Valentine Dysphoria.

Okay, I'm not really depressed or anything but Valentines can really wear on a girl! Every year that heart-winged steed pulling the chariot of love ushers in a day so dismal you can hear asexual microorganisms in the Southern Ocean keening. YouTube's wires buzz with the overloading demands for Morrissey music videos!

I will be at home, gaining 17 pounds in chocolate and preservative wax on my thighs. A box of kittens poured over my head couldn't distract my mind from the ever present reality of my singleness on this day. Wal-Mart, the devil and Ann Coulter only teamed up to create a few things on this earth and here they are:

1. Wurthering Heights (The devil entered Emily Bronte's body at the age of 13, a few years later she wrote this book.)

2. Valentines Day

3. Olivia from The City

4. Rye bread

5. Bono

Okay then, the truth of the matter is I was just saying that all for funsies...mostly...
I actually like to use Valentines Day as a celebration of friendship.

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." -John 4:7


ADOPT ME BRANGELINA! Love, Laura

A little update on my life-a.

So life is good, nothing too extraordinary right now, here are a few updates:

I got a car, which is awesome! The only problem so far is that I don't quite know how to drive stick.. Oh well, it's a new adventure! My car is a 1991 Geo tracker! It's 4WD and it's cute and very me! I'm thinking of naming it Shia LeBeouf.My sister recently came home from Au pairing in Holland for a year! I'm so happy to have her home, she's one of my best friends in the whole world! When she came home she wanted her big bed back (I've been sleeping on it), so I opted for a new twin in my room! The reason I'm so happy about having a twin bed is because now I can fit a huge bookshelf and a drafting desk in my room! I'm so excited to get the desk in there, but I can't get it until I get some help moving it (it weighs a million billion pounds!) Lately I've been pretty happy to live in Saint George. I still miss Virginia terribly, and it will always be my home in one way or another...but it's nice to not hate Saint George anymore. Saint George is beautiful to behold, and perfect if you like the outdoors. I have friends and things to do, and the dramas of life are calming down a bit... Here are some pictures I took from the top of Dixie rock:Other than that I'm applying to the masters in education program at Weber State, in Ogden, Utah, for the fall! I'm so excited to have found a program, and school, that seems to be just what I'm looking for! My only real concern about it so far is the weather up there, I don't know if I can handle that much cold and snow! At least now I have 4WD car to attack northern Utah with!



And for your viewing pleasure, an amazing music video from the one and only Queen! Warning: this video includes scantily clad cross dressing men and spandex interpretive dance, it could offend you.

I am the Duckie, coo coo Ka choo.

Do you ever have those days when you just feel like you'll never get the boy (or girl)? Like you are the most awkward person on the planet? Like you can't say anything right? Like you are Duckie from Pretty in Pink?

Life is good! I have so much to be grateful for! I don't mean to be negative...but I cannot escape my Duckiness. Maybe one day I will find someone great who wants a Duckie...

Some similarities Duckie and I have:

1. We are perpetually awkward

2. We have amazing clothes and accessories

3. We have brown hair

4. We fall hard for the people we love

5. We like music

5. We ride our bikes (or cars) past the house of people we like

6. We freak out

7. We sometimes say too much
Other than that, my amazing sister dyed my hair!

Etiquette and snakes.

I just wanted to make a list of etiquette pet peeves. I know it's whiny, but I've simply got to get this out. All of these are complaints based on actual behavior exhibited by other people. I know I'm not perfect and I don't act perfectly, but come on people!
At the movies it is rude to:

1. Have conversations on your phone during the movie, or even worse, have three conversations on your phone. I'm not talking texts here people- an actual conversation.

2. Kick my seat.

3. Have conversations with your seat neighbor the whole time- on top of it all, conversations that don't even have to do with the movie!

4. Leave your trash everywhere.

5. Bring babies- unless they're showing Baby Einstein for some reason, get a babysitter.

6. Bring your children to mature movies. I saw 4 year old kids at the last Pirates movie and 8 year old at The Dark Knight! Are you kidding me! I was once at a movie and it said something sexual, the little girl behind me had to ask her mom what it meant. The movies are not the place to have the sex talk with your kids.

7. Douse yourself in perfume or cologne pre-flick, or on the other hand, forget to bathe.

At church do not:
1.Eat in the chapel.

2. Talk uber loud next to the chapel when people are in sacrament meeting.

3. Talk through sacrament, Sunday school or priesthood and RS. If you're conversation is so important go in the hallway! Some people go to church because they want to hear the lessons and learn something. We're not 14, we're in singles ward, if you don't want to go to church stay at home.

4. Storimonies, thankamonies, travelmonies, talkamonies- any sort of monie that isn't a testimony.

5. Socialize in the chapel after sacrament meeting, go in the hallway.

6. Leave or enter sacrament meeting in the middle of some one's talk or musical number- wait until speakers switch, a congregational hymn, after the sacrament (certainly not during) or before/after.

That's all. Sorry, I don't think this even applies to anyone who reads my blog, but I just had to get it out!
Other than that I was organizing my closet and I found my brothers HUGE king snake under a box. It was alive and it's been missing for 6 months. I don't even want to think about it.

Insecurity/Heart Tribute

Do you ever have those days where everything just seems poopy? Well I guess everything didn't seem poopy today, but it wasn't all sunshine and unicorns either. I blame the cold! It's too cold for me! The funny part is that it's only 30 degrees here, and I'm going to apply for a graduate program in northern Utah- it's a lot colder up there!!!
I guess I wasn't terribly grumpy earlier today, but later I got grumpy and then it was down hill from there. I mean, I went hot tubbing with my swell friends, but mentally I was not having it. I felt awkward and insecure. I had really negative thought processes, like, "this person is only my friend for this reason or that, they don't actually like me..." I hate those kind of thoughts! I'm sure my friends actually like me...I just hate the idea of being some sort of charity project....Insecurity!So that was poopy, here is something fabulous!

