At the beginning o f the school year I needed a Astronomy text book that was about $130. I looked on Amazon, and to get the e-book and cds (which I never used) It was only a few dollars cheaper than the bookstore. So I went ahead and bought it think I could sell it back at the end of the semester. But alas on Friday I went t the book buyback, and they said they were going to a new edition. At least there was no line at the book buyback so it didn’t take long. Then yesterday I deiced to put on Amazon to sell it. I’ve used very little and took good care knowing my intention was to sell it back, so I was able to sell it as “like new”. I priced a few dollars under the other “like new” books, and waited to see what would happen. Last night before I went to bed I somewhat routinely checked my e-mail. And there it was the e-mail, that it had sold! It was so easy to and I’m very pleased with the result. I have officially now sold something online. If anyone has old textbook they want to get rid of let me know and I’ll sell them for you. I’m having fun doing this.
Okay so I haven’t blogged for awhile, but I’ve been busy. Yesterday is a perfect example of my busy life right now. I woke up at 6 for class starting at 8 until 2ish. Then I went home briefly, then went to work from 3-7. Then, because one of the other assistant stage managers for Urinetown car broke down in California, I had to go to rehearsal which didn’t get out till 10. So it was a little crazy. On top of that I have a research paper, and three final projects to do.
Well this is blog post 2 in a week. I’m not sure what this is going to be about so if it’s a little rambley I’m sorry. I want to blog about Halloween, but I want to post picture with it and I don’t have those yet so…I guess I’ll just talk about a few things in life right now. I feel a little like I’m running around with me head chopped off, especially after my dream last night, but I’ll get there. First what I’ve been doing lately–right now I’m assistant stage managing Urinetown at my collage which should have been two-three nights a week, but the other ASMs are in another show going on right now until the end of this week. So for the past almost month I’ve had rehearsal every night in which I go and sit and watch them dance, which there are worse thing to be doing. Now I don’t always go to rehearsal because I have an evening class, and work. But besides that it’s every night. On top0 of that right now seems to be the busiest time at school, with papers, mid-terms and projects. And I’m trying to finish a project for my mom. So my life right now is wake up go to school, come home on the bus, get home at 3:00 do some work, turn around and drive back over to school and go to rehearsal. So I feel hectic, but really I wouldn’t have it any other way. So back to my dream last night. I dreamed that I was in a show that was in performance, being an ASM for Urinetown, and on top of that Stage Managing another show. I had no idea how I was going to do it all. So waking up this morning I felt a little better about my life. There are a couple of things that have made life great especially this week–1) Reading young adult fantasy for my 3700 level class. 2) Being paid (more that I thought I would.) 3) Looking forward to going to my sister’s in Idaho this weekend.4) Not having rehearsal a few times this week. 5) Rocking my scene in acting 2, and 6) Adam Lambert just put out two new singles, and there awesome! So Life really is good right now.
So it’s has now been officially over a year since my last blog post, so I thought I would stop taking up cyberspace with my blog. Don’t worry (for the two of you that still ever look at my blog or have me on feed) I’m not deleting it rather I thought I would sort of restart. I decided to give it a new look to make it newish. So there will be more to come. So the few of you that keep pestering me here you are. I will try to stay on top of things…time will tell. Over all I like blogging, and I like journaling, but I find it hard to keep doing because as of now it is not a habit, but I’ll try. So this is step one, there should be more to come.
So my last post mentioned my new fish. I got a Beta, Edward, and two Frogs, Shark Bait Oo-ha-ha, and Kermit. I got the fish on Monday and took them home and they were great. Then on Thursday I went for an overnight to trip my grandma’s. I feed them before I went and when I came home Edward had this weird fuzzy stuff on him. I thought that it was strange but Beta’s are invincible so I wasn’t to worried.
I came back fifteen minutes later, and he was at the bottom of the tank not moving. At first I thought he was dead, but upon further investigation he was just lethargic. I thought one of two things were wrong with him, 1) he had some disease, or 2) he wasn’t eating, because I didn’t have accrual Beta food. (It was Cichlid food)
I cleaned out the tank to protect my frogs if it was a disease, but I really thought he just needed new food. So I put him back in the tank and went to get him new food. I came home and tried to feed him but he was only worse and wouldn’t eat the new food. I decided to take him back to Pet smart and get a new one.
