Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sunday, July 29, 2012

On this day in history

July 19th, 2011
July 19th, 2012

Saturday, April 21, 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.
 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

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.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

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.