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Earlier in the week I went on a date to the Los Campesinos! show at Club Sound. They're not anything that I would normally listen to, but it was a pretty good show. Here's a few songs of theirs.

In unrelated news, James dragged me to see Anonymous at the dollar theatre last week. I've never read anything by Shakespeare and I wasn't aware that there were people who think his works were written by a nobleman, but I really enjoyed the movie. I love all movies and books set in the Elizabethan era. If you haven't seen it yet, go. Do it now. 

the girl with the dragon tattoo

I just got home from watching The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I haven't read the book but now I kind of want to even though Chelsi says it doesn't amount to anything until about 300 pages in. Have any of you read the book and then watched the movie? What are your thoughts about the American film adaptation? (There's also this Swedish version, if you didn't know).
The reason I'm blogging about it is because there was a part in the film that really struck me. At one point, Lisbeth (Rooney Mara) is handcuffed to a bed and then raped. Now, I've seen a lot of movies that have rape scenes in them. But I've never been impacted by a scene so much before. I straight up started crying when she took a shower afterward and revealed that her body was covered in bruises. All I could think about was my mom.
For those of you who don't know, my mom was raped by someone she knew in high school. That's how I came to be. I've never known my father and I have absolutely no desire to. My mother was raped by a guy she had dated once while his friends held her down. While Lisbeth was screaming and thrashing about trying to prevent this guy from raping her, all I could think was, "Is this how it was with my mom?" Did she really suffer through something so awful as this? The scene was so hard to watch and left me with an uneasy feeling in my stomach that I have even now, hours later.
I could go on, but I'm going to spare you guys. Don't let this prevent you from watching the movie, because it's definitely worth seeing. It just fucked with me a little more than the rest of the audience. 

missoura

This trip to Missouri was much more family-oriented than I had imagined. I had planned on being at my house for meals but spending a lot of my time with friends I hadn't seen since June. But instead, I only hung out with people twice and for very short amounts of time. 

Monday: Landed in Kansas City around 2:30pm, bought a new coat and gloves, ate at the Golden Corral. Rose came over and we watched The Lion King with Nick. Admittedly, I was so exhausted that I slept through most of it and left Rose to hang out with Nick.

Tuesday: My grandma and I made vegetable soup for lunch and after dinner Scott, Rose and I went to Walmart cause everything in Trenton closes at 10pm and we needed something to do.

Wednesday: We had a roast with the works for lunch and then mom and I made caramel macchiato cookies. I spent a couple of hours trying to find Tangled on dvd in town since the internet connection at my parents' house sucks balls and netflix wouldn't work.

Thursday: The whole family came over for Thanksgiving. Mom and I went to Walmart for Black Friday shopping. We bought a 51" TV for one of her friends in Iraq, a Wii for me, and some other random shit. This lady had SIX crockpots, two vacuums and a lot of Wiis in her two carts... Black Friday shoppers are crazy.

We took Wayne (my mom's friend in Iraq)'s truck down since the TV wouldn't fit in mom's trailblazer... but we were afraid of it falling over in the bed without being tied down... so I had to sit in the backseat with my arm out the window holding onto the TV the whole time. lol.

Friday: Spent the morning chilling with the family before I had to fly back to Salt Lake. Just look at how adorable my brother is. Holy cute.

And that's about it. Extremely unexciting. I watched the Shrek series and The Lion King so many times that I lost count. My mom turns Shrek on in her room and The Lion King on in his room and he goes back and forth. It's cute. :)

pre-missouri

I promised Kira I would blog during my layover in Minneapolis on Monday… But my flight out of SLC was an hour late and I had to sprint around MSP to catch my next plane. So no layover blogging timez. I also pulled an all-nighter so I was unconscious during both of my flights.. so no mid-flight blogging either.

Two Thursdays ago, Amanda and I went to sushi and then to the Breaking Dawn pt 1 premiere. It was really fucking terrible.... I was in panic mode the entire time Edward and Bella were having sex and then Bella was thinking about them having sex the day after. I had my knees to my chest, eyes wide with horror... I was legit freaking out. I have never been so disturbed by a sex scene.

