9 pounds 9 ounces

anybody want a peanut?

2010-05-08T17:10:00.003-06:00

Sometimes I write poems, but I'm a little uh...shy about them. Mostly I just like to read other people's poems. There are two poems that I read in high school that I really really really liked and I saved them from the handouts in Ms. Detemples class and I wrote a paper about one of them. sometimes I include unnecessary details. whatevs. I found them in a box today when i was going through my stuff and trying to throw things away (I didn't thrown them away though, I mean...of course I NEED them still.) I like words, and I really hope someday I think of something profound enough to publish. Until then...there's my journal and shy poems, and I've almost got the hang of blogging :)

Harlem, by Langston Hughes

The Orange, by Wendy Cope

bouqet

2010-05-04T16:42:00.004-06:00

I LOVE GETTING MAIL! I got THREE packages yesterday!

Denali and Julie sent me this little gem...I love it! I can't decide what part of the package was cutest, the ring, the hand-drawn wrapping paper (nearly invincible. Denali is hella good with scotch tape!), or Denali's adorable handwriting on the note that came with it.

I called you (Julie) to say thanks but it went straight to voicemail and then totally rejected the message I was trying to leave for you.

ALSO, I received a new iPod. Every time I spell 'receive' I think of that stupid i-before-e rhyme. anyhow, I was SO frustrated because I thought the build-it speaker was defective. Turns out i just didn't have the headphones plugged in all the way. I'm really smart.
iPod Nano Perks are: it works, it doesn't weight a million ounces, it records video, students at the high school don't make fun of it and pass it around to all their peers and talk about how super old I must be since I own it, and I can listen to KBRW ANYTIME I WANT.
Also, i received a whole bunch of clothes for the mission. I have to wear a lot of solid colored, collared shirts. By 'a lot of' I mean, that is all i can wear. Sad day for my mostly-floral-print wardrobe. Good day for JCREW.

funny ha ha

2010-05-02T02:20:00.008-06:00

This post I read the other day made me laugh so hard I frightened some students. I keep thinking about it, and laughing, and stuff.
Haiku-s (unnecessary dash blah blah. i just think it looks better that way) are one of my favorite things to joke about. I have an ongoing list of things that make for good jokes, so far i've got:

haiku-s
diabetes (when pronounced wrong)
my relationship history
pokemon
crack
rollerblading

if you disagree,
or you have been offended
leave me a comment

snacks on snacks

2010-04-28T12:21:00.005-06:00

I love these. It's good to know that if i ever have to take a baby into space, these freeze-dried delights will keep them happy. They also keep them happy on earth, and they also work really well for adults. So versatile. Way to go Gerber!

now, please make them less expensive.

i have grown a foot or two

2010-03-31T00:33:00.004-06:00

my mission papers are in. my call supposedly has been mailed. i keep trying not to think about it. but, since the only other thing nagging my brain is the laundry i have to put away; something had to give and i let my mind wander the globe. where do you think i will go? ....
i don't even know if they have LDS missionaries here, but i keep thinking about morocco, spain, and romania (heaven forbid; literally, i hope). also, idaho comes to mind. bleaaaaah the possibilities are endless. also, i have too many clothes. why is it so hard for me to hang up my shirts?????

wisdoms

2010-03-08T15:34:00.007-07:00

How do you get rid pain after a root canal? I don't really know, but if you get your wisdom teeth removed really soon after you hardly notice it anymore. I hope you enjoy making fun of my fat face as much as i did.
wisdom teeth extraction:
before
(Here, I am on some anti-anxiety med that didn't work. It just made me really dull, and unashamed to cry in front of the doctor and his assistants, and ask for my dad. )

after

I would not recommend the slim fast/top ramen/yogurt diet, although it was better than the blood and water diet that I enjoyed on my first day of recovery. Yumm.

my face got really puffy and it tasted horrible. n the bright side my mission papers should go in by this weekend. ...luckily I had submitted a picture before the extraction.
my face was huge and I had a lisp that made me laugh during church and in other inappropriate situations (try singing, "We Are All Enlisted" while biting both of your cheeks if you want to know kind of what i sounded like). I just told everyone i was on pain meds, which was a lie because the meds they gave me made me so ill I was scared to take anything but ibuprofen.
<--vicodin <---ibuprofen
Other than that it was a great trip to Fairbanks.

i wub dem.

