Leonard

I love music! Between the ages of 16-20 I was pretty obsessed with music and found out about a lot of good stuff. Probably helped that I had some boring summers with not enough work so I did was listen to AOL radio.

Well, when I got an ipod for christmas in 2008, I put all this fantastic music into itunes and continued to collect more music (thank you friends, roommates, and siblings). All was fantastic and my 30gb ipod was filling up really fast, until my computer decided to have some hard drive breakdown. So when my computer could only be on for maybe 5 minutes before the blue screen of death came on, I stopped syncing my ipod and adding music. My last sync was January 1, 2010. Yes, I do remember it well, and that I turned on my computer to add Lifehouse and then turned it off.

Brad continued to add music to his computer, music I liked too, but to sync to his computer meant losing all the music he did not have. So I have not synced it for almost 4 years. Brad has tried countless times to fix my laptop, but it would not fix. So when we bought our fantastic desktop, and after much of Brad's coaxing, I finally decided it was time to sync my ipod. So over the past 2 months, I have found all my cds, put them on the new computer, and had Brad help me to get some of the music that was vital to my ipod that we did not have on cd. It still took another 2 weeks, but I finally updated, erased, and synced my ipod (who is named Leonard), today.

Brad thinks I'm ridiculous. I was worried that the process would kill my poor ipod, but Leonard is hanging on. And I am getting more music, while still losing some (like Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, etc). But I can finally buy more music and actually put it on my ipod. Now I just have to get some missing music/cds from my older sis and all will be well.

Babies Everywhere!

Due to all the facebook announcements of babies/pregnancies, an old youtube video came to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC2gIPnUCgw&feature=player_detailpage

As Blogger won't post youtube videos, please use the link.

This commercial was big my college freshman year, at least big with my apartment (all thanks to Dave Hansen for introducing it to us).

WARNING: This commercial is weird and I sure hope it was not ever broadcasted. It is best enjoyed during late hours when anything is funny.

Old memories can lead to funny Stories

With our new computer, Brad and I have been trying to get everything from our laptops onto it. As my poor laptop is practically dead, this was quite a feat, but Brad is amazing. We managed to get all my music of it and some other files that I had completely forgotten about. I came home from work one day and Brad looked at me and said, "So, did you ever find out what happened on the doorstep with Joe?" I had no idea what he was talking about. Brad kept going on quoting a file he had found on my computer that was about some dream I had had during my freshman year of college. Oh my goodness, I had forgotten all about them. And now, Brad will make sure that I never do because he thinks they are hilarious. My dreams about my crush. Things that part of me wishes I would have deleted. But a bigger part of me has found it all hilarious too because it's funny to remember what I was like when I was 18.

Along with some of these funny dreams, I also found my electronic copy of my apartment's quote wall. Oh man, Brad finds nothing on it funny, but I can't read it without cracking up. I don't even remember what all of the quotes are in reference to, but goodness are they funny. Thank goodness for word documents that Brad salvaged for me, so I can remember my ridiculous self and the fun times my roommates and I all had!

How Fast are you? Ella Fast!

In high school, Brad and his friend Josh loved to go to speed street to race in these fast go carts. Brad loves to talk about the time when they had the whole place to themselves and did 100 laps. So, when Brad found a coupon for Fast Karts, he got really excited. Now, I am not much of a speeder. I like safe speeds, especially when we are talking about little carts with other people zooming around you. But, Brad told me that it would be fun, so we went with our friends, Sean and Ashley.

Luckily, we were able to run the track with just the four of us. You start with 5 qualifying laps, to decide what order you will do the remaining 15 laps in. I was third and Brad was of course first. It was actually pretty fun, but I ended up going the slowest out of everyone cause I would really slow down around turns. I never got lapped though! And Brad got stuck behind Ashley for a few laps and couldn't get around her, until he of course bumped her so she spun out (which is against the rules). Ha ha. But we had fun.

The place has you get a "driver's license" where you have to give a racing name. As Brad had already been to this place, they already had him as Caboose. We also had Holjiecow (Sean), Bashley (Ashley), and Ella Fast (me). Brad had to come up with my name, cause I was at a lost for anything. It was fun, even if I went 2 seconds slower than Brad (and my face was probably very similar to the girl's in the picture).

