We're Going International...

Yep, that's right. As of 10:30 last night, I am officially going to Europe. I can't really believe it. Webought our tickets and it's on, dudes. I mean, we are so out of here on May 24th. CRAZY. We fly from Salt Lake City to San Fran. and then from San Fran. to London....London, like the U.K., I am so excited I can't really think about it. Ahhhh. Now that it's a done deal, I am a little nervous as to just how us four girls are going to survive in Europe. I guess that will be the fun part. We haven't exactly planned out where we are staying and for how long, but these are the places we are traveling to:

London, Paris, Nice, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Athens, Crete, Barcelona, San Sebastian, and this other place in Spain, but I can't remember the name.

So there it is. We are going to have so much fun, I mean, as long as we don't kill each other in the process. Can't wait. Now, I just have to save A LOT of money.

Today I have to go to a training meeting for my job....my job as a server. The training is about cheese. I mean, who has training meetings as a server, and about cheese of all things? I guess they want us to know everything there is to know about cheese. I find it rather ridiculous personally.

But whatever, I am going to Europe...

I am a Sledder....and Federer Rules the world.

Yeah I went sledding last night. Utah State has a really cool campus and one the best features is Old Main Hill, which is one heck of a hill to hike up to school, but is perfect for sledding. Now, I don't usually sled. I have only been, I think, 1 time, when I was like 7 and it was up at Eskimo Hill (a landmark of the Redding scene). I remember being cold, eating cookies in the car and being really scared to actually go down the hill on a sled. So, last night wasn't much different to my earlier experience. I was cold and really scared to go down the hill. The thing about old main hill is that at the bottom, it just drops off into the street....there isn't really any flat bottom to, you know, to slow down and come to a stop. No, no. there is about a 2 foot drop onto the street and if you don't bail at just the right time, you WILL run into a parked car and tumble onto the icy pavement. Needless to say, I sucked it up and went and it was really fun. The last time down I nearly knocked over a few people, but they were just standing there, like, uninterested in getting out of the way, so I was like "Do you want me to hit you?" I had a lot of speed so I had to frantically bail off my sled before I flew over the ledge and onto the hood of some car. It was fun though. Yeah, I'd do it again.
After sledding, we went over to a friends house to watch the Australian Open Final at 1:30 in the morning....you know, because of the time difference. It was a great matchup. Marcos Baghdatis v. Roger Federer. Baghdatis was the unseeded player from Cyprus who took out Roddick and Nalbandian. Pretty cool that he got to the final, but let's be honest....did anyone really think he could beat Federer? Well, the kid pulled out the 1st set, but he got worked the next three and Federer took home his 7th Slam victory. We watched the entire match, I went to sleep at 5:30. Pretty hardcore. Federer was amazing. He's now halfway to Pete Sampras' record of 14. He'll do it. He literally dominates and I feel bad saying that considering I am in love with Andy Roddick, but Roger just owns everyone right now. It's quite amazing. I am going to Europe this summer and I am going to do whatever it takes to go to the French Open. How rad would that be??? So rad.
Well, Vegas this weekend. Should be fun. The whole Fam and then some are heading down for a Super Bowl Bash at Christians. Hope he's ready for us.....

Turkey Cannon Glory

Last night I really went all out. I made a whole roasted chicken with red potatoes and green beans and I'll be honest, it was good. Big hit actually. I used the product I am assigned to market this semester in one of my classes. It's called the Turkey Cannon....

Here it is...

Now, this isn't the actual chicken I cooked, but you get the idea. What the Turkey Cannon does is steam in amazing flavor to your bird, while cooking it in 1/3 of the time it would normally take. You can use any form of poultry. I used chicken last night because I like chicken better. There is this tube thing you fill with any liquid (water, juice, soda, beer, wine...etc.) I used 1/2 cranberry juice and 1/2 Mountain Dew. Sounds weird, but it was very delicious. I also added some garlic, lemon and rosemary to the thing. Then, you stick it up the chicken, and put it in the oven for like and hour and a half. Easy. I also did a dry rub on the chicken of rosemary, paprika, parsley and pepper. I was really proud of myself. I don't cook....ever, so this is definately a big deal. If your interested go HERE.

The Bachelor was good on Monday. My girl Sarah is totally in. She is so rad and if Travis doesn't pick her....SO HELP ME. Tara annoys me. So does that girl that is from Nashville. Did anyone hear her when we was all "Oh my God, when I found out Travis was from Nashville my heart just skipped. It's like its meant to be..." So sweetie its called, "sucks you both live in Nashville." Team Sarah all the way.

I hate Brad Pitt. Him and Angelina make me sick. He totally got her pregnant before he broke up with Jen. Whatever, Jen is way better off with Vince Vaugn.

Lost is on tonight. I can't watch because I have to work. Considering getting Tivo to avoid situations like this in the future. We'll see.

Someones got a case of the Mondays...

