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Cereal: the Any-Meal

There are few foods which satisfy any form of hunger. For example, it would be rare to want a steak for breakfast. I'm not talking about the country fried steak they make at Ihop and leftover steak is another matter entirely, but I mean that nobody would go to the trouble of making a full-scale steak for breakfast. For one thing, its uncomfortable to eat something so hearty that early. For another, who wants to cook that much that soon after waking up.

There is one item of food that works for any meal though, cereal. You can have cereal for breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, afternoonsies, snack, dinner, dessert, you name it. Cereal is very easy to prepare, so it's not like going to all the hassle of making bacon for brinner, and having eggs benedick for a snack is way too much work for an in-between meal. Cereal is also light enough that one can eat it in any weather too, because who wants to eat soup in 100 degree weather. But cereal matches any weather. There are many flavors of cereal too, to quench any craving. You can get Reses Puffs for that late night dessert or some Honey Bunches of Oats for that granola you need in the middle of the day.

On this note of foods that match any meal, I disagree with this whole "avacodo goes with anything" thing. Someone was trying to figure out if there was an all-around fod and they came up with avacodo because you can put it on just about anything. But I wouldn't put avacado on my cereal.



PS Toast is a fabulous example of an any-snack/any-small meal

Funny Poem

So our first assignment in my English class was that we each had to bring in a poem we liked and a poem we hated. This, of course, led Kelli and I on a made search for the Worst Poem Ever because that would be the only way to win at this assignment. But that is not the point of this post. The point is this: our teacher showed us one of her favorite poems, and I wanted to share it with you all.

BIRTHDAYS!!!!!

So, as many of you know, we do don't do birthday gifts, we do birthday experiences. It all started at the beginning of our senior year when Kelli and I decided to do all out birthdays for all our friends, and big stuff for the best friends. So we did some random things like "Dwight in a Box" for Em's birthday. This involved a large box with thing in it like a Schrute buck and super large paperclips in jello, you get the idea. Also, we tended to get shirts made for whoevers birthday it was.

Then, Emily and Kelli planned something for my birthday. It was a full day thing and I didn't know what was going on until they showed up at my house the day of. I was taken hostage for the day and forced to commit heinous crimes! OK, so not really all that heinous, they were really just the stupid laws that I had to break. For example, did you knwo that it is illegal for a woman to drive while wearing a bathrobe in California? It was things like that. I had a lot of fun that day. I spent most of the day with Em and Kelli, and Lauren Feldman was in and out. They made shirts with black and white stripes. The waitress at Brents Deli called us jail bait, which is not what she meant, but it was fun. The grand finale was me breaking into Emily's house (where I had never been before) and there was a large surprise party with everyone. We watched Chicago and they made a sign that said "For she's a jolly good fellon" it was awsome. I loved my birthday so much and I will never forget it.

Ever since then, we have done these awsome parties. Some were better than others. I think our best work was Tyler's World War II day. Kelli filled up some 400 water balloons and Ashley and Emily each did more and we staged WWII. Paul made shirts that had the flag of the country we were representing and "Peanuts! Nuts!" in whatever language that country uses (the peanuts nuts is another story for another time). We decorated bucher paper to be the Berlin wall and we blew up 99 red balloons. I made a german chocolate cake. Really, it was amazing, that was our best work.

We still have three birthdays left to do, and I cannot go into detail because then that would ruin the surprise, though I can say that they are going to be awsome! Emily's might just beat WWII, though we will have to see. It's not like we don't love you if your birthday celebration isn't as good, it's just that we weren't as creative, it comes in waves and our planning session was awsome just now.

Now, we have completed that round of birthdays and we can't repeat the same idea for two years in a row because a. we would run out of ideas and b. we have all moved away. So, the new birthday celebrations will be birthday in a box. Don't worry, they will still be themed, but they will just be mail-able. I am very excited for this. There are more rules for this round of birthdays, but thats part of the fun.

so here was my day today:
1. Go to rehersal for Taming of the Shrew which I am kindof stage managing. For those of you that don't know. My roommate talked me into auditioning for this play, and I had nothing better to do so I did. I didn't get a part (I really wasn't expecting to) but the director is preggers and I offered to help. As it turns out this is for a directing class, their project is to put on a 40 minute show. I feel a bit like I'm helping her cheat...but I really need to keep myself occupied
2. Eat a little lunch. A Lean Cuisine pizza if you were curious.
3. Take the bus to University Mall. I can take either the 830 or 832. I think there are a few others that go because there is a transit station at the mall, but these are the only routes I know. The nice thing about either of these routes, is that they are the new busses.
4. Go see 500 days of summer. Going to the movies by yourself is a fun experience. Nothing is lost by going without people, but it is different. I enjoyed myself.
5. Decide that I dont want to go back to my dorm because it's driving me insane. I spend a lot of time in my dorm because I really don't like participating in activities where there will be many people, so I stay in most nights and giving myself time to think isn't good at this point in my life.
6. Wander aroudn the mall. There are a few shops in University Mall that we don't have in California, and I really like them
7. The smell of the body shop makes pulled me in. I looked around a bit, and when one of the chicks asked me if I needed anything, i asked her if they had a really lightweight moisturizer because I needed it anyway and I was there. This lead to...
8. Make friends with the employees of said shop. It was just me and these two chicks. They sold me on some moisturizer then we got to talking and they were just really fun. One of them is a staunch republican and we had a very nice chat about the health care plan.
9. Wander some more, come across a comfy chair. The University Mall is very large.
10. Call Kelli and then my family, then read some Bran Hambric.
11. Decide I want dinner, Pf Changs sounds good.
12. Table for one please?
13. Head back to the bus and school
14. Attempt to watch FB on tv at the student center. My roommate and her guy friend were heading over. We got there during half-time, BYU was serving food, but I didn't get any because of my Changs dinner. I don't like watching sports on TV. It isn't as interactive as being on the field with the team. It's like watching a movie.
15. Decide that is stupid and come back here and write this.

