throwback thursday

some quotes I found, saved up in my phone over the past few months.

'My armpit is sweating like it is what it does for a living.'
-Steele

'I watched a movie called Trainspotting last night. It sort of made me want to move to Scotland and do heroine.'
-Tony M.

'I was driving through Evenson, Evenston, Evanston; whatever, your last name screws that place up.'
-Also Tony M., but more flustered

'I accidentally came up with a really good racist joke the other day.'
-Isabel

'I don't think he's practicing, he said the 'f' word.'
'I practice the F-word sometimes.'
-Philip, and Nick's Southern friend AJ

'Those guys that carry the casket at your wedding!'
-Bryan, during a game of catchphrase

'Weren't you just Timothy?'
-Isabel, again

'She's like gravity!'
-Kent, on someone's card-playing skills


'I really like this lasagna, because if you have an allergy, it WILL find it'
-Todd B., during Heather and Chaz's rehearsal dinner

Some quotes I have found saved up in my phone:


"That's the cleanest your hair has ever looked!"
-Garrett Anderson, giving compliments in his typical fashion

"On my band t-shirt quilt they are the only band that has TWO T-SHIRTS."
-Provo-Ann, with incredible enthusiasm. She showed me this quilt later in the night.

I have three full days off of work. Three. This is so rare I am not sure what to do with it. There are no major holidays left until like, July, so I probably won't have it again, except for the days I take off when my brother comes home. I am so excited for a Sabbath and rest from my crazy and long days.

It sounds so cliche and dumb, but I am already wondering why college was so long ago. I graduated in December, but I can hardly remember being Buff Crossfit Girl or Writing a Paper All Night Girl. I thought I would miss it more, and I do miss a few things, but all of my friends only want to complain about how hard college is. I still don't have much free time, but I don't have as many deadlines looming over my head, which is nice.

So much going on. I want to start doing a Bible study. I want to exercise more. I want to finish decorating my house and start on some projects. I want to fight this sickness that I feel coming on.


Oh, and some more warm days would be nice as well. Bring on spring, Utah.

"Now Tom, he had the worst teeth I'd ever seen. Really, they were terrible. It was pathetic."-Harry, on his own son

"And he is friends with all the Tongans..."
"Tongan, what is that? I have never heard of that in my life."
-Dixie

"I tried to teach him to talk, but he wouldn't so I just named him Dummy."
-Dixie, on her new pet bird

I just found these gems somewhere.  I miss my California family.  Maybe it is time to go to Huntington again in the near future.

"do you ever do a warm-up before exorcism?"
-spencer, while reading to me out loud. poor guy.


i want to write a story about the bank some days, but instead i just come home with a headache and really dirty hands.

the thing of it is though, is that, despite the headaches and the germs and the grumpy and lying people, i don't hate my job. God has been so good to bless me with this. whether i work thirty hours a week this semester or twenty, i will be happy that i am where i am. i feel so professional when i count back money to a member or solve a financial problem. which is funny because i never thought much of that type of thing, because i am not a numbers or business person. i like to write and wear the same clothes over and over, and not wash my hair. don't ask me how i ended up where i did, for this moment.

things are in a funny place right now. i can't believe that school starts in four days. i can't believe my brother has been gone for a week--and isn't coming back for another three months. i can't believe he is in the marines. i keep wondering when all of this stuff is going to become more real in my head, but the answer is probably not until it is over.

I keep dreaming about money all of the time now, which translates into nightmares because I hate money, which is ironic because of my job situation. So I am hoping these dreams will end soon. I would like to have my normal sleeping patterns back.



Anyways. Here are some quotes I have been saving up, from Spencer and from regular life:

"It hit me right between the face."
-Austin, describing the feeling of being tired, and mixing metaphors again.

"I'm not getting a kid's meal, that's CRAP!"
-Spencer Scribner

"Dad's a little cold-hearted. Don't tell him anything cute, he'll just break it down."
-Spencer, again, on Tom

"Oh, I haven't had a Christmas sock in years!"
-my Grandma excited about a stocking

about tonight.

i got off work while it was still a little bit light outside, which was a nice surprise. plus my first day had like, no problems, except for a guy that wanted me to take his swedish money and give him american money. i am in love with my job right now and i hope it stays like this for at least 3 months. the only weird thing is that i am working with only men all of a sudden. but they are all married or look like richard alpert so there are no worries there.

tonight we went out for scrib's birthday. i keep getting semi-adopted into all of these new families which is always an adventure. we ended up eating at a tepanyaki place and then going to temple square to look at the lights. it was like a rewind of my childhood, except for that i was wearing fancy boots. but it was fun.

"I would like to work with investments..."
"You'd like to work somewhere that had refreshments?"
--Zach, and then Steph. This is a family of misunderstandings.

"If I could fight a girl, I would fight a Russian."
-One of the high school boys I worked with at the grocery store.

"Well, if you could answer that, that would be great."
--Spencer Scribner, yelling at us all from the bathroom (where he spends a lot of time, yelling out his needs)

"You need to come up and see my Tron collection, Matt!"
"I bought you all of the Tron stuff you have."
"Yeah! You need to come see it!"
-Spen, again, and Matt

"my mom took my sister to the doctor because she was getting too fat, and you know what the doctor told her? to stop eating so much cereal."

