Little Picassos To Be

I live in the same house as my older brother and sister. My brother and his fiance' live upstairs, I live on the main level, and my sister and her family have a basement apartment below me. So it can be a pretty fun house. This morning I was tidying up my bedroom when I got a phone call from my sister.

"Hey are you busy, because I want to take a shower, but my girls won't be good long enough for me to do that. Do you mind if they come up and hang out with you for a little bit?"

I love my little nieces,  so of course I said yes! I have two nieces, Lynnli, who turns three years old next week but talks like she's six, and Alyssa, the silent but sweet one who turns two in August. The girls came upstairs and we decided to watch Spongebob together. We turned it on halfway through so we just finished the episode. I then wanted to get ready for the day so I went to bathroom to do my hair. Lynnli was very into the next show, Max and Ruby, but Alyssa was bored. When Alyssa gets bored she gets into anything and everything. I came out of the bathroom just in time to see her getting ready to pull all of my alphabetized DVDs out. I stopped her, and then realized TV was not enough to keep these busy bodies busy! I got out a couple clipboards, some paper, and some crayons, hoping it would entertain the girls. And it did! Who knew they loved coloring so much?! It worked wonders! I was able to do not only my hair, but my make up too! After I finished getting ready I looked at their pictures, and wow, they are quite the little artists! Even though it was only scribbling, the pictures they made were super colorful (my favorite) and pretty awesome looking. Go Lynnli and Alyssa! Woo!

Rambling.

I have started many blogs, and each one has started with the same sentence:

"I have started many blogs, but have given up on all of them. I am determined to keep this one going."

So as you can see, none of those blogs worked out. SO I will NOT be starting this blog with that sentence. Actually, I'm thinking of heading in the other direction. I will say this, I have started many blogs, and failed at them. SO I don't guarantee this one will continue. If I write faithfully for a while and one day just stop, no worries, I did not fall off the face of the earth, I did not crash in a car and die, I simply got bored of that blog and decided to start a new one.

Now, enough about my blog history. . .

My life is not boring, but it is nowhere near interesting. I am in a long distance relationship, yes. Frown upon it if you like, it will only last 7 more months. Not because I have somehow predicted the future and discovered we will be breaking up in October, but because he is serving a mission and will be returning home from Paraguay on October 19th. Go him!

I am not a fan of the color pink. You will hardly see me using it for anything, you won't see me coloring with a tickle-me-pink crayon, and I very rarely wear the putrid color. Why do I hate it so? Maybe because I was obsessed with it for so long that it just wore me out. My favorite color is now purple. Purple, not lavendar, not maroon, not burgundy. Simply, purple.

I am in love with three things: color, monsters, and robots. As I am typing this I am sitting in my bedroom that looks like a rainbow threw up on it, with 9 unique canvases of painted monsters on the wall that yes, I did myself, wearing a tshirt that has robots all over it. Loving this situation? Very much so.

I have an addiction to Subway sandwiches and movies. I own more movies than I know what to do with and I'd rather spend my money going out to movies than buying groceries. (You should see my fridge. I think there's a gogurt and some mustard in there.) In the past two weeks I have gone to Subway about 8 times for lunch. I always get the same thing. 6" veggie on wheat with provolone; lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pickles, banana peppers and olives, with a little mustard. And if I have a few extra dollars, I get the baked Sour Cream and Onion Lays and a Diet Coke. Question of the day: Am I a vegetarian? No I am a carnivore. BUT I did quit eating meat for a while once and I discovered I like veggie subs more than turkey. Why? Not a clue. Just love it tons I do!

I work with some interesting people. I do love it. Today at work for 5 hours I worked on keeping one of my client's from turning her hand into hamburger. By day I work with special needs adults, and by night I work with children that need help with their social skills. I do love the clients I work with and would do anything for the little buggars.

My mom is from New Zealand. Pretty awesome, right? My dad served a mission in Australia so in 2001 I got to go to New Zealand and Australia with my family for three and a half weeks. It was awesome and I loved it. I wish I were a little older than I was at the time though (11 years,) because I did take advantage of the vacation and didn't document it how I wish I had. Most my pictures of the trip consist of ducks at Hamilton pond. Cause I guess I thought ducks in NZ looked different from ducks in UT? Wonderful.

Well that's about it for me. Will post some fun stories in the near future.