MLIA

Do people blog twice in one day? Probably not. And I rarely blog twice in the same month, what is this world coming to?

Anyway, I was looking online and reading some MLIA (My Life Is Average) posts on mylifeisaverage.com if you haven't ever been there, check it out, guaranteed to get a laugh. That website is like Pringles, once you pop the fun don't stop. Anyhow, I read one that said:

"Today I read MLIA about how someone learned that their birthday is National Bubble Bath Day and Elvis Presley's birthday and that they were going to spend it in a bubble bath singing Elvis Presley. My birthday is April 20, National Marijuana Day, National "Get High" Day, and Adolf Hitlers birthday. I don't think I'll be celebrating mine accordingly. MLIA"

I got a good chuckle and decided that it would be fun to look up what today's "national day" is and do whatever it was to celebrate! Sooooo I went to http://www.louderbacks.com/home/dict/days.html to see what the national day was for May 14th turns out it is "National Dance Like a Chicken Day" not that great, but I did it none the less. I was a little distraught when I looked over some previous national days, seeing that on May 11th I missed celebrating "Eat What You Want Day and Twilight Zone Day"--both very cool things to celebrate, but I was more depressed about the initial one "Eat What You Want Day" what an excuse to concoct all sorts of deliciousness!

After I got over all my daydreaming ideas for next May 11th and recovered from the emotions of missing that monumental national day I was overjoyed to discover that tomorrow (May 15th) is National Chocolate Chip Day!! And what better way to honor chocolate chips than with eating them!! Let's see, what can I compliment chocolate chips with? Chocolate chip cookies (of course), pumpkin chocolate chip bread (or cookies, melt down for dipping!, chocolate chip pancakes? (do people do that?), trail mix, chocolate shakes mmm, ice cream maybe?

Well I guess we will just have to wait and see how National Chocolate Chip Day will be celebrated tomorrow. Stay tuned. Maybe I'll decide to blog about it, or just blog in general before next year. :)

Happy National Dance Like A Chicken Day!

Happy Sink-O De My-O

That's right. I hosted a party celebrating somethin that happened in Mexico a long time ago on May 5th. Not sure what I was celebrating, but it was awesome! (and delicious) We all gathered together to eat all the mexican food and my mother and I could find at Costco. We had bite size tacos, chimichangas, tocitos, horchata, and some weird marshmallow crazy cracker things. I would consider it a success...and of course the best part of the night was when we went out back to put to the test the pinata Annie and I had slaved away constructing earlier that day. We made it into a golden star to represent...well, look up some Mexican history and I'm sure you will find some symbolic purpose for a golden star. Our purpose was to bash it open and eat some delicious candy (compliments of the US of A). Fun night fun night. We decided to let Haley go first, not because we love her oh so dearly, but simply becuase our pinata layout was designed to only withstand one blow and we knew how distraught she would be if she didn't get to smack it at least once. To everyone elses surprise, my pinata took the innitial beating like a champ!! That's my baby. Made ford tough. So after Haley hit it multiple times with only minimal damages, we decided to open the beatings to all who would like to participate. Jason, Brandon, Jordan, Annie, Lincoln, and even myself opened a can on that poor pinata, but it wouldn't spill. It was awesome. I am not sure if I've ever felt more proud of any of my prior creations.
Brynlee was so cute, once the candy started spilling out it was as if someone had opened up an entire new idea to her...the sky was dropping delicous chocholatey goodness, a candy filled forcast. It was fun to watch her literally scream her approval of this new experience.

Wacky 5 Tourny!