During the opening credits there was a preview for the new Snow White and the Huntsman. It actually looks like it'll be a good movie. That is, until you get 57 seconds into the preview....

  

Kristen Stewart.....Kristen Stewart!? SERIOUSLY? They pick her as the fairest of them all!? Why god, why!? Ugggggghhhh. Why does she ruin everything I love!?

The next day I ended up taking Le Bus to Wendover, NV, for Michael's birthday party. On Saturday I went to Chili's and a hockey game with Kira, Beckie and Marques. There was a small party at Mark and Colby's on Sunday where we watched the Labyrinth and on Monday I flew back to Missouri.

Up next... My wonderfully exciting times in Missoura!

falling in love at a coffee shop

I was sitting in Starbucks studying and this came on. I'd forgotten how much I love this song.

Today is the last day of fall break. I basically did nothing but work and watch netflix. It was so boring and uneventful. If I didn't input each thing I did every day into the Momento app, I wouldn't be able to recall anything I did.

October 7-9

 

On the 7th, Riley went on a field trip to a pumpkin patch. The kids got to pick their own pumpkin, place in a hay maze and then learn about the hundreds of different kinds of pumpkins, squash and gourds. The next day was the Utah vs. ASU game where we lost, 14-35. It was cold, I was tired and we were losing so it was boring. I spent that night in Ogden with Chelsi and Michael and spent all of Sunday intruding on their family. By that I mean I accompanied their entire family (Wendy, Shayne, Cass, Noah, Chelsi, Michael and Mitch) to the movie theatre and then to dinner. I tried to be as un-awkward as possible since it was the first time Mitch and I were seeing each other but he kept making it weird and so were his parents. It was very obvious that they thought it was fucking odd that I was there as just a friend AND that Mitch was going to give me a ride back to Salt Lake. Whatever. We talked things out on the ride home and I feel like we can finally move on and be friends. When I got home Paul and I went to the dollar theatre to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides..... It was so terrible. I am a huge fan of the Pirates series but this one was just... awful. The acting seemed unnatural and forced and I guess I just wasn't a fan of the plot. The whole 2 hours we were sitting there I was bored and unhappy. I've never been so disappointed by a Johnny Depp movie in my life. 

October 14-16

On Thursday I was getting pretty pissy about the fact that I hadn't done shit during break. So I hit up Chelsi. On Friday we threw a party of epic proportions where everyone got really wasted and had a blast.

 

Then last night Paul, Bottom Joe, Stuart, Corinne and I went to the Haunted Forest in American Fork. It was $20 for an hour and a half of wanting to pee my pants. Not because it was scary. I just really needed to pee. But it was really fun. It wasn't scary so much as shocking at how close the actors got to you. I was the leader of our pack so creepers kept jumping out and getting within an inch of my face. There was also a guy with a blow torch that nearly took out my shoe. Not cool. What WAS cool was the guy dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow:

He was stumbling around in one of the rooms of the mansion you go through before the forest. We caught him afterward and I managed to snap a picture of him with Paul and Bottom before my phone died.

Speaking of phones, I got the iOS 5 update and I loooove it. I can't decide if the notification center or the ability to make custom text tones is my favorite. I love everything. I especially love this tumblr called Shit That Siri Says. It's a collection of screenshots of things that Siri has responded on the new iPhone 4S. It makes me so jealous of 4S owners...

Anyway. Back to school tomorrow. It'll be my first time to French class in two weeks. I'm excited to see how much Luc picks on me. À bientôt!

i hate when you have to gag down that...you know.

I've been putting off blogging because I don't do anything worthwhile. Ever. Seriously. My life is so boring, but here's a ridiculously brief update on what I've been doing lately.

06/30: Field trip to the Clark Planetarium! We watched Born to Be Wild 3D at the IMAX and then had lunch by the fountains. The kids were told to be careful not to get soaked but of course that meant they should stand directly over the fountains, right?

