Saturday, June 4, 2011

I hope to see you again.

this will be the last intended post I will be leaving on this blog. Sorry to all three of you who follow me. :) But PLEASE follow me on my new blog themiddleofthestreet.blogspot.com . It's just time for a new start.

So, I got my acrylic nails removed today. I can't even begin to tell you how ridiculously easier it is to type and to text, and to pick up pieces of paper. After my wedding, I seriously doubt I will ever get these blasted, handicapable, money wasters. ever. again. And there is my rant. I love you all and sincerely hope you stop by my new blog.

peace.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

that's all I feel like talking about

It's really hot in my room right now, and my roommate is cooking...something. couldn't really tell ya. there are so many things going on right now, any given second could result in a. me breaking down in tears, b. literally punching a stranger, or c. getting a tattoo....not really, but what I'm saying is that I wouldn't be surprised if I was reduced to doing something completely irrational.

on a lighter note, one of my lifetime besties just found out she's having a BOY!!! yaaay Mccally!! Congrats!!

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Mindless Entertainment

I'm sitting here with my cheezits and my gatorade yelling at my computer, "Pick JP!" and "Pick Blake!!" and "Matt!! Are you serious?! Jeff was just about to take off his mask!!"

the bachelorette probably isn't worth 3 hours of sleep because that's how long it's taken me to watch it on hulu.... but I can't seem to shut my computer.

and it's sad that it's the only thing I have the energy to blog about right now.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Is this what working feels like?!

I've been a tutor only working eight hours a week since September, so I must have forgotten. I am in desperate need of money so today I helped out this floral shop with delivering their Mother's Day flowers. And then I had an interview at this scrap book place which ended up with me putting in an hour and a half of free labor. Shoulda seen that one coming. Then, I had to go buy Landon's ring-it's awesome- and now I am finally home. But since I'm trying to get skinny for the wedding, I still need to go work out for an hour and then I need to go tanning so I won't look like a ghost in my engagement photos I'm getting on Saturday.

I haven't even showered yet today....

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

I finally got my computer back. A nasty virus made it's way through all my files and made itself at home. So this past week, Landon moved back home to Heber. I'm so sad...and shocked at how much free time I have now. I haven't had this much time to do anything since before I was dating him. Met him even... honestly, I feel like I'm 18 years old again. Not like, "Wow, I haven't had this much freedom since I was 18!!" More like, "Wow...I haven't been this obnoxious since I was 18..." and it doesn't help that my roommate's beau has left for the summer as well, so now we just feel like there is no one to have some cooth around and it can become somewhat....insane. It's fun but....

I miss Landon.

The wedding plans are coming along just swimmingly, I cannot wait for the reception! It is going to be so much fun!!! it's going to be at dusk-ish, but there will be lights everywhere. twinkly lights, lanterns, chandeliers, candles in the trees...you name it. some what resembling this... but like...even more!! and it probably won't be that dark by 9 pm at the end of June so... Also, we have the honeymoon figured out. Vegas it is! We mangaged to land a five star hotel a block from the strip for an entire week FOR FREE!! So, yeah... thought we'd save ourselves some money by staying in a ridiculously awesome suite for free.... radical, right? and then I want to go see The Lion King and Blue Man Group and the Cirque de Soleil...! it's going to be AWESOME!! :)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Sister to sister we will always be, A couple of nuts off the family tree.

I have THE coolest sister in the world. She's my sexy little senorita. This girl just cracks me up every time she speaks. how lucky am I to have my own personal comedian? Plus, she's HOT! She makes me look good when I'm with her. I'm like, "Yeah, I've got hot genes. Just look at my sister." So she's got looks, she's got personality- what else could you want in a sister?


Finally!!

I FINALLY found the pictures from the 24th of July two years ago! And seriously? I've been looking for them since the 24th. A dude was taking pictures of 100 people holding sparklers.
That- was a fun night.























Wednesday, April 20, 2011

perfect



this band is quite a miracle. they're so beautiful. and let's be honest. this song is for every girl who finally found a guy who's perfect for her. (i did)

yesterday, i was feeling some stress. house hunting is getting to me, job hunting-hasn't even really started yet and it's already getting to me and Landon is moving home next week and that's making me sad.... so yeah, i was just a little down in the dumps.

