what's in my bag?

the other day at work, I had a balsamic vinegar spill in my bag :/

interestingly, this is not the first one.

this forced me to take all the contents out of my bag and I thought "hmm maybe I'll blog about this."

so here it is, what' I'm carrying around...

1. a gym card. even though I do like working on my fitness, that's not even my card...

2. burt's bees chapstick. there is no other chapstick that I use. all chapsticks are inferior to burt's bees.

3. a black ipod classic on loan from mon pere.

4. a spoon and a fork. I don't normally carry utensils, however I needed them to eat my lunch that day.

5. my wayfarer's. can't live in arizona without sunglasses.

6. my moleskine planner. that thing is definitely with me, at all times. sadly you can see the balsalmic stains on the pages :/

7. french grammar notecards. I like to get my study on :)

8. a pen, so that I can mark my super important things in my super important planner.

9. earrings that I was wearing, but got sick of wearing, so I put them in my bag.

10. bobby pins because, who likes wearing their hair down? not me.

11. 2 pennies...as you can see, I'm loaded.

what do you make sure you are always carrying?

enjoi

how to climb a tree, by little e

after seeing kung fu panda 2 with my niece, I was hoping to take a good picture of us by the poster.

not a chance. when you are working with a very inexperienced photographer and a child who just wants to climb a tree, you just have to go and do what she wants.

step one [I like the exertion you can see on her face]

step two

step three

that was about as high as she could go since I'm not that tall, but it's still a lot high than she could have gone on her own.

enjoi!

summer flicks...

since it is miserably hot in arizona in the summer, a popular activity is going to the movies.

and I'll tell you, I've been to lots of movies lately.

my thoughts on the many movies I've seen lately...

fast five-the first movie I saw in theaters since being home. I went with my family as the rock [oops, I mean dwayne johnson] and vin diesel are my dad's favorite actors. it was cool to see brazil, but it wasn't too different than the other ones. it was rather odd, on the drive home it felt as though we were driving ridiculously slow.

kung fu panda 2- I felt it was a good sequel. I got a little sad, but at the end they throw you a surprise to make you happy again! I especially loved seeing the baozi :)

x-men ___-I put the blank because I don't know which number it was in the x-men movie phenomenon. I thought it was cool to kinda see what made certain things happen; for example, why dr.x was in a wheelchair. I don't think I'd see it again, but I'm glad I saw it once.

rio-I honestly thought that I would have seen this movie sooner than I did, as my brother served his mission in rio de janerio. eitherway, I did see it and I loved it! the music was very good and I now have the travel bug to go to brazil.

midnight in paris-this movie was so dang good, and not just because it was made in the best city in the world. I enjoyed the storyline and the moral of it, something that I have been working on myself. ofcourse it was great to see my city, but what was cool to me was that it would show a random street corner or metro stop that would just make me smile.

so there we have it folks, the movies of the summer. I'm sure there will be more coming, so stay tuned!

enjoi! [and go see some movies]

branching out...

a bit ago I enjoyed a visit from various members of my family, including my little niece. 

when I visited her in boston, I asked what I should learn to make out of paper.

she replied, a kitty.

the internet is a fascinating thing.

one google search led me right to the video that taught me how to make her wish come true:)

origami kitty

the only way to get her to stand still for the picture was to let her do this pose.

I love it.

enjoi!

in my france, there'd be peanut butter

I think my favorite candy of all-time is reese's, which made living in france kinda sad.

apparently france doesn't believe in peanut butter. 

however, when life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

alors, when you live in france, find african peanut butter and make some reese's peanut butter cups.

aww...how cute.

recently I have been introduced to dark chocolate reese's peanut butter cups, and they pretty much rocked my world.

oh france, if only you knew what you were missing.

enjoi!

stow-a-way

once upon a time, I went to a high school baseball game...and I got bored.

ok, so that's not a "once upon a time" occurrence, more like an all the time occurrence, so I usually bring a book and a fountain drink and work on my tan. right after I learned how to make cranes I was at a game and asked my mom's friend if she had a piece of paper I could use. she had a small piece of lined paper and I made a small crane. probably the second crane I ever made...and I thought I lost it. then I went to work and I found the crane.

there he was, hiding in life of pi, just waiting to be found :)

still reading life of pi...review to come.

enjoi!
p.s. this means I'm 1/40th of the way to 1,000...

what's that little bird?

on sunday, two little cranes told me something great...

this weekend is stake conference, a special meeting for church, and we are having a special guest by the name of elder d. todd christofferson.

can I just say that I'm super excited?

I'm very excited :)

enjoi!