The Funny Wiig...

Okay people, so I've always been a fan of Saturday Night Live, or SNL to all those junkies, but I've never been religious about watching it. But I have recently stumbled upon some seriously funny SNL clips. This new lady, well I can't really say how new she is, but she is hilarious. Her name is Kristin Wiig (pronounced WIG). She has made some funny clips. My favorite one is the Surprise Party.

Another thing that is so great about her, is that she can stay in character. She doesn't laugh or even crack a smile. Brilliant is what I say. But watching these clips has been a really good time. I highly recommend watching these, so please watch. You won't regret it...Promise!

Judy Grimes

The Lawrence Welk Show

The Surprise Party

The Grinch, again?

*Kids Today, so desensitized by movies and television...
*All right, you're a reindeer. Here's your motivation: Your name is Rudolph, you're a freak with a red nose, and no one likes you. Then, one day, Santa picks you and you save Christmas. No, forget that part. We'll improvise... just keep it kind of loosey-goosey. You HATE Christmas! You're gonna steal it. Saving Christmas is a lousy ending, way too commercial. ACTION! (The dog, Max, knocks off the red nose)
*BRILLIANT! You reject your own nose because it represents the glitter of commercialism. Why didn't I think of that? Cut, print, check the gate, moving on....

If you don't know what that is from, then you don't even know me at all, or my favorite Christmas Movie. My #1 pick of all Christmas movies is DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, the Jim Carey version, thank you.


Last year my roommate and very dear friend Lauren watched the Grinch a million times, and during this time we would talk like the Grinch, and quote it ALL THE TIME! We even went as far as writing on each other's Facebook walls of all the quotes we know. Great right? But the best thing is that my dad totally loved one of the lines. It is the first one. And it does have some truth to it. Also, my dad hates the glitter of commercialism during Christmas time, so I'm sure that he LOVES that line too. But I watched the Grinch last night, and it just makes me remember WHY I WATCH IT EVERY YEAR!!!!! It is amazing. It has quotable lines, great costumes, full of color, and the make up is amazing.


So please, if you haven't watched the Grinch for a long time, or haven't ever seen it, I highly recommend it. You won't be let down. Merry Christmas!!!

So Long, Farewell, Auf Weidersehen, Good-Bye...

To Grandma Glendenning aka Ghetto G...
I love You, and I'm going to miss you. I never thought that you would be the first to go, but please watch over us, and like Courtney said, we'll take care of Grandpa. I'll remember all the good times we've had. KU, you and Grandpa coming out to stay with us, and letting us tease you about your smoking cigs. You were a great Grandmother and Mother. And we will miss you dearly.
I love you and I will miss you. God be with you till we meet again.



(These lyrics are touching. Please read them)

I saw Mary, She was walkin' on the water.
Smiling at me.
Humming her river song.
And i tried waving,
But she was walking away.
Said that she'd been waiting on me,
All day long.

I tried to call her.
And said, Please come back.
Because i didn't mean.
To make you sad.
She said,
Well don't you worry,
Cause i'll see you again.
But i hear my mother call,
And i have to go.

(These lyrics are by the artist Joe Purdy. I heard the song in a movie during a funeral scene and an overwhelming feeling just came over me. It was touching. I wish I could describe it better. But the song is captivating, and the lyrics are beautiful. The song isn't very long, but the feel of the song is amazing. Download it.)

The month of Candy, Costumes and Fun is OVER...boo.

