And so it begins

It has started. Me, on the hunt for a job. An actual job, for after graduation in April. Wow. I have a lot of leads from BYU, which is great! I have a calendar just for the purpose of making application deadlines. I applied for Walmart not ten minutes ago! (And guys, please don't think that means I just applied to be a cashier at your friendly neighborhood grocer. I'm applying for positions at corporate in Bentonsville, Arkansas...) I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed and continue to tell myself that at least there is always a job for me as a lifeguard or something somewhere, I am sure of it. I actually often fantasize about moving home after I graduate and being a lifeguard and the Bloomington Country Club. How relaxing would that be? And after all the school I have done lately, it sounds amazing! But not as amazing as working for the best purchasing department of all time! Sounds weird, I know, but that would be super exciting.

I LOVE ART!

So BYU had this art exhibit forever ago called "Beholding Christ". I fell in love with two paintings from that collection that really stuck with me (although I really liked many of the others), and I have been hoping to run into these works somehow again. Tonight was the night when I successfully found these pieces online, and also learned that one is again being displayed in the museum, and I am so excited to run over there to look at it again!

But here is the thing - I am so in love with these paintings that I don't even want to put them up on my blog. That would be practically insulting to these works. But I will anyway, because I have a point to prove. Popular religious artists Greg Olsen and Del Parson are fine for mass production, and they serve their purpose, but they are so not meant to be huge and framed on a wall as the epitome of what good art is. If you have a huge painting done by either of these artists hanging on your wall at home in a lovely frame, props to you. I fully support beautifying and uplifting rooms with inspiring art, even if it is fantastical, and those paintings are reasonably priced, so its fine as long as you realize how much way better art is out there! There are so many artists that are not nearly as famous as those two previously mentioned who are so much better. I just hate it when people think that they are the greatest of all that is artistic. Bleah.

Compare those commonly known pieces and tell me that the paintings by J. Kirk Richards that I have included below don't just hit you, and make you think deeply, and make you feel like they are saying something about who Christ really was, and what he thought about. Its real. This is good art. http://art.jkirkrichards.com/archive.php

Even though high school was a long time ago...

I can't help myself.... I joined this group on Facebook. Pathetic? Maybe. But hey, I still bleed blue.

DEW Tour 2009

Since my last post was about football, and this one is about BMX, you might be thinking that I am a total tomboy. Which would be false. And to reassure your doubting minds I will next post a picture of the latest love of my life... After I say how much fun the Dew Tour was!! I loved it because it was something I had never done before, because I think these guys are amazing athletes, and I kind of love the laid back culture of extreme sports. You swear that they aren't going to be able to pull out of their mid-air contortions in time to land without killing themselves, but they do every time. Its ridiculous.
I didn't see Ryan Scheckler (famous and awesome skateboarder who I love), but I did have some adventures none-the-less. I did a little under the table wheeling and dealing for our tickets and saved some money, and I also did a bit of sneaking around and playing the innocent and dumb but friendly blonde to use an ATM that was in a closed off area of the Energy Solutions Arena, so that I could get the cash to make my aforementioned sketchy deal :)
Another awesome part of the day was the fact that I got to see my cousin Chloe! She was visiting from Houston, TX and I hadn't seen her in years so it was fun to spend time with her.
We also went to the Farmers Market where I got an amazing loaf of bread. I LOVE good bread. I need to start learning how to make the good stuff.
Back to the subject of purchases... yeah, I now own these and I'm in love with them!

BYU vs. OKLA

OH MY GOSH. BYU, ranked No. 20, beat Oklahoma, who were ranked No. 3! It was the first time BYU had won their first-away-game-of-the-season since 1996 and the first time that BYU had beat a nonconference top 10 team since 1990! It was an awesome game, 14 - 13, and even though it was an away game, all of Provo was making noise to cheer them on. I watched the game at Legends Grill in the student athlete building, and there were well over a hundred people there, it was so much fun :) We kept up all the traditions of doing our particular cheers at the correct times. The only thing that was missing was that ridiculous, yet actually quite endearing sound of a cougar (the animal kind) hiss-growling. We sang the fight song twice, and everyone was hugging each other at the end. When we left Legends, even the police were celebrating by turning on their lights and sirens just for fun :) Then they had to leave to direct the thousands of students in the streets yelling and honking their car horns and crossing the cross walk back and forth in droves for no reason other than to share the celebration with people lining the corners. There were still people in the street when my friends and I got back from the bonfire we did after the game. And now, even though it is 12:45 a.m., next on our docket of fabulous activities for the evening revolves around a confirmed rumor that the team is landing in the Provo airport at 1:45 a.m. Audrey, Dani and I are just biding our time until then so we can go meet the team (I feel so cool even just saying "the team" as if I know them) with all the other (hopefully) hundreds of fans through whom this information circulated. I AM SO EXCITED! ......
.......Meeting the players at the airport was awesome, there were hundreds of people there, with a DJ and everything. It was a total party. We got to high five the players as they walked past and Coach Mendenhall gave a small speech over the sound system...:) We are such good fans :)
Also, please take a moment now to study the beauty of the picture posted above. Wow.

Lake Powell!

Lake Powell is my happy place, and this was either the second or third time that I have been this summer! Joy! My parents, Lynne, Keith, Tyler, Jamie, Kael and myself took a trip there for the day this past weekend, and it was such a blast!

Of course we got going way later than we had planned on - I woke up forty-five minutes late, when everyone was at the door ready to go, my dad forgot his swimsuit so we had to stop at Walmart to buy him one, and then my mom gave us all quite a scare by losing her purse for twenty minutes or so.... thank goodness there are honest people in the world who turned it in! Eventually we got on the water, and really, the delay was to be expected because i don't think this family is ever going to be able to change their late/never-a-dull-moment ways :)

We went cliff jumping and climbing, we got thrown around on the tube so much that we continued on even after we made a hole in it, and several people whipped out their awesome wakeboarding skills :)

I for one am still so sore that this morning I could barely move. I am pretty sure that we all beat ourselves up almost as much as a person possibly could in one day in the name of fun and adventure.

I know I keep mentioning alternate career paths, I suppose it is a result of my nervousness for my future adult type job hunting, but if I don't find full-time employment in business after I graduate next year, I think I will look into becoming a park ranger/water police man, i mean woman. I know that I would at least have a totally sweet tan!

MIA

Yeah, so I haven't posted on this thing in a while, so I just thought I would refer you to Adam and Andrea's blog, because we have all been going to St. George a lot for the weekends. Many fun times have been had, but since I am lazy, you can refer to their cute and frequently updated blog. I am pretty sure that I haven't been to my ward in about a month, but I love going home! Its so relaxing to pretend like all of my responsibilities in Provo don't exist. Which is so like me because I am totally one of those escape reality as frequently as possible people whether it is by leaving town, reading young-adult fiction, or watching So You Think You Can Dance clips on YouTube.