What a fun day!! I can't remember the last time I said that. Collegiate soccer is always rough in the off season, but has been extremely rough this spring....but today was an exception!! Today was our annual Wacky 5 Tournament!! Throughout the spring season we play small sided tournaments every Monday (with some crazy conditioning for the losers-very much NOT fun) BUT today, on this glorious day, we had our very last small sided tournament, and as is tradition for Aggie soccer, it was our WACKY 5 tourny!
So, you may ask, what does that mean? It means, exactly what it says...it was WACKY! We split into teams (usually decided by our spring statistics, but this year it was our "olympic" teams (a story for another time)) and because we don't get to celebrate Halloween due to the fact that we are in season at that wondrous time of year, we celebrate it at the end of the spring! Not a bad idea if you ask me.
So today, in the heat of the day, at 3 o'clock pm we all gathered in our various teams dressed up in our silly themes! My team was "White Trash" (sorry if I offend any readers, but quite frankly, this is my blog so I can say whatever I want) and it was great!
The other teams were dressed as 80's work out girls and Warrior Princesses! It was so funny to play in our costumes and watch everyone in the North End-zone building (and if you've never been up to the USU football stadium pretty much the entire building is made of glass, aka windows aka EVERYONE at study hall or anyone who works there or pretty much any athlete or coach at Utah State could watch us in our silly/hideous outfits...it was great)
Well, needless to say, my team won the whole shabang. Didn't lose a single game! The one time where we don't have to run...I win. isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

365 day challenge

Well I am officially done with my second pre-season as a collegiate athlete! We had our first game of the season against Northern Arizona University, and we won! It's always nice to start the season off with a "W"...this weekend we are headin' down south to Texas (el passo to be precise) and I get to see my gorgeous sissy and her hub...and of course, her cute lil' baby bump! It's weird to be in school only 2 days and having to go up to all the teachers (who just finished going over the class syllabus, stressing how crucial it is to attend class) and telling them that I'm going to be absent the rest of the week.

Everyone has heard of all those stupid human challenges "Drink a whole gallon of milk in 1 hour"..."Eat a tablespoon of cinnamon"...etc etc etc....and those are completely irrelevant to my 365 day challenge. (Maybe I'll blog about a stupid human challenge someday...but not today) So what I am going to do every single day for an entire year is...........take a picture. 1 picture a day. A random picture of something, anything, anyone, no one! (I started yesterday) Maybe doing this picture taking challenge will help motivate me to blog about those random things that I photograph. I'm doing this challenge with a friend on the soccer team, and after the year is up...we are going to have a slide show with Oreo cookies and all of our pictures! (365+365=730 pictures!) Now I just need to find something to capture today!

The ants go marching one by one hurrah?

Ants, what marvelous creatures...so small and insignificant, but you can't help but be facinated by the organization in their little colony. Soooo compliments of wikipedia I will share with all of you the interesting things I have learned about ants!

Crazy facts I bet you didnt know about ants:
• Some female ants do not need to mate sexually, some can reproduce through asexual parthenogenesis (which is a fancy way to talk about cloning) and of course, all of the offspring will be female.
• I have always been taught (a bugs life supports this) that there is a single mother queen ant, but depending on the species, there can be potentially, hundreds of fertile queens. (which just means more offspring...awesome)
• During the larvae stage ants have no legs but are capable of some minor movement, such as bending their head toward a food source when fed. During this stage, the level of care and nourishment the larvae receive will determine their eventual adult form. When resources are low, all larvae will develop into female worker ants; however, if the parent of a sexually reproducing colony has a plentiful supply of food, some of the larvae will receive better nourishment than others, and develop into winged, sexually mature female ants destined to leave the colony.
• Unlike other ants, young queens have a pair of wings. These are only used for the nuptial flight (mating flight), and are later detached either by the queen herself or chewed off by her worker ants. (not sure why you want to chew them off, wings can be very useful)
• The mating flights occur simultaneously in all ant nests of the particular species. The female "queen" ants will fly a long distance, during which they will mate with at least one winged male from another nest. After mating with the queen the male will die. Once mated, the "queen" will attempt to find a suitable area to start a colony and, once found, detach her wings.
• The term "queen" is often deceptive, as the queen ant has very little control over the colony as a whole. She has no known authority or decision-making control; instead her sole function is to reproduce


