Showing posts with label skiing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skiing. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

shmorgishborg


The things I want to write about on this blog are usually the things that I'm thinking about, things that have happened to me, or things that I notice about the general public. Today I cannot share those things with you because they are either too personal, too mean, or too out there and would make no sense to anyone. So instead I decided to showcase my finally newfound talent in figuring out how to put my blasted videos up.
It's a shmorgishborg up in here.

This is also an exercise in humility for me. As I look back on videos I've taken I realize how immensely awkward I am with a video camera in my hand. No, really. I say weird things, kinda sorta look at the camera/my reflection, laugh to myself, and wave the camera all over the place. It's always been this way. It will always be this way. So enjoy.

*****

1 - From March 2. Caroline wanted to show off her ski skills by whipping around a sign post and continuing on down the path through the trees.


I'd give her a 3.6. But hey, doesn't she look good in that new jacket of hers? #skiinginstyle


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2 - Don't be deceived by the freaky colorful lines below. This is an actual video of my dad's golf talent taken on March 20. We were celebrating his and Caroline's birthdays. Remember? Can you spot the prankster trying to mess my dad up? #itsnormal


Dont' worry about it. He was on his high school golf team. And soccer team. And basketball team? Plus he sang in the Madrigals. #i...singwithmylittlesister? #weharmonizetobrotherbear


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3 - This was taken in the bathroom of the Flying J/Denny's hybrid building after Lindsay and I had our adventure. Remember? I'm wearing Lindsay's beanie and I love it so let's get real, I just wanted to show that off. 


My mom asked if I wore fake eyelashes. The answer: no.
Who is "mama bunny?" Answer: Lindsay's mom.
Am I standing on that bathroom floor with no shoes on? Answer: Yes. You may shudder now.


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That's probably enough for now, don't you think? There are more to come, though, so keep a watch out for videos such as "BMXing Weilers," "Space Jam in a Mini Van," and "I Share my Bed with Louis Armstrong." don't worry. it's totally in line with the honor code.


peace and rice krispy treats
got one for student appreciation week. i am so appreciated.

rrw



ps. Is anyone else loving the new "missionaries can email friends" rule as much as I am? Because shootdang. I'm lovin it. get out of my head mcdonald's jingle!







Monday, March 4, 2013

you know it's been a good weekend if



*you just pick up and leave for the weekend and know you have a nice, always welcoming, fun place to stay only 40 minutes away
status: poet.

*you were perfectly content to go to a movie and dinner with your parents
#lincoln
#socool
#datesareoverrated?
#ikeeptellingmyselfthat

*you were able to convince your little sister to spend the day skiing with you

*while skiing you accidentally hurt your sister twice by skiing into her but she forgave you

*you spent most of lunch laughing at the pathetic meal you packed that morning

*the nice people at the table next to you heard you complaining that you were still hungry, so they gave you their chips
i felt like oliver

*two guys asked to sit down with you, realized you are eating carrots and brownies, looked at their overflowing beer cups, stood up and left.
you laughed harder than before.
#represent
i don't know why or how that applies but it's cool

*you're little sister has no inhibitions and decided to do a super cool trick in front of everybody.
so naturally you recorded it.

[this is where i would show you the video but blasted blogger is struggling right now and won't let me.]
#moreupsetthanishouldbe

*you decided that was so super cool that you want to record something else.
like you skiing down the mountain.
so you go all go pro.
but you only have your phone.
so you rig up your own "no go pro" by sticking your phone down your sisters goggles.
it was her idea
you press record, and then you ski.
she looks like a fool.
but it's super hilarious.
at least to us.

[see above.]
blastedblogger.

um...don't mind my crazy hair (awkward trying-to-grow-the-bangs-out-AGAIN-stage)

*you played a rhyming game while sitting on the life. key phrase: blue skies and...
results:
...cute guys
...chicken pot pies
...flabby thighs
...bleary eyes
...mcdonald's fries
(any additions?)

*you got to eat pizza factory breadsticks
i'm going to be investing in those more often,
because,
dang.
they're good.
wanna join?

*you got to feel like a little kid again, staying up late reading a book and just loving it
it was seriously completely refreshing to read an actual book with actual paper. 
remember when that's what we did?
please.
go try it.

*you got to attend the blessing of your newest cousin and be with family and eat parfaits and quiche and cookies and play concentration with your 7 year old cousin who also treated you like a set of monkey bars and you realized that you want to spend a lot more time with her.
concentration...64...i'll go first...i'll go second...category is...
remember?
what does the 64 mean?

