Wednesday, December 19, 2012

An Embarassing Tale of Obsessions

I decided it was time to come clean and release my thoughts on those little, and other times, not so little, obsessions. This may get pretty dang creepy, just as a forewarning.
Let's start it simply, shall we?

Irish Dance (Yay!):
I just love it. I have no idea how to describe the joy it gives me to dance. I love the friends that I've made, the steps that I've learned and the difficulty of trying new things. Hard shoe could be considered my significant other, no joke. I try and go down to the basement twice a week and practice those steps. I love hearing the syncopation of the music with the sound of my feet. Someday I hope to possibly join a competition school so that I could just see how well I'd do in that atmosphere. Fun stuff.

Knowing everything on a certain subject:

Yes. It's very weird, but just something that I love to do. I love having the internet at my fingertips, if ever I want to know anything I just type it in and bam, I know all. For example last week after that horrific shooting I googled other previous shootings including Columbine and Virginia Tech. If that doesn't make you depressed I don't know what will. I ended up reading both of those wikipedia pages. I also look up actors like a crazy person, my sisters can attest to the obnoxiousness of this. Ask me anything about almost any actor and I could tell you. I know their names, pasts, other movies they're in, etc. It's disturbing. See? I told you this would get creepy.

Volleyball:

 I love this sport. For the past few years I've usually played setter, but I've decided it's one of the worst positions. Your whole team depends on you, and 99.99% of the time you must touch the second ball, it's crazy but I loved it. Now I've found a new position that I enjoy much, much more, rightside. It's way more fun than having the stress of the setter and I actually get to hit! Yay! But sadly I didn't make the team this year and after having two years of the world's worst club teams I decided it was time to quit the whole institution (not to mention it's possibly the most expensive sport out there). It's been hard to get out of the constant volleyball mindset, last year it was one thing after another, now it's nothing. There are days where I'm aching to get back out on the court and touch some balls or go down to the sand courts with a friend but there's a stunning lack of availiable, willing people.

As you hopefully know, the summer olympics were actually this past summer and they were awesome. I got my volleyball release and was in a constant state of panic, hoping both the male and female beach vb teams made it to the finals. I even got my sister Kathleen sucked in, we probably lost our voices screaming at the tv. It was awesome.
Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings
These guys are pretty much my heros, they were absolutely incredible. I'm a little sad that they will be retiring from the olympics now, but they had a great few years.
 
One Direction (You knew it was coming):
What can I say? They are just awesome. Go ahead and judge. I'm not sure what it is about them that I like so much. I won't deny that they are attractive but they are also hilarious. They're an interesting group of boys with very different voices and they can always make me laugh. (What can I say, I'm the ultimate creep). Even though they live halfway across the world I feel like we could be great friends (I think I just barfed in my own mouth from the cheesiness I just wrote). Anyways I just think they are extremely talented boys with incredible, individual voices. I feel like I'm being constantly blown away by the boundaries and records they break. I've only been a serious fan since this past July but holy cow! I have dug myself into a serious fandom hole, and I'm not sure I'll be able to get out.
 
 
While I'm rolling myself into a cheeseball, I just want to say that I would love to meet these guys someday, they're probably at the top of my list of people to meet. I hope that if I do I will have the self-respect to not scream like little girl and that we can have a normal, human conversation. Have you ever thought about what you would talk about with a celebrity? I obviously have, I think it would be so much fun to just talk about random things that have nothing to with their job or my horrid, boring little life. When I meet a famous person I want to meet them, not just the face that they put on for the cameras. Can I also say that I am giving them credit to me coming out of my depressing, shy, little shell? I had no life and pretty much no friends, and now I've decided it doesn't matter, if people don't like me for me, they can get lost. Wow. Let's move on shall we?
 
 
Baking:
 
My delicious, homemade chocolate chip cookies

 
Oh how I love to bake! Not only do I love to bake I love eating baked goods! (This is probably why I could lose a few pounds). I have a thing for making unhealthy, sugary but ridiculously delicious food. I would say my specialty is cookies but I've been dying to try some other things, but if I do cakes or anything like a cake I'm going to need a personal frosting decorator because this girl has no hope whatsoever in the art industry. But Someday, if you're lucky you can taste these delicious morsels of mine:)
 
Well That's all the obsessions I can think of. I hope you're not completely creeped out, besides if you even made it this far, you deserve a medal! I wish you luck in all of your endeavors and apoligize for this psychotic post... for the record it is midnight. Toodely oodely!!
 


Friday, December 7, 2012

Thanksgiving Break!

I know Thanksgiving was kind of forever ago but what the heck! This year we went to Moab, which was fun but we did miss our dearest sister, Kathleen :( and since it was so long ago I can't really remember much. I think we saw Breaking Dawn and Skyfall while we were down there, but only the latter is really worth seeing... Anyways, we also went mountain biking, that was a ton of fun, but sadly there were no exciting crashes, I blame this on Kathleen's absence :) We got there on thanksgiving day so we went to the Sunset Grill for our thanksgiving feast, but I felt we missed out on the Fotheringham's annual pie fest. And now I must apoligize for this extremely lame post and hope it didn't waste too much of your precious time... But here's some pictures!!


I just love the endless blue sky that's interupted by these rocks and shrubs:)

Somewhere near the top of the Klondike Bluffs

Megan and I keeping it real.... sexy!

Petrified sand dunes

We were just down there!..... somwhere?


Just keep moving along...

Monitor and Merrymack

We struggled getting all of us in, so I look just a tad special

Driving by the rocks near the Colorado River





 
All in all it was a great weekend, and it was nice to have such warm weather. I'm Thankful for the time I get to spent with my family, they are such wonderful people, and I'm super grateful that Kath gets to come for Christmas, can't wait sista!

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Witches Night!

 
Last night was so much fun. Me, Megan, my mom, and my aunt Becky went with my mom's dance class to Gardner Village to witches night. There were a lot of weirdos, but I'm sure we fit right in:)We even got to show off our awesome dance moves! And as always, here's a billion pictures:
 
Me, Becky, Megan, and My mom

Megan and Becky showing off:)

Me and my seester!

My mom's dance class

The fairies from Sleeping Beauty with a couple randos.

I love these guys!

Labyrinth anyone?

Megan and I at the pumpkin house

 

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Fall Break!

Yay! Fall break! It was kind of last week but that's okay. I feel like I did a lot but I can't remember now. haha:) Anyways....
The Pre, Pre-carved pumpkin

We had a lot of fun practicing dance with the halloween costumes:)

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We also made some delicious apple crisp! (Don't worry, it tasted better than it looks).

Here's some of my dad's amazing homemade beef stew:)

My mountain biking scars.

On thursday Megan and I finally saw The Dark Knight Rises. It was great and I liked so much better than the second one. We also went mountain biking on monday at Lambert Park, it was so much fun! I had several interesting crashes and even ended up landing on my stomach with my legs bending up and my feet almost hitting my head. It was rather embarrising:) Megan and I almost carved our pumpkins, but we ended up not. we decided it would be much more fun to just relax and watch a movie:) so here's some pics of our breaks highlights: I apoligize that the blogger likes to destroy my posts by putting the pictures in random places, but I have yet to fix that.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Last Weekend

Last weekend was awesome. We went down as a family and visited my awesome sister Kathleen! Since we did go down to Cedar City it was only natural that we should see a play. Les Mis it was, and it was...... okay. When we saw it over the summer it was stunning! This time, not so much, I don't belive the extended season was such a good idea. But it's still an awesome play, nonetheless, and it got me super pumped for the movie coming out this december!
Hanging out at Kath's apartment
The next day we got to just hang out as a family and enjoy our precious time with Kathleen:) So we went on some errands then decided to check out the city's Veteran's Memorial Park. It was probably one of the better Memorial parks I've been to. It had a memorial for all of the wars, pretty cool, I daresay. Here's some pics:



Afghanistan


Korea

WW2

Vietnam


WW1


The Whole Fam
It was an awesome trip, and I'm glad we got to hang out with my seester:) lol (lots of love) Kath!
 





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