Oops, I did it again

I woke up this morning at 6:50am.
For those of you scratching you head thinking, "Doesn't Lisa have to be at work at 6:30 every morning?" The answer is "Yes, yes she does". My alarm didn't go off this morning, so I inadvertantly slept in. How do things like that happen? Well, the day before, I woke up quite a while before my alarm, so I turned it off, and being the genuis that I am, I failed to turn it back on when I went to bed last night.

On another note, my friend Julianne owns a karaoke machine, so we decided to throw a karaoke party on Tuesday, it was a blast! Singing cheesy, horrible songs from our childhoods, sappy love songs, twangy country tunes, throw in a little ABBA, and you've got the makings for a good time. And one of the best parts is that we have Cory on video singing and dancing to a lot of girly songs, pretty much priceless!

The tree smells like bad Mexican food

We're in the final stretch of July, which means that the year is halfway over already. Yes, you heard me correctly. Half way there. (If I'm lucky, I just succeeded in getting Bon Jovi stuck in your head)

Anyway, it's been a little over a week since my last post, so I thought I'd just update on a couple things.

Firstly, my little...well...younger brother David received his mission call this last Wednesday, I was hoping he'd get called somewhere he'd have to learn to appreciate having to eat interesting foods, the kid is a very, very picky eater, I'm pretty sure he lives on pizza and reese's pieces, how he's only a buck fifty, is beyond me. To my dismay, and my entire family's suprise, he got called state-side. Not only was he called state-side, but he was called to the Everett, Washington Mission. Any of you who know me well enough, know that that puts him about an hour away from where I spent the first 17 years of my life. What are the odds of that? So basically, my little brother got called home. But not in the sense that he died or anything. :)

Secondly, I put together a lot of heavy furniture over the weekend. Heavy, heavy furniture. So heavy in fact, that I had to call in reinforcements to get the boxes out of my lovely friend Megan's car. So a big "Thanks!" to Mark, Dave & Alan, you guys are fantastic! And an even bigger "Thanks!" to Megan for letting us use her beloved car in the first place.

Thirdly, I've been really restless lately, unfortunately it manifests itself when I am trying to sleep, so yet again, and what may seem like a "normal, reoccurring thing", I have been tired.

So that was then, this is now.

I'm going to skip out on FHE to go to the gym. Don't judge me.

Oh my aching feet

So for all the scrambling up and down mountains, walking around the Avenues and downtown Salt Lake, and hitting the gym, my shoes aren't that great. Amazingly, I have had this pair of shoes since about my freshman year of high school. That's quite a while. Strictly speaking, they aren't running shoes, they aren't hiking shoes, they really aren't even walking shoes, but that is what I use them for, along with the occasional volleyball game thrown in there somewhere. They have traversed hills and mountains, walked through creeks and giant puddles, plodded along the beach (they still have some sand in there somewhere too, it makes itself known every now and again) and explored the many different levels of my neighborhood.
Unfortunately, this "not being what they're made for" quality, is taking its toll on my feet, which hurt. Someday I shall buy these lovely shoes I saw on NewBalance.com, but for now, I shall continue to make do with my good 'ol standby shoes from yesteryear.

What are men to rocks & mountains?

I went to Big Cottonwood Canyon for the first time today.
BEAUTIFUL!
I was simply blown away by the beauty and majesty of the peaks.

I have been into hiking for years, but I've been doing a bit more of it recently, a couple times a week or so, and I love it!
So today when we went up the canyon, I was overcome.
The fact that I also saw an incredibly beautiful, beautiful motorcycle while I was up there didn't hurt either!

Showtunes Saturday Night

It's Saturday night, and that means Showtunes!
KOZY 106.5 plays showtunes every Saturday night starting at 6:00pm, and it has been a long time since I have listened to them, usually I'll hear them if I'm in the car or something, but I decided to listen at home today.

I was having a little ADD tonight and started designing a house, did a bunch of crossword puzzles, doodled, checked my e-mail, but mostly I listened to the radio.

It reminded me of when I did theatre and how much I loved it, and how much I want to do it again. Someday...

I'm poor. the end.

Miss "Independent"?

I'm in a very frustrating situation right now.
I need to finish school. I have registered for a number of classes for the fall, and as the time draws nearer to the start date, I realize that I don't have the money to go. I'm not sure what to do, my program doesn't (or at least hasn't up til now) accept Financial Aid, they did however recently amend some parts of the program so that it may allow Financial Aid, so in hopes for that, I went to fill out a FAFSA, however, apparently I'm not old enough to be considered "independent" even though I haven't lived at home for quite a while now, and have paid my own way through school up to this point. I am a measly 24 days too young. 24 days! ugh... anyway, I have to call my school and ask if they will allow me to "waive my dependency" so that I can finish the application.

Money sucks y'know.

Happy Independence Day!

Yay for the 4th of July!
The day we celebrate our country's independence. Unless you live in or visit Logan, Utah, in which case, you probably celebrate on the 3rd. Logan has its firework show on the 3rd of July, not entirely sure why, it just does.
Kelly and I went up on Friday morning to Bear Lake where my family was getting together and spending the day. They rented SeaDoos and had picnic fixin's and whatnot. Altogether a good time. My adorable nephew James was there, and he tried to bury me in the sand, face first. Good thing I love the kid!
Kelly and I must have spent a little too much time in the direct sun, because we got fried. Absolutely fried. I haven't been in this much pain from a sunburn before, it's not so much fun.

Anyway, it made me look very patriotic today since I was wearing blue shorts against my white legs, with my badly sunburnt arms. Proud to be an American baby!

If you love me, Plant me a tree

I have a very large, very beautiful black & white print of a lane lined with trees on one of the walls in my bedroom. I love it. Actually, it is probably one of my favorite pictures that I own, a close second to the picture of another tree that Kelly gave me for Christmas last year.

I love nature, and trees in particular.

I often lay on my bed a look at my aforementioned picture and imagine that I am walking down that beautiful lane (in black & white of course, everything looks better in black & white sometimes) and just feeling the peace and serenity of the place.

Someday I hope to live in an area that has a lot of mountains, forests and just overall has a lot of incredible nature that I can explore with my family. Growing up in Washington, the woods were practically right outside my front door (or my back door for that matter) and some of my fondest memories are playing in them, walking the trails to the park, hiking Little Si, and just being out in it!

Seriously love it! I don't know when I'll get my fill of trees, but I don't think it will be any time soon. Someday I want to plant one and be able to watch it grow as my family grows. But that's another story for another distant time of my life.