The Last Day of September; The End of an Era

It is crazy. In with sheepdogs and out with not much to say. September seems to have gone pretty fast and what do you have to show for it? Were you more open seeing the theme of the month happened to be The Month of Openness? Yeah, me either. I just quickly scrolled through all my posts from the month. It was a pretty fine month, if you ask me.

Highlights? Yes, we had some. Here are a few: 1. Sheepdogs. Really no other words are needed for that 2. A few BBQs, including burgers to celebrate the start of the new season of The Office. Fantastic. 3. Three hikes in the wonderful Utah mountains. Man I like to hike! I also got to go with awesome friends all three times. I am so lucky. 4. A few softball games. I am lucky to still be playing. 5. Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. I have been craving them so much. Today, I thought about eating one, but then didn't feel like it. 6. The discovery of Soy Butter, an amazing alternative to peanut butter for those allergic to peanuts. I still need to bake cookies with it. 7. The Packers moving on without Brett Farve. Seemed to be fine the first two games. The last two games not so much. Rebuilding is hard business. 8. A new Alice going to bed before eleven and waking up at six. It is a good thing for me. Seems like it is becoming a part of me finally as I fall asleep on my couch at ten each night. 9. The death of tens of spiders(one tonight even). I think spiders in the house is my least favorite thing about Fall. Good thing Fall is so awesome in so many other ways to make up for the whole spider epidemic. 10. Bike rides. I have been riding the bike to school pretty much everyday. I also have been able to ride in the canyon and along the river trail to Utah Lake. Tonight I got to ride with my friend Anjai in Provo Canyon. It is beautiful in there right now. It was much better than the ride we had earlier when it was pitch black. So many bugs in my eyes and nose, yuck! 11. The Office one dollar goodies. So very good! 12. A wonderful two weekend with The Bills Family. Hurricane was an adventure and Kelsey was so very beautiful on her wedding day. 13. Many pranks on K from my own office. Man, that sure made going to work worth it everyday. I need to find something to do to make me motivated to be there. I have lost the motivation. 14. The bean bag chair is sold. That is the end an era. The first piece of furniture I ever bought for myself is now with a cute family in their new attic movie theatre. Luckies. The money is going into the Ipod Touch fund. No more wii fund. I thought I would use the Ipod more. Maybe one day I will get the wii. Who knows?

Well, I hope as you reflect you will have enjoyed a fabulous September. I hope you have woken up now that September has ended. That is a famous song by Greenday. I am always random. Cheers!

The World is in Order again Thanks to New TV!

Photo found at: http://www.insidebuymore.com/

Tonight was the season premiere of Chuck. This is a silly show because it takes something pretty serious, a guy having all the country's secrets in his brain, and makes fun of it. It is basically a spy comedy. I love it. The first episode of the season was very good. Seems like it will be a good season! Secretly, I have a crush on Chuck. He is a dreamboat!

I think I watch too much TV, but it makes me happy.

Today I: 1. Woke up 2. Read scriptures 3. Ate breakfast, while watching Sportscenter 4. Went to work 5. Rode bike to Utah Lake 6. Had yet another home visit with a student and his mom 7. Graded some papers and lifted weights 8. Rode bike home 9. Made spaghetti 10. Watched Chuck and ate 11. Talked on phone with Marla for an hour 12. Cruised the Internet 13. Now I will sleep.

It is too late. I had a hard time going to bed because I was not done with me time free time! Bummer. Six will come fast! Night!

Weddings and Weirdness

I don't know why I put weirdness in the subject of this post. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I ran into an "Ex-boyfriend" while at the reception of my wee littlest adopted sister. That was weird. I don't want to fully go into why it threw me for a loop but he happened to be somebody I thought I could marry, but instead he got so scared that he ran away. Anyway, it was like a sliding door experience(if you have seen the movie Sliding Doors you will follow this a little easier, if not sorry) because I was thinking a lot about wanting to be married(weddings do that for me) and how he technically, if things had worked out, would have been at this reception with me and there he was in the same building on the same day but in different circumstances. So very weird.

The wedding was awesome. Kelsey was so pretty. I don't have any pictures of my own, which makes me sad, because I forgot my camera. Luckily, there were lots of people who took pictures and will send me some of theirs. The reception was at Rodizzio Grill and it was fabulous. Lots and lots of different meats brought right to me by handsome men was the highlight. This type of restaurant usually has a salad bar and then you get to try all sorts of meats as said men come by your table with meat on a stick and cut it off for you. It was awesome.

After the wedding stuff, that was done by about 5:30, we went bowling with all the family(except Kelsey, she was busy with other stuff). It was so fun to bowl with the little kids. They had a blast. It was a busy and fun day. We were all exhausted by ten!

Well, not much else here. Sorry I have been a slacker lately about blogging. Fun to have three new posts in a row to read though, eh? Don't miss all the other fun posts. I added the pranks I played at work this week as well as six quirks about me that I was tagged to do by a friend on another blog! Thanks for checking in. Enjoy your stay as always!

K with phone in ceiling

Pranks inspired by The Office

photo credits:
1. Water cooler in The Office: www.whatsthescuttlebutt.com
2. Pencils on desk in The Office: http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot
3. Phone in Ceiling in The Office: www.ew.com/ew/gallery/ 0,,20190268_15,00.html
4. Meredith with Rabies on The Office: www.bestweekever.tv/.../09/MEREDITH%20RABIES.jpg

This week in celebration of the season premiere of The Office I played some tricks on a co-worker who shares the love of this fab TV show. Each day prior to the premiere, I did something different to her office. The first day, I put one of our water coolers next to her desk. I was sad that she moved it before I was able to get a picture of it. Tuesday, I put my phone in the ceiling of her office. Actually, one of my fellow co-workers helped me put it up. It was hilarious because by 9 am she was sick of the "Rockin Robin" ringtone that she came and got me to get it down for her. Wednesday I put pencils around the edge of her desk. I also did this to another co-worker because he was in on the prank from last week where they had my kids only say bears, bats or Battlestar Galactica. Thursday, the day of the premiere, I hung a plastic bat from her ceiling. I almost got caught hanging it too because she came to work early that day. Weirdo. This was very fun and the season premiere did not disappoint. It was so very good. I love that show and I really loved playing pranks on K. It made me want to be at school everyday. I don't know what work has to be hard sometimes!