Happy as a Clam

Greetings! It is the last day of January and I wanted to sum up my first month of 2010. I did the following: 1. Played Sudoku at work while children screamed "I want candy!" and went running around the bowling alley 2. Took a zillion pictures of my bamboo plant (Bambi) trying to figure out the settings on my new camera 3. Discovered I have Dermotographism (don't worry, I'll make a post about this) and decided I'll never be bored in church again...not that I get bored in a BYU Student ward.... 4. Spent over8 hours at Borders/Barnes and Noble bookstores because....I like books and discovered if you sit on the floor and take notes, you don't have to buy every book! 5. Dreamt about snakes, volcanoes and the occasional EMT. 6. Wrote the hardest paper I've ever written in my college career, in french, and passed it 7. Went to bed before 9:30pm 3 nights in a row. 8. Played my gameboy while waiting in line at Discount tires, making all the little children jealous...

I'm not that interesting and I'm easily amused. Life is great. This is a step-by-step guidebook to being a Mary. Enjoy. Step #1: work at a Bowling Alley and dance on the lanes (don't try this or I will have to kick you out) Step #2: Be friends with a Stephanie. She paints, she sings, she juggles. Pretty much awesome. Step #3: Learn how to fix pinsetters without getting eaten(refer to disclaimer of step #1) Step #4: Stare at homeless pets for hours at the mall Step #5: Ride a giant ant to...everywhere Step #6: Attend Pacman school Step #7: Live in a shell Step #8: Be friends with echinoderms. They are great listeners...until the crawl away. Step #9: Admire all things PURPLE. Step #10: Be friends with a Carol. She provides you with parking passes among numerous other friend benefits. Step #11: Be friends with a Kyle. He has a house. Nuf said. Step #12: Learn to blend into dark backgrounds ...

Hmmm....I decided to write again. Life after London is feeling pretty dull so finding something worthy of writing about is hard. All I do is school work school work sleep eat sleep eat DIE! But I figured if I want to enjoy my life as much as I did in England. I have to enjoy the little moments. So. First, I've met some more famous people. 2 Christmas Concerts. David Archuleta's and Kurt Bestor's. Da vid Archuleta: And a really cool drummer named Eric Valentine: Hooray for claims to fame! Hahaha. Anywho. Moving on. So the stories behind these encounters are kind of fun. Both in SLC in the same building in the same room on very different nights. I attended the David Archuleta concert with my roommate whose Dad was performing with David so we got good seats(about the 4th row back) and backstage passes. Woohoo!! What I love about David is not his look or his amazing voice or his being Mormon or famous even. I love that after American Idol and everything else he's done. He...

First I must mention all the people I MISSED meeting. First are the people some of the other girls met or saw: The Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, Bill Clinton, James MacAvoy, some news reporter, Brad and Angelina (yes Pitt/Jolie). I am NEVER in the right place at the right time!!!! Then people none of us met but could of: Julia Roberts, Zac Efron, Barack and Michelle Obama. Now the people I met: This is Joshua Bell at the Barbican Theatre. If you don't know, he's a famous Violinist. Very good. This is Atandwa Kani. He played Ariel in our presentation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Yes, he is famous...sort of. He was a main character in a CW show a while back Life is Wild. THE CW! If you are on the CW, you're famous. Plus his Dad is famous but I don't know who he is (I do realize that doesn't make sense). THIS IS FIERO!!! He plays Fiero in London's WICKED. He was amazing. His voice is amazing. and he was super sweet and real cute. His name is Oliver Tompsett....

J'ai visite Paris et j'ai vu le tour eiffel, le musee du louvre, le musee de l'oragerie, le musee d'orsay, le arc de triomphe, le avenue de Champs-Elysees, Chatlet, Versailles, Notre dame, et Sainte-Chapelle. basically that is a list of places I visited while in Paris. It was wonderful! Paris is an amazing place. 5 things to watch out for in Paris 1. Creepy old men with Vodka bottles 2. people on the streets trying to steal- I mean, sell to you. 3. The bats that fly around the Eiffel Tower 4. The hole in the bottom of your crepe 5. The unnecessary friendliness of waiters 5 things to love about Paris 1. The Eifel Tower. It is so big! 700 steps baby! Climbed every last one! 2. The Arc de Triomphe view. You can see all of Paris from here and it is so pretty at night. 3. Crepes and baguettes. there is a reason it is the cuisine capital of the world. 4. Price. Everything is SO expensive! ....I guess that is something to watch out for but I already had 5. 5. Don't believe...

Last we ek was spent in the Lake District. I didn't really know a lot abo ut it and still don't to be honest, but it was so tra nquile a nd relaxing there. The Lake District is where William Wordsworth (poet) and Beatrix Potter (children's author) lived. The towns were so cute and the sunset was to di e for! Look a t it! I took a picture and my camera did a pretty good job at capturing the beauty (my camera knows when we get back to the states he is history and is being replaced by a newer model). We also visited a walled city which was kind of fun. They all look the same to me(walled cities that is) but I'm not the most observant, so, don't ask me. But since Spring is here England is coming alive and their national flower might as well be a daffodil because they are everywhere! And so cute and dainty! I love daffodils! We visited Fountains Abbey where....I don't know, something of great importance happened...maybe not. But there was a lake and ruins an...

Bonjour! For the weekend of my 20th birthday I went to Nice France! In case you don't know which you probably do it is pronounced Niece as in the cute little girls your siblings have. =) I won't tell you a day to day recap but I'll give you the highlights. Nice is beautiful. It is on the coast of the Mediterranean sea and the coast is called the Cote D'Azur, which is an appropriate name because azur(blue) is what the water is. I mean it is REALLY blue! So dazzling. The specific area where we were was called the baie d'anges which means bay of angels.=) Here is the story: LONDON: So in the morning at 3am at the London Centre I woke up to shower and get ready. We catch a taxi to Marble Arch station where our bus was supposed to take us to the airport (could I take any more forms of transportation in one day?). Well, long story short, we chased the bus down the street literally running after it screaming because the bus stop was about 1/2 a mile away from where we thou...