Someone get me up this hil!!!

My mood--in a photograph.

I have a paper due today...and a test tomorrow...and a bunch of readings...and an internet assignment. Not to mention the 600 things on my to do list for the last month-like getting a new license and social, I swear I'm gonna do that one day. It's not that I don't love being an Orr, I'm still just a Taylor-lazy (I take that back.) SOOO...with all this to do I have found just about every possible task to avoid it all. Last night I wrote 15 pages in my journal-I had a new life to catch up on. I've already made two meals and cleaned and watched the whole season 5 of Scrubs. There is nothing left for me to do! So, I blog. Why can't I just be more proactive? Golly, once I actually do the stuff I feel great, but getting to that point is like climbing a freaking mountain. It is rare that I get to do the victory dance on top. So...now that I've written this, I've gotten a little motivation I think. I quite possibly might actually write this 5 page paper and maybe even finishing studying for this test. I'm guessing I'll probably write another 15 pages in my journal first, scrub the toilet, and watch american idol. Perhaps then I'll be ready to conquer this mountain...and then I'll bust out those victory dance moves I have somewhere in me---somewhere

Taggage

Yep...it happened to me. Thanks to beloved Marie... it's great because I have nothing to blog about anyways!!

Post the rules on your blog
List 6 random things about yourself.
Tag 6 people at the end of your post.

ONE

I LOVE shuffling cards. I do. Can't explain it. The bridge I can make is miraculous and makes me want to cross it over and over again. I'm addicted. Spencer hates playing cards with me because I have to shuffle until "it feels right". I mean it. It's like card OCD. It's the Vegas in me. I'm a card shark-with the secret dream of becoming a dealer. Let's hope I never cross that bridge.

TWO

I have giant TONSILS. Big, just like that. They are perfectly located in the center of my throat, closing off my passage for breath and basically life. (I'm a drama queen). I have to spit a lot, sick I know, but I always have...and I don't have to hide it now since someone already married me regardless. Thank goodness, I thought it would be my demise! I went to the health center last week and after 6 pointless tests and dumb diagnoses, the ENT told me I had "abnormal tonsils". Thank you for someone finally coming through for me...although it did make me feel a little abnormal. So, my problems in life will be a teeny bit lessened if I man up and get those things removed! But honestly, do I want peoples hands down there? And how will I stop eating...it's a toss up.

THREE

I complain about homemaking things to do, ie. cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc., but I love them. It makes me feel accomplished and needed. I also complain about homework...so it's a nice distraction from that for me. It relaxes me. There's something about sweeping that just...oh...it just does it for me. A great escape.

FOUR

Onions are the macaroni to my cheese. Oh how divine. Bitter or sweet, however I want them. Their eye-watering goodness fills my heart with beats. I fry them up daily, put them on or in anything. Rice and onions with seasoning salt is my new thing...I'm such a chef, I know. In high school my friends parents named me "OG"-onion girl. I told all my junior high friends it stood for "original gangsta", I was too thugish to have such a thing revealed. I'm not ashamed now. I heart Onions. I am an "OG". (avocados are my second love)

FIVE

My current television shows are: One Tree Hill-my emotions run wild as I follow these kids lives which run adjacent to mine, Office-of course, Lost-insanity, it's too much for my mind to handle, Scrubs-out loud laughter fills our little apartment of peace, Food Network- anything goes-it just draws me in and makes me want to save the world one casserole at a time, Law and Order-this consumes Spence and I's lives-we can't stop-and we are sooo educated from it-I'll probably be a lawyer while he is the detective...I'll stop there so it seems like I have a life. What I meant to say is, my current readings are.......

SIX

Plucking eyebrows brings me so much joy. The arrangement of hairs is such art. Getting a real good pair of tweezers makes the exercise such an experience. Spencer's eyebrows...my favorite playing field. He is a man though and has drawn the line. Sad. So I must find satisfaction elsewhere. Can you graduate from BYU with an emphasis or minor in tweezing? T'would be a dream...


I pass the flaming torch to:
Emily, Jilly, Hales, Brittan, Lyssa, and Aims
:)

Wednesday Night and Too Much To Do

Library...

to go or not to go???

Well this darn tivo that was SUCH A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT....sucks...sorry mom.

So our whole plan of setting up our tivo, peacing out to the library, and then watching our show all night is out. Technology sure does blow sometimes.

So...what to do...???

Still wondering......hmmmm......

I knew I couldn't resist---


(Even passing up the UNLV v. BYU game for this one...We just can't miss it!!)
(Oh and if anyone has any insights as to what they think might happen this season...lets talk!)

BLOGGG???

