Last Piece

So I think it was back in September I wrote about how Ashley, Lindsay and I couldn't find the last piece to the puzzle we had been working on. Well today while Ashley was cleaning out her bedroom at Carriage Cove (I miss you married lady!) she discovered the very last piece under her bed! How it got there I will never know but at least now there is an end to the wondering. Ashley, you shouldn't steal peoples puzzle pieces! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I went home for Thanksgiving, and it was a lot of fun. On Thanksgiving I got to see some friends from High School, Percy, Laura and Brandee and Brandee's new boyfriend. It was great to be home for almost a full week. Brandee spent time showing me the benefits of living in LA again... I think she thinks I've forgotten them. We went to pinkberry for frozen yogurt (didn't see any stars) and then we went to Sprinkles for cupcakes (didn't see any stars there either, but I did pay 3.50 for a cupcake!) I liked pinkberry and would go again, but sprinkle's wasn't spectacular. They were cool looking cupcakes and had interesting flavors but they weren't worth an hour drive in holiday traffic and almost 4 dollars. The vacation was nice, but I'm glad to be back. I missed everyone up here.

No Tag Backs!

Well Shannon Tagged me and said she would be checking up so I figured I better get a move on it. So here are 5 things very few people know about me… This is a hard one because I don’t even know them about me. No, let’s see, I snore. Now this is something most of you reading this know but not that many other people know. No just kidding, I’ll take this seriously.

1. I am a disorganized person (I’m getting to it ok, don’t just say “I knew that”) ok so I’m a disorganized person but even in the mess if someone moves something I could tell you what they moved. Along the same lines, I can walk in familiar spaces in the pitch black without falling over every ten seconds or running into things. I guess you could say I have a very good sense of direction. I can usually figure out where I’m going.

2. I have dreams that come true. I have had several dreams of things I had no idea would happen that later did. I guess I have a little bit of ESP. No not ESPN… but I do get that on cable.

3. I’m a number nerd. I make puzzles and games out of finding number patterns in things. Like my friend Ashley who just got married today, November 17, 2007. Well her sister Brittany got married on August 17, 2006 and I am convinced that their sister Lindsay should get married May 17, 2008 because that is the next month to have the 17^th on the weekend and then all the girls will have a different year in their anniversary with the same date of the month and the months are 8, 11, and 5 all three apart… I guess that means I should go for February 17, 2009! HAH! J/K!

4. I fear change. Things change and I know I can’t stop them from doing so, but when things are different I always get a little anxious, wondering how I fit into the knew way of things. I once cried because my parents got rid of 20 year old couches while I was out of town visiting my sister and didn’t tell me.

5. Ok, this last one is going to make me look a little crazy…. I talk to my car. It doesn’t talk back to me or anything, I just like to say hello to it when I haven’t seen it in a long time, offer it a little encouragement to turn over on cold mornings or apologize when I treat it poorly. It makes me feel better sometimes. My car is a trusty friend and it listens when I don’t think anyone else wants to.

Well that’s it. those are the little known Amanda facts I can think of right now. I don't really know who to tag. I guess I tag Ashley, the newly wed.

THEY MADE IT!

Congratulations Bradley and Ashley! I am so happy for you. You make such and amazing couple.
I love these girls so much!

The send off... Look at all those bubbles!!

sticky spots

I made caramel apples tonight! Something I have been looking forward to for a while now. They didn't turn out as pretty as I had hoped but they still look impressive. I was quite impressed with myself for actually having the energy to do anything after work. I had to return a plate to someone and I couldn't take it empty so caramel apples it was! Now maybe I'll work up to making the carrot pineapple cookies I have been craving for about a month!

Chaela Kathryn

CONGRATULATIONS CAITLYN AND WILL!!!! I am so happy for you guys and little Chaela (ch-A-la) could not be any cuter.

