Halloween Costume Shopping

The girls decided that we are going to throw a Halloween party. So, we went shopping last night to get costumes. I decided to go simple and be a librarian. I bought cheap granny glasses and a chain to attach to them. I'm going to wear my nametag from work and my new plaid skirt. It will be great!

Here's me, Suzie and Jenny trying on hats at the costume shop (AKA Party City).

Cornbelly's Fall Fun

Friday night, me and the roomies went up to Thanksgiving Point to the Cornbelly's corn maze. Dang, was it ever fun! I even went through the haunted corn maze and the giant blow-up haunted beast. I guess I'm less of a wuss than I think I am. It did help that Maya was more freaked out than me, cause I'd just laugh when she would scream. We also went through the big unhaunted corn maze, which was shaped like David Archuleta. That was fun. And the best part of the evening was the corn box, a room filled with corn, kinda like a ball pit. Our group consisted of Maya, Suzie, Jenny, Eve, Jordan (Eve's boyfriend), Taft (the guy Jenny's dating) and me.

Moving on to the pictures...

Here's me and Maya on a giant rocking chair.

Here's me buried in the corn in the corn box.

I'm hiding in this picture. Like an ostrich.

Here we're starting to bury Jordan. He's the one lying in the middle. Suzie's in the bottom right and Taft is behind me. Some random dude is off to the upper right. We buried everyone in our group. It was so fun and highly unsanitary! We spent so much time in there.

Here's Maya, Suzie and me wandering through the David Archuleta maze. Not the haunted maze.

We raced little plastic ducks by pumping water. Maya's duck won, but I got second place!

Me kissing a life-sized plastic horse.

Suzie and me enjoying our apple blossom. Basically, apple blossoms are a caramel apple sliced up and dribbled with chocolate and whipped cream with a cherry on top.

One of the kiddy areas was the Pumpkin Princess Patch. They had princess tiaras and wigs that you were supposed to use to dress up scarecrows, but we liked putting them on us instead. Then we got into the Cinderella pumpkin carriage. The horse "pulling" the carriage is the one I "kissed."
I got the idea for kissing the horse from Suzie who kissed a big plastic cow earlier.

From left to right: Jenny, Taft, Me, Jordan, Eve

This is the giant blow-up haunted beast that I conquered! Go me!


Here's Suzie preparing to defend us in the haunted corn maze. Can you see the dude hiding in the corn to the right of her? He jumped out right after the picture got taken and scared Suzie.

And finally, here's the roomies, minus Eve, sitting on the big plastic cow bench. Eve and Jordan were off on their own.

O Internet, How I Love You!

We finally got the internet for real at our house. The cable guy came the other day and put in the cable for our TV, and also a cable for internet, but we had to get a router so more than just one person could connect. So tonight Maya, Jenny and I headed over to Best Buy and got a wireless router. Then we came home and Jenny set it up all by herself. Go Jenny! And now we have real internet, not mooched off of random wireless networks around the neighborhood. Yay!

My House

Well, my last semester of school is underway. I'm two weeks in and mostly disenchanted. There's a point where you just get tired of going to school. That is where I am. And I have been there for at least 2 years.

Moving on.

I really like my new roommates. We get along quite swimmingly. Our favorite things to do together are watch 24 and play Rock Band. We have done one of those two things every day for the past two weeks (not counting Sunday).

Let me introduce you to them.

First, we have Jenny. She's 24 and is currently going to UVU (Utah Valley University) to get her teaching certificate. She plays the drums in real life in addition to being really awesome at them in Rock Band. Jenny gets lots of free stuff from boys that she dates. I don't know why, but I like it. Because we, the roommates, get perks from that. Here's some of the free stuff she's gotten: caramel nut brownies, Papa John's pizza, a lovesack, and Rock Band.

Next is Susie. Susie is the baby of the bunch. She's only 19, but she definitely meshes well with the rest of us. She's taking classes at the LDS Business College to get a degree in medical assisting or some such thing. I forget the details. Susie owns Jeremiah, who is a cat. Yes, we have a cat. I love it. Jeremiah is white with light brown tips and blue-eyed. He's adorable. Also, Susie's brother's roommate has pretty blue eyes. Just wanted to throw that in there.

Maya is in her last semester at BYU (Just like me! Yay!). She's 23, from Virginia, and half Filipino. Maya's taking a puppetry class right now, so she brings home her creations to show us. Fun! Her bedroom is kinda odd. It's all this dark wood, so it looks like she lives inside a ship.

Finally, we have Evelyn. She's only a temporary roommate, because she's going on a mission in November. She has red hair (at the moment) and plays the guitar.

And then there's me. Apparently, the girls have recently had a rather horrible roommate and are glad that I'm not strange. I'm glad we are bonding so quickly. Last year, it took awhile for me to really connect with my roommates. This year is much better.

Fun Things I've Found on the Internet

Yes, I'm not posting one word titles for my blog entries anymore. It's hard to do and I end up starting to use the same ones over and over. So, that's over.

Anyhoo, this post is all about fun things I've found on the Internet. As the title states. Let's begin.

SurLaLune Fairytales.com
Perhaps you can surmise from the title that this site focuses on fairytales. You are right! I've always been a sucker for fairytales. They have all sorts of fun stuff on this site to support that suckerness. Here they have the original fairy tale, annotated, the history of the tale, a list of modern adaptations (my favorite), and other things. If you loved reading Grimm's Fairy tales or anything similar as a kid, check this site out.

Anke Eissmann
Ok, this is a person, but it's her website. She's an artist from Germany and I love her stuff. Granted, that's probably because she does a bunch of Lord of the Rings art, but it's so pretty! She is also working on illustrations for the Temeraire series (an alternate historical fiction series which takes place during the Napoleonic wars, but with dragons!) which are so beautiful.

You Suck at Photoshop
Most hilarious Photoshop tutorial ever. This guy takes you through all the basics, like merging pictures, cutting out images and sticking them in new pictures, etc., but the examples he uses are quite funny and sometimes irreverent. I like the one where he photoshops the picture of his girlfriend's cat. He adds some extras, like a stain on the carpet, and the cat suffocating in a plastic bag.

They didn't Study
Ok, you may have seen a bunch of these before, but check out the essay on El Nino. (Yes, there should a squiggly over the second n, but I haven't bothered to figure out how to do that on Blogger. Peter, maybe you could enlighten me?)

How I Got a Word in the Oxford English Dictionary
Read it. It's a cool story. And it makes me want to get a word in the OED.

Phonetics
I know. It sounds like a horribly boring website. But there are cool animations and sounds! It's quite interesting to see how your throat opens and your tongue moves when you say certain sounds. I'm a nerd.

The Language Accent Game
I got a less than desirable score the first time I played it. But some accents I got dead on. I really am a nerd.

Allen Smith Quotes
He's a LIS professor. His quotes make me half scared to be going into the profession.

10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
And that's why libraries will never go away. I really think librarians could take over the world. If they wanted to.

If Real Life Were a Musical
You may have seen this, too, but I think it's the best. So creative and awesome.

Well, I hope that someone gets some amount of amusement out of these. I certainly did. But then, as I've said, I'm a nerd.