To Who I Am Becoming...

So my first morning back in St. George and I couldn't sleep so I got up at 5:30 a.m. and by 6 a.m. decided to go for a walk. This is what I saw...

The first day back in St. George and this is what I came down for. Good job Steph!!!

I have had this soup and now I have made it and its like I have died and gone to HEAVEN. Try it and enjoy. olive oil butter 1/2 white onion, finely minced 1 Knoor's Vegetable stock cube dissolved in 2 cups water 3 cups fresh peas (use frozen but thaw and rinse first) Salt and Fresh Ground pepper 3 tblsp whipping cream Place a dollop of olive oil in a sauce pan along with a knob of butter. When pan is heated stir in the onions and cook on medium heat until soft and clear. About 5 minutes. Add the stock and the peas, increase heat and bring to the boil. Cover the pan, reduce heat and simmer for about 20 minutes . Transfer to a blender and puree until smooth. Pour the soup through a fine mesh sieve (in batches) pushing the solids through with the back of a large spoon. Be sure to scrape off the soup from under the sieve. throw away remaining solids in the sieve. Repeat until all soup has been strained. Reheat until piping hot then pour into a wide m

So this is how I would like to anounce a baby in my family. That will not happen for a long time but it is now a dream of mine. Enjoy!

So I got tired of not having my results from the PRAXIS that I took in the summer so I e-mailed the most wonderful person in the world, Deborah (I know I spelled her name wrong), to see if she would give me my results. I didn't expect anything back for a long time but she e-mailed me back within like 5 min. So here is the big news. PASSED: 175 I am so excited I can't believe it. I expect to party when I come down to St. George .

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So I was finally able to read a book in one week. As most of you know I have a strange compulsion to read a whole series even if I don't like one of the books. Having said this it should be understood that I still like reading these awful books. Well I loved reading the Uglies series until I got to the fourth book of the Trilogy (or that was what it was supposed to be). In the first three books issues such as brain control , superficial stigmas, and what it truly means to be free are explored. In the forth book we depart from the main characters and move to Japan to learn what the world has become after everything has changed. I did not like the book because of several things that got overshadowed by one large problem. The end is CRAP!!!! The whole thing about these books is supposed to be about learning to make good choices and live a good life on this planet. Scott Westerfeld apparently got tired or thinks that this kind of a world could never happen and thinks we are

Ok so I know I have been neglectful . Things have gotten better for me since I made some decisions about what I was going to do with my life. I will get into those later because my life is so different then it was just two months ago. Just so no one will call me hyperventilating, NO i'm not engaged, NO I did not get a teaching job, and NO I did not decide to become part of the Radha Krishna religion! One of my friends came up and we went to this Inda Fest which was so much fun! The temple that it was at was so beautiful I didn't know anything like that was in the whole of Utah . While we were there we bouhgt the traditional outfit. (I will not try to spell it because it sounds like sorry ) Part of the experiance was the food which was a Delicious hot multi- course meals of Indian curry with home made cheese ( paneer ), blueberry hallava, spicy Bengali rice, and giant lentil chips ( papadams ) and there were Indian drinks such as Peach lassi, and Nimbu pani, as well a

Things I Bought... Went with friends to get toes done so I had to get shoes too don't ya know. It was so cold I just had to get a new Jacket. Life is so hard. Better then M&Ms Shows proportions of the world Tooth Traditions From Around the World During the one hour I let mom drive we get lost. She bought me these earrings she saw in a window when we got out to switch. Tells different versions of the same story. Paper made from Elephant Poo for dad Now my collection is complete Good food after all that shopping Places I went... University of Alberta Edmonton Art Walk and Farmers Market Street Performers Festival What I came home to... Flossy my new dog Good Music All the rest... Nativities from all over the world. If you want to know about the whole trip you can request the 100 page journal that mom wrote every strange thing we did and saw. P.S. Sean and Paul's wedding was wonderful. I am so happy for my two friends.

Life has been hard. This is what has kept me going. Sad I know but at least their is only one direction to go now.