Lagoon - It's what fun Is not

Apparently in Utah and surrounding states, the only theme park is Lagoon. I have always heard about Lagoon from people in Utah and they make it sound fun. After marrying Brad, a utahn, I finally got the opportunity to go (I believe this was in Oct. 2009). Well, let's just say that it was packed (and I hate crowds) and short rides were not worth the extremely long lines. And Brad did not enjoy it much either, even with all the halloween stuff.

A week ago, Brad suggested that we buy a book at Deseret Book so we could get discount Lagoon tickets. I'm all up for any reason to buy a book, so I agreed. So we went to Lagoon on a Saturday, when it first opened. Within 1.5 hours, we had ridden 8 rides. We then walked around pioneer village, got hungry and left after being there for a total of 3 hours. 3 hours for $32 per person. Lagoon is doing this bounce-back program where you can go back within 10 days of your initial visit, for only $10. Due to lack of other activities, we decided, why not? As we did all the rides, we decided to do all the water activities. However, after waiting for friends, who flaked out on us, we got there around noon. The park was packed. The lazy river was so packed, it was not moving. (Lagoon has a water park portion called Lagoon-a-beach). It was miserable. We went on the Ferris wheel, rattlesnake rapids, and then left because every other line was ridiculously long and lockers were expensive.

I have sworn to never go to Lagoon again. Now, growing up in NC and California, I had the opportunity to go to many other theme parks (Magic Mountain, marine world, universal studios, paramount great america, and busch gardens). These parks have decent rides that last longer than 30 seconds, safer rides, and are cheaper than Lagoon. So after wasting money on a ridiculous park that has been around since my grandparents were young kids, I will never go again.

On a side note, there was a rumor going around that Six Flags was going to buy Lagoon, and when I heard that, I laughed.

Proof of Mexico

Well, here are pictures from our cruise.

<- This is a picture taken while one of us was parasailing in Cabo San Lucas.

We swam with dolphins in Puerto Vallarta.

One of the elegant dinner nights.

We walked along the beach in Puerto and it was a gorgeous sunset. ^

The whole group: Sean, Brad, me, and Ashley. And of course while in So Cal, we went to BJ's! We got Sean and Ashley hooked.

Also while in Cabo, we went to Lover's Beach and the Arch. You have to take a water taxi there and because the arch is at Land's End (the very southern most point of Baja Mexico) the waves are crazy dangerous.

We had a fun time.

Another Month Gone

I can't believe it's June already! This year is flying by. Well, lately we haven't done too much exciting stuff. We have played lots of mini golf. We played mini golf at every place down in provo, but now that we are up in kaysville, Brad wants to try every place up here. So far we have done 3 different ones. Brad also is playing softball and he is on two different teams. He loves softball, and I am the silent wife who watches the games/beats his fruit ninja scores. The game last friday he pulled his hamstring running to first base. Poor guy. His mom and I laughed really hard when he had to have his Dad run for him.

For memorial Day, my sister Robyn came down and stayed with us. She did homework, we played mini golf, and watched movies. Brad had to work memorial day, so Robyn and I just hung out and played cards. We attempted to play eygptian war, but we both couldn't remember the rules, so it turned into regular war.

Last weekend, my good friend Katie, from California, was in town. So we got together and went to kneaders for breakfast. Their french toast was really yummy. It was all you can eat, but we were too busy talking to get more food. But we sat outside and enjoyed some sunshine and had fun catching up on the past year. It was fun and my nose got pink.

I have been reading a lot on my days off. I have read Work and the Glory 1&2, The Gurnsey Literary and Potatoe Peal Pie Society, The Year of Fog, and I started the Screwtape letters. I didn't like the year of the fog and the screwtape letters didn't hold my attention. But I will keep finding more books in the house, and eventually get a library pass in davis county so I can find more books to read when Brad isn't home.

We did get a new computer! Exciting for us. We found an awesome Memorial Day special and since Brad's laptop is dying and mine is dead, we bought it. Windows 7 seems cool. I haven't done a whole lot with the computer, so maybe today and tomorrow I will have time to dink around and figure it all out.

We finally have all the pictures from our cruise, but it is a huge task to go through them all. I tried this morning. But maybe I will get up the gumption to post some of my favorites. Till then, I hope everyone is enjoying some good, much awaited, sun shine.