My favorite things...

Language warning on this one:







Horrible....

Chinese food is yummy...

...but I'm stuffed. I couldn't finish my food from rice king (I think) today. Hyrum and I ordered delivery to the pool. I'm glad. I was getting hungry and its my long day at work. It was pretty good food. Also, Kaden brought me some chocolate from Las Vegas. How nice right?

So today playlist.com has been my best friend, although someone introduced me to a site called grooveshark.com , which is like an online itunes kind of. I like it a lot, but I accidently added like ALL of nora jones music...and she's cool, but I really only wanted one song at the time. :P Well I tried to delete them all from my library, but they just keep reappearing so we'll see how it works out. Maybe I'm stupid and am missing something. But yes, check it out.

uhm....I am tired....VERY tired. Oh! mylifeisaverage.com is hilarious. Visit that site too. :)

hola

Hey I almost forgot about this. Since I've last posted...

-My brother left on his mission

-I went to Disneyland

-I got glasses

Uhm I know more happened, but I'm blanking here... I've been trying to pick up some more hours at work and will probably grab a seasonal job if I can to help the school fund out while I have the semester off. We'll see how that goes.

Oh! I've also discovered netflix, which is probably not news to anyone who reads this, but hello! Why have I not joined before?! Actually, I know why. They used to just rent out movies by mail, which kinda sucks if you want to watch something new RIGHT NOW. So...they added the watch instantly online option for some movies and tv shows. Its great cause while I wait for movies to come by mail, I can still see certain movies and can watch pretty much any season of the office that I want. :P woo! I also figured out how to hook up my computer to my tv so I don't have to buy an xbox 360 or little cable box-type thing that will stream the movies from my computer to the tv.

Speaking of my computer, its on its death bed as we speak. :( Its been pretty good the past 3 1/2 years, but has been going down hill fast. Hopefully I can get all my stuff off it before it completely bites the dust. When I fully realized how bad it was getting (the screen was shorting out so bad, I could only use it when it decided to work and it only did that if I angled the screen to this one little spot....but even then sometimes it wouldn't work.

Well, the day I realized that my computer didn't really work and couldn't be fixed, I happened to get an email from hp which informed me they were having their laptop clearance. So I looked around at what they had the the reviews and I ordered this one:

From what my computer literate friends/family have said, it was a pretty good deal. It had a lot of free upgrades and was pretty affordable, as far as computers go, before the discounts. Frankly, compared to my dying laptop's 80gb hard drive, anything would probably impress me. :P But seriously, I am excited to get it.

And now some comedy from this guy:

Crayons

(I wrote this on the 19th and obviously never posted it because of lack of pictures.)

I've been doing much better at work thanks to Hyrum and Heather who got some crayons arranged for me last ....Friday I'm going to say. Yes, it was friday. When I am stressed out what really helps me is coloring and then I'm fine.



Last weekend was our family reunion, which was pretty fun... even though it rained every time we decided it was time to eat. It has been good to see the family more lately with dev's farewell, my Grandma and uncle Cliff visiting, and the host of relatives they attracted to visit our house as well. I'm excited to help with our winter reunion (Mom-if you need anymore help planning, I'm willing).



There are a few other things I could blog about, like the family pictures we had done this past week or devin going to the mtc, but I don't really like talking about subjects and not having a picture to go with it...which is the case for the past couple of topics I've covered...So I'm going to try to get some pictures off of my phone to post here and talk about.

CPR Recerts....DEATH!

So last month at work for our in-service training I thought it would be a good idea to do CPR recertification tests in order to avoid highschool lifeguards coming into the office every hour, on the hour with the following conversation taking place:

Lifeguard: (while avoiding eye contact and playing nervously with pens in cup on the desk) "Hey um....I had a question...

Me: .....yes? (said in dead tone while waiting for the question I know they will ask)

Lifeguard: yeah, uh I need my uh.....uhm...my CPR renewed....Could uhhh....could I do that?

Me: Did you go to in-service last month?

Lifeguard:
version 1-Well....I uh kinda forgot about it until the next day...
version 2- Well I didn't pass those tests
version 3- well....huh?

Me: You need to find an instructor who will recertify you. (sure as heck won't be me)

Lifeguard: oh...so you are an instructor and uhm...hyrum, uh erin, Suzanne, and uhmmmm.....

Me: ................Teralyn.....?

Lifeguard: oh...uh yeah. (guard then turns to look at manager schedule) Hyrum works tomorrow....do you think if I came in that he would be ready to test me right then?

Me: (complete with "are you kidding me??" look) No. He will be working then....

Lifeguard: Oh....yeah....(continues staring at schedule)

Me: (GIANT EYE ROLL) Can you come in at 4 tomorrow?

Lifeguard: .......9am-11pm????

Me: Can you come in to test at 4 tomorrow or not?

Lifeguard: oh...um...maybe....


Okay I can't continue explaining this conversation anymore. I love my job, but seriously...it seems like we go through phases of stupidity with these guards!!! I can't come in for each one whenever they want to have them just fail the tests cause they have no idea what the heck they are doing in the first place because they don't study or practice. GAH!!! Its bad, but I want someone to actually NEED CPR here so they will realize its not a joke and that they are being idiots. as'gweilof oR?KIew'weew iee <---me pounding on keyboard.

That is all.

Been a while!

I haven't blogged for almost two months. Yeah, I kind of forgot about this thing. :P

Summer is finally feeling like its here and I'm very excited. I really like my summer clothes a lot more than winter. Also, I dyed my hair lighter, but if you read this you probably already know that.

We did a big cleaning of the house before devin's mission talk in church/luncheon afterwards. We now have a fridge downstairs and a working couch and rug. I need to get more of my disney stuff out for the family room decorations. The other day Steve and I went to the DI to find disney stuff and I found a movie poster puzzle of the original beauty and the beast poster.

I started on it, but had to go to work meetings so Devin finished it. It has TWO pieces missing. TWO!! I realised there was a big risk of that since I did buy it at the DI, but come on! Its sooo perfect. Gah. I might just be creative with some cardboard and make my own pieces, but jeeze.

It was beauty and the beast day apparently because we also found a beauty and the beast teapot. You would expect Mrs. Pots right? Nope. This one looks like a large figurine of belle standing in front of the beast. The glass is fused together so they are essentially one connected unit. The beast has his hand on her hip I think and his other hand raised with a rose in it. Yeah...and in the raised hand there is a hole (the spout), his arm on her hip makes the handle loop, and his head comes completely off (the lid). How amusing is that?! I had to buy it of course. Sadly, I cannot find a picture of one online to post here. Maybe when I get home I will add one. It really is that hilarious.

Next I think I need to get something to represent Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. Those are also favorites of mine. Oh! and if anyone wants to help out on my peter pan puzzle, you're more than welcome to. In fact, I might even provide food to those who do since I am horrible at puzzles, but really would like this one done. :P

Back to the topic I was going to talk about, Devin's talk in church went really well. Good job Dev! Also it was really a lot of fun to see all of our friends and family who could make it. It made me really excited for our Hanson family reunion this summer and the Durtschi one that I think is happening this fall?

Yesterday my mom and I went to Color Me Mine....FINALLY! For my mom's birthday/mother's day gift back in 2008, I told her I'd take her. Well, scheduling never worked out and yesterday when I asked her what her plans were, she said the day was fairly open. Whatdoyahknow, mine was too so we decided to go. I went with a big bowl and my mom painted these three square plates that had kinda wavey edges. They are going to be so cute. Saturday I'll probably go pick them up.

Well, that is all from me today I think. Tomorrow I will try my hand at REAL golf for the first time EVER. I have some plaid pants, but am considering getting a hat to match. You know, the kind with the pom pom on top. :P ha yeah right.

more spring cleaning of the itunes

This one is going to be about little gems I've found in my music that I think are amazing and had forgotten about until just now...when I almost deleted the said song. :P

Song: Hands Open
Artist: Snow Patrol
Album: Eyes Open

This was my favorite song on their latest(?) album. Chasing Cars got a TON of play on the radio and was the most popular of the album, but really...I thought that song was kinda meh and made me think of crazy spaz dogs. Sorry folks, Hands Open is soooo much better. The End...

Song: Funky Dudley
Artist: Dudley Perkins
Album: Expressions (2012 A.U.)

Woah, woah, woah woah. This song is fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.* I think I picked this one up in a free itunes sampler download back in the day where they would give out free music codes to their facebook groupies. I suggest this code thing returns. People need to hear songs like Funky Dudley....serious.

Song: Young Pilgrams
Artist: The Shins
Album: Shutes Too Narrow

For whatever reason, when I listen to The Shins, I think of riding one of those old fashioned bikes down some dirt farming time road in the summer. I think it might be because I started listening to them while I lived in Idaho....and frequently rode a bike down dirt farming roads....in the summer....maybe. Anyways, good times and really chill music. Give it a listen and try out my favorite of theirs (New Slang) while you are at it.

Song: The Way I Are (Feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.)
Artist: Timbaland
Album: Presents: Shock Value

Okay. So I'm kind of embarassed....but I loved this song when it came out and I probably love it more today. Timbaland is amazing and this is one of the first songs I remember hearing of his. Its all poppy and that, but to me it really is a genuine sappy song. Sorry, I'll move on now.

Song: Another One Goes By
Artist: The Walkmen
Album: A Hundred Miles Off

Ok, another one I found from the facebook free itunes samplers. I later downloaded the entire album (see itunes? More freebies=more money). This is ....how to explain it....it reminds me a lot of a song called Postcards From Italy. Kind of an older feel with a folky twist? But not hick folky....more euro folky. That makes no sense, does it? ah well. I tried.

Song: For Us
Artist: Pete Yorn
Album: Nightcrawler (Bonus Track)

I first heard this song...well...when I saw the video on vh1's super late music video set. I was working graveyards and had access to a TV while I did my work. I think the video had some bird in it that fell in love with the singer or something. I remember thinking how weird it was, but then when I heard the song without having to stare at the video at the same time, I decided it was actually really good.

