I much adore this song.

[the dream by priscilla ahn]

I was a little girl alone in my little world who dreamed of a little home for me.
I played pretend between the trees, and fed my houseguests bark and leaves, and laughed in my pretty bed of green.

I had a dream
That I could fly from the highest swing.
I had a dream.

Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park,
I asked God who I'm supposed to be.
The stars smiled down on me, God answered in silent reverie. I said a prayer and fell asleep.

I had a dream
That I could fly from the highest tree.
I had a dream.

Now I'm old and feeling grey. I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave.
I lived it full and I lived it well, there's many tales I've lived to tell. I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready now to fly from the highest wing.

I had a dream

[and I'm not dying or anything, but I'd hope to feel like that]

take this, finals.

presenting:

my health blog. not my blogger one, but the wordpress one I made for my 'technology in health promotion' class. It's more professional, along with having cooler features than blogger (no offense, blogger). Anyway, validate my hard work and take a look and leave a comment!

healthy living

it's overrrrr. [almost]

This week was full of group presentations (that went well), working, studying and frantically finishing out the week. Reading days were much better because we had no class, a little work and we got to sleep in! Best part of the semester...

Today we went to town cleaning our bathroom and kitchen and doing laundry. Then I promptly messed it up cooking 23o98 oreos for our ward party. Party was fun and went to my parents house after (see previous post).

This week will be intense but so worth it when it's over. I can't wait for Friday.

We have 3 presentations (all dave's; mine were last week) and 6 tests between the two of us (five are mine). we can do it! Then it's hanging out with family, working (bleh), and enjoying the Christmas season.

We had a fun Friday night watching our two dollar copy of Ocean's Eleven (so good) (and, it was in an 'eco case' with a nifty recycle stencil cut out of the slightly less sturdy case. Pretty sure that stencil cost more than it would be to just give me the darn case. We celebrated with some freshetta pizza and sprite. we loved it. we also caught up some t.v. shows and made a list (okay, I'm the list person) of all the things we want to do durning the break.

:) hope you had a great weekend! what did you do? play in the snow? study?

fake gingerbread

After our ward party, we went with our friends Brent and Lauren to my parent's house where we made graham cracker gingerbread structures. In case you missed it, here are last year's productions. Here are the results this year (from my phone):

my dad's heliopad



lauren's hagrid's hut/jukebox house



brent's leaning tower of piza/empire state building



dave's egyptian pyramid





I built the Parthenon. here is zeus with his lego lightening bolt.

it's fate

with 5 people in a group, the best and absolutely only time we could meet was 10:00 at night the day before our presentation.

fine.

the computer won't load my flash drive, it restarts 49 times and to boot, after 30 minutes of wasting time, the fire alarm goes off.

of course.

we actually found a pretty rockin' room in a neighboring building and hurry up with last minute editing and changes. the building closed at 11. not 2, like the library, which is now out of commission.

we actually haven't gone through our presentation as a group. we're going on a wing and prayer.

and to the line of 300 people waiting to get back into the library at 11:10 p.m. :

go home. for goodness sake, it's 15 degrees outside and you are really waiting?? give it up, and study at your kitchen table.

I've decided if the alarm goes off after 8:00 pm, heaven is telling you that it is okay for you to go home.

unless you're just there for the experience, which I've done. all I can say to that is:

rock on. and find a good place for hide and seek.

2 more days. oh, I can taste the sweet end of classes. and I desperately want to go to bed but estimate it will be at least 1:00 before I make it to bed, up early as usual and a full day tomorrow.

preview.

preview :

I love you, ikea.

one of my favorite fabrics...and projects.

for our wedding, we got a Christmas dish set. I rediscovered it today and we're using it until new years. snow man mugs and four small plates. okay, it isn't that useful but very festive.

today: history of creativity project = DI and dollar store. sweet.