Sweet Summertime

Do you want to know what I have been up to? I finally uploaded the pictures from my camera. I had a really fun summer and got to do a bunch of fun stuff with some really awesome people. I didn't take my camera to all of these events but here are a few. 

I may or may not have gone down the sheep tunnels in Cedar City with Adam, Brittni, and Mindy. We had a fabulous time and they absolutely did not use my spray paint to add to the beauty of the surroundings. 

 I went to Sand Hollow in May and the water was chilly! We had a good time hanging out on the beach and swimming.

 Cedar City is always windy and on this particular day we had the right amount of wind. Not too strong and not too weak, because we are like Goldilocks and are sort of picky about our kite flying days. Lynsie managed to tie all of the string that we had on our various kites to her kite and had it flying so high! It was hanging out above the freeway and I was kind of nervous if the wind stopped there was going to be an accident, but Lynsie is a pro kite flyer and she flew that super long kite amazingly well. Good times

 I convinced Brittni and Mindy to do the Greenwood Triathlon because I am cool like that and like to torture my friends for fun. I also really need to stop opening my mouth up really wide in pictures.

 Marcia, Michael, and I went and hiked Angel's Landing at Zions. It was good bonding time for The Little People (because we are so little). We hiked, talked, and were basically super silly.

I really like the picture of Marcia looking super exasperated.  This is how she looks at me all the time.

If you want to get some really nice bruises while having a scary/fun time you should ride a tube down the river by Hatch with Maggie, Sheena, and Brittni. We went when the river was running really fast and there were some excellent times to be had.

I went to Lake Powell twice this summer, but I only took pictures with my camera the second time. It was really fun to have my nieces and nephews go to Lake Powell. Looking at babies in life vests makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. Happy because they look adorable but sad because they look so uncomfortable.

Last weekend I went with a bunch of people from work to Hatch to float the river again. It was a really fun trip I only got to float a little ways down before my tube popped, but it was still fun. 

Basically I had a really fun summer and was able to do a lot of things. Thanks for reading this super long post.

Next week I start on a new adventure and am going to start working in Salt Lake for Jensen & Keddington as a staff auditor. I am a little bit nervous, but I am excited to start a new chapter in my life. I have conflicted feelings. I have lived in Cedar City for 5 years minus 1 summer so a big city will be a bit of an adjustment. I am sad to be leaving my friends here, but am excited to be closer to some family and friends that live in SLC. Basically, I am a mess.

The most memorable days usually end with the dirtiest clothes.

Magic

I went to the doctor yesterday because I have had a sore throat for a year. Yep, a year. In my defense I did go to the doctor last year for a sore throat, but it was a stubborn sore throat and every time I thought it was almost gone it would come back. So yesterday, after spending approximately 20 minutes filling out paperwork and 5 minutes getting things such as weight (ack!), temperature (98.5), blood pressure (110 over something) and pulse (I want to say 60…) measured. I sat there and waited played my Ipod and when the doctor came in he looked at my ears and my throat, talked to me for about 1 minute and gave me a prescription for…wait for it…MAGIC mouthwash (nasty stuff) and Keflex.

Last night I took the medicine and noticed that on the Keflex was the word Lupin. So I’m thinking that the doctor lied. It is not a sore throat at all but the beginning stages of turning into a werewolf. Yes, a werewolf. I mean they gave me magic mouthwash…

I think my owl got lost when I was eleven.

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.--Oscar Wilde

Tumbling Random Thoughts

Warning: The following list of thoughts might not make sense and you are not allowed to judge me for anything that might come out weird.

• I think that April is a fantastic month.
• Some of my very favorite people are born in April
• Calling a three year old to wish her happy birthday can be really fun and awkward at the same time.
• Sorry Emery for thinking that you said you were Emily, you really don't sound like you are 3...I promise.
• Mary insisting that Friday is a weird day and that I should go see her on Thursday instead made me happy.
• Daisies and Tulips are competing as my favorite flower. They are both so fun and cheerful.
• I am almost done making my new quilt for my bed
• and by almost, I mean I have many more hours of quilting
• dang me and my pre-project ambition.
• I really want a cupcake right now. 
• My siblings are entertaining and super random.
• Mindy Crockett comes back from the land northward today. 
• This makes me happy but I would dare say that Brittni is happier.
• I very rarely dream.
• I am glad that I don't dream very often, because when I do dream it is often disturbing.
• I don't really know how to respond when people tell me about their dreams. 
• I don't hang out with Marcia enough.
• I need new music. 
• I am supposed to ride my bike a long ways at the end of the month...umm yeah...
• It is windy in the land of Cedar.
• It snowed on Saturday. That is wrong for two reasons: 1. It is APRIL and 2. It was SATURDAY. 
• I am going to be 23 in a few weeks. 
• This weirds me out.
• Where did the last year go?
• I like my haircut
• umm... I did warn you.

