a melody softly soaring

2011-12-17T20:44:00.000-08:00

I want to update you about my life, but all I have to say is that I've seen Breaking Dawn. And it was so good. AMIRIGHT?! They got married. Had sex. And had a baby. For two hours.

But can we talk seriously about how I've gotten better looking with age?
High school:

Present:

Damn skippy.

2011-11-12T11:29:00.000-08:00

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

2011-05-28T20:45:00.000-07:00

J. Biebs

2011-05-17T19:04:00.001-07:00

I just don't think you guys appreciated this video enough.

men I've loved

2011-04-05T07:36:00.000-07:00

Joseph may not like this, but he wasn't the first man to capture my heart. And he's not the only one that holds it now. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a list of some of the men that have made me swoon.

Gilbert Blythe

How many times I've wished that Joseph and I were worst enemies first, best friends next, and lovers finally. Isn't that a charming story to tell your children? How many men would give up the school in Avonlea for you and travel all the way to Carmandy? Probably just Gilbert Blythe.

Fitzwilliam Darcy

The first time I read Pride and Prejudice, well, I was 12 and didn't really understand anything because I wasn't terribly bright. But I knew I wanted Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy to get together. I suppose it's hard at this point to separate the original written Darcy with the Colin Firth Darcy, but I don't mind. Mr. Darcy's a gentleman and that's what we'd all like.

Prince Char

If you've seen the movie, please, please, please do not judge the book by it. Ella Enchanted is my favorite book, for so many reasons. I think I'll be in love with Char, well, forever.

Theodore Laurence

Every time. It gets me every stinking time. Jo and Laurie belong together. And Christian Bale helps.

Angel

A relatively new love, but an intense one. He's just so dark and brooding but with a heart of gold.

Logan Echolls.

Only one word is really necessary, and that is
LOOOOOOOOOOOGAN!
That makes sense if you've ever watched Veronica Mars with me.

Veronica Mars

2011-04-04T07:19:00.000-07:00

This show is such an inspiration for badassery.

It's kind of like when I watch Gone in 60 Seconds and I want to become a car thief, but i actually have a shot at becoming a badass high school girl PI. You know, minus the high school girl part.

Joss Whedon is my hero

2011-04-03T14:24:00.000-07:00

Not that I need a man to be my hero or anything. Don't worry.

wise words

2011-04-02T18:17:00.000-07:00

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

OMG he's brilliant!

2011-02-02T19:47:00.000-08:00

I have a secret fake real crush on Justin Bieber. Enjoy my tween crush:

Things I don't like

2011-01-14T22:06:00.000-08:00

In order:

1. When movies, tv shows, or music videos—yeah, I'm looking at you, Taylor Swift—make girls "ugly" by putting glasses on them.

2010-11-22T17:40:00.000-08:00

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you. "
- Frida Kahlo

Why I loved 13 July 2010

2010-10-21T19:16:00.000-07:00

-Do you think [name withheld] looks like Luke Skywalker?
-No.
-Do you think he wishes he did?

recent purchases:

2010-07-31T14:15:00.000-07:00

A thumb wrestling arena
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Strawberries
A house

two months later

2010-07-15T19:05:00.000-07:00

yeah, that pretty much sums up the last two months of my life.

my life is awesome, part 2

2010-05-03T20:59:00.001-07:00

Other highlight of my week:

My herbs started growing!

my life is awesome

2010-05-03T20:48:00.000-07:00

Highlight of my week:
Caitie organizing some of my books by color. We put it back to normal, but I'm thinking of arranging them this way permanently. Isn't it pretty?

Challenge me at Harry Potter trivia. I dare you.

2010-02-28T16:40:00.000-08:00

Fact: My old copies of Harry Potter are full of notes. Sometimes I am embarrassed by my nerditude, but mostly I think I'm awesome.

Fact: One of those old notes is a diagram of the Weasley's car hitting the Whomping Willow and falling to the ground.

Fact: I have no idea why I drew this diagram.

Fact: You wish you were me.

Penelope

2010-02-23T19:54:00.000-08:00

Hey look, I'm an aunt again!

Which I believe happened something like this:

2010-01-27T10:17:00.000-08:00

!!! You can buy the pattern for Anne Shirley's wedding dress so you can have an Anne-themed wedding !!!
If only I had heard of this three years ago. If only.
The website also has ideas for Anne-themed baby showers, in case you were wondering.

