-ology of me

So, this has been going around. I don't really want to keep complaining about my novel, so you get this today instead. enjoy. *FOODOLOGY*

What is your salad dressing of choice? Used to be Ranch. I think it's now Honey Mustard. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Los Hermanos What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? chicken What are your pizza toppings of choice? Canadian bacon and pineapple What do you like to put on your toast? cinnamon sugar *TECHNOLOGY* What is your wallpaper on your computer? a photo that I played with. I think it's pretty awesome How many televisions are in your house? Seven, if you count the whole house What color cell phone do you have? Red! *BIOLOGY* Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right. Have you ever had anything removed from your body? No... [edit: I have given blood. I didn't really think of that] What is the last heavy item you lifted? my backpack. *BULLCRAPOLOGY* If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Yes. It's gonna happen one day, might as well be prepared. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? I don't know. I like my name. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000? heck no! *DUMBOLOGY* How many pairs of flip flops do you own? two or three. wait, my sister gave me some. I don't even remember... Last time you had a run-in with the cops? never. What do you want to be when you grow up? a mom. Last person you talked to? real life: Rosanne. chat: bob Last person you hugged? probably my dad. I like hugs, but most people I hang out with don't *FAVORITOLOGY* Season? fall. or spring. Holiday? labor day. it means school's right around the cornor! Day of the week? fridays currently Month? june. *CURRENTOLOGY* Missing someone? yes. Mood? tired. and not wanting to go to work. Listening to? the tv. Watching? CSI:NY. sort of. More like watching my homework confuse the heck out of me. Worrying about? nanowrimo. *RANDOMOLOGY* First place you went this morning? The Bathroom What can you not wait to do? figure out what my charactors are up to What's the last movie you saw? I honestly do not remember. Do you smile often? I try to.

more about my novel

Yes, I am two thousand words behind. Yes, I'm still working on it. Yes, I got past yesterday. I was able to figure it out. It has moved on. Now on to my next challenge: how mean do I want to be to my characters? I've read books where the hardest thing that happened to characters was their boyfriend/girlfriend breaking up with them. But I've also read books that put their characters through horrors that I can't imagine. Of course there are also the books in between, where the characters go through things that I would be able to handle, or am going through myself. The thing is, I don't want people reading my book and thinking "How can you come up with such things? That's awful?" I just want my book to be plausible. Then again, as was recently pointed out to me, if the villain isn't evil enough, the book won't be likable. Sam actually said a reason he doesn't like Twilight is the villains aren't evil enough. We'll see.

whoops

So as some of you know, I'm writing a romance novel. It's also an action novel. Wahoo! My problem is rather a silly one actually. Immature, I'm sure. I'm jealous of the main character. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. I was supposed to get all of my romantic daydreams into this silly novel (which I might very well burn after this month), so I could not think about guys so much. It's not working. Right now I'm in the middle of a scene. The main character and her boyfriend are about to go do something really dangerous, and they might have to split up. My main character doesn't really want that to happen, so they're having one last romantic fling before going off. I can't finish it. I don't know real life romance at all (I've never had a boyfriend), and all I know are the romance novels that I've read. Not too useful, but they've gotten me where I am. But now I'm writing this, and I want it to be me. I want a romance. Is that wrong? Going to BYU, it’s impossible to ignore the plethora of couples around. Right from I’m sitting I see no less than three or four. I feel the longing to be with someone. So, I sit and wait. For what, I don’t know. Inspiration? Desperation? A miracle? I’m not going to wait for that special someone to fall out of the sky, and I do need to finish my book. Instead, I’ll browse the web looking for ideas. Eventually I’ll come up with something, be able to finish the scene without crying, and move on with my novel. And possibly my life.

meh

NaNoWriMo is getting tough. Stupid plot isn't working, my charactors aren't behaving and I don't know how to write romance. Go figures, since I haven't had any in my life. Other than that, well, there is nothing other than that. I'm ignoring homework, skipping sleep, and basically setting my life aside to write this thing. I knew it would be hard, 50,000 words is a lot. I'm only at 16,600 right now, a bit behind, and things are not going well at all. I've already finished my first idea for my book, and I'm working on my secondary idea. Which will run out soon enough. When this happens I will plagerize web comics and give my charactors stutters. They will have to say everything twice, for the narrator will become deaf. Yeah, it's going to be great.

quick, what should I write?