Landon and i got in the car to go to institute; neither of us super enthusiastic to go. and we get to the church and no one is there. Landon had mentioned thinking it was over for the semester, but i'm glad we checked. you know, made the effort to go instead of just assuming it was done and missing it.

so we get back to the car, and by this point Landon recognizes my gloominess and says, "you're in a bad mood, i'm in a bad mood. i know what we're going to do tonight. let's go get your swimming suit." the dear had every intention to take me to flowrider. only my favorite thing ever right now. instantly i was happy. i told him no because i'm going today so i didn't want him to spend the money, but he knew exactly what would cheer me up. it didn't cure my stress, but it definitely eased it, making me realize once again, that i have absolutely the most incredible man in my life. and guess what! i'm marrying him. aren't i the lucky girl? "author of the moment," thanks for making me happy.








<3

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

numb. wish i was.



so this song is just lovely. and i may have stolen it from a friend's blog.
i'm currently sitting in my breakfast nook, there are dried cinnamon rolls to my right and blind-sliced sunlight leaking in to my left. it's really quiet here too. no one is home. we've all had very different schedules lately. i should be able to relax right now, but with everything that is going on right now, i simply can't. songs like that one easy the constant strain in my shoulders, but it never really goes away. maybe i need a massage...like, a professional one. yeah. like i can afford that right now. oh well. two months and five days til i'm mrs. street. hopefully by then my shoulders will have just fallen off and i can't feel anything.

Monday, April 18, 2011

a few clarifications...

Landon is my NUMBER ONE guilty pleasure. although it isn't really guilty...he just pleases me all the way around. what a stud.

get this, he read my post about how i love big macs, and he took me out that night to buy me one. and then he called me today from work to tell me there is a deal going on today that if you buy one big mac, you get another one for just a penny!! haha i said, "Landon, what am i going to do with 2 big macs?"

but the fact that he called to tell me because he knows how much i love them is great. he's a dear.

i want to send a shout out to one of my other besties: Andy Gibson! happy birthday bud! i know you don't even know i have a blog, but maybe you will one day. and if that day comes, you'll see that i wished you happy birthday while you were down there in argentina. love you!!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Top Ten

in the spirit of blogging, i have made a "Top Ten Guilty Pleasures" list. but in my handicap-ness i couldn't get them in the order that i preferred. so i will be numbering them. enjoy!

#8 Big mac meals. They don't happen very often, but oh do i love it when they do.






#1 my pooch!! tukae is THE best dog to ever grace this earth.








#7 Great white sharks. i plan my life around shark week.









#4 who doesn't love kissing. i mean, come on.








#9 Red fingernails! any chance i get, i turn on friends and paint my fingernails rojo






#5 i LOVE Grey's. there is no more to be said.









#6 sweat pants with elastic on the ankles. i usually end up in these babies everyday by 5.








#3 Pineview reservoir...








#2 and all that it entails (this is more of an obsession/phobia rather than a guilty pleasure)









#10 Photoshop!! I love to make myself look pretty in pictures and mess with my eye color! I could do it for hours!

yay! new design!!

ok, so i've been working on the new (somewhat) layout of my blog. hardly anything has changed and yet, it's taken me an hour and a half to make it this way. AND i can't figure out how to change the font color because the layout tab is gone. so it makes the title of my blog hard to read. if any of y'all have suggestions of what to do...you can share.

where the earth can be painted.





and then suddenly i was in love with tulip fields...


can you imagine the smell?

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

magical shoes.


Landon bought me new shoes. they're globes. i'm so excited about them. sooo comfy. i love them. my pal Kaesi blogged about her new shoes the other day and i was like, "man. i need new shoes."

so at the mall yesterday, i wore my favorite yellow shoes. you can tell they are my favorite because they are so overly worn. there was something sharp poking my foot in my right shoe so i took it off and i was trying to feel what it was when my finger went right through the sole. bad, huh? actually, the last time i wore them, Landon's mom was so horrified with them, she bought me some new shoes. so i wear my yellow shoes last night for the first time in a couple months (i missed them) and Landon ended up buying me these delightful new ones. so now i have decided never to get rid of my yellow shoes because everytime i wear them, someone buys me a new pair. they're magical.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

midnight rain

i love rain at night.
i love the light pollution that reflects on the thick storm clouds.
you know, that reddish glow that almost seems to have
a certain smell with it?
i love the sound of the rain drops hitting my window,
it's a quiet sound, and the fact that i can hear it
means everything else in my apartment is

silent.

i can hear trains in the distance.
in my old apartment, i was right next to the train tracks.
every time a train came by our apartment would shiver.
i remember one night,
it was the worst storm i had ever seen in orem.
the thunder was shaking our apartment because
it was right above our heads.
and a train came by.
the train's horn seemed as though it was competing with the thunder.
and the lightning lit it all.
i sat in my night gown
on the steps outside.
i let the rain and wind tangle my hair.
i miss that night.
i love rain at night.

