my dad is jealous.and i don't know if i should be as excited as i was to see a legend from my childhood play in real life!

shout out to my powershot- we were in almost the highest row of the WHOLE stadium and my 40x zoom could read AND focus on griffey. thanks, canon, for making such a bomb camera i own.SO FUN with miss e-liz haefer (a mariners fan in hiding), a bunch of her coworkers, a tailgate, it was fo' free AND fireworks friday.

i love my life.

2 years ago, in the same large conference room in which i walked to pick up that most desired piece of paper "Your Diploma will be mailed to you upon Confirmation," also walked one
mr jason lynn bell.

i stalked this photo of facebook, jface, hope you don't mind.

jason cloud and i have now been friends for 4 years. he liked my glasses, and i liked my first taste of coppermill rolls. i was math stats composite, he a stats math dual major. a friendship made in mathematical friendship heaven. add a piano, a little LFO, Mana, off roading, the same college apartment complex, facebook and blogging and you've got one smart, fab friend.i skipped out of logan as fast as my feet could carry and got a job in financial planning, and jason squall chose to do something with his degree- go to grad school. ;)

i'd just like to have a formal, blog shout-out to my random friend: j money- way to graduate.

ps. this means i walked 2 years ago. woah.

this week i had the sublime opportunity to be cell phone free. seriously. as in mobile phone device-less.

sunday i was annoyed, monday had separation anxiety, tuesday i was a-okay and by wednesday i was loving the freedom!

how and why you CAN survive without a cell phone!!

• if you feel like you will miss things and be disconnected to people because of your lack of phonage- get facebook, myspace, twitter, email, or gchat. you will miss very little. (unless you are at your bf's house and he is at yours at the same time. in which case, yes, you will miss each other.)
• if you are feeling unloved and unconnected, call or text all your family and friends, then turn your phone off for 4 days. when you turn it on again will have many a text and voicemail and you will feel SO popular. "popular, i know about pop-u-lar."
• it is imperative that you make your messages clear and concise when sending them through another person. you may end up with a train wreck like that whispering game. you may think you are telling them to convey the message of "meet at my house by the garage at 9:30" and end up with "i'm eating mouse for dinner at 6. and purple cabbage."
• embrace your new found freedom. run with it. revel in the fact that when you drive home from work if you get a flat tire, run out of gas or get in an accident, there is NO way for you to get hold of someone. don't worry if your sister just had a baby, i'm sure she knows you love her if you don't call for 4 days. BUT best of all, if you want to be left in PEACE- no ward mass text messages, no drama, and just the lovely sound of your own music playing in your head- trust me. lose your phone. you'll love it. :)

I'm gonna go recycle something.Congrats, Earth. It's your day.

some women are drippin with diamonds.
some women are drippin with pearls,
lucky me! look at me, what am i drippin' with??
little girls!!
-annie the muscial.

seriously people. ONE GUESS at what kind of kid my SIL shelly is having AND my lifetime friend laura is having, too??

it's a good thing i like pink. :)

one of the funnest,brightest, happiest and most lovely weddings i've been to in a while. it's a miracle people find each other in the first place, let alone be so happy as brighton and juston!! i am so excited to see them grow old! :) congrats my friends- it was TOTALLY worth all 700 miles driven :) including the 6 hours it took us to get home- while brad was sick and slept... hehe

miss lindsey anderson is delighted to announce

the arrival of

one fat, sweet, dark fuzzy haired

Anna Elise Smith

daughter of josiah and melissa smith

at

7:56 AM

Monday 4/20/09

weighing in at 7 lbs 11 oz

19 inches long

mother and daughter are doing well

grandma wendy and aunt lindsey can not be more thrilled

hooray!!

1. i know i know! i have a wedding to blog. i'm working on editing the photos and they weren't done last night so they have to wait until after work.

2. my phone is dead and i feel a strange sense of loss and freedom at the same time. it's like a phantom limb; i keep hearing it vibrate in my purse.

3. it's 104 degrees in Irvine today. YES. thats what i said, all you UT, ID, PA, NJ, MS, etc people. and i bought a greek salad, parked my butt in the sunshine on a blanket at the park and tanned my legs arms face, and anything else exposed to the rays. ha.

i woke up inexplicably at 6 am. (not an infrequent occurance on a saturday. i know, i know....sigh)
BUT i got to do laundry, play with the dog, paint my toenails, go for a bike ride, shower, wander around my mom's house looking for things of mine to take back to my home, and blog.
and i get to go kiss lil babies (and a not so little little boy) in an hour or so.

trip= not too shabby thus far. :)

just wait til i can post pictures of my bridesmaid dress... oh buddy.

