Wednesday, December 29, 2010

the soup of the year

(or new year's eve)
Every year, on New Year's Eve, my family makes a beautiful delicious soup.
Portuguese Bean Soup.
Thank you Portugal. Your soup is delicious.
And there's currently 15 quarts of it at my house. Wooooooooooooooooo!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

I'm not sure if this is real,

The Baby Snuggie
But I'm torn between laughing, wanting to punch whoever came up with it, and wanting one.

I never really liked the brady bunch

They were too happy and perky. Their conflict was very full house-esque. Little things that didn't really matter and were always resolved by the end of the episode.
Also, their backyard didn't have grass. It had astro-turf.
And they mowed it
.

But mostly, it just reminds me of a traumatizing event from high school.
I was a freshmen in high school with a Seventeen Magazine. September 2003. It had Brittany Murphy on it.
Her hair was adorable.
I decided that my next hair cut would look like hers. I thought that it would be great.
It didn't, and it wasn't.

At this time, Kathleen was a junior in high school, and as such was not yet working wonders on my hair. I don't remember who cut it. But it was baaaad. I cried for days. I wore my hair in a short little pony tail for weeks.
(This isn't just one bad hair cut. It is immortalized on a banner sized picture of the state winning girls track team in the gym of Broken Arrow Senior High. If you would really like to see this fiasco of style, you can go to the gym and look for it. I'd rather you didn't, though)

To add to my dismay of this horrid hair cut, I went to school with beaten spirits and very low self esteem, only to be told by a friend,
"you look like Bobby Brady."
Not Marcia. Not Jan. Not even Cindy.
Bobby.
Just in case you didn't catch it,
Bobby's a boy.
The sad thing is that he was right. I had better teeth, a girlier face, a little longer hair, but my hair (bangs especially) did bear a horrid resemblance to little Bobby.

I never really got over it.


Sunday, December 26, 2010

best. disney. princess. EVER!

Merry Christmas, darling.

Hello! I just wanted to say a belated "happy Christmas, Harry!" to you all. I know that Christmas was yesterday, but I was so busy opening presents and hanging out with my familia that I just couldn't be bothered with charging my compy and getting on the Internet.

BUT! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year) filled with candy and Jimmy Stewart and popcorn and Bing Crosby and lights and cookies and oranges and wrapping paper and Ralphie.

So, Happy Christmas, Ron. I love you all, and hope you have a wonderful New Year.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

We're DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!

Finals are over (for me).
Congratulations to me.
Tomorrow, I am going home.
Yay.

Monday, December 13, 2010

I want to see this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOyBVXDJ9Q

Why?
Because I love him:

and her:
and this:
Why do I have finals?

I'm gettin' old

When I was a freshmen, I could stay out late. I could hang out with Katie, Dana, and Bianca until 4 in the morning and get up at 8 to go to class, then do it again the next day.

Now, however, I can't do that. I never stay up past 12:20 without passing out. I need a nap the next day. The days when it is absolutely necessary for me to stay up late, I'm a zombie the next day.

I can't decide if I'm getting old or if its 4 years of sleep deprivation catching up to me. Maybe after I graduate I'll just sleep for a year.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

the savior of my nails.

For my birthday, Kathleen got me this:
It is a beautiful beautiful thing. I can paint my nails and leave the polish on until I want to take it off, not until it chips off. I love it with my whole heart.
Just thought you ought to know.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

sick!

Two days ago, I saw a guy eating ice cream off the floor. Because he dropped it there.
Really, sir? Really?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Cannibalistic Mutant

I think my stomach is trying to eat itself*.
And in this instance, my stomach is a saber-toothed whale with 7 sets of teeth.
A scary--and painful--thought.


*Not in the I'm really hungry way, but rather in the I hope you feel pain for the rest of your life way.

wash face, brush teeth, take out contacts.

Why do those three steps seem so
GINORMOUS
when I'm tired?

Monday, November 29, 2010

secret wish

I always want to open the boxes under the trees in the library. Are they empty, or are they secret presents?

