My Attempt at Popularity

Observation # 13: Everyone is doing the toons thing. I wanna be cool too.

This is Jens Lekman. Nothing gets better than him. He is cheesy, Swedish, and romantic. Get to know him.
If you can't appreciate him, I understand. I think I just love him because of my GrizzlyBear and Belle&Sebastian phase. He is a mix of both with some cheese on top. If you don't know who they are...
P.S. The top video just stops, so don't be alarmed when your bustin out your groove and the halt throws it off

Check it:

My Mind Would Like to Say "Ello!"

Observation #12: The voice in my head is a British accent

The other day at work was super busy so I was constantly working and didn't talk at all. Many of you may not know (or many of you may know which would be more embarrassing) that I am constantly talking, singing, making lists or stories in my head to keep myself entertained. Well, after my silent day, when I got home and started to speak, it came out in a British accent! In a very poor British accent I may add. Ever since then I have paid attention to the voice in my head since really it has always been this abstract thing that I never really paid tribute to. That is how I discovered that it is a very elegant British accent that is rather higher and smoother than my actual voice. I haven't decided if I am harboring an unconscious desire to be a sophisticated British woman or if my spirit really is British and I was just born into the wrong country. Food for thought. Or in my case, tea and biscuits for thought.

Cheerio!

Practically Mrs. Grenier

Observation #11: My virtual wedding is better than yours

2 posts in 3 days... I need a life.

Work has been especially boring this last week since everyone up here in the glorious world of office land has caught Spring Break Fever, resulting in laziness, resulting in not having anything for me to do. So all day I scour (I know I have had my FB on pirate language way too long when I start throwing words like scour and matey in a normal conversation) the internet for hot boys and crafty blogs. I have found that blog stalking is very addictive. In fact, yesterday I got so consumed in this blog that I completely forgot about the 5 things I was supposed to scan. Good thing my Dads the boss...

Anyways, I have realized that most crafty blogs are about weddings so my previous nonchalant attitude toward my one-day-wedding has completely changed. I now have every last detail decided:

Husband: Adrian Grenier

Ring

Cake

A picture like this

Dress

Flowers

 

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A reception with this

Ok I have now completely lost momentum. Over and out

I Have Red Lips. Hear Them ROAR

Observation #10: Monogrammed underwear is the best! Except when it has the wrong name on it...

I hope you didn't get too excited about my observation since I don't really have a good story about wearing someone else's underwear. Although that does sound like something pathetic enough to have a scene in my life. I am only referring to my blog's name change. I have decided to make some changes because I feel like mine is especially borrring. Yes, it is so borrring it deserves 3 r's. But everyone seems to comment on the fact that I always wear red lipstick even though I didn't think it was that uncommon. In fact, little brother made it known to me the other day that someone asked him if his sister was the girl that wore the red lipstick. I'm not sure if I should be flattered that the oh-so-important Mountain View population noticed me, or insulted that no one actually knew my name... I still haven't decided. But my contemplation on the matter did result in an idea to take on the "redlips" thing as a cutsie identity. So that is the reason for my name change!

!!!If anyone (and I'm guessing all of you do since all of your blogs are so classy) know how to personalize the fonts/heading/colors please let me know since the whole blue/gold and times new roman thing is really cramping my style!!!

Save Money, Die awkwardly, Walmart.

Observation #9: My awkwarditis is still raging

This picture of Brad and I is one of my normal moments

For those of you who know me or have read previous posts you know about my High School awkwardness. Well I can't say "High School awkwardness" since I am still awkward, but there is something about the same insecure people seeing me in my insecurity that just really compliments my already awkwardness. Well, body and soul were reunited again as this HS awkwardness came back with seeing my HS crush.

I have actually crushed on boy since he moved into my ward in 5th grade, but not until sophomore year did I realize how truly perfect we would be together. Unfortunately, boy didn't have this same revelation... That was the start of our unbalanced relationship.

I haven't seen boy since I left for BYUI and I had completely forgotten him and our should-be-relationship until I ran into him at Walmart. Now if this were a Nicholas Sparks book we would realize what we had been missing all these years, run away together, and then I would be diagnosed with some incurrable disease. But since I wasn't aware that my Nicholas Sparks moment would be that day, I decided not to get ready before I left for my Walmart adventure. As I walked into Walmart I saw boy walking my way and I wished that my hair would blow back in slow motion and we'd make sexy eye-contact. Now although the wind was definitley blowing, my hair was too greasy to move and I made sure we didn't make eye contact but he obviously didn't notice my "piss off" expression because he walked right up to me and started talking about his mission coming up or something like that... it was all drowned out by the sound of my self esteem flushing down the toilet. After a few minutes of this, mom finally shows up and we go our separate ways. As soon as we got our cart and walked the other way, I turned to my mom and told her how mad I was that she allowed me to look like that in public. But her supermom sensitivity just said "you didn't want him to see you like that." We then discussed how I have crushed on him since forever and now he'll be going on a mission and remembering me like that. I then felt someone looking at me so I glanced behind and saw boy 7 feet away. I guess he wasn't leaving. He now has a red-faced, greasy-haired image of me in his mind to remind him why he never dated me while he serves his two years in California.

Walmart has finally failed me.

No I did not forget to post my thrift finds but I am at work so that post will be for another time

The Tales of a Gimp

Observation #8: 2 feet are better than 1

I HAVE THE MAJOR BONES FOR CEDRIC DIGGERY!
So I never know how to start a blog post. I always start with "so..." or "the other day" or something rubbish and completely unattention-getting. My High School English teachers would be so disappointed. That is why I started with the first interesting and attention-getting statement that popped into my mind and put it in caps. Its how I got through all those High School essays.
Anyways, to my observation. Thursday I got foot surgery. Many have asked why and I have given them answers like "my foot is just messed up" or "I just really needed it" and hoped that that would be good enough. I was embarrassed by the real reason, but since I feel like I am so close to the few of you who care about the happenings in my life, I will tell you a secret... I have  bunions. No they are not a bread-like substance or a coil of hair at the back of your head. They are bones on this inside of your feet that stick out and make your toes grow the wrong way. You have probably seen them on your grandma. I have had them since the beginning of time and I used to think my feet were just prettier than everyone else's, like they had curves or something. But then the influence of the world got to me and I realized that my feet were messed up and then I realized that they are why I cannot wear heals for more than 5 minutes without wanting to murder someone. Anyways, my left foot is bunion free but my life is social-less since I cannot move. You all probably know that I am not usually Ms. Social Butterfly, but recently I have actually met people in Mesa who aren't Mesa People! (they include boys). Yes, there are boys in Mesa who actually want to hang out with me and don't think I am completely weird! So to fill up my time that was usually spent playing just dance, attempting football or the other random stuff we have been doing lately, I have picked up YouTubing and room-crafting. This is my all time favorite YouTube video that I have watched 20+ times since Thursday:

I have also discovered that chalk looks really cool on my walls and isn't permanent so I won't have a spaz attack when I don't like it in a week. 

This is just in my bedroom and bathroom but it could be cool if you got really creative with it.

Tune in next week to discover my odd findings at Goodwill and my basement and how I've used them to decorate my room.