2010-01-24T22:07:00.001-08:00

If it weren't for the fact that Monday is always rapidly approaching, I think Sunday nights would be my favorite time of the week.

slap bet!

2010-01-21T17:49:00.000-08:00

You know that episode of Gilmore Girls where Rory's roommate Tana's boyfriend lost a bet so he has to speak in cliches all day? Well, I'd like to make a bet where the loser has to speak in HIMYM quotes all day. The winner can join in too. What shall we bet?

Let's go to the mall

2010-01-13T20:26:00.000-08:00

I can't tell you how glad I am that How I Met Your Mother is this awesome. Next step: make this my ring tone.

thanks a lot

2009-11-26T09:31:00.001-08:00

I know I'm supposed to be all thankful and stuff this time of year—and I am, really; my life is awesome—but here is a list of things I am not thankful for today:

1. people trying to guilt me into being thankful.
2. people trying to get me to buy crap from their "Etsy Shoppes"
3. twitter. except for the fakeapstylebook. that's funny.

2009-11-02T20:03:00.000-08:00

There's only one thing that could entice me to blog right now, and this is it.

Now I've spoiled the surprise. You all know what you're getting for Christmas.

glee

2009-10-13T15:19:00.000-07:00

Does the guy that plays Finn act so awkward when he's dancing on purpose? Is that part of his character? Or is he really that awkward? Either way it's pretty impressive. It's deliciously awkward and I love watching him dance.

This clip was the best I could find on youtube.

2009-10-06T12:28:00.000-07:00

I just watched our wedding video, and while I do not appreciate the videographic evidence that I am a horrible dancer, I do appreciate that I have the best family in the world.

what should I go back to school for?

2009-10-04T15:33:00.000-07:00

Check one:

[ ] American Studies
[ ] English
[ ] English Language
[ ] Library and Information Science
[ ] Linguistics
[ ] MBA
[ ] Publishing
[ ] Other (please specify) __________________________________

Notes to consider: My dad will disown me if I don't become a professor.

I seriously love punctuation.

2009-09-24T09:14:00.000-07:00

Happy National Punctuation Day!

If the serial comma had a Facebook page, I would totally be a fan.

dear brother

2009-09-21T13:11:00.000-07:00

I just received the last email I will receive from my little brother the missionary. Because he comes home on Saturday.

[√] eat dinner

2009-09-16T20:17:00.000-07:00

do you ever put "eat dinner" on your to-do list, just so you'll have something to check off?

on a side note, how many chocolate chips is too many chocolate chips for a single person to consume in a day? if one eats enough, does it count as a healthy, balanced dinner? just curious.

driving

2009-08-24T13:37:00.001-07:00

I'm not sure what it is about driving but it always gets me thinking about how weird it is that I am me.
I'm not that girl walking on the sidewalk with her friends. I'm not that old lady driving in the opposite direction talking to her husband. I'm not that man that just cut me off.
I wonder where they are going and what they are thinking. And I wonder if I should be glad that I am me or jealous that I'm not one of them. Or maybe neutral. Does it really matter if I am the one walking or the one driving? The one going north or the one going south? The one being cut off or the one doing the cutting off?

a silly thing to blog about

2009-08-17T21:42:00.001-07:00

but i wish i had lots of money, because these socks make me so happy

*remember when i used to love orlando? don't his socks make you happy?

this is easy

2009-08-09T19:11:00.000-07:00

Things to do in Portland:
Go to Powell's

Things to do before going to Portland:
Compile list of books to buy at Powell's

Big Bad

2009-08-08T19:36:00.001-07:00

Isn't sad Spike just the saddest thing you've ever seen?

Apparently I suck at the Internet. I was trying to find my FAVORITE clip from any show EVER, but I couldn't find it. So if you can find a clip of Spike trying to bite Willow in season 4 episode 7, go for it. You won't regret it.

the basis of it all

2009-08-07T11:35:00.000-07:00

The foundation of my belief that I am a loser is that there are only 46 tagged pictures of me on Facebook.

smells like awesome

2009-07-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

my apologies

2009-06-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

my parents finally decided that this marriage thing between me and joseph might last, so mom made me clean out my old room for good. i just reread some of my old journals that i found there and i now want to apologize to everyone that knew me in high school.

