Wednesday, October 27, 2010

WOW

I just ordered a starter kit to plant this flower. It's a Red Lion Amaryllis. This is one of  my favorite flowers and I've been wanting to plant a bulb flower for a while now, so I just decided to go ahead and get it. I'm super excited! I planted some Bachelor Buttons a couple months ago and it surprisingly is growing really well. It even has a small bulb. I don't know if it will actually flower, but it's still exciting!

The other WOW for tonight was getting a phone call that threw me completely off guard. After getting some ice cream with friends I went back to my apartment. One of my guy friends who was there called me to ask me if we were just friends because that is what he wants it to be. He sensed the little bit of competition between me and another girl and he wanted to make sure we were on the same page. First of all, WOW because yes, there was a little bit of competition, but it wasn't that bad. At least it wasn't nearly as competitive feeling as other situations I've been in. I really wasn't trying very hard or feeling that bad about it. It just WOWs me that he picked up on it and that he would call me to ask me about it right away. I guess it just confirms to me that people, particularly guys, can read me like a book. That is a little scary, and a little embarrassing, but I'm trying to get over that and be more open to everyone, particularly guys. If they can read me like a book anyway, it doesn't really matter, right?

Lucky for me, I am interested in more than one guy at this moment so having one guy want to be just friends isn't really a big deal. I'm still just WOWed by what happened tonight because it was so unexpected.

The good news is that someday a guy that reads my open book won't want to put it down. :D

Friday, October 22, 2010

Sparks

I went on the most awesome group date tonight... and there were sparks! Before you get too excited about that, you have to know what happened. I'm sure you'll be jealous. :) My friend Kunkee works in the Erying Science building on campus and has connections that allowed us to have a huge group date to tour the building and see some pretty awesome stuff. My date was in my ward and was set up by my roommate Savannah.

Because I need to go to bed, I will give the highlights of the date. We went to the anachoric and reverberation chambers. Anachoric is a room where all sound is absorbed, so there are no echos. The reverberation chamber is where everything echos. We sang a barbershop tag in each of the rooms and it was really cool.

I thought that was cool, but it got ever cooler. We were then shown a bunch of tricks that you get to see sometimes in physical science class, but we got it all in one show! Rubbing metal pipe to make a pitch, vibrating salt on metal thing that made different shapes depending on how it vibrated, everyone being shocked by a battery, a static ball where Savannah's hair shot up... oh man, it was awesome. But the best thing of all was throwing lightening and seeking sparks. Sorry to disappoint some of you, but this was way too cool.

Savannah had a wand thing that lit up showing how much electricity was going between her and the static ball. The man who gave us the tour then had her wave her hand a little and send the electricity to someone standing a inch or so away. You could hear and it see it (when the lights were off). It was definitely something the Nefarious Lady Death Moon would be seen doing, so it was awesome. The best part was when we all held hands in a line and Savannah touched the first guy's (James') hand. We did it with the lights off and we saw a huge spark but at same moment we felt an almost painful shock go through us. It was so very cool. We recorded that shock and you can hear our reactions to it.

So, yes, there were sparks on my date, just not the kind you were thinking or hoping. :)

Oh, and just kidding. The best part of this date was definitely the liquid nitrogen raspberry ice cream. It is the best ice cream in the world. Yes, you can get some at SubZero, but it just isn't quite the same to me. I'd had it once before in an English class at BYU, so I was super excited and delighted to have some again.

In the anachoric chamber
The Spark
Making the liquid nitrogen ice cream. YUMMMY!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Unexpected Awesomeness


I am grateful for a teddy bear whose sole purpose is to be zapped in the microwave and then cuddled with. A part of me is repulsed to see a cute teddy bear put into a microwave, but another part of me is the one inclined to put this teddy bear into the torture chamber and see how it works. I might just be cuddling with that bear at this moment. I hope he's forgiven me.... I collect teddy bears, so this one is officially added to my b-day/Christmas list.

I am also grateful for preschoolers. Life is so simple to them.... Today I showed my preschoolers pictures of my family and my "family" of my roommates and one of the girls said, "You're married to a Tongan?!" She happens to be Togan, so this news excited her. I replied that I wasn't married, then she said matter-of-factly, "You're going to marry a Tongan!!" Good to know.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Epic Epicness

My roommate Stephanie made this today when she was bored. She's doing one for all of the roommates and some guy friends. I thought it was epic enough to share.  Click on the picture to see the whole thing.

Monday, October 11, 2010

A Proposal and A Happy Nerd

Here's something I randomly thought yesterday when I was nerd-ing out about church history while talking to some friends in the ward:

If a guy that I'm dating (in the future, seeing as I am currently very single) proposes to me with a prairie diamond ring from Nauvoo, I would be in heaven and love him even more than I would already. Of course, I'd want a real ring after, but if he asks me with a prairie diamond ring... oh man! I can't even contain myself just thinking about it. Let's just say it would make my nerd very happy. :D

Oh, and FYI, I have 4 of them, so if he's never been to Nauvoo, he could have my roommates steal one of mine for a little bit.... Just a hint... two of them are currently on my dresser.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Mmmm... You're Tasty!

I was talking to some ward friends tonight and remembered another funny moment with my preschoolers which I thought was blog worthy.

On our playground we have a train in which the kids can pretend to go places in. Some of my preschoolers called me over to join them in getting on the train. We got on the train to go to Disneyland and then went to another part of the train to go to Provo. You have to remember that the train is preschool kid size, so me sitting on the train isn't really that natural. So, when we got on the train to go to Provo, I sat on a circular wooden table-like part of the train between the engine and the next car while the kids sat on the little side seats in the train car. As soon as I sat down, one of the girls said, "Miss Michelle, you can't sit there!!" Why? "Because that's where the food goes!" Oh! I'm so sorry. I then tried to comfortably sit on one of the sides and one of the girls saw that I didn't quite fit where I was sitting, so she got up and offered me her seat instead. Very cute. So, as I am sitting there, other kids begin bringing "food" to the table via pouring buckets of sand all over the table. Of course, the sand gets every where, including on me and in my apron where my phone is. Oh well. I proceeded to pretend to eat food: Mmmm... this pizza is so good! I don't know what gave me this idea, but at some point I turned to the little girl next to me, take her arm and pretend to take a bite out of her as I make an over-exaggerated sound of me biting something. It sounds funny, so if you could please make the sound on your own, that would save me the time of creating a sound-bite of it (excuse the pun). Anyway, after I pretended to bite her I said something like, "Mmmm... you taste like chocolate!" I repeated it several times with different kids and different things. And then they started doing it to me!!! One girl pretended to take a bite of me and then said, "Mmmm... you taste like lemon bars!" I don't even like lemon bars. Later a girl said I tasted like pie. I like that much better. They took turns making the biting noise and saying what each other tasted like for about 5 minutes or more, which is pretty incredible considering their usual attention span. Once one kid said something, other kids would copy them just because they couldn't think of anything else original. I was having a blast and laughing really hard seeing all the kids pretending to bite each other while making the biting noise. What have I taught these kids now? Hopefully not cannibalism.

As for General Conference, I am watching it on BYU TV at home with my roommates and it's great. This is the first conference in a while where I haven't gotten tickets to a session somehow, but I am totally okay with that. I already feel like I've learned so much! I particularly really appreciated Elder Uchkdorf's talk about slowing down the pace of life and Elder Scott's talk on faith and character. I am still digesting all that I can learn from those two talks alone. I am very excited to hear more from the living prophets tomorrow!