May the 4th be with you!

Wait.... what? Two posts in one day? Stop it. ha ha. I guess it happens sometimes. Today it is happening because I had to do my traditional flashback friday, but today is also Star Wars day... so I have to tell you how I celebrated.

I spent the day with Jay and Rich. We went diving and I will blog more about that soon.... but all you need to know is that we spent the whole day together, we all wore Star Wars shirts (Jay even sported his Star Wars hat) and when we went out to eat and anywhere else we went, we wished people Happy Star Wars Day and said May the 4th be with you. Not everyone knew how to react. Not a lot of people know about Star Wars Day... but the ones that do, well they got pretty excited about us representing. :)

Here we are at the beginning of the day. This is a better view of the shirts (even though it is blurry). Yes, I am sporting the Lego Star Wars. I happen to love legos so I thought it was a win win.

On our drive back, we listened to a Star Wars mix that Rich had. Who does that? We do... and we liked it. Because we were diving on Star Wars Day, we thought about diving and taking pictures with Star Wars stuff... but turns out it is good that we didn't do that because the visibility on our dive was pretty crappy. However, we did bring it a long, so we just got a picture when we got back from our dive. I have Queen Amildala lotion and Rich has a Yoda alarm clock. I think this is the most I have celebrated Star Wars day ever... and it was awesome. I will never compare to my friend Karen... but.... at least I celebrated right? *I took two because one you can see the shirts and hat better and the other one you can actually see the Yoda clock*

Happy Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you!

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Today let us go back to the year 2002.

I'm not sure why I have not blogged about Far West Technology and Health Physics more. It was a big part of my life. It was my first job. I started when I was 15 and worked there for almost 5 years. I was like a legend there. It was the perfect job to have while I was in school because they were so flexible and worked around your schedule. I could just work after school and they were not open on weekends. I could listen to music while I worked... but best of all, there was a point where all of my friends worked there with me... so going to work was kind of fun because I got to hang out with my friends. I could not even begin to tell you the things we would talk about there. Conversations got weird, we would all listen to music together, we would play games... my sister can confirm. When you are all stuck in a room doing a boring job day after day, you get creative on entertainment. Ha ha, we had fun though.

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Oh wow... what a week it has been. It has been SO busy that it has just flown on by. Seriously. Even at work things got super busy for me... which is good.  Let me try and remember what even happened this week.

Monday we had a BBQ as a ward. That was pretty fun. After that I got out my tap shoes and practiced for the ward talent show. More about that in another post. I had not tapped in like 6 years. So fun. In fact, I have been having a blast with all of the dancing I have done in this past week. Ballroom, tap, practicing for Hairspray and Zumba. I love it. Dancing really does make me happy. I really should have done it more growing up and I should probably be doing it more now... like take a class or something.

Over the weekend I noticed that I was starting to get a cold. This was not acceptable with my week plans... the talent show and an adventure I am going on tomorrow with Jay and Rich. The cold had started, but it wasn't bad. It didn't start out with a soar throat like it normally does. I could breathe fine, I just was a little congested. I did everything in my power to make it go away and not get worse. I have never tried harder to not let a cold come on full force. I felt fine the whole time but all week I have been taking Nyquil to get good sleep at night, I have been taking airborn morning and night, I have been using nasal spray everyday, I have also been taking Cold Eeze which my visiting teacher swore by (and she was also sweet and left a note and some Cold Eeze at my back door one morning), I drank a half gallon of Orange Juice because Jay told me that would make it go away AND I told Rich and Jay and my visiting teacher that they all had to pray for me to feel fine by the end of the week. Ha ha. Anyway.... I really have felt fine this whole time, but I have been worried that it won't be good enough. Anyway, I am sure I will be fine tomorrow.

For Christmas my dad got my mom season tickets to the Hale Center Theater. My mom had told me a while back that they were going to be doing "The Secret Garden" which my mom knew that I loved the music and really wanted to see it... so she was nice enough to take me with her on Tuesday. I LOVED it. They did such an amazing job in that tiny theater and their singing was fabulous. It was just beautiful to listen to and their costumes were great too. My favorite song from that musical will always be "Lilly's Eyes". My mom and I had a great time. Great show.

Pretty much my whole week has been dedicated to practicing for the talent Show that was tonight. Probably because I was in 3 different acts. I was only worried about one though.... the tap number. A lot of people told me it was their favorite act of the night. I was so happy I actually did the whole thing without messing up! SUCCESS!!! I will have a whole post about it. The talent show was a lot of fun but now I am glad it is over because I have not been able to do anything else. ha ha. I do love to perform though, so I'm glad that I was so involved this time around. :) I don't know where my love for performing came from... because I didn't perform a lot growing up, except for choir and singing in church with the family.

