Sooooo FUNNY!

Had to post this! Hope you enjoy and Laugh like I did!

I ALMOST FORGOT

Last months potluck was about 2 weeks ago and I forgot to post the highlights of the evening. Sad to say that usually one event...one very interesting event has to set the tone for the rest of the evening. And this time it had to happened within the first 5-10 minutes of arriving.

I arrived with Alicia and Marianne and we are usually the first to show up cause Alicia is in charge. So we arrived and 3 guys arrived shortly after. They did not come together but all arrived with Jello as their offering for the potluck. I like jello so that's not the issue. They all started in on who's jello was better by whether it was homemade, bought at the store or had fruit in it, and it even went as far as whose was Celestial and who's was Telestial jello. Did they think we would be impressed by this very odd display of male flirting?

Well I had, had enough by about 4 minutes as well as Alicia and so we both made a not so sneaky exit for the family room and couches. That left Marianne to deal with the whole jello conversation and finding her own way to sneak away. And I didn't have to talk to any of them the rest of the night.

My next favorite was a guy asking me about my ideas on relationships and other honest things about what I thought, and seconds after finishing he got up and left me sitting on the grass never to return. Hey he's the one who asked the questions I was just honest. Will they ever learn. The interesting part was that about 30 minutes later I caught him staring at me from the deck above and smiled at me. So why did he so abruptly leave??? Whatever.

Then conversations turned to everyone's worst dates and while doing this a guy pulled up a piece of grass next to me and we talked for the rest of the evening. That actually made the end of the evening the best part. He was easy to talk to and we had fun getting to know each other. Now if I could just talk and get to know guys like him the evening would turn out a whole lot better and I wouldn't want to avoid a huge population of males. :)

I'm wondering where the one for me is hiding? I'm getting annoyed with playing hide and go seek!

SUMMER RAIN

I realized last night why I like Summer Rain! Fall is my favorite season because it's colorful dry and cool but not cold. Summer rain cools down the hot summer heat enough that you feel like it's fall. If I lived where there was humidity this wouldn't be the case, it would just get warmer and muggier. Plus the smell of summer rain is different than spring rain smell. I'm not one for enjoying being in the rain...actually I don't like being in it and do whatever is possible not to get wet when it's raining. And the cloud cover makes the day feel like night and I'm more calm during cloud cover rather than the bright hot sun! Weird I know.


I even enjoy a good thunder and lightening storm. About 12 years ago in college there was a week where we had lightening storms every night and I would drive the long open stretch between Logan and Smithfield with lightening all around me by the mountains to the East and the West. It was a magnificent sight! There has been thunder and lightening a bit lately and it made me realize that I don't hear or see it as often as I did when I was growing up. I'd like to experience it more from the comfort of my home.

I don't though like WIND...a breeze is fine but wind is not my friend. As a kid when a wind storm was starting I would head outside to make sure EVERYTHING was put away or at least put something heavy on top of things so they wouldn't blow away. I was so afraid of loosing things and watching them blow away. I could do without wind!

Wind is great for Wind Energy

Feeling a breeze that is comfortable

But not high destructive loud wind

Or the kind that blows your hair in your face all the time!

Just a little more about me that you probably didn't know!

THE LAST 4 MONTHS

Things were Really busy from March til the first of July. It's been the last week that things are finally starting to slow down.

I'm not sure if anyone remembers the post of Spring/Summer guy but after me asking him to do something, finding out he sorta had a girlfriend, not ending up doing anything and things getting weird, I'm happy to say that a year later he talked to me about it and we are becoming great friends now! I love having a guy friend.

By opening my eyes wider and having a more open perspective, I was shown a week ago that Funny Guy doesn't treat me at all special and even though he says he's not a player, I find that he spends time with alllllll the girls! Knowing this is great knowledge for me and for looking for others to focus my attention on :)

I find that pictures are so wonderful and with each passing year pretty much the only way I can remember all of the good things. This will be a nice break from this years guy posts, which right now are so few. But hey I have another singles potluck on Sunday and nothing but weird awkward experiences can come form it, so stayed tuned for the next post!

MARCH: Mom & Brackston watching Spongebob I think?

APRIL: We told Brackston that his birthday present
was mine. He believed us and wanted me to have a
picture with my present (his book) :)

MAY: Nicole and I did a session in the

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

MAY: Aubrey, Mason and I were able to go to the
school playground for a few hours

MAY: Jaden, Katelyn and I spent the evening at a park


MAY: We visited Tanner's Place of Rest.
It has now been 3 years.

JUNE: Bird Family reunion in Hyde Park
(Me, Aubrey, Jaden, Katelyn, April & Mason)

If your wondering it was a balloon tied to
my ankle she was trying to get.

Raaaar...


Us against Richard!

JUNE: Me and Nicole at her going away party


JUNE: Suzie, Mandy and I at Nicole's Birthday BBQ



JUNE: Nicole and I on our last project
night before she moved :(



JULY: Stephanie and I with Miranda
(in my primary class) at her Baptism


JULY: The sunset from Wasatch Drive
waiting for the fireworks


Me and Brandy before the fireworks


JULY: Bee's game with Marianne


JULY: Devin, Camille, Megan and I
Watching our first Girls Rollerderby


Me and Mishka at the Rollerderby

DISAPPOINTMENT

Disappointment: v. to fail to do or be equal to what was hoped or desired or expected by.

This is a word that I've become more and more familiar with in the passing years and I most often feel it with the male species. I often wonder why finding someone to like me that I like for even 5 minutes is so impossible or unreachable. I get so excited about someone and think I could spend time with them and get to know them...But it doesn't usually get to that. I probably analyze the next encounters too much...why? because there is an interest on my part. And maybe by doing so I try too hard when I see them again because it's not as good or as natural as it was the time before, or he wasn't as friendly as I hoped he would have been, and it makes me wonder what I did wrong and for a brief second wonder what's wrong with me.

They should have lessons on flirting and dating cause I think I may have missed the boat somewhere?

Feeling disappointment is almost detrimental at times, and it makes you stop and think about how it's easier just not getting interested in anyone, because then you don't feel more alone than you already did. What's important is picking yourself up and having confidence to do it again, knowing the possible outcome. It just makes me more cautious and more guarded which probably isn't the best thing, but a coping mechanism.

FAITH: n. Reliance or trust in a person or thing.

I've still got some so I'll continue to hope and act on faith!