{One Word}

I've been working on writing 2 papers today and I need a short little break, so here it is!


I found this thing somewhere....there are millions of them. Pointless but entertaining, right?


I'm only going to give 1 word answers for the following questions/prompts/whatever they are.....mixed in with pictures to make it more exciting... Everyone loves pictures, right?
Where is your cell phone....................backpack
Your hair.......................................blonde
Your father....................................Best
Your favorite thing.............................naps 

Your dream last night.......................nervous
Your favorite drink............................lemonade
Your dream/goal..............................Mommy 
The room you are in...........................Office 
Your fear.......................................Failure
Where do you want to be in 6 years.......Settled
Muffins...........................................Poppyseed

One of your wish list items....................SHOES
Where you grew up............................Texas
The last thing you did..........................Paper
What are you wearing.........................Shirt
Your TV...........................................Off
Your pets.........................................Fish

Your computer...................................helpful
Your life..........................................Awesome
Your mood........................................ Apathetic
Missing someone................................Husband

Your car..........................................stick
Favorite store..................................everything
Your summer....................................Europe

Your favorite color..............................Green
When is the last time you laughed...........seconds
Last time you cried..............................Yesterday
Three people who email me.....................Husband, Mom, Teachers (I guess that's three words....) 
Three of my favorite foods.....................Italian, Mexican, Thai 
Three places I would rather be right now....Home, Italy, Cruise 





Anyways... there ya go. A random insight to me.

{Weird Food}

You know those maple doughnut bars? Yeah, they are delicious. Well, BYU makes maple bacon bars.....

It's a maple bar with bacon stuck on the top. It looks like this:

It's like pancakes with syrup and bacon! Weird...

My boss bought me one of these this morning. I had never had one, but have always been intrigued by them. Well, they're weird, but good....The whole time I ate it I was thinking "This is so gross and weird and should not taste this good!" But it did. Now, I'm not a huge doughnut fan, nor a huge pancakes and syrup fan, so I will probably never spend my own money to buy one, and I will probably not eat another one even if someone else buys it cause I can't even imagine how much fan/cholesterol it has.....Pretty sure I'll be set for a lifetime.

Moral of the story - Always try new food

I love trying new foods and eating food from other cultures - so great!! I love the diversity of colors, and flavors, and textures! Usually it is successful!

Some other weird things I've eaten:

Pig Tongue

     Not bad - kinda chewy, but nice flavor

(it was cooked...roasted over the fire)

Some weird Vietnamese soup - it had meat balls with hair and bones

     The meat balls were nasty, but the overall flavor of the soup and the noodles were pretty decent

(It looked kinda like this...)

Shark soup

     Delicious!! Loved every bite!

Escargot (snails)

     Delicious!! Love them....love love love

And others... but I'll spare you so you'll be able to enjoy your lunch!

{Mirrored Love}

This is another post about me and the husband being in love - sorry! haha

For the slideshow of pictures that we put together for our wedding reception we came across some of these gems where we had very similar pictures/poses.

Anyways - enjoy!

{Stuffed Mushrooms}

Just to answer your question - yes, homemade stuffed mushrooms are delicious!!!!!!!!!

*PS - this is my 3rd post in a row about food....interesting....sad.....something

Love, Missionaries, and me as a 3rd & 4th grader

I've been thinking for a while that I need to write a personal history - not a broad, sweeping, thematic autobiography, but a compilation of every story I can remember, told as I remember it, without the taint of trying to share a particular moral or sell a particular trait of mine.

This, I suppose will be the first.

I don't know why this story came to mind today while I was studying macroeconomics, but it did, so I'll share it with you.

In third grade, there was a girl in my class with the name of Jasmine. I honestly don't remember why I grew so infatuated with her, but I did. The popular, good-looking kid in my class was named Mike, and I always suspected that they liked each other - in fact, I vividly remember imaging them kissing and my blood boiling at the thought.

