Bonjour!

So, my sister and I are really into stealing stuff from each others blogs... here is the latest: 

(As Bailey would say, "Bonjour Belle, au revoir Brynn!")

You Are Belle!

Intelligent and kind. Your beauty goes much further than your apperance. Also, you make judgements of people based on their personality and not their looks. Attaining all the knowledge that you can is one of your major goals in life, but you are also a person who can make things happen.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

July Love List

• being Home
• fireworks
• melon
• warm nights
• making people laugh
• live music/going to concerts
• playing guitar
• trips to Hebgen
• no more math (!)
  
• the Flag
• making plans for my future classroom
• gardens
• mornings
• Bailey
• reuniting with old friends
• getting organized
• homemade ice cream
• singing in the shower
• my red bed
• riding motorcycles
• campfires at the sand dunes
• old movies
• haircuts
• going on walks
• new music
• constellations

my mind is not here

my mind is everywhere else
last week of the semester
passed that stinking math test (finally)
only 4 more tests and a presentation to go
plus the praxis, but I'm trying not to worry about it
next comes 7 weeks of doing things
whatever I feel like doing
get to sleep in my own bed in my own room
get to see John Mayer live in 9 days
get to go camping with the fam
get to finish Anne of Green Gables
and perhaps start something new
get to finish projects
get to do laundry for free
get to be somewhere that is not Idaho
get to go shopping
get to have air conditioning
get to do some singing and recording
get to write some letters that are way overdue
get to see people who I have not seen for a long time
maybe look for a job
maybe not

miss our makeshift porch
and rexburg in the summer
and my students
and my roommates
and the relief society
and my school friends and life

but so ready ready ready for a summer break
can't get my mind to be here

07-07-07

I remember what I was doing one year ago.
As the brilliant Mark Twain said, "If you hate London, you hate life." Too true.
One year ago, I was in London.
On a beautiful Saturday, which also happened to be a lucky day--as it was 07/07/07, I traipsed up and down Portobello Road looking for something fantastic to purchase and wrap up and take home and display in my house/apartment/room forever more to remind me of gallivanting around the beautiful English cities, countrysides, and so forth.
Luckily, I heard this old British chap passionately discussing one of my own passions out in front of his charming little shop. I remember he smelled a little funny. I remember he was wearing large thick glasses. I remember his lovely accent. I remember his bushy eyebrows. And I remember falling in love with the vintage clock (that he was gushing to another unsuspecting shopper about) at first glance. Needless to say, I purchased it.

This is the store where I bought that clock.

One year ago today I bought a fantastic 1953 vintage mantel clock. Oh how I love London. And if you want to know what time it is, I will be happy to oblige.

thoughts

today is the last day of june, which means tomorrow is july.
I don't know where it went.
need to pass a math test even though I already passed the class
and that gives me anxiety.
math is one of the only things that really gives me anxiety.
math and mosquito bites.
the Fourth of July starts on thursday.
best holiday and much needed weekend.
and I get to see my family-- haven't been home since april. alas.

I like nilla wafers and cold milk.

June Love List

• fireworks
• playing guitars on the front porch
• my roommates
• phone calls from Bailey
• campfires
• laughter
• giving campus tours
• singing in the car
• finishing books, then starting new ones
• windows and doors open in the evening
• popsicles- especially orange dream bars
  
• sour patch kids
• emails from my Dad
• pictures of my niece
• visits from long lost friends
• hiking
• driving to Hebgen
• the SUN
• gardens
• snoasis!
• finishing projects
• summerish music
• weekends
• barbecuing
  
• pink toenails
• watermelon
• father's day
• Hebgen
  
• people
  

this place I know

I've been thinking lately about places:


This is Mount Olympus. I love all mountains-- but to me, this one means home. I love the view of it from my kitchen window, and to drive along its side on Wasatch Boulevard. Sometimes I miss this when I am displaced in Idaho.



You don't know me completely until you have visited Hebgen. This place has healed, molded, created, and represented me indefinitely. Quite possibly my favorite place.



I would be amiss if I did not mention London, or 27 Palace Court, or the people and experiences and life that changed me during my time there. London made an imprint on my character.


Other places I love:
Snowview #4 (and #10)
New England
New York City
Seattle
San Fransisco
Bountiful
Cedar City
Yellowstone
Rexburg
4051 MorningStar Drive
Green River
Millcreek Canyon
Solitude
The basement bedroom
The Hinckley building
Mom's backyard