I've been increasing my word count. I think I wrote 3,000 words today. (Of course, I'm still 3,000 words behind, but I'm working on it) I'm in the middle of the action, and am not quite sure where to go from here. I'm only 33 pages into this, and I'm afraid I'm in the middle of my story. Whoops! In other news, my firefox is possessed. Hint: twitter does not start with an f. and is not dark blue.

birthdays!

Today didn't start out happy. Really. I was up way too late last night, then had to get up early for church. Which I slept through. Which I feel bad about. I went to choir, where they sang to me, then to a luncheon where they also sang to me and gave me a special dessert. But still I felt meh. Like it wasn't my birthday or something. It was just another day. Then I logged on and saw this: Yay! Then I checked my email and saw this: Then I went to facebook, and people wished me happy birthday there, too. Yes, I realize that the emails are just automated, but every little thing helps. I did reach 10,000 words on my novel. I'm still about 5,000 words behind, but I'm working on it. I don't think I have writer's block anymore. I hope not. Anyways, I was still feeling a little bummed out, when tiggr and eeyore decided to go over to Rosanne and Jeremy's. I decided to go along, since they're my friends too. We ended up having a LAN party. Very fun. Jeremy ended up making chocolate milkshakes, which defininetly was the highlight of the evening. Those were so great! Then, it was raining. Which is kind of strange, for November. Also, I got over 10,000 words on my novel! Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday and made this day great.

and the winner is...

alishka babushka! So I used random.org to do this. If you have any problems, it's not my fault. I also don't know why you're auctioning off bob. It's not an auction. So, claim your prize! bob and cookies! Thanks to everyone who commented and did a shout-out!

toothbrush

I bought my first electric toothbrush today. It's pretty sweet.

balderdash

Ahh, four minutes and counting! Can I come up with another blog post? We'll see. I think it's been forever since yesterday. Even with sleeping in, my day has been long. Yet, oddly satisfying. I won't bore you with all the details, but it included a trip to the eye doctor, going to the airport, a write-in for nanowrimo (where all I did was homework), a 10/10 on a quiz, and work. I still have 2,000 words to write. Whoops. In other news, my sister is pregnant. I'm probably not supposed to shout it out on the Internet, but I'm going to anyway. I came home and found the pictures of the ultra sound on the table, but I can't read them, and I haven't talked to her yet. So I have no idea what it means. Can I wait another 8 hours? Lastly, here's a couple of pictures I had fun with a couple weeks ago. What do you think?

