friday = random= yay!

Yesterday, I got to hang out with the fabulous Frumpy Luv. What? You do not know her, you say? 'Tis sad and oh so unfortunate for you. Frumpy is awesome. She is one of the first bloggers I got to know that I didn't already know. (You know what I'm saying?) The woman is hilarious. You probably don't know her because she's backed off of the blogging for about the last year. Between brain surgery, recooperation, and studying to be a bonafide lawyer, she wisely decided to put blogging on the back burner. She updates every now and then, but she normally has comments off. (Something I could never fathom.)

Anyway.... she is visiting family in Utah for a week or two and invited my boys and I to hang out with her family yesterday. We went swimming for about 3 hours, and it was a blast. The kids did great, except for the time that the Hulk almost jumped in the deep end to get a toy. I yelled and yelled at him to stop, but I was all the way at the other end of the pool and he didn't hear me. I realized that he was actually going to jump in and DIE if I didn't get down there, so I started stroking my heart out to get to him. One of Frumpy's sisters sitting next to the pool realized what was happening and ran down there, stopping him. I got out and gave him a stern talking to. ("If you get in right there, you will DIE. Do you want to DIE?") Other than that, though he was great.

The biggest problem with swimming yesterday was my foolishness in not reapplying my sunscreen. I am dealing with a massive sunburn because of it. I'm sitting here in a tank top {scandalous!} with cool cloths on my shoulders. We applied a few coats of aloe vera last night, but I think I might actually have a small blister, indicating a 2nd degree burn. Superman says he heard you're not supposed to put aloe on those, so I'm doing the next best thing.

Hopefully I won't need skin grafts or anything.

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Don't you hate when you try to pull a mascara clump off an eyelash, and end up pulling out the lash?

I hate that.

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I am SO VERY EXCITED FOR TONIGHT!!!! Terresa, the rockstar who makes Chocolate Chip Waffles is visiting Utah and has organized a ladies' night out! We'll be going to the Macaroni Grill at the Riverwoods in Provo for dinner tonight at 6. Do you read The Chocolate Chip Waffle? You should. The woman's amazing. She's a superb writer. Her specialty is taking the mundane things you do everyday and writing about them in a way that makes you think they are special and beautiful. She's also a fantastic poet and quote-collector. And she homebirths. She homebirthed TWINS, people. Don't you want to meet someone like that?

Come to Macaroni Grill tonight and you can. We'll be wearing purple hats.

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My reader is working again!!! I use bloglines instead of google reader. I've just always done it that way and didn't want to put the energy into changing. But for the last several months, it hasn't been working correctly. I can see who has new posts up, but I can't read them in reader format! I have to open their blog in a new window. The plus side of this is that I have just about every's addy memorized. The downside is that it wastes a LOT of time.

But the reader's working again! I can go back to reading and not commenting, if I so choose. Ü (Not that I ever do that.......)

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Remember that theater in the park thing that I'm going to be part of? It's really taking off. The director Carob and I went to an Arts Council meeting on Tuesday. She's officially part of the council, and I went just to kind of take notes and be in the background. Except, that's not the way the meeting went. There were about 4 people there, other than Carob and I, and we just sat in a small conference room at a table. There was no background for me to fade into. And now I think I'm part of the council.

Kind of crazy.

This is all so crazy to me! I've always wanted to be more involved in theater, just never had the time. I still don't really have the time, but I'm doing it anyway. I think it'll be worth the sacrifice.

One of the things were were discussing was the cost-effectiveness of ad space in our local newspaper. It's got a pretty small circulation, and we just weren't sure if it was the best use of our small funding. One of the council member suggested that we write an article about the production and submit it to the paper instead. Which is obviously a fantastic idea!

The exciting thing about that is that I've actually written for a newspaper. Did you know that about me? It's true. I actually earned a scholarsip from BYU-Idaho, working on the campus newspaper there. So writing an article for our local paper isn't as daunting as it might be.

Though it's still fairly daunting. I haven't done any writing like that in over 6 years. I'll have to pull out some old articles and brush up on my skills. Bowhunting skills, nun-chuck skills, lyger-drawing skills......

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I guess that's it for my randomness today. Spiderman is begging to get on pbskids.org, I've got clothes begging to be washed and dishes begging to be done. The dishes in particular are the bane of my existence right now. I always hate doing the dishes, but I positively loathe it when I'm pregnant. I tend to let the dishes sit too long, which means they reek by the time I get to them. And you all know what disgusting smells do to pregnant women. I have to make sure my stomach is full and I'm using a lot of lemon dishsoap when I'm washing them. Plus I have get all purdied-up for the dinner tonight. And finish up grocery shopping. And keep the house clean.

Good heavens. I have a lot to do!

Have a fantastic weekend!

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Oh, yeah. Random tunes. I don't have any new stuff, but I'm pushing "random" on my sidebar player right now. It really is the soundtrack of my life.

1. Your Call -- Secondhand Serenade (Still obsessed with this song and band.)
2. No Place that Far -- Sara Evans (when I was 13, I imagine this song was about me and missionary. So embarrassing.....)
3. Somebody to Love -- Queen (Is Queen on Rockband? They should be.)
4. Eight Days a Week -- the Beatles (they're coming to Rockband. Sweet.)
5. 3 am -- Matchbox 20 (Classic "back-in-the-day" song.)
6. Day Tripper -- David Cook ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
7. 500 miles -- the Proclaimers (this was a "Superman song" I identified with when he was on his mission)
8. Mr. Brightside -- the Killers (guilty pleasure)
9. Wishin' and Hopin' -- Annie DeFranco (BFF in HS used this song to figure out how to get guys. It didn't work.)
10. Rock This Town -- Stray Cats (Superman and I would swing dance to this at stake dances.)

**Bonus** Where I Stood -- Missy Higgins (chilling and moving)