The new was a really pretty blue one and I named him Edward the Second, because I didn’t want to think of a new name. He was great nice and energetic, and prettier than the last. Then on Sunday night I noticed a weird whiteness by his gills, but decided I was just paranoid and he was really fine.
But I came home late Monday night and he had the same weird fuzz on him as Edward the First. I was very tired and already emotionally down, so I cried, because I new my fish was going to die. I wonder if there was anything I could do for him so I looked on-line to see what was wrong. I found that they had or Flexibacter columnaris or Cotton-Mouth Bacteria. It’s a bacteria that lives in aquariums that will infect fish after being under some sort of stress like being transported for the fist time.
And there was most likely nothing I could do about it.
But near as I could tell my frogs weren’t going to get, and it seemed like if they could they already would have. Well on Tuseday Edward the Second died, and I flushed him. I managed to kill two fish in just over a week. But my frogs were okay.
Then I came home Wednesday night, and was checking on my frogs, and I couldn’t see Shark Bait. I looked and looked, and finally I saw something pink, and there he was belly up at the bottom of the tank. So I flushed him. So now I knew it was only a matter of time before Kermit died. On Thursday night, I came home and he was all but dead, so I flushed him.
In a matter of a week-and-a-half I killed four pets. Now I don’t know if I should replace them or not. Or if the fact I can kill durable fish so quickly is a sign that I shouldn’t have any fish.
I am taking control of the ship! Everyone must give me your swords and your muskeets and also any fake body parts you have, and your parrots, and then I’ll be nice. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe I will leave no survivors.
Now, since I am in control, I am going to make a few changes:
First of all:
Anyone shorter than six feet must wear platform shoes to get them up to the appropriate height.
Everyone must address me as “Lady Magnificent.”
Everyone must give me their computers whenever I want them.
You must give me three Christmas presents, one of them on Halloween.
And, if you are currently missing a body part, you must go get a new bionic limb/eye/etc. Because I want an able body crew!
We will also watch episodes of the Muppet Show continuously, and if we get bored, we will play the Muppet Show video game.
If we really need something new to do, we will all go fishing in Clarissa’s aquariam. 50 points to the person who captures Kermit the Frog! 100 points for the one who gets Shark Bait Oo-ha-ha.
And, three times a day, you must give me a compliment. Just so I feel good.
Glad you could be here for the mutinee. Hope you’ll be happy now.
So I know no one is reading this anymore, (except you Heather and your Google reader) but I thought I should write anyway. So here we are two weeks latter and I’m finally posting “tomorrow’s” post. So the first day of our senior trip we went to Salt Lake and camped in my backyard.
Day two we had breakfast, took down camp, and then went to the water slide. Up in Alpine there is a waterfall that you can slide down on your bum and land in a pool of freezing cold water. I had been there with my siblings, and wanted to take my friends there. On our way up we only got slightly lost, (I forgot to turn, but I swear they’ve changed the road.) but we did end up where we wanted to be. My first time up there, we went through a gate and drove to the base of the fall. Later I tried to go up there with Mallory (one of my best friends) and the gate was locked and we really didn’t want to hike clear up so we never went.
This time we were prepared for the slight hike, but it was a little farther than I thought. We eventually got there and once again got a little lost to the fall because we took the wrong trial form where the road ends. But we found it and hiked to the top. At the top we all just sort of stood there and said, “Who wants to go first?” I ended up going first and then it took the other another five minutes to finally go.
We went back up to the top, and Aubrey started to go up stream and explore the upper falls. We fallowed. It was so pretty up above. There was series of like six or seven falls that we hiked up all of so beautiful and serine. There is a trail along the side, but you can’t really see the falls unless you hike up the falls themselves. We got to one that was too high to climb up, so we turned back.
We all went down the slide again, but we had left all our stuff at the top. So I got sent to go get all the stuff from to top. I gathered everything up, but the way up is quite hard and even harder to go down. So I’m trying to juggle all the stuff and go down. I finally got down but it took me like ten minutes, because I kept dropping things. At the bottom I asked “Why did I go get the stuff we I have problem dropping things and falling even without a ton of stuff to carry and ruff terrain.” Nobody could see why.
After that we went to a near by pond. Nobody else really wanted to swim in it, so I was trying to convince everyone else to. But they told me just to go without them. The thing was they wanted to rest and dry off, but left my towel in the car so I couldn’t do that. Finally I convinced Mallory to come with me, but once she got in the water she started to freak-out because there were these little fish. So to get her go deeper I had to scare the fish away for her. Meanwhile Megan and Aubrey are just laughing at us high and mighty on the shore. I told Mallory just go a few feet out and then we can swim back and I’ll be satisfied.
