Friday Thoughts-Part 5

Update: I am the proud owner of that number 1 choice painting I was telling you about. It is gorgeous! Now I just have to decide if I'll be a rebel and stick a nail in my wall...

What's on my mind? Well, to be completely honest, it's my current employment status. I have a great desire to leave the scene of my Catering career and invest in something closer to my major. But to be even more honest, it's like ripping out a part of my heart and throwing it to the dogs. Catering is comforting, while at the same time, it's fallen from grace. The first two years were the glory days. Catering was less like work and more like an escape from the woes of school to spend time with people who are interesting and great friends. But after a string of imagined abuses on my part, I'm afraid it's time for a change. I wanted to last my whole college career there though. I wanted to prove to myself that I could take the monotony that would come with sticking to one job. I wanted to prove so much but I don't feel that I did.

However, I did learn a lot. I learned how to carry three plates and look good doing it. I learned a lot on how to make a dinner go well and how to plan events (it made my last birthday a smashing success I must say). I learned I'm more like my Father than I ever thought I was (good thing) and that I am a force to be reckoned with! I learned that I have some very odd ideas on what looks nice for decoration and what doesn't. I can carry 5 blue crates of 20 plate covers each. I learned that no matter what you do for them, some people just can't be appeased. I have no fear when I get behind the wheel of a huge truck (or any car smaller than it). I now have some idea how much effort it takes to make a syndicated comic strip. I have been known to go into "Captain Mode" and every time I do, it makes me smile.

In the end, I'm not going to let Catering be a bad ending. It's a good place to work. I will always look back on it with fond memories. As to my future plans I'm currently looking for a job that either deals with econ or is clerical. I've always wanted to be a secretary. Plus I LOVE libraries and they have clerical work GALORE.

But know this! I will always have Captain hands.

Friday Thoughts- part 4

Oh! It's Friday! I was reading my various other blogs and realized I had one to write myself! Yay!

But I don't have anything particularly deep to talk about...I know! I am going to show you a purchase I'll be making soon! I have just enough extra money to make the purchase and I consider it my March present to me! That and splurging. I saw this art on display two weeks ago and fell deeply in love with them that I just had to have one. The artist has yet to contact me back, so I don't know which one I'll get, but I can't wait!

This was my 4th pick. Why? Because it embodies feminism, I think. It is titled "Why are you only looking at my leaves?" he he he. Also the yellow is a very nice color, needless to say.
My first pick. "Maybe this one will last forever" I chose this as my first because trees that are purple are my favorite. We had them all over my middle school and I adore them! They would also turn into cherry blossoms and with me loving Japan, they just become even better trees than before! Plus this picture seems to me as if you are looking up into the sky through the trees; one of my favorite activities. Gorgeous!
My third pick. "The price of survival" I just like it. I remember when I was standing there looking at it that I liked the contrast of yellow and green even though it isn't contrast at all :D

My second pick would not load D: So I suppose you don't get to see it. It's called "Do you become most beautiful when you're about to die? I do." I just love the poetry of it! I don't love that I am stuck in this font now and can't change it. That'll teach ME to copy and paste!

Anyways, like I said, while these aren't really deep thoughts, it is what I wanted to share. Fall is indeed the best season...too bad it's over and not coming for a long, long time. No worries. Snow compensates for that! :D

Sweet Smiles not Sweet Enough

Ok, I need to vent.

WHY!?! It doesn' t make sense to me. All my life I have been all smiles to hide my true intents. The thing is, I like to think I am especially so in my ward. That, and I like to believe that people believe me to be sincere when I'm happy. I suppose I do look mischevious...and I've actually worked on making my smile look more puckish. Gah. I just thought I was so much more better at this being machiavellian thing.

Let me explain. In my ward we started an assassins game. Each member of the group has an assignment to 'kill' another member in the group. You 'kill' each other by clipping each other with a clothespin. It started Monday and goes until there is one final victor.

How am I doing so far? I have avoided one assassination attempt actually. I have also had 5 failed attempts to assassinate by two targets (soon to be explained).

note: names have been changed/dropped in case anyone in the ward is reading this. That's right, I know you're looking for any advantage to assassinate me!

The attempt to kill me was this. I was in my room when my roommate Dora told me the 'Brute Squad' was at our door. (The brute squad was formed one week ago by some random guys in the Elms. This was after we had all been given our assignments.) I immediately thought "Guys in our ward set up the Brute Squad through people in the Elms in order to win the assassin's game!!!" Armed with my clothespin, I went in the front room to face my foes. Was I being paranoid? Could the guys in my ward be that dastardly!? You'd like to THINK so WOULDN'T you!

We chatted for a bit. I expressed my incredulity that the brute squad even existed. They claimed that was why they were there, to prove that they really did! But I knew better. JUST as he was claiming this, the one on the left reaches out to clip me with a clothespin! There was a struggle, my piano was knocked over, BUT I WAS VICTORIOUS!!! I clipped him before he did me! (if you know who your assassin is, you can do that and it kills them instead of them killing you!) Unfortunately that little rule I just told you in the parenthesis wasn't made up until after the action. It was actually made up BECAUSE of the action. So now I know who my killer is, who I'm supposed to kill, and the 5 times I've tried to kill either of them tonight failed miserably.