2010-02-16T14:46:00.002-07:00

I like being an aunt. these are just a few reasons.

nothing makes me feel better than knowing these little yidders love me even though sometimes my hair looks like poop and i'm almost late for work and i have student loan debt and my room is messy.
(not pictured: owen, sayler, micah, ammon, dylan, denali, james, penny, sammy, luke, henry, jacob, carter)

- rosie

modest is hottest take two

2010-01-20T04:28:00.002-07:00

she replied, and i replied. apparently there is nothing more exciting going on in my life right now! hah. anyway, it was nice that she actually responded...means somebody was actually reading it. wahooo

Oranges And Apples said...

Roseelizabeth - thanks for your comments. I appreciate your point of view, although obviously we disagree.

But just to clarify, I am obviously not saying that the dressing/thought thing is the same as saying women are (partially) responsible for their own rape, but I do absolutely think that the two points follow the same logic, and if you follow that through to the extreme you end up with the rape thing. It's not a flippant point either, defence lawyers in rape trials use the 'she was wearing slutty clothes, she must have wanted it' argument all the time, and more often than not it ends up with the attacker being let off easily.

20 January 2010 09:02

roselizabeth said..

atually...i think we do agree!
i agree that it's not a flippant point by any means, but my point was just to clarify that some religiously-based opinions about modesty are far from extremes. i know that the LDS standards of modesty are intended to inspire respect for something sacred, not to blame someone who has been victimized by others who do not respect them.

extremists notoriously take logical doctrines or practices and push them to the point that they seem illogical, and are often just downright wrong. a lot of people who think dressing modestly can help keep our thoughts clean get a bad wrap because of those who 'follow through to the extreme' like you had mentioned. i'm glad to hear you clarify that 'though these two points of view seem related, they are not necessarily the SAME view.'

thanks for writing back to my earlier comment! i appreciate it.

modest is hottest!

2010-01-19T14:14:00.004-07:00

I was reading some random blogs today at work and i found a couple articles that relayed some thoughts on modesty. Most of them were pretty interesting, but one in particular bugged the crap out of me. she made a few interesting points that i liked, but there were a lot of things that she said that really irked me. i'm not a big blog-commenter, but i decided to write a response. probably nobody will read it but it made me feel better anyway. it took me forever to write so i figured i'd post it here so it wasn't a TOTAL waste of time :)
ahem...

"This post has been thought-provoking for me, to say the least. In that sense I have truly enjoyed reading it. however, I disagree with some of the things you have written.

A lot of religions, mine included (I am LDS), believe that part of the reasoning for dressing modestly is to avoid "leading men into temptation," as you put it, but it is definitely not anywhere near the assumption that someone who is raped while dressed immodestly should be held accountable in any way.
I don't think believing that you can influence other people's thoughts with the way you dress is the same as believing that how we dress makes us responsible for another person's actions.
The fashion industry in general tries to influence how people think. Fashion movements inspire more than just the ways people dress, and often try to stir up deeper emotions and inspire thoughts that can be expressed through actions as well as personal style. (take the current Diesel "be stupid" campaign for example)
But that doesn't mean any designer can take direct responsibility for the purchases an individual makes, or the good deeds their customers might be inspired to do.
Avoiding tight or revealing clothing because I know that I can influence others thoughts with the way that i dress does not mean that I am sexist or that I am anywhere close to blaming a rape victim for the crimes of her attacker.
To me, and for many women of the LDS faith, dressing modestly stems from the belief that my body is a precious gift from God. Knowing that i have the ability to influence the thoughts of others, I choose to dress modestly so that others will know that I respect the body that I have, and in their thoughts AND their actions I expect them to do the same. "

i had a little hesitation putting the last sentence in there...because it might seem like i am trying to control people's actions again. but i hope the word 'expect' clears it up. i can't control what other people do, but i can have high expectations (or standards, whatever you want to call them).

i'm at work more or less getting paid to write this. so ...its almost like i'm one of those fancy sponsored bloggers!