Football Frenzie

I thought that I had fun at the last football game I went to.... and I guess I did, but some how night games are so much MORE fun. Last Thursday I took Brett and Bowman's tickets (Thanks again guys!) and my friend Sean and I went to the game. It was a close game and just more exciting to watch than the last one. I think that there is something about watching football in the cold air with the flood lights on that just makes you realize that that is how it should be all the time. Football is meant to be played on crisp fall evenings. That's my opinion anyway. I guess it could also have something to do with the fact that Sean is a really fun guy and we spent most of the time between plays just goofing off. Which ever it is, BYU beat TCU!!!! 7-2 baby! (5-0 conference)

Where does your alegiance lie?

My ward is playing Popsicle Stick Mafia and even though we were all a little Leary to begin with I think most of the ward members are excited about how it is playing out. It is always so fun to find out who has "died" when we get together. Some of you might be confused so here is how the game is played: Everyone is given a popsicle stick that has your name one it after the word killer and on the other side it says victim and lists the name and apartment of someone in the ward you are responsible for "killing" In order to kill that person you have to poke them with your popsicle stick and tell them they have been killed. There are a few limitations, however, first the person cannot be killed while they are in their own apartment, second the person cannot be killed while at any church function, third the person is rendered safe by holding the hand of someone of the opposite sex. So if you manage to kill the person on your stick after following the aforementioned stipulations you get their stick (or if they have killed already, all of their sticks) it is your job to then kill the person they were working on killing. the names are in a loop so that when you get the stick with your name on it you have collected all of the sticks and you are the winner. So far it has been a LOT of fun. there are strategists and conspirators everywhere! You can't trust anyone! I managed to kill my person on the second day of the game and I was working on killing the next when i was stabbed from behind with a stick at our apartment complex's Halloween party at the skating rink. other than hearing of a few other people killed here or there I didn't think the game was progressing too quickly. But let me tell you people are tricky!!! I've seen people carried out of their apartments to be killed by unsuspecting doorbell answers, I've heard of people sneaking to where others work or workout. I've even discovered massive plans to leave unsuspecting victims in empty apartments and inform their would be killer they are unprotected! I think my favorite plot so far however is the spread sheet a few of the people in the ward are making to map out who kills who to protect themselves and learn who the last two will be, killing only the advantageous kills and plotting who they want to win. If there was ever a Mormon Mafia... our ward would qualify, but it has been a really good way to break the ice and get to know more people in the ward as you collect information on those you have to kill or help your friends kill your other friends. Now that I'm dead I've just been offering my help in plotting or giving my hand to guys that need a safe walk home (now that's a turn around of gender roles in Provo!). Who knows how long the game will last but for now TRUST NO ONE!

Once More For Old Times Sake

Friday night I was talking to a friend from Freshman year, Jon Bowman, and he mentioned that he was going to the football game on Saturday, I was so jealous because I hadn't been to a game all year! When I told him that, he said that his roommate (also a friend from Freshman year) had to work and I could have his ticket. I was SO excited. I got to go to the BYU vs. CSU game and it was so much fun. I miss being able to go to all of the football games! It was extra fun to see the Freshman boys that I haven't seen in a long time. Jon Laudie was impressed with my new camera and spent a good 20 minutes playing with it so I ended up with some interesting pictures (which the site is not letting me upload). I think the only down point was that we had our face in the sun the whole game and I ended up with a nice bright red sunburn on my forehead and nose. But at least it was a nice sunny day and nice and warm, not a blizzard like the end of the last game! I might go to the Thursday game this week as well! I'm so happy I got to go!

foiled but fun

I was supposed to go see Dan in Real Life tonight (which I was totally looking forward to) but it was sold out at two theaters!!! But I think I had more fun than if I had just gone to the movie. Sharylann and Steven and I went to Zupa's for dinner before we were supposed to meet to go to the movie and then we met up with some other people for the movie. When we discovered that we wouldn't be seeing the movie tonight we were going to rent a movie (thank you free rentals saving the day!) but there was nothing we wanted to see at the video store so we got the makings of root beer floats and headed back to Dan's apartment to watch my copy of Meet the Robinson's (I absolutely love that movie and have seen it three times since last Sunday and two of those times were last Sunday) so we watched the movie and had a pretty fun time talking and figuring out the movie and just having fun, and when it was over we talked and well, mainly we just had a pillow fight and then there was some wrestling. It was just fun!