Well the end has come. For most this passing will not make any more impact then one tear dropped into the ocean. For most lives will continue as if nothing had been changed by its beginning. For those of you that this holds true I feel sorry. If your world is never moved by something no matter how fleeting then that world will stop being livable. My world has been changed. For the last two years I have been blessed with one show that has given me reason to cry, yell, sing, dance, curs, hug my friends, and feel lucky to have the life I live. Some have told me that becoming attached with people and a story that is not real is crazy and even unhealthy. I believe that if one cannot show emotion for even the smallest of things then how can one have deep emotion for the bigger things. Emotions do not always have to be those of good. It was once said that "at every sad ending their is an even greater beginning". I am still in the ending so I am just waiting for the beginning to star

Just in case you think the world has lost a little of its magic I hope this shows you that the magic of playing in the sand is still alive. Enjoy

So one of my dad's favorite songs is I Can Change by John Legend featuring Snoop Dogg. Well for some reason he wanted the lyrics to it and so I told him how he could get them off the internet. I almost wish that I had not done this because he then read them to me. With the music this song is amazing but with my dad's matter of fact tone the lyrics almost sounded perverce. He asked me what "Tripping off" and "Hizzle" ment. If you want an out of body experiance all you have to do is try to explain those words to your parents. ACK!!! Since then he will send me e-mails and things using those words. He has even gone as far as found an online slang dictionary that he uses. When he hears one of his students use a word that is hip then the will find out what it means and then try and use it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. (Most of the time I do both) Here is the song that started it all

I knew that this facade was too much to be true. This was that time when she would ask for my qualifications and tell me that she would be watching me (no doubt waiting to pull her son out of my class for my incompetence). “I assure you that your son will receive the best education in my class.” “Oh yes, I am not worried about that at all.” She saw the brief flash of incredulity. “Can I ask how much you know about my family?” “I’m sorry but I know very little about your family. I don’t pay much attention to what happens out side of my classroom and my students.” Now she had to change the look of wonder. I was surprised when that look turned into one of almost glee. “I’m sorry. I …” “No, No. Please don’t apologize. It is so nice to finally meet someone who has not heard about every little detail of my life whether true or not.” She suppressed a little chuckle. I sat in silence waiting for her to continue. “I actually came to talk to you about my son. His father, my husband, died one yea

The rest of the afternoon had a strange ominous feel about it. I had never had a parent come to talk to me the day before their child come into my class. I usually contacted them as soon as I found out about an addition to my roster. Despite all of my assertions that this family was no different then any other I knew that this mother would expect me to act differently around her and her son. Not that I was about to do that. I was working on preparing for the next days activities when I heard a faint knock on my door. I knew it was Gillian Bren only because I did not hear a child yell my name immediately after the knock. I turned to look at the woman that I was sure would make my teaching more difficult. Mothers like her often wanted teachers to go through ever educational distinction with them so that they could tear down your strategies and make suggestions that they were sure that would be so much better. I had pictured as having big blond hare and every part of her appearance carefu

I have been trying to come to terms with what my life is now. I hasn't changed much but it feels like it has. For as long as I can remember I have been working for this goal of getting through school. I have been taking classes and having to answer to someone. Now all of the sudden it has stoped. This last week I took my last final at Dixie. To make up for all of the free time I have taken naps, cleaned my room, and watched as my appartment building has gone to peices. I like it but I know that now is when I will truly have to grow up and we all know how well I have been able to do that so far.

Adam was changed to Wyatt and Eliza was changed to Anne. Everyone at school could not believe that I was not totally in love with him because he was so good looking. Wyatt had been a basketball player in high school and had managed to keep that figure. I on the other hand had never played a sport and it showed. I was slender but not to the point of emaciation. It was clear that my priorities were more for what made me happy instead of what size my waist was. “Anne!” “Hi Wyatt.” By his tone I could tell that he was excited about something but I didn’t know how much of that excitement was about me, about something he wanted me to do, or about something that I no longer had to do and that made me a little nervous. “Did you hear yet?” “Hear what?” I said in a suspicious tone. It was early November and I knew that his family was coming into town. I was afraid that he would want me to spend the whole time with his mother so that she wouldn’t ask about his love life. I had done that once befo

I went to school this morning and thought that today was going to be an okay day. Once I got about half way through and I knew that today was going to be a pain. I had no hopes that things were going to go my way or any good natured persons way untill I got to my computer. The internet at my apartment has been down for six days now. I have not been happy about it. When I got home and turned on my computer the internet was in full force. As if that were not enough to make me the happiest person on the planet, when I went around to tell everyone in my building a girl in one of the apartments said that she had something for me. To my surprise she pulled out my DRIVERS LICENCE. I had lost it two weeks ago at Shell Gas Station. She had found it in our parking lot. I have never been so convinced that the Lord is looking out for me because I am just not that lucky. Even if the world were to destroy me right now I would still be happy.

This is like parties at my house. Yes even with the twiggs.