denver is laugh city

i've been here a couple weeks now and there have been so many moments that made me laugh. here are a few:

my niece and nephew are 3-year-old twins. she goes around singing "boom boom pow" like ALL day. his song of choice is now "single ladies". that's right. he's 3 singing about "you better put a ring on it"! LOVE them.

my niece really wanted a toy her mom hid up on top of the fridge. she pushed a chair up to the fridge, but she still couldn't reach it. she comes over to me all doe-eyed and says "Fufoo hold me" in a totally irresistible way. so i pick her up. and then she steers me to the fridge where she snatches the toy.

i am her pawn.

i'm just sitting in my room minding my own business when my brother comes in with his shotgun. "check this out. shotgun with a handgun grip. that way you can sneak up around corners without letting the bad guy see you coming from a mile away."

what?! we're from the suburbs. we don't do guns. but apparently my brothers are all reverting to hunter/gatherer lifestyles while simultaneously preparing for warfare.

on a related note, my brother has appointed himself the bunny-slayer of the neighborhood. he goes out at night when they're eating his lawn and his neighbor's flowers and snipes them.

a final not-so-funny thing that happened today:
there was snow in my hair. that's right. all fluffy and freezing. snow. i drove in it (which freaks me out in a big way, although less in CO b/c they're better drivers here than in that other place where i used to drive in the snow) and the thermometer in my car fluctuated between 33 and 36 degrees. at mid afternoon. in early october.

me and denver might not be friends for long.(photo courtesy of http://abrooklynlife.com/IMG_4994.JPG)

what's the deal?

thanks to all my friends for all the well wishes regarding my GEORGETOWN acceptance. i'm quite pleased about getting accepted. i've been explaining all day about how getting accepted in this case doesn't mean i'll actually get to go, so i figured as long as i have this space to say what i want i may as well blog about the pre req debocle...

me (via gchat, fb, or text, natch): I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE SCHOOL OF MY DREAMS!

well-wisher: CONGRATS! I'm so happy for you/proud of you/excited that your dreams are all coming true! (i seriously have the best friends!) so what's the deal? when do you head off to DC?

me: oh gosh. the deal is, there's still no deal. it all started way back in july when i found out that my registration date at the local community college was pretty much 2 weeks before classes started. that might not be a big deal at a major institution but seeing as how california is bankrupt there's no money for classes or teachers at any of the JC's and if you're not one of the 1st to register you're not getting in.

ww: but i thought you spent 2 days down at Foothill college trying to add those last 2 pre reqs you needed?

me: oh i did. i just couldn't add them. apparently more than 8400 people DIDN'T get the classes they needed. i begged and pleaded with my potential professors, but they just didn't take pity on me. there was NO way i was getting those classes. and since the classes i need involve labs (so online isn't an option) and i'll always be at the bottom of the registration pecking order i decided i had to flee the state.

ww: so now you're in DENVER, huh? what's the deal?

me: the deal is, there's still no deal. i'm still not sure what's going to happen. i haven't told GEORGETOWN yet b/c there was a chance i could get a late add if someone dropped. i don't know what they'll say when i tell them i didn't get into my classes.

*scenario of my dreams: they tell me to come anyway. they'll waive the physiology lab i'm missing and somehow work microbiology into my insane course load.
*best case scenario (like one that's plausible): they let me defer until fall
*next best option: they take all my application info and slide it into the pile for fall applicants and reconsider me.
*worse case scenario: i have to reapply from scratch
*i just thought of another horrible scenario: they're so mad i didn't tell them about my pre req situation that they ban me from applying again.

for the moment i'm in DENVER with my brother's fam. it's looking like BYU is a more solid avenue to seek these last two classes that i need, so i might be heading back to provo in january. depending on my sis-in-law's job situation i could stay here and take care of the kids, or i could stay here and get another job, or i could go somewhere else. i have no idea.

the deal is there is no deal.

(photos: DC sad face, frustration in CA, possibility for good times in Provo,

And So It Begins...

so here it is. my very own blog. it kinda makes sense, right? i'm the kid constantly updating my statuses. (yes. statuses plural. fb and gc. i'm addicted.) so why haven't i started a blog before today?

well i guess i figured it was too narcissistic. who am i to think anyone else would want to read about me, my life, the inner ramblings of my mind and all that? well i'm nobody. except i love to read other people's blogs. like L<3VE it. i had the dumbest, most boring job in the world for the last year and blogs kept me sane. i'm don't want anyone to infer that i think my blog is going to keep them sane, but it might be a little bit amusing during a long work day. my dear friend mattycakes basically told me it was obligatory that i have my own blog since i spend so much time looking at other blogs, posting pictures on fb, and updating my gstatus. and so the absolutely oblogitory blig was born.

i guess my real motivation is that i'm blessed with friends in so many places that i sometimes don't keep up with them the way i'd like to. this way i have an outlet other than a limited-character statement to let people know what i'm up to, and hopefully they'll reciprocate and send me links to their blogs too.

so hello blogging world. pleased to meet you up close and personal. i'm sure we'll get along like pidgeons and lip-puckers.