Things i love about Salt Lake City and college in general:
*The Farmers Market---you can get a ridiculous amount of fresh food for cheap. this week i bought lots of fresh fruit, and a loaf of bread. gotta love the goodness of homegrown/homemade!
*Trax---i was worried about the amount of money i would be spending on gas, but to my delight, i've hardly driven my car! i just ride trax everywhere! i do have to walk a little ways to get to a station, and its up a hill from either trax station back to my house, but walking is good, right?
*The Ambience---there's nothing like living on a college campus. there are people my age everywhere, milling around, gaining an education and enjoying life. everyone is friendly, excited to be here, and just loving life!
*Random Adventures---Friday evening Tiffany and I were out on a rambling walk and as we were walking down the Chapel Glen area, we looked up at these trees and there were people in them! They were berry picking, so of course we had to join them. Tiffany turned out to be quite the little monkey; good thing she didn't fall to her death. Our fingers were stained quite purple by the time we wandered to our house.
*Staying Up Late with Roommates---Last night 2 of my roommates and i were awake until 1:30am talking of everything and anything. i'm discovering so many great qualities among all of them, and i love the bonds we have created.
*Washing My Car---Saturday my neighbor Brad was out washing his car when i arrived home. now, he was rather ingenious: with just a tupperware bucket full of semi-nasty water from the outside faucet and a wastebasket full of soapy water, we created a quite efficient system. he would scrub with his soapy sponge, then i would come along with a wet towel and wipe of the bubbles. we washed my car afterwards, and spent too many minutes following such admiring the cleanliness of our shiny cars. looks as though i've found a car-washing buddy.
*My Ward---what fun there is in a singles ward full of entirely college students! there is definite strength in a group of saints, and this is more clear to me now than ever before. besides the strength, we have a ridiculous amount of fun. for fhe last week we played capture the flag in the institute parking garage. random, i know, but incredibly entertaining!
*Meeting complete strangers and being fast friends within an hour: Sundays i usually find myself at one of the other houses eating lunch/dinner with some people from my ward. this sunday, there were lots of peeps from other wards eating lunch at the kennecott house. two such people were nick and maryanne; we chatted and soon came to adore each other! meeting people and becoming such good friends in such little time seems the epitome of college life.
*Free food---there is free food everywhere! its only sometimes that i am the poor, starving college student. most of the time, if you follow your nose (or your ears) you can end up with a full belly at some place or other.
Well, that about sums up my exciting life down at the U. i adore it down here! soon, i promise i will post pictures! i need to get some cords, but soon, i shall have lots of pictures to support my words.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Since I'm officially moved out of the Parents house, i thought i ought to start blogging on my page as well as my own. There's been a variety of events that have occurred over the past few weeks, which i should have written about but haven't yet.
First, hiking the Wellsvilles: Goodness, i forget the beauty of those majestic mountains until i am up in them and enjoying them with all my senses not just my eyes. the smells are fantastic up there, and it blows my mind every time i am up in that gorgeous scenery. i hiked it with a bunch of guys from my singles ward, and though it was rather rigorous, i wouldn't have missed it for the world. there was one slight downside, and that was almost dying on the way down. a few of the guys had the fantastic idea to forgo heading down the trail, and instead going down the side of the mountain, which would result in our taking a rather fabulous shortcut and beating the other half of the group down the trail. well i wasn't going to be the only one going down the trail, so of course i followed. it was pure loose limestone, and once you started sliding, it was uncertain whether you would be stopping by your own will or by the bottom of the rockslide as you would have no where more to go. my ankles were rather bashed up as i wore my chacos, by the end, but it made the hike all the better. i love alternate adventures like that on hikes. we ended at crystal hot springs and i thought i was going to yell when i first put my thrashed legs in that mineral water, for the stinging blew my mind away. overall, it was one of the best adventures of the summer. it was a lovely way to end it.
