Blogging and other things I'm bad at....

You don't even have to tell me how bad I am at blogging.  I know, I know.

Not only am I bad at blogging; I'm also abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, beastly, blah, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy, crappy, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, gosh*awful, grody, gross, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy, not good, off, poor, raunchy, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, unacceptable, and unsatisfactory at blogging.  (Thank you, Thesaurus.com for all these great words to describe how I've been at blogging lately..)

So yeah, I know that my last blog post was December 3, and today is sadly January 26.  Sorry.
Luckily I have Mariah who kindly reminded me of my failures and nudged me to stop putting The Seuss Project off.

Here's what's happened in my life lately!!
I started the new semester, and it's been going.. um.. fine I guess.  I've been having a weird mental relationship with school lately but nothing bad has happened so I suppose all is well.  I also got a new job working in the Domino's in Bountiful, UT.  I start on Feb 4 I think, so we'll see how that goes!  I'm pretty stoked. :)  I also bought a new pet fish, who I named Nathaniel.  I'll upload pictures next time I'm home.

So all ya'all know that blogging isn't the only thing I fail at, here are a few other things I haven't been doing so great at lately:::::

1. Picking up soda cans at my house.  After I got paid last Friday I got all excited and went grocery shopping which resulted in like 40 cans of diet coke entering my house.  It would take about 2 seconds for me to gather up the empty cans after I drink them and take them to the recycling bin, but I haven't done it and they are everywhere!!!!  I could build Optimus Prime out of them if I wanted.. that's how much dang aluminum I have lying around my basement.

2. Saving money.  Because I have lots of things to pay for, so I should use my money for those things.  But instead I went to Whole Foods and bought things like bunny grahams and fruit karma yumminess and vegetarian pretend-meat :).  I sure like all that stuff but it gets dang expensive!

3. Filling my life with more productive things than YouTube and Stumbleupon.  Today I had to drive from Sandy to Brigham after I got off of work, but instead of leaving immediately after my shift and arriving in BC at a half-decent time, I went to the bachelorette pad and spent like 2 hours watching YouTube videos.  Only when my computer battery was going to die did I finally pack my things and leave for my Brigham house.

There are lots of other things I'm bad at.  I hope that this post makes you feel better about your life because you'll know that other people are far less successful than you.
Have a good night, and don't forget your smile.
<3/Laura

MMMBop????

(((I wrote all this last night, btw)))

Hey blog readers!!

My internet is being really weird right now, so lots of websites aren’t working.  I sort of figured that it was fate telling me to write on my blog, but now blogger isn’t working either so I’m typing this on Microsoft Word.

All the interesting/cool/fun sites are down right now, but there are 2 working right now.  The first is Facebook, which doesn’t exactly tickle my fancy so I’m not paying it much attention.

The second site that is working is a page that Stumbleupon sent me to right when the internet broke.  On this page is the music video for the song “MMMBop” by Hanson from 1997.

Really, internet?  Is that the only thing you can give me?

For those of you not familiar with “MMMBop”, imagine Rebecca Black’s “Friday” but multiplied by like 15.  I watched the music video for the first time just now, and it left me extremely confused.  (Also saddened by the downfall of good music in our world.)

Here's a link to the confusing video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE

To add to the unfortunateness of the day, “MMMBop” is now stuck in my head.  I would pay like 10 bucks to get it out of my head right now.

Bleh.  I hope the internet comes back soon.  Maybe this is fate telling me to read.  Right now I’m reading The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, and I’m enjoying it quite a lot.

Have a super great night, and sleep tightly.

<3/Laura

Things I'm Thankful For::::

I started writing this list on Thanksgiving morning, but then my family picked me up and took me to Cedar City to see my grandparents for the weekend.  They don't have wifi and I don't like their weird oldie computer, so I put off publishing this.  Now I'm back, so here it is... A (partial) list of the things I'm thankful for.

1. My awesome family
2. My amazing friends
3. Amanda Fatty Epic Fail Gail Brown :):)
4. Mayday Parade
5. Cars
6. My opportunities to go to a good school and the generous scholarship that the U gave me
7. Music
8. Electricity and furnaces and hot water and such
9. Supermarkets
10. The internet and Google and cell phones and my GPS
11. The super cool Brigham Domino's crew :D
12. Police officers and firefighters
13. Having a good job
14. My blog
15. Dr. Seuss
16. Being alive in 2012 (instead of like 1300 or something cause that would SUCK)
17. Lots more as well.

I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving!!

<3/Laura

Mayday Parade, TMNT, Jell-O, etc.

There are consequences to not blogging regularly, one of them being that I miss all of you.
Another consequence is crazy blog titles (see above) and LOTS of things to cram into one blog post.  Often when this happens, I feel bad for making my post super huge, so I try to shorten it by skipping things.  Then I speed over everything and it sound horrible and I get frustrated, so I don't blog for a long time and it happens all over again.  I will try not to let that happen.

MAYDAY PARADE CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Twas Mayday Parade and The Maine in SLC, November 17 and I went to it with my amazing best friend Fatty Epic Fail!!
And it was fantastic!  They were even better live and it was so much fun! :D:D
And The Maine is pretty good too. :)
Here's a picture of us going to the concert::::

 

To continue the awesomeness, the woman I live with, Peggy, is super great at knitting.  And would you like to know what she knitted?!?  NINJA TURTLES!!!!

 

 

Is that not the coolest thing you have ever seen??  I really want them....

