Memories, Memories

Okay so before I get to the picture frenzy that came from my photography nightmares last night and my gratefulness that they weren't real, I must tell you the CUTEST story ever!

Today at work this little girl (probably around 5 years old), blonde hair, blue eyes, came up to me and asked what she could get with the change in her hand. Looking down, she was holding about 6 pennies. (The cheapest things we have are 75 cents). Jay (The janitor, this big black guy who happens to be the biggest, sweetest teddy bear you'll ever meet) notices this little girls' dilemma. So he walks over and asks if she would like a smoothie. She nods, clearly excited by the idea. Jay says he will pay for it. I ask her which one she wants (but not really being able to read, she chooses the first one I mention, giddy as can be). So I start to make her smoothie and her eyes get huge with excitement. You know, the wide, adorable eyes that only kids can make? Yeah.

As I am making it, one of the life guards comes up to get a smoothie too. As she is standing there waiting, the little girl looks up at her, then points to the smoothie and says "That one is mine!!!" The life guard laughs and agreed that she is getting a good smoothie. So I finish the smoothie and then hand it to her. She thanks me and bounces off happy as could be. I turned to Jay and thanked him for his kindness.

And yeah so that basically just made my heart melt! She was so cute and Jay was so sweet and it made my whole night worth it. After all the other frustrating customers, she was my favorite and she made my whole night better. Plus it is nice to know there is still some compassion left in this world. It reminds me of that show Undercover Boss. They seem to find the NICEST people as employees and often I feel the same way. I am surrounded by the sweetest, kindest people at work and I love it, it makes work a WHOLE lot easier. =]

Okay onto my picture frenzy. For the record I do have photography nightmares about losing my memory card after getting a new camera & finding every other size and shape memory card BUT mine. Or not having my camera for an AMAZING photography opportunity. I wake up gasping and depressed, and then glad that it wasn't real. So I felt it was clearly time to pull out my camera.

I finally started using my weights again! And doing sit-ups and all that good stuff.

My awesome bag that I love! Can you spot my sudoku book?
(My Kenken book was in the living room this morning)

I cleaned my room and my bed is made =D
Seeing this makes me want to jump on it, how about you?

This is me dressing down, and bored. Waiting for mom to finish her stuff so we can watch a MOVIE! (We watched a B&W Lucile Ball murder mystery, it was AWESOME)

This just kinda looked cool. =]
(Below)

Grr?

So my thought process here is "I love my camera! HUGS!"
(I also love hugs!)

Been working on my scripture study. I kinda got out of practice when I came home. But I'm improving. =] It's called "learning to go to bed at a decent hour and planning accordingly".

My shoe fell like this and I thought it was pretttttttty awesome!

Side view!

ZOOM!

Picture frenzy. Love of shoes, love of photography. Enough said.

And again!

Fun with DoF (Depth of Field)

Gonna wipe off the dust and put these to good use.

Random picture collage on my floor! Because I can!

Ah the memories from all those projects! It makes me want to go take pictures RIGHT NOW!!
I love photography SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much! If I could hug it, I would!
Also I am taking some of these with me to decorate my bedroom when I go back to Idaho. =]
Six and a half weeks!

Doritos
Pickles
Bananas
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Salsa
Cravings
Yum
Meg

I am a nerd, a nerd that takes pictures.

Yesterday I had a bit of free time and went and took pictures with my dear friend Yutsil.

She is helping me practice my model set up skills. Plus she is extremely cute!

With the rest of my time, I have been challenging myself with none other than SUDOKU!
(These are normal "hard" ones)

See? Easy as pie.

This is what I have to look forward to, not hard but time consuming! 16x16

My new favorite kind of Sudoku!! Squiffy Sudoku!

And my dear friends, I hate to admit it....

But I do math

FOR FUN!

These are my latest obsession and brain bogglingness.

They are called "killer" sudoku and for good reason. LOTS of math and they get harder and harder as you go!

And I LOVE IT!!!

I made a table to help me

And they have some kinda sorta helpful tables =]

This is me after a long days work, smelling like fruity smoothies, kids and smoke from helping Aaron put the fire out in the basement.

My bag I got from DeliAs that I love! Yes those zippers are real pockets!

I also discovered my new peacoat has 5 pockets yesterday! I'll post a picture and explanation later.

My next victim!

In case any of you are as INSANE as me and want to try the book I am working on now. O.o

Good luck!

