Tonight my friends and I are going to watch our college’s production of the musical Peter Pan. Then we’re going to have a Girls’ Night In with movies and junk food. To commemorate the occasion, I bought a gallon—a gallon—of Rita’s Italian Ice in the lovely flavor of mango.
One of my classmates, who works at Rita’s, [...]
Archive for May, 2008
the taste of summer
Posted in food, friendship, love on May 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
an outdoorsy weekend
Posted in family, food, love, music, nature on May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
kayaking on the Muskingum River
after church (Dad wasn’t in the picture because he was shaking hands with church members…in the picture are two of my brothers and their girlfriends, my dad’s sister, my mom, and of course Robby)
badminton in the backyard before Charles dove into the net and broke the pole
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To celebrate Memorial [...]
say it ain’t so…
Posted in books, classes, emotions on May 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Four weeks from today I will have graduated college.
(“will have graduated” in verb terms is known as the future perfect tense…interpret how you wish)
I will be done.
I’m not ready!
I didn’t feel ready when I came to college (it was actually my 18th birthday the day I moved into the dorm). Now I don’t feel ready to [...]
a lot of drive
Posted in God, food, missionary, money, prayer, work, writing on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today our college’s Christian fellowship volunteered to box up canned goods (which the sororities and fraternities had collected all week long) and drive them to our local food pantry. Mostly out of guilt/obligation, I agreed to help.
I knelt on the carpet of the campus center, shoveling can after can into boxes and bags. It dawned [...]
happy mothers’ day!
Posted in family on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This year, when you’re writing your mom a note, please remember that the holiday honors all mothers, not just your own. That’s why I use the plural. That’s why I put the apostrophe at the end of the word. (See title of post.) It…grammar…some stuff bothers me.
My best friend Heather visited me this weekend. (The [...]
my future’s so bright…
Posted in God, Utah, emotions, family, missionary, nature on May 6, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Here is where I will be living for the next two years!
downtown Salt Lake City, Utah!
I wonder if I’ll get to hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir!
Check out this cool comparison:
Salt Lake City in 1869…
…and in modern times:
a flattering picture of the Great Salt Lake:
a more realistic picture (note the darker water and the muddy feet):
I [...]
copy-cat
Posted in love, nature on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The first blog I ever checked regularly was Jen’s. One of her recent posts inspired me to check out a website where you can convert photos into old-fashioned shots, or age them, in a sense. Check it out:
It makes it look vintage. Pretty cool.
Here’s a picture Robby took of me in springtime, two years ago. [...]
