i believe in mickey mouse

Lately I have been craving the happiest place on earth.
And I know I'm probably driving Cute Boy crazy begging him to go, but I just can't stop thinking about it!

Here are my favorite things about this place:
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
New Orleans Square
Firework shows above the castle
Funnel Cakes
Indiana Jones
Disney music audible from every point in the park
Splash Mountain
Mouse sightings
Me starting to believe that all of the stories are real

Sigh.

My Mid Year Resolution

A week ago today I was sitting in Oregon on the banks of the Columbia River with my mom and her sister, having an animated conversation about shaving. It went somewhere along the lines of this:

Auntie Trish: "I shave every day."
Me: "Whaaat!? (reflecting upon my own shaving habits)"
Auntie Trish: "Yep, I have a little routine and I get it all done."
No: "Wait, you shave everything. Every day."
Auntie Trish: "Yeah, I just hate the feeling of not shaving."

At another time, I was listening in on one of Brandon and Jill's conversations when Brandon's hand happened to brush Jill's leg. Here's the conversation that followed:

Brandon: "Jill! You told me that you would start shaving more often we were married!"
Jill: [Silence]

After considering both of these conversations, I decided that I want adopt my aunt's practices. Surprisingly, I have been successful thus far.

But it has only been a week... We'll see where I'm at a month from now.

$829.66

The title of this post is the amount of money that was handed to me by Provo city four days ago for damages done to my car by city workers while cutting branches off of a tree. I honestly can't think of more fortuitous circumstances. It is just bad enough that some of the paint scratched off, meaning that in order to fix it completely, an auto body shop would have to repaint almost the entire side of my car. But it's not bad enough that you can see it without careful scrutinization. So I took my car in to get some quotes, dropped said quotes off at the Provo city Legal Department and two weeks later received the check signed by Uncle Sam. Mmm yes. I love me some insurance fraud.

On a completely different note, did you know that the 'a' in the word 'fathom' rhymes with 'apple' and not 'father'? Because guess what, I just found out last night. My world was rocked by that little grammatical earthquake. And I am still suffering from the aftershocks.

22.5

Today I happily realized that it is my half birthday.

And it's going to be a great day!

Why?

1. My mamma. In Provo.

2. Both of my sisters. In Provo.

3. Cute Boy. Meeting all of them.

4. Dinner tonight.

5. Me lying at aforementioned dinner to get free birthday desserts.

the best thing ever

and i am going to be a part of it.

honestly, this might just be the best thing created in modern history.

and no, i don't think that statement is a bit of an exaggeration.

funniest video. ever.

thanks lene for showing me this little gem :)

i LOVE my major

but.

if given the chance,

i might give up my passion for the written word

to swim around with these little guys all day long...

someone take me to the ocean, please.

and make it soon.