Hallow's Eve

I'd like to link to a friend's blog.  She asked a question, and I wrote a comment that is very fitting for Halloween. Check it out! Really, do it!  Click here.

Also, I dressed up as a Ravenclaw student today.  It was so much fun!  I didn't have a real costume when it came to clothes, but I stuck with Ravenclaw colors, and I had great accessories.  And today isn't even over.  So there's a quick post before I go eat and dance like crazy.

Also, my two of my best friends in China watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie with me, and we chatted about it through Skype, so it was like we were watching it together, so I watched a movie with them on Halloween (my Halloween).  It was great!

Blog n Library

Hey guys!

I thought I'd let you know about a new blog I've started, called Cleave (<--that's a link, for all of you who might not know it already).

I'm still working with the code to fix a few things with the layout that I don't like, but that's just me being picky, and it's totally visitable.  So check it out if you want, and if you don't, then I still have something to tell you!

I have 2433 songs on my iTunes.  It's over 8 days worth of music.  Usually I get a craving for certain songs and artists, so I just listen to them over and over again.  Today I wasn't in a mood for anything specific, so I put my library on shuffle, and something AMAZING happened.

I realized I have buttload of really great music!  It's just such a huge library that there's no way I can remember everything I have.

So, I know you guys probably do that too, but I tell you what, wow!

Fabulous Facebook

You may think this a strange statement.  If that be the case, you probably have no idea about the wonders that Facebook provides the world with.

Put aside the addicts out there of status updates, flair, bejeweled, vampire wars, farm town, farkle, and my recent favorite: street racing (cars...and it has all the koenigzeggs)...

There are miracles at work here.  Facebook was made to grant desires.

Take a hypothetical situation: A girl says she's single, that she ended a relationship.  This notifies all the males in her social network that she is now available.  This could lead to something.

That didn't happen to me, but I'm sure it's happened somewhere.

But what DID happen to me was absolutely wonderful.  I made a status saying that I wanted cheesy bread, Brady style.  This is an amazing bread and I cannot tell anyone the recipe because it is a loosely-held family secret recipe.  Lol.  It's from one of my best friends, Keara Lei.

And Megan read my status....then next thing I know I'm at Smith's...then next thing I know I'm at home...then next thing I know we have Brady Bread!...then next thing I know it's all gone...because I ate it so fast.

It was yummy and facebook and friends are fabulous.  Ha ha.  Lots of Fs.

My tummy is happy, my friends are great, and I miss the ones in China.  Thanks roomies for cheesy bread, and thanks China roomies for introducing me to cheesy bread and practically shoving it down my throat the first time I tried it.  I really do appreciate it.  :)

Pumpkin Walk

For our group project in my Management of Organizations and People class, my team decided to volunteer at the Pumpkin Walk (look it up online, the North Logan Pumpkin Walk) and raise awareness of child safety during halloween and trick-or-treating.

Not gonna lie, I was against this idea from the get-go.  I wanted to throw a masquerade dinner/dance, and half of the team agreed with me, but for some reason this Pumpkin deal worked out...

Anyway, for the project, we got a lot of organizations to donate candy and crayons and coloring books, and we got dentists and policemen involved, and we made cotton candy.  (Btw, it sucks to make cotton candy for 5 hours straight.  Never doing that again.)

Let me tell you a secret that everyone already knows: kids are SO funny!  I was asking kids if they knew how to be safe on Halloween and they'd all nod their head, but when I'd ask them to tell me what they knew about being safe when they went trick-or-treating, they froze, and sometimes great things came out of their mouths.  Take some of my favorite responses:

(2 boys, probably 6 or 7 years old) First boy: "If you touch the door and it's hot half-way up...if the doorknob is hot...don't open the door and then the fire won't burn you."
Me, after a moment of blinking stupor: "Well, that's good fire safety, but do you know about trick-or-treating safety?"
First boy looks stumped, but the second boy is now bouncing up and down with his arm raised high in the air squeaking "Oh! I know!"  I tell him to go for it.
Second boy: "You should always bring a bag, otherwise you'll lose your candy."
I said that was true and resorted to asking them yes or no questions.

A boy, probably 5 years old: "Don't go to dark houses, unless it's your bishop's house, then it's okay."

I explained 3 of the simplest rules (stay with your parents, don't run across the street, and have your parents look at your candy) to a 4 year old, and right after I told her, I asked her what she learned, and she thought for a moment and then replied, "I'm gonna be a pirate for Halloween!"  I laughed, of course, and I told her that I like being a pirate for Halloween, so we could be pirate buddies.