I am my mother's daughter

2009-06-14T14:34:00.001-07:00

My house is full of leftover cupcakes, apple tarts, sugar cookies, strawberry shortcakes, and key lime squares. It all makes sense if you know my mom.

hobbies

2009-05-13T18:52:00.000-07:00

I got nice and bored today (dare I say I am sick of having nothing to do?) and decided I need a hobby. And then I decided to make cooking my hobby. Ha.

Well, I have some chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting to show for it. And I will have a peach french toast bake in the morning. Oh, and I made and ate some apple pancakes.

I think I really would love baking if it weren't for all the dirty dishes I have to clean afterwards. Because let's be honest, I look cute in this apron.

domino

2009-05-06T10:48:00.000-07:00

I am in love with this book. I really, really wish that I were stylish or creative at all. Or rich. Because who needs to be stylish or creative when you're rich?

Is anyone else still depressed that Domino mag is no more? I've already gone through all of my old issues like three times, and I am so upset that I didn't subscribe earlier. At least that way I would have a larger stockpile to go through.

cinco de mayo

2009-05-05T23:39:00.000-07:00

i re-realized today that I am going to die an early death. Thanks to Sammy's real pie shakes. And Caitie's insistence that I eat muddy buddies every time we watch Gilmore Girls. And all of that other healthy food that I eat on a regular basis.

But the good news is that our neighbor is going to plant corn in our backyard and do all of the work taking care of it and give us half of it. You can't die if there is corn growing in your backyard, right?

2009-05-04T16:26:00.000-07:00

Don't worry, I still have a crush on Dmitri.

the bowl

2009-05-03T17:03:00.000-07:00

There is water at the park. My life is complete.

it's official

2009-05-02T23:12:00.001-07:00

I am now officially jobless and officially freaking out.

it's my birthday + three more words

2009-05-01T22:13:00.000-07:00

still kidney stoned.

two words

2009-04-30T23:13:00.000-07:00

kidney stone.

How to win friends and influence people

2009-04-29T18:02:00.001-07:00

Make them muddy buddies and chocolate-dipped pretzels.

2009-04-28T21:10:00.001-07:00

Today was my last Tuesday of getting up at 5:30 a.m. and it feels good.

intern family portraits

2009-04-27T18:13:00.000-07:00

Perhaps my most favoritest part of my internship is the other interns. I'm so glad I had someone to eat lunch with every day, people to give me pixie sticks and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, people to laugh at me when I told them stories of almost falling out of my seat, people to encourage me when I was discouraged, people to ride the bus with, people to consult on tough editing issues, and most importantly, people to take these pictures with:

graduation

2009-04-26T13:53:00.001-07:00

some of my favorite people in the world loved me enough to sit for three hours and watch me graduate.

wipeout

2009-04-25T23:19:00.000-07:00

wipeout.
See if you can guess which part is my favorite.

good news/bad news

2009-04-24T23:50:00.000-07:00

the good: I graduated and I didn't trip or anything.

the bad: I went to Borders to celebrate and they converted an entire section of books into a section of stationery. So all of the books got shifted and I can't find anything any more and I almost started hyperventilating. Why would they do this to me?

it's tough being a college graduate

2009-04-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

I am graduating tomorrow and I don't know what to wear. And Joseph is no help at all.

Hippies:

2009-04-22T20:08:00.000-07:00

Don't ever mention Earth Day to my father.

Trust me.

quote of the night:

2009-04-21T20:33:00.001-07:00

If Romeo and Juliet had had cell phones they wouldn't have committed suicide.

2009-04-20T20:14:00.000-07:00

I thought of a new topic for a new book. I wrote my first paragraph. And I'm not telling you what it's about.

quote of the night:

2009-04-19T22:53:00.000-07:00

"It's always better on the clock"

2009-04-18T09:16:00.000-07:00

I had a dream that my friend's sister came over to play with me and then her mom came to pick her up and they told me that my friend hates me. But they didn't tell me why.

Perfume

2009-04-17T06:53:00.000-07:00

The combination of cilantro and lime is my favorite smell in the entire world.
If you made a perfume out of that smell, I would totally buy it. And wear it.

Confession:

2009-04-16T08:53:00.000-07:00

I went to Britney Spears.
and it was awesome.

2009-04-15T19:19:00.000-07:00

I want the house in Twilight. I WANT IT!

I'm going to be famous.

2009-04-14T19:13:00.000-07:00

That is, once Wyatt gets famous and credits me for writing that awesome 4-minute film that started it all.

