August is here!!

And my birthday is two days away!! :)

I am going to Disneyland, because I can. Brandon and I are leaving early Wednesday morning, partying in Disneyland Wednesday, partying in CA Adventure Thursday, and Friday we're seeing the Eric Whitacre concert (WITH ERIC WHITACRE! :D), and hopefully we'll see Brandon's mission president while we're down there. We're going to be staying with my mom's cousin and her family, who I've never met, but hopefully it will be alright.

Two days ago my family and Brandon (and I) went to Outback to celebrate my mom's and my birthdays. I ordered the Bloomin' Onion for the first time, and it was delicious!! Definitely recommended.

Afterward we went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of yummy munchies to eat while watching Lord of the Rings. (Each summer and winter my mom and I watch the extended trilogy; Brandon is joining us this summer). Today is Return of the King - we're about to start!

Harry Potter

I used to be obsessed with Harry Potter back in my middle school days.

Obsessed.

Inspired by the new movie release (which was amazing, by the way; much better than any of the previous ones), I recently picked up Half Blood Prince again and started reading it, which in turn has goaded me into visiting some long forsaken websites such as The Harry Potter Lexicon and various fan art pages. I am nerd, hear me roar.

Also, I've recently made it a project to clean out my room and get rid of things I haven't touched in over a year. We'll see how that goes, I'm about to work on it a bit right now.

Hola Everyone!

Yikes! It has been almost a month. I'm not sure how I feel about this. It either means I have no life to blog about, or that I have too much of a life that I never have enough time to get to the computer. But then I'm still always on Facebook, so it must be the former.

Brandon surprised me yesterday (our four months) with a game of Harry Potter Clue! Dude. That game is bomb. Fo shizzle. Play it with me. Way better than regular Clue; the secret passages change, sometimes you're unable to go through certain doors, and you can be eliminated from the game by losing all your House Points. Yeah! Super fun!


Another fun game that I've neglected for a few years until just recently is Pirates of the Spanish Main. You buy little packets that come with cards with punch-out pieces to build ships, forts, and sea monsters, and then you sail around a table killing other players and stealing gold. Yesssssssssss. I forgot how much fun it was to play until I taught it to Brandon, and now he makes me play all the time. I've created a monster.

It's nice not being in school. I am taking an online class, which I should start doing a little bit of, but it's pretty easy. I just have to post online to the discussion and then cheat out of my textbook to get all the right answers on my online quizzes. No effort necessary. My favorite!

I've been working at the Apple Store for over a year now, and just went from a Concierge to a Specialist. What does that mean? Now instead of checking people in for the Genius Bar appointments and dealing with the angry people, I get to do sales and talk to nice people! That is a plus. Lately I've just been doing iPhone sales, but as soon as the demand for phones goes down I'll get more training on the computer stuff, which I'm excited for.

And other than that and spending all my free time at the Hansen home, that's about all I've been up to.

Correction:

Brandon put the rest of our leftover tickets in the wash.

I Don't Like Bugs.

Brandon and I have been dating for three months as of last Saturday! We decided to celebrate by heading to the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk and getting our rollercoaster on since we had some left over tickets from the last time we were there. We headed up around 5ish, and after an hour or two of rides, we decided to go grab a bite to eat and then come back for more. Unfortunately, we finished eating around 8, which is when it started to shut down. LAME! Make sure you check the hours each day before heading out there - it seems every weekend is different! But we still have some leftover tickets, so it just means we'll have to go back. :)


This morning I was in the backyard planning on reading and swimming. Plans were interrupted when this giant bug thing decided to make an appearance. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It somewhat resembled a carpenter bee, except it looked like it was about two to two-and-a-half inches long; I could see its "stinger" (I'm not entirely sure it actually uses it to sting things, as I have no idea what kind of bug it was) from across the pool. It was fascinating, until it decided that I was as well and decided to get a closer look at me, at which point I screamed, dropped my book, and ran half naked the long way around the house to get back inside (I went the long way because earlier I had seen a spider on the gate going around the short way). When I got to my room I looked out the window to see if it was still there, but all I saw was my copy of Ender's Game slowly falling apart in the water. Sad day.


In other news, check out the video to see how the virtual choir of "Sleep" is coming along. Start the vid at about 2:50.

It makes me EXCITED!!