Monday, March 28, 2011

oh the places you'll [potentially] go

trying to figure out where to go on our honeymoon.
hawii?
mexico?

ultimately i think we may end up on a cruise ship. i love cruises.
i'm particularly hoping for royal caribbean because....
THEY HAVE FLOWRIDERS!!
i love flowrider.

Monday, March 21, 2011

that's what they're here for.

Friends
friends are a blessing. they are the extra butter on your popcorn and the + next to the A. i don't think you can function properly without good ones. they are the ones who lead you on the path of college and a future or the path to prison with no parole. either way they are who make you, you. this is a shout out to all of my friends i have ever had. y'all have done me good. i love you.
















Monday, March 14, 2011

Marry Me?



so fellow bloggers, i've been telling you about my precious Landon for months now. actually as of saturday, it has been a year since we've been dating. and as of friday........

WE'RE ENGAGED!!

yay!! we've been talking about marriage for quite awhile now so i'm super excited that it's official now. i guess you all may want to hear to proposal story.

well, last year landon taught me how to ripstick. a ripstick is like a skateboard thing that twists in the middle so you can propel yourself with your back leg. it takes a great amount of balance, strength, skill and good looks. so on thursday i told Landon i wanted to go ride our ripsticks. we were going to go, but we ended up going to this meeting that lasted longer than expected. so on friday Landon said we should go. so he took me to the park that we love to ripstick at. we were riding on the following scene went something like this:

Landon watched the love of his life gracefully gliding on the bike path. Her hair fluttered in the wind, and he could smell the faint scent of her shampoo. He smiled, his heart accelerated in anticipation.
"Hey, Whit! Look at the grass right there, it looks so muddy!"
"Yeah, it does."
Landon knew that this time was as good as any to ask her to be his wife.
"Hey, hold on for a second."
Whitney stepped off her ripstick and turned around. She wondered if he really wanted to examine the muddy field more.
"Come over here." Landon motioned for her to come to him.
"What's up?" she asked.
"Well, I wrote this poem for our one year tomorrow, but I don't know if I will have time to read it tomorrow, so I want to read it now." Landon said.
He sat down on the grass face to face with Whitney. She laughed but wondered why he didn't think he would have time the next day to read it. She didn't question him though, because she had always wanted him to write for her.
Landon proceeded to read his poem to her about how wonderful their year had been together and how much he loved her. Whitney smiled as she watched the paper shaking in his hands. She understood how scary it can be to read poetry.
"...I want you forever in my life..." Landon read.
Immediately Whitney thought of what rhymed with "life" Wife!! It suddenly dawned on her that he wasn't reading a poem about their anniversary! He was proposing to her!
"So I am asking, 'will you be my wife?'" Landon pulled the ring out of his pocket.
Whitney grabbed the ring, pushed Landon down on the ground and kissed him. Which was her way of saying, "Hell yes!!"

The End.

romantic right? it was perfect. i didn't think he would surprise me because i've been expecting it for so long. but he did. :)

and then on saturday, he taught me how to snowboard. i've skied all my life. but i do wakeboard, surf, and of course, ripstick. so Landon thought that i would pick up on snowboarding relatively quickly. and i did. but i fell a lot too. but i think i want to permanently switch to snowboarding. i just feel better on a board than i do on skis. it's been a good weekend.

i'm getting married.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

chicken pot pie

made one just now. it's in the fridge. i'll bake it when i get home from work in a few hours. poor Landon forgot his wallet so he couldn't buy himself lunch. i'm so sad for him. he's gotta be starving. :( so i promised i would have food ready the moment he came home. i'm pretty excited because it looks and smells delicious. sorry i don't have pictures right now. you'll just have to take my word for it. i feel like such a susy-home-maker. haha so accomplished. that pot pie was one of the more complicated entrees i've made so far. betty crocker makes it looks so easy....

