Deflated Balloon

Hello one and all. I guess it's time for another post on the ole blog because Shayli has been harassing me about it. You know it's been a long time when your younger look-a-like with big boobs and all is whining that you haven't written on your blog for a long time. Not much more obvious things then that. Since you've last heard from me I haven't done a whole lot. Well, that's a bit of a lie, but shhhhh! If no one knows then it won't matter!

My family and I actually got back from Lake Powell. We had two trips planned with only a week to separate them. My family was dreading the long drive but I couldn't be happier. I'm glad I have a job and all but man all mighty! I have sure been glad to get a break from it. I'm very glad that I won't be doing this for more than seven months because it's purty draining. Those of you who have worked in the customer service industry for a year or more I applaude you. You deserve some kind of reward. I guess this is me, the person who hates people saying this, all the same some one should give them a dum dum or something. That's all I'm saying.

 The first trip to Powell was fun but pretty crazy and freakin ridiculously hot. Ond day it was 112 or something stupid like that. That's according to my mom and you know mom's are always right. We stayed the first two night on the other Morris's houseboat and then the second night at the dock because we were having electrical issues with the houseboat. We had a real good time playin though and I am slowly becoming a better surfer. Someday soon I'll be ready to challenge Kelcie to a surf off. Kelcie! I almost challenge you to a du-du-du-du-duel!!!

 The second Powell trip was great also. This time we went down to Page, which personally is more fun because there weren't so many boats in tiny little areas. It seems to me that Bullfrog is more narrow canyon type stuff and the Page area is much more open. In a few years it'll probably be the same though. The water is very very low. But regardless of which side is better, we still had a lot of fun. Sydney chipped a tooth and grandpa Micky didn't get wet once. Thanks you two for taking the bad mojo so the rest of us could have a blast ;) Though I don't know if much could get Syd down. That girl was always smiling and happy. She must have learned it from me. What a good older role model I am :D Pictures of this trip can be seen here.

 Ok, example at the ridiculousness of some people that come into my job. This lady came in with her two boys. One of was about six, the other about 4. She wanted to email me some pictures to print and to have some documents printed as well. She had about 30 pictures she was going to email me and about 5 or so different documents to print. Her two boys were out of control. Grabbing things off shelves, getting in and out of the cart, running around, taking candy off the shelves and eating it, they were pretty much demons from hell. She's trying to send me these pictures and print these documents off while trying to control her kids. All she'd do is tell them to come here and when they would run away she'd say, "what did I say? come here". Of course her kids didn't take her seriously and kept being horrible. She came in about 40 mins before we closed and stayed about 10 mins after we did close. Because of when she came and how long she stayed I hadn't done any of my closing activities (cleaning, putting paper in the printers, etc) I didn't leave there until about 9:40. What she should have done is email me the pictures with instructions on what she wanted done and then said about when she'd be by to pick them up. That would have saved everyone greif. Her kids were so bad that when I was telling my parents about it and was telling them what she'd say to her kids, my dog got up and came to me thinking I was talking to her. My dog listens better than her children. So very sad. Ok, I'm done with my tirad on stupid people I deal with :D

As all or many of you may know Tristan had her baby yesterday July 12 sometime around 5 pm, I think. Not 100% sure on that one. This is what the Clayton had to say about it.

 "Well everybody, Lilja Belle Soelberg is here! Thanks for your love and prayers. Tristan pushed for 45 minutes and did great. She tore a tad, but nothing serious. Lilja is 6 lbs 11 oz and 21" long. Basically, she's long and skinny with a sweet cone head for now. She's been really quiet and latched on to breast feed right away on both sides. Her eyes are blue and she has light brown hair. She's a beautiful girl and so far an awesome baby! The nurses want Tris to keep feeding her for a while as they come in and out checking vitals. Eventually, they'll have me bathe her and we'll move to another room so my wonderful wife can have dinner. Please don't everyone rush over since we want some time with her first."