Well Halloween is gone, and what a great Halloween it was. We had lots of fun, again. We were Rockstars, as you can see from my post below. They turned out wonderfully, except for mine. I really wanted to be Michael Jackson, but it didn't go over so well. I had all my costume stuff together, and I was trying on my outfit, and it was TERRIBLE. And I am not just saying that either. I was so upset, so I had to hurry and think of another costume. Then Cami mentioned Tina Turner. She is quite the Rockstar, with that hair and her infamous legs, how could you go wrong? Well let me tell you, IT DID. My costumes was bad. I thought that I could make it work, but I don't have the long, lean legs, and well to be honest, I don't have black hair, or dark skin. So I was a short, white, blonde Tina Turner. Quite the opposite of the original idea right?
Well we went to a concert, and Katelin, Jamie and Cami looked great, I looked like a fish out of water, but the concert was killer. It was Girl Talk. He is amazing. He is a DJ and he mixes classical rock with modern hip hop. It is incredible. He did a fantastic job. Afterwards, we took a picture with him, and we got to tell him how great he did. He also does bug eyes in photos like you mom, and Matt too. haha. Its cool, now you know you aren't the only one who does it...hahahahaha Here's a few photos from Girl Talk, which I might add was the day BEFORe Halloween, so it was a festive weekend to say the least...

Then on actual Halloween night, we went to a friends house party. It was really fun. It was fun because it was not "SWEET BRO" central. It was friends who we see on a regular basis, and those are always the best. I was NOT Tina Turner on actual Halloween. While at the concert however, everyone thought I was Debbie Harry aka Blondie. So I had everything I needed to be blondie, I just needed a few socks and some red tape to wrap around my dress. I copied her Greatest Hits album cover. But Jamie, Katelin and Cami were still Ozzy, Bret Michaels, and Slash. We had a good night, and an overall GREAT Halloween...







I LOVE HALLOWEEN. I THINK IT SHOULD BE ONCE A MONTH, THAT COULD BE A GOOD TIME...

Another Halloween, another great time, another great Costume...

Halloween is here. Wahoo. I love love love Halloween. I am very excited, because we have good costumes, AGAIN. Last year, we were "victorian" vampires, but this year we are going to be Rockers from the late 70s, early 80s. We've got Slash, Brett Michaels, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Jackson, and Axl Rose or possibly Steven Tyler. It is still up in the air.
Cami is SLASH...

Katelin is BRETT MICHAELS...

Jamie is OZZY OSBOURNE...

Missy (ME) is MICHAEL JACKSON...

And Kelsey is AXL ROSE OR STEVEN TYLER...



Like I said earlier, Another Halloween, another great time, another great costume...

Boring Life...

My life has been so dull recently. I wish that I had something really incredible to tell, but alas, nothing. I have just been going to school and things. I had a job interview with Square Magazine and guess what I GOT IT. I will be talking with the editor in chief next Tuesday to discuss my schedule. It is going to be an internship, which is great. So that way I'll be doing one, and have the credit for it, so in case I don't get the internship for W Magazine. But I am thinking positively and I will get it, I will get it. But other than that, school is consuming my life and I have been going to the 24 Hour Fitness everyday, trying to keep in shape. Or get in shape. But my life is BORING. No pictures. Sorry.

Bye, Bye Jann...

I have good news and bad news...

Good News: I have my own room!!! Wahoo. I never thought the day would come. I have so much space, and it is the greatest thing I have had happen to me in a long time.

Bad News: Jann has officially left the Beach House. She left this morning at 9 am. It was sad, no tears were shed, but she is gone. Boo. Oh if you don't know, Jann is leaving on her mission. She is going home for 4 weeks, then coming back up here right before she goes into the MTC. She reports Oct. 22. She is going to South Carolina (Cakalacky). She'll be a really good missionary. She is great, and the beach house will miss her.

The night before her departure, so last night we had a little get together for her last night at our house. We had quite the turn out. We had a BBQ, bought some hot dogs (YUCK) and some chips, salsa, cookies and candy. Great right? Of course it is, except when you are trying to NOT eat crap. Oh well. But there were some really good people that showed up. Lots of Jann's friends who she hasn't seen in a while, and I'm sure she is glad that she got to see some of these people before she departed.

THE BEACH HOUSE WILL MISS YOU JANN....
(Thanks for giving me my own room too...ha)

Cami is getting everything ready, before the party starts...

Cami and Emily...

