Procrastination and Celebration

So I am no longer a student at BYU! I graduated!

However with graduation comes great procrastination. I am trying to write my law school personal statement and instead I have watched three seasons of a show called Eureka, I just ran into a tight corner though when I found out that there is not a fourth season. I as you can see, am starting to blog again, which I haven't done consistently since I was in Washington DC. I do think that it will help me with my overall goal and theme which is to procrastinate for quite some time. I am debating as to whether or not to talk about why I am interested in Criminal Law. However.... I can't come up with something clever. Alas nothing is coming to my brain.

I am currently watching a movie I found online.

Is this what people that blog really do?

Okay I am setting a goal up for myself. By Christmas I am going to have this puppy written. We will see.

Nephews

I have the coolest nephews ever!

So this is Carter. Right now he is being like a bull dog. He is such a smart kid. He is 12 I think going on 30. He is 95% smarter then me, and he hasnt even gone to college. He knew his capitals of the USA when he was four, memorized ever flag when he was 6, and has been awarded so many smart cookie awards it is hard to remember them all. However he still kicks my trash at any video game, although I have come close to beating him at the Ninja game.

Ha and these are the other cuties! London is so cute, and he loves giving me hugs and such. Gavin loves everything to do with the army, like his older brother. The both love to have fun. London likes Thomas the train engine and has everything tomas, and Gavin loves star wars since he was the age of one. Both of them are super super cute! They are my cookie makers.

Riding a bike!

I LEARNED HOW TO RIDE A TANDEM

This is what we looked like basically. Me holding on for dear life,

with Charles enjoying every minute of it

I have never learned how to ride a bike. It is a fact of life that I crashed when I was six and I have never been on one since. My father stopped trying, and when I was nine he gave away the bright pink cool bike that I had recieved to one of his patients.
HOWEVER SATURDAY I learend how to ride a tandem bike! Thanks to Charles Henry, and his bicycle built for two, I have master the set of two wheels and two bodies. NOW I JUST NEED TO ACTUALLY LEARN HOW TO RIDE A REAL BIKE!

I have toied the idea of learning how to ride a bike with others, and they have all said that they want to push be down a really bumpy hill and let me figure it out. However my recount to them saying that is that I would taser them if they tried doing that - you know who you are -.

It was quite scary. First charles gave me a helmet and told me not to be scared, and that besides Paul who was the master, that he was the second master. So I shouldn't hasve to fear. I have mounted a bike before but I have never successfully ridden it. After he convinced me that we would go no where unless I wore the helmet. I suppose dhe knows that I am very very accident prone. They they carefully analyzed how short I was, so that they could set the bike seat. I began to do a none human little screach, sort of like a frog mixed with a swallow. You coudl tell that Charles was enjoying the fact that I was scquleching, on what it seemed like to be an adventure. Hopefully I can see Charles thinking that she can do this so that she will just enjoy the ride. ... and then we were off. For the first minute I was doing the I want to fly off of the bike so quick. But then I rather enjoyed it, until he decided to go down a huge hill, and flashbacks of us crashing and me smashing him to smiterines did not suit my liking. BUT WE SURVIVED! So that is my tale about how I learned to unoffically learn how to ride a bike.

I have always had that one thing that was unique about me. That I can't ride a bike. Which techniqually I still can, however truely I have mastered the crawl, now I just need to learn how to walk. Now I just need to learn something else that is unqie about me.

Surgeon General Top Ten

Top Ten Questions On

The Surgeon General Application

1. Are you a surgeon
2. Can you grow a crazy beard like C. Everett Koop?
3. Are you a general?
4. Any idea what a Surgeon General is supposed to do?
5. Do you have a normal looking pair of jeans the President could borrow
6. Have you ever obtained pills for Rush Limbaugh
7. McDreamy or McSteamy?
8. Due to the recession, do you mind working for free?
9. Can we blame the health care crisis on you?
10. Will you look the other way when the President lights up a butt?

