Saturday, April 30, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Vingt

Day 20: Something You Wish You Were Better At

I wish I was waaaaaaay more creative. I feel like sometimes I get these really ingenious ideas, but I can never get them out the way I want them to.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The First Sunny Day in a Month

Today is a beautiful day.

Finally.

It's been grey for like, three weeks now. I was getting seriously depressed, no jokes. I mean, it's spring--what the heck, Idaho?!?!

It's still cold-ish, but at least the sun is out.

The sun is really inspiring to me. Or spring is, rather. I mean, when winter's over and the sun comes out, I wake up to birds chirping, and things start growing again, I feel like I can conquer the world.

I dislike New Years Resolutions heartily. Mah. What's the point? People go with it for a couple of weeks and then fall straight back into their old habits. I always do. But when spring comes--that's when I decide I want to change. And I really do it! I get all sorts of projects done and manage to lay around and do nothing all at once. Spring is my New Year. I think I'm going to create my own calendar, when the new year starts in April. That sounds MUCH more reasonable.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Dix-Neuf

Day 19: A Pictue of Somewhere You'd LOVE to Travel


...Can I love to travel to more than one place??

Ok though. If I had to pick just ONE place, you all know where I'd go.

The Eiffel Tower


"I will...triumph!!"

Le Musee D'Orsay

Louvre

Versailles (this is the Queen's bedroom. Yeah, I could handle a room like this.)

Giverny Gardens
Euro Disney


Monday, April 11, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Dix-Huit

Day 18: A Picture and a Letter

     Dear Ben and Jerry,
Thanks for always being there for me. You never fail to make a bad day better. Many other things have let me down in my life, but never you---to me, you will always be "the one." Thanks for always providing that shoulder to cry on.
     Forever yours,
         Emily


Sunday, April 10, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Dix-Sept

Day17 - A Picture of Your Biggest Insecurity

For those of you who remember my first blog post, you'll remember

that I told you about a couple insecurities: bad eyebrows and huge
thighs. Hah. Well. Let me tell you a story.



It was a Wednesday morning a couple of weeks ago. I didn't have
class until 12:45, so Scottie and I were just chillin'. Y'know. I was
doing my thing. I decided (while in the shower) that since it had
been a while since I had shaved my legs, I'd fix that. Everything
went as normal...I got out of the shower and proceeded to do my
makeup, and still, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I still had
time before class so I did some homework. At 11:30, I decided I
should probably finish getting ready for class, so I went back to the
mirror. I nearly pee'd my pants. All I could do was stare. Where had
it gone?? I mean, it was there this morning! I turned to Scott and
asked him if he was seeing (or not seeing) what I was (or wasn't)
seeing. HALF OF MY RIGHT EYEBROW HAD GONE AWOL.
Seriously. I...have no idea what happened. To this day, I'm not sure
where that half of my eyebrow went, but it was definitely not
located above my right eye, where it had found its home for 22
years. I freaked out. I couldn't go out in public missing an
eyebrow!! How embarrassing! There's no way I could pencil it in
and hope that nobody would notice--my eyebrows are too light and
all I have are black, brown, and blue eyeliners. None of those could
cover this up. What else is there to do? I can't just hide out 'til it
grows back. So I did what I had to do: I youtube'd "how to cut your
own bangs," took my kitchen shears, and went at it. Yeah, my
bangs don't look very good, but you can't see the missing brow,
either. I felt really emo because I was/am really self-concious about the
whole thing and kept flattening my bangs over my face, making
sure they were covering my eye. No, it wasn't a fashion statement;
it was a coverup. That's what I get, I suppose, for sharing my
insecurity about my eyebrows: I shave one off. Sheena suggested
that maybe I shaved it off in the shower when I was putting my hair
behind my ear. That's the closest explanation I've come to. I mean, I
didn't pluck my eyebrow away that morning. But you'd think I'd
notice getting my razor that close to my face! I mean, right?? Ugh.


Apparently I didn't.

I couldn't have done what this girl did:


 Shaved off both brows and drawn them on and hoped that I could fool people into thinking


they were legit. (ew. sick. no.)

I should have pulled an Amanda Palmer:

  
 Shaved off both eyebrows and drawn on some rockin' eye-catching brows!

 But I didn't. Instead, the bangs I've been trying to grow back for a year now have been cut (poorly) by yours truly. I'm going to have my mom fix them when she comes to visit this weekend. Thank goodness for
mommies who can fix things!! : )

Friday, April 8, 2011

Euro English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru!

And zen ve vil tak over ze verld!


Thursday, April 7, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Seize

Day 16 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently

I'm not sure what counts as "recently"...but this has definitely made a huge impact on my life within the last year, so that counts. I first went through last July, but didn't go again for like, six months. How ungrateful am I?? Yeah. I know. So Scott and I went with my parents in February, and then we've got two weeks in a row (YES!) with Scott's parents. I love it. The temple is one of my most favorite-est places to be in the whole world.


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Quinze

Day 15: A Picture of Someone who Inspires You

I find that people inspire me. I believe that most people are truly inspiring.












LHP

 

Monday, April 4, 2011

30 Days of Emily: Le Jour Quatorze

Day 14 - A Picture of Something You Want to do Before You Die






Someday, I want to buy expensive pampering products and get manis/pedis weekly.