Monday, March 30, 2009

Positive Self-Talk

Beauty...is the shadow of God on the universe.


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Be not afraid, only believe.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Oh geez.

Well folks, it's gettin to be that time again...time for another...*drumroll please* ...awkward Kayla story!!!

So working as a lab assistant at BYU is never dull. In fact, there's usually something to laugh about/gripe about/make fun of every day, given the dumb questions that people ask, weird situations that arise, etc. Of all the things that have happened thus far, however, I'd say this one takes the cake.

Last week I get this email from one of my managers, Lisa. She starts the email- "This is an email coming from your friend Lisa, not your boss Lisa!" (With an intro like that, you know it's gonna be good.) She continues-

"
I have something a little personal to ask you. I have a friend who is in the labs quite often and let’s just say he has noticed you." (That's right, you did just read 'let's just say he has noticed you'. COULD she have put that in a creepier way??) "Are you dating someone right now? Because if you are then that’s all I need to know, but if not Joe (is his name) would really like to ask you on a date. Let me know what you think!"

Um excuse me, what?!? Hahahha. I laughed so hard when I read this. Even harder when I looked at the picture she had attached of him. It was the same guy who had come up to me multiple times the day before at work to ask me weird questions. Oh wow...

First of all, this was just a little creepy. To go behind my back, to my BOSS, WHO I HAVEN'T EVER SAID 3 WORDS TO, to get the inside scoop on my dating life before you ask me out?? I'm the type of person that doesn't mind talking to people I don't know...I would have much rather him ask me to my face if I was dating someone than go about it in such a roundabout, stalkerish way.

Second of all, way to dig yourself into a hole. Every time he walks into the computer lab from now on, I'm going to recognize him as the guy that was too scared to ask me out.

I guess you are probably wondering how I responded to her email. I said something to the effect of- I'm flattered, but I actually am dating someone right now (true story), thanks anyway.

Would you have done any different?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

A Sunday Afternoon.

Sooo one Sunday Alyse and I took glamor shots of the boys... and they all actually turned out to be surprisingly photogenic...hahaha.

(We had a little too much fun with our roles as photographer/director of photography...
...please don't judge them/us :D )









And Grandma, for your benefit...


Fin.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Flashback to bangs and glasses.

This week held nothing super new for me. Work, school, the usual. The highlight came in the form of a facebook group that I discovered- "Mr. Yonce's Class".

When I found this group that consisted of his students (clear back from the 6th grade class of 1972!!) reminiscing about the good ole' days, I almost wept with joy. It was only when I found a few minutes later that Mr Yonce himself had yes, created his own facebook, yes, added me as a friend, and yes, had scanned all of his classes' yearbook photos into a facebook photo album, that my week was made.

Back in sixth grade at Robinson Elementary, Mr Yonce was only the coolest thing since sliced bread. So many memories were created in those walls- the infamous "No-Shoulder Story", desk earthquakes, our class pets (Lenny the Stapler and Rumpelstiltzkin the Squeaky Dolphin), the constant quips about the USC Trojans, and the annual class musical- just to name a few. It is only these wonderful memories that now ease the pain of looking back at photos of my ugly stage...



Good times, good times.

Monday, January 26, 2009

The perks of being a computer lab assistant?

You can surf the web all day at work and look like you're on task...when in reality, you're laughing at stuff like this:


Friday, January 23, 2009

Soo...

yeah it's been a while. I've been pretty lax with my blog posts lately, mostly because it's the only area of my life I can afford to be lax in at the moment, haha. That's what 19 credit hours and 15 work hours a week'll do to you...

BUT. Without any further ado, let me recap my most wonderful Christmas break. I'm going to attempt to use as few words as possible, and let the pictures speak for themselves. Here goes!







In other news...school is wearing me out...and I've only been going now for what, three weeks? Pitiful. It's alright though, life goes on. Other than that...nothing super exciting has happened lately, unfortunately. Unless you count the new weird boy in my ward that tried to hold my hand this week. But unfortunately I'm used to weird boys trying to hold my hand here so I don't really count that as news anymore. Haha. Stay tuned...hopefully I'll have something a bit more entertaining happen to blog about next time :)