Omaha Stylee

I found this sign, and thought it was funny.  However, I didn't go in.  Hmm, I'll have to do that when I move!

For those of you that don't know, Omaha Stylee is a 311 song.  I just thought it was funny because I am moving to Omaha in like 6 weeks.  Crazy, huh?  Well here are some pictures from my recent trip to Omaha.

So my purpose for going was to secure a place of residence for the next three years of dental school.  I checked out the school - which was awesome - scoped out some townhouses, and visited some places.  I should also mention that my dad went to the same school 18ish years ago, so I actually lived in Omaha for three years.  Therefore, the entire trip was a big ole nostalgia fest for my mom.  Ha ha.

The last day we were there we went to the Henry Doorly zoo.  It's this giant zoo that would kick Hoagle zoo's butt, and it was even more fun because I used to go there as a small child.

This is a picture of my parents in the "Desert Dome."  This is the big dome you can see, and I was extremely curious about it the entire trip.  However, inside wasn't terribly exciting because it all looked like Southern Utah to me!  Ha ha.  This is my favorite picture of my parents.  If you can't tell, my dad had the funniest look on his face!

Inside the Jungle place by a large snake.  I have an even cooler picture from when I was about 12 of me actually holding a snake of this magnitude.  They wouldn't let us hold any of the snakes at the zoo...

This is the Winter Quarter's temple, and it is really cool because it is built on the cemetery at Winter Quarter where all the saints are buried.  It was really sad, and really beautiful.

For some stupid reason, the only thing I could remember from Omaha as a child was this slide.  It's in the middle of town, and the slides are really big.  Great for kids, apparently!  My mom admitted that she only brought me there once, and had no idea why I could remember it so vividly.  I didn't slide down them this trip because I didn't want to compete with all the little kids (and one creepy older man).

So in conclusion, I did find a very nice place to stay.  It is in Village Green, the same complex where my parents lived (and me).  Seriously, my mom was telling stories up the wazzu.  I didn't take any pictures, but I am very excited about it!

My Favorite Movie Quotes

This is going to be an on-going post that I will update with quotes that I find to be hilarious, entertaining, or just plain memorable.

"This is the worst lunch I have ever had.  Don't you know I have had diarrhea since Easters?"

"Beneath the clothes you find the man.  And beneath the man you find his... nucleus!"

-Nacho Libre.  One of my very favorite quotable movies.  So very, very many funny things!  Seriously, I made my family watch it, and they love to use the "worst lunch" quote all the time.  Watch it!!

"Hold on to your butts."

-Jurassic Park.  This is the most random quote ever, and I found it hilarious!

"Why a spoon?"

"Because it's dull, you twit!  It'll hurt more."

-Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.  I just like the word 'twit'!

"Too early for flapjacks?"

- Groundhog day

"We'll stay up all night telling manly stories.  And in the morning, I'm making waffles!!"

"I'm a donkey on the edge!"

-Donkey from Shrek I.  I love both these quotes because my dad says them all the time!

"There's something wrong with this yogurt."

"That's not yogurt, that's mayonnaise."

"Right!"

-Notting Hill.  Jut picture nasty Spike chowin' down on some mayonnaise!

Not to mention the plethora of quotes from Austin Powers!

"Mole!  Bloody mole!  I want to chop it off, cut it up, and make some guacamole!"

"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it."

"Who throws a cupcake?  Honestly."

"What do you know about my father's where.... about.... s?"

"Mooooole...."

"Can't I get some frickin sharks with some frickin laser beams attached to their frickin heads?!"

"Unfortunately sharks were placed on the endangered species list while you were frozen.  However, we do have genetically mutated sea bass."

"Are they ill tempered?"

Words from the Midwest

Okay guys, today I managed to fly out to Omaha, Nebraska!  Awesome, right?  Well I had quite the mishap attempting to board today, making me much less of a fan of airports in general.  Bummer, right?  Well after standing in line for about forty minutes, the guy at the front tells me that it's too late to check my bag, and I that I'm going to have to make a run for it.  So I've got about 20 minutes till my flight leaves, and I've still got to get through security.  Sadly, I had my bag full of shampoo and other such items that airports are in desperate shortage of, therefore they took all of it, making me very sad indeed.  So there I am with my shoes off (they make you take 'em off) holding my computer, and two bags (because they didn't check it) and luckily my dad shows up to snatch my bag and lead me quickly to my gate.  We've got like five minutes, and I'm running like a mad crazy person - with no shoes - through the airport, on those awesome moving sidewalks, down the escalator, through the gate, down the hall, and out to the plane.  We totally made it with seconds to spare!  I finally got to put my shoes on and catch my breath, and enjoy my in-flight beverage and cookie!

Well now I'm in Omaha, and I got my first look at the place I will be living for the next three years.  First impression, I really liked it.  It wasn't as flat as I had anticipated, and there are some really cool old buildings, and delicious restaurants.  Plus, I really liked the actual dental school.  I also ran into one of the sophomores, and he greatly encouraged me by letting me know that apparently all of the other guys in my dental class are slackers.  Hmm, maybe that has to do with all of their drinking parties on the weekends!  So basically, I'm excited for school next year.  The living situation, however, is a completely different story.  First of all let me express how much I hate trying to find a new place to live.  Bleh.  It is like my least favorite thing ever.  So that is what I am attempting to accomplish during this trip, so I will most likely be in a better mood once I find someplace to live.