 

The other day I found something else cool... a Phineas and Ferb Jell-O mold at Walmart. :)

Today I decided to use it, and I discovered why the dang thing only cost $1.

I CANNOT GET THE FREAKING JELLO OUT.

I have tried to get it out for like half an hour now, and I tried some tricks I found on Google, but that mold sure loves that Jell-O and it won't let go of it.  And if I'm too vicious, it won't be Phineas and Ferb shaped anymore.  I already messed up the Candace one, but nobody likes Candace anyway.

 

Here's some other information about my life:

I made vegetarian chili a few days ago, and it's quite nommy.

I'm going to Cedar City tomorrow to have Thanksgiving with my grandparents.  I quite miss them!!

I dislike almost all Thanksgiving food.  It's blecky.

 

Have a super great night!! :)

<3/Laura



Tofurky deli slices :)

I have a confession.
Yesterday I broke my vegetarianism.
I was doing so well!!  Wanna know what it was that destroyed me?
Lunchables.
Pathetic, right?
Well I secretly have a thing for cheese and crackers, and I wanted some for the drive back to Salt Lake last night.  And all I could find (without purchasing a crazy big amount of product) was lunchables, and I felt bad throwing away the ham cause that would be more disrespectful to the piggies than eating the meat.  So I ate it.
I feel kind of bad.... I was doing pretty well.
Oh well.

So we had a massive storm that left like two feet of snow at the bachelorette pad.  And I discovered that my car is HORRIBLE at driving in the snow!!  Driving home last night was pretty scary, and the whole freeway was going 15 mph cause it was so bad.  Then when I got into town my car kept skidding down hills and stuff on the slush, so it was pretty bad.  Today I drove about 100 feet and it was so scary that I turned around and parked at home and walked to church.
All this blizzardy stuff also made the power go out.... the bachelorette pad lost power around midnight last night and I got it back about an hour ago.  All my frozen stuff is kinda soggy :( I hope it's okay.

To repay for my meat-eating last night, I decided to try a new food... Tofurky deli slices.  They're vegan meat-ish things made for sandwiches, and I got some from Whole Foods last week.  I'd been hesitant to try them because they look.. well... disgusting.  But I put on my big girl panties and decided to try it out. :)

 

Here's what the package looks like. 

 

 

 

And here's what the product looks like when it's all globbed up before you sandwichize it.

 

So it really doesn't look too appetizing, but it made a dang good sandwich!!  I thought it was very yummy. :)  Do not, however, use as many slices as they do in the picture on the package.  One serving size is supposed to be 5 slices, but I only used 3 and it was plenty.  Also, don't eat it plain.  It's not really meat so it doesn't really taste like meat. 

 

Ya'all can see Tofurky's deli slice site RIGHT HERE.

 

All in all, this was fantastic and I'm quite happy with it.  I'm also happy to have my power back on.





 (haha I used shredded cheese on my sandwich cause that's all I have... Ima poor college student)

All ya'all have a good day. :)
<3/Laura

RIP Wilbur

I was reading an article a few seconds ago about ways to improve your blog.  The woman writing the article says that for each hour she spends writing blog posts, she spends three editing them.  (WOW)  I want all ya'all to know that I have never and will never edit my blog posts, as messy and unpolished as they may look or sound.  The only blog post I even took a second glance at before publishing was the first one I ever wrote on here!  Some people have way too much time!!

I consider this blog to be quite journal-ish, and that's probably why I don't edit it.  I used to try to keep a real journal, but it's never really worked out too well for me.  But I'm usually pretty okay at writing on my blog consistently (if you squint your eyes over the long gaps of my non-blogging...) so it works as a pretty good journal.

Mehh.  I don't know why I just wrote all that.

I'm at my Brigham house right now, but I have to go back to Salt Lake tonight because I have work.  And mostly I don't mind working because I really like my job and I love making pizza, but today I feel quite lazy and I'd rather just hang out with my friends in Brigham.  Dang adulthood.

My fish died yesterday.  I don't think I ever really blogged about him, but a few months ago I was at a Petco and bought a betta (plus a bunch of betta stuff) for pretty much no reason.  I named my fishie Wilbur and I tried to take good care of him, however he got fin rot or something and I had to buy him medicine for that.  The medicine didn't do too much, so I think the fin rot is what killed him. :(
I'm having a funeral for him tomorrow.  I really miss Wilbur.. :(:(

Alrightie, well I'm gonna head out and get some stuff done.  Have a super awesome day! :)

<3/Laura

How did this happen?!?

I AM SO SORRY!!!!
How did I end up ditching my blog?
I am a blogging failure!
Don't worry... I will try to be better at blogging.

I have a long list of excuses as to why I haven't been posting, but they're not very good excuses and I'm sure you wouldn't like to hear them.

Life's been okay since my last post.  Just been going to school and work and stuff.... nothing too fancy.  I've been trying to take pictures of stuff I've been doing to put up on here, so hopefully I can post those tomorrow.  I think that they're mostly pictures of cool things I've bought/eaten recently... :(

Gahhhhhh why can't I sleep?  I've been having the craziest sleeping problems lately.

If your name is Mariah, Emma, or Kemyla then you need to hang out with me because I miss you tons!  Text me.  Or facebooky-message me.  Or call me if you want to be old-school.  Or send me a letter if you want to be really old-school.  But you'll have to text me to get my address cause I'm not putting it on here.

Ya'all have a good night.
<3/Laura