The End.

My Experiences in Folk Dance

So as I was walking through the WILK today, my attention was directed at something bright and colorful. It was the little booth-type thing for the folk dance ensemble. I looked around, had a very brief chat with some chick and picked up a flyer. I then came back to my dorm and checked out the team. I thought, "hey, why not?" and asked my roomamtes if they would think it was a crazy idea. They laughed a bit and Katie was all for going with me. Here was where we ran into problems. On the flyer it said that the girls must bring a man with them to audition. I have no close guy friends here, so I was out of luck until Katie called up some friends and found us two boys!

So, we went to the ballroom at the assigned time and waited around with the masses. We filled out little papers and such, then it started. There was about 20 minutes with the boys where we did some random steps, depending on who was your partner, it was easy or hard and we changed partners often. Then, the boys went off and the girls were left to learn more. We did some other relatively simple steps and they handed out call back sheets. At this point, they began to go for endurance, so we were basically run/skip/dancing in circles for long periods of time (ok, so they probably weren't actually that long, but they felt long). Then the girls who got called back waited around for the boys to finish their auditions. When they did, we went into the other room and danced some more. We learned a Ukranian dance, a clogging dance, and a Chinese dance. It was lots of fun. Throughout the night, they pulled people out and assigned them teams. At a certain point, they broke everyone off into the groups of the time slots they had open for practice. My time slot was not called, so I asked and she said that it was full. I was a little sad, but it's not like I set my heart on this.

My roommate was still going so I sat in the back and watched. Then, about 4 minutes later, they call out "Are numbers 114 and 87 still here?" and I look down, and there it was, 87. I went up to talk to them and they asked if that was really the only spot we could do and if i was available on the MWF 9am schedule. I told them that I have class till 8:50 and another class that starts at 10, and they assured me I would be fine, so I said yeah, that sounds great. Then we filled out add class forms and gave our email and cell info and were herded up to a classroom where there was an ongoing spheel going on. I learned that there were three levels of teams and we were on the lowest (no surprise really). Just above us is the backup performance team. They do what we do and more including a tour of schools in Utah. Then there is the Performaning Arts Company, which is the highest level. They are the ones who get to do the cool stuff like go to Europe.

So there it is, I get to do something fun, and I even get a credit for it!

rambling

So, I don't really have anything to say, but I am bored and shouldn't go to sleep just yet. This is going to me me rambling on because doing things like this make me feel better and I've been feeling a litle sad tonight. Not a lot of sad, just a little bit of sad. I was talking with Em about this eariler and here is the gist of what I am feeling. Sometimes, I forget that I am in Utah. I think I trick myself into thinking that BYU is just Chaminade where I stay in a dorm, which would mean that I am still in the Valley. But I am not in the Valley, I am in Provo. Which isn't as far away as New York (Kelli is much farther from home than I am), but I have been away for so long. Coming back here was very painful for the first few days. I like my roomates, and I think that we are finally getting to be friends, but I don't think I will be as close with them as I was with my summer roomates. Anyway, so when I remember that home isn't actually down the street, its across almost two states, I get a little sad.

I did have fun talking with Kelli today, she helped me find some great poems for my English class. If you ever need to find poetry, ask Kelli, for she will know where to find it. And then we went on a quest for the worst poem ever. It was harder than you would think it would be. We finally asked facebook at large if they had any ideas and we got responses from Ms. Poole and Mr. Crossley, who both supplied fantastically awful poems. Also, in our searches through the internet, we found that the Tay Bridge disaster supplied people who should never be poets with an interesting subject for them to explore. Google 'worst poem ever' and you will understand what we mean. (In case you were wondering this is what crossley suggested and this is what poole suggested)

Getting through the Inheritance series is proving to be difficult. I really like the general story and besides that , I am way to stubborn to give up now, but its getting really hard. In this second book, Paolini likes to switch back and forth between the different groups of interest and its kind of like watching a LOST episode of someone you don't care about or when JJ does the split group thing, it just doesn't work. I am really liking the story though, so I would say to only read it if you have a strong will and can withstand a lot of things you don't care about, or if your ability to weed out useless information is superior.

I guess that's all I'm going to say tonight, I know its not my best post by far, but deal with it cuz it made me feel better.