Lindsey BIRFDAY

On this day in history

July 19th, 2011

July 19th, 2012

Veins, Shafts, and Recurves

Today I was living the dream. First, I biked to a stupid work meeting. I love that biking is the first thing i do in the day, you know after getting out of bed, stretching, eating, dressing, and eating one bite more. It calms me and gets me so jived. I love it. Then after the meeting I biked 8 more miles to the archery range! I have been trying to get back into archery since I took a class with Lindsey in Rexburg. But everywhere I have lived just had inaccessible ranges and no rentals. FINALLY, in SLC it is not the case. One of the things going for the city. I spent THREE HOURS shooting! This older dude gave me some pointers and I did much better after a while. I got a blister on my finger. After many strange experiences with 50 year old single men, I tried to be as unfriendly as possible. Somehow I still ended up with Donnie from Tennessee's business card. Anyways, it felt so good to shoot again. Now, I know the big question. Did i only do this because I am so obsessed with the Hunger Games that I thought I should be a big shot like Katniss? While I love Katniss and secretly do want to be like her, I have been trying to get to the range long before I read the books. Towards the end I was getting some really nice grouping.

 By the way, Donnie also shot at my target which made me mad because I wanted to keep it to see how it recorded my improvement. Whatever. Bottom line, it was amazing. I am on my way to being lethal.
 

Dress

Ps. I still don't have your phone numbers. Please text me if you have mine. Don't forget to tell me who you are.

MJW as of late

HEY Y'ALL! I am back! I apologize for the really long absence. I MOVED!! After my long birthday post it was an endless slough of busyness. I moved out of Anna's house the first week of January. I finally got rid of my tineas corpus (i hate the generic term) which some of you know was a 4-month long trauma for me. I moved in with a coworker much closer to my job. I still take the bus (down to 30 minutes from 1 hour and 1/2 YAY!) but I am finally in the position to start saving money for a car. I just have one roommate and her cute dog, which is actually fun to have. So the point of all of this was to say that I don't have the internet in my new apartment. I have a smart phone now so I still have access, but I probably won't blog unless I come to the library. Other stuff: I stopped eating bread because it makes me sick, I am losing weight despite my 3 week birthday cake diet, I love my new ward and am playing basketball, I see Shanna whenever I can, I try not to talk about work outside of work because I feel too crazy, and I just made a new dress for my friend's wedding (one of the best weekends of my life!) Oh, and I am now 25. Prime of my life!

I know that proabably doesn't come close to the update some of you were hoping for, but we are now moving on to silliness.
I have learned the song Safe & Sound from "The Hunger Games" soundtrack. I have been obsessing over this song for a long time now. I know my voice is scratchy thanks to the cesspool I work in, but I had to post it before I saw another person bring it up on facebook. Because I don't want to be a spoiler of the story for some of you who have not read the series (Shanna, I am talking to you. Read 2 & 3) I will just say generally what I have said so eloquently and beautifully in my journal. Yes, I journal about this stuff.
I think this song was released way too soon. I think they should have saved it for the third movie. I think it captures the mood of the entire trilogy better than it captures Book 1. In my mind verse 1 is Katniss dwelling in the past. Verse 2 is Katniss singing to Prim. And then I think the end chorus is Prim singing to Katniss. I know I sound like one of those nerdy lumpkins right now who make up things in their mind and think they need to blog about it. Ok, I guess that is what I am. I have just never heard a song that I feel goes so well with the characters of the book. Anyways, I hope you like it and can hear past my vocal chords ruined from the constant coughing and hacking I do.