So why the rant? I was told by my target's roommates that rumors are going around the ward not to trust me in any shape or form! Is this some twisted way of trying to compliment me and my mischievous ways!? I suppose it just means everyone thinks I'll be abnormally good at this game...wait a second...this can be an oober advantage...why should I see it as so? Let's just say that fear is one of my favorite tools. OH! This is going to be a fun game. No worries. I'll keep you updated :) Hopefully I'll be the last assassin standing!!!

Friday Thoughts-part 3

I have a new music love interest.

Tangent: An update on my favorite band. The Killers have almost beat out The Beatles. The reason being that The Beatles have more songs out than The Killers, inherently tallying the number of songs that I like of said artists in their favor. So until the future release of some more Killers happiness, Beatles stand: End Tangent


He's got class, he's got sass. He plays the piano and writes his own songs. You may know him best for his song "Rock and Roll" and I just randomly discovered him down the line compared to many, many others. His name is Eric Hutchinson. His fan's are called Hutchheads? But I discovered him for a different reason. On an undisclosed website, I was directed to his page on Youtube and fell in love with his newest project, namely, making up songs based on suggestions from fans. Not only are the songs not stupid, but rather catchy!

Since this is supposed to be mainly a thought digression, I will simply feature one of these videos/songs. It's called "The BCS SUX". It applies to my football team! Who would write a song about the BCS, I mean, seriously!? So cool. While I am not personally informed on how the BCS works, I have heard many a oh-so-fanatical guys in my ward complain about the BCS. I can see some truth in Mr. Hutchinson's song. Every year I seem to get the privilege of decorating the USC Rose Parade float. While I'm sure they are an excellent team, it fills me with chagrin since I'm more of a Bruin's girl. But as I stated before, it's quite the catchy tune! I hope it to be purchasable in the near future.

Well, I hope you take this opportunity to discover Mr. Hutchinson if you haven't already. I hope his music fills you with such inexplicable joy as it does for me.

Hallelujah!

I LOVE soundtracks! The one from 'Shrek 2' happens to be one of my favorite, though the first is a good one too. That being said, one of my favorite songs off of this album is 'hallelujah' by rufus wainwright. I finally found a rendition that I can listen to over and over again! Just wanted to share it with you -> http://www.youtube.com/user/hermanoproctor#p/a/u/0/MUTaz7J5emk

Plus it's my personal goal to up the amount of 'views' for this video as many times as I can cause it's such a gorgeous rendition, but I think I have to make a youtube account to do that? That would be troublesome.

Friday Thoughts-Part 2

Skiing

How amazing is it to go 30 mph down a hill with no form of technology save 4 sticks? It's amazing. I love it cause I do believe it is the closest I will ever come to flying!

Of course I'm always trying to get better. Three weeks ago I went to Brighton and did just that. I pushed myself harder, I went faster than ever before, and I even did a jump of 1 foot off a little ramp. Very praiseworthy if I do say so myself.

However I have a goal this season and that is to go enough times so that I can no longer count how many times I've gone on my fingers. I've gone 8 times, so I think I can commit to going two more times this season, no? Otherwise I'll just revise my goal to be 10 times before this year is up and pray that it dumps snow next winter...which I already do anyways!

The real question is, do I want to buy my own set of ski's? How do I decide!?!? Well, that's simple economics my friends. Until I go enough times in order to make buying ski's an efficient choice, I should continue to rent. To rent it costs me $12 and to buy ski's it's around $700. So methinks once I start going 60 times a season, I'll buy my own set of ski's. :D

Friday Thoughts- part 1

I'm going on a mission

Not really.

I just randomly think about it from time to time. It's dangerous grounds, let me tell you. For a moment you teeter on the edge of deciding to do it before you remember that you won't be doing it. I always begin to think about it when I realize, come this June, I'll be the ONLY one in my family NOT to have taken out their endowments. Although you probably shouldn't be competitive about such things...I HATE that my little brother beat me to it! AH!

That aside, I also always wonder where in the world would I go? I base where I would have gone on my sister. I figure they treat all sister missionaries the same in that if a sister missionary studied Spanish for 3ish years before the mish, they'll send her somewhere Spanish speaking. As such I'll go somewhere where they speak French for sure!

Last year I was in a ward where every member seemed to think I'd gone on a mission. We'd be doing the standard getting to know you questions (major, what you want to do with your life, your favorite version of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, etc.) and missions would come up. I LOVE the look on a face when they'd find out I hadn't. But I decided in order to avoid that situation that I would start telling people I did serve a mission. Canada, South Montreal, French Speaking. Best year and a half of my life.

But then again...people often get sent to the last place they want to go. God has a sense of humor if you're wondering why that happens. If THAT's the case...I think I'll end up in a Spanish speaking mission...in the States. I have no desire to learn Spanish and going on a mission where I'd have to might be more than I could bare. Then again it might teach me to abnormally love Spanish, which wouldn't be too horrible I imagine. Then I could understand that one Killer's song in its entirety.