Wednesday, March 30, 2011
I Don't Knwo what I'm Thinkin' but its Really Late
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Biannual, Semesterly Rant (Spring 2011)
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Weeks I & II Spring Semester 2011 (here we go again)


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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
To keep with what I was saying
So since what I last posted today was to happy and so forth. I've been listening to some of my dad's favorite songs and I found this poem that my friend gave me when dad died. I really liked it so I thought I would post it in case someone else might like it too.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow;
I am the diamond glints in snow;
I am the sunlight on ripened grain;
I am the gentle autumn rain.
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight;
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry:
I am not there. I did not die.
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Where to start??
So I think that it has been even longer since I have posted anything (I seem to say that a lot). To tell the truth I have been a bit depressed. This last semester has been the hardest so far, but I made it through and passed all of my classes. Woot! I have a class that I am really not looking forward to this semester but sigh what can I say. You do what you gotta do.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
The First 3 Week 2010
Ok so its been a while since I have posted anything. I started this semester with 19 credits. One Bio class, one class in Osteology, two higher German classes, Intercultural communications and a Managing Information Systems class. My ostio class requires about 7hr in the lab per week so I dropped one of my German classes that was kicking my butt. It was German lit and we were reading Old German the equivalent of Old English only in German ;-) Having done this I think I can make it through this semester. Before I had to miss classes so that I could get all of my home work done (not a good thing) and I still didn't get it all done.
Right now I am listening to America's Greatest Hits and thinking about my dad. Half of these songs I heard on the radio while we were working in the shop together. I remember one time he was throwing a pot and The Sandman came on and I realized that it followed the exact beat of the kick wheel and the flow of the clay while dad was using it. Its kind of crazy to be so sad and so happy at the same time lol. I still have to say that not being able to talk to my dad hurts like heck. I've learned so much already this semester and he's not here to tell. I also found a crazy kind of fungus growing in my fountain at home and I would like to know what kind it is before I Clorox it but dad's not here to ask. I still can't believe my dad is gone even though it has been so long. I still say goodbye to dad every time I leave for school. Its kind of an odd thing but it just feels wrong to not say goodbye to him.
On a (Less depressing) side note I have dyed my hair three times since my last post. I went from my natural red hair to black with orange streaks to black with red streaks and now I am currently sporting a chocolate brown. I have no idea why anyone would really care but this shows how random my mental proses has been.
Also I broke out the window in my apartment. It was an accident. I got locked out... well I couldn't find my keys. I had just gone shopping and my keys were no longer with me. You see the sliding part of the window can be moved a little so I thought I could break into my own apartment but... ummm.... it was a very good design and the window flexed and crash! Glass everywhere. The sucky thing was I was still locked out of my apartment. So I went to the office of the people who run the apartment and pulled into a parking stall, got out of my car and found my keys laying right next to my door. (I can't make this stuff up). So in the end I found my keys and I have to $130 to replace my window but I currently have a patch job and glass all over my floor (this happened the 3rd of Sep) and I still forgot to bring my vacuum up. So there you have it, my first few weeks at school this semester. Ah yes, some weeks just make you wanna scream ;-)
(If this post makes absolutely no sense to anyone I blame either my totally overloaded schedule of the last few weeks or America's Greatest Hits that reminded me of dad :-D)
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Willow Trees
This is a poem that I wrote in memory of my dad who I miss and love so much. It doesn't say everything I would like to say but there are some things that the English language is not capable of. It is just crazy to me how we can use words everyday but still never truly say what we feel or mean.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
The begning of summer 2010
The next day I had to go back to Logan to do some classroom training for the Acreological field school this summer. After the classroom work we headed out. We went to The Stinking Springs Rock Shelter in Teton National park. There was alot of mistakes and alot of being yelled at. We have two profs working with us and they have differant ideas about what should be done how. This means that even if you do what you are told, you still get yelled at by the other guy :-/ They guys on the crew are reallly great though and the profs are good guys even if they don't always comunicate lol. Below are some pics of what we did. We excivated two units and screened everything through 1/8 inch screen. It was a lot of work and took alot of time. We also had to do some field work in the lab.
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
And Time Goes On :-P
Oh yeah I have purpel hair nowA few weeks ago I got back from a thing on Capotol Hill (in Utah) where I presented some of my research. I work up @ 5 am so I could get on the bus @ 6 and drive to SLC... bleh. It was one whole day of biz cloths, standing on a marble floor for hours, and talking to politicians and reporters. At least lunch was good ;-)



Ok so hopefully I will talk to you later. If not hahaha... yeah :-D You know how months like this go ;-)
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Weeks Of Chirstmas 2009
So the last few days have been great. The guys had a great turn out in Saturday night. Not loads of people but a great crowd no the less. Last night was amazing though. Out of only like 40-50 people they made over 2,170 for Frankie and Chaz! Plus a 6ft table worth of gifts. I think that most of the crowd had fun. I know that some people were impressed by the music but I think most were impressed by what was accomplished. These two actually have something now and its is awsome.
