American Idol... Who's coming with me?!?

American Idol auditions in Salt Lake City!!!
Tuesday, July 29 @ the Energy Solutions Arena!!

I am going. 100% for sure. I always said if tryouts came to Utah I'd go. Not that I expect to go far, but I just think it would be cool to go be a part of it. One more life experience. One more thing I can say that I've done. If I don't go I know I'll regret it forever.

But I don't think it would be nearly as fun of an experience if I go alone.
It would be much more fun with friends!!

Sooo.... who wants in?! Come on!! You know you want to!

Jor, you need to be more specific with who you tag.

Jordan might have tagged me. I don't really know for sure. She tagged "Ash", but she has like 5 friends named Ashley, so maybe it wasn't me. Who knows? She never left a comment on my blog. Oh well. I'm doing it anyway.

How To Play This Game of Tag:Post these rules on your blog.List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself.Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!


THREE JOYS
1. My weenie dog Rusty. I just love playing with him even though he's the neighborhood bully and terrorizes all the little kids and other animals.

2. Moulin Rouge. I watched it for the 97th time last night and remembered how much I adore that movie.

3. Summer! I am soo loving summer right now. I love being able to sleep in and just have time to do stuff.

THREE FEARS
1. the people I love dying
2. rubber bands
3. childbirth

THREE GOALS
1. Get my classroom done early in August so I don't have to stress out at the last minute.
2. Pay off debts/cut down spending.
3. Get better on the piano.

THREE CURRENT OBSESSIONS
1. Joe Jonas. Oh yeah, he's one of the Jonas Brothers. I am seriously such a 12-year-old girl.
2. The Food Network. I watch it at least 3 hours a day it seems like. My favorite is 30 minute meals w/ Rachel Ray. My other favorite is Semi-Homemade w/ Sandra Lee. My other favorite is Tyler's Ultimate. My other favorite is the Italian one with Giada. I have lots of other favorites too, Paula & Ina & Bobby... Yep, obsessed.
3. Temperature control. Now that it's summer and HOT, I am ridiculous at keeping the house a particular temperature at all times.

THREE RANDOM SURPRISING FACTS
1. I can juggle.
2. Despite my love of the Food network, I can't cook. I try, but usually fail.
3. I don't clean. I just don't do it. My house is disgustingly dirty at all times.

Okay, I'm tagging these five people:
Natalie
Kiersty
Tricia
Jen
Marie

good advice from The Sunscreen Song

Remember the Sunscreen Song? The one that came out like 10 years ago that feels like it's 8 minutes of some guy just giving advice?
I was cleaning out closets and found a bunch of my high school stuff. On a page in my scrapbook I have the words to that song. As I read over it I realize how much of it really is great advice. Here are a few of the parts I really like:

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end it's only with yourself.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either - your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Busy Weekend!

Okay, I don't know how to resize the pics to be smaller so you can see them. As soon as someone tells me how, I'll come back and edit them so you can see them better. I suck at this blogging stuff!!

Friday night we got a call from Jay's brother Andy saying that his wife Kati had gone into labor. This was a surprise cuz she wasn't due until June 25. She gave birth to their second child, another little baby boy at 12:04 am (meaning he just BARELY missed being a Friday the 13th baby!). They named him Kade and he weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. We went to the UofU hospital Saturday morning at 7am to meet him. He's the cutest thing ever!!



Then Saturday night we went to Megan and Brian's wedding. Megan is my sorority sister and Brian is Jay's fraternity brother! It was fun because we got to see a lot of our old college friends that we don't see that often. The food was good and there was an open bar which was awesome, cuz hey, even though WE don't drink, it's always fun watching totally sloshed people on the dance floor! It was a beautiful wedding.

I hate bad news.

My mom called today. She told me that Shane Tripp died.

Shane was a friend of mine from high school/college. Well to be honest, we didn't really hang out a lot in high school, but our first year of college we were basically family considering I was dating his identical twin brother Scott. That entire year my life consisted of hanging out with Scott, Shane, and whichever girl Shane was dating at the time (the best was the summer while he kinda dated my best friend Jaclyn, the four of us had SO MUCH FUN together!)

Memories have been flooding my mind today: Lagoon, Lake Powell, Red Cliffs, SUU dances, late night Sonic runs, all-night-movie marathons, listening to Brian Regan over and over and over again until we could recite each line verbatim. I dated Scott cuz he was the sweet kind caring guy that I desperately needed at that time in my life, but Shane was the comic relief. Shane was always the trouble maker, the adventurous one. Man we had fun.

Unfortunately once Scott and I broke up and he left on his mission, I didn't really stay in touch with Shane. I kinda went off and lived my life in a totally different direction. I found Shane again a couple years ago on Myspace, but the occasional random comment was about all the contact we had. So I don't know why I'm so heartbroken over his death.
Maybe it's because he's only 24 and had so much ahead of him.
Maybe it's because I've never had anyone close to me die before.
I dunno. But I'm sad and I can't believe he's gone.

I've been MIA.

Wow. I haven't blogged on here for over a month.
I suck.
But honestly, do you even understand how completely CRAZY-BUSY the month of May is for teachers?? It's been NUTS!!
School just ended last week. Wednesday June 4 was our last day. Unfortunately I'm still going back every day to move into my new classroom. I have so much crap and I have no idea where it all came from!! I've only been teaching 3 years and by looking at my pile of teaching junk you'd think I'd been teaching 20 years!! I definitely have some downsizing to do.

What else is going on?
We went to VIVA SLC yesterday at the Gallivan Center, but it wasn't nearly as good as last years. I knew it wouldn't be. But on the upside, I'm REALLY looking forward to WARPED TOUR the end of the month. I've always wanted to see All-American Rejects, plus there's some other really good bands playing so that'll be fun.

I missed the Miss Lehi Pageant which I'm totally sad about, but the saddest part of all was that my good friend Natalie's little sister Noel was supposed to be in the pageant but got really sick and had to have emergency surgery. How bad does that suck?! You prep for a pageant for months and months and then don't even get to be in it?? Dah!! I am totally heartbroken for her. She totally would have been in the top 4 too, guaranteed. Why do bad things happen to good people? Character-builders? I don't know.

Anything else happening? Not really. Not that I can think of. Now that it's summer I should have a little more time so I'll try to blog more often.
**Not that anyone really cares about my "exciting" life. But oh well.