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

12:43 AM and I am writing a paper :/

I need to write a paper.
By tomorrow at noon.
Bleh.
It's not very hard at all, but I can't get going.

I've been doing this for more than an hour.
Here's how it's been going.

Open Microsoft Word.
Get diet coke.
Change settings to Times New Roman 12, double spaced.
Watch a youtube video.
Check blog stats.
Write name and date on document.
Find class syllabus.
Stumbleupon.
Read part of syllabus.
Make a page for the bibliography.
Open easybib.com.  (this site rocks... I would have failed high school without it)
Check to see if Hulu/Netflix has 7th Heaven.
Youtube video.
Look at blank Microsoft Word page.
Think about adjusting margins so pages will contain less text; determine that I cannot pull it off.
Write on blog.

Now I really am going to write my paper hopefully.

After this class tomorrow, my fall break officially begins!! :)
Have a good night.
<3/Laura


***UPDATE***
It is now 1:56 AM and my paper is done!!  Except it hasn't been proofread or edited.... but that can wait until morning.  1,081 words, 5 pages, 6 perfect MLA references (thanks to easybib), spellchecked, saved, and written with love (or hatred.. too tired to interpret feelings).
I'm dang psyched for fall break.
<3/Laura

Congratulations, you succeeded at naming your book

Yesterday night I innocently stopped by a Barnes & Noble, and quickly discovered that it was a mistake for the following reasons:
1. I really enjoy reading and bookstores and buying books.
2. I don't have time for reading.
3. I don't have money to buy books.
4. When I read good books I turn into an obsessive, antisocial curmudgeon until the book is finished.

Most of the books didn't capture my attention because the staff picks and bestsellers are all getting more Twilight-ish qualities, so I didn't think I was in too much danger.  But as I browsed, I found a book in the young adult section that I'd heard was good from a couple people.  It's Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Dear Mr. Green,
Congratulations, sir, you have succeeded at naming your book.
I am definitely a cover-judger, so if your book had a lame name I would have never picked it up.
But you chose a good title, so I opened it and read a random page for about 15 seconds.
And now Barnes & Noble has my $10, and you have whatever percentage you make from that.
I'm really enjoying this book.  You're good at writing too.
<3/Laura

I don't look at books with dumb names.  I only read The Hunger Games because I wanted to know what a dang hunger game was, and that turned out to be fantastic.  But I'm sure there are plenty of great books with bad titles too.

I've been reading Looking for Alaska like a crazy person since I bought it, and I really like it so far.  This book caused me to get only 2 hours of sleep last night, and after I finish this post I intend to read until my eyes won't stay open anymore.  That'll probably give me like 2 hours tonight.  And I have my economics midterm tomorrow.

Have a fantastic night!
<3/Laura