Harses harses harses

For the past couple of days, I've been listening to Christmas music non-stop. It's my right. It's after Thanksgiving, and we all know that Christmas music is the most glorious music of all.
I have a lot of new (to me) and awesome Christmas songs (including Jackson 5's Santa Clause is Coming to Town) and I've been listening to the classic favorites (White Christmas, The Christmas Song, The Chanuka Song, All I Want For Christmas Is You, etc.). However, there's one song I wish I had that I cannot find. It's Jingle Bells/Sleigh Ride by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. You may know it as the song in Sleepless in Seattle where Meg Ryan sings "harses harses harses harses harses dodolodoloooo." I just want to listen to it and sing that part. It's my favorite.

Also, while watching I'll Be Home For Christmas with my childhood love Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Dana and I found this song. It is amazing.



Saturday, November 27, 2010

leaving on a jetplane.

I believe that I have mentioned before my dislike of flying. But, I don't think I've told you why. I know that flights can go smoothly. I've heard that it can happen, but somehow, it's never happened to me.

Examples:

1. The first time I flew on my own, I was going to BYU to visit my sister for spring break my junior year in high school. My flight was to leave at 1:00 in the afternoon and I should have arrived in Provo around 6:00. I got through security, was sitting in my gate calmly waiting to board the plane, when a loud voice came on the intercom and told everyone to go back to security. Let me emphasize something.
Everyone. Not just my flight, not just the airline, but every single person in the airport had to go back through security. Then wait for about 3 hours before we were allowed to go back to our gates. Then wait another 2 hours before we actually made it into the air. I don't think I made it into Provo until around 10:00 at night. Why? Because some idiot tried to get onto an airplane by walking around the airport. First really crappy experience.

2. For the most part, the next couple times were okay. Don't get me wrong. Lots of turbulance, lots of delays, but no huge issues. Then I flew to Jackson, MS after my freshman year to help Daisy after she had twins. I had a layover in Chicago. Dana told me to find the rainbow tunnel. I never found it, but that's only the tip of the ice burg of why that layover was bad. Along with not finding the magical rainbow tunnel, there was a ginormous storm in Chicago. Torrential rain. My 1 1/2 hour layover turned into a 7 hour layover. I was starving, tired, and beat down after finals, and I sat in the Chicago airport with no cell phone to tell anyone what was going on. Finally, I got on the plane at 11:00 at night (I had been traveling since 8:00 am). When I arrived in the airport in Jackson and my bag came off that little roundabout, I found out that the jerk airport people had left my dark blue duffel bag out in the rain during the entire storm. The dark blue die leaked on all of my clothes. Then I got down to the pick up area and there was no one to pick me up. So, at 1:00 in the morning in the airport in Jackson, Mississippi, I sat down on the floor and cried. I continued to cry for about 5 minutes until my mom came running in the door.

3. More delays, more crap. But, yesterday's flight took the cake. The flight went pretty smoothly. It was not the plane that I was the problem. It was me.

Yesterday morning, I had to wake up at 3:30 in order to get from Joplin, Missouri to the Tulsa airport by the time my flight left at 6:43. I had to drive, as my mom had to work that day and my dad's eyes make it hard for him to drive in the dark. About 10 minutes from the airport, my stomach turned itself inside out and decided that it was time for me to not be driving anymore. After crying out "Imgonnapukeimgonnapukeimgonnapuke!" I pulled over to the side of the road, switched places with my father and curled in a ball in the corner of the car until we made it to the airport. I made it through security and onto the plane without a glitch. The flight went smoothly, I assume. I slept through it. I woke up when we were taxiing around and my stomach was flip flopping all around. It was upside down and inside out. It was tap dancing and doing back hand springs (my stomach is very talented, apparently). I knew that even though there was nothing in my stomach, it was coming up. And it did. Thank heavens for barf bags.
However, the next flight did not have those happy little bags in them. For this one I had to make a fun for the bathroom. Getting sick in an airplane bathroom is not really the easiest experience.

I am grateful for airplanes. I'm glad that I can make a 22 hour car trip shrink to 7 hours. It's great, it's exciting, it's fantastic. However, just once in my life, I'd like it if I could just have one flight that goes smoothly.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Step Into Christmas

You know how Thanksgiving is next week?
And then it's CHRISTMAS!?!?
Do you know what's happening all over the world on Thanksgiving night?
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!