HEART!!!

I love Heart! I want to learn all of their songs! Those Wilson sister's are rockin', kick butt, hott women!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLaeRUsWr0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqU8FOE0uk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQcQnDFhjxo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7FjuaVTRPU&feature=related

Grateful December Ramblings

Hayley and some guy at the temple nativity
So I just feel so grateful lately! I was talking to Khiah, one of my best friends, and she was all, "you're so lucky!" Well Khiah, you're right, I am. I have so much to be thankful for! I wanted it to snow so bad, I missed Virginia and I missed those cold winters in Main Hall. So I prayed for snow, and look at Saint George now, it's covered in snow! My prayers have been answered in beautiful, eerie, quiet, clean snow. Here are some pictures of my cul-de-sac, home and the St. George temple:

It snowed a whole ton! And it stuck! Yay!

My neice Lucy,
my snowman, "Ice Snowwalker," and yours truely!

The shepherds from the nativity had snow on their heads and I thought it was funny!

Someone made a snowman!

The St. George, Utah temple

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

The temple in the snow

I love that there are colorful blossoms amidst the snow!
Welcome to southern Utah!

Purple morning glories in the snow

More Holiness to the Lord

The House of the Lord

I love how the temple looked against the sky

On another note, I was listening to a song on a CD that I've listened to oodles of times before- The Boy Least Likely To, "I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star". As I said I've listened to it before, but I guess I just never listened to the lyrics before- an odd thing because I always notice lyrics. So anyway, the lyrics really hit me.

Here they are:

"I was young and I was stupid I had just turned seventeen,I took my hits on a dumb road trip to Nashville Tennessee,I packed my antihistamines and Tupperware drums,a harmonica and a box guitar,in a canvas covered wagon stuff with apples and with guns.We quietly slipped across the border into Arkansas,But still we couldn't find what it was we were looking for,So we trucked on down to try our luck along the Rio Grande,But I couldn't help but notice how,The little things that used to make us happy made us sad.But still I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star,I never would've got here if I'd followed my heart,I didn't think much of it till I took it apart,I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star.We never ever made it down to Nashville in the end,And no one ever signed our stupid country disco band,However hard we tried it never seemed to be enough,We never did get famous,Still it made us kind of happy and it kept me off of drugs.And now I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star,I never would've got here if I'd followed my heart,I didn't think much of it til I took it apart,I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star.But still I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star,I'm happy if you're happy but it breaks my heart,I didn't even notice it til it fell apart,I'm glad I hitched my apple wagon to your star.

So it got me thinking about God. So many times in life I think I know what I need or what I thought would make me happy. After time and thought I always realize that my desires are nothing compared to what God actually gives me. If I had my ways all along I'd be a teen bride with Aaron Vleming and we'd have a whole herd of kids already! Sick. I'm glad I hitched my life wagon to my Heavenly Father's star! I'm glad I didn't follow my heart. So yeah, it's a happy song. It's a good song and it true, think about it!

Art and such

As requested, and also just for funsies, I'm going to post some of the art I made this semester. I haven't done much and most of it isn't what I would consider master piece quality...but here we go!



















Here are some portraits from the beginning of the semester. While I am no Ingres, I do think I have improved.






This is Muffin Cat. The best cat in the world. In real life it looks a lot less angry, and a lot more happy. Del Parson said, "it just makes me happy when I look at it." I just did it as a joke, and for the love of muffin cat!

KING OF MUFFINS!







I put Muffin Cat in the trunk while it was still wet and a box of water bottles slid on it! At first I was stressed, but in the end I love it! What a happy accident!






This girl always looked angry, no matter who drew her, or how many times any of us drew her, she looked super mad! And she moved a lot!

This girl was really pretty in her own way, she was sweet and still.

This was the first man I drew, and boy (haha..) it was challenging! His jaw looked so square so I would draw him angular, then that would look unnatural and I would try and "fix" it...and so on and so on.

This is some girls mom, she was really nice.

Poor Khiah, I totally whacked out her eyes! Don't worry Khiah, I will draw you again and it will be so much better I'm sure!











Kelsie in the red coat, I must say I do love this photograph, but the drawing could be better...I did it in like 5 minutes.

Katie, Katie, Katie...I didn't like this at all before, but it has grown on me. I can however do a lot better and I shall!

I love this picture of Josh! It's a great likeness and I think my mom should hang it in our hallway or something! This is him making a funny face last Christmas!

This girl was so cute. Del said he thought this drawing was great, but I think the right side of her face doesn't match the left- it's a bit whacked out!

I think this drawing is much more successful, but whatev....

This painting has many layers and technically has been in the making since last spring....I finished it off with the black for my cousin Aaron who requested an abstract giraffe. Yes, it's a giraffe.

Another good ol' laugh- FAIL! cat. I like it's head but not the words...Muffin Cat trumps FAIL! cat.

This was the first painting I did this semester. I like the clouds and all, but I hate the water... When I drew this girl I was thinking of Bob Dylan.

This is a still like of some apples.

Adam with his awesome over sized clown glasses!

SUPER RAD! SUPER RAD!









So I was going to do a big ol' blog about when I went to the Aquabats show a while ago, but now I'm pretty much over it. It was super fun and the opening act, Yo Gabba Gabba was awesome too!
Here are the Aquabats and Yo Gabba Gabba together!

Peace out chicken scout!