Second, moving down to school: Mom of course took pictures right before i left on Sunday as i stood out in front of my car. poor little Sheila, my car, was packed to the ultimate limit with clothes and crap piled everywhere. good thing i had lots of helping hands down at my casa to unload. i moved into this house on the U of U campus on Officer's Circle, and though it looked rather small from the outside, surprise echoed from my open mouth when i arrived inside. the house is rather old, with grand high ceilings, a tall elegant staircase, and spacious rooms. i have 10 roommates, soon to be 11, with one poor guy as the only male figure in the house. its a party all the time. one of my roommates, sara, has almost the same personality as me, and we obviously get along rather well. happy day for me, i have as much closet space here as i did at the parent's house, and the bedroom i share with tiffany murillo is enormous. i made out like a bandit! the first week of school was so natural it shocked me i felt no awkwardness. it was like i had been here for months or even a year or two, instead of a few hours. esquela is good, and college beats high school by far. i don't know how i ever survived those years at that institution called Mountain Crest. so life is good.
Third, Founders Day!!!: how i love love love this holiday! i would wait all year long just for this day, and it makes me ridiculously excited even now. i awoke to the sound of the cannon going off around 6am, tradition that still stands today. Sarah and i used to wake up early and listen for it every year, and then we'd try to go back to sleep, a futile attempt. we would be awake from then on, awaiting the couple of hours we would have to wait until the parade. I signed up for the Founder's Day 10K race and to my great excitement, Sarah, Keri (Sarah's friend and new roomie), and Aim came too to run the 5K! i was so excited and impressed with them! the race was sweetness, especially the last few blocks when the rain began to sprinkle, then drop a little more intently, and then simply pour in torrents upon our heads as we raced to the finish line. running in the rain is divine, but finishing a race in the pouring rain is heaven plain and simple. it doesn't get any better than that. the rain was a little cold though, and so luckily i changed and showered at home before i headed to Brother Fuller's house where we hopped on the water-logged trailer my singles ward had decorated. we dressed up as superheroes, but most of us opted for jackets and blankets since the cold temperatures and blowing rain overrode our enthusiasm of dressing up. the parade was great fun, with lots of dancing and throwing too much candy at the first. we ran out before the end, to our dismay. i went to the music in the park, well tabernacle actually, and it was good stuff. i love founder's day! there's nothing better than awaiting the parade impatiently, getting a bagful (seriously) of candy, then hanging out down at the park all afternoon afterwhich coming home to take a nap next to your candy. since i was in the parade, sarah saved me a bag of candy much to my delight.
All in all, these past few weeks have been wonderful, and i am loving my life down in Salt Lake. i don't have any pictures now, but i'll post some soon. life is good.
First, hiking the Wellsvilles: Goodness, i forget the beauty of those majestic mountains until i am up in them and enjoying them with all my senses not just my eyes. the smells are fantastic up there, and it blows my mind every time i am up in that gorgeous scenery. i hiked it with a bunch of guys from my singles ward, and though it was rather rigorous, i wouldn't have missed it for the world. there was one slight downside, and that was almost dying on the way down. a few of the guys had the fantastic idea to forgo heading down the trail, and instead going down the side of the mountain, which would result in our taking a rather fabulous shortcut and beating the other half of the group down the trail. well i wasn't going to be the only one going down the trail, so of course i followed. it was pure loose limestone, and once you started sliding, it was uncertain whether you would be stopping by your own will or by the bottom of the rockslide as you would have no where more to go. my ankles were rather bashed up as i wore my chacos, by the end, but it made the hike all the better. i love alternate adventures like that on hikes. we ended at crystal hot springs and i thought i was going to yell when i first put my thrashed legs in that mineral water, for the stinging blew my mind away. overall, it was one of the best adventures of the summer. it was a lovely way to end it.
Second, moving down to school: Mom of course took pictures right before i left on Sunday as i stood out in front of my car. poor little Sheila, my car, was packed to the ultimate limit with clothes and crap piled everywhere. good thing i had lots of helping hands down at my casa to unload. i moved into this house on the U of U campus on Officer's Circle, and though it looked rather small from the outside, surprise echoed from my open mouth when i arrived inside. the house is rather old, with grand high ceilings, a tall elegant staircase, and spacious rooms. i have 10 roommates, soon to be 11, with one poor guy as the only male figure in the house. its a party all the time. one of my roommates, sara, has almost the same personality as me, and we obviously get along rather well. happy day for me, i have as much closet space here as i did at the parent's house, and the bedroom i share with tiffany murillo is enormous. i made out like a bandit! the first week of school was so natural it shocked me i felt no awkwardness. it was like i had been here for months or even a year or two, instead of a few hours. esquela is good, and college beats high school by far. i don't know how i ever survived those years at that institution called Mountain Crest. so life is good.