If you happen to be in Utah, you can go to Temple Square for sophistication and snowflakes of light on the ground.
photo courtesy of

If you're in Tulsa, OK, you can go to Utica square for the always exciting, yet slightly creepy, animatronic scenes of the nutcracker.
photo courtesy of
I really wish I had a picture of those lovely vignettes for you. This video is really the closest i can get to them, just pretend the puppets are rats and ballerinas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTsRUIVv2WM&feature=related
(it wouldn't let me embed, shorry)

However, if you happen to be lucky enough to be in Broken Arrow, OK on that wonderful day, or really, any day from Thanksgiving to New Years, you really need to go to Rhema. Rhema is a church/Bible college that spans across the space of at least a square mile. At Christmas, Rhema goes crazy with their 1.8 million lights. There's a giant tree to rival Rockefeller center (although Rhema's is just lights, no actual tree), there's about 10 nativity scenes, there's a duck pond, a Noah's arc scene, a cowboy setting, a "happy birthday Jesus" train, a tunnel that makes you feel like you're walking through a time machine, lights syncopated with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, swans that will try to kill you, signs that say "thou shalt not park here," and so much more that really has become the most wonderful tradition Broken Arrow has ever established.
photo courtesy ofphoto courtesy of
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aerial view
photo courtesy of


The day the music died.

(Kay, maybe not the music. Maybe it's actually the Tabasco)
When my parent brought me to BYU, they took me grocery shopping and to Wal-Mart.
My mom helped me pick out the food and all of the household items.
My dad bought me a flashlight and Tabasco. Green and red.
Today, the green ran out. I almost cried.
I know, that's a weird thing to be sad about, but I almost made it all 4 years on those bottles. For some reason I get really attached to weird things that my parents buy me.
Bamboo, Tabasco, the flashlight.
I may keep the bottle.
I know, I have issues.
photo courtesy of

Monday, November 15, 2010

I is for Ichabod.

Today I ate two apples.
(count 'em, 2!)
On both, I twisted the stem while singing the alphabet, you know, to find out the first letter of my future husband's name?
Both times, it came off on "I."
Male names, I thought, that start with I.
Isaac, Irving, Igor, ICHABOD FLETCHMAN! (sticky icky to my boys).
Perfection. Perf. Ect. Shun.photo courtesy of

crayons.

My sister showed me this song, and I've listened to it non-stop since. It's so nice.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EELEjeYzfjM

Monday, November 8, 2010

It's a soup kind of day.

(I'm making up for my lack of blogging all last week right now)
It's cold and rainy and windy and wet and I want to sit in my bed in my pjs and eat soup and drink hot chocolate and watch this movie



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiypbCFV7Ao

or this one



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZr_SvCcXc


Why do I have to go to school? Why?

Dear Kathleen,

Will you come walk on my back? It buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurns! (slash just really hurts)
Love, Carrie

Dear Grooveshark.

I'm in advertising. I understand that they paid for the spot and so you have to put their ad up,
HOWEVER
Your big huge Victoria's Secret ad spread across the page makes listening to grooveshark awkward on BYU campus. I feel like someone's going to come kick me out for viewing inappropriate material. This is why I am listening to Pandora right now.


I'm sorry, can we still be friends?

Friday, November 5, 2010

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming

(and other potato related stories)
Today, after spending 5 hours in the library, totaling to 8 hours on my portfolio today, I realized that I hadn't eaten dinner yet. So, I opened the fridge. Not much stuff, not much stuff.
But, there were the makings of a potato pancake.
Strange? Maybe to those of you who's mothers didn't like to make leftover things into other things, but to those of us who's mothers did, it is glory.
Simply adding eggs to left over mashed potatoes and cooking it like a pancake may not sound euphoric, but in fact, it is.

Speaking of potato related euphoria, you should all read this book.
it=awsome

photo courtesy of

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Whaaaaat? (i'm grateful for today)

Last night, I decided that I would be "writing my freaking paper tonight!" That's what I said in my brain.

I got home at 8:00, and was in bed by 12:00.
5 and one quarter pages in less than 4 hours.