She is a skinny baby with a quieter cry, which was nice. It's perfect karma because my parents make fun of this waiter at a place we go to eat saying he sounds like The Count from Sesame Street. So who does their new grandchild sound like? The Count. Whaa whaa whaa! It goes when it cries. Everything went well for them during the delivery and such. Trist went to the hospital at midnight the night before because she was having really bad contractions and then they ended up keeping her because her amniotic fluids were really low so they induced her. Clistan are both very tired but stan looked very exhausted. Everyone is happy and I'm mom has been consumed by baby fever but maybe you'll join her once you see the little thing too ;)

Dusts!! Another Late Post!

If you were wondering I am currently listening to Shayli watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Brings back goo memories :) Good show, good times, good laughs :) Except when Kelcie goes on a rampage and throws chairs at me while Deidre continues to provoke the raging beast. *narrows eyes*.....stupid girl.

Summer seems to finally showed it's sweltering sweaty face. Now that I typed that I bet we'll get another cold spell. You're welcome ^_^ Yes, I am going Japanese on your face so kimono up and let's getter done!!

Alright so the last time I updated you all was.....MAY 7TH!!! *low whistle* I didn't think it was really THAT long ago. In that last blog I was looking for a job. The day after I posted that blog entry I got a job. Yippie skippy for the magic of the internet! I am working part-time at Office Depot in Draper. It's a nice little job that gives me plenty of time to do things that I want to do :) I'm not making a ton but I'm hoping that it'll be flexible enough that I can do a boating trip or two before the summer is over. I work in the copy and print area of the store and I tell you what! There are some crazy demands that people have when it comes to that kind of stuff! I had someone today come in and want their little National Geographic book coil bound. It's already in book form and they want me to cut the binding and then re-bind it! I did mostly design a pamphlet for this car detailer which was cool, now that I don't have the pressure of gettting 5 big jobs done by the end of the week. The gal who knows how to work photoshop and all that did some touch up stuff and made it look really nice. Of course there were issues with where things were places when they were printed out but our big main machine was broken so I couldn't fix anything and had to find a way around it. Lesson from that was have things in two forms, hard copy and electronic :) But getting back to crazy printing demands, it's usually older ladies who want the most bizarre things. Do they just get bored at home alone and decide to go to every shop they come across and ask for the most insane thing that comes to their head?! After they've ruined other people's day do they think before they drift off, "What a good day. I ruined so many lives smiley face" Lesson learned there is that old ladies are diabolical schemers and I wouldn't be surprised if the next big revolution or uprising is started by old women. They'll succeed too because while they're imprisoning human kind we'll still be fooled thinking they were just cute, harmless, old women and ask for another cookie and some milk to have while we are kept in the dungeon. 

Which brings me to my next topic of how awesome Brandon Sanderson is. This dude is truly my nerd idol. Shay, Mik, and I went to his booksigning, reading, Q&A, awesomeness last Monday. We waited for two hours in line before we got in but it was well worth it. The man is a legend. And with all legends brings a whole freaking room of people that want to talk to him, get their books signed, and maybe catch a smidge of his awesomeness. We'll I have some bad news, nerds. I almost shook his hand and I didn't increase in awesomeness. In fact some would say that I've decreased in awesomeness since my last post got so many Frenchy view, but those people don't know what the baguette they're talking about! Though come to think of it, the awkward way in which I almost shook his hand may be the reason for the zero awesomeness absorption.....if you guys could only see how my blog looks before spellcheck then you'd know how awesome I truly am :) In all seriousness his new book "The Rithmatist" is awesome and you should give it a read. 

Trist is getting big. She'll pop with the parasite soon. Then all those millions of outfits she's received still won't ever be worn. Even if she stayed that size forever Little P would never wear the same outfit twice in her entire averaged 79 year lifespan ("List of Countries by Life Expectancy", wikipedia.com). July 20th is the date. In case you got too distracted by how cute the baby clothes are. Mom, that includes you.

