Time to Change the Batteries

A friend posted a Facebook status and I quietly laughed to myself and agreed. That had happened to me many a time. I got to experience it first-hand last night, again. "Why do smoke alarm batteries always die when you are trying to sleep?" I heard that inevitable chirp as I was trying to drift off to sleep last night. Luckily it was a few rooms and doors away so it was drowned out for the most part. The other part, I had to use earplugs.

EVERY TIME I've had to change an alarm battery, it's been in the middle of the night. I don't know if it's some sort of smoke alarm conspiracy or what. Unfortunately, there were no 9 Volts to be found in our house so it had to be dismantled this morning as the chirping got louder and longer. It'll have to wait for me to get home. Dallin slept peacefully through my wrestling with the stupid little thing. I hope I'm not the only one this has happened to.

On a random side note, I had an OLD feeling yesterday. I say that I'm old but don't really believe it and I know I'm not that old. But yesterday I realized I wasn't in Kansas (or 1999) anymore. I guess there is a new word used by the youngsters called a "Creeper." A creeper is a boy who is creepy and strange, or that's how I understood it. I guess youth is officially over when you're not in the "know" about cool, new words anymore. :(

Trip to San Diego

This past weekend Dallin and I took off for San Diego with some good friends. I promised Dallin for his birthday (last summer) that we would go to a Philadelphia Eagles football game. We decided San Diego is a lot more fun than Oakland and a lot warmer than Philly so we decided on San Diego. We flew in Friday night and
started Saturday at Sea World. The last time I was at Sea World, I was so young I can only remember going but I don't know when. Maybe 6 years old? So I was so excited I could barely sleep the night before. I've always wanted to touch a dolphin so when they said we could feed them for $6, I totally was all for it! And they felt just like I thought, silky smooth. Now I want to hug one. Maybe next time. It was totally a highlight! They are such beautiful, intelligent animals. And so cute and friendly.

Next we took in the Shamu show and it was awesome to see these
huge animals do tricks. We also signed up to Dine with Shamu and our table was literally three feet away from the monsters! They are so beautiful and large! Dallin was so happy because he got a baggie to take Shamu cookies home in. We also saw some penguins, polar bears, the sea lion show, etc. By the time the sun went down (around 4 p.m.) it was getting chilly and we'd seen everything so we found a nearby sports bar to watch the Utah/TCU game. We got there and the game was already not looking good so we just enjoyed the food and atmosphere. We ended up at Kristy's Sports Bar which I guess is famous for Kristy spanking people. She tried to get Dallin to do it but we just ignored her because it was weird.

Sunday was the day of the big game. We left early to tailgate but there weren't any fun activities going on so we just watched the players warm up. It was an experience! We'd all never been to a real NFL game so to see the characters that come out, and are inebriated, was quite the experience. The Eagles sadly lost. Later that night we went out to dinner and had a Messy Sundae. It was messy and oh so good!



Ty and Shannon left the next morning but Dallin and I had a late afternoon flight so we were super lazy and then caught a taxi to lunch. We had yummy Mexican food and then went to the airport. We tried to bask in all the San Diego sun and soak it up before returning to cold, dreary Utah. It was so fun to get away and so relaxing. Just what we needed. And it was awesome to spend time with friends!

True Story

It came to my attention the other day that I have been referring to our next door neighbors by the wrong last name (luckily not to their faces). I don't know how long I've been doing that but long enough to feel stupid. Somewhere along the way I transposed a few letters and ended up with a whole new last name for them. Glad that got all cleared up.

I was also going through my mission journal yesterday looking for this and that and came across the first sentence of this post: "Today I almost got my eyebrows shaved off by a transvestite." I had totally forgot about that story! LOL. So in my last area, there was this one street where a bunch of men dressed like women (Vegas-like) and they owned a bunch of salons. I hated the shape of my eyebrows so I let them grow out my whole mission since I wasn't trying to impress anybody and my "I'm going to be a cute sister missionary" philosophy went out the door on day 2 of the scorching heat. So I went to go get my eyebrows waxed the week before I went home. We thought it'd be fun (and entertaining) to go to the transvestite salon and he/she pulled out a Bic razor. I thought it was a joke since I had clearly asked for wax but as the razor started moving toward my face, I stopped him/her and jumped out of the chair and ran away. And I think I laughed for two days. So that is how I almost got my eyebrows shaved off by a man/girl.

TKO

I suck at bowling, it's no secret. I've lamented before about how I am great at Wii Bowling and not good (at all) at real-life bowling and I don't understand why. For Family Night last night we went bowling. It took me quite a few frames to get in double-digits. I kept telling myself that is takes talent to only knock down one bowling pin at a time and the family kept telling me at least I was consistent. End of game score - 44.

The next game my one-pin tirade continued, except on the second bowl I kept getting spares! How? I got spares about six frames in a row and ended the game in second place with a 107. I broke 100! I don't remember the last time I did that but it was a LONG time ago and was a total fluke too. Bummer I didn't have the consistency excuse to fall back on anymore.