Whaaaaaaat?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PklX_PhlKUM

Monday, November 1, 2010

Trumped

Over Halloween, my brother-in-law dressed up as this guy:
The costume was sweet, and he looked like good 'ol Donny,
but the act of Brandon dressing up like Donald Trump brought on a question for me.
Why does his hair still look like that? I feel like it's the butt of every joke about him.
Nobody quips about his suits, or his money, and few even talk about his catchphrase.
It's always about his hair.
His horrible horrible hair.
Seriously, it's bad.
It baffles me that it has stayed this awful for so long.
I know that it's an iconic symbol by now, but you'd think that he would have changed it before it got that far.
All I have to say to you Mr. Trump (which is a little ridiculous, because there's no way that he would ever see or read this) is that your fashion consultants have failed you. Miserably.

However, your look does make for a sweet costume

Sunday, October 31, 2010

happy halloween!

And happy birthday to Daisy!
Here are some lovely videos/pictures for you to enjoy on this wonderful Hallows Eve.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUd4qCDfOMY&feature=player_embedded

I don't have pictures of Daisy's babies yet, but you'd better believe that when I do you will see them, as Gwen was Madonna and Gavin Bowie. Awesome.





Wednesday, October 27, 2010

because it snowed today

And because it was freezing
And because i've been up since 6.
And because i'll probably be up at 6 tomorrow.

I ate this today
And these
While watching this
And it was a good end to a not so great day.


Tuesday, October 26, 2010

oh the glories of priority registration

7 classes
15.5 hours
5 minutes to sign up
I got into them all.

That's a first.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

You can't take it with you.

I watched this movie today, and I must say, it only made my love for Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra stronger. It also made me love Lionel Barrymore. It took a while, since my only experience with him was in "It's a Wonderful Life" as Mr. Potter. But in "You Can't Take It With You?" He's wonderful. And this whole movie is just marvelous.

Friday, October 22, 2010

the unicycle query.

Why?
Really, why, in the world do people feel the need to ride a unicycle?
It's not faster than a bike.
It's not faster than walking.
It's not faster than army crawling.
I don't even like the name of a unicycle.
It sounds too much like unibrow.

And yet, in the last week, I have seen two unicyclists. It's ridiculous.
Why sport your superior balance?
JUST WALK.

Sheesh

Monday, October 18, 2010

Walk like a man, talk like a man...smell like a man?

So, last week I ran out of laundry detergent. So, I bought a new kind.
Nothing fancy. Tide. Tide is nothing new. I've smelled Tide before, it smells good.
I bought the kind that cleans your clothes in cold water. It says the scent is mountain spring.
I figured that would be good, and I didn't need to smell it.
Yesterday when I decided to do my laundry, I pulled out the lovely new laundry detergent.
I opened the bottle.
I pulled it up to my face.
I sniffed it.
It smells like my father's aftershave.
Side note: My father smells good.
He smells like a boy. Because he is one.
I am a girl. I like to smell like a girl.
Ho, ho. Not so.
For the next 52 loads, I get to smell like my dad.
And, incidentally, because clean laundry goes in my bedroom, my room also smells like a man.
Not that great. Not that great.

So, for future reference: girls, don't buy this detergent
Boys, you feel free.

I miss my old detergent. It smelled so good.

Dream a little dream.

So, do you ever have weird or vivid dreams that are super interesting, but you wake up in the middle of it and don't get to see how it ends?
That is what happened to me last night.
Then I realized something that I have the ability to do.
When still semi-asleep, but actually awake, I can go back to sleep and return to finish the dream.
Or more of it.
Like pausing a movie and coming back later.
Pretty sweet,
although, that dream was really weird.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

best quotes from books 4 (part 2), 5, 6, and 7 (it's a long one)

Book 4 (cont'd)
"Don't talk to me," Ron said quietly to Harry and Hermione as they sat down at the Gryffindor table a few minutes later, surrounded by excited talk on all sides about what had just happened.
"Why not?" said Hermione in surprise.
"because I want to fix that in my memory forever," said Ron, his eyes closed and an uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret..."

"Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid. "You don't think anything that Skeeter cow--sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore.
"I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry," said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.

