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Scorpions glow under black light...
                                                       ....though the black light we wanted to test that theory out on was broken.

Dallin and I together....
                                       ....don't even come close to weighing as much as a baby ephelant. 

The southwest corner of the tiger pen....
                                                                 ....was the best one.

There are bird-eating spiders...
                                                 ....that grow to be as big as a dinner plate.  Just ask the creepy guy who was eavesdropping on our conversation. 

We've decided that if we ever come across a porcupine...
                                                                 ...we will, under no circumstances, EVER cuddle with it. 

Giraffe's...
                 ...stink.  Really bad. 

Going to the zoo with Dal...
                                            ...was amazing, he's my best friend and I can't wait for a Forever of crazy fun memories with him!

out with the old...

and in with the new!

Best...

1. After a full year of telling the basement tenants I was sewing them curtains, I FINALLY finished them.  Don't worry, it was only the night before we had to put the sewing machine in storage... talk about procrastination!

2. Our old house is grateful.  I don't think it's EVER been this clean.  EVER. 

3. There's something therapeutic and oddly relaxing to me about dejunking my life.  We had only been married two and a half years, but the amount of crap that we somehow accumulated was outrageous!

4. Shopping!  We've frequented IKEA and Target at least three times since moving in. 

...and worst of moving

1. Sometimes I'm an idiot... like when I thought "Hey, I'll bet toilet bowl cleaner would be a great way to get the bathtub white again."  Ya, might've been a good idea had I not left it for an hour and a half to crust over in there.  Now our renter's bathtub looks like a smurf crime scene.

2. Our landlord has completely remodeled like half of our apartment, which is awesome!  Unfortunately, the other half hasn't had anyone living in it for quite some time, so we're still finding fun little surprises.  My absolute favorite are the daily appearance of the most hideous little spiders. "Kill a spider a day" is now a common phrase in the Billings apartment.  

3. This move, Dal had to be gone for two nights right after we got to our new place.  As fate would have it, our landlord and her two girls were also out of town.  Do you know how creepy old houses are when they're empty?! I promise you, there were footsteps upstairs like every five minutes.  Worst. night. of sleep. ever.  

4. Saying goodbye. It's hard leaving our first and only house since marriage, as well as leaving our ward and friends!

From One Thing to the Next...

Grad Announcement:

It has now been a full week since graduating.  Have things slowed down even a little?  I WISH! I swear life never slows down - never waits for you to catch your breath.

Granted, it's at least slow enough for me to post :)

The last week has been a whirlwind.  Graduation last Friday, birthday on Saturday, and my best friend Savannah comin' in town till Wednesday, wrapping it up with starting my studying for the CPA and re-roofing our house this morning.

It was SO fun re-living the old days with Sav: classic piano session, some legit HP time (totally rocked Voldemort's world - ya, that's right!), a little Peter Pan action, with totinos and jones to boot.  I wish life could be as carefree as it used to be - where all I worried about was how I looked and whether or not my chores were done so I could hang out with friends after school.  Oh the life....

What happened to that? Now I'm worried about bills, about how my boss feels about my work, and callings at church.  Ick.  So grown up.

That's the biggest thing that's hit me since graduating - real life is starting!  Huge responsibilities, more major decisions, and a hugely lengthened perspective.  Instead of thinking "just till the end of this semester", it's "where will I be in five years".

Luckily we'll still have this short summer to do a few things before I start my "real" job at Ernst and Young this fall.  FIRST AND FOREMOST: DISNEYLAND!  What good is graduating if you can't share it with Mickey?  We're heading out in a couple weeks (who am I kidding, I'm counting down the hours - 207.5!), and we're going to have the trip of our lives.  We found a rockin' connection and got in to Club 33, which is like the dream of a lifetime!!!  If you don't know what that is, I plain feel sorry for you.

So there are some things to look forward to before reality hits hard, I'm just afraid they'll be gone fast!

What's to get?

What's to get when people play hard to get?

Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth to that question.  Fortunately, the phase of playing hard to get is long gone and never returning for me! 

I always sit in the same chair in class.  How boring is that?  I can't handle change very well unless required (new semester, new job, etc.) I have a structured life that is comfortable and predictable.  That grooves with me, as lame as it sounds.  I'm so structured in fact, that it hurts to be creative.  Good thing I'm in my final GE: History of Creativity - cus I've got a lot to learn.  But to my point, when I heard the professor talk about the final project, which most people think is the easiest part of the class, I about broke into a sweat.  The only guideline is that it has to be creative.  ACK!

Yellow is my favorite color.  Warm, homey, light, happy, spontaneous, daring, loving, mellow. 

I need some serious recommendations for audiobooks.