Jason Anderson, Me and Clark Kelsey...

Kelsey, Nathan Gunn, and Joe Bowers...

Nathan Gunn and Me...

The "Original" Beach House...Bye Bye Jann

The Beach House + Jordan, who practically lives here...

Halloween Costumes

I love love love Halloween, and this year I want to have an amazing costume. Something that tops last years costumes. I need some help, pronto. I really want to paint my skin, so I become a different color, like black, mexican or something like that. Make sense? I have a few different options...Ready?

1. Michelle Obama


2. Lil' Kim ( Yes she is scandalous)


3. Or there was a dance on So You Think You Can Dance: Chelsie Hightower did a contemporary dance and her costume was GREAT. The only downfall to this costume is I don't know what I would say if people asked what I was...HELP...



Here is the video if this helps more with the idea I'm trying to go for....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZaebeNQ2Y

St. George...

What can I say about St. George? That I love it down there or that it is so hot that I want to fry an egg on the sidewalk? Yeah I could say those things, though nothing can compare to those things, but the Washington County Fair comes in a close second. Can we please talk about it? Holy cow I forgot how much fun the fair can be. I know it was a couple weeks ago, but the fair has always been one of those things that you just know you HAVE to go to. Even when you're old and unwed like me.
So here's the skinny, I came down to St. George with Ashlee Patten, Kelsey Jensen and the one and only Clark Kelsey. Poor Clark was so upset the whole way down because we were all reading. Kelsey didn't have "Breaking Dawn" at this point, but she was wishing she had. So we all read, and Ashlee and I compared notes on it and discussed how much we love/hate (more hate) this lame book. Anyway, got to St. George and just chilled, where else can you do this? Only St. George. But the girls had all planned that we were going to lay out at my house the next day, while we waited for Brett Beatty, Tanner Capua and Kyle Fillmore to come down. They are my friends from Provo. Well we get together, and start basking in the sun, Ashlee points out that we are all reading "Breaking Dawn". So of course what else can you do? Hello, document it with a photo.

We lay out and have a real good time. Soak up the sun, and then that night we hang with the boys. 3 boys, 3 girls. What else could you ask for? Nothing really. It was just Jensen, Patten, Glendenning, Fillmore, Capua, and Beatty. 6 peas in a pod. Okay not really, because there are only 3 peas in a pod, but you get the analogy. We show the boys a good ole' St. George time. We or they took us to Sand Hallow to "cliff jump", but of course you have to swim to the rocks to jump off of so we made a pit stop at Wally World.

Well can I just tell you how much I hate Wal-Mart? The lines, the whole experience isn't that good. So get this, we go and pick out these mattresses to swim on, and they are like $1.88 but with tax they end up being $2.00. So I pay for mine, I didn't want the bag because I wanted to GO GREEN so I just held mine. Then I kept playing with the receipt, folding it and what not, so I was like freak I don't want this receipt it is just going to make a mess in my bag, so I threw it away. WRONG-O. Now I know why the give you a freakin receipt. We start to walk out and guess who they won't let exit? ME!!!! They actually thought I had stolen the mattress that I just spent a whopping 2 dollars on. I had to walk back to the trash can and find my receipt. Luckily I had been folding it, it was sitting pretty right on top. Gee what a waste of time. I was so annoyed. Now I know why I AVOID Wal-Mart like the plague. I got out of there alive, barely...

We made it to Sand Hollow, and guess whose freakin mattress wouldn't blow up? MINE. Talk about karma. Hence ANOTHER reason why I HATE Wal-Mart. Not quality at all. LAME.

We finally make it to the fair part of this. I'm sure you're thinking "finally"... But the fair was amazing.