There is much more to the life of ants...but now it is time for me to make sense of my choice of topic...ants. (particularly queen ants) Well, you see, I cleaned the kitchen last night before I went to bed, it was spotless. Strangely enough, while we were sleeping that rare event among ants, the "nuptial flight" thing occured...in our KITCHEN! Yes, we woke up to hundereds of big winged ants dead on the kitchen table. What the....? And there were little worker ants all over the floor by the sliding door, it was like a big conspiracy! They were all in on this together! I know it's disgusting, and a little tramatizing to wake up with your kitchen table (remember, it's the place where you eat) covered in dead big ants...but I couldnt help but be intrigued. It reminded me of planet earth, the one where the bugs sit in hibernation, and dig their way out once every 13 years to mate and lay eggs under the soil again.






This brings us to our conclusion, yes, ants are gross and dirty and annoying...but as gross and dirty and annoying as they are, you have to admit, their society is insanely well organized. All the way down to the little worker ants, everyone has a role and knows exactly what they are doing at all times. (And for the record, we disinfected our table, no worries)

Updates from the Arctic

I feel like my blogging life is frighteningly familiar to my journal writing life when I was in CTR8. I tend to go on streaks and vow to myself that I am going to be consistent with my writing and then I don't write in it again until CTR9 and the entry looks identical to that of the one written a year prior, with all the promises that I am going to write every day now. (and so on and so forth) But at least I would write when I could!! And that is my theory with my blog. I hear from a lot of random people who read my blog that it's so funny that I don't write for months at a time...and it is funny. That's what I was going for. something we could all laugh about. So I'll probably just continue to only write every 3-6 months. But look on the bright side-we can all have great laughs at how funny it is that I never update! :)

ANYWAY life in Logan is great!! Oh boy, college...where to start, where to start!? Well I could start with a GREAT story about my GREAT roommie! Molli Merrill. She is a doll. I came in one night and the first thing I see is this....

My roommate Molli with scrapes all over her face! I honestly, for the life of me, cannot recall what my first impression was, I had no idea what happened to Molli, but as soon as she flashed me her cheesy grin, and I knew she was physically alright, I busted up laughing!! (It is a pretty funny sight you have to agree) Well she finally told me her story of how they all went sledding down Old Main and she brilliantly thought she would sled down backwards. (for those of you that don't know what Old Main looks like...come up to Logan sometime and see for yourself. But let's just say, sledding down it backwards isn't the brightest idea) Anyway, poor Molli smashed into a tree and flipped around and plowed into the hood of a parked car at the bottom of the hill, SMASHING the front head light (along with the entire left side of her face) but the great part about this whole story...is the note she posted on the car!! "Sorry, I broke your headlight with my face, call me if you want me to fix it". Needless to say, they never called her.


This past week my neighbors decided that the girls on the 2nd floor at Snow Hall don't know each other as much as we should. (which is embarrassing since we have all been here since August) Anyway, so we had a girls Taco Tuesday! It was really fun to meet a bunch of new girls and just hang out. I learned how to make a paper Crane for a Tip Toe to Asia thing for one of my neighbors...After we were done eating and getting to know each other pretty much everyone left. One thing led to another and all the sudden Hali (the girl who taught me Origami) was in the ceiling! I'm still not sure what made her want to go up there, because once she came out she was covered in nasty, linty fiberglassy stuff. It was great. We sure know how to have a good time up here in Logan! Well, I hope my stories entertained you all enough to tide you all over for the next few months or so! :)

Clinchin the title!

Just got back from the Hawaii/San Jose trip and the Utah State women's soccer team has officially clinched the title of WAC regular season CHAMPS! Going 6-0-0 in season, we have one more regular season game on Halloween (Oct. 31st) in Louisiana. This is the first year in the program's history to have more than 10 wins in the regular season.

The team attempting to Hula at a Luau in Hawaii

Immiediately following our win in Hawaii-on their own turf!