amish boy

This saturday my coworker michelle, who is awesome btw, invited me to sushi with her boyfriend and his son james. anyways, we hung out. then went to santa fe to watch jack the giant slayer...and played arcades. we had a good time. michelle reminds me so much of my sista amy.

But it was weird.

Michelle...boyfriend.....5 year old james.

So i hung out with james. he was my date. we sat together through the movies and everything. we made a great pair. i showed him cool facial expressions. we tasted dirt-seeped radishes (aka wasabi). we played with chopsticks. we chuckled together at the funny parts in the movie. we rocked them arcade games. we hit it off.

Then today at work, michelle passed on what edwin, the bf's, delineation of me was:

"We should find tiffany a nice amish boy."

Okay. first of all....aren't ALL amish nice?
Second of all.....HAHAHHHAHAH.

I'm certainly not amish, but i was appreciative of the fact that he saw me in such a light as to think that i was.

Anyways. that is all. i got a good laugh out of it. it was funny.

Plus it led to a full-blown conversation about us mormon folk. got to share some church history n all that in there. it was sweet.

21-6

How would you react if you were in the middle of a work-day and got a text from your brother...who never texts you by the doggone way, and this is what it reads:

"We have been challenged in basketball for our honor and money.... We have to win 21-6. Start training"

Ahem

I calmly replied:

"Wait! what?! what have you done??"



When this is the only explanation offered at the time, surely you'd think that he was the one to bet on my money for a game of basketball... my question(s): how much money are ya costing me? when? what the heck is going on?? with whom?? wait, exactly how much money????

Upon hastily probing for an explanation after work, this is what i found out.
1) matthew started the day as usual, bragging about how good he played basketball earlier on
2) the lawyer had an idea
3) matthew and his colleague (also my friend) were called into the attorney's office
4) there was some smug & smack talk going on about who can play basketball better than the other.
5) a bet was placed.

If me and my bro would win his colleague and her sister 21 to 6, winner would get $100. If the other team scored more than 7 points, they'd automatically win.

Another coworker got involved....she threw in that she'd make the winning team a homemade cake on top of the money.

Whew. so at least i'm not losing any money. haha

Monday, February 18. President's Day. Game time.

We stayed at the chapel after fhe.
We played. hard.

Score was 18 to 4. we were up. i thought there might be a chance of winning.
Then they scored. 18 to 6. they began celebrating....but oh, too soon.
They handed me the take-back ball before they were ready. i passed to matthew. he scored a 3.

21 to 6.

Game.

It felt good to win i'm not gonna lie. the cake was good. no hard feelings though. we shared a little.

We really just wanted a good excuse to play basketball again. poor andrews girls......they worked my bro hard in that game though. mehehehhhehe;)

life is good.

I was kinda having a bad day today. for no reason at all....just felt like sticking a hot knife into the gut, ya know. but then i came here and started reading some good friend's posts. and life became beautiful again.

So thank you for making life beautiful. and thank you for being yourself. and thank you for posting.

Well, anyways. i have had a brilliant couple months. i probably won't catch up on it all, but to sum up january:

the guys belen found who were actually really good tourguides.
& bought us gelato haha

Belen came to visit:). for 15 days this time. and i got to have so much fun with her. and she put highlights in my hair. and we went latin dancing, and to institutes, and church, and to the mall, and out with random boys that belen has a knack of finding to take us places....and she showed me how to make italian spaghetti sauce (with tuna, weird), and we talked about life. in spanglish. i had a good time with my cousin.

my hand is bigger than my head. awkward angle

venetian. her request.

February

1st: For the first time in a looong time i decided to pray for "an opportunity to share my testimony somehow with someone". that's how i worded it as i drove to work. work finished. i came home. i went to the church to play basketball. i'd forgotten about the prayer the entire day. matthew and a bunch of people from my ward went to sushi. i didn't know about it. i went home. i found that matthew had invited a VERY DEAR friend to the sushi thing. a girl i knew growing up. long story short. they are not of my faith, i was adopted into their family a long time ago, we were backyard neighbors but they moved across town. we lost touch. she had now moved back into that house. & i visited them for the first time in YEARS. it almost felt just like old times:) afterwards i realized my prayer from that morning was answered. because since she went to the sushi thing she met the missionaries. and as we walked over to her house i spoke about how awesome the missionaries are.....testimony. great day.

2nd: I ran my first 5k in under 30 minutes. bought a couple things for my friends. great day.

3rd: I was surprised to find that one of my old patients found me on facebook & left me a long thank you message saying how i have influenced his life. i probably didn't deserve what he said, but it felt good. i bore my testimony for the first time in months, maybe even a year. ari was at church. i spent the evening with my sisters painting valentine's decorations. great day.

4th: Donated blood. found out i'm A+. i've always wondered about that. saw ari. great day.

5th: Spanish institute class. saw natalie. she gave me hershey's cookies&cream chocolate and a skirt for my birthday. found out i am now involved in a $100 basketball duel scheduled for president's day. greaaat.

6th: Went to the temple to do baptisms. wearing my new skirt. no better way to spend a 21st birthday in vegas. that one's for the record!;) great day.

7th: Sushi night....because i missed the first one.

