This is Spartaaaaaaaaa!

I'm reminiscing right now. This line is just over-the-top awesome. I mean come on. (disclaimer: there's sword fighting at the end of the clip, viewers advised)

Other than the absolutely fantastic retort (and associated action) I particularly enjoy the part starting at 2:04 -- looks back at his wife -- queen nods -- decision made. (In fact, her role rocks, period) Booyah.
Ok, the movie itself is... kind of out there.
But that scene.... and the spoofs it has generated... Oh my heavens.

And my personal favorite:

Those perfect moments

You know those times when you come up with a deliciously witty reply five minutes after the right moment has passed? Well yesterday I had a brief moment of enlightenment just at the right time. And because it happens so rarely you have to hear all about it.

Andrew and I were leaving our apartment to go practice. Another guy was leaving his apartment at the same time, and Andrew knew him so they exchanged a few formalities. "how are you doing... what are you up to..."

I've never seen this guy in my life, so I'm not particularly chatty. When Andrew tells him we're going dancing, he says "oh, if I liked dancing at all that would sound like fun."

...

Andrew gives a polite laugh, then he asks him where he's going.

"I'm getting my bowling ball from the car. I just bought a new book and I'm excited to start practicing." Oh come on, that just fell into my lap straight out of Heaven. So I pipe up:

"hey, if I liked bowling at all that would sound like fun."


It's the little things, people.

Ok seriously???

Wow...

Ho ho ho

My favorite part of the holiday season is of course JibJab elves. How can you not love ridiculing yourself to spread some holiday cheer!?

Because school is making me miserable right now

so how about some humor for your Wednesday evening:

I wish I were a glow worm,

A glow worm's never glum.

'Cause how can you be

grumpy, when the sun shines 

out your bum?

I need this

Oops

Play from 21:03

Yeah... somebody forgot to put a date up in the prompter (although I should have caught it during run-through) and it hit me like a brick wall. Oh well, that's life.

Hey, at least I'm not the only one!

Story. of. my. life.

From Overheard in the Newsroom:

Editor: “We need a new way to mark stories. 
Instead of ‘Ready’ it should be, ‘I’m just tired of looking at it.’”

Wow

It's been a while eh?

I've even started writing two or three posts in the past week, until I realized I had little to say. I'm kind of tired of school these days... and working on longer projects is tiring, so I've got no writing left in me. This weekend was great though. I am so grateful to be able to enter a grocery store and fill up a cart with food. All I have to do is grab it off the shelves and swipe a piece of plastic. Sometimes we don't realize how blessed we are. A girl in one of my classes made some comment about how she's a starving student and I was kind of annoyed. I mean yeah, she's probably not rolling in gold--neither am I--but she has nice clothes, a place to live, food to eat, a good EDUCATION, a brand new haircut... I hardly think we get to complain.

Sometimes I want to, but deep down I know how good I have it. My life is incredible. As stressful as it is to be in school and have a demanding schedule, as scary as it is to be making life-changing decisions for the future... what a wonderful life it is that I even get to make these choices. I have the awful dilemma of getting to chose between a career and having children. Or doing both.

In fact, we're living like kings right now. It really couldn't get much better. (Well, KSL could just decide to hire me straight out of school, that would be pretty awesome. Also, my dad could come for Christmas, that would be cool too. But hey, you can't have everything you dream of.)

Sigh.

But we did have a last hurrah barbecue last week:

aw, ketchup makes him happy

I have to take pictures of myself otherwise it's like I was never there

Look! A sunset!

Or I could make my husband take my picture.
And actually, this "pose" was totally accidental, believe it or not.
It must be my inner repressed fashion blogger.

On a completely unrelated note, I just watched a really good movie. Exam. The British accents probably don't hurt either... But in all seriousness, it's awesome. Go watch it.

Oh also, I learned in stake conference today that I was born to be a homemaker. Awesome. The worst part is that this came from a girl: all the members of the stake presidency gave spiritual, doctrinal talks, but this one girl went on and on about cleaning and decorating. Ugh.

And tomorrow I'm giving a mini presentation on euphemism and hyperbole. Because I NEVER use hyperbole inappropriately. Ever. Ha.

And for a last bit of Sunday night humor:

Have I ever mentioned how much I love The Office?

I wish I were this creative. And that I had an arch-nemesis. Well maybe not, actually. Random story: a guy in my English class told everybody the story about his high school "arch-nemesis" stealing the girl he had a crush on... in complete seriousness. Somebody's been reading too much sci-fi... (Says the girl who posts star trek clips on her blog. Ahem)

Andrew greeted me with this little number

He knows me too well.

Mom teaches son a lesson...

Nothing like good ol' fashioned public humiliation:


"Hi this is XXX's mom. I wanted to tell you he will not be on Facebook any longer due to the choices he made today. He posted some information about someone, that regardless if it was true or not, it was rude. Because he tried to make her made by spreading personal information, I thought he should know how it feels when the tables are turned. He wet the bed until he was 8."

From this month's Reader's Digest

Link of the day

For a good laugh: http://thisislifeinaustin.com/2009/08/20/and-this-is-our-generation/


Some of my favorites

Lol has gone from meaning, “laugh out loud” to “I have nothing else to say”.


More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

My brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, “Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.” Classy, bro.

How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

Home decoration...

Advice given to my mother-in-law in her home-ec classes at BYU:

You can make your master bedroom as feminine as you want, in fact it's a good thing because "men want to feel like they're sneaking into a woman's boudoir"

Ha ha ha. In that case can I justify getting this bedding?

Customer service...

An excerpt from customer surveys I'm currently translating for a company that I will not name:

"Let's start with the basic: your account manager's response time is slower than a turtle with arthritis and the customer service is abysmal."

ha ha