Live your dreams. Except for that one about being EATEN by the GIANT SPIDER

Greenwood Triathlon

The time has come, my friends,

To talk of many things: 

Of bikes--and shoes--and swimming suits--

Of good times--and of friends--

...I was going to try and go on with ripping off Lewis Carroll but instead I will just tell you that you should do the Greenwood Triathlon, it is jolly good times and fun will be had by all! If I can do it, you can definitely do it!

For more info, go here. Basically, on May 28 my family (mostly Mom) puts on a triathlon that starts at the Fillmore Swimming Pool and ends up at my parents house. I am never the fastest, but it is always fun. I think that Carla has come in first for the girls all of the past triathlons, but she is going to have a baby about that time and is out of the running, therefore someone else might have a chance, it probably won't be me (really, have you seen me run?) , but that could be incentive for you to participate!

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. 

Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." 

How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. 

You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." 

Happy Ark Day!

And Noah said....March Forth!---Grandpa Tilman Johnson

No Sugar March

Okay, so if you know me at all you know that I am probably a little too addicted to sugar. Yep, I admitted it. That is the first step, right? I crave basically anything with that particular white powdery stuff. This would be all fine and good if sugar loved me as much as I love it, but alas (ha, I just used the word alas!) it doesn’t. It continually likes to make me be a little bit more round and fluffy than I would really like to be, now if I were a cake or a cookie or some other confectionary goodness that would be great, but I am definitely not one of those, even though I am starting to resemble them.

At this point you are probably wondering what the point of this tirade is, well I am going to try and go off refined sugar for the month of March. GASP! Shocker, I know.. This means that I am going to try really hard not to eat refined sugar.  I am still going to eat fruits and naturally occurring sugars and some natural sugar substitutes are okay in moderation and maybe have one day a week be a free day(I I have to have something sweet. I might go crazy if I don’t have any sweets at all). So 

So here is the deal. My lovely, awesome, wonderful people (and by people, I mainly mean roommates) you have to help me. When I am standing in the kitchen wanting to make cupcakes or brownies or something, you need to tell me no. I know, this goes against all instincts and you never agreed to go on the no-sugar thing with me. But I think it could be good to see that I CAN and WILL survive without copious amounts of sugar running through my bloodstream.

Okay, I think I beat that topic to a pulp. 

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" — Audrey Hepburn

Love!

(I got this pic in an email from terrybicycles.com)

Guess what??? I am so excited I finally purchased a road bike! I am in love! Do you want to see what it looks like? 

Isn't it gorgeous? And so much fun to ride! Granted, as soon as I bought it the wind started blowing and then it snowed a TON! I haven't ridden it hardly at all, but I will! I am going to bundle up in the warmest biking type clothes that I have and go on an awesome bike ride. So in honor of the last day of February I am declaring myself in love! I know you are not supposed to love things, but like just doesn't seem to be a strong enough word. So does anybody want to go on a bike ride with me?

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.
Ann Strong
Minneapolis Tribune, 1895.

Dear Mike,

Dear Mike,
      I blogged.
Love,
    Chelsey

In 2011...

I will always replace the gas cap before driving away from the pump
I will Brush, Floss, AND Rinse twice a day
I will exercise my smile muscles
I will sing loudly in the car
I will keep track of my phone...maybe.
I will wake up happy.
I will not press the snooze button more than three times.
I will pluck my eyebrows more.. No one likes a uni-brow.
I will read my scriptures everyday

I will take more picturesI will snowshoe, hike, camp, and enjoy the outdoors more often
I will remember that Muffin Day is on the 29th of every month
I will worry less when my house is messy and there is company.
I will pass the CPA exam.
I will play games and build blanket forts with my nieces and nephews (well, Will and Camelia might still be a little bit too young for this one)
I will weigh at least 30 lbs less on Dec. 31, 2011 than I do today.

I will have a FANTASTIC year and be optimistic about my life.

Never Ends

This is the week that never ends,

Yes, it goes on and on, my friends.

Some person woke up Sunday, not knowing what it was,

and they'll continue living it forever just because,

This is the week that never ends,

Yes, it goes on and on, my friends.

Some person woke up Sunday, not knowing what it was,

and they'll continue living it forever just because…..

You get the idea

The next post will be happy, I promise.

I'm a JERK!

It has become very apparent lately from various sources that I am a jerk. I am sorry! I need to say sorry and I am much too big of a wimp to say this to people's faces so I am going to blog it.