As far as wedding stuff goes. I'm doing a very small wedding at Thanksgiving Point January 4, 2014. You can all calm down right now because yes, I will be sending out invites as well. I'm just informing you that a decision has been made. I have picked a dress, shoes, bridesmaids stuff, and have a rough idea of what I want for a cake. As far as flowers go I'm still looking. Same kinda goes with a photographer.... As I said before it's going to be a small wedding. I'm not having a reception and have on my invite list about 60 people, including the person Leo will be bringing along. 

My family is now just back from the hot desert of Arizona and will be leaving for the temperate forests of the Uinta Mountain range. My mom just can't wait :)

I can't think of anything else I need to be sarcastic about so I'll cya in a month or so!! ;)

My wedding shoes

The bake Leo will be bringing along

Symptoms of the deadliest disease known to mankind, love

An Update For The Updatables

Little town, it's a quiet village. Everyday like the one before. Little town full of little people waking up to say....bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour, bonjour, bonjour! Oui c'est vrai que j'ai appris le français alors soyez prêt à être ébloui par mes compétences frech impressionnants. Baguette, douche, croissant, Louis XVI, Splish splosh * lève un sourcil devilshly et sourit en caressant la moustache *

Ok, you can leave mustached man. I'm done stroking your facial hair. Not that I don't enjoy being creepy it's just that stroking your stache was exceptionally creepy. Yes I am branching out to a new group of people. Not that any French people would read my blog. We all know how those Frenchies are don't we Tay? Not that Tay reads my blog either.

An update for the updatables, huh, I rather like that. I think I'll name the title of this blog that. Done :) Back to the update.

I don't know about you but I like looking at pictures. Especially when I'm not in them :)

 That is a quick visual replay of my life recently. Things not shown include me buying my wedding dress. Please do not even think about the dress I picked if you know as Leo, the sneaky devil he is, is bound to pick up on any brain waves containing the thought 'dress' in them and he's not allowed to know until Doomsday, aka our wedding. Other things not shown include family parties for Miki's birthday, Clistan's graduation, and Mother's Day. Just to clarify a few of the pictures above starting at the top. My dog is doing fine. She had a bump removed that was suspected to be cancerous but it's not. I wished I had videoed her wearing the cone of shame the first time because it was so dang funny but all you get of it is some pictures. Deidre is home after a fun three weeks traveling about. She would definitely appreciate it if you could send her a cupcake though. It really would be for a good cause. I mean, I don't know about you but I don't want things to start imploding. By the way, that Korean food was delicious but I think Oz desensitized me to spicy food because all of that food left my body as quickly as it entered as a hot and very stinky liquid. I hope you're not reading this during lunch....if you are can I have your food now please ;) The next few pictures are of semi-evolved apes. One ended up looking more like goose poop but evolution isn't perfect. After that we have a profile, twins, my yard, and then some random people my dad found in his truck the other day. Poop dad :( always being surrounded by crazies. In all fairness to the crazies you can't help it if they're attracted to shiny things! They are just slightly smrter than bugs!!

I'm on the job hunt and have applied for all sorts of jobs but have only been offered one job, which I turned down, so if anyone knows of any place hiring let me know as I'm willing to work anywhere that will pay me. I turned down the one job because it was a ranch job in Colorado and I decided that I didn't want to be gone all summer when this is my last summer home. So even though it sounded like a really fun job I turned it down. I just need enough money to pay for the one class I'm taking this fall, so anywhere will do really. Having a butt load extra definitely wouldn't be a bad thing though as every cent helps, though not much because of the exchange rate to euro and pound. Still!! I need a job!!!

For those of you who are a little bit lost in todays world of technology here's a little clip that should help you out.

That's it for me. So long and au revoir!!! :)

Kelcie's Swing Team Won Second Place

Hello everybody! So it turns out that Elvis finally learned how to dance. Ama-za-zing I know. But it just goes to show you that not every one is a hopeless hip thrusting cause. 