I went for a walk in the park today.

2009-04-13T18:54:00.000-07:00

And I got that feeling like if I closed my eyes and spread my arms like wings maybe I could fly away. It's a terribly uplifting and depressing feeling. Could I maybe rise above it all? Could I maybe fly away?

I can! I can't!

urban dictionary

2009-04-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

My list of words I like is getting ridiculously long. But I can't help it that sometimes I get bored at work and open to a random page in the dictionary and read until I find something I like.

raising my ebenezer

2009-04-11T07:41:00.000-07:00

sufjan stevens singing come, thou fount of every blessing just made my day so much better.

2009-04-10T07:19:00.000-07:00

I was thinking that I should probably stop hating people.
But then I realized that just wouldn't be me.

2009-04-08T07:18:00.000-07:00

I'm going to write a book.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Truman Capote

to do

2009-04-07T20:00:00.000-07:00

let's get rich and buy our parents' homes in the south of france
let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance
let's get rich and build a house on a mountain, making everybody look like ants.

2009-04-02T17:38:00.001-07:00

it's really depressing how long the charge on my cell phone is lasting

Kaitlyn is going to:

2009-03-15T18:40:00.000-07:00

Do yoga (Caitie!)
Be a better wife
Drink more water
Eat more fruit
Waste less
Cry less
Love more
Write more
Read more
Do more

2009-02-28T11:50:00.001-08:00

dear corinne,

sorry i don't blog any more. i have nothing to say.

love kaitlyn

2009-01-26T20:11:00.001-08:00

too much competition. there's no way i'm going to win.

2009-01-22T19:45:00.000-08:00

I got an email today saying that my diploma is in the mail on its way to my house.

This almost feels official.

2009-01-14T19:58:00.000-08:00

I made it through a week and a half of my internship.

My typical day:

I wake up at 5 (ok, so I set my alarm for 5 and then wake up at quarter to 6), take a shower, get dressed, wake Joseph up and make him take me to the bus stop, catch the 6:45 express bus to Salt Lake, read for approximately an hour, get a headache, arrive at the Church Office Building at 7:50ish, enter the building, ride up to the 23rd floor, log on to my computer, edit, eat lunch at 12:30, return to editing at 1:15, try not to cry, and leave at 4:45 to catch the express bus back to Provo, on which I get a headache after spending approximately an hour reading, to be picked up at the bus stop by my mother at 6:00, after which I eat (maybe), and sit on the couch or the computer and do nothing until it is time to go to bed, where I wait for Joseph to get home from work so that I can fall asleep and start over.

I think the fact that that is all one semi-coherent sentence is evidence of my prowess. And the fact that I just used the word prowess is evidence of my awesomeness.

2009-01-13T05:04:00.001-08:00

apparently i really enjoy split infinitives

isn't that nice?

2009-01-11T19:43:00.001-08:00

ralph waldo emerson: "nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society."

2009-01-04T19:58:00.000-08:00

Browsing goodreads/amazon (=looking at reviews on goodreads and then adding them to my cart on amazon) because I am in need of books after a long week, and I discovered one reason not to like amazon (=collective gasp). Sometimes they only have lame versions of the paperback. Example: Inkheart is being made into a movie starring that one old guy, and they only have the movie tie-in cover or the hardcover. But I just want the regular paperback! Darn you Amazon. I have a gift card to Borders anyway.

I'm just here to help

2008-12-15T21:36:00.000-08:00

I am accepting graduation/christmas gifts for the next 4 weeks (I'll give you an extension if you need one). I know you're all dying to buy me things. Right? So if you want to go beyond the obvious (i.e., books), I want some polaroid film. Darn that stuff is expensive. But I want it. And bookmaking supplies. And Rufus. And magazine creation supplies. And maybe a subscription to the believer? Or McSweeney's?

Ten-page paper to write and finals to study for?

2008-12-15T21:05:00.001-08:00

Pshaw. Let's spend hours searching hypem and becoming obsessed with Teddy Thomson and Rufus Wainwright singing King of the Road. I can't help it. I'm in love. And denial.

in case you were wondering

2008-12-15T12:26:00.000-08:00

hyperventilating is not fun.

I don't wanna grow up

2008-12-14T09:14:00.001-08:00

So I am graduating. And then I am entering the real world. So I have approximately two weeks to enjoy being a kid. I'm trying to make a list of things to do, but apparently I'm not even very good at being a kid. What should I do?