I'm Just Sayin.

2009-12-16T16:00:00.003-07:00

I have been trying to read classic books lately, and so far I have not had very much luck. I read The Scarlet Letter and A Farewell to Arms and for the most part I think both of them were a giant waste of time.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed watching the first three seasons of Prison Break as well as the first two seasons of Heroes.
I've only been out of school for nine months and my brain might already have degenerated.

Brenna Rose

2009-11-03T10:19:00.001-07:00

All of my neices and nephews are setting some pretty high expectations for the other kids in the world. If my kids are not cute I am going to be soooo mad.

tiny victories

2009-10-28T17:19:00.005-06:00

when i was IN school i LOVED student loans. now they seem like the bane of my existence.
i work three jobs and get a lot of headaches and almost never get to work out, so when i see things like this on my computer screen i get really excited and feel like it is a little bit worth it...

granted i still have approximately 90% of my total loans to finish paying off from a different lender, but days like today it feels a little less daunting. Baby steps to work...baby steps to the bank....baby steps to financial freeeedom!

reception

2009-08-14T10:54:00.010-06:00

today (and yesterday) i am filling in for the receptionist at the FSCA office.

yesterday (and today) i spent a lot of time on the internet. reading blogs, looking at clothes, and trying to find out how much half a knockoff oreo cookie weighs in grams. as it turns out you can just look on the back of the box of cookies and it will take you many less hours to locate that information. I found the answer at Safeway last night at approximately 2:00 AM, but if you do not google it yourself then you might not learn anything from the internet.

some things are not very interesting at all ...YET, but i do not really believe in useless information. This is just a pessimistic term for information that i have not figured out how to use.

Where will the internet bring me today?

I get a 15 minute break at 10 and an hour for lunch and another break at 3. I have a package of mint oreos sitting under the desk that I can make friends at the office with. even if it is kind of my last day. I will be glad to go back to NOT waking up before 8 am, but I am going to miss the constant supply of the internet and mint oreos (14.5 g (not kg) a cookie).

50 ways to Leave

2009-05-21T01:31:00.002-06:00

like many people...i love Flight of the Conchords. This song has been making me laugh for weeks but now that i am unemployed and sitting around the Hirt Farm, i have been singing it aloud to myself all day. enjoy

POOR!

2009-04-06T14:25:00.005-06:00

CRISIS! i am hoping that by some miracle somebody very rich and/or generous reads this post.
As some or most of you know, I have been playing rugby ever since i came to BYU.this is a picture from one of my very first games my freshman year. guess which one is me!?! I've gotten better at tackling...i promise.

The women's rugby team here at BYU does not get ...anything. We are a club team that barely qualifies for club status for no other reason than the administration just doesn't feel like letting us. We are not allowed to use BYU's name and/or official logos on any of our jerseys or practice shirts or anything. Everyone who is on the team is an official student, full time and in good academic standing. We follow all the standards of any other BYU sports team because that is what we consider ourselves, despite the recognition we do or do not get. We aren't allowed to play or practice on campus, so we either scrounge for unused space or we have to drive to a field that is ten minutes away (not that far i suppose, but not all of us have cars, and we have to share the field with two city club teams). All of this might be even slightly warranted if we were a crappy team, but the truth is we are REALLY GOOD! A few years ago we got NCAA approval to compete in the national playoffs. Last year was the first year we were ever able to compete with truly competitive teams (before that we just played schools arund Utah and Idaho, typically slaughtering them by at least 30 points a game. which is the equivalent of about 5 Tries/Touchdowns. the highest scoring game i ever played in was 95 - 0). Unfortunately that put us at a slight disadvantage in the playoffs tournament because we had never played any of the good teams on the west coast, so they put us in last seed. In our qualifying match we lost to Stanford University 26-17. That team went on to be the national champions, and in the championship match they beat the 2nd place team by more than 20 points. If they had known better where to place us in the tournament, we would have truly had a chance at a national title! and then...

