Since I am unemployed....

I have much more time on my hands...and this is what I have been doing...

a) Crafting and making cards. Give me your address if you like mail AND if you will WRITE ME BACK because I am running out of people on my "to write" list.

b) Going here a lot
{SLC Public Library}

c) Watching a few movies, and by a few I mean one almost every night.
Such as:
The Blindness (***) dumb ending
Vicky Christina Barcelona (****) Pretty darn good.
Sunshine Cleaners (*****) Loved this one, very Juno-esque

d) Hanging out with these people, K (my roommate) and Joe (her bf)

e) Taking pictures

f) Listening to music and loving Ben Harper

g) Sleeping in

h) Blog stalking
Check out Le Love {leloveimage.blogspot.com}
because it makes me feel very cheery and lovie

Ohhhh...and I forgot to blog about a certain show I saw a few weeks ago. Maybe you've heard of it....

Play

Two of our friends (Danny James and Bradford) were in Treasure Island in SLC. Ian and I got to go and it was a fabulous show. Ian didn't find anything he really didn't like ---and he is quite the play critic. Of course we had to catch up with the lovely pirates for a photo op.
Yes the man in that pictures is Ian...not a homeless man. The beard can be deceiving. He also has a tiny pony tail that makes him look like a buccaneer...thanks to his festival contract and not being allowed to cut his hair.


Please ignore the lack of make-up and how ill I look.

Wonderland

I went to see Phoebe in Wonderland at the Broadway in SLC. It was fabulous...especially because my uncle did all the wardrobe.

Moving On Up In the World

Yes, its finally happened. I got my very own desk at work.
(Please ignore the mess)
I definitely feel grown up.
and I even have an inbox



Man, I feel like such a big deal. :)

Ode To Clairsonic

I recently splurged and bought the Clairsonic facial scrubber that I have been admiring and wanting for quite sometime. Some people don't know why I would want something that seems so ridiculous (especially Mr. Ian) but I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. My face has totally cleared up and my skin looks fabulous. It was well worth the price, and i figure sometimes its ok to splurge.

Keep It Loose...

"Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight"
-Amos Lee

Well I walked over the bridge
Into the city where I live,
And I saw my old landlord.
Well we both said hello,
There was no where else to go,
'cuz his rent I couldn't afford.

Well relationships change,
Oh I think it's kinda strange,
How money makes a man grow.
Some people they claim,
If you get enough fame,
You live over the rainbow.
Over the rainbow..

But the people on the street,
Out on buses or on feet,
We all got the same blood flow.
Oh, in society,
Every dollar got a deed,
We all need a place so we can go,
And feel over the rainbow.

But sometimes,
We forget what we got,
Who we are.
Oh who are are not.
I think we gotta chance,
To make it right.
Keep it loose,
Keep it tight.
Keep it tight.

I'm in love with a girl,
Who's in love with the world,
Though I can't help but follow.
Though I know some day,
She is bound to go away,
And stay over the rainbow.
Gotta learn how to let her go.
Over the rainbow.

Sometimes we forget who we got,
Who they are.
Oh, who they are not.
There is so much more in love,
Than black and white.
Keep it loose child,
Gotta keep it tight.
Keep it loose child,
Keep it tight.

Keep it tight,
Keep it tight,
Yaa..

I love this song, and it seems to really be applying lately. Due to my latest new job I have been forced (thankfully) to think about what i think it means to "love everybody". Now this is an easy phrase to recite in school, church, or in conversation. But so hard to really live to the fullest. So often I think I have told myself and others that I am/strive to love everybody, but what I really mean is that I will love everybody from afar. Yes, I'll love the liar as long as he doesn't lie to me, I will love the homeless, as long as I doesn't mean he's on my property, I will love the ill, as long as I don't have to care for them...so on and so forth. Loving from a distance means loving people in theory, but not loving them personally, not actually surrounding yourself with them.

I have learned a huge lesson in loving, even if it is just in a very specific sense. I marvel at the things I learn and the feelings I feel when instead of worrying about how being around someone who has made poor choices may effect me worrying about how I can just show them love. Not condone what they have or haven't done but listen with out judgment and give all the love I have. I understand the logic of surrounding yourself with people who have made good choices, but in the last few months I have also learned that to truly love someone you must be with them, love right there next to them, not from a far.

Love is more than a recital to proclaim your "goodness" it is action.

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something" -Thoreau

All this time I thought I was helping them, but really they are helping me far more

Movies and Such

I have been watching movies like crazy lately (due to Spring Break and NO SCHOOL).
I don't want to bore you with my critiques...so I will be breif.


*** My mom and I got this out of the Redbox, and we had our doubts. But by the time it was over we actually liked it.***


*** Wow, great movie. Anne Hathaway definitely earned her Oscar Nomination. I thought of work the whole time I was watching. (by the way a few months ago I got another job).

*** Ummm...Sean Penn was FANTASTIC!!! He is an amazing actor and connected so well with the character. I loved the message of this film.***
*** This was intense, to say the least, thought provoking too. You can't go wrong with Leonardo Dicaprio lately everything I have seen him in has been good.***

Spring Break is such a good idea, even thought I have still been working like crazy. Even better is the lovely sunshine...maybe spring is coming after all.
{taken on campus}

Oh, and...Ian got hired by Festival for the summer season. He will be gracing audiences in the Adam's Theatre with his presence during Comedy of Errors and Henry V. Yay, he's not a starving artist forced to live in a box (at least not this summer :) )
{look, its actor Ian}