thinking of you

i loved this song the very first time i heard it, long before they started playing it on the radio.  i think katy perry is a brilliant lyricist.  and this song never gets old to me.  it gets me every time.

someone once asked me, "would you rather be married to someone who could never love you but who you were completely in love with or married to someone who is desperately in love with you but who you could never really love?"  i have no idea and i think it's a really mean question.  unrequited love, you are the meanest thing i have ever come across in life.  just thought you should know.

cavity free!!!

went to the dentist today and i have no cavities!!!  i repeat... none.  for most of you normal people out there in the world that might not be a big deal.  but for someone whose older sister once came back from the dentist with 12 cavities (that's right, 12... in one sitting.  this was obviously before she discovered the beauty that is sugar-free gum... and no brooke, you'll never live that one down) this is revolutionary.  my family has a history of soft teeth, people.  so let me have my moment of glory.   my teeth feel a little like this guy.  that's right, i've got super schwartz teeth!  i can almost feel pj's coveting eyes as he reads this.  numbness wear off yet, squeege? 

lebron

if you ever watch king james play, you can expect to see this... all night long. 

earlier in the semester ryan took me to a jazz game.  i was really excited because i love the jazz and jump at the chance to watch them play.  little did i know that this was no ordinary jazz game.  this was the jazz game that will forever mark the night i fell in love with a man named lebron james.  dear ex-boyfriends and all of the other men in my life, how in the world did you never mention to me the name lebron james?  you have failed me.  but it's alright, because fate made things right.  i haven't had that much fun watching anyone play basketball since jordan, whom i adore. lebron's passes are magical and he completely dominates on the court.  he had a whole handful of amazing dunks that night, which normally would have really frustrated me because i'm really competitive and can't stand to watch my team lose.  but lebron, you can come and beat my team any time you want.  i am a witness.  we are all witnesses.

dear lebron, i think i love you.

after the game, we ran over to try and get close to lebron.  as he was leaving, he threw up his sweatband.  the guy on the left caught it.  ryan stole a kiss despite the kung-fu panda grip of the excited, slightly untrusting new owner of the lebron game sweatband.

and i sweet talked the guy into letting me wear it for a picture. i'll never wash this forehead again.  ever.

fidelity

regina spektor is brilliant.  this video never gets old.

road trip!

i just got back from a four day trip to la with some friends.  ben, jaremy and i went to an audition and lane came along for the ride.  the weather was beautiful!  it was so fun to walk around in summer dresses and shorts and t-shirts.  remind me to move somewhere warm in the future.  i can't take utah's bipolar weather anymore.  

we did lots of fun things while we were there.  we hung out on santa monica peer, spent two days at the beach (i forgot how much i love the sound of the waves and how good for the soul it is just to walk along the beach), had frozen yogurt at pinkberry and yogurtland, visited the kodak theatre mall, did the walk of fame and visited the chinese theatre.  

lane and i went to lunch one day at a little restaurant called uwink.  it was really fun.  each of us had a little tv screen in front of us.  they have you order on the tvs and then use it to play games with everyone on your table.  lane and i played the "first date game".  it was actually really fun.  it had a bunch of questions for us to ask each other and, of course, we chose to ask all of the "spicy" questions.  i think i know lane a lot better than i used to... as if sharing a hotel room for 4 nights wasn't enough. :)

we also went to my favorite restaurant in downtown la called miceli's. it's the oldest italian restaurant in la.  it's been open for 60 years. the food is delicious and the restaurant itself is so ambianceful.  there's a really cute old man that plays live piano music.  the whole thing is adorable.  

the trip was so laid back and fun.  it's great to go on audition road trips with people that do it right.  i love my boys.  

at dinner with ben, lane, jaremy and kevin

lane's oval of destruction.  and yes, i destroyed him.

pinkberry.  how i've missed you.  lane likes it even better than yogurtland.  just ask him.

laner and i at lunch at the kodak theatre mall

our special night at the "adventure"

pound it

sometimes i have awesome dumb blonde moments.  and by awesome i mean pretty hilarious and usually very embarrassing.   mostly they're brought out by my family, but a couple of weeks ago one slipped out in a conversation with a provo police officer.  

i had been in an accident near campus and a local policeman came to help us sort out all of the paper work.  pj, being the sweet brother that he is, came to hang out with me while we got everything worked out.  while pj and i were talking and laughing, as usual, the officer came over to relay some information.  he said, "now if you have any problems, just give me a call at 422-2222."  

well, as he was saying that, he held out his fist (maybe to physically emphasize each number that he was rattling off? we'll never know) and naturally, i figured he wanted me to pound it.  so, i did.  but just as our knuckles collided, i realized that he hadn't wanted to me pound it at all.  my mind was so preoccupied by figuring all of this out and being mortified that i had just pounded it with a police officer that i completely missed his phone number and had to ask him to repeat it.  422-2222?  hello, maybe one of the easiest phone numbers in the book!  neither pj nor i could hold it in.  we started laughing and tried to control it until the conversation with the officer had ended.  but oh, did we laugh about that one the rest of the way home! 

so when in doubt... pound it.  at least it'll be good for a laugh.

smoothie

shaved my legs this morning so i could wear shorts here in la.  i love the feeling of my legs when they're newly shaved. i couldn't help but rub them all day.  i have a little secret for making them extra smooth.  shave with conditioner.  try it... you'll never go back.