Quote of the Day!

"If I was a giraffe, I wouldn't have to do pull-ups!"

Haha! Oh man, good times a weight lifting! So you probably want to hear the story behind this, right? Alrighty then, so our school is on block schedule and swimming is my first period. So on b-days, we (the swim team) go to the school at like 6:00 to lift weights. (Yes 6:00AM, I know! It's freakin' early!!) Needless to say we're all a bit loopy and sleep deprived.

So today at weight lifting Mallori was trying to do some pull-ups. Trying is the key word there.

After numerous failed attempts, she mused to the group:

"If I had a longer neck, I could get my chin over the bar..."

"Maybe if you were a giraffe...." Which was followed by the oh-so-famous quote of the day...

"If I was a giraffe, I wouldn't have to do pull-ups!"

Ahhh... The many adventure of art class!

So Alan and I are in this art class for Salt Lake Community College and it's pretty awesome. Well, the CLASS isn't, but being in there with Alan is freakin' sweet. We listen to his ipod while we're drawing old ladies and other random crap like that and make up dance moves for certain songs. Our all time favorite dance is "The Shake It Dance". You know that song by Metro Station? You know... Shake It? haha Well I'm not even going to TRY to explain how you do the dance, but let me tell you, it's hilarious.

Another great thing about art is we can pretty much do whatever we want. We like to wedge the huge ruler between our desks and fling stuff at people, but it mainly hits Maggie and then we feel bad! HAHA! Also, another cool thing we do with the ruler is cover one side in cool designs in multi-colored puff paints, then press it side down on a piece of paper. You have to pull it off at an angle, but if you do, it looks so COOL!! Wow... we are so awesome...

So the other day in art, I was trying to get Alan to remember this one time when I tried to turn and face him really fast and accidentally hit his shoulder with my face lol. So I was like, "Alan! Remember that one time that I hit my face on your shoulder?" We had a good laugh and returned to our ipod dance moves. Then I turned to face him really fast and hit my face on his shoulder!! HAHA! Totally unplanned and everything and it HURT!! But I was laughing so hard I didn't even care! And so was he, so it was pretty awesome. That was yet another time that I almost peed my pants at school. Anyway, I'll post a funny picture to go with this post soon!

Until next time! Alan, it's YOUR turn now! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D<3>

Candy Shop Windows

My family and I were on a trip to Yellowstone, when we visited an old west type ghost town called Virginia City (or was is Nevada City? I forget, we did visit both though... At one of them we got to pan for gold! It was pretty awesome!)

Anyways there was an old fashioned candy shop there, as part of the town. We had just finished walking through it, when the candy people started making a batch of cinnamon taffy right in the display window! Well, I guess they weren't really making it but they were cutting up the big blob of taffy and wraping in in little papers, but it was pretty cool nontheless.

As we were enjoying the smell of fresh taffy and watching the inner working of the taffy wraping buisness, I found myself going in for a closer look and... BONK! I totally smacked my head on the window! The people inside tried not to laugh, but how do you not laugh at that? Outside, me and the fam were cracking up! Before we left, the workers came out and gave us some free samples of the cinnamon taffy they were wraping.

Good times! :)

CRAYONS!!

Today, Alan and I made crayons!! Yep, real crayons!! We made a ton, but most of them didn't turn out very cool, so pretty soon, we decided to make some poo colored ones. There was this one that we took out of the mold and it was still hot, so we made it a curly poo crayon!! I insist that they are pronounced "cran" but Alan doesn't seem to agree with me. Which is lame, since I'm totally right.

Yep, crayons are cool! That's right, crayons, not crens, crans, or crowns... CRAYONS!!! By the way, the poo crayons looked very realistic!

And don't think we are lame for making crayons on a saturday. Only people who are truly confident in their popularity (lol right.) can do something so lame and make it look cool.

Haha! We're cool! :) And we ate cashews!

and we made a cucumber maaaaan!!

Lawn Gnomes

Personally, I don't understand the lawn gnome fetish some people seem to have. I think they're creepy. But in almost every neighborhood, you will find at LEAST one..

yeah... I mean, they're cool little garden doods, but you've got to set a limit! I mean seriously! Q!

This person is crazy -->
I think the expedia gnome guy is sorta scary, and have you seen the movie Chicken Run?

I like the Expedia gnome!! He's cool, and like when he tries to put the electric plug in the socket in Europe!? It's golden! But I agree, too much of a good thing, can be a good thing, but lawn gnomes are not one of these things...

wow.. our blog is SO insightful! So, if you ever need lawn gnome advice, one or two is okay depending on the size of your yard. Four is pushing the limit a little bit..

This has been another incredible post from Shannon and Alan. Join us next time for advice on wooden ducks. :)

Opening Ceremonies in Beijing

I discovered something this week. Chinese people have a lot of time on they're hands. Did you see that stuff they did!? All those peeps under the boxes and stuff... purdy crazy

The Chinese have been known to do things that people never even considered. They DID invent fireworks, after all... Um... We need something more exciting to blog about..

Yoos... Yoos we do

I just snorted!

Funny Video!

The Horrors of Pasta Salad

My job makes me hate food. Seriously. I work at Utah Foods, this huge catering business located at the Salt Palace in down town salt lake city. Today, me and my friends that I work with had to put pasta salad into these tiny cups and seal it. Guess how much pasta salad we had to do this with. 8 tubs worth. Each tub holds about the same amount as a standard size bath tub.

Needless to say, I used to really like pasta salad. But after five hours of stuffing the nasty concoction into tiny cups, I really HATE it. What IS it anyway? Some noodles.... some veggies... all drenched in a weird dressing. Who thought this stuff up? After each hour that I worked, the pasta salad began to become just a little more repulsive to me. The dressing looked like slobbery drool, the veggies were diced so small that they became this huge sloshy mess, and the noodles were soggy. The smell of the stuff will forever haunt my dreams...