Top Ten Surprises On The NASA Moon Landing Tapes

1. Neil Armstrong demanded to be addressed as "Spock"
2. Buzz Aldrin won $20 bet by eating a pound of moon dust
3. Sea of Tranquility had a place where you could rent kayaks
4. Audible meowing indicates someone brought a kitty
5. Were supposed to go to Mars, but the men refused to stop and ask for directions. You ladies know! LOL!
6. Dumb scientist yelled, "They put a man on the moon, what? How'd they get him back?"
7. Someone at NASA taped over the first half with "Gunsmoke"
8. Due to time, NASA had to edit out the big dance number
9. Aliens... Run!
10. CRAP those shadows look alike peterpans shadow.

Top Ten Surprises In The
President Obama News Conference

1. Began with a moment of silence for the Taco Bell Chihuahua
2. Vice President Biden stepped up to the podium pleadng for "hair plug reform
3. Put on Kiss makeup and sang "Dr. Love"
4. MSNBC reporter tried to hug him so Obama went after him with a fire extinguisher (video of Dave & Richard Simmons)
5. Wore his skinny jeans
6. His ten minute infomercial for the new Snuggie
7. Claimed he's borrowing $1 trillion from Regis
8. In one hour, he went through two packs of Camels
9. Said the swine flu epidemic was decreasing because he instated a black obese surgeon general- after all they all said that pigs would fly when a black man became president
10. Said he's resigning to run for Governor of Alaska

Sarah Palin

Top Ten Messages On

Sarah Palin's Answering Machine

1. "Hi, It's George W. Bush. Why didn't anyone tell me resigning was an option?"
2. "It's John McCain -- why did I call?"
3. “Mark Sanford here. Ever been to Argentina?"
4. I'm calling from Geico to see if you want to renew your dogsled insurance"
5. "It's Letterman -- we still cool?"
6. "McCain again. Still no idea why I called"
7. “Hi, it's the dry cleaner. Having trouble getting caribou blood out of your Prada jacket”
8. "Hi, it's Sarah...oops...dialed my own number"
9. "Schwarzenegger here. If you want a job, California could use a new governor”
10. "Hey, it's McCain. Who would've thought you'd retire before I did

Welcome Annie Kathryn Christensen to the world!!

Yellowstone Adventure Experience

Yellowstone was absolutely amazing. I was able to attend a three day experience with BYUSA and it was absolutely amazing. Not only did we get charged by raging Buffalo named Gertrude and Billy (who turned out to be BOb) but also I learned so much about Leadership and the qualities that make us great. I was also very fortuante to get to know the people who I will work with for the next upcoming year. It was a growing experience. So many people are so amazing, constanly reading general conference talks, strong to the core testimonies, and true wonderful people.

Harry Potter

The Curse of Harry Potter

So guess what as roommates we got a little trigger happy and Courtney had to leave which was sad. But we went

Harry Potter Freakish
Not only did we when we were getting the fish started with our wands pointing at people, but then we got four fish including a black one in which we named all Harry Potter names. There is six of them and so far we only have three of them named. Plus we have a castle in the fish tank which is so freakin cool!!
So the names are follows:

• Sirus L Black (mine)-- MINE WILL NOT DIE!-- Bad news mine died


• Harry E Potter (Emilys)


• Dumbledore (Courtneys)


• Hufflepuff Died 7/20/09
  


• Mungo


• and Lupin

So here is the sad news! First was Sirus Black that died first, the dumbledore, and the lupin. Sad huh! We cursed them. They died in the order that they died in the books.

Oh it was devistating because of the fact we cursed them! It was as if they new what happened in Harry Potter and died. So we have either decided that we are cursed, or Sarah Petty is cursed because of the fact that she is the one that is feeding them all of the time.

Chalk War

Chalk War

Chalk wars can be very fun! We started to do a rubbing of my face, but then the chalk sort of got us... and boooom ta da --- we had chalk all over us!

Then we discovered cool ways in which to do the camera. First I took a picture of me upside down

The Courtney had to try it!


Then Amy!


Then Becca. . . .


Then we put our heads together....


Thinking is very hard.

In the end it was a very very fun night! Life was grand!
We were wacko, and it was fun!

The good old days!

Well I am officially home! I know that sort of bites. No more DC for me. However I have been able to go to temple Square which was amazing.


