A couple days ago, YourHeartOut blogged about a yogurt shop in Sandy. Em and I finally went to check it out. It's like one of those things you dream of as a little kid: pretending to be the cashier at a grocery store or meticulously folding clothes in your dresser because you work at The Gap. The Yogurt Stop actually lets you dish up your favorite fro-yo-go flavors and toppings. I mean, this place has got it all: cookie dough, sprinkles, and berries. Whatever you want, you can have it. Life just got a little sweeter.

Tonight's concoction: Chocolate and Vanilla swirl with rainbow sprinkles and cookie dough.

And the winner is...

Here are my picks. Hopefully i will do better than the Grammy's.

Best motion picture of the year
-Atonement
-Juno
-Michael Clayton
-No Country for Old Men
-There Will Be Blood

Achievement in directing
-"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
-"Juno"
-"Michael Clayton"
-"No Country for Old Men"
-"There Will Be Blood"

Performance by an actor in a leading role
-George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
-Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
-Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
-Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
-Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
-Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
-Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
-Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)
-Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
-Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
-Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
-Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
-Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
-Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
-Ellen Page in "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
-Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)
-Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)
-Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)
-Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
-Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)

The Haircut.

Ok. Here it is. Judge away. It's an A-line cut, so the back is shorter...

Don't do drugs, kids.

Let me tell you about my day.

First of all, I think this is the first haircut I love the first time around, which is surprising because I am a hard one to please when it comes to the 'do'. It is super short (to me), but I like it. It's weird not being able to pull it back...

Secondly, I was surprised to see a healthy two-year old that was born at 25 weeks (that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...14 weeks early) because his mom was 18, doing meth and pot. She was very open with all this information. But the saddest part was that she could not remember details about her little guy's hospital stay because she was STILL USING at the time of his birth. Luckily, she went through a rehab program and got it together after that. The kid has normal hearing. Hallelujah.

Next: a three-year-old may or may not have told me that his parents are going to kill me. Yeah, he repeated it three or four times, "My parents are going to kill you" and then proceeded to kick me. Fantastic. Now mind you, I am just trying to play a simple hearing game with the kid, not torturing him with pins and needles. His mom, sitting right next to us, didn't do anything...It makes you wonder what he will grow up to be like. I don't want to be there to find out.

Lastly, I travelled to Provo with some cool people for some great Mexican food and a little concert. I had to remind myself numerous times that I was, in fact, in Provo...the people watching was at an all-time high at Velour. I never thought I would see THOR dressed in embroidered jeans and a pink scarf. FANTASTIC.

Umm..

I may or may not have chopped my hair off today...

pictures to follow...

OBAMA for yo mama.

If I wasn't such a cheap ass, I would be wearing this today.

Are you KIDDING me!?

Good. Better. Best.

Anna and I were discussing some important issues at work. Here is what she discovered:

Good: A non-committal make-out with a "non-member".

Better: A non-committal make-out with a "member". Having things in common is not a requirement, but some physical attraction would be nice.

Best: Making out with a member that shares your same beliefs and values, and could be a potential "match made in heaven", or something that affect (potential being the key word).

Applying gospel principles has never been so much fun!

Next President?

I recently took an online quiz to see how my views lined up with some of the candidates in this year's election. Many questions ranked my opinions about current political policies, while others touched on whether or not I would vote for a woman or a person of a minority race. In hope that the questionnaire could read my mind and recognize I am an Obama fan, I answered all the questions truthfully, according to my own thoughts. To my dismay, the first two line-ups were men I had no idea were running. I can't even remember their names. To my even greater dismay, 64% of my way of thinking matched up with Hilary Clinton.

What!?

The quiz was wrong. There is no way in hell I would ever vote for that woman. And I'm not at all sorry about it.

3 1/2 hours later...

The GRAMMY'S were a disappointment. Besides not predicting correctly, I just wasn't really impressed with how the show turned out. I never thought I would be sad that only 9 awards were actually presented, but I was. The highlight of the evening was seeing Tina Turner in a pop tart wrapper. Who knew?

But anyway, here are the winners in case you missed it:

Record of the Year
-Rehab, Amy Winehouse

Album of the Year
-River: The Joni Letters

Song of the Year
-Rehab, Amy Winehouse

Best New Artist
-Amy Winehouse

Best Femal Pop Vocal Performance
-Rehab, Amy Winehouse

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
-What Goes Around…Comes Around, Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
-Makes Me Wonder, Maroon 5

Best Pop Collboration With Vocals
-Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On), Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Best Pop Vocal Album
-Back To Black, Amy Winehouse

Best Alternative Music Album
-Icky Thump, The White Stripes

Best Rap Album
-Graduation, Kanye West

Best Soundtrack Compilation Album
-Love

50th GRAMMY Award Predictions

The Grammy's are always entertaining. Because music is one of my number one priorities, I thought I should probably take interest in the winners and losers of this past year. The only problem I see with my predictions is that I don't really care what is popular or on the radio...so, the artists I have chosen to win each category have been picked because I like them, no other reason. I also narrowed down the categories to the most important ones. I have included the other nominees in case you would like to make your predictions as well. (my predictions are italicized)