Just so ya know Elvis, I always knew you had it in you :) She's the little tiny one dancing with the fella with the yellow tie.

Puss In Boots

Oh jeez!! I don't even know where to begin!!! I guess I'll start at the end and work my way to the beginning!!

The most recent thing in my life is that my room is a mess. I've got most of the crap stored away in it's proper places but there's still work to do. Poop me :( At least I have sheets to sleep with tonight rather than just a mattress and a blanket. Speaking of blankets, that blanket on the 'Brave Little Toaster' was freaky. In fact that whole show is messed up!! Who was the genus that came up with the plot for a kids show to be based on household appliances?! I don't know about you but as a kid the vacuum and toaster scared me. With all those things they tell you at school about how a toaster can electrocute you and kill you, I was terrified of the toaster. Of course I'm not any more but why would you make the star of a kids show something so terrifying? I'm surprised I could watch that show as a kid. It's WAY worse than watching the Cookie Monster.......*rolls eyes*
                                 

Next most recent thing is that Leo is home safe :( After his crazy flights he finally made it home on Friday. The kid is super unlucky for being Irish, he had flight trouble one the way here and on the way back. I wonder if he's really Irish. Hmmmmm, I wonder......It's not really in order but we had a great time with him. If you didn't get to meet him while he was here you missed out because he is a really swell guy, not that I'm biased or anything! Pffff!!! What would give you that crazy idea?! We took him to Heber, Logan, Moab, downtown, Arches, Zions, Snowbird, and Lake Powell. We did as many things as we could with him in the month he was here. It was a lot of freakin fun :)

The third most recent thing is that I am engaged to the Irishman named above.

Forth item of business is that I sold out and bought an iPhone....I am ashamed....It is pretty groovy though :) It just made sense because I own a MacBook laptop and apple products sync so easily and well with each other it would've been a little dumb not to get an iPhone of some kind. My number is the same but some numbers haven't made it into my new phone, just an fyi for those of you who text me and get a confused response. Some of you might think that is generally my state of being but that is not true. I have brief moments of consciousness and clarity.

Ok, ok!! Put your assault weapons down and I'll tell you how he proposed to me!! Sheesh!! Some people's children *shakes head*. We went hiking up the canyon by my house and when we got to the top of this hill we were out of breath but we had to get back home for my sisters birthday dinner. Before we headed back home he took some pictures of the valley and went pee. I wanted to go back home because it was cold and windy but he kept telling me to wait because he wanted me to catch my breath before asking me but I didn't realize it and kept trying to leave so he would kiss me to get me to stay a little bit longer. I could tell he was nervous and he asked if it would be a good time to ask me. I told him that he should ask whenever he wanted. All he said was ok and looked even more nervous. Then he asked if he should get on one knee and I told him to so it whatever way he wanted. He again said ok and looked really really nervous. He told me he needed my hand and then got down on one knee. When he looked at me he had big eyes and looked super cute like puss in boots. He looked at me and asked "Will my little princess marry me?" After to try think of a funny response and not coming up with diddley or squat I finally said "Yes."  He stopped looking so freaked out and smiled. There you have it :)

The least new thing with me since my last blog is that I'M HOME!!! It's been really good being home and seeing all you great people again :) I am sad to have left behind some really good people in Oz :( Reno, thanks for everything mate. I miss you like crazy and hope that things are going well for you. I can't thank you enough for all that you did for me my last few months in Oz. Especially giving me a place to live, eat, and a ride to and from work. Thank you and Earl so very much! My plans are now find a job. I'm not sure about school as I need to figure out visas and stuff like that first. Pictures of the last month can be viewed here. I'll keep you updated as life continues like it always does :)

 

Enjoying Oz, Missing US, And Loving Erin

Come one, come all! Leave your loops and milking stools. Coop the hens and pen the mules. Come one, come all! Close the churches and the school. It's the day for breaking rules. Come and join the feast of FOOLS!!

