Happy Halloween!!

Greetings from Miss Idaho!! Yup. I dubbed myself Miss Idaho for the grand tri-ward Halloween party we had Saturday night. It was a good time. My roommates and I decided to relieve Deseret Industries of some of their nasty 1980s dresses and tiaras. We made our sashes ourselves! Can you believe it? Julia ironed on a black flower on to her dress and actually melted her dress! Lucky for her, I had red thread and mad skills on the sewing machine, so I quickly mended the dress so she wouldn't be flashing anyone. Happy Trick or Treating!!

First Snowfall in the Valley!

Yay!!! We received our first snowfall in the valley yesterday--during the day and again in the evening. And the snow in the grass was still there when I went to work this morning. Hip hip hooray! The ski season is just around the corner....and I am ready to try out my new skis!

The little white thing on my hip is a snowflake--not something weird with my pants.

Meet my flatmates!

Last night was my roommate, Linda's, birthday and we went to Mimi's Cafe to celebrate. And it provided the perfect opportunity to have a picture taken of the three of us! Linda is in the middle and Julia is on the right. Linda is a MBA student at the Y and she just recently moved from Boston. Julia is an elementary school teacher and just moved from Salt Lake City area. We get along great. Sometimes we are up too late talking!

The Evolution of My Skis

This fall I bought an amazing pair of skis. They are K2 Lotta Luvs. I am so excited to try them out this season. I have already developed plans how I am going to lock them up to make sure they aren't stolen by some covetous fiend--lock them in my ski rack on my car, lock them up when I am in the lodge eating lunch, etc. But they are so short! Check out the picture. The new skis are on the far left. When I first bought them, I kept them up in my room. I didn't want to take them down to the cold, lonely basement. But when I had the bindings mounted on them, I finally put them down in the basement. When I put them down in the basement next to my other, older children (skis), I had to laugh! Check out the evolution of skis just in the last 10 years! I went from 180s to 164s to finally 153s.

This weekend, however, I got a bit of a smack in the face with how much I paid for my Lotta Luvs. My roommate, Linda, and I went shopping and we visited Copeland Sports. They are going out of business so they have been having this huge sale. We found her some skis, bindings and boots all for under $200! It was such a good deal we called my two good neighbor-friends, Camille and Lindsey, and they came and bought their gear for the same price! Between all three of them, they still spent less than I did on my new babies--and that was to get fully equipped. But that is okay. I am a more dedicated skier at this point in time. I am a better skier than they are and I need skis that will take me to the next level!! And my new Lotta Luvs will do just that. Every sports-shop-guy drools when I tell him what skis I bought. I love that. :o)

Maybe I really am bitter! Ha!!

Funny story. Today I went over to the bookstore to buy a new journal. The bookstore has an entire section of journals. So awesome! I found a beautiful journal--it has a memento pouch and a little magnetic flap to close it. Check out the picture... very cute. I am excited to write in it. And boy do I have a lot to write in it tonight. You can see more of the journals on their website: www.paperblanks.com

As I was looking around to make sure this really was the journal I wanted to buy I found some little notebooks that caught my attention with the fun/vintage pictures on the front. The one in particular that reflects my mindset right now is pictured here. I got a good laugh from it and instantly bought it. As I was walking from the bookstore back to work, I flipped through the pages of the little notebook and found some outrageous sayings on each page! Check this out:
"alone at last!"
"and then she realized, they were all alike!"
"pain was too good for him"
"...and then I ripped his lungs out"
"he couldn't become a distant memory soon enough to suit her"
"what was I thinking?"
"bitter? moi?"

Oh my gosh!! I couldn't believe it. I didn't realize those sayings were in there. But they are kind of funny. Maybe I really am bitter! Ha! Too funny. My friends buy cats and dogs after a bad boy experience and I buy man-hating-notebooks.

Too Hardy of a Party

So this last Friday night I went to a party with about 10 of my friends. It was up in Salt Lake City and was supposed to be so huge and fun. Well it was huge and fun. My friends and I showed up around 9:30 pm and saw the band playing in the garage, but it was pretty cold so we decided to go inside and see what was there--and because the audience for the band was a little sparse. We went inside and found some yummy food and some more people. We talked to a few people, but the party hadn't really started yet. About an hour later a ton more people showed up and so it became hopping. In fact I met a guy that graduated from my high school two years before I did! That was kind of fun.

But the party was too hopping apparently because the police came and broke it up!! That is the first party that I have been to where the police broke it up. Actually, they didn't really break it up--they just made the band stop playing and everybody had to go inside. We left shortly after the SEVEN cop cars showed up. Yeah, seven cop cars. Can you believe that? I think it was probably best we left earlier, I think it was becoming kind of shady as we could smell some alcohol and pot. One of my friends thinks she even saw some of the partiers doing some harder, more illegal drugs there. Yikes!

Fall Colors and Dutch Oven Dessert

Last night, Lindsey, me, Camille and my new roommate Linda went to the mountains to enjoy some fall colors and some Dutch oven peach cobbler. Guess how many guys came with us...take a stab! Not the good Provo guess of 2 or 3, but ..... (drum roll please).... 8! Yes, that was 8 as in eight. We actually had 2-to-1 odds in our favor. Of course the odds were good, but... some of the goods were *** (if you know the phrase, lucky you! I can't finish it because some of the fantastic goods might read my blog).

I digress. So we piled in our cars and drove up behind Squaw Peak and on a dirt road for a while and basked in the fall colors of yellow, red and orange. I immediately got the cobbler going and then we went for a little walk further down the dirt road.

The colors were amazing! I loved the evergreen trees dotted here and there and the spray of aspen trees there were bright yellow. So beautiful. I think this should be a new tradition for myself--on conference weekend, go up to the mountains, enjoy some fall colors and a little hike and then have some Dutch oven dessert. Delightful!