I've been pondering about blogging lately. Like REALLY pondering. I think about doing it a lot, but...ne'r do I actually get there. Last night, after I put the kids I babysit to sleep, I pulled out the laptop and cruised the blogging scene. Blog after blog after blog. I laughed, I gasped, I got jealous. Freakin' Ally is in SPAIN! Who'd of thought. Some other girls pregnant! I found that this blog world is what keeps me "in" with the outside world. So although I only live in Provo and there is no child for me soon...I'm trying to muster up what is so interesting about me. Not much. So, why do I think about how I HAVE to blog? How do I even know anyone sees this? Why have I made yet another thing that is always on my to do list? This is supposed to be something for me and something fun....well...

So, I continued to journey through the blogosphere and MAN...there are so many people in this world web. And they acutally know what the are doing! How do they get such cute designs and text and everything? How do they do those things with their pictures? Who is this NieNie, expert blogger? How does everyone have a specific thing they write about on a specific day that keeps me coming back for more? How does everyone have their own companies and such through blogging? There's graphic designers, people who sell adorable homemade stuff, editors, self-made photographers....HOW!? I found so many people who blog for a reason.

I don't have that. Not so much I blog so that I can be accepted by everyone else who blogs. So hat's off to all you bloggers. Sorry that my entertainment is not so entertaining. If you have any ideas to help me out...please do! Give me something to blog about or for! What do you want to hear about? Want more pictures? Want me to write fake stories about how intense and hip life in Provo is? You let me know and I'll do it. This will also show me if anyone actually reads this thing! ....thanks :)

Sneak peak

Ok, I know how much I would have said over these last couple months and now it's too late, but I don't care. I am going to one day write about our wonderful Christmas Break, hilarious new year, adventrues in babysitting and all other sorts of randomness. So here are some teazzzers for what is to come...somday. Brace yourself.

Waiting for a Winter Wonderland

It's been another month, go figure. But I'm still here and kicking. This is what we've been up to through the holidays. We love it. It's supposed to snow tomorrow...I never thought I'd be glad to hear that, but we're in Utah-give us what we expect! Thanksgiving was a blast and delicious, being that we got one with each family. Spoiled. We're excited to get school done this next week and focus on Christmas. We love it too much. Our small little apartment looks like a Christmas shop. No one else has seen it, but man do we find it cozy.

Thanksgiving with the Orr family. Incredible stuffing. Grandma actually wore a bib :) Classic. We played the most intense game of Cranium ever. My team won...naturally.

Uncle Kyle took Spence, my dad and I to a Jazz game. Although it ended in disappointment, I did get this worth while picture.

My friend Brianna is pregnant...and I mean PREGO! She's due in a month, baby girl. She was in town for the day, quite the treat. Got all us girls together. <3

We have our own beautiful Christmas tree. (Thanks MOM!) We decked our halls and danced to Christmas jams. So wonderful. This is the final product. As the presents flood under it, it gets better and better! Now turn your head and admire the pic :)

Our friends Allen and Ashley had a Christmas party and we made gingerbread houses. It was quite the adventure. It was a competition...which means Spencer plotted architecture all day. We got there and ignored our opponents as we built away. At the peak of our brillance finishing the house, all our hope was crushed as our roof crunched. We tried to recover...crunch again...and again. So our dreams of a beautiful Whoville home were out the window and an attempt to finish was all we had. We added flare to the finish by making our home look as...interesting as we could. Allen put an award in for the judges that said "better luck next year", so that we could get one...turns out they won it! HA! And yes, the other three PERFECT houses didn't stand to our comical castle. We got 3rd from one judge and 2nd from another!!
That's just what the Orr's do. People like us ;) (The candy dishes distracted the judges and doubled as lawn deco.)

Family Fun and Football

This month has brought a lot of fun times with the Orr clan. Which of course means a lot of football.
-First off...Spencer's parents went on a much deserved cruise this month and we stole the kids away for part of the week they were gone. We played lots of playstation, watched movies, ate junk, and such. We went shopping one day for some halloween stuff and ended up playing a whole lot. Annie and I had a sleep over with Kimi one night in the bed and kick the boys to the ground. We played all weekend and had a blast. We took the kids home to two super tan and super relaxed parents. Good for them.
-So, football.We have tried to make it to as many football games of Bri's as we could. He's such a stud. On Halloween Skyline played in the first round of playoffs. They dominated. They played awesome. We didn't make it to the second round, but they played Layton and WON! Secretly, I was surprised! Well, now they're in the semi-finals and play Bingham at Rice Eccles Stadium on Thursday. We are so stoked! Bri is the man. Now that I'm an Orr I can't help but be join the football fan club. GO SKYLINE BEAT BINGHAM!! Good luck Bri!