06/30-07/04: Stayed in Ogden with Chelsi and Michael. The first night, we played Monster Cards again. Shown here are "The sweet scent of your mom's rotting placenta and gasoline on your dad's morning wood;" "Zombie octopi with gonorrhea tentacles giving Mitch the ol' reacharound;" and "Jesus Christ laughing hysterically at a homeless bum doing heroin in his anus."

Quotes from Independence weekend!

Chelsi: Imagine Merv with dicks as eyes.

Someone: Oh I totally can.

Chelsi: They're erect, totally erect!

Chelsi: Any time Merv is involved its hysterical

Michael(?): Plus he has dick eyes!

Chelsi: Beerwithamustache.com

Me: That beer would sell.

Chelsi: Just imagine all the hipsters buying it!

Chelsi: I love when R2 does that. It's like he shits his pants, ejaculates, and then pukes on himself. And then he sneezes and cries at the same time.

Mitch (about Hagrid's parents): How does that work, a wizard and a giant?

Chelsi: ....magic.

Chelsi: You had girls rubbing your crotch and making out with your ears?

Chelsi: I'll tell you, if I was an elder I would masturbate all the time and never tell my bishop.

(If you can't already tell, I think Chelsi is HILARIOUS! Everything she says cracks me up)

07/05: Paul and I had a small, lame party in our apartment. Stuart claimed to be drunk off of one beer and one shot, got the drunkchies, and then passed out.. only to be dry humped and cuddled by Mitch. Awkward.

 07/05-07/11: This little girl Lah Le Paw and her sister Htoo Htoo have been making me a ton of rings, necklaces, bracelets and crowns out of flowers during recess. It's so freaking cute.

07/09: It's very likely that Mitch acquired mono... so on Saturday, I (being the lovely little saint that I am!) drove all the way to Ogden to spend a relaxing day with him. We finished Star Wars episode I, watched part of HP2, and then saw Cars 2 with his family. At the theatre they had a Wonka vending machine! It was $3 for two tiny scoops of candy but still! A Wonka vending machine! How cool is that!

07/11: Paul and I went to multiple 7-11's after I got home from work but EVERY SINGLE ONE WE WENT TO WAS OUT OF FREE SLURPEE CUPS. It was so sad. I've never had a Slurpee before and I was really looking forward to this day. :( But our day improved just a bit when we got home and our black neighbors were willing to communicate with us through the walls again.

this is definitely where i parked my car!

Am I really so immature that I take pictures of the number 69 every time I see it at the grocery store?

Of course I am.

I was supposed to go camping with Scott, Christian and Rose on Thursday but it rained early in the day and Christian was too hungover to hang out. Rose and I had dinner at El Nopal then went back to my place and watched The People I've Slept With and the beginning of The Other Guys.

We spent the majority of Friday at the high school for Relay for Life. 

If you're not familiar with Relay for Life, its a 12-hour fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. There are multiple teams and the idea is to have someone from each team walking throughout the entire night. Each lap your team walks earns money for the ACS, along with whatever items your team sells - some have food, while others have games to play and souvenirs to buy. There are bags all around the track in memory of people who died from cancer and also for survivors. The names of all of these people are announced during the Luminaria and as your name/your family member's name has been called, you light the candle that is inside the bag. 

  

Besides that I guess I've watched a lot of movies during the last week... Sunshine Cleaning, Fish Out of Water, The Shining, An Education, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Love in the Afternoon, Charade, Sabrina, Elizabethtown, Eurotrip... I am such an old woman.

As such, here's a video of Rose playing with Smudge...

Aaaand a super adorable picture of my little brother Nick who would not stop harassing me to wear his sunglasses today.

monday funday

 I had lunch avec ma mère et mon frère au El Nopal.

 We bought lilies at Lowe's.

Then Rose and I watched Rio.