worst dates

Alishka Babushka suggested a blog about my worst date ever. Now, I haven't been on too many dates, but here are two that I think are pretty bad. number one: I was in High School, which is usually bad news when it comes to dates. I had a crush on a boy in my seminary class, and I decided to ask him to go to Preference with me. In true Utah style I pulled together a group (which was a huge hassle in itself) and planned an activity. It started out pretty good. We went roller skating, which is always entertaining. Then we went to subway for lunch. Also fun. After lunch we went our separate ways to get ready. We meet up at my house for dinner. We made pizzas and root beer floats (there was supposed to be bread sticks, but I burnt them). This was also really fun. Then we went to the dance. Again, it started out fun. We danced, played around, and were typical High School students. Until the bit where there was another girl there, and he asked me if he could dance with her, since she didn't like her date anymore. Being the nice person I am, I said sure. I did feel jealous but hey, this just proved more that he was a nice guy, right? Until he came back and talked about how he liked her, and he was going to ask her to prom. Yeah, that's the part where I had to make an effort not to cry. You just don't say stuff like that on a date, right? Well, I survived, and he wasn't in my seminary class anymore, thank goodness. number two: This one was in College, and was crazy from the beginning. He was in my social dance class. For this class, we either had to go to a dance performance, or compete in Dancesport. I decided to compete since it was cheaper, and sounded fun. This guy actually asked me to dance with him, and I said sure. Well, the big day came, and he didn't show up. We were supposed to met at a quarter to 8 (yes it's early, but we knew that in advance). He never showed. We looked up his phone number online and called him, no answer. I went anyway, but I couldn't compete. I think I actually ended up falling asleep while watching this. The next class period, I confronted him "I'm sorry, I slept in" was his excuse. Huh. The night before was my birthday party and the day of was cleaning checks, and I still showed up. Anyway, in order to make it up to me, he asked me out. I said sure, dates are usually fun. He said it would be dinner and a movie, but it was a date, so I said okay. Well, his idea of dinner and a movie is going to the BYU Collections free film (Adventures of Don Juan, which actually was amazing). That's it. I don't know what happened to the dinner idea, but it didn't happen. Compared to some, these are probably not that bad. But I haven't been on that many dates, so these are pretty bad for me. Which one do you think is worse? or are they not bad at all?

halloween

Edit: don't forget to enter into my giveaway! You have until Saturday! Yes, it has taken this long for me to get back to Halloween. But since Gio did say I should talk about, and I'm thinking it would be good for me to do before Thanksgiving, I might as well do it now. The night before Halloween I stayed up really late (well, I guess it wasn't too late - slightly after midnight) putting together my costume. I almost wish I had gotten pictures, But I did want to get to bed in time to wake up and go to work. I had asked for the day off, or if I had to work to work in the morning. The powers that be decided my assistance was needed, but they did give me an early shift (11-3). On Halloween I actually had to put the finishing touches on my costume, but when it was done it looked something like this: Now for the story of the costume. I'm the 100 hour board. "What is it," you ask? Well, it's an online Q&A. You can ask just about any question, and they'll answer it after 100 hours. It's run by volenteers from BYU, and the application process is rigorous (well, I applied and was rejected, and I have friends who are currently trying to get in). For more info, just play around on their site. According to their history, or legand, it was once a physical board, which hung inside the Wilkonson center at BYU. Originally students could post questions about BYU policy and have them answered (and, they still do). But it has grown to be so much more. So, I collected some of my favorite questions and answers, and 'posted' them to a cardboard box. I had bought a t-shirt that advertises the 100 hour board (I'm wearing it in the picture, but the words are backwords, click on the link for full text). Yes, it was crazy. I couldn't really wear it to work because someone was afraid I'd catch fire. But they let me wear my shirt and jeans anyway (I love wearing jeans to work!) After work I unfortunatly had homework. More than I thought I would. I still got done by about 7, and headed over to bob's. Her parents decided to have a fire with hot dogs instead of giving out candy (well, I think candy was an option, but who would choose candy over a hot dog? [well, some people I know, but they're crazy]). Sweet! I took off my box (I really didn't want to catch on fire) and we hung out. bob's parents are really cool. And I didn't recognize Sam the first time I saw him: Cute picture of Sam holding Caiti: Eventually it started raining a little, and we all moved inside. We decided that since I had never seen the Nightmare Before Christmas, we should watch it. Instead, they spent 10 minutes trying to find it. We did watch Corpse Bride though, and that was cool. Then they found out I had never seen the newer Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so we watched that, too. And we realized both of those films were directed by Tim Burton, and both have Johnny Depp in them. Weird. Eventually it was about 1 am, and we figured we should go home. Except, I didn't. I went to a friends house, for a LAN Party. :^D While they finished a game I started on my NaNoWriMo, since it was November 1st. We played a game called Battlefield 1942 - where you're a soldier in WWII. I like it, oddly enough. Anyway, my brother (who was at the LAN party) and I finally got home at 4 am, surprised to see my dad awake and waiting for us. Whoops. Then he caught the shuttle up to the airport (he had a 6:15 flight). Then I slept until 11. More pictures of my costume:

