bits of my 4th of july weekend.

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the 4th of July? I find that strangely patriotic.

This was just a nice, relaxing weekend. So nice that I just die a little on the inside when I think of reality starting again tomorrow. Nooooooooo!!  "Life can be summed up in three words: It goes on."

I am a fan of 3 day weekends. Especially when my favorite holiday, the 4th of July is included.
Friday: we went up to Oakley, (a small town where my family has a cabin nearby) and watched the rodeo. The rodeo is a bitter/sweet experience. It's highly entertaining watching all the competing, barrel racing, different cowboys fail and succeed. But at the same time, it's heartbreaking watching all the poor animals get tied up, jerked around, semi-strangled, etc. Yes, I know that's what a rodeo is all about, but I'll be honest, I was cheering for the animals in all the competitions, not the cowboys.

Saturday: we drove up to Logan, to the annual Cache Valley Cruise-In car show. It's the biggest car show in Utah. I don't know A LOT about cars, but I still enjoy strolling up and down each aisle checking them out. Ooo!! We also saw Toy Story 3. TWO. THUMBS. UP.

Sunday: lazied around--went out to breakfast at 2 PM--watched Star Wars (episodes 4 &5).

Favorite thing about this weekend: Having our windows open all weekend and hearing the popping, banging, whistling, exploding, crackling sound of fireworks non-stop.

red, white, and blue.

do you ever make up words?

I do. It's something I do more than I would like to admit.

Today's made up word of the day: Blargy. (blar-gee). I find it useful when you are trying to force a closet door open that is absolutely stuck.

So something scary kind of happened to me last night. Keep in mind, you are reading the words of the world's biggest hypochondriac. Last night, while Steve and I were watching the weekly marathon of the Office, we bumped heads, pretty hard. I hit the back of by head, he the side of his. Long story short, the space between my eyes is now swollen and I can feel my entire head pulsing. I'm terrified my brain is bleeding or something and this will make the headlines of some freak accident.

Some things I have been enjoying today:

• That 70's Show
• Peppered Beef Jerkey
• Driving with the windows down.
• New music downloads
• America's Funniest Home Videos
• Naps
• Eating dinner with Steve at our little kitchen table.
• Peeling Steve's sunburn. Go ahead, think I'm sick, but I LOVE this!!
• It's already Wednesday.
• Lipton's Green Tea.

Some things I have NOT been enjoying today:

• Thinking my brain is bleeding/suffering concussion/some severe head injury.
• Working.
• Sitting in our hot, humid apartment.
• Watching the lady on the TV letting her cat lick the inside of her mouth. *Puke*. Really?
• Every single Facebook update being about Twilight. 

first post from 21 year old Kaleena.

Why do I always decide to blog when I'm eating a popsicle and it's nearly impossible for me to type and tend to my delicious, cold treat? Good question.

To tell you the truth, I haven't been in the blogging mood lately.

My birthday was the best. I don't know any other way to put it. We went up to Pineview to camp for the weekend. I didn't want to come back. :( I get attached to things way to easily. We did a lot of boating and spending time in the water. I have the red nose and shoulders to prove it. Unfortunately, my camera battery died so I wasn't able to take any pictures of my awesome weekend. 

21 today.

original vs the cover

I have close to a bajillion 'all time favorite songs'. Whenever one of them comes on, I will claim it is my one-and-only-all-time-favorite-song. I am waaaaayy too into music to just have ONE favorite song.

With all this being said, this song, Only You by Yaz, IS my all-time-favorite-song. Tee-hee.

However, Joshua Radin, did a cover of this song. Which one do you like better?

here comes the bride...

Yesterday was entirely consumed by Brooke's wedding. I was/am exhausted/tuckered/pooped/vegging/fatigued/tired/ragged, however you want to put it. I'm tired. Just know that. And logically instead of taking a nap, I hopped onto my snoop bloggy blog. I don't know why I'm making the complaints here, Brooke and her husband are probably 1000x exhausted more than me.

Everything turned out so nicely. Brooke's wedding dress, hands down, is one of the prettiest dresses I've seen, EVER. Her colors were spring green, turquoise and yellow. Everything at the reception screamed Brooke.

Oh and before you look at these pictures and think ' hm, I didn't know Kaleena was a sasquatch' the girls I'm standing by in the pictures are barely 5" and  alarmingly petite.

i'll think of summer days again, and dream of you.

It's officially Summer. I miss having a four-season climate. Here in Utah, it goes straight from Winter--->Summer--->Winter--->Summer. You get the picture.

My best friend, Brooke is getting married tomorrow. It's kind of an elusive feeling for me. I mean, I've had people close to me get married before, like my two oldest sisters, but for some reason this seems different.

She was my best friend all throughout Jr. High and High School. Maybe that has something to do with it. I am very happy for her, I can see how happy and excited she is. I guess it will really hit me tomorrow when I'm AT the wedding, standing there in my bridesmaid dress, seeing her in her pretty, white dress, visiting with all the guests.

Me and Brooke and our other best friend, Janessa, went out for frozen yogurt tonight. You know, one last time before she is married.

Congratulations, Brooke. I think I am more excited than you are.

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My car got broken in to last night. I'm not even upset and here is why.

My car is nothing fancy. It gets me to point A to point B... with the occasional point C. It's had it's fair share of bumps and bruises and I still just adore the thing. It's a 93' Ford Explorer, my very first car. I have the same bond with it as most people do with their children. Well, I leave nothing special in my car, it doesn't even have a fancy stereo; So, I was floored when I discovered some nasty intruder had been in there last night. What is it about a beat up car, with a dented front bumper, that already has the doors unlocked say "there is probably something of value in here!!"? Beats me.

