Seven Random Things

If you read many of the big blogs, you may be familiar with "blog awards". One of my favorite blogs to read is Twelve Makes a Dozen. I feel like Sandy is a great friend, although I've never met her! I hope that if I ever make it to her neck of the woods (small town, Utah) that I get the chance to run into her and her bunch of crazy and super adorable children! I feel like part of her family as I read the stories she posts!

Anywho, yesterday (or was it the day before?) Sandy was awarded two different blog awards, and she passed one on to me. Well, she passed both on to me, but said to pick whichever I felt fit and I picked the "Tell Me About Yourself" award. I'm not cool enough to know how to post the little button thing that shows that I got the award, and didn't really want to take the time to figure it out, but I thought I'd do what the award asks you to: blog about seven random things. If it was more work than that I wouldn't do it, I don't feel like my blog is really "award worthy", especially since it was started simply as a way for me to journal, then to be able to share what was going on with my siblings since we're all so spread apart. That is still the primary use, although I also do use it to keep up with some other people as well... But here are my seven random thoughts.

1. About 9-10 months ago we bought a bookcase and as we brought it into our apartment it landed on my toe, broke my toe-nail in half, and put me into shock. It was so incredibly painful that night as Chris performed "surgery" to remove the broken part of my toenail, and cleaned up the blood and such. I was in a lot of pain for a long time because of that. My toe nail is growing back fairly nicely, but after talking to a guy in my ward who is doing his residency as a podiatrist right now... I'm afraid I might have a fungal infection. Maybe I'm just paranoid about it and am imagining the pain, but it hurts. Now that I have taken the nail polish off of it he'll be able to look at it at church next week and tell me what he thinks about it. Yeah, that's a cool random fact.

2. I am currently watching The Sound of Music. I saw it at the library the other day and couldn't leave without it. I absolutely love The Sound of Music. I love Julie Andrews. I love the music. I love everything about it. When I was younger I used to watch it all the time, especially with my friend Megan. That and Hercules were our movies for a while. Right now I'm at the wedding scene. Holy crazy long dress. Gosh I love this movie, but I am glad that nobody sang a song like "How do you solve a problem like Maria" at my wedding...

3. I love Sudoku.

4. I recently bought Burt's Bees Mango Butter Chapstick. Delicious. I'm kind of obsessed with Mango right now. I also have a Mango Peach candle that I'm loving the scent of. Funny thing is... I have no desire to eat a mango... I just like the smell.

5. I have watched almost every season of The Biggest Loser. I've hated a lot of this season because one of the contestants has a super bad attitude and it seems like nobody has really been losing as much weight as they should, and the trainers haven't done much to change their attitudes. This past week was my favorite episode so far, as one of the teams went to a Zumba class. This makes me want to go try Zumba out--but not enough to go pay for a gym membership so I can do it. I'll just have to start running again or play more Just Dance 3.

6. I really like superheroes. I really struggled picking a Happy Birthday balloon for Chris the other day. There was Spiderman, Batman, one with several superheroes that were too small to really tell a difference, Superman, etc. I struggled with my decision, but knew that a superhero was the way to go. I finally picked Spiderman but have been questioning my decision ever since.

7. For some reason, I can't come up with a seventh random thing right now. I'll just end this with a reiteration of number 2. I flipping LOVE The Sound of Music. Captain Von Trapp is singing Edelweiss at "The Festival" right now. love. it.