"3 T" city. It was great. So the boys are being gay and don't want to go on any rides. We are at a fair, you have to at least ride a couple of rides. Well PATTEN wants to ride the Zipper and of course I do too. Ash and I get on the zipper, we are screaming and yelling and laughing so hard, and all of a sudden we start spinning. (And for a little background, before we get on the Zipper, Ashlee proceeds to tell us that this one time on the Zipper the ride got caught, and there was a couple on their first date and they kept spinning round and round and they never stopped, they eventually threw up all over each other. Talk about a first date.) So Ashlee and I are spinning, and we spun around A LOT. Close to 800 times (Exaggeration). We thought that we were going to end up like the first date couple. We look at each other and are both at a loss for words and speech in general. After laughing and yelling and screaming, we were DROP DEAD SILENT. We were laughing so hard after we were crying. I literally had tears falling down my cheeks. But if you know me, that is nothing new. But seriously, this was the greatest ride ever. No words describe how we both felt. And any other ride will pale in comparison to the Zipper. We also went on the Gee Whiz, which is also a very fun ride. But the Zipper changed my life....

It was a very fun weekend with Patten, Jensen, Fillmore, Beatty, Capua and Glendenning. We had a very fun time doing lots of fun things...



I bet everyone now wishes that they would have SPUN around on the Zipper...

DIETS...WHAT A WASTE

Recently I started doing this diet called "The Weight Loss Cure 'THEY' Don't Want You to Know About" It is written by Kevin Trudeau. It is a very interesting book, even if you aren't going to do the diet. It has some very interesting points. A little bit about this diet is you have to have a doctor supervise you. And my roommate Lauren's dad prescribed it to me. So here's the skinny, literally....
I inject myself with a shot every morning and inside the syringe is a hormone called hCG. It is released in pregnant women and it helps release the fat reserve in the body. So right now, my body is reshaping and my metabolism is re-starting you could say. For the first two days I gorged on whatever. Cookies, candy, Cafe Rio, Pizza, you name it, I ate it. And it was incredible. Then after the first two days I start a new phase.
Phase 2.
I eat 500 calories a day, and the hCG releases about 1500 more. So I'm not hungry. I can eat only a few fruits, Apple, Grapefruit, or Strawberries. And I only eat a few meats as well. The book gave me a list, but I eat Chicken, Sirloin, and Hamburger meat. I have to weigh the meat out, and it can only be 100 grams. I also eat lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and I use spices to flavor everything. One catch...EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ORGANIC. Shampoo, Conditioner, toothpaste, body wash. That's right, it has to be organic. It wasn't too hard to find places that have organic things. This being the upside of living really close to Salt Lake. They have a Whole Foods, which is an organic grocer. Very nice right? So I started doing this July 7th and I ended August 3rd. The catch with this diet is that you have to go a minimum of 21 days and a maximum of 45 days. No less, no more. And these days consist of the 500 calories and injecting the shot everyday. I went a few more days, about 5 days longer. I wasn't where I wanted to be. But then I wasn't losing any so I figured why starve myself when I can be eating delicious foods?
Maintenance:
I still eat everything organic, but I can start adding in bread and stuff. But not just any kind of bread. It has to be sprouted bread, and not made with flour or any kind of sugar or gluten. But anything I eat CAN'T contain High Fructose Corn Syrup, Starch of sugar. I started maintenance yesterday, August 6th. The food may not be what everyone else in my house eats, but what I do have it the most amazing thing ever. I can't even begin to tell you what it felt like having cereal, and a piece of toast. Oh and the bread and cereal is by the brand ezekiel. And NO NOT the clothing company. I can have fruits, but no grapes or bananas. They have too much sugar and have starch. And no beans, carrots, and corn.
Seriously read the book. It is so neat what this diet has done for me and I've seen the results in other people as well. But mostly I've noticed a difference in myself. It is cool guys, seriously.


***See if you guys can see a difference...

BEFORE...


AFTER...

Everybody Loves Free Things...

