Happy Earth Day!

~ Highlight of the Day: Coming home from a run and being given pizza for dinner :) ~

 

Happy Earth Day!

 

I would just like to formally thank Google for so graciously notifying me of the fact that today was Earth Day. I spent a good ten minutes this morning playing with the rain clouds, flowery 'G', and the cycle of the sun and the moon.

 

To celebrate today I:

 

1. Planted a whole lot of persimmon seeds that have been patiently

stratifying in our fridge for the last 4 months

(and needed to be cleaned out for cleaning checks today. . . :)

 

2. Watched Phineas and Ferb save the world from an

alternate dimension Dufensmaurf 

(this included two tree house giants - very earth day-ish )

 

3. Nurtured a general appreciation for trees and green

things by running along the Provo river.

 

I may be busy surviving finals week,

 but I will always find time to celebrate Earth Day.

 Always.

 

Oh! And I watched the latest Tinkerbell movie yesterday. It is by far the best one yet - and it definitely served as a good earth-day-eve celebration.

 

 

 I hope you were all able to enjoy this fabulous Earth Day as much as I did :)

 

Only one final left!

so close. . .

 

Emily's Going On A Mission

~ Highlight of the Day: Watching Emily open her mission call ~

 

Emily (my roommate) has been called to Tokyo Japan! She leaves August 28th!

Of course, we didn't get to know this until waiting through ages and ages of her cutting open the envelope. Really. I got more pictures of her with the scissors than of anything else.

 

But she did eventually read it and all, and we are SO excited for her!

 

 

Yeah, I Do Stuff

~ Highlight of the Day: Reading Calvin and Hobbes instead of studying. Like a straight A student :) ~

Well I have just been so productive these past few postless weeks.

 

So productive I can't even remember it. . . oh, wait. I did become the proud owner of five Calvin and Hobbes books! I'm pretty pleased with myself for that. And I drove from Arizona to Utah! Yeah. . . I remember now, that's what I did last weekend. . .  :)

 

So now I have a cute little blue car that doesn't like shifting from 1st to 2nd and from 2nd to 3rd. Lets just say that made all the hills in between here and Arizona really exciting :) But we made it, and that's what counts.

 

Also I made falafel. Well, Madison and Mitch made falafel, and I cut up stuff to go on top of it. But I made pitas! Sort of. I made the dough and then Virginia's friend (who's name totally escapes me *hides face in shame*) rolled it out perfectly and Madison and Mitch baked them :)

 

They were pretty good for falafel from a mix.

 

 

 

But next time we make it it'll be from scratch. Yep. You should all be really excited.

 

And I got dirt from the good ol' Home Depot! I'm not quite sure what I'm going to grow yet, but it'll be way cool, I assure you.

 

I even spent hours and hours in the library on Saturday, I was just that productive. There was this fascinating exhibit of illustrations done from Indian legends:

 

Marina and I spent a good 45 minutes reading the stories. . .

someday I will be able to illustrate like this.

 

 

 

 And I'll write/illustrate all sorts of children's books about umbrellas and prince-winning cookies, and probably a few ducks and camels too :)

 



 

 

 

 

I Want To Ride My Bicycle. . .

~ Highlight of the Yesterday: Annie driving me and Marina home :) ~

 

Confidence is a great thing. And most of the time it benefits me.

And then sometimes it gets me into interesting situations. . .
Like the biking-all-the-way-to-the-theater-cause-we-don't-need-cars kind of confidence.
That one can be troublesome.
It tends to result in being-stranded-cause-we-were-too-sore-to-bike-back humility.

The movie was great though. It was a documentary called Girl Rising,
way worth being way sore for :)
 

 

Things I am really thankful for: Huge trucks that can transport bikes.

Annie's pity. Good weather. An education.