just another tag

So this was done by alishka babushka, and she said if I wanted to do it, I should. So I am. :^D 1. Where is your cell phone? In my front pocket 2. Where is your significant other? Somewhere over the rainbow 3. Your hair color? Brown. 4. Your mother? in Texas 5. Your father? in Germany 6. Your favorite thing? right now? Sleep. 7. Your dream last night? i don't remember. I didn't sleep that long. 8. Your dream/goal? to work at pixar (remember what I said about changing majors?). also, to be a good mom. 9. The room you're in? JSB auditorium 10. Your hobby? reading, welsh, writing. 11. Your fear? spiders, everyone around me dying 12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? uh...married. and possibly graduated. 13. Where were you last night? in the Kitchen. for the whole night (well, until midnight) 14. What you're not? feeling smart. 15. One of your wish-list items? a wicked awesome pen 16. Where you grew up? Utah 17. The last thing you did? 18. What are you wearing? jeans and a t-shirt. and a 'I voted' sticker. 19. Your TV? wait, I have a tv? 20. Your pet? dead, unfortunatly. 21. Your computer? amazing 22. Your mood? apathetic 23. Missing someone? Heck yes. 24. Your car? in my dreams. 25. Something you're not wearing? earrings. 26. Favorite store? Um, if I had money, the Bookstore (yes, I'm lame) 27. Your summer? hopefully amazing. 28. Love someone? perhaps 29. Your favorite color? green 30. When is the last time you laughed? two minutes ago. I love my stats professor. 31. Last time you cried? yesterday afternoon. Um, I think I'll tag some people. How about Gio and katydid?

keywords

So since nanti tagged me, I guess I better do this (plus I didn't have a post starting with K) Google analytics is a cool feature where you can see statistics about your blog. This can be quite facinating, or depressing (you can see where people come from who read your blog, and how many people read your blog). Well, one of the cool things you can view is how people found your blog through keywords on google. I'm supposed to list 5 of them, in order of least to most funny. Here it goes: 5-nanowrimo

• Makes sence, I'm not hiding the fact that I've signed up and am working on it.

4- pictures of yellow m&m guy

• I guess my nickname is yellow m&m, so this one passes too

3-earwig on my toothbrush

• Okay, why is anyone searching for this? It happened to me, but it was way gross, and I can't imagine going to my computer and doing a google search for it

2-paid for sleeping

• Same as above. It was meant to be a joke, and yet two people have found my blog looking for this. To those people: get a real job. Please.

1-how to be a board writer site: theboard.byu.edu

• For some reason, I find this the funniest. Yes, I do know how to become a board writer. I even applied once, in a fit of insanity. But I'm not going to post it on my blog. Their mistake, of course, was forgetting the space between the colon and the website.

I guess I have to tag someone, I'll tag people who have google analytics and want to do it! (I have no idea who actually has this thing turned on...)

100!

So I've finally made it. 100 posts. What have I accomplished? Nothing much, but you guys do know more about me now. You know I work at a Deli and make ice cream cones. You know that I want to go to Wales. You know I'm preparing to serve a mission. You know I'm thinking about changing my major. In honor of my 100th post, I'm doing a give-a-way. I'm giving away my very own friend, bobtheenchantedone. And yes, she is female. She's also amazing. In addition to doing NaNoWriMo, she's the eldest of eight, and helps take care of them all. Wow. In addition to recieving bob, I will make you cookies. If you're not from Utah, we'll work something out. There are three ways to enter: 1- comment and say hi 2- comment with a suggestion for a blog post 3- do a shout-out on your blog Three things to leave: 1. Who you are 2. A way to get a hold of you (e-mail or blog) 3. A comment (1 and 2 can be skipped if I already know you/your e-mail/your blog) Since it's my birthday on Sunday, you have until Saturday night to enter the contest.

elephants

so I was tagged again. by someone who will not be named. to take this one quiz. here are the results:

I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Language is Physical Touch

My Detailed Results:
Physical Touch:	11
Quality Time:	8
Receiving Gifts:	5
Words of Affirmation:	4
Acts of Service:	2

About this quiz

Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak.

