salsa

So Cosmo's (the closest source of decent food) doesn't have very regular restocking methods... and they've been out of Salsa for more than a week now. They have the spinach stuff and the cheesy dips... but not real SALSA!! It actually bugged Sara (my roommate) a lot more than me. One night she discovered that Alli (across the hall) had salsa and Sara had a moment of twitching fits because the thought of salsa being so close excited her. lol

But last night they got more salsa!!!!! Sara bought two jars, and Alli and I both bought one... mine is already a quarter gone.

I'm eating it right now...

... I hope this blog made you turn and walk towards your own jar of salsa :)

I love good advice

I quit my job!! I was dreading going to work so I called my dad so that I could whine to someone... he told me to quit!!

Heck yessssssss!

but now I need to find a new one

galaxy bars :)

Tim Smith went back to Harrogate for Christmas and brought back 6 Galaxy bars for me!!! I love English chocolate!! :D

Feel free to be jealous:

Ssssick!

So I got a job! I work MWF from 8 p.m.-done (which is usually somewhere around midnight). But as I discovered last night, it is probably one of the worst jobs on campus. I'll start off by telling you the positive: I will get buff if I work this job for about a month.

Now the negatives are that I only get paid $7.20 an hour (which is pretty standard for Provo)... and the job description:
*spraying down, scrubbing, and then squeegeeing the HUGE dishroom floor (it's steamy in there, broke out a sweat in no time).
*cleaning, sweeping, and moping the basement (included the locker rooms which have toilet, shower, etc)
*pouring this stuff down all the drains.
*cleaning the stainless steal in the gargantuan Cannon Center.
*Taking out the grease from one of the deep fryers (we do one a night), scooping out the gunk at the bottom-which looks like dried up hamburger in a sloppy-joe mix gone wrong, and smells absolutely vile. (this was my personal favorite for the night).
*cleaning the floor around the deep fryers.
*Taking out all 12 (grease covered) screens above the fryer/cooking area and washed those.
*Taking the food out of the walk in fridge and mopping that floor, then putting all the food back.
*Cleaning this mousnstrous machine in the back room that is like a two story garbage disposal for Tomasito's, Cosmo's and the Canc. It smelled funny, had lots of whit stuff all over it, and flooded the floor with nasty water. that took about 15 -2o min to spray that bad boy down, then had to cover it in bleach and spray it again.
*Did dishes for about 1 1/2 hours-and not just any dishes. NASTY grease covered dishes that need to be scrubbed with stainless steal!! Most of them were from Tomasito's and if you've eaten there you know how greasey their pizza is (and dare I mention that Wednesdays are $5 pizza nights)
*We finished "early" which was before midnight so we helped the Tomasito's people mop their floors and put up chairs so they could vacuum.


Don't worry, I'm already looking around at other jobs :)

(honestly I'd be fine with the job if I got paid more... it's just that I get paid the same as anyone else at the Canon Center and whenever I go there it seems like they're not working hard, but the custodial's do all the nasty work and it's intense!)

my computer is sick :(

I was having a few problems with my computer so I went to Dell's page, waited in the "queue" for 30 min, and finally got on a chat session with a dell tech guy who could help me. I don't know if you've ever used your computer support people before- but they have this cool program where they can see your computer screen from where they are working. Not only can they see your screen, but they can control it too!! So I just got to sit there and watch him do all this complicated stuff to my computer.

After he fixed my first problem, he started to work on the second... but after an hour he called me up to tell me that I need to reformat my computer!
:( :( :(

So that is my sad story. I spend 2 1/2 hours on my computer last night, only to find out that I have to back up all of my music, pictures, and documents, because tomorrow I'm wiping it clean and it's going to be just like it was when it was shipped to me.

Sad day... but at least once this is all over my computer should work well

international cinema

After a very unproductive Saturday Alli and I went to the International Cinema (aka 250 of the swkt). Every Friday and Saturday they feature various international movies and this weekend happened to be better than most as Volver and Amélie were both playing . The plan was to see Volver at 6:30 and then catch a late dinner. A random surge of excitement came over us after Volver and we ran to the wilk, grabbed some food and ran back to the swkt to watch Amélie.

I enjoyed Volver, it was pretty good... but I LOVED Amélie. It's one of my new favorite movies. I was laughing and saying, "aww" all at the same time. I would go on and explain the plots but I'd rather not. I will say this though: if you were curious about Volver then go see it, but it's kind of weird. And I don't care if you've even heard of Amélie (although you should have because it got loads of awards back in '01) you MUST see it. It got a 10/10 in my book. I love Amélie she is my hero. The movie is a perfect combination of humor and love, has a refreshing plot, and is also colorful.

This was a hilarious scene when Amélie got revenge on the neighbor who lied to her.

(p.s. as this is byu, they do edit the movies' inappropriate scenes)

a new chapter

I love clean slates, fresh starts, and new chapters. One of the great things about life is that we have opportunities to start anew and let go of the past. Having a fresh start is a very freeing experience. You get a dose of optimism as your turn the page into a new chapter of your life.

Coincidentally my clean slate is at the beginning of the new year, however, my resolutions aren't "new year" ones. It seems to me that new year resolutions have a bad track record of only lasting a month or two before old habits take over. With the start of a new semester I am making changes, and permanent ones. I have goals, both short term and long term, as well as life changing projects... and I can't wait to slowly become a new person :)