Baby I'll be your...

I never thought a mixed cd taken from the rental car my parents brought to Utah for Christmas could ever bring such entertainment.

Saturday morning Austin, the boy, and I were driving to Ogden after I had met him at his dad's house after he got off work. After breakfast at my favorite small town restaurant we hit the road anticipating our day of shopping, dinner and a movie. Our usual.

The weather was fantastic, bright and sunny. (unlike anything you'd expect in WY/UT in January) Anyways, it all started when the boy put on my sunglasses after we had a lengthy discussion about his premature aging. OK, not so premature seeing as he's a bit older than me. Regardless, he has a few lines on his forehead, much to his dismay, that he attributes to not wearing sunglasses when he was younger. So by all means Aust, wear my sunglasses. (I've got a couple years on him so it was a sacrifice I could make)

Well the boy's driving away and we're just chatting when we realize music is missing. Weird for us. We're both music freaks. Addicts. Never without it. So, we put in a new cd. Little did we know it would be the most random/trippy cd ever!

Half expecting Sara Bareilles or Leona Lewis I sit back and get ready to sing along. When, all of the sudden, the car starts thumping with some absurd techno meets rock-n-roll song. We both start laughing and within seconds the boy's caught onto the lyrics and he's singing away.

The next song's on. A bit more tolerable, just plain 'ol dirty hip hop. We skip that one. The next song starts out kinda cool, it could be promising. The lyrics start and tears from laughter follow. The song went like this.

"Baby will you be my corona and lime? And I will be your main squeeze."

Not sure why, but so hilarious! It didn't stop there. It then goes through every major city describing the women there. Apparently girls in L.A. rock oversized shades, girls in the Hills get their hair straightened, girls in NY look like giraffes and girls in Miami street bikinis. Naturally.

The singer is ultimately looking for a girl that loves hip hop and rock-n-roll. He hasn't met her yet, but he says he'll tell us when he does.

It ends with him offering to be her sandy beach....if she's his corona and lime.

This provided a few minutes of Aust and I to make clever, or an attempt at clever, combinations of things we can be for each other. I'll spare you those details because as I write this, I'm thinking they won't be nearly as funny.

Well, the rest of the cd was unpredictable and tasteless (we decided it was some skanky girl's cd). That did not stop us from trying all 18 songs for a second in which we'd listen to the style, turn to each other at the same moment and then start dancing accordingly. The boy out grooving me everytime with my oversized sunglasses to prevent those further wrinkles and looked great (I was secretly wishing I could get down like Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars...which I tried to find a clip of but YouTube actually failed me on that one)

Who knew a random, forgetten in a rental car cd would bring so much fun on a Saturday morning drive and continue sto bring me laughs while I sit at work in my pepto bismol cubicle.

Thank you skanky girl who forgot to get it out of the car. It served us well!

In all that I never mentioned how much I love drives with the boy. Love 'em.

A snowy night

Enjoy the pictures for now....I'll write soon! 

Prague Blog

I'm absolutely in love with this place. End of story. Well, I guess I'll go on and give a bit of details. Plus, these pictures deserve a bit of explanation.

There's something about it I can't quite explain, but I loved it from the beginning. Spain, yes it was incredible and I'll always cherish it, but it took some getting used to. Here, I didn't have to convince myself it was amazing. I just knew. I was walking alone one day after completing an interview and it just hit me how magical the place is. The thing is, there's not a whole lot of sights to see here, it's the entire city really have to see, or experience more so.  I felt so lucky to be here and part of this city as I walked on the cobblestone streets filled with such history and location of treacherous it breaks your heart. These streets have been the grounds of opposition, conformity and some of histories worse actions, the Holocaust, which still haunt the streets.

The first night we were in Prague (Praha) we met up with a local who took us on an enchanting walking tour of the city. The weather was absolutely horrific, but there was the beauty of Prague at night to distract me from the numbness quickly overcoming my body. Prague is magnificent it's has been referred to as "mother of all cities," "city of a hundred spires" and "the golden city." I agree with all those names, and the picture above can attest to the golden city. This was a top the castle, which did I mention is the world's largest castle?