However, coming home has been a joy, and a horrible plucking of my eyebrows! Have it just seems like being an adult is overrated. Why do people become adults? I would love just to become little kids.

The kids start to play...

Ah. . . . Ah. . . . POW! Crap

Remember once upon a time in which you enjoyed the snow. In which the snow commanded respect, you bowed to it, and you don't really care if you get snow in your hands!

Where you loved snow so much that you could do whatever you wanted and get away with it. Those were the days!
However then you have to grow up and becoming an adult. LAME

Freud

I Would Miss Freud!

To the Subject of Freud, I just found out that I could never join the church of Scientology because I would absolute hate not having psychology in my life.

Not only are they anti-psychology, but I am told this is what Tom Cruise would look like if he was on drugs, was put on a couch, said to let his emotions go, and to free associate. Not a good thing! Thanks heavens that I have decided never to become a therapist. Opera seems to think it is super funny though.
Seven reasons why I would miss psychology:

1. It gives me the opportunity to do psychology experiments on my dates.
2. It gives me the opportunity to randomly assume peoples emotions.
3. I can free associate and blame it on jaw cancer.
4. It gives therapists the license to kill if it is for the point of putting old people out of their missery
5. I am allowed to stereotype anyone that I please as crazy, including myself
6. Where the world is a whole lot funnier because of Freudian slips
7. I understand peoples emotions and how they react so that way the world makes some sense
   

On a selfish note, it is a sad fact but I miss my office at home. They actually get my humor! Granted it is a therapists office, but they at least like me. No one else does. It is a pathetic thing! Why is it that people in Utah can speak Laureneese but people in Washington DC can only speak money politics?

Library of Congress

Library of Congress

I think it is safe to tell this story now. But about a month ago I went to the Library of Congress. It was BEAUTIFUL! We went to the reading rooms, and we saw the Gutenberg Bible. However guess what, the tour guide was super mean. So here I was in the Library of Congress, trying to concentrate, listening very intently to this lovely little tour guide. When all of the sudden, Megan asks me for Tylenol. I of course can't say no, and then all of the sudden Jim wants to do a photo with me. It was super funny. I smiled, grabbed the tylenol. When the room went silent. I thought um.. . . okay.

Then I went ashen. I looked in front of me! THIS DUMB TOUR GUIDE had stopped the tour and looked at me and said "Are you done yet? You know that you can leave the tour" I thought crap what do I say, and of course, being me and wanting to escape conflict I thought about leaving the tour. WHEN I HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG. I said. "I am sorry" She said, " You know, I wouldn't mind if you left the tour. "I said, please continue, I am sorry!" when really I wasn't. I hadn't said a WORD! I swear! She was pinpointing me for everyone else. It was entirely lame. So the rest of the tour, I hung back in the shallows. It was super funny, that was the beginning of what I was so to learn a interesting journey of my life.

Never Say No To BLUE

You know the phrase never smile at a crocodile? Will here is phrase, never say no to blue, even if it is the democratic colors. Because you will never know when a grumpy boss wants to use blue as his election colors. Lesson Learned!

Make It a Great Morning. Watch Your Step

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Watch your Step! Have A Good Morning!

Let me just tell you that bums are my favorite people in the whole world, and not only bums. . . the news people newsies! They are amazing. I swear if I am every having a rough morning you hear this bum by the metro that says, "watch your step, have a good morning, watch your step have a good morning you all."
However one time. Nick the Newis disappeared for about two days. Their were rumors all around the barlow center that he had a fight with Oscar the mean Newis and that he didn't have his turf anymore. Oh, the sadness that overcame us. We didn't know what to do. What would we do without Nick the fellow newis man.

But the good news is that he came back, all rip roaring to go!~ YAHOO

The JAZZ

COLORS THROUGH AND THROUGH

As I have previous announced to the world! I love this cool beyond cool team. However they didn't have a cool night, and the Wizards were having a awesome night and so. Alas they didn't win. However because we came at 7:00 to get tickets we got front roe tickets. It was amazing! I loved it.