THIS YEAR we have the opportunity to go to nationals! The only problem is...we might not have enough money. last weekend we playe our last round of playoffs and we beat Berkely, so now we have the chance to go to the sweet 16 tournament in Florida. If we do well there, the Utah Rugby Union has promised to pay our way to the Final 4 in California, but we will never get there if we can't scrounge up enough money for airfare IN TWO WEEEEEKS! we've been fundraising all semester; selling t shirts, going door to door, advertising for local restaurants - but we just don't have enough. I'm not necessarily asking any of you for money - but if you have any ideas, if you know how to get cheap tickets, or if you know anybody with airline connections or if you know any corporations that are looking to give away some tax-exempt charitable donations, or if you could just keep us in your prayers these next few weeks - PLEASE LET ME KNOW. If you do find that you have money to donate, or if you want to buy some t shirts, you can donate through the website www.womenscougarrugby.com .we truly appreciate it. especially me. LOVE YOU!

HAIR

2008-12-18T22:28:00.003-07:00

i cut it! woooohoooo

i haven't done anything this drastic to my hair since i was like ten years old!

i dont know how i feel about it. i still have to get used to it being me! the good news is, its really healthy. the bad news is.....its allll gone! more good news, i only have one final to take before i am officially done with my LAST fall semester. wish me luck!

also, ONLY A WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS

Nut-it

2008-11-20T18:26:00.004-07:00

I got tagged! woohoooo! This is my first official tag, and i would like to take a moment to thank Holly for this enriching opportunity. You can also thank Holly, because now you get to know seven more things about me (if you didnt already know them).
...ahem...
1. i honestly thought i was "tall" until i moved out of Barrow. come to find out 5'6" is completely average.
2. i used to look like this (which, i am sure you all know, but hopefully you haven't thought about it lately)

3. When i think about it, my favorite band is probably Oasis, and i'm not really sure why because usually when i listen to them i think about all the times we had to do chores when we lived in that awful house on Madcap and our chubby neighbor Marcus had a big annoying crush on me. but anyway, I love Oasis.
4. I have not barfed since i was 8 years old. i remember the exact moment too, but i will refrain from telling you the details.
5. this movie is from one of the funniest moments of my life. Annie and Eva came to visit me at my first rugby tournament in San Diego, and Bret was doing tricks for us all.

6. When I went to work with Dad at Comfort Mechanical, sometimes Trent and i would get quite bored and if Mr. Rogers wasn't on, we would play this game where one person would look like they were taking a drink of their hot chocolate, and the other person had to guess whether they really did or not. i cheated ALL the time. Also, I did not realize that Uncle Terry was not my real uncle until i was about seven years old.
7. My favorite food is mashed potatoes. but none of that imitation stuff. i hope even though mom and dad are vegan, we can still have mashed potatoes made with real cream and butter and delicious artery clogging calories at Christmas. Please?

Ice Skating Moves

2008-10-28T11:17:00.003-06:00

Went Ice Skating a while ago with some friends of mine, and we were practicing all kinds of sweet moves. enjoy!

THE SWEATER SONG!

2008-10-16T12:35:00.003-06:00

I went to a weezer concert a few weeks ago and i couldn't help but smile when they played this song. I love weezer, and i can trace it back to once day when Jon came over and we were in that tiny house on Jennie Ln. You played the sweater song for us and we all laughed and danced around the house singing "AND I'LL SOON BE NAAAAAKED" despite Mom's protesting.
I owe most of my musical taste taste to one sibling or another, but this one goes to Jon. love you!

blogger

2008-10-16T11:59:00.007-06:00

Here are some pictures of my semester thus far! i am not very good at blogging, but i am willing to admit and accept this fact...

this is jonathan attempting to kiss brandon's poor broken toenail. it happeed one night during an intense game of spoons, the tragedy continued the next day when ryan's daddy had to rip brandon's toenail off.
The first time heidi and i went to the farmer's market she bought some plums and a bunch of tomatoes and some other colorful stuff. i just like this pictureI would like to dedicate this photo to Julia, who still hasn't finished the last Twilight book...(neither have i)
This is me, stuck behind the bed while mo had a laughing fit. we were trying to un-bunk our beds and it didnt go very smoothly, although we did eventually get it done.
Annie sent me this healthy snack as a joke, and unfortunately i was hungry enough at the time that i did eat a bite. its a strawberry flavored marshmallow hotdog. not exactly a vegan treat... LOVE YOU!