"But I had my wand hidden up my sleeve," he assured Padma Patil, who seemed to be a lot keener on Ron now that he was getting so much attention and was making a point of talking to him every time they passed in the corridors. "I could've taken those mer-idiots any time I wanted."
"What were you going to do, snore at them?" said Hermione waspishly.

Book 5
Chapter One
Dudley Demented
"We're not stupid, you know," said Uncle Vernon.
"Well, that's news to me," said Harry...

Chapter Three
The Advance Guard
"Don't put your wand there, boy!" roared Moody. "What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!"
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?" the violet-haired woman asked Mad-Eye interestedly.

"And I'm still riding a Comet Two Sixty," said Tonks enviously. "Ah well...wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let's go. Locomotor Trunk."

Chapter Twenty-Nine
Career Advice
"Giver her hell from us, Peeves."
And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.

Book 6
Chapter Sixteen
A Very Frosty Christmas
"She's got to be joking...."
Harry woke with a start to find a bulging stocking lying over the end of his bed. He put on his glasses and looked around; the tiny window was almost completely obscured with snow and, in front of it, Ron was sitting bolt upright in bed and examining what appeared to be a thick gold chain.
"What's that?" asked Harry.
It's from Lavender," said Ron, sounding revolted. "She can't honestly think I'd wear..."
Harry looked more closely and let out a shout of laughter. Dangling from the chain in large gold lettters were the words:
My Sweetheart
"Nice," he said. "Classy. You should definitely wear that in front of Fred and George."
"If you tell them," said Ron, shoving the necklace out of sight under his pillow, "I--I--I'll--"
"Stutter at me?"

Chapter Twenty-Five
The Seer Overheard
"Three dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a hippogriff tattooed across your chest."
Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.
"What did you tell her?"
"I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."
"Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ron's got?"
"A Pygmie Puff, but I didn't say where."
Ron scowled as Hermione rolled around laughing.

Book 7
Chapter Five
Fallen Warrior
"How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.
George's fingers groped for the side of his head.
"Saintlike," he murmured.
"What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?"
"Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see... I'm holy. Holy, Fred, geddit?"
Mrs. Weasley sobbed harder than ever. Color flooded Fred's pale face.
"Pathetic," he told George. "Pathetic! With the whole world of ear related humor before you, you go for holy?"

"Well said, Harry," said Fred unexpectedly.
"Yeah, 'ear 'ear, " said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

Chapter Six
The Ghoul in Pajamas
"Didn't realize that Ron and I know perfectly well what might happen if we come with you? Well, we do. Ron, show Harry what you've done."
"Nah, he's just eaten," said Ron.
"Go on, he needs to know!"
"Oh, all right. Harry, come here."

Chapter Seven
The Will of Albus Dumbledore
"I'll pack these for you, " Hermione said brightly, taking Harry's presents out of his arms as the three of the headed back upstairs. "I'm nearly done, I'm just waiting for the rest of your underpants to come out of the wash, Ron--"
Ron's splutter was interrupted by the opening of a door on the first floor landing.

Chapter Eleven
The Bribe
There was the sound of pattering feet, a blaze of shining copper, an echoing clang, and a shriek of agony: Kreacher had taken a run at Mundungus and hit him over the head with a saucepan.
"Call 'im off, call 'im off, 'e should be locked up!" screamed Mundungus, cowering as Kreacher raised the heavy-bottomed pan again.
"Kreacher no!" shouted Harry.
Kreacher's thin arms trembled with the weight of the pan, still held aloft.
"Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?"
Ron laughed.

Chapter Twenty-Eight
The Missing Mirror
Ron gasped.
"The silver doe!" he said excitedly. "Was that you too?"
"What are you talking about?" said Aberfroth.
"Someone sent a doe Patronus to us!"
"Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son. Haven't I just proved my Patronus is a goat?"
"Oh," said Ron. "Yeah...well, I'm hungry!" he added defensively as his stomach gave an enormous rumble.

photos from book 4 courtesy of
photos from books 5-7 courtesy of

Friday, October 15, 2010

Hot, Dang. I am excited.

November 19, baby. November 19.






all photos courtesy of