-yelin, on german healthcare

and some things that Spenc has been saying to me recently:

on body parts:

"That is the thing I hate about eyes."

on my life:
"Do you feel like a kid again?" -after taking a break from watching a meteor shower to jump on the trampoline

and, to the eight year-old boy inside of me:
"Have you ever had to poop and throw up at the same time?"

Last night I went to a wedding reception in a backyard, for a couple that I've never met. Also, so did 600 other people, so there was a lot of waiting in lines. The bride was half Polynesian, too, so there was a lot of dancing. And, by dancing I mean us watching people do various hulas, and the haka, and people putting dollar bills in their clothes. All in all it was an interesting night. But, sorry, I am never inviting 600 people to my wedding.

And here are some quotes I have been saving up in my head:

"I was about to tell him, 'yeah, you look like you'd like the cold'."

-Moriah, telling me how she was planning to start a conversation with a bald man, who was evesdropping on us at a wedding.

"You and Noah (Hahn) will have to hang out sometime soon."

"Yeah....I want to go to Texas. I hear there are rattlesnakes there."

-Me, and then Spencer Scribner.

"Mikey, prepare to enter Halo."

-Nick, walking onto the bridge of the Wells Fargo building.

"I know you guys are into that physical activity stuff, so I was just trying to be charitable."
-Austin, making excuses for not picking us up in order to save gas.

I think I would like to write him a book of the stuff that he says and give it to him for his birthday. Maybe 18th, maybe 21st.

"well, he completely deserves this one."
-philip hahn, justifying a shark attack as punishment


--i had a moment, yesterday at work, where i wasn't grumpy about my job situation, and it is this:

my favorite customer, who is old and tall and has a ponytail SPOKE TO ME. which, i guess it is weird that he is my favorite, because he never says more than that he is doing okay, but he is consistent, which makes me feel good. he comes in all of the time, and he at least answers my prompts and smiles if he feels the need. he consistently wears a vietnam vet hat and the same few shirts, without any crazy mood swings like other customers. anyways, i like him because he doesn't mess around. most of the old dudes that come in just want to tell you all of the jokes they can, which is sometimes just fine except it makes for a long day, and most of the jokes are the same. so this guy doesn't talk, except for yesterday he started a conversation with me. i like to think that maybe it was because i was gone for three weeks, and he realized that he missed me. but who is to say.

--shark week. there is something satisfying about watching discovery channel. i feel like my iq has gone up, but really, i have just watched a lot more blood and guts tv than usual.

--another thing i realized, pretty recently, is that i buy hair products just because i want to smell them. it has been the reason for most of my recent purchases. sometimes i even disregard what the stuff exactly does, and just want to buy it because it smells good. so, if my hair looks bad for the next few years, just know that it smells wonderful, when i am falling asleep on my pillow at night.

well, off to bed, and the new arcade fire album, which is actually, so far, wonderful. tomorrow is my brother's birthday, and i am excited to go celebrate with him after half a day of work. summer is going too fast.

"Well, you just gotta settle for less in Provo."
-Austin, scolding Philip for wanting real Mexican food, but also realizing what was happening for three years of his life.

"oh, he's getting there manually."
-kenny, on nick taking the stairs over the elevator.

I am, yet again, three weeks and a lot of miles older. And this time I even made the mistake of falling in love, with the Midwest, even with its humidity and mosquitoes. There is something unsettling about the dry, lack of heaviness in the air back home. It is like the start of an addiction, or a romance, because I am already getting anxious to go back out, and October is too long of a wait. Michigan is a hazy childhood memory that I can't wait to relive. My grandma's house was a summer wonderland even through the initial homesickness and fights with cousins. Each time we'd get back on the plane to go home I would look out the window and cry because I never wanted to leave that place.

So anyways, here is to October, and the useless facts I learned on vacation, like that channel 50 is TLC in Des Moines and how to get to the post office in Kickapoo. Also here is to laughing so hard under the stars that you could throw up. I will cherish these memories for a very long time, and I am so grateful for the people God has put into my life. My heart is full, if still aching to be gone for a few more days.


Some things I picked up along the way:

"And then I took the bricks from the backyard, and then I put them in the car, and..OH GOSH....OH GOSH."
"What, Johnny?"
"I just realized how much TV we watched today!"
-Johnny Mitchell, age 10, during a crisis moment in telling Philip how he spent his day.

"Mom, you have to remember your age, because us kids can't keep up with this kind of stuff."
-Johnny, again.

"Oh, did I just start another fire?"
-Judy Hahn, casually during the middle of a story

and after getting home:

"I've been going for the past three years. It doesn't really help, it's just annoying."
-Austin, on football camp in price.

"Wait, do you know those people?"

--Spencer Scribner, after leaving a house we had been at for an hour.

"can i have time to think about this sort of thing?"
-noah hahn, on the phone with a telemarketer.

"What kind of Dr. Pepper is that? Obama?"
-Collin McInroy, asking another question that made no sense.

"I still just don't understand how you are getting a 90% in that class."
"It's called fraternizing with the enemy, Karl."
-my brother, showing off his vocabulary, and Karl, talking about their high school english class.