Mo making a hilarious face at some friends' ultimate frisbee game. unfortunately, this is the best picture i took of my new haircut (although not so new anymore). Mo doesn't normally look like that. :)

ALASKA COOKIE! My neighbors made me a cookie in a very delicious shape to commemorate...the fact that i am from alaska? they are cute.
I went to vegas with some friends for a weekend and went to a concert and wandered around (didn't gamble, promise! but i did eat a deep fried twinkie...) and it was really fun! this nice old crazy lady let us take a picture with her for only a dollar...haha
Jake Paul lives about an hour away from vegas so he came and we got to spend almost the whole day together and play "remember when..." He's seriously one of the funniest peope i know and it was so great to see him after like three years of seperation!
This is the lead singer from the band we went to see. the Kings of Leon. It's probably a good thing i didn't get to talk to him in person, because i might have eloped right then and there...he has a very nice face and a distinct, amazing voice and i do love their music!
We got best friends' bracelets from all the tickets we won at the nickelkade one night. i'm really mature, i promise.
Me and Mo, once again at a frisbee game.

So, there you have it... photographic evidence that i am alive, well, and generally enjoying my last year at BYU. YIKES!! i love you all.

2008-09-10T21:10:00.003-06:00

MY NEW GLASSES!

they're not that new anymore i guess, but some people haven't seen them.
katie wanted to see them. they're pretty hot.
some guy in my class told me i was gorgeous and asked me out on a date because of them. but i told him i had a boyfriend. (i don't)
he was creepy.

not news

2008-08-15T17:58:00.005-06:00

so, annie took some pictures of me as i am sure you all know since she's already blogged it twice. :) i dont think i am going to make it big in the modeling industry but if you need a stand-in zombie, i'm your girl.

Wild Rose in the Woods

2008-07-18T14:17:00.000-06:00

How many ROSES do you see? I stole this idea from Thor- his was slightly cooler, although mine has more grass.

dear family

2008-05-10T14:14:00.006-06:00

i cut my hair and i dyed it a little bit. love it love it love it!as you can see there is a big black streak on my left side and there is also some in my bangs on the right side. i might get cut off from the family if i don't start posting pictures on here. so, here are a few, including one of the new hair. the first one is me playing rugby! there is a film from our game at stanford that i am trying to get a copy of and then i will bring it home for all to see..also some friends at a concert, pre hair cut(notice bangs held back and hirt forehead in full glory). also, i miss alaska and i can't wait to go home this summer....etc!
ps i just realized this is more like an email to my family than a post on a blog. ...baby steps

ugly bug ball

2008-04-19T02:08:00.003-06:00

i am not trying to draw any parallels. it is just a funny little flashback

this one's for you

2008-04-13T20:43:00.004-06:00

this is a little ditty inspired by my 8 other siblings who have been pressuring me for months now(its only a matter of time for you spencer...man oh man). what better time to start blogging than finals week? wooohoo. wish me luck. my life is currently a super-awesome mixture of school, homework, rugby, cleaning my room, and working in school of psych research. i love my brothers and sisters, even nephi. this blog is kind of like a journal that i WANT people to read, but that will probably just make people not want to read it (you'd have to ask my brothers though... scoundrels.
i'm jumping on the bandwagon a little late, but such is life.
i am tempted to write all of my future entries in webdings, just to mix it up a bit. that would be obnoxious. i will figure out how to post pictures some other time. actually, i just figured it out, but i don't want to post any, also i don't want to go back and fix this sentance. love love love.
okay bye!

note: annie already won the award for best blog, i am not trying to prove anything here, i just wanted to experience giving in to peer pressure.
note: just because i have a blog, doesn't mean you all shouldn't still call me
note: the other notes were mostly directed at family members, but i guess other people reading my blog can call me too. but if i don't know you, dont call me.
note: if you just want to call someone, you can call graham kirkman at 801 376 9857 because he is a bad person who deserves to be heckled.