tyrone.

I have to share this song, because I have been listening to it for like a week straight. It is Tyrone Wells doing a Kings of Leon cover song. I like Kings of Leon, but I like this version better. i love love love tyrone wells' voice. and what can I say,I'm a sucker for anything acoustic (and my ipod would agree with me). hope you enjoy it :)

big picture.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also".

-Matthew 6:19-21

hi, me again.

so, things have been a little crazy these past few weeks. school is coming to an end and so i had a 12 page research paper, three other essays and a presentation to do. needless to say, I have been spending some quality time with my planner and getting things done! but that meant that I had to take a quick break from blogging but i'm back! and I thought I would recap the highlights and random things that have happened/that I have noticed this past week.

1. One day while I was at the gym, there was an Asian man in a suite working out on the stationary bike.it was weird and unexpected.
2. I was eating some thai noddle soup thing in the caf, and there was really spicy cracked pepper on the top (that I didnt notice) and so I took a bite, walst I was making a salad, and it was balls hot! so I went over to get a drink really fast to put out the fire on my tongue, and there were NO cups. anywhere. the whole caf was cup-less. I almost cried.
3. I re-discovered my love for the OC. I have been watching it daily.
4. living in San Diego should mean that the sun is always out. nope, I have not seen the sun in ages. it's a real shame.
5. I ran to the gym in the rain only to get there and have the doors locked. that was uncalled for.
6. my first year of college will be done with in seventeen days!
7. dinner with danielle was the HIGHLIGHT of my week. miss you soo much! California is calling your name :)
8. Beauty and Beast never gets old!
9. Cup of Yo is making it hard to stay loyal to Fiji.
10. my lab partner told me that she wouldn't mind being nocturnal and that she would like to be called, creature of the night, and she said she would just live in las vegas because no one ever sleeps there. good luck with that one!

welp, thats a snipet of some randomness that happened this past week. I promise I will post soon!







claudia, you're welcome.

am I not turtely enough for the turtle club?

oh this picture. I just can't get enough. its SO great. it's a turtle with its shell on backwards hahah. this is the type of thing that I get to see on my facebook, thanks to claudia. always finding the weirdest stuff on the world wide web. but it was actually really funny. but it stirred up some controversy. because while we were laughing we realized that if the shell is on the belly of Terry the turtle, what is being exposed in place of the shell? I said his butt. then we all got to thinking, wait a second do turtles have butts? I said for sure they did, but no one else was too sure. so we had to investigate, and we decided that google image was the best way to go. not true in this case. somethings should not be Google-imaged.(yep, I'm using that as a verb). but anyways, after some really funny images and some images I could live my whole life without seeing, I came to a conclusion. turtles have butts, they are just under their shell. and while we were on the topic of butts, we decided that hippos, zebras and elephants have butts, snakes do not. just an fyi.


that was probs too much information about my night, but I thought the world should know the truth. and if I can't blog about turtles butts, who can? I mean come on, just look at this awkward turtle, it's awesome.

draft picks.

so in lieu of the NFL draft tonight, I thought I might suggest what I think is going to happen. Now I am not usually a betting gal, but I feel like lady luck may be on my side tonight. In a perfect world, my "dream team" and draft pick would go something like this.

1. Big Ben, I am willing to trade you. sorry, but it has to be done. (but I hope you stay) but if you get traded, you may go to the Vikings. NOT the Raiders or the Ravens.
2. I would really like it if the Steelers got Tim Tebow, but I would like it even more if they got Colt McCoy. We can have two quarter backs right? the answer is yes!
3. While we are making crazy-things happen, I would like to recruit a coach. Coach Cowher COME BACK! I have had just about enough of this Mike Tomlin character. I want your crazy, spitting, lisp self back in black and gold!
4. While we are bringing people back, I would really enjoy adding a third quarter back. Terry Bradshaw would be an excellent member of the team. I mean really, a number 12 never looked so good!
5. But my most wanted request, and I am crossing my fingers that this really happens, but the steelers REALLY need Jerome Bettis back! "The Bus" is one of my favs, and I really miss him.

So with that said, I hope the Steelers recruit three new quarterbacks, one of the greatest running backs (in my book) and a lovely, but equally scary coach! This "dream team" may seem far fetched, but you just wait. it'll happen. right?

LP.

Today, while looking at different types of skulls in biology lab, my lab partner says,"You know, I've always wanted fangs."
dear lord. good ol' LP.

did she really just say that...too?

ok, so i have another lab partner story.

So I am just kickin' it in bio lab about to dissect a pig, which I was not too happy about. And my LP walks in and says that I am going to have to the dissecting today because I don't know how to work a microscope. Now you would think this would be offensive, but she is totally right. I can't focus anything on a microscope. but anyways, she didn't tell me that we would have to stitch up the pig. yeah, STITCH it up, like a sweater. there was a needle and string and everything. It was one of the oddest thing I have ever done. Not to mention it was totally gross. but as I am stitching up the pig, weaving in an out like a pro, my LP says," see this is why I could never be a mortician. I couldn't look at a dead person if it still had a face." REALLY? gosh she is a bit nuts. I was like, yeah that would be hard to do. She proceeds to tell me that instead she is going to be a high school teacher. go figure. I just thought it was so weird, but I am glad we no longer have to dissect a fetal pig, so hopefully this will be my last entry in the, did she really just say that?

happiest place on earth!