8th: Cabin trip in Brian Head for the RS overnighter. i rode with bro bowman. it was brilliant. played in the snow at midnight. didn't sleep til 4 or 5a.

9th: Wonderful cabin breakfast. got dressed in snow clothes. went tubing. ate yummy crockpot food. traveled back to vegas. then straight to imagine dragons concert with ari:D. we moshed it up. then bought shirts. best. birthday. surprise. ever!! i still can't get the smile off my face.

10th: Family dinner. sister missionaries and friend invited. dinner and dessert of choice. family time at the table then by the fire. homemade cake&cupcakes. surprise gift. best day ever.

11th: Ari and i rocked those imagine dragons shirts at fhe. got some cool pictures. i love my life.


Like i said. it's been a wonderful month. i've never had a february as adventure-filled as this one. what have i done to deserve all this? why do i have such great people in my life? i am so blessed. please don't ever end.

Oh btw. you know what i realized today? sometimes people complain about things/situations that they have direct control over. that is something i don't think i'll ever understand.

Wanna know what else i've realized lately? i finally figured out what category of people i fall under...i am a tailored gospel-punk-hippie. that's me. you wouldn't believe how accurate it is.

captured

No. i'm not captured...well, maybe in a prism of awesomeness!!! but what is captured is a handful of memories through pictures. & i just wanna say....i am SO glad my friends are spectacular enough to have cool phones that take cool pictures, since this weekend was fanatically great and i didn't bring my camera anywhere with me.

So expect greatness in the next few posts. because my friends are great. with pictures...

super star!!!

I see a trend here. i didn't post last january either....what is up with that?
But that doesn't mean my january wasn't awesome.....in fact, it was TOO awesome. but i hate playing catch up on here....it's just no bueno.
However, today i am so excited & i would like to make a big announcement...

I jogged my first race ever today!!!!!
The big 5K :D

& even though a couple of you might scoff and think...."5k??? that's what this is all about? a lowly 3.2 miles?" & to that i say HEECK YESSSS!

As i was making my bucketlist, which i need to update btw, i started typing out "run a marath...." then immediately deleted it. i never thought i'd be one to run anything after high school and my embarrassing track days. ;)

But my friend elise got the idea in my head, sent me an invitation, and next thing i knew i found myself taking full advantage of a 14-day free gym pass or jogging to the park practically sort of every day for 2 weeks.

Run for a Wish!!!

My attire:

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team super star!!!
& of course my arm, which happens to be gay, is akwardly hanging off to the side.

sparky purple skirts!

storm troopers :)

Is it too late to add this to my bucketlist then cross it out. it'll make me feel better about myself ;) haha

 Now, am i doing the color run or devil dash next......? :)
I forgot how good it feels to run! what a great way to start off my favorite month

P.s. i finished to 5k in just under 30 minutes (i didn't have a goal, but this is good). 29:53. The only problem with that is now i actually have expectations to live up to for next time...

cousin it

...might look a little more feminine with highlights....

Who knows. maybe it will work out. i really like my highlights. i've been aching to do it for months.

2 1/2 glorious years of umph...& now...

I have a really sad story to tell......dim the lights shall we..?

Ahem ahem

My computer crashed.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
My heart is sobsob broookenn. sobbbb. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh. [i'm being extra dramatic for affect]
I'm really hoping i didn't lose all my precious pictures and journal stuff and everything.

I learned my lesson.
1) back it up.
2) do not put a computer on sleep mode and forget about it for three days, only to come back and find you've fried your computer.

This is part of the reason i've been gone. i'm too bitter to use this other computer...the one i'm typing on right now. plus it's usually occupado by other people.

BUT. the good news is that i was proclaiming my sadness to one person at work who SO HAPPENED to fix computers on the side. he might be able to fix it! i'm bringing my computer in tomorrow to have him look at it. he said something about the mother board and what not. he gave me hope that it might be fixable and maybe i didn't lose everything after all.

Let me tell you a little secret about me and my computer. we go way back...back to the good old 12th grade. my composition teacher told the class about an essay contest by the rtc. i ignored it. i never win contests. sounded like a waste of precious brain exertion to write an essay.

The morning it was due, my friend asked if i was doing it. no i wasn't. but she was. i decided, "what the hay, i'll give it a whirl." two hours later the essay was manufactured.....How does using the RTC reduce my carbon footprint?....

Then guess what. i won. & what did i win? myyy precccciouus... laptop! & it was the best moment ever to think about how i almost didn't do it, but did, and ended up getting a laptop that has changed the course of my schooling and such. it was 90% of the reason i got through college. (well, it played a big part, ok?)

This is where i would attach the pictures of me winning the laptop....and of me using the laptop....and..and.....sniiiiiff....but all those pictures are locked in it's preciously fried memory.

Don't know whatcha got til it's gone, eh?
But. maybe ronsky will fix it....ronsky, you may just be a lifesaver. of computers. & i will make you oatmeal chocolate chip cookies if you are.

ADD: this is the first time i've been on my computer since ronsky fixed it (it's 1/24/13). so now, here are the pictures of me and my technologically manufactured true love:

the day we met

our first date

flirting

the first time we touched

  Now if that's not commitment, i don't know what is. i guess my laptop's diagnosis was a stroke. but he survived. thank juju of the skies.

This picture was for another post i was gonna do actually...a long time ago.

See.