I was convinced I was to marry Jasmine. Come 4th grade, I was still convinced. I tried (or so I thought) to win her heart by giving her a necklace I had found, but, as I had provided no words with that gift to explain the intent, she returned the necklace (it was a very long, gold chain - which I later used for a gangster costume... haha) with a confused thanks-but-no-thanks.

Beyond that lack of reciprocation, I had one other large hurdle. She was not of my faith, and in the simplistic mind of a 4th grader, for us to get married, she had to join my church.

So one Sunday I approached our local LDS missionaries and asked them to visit Jasmine's home. The next Sunday they reported back that they had knocked on the door and had been quickly turned away by Jasmine's father, but asked if I knew anyone else they could visit. I quickly said no - I felt awful! I was so abashed that I avoided speaking to any missionaries for several years - I was sure that they all knew of the awful referral I had given.

That's that story. As a follow up, we were in the same English/Social Science core in 6th grade, and then, having moved on (and having lost a significant amount of weight), we were chatting one day and it came up how big of a crush I used to have on her. She laughed and said that she had no idea. In retrospect, I really can't blame her. As far as I can remember, giving her that gold-chain-necklace and sending the missionaries her way were the only outward expressions of my crush during the whole two years I was so infatuated. Otherwise, my feelings simply consumed me while I sat on a half-submerged (humongous) tire in the playground.

Oh, the confused heart of a child.

{Celery}

Once upon a time I was in a neighborhood preschool group with my friends and the wonderful moms were the teachers. It was awesome. I learned the Pledge of Allegiance, my phone number, how to properly set the table, and about Indians and Pilgrims. One lesson that I remember learning was about healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. I remember specifically talking about celery and how healthy that was for you. I was so gung-ho about being healthy that I begged my mom to buy celery at the grocery store every time she went. After a couple weeks she said that she wasn't going to buy celery any more! I was so confused! I asked her how we were supposed to be healthy if we didn't have celery! She said she would only buy it if I ate it. I actually had to eat the celery? But it's so gross! I didn't realize that in order to get "healthy points" you actually had to eat the stuff. Gross.

Every time I see celery I think of that story - I actually have to eat it? Gross.
Well - guess what I ate for dinner/snack/substance today? Celery with peanut butter. Do I still get my "healthy points" if I eat it with peanut butter? I hope so.

Strategy Minor!

First bit of news: I was recently accepted into the Marriott School's Business Strategy Minor! (OK, I was accepted on Tuesday, but this week has been absurd, sorry). That's great news for a number of reasons:

1) It's a very selective program - only 50 students admitted between both the Strategy Minor and the Strategy Emphasis (for the Business Management guys)

2) It has had a 100% placement rate over the last several years

3) My career of choice is Management Consulting - and the strategy minor is literally the PERFECT preparation for that career

4) It won't set back my graduation at all

5) Heidi is proud of me :)

So I'm really, really happy about that. The day I found out was rather painful though - I have a class with the Strategy Department secretary and I asked him when we were going to hear back on who was accepted or not, to which he replied, "Today by noon" - I asked him at about 9:30 AM. So, naturally, I checked my email FOR THE REST OF THE DAY, not kidding. I spent at least 30 minutes of my day just staring at my gmail inbox waiting for the letter to arrive. It never did. I went to the Management Consulting Club that evening, where several guys were commenting on how they'd gotten in and such - and I just wanted to die. I was in the process of writing a cover letter for an internship, and I felt like a deflated balloon. It was awful.

Thankfully, I spoke with a friend who's already in the program about it - and in that conversation he told me that I was accepted - he'd seen my name on the list! Needless to say, I promptly wrote an inquiring email to the Strategy Department secretary asking what was going on, to which he replied the next morning with an apology because he'd typed my email address wrong! How awful is that?!? Oh well, I made it in!

As a PS - the fact that I'm in the strategy program now is actually kind of ironic - it was in large part because of the strategy program that I chose to not pursue a business degree in the first place. My freshmen year, I wasn't very competitive - at least not in the cut-throat sense - and you kinda need to be to get into the strategy program. I didn't want to have to exert myself that much to try to get into a major, so I switched to International Relations. I've now come full circle... A little competition certainly pays off.