Thats all for tonight!


*Listen to song on playlist or something and you will understand. ;)

...Just Kidding!

I've been cleaning out my itunes today because I realized that my hard drive consists of 99% music. I started looking through all the songs I had and re-realized that I have a lot of really good music. So here are some reviews of both artists I am clearing out/why and the ones I'm rediscovering are amazing.

Hayley Westenra

I got rid of about half of her album (Odyssey). Amazing voice, but I'm not really feeling it when she gets folky/slightly countryish. Her classical-type stuff is great though.

Personal favorite track: Never Saw Blue


Michael Buble

Okay, this is a tough one. Again, great voice, but when I first heard of him I got a TON of his music and, in turn, got sick of it really fast. Most of his stuff is also very similar so I would deem it all generally good background music. Its so hard to delete cause he's like the modern frank sinatra. Also, his christmas album is THE BEST. In the end, I deleted more than half of what I originally had, but I still have about 20ish songs of his.

Personal favorite track: You Belong to Me

The Strokes: First Impressions Of Earth

Now I loved these guys in highschool. This album that hit about the time I graduated was a let down though. :( None of it is really that bad, but the songs failed to really stick out to me that much like the previous albums had. So overall, I had high expectations that weren't met, but it was ok.

Personal favorite track: Heart in a Cage

To be continued...

The Features

Oh yes, I am about to go all indie blogger up in here. :P I promise it will not happen regularly, but this band is awesome. They are called The Features and have been around for a while, but have yet to become as popular as they deserve. I just ordered their most recent album online (sadly, I missed out on the vinyl :'( sad day!)
Here is one of my favorite songs:



Other songs I like right now include...
-Sweet about me (Gabriella Cilmi)
-Beating my heart (Jon McLaughlin)
-She don't use jelly (Flamming Lips)
-Welcome to the world (Kevin Rudolf)
-15 Step (Radiohead)
-Twilight omens (Franz Ferdinand) I'm going to their concert! Wewt!

Ideas for my blog...

Lately as I have been driving to and from school and/or work, I've been thinking about things and then thinking "Oh! I should blog about that!"
But really, all my ideas to blog about are either things that freak me out, gross me out, or annoy me and I don't want to be looked on as "that creepy angry blogger" so I think I'll just stick to the funny videos and pics.
Today's video is sponsored by the Emmys.



Next time be prepared for some hilarious twilight memes. :D

The Morning Zoo

So basically, if this was not on the radio every morning...I don't think I would go to school. Well, maybe that's a lie. I for sure wouldn't be as happy on my drive anyways.
They are HILARIOUS. I was going to say Jessica is my favorite...but then there is Danger Boy... and then I like Frankie too. They are all great.
Everyone in Utah should listen to them in the mornings and if you don't live here, listen online. Its fantastic.

http://www.971zht.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=morningzooshow.xml

PS-

This is awesome. I'm in here laughing by myself, trying not to seem crazy to any of the lifeguards.
http://www.971zht.com/cc-common/gallery/display.html?album_id=121024

Wait....whut??

I opened this to make a post about youtube videos I like, but right as I did Mary said this:

"Gonna kick this cold's butt in the face!!!!"

*Silence as we both looked at each other*

And then I laughed till my eyes starting tearring up.


So youtube videos....

I like this one primarily because of the teeth brushing part and a certain swim lesson coordinators connection to it.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-YZGv6oP18 (wouldn't let me embed this one...sorry.)

Another Saturday at the Pool

This is Mary showing me something that Korbin has been doing lately or something. I don't really know, her face distracted me from what she was actually saying. Can you blame me? I think its my new favorite picture of all time.

School has started and while I could blog about that, I don't think I will right now. I'll just leave it with this picture for today. lqtm.

Things I've Decided are Wrong/Weird

#1: When guys touch their chest. It's not really even that simple. If a guy is in good shape, some flat palmed touching is ok as long as it doesn't last more than like two seconds. Not in good shape=no touching whatsoever. And finally, NO touching if you are going to "cup" the hand. EW. I've been noticing guys (both shirtless and....shirted? Is shirted a word?) doing this lately. Today there was a prolonged not inshape cupping going on for like 30 seconds and it seriously grossed me out.
Men, PLEASE never ever do this. Thank you.

#2:Pretzels with nacho cheese from you know where. I keep seeing repeat customers for these things and I cannot wrap my mind around why. I'm just baffled...

#3: There is something that is beeping about every five minutes in the office. I cannot figure out what it is cause there is at least five minutes between each beep and I forget to stare in the direction it is coming from and listen closely between beeps. Its a weird beep too...it sounds high pitched at the start of the beep, but then like dies in the middle and goes all low. Weird.

#4:Putting your hand in your armpit while folding your arms across the chest. Even worse (oh yes, there is worse), hand #1 in armpit and hand #2 eating an apple very slurpily. In fact any kinda of slurping in general. Yuck.

5#: TBA later on in the day as I find more things that are wrong/weird. There seem to be a lot at pools...


Oh, and by the way, today I will have something like 15 hours of work. Its not bad so far.