Oh, and I got a pedicure. It was LONG overdue. I always get a flower on my big toe, but after looking at my roommates toes... I was thinking maybe I should try out the glitter toes. Mmmm.... I don't know. I need to get married ASAP... because the longer I am single the more high maintenance I become. ha ha

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Birthday Laser Tag

Along with all the birthday dinner's We went to Brick Over for Jay's Birthday, which was the day after Vicki's, Saturday. After dinner he wanted to play laser tag, so play laser tag we did!

We first went to Laser Assault in Provo because it is a little bigger and closest. While we were waiting to see how long the wait would be for us... I was playing. Peter Pan Syndrome for Life!

Then we found out we would be waiting for a long time, so we headed to Nickel City. We didn't really have to wait at all there. So we split up, 3 on 3. Me, Jay and Rich = Blue Team. Liz, Stuart and Thomas = Red Team. Guess which team won? Yep, mine. Go blue! The funny part is... when I was talking about laser tag as an option with Jay earlier that day he said to make sure to tell everyone to let him win because it was his birthday. I know he was joking, and I totally forgot about that anyway... but guess who got first place? Birthday boy. Guess who got second place? ME!! I think that is the best I have ever played. Ha ha.  Not too shabby.

I have never played as much laser tag as I have with people in this ward. I have to say though... it's a good time. Good time indeed.

Birthday Dinners

I usually don't go out to eat a lot, but this month has been full of birthday's where we have been celebrating with yummy food. I blogged about going out to eat for Rachel's birthday. The next weekend we went to Tucanos in SLC (because Provo was booked) to eat for Rachel and Vicki's birthday because you get a free dinner for your birthday month. We all prepared by hardly eating anything that day so we could stuff ourselves that night. Accomplished that. Check. I even tried Quail Egg and Chicken Heart.

Our waiter LOVED us. He was always coming over and checking on us and chatting it up. After we didn't need anything else he asked us if we had any other special requests, and I asked for kind of "special requests" he had in mind. ha ha. He did a little rap but wouldn't really perform much for us so we asked him if he would bring us all free ice cream. We were kind of joking, but he totally did.... so that was awesome.

After dinner Vicki and I somehow forgot where we park and were lost in the parking structure.... trying to find out car... for like 45 minutes. I wish I was joking. We even looked lost because these guys stopped and asked us if we lost our car and asked if they found it if they could hang out with us. Ha ha.... we ended up getting picked up by the golf cart and pretty much found the car minutes after that. It was kind of funny and kind of not at the same time.

The next weekend (this last one) we went to B-Dubs aka Buffalo Wild Wings for Vicki's birthday (her actual one). Turns out it was Jay's birthday the next day and he also loves B-Dubs, so he came along. The next night we went to Brick Oven for Jay's birthday. I'm done eating out for a while!

In case you are wondering, Jay and I are a lot more dressed up than everyone else because we went up to Murray and met up with some other people in the ward to go ballroom dancing.... which was really fun by the way. I needed to create some new and better memories there. I never took ballroom classes or anything, but I loved it and now I want more!!! ha ha.

Happy Birthday to all of my April friends. Good times were had!

Batting Cages

Thursday evening, after Vicki and Tara went with me to Women's Conference... we went to Trafalga to get our picture taken for the Pass of All Passes. For those of you who don't know what the Pass of All Passes is, it is a card that you have (for a year) unlimited admission to 7 Peaks Water Park, unlimited admission to all the Trafalga's for Go Carts, mini golf and batting cages. I think it also includes some Bee's Games and some other stuff. While we were there, we saw that there was hardly anyone there, so we decided to take advantage of the Batting Cages. Let's be honest, I need lots of batting practice for when Softball season comes. I'm okay, but I'm not great. So we batted. It was awesome because for a while we were the only ones there.

While I was batting... I noticed something happened to the bat. It felt funny. I looked down at it and it was bent. I came out of the cage and showed Tara and Vicki and we all started laughing and Tara broke it off. When we took it back to the guy at the counter, he asked if we broke it. We said yes and he said that he had never seen anyone here break a bat. I felt pretty strong and awesome even though it was probably just luck that we got a SUPER worn out bat.

We had a good time and hopefully we will be back a lot to practice. Next time I need batting gloves.... and shoes. The end.