Aparment Enrichment Night #1

So a few weeks ago in church I found a paper on the floor with ideas for enrichment nights and some of them sounded really fun to me. However, neither I nor any of my roommates are currently in any positions in which we really have any influence over enrichment night activities. So Reenie and I came up with the idea of having weekly Apartment Enrichment Night.

It seemed an especially good idea now since in the summer everyone seems to be traveling around and with Meagan now being engaged and Reenie dating someone, there isn't ever a lot of time where we all just get to hang out and do "girl talk." Hence the need for a planned weekly apartment enrichment night.

So for our first activity, we stole one of the ideas off the paper I found. Yoga and smoothie night. 

Reenie and I doing our ohms at the end of the workout

Meagan didn't end up coming, so we invited our neighbor Laura to join us, we all put on our best and tightest yoga pants and had a fabulous and enlightening (or should I say "enriching") time. 

Special thanks go out to my home boy Tony Horton for leading us in the rigorous workout and to the old classic Orange Julius for providing us with much needed refreshment after it was all done.

Aparment Enrichment Night #1 = Success! 

Welp. . .

So after thoroughly enjoying the cute header and design that my friend Andrea made for my blog last summer, which I have used now for over a year, I was able to con another good friend into helping me spruce up my blog a bit. (Thanks Kiley!) And I am really hoping that this will get me excited about writing on here again. Because after all, if I have titled it, "Kate's Summer Adventures" I better get going on writing down some of the summer adventures I have already had, and get excited about planning some more before the summer ends.

So here's to hoping that this will be the catalyst to get this blog going again. . .

Thanks again Kiley!

Please be my Consumer Report

So I have decided to sell my car. It was actually a pretty sudden decision. I am moving to Boston in the fall and planned to take my X-Terra along with me, because I heard that especially as a nurse and working crazy hours, I will definitely still want a car. However, I think ever since my mom got her Camry hybrid and my little brother his Nissan Altima which both nearly double the gas mileage I get in my car, I have been a little jealous. So, even though I have totally LOVED my little beast, I think it is time to sell it and get a more gas friendly friend.

Okay now here is the part that concerns you. I am looking at Mazda 3s. I don't know why. I've never actually even ridden in one. I just think they are cute looking mostly and I know Mazda is a good brand. But I want to know if any of you out there own a Mazda 3 or 6 or know someone who does and whether you love, like or hate? OR do you have a gas-friendly car that you would recommend?

I probably won't start looking very seriously until I start getting offers on my car. But I am hoping that might be soon because I just posted it today on  kslcars.com and I don't even have pictures up yet and I have had 2 people contact me.

Counting Up Again

I'm training for another half-marathon this summer and I think I'll restart my "odometer" on the side bar of this blog. I don't know why, but it really is exciting and motivating to me to run more when I get to find a fun new picture to put up each day. Lame I know, but hey, whatever works!

Cute Video Revival

I watched this little 30 second clip last night. I actually saw it for the first time a few years ago, but feel that it deserves being revived. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPibcB1Rego

Can I please take this little boy home?! So cute!!

PS Does anyone know how to just load an acutal video not just a link onto a blog? I used to, but as you know, have kind of sucked it up at blogging lately and I can't figure it out now.

Roley Poley

I have been  sitting in the Harold B. Lee Library for 6 hours straight now. I didn't even leave for a lunch break. I have of course put my 20-page final research paper off until the last week even though I have known about it all semester. But that's not what I want to write about right now. (Although I do have a pretty amazing story about trying to make a copy of an article out of a nursing journal 2 days ago that you will have to remind me to share)

Today I want to write about roley poleys. I am sitting in periodicals, one of the only places in the HBLL that has a good window view to the real world. There is a steep hill that I know most all of you know about that leads down to the windows. It is a nice day outside and I watch about 10 kids all jumping onto their bellies and rolling down the hill.

"What makes us do that?" I think to myself. Why when we are kids do we see a hill, and think, "Hey! I know! Let's make myself dizzy and nauseous and hurl myself down this hill!" I'm not saying it's a stupid idea, I know I did it all the time as a kid, but I do wonder who was the first person to do it? What gave them that idea? Would we as kids have thought to do it if we hadn't seen older kids doing it before?

I just looked up and saw that now a pretty overweight father is rolling down the hill behind his kids. So I guess it isn't just a kid thing. And now one of the older kids is sick of just "lamely" laying down on his stomach to start the roll and is now jumping down the hill and doing a belly flop into his roll!

Well, I better get back to my paper, or. . . maybe back to watching the hill to see if any other new tricks develop.  

The Dangers of Returning a Late Book

So yesterday, I was attempting to return my book from last month's book club to the Provo City Library. Yes. It is now 2 weeks late. Why? I am not really sure, because I finished it just 3 days after the due date which would have fallen into the Provo Library's lovely grace period.

Anyway, on to the action. It was a super snowy day and so I was having a fun time just trying to get around and for any of you who have tried to pull into the Provo City Library's book-return drive-through, you know that it is a pretty tight corner even when you aren't dealing with inclement weather.
Anyway, so I pull in, but I was a little far from the slot so I ended up dropping the book down on to the wet and snowy ground below the car. Without even thinking, I open my door and just start jumping out to save the soon-to-be avalanched-in book. (PS I think I might be a little dash happy tonight)
However, in my haste to save the helpless book I forgot that I had not put my car into park when I stopped so at the same moment I put one foot on the ground and start moving my other foot (which had been on the brake) out, the car starts rolling forward! Perfect!
I quickly move my foot back into place on the brake even though my other foot is still on the ground and the car screeches to a stop.
I catch my breath, jump back in the car, put it into park. Jump back out. This time the car doesn't move. I grabbed the book and returned it. It was a little wet, and I hope I don't get fined, but mostly I am just grateful that a) my car didn't end up a permanent fixture in the side of the library and b) that my body didn't get sucked in between the open car door, the book vaults and the underside of my car!