Take that, intruder!

what? how? why?

See that shoe? Yeah, that is the led part of the pencil. Some genius carved that. Why can't I do stuff like that? Instead of being unbelievably talented at one thing, I have just a bunch of little things I am 'alright' at.

I can't decide which one is the win.

The WTF moment for the day: as I was just browsing the web, I saw a side advertisement that said 'learn to draw suggestive cartoons for 12.99 a month!'

now his hat is on backwards, he can show you his tattoos.

CAKE came to town last night.

I wish I would could put into words how unhappy I was when I saw that no cameras were allowed. It's alright though. The incredible show made up for it. Only a couple tickets shy from a sold out show, people sat on blankets and grass on the side hill of Library Square for an hour waiting for CAKE. Do you know what this meant? We had an entire hour of people watching. ONE HOUR. Let me tell you, CAKE definitely has a unique variety of fans. Me and Steve also played the name game, where you guess what people's names are.

They opened with Comfort Eagle, came back out for an encore and gave us Rock & Roll Lifestyle, Never There, and Stickshifts & Safety Belts. I was one happy girl when I heard Comfort Eagle, that happens to be one of my favorites. They even gave us a fifteen minute bathroom/go get more treats break. I like them even more.

Back to the people watching: Being a concert and all, they had a lot of speakers, electronics, cords, wires, etc. Right by our seats there was a mess of cords streaming through the grass. The hour before the concert, fans kept getting snagged and losing their balance but it never actually took somebody down. Until one man. One unfortunate man. He was about 300+ pounds walking with two beers. We will call him Larry. Larry with the two beers was so distracted by all the happenings on the hill at Library Square he couldn't pay attention to the cords laid out on the grass in front of him.

Snag.

Trip.

Beers flying in the air.

Larry face down in the grass.

The people watching stopped there, CAKE came on right after Larry and the cord dispute. The crowd cheered, sang along, clapped, ooo'd, awe'd, and one lucky fan was given an apple tree.

i realized something today.

On Saturday mornings when I'm  wandering around the blog world, I visit a lot of different blogs. I like it because it gives me ideas, I come across some interesting bloggers, and it passes time.Then I realized something...

Blogging is kind of like high school with interactions on blogs and email instead of face to face. Let me  tell you why I feel this way.  

There are cliques. These are the bloggers who comment on each other's blogs and don't let others in easily . And the cool bloggers get together with other cool bloggers and take pictures with each other's dogs and babies.

Then, there are the bloggers who try to buy friends and followers with giveaways. (However, if you do giveaways AND comment on others' blogs, you aren't considered as one of these people). These are like the people who would buy their friends.

Comments are like passing each other notes in class. The cool ones will get the most.

Low and behold, as always, there is the gossip behind each other's backs, which in the blogging world is writing posts about others and not telling them it's about them.

Followers/subscribers are the members of our "crowd." When you lose one, it slightly seems like life is a little more depressing and you wonder what you did/said to make someone stop being your friend. You start think about past "conversations" you've had, if you were offensive, etc.

There are the ones like me, who don't have a clique. I have blogger friends but nothing so obviously cliquey. Just as I was in high school.

a few things i've been wanting.

Work is painfully slow today. Which is kind of good for a Friday, since my productivety hardly even exists on Fridays.

My birthday is in seven days. When my birthday is coming up, I get into the mode of thinking 'I could ask for that for a present' or 'maybe i'll buy this for myself... for my birthday of course.' One thing I REALLY want is a retro flip clock. I am starting to collect clocks and I don't have one like this, and it's just adorable. But it gets better. I was at Big Lots getting some hangers (they have them at like 50 for two bucks) and I found a cute, little red one! For eight bucks. So, I did my *see how much I really want it* method, which is, leave it there and if I regret not getting it the whole way home and go back and it's there waiting for me. I get it.

Another thing that has been on my mind. Since last night. At about 1 AM. Crab. I got the biggest craving for some crab last night and I've craved it ever since. Long story short, we are having crab tonight.

p.s. I just found some lotion in the very back corners of my desk drawer that I haven't used in a long while. So I thought, oo! Put some on! Well, a very strong smell and a headache later, I remember why it was in the very back of my desk drawer.

i don't want to be a procrastinator anymore.

Every morning while I'm getting ready for work, I make lists in my head of everything I am going to when I get home from work.

I get off work, drive home, walk through the door and suddenly all those little lists don't exist anymore.

I still DO stuff. Just not the things that NEED to be done. It is a vicious cycle that will probably never end.

Here's to getting over my procrastination... I'll get to it later.

jim morrison said:

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are
free" -Jim Morrison.

 

-i know i've posted this quote before, but i love it so much, i just have to post it again. and hey, it's my blog, so ha!

ps. is it weird i've been referencing my blog in conversations and thoughts as 'snoop bloggy blog'? i think it is.

*flash* BOOOOM!

Right now there is a ferocious lightening and thunderstorm going on in Salt Lake.

A quick flash lights up our living room, me and Steve look at each other, wait for the thunder and CrrrrraaacckBangBOOOOOMcrackRumble! You hear a loud bang that you can feel deep in your chest. We have all the windows open so we can hear the rain pouring onto the streets.

This storm makes me feel like I'm 12 years old again. Giddy and a little scared all at the same time.

Am I lucky enough for this to last all night, have a lightening rod strike my work, cause of mass power outage and cause me to have a day off? Sad to admit, but I don't think I'm lucky enough to happen.