Why'd ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Gosh you make me laugh so much
It's bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight a go
Meg

Eenie Meanie Mine-ee Mo, BINGO was his name-o!

So lately I have found that I have a deep love for jigsaw puzzles. I was rather surprised but the more I thought about it, it's not surprising at all. I love puzzles. Rubix cubes, solitaire, minesweeper, hearts, sudoku even mahjong. Puzzles fascinate me, I love working my brain to figure out the secret behind the patterns to solve the intricate puzzles. In minesweeper I can solve the puzzle with 90 mines, in sudoku I've stopped doing any easy or medium ones, even hard. I go straight to the hardest ones I can find. There is a series that are the different colored belts of karate, but for sudoku. I skipped straight to black and have finished the first 2 degrees of it, I am now working on the 3rd degree black belt. (seen below)

I am a sucker for a challenge so lately I have been working on Jigsaw puzzles with my mom and I love them. Just like sudoku, each jigsaw puzzle is unique. Depending on where they were made, each brand offers different shaped pieces and trust me, they make some WEIRD shapes! So I'll put a few pictures up of the ones we've completed.

We started with some Disney puzzles, like Alice in Wonderland. (Great movies, book, soundtrack and puzzle!)

And Pinocchio! I never really liked the movie, it scared me, but I love that cricket!

Then we moved on to Precious Moments. Ah the memories of my sister and I's coloring books to keep us quiet during church. I found one the other day in my drawer! So many memories! And so cute!

Aaron liked this one for the sheet music and piano =]

Dad wanted a castle, so we got a German castle. It was SO hard! Mom & I tore it down as soon as I took this picture. Evil hard puzzles....grrr....on another note. My roommate Rachel bought this EXACT same puzzle in Utah at a little shop, how crazy is that?

Filling the world with love and cuteness!

Back to good old Thomas Kinkade, but this one was unusually difficult, so we tore this one down almost immediately after finishing it too. Plus it wasn't very pretty, at least the German castle was.

My mom and I found this and the one below at Walmart at 11 o'clock at night because we were just itching for a new puzzle. We liked this artist so much, we bought both! And how pretty they are! =]

Sorry about the glare, but you're not missing much, those flowers were a little bit of a pain.

Now we're starting on a 1500 piece puzzle that Chase's mom is lending us, but so far, we don't like it very much, it's challenging, mostly because we're using a patted table that doesn't like to hold the pieces together. But we'll get through it one step at a time, maybe we'll learn to like it.

Take it one step at a time,
Meg

P.S. Did I just get that Jordin Sparks song stuck in your head? If you've never heard it, check it out, it's very cute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIE5QtkxzvM&feature=av2e

Random thought, whenever I wear heels on hardwood floor or pavement, and it makes that sound, I think of this song as well, and sing it to the beat of my steps.

If I had a potion, then I would fly!

So.....my life in a nutshell.

In the mornings I do sudoku. It's my only form of relaxation. I do sudoku at West too because Precal is boring, I race Sarah during APES (I kick her butt at sudoku) and we've been watching The Importance of Being Ernest in English. (Wonderful movie!)

Aaron is excited because he has discovered caffeine for the last two full weeks of school. It does help sometimes.

This is why I do sudoku, because everyone else (Jenny, Sophia, Aaron) does homework in the morning. Yes we are such over achievers.

Music + sudoku + caffeine + sleep = Morning

Ryan! He's the coolest freshy I've ever seen, he also happens to have the greatest taste in music of all time! Seriously this kid is amazing!

Eric and the other Ryan. They are our quiet people. They're like me in the morning aka 95% asleep. But they are cool guys.

Eric is a whitey fro! It's pretty cool.

Chase and I hang out in the morning. Half the time I fall asleep though, but he doesn't mind. Other times we have very silly conversations with Sheri-lin.

Chase and Kris! My favorite people! Lunch has been much more fun lately now that Sarah and Kris have joined our lunch group. =]

Yutsil, who is the cutest! And Klaus with his crazy fluffy fro, which is SOOO much fun to play with. You can hide several pencils in there. We've done so quite often.

Such a cute picture of Sarah! But Chase jumped in......grrrrr....silly boy. But I still like this picture. Sarah and I are sudoku dorks! She's also extremely abusive in English....poor Hannah haha

Oh in other news, CVS now sells Izzes!

So that's life so far!

-Sunchips are yummy. Go eat some.
Meg