Rotting Pumpkins

Seth and I always use our back door.

We put our Halloween pumpkins by the front door.

And so, we forgot about them for a long time.

Until they looked like this:

We decided we should probably get rid of them.

We decided this was probably a good idea and we decided we should take care of it immediately.

And so, about a week later, when they looked like this:

We finally got rid of them.

I think our neighbors were happy.

I PASSED

Dear Janette:

Congratulations!  You have been awarded the Novice Level Certificate! I commend you on your accomplishment. Your certificate, certification card, and other information will be sent separately.

The Novice Certification is an entry skill-level status.  We expect that you will follow the Code of Ethics and stay within the areas approved for your level of Certification and skill. You are not allowed to interpret in situations which are limited to Professional Level.

Again, congratulations on your achievement!  I wish you luck in the future.

                                                                                                                       

Sincerely,

Mitch                                                    

Mitch Jensen, Director                                                                                  

Utah Interpreter Program

I just got this 5 minutes ago. I started screaming. 

I AM A LICENSED INTERPRETER!

I am so awesome!

Happy Birthday Michelle

Today is my sister Michelle's 24th birthday.

For real.

Things you may not have known about Michelle:

1. She is hilarious.

2. She is currently in England getting her masters in being a museum whiz.

3. She's the only person in my family who will let me play the music as loud as I want in the car. (with the exception of my father) She also sings and dances to the music with me. (my father does not do that)

4. She is a hopeless romantic. She drove Amanda and I crazy when we were both engaged because she was much too sappy for us. (Ever seen My Best Friend's Wedding? Amanda and I are Julia Roberts, Michelle is Cameron Diaz.)

5. We like to tease her about being the shortest among the siblings, even though she is the oldest.

Happy Birthday Michelle!

Pet Names

Remember my post about Seth's ridiculous list of baby names?

He also likes to come up with ridiculous pet names for me.

I've been carefully recording them for the past several weeks so that I could share them with you, my devoted readers.

Baby Cakes

Baby Pie

Baby Honey

Cutiesauce

Funky Bunch

Hamster Pop

Sugar Pants

Sugar Lump

Sugar Grimace

Schnookums

Schnooky

Shnuggle-Wuggins

Snuggle Cakes

Honey. . . Dew. . . Melon. . . Head. . .

The last one is my favorite. He kept adding onto it as he thought up some new, more clever version.

It should be noted that he is actually not this sappy. He just likes to try and get the best reaction out of me. The range is from puzzled looks to acting as if I'm throwing up. Sometimes there is violence involved.

I know, we're a little weird.

Whenever I tell Seth that he is weird, he always responds with "Hey, weird people marry weird people."

I've yet to come up with a good response to this. Suggestions?

Snow

What's that? Oh no, I'm never dramatic.

Why do you ask?

Modeling

My lovely friend Betina is a photography major at BYU. She is very talented.

 She came over to my house for dinner a while ago and fell in love with my kitchen and wanted to do a photo shoot in it.

She got me to be the model for it, even though I hadn't even taken a shower that morning. (She put a lot of makeup on me...)

And I actually had a lot of fun.

Anyway, here are some pictures I took.

And here are some pictures she took (shamelessly stolen from her own photography blog.)

She also has a second photography website that you should look at.

I'm pretty sure that Betina is going to be a famous photographer one day and then I can say I roomed with her for 2 and a half years and she even took some pictures of me.

It'll be like I'm almost famous.

Playing the Air Guitar.

Seth once told me that he had to learn how to play the air guitar.

I find this concept extremely hilarious. I didn't realize you had to learn how to play air guitar.

He assures me you do.
He says he learned it by playing Guitar Hero.
So see, video games ARE educational!

Anyway, now that he's finally mastered this skill, he is quite good at it.

My favorite thing to do is blast Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the car and watch Seth go crazy. He does it all: the intense air guitar-ing, singing (with great accuracy) the low and high notes, the head banging a la Wayne's World.

It's great stuff.

My other favorite song to put on around Seth is "It's A Jolly Holiday with Mary" from Mary Poppins. He can imitate the animal's parts to perfection.

Lest you think I'm only going to make fun of Seth in this post, I'll have you know I used to look at the word guitar and think it was pronounced "gwee-ter." In my mind this was a different word from guitar.

It took me years to figure it out.