Yep. Me. I didn't wake up this morning to go to Oceanography. I just couldn't. I stayed up too late last night watching Braveheart. Its such a good show. Really violent, but so good. Its also very long so I didn't get to to sleep until 2. This morning I just had no desire to get out of my warm bed and trek up the iced over hill-of-death and battle the piercing winds that slash through campus in the morning. No...I opted to go back to sleep.
So the talk went well I think. At least that was what I was told. I don't know how, but word got around that I was giving a talk on Sunday because I got like text messages from all these people who asked me about it. One of my best friends even got out of bed, threw on some clothes and came to listen to me in the foyer (lobby). Nice huh?
So lately, ever since I got back from Mexico it seems, I have been having to pee all the time. Its so weird. Its liked my urinary tract is on hyperdrive. Every time I drink anything, I have to pee like 3 minutes later. Its so weird. And I get woken up every morning at like 8 because I have to pee. Is this gross to be talking about? I hope not. Jen talked about her pseudo-scabies problem on her blog, so I figure it would be ok to talk about this.
It was Jen's birthday a couple days ago. Her husband, Ryan, hacked into her blog and left his top-5 Jen moments. They were cute. I hope that if I ever get married my husband hacks into my blog and leaves me birthday posts. I'd like that.
My roommate Eliza is getting married, in 7-weeks. They got engaged a couple weeks ago, but he actually propsed and gave her the ring on Saturday night. That was cute as well. I can't believe that she is getting, married. I am very excited for her. She deserves it. Congrats Liza!....(I promise I won't make fun of your invitations).

Speak Up...

I have to speak in church on Sunday. AHHHHHH. I haven't done that since I was seriously like 17. I am not trying to say I am a good speaker or anything, but I was well liked by the adults in my ward back in Redding, CA. I don't know why, I had a lot of attitude, but I was always getting asked to give talks and such by the people in our ward and stake. I did it, and it always went well. Now, I am a little more nervous to speak this Sunday. I don't really have a reputation to back me up. I don't really know anyone in my ward, besides my roommates and a couple other choice people. I have to speak on personal purity. Awkward. This is the sort of topic where you can't use some lighthearted story or funny joke in your talk. It's so cut and dry. It will be challenging, to say the least. I haven't really started it, though I have a couple ideas I have been thinking about. Anyways, I am not really looking forward to it. I don't mind talking in front of people, I just want to make sure what I have to say is relevant, intelligent and articulate. If you have any ideas of your own, let me know, I could use the input!

We are "The Bachelor" and "Lost" people....

Not "American Idol" people, though...no way. Yep, Bachelor season has started and I am stoked. The Bachelor, Travis, is smokin'. He's tall, cute and happens to be a doctor. He's also by far the most seemingly down-to-earth, normal Bachelor to date. I dig him. My favorite Bachelorettes are Sarah S. and Cole. I like Sarah S. the best though, she's adorable. Travis gave her the first rose of the night, the one where he could give to anyone before the actual rose ceremony. I think he really likes her. She seems the most normal too. Cole is really cool too though. Did anyone see that chick Ali freak out when Travis didn't give her a rose???? PSYCHO. She went off on him and asked him what was wrong with her and stuff. She was in serious denial. Well, what did she expect? She was asking him about wanting to reproduce and saying that her "eggs were rotting" Sick. Who says that?! Really. So now its down to the following girls:

Cole
Moana
Jennifer
Elizabeth
Shiloh
Yvonne
Jehan
Susan
Tara
Sarah S.
Kristen

We shall see.

Lost is on tomorrow. Can't wait. I really want Jack and Kate to hook up. They kissed a couple episodes back, but nothing really came of it. I hope they don't try and hook up Kate and Sawyer, Sawyer bugs. Matthew Fox didn't win the Golden Globe. Sad. I really wanted him too. Oh well. I am glad Reese Whitherspoon did. She looked great. So did Marcia Cross. I loved her dress. My favorites of the night were probably Jessica Alba and Keira Knightly. Jessica Alba looked so pretty, really put together and just straight up good. Keira Knightly too, her dress was so pretty...loved it. Loved Pride and Prejudice too, even though I thought they could have found a slightly more attractive Mr. Darcy....he looked like a washed up version of John Cusack.

Senorita Azulina con la cuerda in el salon de baile...

While inMexico, we purchased the spanish edition of Clue and had some pretty good times playing. My sister Jen told everyone she dominated at Clue, but I don't think she won once...Anyways, I took it back with me and we and some friends seriously played CLue in spanish for like 4 hours yesterday. In was fun. I won a game, and would have one more, but some of our games got out of control and people started cheating....whatever, they were just scared.

This weekend I got to see my friend Dre (Andrea). She and I were roommates two years go when she played volleyball here. But she transferred to a small Christian college in L.A. so that was sad. Me and our good friend Heather went down to Salt Lake and had dinner with her and her boyfriend and his sister and her boyfriend. It was really fun to catch up. Dre is seriously one of the funnest people I know. Some of my best memories of college are with her. She was really into working out and lifting weights when we lived together and so she talked me into working out with her. She literally dragged me to the gym everyday and we totally worked out, like hard. We would walk in to the free weight room at school and seriously be the only girls in there, with a bunch of mucho guys. She helped me get in really good shape back then. Too bad she moved cause now I never work out anymore. I really need to. I was going to go today, but we had the day off and I just couldn't get the motivation to go.
Now I have to go to work....LAME.