Aren't I so nice giving you this break from that constant facebook stalking? I know that facebook blue really gets old so enjoy the nice tie-dye of my way-groovier-than-facebook-blog. Instead of liking this post you should make sure you come back again so can get a good healthy dose of groovy hilariousness. You can always guarantee it'll be a funny post, because I'm funnier than people who are funny for a living. Now that's saying something!!

Thank you one and all (well, only those of you who sent a birthday car, email, or messaged me) for the birthday emails :) I really appreciate them and can't wait to see you sometime after 10 days from now. Woot!! I cannot even freakin wait!!! For my birthday the people at work were super nice and got me a cake. One of the seal trainers made me a necklace and later that night most people from work met up at this burger place to share my birthday night with me. Reno and clan gave me a card and some Oz candies. Jesse and Jess bought me Belgium chocolates and a card. It was a very nice day :) I worked with the seals on my birthday and was able to get a bunch of pictures with two of my favorite seals.

I've been kinda busy the last week or two. March 7-10 I flew down to Sydney and had a look around. That is one cool city!!! However, I don't think I could live there. An international co-worker of my dad's (which would also be an international co-worker of Uncle Shan, Aunt Tara, and Uncle Perry's. Horray for Nu Skin! Shan's very favorite past-time and location!) let me stay with him and his family at his house about an hour outside of Sydney. Friday he took me to work (yay Nu Skin!) and I rode the train into town and had a wander up to the Rocks, which is the oldest part of Sydney. There I got a map and went through a free museum. I then bought ferry ticket to Taronga Zoo. It was fan-freakin-tastic!!!!! Not only was it gorgeous but it was such a neat zoo! Lots of animals to be seen in a really cool place! After the zoo I took another ferry to an island just out of Sydney harbor called Manly(heheheh ya know many? hehehehe). I tried to go to the aquarium there but got there 15 mins too late. One of my friends from work gave me three passes to go to some of the Merlin owned attractions in Sydney(there are 5 Merlin attractions). So I explored Manly and visited the beach for an hour before heading back to the mainland and checking out the opera house and the botanic gardens. Both were beautiful(more so the gardens but that goes without saying. Sorry dad. I guess this means Kelcie will be getting my fifth of the inheritance)!!! Saturday Paul took me down to Bondi beach with his family and then took me to the airport. Reno's husband, Earl, works for a company that does helicopter tours and he was able to get me a tour for free. It was SO SUPER COOL!!! Though I do have to say that I was glad it was a smooth day because I got a little chopper sick by the end. Weak sauce I know. Kinda like watered down ranch dressing. But only wheirdos like ranch dressing *cough cough El Tovar cough cough*. I gave two of my tickets to the couple who were on the copter ride with me because on the ride my camera died and they said they'd email me the photos. They've yet to do said kind deed.....but oh well. I had one ticket that I used to get into the aquarium in Darling Harbor. That also was amazing. So much better than where I work. Not much competition, though honestly. Using my awesome social skills I had one of the staff members offer to let me into the zoo at the end of the pier. It was small but cool. Sunday I did a whole lot of not much. I went to a war memorial(Anzac memorial) and that's about it. Just wandered around a lot trying to kill time before my flight. Overall it was an awesome trip and I really enjoyed my stay :) For those visual people, click here.

For some strange reason Paul's little kids really liked me.....they were 2, 4, and 6 years old. I was glad to leave that house. Mostly the kids though. Sorry Trist but I don't think I'm going to be a very good aunt. I guess it's a good thing you have three other sisters that are DYING to be aunts ;)

I've just returned from Fraser Island and it was fantastic!!! I got picked up early in the morning and  we drove north up the coast and crossed over to the island via a ferry. We then drove on really bad sandy rodes to Lake Mackenzie  It was a very pretty lake. We had lunch there and then drove to Central station where we walked along a boardwalk in the subtropical rainforest. It was really pretty and very nice. There was a creek there that made no noise at all. The natives had named it the silent creek. After that we stopped on the beach for a while next to a fresh water stream that was red from all the bark from the nearby trees. It was so cool watching it mix with the ocean. While we were out we saw some dingos, a bunch of lizards, kangaroos, and some wild horses. It was an awesome day!! Have a look here.