Record of the Year
-Irreplaceable, Beyonce
-The Pretender, Foo Fighters
-Umbrella, Rihanna
-What Goes Around…Comes Around, Justin Timberlake
-Rehab, Amy Winehouse

Album of the Year
-Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Foo Fighters
-These Days, Vince Gill
-River: The Joni Letters
-Graduation, Kanye West
-Back to Black, Amy Winehouse

Song of the Year
-Before He Cheats, Carrie Underwood’s songwriters
-Hey There Delilah, Plain White T’s songwriter
-Like A Star, Corinne Bailey Rae
-Rehab, Amy Winehouse
-Umbrella, Rihanna’s songwriters

Best New Artist
-Feist
-Ledisi
-Paramore
-Taylor Swift
-Amy Winehouse

Best Femal Pop Vocal Performance
-Candyman, Christina Aguilera
-1234, Feist
-Big Girls Don’t Cry, Fergie
-Say It Right, Nelly Furtado
-Rehab, Amy Winehouse

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
-Everything, Michael Buble
-Belief, John Mayer
-Dance Tonight, Paul McCartney
-Amazing, Seal
-What Goes Around…Comes Around, Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
-(You Want To) Make A Memory, Bon Jovi
-Home, Daughtry
-Makes Me Wonder, Maroon 5
-Hey There Delilah, Plain White T’s
-Window In The Skies, U2

Best Pop Collboration With Vocals
-Steppin’ Out, Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera
-Beautiful Liar, Beyonce & Shakira
-Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On), Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
-The Sweet Escape, Gwen Stefani & Akon
-Give It To Me, Timbaland

Best Pop Vocal Album
-Lost Highway, Bon Jovi
-The Reminder, Feist
-It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, Maroon 5
-Memory Almost Full, Paul McCartney
-Back To Black, Amy Winehouse

Best Alternative Music Album
-Alright, Still…, Lily Allen
-Neon Bible, Arcade Fire
-Volta, Bjork
-Wincing The Night Away, The Shins
-Icky Thump, The White Stripes

Best Rap Album
-Finding Forever, Common
-Kingdom Come, Jay-Z
-Hip Hip Is Dead, Nas
-T.I. vs T.I.P., T.I.
-Graduation, Kanye West

Best Soundtrack Compilation Album
-Across The Universe
-Dreamgirls
-Hairspray
-Love
-Once

I would also like to see Patty Griffin take the Folk/Americana Album award, and Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova definitely deserve the Best Song written For Motion Picture for “Falling Slowly”.

Good luck to all the artists.

P.S. Praise and hallelujah's to the writer's strike being over!

If you are easily offended...

...don't watch this. Stephen Colbert interviews a lobbyist from the Human Rights Campaign and is highly inappropriate!

Is it wrong that this makes me cry it's so funny? What do you think?

Two enthusiastic thumbs up!

I was pleasantly surprised by "Tthe Savages" (in theatres now). It has been awhile since a film has hit every emotion, more than once. I laughed and cried, and laughed and cried some more. It was fabulous and comes highly recommended by someone whose opinion really matters: muah. So if you have no qualms about the rating 'R' and enjoy quality movies, just go see it. I promise you won't regret it.

Yes WE Can.

I'm a fan of this so-called Barack Obama. And so are they. Take a listen....

Toxic.

What is it about this song that makes it so...toxic?


Yael Naim


Tristan Prettyman


Nickel Creek


buddy

Profundity

Chelsea: ‘A grumpy friend will frustrate you, but don’t get too upset. They will make it up to you later.’

Em: Uh-oh. I think that’s me.

Chelsea: Are you grumpy?

Em: I was in a BAD mood today.

Chelsea: So, what are you gonna do to make up for it?

Em: I made you a quesadilla for breakfast!

Chelsea: You can’t make up for something before it even happens!

Em: Yes I can. Have you ever played Mario Bros? …It’s like collecting tokens so you don’t die.

Chelsea: Wow.

Snow...

sucks.

Plans to leave Logan this morning were postponed because of the so-called "beautiful" snow we are so graced to receive. I'm sure somewhere out there, there is someone who is happy with such a gift. But that someone is not me. Hopefully the sky will clear so we can make a break back to the city.

Will winter ever end?

Land of Aggies

It's been awhile since I made the drive to the great Logan, a.k.a. cow town. Today I had an all day audiology conference in the good old Walnut Room of the TSC. It's funny how actually stepping foot in some places will resurface past memories and feelings that have been long forgotten.

I don't know how, but I managed to forget that I rocked my undergrad. Yeah, I did A-Team and endulged in sorority land as a Chi-Omega...but really...I was good at school. I'm not trying to boast or brag here. I'm just stating the truth. Seeing a couple familiar faces and shaking hands with past professors just reminded me of how great USU really was.

This has made me think about my current school situation and whether or not I made the correct choice in graduate programs. Even though there are many things that I dislike about the U, I am confident that I am in the right place. I'm not the type of person to base my own happiness on 'what ifs'. When I decide, I decide. So I am happy to report that I do not have any regrets and I have left USU with great memories. I hope that in 2 years I can say the same about U of U.