Friday, March 4, 2011

artwork

i've spent far too much time this morning on getting the artwork for my itunes music off amazon. and i'm not even half way done. and i don't want to get up and take a shower. but i need to. and i've got three more papers staring me in the face, all due on monday. don't wanna do those. but i need to. it's friday for crying out loud!!

Monday, February 28, 2011

Fail.

so the second attempt of my sonnet went well. or so i thought. i handed it out to everyone in our workshop group and my teacher says, "ok put all your workshop's poem in alphabetical order including your own. then take the poem in front of yours and check the number of lines, the rhyme scheme, and the iambic pentameter." so that we did. and if they were wrong, you had to hand it back to the person and they would have to redo it. well guess who got theirs back? bingo, i did. when in my defense everything was absolutely correct. the idiot just read it wrong so now i have to redo my dreaded sonnet yet again.
then, later in the day i go out to my car to find it booted. this-was my fault. i am boycotting the whole parking permit for uvu because its $100 bucks for one and that's just ridiculous!! so along with the boycotting, i have *ahem* failed to pay a few parking tickets. so today i got a final warning and a boot. so now i have to wait til five o'clock for them to take it off. i shouldn't be complaining too much because they are going to take it off for free. but that made me have to walk home from campus (not that far, but i was running late because i had to call the parking office to sort things out) to Landon's apartment to take his truck (it's sad really, how dependent on him i've become) and speed to work. i was hoping i would be able to grab some foodage because i haven't eaten in.... 29 hours. so now i have to endure the rest of work with a ravenous stomach. but here's the kicker. i looked at the time the boot was issued and it was literally and in all seriousness, three minutes before i got to my car. ugh. and i was even contemplating leaving class early so i could have more time for lunch.
it's times like these where i think, "well, at least i didn't look fat in my harvest pictures....oh wait."

on the bright side. i get to not only spend the evening with my one true love, but i get to do it at the jazz game in a box suite. where i hear there is unlimited food. which i am dying for right now. that will be a good way to end this failure of a day.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Here we go again...

attempt #2 at the sonnet.
wish me luck.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

the calm before the storm

snow seems to put a hush on the world.
it's like nature's mute button.
the melancholy clouds that loom in the air.
each breath intake feels like you're filling your lungs with

fog.

it's lonely,
it's a longing for warmth,
it's a piano being played
by lamp light
when everyone else is

gone.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

freedom

i don't like shakespeare in the first place. so why on earth would i want to write poetry like he does? sonnets suck. iambic pentameter in a sonnet sucks. no. iambic pentameter sucks period. i like free verse much better than ababcdcdefefgg. poetry is freeing. and that is my rant.

do you know what is freeing though? daydreaming. man, i like being able to control daydreams rather than the randomness of the night dream (not that i don't thoroughly enjoy those too). let's be honest. most of my daydreams are about Landon or me winning the nobel peace prize. but still. it's refreshing.

i love daydreaming.
and free verse.

Monday, February 14, 2011

For Love's Sake


i've never had a valentine before; besides my parents or best friends or something. not that there is anything wrong with them, but here i am with a boyfriend of almost a year and [finally] have my valentine. dearest Landon, oh how i love him. i really just want to be with him for the rest of forever. so the wish i make on this valentines cake (pretend it says whitney and Landon...and that it's a valentines cake) is.......

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Finally...They liked it.

I'm in Advanced Poetry right now despite the fact that I am no where near being an advanced poet. When I hand out a poem in my class to have it work shopped, a part of me is really excited. I'm all, "Yay! I get constructive criticism so I can make my poetry better!" And then there is this huge part of me that's like, "Crap! Don't read my poem! You're all going to hate it and tell me I need more metaphors!" Which both parts are right. Truth be told, I struggle with metaphors. But, this weeks poem proved to be an audience pleaser. In fact, they loved it. I will share it with you now.

In Between

In the courtyard
snowflakes fall
sleepily dusting
the brass statues
Then- sunlight bleeds
dancing in the
branches bare
Creating in air
snowy explosions
Diamonds breathe
fireworks
a solitary jubilation
for one who stumbles on
utopia.

By Whitney Border