Tag 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

Take the Quiz!
Check out the Book

i'm feeling spunky, so i'll only tag one person: liz! yay! everyone else: have a good day. or night. whatever.

xylophone

Because I don't have a title begining with x yet... So addition to NaNoWriMo, there's something called NaBloPoMo, where you post every day for a month. I think I might try that, too. Am I crazy? Sure, why not? I have over 3,000 words so far. I'm not going to be trying to get onto nanowrimo's website yet, I hear it's crazy right now. Otherwise, I'd upload by wordcount (I'll start doing that later). I'm also going to issue a challage to bob: let's both win this year! Wahoo! I stayed up way too late Halloween. Like to 5 am. Luckily, I didn't have anything pressing Saturday, and I ended up sleeping until about 11. Not bad. I wasn't even that tired. But, I am getting better at getting by on less sleep.

hockey and nanowrimo

So, the game was awesome. We won (of course). And now I remember why I love staying up past midnight, but the next day I was reminded of why I hate staying up past midnight. My body does not like less than 6 or 7 hours of sleep. Really. So, here are some pictures from the game:

Trying to score (we blocked them of course)

Us trying to score (can't remember if we got this one or not...)

After game huddle

Look closely. On the left there's someone who's number is actually pi. Awesome.

I'm going to skip talking about Thursday because it was boring (really, I just was tired all day). Today was fun though. Halloween! I got to sleep in, then I went to work earlier than usual so I could have tonight off. I went over to bob's about 8, where instead of candy, they had a fire going with hot dogs! Awesome! Then it started to rain. :^( So we went inside and watched Corpse Bride (since I hadn't seen it, and they couldn't find Nightmare Before Christmas [which I also havn't seen]). Then we talked. And then we watched the newer Charlie and the Chocoalte Factory. Let me say that I have to read the book again now. Because it's weird. Anyway, when I was done there, I started working on NaNoWriMo, since it was after midnight. I only have a sort of strage idea about how this story is going to work out, so it might not turn out at all. But, at least I'll try. And work really, really hard. I can do it!

when a watched pot can boil...

In my foods lab today, I made deviled eggs. Now, deviled eggs require hard-cooked eggs, and hard-cooked eggs require boiling water. I did learn that you're not supposed to keep the eggs in boiling water for very long. Once they reach a boil, you're supposed to turn the heat down and simmer them. Now, I did put the eggs in before the water boiled, but I feel this is still valid. I put the eggs in, turned the heat on, and watched it. And yes, it did boil as you can see. And even though it was my first time making deviled eggs, they came out great! Just look at them! In other news, I caught a bug from my brother (not Anarchy), Eeyore, or Tiggr. Apparently they've all had it this past week. I'm sorry if I give it to you! It's only supposed to last for 24 hours. I hope so! There was something else I was going to say. But now I can't remember it. Sort of how I can't remember where I put my keys (yes, they have been MIA since Saturday night/Sunday morning). Has anyone seen them? I really need them. I'm driving to school tomorrow. Since I have a late class (it gets out at 9 pm) and few buses run that late, I usually get a ride from my mom or dad. But, since they're out of town I get to take the car. Yay! I think... I keep thinking random thoughts, things that I want to twitter, but I'm not sure they'd be appropriate for twitter. So I don't post them. I have a lot of random thoughts. Maybe one day I'll share some with you. (Or at least some of the crazier ones. I guess this whole blog is random thoughts) It's really hard to not spend money when it's sitting in your bank account. I know that it's for more important things (tuition, a plane ticket) but there seem to be too many things around that I "need". Of course I talk myself out of it. I just fear for my bank account. Luckily payday is soon...maybe I'll save up and splurge! Well, this is longer than I thought it would be, and I have a little homework, then I'm going to a Hockey game tonight! I've never been to a Hockey game, so this should be interesting. There will be pictures (hopefully). Or at the least a post about it tomorrow. Have a great Wednesday! Halloween is just around the corner!