That's basically all I did today. Instead of using my time off of work wisely and studying, I watched Don Juan DeMarco this morning before lunch. Then I made my mom take me to Chillicothe to look for Wildlife Wednesday shirts at the thrift stores. We didn't have any luck, which I find surprising since it's Missouri and people love to kill animals and wear shirts involving the animals they kill...

Later, Rosie and I caught the 7:00 showing of Rio. We got there reeeallllly early so I played arcade games until I ran out of quarters, and then we sat in the theatre for like 40+ minutes watching SceneIt ads without any sound. The movie was so freaking cute and funny, I loved it. We were in a tiny theatre and also the only people in it, so we were able to talk as loudly and be obnoxious as we wanted. Perfect.

Now I'm back to reading for my summer classes. I swear, these classes are going to be the death of me. Semester just started today and I already feel overwhelmed. I'm just hoping I can keep up with all of the reading and homework once I start working again. D;

I just checked my grades for the spring semester... :(
My GPA dropped from a 3.636 to a 3.162. I got three B's and only one A. I'm actually really disappointed in myself. If I don't get straight A's during the summer, I'm going to be so angry. Ugh.

summer beginnings

Let me start off by showing you my dorm room before we started packing anything away.

 Hallway.

 Calendars + three-hole punches.

 Coat collection.

 My side of the room.

My side of the room, pt II.

Corinne's side of the room.

Now look at these pictures I took the night before I moved out.

Such a difference. The room was so lonely after Corinne moved out and I had most of my stuff in the car. I spent a lot of time between Tuesday and Friday either in Starbucks or in the lounge because the room was too empty and echo-y.

Rose flew in Thursday night to drive back with me on Saturday. On Friday, I showed her around the campus and then we went to the Hogle Zoo, the cupcake store on Foothill, and the Gateway.

 We had a competition to see who could dress like Diego the best.

Rose won, but only because I look too cute and she has more of that grungy appeal.

We got Carl’s Jr. for dinner.. Rose’s meal was delicious but mine wasn’t very tasty, so I decided to order something else off of the Green Burrito side of the menu. It was also disgusting. Ah well.

As we were leaving, I mentioned that we should take a few pictures of the Blanche overload at the abandoned restaurant next to Carl’s. Because the loaner phone I have totally sucks, my pictures through the fence didn’t come out very well.. so Rose decided to hop the fence and get a good picture for me. She got a bit scuffed by the fence on the way back out, but the mission was a major success.

There was also a Blanche barely hanging on to the building that she was able to grab for me. :)

On Saturday, we drove 9 hours to Denver. Our hotel was in downtown Denver, so any time that we wanted to walk outside it was extremely sketch. But I managed to buy a new necklace and a couple of Ganesh pictures. We hurried back to the hotel before it got dark so we wouldn't get raped/mugged/killed/etc., only to find out that we bought new bathing suits for no reason. Hotels.com lied to us and the Ramada we stayed at did not have an indoor pool. :( So we got schwasty, watched Bring It On, and jumped on our comfy, king-sized bed.

Oh! Also, we had lunch at Qdoba. It was our first time. Corinne complained quite often that there were no Qdoba's in close proximity to the SLC and I couldn't see why it was such a big deal.. but their food is pretty delicious. The queso isn't as good as what Corinne made it out to be (she obviously hasn't had the goat cheese at El Nopal) but my chicken quesadilla was scrumptious. mmm.

We arrived in Trenton at a pretty decent hour on Sunday. I started unpacking but that didn't last very long. Instead, I read the introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. It's incredible and so interesting.

I spent the majority of today (Tuesday, ignore the header's date) unpacking. I must say, my room looks pretty dank with all of the paintings and things I acquired in Utah. It's going to suck packing everything pack up in a few months. I'll bust out the wide-angled lens later and take a few shots of the room. I just love it. I've been up here basically all day. I've only left twice: to go running and to walk the dogs. After I was done unpacking, I watched Toy Story 3. A bit later, I finished the second half of Wake Up Sid (which I highly recommend to everyone, it's on Netflix here), and then started The Last Song. To sum things up, I've been productive but also very lazy. Hm.