My job has killed many great foods for me in this same manner such as egg rolls, sandwiches, and my used-to-be-favorite tacos. If I keep working at this place, I will eventually starve to death... AND THE NERVE OF THE PEOPLE!! For lunch, they tried to serve us a DIFFERENT kind of pasta salad, but I know better... everyone working passed it up. They think that just because the noodles are differently shaped, it will be more appealing!? I think NOT!!

I need a new job...

Wal*Mart

So today I went to walmart since I'm making this totally awesome blanket. I realize that I had just woken up and wasn't looking my best, so I was contemplating on showering and doing my hair and makeup before I went. Then I started to think about it... Walmart. Was I really going to get myself ready and cute-looking for Walmart!?!? I don't know if you've noticed, but all the people there are totally ghetto. My brother in law, Brad, fondly refers them as the "Wal-martians" because everyone who shops there is totally weird!! So, I got in my car, clad in my pj's and a baseball cap wearing my glasses. Although I know I must have looked totally stupid, I wore high heels. I figured I had to look semi-weird at least to fit in over there! I parked in the handi-fat zone.

(My sister has this theory that fat people shouldn't have handicapped stickers just for being fat. I mean if you're fat, you should park at the BACK of the parking lot so that you have to walk farther rather than at the front of the paring lot, right? So we refer to the back of the parking lot as the "handi-fat" parking for all the fatties of America)

I walked inside, and down the isle. These two tall gangstas immediately started to stare at me as I passed. I had to laugh to myself because I fit right in and they must have mistaken me for one of their own (wal-martian, remember?). I made my way to the yarn isle and there was a woman standing on the isle, staring at a thingy of yarn whimpering. I wondered what the yarn did to make her so upset. As I went about my business trying to find the right shades of red, this woman just kept on staring at that thing of yarn and I began to get creeped out a little... I hurried and grabbed a skein of yarn and left the isle.

I guess I'll never know what that yarn did to that lady. As I walked out the door to my car, one of the workers yelled out to me, "Have a wonderful day, Laddy!" in a heavy Irish accent.

Ahhh... the many adventures of wal-mart....

Pool Fuzzies?

So I've been guarding this summer to earn some extra money. Mostly to feed my car actually... Hey Scientists! You need to start researching new car food! Like antimatter... Speaking of antimatter, ANGELS AND DEMONS!!!!! That is a good book, you should read it.

Anyways, being a lifeguard is exciting stuff. Like today, I was on stand when I noticed something floating around in the air above me. That's odd I thought to myself... Mind you I was guarding at the indoor pool. Upon further investigation, I realized that this 'floatie' was one of those fluffy guys you blow off of dandy-lions (haha, that was a sad attempt to spell that word), only it was the jumbo kind, and it didn't have the little umbrella stem thing. You know the kind I mean? Needless to say I was utterly confused.

How would that fuzzie even get close to the pool!? I mean it would have to fly in through the front door, float down the hall, navigate the maze of locker rooms, and then finally come out onto the pool deck. What kind of fuzzie would take the time to do that!? I also wasn't quite sure why that fuzzie hadn't landed in the water. Our pool has a sort of water playground, with lots of fountains spraying water into the air, the same air the fuzzie was flying around in. This is like the invincible fuzz! What is that all about!?

I still haven't figured it out... maybe someone's just messin' with me...

Starbucks!

Have you ever had a Vanilla Bean Frappuccino? They are way goood! Me and Shannon used to always go to Nickel-Mania and then go to Starbucks across the street and get a vanilla bean fix! A YUM!

Ahhh... it was one of these times where the starbucks noise was invented. Or really named, now that I think about it. Have you ever been drinking something, started to laugh, and in a moment of deeply inhaling, you make a weird gurggily (sp?) noise? That, my friend, is the Starbucks noise. We had just gotten our drinks after a long afternoon at Nickel-Mania and we both started to laugh over who knows what (proably the name George) and I had one of those moments.

Haha! Good times!

Is it weird to post twice in one day? Ten minutes apart? HEHEHE!! We're cool!

I don't know... We're cool anyways!

meep!

Stupid Movie Quotes and Powers

Me and Alan are the coolest people in the world. Hands down. So today, we were watching X-Men on tv. The first one, you know? And we decided that all of Storm's lines are really stupid. Like when she is going to kill Toad or whatever and she's like, "Do you know what happens to a Toad when it's struck by lightening?" *dramatic pause* "The same thing that happens to everything else." I mean, how stupid is that? Who writes this stuff? They should be sued. Alan says that Storm is cool and has cool powers and what not, but I think they're lame. All she can do is make her eyes go all weird and then bam! Stuff gets hit by lightening.

Yeah Yeah... Storm is cool. Shannon is just jealous that she doesn't have any cool mutant powers. I on the other hand, can appreciate other people's awesomeness. Yep, I'm just cool like that. :)

HA! Whatever! You want mutant powers, too! Plus I DO appreciate other people's awesomeness! I think Mystique (sp?) is WAY awesome! Along with Magneto and Deathstrike and Nightcrawler and Wolverine!!!! I guess the only stupid people are Rogue and Storm. Speaking of which, what IS a wolverine, Alan?

Well, the wolverine is related to the weasel, they are known to be very shy and like most weasels the wolverine is scarcely seen. Anyways, back to super powers. Rogue's powers are pretty lame. I think if i could have any power, I'd want Jean Grey's. They are pretty awesome. Although being able to morph into any animal would be WAAAAY cool. I'd fly around everywhere, and cool stuff like that. How cool would that be!?

Yeah, that would be pretty sweet.