1.this was playing on my roommate's computer.
i forgot how much i loved it.2. driving to vegas tomorrow with this person.
3. to support and see these two get hitched saturday.
4. and i get to hug this lady.5. and while i was looking for the above picture i remembered that i had the below picture of my mom in my sister's wedding dress. she's gonna kill me for posting it. SERIOUSLY tho it was so funny. :)

welp folks, if you wanna know what the most beautiful, funny, wonderful, silliest,truest friend, incredibly kind, loving, spiritual, best roommate ever looks like- look no further:

Sister Jamie Crane.

have fun in Taiwan for 18 months.

i'm going to miss you like crazy.

in fact i'm tearing up as i type this, wow. love you.

but i do just love him.

First order of business. Lent was over at 12:00 AM so NATURALLY we made chocolate chip cookies(my favorite) at 11:45 PM so I could eat my fix of chocolate as soon as I could!! And it was DELICIOUS. Warm crispy on outside, soft inside, melty sweet goodness right out of the oven with a glass of milk... heaven.

I have to say, this Lent was a test of my self control and I think I'm my own hero! No chocolate for 40 days was HARD bc it's in everything and everywhere, and VERY hard to avoid, but I DID IT!!!

And then I proceeded to eat some junk and candy given to me at church with chocolate and to be honest... I'm over it. It just doesn't taste that good!! And it kinda made me sick. I'm thrilled I can eat my fav cookie again, but I think the mini Kit Kat's and Oreos and definitely not going to be a staple dessert anymore. Give me apple pie anytime. :)

i've been to quite a few sporting events over the course of a lifetime- but saturday we went to my first NBA game!

hooray for free tickets to the...

they lost. but it was an okay game to watch :) the part where we came back from 14 down to be winning was pretty exciting... but then we lost.

nothin like a saturday basketball game in la...

free week at Core Yoga in HB.

i've never sweated so much, felt so good, and had such a great workout while feeling so relaxed.

recommendation level: 11

wake up: 6:45 and not tired- hooray!
get to work early- have office all to my lonesome.
get stuff done. be productive.
take mail down to box.

realize locked self out of office...

make laps up & down the stairs(why not burn calories while you wait?) waiting for our maintenance guy to come let me in. maintenance guy gets there. he does not have correct master.

talk about religion for 45 min waiting for OTHER guy to come with other keys.

get into office an hour and ten min later.
phone rings about 100 times. have a ton to do.
boss calls says i can go home at noon. WOOT!
finish up and finally leave @ 12:45.

get home. cook lunch. look at pics from europe.
take an hour nap.
go on hour walk.
relax and talk to my roommate.
clean room. do dishes. and it's not even 5 yet!

get all showered and cute with cute new FREE pants.
go on a REAL double date.

i love Good Friday.

and i didn't even eat any meat!! ;) wink.

Well the last couple weeks I have had NOTHING to complain about. I LOVE my life!! :) So naturally when everything is going just splendidly I always assume in a week or so something will happen to make it all come crashing down.

These two lovely dark haired beauties have been a constant source of crazy, silly, happy, fun, supportive, spiritual and patient love for the last 6 months and have truly made HB my home.

But all good things must come to an end and May 1st we are all moving and shuffling to other places.

I love you girls. Tons. Jeniface + Cocomo + HB = Home Sweet Home.

yesterday on my lunch i went to the store and purchased some produce & schtuff to keep at work for healthy snacks. apples. grapes. string cheese. pretzels.

today i pulled out the grapes. they are HUGE. and look SOOOOOOOO good.

"on the fat side" and JUICY. mmmm red grapes, how do we love thee??

so i eat one....

did you know there are 4 seeds in one seeded grape? they take about a minute each to eat. frown. :(

here you can find my friend and fellow traveler Aubrey's blog which gives details of her parts of the trip, but also has A TON of pictures which are awesome which i lacked the desire to post :)
where shall i go next spring.... here and here?

i live next to this:

and have soaked up rays and breathed in a lot of this:

i can desk-dance at work to this:



and i get to hang out with this: