little Ado about Nothing

i really do not have anything to write about other than maybe that i want to play with ya'll...maybe this weekend?

life is fine. looking for a job. going to church. talking to family. spending time with people in the ward. yep. that is basically my life.

Hmm...

North Dakota is still as beautiful as ever. And I am old.

Hippie Hop Happy!

Guess what?!! On the front page of BYU- the hoome page, in those nice little news briefs, my two favorite universities are listed side by side!!! Imagine my delight when I read, "according to a new study from researchers at Brigham Young University and North Dakota State University."

At first I really thought that I was seeing things...i didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night (approx. 0 hours). But then I was giddy. Yeah! Tons of students are going to read that and think about North Dakota! Yeah!! Ahh.

Anywho, i guess i was excited about it like only a true Nor'Dakodain would be...

if ya wanna read da artikle here's the link:
http://byunews.byu.edu/archive05-Jun-fathersday.aspx

Can I, please?

...go to Bobby's house?
...play in the water?
...skip school?
...get a pet duckie?
...color?
...not have to clean my room?
...go to a movie with my friends?
...play soccer even though it is raining?
...not practice the sax?
...go out to play?
...build a treehouse?
...jump on the tramp?

...yell for mercy?

Mund zu! Sei still! Ickruss!

Blah Blah Blah Blah

World travel is so amazing. I cannot wait until I can go again.
Yeah, I am currently watching kbyu… which is airing the funny travel guy(Rick Steves). Right now he is talking about München (Munich). I miss it. Everywhere he is highlighting, I have been. And I want to go back. ::pout, pout:: mmm. I want to go to Die Zugspitze.

I have a desire to take a trip. But probably won’t occur.

I am shaking… have been all day long- (well, actually on and off since Monday). Today in class (uh… yesterday since it is past midnight), Jack, my speaking partner asked me what I was taking that was making me so jittery. I think he was really thinking I was taking some sort of illegal drug. Hmm. Not such a good thing to ask a girl. It probably rates right up there with “Aren’t you married?”

I talked with my family five times today. I think it is a record. The shortest conversation was twenty minutes. The longest, two hours.

My best friend, who is only a little over three months older than me, is getting married- next weekend. It seems so crazy. All life long, she said that I would be married long before she ever was. Guess not. She followed her older sister’s example: she went to college and found a guy, got engaged, married a few months later. I am following my sister’s example: went to college, went to college (sophomore year), found a guy, practically engaged, went on a mission… Nah, guess I am not following her example either. I am my own me.

My little sister is going to be 14 years old on the 20th. Simply crazy. Meine Mutti cannot believe that these years have gone by so fast. Children aging from 21 to 14. Yeah. My family is getting older.

My final is coming up in a week. I am really scared. Sorry this is a bunch of random thoughts. But don’t you ever just need to ramble on? Well, right now I feel the need to be chatty…but it is rather late so no one is up to plague. Lucky them.

Any way. The End.

In case ya miss it...

If you can't start a conversation without mentioning the weather . . .
If you refer to hair as hairs . . .
If you say Uff-da and Fe-da . . .
If you understand ALL the uses of the word "Uff-Da" . . .
If your epitaph will include the words "yep" and "nope" . . .
If your dad repeated first grade because he only spoke Norwegian . . .
If you can't make it through a phone conversation without mentioning the weather . . .
If you think a bison is a buffalo . . .
If you think skis are "Norwegian timber" . . .
If you understand that "Yah y'betch yah" means either "I agree" or "You're full of it" and you know the difference . . .
If you never confuse "Yah," "Yep," and "Yah y'betch yah" . . .
If you think everyone from a different state has an accent . . .
If your answer to "How are you?", "How's the weather?", "How was your crop?", or "How's the ranchin' goin'?" is the same--"Not so bad."
If you can identify a Minnesota accent . . .
If you bake with soda and drink pop . . .
If you "manure the barn" . . .
If you hear "Yah, sure" not "Yes, sir" . . .
If you say, "Outside, zero is below" . . .
If you go to Arkansas for a visit and everyone tells you you have an accent . . .
If you go to the post office to mail a paggitch . . .
If you talk about electric tape and people don't look at you like they wonder just how many cards are left in your deck . . .
If you refer to a snack as a "bunny lunch" . . .
If being detained by snow is to be "snow-stayed" . . .
If you pronounce it Nor'Dakoda . . .
If you consider Spanish a foreign language . . .
If after you have discussed the weather, conversation declines . . .
If you end all of your sentences with either "ya know", "you betcha", or "okiedokie" . . .
If you hear "You betcha" and "Okey Dokey" in the same sentence . . .
If your e-mail address is uffda . . .
If you omit the noun or pronoun from the end of a sentence beginning, "I am coming (or going) with . . .
If you routinely end sentences with prepositions, i.e., "Do you want to come with?" . . .
If you think someone from northern Indiana has a southern accent and wouldn't really know what winter is.
If you say "uff-da" as an exclamation . . .
If you have ever said, "Cold weather keeps out the riff-raff" . . .
If the second question after "Where are you from?" is always "Do you know ----?" . . .
If you call the grass between the sidewalk and the curb a berm . . .
If you don't believe you sound like the actors in the movie Fargo . . .
If you cannot greet anyone without first mentioning the weather . . .
If you pronounce Greg and Craig the same, and people can tell the difference . . .
If you state the obvious--"Oh, I see you are in town today" . . .

If your speech becomes the main entertainment while outside of the state...

. . . then you must be from North Dakota.

Ginger Beer and Chocolate

All I have got to say is that Heavenly Father sure did make a lot of good looking guys to walk this earth. And after a swig or two of Beer that is heavy on the Ginger, they seem to be every which way you look. Then chocolate was discovered, (by the Spanish Monks, right?), so a girl can ponder why those guys seem to be everywhere. Ginger Beer and chocolate. What a combination.