Third, Founders Day!!!: how i love love love this holiday! i would wait all year long just for this day, and it makes me ridiculously excited even now. i awoke to the sound of the cannon going off around 6am, tradition that still stands today. Sarah and i used to wake up early and listen for it every year, and then we'd try to go back to sleep, a futile attempt. we would be awake from then on, awaiting the couple of hours we would have to wait until the parade. I signed up for the Founder's Day 10K race and to my great excitement, Sarah, Keri (Sarah's friend and new roomie), and Aim came too to run the 5K! i was so excited and impressed with them! the race was sweetness, especially the last few blocks when the rain began to sprinkle, then drop a little more intently, and then simply pour in torrents upon our heads as we raced to the finish line. running in the rain is divine, but finishing a race in the pouring rain is heaven plain and simple. it doesn't get any better than that. the rain was a little cold though, and so luckily i changed and showered at home before i headed to Brother Fuller's house where we hopped on the water-logged trailer my singles ward had decorated. we dressed up as superheroes, but most of us opted for jackets and blankets since the cold temperatures and blowing rain overrode our enthusiasm of dressing up. the parade was great fun, with lots of dancing and throwing too much candy at the first. we ran out before the end, to our dismay. i went to the music in the park, well tabernacle actually, and it was good stuff. i love founder's day! there's nothing better than awaiting the parade impatiently, getting a bagful (seriously) of candy, then hanging out down at the park all afternoon afterwhich coming home to take a nap next to your candy. since i was in the parade, sarah saved me a bag of candy much to my delight.
All in all, these past few weeks have been wonderful, and i am loving my life down in Salt Lake. i don't have any pictures now, but i'll post some soon. life is good.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Yo Chad,
Sarah needs an invite b/c we updated her blog to use the new google account, but her thing is all messed up. she's not on the same blog as us. So you need to send her an invite to
hosey_nosey18@yahoo.com asap so she can post.
Everyone else,
well, hello there. i'll just post real quick like. so yesterday i went skiing for a little while and i'm now addicted! i absolutely loved it! now i want to buy all the equipment to start skiing and start skiing now. i probably won't get it all together, but i can dream. i hope i can go up at least once for all day. it gave me such a rush! i got asked to junior prom by neal, i'm sure you all know who he is so i don't have to give a description. i went and answered him the other day when he wasn't home and all his siblings helped me. it was hilarious, his family is awesome. then on thursday night i had a most fabulous night. i went to bed at 8:15! i was so excited and proud of myself! i was on serious sleep deficiency and i was mui glad to go to sleep. well, i've got loads of homework to do b/c we head down to salt lake. i'm taking dad down to the airport. i haven't ever driven on the freeway or down there, so i'm excited. it'll be great. well, hope you all have a most fabulous day. love you all!
Carly
Sarah needs an invite b/c we updated her blog to use the new google account, but her thing is all messed up. she's not on the same blog as us. So you need to send her an invite to
hosey_nosey18@yahoo.com asap so she can post.
Everyone else,
well, hello there. i'll just post real quick like. so yesterday i went skiing for a little while and i'm now addicted! i absolutely loved it! now i want to buy all the equipment to start skiing and start skiing now. i probably won't get it all together, but i can dream. i hope i can go up at least once for all day. it gave me such a rush! i got asked to junior prom by neal, i'm sure you all know who he is so i don't have to give a description. i went and answered him the other day when he wasn't home and all his siblings helped me. it was hilarious, his family is awesome. then on thursday night i had a most fabulous night. i went to bed at 8:15! i was so excited and proud of myself! i was on serious sleep deficiency and i was mui glad to go to sleep. well, i've got loads of homework to do b/c we head down to salt lake. i'm taking dad down to the airport. i haven't ever driven on the freeway or down there, so i'm excited. it'll be great. well, hope you all have a most fabulous day. love you all!
Carly
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Hey everyone,
This is Mom, now I am posting under Carly's sign in; my user name seems to no longer exist. I am sure, however it is operator error, the computer and I are still only acquaintences, not friends.
Amy and Chad, I think you are mistaken; the old oak table never looked that good! We need to do the same to the cherry bedroom furniture from the girls room, which also was annointed with nail polish, marker, water, etc. over the years.
