finally! something worth blogging about

1/4 down

25 years old today and i feel great! man i love birthdays. not every birthday is great, but this one feels really great cause #1 i've made it through 25 years without either dying or going to jail! and #2 i get to do whatever the heck i want for a whole day! this began with sausage for breakfast followed up by a scaldingly hot shower. yesssss.

anyways, it being 1/4 of the years of my life today, i thought i'd do a little trot down memory lane, noting down one big thing i've done every single year until right now. here goes!

1985 age 0: i was born! wooo!

1986 age 1: probably i learned to walk

1987 age 2: probably i learned to talk

1988 age 3: probably i finished up learning to talk...also started pre school with marilyn jones, whose name i still remember somehow

1989 age 4: all i remember from being 4 is food shopping with my mom and it was fun.

1990 age 5: kindergarten! learning to read in ms. nyman's class

1991 age 6: ms. shioji said i was 'conscientious' in front of the class. i ate it up.

1992 age 7: flipping a person off for the first time in my life (i still feel bad about this!)

1993 age 8: crying at home cause even though i was in a higher grade level of english and history, i could not wrap my head around long division

1994 age 9: meeting it up and hanging it out with danny and michelle, who im still friends with! oldest friends prize.

1995 age 10: lets all RIDE BIKES!!

1996 age 11: all i remember from this year is my parents divorce. drag of a memory.

1997 age 12: junior high begins! bring on the pimples, BO, and intense awkwardness. apart from that all i remember from this year is my dad dying. drag of a memory again.

1998 age 13: 9th grade was full of all kinds of embarrassing crushes for whose attention i did embarrassing things. dang i hated junior high!

1999 age 14: starting high school! and got my first boyfriend ryan kyle ;)

2000 age 15: hm i remember kisses at midnight on that special new years. also i went to france that year! that was a life changer.

2001 age 16: directed a play in high school, suffered under two very big crushes

2002 age 17: graduation! woo!

2003 age 18: started up at BYU, got heart promptly broken

2004 age 19: college roommate BFFs! village inn at 2 am, anybody? maybe we can dress like skanks when we go just for funsies...

2005 age 20: trip to london! freezing it up in the pueblo house, and working with kids for the first time! jackson you changed my life.

2006 age 21: i remember eating a lot of fruit roll ups and watching a lot of scrubs this year...

2007 age 22: graduated college! got married! went to thailand, laos, and china! what a year!

2008 age 23: started grad school, went to mexico! madness!

2009 age 24: finished grad school, went to korea! patterns emerging here...

2010 age 25: THE UNKNOWN!

:)
hope the next fifty years are twice as fun and half as awkward. so far: outloook good.

blogback!

hello all! so i know i haven't been the best blogger lately. christmas was CRAZY who's with me? im ready to get back to the routine.

BUT i wanted to let the world know that one of my new projects this year is a fancy foods blog! complete with fun pictures and updates of what i'm eating and baking(what is it now? truffle butter or lavender sugar?). please to have a look! i plan on keeping this blog up, but that one will PROBABLY be more fun...

www.icyviolets.blogspot.com

i got the name from icing like frosting, and the violet cause i like flowers and i like violet flavored snacks. please drop in! it'll be fun.

it's a new year

it's a new year.
resolutions? none. be a better person.
the old year? it was pretty big. makes me want to lay low for a while.
lay low and bake.

christmas list*

sewing machine

vanilla beans

truffle oil, or anything related to truffles (the mushrooms not the chocolates!)

silicon baking mat (silpat!)

mortar and pestle

humidifier

gosh they are really all food related aren't they? except the humidifier.

EDIT: my mom had an old humidifier in the basement, so that is taken care of. so cross out humidifier and replace with: books/magazines about how to make crafts from garbage.

*note: i don't actually expect anyone who reads this blog to get me christmas gifts

market madness

buying, selling, shouting vendors, crying kids, calling livestock, eating, bleeding, living, and dying. welcome to the market--what will you have?

technology!

i am in a magical place. today was kind of a crappy day. we got booted out of our apartment for the last week here--our replacement arrived today, so we got the bum's rush. i was a little bitter for a while. i spent all day yesterday cleaning our place, which just made me sad cause it was kind of like my little cave. then i was so nervous last night about moving i almost didn't sleep at all. we got out of there this morning at about 8:30, and having nowhere to go, moved all our stuff into the school where we work. we spent the morning there, and i taught my classes today wearing the exact same thing i wore yesterday and no socks. yeah, i was a little frustrated.

but our boss came through, and now i am sitting in our new hotel room, and it is like a hotel room from the future. it's just a little "love hotel", which is basically where koreans go to do it (in korea it is socially acceptable to live at home until you get married, but then young couples need a place to get busy, thus the love hotel). but it isn't seedy as it sounds. it has fancy lights and a huge bathroom, and there is cactus juice in the fridge. also lots of free hair products (yes i am CERTAIN that's what they are...:))

anyways, the tv turns on when you touch it and now im going to take a shower. that is where i am at!