Random Memories

I was just looking through my blog and realized I don't put many pictures up so I went through and picked some random pics of my life in Provo. Here goes:



This is at "Music and the Spoken Word" at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. I had never heard the Mo Tab sing inside the Tabernacle before and the acoustics were unbelievable. The official chorus of the United States Navy the "Sea Chanters" were there singing with the Mo Tab as well. A-mazing.

This is a picture of my bed when one of my ocean-loving friends came over to visit but I wasn't home. He had taken the refrigerator magnets off and spelled, "OCEAN" and then written a note about how he had looked for some kind of ocean or beach food in my cupboards but only found green beans. It was so funny and cute and the best part was that this is exactly what my mom used to do when I lived at home. She would always leave little presents with "Jeffery Bear" or tuck him into my bed and things like that. Good Memories.




These pictures are from the Holi festival or festival of colors at the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. Once a year the Temple follows the Indian tradition of celebrating springtime by throwing brightly colored powder until everyone looks like something out of a 1980's Jim Henson movie. I wiki'd the Holi festival and it said that they believed springtime brought about many viral illnesses and that the powder has some kind of medicinal benefits. Who knew? If you really want to know what it's like, just picture Woodstock but instead of everyone being naked, we were covered in colored cornstarch. And the music was more Punjabi than Janis Joplin...


These are some pictures of the loves of my life, my roommates. I've had so much fun with them and I will miss them so much when I leave this place.

I'm going to Tri

So this is a formal announcement for friends, family, and strangers. I am going to Tri. For those of you who don't habla athletic lingo, that means a triathlon. I know, I know, I am not a triathlete. I'm not even really an athlete at all. But the best way to become one is Just Do It. Right, Nike? Anyway, It's June 7th which is exactly 30 days or four weeks and 2 days away. My total amount of training will have been 5 weeks. I have been doing a lot of research and the shortest training programs are about 8-12 weeks long or in other words, I will not have adequately trained for this triathlon. Mother, I now this is scary but just know that as scared as you are for me, I am ten times more scared. But don't worry, I don't WANT to die so I that is my goal in this triathlon, DON'T DIE. I'm looking at it like this: This is my first triathlon, I have to start somewhere, I might as well start at the very bottom so that I will have a lot of room for improvement, right? It's only a sprint triathlon which is an 800 meter swim (about 32 lengths in a pool) a 12 mile bike, and a 5k run (about 3 miles). A sprint distance triathlon is a good race for fast people who like to go all out or for first timers like me who just want to finish. This race is doable and the worst thing that can happen is I get last place... I am a strong swimmer, a pretty strong cyclist, and a weak runner so I am hoping that my strengths will make up for my lack of running ability. I have always wanted to do a triathlon and this is a good opportunity because it's close to home, I'm not very busy, and some of my friends are also doing it so I will have some support (so there you go Mom, at least I won't be alone). Wish me luck!

Graduation was awesome because my family was here. They traveled all the way from California in an RV. Like the Griswolds.


Oh man oh man. Its over. And by that I mean graduation ceremony is over but in no way does that mean that school/learning is over. One repeating theme of graduation was that we are here to learn to love learning. I'm not sure I can... honestly.... say... I... LOVE learning right now. BUT I have all hope that my love of learning will return shortly. I hope.

Sometimes...

Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes you hear sad things and there is nothing you can do about it. Sometimes you hear things that shake you and your whole perception is rattled. What do you do? I don't know, I guess just keep breathing in and out. The world can seem ok sometimes too and the only thing that brings you down is the weatherman. Right now I would take another week of snow just for some good news.

Who's in charge??

Ok, what is up?! I can't stand this any longer. I think the weather Gods are trying to make me crazy. This has been the longest coldest spring of my life. Usually we have a couple nice days in February and that helps us not slit our wrists and get through a couple more weeks of dreary gray cold skies. Not this year. It is April 18 and we still have not had any consistent nice weather!! What the... ugh. I have not been able to wear sandals more than 2 or 3 days this spring, which to me is the qualification of "nice weather." It's probably a good thing because warm weather makes it even harder for me to stay inside and study and I'm already struggling making myself do that. But here's the good news, I'm graduating!! hurray! Cap and gown and everything, don't worry, I'll blog all about it. Pomp and circumstance and everything. But that is beside the point. BAD WEATHER is the point and the point of my blog is that the forecast for the day after tomorrow is SNOW!!!!!!!! J.I.C you don't believe me, here you go:
http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USUT0208

do you need a spork??

http://www.google.com/products?q=spork&sampleq=1&hl=en
just in case...

Rex Lee Run It.

Thanks for the personalized playlist jack.

I am not a runner. Let me repeat: I am not a runner. And I've recently discovered I never will be, although I will probably keep running all my life. I have a love/hate relationship with running. I love the feeling of being outside and my heart pumping but I hate that feeling of gravity pulling so hard on my body with every step and feeling so tired I can't even lift my feet high enough to get over a curb. I have always been an occasional runner, never more than a couple times a week but every year when it starts to warm up I tell myself --I'm going to run this year. For the last two years I've ran the 5k Rex Lee Run which is a fund raiser for the Cancer Research Center at BYU and every year I say -- Next year I'm going to run the 10k. So this year I did it. I DID IT! I didn't break any records but I did cross the finish line. Go Rex Lee!