Mexico...

Well, Mexico has come and gone and I am finally starting to feel that crappy, "winter sucks, get me back to Mexico" feeling that I know would eventually take over. Seriously though, Mexico was a blast. Puerto Escondido was amazing, beautiful and pretty much perfect for us. The weater was a reliable 82 degrees everyday and the beach was just a 5-minute walk away. We all read quite bit, some of us, on the other hand, toured P.E. looking for prospective real estate, tracking down contractors and architects and what not. We all drank a lot of really good coke, ate a lot of fish and tortillas and got to know a few choice locals in during our stay. My favorite was our crazy landlady, Nancy, who walked around with big strapless moo-moos on, smoking cigarettes and saying things like,"Oh child, I don't know, this is Mexico..." Then were was Renee, the best, well, the only server at La Salsa, this quaint little restaurant near our house. Renee was good at his job. Always brought out Coke when your bottle was empty and made sure we all had enough torillas. My sister Shannon and my brother-in-law Ryan went skydiving which was pretty cool. they loved it and I kinda wish I would have done it, but seriously, I would be afraid of how I would react once I was up there. I would probably start crying, or pass out or have a heart attack or something....or even throw up on the way down...which would be gross and embarassing to say the least.But P.E is beautiful, and I had a lot of fun...

Here's the sunset on Playa de Zicatela....great beach, awesome sunset.

Me and my brother, Christian

Jen and Ryan

"Hola!"

Me, Jen and Shan on the beach

Puerto Escondido has really good Coke...

There really is too much to talk about when it comes to Mexico. It was awesome and I hope to go back again.
I read a few books that I had been meaning to read for quite some time. I read The Secret History, Plainsong and Memoirs of a Geisha. The Secret History was great, really well written and a cool story. Read it. So much Memoirs of a Geisha, really good story and very engaging. Plainsong, hmm....not so much. It's one of those books that is set in some rural midwestern town and with the classic "Gas n' Go" and neighborhood crazy lady....maybe it's not all that classic, but it's the type of book where you swear you have read something very similar to it. The book had no plot and was pretty much pointless because nothing was resolved, which isn't necessary, but it just ended, just like that. I didn't like it too much. But read the other two if you haven't, they are good.

Now I am back in Logan after a long trip home and it's back to school and work. I worked last night for the first time in a long time and it sucked. I was there until 1 a.m. and then when I walked outside, I slipped on some ice and fell to the ground. I have only fallen on the ice in Utah twice. Once was last year, I was walking down some stairs behind my house and fell very hard , classic- feet straight up from underneath me and BAM! Landed on my hip and elbow....Last night I fell sort of sideways and fell on my knee. Falling like that is so weird. When it happens, its all in slow motion and you totally know that you are going to hit the ground and its going to hurt. Luckily, no one saw me, but two of our chefs were around the corner smoking so I just yelled it, "I fell" They were really nice and came to help me.

My knee still hurts today...Damn ice.

Get LOST

Ok. Its been like a month but I have two VERY good excuses. 1) I was in Mexico, dudes. And it was amazing. Good time with the fam, hanging out with Renee down at La Salsa, being chased by wild packs of stray dogs, drinking the best Coke in the world from big glass bottles, eating A LOT of pescado. More on that later. 2) I have a new obsession that is beginning to consume a lot of my time. I am completely enthralled by the show, LOST. I have watched every single epsiode of LOST in about 2 days. We have season 1 on DVD and also bought all the new episodes this season off iTunes. It really is such a great show. Matthew Fox is such a babe and is reason enough alone to watch it, but it is so exciting. There's like 20 story lines going on at once, but they all somehow connect, and you don't ever really know how, but its ADDICTING. Watch it, unless you want to keep your life, then maybe don't...

I have to go to class right now but I will post later all about Mexico and include some pictures too.

Get LOST

Ok. Its been like amonth but I have two VERY good excuses. 1) I was in Mexico, dudes. And it was amazing. Good time with the fam, hanging out with Renee down at La Salsa, being chased by wild packs of stray dogs, drinking the best Coke in the world from big glass bottles, eating A LOT of pescado. More on that later. 2) I have a new obsession that is beginning to consume a lot of my time. I am completely enthralled by the show, LOST. I have watched every single epsiode of LOST in about 2 days. We have season 1 on DVD and also bought all the new episodes this season off iTunes. It really is such a great show. Matthew Fox is such a babe and is reason enough alone to watch it, but it is so exciting. There's like 20 story lines going on at once, but they all somehow connect, and you don't ever really know how, but its ADDICTING. Watch it, unless you want to keep your life, then maybe don't...

I have to go to class right now but I will post later all about Mexico and include some pictures too.