Guess What!

No, I don't have a date, my brother hasn't killed me, and my homework's not even done! But, I do feel excited for some reason. Who knows, maybe it's a good sign. I slept in this morning. It was bad. I had four minutes from the time I woke up to the time my ride picked me up. Not a good start. I didn't get to shower, and I forgot my wallet at home. At least I had some gum in my backpack! The funny thing is, the day went along just fine anyway. I wasn't terribly grouchy, I got things done, and everything worked out. You'd think that I'd have an awful day, after that start. But I didn't. I guess you'd call this the "power of positive thinking". I call it a miracle. The thing is, I'm not one of those people who wake up every morning determined to be happy no matter what. I'm swayed by my circumstances (I know, it's bad. I'm working on it). So today, when I got in my rides car, I was frazzled. I had hurried, I didn't get breakfast, a shower, or even time to myself. But, in the car, we're listening to a book. "The Alchemist" By Paulo Coelho. It's quite an interesting story, about a boy who sells everything to follow his dream. We're only partway through, but I find it fascinating. The thing is, it got me away from thinking about my troubles, and I started thinking "What is my dream?" Of course the trouble with that is I have no idea. I drift from one idea to another. I look here and there. Maybe I should take a break from life and travel. Then again, I know that's a bad idea. You can't run from life. It just follows you around, until you turn and face it. I guess this is the part where I talk about prayer, and faith, and trusting in the Lord. I'm working on it. I don't know why trusting is so hard. In my mind, it seems so easy - trust Him, then you don't have to worry about it, just follow Him. In reality, it's exponentially harder. Maybe I like punishing myself with the worry? Who knows. I just keep trudging along. Hopefully one day it will all click and I'll be able to be happy on my own, find my dream and trust in the Lord. PS. If you want to offer me a date, I probably won't say no ;^)

I'm not dead yet! (and two year olds stop being cute after 9 pm)

So Anarchist and I are actually getting along so far. No arguments, just playing around. I wondered how long it would take for the house to become a mess, I just didn't realize it would be less than 24 hours. Sheesh. I guess that's one problem: neither of us like doing dishes.

the Cute One

So tonight my sister and her husband (Tiggr and Eeyore, respectively) along with their daughter (the Cute One) who live in the basement came upstairs to play games. Also our friends (Rosanne and Jeramey) came over with their daughter, Ada. Cute one is two, and Ada is one, and they are the best of friends. So cute.

Eeyore and Scotland Yard

Anyway, back to tonight. First, we played a game called Ticket to Ride. Very fun. I, of course, lost miserably. (seriously, I had 31 points, the next person up had 103). But, it was fun anyway. By the time we were done with that game it was about 9 pm. No big deal you think, until you take into account that Cute One's bedtime is 8. And I'm sure Ada's is about then to, or earlier. But, us adults weren't ready to call it a night. So what did we do? We pulled out another game. Scotland Yard. Super fun, but also long. We finally called it quits about 10. And we were only partway through. Ada had luckily fallen asleep on her father, but Cute One was not acting so cute. She was so irritable, I felt sorry for her.

Ada and Me!

But, I love hanging out with friends, even if some of my friends are actually married with children (I just steal their kids. hee hee hee). What makes it even funner is both Tiggr and Roseanne are pregnant, so they talked about that too. It makes me want my own, but hey, number one I'm not married and number two I'm so not ready for that sort of responsibility. So instead I'm just a good aunt. And friend. Yay!

Ada