It is a small world; the other day I was working at the clinic and a mom called to see if her son could get the second Hepatitis B in the series before they left for BULGARIA the next day to pick up their son from his mission. He had served in Sofia, Varna, Plevin, said he had participated in or had done 5 baptisms, that the work is still hard, but doing a little better than in 1998. And then last Wednesday, I worked 14 (Ugh!) hours at the Instacare and Dr. Joseph Nelson and his wife came in, I hadn't seen him for years. He was the one who worked on Amy's hurt knee in high school, and Phil's broken wrist in 1989. He asked about the family, I told him we had 2 new grandbabies, one here and one in Virginia. He and his wife served a church service mission in Buena Vista, where Amber and Evan go to church! They loved Lexington, knew all about the University, and the new Stake Center being built, etc.
We had a great time camping with my siblings this weekend. Only Kerry and Lori, and Kevin and Leslie and their families could come, but we had a nice visit. On Friday, Dad, Kevin, Kerry and Buster went in on a motorcycle ride for the day, to Soda Springs and Montpelier, and everyone else spent the day at Bear Lake, even Amy and Lizzie for a while. We played in the water with the rafts, etc, and sat in the sun till we were all a little sunburned and tired and then went back to camp. Everyone stopped on the way to see Amy and Justin's house, we missed Phil and KaDee's because they were at work. We picked 4 dozen ears of corn from the garden and had a big corn feast, cooked it in our big turkey roaster pot on the camp chef. It's funny how traditions come to mean so much, even to the little kids. We were packing up to leave, and Emmy was sad; she hadn't had her hot chocolate for the day. So I climbed back in to the trailer and made her some. Some camping items are essential.
Last night we cut down 3 rows of the corn stalks and took them over to Dee's cows; he says they're spoiled. Summer is about to wind down, the trailer is all cleaned out. It went way too fast this year. Our Macintosh apple tree is loaded this year, we'll be making pies soon.
Hope you all have a nice day, I love staying in touch this way!
Love Mom
This is Mom, now I am posting under Carly's sign in; my user name seems to no longer exist. I am sure, however it is operator error, the computer and I are still only acquaintences, not friends.
Amy and Chad, I think you are mistaken; the old oak table never looked that good! We need to do the same to the cherry bedroom furniture from the girls room, which also was annointed with nail polish, marker, water, etc. over the years.
It is a small world; the other day I was working at the clinic and a mom called to see if her son could get the second Hepatitis B in the series before they left for BULGARIA the next day to pick up their son from his mission. He had served in Sofia, Varna, Plevin, said he had participated in or had done 5 baptisms, that the work is still hard, but doing a little better than in 1998. And then last Wednesday, I worked 14 (Ugh!) hours at the Instacare and Dr. Joseph Nelson and his wife came in, I hadn't seen him for years. He was the one who worked on Amy's hurt knee in high school, and Phil's broken wrist in 1989. He asked about the family, I told him we had 2 new grandbabies, one here and one in Virginia. He and his wife served a church service mission in Buena Vista, where Amber and Evan go to church! They loved Lexington, knew all about the University, and the new Stake Center being built, etc.
We had a great time camping with my siblings this weekend. Only Kerry and Lori, and Kevin and Leslie and their families could come, but we had a nice visit. On Friday, Dad, Kevin, Kerry and Buster went in on a motorcycle ride for the day, to Soda Springs and Montpelier, and everyone else spent the day at Bear Lake, even Amy and Lizzie for a while. We played in the water with the rafts, etc, and sat in the sun till we were all a little sunburned and tired and then went back to camp. Everyone stopped on the way to see Amy and Justin's house, we missed Phil and KaDee's because they were at work. We picked 4 dozen ears of corn from the garden and had a big corn feast, cooked it in our big turkey roaster pot on the camp chef. It's funny how traditions come to mean so much, even to the little kids. We were packing up to leave, and Emmy was sad; she hadn't had her hot chocolate for the day. So I climbed back in to the trailer and made her some. Some camping items are essential.
Last night we cut down 3 rows of the corn stalks and took them over to Dee's cows; he says they're spoiled. Summer is about to wind down, the trailer is all cleaned out. It went way too fast this year. Our Macintosh apple tree is loaded this year, we'll be making pies soon.
Hope you all have a nice day, I love staying in touch this way!
Love Mom
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