At the moment I am at my parents house taking care of the animals waiting for the frozen water dishes to unfreeze. It is snowing here once again :-) some people say it sucks but the more snow we have the more water we'll have later and plus what is Christmas without snow? Exactly! I only wish that I could get me feet to warm up but eh that's winter in the Basin for ya.
I'm still trying to figure out a trick to load Sir Fatso on to this Blogg but... we'll see. If you wanna see it and you are on my Facebook, I had to split it into two parts (they won't let you post anything over 20 min and the movie is 26 min. I think that it's lame but... oh well). I hope everyone is having a good Holiday Season. I am looking forward to Christmas, I think it should be a good one this year. (Mostly I just wanna see everyone open their gifts, that's my favorite part:-)
This year I am also trying my hand and making ornaments for the Christmas Tree. I think it had turned out all right but that's my own opinion LOL.
God Speed
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sir Fatso
All right here is part of this semester's work. It is the movie Sir Fatso. In my German Film class we had a choice of making a film or writing a report so I got with some friends and made a movie. It is in German but there are subtitles. The trailer doesn't have subtitles but it it goes something like, "In a world where chaos rules. Only one man can save us from the evil wizard Ew" or something like that anyway ;-) I hope you like it.
Trailer
Never mind I'll try and load the movie at a different time . It hates me today
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Labels: This Fall again :-)
This Fall
Ok so it’s been while since I have been on here. All in all it’s been due to a lack of time and a computer that has a virus. So from the beginning, this semester has been chaos, but fruitful. I took 16 credits. I had Archeology in Europe, German 2010, German Film, Storytelling, World Cultures, and two lab credits. I have learned loads to far this year. Also I did fairly well. I got A’s in lab, German Film, and Archeology in Europe. I received –A’s in World Cultures and Storytelling and a +B in German 2010. All in all I think that it turned out well. I am still working on a poster for the South Western Symposium that takes place this January in Mexico. I was unable to drum up funding for it so the instructor and the other girl in the group are going to go. All in all I don’t care too much. We were going to go to the middle of the desert... I live in the desert so that doesn’t sound that fun. Plus I would have to dress up “Yuck”.
Lee and his band have been getting ready for two concerts coming up soon. On Saturday they are playing in Vernal. No screamer bands this time!!! Then on Monday they play a concert for a couple whose house burned down a few weeks ago. I hope that we have a good turn out.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Just Another Poem After Antother Day
How alone is alone?
How much pain can you bear?
By heart and soul can you be crushed?
How much can they see with their stares?
To confess yourself?
To tell them how you feel,
Only pain seems to abide,
Only sorrow can be real.
To understand is too much to ask.
To hide from the pain,
Is a relief that will never last,
And help they will not deign.
Empty inside with no place to hide,
How alone do you feel with all caring past?
How alone can you be,
With a pain that will ever last?
-Haylee C. Toland
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Monday, August 31, 2009
My 1st 2 Weeks Back... Hmmm.....
My first few weeks back at school have been interesting. First they took out my burnt orange shag carpet : -( this had made me very sad. The new carpet in my apartment isn’t bad but I really miss my olf carpet. As classes got, my first day in my Storytelling class we were suppose to describe something to our partner my partner like my description of the Sleeping Lady and she accidently volunteered me to give my description to the class. So first day I stood up in front of 40 people and described a mountain. My first week back felt more like the 10th week back.
This last weekend I went fishing with mom, dad, Lee, Justine, Austin, and Robert. We went to Max’s ponds and caught almost 2 coolers full of fish. The weather rocked the fishing was good.
Today was the first day of the second week I was walking with a fellow Anthropology student and walked under a group of trees when something warm and soft hit my hand. A pigeon had crapped all over my hand. The crap splattered all over my left hand, down my pants, and all over my shirt. This event gave a whole new meaning to the saying “Sometimes you’re the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue”. To add to this a few years ago Lex gave me a Peruvian bracelet to ward off the evil eye. I just happened to be wearing it today and poop landed right on top of it. LOL. I don’t know whether the evil eye was too strong or if the pigeon just doesn’t like Peru ;-). I was late for German and couldn’t stop laughing. Also just to show how the rest of the day went I got in the shower and just about shaved my legs with my toothbrush. Hmmmm. So that has been my first few weeks so far. I can think of worse ways they could start off. You know I could have had my apartment’s roof collapse on me or something J/K . All I can do at this point in time is laugh.