I know that I shouldn't gossip, but I did. I am sorry. I genuinely think that the person we were talking about is a great person. I shouldn't have said anything. I'm sorry that it took reading a social media site to realize what a jerk I was being. I wish that I could go back and erase all of the things that I said, but I can't. I will try and think before I speak and make sure that what I speak is nice.

I'm sorry that I let all of my amazing friends slip through the cracks. I do not mean to ignore you. I promise. Sometimes I just feel like your lives are so much more interesting than mine and I don't want to intrude. I hope that whenever you need anything you won't hesitate to call. I will try and do better about keeping in touch.

I'm sorry that I don't keep my phone near me and pay as much attention to it as I should. I find it when I am going to bed to set my alarm and discover that somebody was trying to call or text me. I don't mean to be rude and not call or text back, it is usually just too late to do whatever it was you were planning and too late to call. I'm scum.

I'm sure that there are many more ways that I have probably offended you. I'm sorry!! I will try and do better.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin 

I Can Do Anything Good

The Dryer was Framed!

So I was doing my laundry one day and thinking about how everyone blames the dryer for eating socks and decided that there is no way it is the dryers fault. I think a more likely suspect is the washer. Think about it, don't you agree that the washer probably ate the sock? Here's my thinking: the washer has the agitator where the sock can get stuck under or if you have one of those new-fangled washers like my mom does the sock could get stuck in the lip part of the washer. Plus, the dryer is nice and make the clothes all dry and warm and snuggly whereas the washer basically beats the dirt out of them. Yep, the dryer was framed.

It's a Beautiful Day...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,

A beautiful day for a neighbor.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?.

I need to study, but...I procrastinate. So, I was looking up random things and happened upon a website and looked up something and came upon something else that reminded me of when I was little and would watch Mr. Rogers and came upon this delightful little page that has a bunch of songs from the show. One of my favorites that I just listened to was You Can Never Go Down the Drain isn't that just dang reassuring. I was worried. Also, this song is great, I especially like the part about riding a bicycle. 

If you want to ride a bicycle

And ride it straight and tall.

You can't simply sit and look at it

'Cause it won't move at all.

But it's you who have to try it.

And it's you who have to fall (sometimes)

If you want to ride a bicycle

And ride it straight and tall.

You've got to do it.

Every little bit

You've got to do it, do it, do it, do it

And when you're through,

You can know who did it,

For you did it, you did it, you did it.

There are some great messages that came from that show. You just can't beat Mr. Rogers. 

It really is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Fall is definitely in the air (literally in the air because my asthma/allergies are making it so I don't get any!) The beautiful fall weather is making me want to do fall things like go on a hike up the canyon, jump in piles of leaves, wear sweaters and hats, make soup and pumpkin flavored things. YUM! 

The Delta Girls

So Mom is AWESOME and played Softball in the Huntsman Senior World Games this past weekend. I find that uploading pictures to blogger is sort of annoying and this way I only had to upload one, so click on it and zoom in. :) I dare say that Mom had one of the biggest cheering sections for her at the games (that I saw at least) Mom hit a HOME RUN, caught a long throw home as catcher to get someone out and WIN a game and did AMAZING in the outfield. She also tore her hamstring and has a pretty purple bruise. So all in all I think the weekend was successful. She did awesome and we had a lot of fun being entertained by the situation. 

They call it softball, makes it sound like it's harmless, you know. You ever take a line shot to the face with a softball? You don't go "Hey, that's Downy Soft. That was like a big ball of cotton! Hey, don't worry about that! That's Blood Light! We're playing softball, we're all going to float around like angels!"- Brian Regan

To Top it all Off

I have been pondering a change with my hair and had a great example in my niece Mary. She was playing beauty shop with her cousin Emma and somehow the real scissors got in the mix of supplies.Mary claims that she told her that she didn’t want her to do it and told her no.  Needless to say the girl who was born with only a few strands of hair and at 4 years old could FINALLY put her hair in a pony tail now has a cute little bob hair cut courtesy of Emma and Asher (the girl that fixed the original hair cut). It really is cute, but I think that Mindy was way more traumatized by the event than Mary was.
 
So occasionally I have mini-crisis in my life and decide that my hair needs to change. I was trying to grow my hair out for a while but then gave up in July. So my hair is just below my chin now and I dyed (spelling?) it red. But now I want to get it cut shorter but I want a picture to show the girl that is going to cut my hair so I turned to my friendly neighborhood Google to help me with this. Do you want to know what I have found out about my hair? It has multiple personality disorder. Yep. You read right. My hair is thick, sort-of curly, but the individual strands are kind of thin. Plus my face shape is neither round nor square..All of these factors mean that I should stop trying to find a picture on the internet because all the hair looks either really weird or I think would look weird on me. So hopefully going short short is a good idea. Perhaps I will post some before and after pictures and you can all see for yourself and maybe Mindy will update her blog and you can see the cute cut that Mary has.
By the way, since I am going off about hair, did you know that having a different color of hair is kind of fun? I have only dyed my hair once before in my life and that was not permanent. It was kind of scary to just dye it. But having red hair is kind of fun. It is not too extreme and either people just haven’t noticed or don’t think it looks good not that many people have commented on the red. But hey, I like it, It makes me happy and it is my hair. :)

How can I control my life when I can't control my hair? 