If this doesn't prove how cold it is here....I don't know what else could! I could explain the routine of putting on a pair of socks, then leggings, then snowboarding socks, then jeans, then under armor, then long sleeved...OK I think you get the point. Let's just say, we have to plan ahead an extra 5 mins just to get all the layers on! Here, scarves are a necessity...not a fashion statement. I'd love to see some of the girls from Orange County here, trying to make this weather in their flip-flops, jeans, t-shirts and ever so fashionable scarves in 75 degree weather. haha

Anyways, I learned very quickly to just hold my breath when I was taking pictures so it wouldn't show up in the picture! haha It baffled me at first, but then I figured it out when I glanced at my friends standing in a circle and could see white puffs exiting their mouths as if the night was sucking away their spirit!
How could you not love a place where they have very large, decorated Christmas trees everywhere? 
This is the largest castle in the world. The castle is the part that's higher up in the picture. The thing in the front is the parliament building. The castle sits right behind the River Vltava and can be seen from all over the city. The interesting thing about this castle is it's all open corridors. So, you can walk around the center of it, just like it's a patio or something. The castle's been turned into the Czech Republic government offices and is basically just long corridors and hallways of offices. Kind of a shame for a castle to be so professional, but really interesting that their leaders actually work in a castle. Part of the city is on the other end of the castle so people just walk through it to get to the other side. Like it's no big deal to be walking through the world's largest castle to get to school everyday. Then, there's a magnificent cathedral in the center of it. It's really hard to explain the layout of this place. Just keep in mind, huge and seen from all over the city. I love the lights the lights on the buildings at night. It'd be a shame to miss this place at night. We actually walked up to the castle around 10 at night and there was no special entrance or anything. We ended in the center of it, right in front of the cathedral and facing a open patio area. 

An interesting story, and I hate the main character of it, but it still proves the charm of this place. One day after Hitler had entered Prague to take over he was walking down one of the slight hills exiting the castle into one of the town squares when he stopped and proclaimed where he was standing at that moment is his favorite place in all of Europe. He believed it was the most beautiful place and I'm sure he wanted to put a statue of himself there and probably live in the castle, etc. but Hitler didn't last too long in this country. Oh, that's another thing I haven't mentioned. This place has a rich history, it's fascinating. Once you start learning about it, you just can't stop and then you learn more and more and you can't keep it all straight and then you get confused on who has taken over this place and when and it's a mess. The best part is, the Czech Republic has gone through all of that and is now a member of the Eastern Union, which is really important in Europe, and is now residing over the EU this year for the first time. They just started on Jan. 1 and it's been really exciting to be here during that time.

Call me lame, but I just can't remember the story of this church! It was late at night, I was freezing and jet-lagged and it just didn't capture my attention. I'll make sure to get it before I go though! Nevertheless, beautiful place that is very popular for weddings! I managed to get that part out of the story!

A Whole New World

Blogging. When did it become such a phenomenon? I must have missed it. Unfortunately, I can no longer delay my involvement in the new world of blogging. So without further ado, I'm officially announcing my effort to become part of the blogging world. What does that make me? A blogger? I have a feeling this cyberspace sensation is one to stay and soon enough will affect more than Mormon newlyweds and media-hating, angry liberals. It caught up with me, which is just a small start. Well... let the fun begin

As I sit here and painfully type each word just hoping to compose the perfect first blog I'm not sure how long I'll last at this. I'll keep plugging away and see what happens. First, a couple thoughts on blogging.

1. I was certain that when I got a blog, I would make sure it didn't look like some scrapbook page out of Molly's best decorated collection. Looking at my template, you can see I was wrong. It looks like the Fall Fairy created it herself. Here's my reasons why I allowed myself to copy and paste it.
-I love fall. It's my favorite time of year, leaves changing and layered clothing. It's a reminder snowboarding is approaching with its white wonderland beauty as its shadow.
-I'm a sucker for argyle. It's pathetic, I know. It's out of control, I also know that too. I couldn't resist it, which just proves my lack of self control. Oh well. Funny thing is, I was watching a slide show of childhood pictures comprised and put to music and there I was, bleach blond hair and toothless in argyle. Time and time again. Basically, I'm blaming my parents for my devotion to those darling diamond configurations. I was impressionable at six, and haven't got over it.

2. I'm actually a little disappointed I got this started AFTER the election marathon. I vow I wouldn't have dedicated too many posts to presidential candidates, but unfortunately my lack of self control, as noted earlier, would've gotten the best of me and my fascination of Sarah Palin. And her hot husband. And pregnant daughter. And her hot fiance. See? It could've been a bad thing.

3. I've got a pretty routine life, what am I going to write about? Well... after my insanely intelligent friend, Alex, came up with my title it just came to me that I could write about my thoughts. Hopefully they're not too dull for my audience. Don't worry though, through all my journalism classes they emphasized writing for your audience. I'll keep that in mind, promise.


OK. I thought I had a lot more thoughts about blogging, but I really don't. This is my debut into the whole new world of online diaries, as Mr. Webster himself calls them. I'm really doubting this will happen to me but....funny nonetheless. Especially since I associate with criminals daily and even visit my favorite drug addicts and former "women of the night" in jail. Regularly. Weird?