Well I hope that no pigeons have crapped on you lately and I wish you all luck.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Randomness of my life
I sometimes wonder if all off my creativity was used up in helping the band. Maybe my brain just needs a break, but my (all be it slight and wavering) sanity is suffering. Any who, speaking of the band here is what the CD looks like at least the inserts and such. I hope you like them and that they are a testament to the creativity I seem to no longer be able to experience. Sigh.
This is the inside of the CD remeber that this kinda folds like a "z"
This one is the cover. This one and the one above go back to back so you and kinda get an idea of what it looks like.

And these chapps look out at you from behind the CD
(Back to Venting ;-)
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Another Week
So here are some pics of it. They are kinda strange because the room isn’t very big and it doesn’t have very much light.
We’ve done all of the work ourselves including redoing our shower. It didn’t have cement board behind it when we took down the old tile, it had sheetrock and of it was rotting (no surprise there). To get the pic of what it looked like before imagine a pastel pale pink room with matching counter and green and pink tile with gray ‘marble’ laminated flooring. (I like it much better now;-)
We were given the granite countertop. It got dropping in shipping and so was going to be thrown away and so we snatched it up.
The showerhead set that we got is amazing. The showerhead freaking rocks!! Sad I to get so happy about a showerhead I know but it really is that good LOL. The handle has a temperature adjust handle and that you can lock to where to like it and the shut off valve is separate. (Ok yeah I’m a hick who’s not used to this kind of stuff so yeah I think it’s cool). The pumps on the sink were a happy mistake. We bought the faucet and then when we went to put everything in we found out that two of the holes didn’t line up so we put pumps in them so happy accident LOL. So as soon as we put up some trim and find the rest of the door we have a finished bathroom.:-)
In other news I have my husband’s family coming over this Saturday. (I was volunteered for that). So I have been cleaning my house like mad. Hawk got fixed and his’ the only one of my cats that will talk to me (go figure) . I think that the other two are mad because I brought him back LOL. In short after this week ( and its only Wednesday) I am ready for bed @ 8:00pm. On that note I think I’m going to go to bed; at least I’m going to try. The guys have been practicing and recording every night for three weeks and they are kind enough to end practice at around 11:30 to 12:00. It’s been a long few weeks.
Well that’s all for now. Good night and God Speed.
P.S. I’m still loving the black hair;-)
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Grrrrr!! That's right grrrrr!
Ok wheew ,now that’s over I’ll continue with the rest of my life. Possibly due to the problems mentioned above I have gone through some physi
SIGH! What can I say it’s been a long few months Lol. Maybe I just need some timeout, but if I do who knows what will happen.
Hope all is well for everyone else and if I get turned in for homicide you’ll all know at least a small part of why.
God Speed.
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
I'm free! I'm free! ............Dang it!
Ok soooo…. it’s been a while. All I can say is that I have been working my butt off but man it is lookin’ good. The lowest grade that I got this semester is a B+ so I can live with that. My exhibit is done and I thought that I had some pics of it, but I was wrong. I had to shovel out my house when I got home but things are looking good.
Cleaning my apartment sucked. The guy who inspected it wanted to write me up for a smudge on the doorway and a few pieces of dust on the back of the toilet. Needless to say it pissed me off, but I got to stay in the hotel with the largest pool in Utah and I had a chocolate French silk pie… ummm… umm … good! Now I just need to think about what on earth I am going to do this summer. Right now I am really burned out.
I have aced my written motorcycle test :-) but the riding it kicking my .........:-( well you get the point. My whole right leg is covered in bruises from my attempt, and my left knee is scraped up. I’m still trying to figure out how I’m suppose to rid the bike and… well not the other way around. Hmm… according to Lee it’s just dumb luck, but we will see.
My cats have missed me… yeah my life is that sad… my cats actually miss me. I’m not sure which is sadder the fact that they do actually miss me or that it would bug me if they didn’t? Hum… yep I’m sad.
FYI this is going to be short… my brain still hasn’t recovered from school and I think my eyes have forgot that the need to stay open some of the time.
Oh yeah one last thing. The new mix I put on my blog (I couldn’t get to my old one… I’m not quite sure why) any way it’s not edited. I couldn’t find the edited songs so just to warn you if you care that much. If not I hope that you like it. It might give you whip lash. There are a lot of good songs together that just don’t really match…. :-/ Shrug… oh well. As soon as I find my cord for my camera I’ll upload some pics from my museum opening. It rocked, but I’ll tell you about that when I get some pics up.
:-)
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