23 Truths
23 because I am 23
1. I detest running more than anyone I know. Except for, maybe, Taren. But she doesn't hate it more than I do. We would just be equal in our hate for running.
2. I know the blind industry inside and out.
3. My chilli has to have lots and lots and lots of sugar in it. It's almost candied Chilli. I love it.
4. Brian Littrel from The Backstreet Boys is my all time favorite celebrity.
5. I love Disney Channel more than your 5 year old daughter. In my eyes, everything that Disney touches turns to gold.
6. I am the worst letter writer in the world. Don't move somewhere far away and expect me to send you letters. I'll write them but I'll never send them. (Sorry Drew and Ciara)
7. All time favorite TV show: The OC. (Still!!!)
8. I think that Devin has the best smile in the world! Seriously!
9. I have really small fingers. Most of my rings have to be bought in the kids section of jewelery stores.
10. I sobbed loudly during Million Dollar Baby. People in rows in front of me in the theater were looking back to make sure I was okay.
11. I'm going to marry my home teacher on June 19th, 2009
12. I hate being warm/hot at night. I can't sleep if the temperature is above 72 degrees. This stinks because my roommates refuse to turn on the AC ever!
13. I really liked Jr. High
14. My third grade teacher, Miss Meservey, was my favorite teacher. But she was also the only teacher who ever gave me detention! (twice!!)
15. I was a the manager of our school store when I was in 6th grade! I began the "Troll Sensation" at Highland Elementary.
16. I love pomegranites.
17. I have an amazing talent for the mario games on the regular nintendo! Old school!
18. Little Women is one of my favorite books. This list also includes: Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Book of Mormom by various Prophets, any books about the Tudor era and Henry VIII and The Only Road North by Erik Mirandette. I love so many books I can't even begin to list all of my favorites!
19. I hate popular music (for the most part). There are a few exceptions to this though: Hannah Montana, High School Musical and The Jonas Brothers.
20. I hate winter and I am obsessed with summer.
21. I don't like girly nail polish. When I paint my nails I like them to be either black, dark blue or dark purple.
22. Marissa Cooper (The O.C.) is my fashion icon.
23. I am soooo happy!!!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
The Beast – The Real Story
4th grade was really wearing me out. There were just so many things that I had to worry about: boys, math, boys, writing in cursive, boys, science experiments… oh yeah did I mention boys? It had been a long and tiring day and I felt like I deserved to take a little siesta on my bed, in my room, in our nice cozy basement of my family’s house in American Fork. I had been hesitant to move down into the basement at first but I didn’t let anyone know. My best friends Meghan Johnson and Melynne King were already on the move to their basements so I couldn’t be the only one who stayed up stairs with mommy and daddy. Before I was allowed to move into the basement I had to prove to my parents that I wouldn’t be petrified during the night with them two levels away. So I valiantly grabbed a sleeping bag and my teddy bear (Alexander) and trudged down the seemingly endless stairs to what was then ‘the craft room’.
There has never been a night in my life that has been quite as long as that night. I became more and more jumpy with every creak of our 5 year old home and every car that passed by leaving shadows on my wall from their headlights. Needless to say when the sun finally rose and my family was bustling about the house getting ready for the day I was very intimidated by the thought of moving down stairs and I knew that I didn’t want to do it by myself. I began formulating a plan in my head of how to get around being the sole basement occupant. My brother Andrew being only two years younger than me was the perfect candidate to move into the dark abyss of a basement with me. It didn’t take much convincing him when I so kindly explained to him that he wouldn’t be cool if he stayed up stairs with mommy and daddy. So after a couple days of moving and getting everything set up in our new rooms Andrew and I were now the proud new inhabitants of ‘our basement’.
Now back to the day at hand. As I was lying on my bed trying to salvage any amount of laziness that I had lost throughout my busy day I heard a bustling coming from our playroom which was at the bottom of the stairs and in between Andrews room and mine. Knowing that I would never be able to relax until the basement was quiet I went out into the family room to tell whoever it was to quiet down.
The scene before my eyes was quite hilarious. My mom, Andrew and my younger sister Stephanie were all in huddled together in the playroom and they were all eyeing the staircase. I looked over to the staircase and saw a huge hairy spider sitting on one of the steps. Around said hairy spider were many toys that had been thrown at the spider in a futile attempt to smash it without getting close. My mom related to me later in life that she was too afraid to throw a soft baseball bat at it because she was afraid it would land close to the spider and ‘pop’ the spider up and in our direction. I, of course, joined in the huddled mass at the bottom of the stairs due to my extreme arachnophobia.
Hours later when my dad arrived home from work he walked in to an empty house. He called out for his family and heard faint yells from the basement. Upon investigation he found us in the exact position we had been in hours earlier. He swiftly killed the spider, which had moved only inches from its original spot, and relieved us from our vigilant posts.
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