Adele Mash-up

I just loved this!

"SPOOKTOBER" Highlights

I feel like this month has flown by. I love this time of year. I love the changing of the leaves, the crisp, clean air, and the traditions of Chili and hot donuts for Halloween. HOWEVER, I do not, I repeat, DO NOT like scary things. So rather than have a 'Halloween' party, my friend and I decided to have a fall-themed party. I decided that we would carve pumpkins and eat soup in pumpkin soup bowls and have homemade rootbeer. I may have bitten of more than I could chew with that party. I decided that I was going to be super 'domesticated' and make the soups from scratch. I made two different soups: a creamy chicken noodle and homemade creamy tomato bisque(yes, I said bisque! HA!). SO, I spent ALL DAY slaving in the kitchen for one meal. Perhaps deep down inside, I was hoping that one of the guys that showed up to the party would taste the delectable food that I had prepared and drop to his knee to propose right then and there. Needless to say, that did not happen. NOT EVEN CLOSE!! HA HA!! I wish that I had taken pictures of all of my AMAZING food, but I was too busy to do it.
On top of that, I also baked a pumpkin cake with a carmel apple cider sauce to take to our ward's pumpkin-themed munch and mingle. It was so tasty that there was barely any left, DARN IT! I did have one person tell me that I should make their birthday cake... It's just too bad that their birthday isn't until JUNE!
Besides cooking up a storm, I have been going to all of the ward/stake activities. We had a stake Halloween dance on friday the 21st. I had tons of fun with my friends and even ran into my co-worker Aubrey. We had a blast dancing the night away. We topped off the evening with IHOP, where I ordered pumpkin pancakes and since they forgot my order I got like triple the amount of pancakes than I ordered, and they were DELISH!
Last Thursday we had a ward Halloween party where we were entertained with games, dancing, and singing. It was fun!
On Friday my friend Megan convinced me to go with her and a small group to the Haunted Forest. I absolutley HATE scary things and being scared. I refuse to watch scary movies that most people deem as 'classics'. I usually tell all my friends never, ever, ever, ever, ever, will I pay to scare myself!! BUT I went anyway. I called my sister Staesha to ask just how scary it would be... She assured me that I would be fine, and I made sure that there would be no disgusting things (AKA vomit). I went, and I SURVIVED!! And it was kind of funny to watch everyone else run for their lives when the chainsaw man came :) Good times!

Yesterday, for work, I wore the same costume that I wore to all of the other Halloween activities... which was my black dress with my mom's pink witch hat and a pink necklace. One of my co-workers told me that even though she has seen many witches, I was a really cute witch. :) It made my day!
And to end the month right, I went over Grandpa Tuckett's house with my parents to have some chili and donuts. Then I went over to Heather's house to watch the Audrey Hepburn movie Wait Until Dark. It is just the right kind of scary for me. It's suspenseful and only really has one scene that makes me jump. It did, however, make my friend jump so high that she nearly climbed over the couch. BEST. REACTION. EVER!!!

It has been a pretty great month :) Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!!

Adele - Someone Like You

Blackbird

I just love Cameron!

Love can wait!

After watching the Glee Project, I am obsessed with Cameron Mitchell and his original song Love Can Wait. I admire Cameron's courage to share with the world his Christian beliefs and to stand up for what he believed while on the show. Way to go Cameron!

Movin on Up!

That's right folks, I moved out of the parentals house! YAY for me! I'll admit that it was probably the hardest thing for me to DECIDE that I could move out and be okay with cooking for myself, buying my own groceries and toilet paper (it's a big deal). I was living the sweet life at home! My parents are SO awesome and I loved being with them. But something kept prodding me to move out... His name is Ledger! hahaha just kidding Staeshy.

I had planned on moving in with my friend from the singles ward, Moriah, before she left for her summer internship. It seemed perfect because she needed someone to stay in her house while she was gone all summer, and I needed somewhere that I could have friends over late without disturbing anyone. So, I moved in with her on March 18th and 19th. It has been so great living with Moriah for the last few weeks. We hardly ever see each other, but when we do we have so much fun! It will be tough to have her gone all summer. Plus, I will be lonesome by myself in her house. Guess that means that I will be having lots of girls nights and bonfires so that I won't get too lonely!! Plus it is comforting that my parents live in the same town and that I can always go visit them.. especially around dinner time! ;)

I know that it isn't my house, but I will have to do all the adult things around the house like make sure the garbage can is out on the curb one garbage day and cleaning and taking care of things. It is a lot of responsibility!

On a completely different note, I am getting super excited to go to NEW YORK to visit my favorite sister that lives in New York, Crystalyn! It's my birthday gift to me, I'm so happy!!!

I am a little nervous because I do have to get in a taxi cab all by myself at the airport to get to her apartment... SCARY!!! I am also nervous because she has told me over and over again to be prepared to walk all over the place and to prepare now and start walking.. but I leave this coming Thursday night and I haven't been walking hardly at all! I could blame the weather, but I have also been busy and lazy. I hope she will forgive me if I can't walk as fast as the rest of New York.

There are a lot of exciting things happening in my life. Work is going great! I have a big-girl job working as a staff accountant at Xango. Oh and, I am most likely going to be buying a new(ish) car after I get back from New York. I'm all growed up... or at least trying to be and it is some crazy scary stuff!

Obsessed

I am becoming OBSESSED with glee songs (and apparently I am a little obsessed with the song Umbrella too). I saw this wicked awesome video of Umbrella/Singing in the Rain from Glee and I LOVED it!!! I even told my dad about this video and I am going to make him watch it when he gets home later tonight.





Sidenote: I am really not this obsessed with the song Umbrella, but it has been popping up on my radar a lot lately. Perhaps I should make it my guilty pleasure song that I listen to whenever it storms... not a bad idea. ESPECIALLY if it is this version that is mixed with Singing in the Rain.

P.S. I really do love singing in the rain, which is one reason that I miss Hawaii... the rain is too cold here in Utah

Me likey!

So, there are many songs that are catchy that get stuck in your head that perhaps you didn't like at first, but evenutally learn to love them because they are always playing in your head... Rihanna's Umbrella song is one of those songs that I didn't like when I first heard it, but now when I hear it on the radio I turn the volume up and sing my guts out. Lately I have been in the mood to listen to slower jams. I'm not really sure why... Perhaps it is because it is nearing Valentines day and love songs seem appropriate to listen to. Perhaps it is because I am too keyed up because of month end duties at work. But mostly I think it is because if I listen to pandora at work, I can't listen to songs that make me want to belt out the words and dance... SO I listen to slower, relaxed, chill songs. Today while I was listening, I heard this cover of Umbrella by Maria Digby. I REALLY liked it! I apologize for the video... I just didn't know how else to post the song without going to youtube...(I am limited in my skills with technology)

ENJOY!



Good song, weirdy video!

Pocket Full of Sunshine

Don't you just hate it when a song gets stuck in your head and you can't get it out???


Well recently I watched the movie Easy A with my sister Staeshie and there happens to be a really funny clip about Olive (Emma Stone) receiving a card from her grandmother that plays a song, which then gets stuck in her head all weekend. I laughed so hard when watching this... BUT since then I have not been able to get the song out of my head. SO I am sharing the clip with all of you so that you too may have a pocket full of sunshine running through your head all day :)



Seriously I have watched this at least FIVE times today... DON'T JUDGE ME !!! :)