Of good report...: Valentine, You Rock My World!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Valentine, You Rock My World!

Um so, Valentines weekend rocked! It really did! Friday I went to a couple socials and yes, there was flirting (so not at the Relief Society one, but at the other one). Then Saturday, Valentines itself, myself and HRH, Rhiannon, and Julia went to Salt Lake for some crazy amounts of fun. Their was eating at the DODO which, much to your surprise, is a cute little cafe type restaurant, not only an extinct bird. My stomach left (with me attached) holding amazing amounts of my pulled pork quesedilla, hummus, and moose pie. Hmmmmm! We then checked into a hotel (so fun! just to be away from normal routine) and did hot tubing and sauna (HRH reminisced about her trip to Finland). We ended the night with 3/4 making it through a cool movie. Next day was Sunday and before heading back to our church at noon, we went to Music and the Spoken Word at the Tabernacle. It was beautiful. Did you know the Mormon Tabernacle Choir won a Grammy for The Battle Hymn of the Republic (who knew a church choir even could...not me!). Well they did and in honor of the patriotic weekend

the sang it. Wow! W

w! Life is good...

(Sides: yes, one of these pictures is of us admiring the flowery thing they did with the tissue dispenser and also, that very same picture is of me in a white shade shirt, not an undershirt of any kind...just wanted to make sure you knew.)

3 comments:

Cherie said...: Can I keep you? You are too cute! It was fun to read about your Valentine's day fun.; February 22, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Erin and Ryan said...: SO FUN! You four ladies are super gorgeous! I heart you, my sister!; February 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM
MegiJones said...: How fun is that!! THat looks awesome!! I really would love to have a girls weekend with you, Jax, and Sunni sometime...so much to catch up on. If Jax is ever headed towards UT, I know Sunni and I are up for meeting in Provo to hang. btw you look so cute in these pictures!! Love ya!; February 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM

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Profound Thoughts!

"The greater a man's-or boy's- ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world."

Bear from Cripsin, Newberry award winner 2004

"Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. He rushed straight up to the monster and aimed a slash of his sword at its side..."

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

"When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else."
From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
J.M. Barrie Peter Pan

"And one thing was absolutely certain-life had never been sweeter."
An Oompa Loompa and the last lines of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

"We did the best we could with what we had at the time." -Maya Angelou

When Sam is asked if he likes The Elves once he finally meets them, after having been fascinated with them for so long he says this:
"They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak. It don't seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected-so old and young, and so gay and sad, as it were."

I've met Elves then in my own life...amazing how two opposite things like old and young or gay and sad can exist in the same beings. Elves were also very wise in my opinion...the combination of both good and bad is what allows for wisdom. So it goes...

From Elijah of Buxton (A Newberry Award Winner)
"Fish eating's like anything else in life Elijah. If you go at it 'specting something bad to happen, all you gunn do is draw that bad thing to you. You caint be timid 'bout nothing you do, you got to go at it like you 'specting good things to come out of it. If I's to worry 'bout bones choking me, it'd happen every time I et fish. Ain't nothing further from my mind."

Friend Julia on a handsome young man she (and I) think I should go for: "You should take him up...new hobby."
Good advice I'm thinking!

From Meet the Robinsons: "Keep moving forward!"
Aunt Billie: From failure you learn; from success, not so much."

On social engagements with some random person when you'd rather be talking to the hottie on the other side of the room... Working outside of your own agenda. Quote from Isaac Jones... "If you are focused on others then you are happy to be in whatever conversation comes your way."

Forgot how funny Shakespeare is... The Merchant of Venice
Portia of her retreating suitors: "...there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence: and I pray God grant them a fair departure."

Quote from A Tale of Two Cities...describing how Charles Darnay revealed information to the French king: "wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously..." Haha...love evil-adverbiously

From The Secret Life of Bees
"...impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love."

From To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout: "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

From To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus: "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

From The Office
Stanley: I wake up every morning in a bed that's too small, drive my daughter to a school that's too expensive, and go to work to a job for which I get paid too little, but on pretzel day...well, I like pretzel day."

Quote from Batman Begins: "Why do we fall Bruce...so we can learn to pick ourselves back up."

From Juno

Juno McGuff: "You're cool without even trying at all."

Paulie Bleaker: "Actually, I try really hard"

From The Office

Michael Scott: "I'm not SUPERsticious...but I am a little sticious."