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Ten Things I Wish I Could Say to Ten Different People Right Now:

1) Your irresponsibility is hurting those around you.
2) It’s time to stop holding the grudge. I had my reasons too.

3) There are things worse than loneliness; you should know.

4) Stop kicking me!
5) You are a complete waste of my time.
6) I’m not a prude, you’re a bigot.
7) Your “genius” would be much more believable if you did something with it.
8 You don’t have to save everybody.
9) I have finally learned to respect our differences.
10) You are failing because you are a lazy, good-for-nothing slacker!!

Nine Things About Myself:

1) Like most people, I think I am smarter than most people.

2) I love to sing, but I hate for anyone to hear me.
3) I am a terrible student. I am virtually everything that I can’t stand in my own students.
4) I am nothing like the person I thought I would be at 14.
5) I have no desire to be the person I thought I would be at 14.
6) After 28 years of neglect, I finally started flossing my teeth.
7) I dream about my students all the time
8 I eat chocolate almost every day. I am that bad.
9) Although I am an English teacher, I think I read less than the average person.

Eight Ways to Win My Heart:

1) give it chocolate
2) remember things about it
3) respect its passions
4) share what you love with it
5) rest your hand on my side
6) love my family
7) sing to it
8 seduce it with logic and reason

Seven Things That Cross My Mind a Lot:

1) What life will be like with two kids
2) All the students that I’m not helping
3) Food
4) The need to exercise
5) How excited I am to stay home with my family this summer
6) How much I hate northern Utah County drivers.
7) Suspenders

Six Things I Do Before I Fall Asleep:

1) take my vitamins
2) floss, brush my teeth, mouth wash
3) stretch and do stomach exercises
4) meditate

5) pray
6) tell my boys I love them

Five People Who Mean a Lot to me:

1) Ian
2) Vincent
3) Cecelia
4) The rest of my family
5) viewers like you…

Four Things I’m Wearing Right Now:

1) shoes (but only because I am at work)
2) tan pants (one of the few pairs of pants I can still wear comfortably)
3) my wedding ring

4) the necklace my husband bought me 4+ years ago (to replace the one he broke with his massive neck muscles).

Three Songs I’ve been listening to a lot lately:

1) You Don’t Know Me by Ben Folds
2) Merry Happy by Kate Nash
3) Bingo as sung by Vincent, Ian, and Myself

Two Things I Want to Do Before I Die:

1) vacation in New Zealand
2) get a Master’s degree in creative writing

One Confession:

I lack the dedication required to ever be great at anything.

33 Things to do before I turn 33

1. Make a new friend

2. Read 25 adolescent novels

3. Plan an entire unit before I teach it

4. Get a reading endorsment

5. Read James and the Giant Peach to Vincent

6. Read Ian’s thesis

7. Retake GRE (Graduate Records Exam)

8. Write 5 poems

9. Ace the Praxis (at least 190)

10. Go to a temple outside of Utah

11. Run an 11 minute mile

12. Read the Book of Mormon

13. Pay off half of my student loan

14. Buy a house

15. Go to the East Coast

16. Leave the country

17. Teach Vincent to read 50 words

18. Plant 5 trees

19. Have a second baby

20. See 15 Shakespeare plays/movies

21. Read Hamlet

22. Finish Vincent’s quote quilt

23. Finish my bedroom

24. Redo the kitchen floor

25. Paint both bathrroms

26. Squat 140 lbs

27. Hike Timpanogos

28. Make Creme Brule

29. Make Sushi

30. Create a blog (personal)

31. Write something about Vincent

32. 40 sit-ups in 1 minute

33. Get every family member to the dentist

Concerts

My sister is a D.J. and used to come by concert tickets pretty easily. She is also very generous and shared a lot of those tickets with me. As a result, I have had the opportunity to attend many concerts in my short life. I have wondered many times how many I have actually been to, so I decided this would be a good place to keep a running list. In no particular order, the concerts I have attended:

1. Counting Crows/Wild flowers Delta Center, SLC, Faemarie, 1997?

2. Counting Crows Mckay Events Center, Orem, Kari, 2002?

3. Counting Crows/Live The Gorge, Spokane, Kari, Griffin, Lyann, Justin, 2000

4. Counting Crows/Maroon 5 Usana, SLC, Kari, 2003

5. Radio Head, Usana, SLC Matt, 2003

6. Bare Naked Ladies/Guster Seattle, Maroon, Kari, 2000

7. Bare Naked Ladies/Howie Day E Center, SLC Everything to Everyone, Ryan

8. Bare Naked Ladies/ E Center, SLC, Ian, 2006

9. Bare Naked Ladies?

10. Howie Day Kingsbury Hall, SLC, Kari, Demi, Lindsay 2005

11. Tori Amos Abravanel Hall, SLC Strange Little Girls, Kari

12. Tori Amos/Howie Day E center Scarlet’s Walk, Wyatt, 2002

13. Tori Amos E center American Girl Posse, Kari, 2007

14. Tori Amos Usana Amphitheater Beekeeper, Kari, 2005

15. Tori Amos Hard Rock Café, Las Vegas, Kari, 2002

16. Rufus Wainwright/Ben Folds/Ben Queller Hard Rock Café, Las Veags, Matt, Wyatt, 2005

17. Maroon 5/Gavin DeGraw DV8, SLC

18. Guster UofU, Ryan, Adam, 2003

19. Guster Bricks, SLC (balcony) Kari,

20. Guster Bricks, SLC (stairs) Ryan,

21. Guster McKay Events Center, budge

22. Guster/John Mayer Canyons, Kari, Ryan, 2002

23. Indigo Girls Red Butte Gardens, SLC, Kari

24. Indigo Girls Kingsbury Hall, SLC, Kari

25. Indigo Girls Kingsbury Hall, SLC, Kari, Lance, Fae

26. Vertical Horizon, Washington, 2000

27. Ani DiFranco E Center, Faralee

28. Incubus E Center, Mourning View, Josh, 2002

29. Incubus E Center A Crow Left of the Murder,

30. Damien Rice McKay Events Center, Kari, Matt

31. Damien Rice McKay Events Center, Matt, Sept 2007

32. Lifehouse McKay Events Center, Ryan, 2003

33. Matchbox 20 E Center, Yourself and Someone Like You, Kari, Brian Wood, 1999?

34. Matchbox 20 E Center Mad Season, Kari, Nicole, 2001?

35. Alanis Morrisett Olympics, 2002

36. Dave Matthews Olympics, 2002

37. R.E.M E Center, SLC, Ian, Dave, 2005?

38. Lalapalooza Usana, SLC, Kari, Dan, Doug

39. Angie Aparo/Electracy Spokane, WA, Kari, 2000