juliaswedding

This past Saturday was Julia's wedding. She had asked me to be her maid-of-honor, so I went out to Oklahoma for a week. It was interesting to say the very least; her town of Ada, OK has only 20,000 people in it, roughly a third of the number of people in my university. Nuts. Her wedding/bachelorette party was in Oklahoma City though (thank goodness, I have no idea what I would have planned otherwise). I took a bajillion pictures, but instead of boring you with smiling faces and pinned-up navy blue dresses, I am going to share with you the game we played for her bachelorette party.

I made up this cheesy game where we had a checklist of a certain type of guy. Throughout the evening, we had to find that type of guy and take a picture with him. We almost didn't make it through the whole list (there seems to be an amazing lack of crazies in Oklahoma) but we managed.

A GRANDPA MAN.
This strapping young lad didn't understand why we wanted to take a picture with him, but he was obliging nonetheless.


A LONG-HAIRED MAN.
The man with the luscious locks had his daughter with him (the frightened young girl in the front) and I think he may have been worried about his wife catching him with 4 young girls.


A MINOR MAN.
We couldn't find any hot guys under 18, so we settled on this guy: he was smoking and had a middle school shirt on.


A CLINT-LOOK-ALIKE MAN.
Clint is Julia's husband. This is the closest we found. Yeah, I know the only thing they have in common is their coloring, but you try finding someone that looks like that kid.


A COMPUTER GEEK MAN.
This dude was awesome! He was really surprised we wanted to take a picture with him... he kept saying, "Wait, you want me to take your picture? What?! Me with you?! What?!" Anyway, he ended up being our favorite poster boy and when we left the restaurant, we all gave him a boob-hug (you know, the hugs where your boobs get squashed) and Aria put a 2 dollar tip in his back pocket. Hot!


A BODY-BUILDER MAN.
There were no "swole" guys in Oklahoma... the closest we could find was this bouncer guy at some cheesy club.


A BOY-NEXT-DOOR MAN.
This dude was with his girlfriend, and I am pretty sure she was pissed that 4 random girls wanted to take a picture with him, but he looked sweet and un-like the hobos we were seeing pretty prevalently, so he was the one.


A TATTOOED MAN.
I have no earthly idea why, but getting tattoos is illegal in Oklahoma. So, that made finding these gentlemen fairly difficult. We were searching ALL NIGHT for some dude with a half-sleeve or something, but all we got were these guys with cheesy tribal armbands. How ridiculously predictable.


A POLICE OFFICER MAN.
This was by far the highlight of our game. This police officer was in his car patrolling, and we followed him until he parked. Then I went up to him and told him the game we were playing and asked if he would let us stand around his car and take a picture. Well, he ended getting out of his car and posing with us, and then he let Julia get in the driver's seat and put the picture of Clint she was carrying in the backseat. It was completely radical.


A MILITARY MAN.
We almost thought we weren't going to finish our game. We couldn't find military guys ANYWHERE. We decided we would give up and just go back to the hotel. Well, on the way to our car (we were seriously like 10 feet away) we saw these military guys! They had their dog tags out and everything! It was fabulous! It kinda scared me when the one guy picked me up off the ground like a baby, but it did make me feel good that that was actually possible.



Wow, that took for freaking ever to post... I think that's why I don’t post very often. I always want these interesting updates, and it's very rare that anything remarkably intriguing happens. Anyway, the wedding was nice. There were only a few hiccups to Julia's planning, which was good. I think that all of us were annoying to her. We had a few rough moments, but I think she was happy.

greenday

I wish that September would NEVER end so Green Day will remain asleep and I never have to hear that sappy would-be punk song again.

So, on Tuesday, I am returning to the homeland! Haha, I was born in Guymon, Oklahoma. While I believe I will still be very far away from that tiny town, I will be in Oklahoma City, or more fondly, OKC! My friend from high school, Julia Tidmore, will be getting married this Saturday and I am the maid-of-honor. Whoo! I have been planning the bachelorette party for quite some time now. Hopefully it will iron itself out because I don't know how to use one of those things.

I have to-do lists, and lists to compile and put on the main to-do lists. Nice.

It is raining outside now... not a very good thing when you work at Sunglass Hut.

My sister Lauren came into town this past weekend. We hung out, played Scattergories (twice) and went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Alamo Drafthouse. I would just like to say that I have been waiting to see that film since it's production was announced and IT WAS WORTH IT! GO SEE IT! It's perfect!

Here is an Oompa Loompa song to whet your whistle. (Thanks Juan!)

Danny Elfman (as performed by the Oompa Loompas!) - "Mike Teavee"

belonging

I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I know who I am, I know God's plan, I'll follow Him in faith.
I believe in the Savior, Jesus Christ, I'll honor His name.
I'll do what is right, I'll follow His light.
His truth I will proclaim.

hustleandflow

These screen shots just don't do "Hustle and Flow" justice. While Noble and I agreed that we would more likely have rented it than went to a theater under any other circumstance (the film was free for us, thanks to lovely free screenings), I thoroughly enjoyed myself. My favorite line from the film: "You Mormons are mother-effin' brave!!" Noble laughed at that for like a full two minutes I swear.

One of the funniest things that happened that night was the compliment on remaining "my caucasian self." Haha, whatever that means. I guess my time at the Highland 10 theater was the opposite of what dear old Whoopi Goldberg referred to as "a raisin in a cup of milk"... so I guess my experience there at ol' "Hustle and Flow" was that of a marshmallow in a cup of hot cocoa. Hah! Funny thought.

bananacream

I have managed to fall upon another vice: Banana Cream Pie Blizzards from Dairy Queen. Holy crap, these are the tastiest things in the world. They have chunked up bananas and chunks of pie crust in this banana flavored ice cream soft serve type stuff. HOLY MOLY. I have had like 3 of these in the past two weeks. I can't help it.

Everything tasty has like 83974983274 calories in it. For example, these new treats have 483 calories. Whoa! That's about a third of my whole daily intake. Haha. And, I am obsessed with these cookies that Thundercloud Subs sells... I think they are just Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies, but oh man. I go in to get one yesterday and Shane told me that they have like 260 calories and 14 grams of fat or something. WHOA. I've eaten like 10 of those in the past month. Haha, oh well. I work out enough to not let it make too much of a difference. But still! Working as hard as I do just to remain static? I don't know about that. In any case, I heart calories.

I leave for my Dad's house for the whole 4th of July thing here in a while. After Church I am coming home to change and then we're taking off. I am both excited and not so much. I love being around my family and just chillin' and not really doing much of anything, but I always feel scrutinized at these types of gatherings. I am either too fat or not eating enough meat to satisfy lookers-on or too liberal or have too big of earrings or too white or I wear too weird of clothing or I am studying too "unconventional" of a major. BUT! This time it will be different!! I am remaining positive. It is so hard to be myself because (even if it isn't true, I still feel this way) something about "myself" just doesn't seem to be satisfactory.

I don't care now. I used to, but I guess that was before I had an eternal perspective on certain things. For example, I know that I am living how I should and I know that I am loved unconditionally by at least 2 beings in existence. I do what is right the majority of the time, I listen to who I need to be listening to. So, I am happy and will have a good time regardless of anything that may ensue. It is kinda sad that I get this much anxiety just spending time with my family. But, as we all have learned, it is easier just to accept it rather than expect change. We all have our little issues in life and I suppose this is mine.

Noble is nice.