Color Festival Craziness

Yesterday, I went with Melinda, Caron, and a couple of Caron's friends down to the Color Festival at the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, UT. I'm still a little fuzzy on the significance of the throwing of the colors. But hey, it was fun anyways!


Before the throwing of the colors


After


Caron and I

The color came off pretty easily in the shower when I got home. We'll see how my clothes look after a washing. To see more pictures, just click on any of the above thumbnails.

Snakes and Snails...

Last week my step-father bought a pure bred Maltese puppy. He's going to be a stud. I mean that quite literally. He is going to be used for breeding. We call him Joe, which is short for a Portuguese phrase that means, Hound of Gold. Go figure. Anyways, he is a cute little sucker, and usually fun to have around. He gets under foot easily as he is not much bigger than that. The thing is he is displacing the cat. She went wherever she liked, until the day Joe showed up. There is no reason for her to be skittish around the puppy, she is 3 times his size, and when he is done growing, she'll still be twice his size. But she is skittish, and rarely leaves the basement. I think she is feeling somewhat neglected as she will now get on my bed and want me to pet her. This would be alright I guess if it weren't for her fur. It's long and fine, and hard to see individually. But you can definitely tell when it is in your mouth, blech!

And now for something completely different:

I'm in my third month of classes at Stevens-Henager, and the two classes I'm in could not be more different. They have me in English 101, which is a grammar class. I haven't had grammar since the fifth grade. I guess they didn't realize I had to write several research papers every semester I was at BYU, and that I might actually have grammar down by now. My other class is Management 330: Advertising. Does that seem strange to anyone else? Advertising is definitely a possible career for a graphic artist, but why am I in this class so early in my studies? Wouldn't it be more useful to take the class near the end of my program? Why number it 330 if it is not meant to be taken later on? Anyways, the classes started last week, and I completed everything for the English class yesterday. I took all my quizzes, submitted all my assignments, and took the final. The only thing I have to do for the class is to log in everyday for the next 2 and a half weeks. My advertising class on the other hand is more involved than that, I can only work ahead so far. I can't wait for more design classes next month.

There is a chance I will have to move and find a job sooner than expected. My step-father has applied for a couple of positions at SUU in Cedar City. If he gets one, then he and my mother will be getting an apartment down there. He feels confident about his qualifications, and it would be great for them financially. While the housing market is quite favorable at this time in most of Utah, their neighborhood is full of houses that are standing empty. For the time being they would not want to try to sell the house. But they would still need to make the house payments on it. No job that would fit with my classes would allow me to make the payments myself. And I doubt I could talk anybody into moving out here to help. One, it is so far away from everything, and two, there is not enough parking space for four individuals with personal cars. I enrolled at the Murray campus to force me to move north when the time came, I just didn't think it might be so soon. If anyone knows any good deals on rent in south Salt Lake County, let me know.

Not Quite Magically Delicious

Here is a pic of Christy about to drink one of her three salsa shots as Matt and Caron watch on.

Second Tag Post On The Front Page

Man, it's been about two months since my last post. Nothing seemed post worthy for awhile there, but I have completed 3 classes at my new school and about to start my 4th and 5th classes. My classes are primarily online, so I haven't gotten out much in the last month. Getting tagged by Christy has finally prodded me back to the blogosphere.

1. What time did you get up this morning? 10ish
2. What do you usually have for breakfast? Um, I don't usually eat breakfast any more. I feel sick if I eat too soon after waking up. But if I do have something it will probably be a mug of hot chocolate and some toast.
3. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Elephant by The White Stripes.
4. What kind of car do you drive? A white Honda Accord.
5. Favorite sandwich? The first thing that popped into my head was an Angus Beef sandwich from Schlotski's Deli, that or a Throgs Neck Bridge sandwich from Gandolfo's.
6. Favorite item of clothing? a green and blue plaid shirt that I have had for years, and before that a blue and yellow plaid shirt I got on my mission, but that one is too worn out to wear anymore.
7. If you could go anywhere in the world for a vacation, where would you go? I'd start with England, but I would also like to go to Japan, New Zealand, Hawaii, Alaska (in summer) and other places as well.
8. What color is your bathroom? Gee, I think it is white, with a underwater themed shower curtain.
9. Where would you retire? Hard question, I'd want to be warm during the winter, and cool during the summer, I'd have to be one of those snow birds and migrate, north for the summer and south for the winter.
10. Most memorable birthday? For my 23rd birthday I helped plan a surprise party for myself. Wood and I invited a bunch of friends to it, "Don't say anything, it's a surprise!" I got an issue of the Weekly World News, a popsicle mold, and a yellow blow-up seamonster I named Agnes and hung in our living room all summer.
11. Favorite sport to watch? Football followed closely by basketball
12. Are you a morning person or a night person? With no reason to get up early for work, I would go to bed late, and wake up late, so definitely not a morning person, but I don't really think of myself as a night person either.
13. What is your shoe size? 10-10 1/2
14. Pets? I have lived with pets all my life but have never had one that was my pet. I like pets until it comes time to clean up after them.
15. What did you want to be when you were little? A fireman, or an astronaut, or a transformer ;).
16. What are you today? A student, same as always, this time to be a graphic artist.
17. What is your favorite candy? Dark chocolate
18. Your favorite flower? ummm...
19. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? August 2009, when I finally graduate.
20. What are you listening to right now? My mother singing Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella
21. What is the last thing you ate? A supersonic burger, tatertots, and a Cherry limeade, mmmm.
22. Do you wish on stars? Every once in a while.
23. What faith are you? LDS
24. Who was the last person you spoke with on the phone? My home teaching companion about setting up appointments
25. Hair Color? Brown with some red and, gulp, gray!
26. Name of your favorite school teacher? Dr. Tobler, a history professor at BYU. But if this means before college, then Mr Ware, middle school geography.
27. Chocolate or vanilla? I just had some really good dark chocolate ice cream, but vanilla is so much more flexible. Chocolate on it's own, vanilla as a foundation to build off of.
28. When was the last time you cried? I teared up last night watching Dan in Real Life.
29. What is under your bed? maybe a dirty sock.
30. What did you do last night? Watched Dan in Real Life.
31. Favorite smell? Fresh baked bread.
32. What are you afraid of? Coming up short at a critical moment.
33. How many towns have you lived in? at least 13, not including all the different towns I lived in on my mission.
34. Do you make friends easily? I can, if I let myself, if I am somewhere new and don't have any friends already near by.

I tag…I feel like I just did this recently, so anyone that feels like answering the questions in this post and reads this blog!