brrand. new.

the storm is comin'.the storm is comin'. YEAH.

the motor lodge

take a look at this! my inheritance, featured on arizona highways tv. my dad and brian own this little gem in prescott, az. here is their television debut! i'm so proud!

inappropriateness. i like it.

meet panda bag.

i'll give you a minute to take it in.

now, i've been carrying this little beauty around byu campus all week. just waiting for some reaction. a chuckle, a comment, even a reprimand? but nothing from these people! it's almost as if my subtle rebellions aren't entertaining OR offending anymore. my life is in shambles.

it's like when i listen to somewhat "naughty" songs on my ipod while walking around campus, wondering what all these good kids would do if what i was listening to was playing on some intercom. a certain ben folds song comes to mind, number one song after number one song... hah. 

i guess i'll just have to find a new way to rebel while remaining within the limits of the byu honor code..

i've been noticing these nice little signs on telephone poles and street light posts on my walks to and from school. it gives me something to be excited about.

this semester i've been taking my physical science class at the salt lake center thursday nights. i go with my dear friend jessy, and we have lots of laughs. her husband kyle and my jakey are really good friends, so we always have funny things to talk about on the hour drives there and back, plus two and a half hours in class. i love that girl!

last week we were famished after class so we stopped at a mcdonald's in salt lake before making the trek back to provo. this was hitler's mcdonald's. there was a 30 minute time limit to eat your meal, they charged for extra sauce packets, they didn't allow refills, and they made you get a token to use the bathroom! so much for "fast" food. it was amusing though...

you're alive.

i have decided that i would one day like to have something named after me. a university, perhaps. or maybe a library. or even a street! however, i'll have to achieve some form of notable greatness in my life. so i'll have to figure out how to make that one happen...

yesterday was the dedication of the draper, utah temple. the photo above is our group that went. i'm so grateful that i was able to go, because it was an amazing experience, and one that not everyone gets to have. when the gilbert temple is finally built and dedicated, i really hope i'll get to go. it's really an experience unlike one i've ever had. i'm not sure of the estimated date for the gilbert, az temple, but i think it would be cool to be married there. as long as it's not in like seven years. but the mesa temple is so beautiful and unique, and it's the temple that i grew up with. so i might like to get married there? all i know is that i'm not getting married anywhere but inside a temple of the lord.

today my roommates and i were at smith's (yeah, there's still smith's in utah. it hasn't yet been taken over by the likes of fry's) and "something" by the beatles (which happens to be one of my all-time favorite songs) was playing. i was in the bread aisle, deciding which loaf of carbohydrated goodness would be the best bang for my buck and quietly singing along, when i heard a man behind me, pushing his cart past. he was singing a little louder than i was and i glanced to my left to see what he looked like, expecting (hoping, rather) that it would be an attractive young man who just happened to have great taste in music, and that we would both be singing and then our eyes would meet and we'd fall madly in love in an instant. instead i found a man in his late fifties to early sixties, with silvery white hair, smiling carelessly while crooning, "you're asking me will my love grow? i don't know, i don't know." it made me really happy to think about how although his life and mine were probably completely different, we have the beatles in common.