Happy Thursday!

Today was a great day full of friends and fun...

For several days (actually just since Sunday) we have been planning a girls night out and tonight was the night! We went and got gelato and had a wonderful time chatting, laughing, and picture taking. After several hilarious failed attempts, this one ended up being the best shot of all of us...

Sure do love these girls and am going to miss them so!

Every month our relief society has flower arranging enrichment night! Melissa is so talented and always has a fun project for us to make. Today we did flower cones-so cute and such a fun thing to make as a gift! I am always amazed with how easy Melissa makes it look and am always reminded at how NOT crafty I am.

Me, Tracy and Christina with our finished products

6 years later...

Tonight I went to dinner and a movie (Monsters vs Aliens-which was quite funny) with two of my favorite friends Lara and Laura. We go all the way back to the days of Helaman Halls. Freshman year we definitely had a "posse" and were pretty much inseparable.

I just love these two.

This picture is from freshman year, taken at one of the many trips we made to the mall. Saturdays in the dorms consisted of sleeping until at least noon, shopping, and cafe rio. Oh those were the days...

Golfing!

It was such a lovely evening tonight that me and my friend Marta decided to take a trip to the driving range. I kind of love golfing-even though I'm not too great at it. My first time golfing was in a class tournament in the jr. core. One of the guys in charge was in my group and told me that I could play-even though I'd never golfed before. Even though I was terrible, I actually could hit the ball and had a lot of fun. And my team won! (with my contribution of a 10 yard drive and a sweet putt-the boys were really good) I took a golf class the next year and got better. I haven't taken advantage of my non-employed summer and haven't been golfing nearly as much as I should have. I can hit the ball straight but can't hit it that far (according to my teacher, there's nothing I can do to hit it further, I can't hit far because I'm a girl. true story. he actually said that.). It was a fun time at the driving range and I actually had a couple of pretty good hits.

(check out that great golfing form...ha ha ha)

another cooking disaster.

i actually did take a picture today, but i just realized that i can't load the pictures from my camera onto my computer. oops. today i baked. i found this recipe for these amazing sounding lime coconut cheesecake cookie bar deliciousness and decided to make them for an FHE treat. bad decision. the filling was good but the crust was yuck and hard. and then the recipe called for frosting on top of the cheesecake. obviously-that is a bad idea which i should've recognized sooner. but i guess you live and learn. perhaps my cooking ability was a fleeting thing and i've lost it all? i sure hope that's not the case.

oh yeah. the picture of the day was me cracking eggs and ending up with egg all over the counter. i maybe got a little too excited when i was trying to crack them open...

**update: here's the picture...

All at Sea?

I didn't take a photo of anything today-although it was a great one: wonderful church time; fab dinner cooked by roommate; ever so delightful chat with some fav friends; and an entertaining evening of delivering nice notes. I decided since I didn't take any pictures of said events, I would tell you the origin of the name of my blog.

Several years ago while watching Jay Leno (who I miss-seriously, Conan is yuck) I saw a performer who just blew me away. He was a little english lad who could play the piano like nobody's business and had an AMAZING voice. I of course fell in love and went out and bought his CD. I kept tabs on him and anxiously awaited the day he would come do a concert in SLC. When they released the dates of his US concert the closest one was unfortunately in Reno. I bought tickets, convinced my dear friend Mika to go with me, and we road tripped it to see him perform. Hands down, the BEST concert I have ever been to. He was great on TV and CD, about a million times better in person. The best part of the night: I got to meet him!

Anyways...the title of my blog: All at Sea is my favorite song (yes, I do have 1 song that is my all time favorite). I couldn't think of anything clever or cute to name my blog so I just went with the song title. I decided to google "all at sea" and see what came up. In addition to several references to the actual song, I found this:

All at sea

Meaning

In a state of confusion and disorder.

quite fitting, don't you think? Anyways-that's the story of my blog title. Listen to the song-you'll love it too. Perhaps tomorrow I'll do better at taking a photo of the day...

A photo a day...

so once upon a time i decided that i was going to take a photo each day of the summer and then make a book out of them. i think i ended up taking pictures about half way through the summer and then kind of dropped the project. i have decided that august is going to be my photo a day month of the summer. i've hardly taken any pictures this summer and figure that's a decent way to make up for it. although-i kind of forgot that it's august already. and since it's midnight, technically it's aug 2nd so i'm already behind. oops. so i dropped the ball on the 1st but i'm going to post the picture of me post-lasik. check out the hot plastic eye covers...

fyi-short story: the surgery went great and i can see 20/20 now! hooray! long story: i may have taken a bit too much valium and almost passed out in the middle of the surgery. talk to me if you want the story...and i apologize for the sick looking picture...and sorry about the underlining. don't know how to get rid of it.

goodbye glasses!

i'm getting lasik tomorrow! hooray for no more glasses or contacts!