2008-12-08T14:50:00.001-08:00

Sometimes I think I am really funny.

But actually I am not.

genius

2008-12-02T20:58:00.001-08:00

I saw this on facebook and so I did it and I liked what I came up with and so I thought I would share.

Grab the book closest to you. Now.
Go to page 56
Find the 5th sentence
Write this sentence [in a blog post?].
Copy these instructions.
Don't look for a "cool" book, take the closest one.

"Toph is in Little League too, on a team coached by two black men, these two black men being Nos. One and Two among the black men that Toph has ever known."

oscar

2008-12-01T14:22:00.001-08:00

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

acts of kindness

2008-12-01T11:51:00.000-08:00

Do you know those commercials for that insurance company where one person does something nice and someone else sees that kind act and it inspires them to perform their own kind act and so on and so on?

Do you ever wonder if that really happens?

Sometimes I do nice things (Let's be honest, I do nice things all the time. I'm a very nice person.) and I wonder if someone saw me and will be inspired to do an act of kindness for someone else.
Sometimes I see someone do something nice and I wonder if it will inspire me to do something nice. (The answer is no: I'm already so nice that I don't need any inspiration.)

Wouldn't it be nice if that really happened? Like Pay it Forward, but without specifically telling people to pay it forward, and without the little guy dying at the end.

2008-11-28T15:26:00.001-08:00

I am so in love with life today.

I'm not going to try to analyze it.

I'm just going to let it be.

a-dor-a-ble

2008-11-25T14:03:00.001-08:00

I am seriously in love.

via grosgrainfabulous

blog stalking

2008-11-20T21:34:00.000-08:00

I love google reader. I subscribe to blogs and the authors are none the wiser (I hope), and they link me to beautiful things like this:

those pictures aren't the only adorable things you'll find here.

things to darn

2008-11-18T09:20:00.000-08:00

I think I am going to start carrying my camera around with me everywhere I go and take pictures of everything I see. Timidity and awkwardness be darned.

Danielle asked me if I would like to watch Reagan this morning. Classes be darned!

why?

2008-11-17T21:16:00.000-08:00

I took my hair out of its customary ponytail because it was bugging me. And then it was bugging me being down, so I quickly gathered it back up. And now it's adorable and no one will ever even see it. And I didn't even try to make it adorable. Why does this happen to me?

priorities

2008-11-16T12:31:00.000-08:00

This picture was taken the day we moved into our new place. Do you notice what I notice?

I think I have my priorities straight.

2008-11-14T21:13:00.001-08:00

I got an internship.

Life is pretty good.

ps

2008-11-12T16:37:00.000-08:00

thanks for introducing me to mates of states cover of california, too

Thanks, world

2008-11-12T15:30:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Caitie for introducing me to hypem.com

Thanks to hypem for introducing me to Nelly Furtado's cover of Crazy by Gnarls Barkley.

2008-11-10T12:31:00.001-08:00

2008-11-05T21:11:00.000-08:00

What's up with the weather?

2008-10-30T18:35:00.000-07:00

What's up with the weather?

My parents enjoy saying that if you don't like the weather in Utah, wait five minutes and it will change. They usually say this when it's raining. Being from New York, they can handle it raining for five days straight—ain't no thang. In Utah, if it rains five minutes straight, it's a pretty big thang.

Usually I give a smile and think fond thoughts of Utah's fickle weather.

It's starting to get on my nerves.

I come to campus at approximate nine a.m. every Monday through Friday. And it is freezing. Granted, my not-yet-dry hair may have something to do with my shivering, but I'm content to blame the weather gods for my discomfort. If I ever leave my not-so-secret-anymore secret computer lab (which, let's be honest, doesn't happen very often) and go outside, I'm uncomfortably warm under my jacket. And I look dumb for wearing a jacket, like I can't figure out what temperature is jacket temperature. Curses to the weather gods.

But then it's thirteen hours later and it gets dark again and I leave my lair (for much too short a period of time) and I am once again grateful for my jacket and still angry with the gods.

pleasant feeling

2008-10-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

but these make me feel a little better

via design*sponge and desire to inspire

not pleasant feeling

2008-10-29T13:59:00.001-07:00

I feel terribly ugly today and it's not a pleasant feeling.

2008-10-28T11:32:00.000-07:00

Isn't it silly how we take things for granted?