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

Sometimes It Pays to Complain

To start this story I would just like to say that I really do like my car. It makes me feel sporty (especially when  it gets to go cool places and/or has the bike rack attached so the following story is not a reflection on my feelings for my car rather the situation in general.


So I have been having some issues with the windows on my car. The first one broke during finals week and I just kept trying to get it fixed, but they told me it would cost me almost $400 dollars to fix it. I was so ticked, I had read online about how it was a common problem with the 2006 Jeep Liberties that the motors and regulators die and I didn’t have any money to get it fixed. I just had them put the window up and I wasn’t able to roll it down, which was annoying, but I could deal with that.  Well, a few weeks ago the passenger side window also broke while it was sitting in the parking lot innocently minding its own business I was ticked, annoyed, frustrated, wanted to cry, and sort of angry. I took it to shop and they put up the window with duct tape, I looked like the redneck hick that I probably am but try not to be.  So I emailed Jeep a rather strongly worded letter about how ridiculous the situation was and TADA! They called me back and told me to take it to a Jeep Certified Dealership so they could diagnose the problem and see if they could pay for it. They decided that they would pay for it.(YAY!)  On Sunday my back driver side window broke too, (Yes, this is the same window that broke as I was driving away from the dealership after I bought my car, which was thankfully still under warranty) and they decided that they would pay for that too. So  now all of the windows on my car roll up and down and the regulators and motors have all been replaced except for the one window that the mechanics said was fine.

So (very)long story short. It pays to complain because this situation would have probably cost me over $1,000 but only cost me $106.25 (plus a few trips to St. George where I proceeded to buy stuff including a new bedspread :)).

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.  

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. 

Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! ~Dr. Seuss

TADA!!

I am finally blogging again. Did you miss me? I was going to start out with a story about how I have been having such an exciting summer that I haven’t had time, but that would be a lie. Although I have been having a good summer I haven’t been quite that busy. Sometimes it is just easier not to write on the blog…sorry! Besides I am on the computer all day and I don’t always want to get on the computer when I am home.

So the whole list of things to do this summer is obviously not going well because I haven’t written on this once a week. Oops!I have done some of them but I definitely need to get through them faster. I am quite far on my reading list though and have read quite a few books that aren’t even on the list.

I have been sick this week and I had food poisoning last week and I was sick earlier in the summer so all in all I think that I have fulfilled my sick quota for at least the next year. At least! Being sick is not one of the things that make me happy, just so you know. But the good news is that other than a lingering runny nose and sore throat I feel sooooo much better.

In other news, my mom, aunt, sister and brother-in-law are amazing. This weekend they went to Idaho to compete in the Spudman Triathlon. They all lived...as far as I know .They are all basically awesome and I wish I could be as cool as them…maybe next year.

Apparently I feel the need to make this long, but this week I got a Wii. My parents are giving it to me for graduation and it has been a lot of fun. I went and got a Wii fit balance board and game and if you ever need to reevaluate your goal of losing weight just step on one of those and do the body test. YIKES! Oh well, that is why I got that right? Motivation.

Well there are some random bits of my life. See you soon (hopefully!).

Madame Mim: Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely. I do hope it's serious. Something dreadful. The Sword in the Stone 1963