First off I wasn't able to sit with Lauren or Sara. Because of this I had a criminal senial old lady who's soul determination in life was to make sure that I sat in MY seat. While I was not sitting in my seat I met some very nice Chinese men who didn't speak English. They then asked to take thier picture with me. It was hysterical

After I got caught I actually did have to go back to my actually spot. Alas it made me mad. As I looked up I realized that a 500 pound man with his legs sprawled out was in my seat. I said "mammm,(in a whinny voice) I cannot go back to my seat, on account of this man is in my seat, can't I just stay here?" With a firm denture voice she said "NO mam you have to your seat, and SIR get your lazy aword out of her chair and go to your own." He looked started, he looked to my white face, looked at his ticket, and said... ooops, I am in your chair. I said. I am going to go to my seat I promise, I just have to go to the bathroom. Girl thing. (I dont know why I said girl thing, because she is a girl, but I swear she is part alien). I then went and called my brother Andrew, and complained.

I then came back and talked to Ernest about his life. We bet fries that the Jazz would win. The game was truely pathetic. Not just pathetic but MORBID pathetic. We lost to a team that didn't even know how to pull a rabbit out of a hat. But we lost.

There they are, the sad faces of America folks. We left and went home, and were truely sadden with the names that we had on our cheecks. It was very very tragic. I must tell you

Dry vs. Dumb Humor

If you don't know me by now. You know that I am very very strange. Coming out here, I told my mom that what I wanted for Christmas was donkey earrings (but I wanted them early) so that I could strut my stuff around my all republican office. However my mom, knowing the best for me would'nt get them for me.

It is a well know fact, that I have a very silly, dumb sense of humor. I am the girl who just for kicks and giggles will raise her hand in class and say the dumbest thing that she can just to observe peoples responses. Then secretly laugh how dumb they think I am. I am the girl who when asked what college I was going to, they almost died from shock after finding out.

But the point of the blog, is Washington DC - is not dumb! It is sort of sad. For example today I said when a fellow staff member said that he needed to write a note to another staff member I said, make sure to sign it XOXOXOXO (I thought it was funny). Or when someone says "Oh I need to call that person..." I say "Call her what?" I basically have my dads sense of humor through and through. With a little of Lauren off to the side. But why can't people be a little silly from time to time. I dont understand. It is as if they never can laugh! WHY! WHY! WHY! Secretly I think that they all were deprived when they were kids.

Get Ready To RUMBLE

Get Ready To Rumble!

It is true. I am a Jazz fan! Since I have been in diapers, my father has raised me to love the fellow basketball team of Utah. Malone, Stokon, now... Kirilenko, Harpring, Williams--- the gang is my posse! GET READY TO RUMBLE! The bleachers would rumble beneath your seats, you would scream "D-Fence," the crowd screams. However this Wednesday I get to go to a Jazz game. Since I was six, I have been able to go to Jazz games. In fact I remember watching with my dad countless Jazz games, and even the main one in which the Jazz lost by .... well the playoffs... does'nt matter. THIS WEDNESDAY! WOOOT! Needless to say!-- I AM STOKED!

Falling in Fall

Falling In Fall

I love Fall, but I love Fall not only because we get an extended version of fall. But also because we don't have SNOW! HUZAH! Okay, so maybe secretly I crave snow. However here in the good old DC we offically have colors! SNIPE! After our excurison in the Air and Space Muesum, we traveled to a spacious mediation garden, where we pondered life the dramatic, and thoughtful way.

I took the road less traveled by, this included a flair of the dramatic arts! Maren on the other hand, took the road of quiet, contemplative way. . .
After the thoughts of life. We decided to have a little FUN. You know what FUN stands for right. "F, is for FRIENDS who do stuff together. U is for You and Me - N is Anything, Anything at ALL! Here in the Deep blue sea" (Sing in a SpongeBob Voice) (or Autumn Contemplative Garden!)

So Brooke and I (who wanted to have FUN), decided we wanted to have FUN in the SUN, by

RAKING LEAVES. . .

We started by raking a pile of leaves, as demostrated above.

Then we jumped in them. . .

After that, then we decided to have a WAR. . .

Followed by RETALIATION . . . Then all of us just decided to have a little FUN.

Overall, it was a very very fun day! Hooray~!

However I learned that flipflops with leaves makes feet very very dirty!

Lauren