When I was at Taronga zoo in Sydney, this Pakistani guy randomly came up to me and in horrible english that was very heavily accented started telling me that it was really hard and scary going around the zoo alone and it was hard to get anywhere because of all the people. I just looked at him said yeah and started walking away. He followed me and asked if I was with a group. Very naively I answered no which he very excitedly asked me if it was also hard and scary for me. I told him not really and tried to walk away again. He asked if he could come with me. Trying to disuade him from following me I told him that I would be going to Manly which he replied without missing a beat, "Can I come with you?" This shocked me so much that I told him I guess if he wanted to. This must have been what he wanted to hear because he looked like he was going to hug me right there on the spot so I very quickly walked away cursing under my breath at how stupid I am and wishing I had a certain Irish lad with me to keep this yellow toothed weirdo away. He followed me around for an hour or two despite my silence and my quick glances at the animals. He insisted on getting a picture with me and one just by myself and told me that I was forever saved on his memory, I was beautiful, and even told me I was like an angel to him. At one point he was trying to get me to stay at his house saying that his house was open to me and that I could stay with him and if things didn't work out with the people I was already staying with I could stay with him.*pulls finger pistol trigger and kills self* I don't know why I couldn't freakin tell him to leave me alone. I think I might suffer from a slight case of niceness or something I didn't know was contagious but I guess I should have expected catching some kind of disease when traveling abroad and living in a foreign country. I finally was able to ditch him by getting on the cable car(kinda like a closed up ski lift) something he didn't have a ticket for. Maybe this qualifies me for the leading role in Mean Girls, but I oh well. I'm just hoping that my niceness and meanness cancel each other out so that I can just get back to being me, a little ray of sunshine ;)

That crazy sound I had on my last blog was a Kookaburra laughing. I think that either many people couldn't hear the sound or else you all are a horrible audience and get a zero for participation. Bad students. To me the noise sounds kinda like monkey's having a crazy party in the bush but it's just a couple of birds telling jokes about zebras.

A zebra dies and goes to heaven where he meets up with one of his zebra friends. They are just chilling, talking about life on earth when the first zebra says to his friend, "You know what I've always wondered? Are we white with black stripes or black with white stripes?" The zebra and his friend talk about it for a while when finally the friend says, "You know, you should go ask God this question. He'd know and then we could finally clear up this mystery." "That's a great idea!" exclaims the zebra, so he makes an appointment to see God. The next day he is brought before God and zebra asks, "God, I was wondering. Am I white with black with white stripes?" After what feels like ten minutes of extended nervous silence God finally answers, "Son, you are what you are." Before the zebra can ask what kind of vague mumbo jumbo answer that is he is rushed out of the room and into the hall. The zebra starts going off on the mysterious God and how his answer doesn't make any sense. A guard over hears the zebra's frustration and asks what he's question was and what God's answer was. "That's easy!! You're white with black stripes!" exclaims the guard after the zebra tells him what happened. "How do you figure?" asks the zebra. The guard explained,"Well, if you were black with white stripes, God would have said to you,'Son you is what you is.'"

In a week I will officially be done with my internship and will be 22 hours away from heading home. As I type I have 7 days 22 hours and 28 minutes until I get to go home, but it's not like I'm keeping track of the seconds or anything. Leo will be there soon and he's pretty excited but nervous as well, despite what he tells you. It'll be awesome to have everyone one I miss together :) I can't wait!! Well, until that timer reaches 0, this is me signing out!!

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