Every Thursday, the city of Salt Lake has a free concert. It is at the Gallivan Center on Main Street. They are a very good time. About 2 weeks ago I went and the bands The Cool Kids, and De La Soul were playing. They are hip hop/rap artist, so let's just say that the crowd that they brought were quite "gangster". We started out in the middle, and it is horrible because everyone I go with is about 5'9" tall and they can see over EVERYONE. Don't you know that when you're friends with little people you have to be prepared to stand a little closer to the stage?
So anyway, I ended up standing on a cooler and then I was taller than everyone and I LOVED it. There was so much more air up there. It was incredible. Not musky, sweaty, or hot either. Just fresh clean air. But the concert was so good, and I had so much fun. I went with Kelsey Jensen, Lindsay Wells, Trent Rohner, Dave Challis, Brett Beatty, Kyle Fillmore, Forest Anthony and Lindsay's friend Brittany. We had a really good time, and we danced and found people who were drunk. It was amazing. Then afterwards we tried to find fireworks, considering it was the 24th of July. But we missed them. But on the up side we ended up getting a picture with a member of the Cool Kids. His name is Mikey.
It was a very enjoyable time and I will continue to go until they are over. Wahoo...

***So I can't upload any of the pictures, which is so lame, because I took them from a friend. I'll figure out how to do it then I'll post them....

California Dreamin...

Last weekend I went down to California for one of my many roommates wedding. Seriously, this wedding was great. My roommate (former now obviously) Kennedy got married (finally) to Christian Clayton, who happens to be my present roommate Cami's cousin. (And yes his father is L. Whitney Clayton). Anyway that isn't the point. The thing I LOVE about Kennedy and Christian is that us 3 (THIRD WHEEL? HOW UNUSUAL) can go and have the best time together. We'll go to lunch and they aren't the kind of couple that will have a tag a long and be totally pissed about it, they embrace it. Including me in everything. I can't wait for them to get back up here. I'm counting down the days actually.



Besides the wedding, I stayed at Katelin's house. It was very nice. She lives in Tustin, California. We went to the Sawdust festival in Laguna and got some really good things. We went to two movies, Batman and Mamma Mia!. And might I add that Heath Ledger did an AMAZING JOB. I can't even begin to describe how well he did. We also hung out at the Irvine Spectrum and had a real good time. I had a very good weekend in California, and long for a time when I can go back. One day I'll head back there...And it will be for more than 5 days.
We didn't take too many pictures, but the one we did was priceless. We were in Laguna and there was a couple taking engagement shots. And also there were 3 other girls that were taking these shots with her. And occasionally the fiance would hop in the picture. The one getting married was the only girl NOT wearing sunglasses. So the photographer looks at me, because I WAS wearing sunglass and always do, grabbed them off my face and said that she was going to borrow them. Yeah right. What if I had a rare eye disease where I couldn't go outside without sunglass? That could have been very dangerous. Well luckily enough for him and myself I DON'T have rare eye disease, but still, who takes someone's sunglasses off their face. Really? Anyway, the photographer took this picture of Katelin and I. Classic.

"Bond" Fires...

Just the past few days, I've made a change. I figure that I won't be able to do this kind of thing forever. This thing that I can't do forever is hang out with my friends. This whole summer I've been going to bed super early, like 11:30 p.m. every night. The only reason why I do this is because I have to get up early on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings for work. It is such a bust. Not work, but going to bed early. So this last week I've been going out and socializing with friends. It is quite nice. I've forgotten how much I've missed it.
It all started on Tuesday. I went to Dollar Scoop at Baskin Robbins. $1.07 for a scoop of ice cream. It is pure bliss. Anyway, after that I went over to my friends Trent and Bryce's house and they had a "camp fire" in their front yard. We lit off a few fireworks, and I came home and didn't get to bed until late. I was actually okay with it. Then I did it again the next night. But this time we all "bonded" and then called it a "Bond" Fire. It was nice.
Now I feel like the oldest person alive. I sound like an old cat lady. I would have said a married person, but we all know that that term doesn't exist for me right now. Obviously. But nevertheless, I forgot how much fun I like being social and being around good friends.