I've moved!

For the past little while my mom has been constantly asking me if I want to move from my current room down to the basement. So the room downstairs has served mainly as a guest room for the last little while but its also where my family stays when they move back in with my parents (both brothers moved back in for a few months). So the room once again became available a few weeks ago and I got to thinking about it and decided that it makes more sense to move down there.

My current room is extremely small and right down the hall from my parents room. The bathroom is tiny as well. So I talked to my mom and we decided to start working on moving all my stuff down to the extra room. I was really excited and documented the process (well the before and after anyway). So here it is!

This is my room before I moved...

It was a teeny, tiny room that I could hardly move around in and it had way too much furniture. It was really functional and it started to get on my nerves. It felt really cramped and wasn't all that comfortable as a primary room. During school I was only staying there on the weekends and it worked fine but being there day after day wasn't the greatest situation.

Even though I don't feel this way at all my mom was kind of feeling like her and my dad were kind of pushing me down to the basement so she said we need to make it as comfortable as possible. I was really wanting a desk which is something that would never have fit in my old room no matter what and my parents wanted to kind of get me an entertainment center so me and my mom headed off to Ikea on Sunday. Then after two and a half trips to Target and a lot of tiring work this is the result...

So in actuality I only got about 60 extra square feet but it feels so much bigger that what I had before. I don't know how much longer I will live at home but this is going to be so much better until that happens (not that I don't love my mom and dad).

It's hard to make an airport out of bananas...

I had a pretty good weekend. On Friday I went to my favorite Chinese restaurant in Layton called Royal Jade. I miss a lot about living in Layton but Royal Jade is on the top of the list of what I miss the most.

On Saturday I went to the planetarium with my parents because they wanted to see the 3D Hubble telescope movie. I was a serious astronomy geek when I was little so I will admit that I enjoyed the movie as well even though it gave me a headache because it was in 3D. However, the effect was pretty awesome.

Me and my mom had a little too much fun finding out exactly how much we would weigh on Jupiter, Saturn, the moon, Pluto, etc...it said on an asteroid together we would weigh 19 ounces and would float away which made me question the accuracy of Armageddon and Bruce Willis' asteroid walking abilities.

Then we went to CPK for lunch and walked over to Sur La Table to look for a gift for my grandma. I love that store and we found some really great things that she ended up loving. Then we drove back home, listening to Glee all the way! I love that my dad enjoys the music as much as I do.

Last night I was getting ready for bed when Step Up came on TV. I don't yet own that movie so I got so excited when I saw it.

It's wonderful :)

This morning I slept in til 10:30. When I turned on my television to help wake me up the Little Rascals was on and had just started which brought a smile to my face. So many great childhood memories associated with that movie. Then I got ready and hung out at my house til we drove back down to Salt Lake to go to dinner with my whole family. We went to Trolley Square and ate at the Spaghetti Factory which is always delicious. My grandma gave me $50 for graduation! She's too cute.

After we left the restaurant we drove through the city to find this really cool consignment shop. It's over by the capitol so we drove through the avenues to get to the freeway. I love the avenues. It such a cool part of the city with really historic and beautiful houses like this one

Hopefully I can afford a house like this one day!

Then we drove home in the rain and now I am just relaxing. I think I am getting sick. I woke up with a sore throat and my glands have been swollen for that past couple of days. I hope I feel better tomorrow. For now I think I am going to turn in early and hope to get a little more sleep than I have been.

WICKED

So last night I had the best dream and as I was dreaming I thought I need to tell Whitney about this.

So Whitney--this post is for you!

My dream was that Whitney and I were walking into this giant amphitheater to see Wicked. I guess I am extremely excited to see it at the end of the month (fingers crossed that I all works out perfectly). So we walked into the theater which had groups of seats that were facing all different directions. I couldn't exactly figure that one out but we had to navigate our way through this maze of seats. We walked by my friend Tyler who was sitting in a seat facing the opposite direction of the stage and at the bottom of a hill between him and the stage. I don't know what was going on but it was a "Dr. Suess-like" set up. And I can't figure out why Tyler was there. I haven't seen this kid since high school--random!

