Lend me your ears…

On my last post, the one about the earrings, my dear friend Mallory commented: "I'd go for the pink ones. They'll bring out your ears...haha just kidding. They're the cutest." Mal, I know you were joking but my ears could possibly use a little help and this reminded me of a story.

I was 12 (or possibly 11) when my family and I were visiting my great-grandparents Tilden and Evelyn in Denver. I'm pretty sure it was the last summer that both my step-brother and-step sister came to stay for the whole summer. At least once a month we would go to Denver and visit while eating a large, old-fashioned meal. Tilden and Evelyn literally lived right next to Water World and in the summer months we would spend the day there. Anyway, on one particular visit great-grandma Evelyn was talking to my step-sister and I when she told my sister that she had such attractive ears and because of this she would find a wonderful husband. She didn't comment on my ears. I hadn't known Evelyn for very long because she was on the step side of the family and I didn't know if she was slightly crazy (she was) but I knew that when she said it then that she was serious and she meant it. I remember feeling sad because I thought my ears were just as deserving of a wonderful husband.

Seriously, my ears don't stick out but at the same time they aren't pressed against my head. They aren't incredibly large, oddly small, floppy, droopy, pointy or deformed in any other way. However, my sister is married and her husband does seem like a pretty stellar guy while I find myself rather un-married. Perhaps if the pink earrings would bring out my ears they aren't such a bad idea.

Only one hole in each ear...

I recently discovered Armelle Jewelry and I find myself in a pickle! I must own at least one pair of these earrings but I can't own all four. What's your favorite?

HOLI: Festival of Colors

Recently I went to the Hari Krishna temple in Spanish Fork for the Holi Festival of Colors. I have been hesitant to blog about the Festival of Colors for two reasons, I'm unsure that I can adequately describe it and also I don't want to in anyway accidentally disrespect the Krishnas. If you would like to read about what this festival means to the Krishnas please click here. Instead of me telling you everything I'm just going to show some videos and a few pictures.

The festival is supposed to be a symbol of the warmth of spring banishing winter. The celebration includes burning a demon at the stake, food, traditional dancing and singing, a band and the throwing of colored chalk dust.

This video is after most of the colors have been thrown but you still get to see some puffs of color go out. This video also shows the song they "sing." That's the only song they sing.


This video is just us being silly. My friend Randy was trying to clean off my camera.


Three shampoos and a long shower later I was back to clean.

Maybe the funniest part of the whole thing? Our banishment of winter must not have worked because the next morning we woke up to 3+ inches of snow.

What cha gonna do when they come for you?

In my opinion the campus newspaper isn't the greatest. I do however, love to check it out for the Police Beat. This was in today's report.

March 26: The mother of a student called the police when she suspected that her daughter's roommate stole her butter knife. The mother later called to drop the charges.

Yep. I love where I go to school at least for the entertainment it supplies.

You know me and Bertier’s mama…

Tonight's distraction? Remember the Titans. I can't NOT watch.

Seriously every time it's on TV I get sucked in.

I cannot even begin to imagine the number of times I've seen this movie.

I cry every time Gerry gets in the accident.

Tonight I cried just knowing it was coming.

I don't cry easily.

At least not about football.

I hate the phone but I wish you'd call...

I'm still working on patience. Patience and I are not good friends. I'm constantly "learning" to be patient. I think part of the problem is a lack of positive reinforcement. Like that one time I quasi-dated that one guy from November through about June. (It sounds almost as terrible as it was.) I kept thinking that it was a lesson in patience and if I was patient things would work out. Needless to say, things did not work out in the least and there was no pay off for me being patient. So, I'm taking a deep breath and moving ahead.

To fill the time and lessen the difficulty of being patient tonight Heather and I went to the lu'au at BYU. Last year I was in the lu'au and I didn't realize how much I missed it. I thought the costumes and choreography were better this year plus since they had it in the Marriott Center they could do more with the staging. Last year I danced in the Tahiti section so I was especially watching for that this time. Here's a wee little video:



Are you kidding me? They push the guys over and dance standing on top of them? That's way better than what we did last time. We didn't even get to dance with the guys!

At the end the fire dancers came out. This video is of the first guy. I didn't start recording fast enough and what you missed is that when he came out only one end of his stick was lit and he lit the other end with his mouth.



Feath and I give the performance two thumbs way up.

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

I've been a little bad at blogging lately. Maybe you could guess that I've been a little "distracted". You would be right. I've also been working a lot, and working hard. There's been so much going on and unless I have a visual reminder to do something I tend to forget. Last night I had a mini/internal freak out that I wasn't going to make my goal of seeing at least one concert a month for this month. So I looked up what concerts are left for the month. Basically there's only one I want to see and it's on the 31st. Whew! I'll be going to see these guys:



I'm loving me some Vampire Weekend. Let me know if you want to go!

Oh and PS - I learned how to make ringtones for my phone. My new text noise is Jim saying "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." It's way better than a boring old beeping noise.