So today has been one of adventure, and I hope you enjoyed my narrative on the entire thing.  Oh yes, and I also need to tell you about my madness that occurred yesterday.  So I spent the first couple of days of my spring break in Cedar chillaxing with my brothers.  Yesterday (wednesday) I finally decided that it was time to go back to Salt Lake.  However, it was getting a little late by the time I finally pulled out.  So I was enjoying myself, because I actually prefer driving at night.  I even busted out my Angels and Demons book on tape, and was jammin' on down the freeway.  All of a sudden I saw something in front of me.  I slammed on the brakes, but it wasn't fast enough.  I hit a deer!  It scared the crap out of me, especially because you hear so many horror stories of deer totaling cars.  I felt very lucky that I was just fine, my car was only mildly damaged, and the deer ran away, so I can only hope that it was okay.  I guess someone has been looking out for me during my travels, and I feel very blessed to be safe during my travels!

I will try to post some awesome Omaha pictures when I get home.  Peace out, guys!

Spring break

Okay, I haven't wrote anything for a long time, so I figured now is as good a time as any!  I am currently in Cedar, and as usual, haven't got anything done.  Oh well, I am having too much fun with all my millions of brothers.  Seriously, we have so much fun.  On Saturday I took the two youngest ones to the piano festival, and they both did awesome!  We also got to go to Wingers with my cousin Kent, and his wife Alyssa.  Kent and I used to be best buds, and we haven't really hung out since before his mission, so it was AWESOME to hang out and mess around with him.  

Mitchell has also sucked me into Halo tournaments with him and his friends.  It has got to be the coolest thing ever because my parents have a projector screen at their house, and we hooked up the xbox and started killing each other!  However, Mitchell's friends happen to be good, or at least much better than me.  Ha ha!  I have also finally figured out how to hook up my xbox live, and have been battling it out with the dental students on Halo.  I am sorry to say that my halo skills are weak at best.  Oh well, I have fun driving the warthog!

Also, have you ever had a weird craving for something from like a movie?  Once I watched Secret Window and I was craving doritos and mountain dew for like a week!  Well anyways, I watched this 30 rock episode, and I've been craving a Mcflurry for like a month!  So get this, McDonald's has failed me repeatedly.  In Salt Lake, the one I went to was out of ice cream.  Darn.  Hmm, well I figured Cedar probably had some, right?  I even managed to involve Blake and Mitch on this particular adventure at about 11 o clock at night.  Too bad the McDonald's was closed early for some odd reason.  Good thing that everything but Wendy's closes by 11 in Cedar, meaning I got to enjoy some fries and a delicious "midget" frosty!  Excellent replacement, I must admit!  

Well today I did actually get some stuff done, such as start work on my preventive dentistry presentation.  I figured it was appropriate for the only female dental student to pick a topic about something female-related, right?  I'm going to present on some stuff that dentists should be aware of with pregnant patients.  Awesome, right?  I will let you know how it goes over.  I just want to get it done and out of the way.  This evening I unearthed my five separate scrapbooks, and had a good laugh at all the pictures I found.  I forgot how much fun I used to have!  I also got to fly some kites with the brothers, and I decided that the very best kite you could possibly own is the super cheap diamond kites.  They are only a buck, and they have cool pictures on them like Iron Man, and Buzz Lightyear!  

I went and did it!

Okay, I don't think anybody realized it, but I have been attempting to grow my hair out since last fall.  Considering how short it was this summer, that was quite a feat.  Hence, I have decided to throw up some pictures.

Alright, this summer I got what I like to call "the mullet" cut.  This was made worse by my previous color job, which was red on the bottom.  All in all a yucky cut.  As the dental students would put it, I sported the "fem-mullet."  Ha ha!

Seeya later mullet!  This was my new, improved look with no mullet, and no red.  This is also my very favorite hair-cut ever.

This is about the longest it got.  This was about a week ago.  See that nasty little bang that loves to be in my eye? 

Check out the new and improved!  I got it whacked today, thanks to Amanda's inspiration.  The back is even shorter, if you can believe it.  Anyways, so much for my growing-it-out plan.  Yay!!  (Seriously, getting my hair cut is like an addiction.)

Rachel, oh Rachel!

This weekend was superbly lazy and relaxing.  I almost think that the stresses of tests are worth it just so you can enjoy the calm afterwards!  Seriously, it is the best feeling in the world.  Anyways, I managed to get reacquainted with my Xbox360 for many hours, which was awesome.  I also watched Stardust, which is one of those movies I love, even though it is probably one of the cheesiest movies ever.  On Sunday I had a lovely visit from one of my good friends, Rachel.  Sadly, no Cafe Rio was involved.  The reasons for this are twofold: because it was Sunday, and in memory of Catherine's illness.  (She is my usual Cafe Rio buddy, but she had the flu.)  

Back to my story.  Well Rach lived with me for over a year, and we had a blast.  Here are some photos to illustrate my point!

I would like to thank my awesome MacBook computer for making this party possible, and also all of Rachel's quarks that comes out when cameras are involved!  

Swimmer pictures

Okay, I finally found my camera cord (it was in the most obvious place ever).  So, as promised, here are the awesome pictures of my brother's swim meet!

This first picture has a good story behind it.  The high school's mascot is the Cedar Redmen, so we got all decked out in feathers and such.  This particular headdress is actually the school's, and Blake had to do some serious detective work to find it.  Apparently the football team had hijacked it, and it was just chilling out in the locker room.  (Bleh, stinky.)  Oh well, it was totally worth it, 'cause look how cool it is!  Oh yeah, and he's wearing a "loincloth" that my mom made for the team.

Here Blake is after his 50 free event.  He won 3rd place!  I especially love that none of the guys are wearing speedos - those are nasty.  

Me and my two brothers cheering on the Redmen!  Check out our festive feathers.  The little one is Carson, and the other one is Mitchell.

Eating some celebratory pizza.  Yum yum.  That's me, Blake, and our cousin Aubrey.