Whitney and I finally get to our seats, which no joke are 2 rows back from the stage. But for some reason we got to sit in bleachers instead of the nice, fold down chairs like Tyler was sitting in....so much of this dream doesn't make sense haha.

So we are sitting on the bleachers and the musical starts and all of the sudden the characters are singing and come out into the audience and start messing with our hair and giving us hugs and stuff. Then the girl who plays Elphaba comes over and Whitney jumps over me to get closer to her. It took me by such surprise! I guess she really wanted a hug from Elphaba lol

That is when I woke up, LAUGHING!

More Funny Pictures

It's been so long since I've had a post like this. Here are some pictures that I took last weekend.

I went home and took some time to go shopping with my mom and my brother's fiance, Sue last weekend. We went to the quilted bear and saw a picture that my mom fell in love with. I picked it up and was carrying it around the store while we were still shopping. My mom said to me, "Kym, look on the back of the picture." I just had to take a picture right then of what she was talking about and here it is...

If you didn't notice, it's the three little words at the top of the label. Did they really have to make sure people knew this? I mean--DUH!

So then we went to dinner and I needed to stop at Walgreens on our way home. They had a rack of little baby t-shirts and this one caught my eye.

I just thought it was a tad inappropriate for a little one.

T-O-R-T-U-R-E

So I'm not in love with my theater class that I am taking. It is just a 1010 class so, although it is easy, its very tedious and annoying. Not to mention all the freshman in the class that are driving me nuts. Anyway, this week we finally got to musicals! I thought my teacher was going to just ignore the subject. But she didn't! She actually invited a student who does nothing but study musicals to come and talk about the history behind Broadway and the shows that have appeared there over the years.

If it wasn't obvious by my post title...it was complete TORTURE! I want to go to New York so bad!!!!!! So sitting there listening to the lecture and watching all of the clips from shows was horrible. We talked about shows like Show Boat, Oklahoma, Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, The King and I, Damn Yankees, Chicago, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Camelot, West Side Story, The Music Man, Hair, Chorus Line, Gypsy, Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Cats, Phantom, Les Mis, Rent, Spring Awakening, Wicked, Next to Normal....I could go on but you get the point.

Most of the clips we saw were from revivals but there were quite a few with the original cast. It was awesome! The best two days in that class by far. But it just makes me that much more depressed that I still have never been to New York so I decided to set a goal. I will make it to New York and see at least 2 shows on Broadway in the next two years! Anyone want to join me?

Hello Hello!

Last night was awesome! I absolutely love this show and it has been on hiatus for the past 4 months! That's such a long time...especially considering it's not even summer! Anyway so Whitney, Gwen, Karinne, Sara, Erin and I had a little Glee party last night to celebrate this momentous occasion.

PURE HAPPINESS!

I keep thinking times will never change--Keep on thinking things will always be the same

There is so many things in my life that are about to change and I am growing a little anxious about it all. I have been going to school every year of my life since I was 3 years old. That is 19 years. I have always know what I will be doing at the end of each school year. However now that I am graduating in a month, I'm a little nervous about growing up and venturing out into the real world. I don't know what to expect that that is a little scary.

I remember when I was in high school and during my junior year I couldn't wait to graduate and get out of there. But when my senior year was coming to a close I started to feel the way I am now. I wanted the last month or so to pass by as slowly as possible, I guess because I didn't really know what I was headed for. There were also many significant events that happened during the summer between high school and college that completely changed my life. Most of them I wish hadn't happened and things could just go back to the way they were before. Now, since I am about to come upon a similar time in my life, I am just afraid that my life is going to change so drastically again. I know it sounds a little silly but that is how I feel.

So don't get me wrong, I am extremely excited to graduate from college. I never really thought my high school graduation was anything special. I didn't have pictures taken or stay out all night with my friends like the others did. As soon as I got my diploma I left the ceremony. Looking back now there are definitely things that I would have done differently. But now that I am getting a degree after 4 years and all of that money (thanks mom and dad lol) I really feel a sense of accomplishment. I didn't have to go to college and now that I am finished I can see how special that is and I will be taking full advantage of my graduation day. I have also decided to stop stressing about getting a job. I'm going to look at it as an adventure because I know that no matter what, I always have people around that will be there for me!