Well it’s been over a week since my last post and I haven’t had any major mishaps. So I thought I would go back and tell a previous story of mischief. The most resent adventure that I can think of was this summer when my friends and I decided to have a “senior trip”. We were all to poor and trying to save for college to really do anything so we came up with a plan for a cheep trip. It wasn’t much of a trip, but still very fun. On the first day we went to Salt Lake City. We walked around Temple Square, ate lunch at the Lion House restaurant, saw the Joseph Smith movie, went to the Gateway Mall and Clark Planetarium, and to the LDS Church History Museum.
That night we came to my house and had a barbeque and “camped”. If you never camped in your own backyard you should try it sometime. The four of us girls set up small tent and lined it wall to wall with foam mattresses and put down sheets to form a sort of bed. There was no more room than for us to just lie down. We pitched it facing the fire, and it was a warm summer’s night, so it got really hot really quick. We roasted marshmallows and starburst (to those of you foreign to this I highly recommend it) and talked around the fire. To avoid the hot tent we made shadow shows for each other, cast by the light form the house, on the wall of the tent.
We finally became exhausted and went to the tent, just as we heard thunder in the distance, and clouds rolling towards us. We got everything we left outside in the already squishy tent, and decided just to wait out the storm from the tent. It came quite furiously, for about five minutes and then blew on. We didn’t have the ambition to take all the stuff out of the tent again so I ended up sleeping with smores. We had closed all the windows, so in like two minutes we were burning up, so we opened them back up. But by morning it was freezing.
Coming tomorrow Day Two…
So with in 12 hours of starting this blog, I already had my first mishap. So yesterday while I was getting ready for school I sliced my hand open. I was putting on my jeans when I noticed they still had the “remove before washing and wearing” tag still on them (which consequently I had already washed and worn). I didn’t just want to cut it off because then it leaves the itchy end behind, so I got out my seam ripper to pick the tag off. I didn’t want to take the jeans completely off so I just took the leg with tag off. The stitches looked fairly loose so I went at it. Well as I tried to unpick it I discovered it was quite stubborn so I put more force into it. The stitch came out and so did a lot of blood all of sudden. I had ripped open my other hand between my index finger and my thumb. I put my non-bleeding hand under the bleeding one to keep the blood from going everywhere, stepped out of the other leg off my pants, and ran to the bathroom. I tried to just wash the blood off but it keeps bleeding, so I grabbed toilet paper and held it there. Now the trick was I didn’t have pants on, only one hand, and I needed to get upstairs, where my little brother is, to get a band aid. I put a pair of sweat pants on with my good hand, a very difficult task, and headed up stairs. I got the band aids, and realized I need another hand to put them on. I took them to my brother who put the band aids on. In a matter of five minutes I had soaked through two band aids, so I wrapped it in gauze and medical tape. At first didn’t think it was that bad, but when I came back from school I went to put normal band aids on it again, and looked and you could see some flesh. It’s a lot worse than I thought.
Me. I am a very interesting individual. Anybody who knows me will tell you that. I’m sort of an airhead, but not in a very blondish girlie way, but more I’m just in my own little world. Sometimes I remind myself of Luna Lovegood. Which brings me to my next thing about me, I’m a nerd. I love Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, Super Heroes, reading, and all things like that. I also love music especially classic and alternative rock, (my favorite bands are The White Stripes, Queen, and Evanescence) and I also love Broadway music, which brings me to the biggest thing about me really I’m a theatre geek. I love everything to do with theatre. Mostly I’m a techie, but I like acting, but I get nervous on stage so it hasn’t worked out too good. I think ultimately I want to teach. Theater is such a part of who I am. Oh, one more thing about me is I love pandas. I collect stuffed pandas and I think I’m somewhere around 80 pandas.
So my tittle, Mishaps and Mischief. One thing I didn’t mention about myself is I’m a klutz. I’m aways tripping, stumbling, breaking things, knocking things over, and causing a disaster wherever I go. These events are very entertaining even to myself so I will report on them both past and present. That covers mishaps. Mischief is more with my friends we go on all sorts of adventures, never anything to get us in trouble, but just some mischievous things we do. I also cause my fare share of mischief on my own, but once again it just mostly fun stuff and much related to my air-headiness and klutziness. So that’s me.
