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Holy cute dresses batman.

AND microcredit...

What a beautiful thing.

Shabby Apple

I Nephi 2:15

I skipped church today.

And I felt pretty bad about it as I was walking to breakfast at the little cafe a few blocks from my house. I felt particularly bad about it as I passed the Baptist church a little before ten and two pastors/preachers said good morning to me... and then smiled at me just a little.

I said, 'well now you're just making me feel bad!' They were cute about it and said, 'NO!!! here,' and they both hugged me. 'Now enjoy your day!'

It was nice.

So, I think I got a little religion today...er, maybe??

You should sleep better tonight.

I'm at home watching the debate on the Homeland Approps bill.

Does this make me:

a. a nerd because I am watching the homeland approps bill from my couch?
b. a bad staffer because I am watching the homeland approps bill from my couch (and not my desk)?
c. a super big nerd that I am even watching the votes on the ammendments on the Homeland Approps bill
d. a good American because I am monitoring where my taxpayer dollars are going in the homeland security arena.

I can't really tell.

Man. I could rent surf boards for a living???

Surf Camp. alas.

The Grass is Always Greener.

When I was a little girl I wanted red hair and green eyes. I was brought up during the Ann of Green Gables era so this was a pretty normal desire. Not only did I want red hair, I wanted curly red hair. Guess what I got? Yep, straight blonde hair and blue eyes.

Leads one to thinking, why is it that we want what we don't have? Curious thing about that is we probably wanted what we have now when we didn't have it. And now we have it and we forget how badly we wanted it in the first place. Why is that?

We make decisions every day. Some are big, some are insignificant. We are doing a little hiring in my office and the candidate has yet to meet the boss. A group of us were talking with the boss and he was asking our opinion of the candidate. We said that candidate 'A' seemed like a good fit, but that probably the best way to determine if she will do well in our office is spend 5 minutes with the boss. And then we teased him about what a good gut reaction he has and it's all thanks to crab cakes or something or other.

So, when making decisions is it more important to go with your gut even if you have no idea why you feel the way you do, or should you just go with what you've always wanted even if you think deep down maybe you won't like curly red hair???

Music and crowd surfing.

I went to the Fray this week. It was great. I saw the Fray in Denver with my bff during the Democratic National Convention. We were at a small event at a resturant and all the sudden there is singing... and I'm like, man, that sounds like the Fray and poof, there they were 10 feet away. It was rockin.

The concert got me thinking about all the other concerts I have gone to... it was a nice little walk down memory lane.

Like when I was 15 and snuck into a Salt Lake Club to see Weezer, or for my 16th birthday when my brother took me to Candlebox at Saltair (That is when I discovered crowd surfing - man is THAT a good time) and there was the time when I saw... oh who were the people who sang 'Black Hole Sun'? One year my bff gave me tickets to see Gwen and No Doubt and the Black Eyed Peas opened up for them. That was cool. There was the time I sat through 4 hours of rain at Lilith Fair to see Sarah McLaughlin and then my buddy wanted to leave EARLY, and I was like, 'um, I just waited in the mud wearing a garbage sack...we're staying'.

Lots of good memories...

All I need now is a Delorean

I'm learning about complex system analysis for class (tomorrow - I'm actually supposed to pinpoint a complex system to analyze).

I'm still really fuzzy on exactly what a complex system analysis is, other than a way to analyze a complex problem...

But I figured I'd see what Wikipedia had to say about the CSA...

Among other helpful things, the wikis found it important to stress that the Butterfly Effect tangentially related to complex system analysis) is not really like time travel - so that movie a few years ago really got it all wrong, as did Michael J. Fox.

Thank goodness for Wikipedia. Thanks for clearing that up guys.

Thusly,

Main article: Butterfly effect in popular culture
The term is sometimes used in popular media dealing with the idea of time travel, usually inaccurately. Most time travel depictions simply fail to address butterfly effects. According to the actual theory, if history could be "changed" at all (so that one is not invoking something like the Novikov self-consistency principle which would ensure a fixed self-consistent timeline), the mere presence of the time travelers in the past would be enough to change short-term events (such as the weather) and would also have an unpredictable impact on the distant future. Therefore, no one who travels into the past could ever return to the same version of reality he or she had come from and could have therefore not been able to travel back in time in the first place, which would create a phenomenon known as a time paradox.

You're eating that??

So, I'm counting calories.

And not because I think I'm fat. I'm not one of those girls. I like my muscles and I'm grateful that that my body works and I pretty much eat whatever I want in moderation. Actually, I find it very annoying when people (females mostly) don't eat. I think it's unfortunate that so may women have one body type which is beautiful and go to unhealthy extremes to try to look like air brushed models. With that said, I think you should be healthy and exercise and consume more fruit than Diet Coke on any given day.

So back to my calories.

I've never actually paid attention to how many calories are in food. I thought it would be interesting to keep track. So I am. It has only been two days, but man is it enlightening! Did you know that an apple has 74 calories?

Yesterday I had a big bowl of chocolate ice cream with some chopped up almonds and coconut, that kind of skewed my numbers with that, but overall it's just a hundred calories here and there. I still eat what I was planning on eating I just keep track of the number adding up.

They say simply counting calories makes you more healthy. It makes you more aware of what you are eating.

We shall see...

How many calories do you suppose crab sushi has...?

Colbert Rocks.

Colbert gets a hair cut from a 4 star

Holy Cute.

President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

My two favorite single friends...

...are not single any more...

I set them up back in January and they hit it off and have been dating ever since.

It is by far the weirdest thing EVER.

When I was in Utah I had dinner with the two of them. Just me, and the love birds.

He ordered for her, they ate identical salads (ranch and balsamic dressing??!!) and then they split an entree. He made sure she had plenty of Diet Coke and she touched his arm (repeatedly) during dinner. It was so cute I almost hurled.

I sat there and tried not to be the girl who knows more about your boyfriend than you do, which entailed biting my tongue - a lot.

After dinner we dropped off Mr. Love Bird off back at work, and Ms. Love Bird and I went back to the restaurant for dessert and good gossip. Ms. Love Bird works in politics in Utah and is going through some interesting times. She's trying to figure out what to do with her life and now, all the sudden, it matters if she stays in Utah or not. All because of this boy.

It is still totally weird. But I'm really happy they are happy.

All I have to say is that I'd better be the Maid of Honor/the Best Man.

Edu-ma-cation

I think I need to go to this school.

National Outdoor Leadership School

Well I do like school.