Tumbling Random Thoughts

Here are some thoughts that were tumbling around in my head lately, this list is in no particular order.

• It is good to have folks
• I am a VERY lucky girl to have all of my grandparents in my life. I love them all so much and am grateful for everything that they do for me and their amazing examples
• Pray for my Grandpa Johnson
• I have an amazing family.
• I need to study...but just don’t want to.
• Life without school is cool, but kind of weird.
• The fuzzy headache that I have had for the past 3 days needs to leave...now.
• Having a girls night with Angelia, Mary, and Emily was a ton of fun and should happen again...
• Mindy and Melissa are good moms.
• Angelia is going to be a good mom.
• I get a new niece in approximately 13 days!
• I get a new nephew in approximately 2 months and 16 days!
• I need to get working on the presents for the above mentioned new little people.
• I want to do something cool this weekend...any ideas?
• I have some pretty awesome roommates.
• Hanging out with Carla a few weeks ago was fun.
• Went golfing with Jac (who I was not avoiding, by the way), Melissa, Mom and Dad on Monday and golfed horribly but had fun with my family.
• I should golf more than once a year because my back kind of hurts.
• I got par on one of the holes, it was over a water hazard and everything! (the ball splashed in the water and rolled up the hill and landed about 4 feet from the hole. Be impressed. I gave up when I saw the water splash, Melissa had to tell me what happened)
• I miss Mike, but I used his golf clubs so that was happy
• Mike comes home in 3 months!
• Mike is awesome to be on a mission!
• I want to go on a hike
• I want to ride my bike
• I can waste a lot of time playing this game http://games.yahoo.com/game/bricks-breaking
• My parents are awesome!
• Brittni must be the most patient person ever. She is with me all of the time and is still sane.
• Marcia and I live in the same town and never see each other. This should change.
• Marcia has to get up way too early in the morning.
• Lynsie is taking Organic Chemistry. I think she deserves a blizzard or some other treat every day of the week.
• Mindy Crockett  brought back guitar hero with all of the rock band stuff. I like that game but am in no way good at that game. I can, however, occasionally hit the pedal on the drums...Lame, I know
• I get to go to Zumba tonight.
• My family is going to be doing the Biggest Loser for the rest of the year
• I need to be more diligent at exercising
• I have more random thoughts going through my mind but this list is getting kind of long so I will stop

I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering? "Next to nil." "Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too." "Therefore, you *are* pondering what I'm pondering..." - Pinky and The Brain

A Bad Case of a Drowned Cell Phone

I have effectively put two phones out of commission within the space of two months. The first one just decided that it didn’t want to work for no apparent reason so I went back to the phone that I had about three years ago that liked to drop calls and had a few other glitches but it worked okay until my pocket decided that it had had enough of carrying the phone and ejected it right into the toilet never to live again. So…if you need to get in contact with me I have an email, a blog, and a facebook account that I check…occasionally. My plan on my cell-phone lets me get a new phone on Sept. 3 and now I am counting the days. If anyone has an old phone that they would let me borrow until then I would very much appreciate it :)

Somehow I think that I am supposed to learn a lesson from this. On Sunday the talks in Sacrament Meeting were on being too attached to technology. I like to think that I am not that attached, but I think that this experience is teaching me that I am a little too dependent on it. I didn’t think that I used it that much but I no longer know the time and it scares me to use my actual alarm clock as an alarm clock (plus it makes the most annoying noise to wake up to). I am afraid that the alarm won’t go off and consequently wake up every 20 minutes for hours before I need to wake up. I am still using technology to get this message to the world so maybe I am not learning as much of a lesson as I should.

Dilbert: I'm addicted to e-mail. My endorphins spike when I get a message. When there are no messages, loneliness and despair overcome me.

Dogbert: Have you tried sending e-mail to yourself?

Dilbert: We don't talk about that.

Prime Factors

So you have probably already come to the conclusion that I am weird but I am going to totally confirm your suspicions. I found the following comic strip on xkcd.com and was so inexplicably happy that I am not the only one that does this (and hey the author of the comic strip must have done it, or known someone that did). 





By the way, 1453 is a prime number so 1*1453 would be the prime factor. Just so you know. 


" He probably sat in math class thinking, "There should be more math. This could be mathier."-Buffy