*you eat stuffed chicken breast for dinner and don't know what to do it's so good

*you spend all sunday night laughing with your mom and sister for really no apparent reason

*your face is peeling from the sunshine absorbed during the ski day

*you wake up to go back to provo and re-decide that you absolutely love the rockies





 great western ski lift at brighton ski resort


and...this is me.
"rock-in r"
panel one: yeah i'm sick dawg wassup homie here i be.
panel two: wait, i'm a white girl...
panel three: shame




mt olympus
aka
my backyard



peace and blue skies
little white lies

rrw








Thursday, January 24, 2013

mlk weekend p.2




the previous post was all about logan.
now let's talk about how fun the rest of the weekend was.
i tell you what, those three day weekends can seriously pull through.

after dropping my friends off back in provo saturday evening, i went to my apartment, watched an episode of modern family (guilty pleasure! guilt.) while clipping my fingernails, and then crashed.

i slept from 7pm until 7:30am.
what!?
seriously.

after rising, washing, prepping, and packing, i made my way back up to slc.
and now i feel guilty again. i have added my fair share of pollution to this mess of a valley.
guilt.

i arrived just in time to pick up lindsay-friend.
i dumped her newspaper all over the front porch while trying to be helpful.
#fail
but we laughed?

we went to a homecoming.
he did great.
srsly.
did i srsly just do "srsly?"
see what i did there?

while there catherine-friend arrived!
but only after lindsay-nurse helped a young mother with her sick and throwing-up son.
she's such a great person.
i had to avert my eyes and breathe through my mouth.
again, guilt.

after the homecoming we three chicas chatted in the parking lot next to my illegal parking job.
the two of them made plans to have lunch.
i felt left out.
but then we took a picture.
and i tried to make the voice activation on my phone camera work.
it didn't.
***picture this: three girls huddled together in the parking lot, the middle one holding her phone out, yelling "cheese!" at it***
you are welcome for the mental image.

after we said goodbye and realized that the next time we might all be together again would be catherine's "imma going on a mission talk," we parted ways.



lindsay and i went to her house.
she fed me eggs, sausage, and toast.
i felt guilty for eating all the food. 
so much guilt this post.
but it was so good.

we chatting about boys and memories and funny date stories and boys and pictures and family.
her mom chatted with us.
shout out to momma bunny.

that night i bonded with my dad and sister.
after taking a 3 hour nap.
srsly. what is going on with me?

they gave me advice.
we watched lion king.
we made cookies. 
read "ate cookie dough"
and got our things together for the outing to snowbird scheduled for the next day.



the next day dawned cold and polluted.
we bundled up, layer upon layer, and made our way to the mountain.
but only after listening to the new britney spears song three times on the radio.
let's get real, britney doesn't even sing in it.

after getting an excellent parking spot (we woke up so early, we deserved that spot) we headed to the tram.
three words about the tram:
no. personal. space.
but man, you get up the mountain quick.

after breathing our first breaths of clean air in 2 weeks, our day commenced.
it was a great day.
sure, they could use some more snow.
sure, we had a few cliff encounters.
sure, i almost died.
really.

but overall. good.
the cookies we had made the night before were the perfect end to a massive lunch.
srsly. huge. we had to muscle down the root beer.
i ended up having my dad drink it.
he loves root beer.

the mountains were beautiful.
reentering the valley was not.

here's to three day weekends.




***funny moments from the slopes***

-me chatting it up with the relocated new jersey citizen who works as ski patrol, studied environmental science, moved to utah to ski, lives at the mouth of the canyon, is 28, and enjoys using four letter words.
those four letter words stopped when i told him i went to byu.
MOST. AWESOME.

-dad beginning to tell me to do something (i think it was go pick up napkins) during lunch, only to stop midway and tell caroline to go do it instead.
caroline responded with, "What? Why not her? She's not doing anything."
dad responded with, "She doesn't have to do anything but sit there and look pretty."
bahahaha! greatest moment.
maybe he thinks i need self-esteem boosts?
probably most definitely actually, seeing as he had told me my face was looking good without makeup on it earlier, in the middle of the ski store.
...oh well. i'll take.
YEAH! I HAVE A PRETTY FACE! MY DAD TOLD ME SO!

-when caroline skied over my ski pole, which had been right where it was for a good 20 seconds, stopped on the ski pole, exclaimed that it was in her way, began to tip over, did tip over, and proceeded to fall/slide down the hill.
i laughed the whole way down the run.
my tears of mirth would have frozen to my face, but once you're out of the valley the temperature rises 30 degrees.
so they didn't freeze.
that rhymed

-the three of us simultaneously whistling the theme from the hunger games at the skiers below while going up the lift. 
all we wanted was one response.
we never got it.
but the people on the chair in front of us were probably sick of us by the end of the ride.
#YOLO
ugh.

-listening to my dad chant his own made up jingle about how we need to get to the tram.
and only realizing what is happening after 47 seconds of this chanting.
and then laughing so hard the previously mentioned not frozen tears would have melted and frozen again.
if it had been cold enough to freeze.
but it was beautiful and sunny and warm up there.
#takeoffthelayers