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Disclaimer to Anyone Who Reads This Blog: I just want to apologize about my poor editing skills. You would think that after studying journalism, a field totally founded on the written word, that I would be able to publish posts free of error. Alas, this is not the case. Don't think I am lazy and do not read over what I write....trust me I do. But for some reason, no matter how many times I look over my stuff, I will always miss something.
So, that being said.....please don't judge me. Thank you.

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The worst feelings in the world:
1. Knowing you have to wake up early on a Saturday....
2. Every time the Kings get axed form the playoffs...
3. Realizing that he is just not that into you...
4. Enjoying a warm, rainy day only to glance out the window 15 minutes later to see the snow falling like it has never fallen before. (like today)

Travis Heart's Sarah....from Nashville

Tonight I was panicked going to work because I really wanted to get home on time to watch the finale of The Bachelor. Luckily, the restaurant was dead so I left at like 7:00. I was really nervous the whole time because I really didn't know who Travis would choose. I was leaning toward Moana only because she was such a wreck the whole show-totally unstable and constantly crying....so I thought that maybe Travis would fall for that whole deal. But he didn't....he chose Sarah from Nashville and I was really excited. Sarah looked really pretty and Travis got a little teary telling her how he felt. It was so sweet! I didn't really care for Sarah this whole time but tonight, I warmed up to her. She really was the most normal on the show (I mean, her and the other Sarah, the 23 year-old) and the most sincere. So anyways, they are good for each other. I hope it works out. I feel like it is such a waste when these Bachelor relationships always fad out. Such a bummer. But we will see...

Here are the invitations I made for Eliza's shower.

They turned out pretty good. I am excited for the party, it will be fun. I don't really know what we will be doing. I have only been to 1 wedding shower and it was my sister Jen's. Her shower was funny. We didn't really play any games, but the food was great and it was fun to hang out with everyone and talk about their wedding. So, I don't really know the shower protocol, but hopefully it Eliza will have fun and get some fun stuff to play with...

Pride and Prejudice comes out of video tomorrow. So does Walk the Line. I am really excited to gt both. Even though I didn't like Mr. Darcy in this Pride andPrejudice, I still liked the movie. Keira Knightly won't win the Oscar, but still, she was a good Elizabeth Bennett. Walk the Line was such a good movie! I loved Reese Witherspoon. She will totally win the Oscar for it. Or at least she better. Oh, p.s. I just found out that Keira Knightly is dating the guy that played Wickam in the movie....interesting.

I have a headache right now. I need to take an Advil and go to bed.

Back in Business...

WOW. Its been a while, I know....I KNOW. Lay off. I have been crazy busy lately, but now things have slowed down so I can dedicate more time to my blog.

School has been a little frustrating lately. I have this class where all we do is work in groups with real companies and do real PR work for them. It's actually a really good opportunity and I am enjoying it, but some peeps in my group are slacking. I mean, this is a big deal. This company is totally trusting us to come up with some good stuff they can use and when people just don't show up to meetings or class, it discredits our whole group and, I'll be honest, I don't want to look bad. I am the group manager so its basically all my responsibility to get our group working collectively and productively. I like being in charge, but at the same time, I also like having people I can depend on and with some of these peeps, I can't.

My best friend Eliza is getting married in about 2 weeks. Crazy. Me and my other friend Michelle, are planning her wedding shower. We decided to go with a theme. The theme incorporates two of Eliza's favorite things: Diet Coke and Chocolate. So I am making the invitations with Diet Coke colors: Red, silver and black. It sounds really dorky, but it's going to be cool. I went to the scrapbooking store to get some papers and such to make the invitations. Now, if you have never been a real scrapbooker or have never been inside a scrapbooking store, let me tell you....It's a trip. These stores are like creative meccas for those willing to take the hours and hours and hours to create elaborate scrapbooks for their loved ones. Walls and walls of every kind of paper imaginable. Any sticker you can think of is at this store.Beads, buttons, ribbons, stamps, pens, patches, decals.... It's quite overwhelming actually. I went in with a pretty simple, idea of what I wanted to make, but as soon as I started looking around, my imagine took over and I started to get inspired. My simple invitation idea turned into this huge intricate, detailed ivitation idea. In no time I had my hands full with cardstock, velum, ribbon, stickers and even bottle caps....yes, they sell bottle caps! Well, after surveying my goods, I decided that, although I was on a creative high, I didn't want to empty my bank account to make 10 wedding shower invitations. I bought some cool paper and a little ribbon and must say that they turned out pretty good. I must say that I admire those who have the imagination to do that real crazy scrapbooking, however,I look at some of this stuff and find the idea exhausting. My mom used to scrapbook a little. She did one for my older sister Jen and my brother Christian. I guess she got overwhelmed too and quit before she got to me.

Anyways, should be a fun party...

Las Vegas

Las Vegas this weekend was a blast. Me, Michelle and Anna left around 2:30 on Friday, stopped to pick Shannon up in Provo on the way, and headed down, arriving about 10:30. My brother totally hooked us all up, puttig us up in his house, taking us to dinner and helping me win $120 at the SunCoast casino. We really had a great time. The actual Super Bowl was a bit of a bummer, seeing as how Seattle lost, but it was a good time hanging out with all my family and good friends. We went to dinner on Saturday night, ate some sushi and then headed over to SunCoast (the process of going to the strip is exhausting and totally not worth it..) Me, Chris, Jen, Jen's husband Ryan and his brother Juice, all played craps. I had no idea how to play craps but I learned pretty fast. It was so fun. We all were such posers, but it was still fun to pretend we knew what we were doing. We all played Blackjack too, which, I think, is the best game to play because you have some control over whether you win or lose. Your odds are better. So overall, I won about $120. Anna won $150 I think, playing a Wheel of Fortune Slot machine. My Mom won $200 as well. Which is funny because she is totally not a gambler. She repremands us for doing it and then here she is, sitting down at the maching, peaking over her shoulder, sneaking a quarter in the slot and cashing out her $200 ticket. Ironic. The next day we all blew our money at Sephora at the Venetian. Sephora is amazing. I could spend all day there. Not because I like make-up all that much. I mean I do, but Sephora has so much STUFF. I like looking at all their skin care products that costs my entire month's salary for a little 2 ounce vial of some French miracle serum. It's quite fascinating, really. Anyways, I like Vegas for a little weekend trip like that. I would have liked to gone up to Red Rock to hike or something or even gone out of Chris' boat and gone wakeboarding, but Mead is too cold right now. Next time, for sure.



