Summertime

This has been waiting a long time to get put up. I should be asleep right now but I need to get this out there...

To do this summer:
Reading program at the Provo Library
Farmer's Market
Sunflower Market
Go to a rodeo
Watch fireworks
Color Me Mine
See Harry Potter at midnight
Watch ABDC
Write my play
Work on photography
Find a concert to go to-Shaun Barrowes/Truman. (Although I would love to go to Bumbershoot in Seattle Sept. 5 & 6 to see Eric Hutchinson and Jason Mraz.)
Go home/see Stephen before he goes to med school
Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house
Go iceblocking
See "Singing in the Rain" at Hale Center Theater
Go to the Hogle Zoo in SLC

To read this summer:
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
Emma-Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey-Jane Austen
Persuasion-Jane Austen (I thought I'd finish all her books)
A New England Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain
Everything is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer
In a Gilded Cage-Rhys Bowen
A Royal Pain-Rhys Bowen
Royal Flush-Rhys Bowen
Murder on Waverly Place-Victoria Thompson
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince-J.K. Rowling
An Unlikely Friendship-Ann Rinaldi
Serendipity-Louise Shaffer
Among the Mad-Jacquline Winspear
Birds of a Feather-Jacquline Winspear

To see this summer:
Center Stage 2
The Ballet Shoes
Iron Man
The Tale of Dexpereaux
Noah Wylie Librarian movie
Confessions of a Shopaholic
17 Again
Hannah Montana: The Movie
The Proposal
Night at the Museum II
Star Trek
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
500 Days of Summer
The Ugly Truth
Adam
Sherlock Holmes-(Doesn't come out until Christmas but has Jude Law as Watson).

Feel free to borrow any ideas or suggest some...I hope I get them all done, it would be a great summer!

Stay Tuned

Sometimes I get these random visions for party themes and then I have a great time organizing them. For example: Cookout-Freezout (this one didn't happen), Pi day (three years running), my 20th birthday dance party complete with zebra pinata, Salad Palooza, Cafe Rio party, 21st birthday Luau, Jenn's Bachelorette party, and 22nd birthday Pannini party.


Currently working on: garden party, Jenn's farewell party, and Harry Potter #6 Release party. Going to be out of control. I love planning.

Salad Palooza

20th B-day dance party

Monica's 20th b-day, I make good ambience

21st b-day Luau

"Pi" day 2008

Jenn's bachelorette party

22nd Paninni b-day

UP

I went and saw "UP" today and loved it! I don't think Pixar can do anything wrong. One of the funniest moments was during the credits when I heard a guy in the theater say, "Oh, are you supposed to wear the glasses?!" I giggled at the thought of him struggling through the whole movie and wondering why it was blurry. And since when did movies get so expensive? I paid eleven dollars to see this movie. I guess it was to pay for the 3D glasses but seriously, I only do the dollar theater. Except for Harry Potter. But go see "UP", very good.

Unrelated: I can't wait for Fall Semester so that all of my ward moves out and I get new peeps. I know this sounds uncharitable but there is so much drama going on with all the people that have been in the ward forever. And if you know me, I don't do drama.

Apologies for excessive use of italization, Or is it italisization? Whatever.

Don't...

...Eat peanut butter toast in bed.
...Agree to babysit mosquitoes for the weekend.

Trust me.

"If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller skates."

This line from Willy Wonka explains how I feel about transportation today. I only have a bike. So I get to ride it everywhere. School, work, the grocery store, etc. Now while I am thankful that I have a bicycle and don't have to pay for gas and insurance, get exercise and don't pollute the environment, it is getting really old. This is my second summer getting to work on my bike. Most of the time it's ok, but then there are the days where I'm too tired to ride my bike home or I can't buy all the groceries I need at one time because I can't get them home. Or like today, where it rained and made my bike wet which doesn't help it's performance. Now the chain is doing funny things, the brakes squeal when I press them and the seat keeps slipping down which makes it hard to pedal. I shouldn't complain. At least I have a bike and I don't have to walk. But I just need it to not rain anymore. At least until July when I get to borrow my sister's car for 2 1/2 weeks.

Stephen Carr future M.D.

My brother, Stephen, just got accepted into the Univeristy of Rochester Medical College! It's the one he wanted to go to and a very good school. The school is located in upstate New York. It will be freezing cold there but I guess the campus has underground tunnels that the students can use in the winter. That one-ups BYU. I am sad that he will be all the way across the country. I am so proud and excited for my brother and his upcoming adventures.

Update-To sweeten the deal the school offered him a $20,000 scholarship! Um...Thank you?! And he'll be an hour away from my aunt and uncle's lake house. How I would love to go live at that house for a week or two. Go Yellowjackets!