Proper Tea Party

Last night the Avocet 4 girls (that's me and my apartment) set up a magical tea party. We built a fort in the front room, and got little tea cups. We had herbal tea packets and frosted cupcakes and sent out invitations. It turned out to be lots and lots of fun.




I highly recommend it. If you want a good evening just throw a little tea party. And make sure you dress up :)

True Blue through and through...

So last night I went up the hill. Just a bit before midnight. And the A was all lit up.... and there were a lot of people there. And I, yes I, kissed a complete and total stranger and became a true aggie.

I fulfilled my goal! And for all you yahoo's out there who don't believe I actually did it, I have documented evidence. Yup. Dora took a picture. And if you desperately need proof I can show it to you later.

Since I know you are all curious, I'll tell you briefly how it went down: I wasn't brave enough to ask someone, so Dora's boyfriend walked up to a kid and pointed me out to him. Turns out he was a freshmen. That's right. A FRESHMAN. But I figured it didn't much matter anyways since I wasn't going to see him ever again, he was fairly good looking, and I figured, 'what the heck -- it'll give the kid a thrill to know he kissed a girl who is graduating.'

And then I stood there and tried to talk to the kid for ten minutes. And at the end of the ten minutes we had a count-down and he kissed me.

Ok. I don't consider myself an expert on kissing by any means, but let's just say I did not enjoy the kiss. Not even one tiny bit. In fact--- I wouldn't even really classify it as a kiss, it was that bad. Luckily it was short and sweet and I never ever have to do it again. In fact, I made a vow that I will NEVER EVER kiss a stranger ever again. My one time is done. And now I'm a true aggie.

Aren't you shocked? I am ;)

Arch-Nemesis

Last week I had a conversation with a boy. Part of it went something sort of like this:

Me: I have a feeling we are going to be friends.
Him: Why?
Me: Why not?
Him: Are you trying to force me to be your friend?
Me: Well... I'd rather not try to force you to be my friend...
Him: Well, how can you say that then?
Me: Let's just say I have this intuitive feeling.
Him: Hmm... WAIT! Oh my! WAIT! I have an idea!! Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be ark-enemies???
Different Him: Don't you mean arch-enemies?
Him: Yeah that's what I mean, but ark-enemies sounds cooler.
Me: Haha, sure, but you'd better watch out....

And that's how it happend. I have a new 'arch-enemy.'

Sunday night he stuck a note to my door. It features a picture of a tiny car driving into a very large tornado. Underneath the caption reads: 'Perserverence; the courage to ignore the obvious wisdom of turning back.'

Below that he put, "Krystal, are you sure you are ready for this? Your currently-using-the-last-bit-of-mercy-in-him arch-nemesis, Me. And then below that: 'Can I please get a list of your visiting teaching supervisors?' Ha.

I think I'm going to take him that list he asked for. With a big plate of cookies. He can't eat cookies... he's allergic to wheat. Hahahaha. I have a feeling this is going to be good :D

And so it begins...

I have had this goal since last year. And I promised myself that I was going to start it over the summer... and then I didn't... cause I'm a slacker like that.

Today I repented: I started writing my book.

That's right. A book! I'm so excited, and for some reason also insanely nervous. It's just going to be a short children's book. Dora is going to illustrate it, and then I'm going to say a prayer and we are going to send it to a publisher.

I've only got a few pages down. It's not even close to being finished, but at least I have a start. Finding an idea that I was actually excited about running with was hard. I've been looking for inspiration for the past month and a half. Today I finally stumbled across an idea that I am happy with. A title popped into my head, and so I sat down and started typing.

I was nervous about sharing; but I showed the beginnings to Dora and she was more excited about it than I thought she'd be, which made me feel good about my writing. I told her she could start drafting drawings now, and I am so excited to see them.

Hooray for chasing dreams!

Alien Spaceships, Peach Trees, Sasquatch... Oh, and a Near-death Experience

Last night I went on a hike. Only this was not a regular hike, it was much more exciting than that.

Kyle, Stephanie and I decided that we wanted to check out what we dubbed an "alien" spaceship, and plant a peach pit on the mountain. Just for kicks and giggles. Well, that and we wanted a good hike. We were at snowbird and this spaceship of ours happened to be on the mountain opposite the one that usually gets climbed. There were no trails that we were aware of on this mountain, but we did not let that deter us. We sallied forth, and charged on up regardless of the fact that there were no trails to follow.

Before you accuse us of being complete idiots, keep in mind that this is a mostly rocky mountain, and so we could see where we were most of the time, in relation to the lodge and the 'space-ship' both.

We climbed/hiked up the side of the mountain for quite a while. I'd venture to say we got at least 1/2 way to the top, which I must admit was a lot further than I thought we were going to get. Kyle was protesting the entire time, telling us that we were being dumb for not following trails, that it was going to get dark soon, and that we were going to have a hard time getting down. He was right, but we definitely didn't let that stop us.

Then around... oh probably between 7:00 and 7:30pm, we decided that maybe we should listen to Kyle and try to find a way down the mountain. There were two main problems with our plan to go home: 1) the sun was already mostly down, and 2) we couldn't feasibly go back down the same way we had gotten up.

So we started to look. And look. And look some more. And then Stephanie stopped to plant a tree. Our silly peach pit also got all of the water that was brought on the trip. (Steph was the only one that brought anything besides her cell phone, and her belongings consisted of a camera, extra pair of flip flops, and a now empty water bottle. Haha.) And then it really was mostly dark. And then we decided that we were never going to get down the mountain unless we just went for it.... so we did.

It made for a pretty fantastical adventure. Let's just say that one dried up waterfall, a lot of crashing through underbrush, swinging on trees, a prayer and what seemed like an eternity of climbing down rocks and through riverbeds later we finally emerged on the road, and boy was it a glorious sight to behold. We thought we heard sasquatch at one point (well, we don't know what it was but we weren't about to check it out so Kyle dubbed it sasquatch...) and we got scratched up quite nicely. But we stayed in good spirits believe it or not, and as Steph would say "It makes a good journal entry." She took pictures the entire time -- we looked at them when we got down, and it's mostly just a whole bunch of trees.

So. I am excited to still be alive. And 24 hours later I'm still chuckling to myself.

Steph said she took a look a the mountain this morning, and decided that we came down at the probably what is the worst possible spot to come down. Go figure.

I think we're going to climb that silly mountain again next year for sure. Only this time we'll start a bit earlier in the day. Aren't adventures fun?