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-Walt Disney















You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
-Walt Disney








Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
-Walt Disney




Walt Disney says some pretty crazy stuff, but he was a genius! I spent last saturday with some amzazing gals at the happiest place on earth. here are few things that i learned that day:

1. alli's mom is super adorable (except for my flower that is dying)
2. people at disneyland need to STOP wearing plaid shorts. it's not a good look. ever.
3. I can ride thunder mountain without dying! it was my first time going and it was totally fun! (keep pointing at the goat!)
4. I saw Ryan Renyolds.
5. I can go my whole life without EVER going on its a small world. (and I could say the same for the tiki room)
6. speding the WHOLE day at disneyland is totally do-able, yet my feet would beg to differ.
7. I was cheesed off that the river that gets to tom sawyers island, and that has the fantasmic, was drained. boo!
8. Disneyland fireworks will always be my favorite fireworks.
9. babies shouldnt have leashes.
10. what the h is the laughing place? and why is the fox there?
11. there is always a good time to ride splash mountain!

all in all, i LOVE disneyland.

free hugs.

the bear with flair.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!
thank you for being born. thank you for everything that you do.you are the strongest woman I know.I love all our laughs and your sense of humor. you are such a beautiful person and I am so proud of you. you are capable of so many things, and your skills amaze me constantly. and I am totally happy being your "mini me" ;)
LOVE you.



































and just in case you didn't know,
you're my hero.

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts". ~Washington Irving

Everybody is free to wear sunscreen.

ok so I read this once as a speech for a college graduation and I thought it was great.and when I tried to find it online, it said it was a song, go figure. but check it out! it's a bit long, but I think it's worth it.

"Everybody is free to wear sunscreen"
by Baz Luhrman

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97,

Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis or reliable then my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice....now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, nevermind, you won't understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded, but trust me in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive; forget the insults. (if you succeed in doing this, tell me how).

Keep your old love letters; throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of Calcium. Be kind to your knees -- you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.

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

Enjoy your body: use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it; it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance...even if you have no where to do it but in your own living room.

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

Do not read beauty magazines; they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents; you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings: they're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in
the future.

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

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old; and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse, but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you are 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia; dispensing it is a way of wishing the past from the disposal--wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me, I'm the sunscreen.

Holy Fire burn away,
my desire for anything
that is not of you and is of me,
I want more of you and less of me.
Empty me,
Empty me,
Fill, won't you fill me,
with you, with you.

-Jeremy Camp, Empty Me.

did she really just say that?

ok, so in biology today we were dissecting a baby pig. i know, so sad. the little guy didn't even see it coming. but really, he didn't see if coming because he was a fetal pig and had never even seen the light of day. but anyways, so today we were just doing our thing, you know looking at the organs and what not. and then we had to find the small intestine and UNRAVEL it and then measure it. have you ever unraveled a small intestine? it is not an easy task my friend. but did you know that your small intestine is on average FIVE TIMES longer than your height? that is nuts! but anyways, so i was unraveling this bad boy when my lab partner (who I'm pretty sure is a wiccan, or just really loves cats. i feel like the two go hand in hand) but she goes "see, this is one of the reason i don't do cannibalism". and i was like WHAT THE H, did she really just say that? who thinks about that? I am pretty sure eating people was the last thing on my mind, while working with that fetal pig. so after i took a step away (because she was holding a scalpel) i said, "oh..haha.. yeah." because really, what else can you say? But also, that is the ONLY reason why she wouldn't eat people? she said, that looking at all the organs would make her not want to be a cannibal. and i was like i am pretty sure, and by pretty sure I mean absolutely certain, that i have never wanted to eat a human. and then this girl at my table was like, do you think people still eat people? and my LP goes, "oh yeah, I'm sure" and I was like" ..ok, so the small intestine" because i was totally done with this freaking weird conversation. and so needless to say, my LP really freaks me out.

but I just thought it was so weird, but sort of funny so I thought I'd share.
haha?

perseverance.

life.

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

Wise words Bill Cosby, thank you.

beauty.

so when I was home over break it was raining like crazy. but it was the type of rain that even though it was a total down pour where you were, if you looked at the sky ahead it was all blue. totally weird, but it was just one of those days. anyways, while we were driving, the rain stopped and a bit of sun was peering through, and then an awesome rainbow was in the sky. you know the kind where it makes a full arch, and it so bright you are just like wow that is so awesome. well, at least that's what I think when I see rainbows. they absolutely boogle my mind. I mean think about it, really think about it. How do they work? there is just these beautiful colors in the sky. and then I thought of what rainbows really represent. Now I know the image of rainbows and what they represent has changed and is now something totally different, but I still like to think of rainbows as what they are suppose to mean. They are a promise. A lovely covenant that was bestowed upon the Earth to calm our minds and ease our souls whenever it rains.

Genesis 9:17
"Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds,
I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God
and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

what a beautiful promise.














now I know I just blogged about rainbows, but it just made me think about what they truly mean. is that weird? hope not.