Ok, now to the part where I COMPLETELY freak out over the Bachelor. Did anyone watch it last night????? WHAT HAPPENED??? WHERE IS SARAH???? Travis TOTALLY axed her last night and I was FLOORED. I really couldn't believe that he didn't give her a rose. It was totally unexpected and I almost started crying. I thought it was a joke for a second, like any minute Ashton was going to jump out somewhere and the whole thing was going to be some punked thing. Poor Sarah. Seriously, she was the only normal girl on that show. And it was totally ridiculous reason that she was cut. Travis said that he like her a lot and was attracted to her but that she was too young and that she needed to experience more in her life first. What??? WHAT?? Ok, how long have you known she is 23?? Like day 1? Why wait then all this time to cut her??? Whats the point? He is such a poor excuse for a man. Seriously, I am pissed right now. I don't even care who wins at this point. All three girls are crazy, it doesn't even matter anymore.Oh my gosh writing all this is just making me re-live how pissed I was last night. I need to go get some water or something.

I Need a "Re-do"

Tonight was a crazy night at work....insane actually. Here's the thing about Thursday's at my place of work: Thursday night is sushi night and sushi night brings out all the posers in Logan who think they are way "scene." Well, we only do sushi in the bar, supposedly, and so you must have a reservation, or there's no way your getting a table in the bar. But there are the people who have figured out how to beat the system and so they will sit in the main dining room and then as soon as the server comes over, they will ask for sushi. It really sucks for the server because Sushi takes at least an hour, because everything is made to order and we have only 1 sushi chef, who already has an entire booked out bar to make sushi for. So tonight we had about 4 tables wanting sushi without a reservation....lame. So these servers do what they can for them, but it really takes quite a long time to get their dinner....like 2 hours. Well, these people get pissed and start yelling at the servers and its all really ridiculous. So people are getting mad because they don't have their sushi, and the poor server can do nothing about it. So on top of the sushi fiasco, I had problems of my own too. I messed up a ticket and totally charged a credit card to the wrong table, but the table actually didn't even notice they had the wrong check, so they signed the credit card slip and walked out. Meanwhile, I am freaking out because I F-ed up so bad. In addition to all that, I was like running into to things and people all nght. I mean, I tend to run into things on a regular basis, for example I clip walls rounding corners ALL THE TIME. But in a busy restaurant, that's not so cool. Listen, it was just an overall bad night and I can't wait to go to sleep and start over tomorrow...Because tomorrow we head to Vegas for the Super Bowl Bash at my brother Christian's house. I am really excited to see all my family. I am also excited to see his cats Saki and Max. They are the coolest cats ever, I mean next to Fluff, Sam and Boots. They are fun to hang out with.
Did everyone here about my registration fiasco???? Well, let me tell you. Ok, so I was an intern last semester with a design and marketing firm here in Logan and I did it with the intention of getting 4 credits toward this semester. Well...I got the whole form signed by all 28 people who had to sign it and took it to the head of my department to have it finalized and have him give me the credits. Well, I take it to him and he says, I can't give you credit for this semester for an internship you did last semester.

I said, "Why not?"

"Because we can't do that anymore....we used to be able to but we can't anymore, the registrar won't let us. We also don't give 4 credits for internships."

Now, being part of this major for the past 4 years, I have a pretty good idea as to what can and can't be done within the bounds of the Department Head's jurisdiction. And I was fairly confident that this guy had every power of giving me this credit. I mean, it was like the President of the university taking orders from the secretary....I mean,come on. So I basically told him that I wasn't leaving until I was given credit for the internship that I was told I would get credit for. I mean, I was a total brat, but I couldn't just take this crap. If he didn't given me the credit, I was not going to GRADUATE. He told me he would call my teacher, also my internship boss and talk to her. He said to come back in an hour.
So I go to class and the entire time I am totally consumed with how the hell I was going to come up with 4 credits, and mind you, this was the LAST DAY to add any classes, so if I was going to do it, I had to do it that day. I was panicked when I walked back to his office. I was ready to stand my ground and do what I had to do, say what I had to say, in order for this guy to give me the credit I needed and deserved.
So I get back, and he tells me that I was going to get the credits, but he was going to have to pull some strings in order to do it, and he said that I was over the maximum number of Journalism credits....what? How can a journalism student have too many journalism credits??? Does that make ANY sense to anyone. No, it didn't to me either.Well, he added it all and signed what he had to sign. I was relieved, but this guy totally was trying to make me feel like he was doing me this HUGE favor, like he was going across enemy lines to get me this credit. Whatever....this is the head of the journalism department at Utah State. I mean, it wasn't that big of a deal and he made it seem like it was this huge issue. Anyway, bottom line: I got the credits and I am still graduating.

Now I need to go to sleep. Tomorrow I have a Oceanography review at 9:30. We will discuss submerison faults, and deep ocean trenches and how California will eventually drift all the way into Alaska in about 200 millions years. Cool. Let me know how that goes...