Nacho's for Breakfast

My thought process this morning as I lay in bed...

Tummy: Mmmm..... breakfast.....
Intellect: Hmm. Breakfast. Pancakes? No.... no oats. Omlet? No... I was going to make eggs for lunch.
Tummy: Naaacchhhooooosssss............
Intellect: Nachos? What are you on?
Tummy: Nachos!
Intellect: Well I do have extra fajita stuff from last night I could do a type of breakfast burrito with hashbrowns and ....
Tummy: Nachos!
Intellect: No! No Nachos for you! The fake nacho cheese is reserved for PMS days when all you want is junk!
Tummy:.......please?!
Intellect: No! You'll won't be able to move for the rest of the day!
Tummy: Nachos.
Intellect: Ok.

Holi!!!

Hari Krishna.... Hari Krishna... Krishna, Krishna... Hari, Hari...
Hari Rama... Hari Rama... Rama, Rama...... Hari, Hari...

Driving from Provo to Spanish Fork the scenery is not that exciting. Small towns. Cows. Fields. Sage brush. But then, after about 45 minutes into the drive, you look out your right hand window and what do you see? A huge Indian palace sitting on a hill among the dirt and sage brush. It's really surreal.

In this case the temple and the lawn were covered to capacity with thousands of people, mostly BYU students, gathered to celebrate one of the most anticipated holidays of the spring. Holi, the Hindu spring festival.

We got there way early. Early enough to get a real parking spot in the real parking lot! (Cars line the highway for miles.... I walked 45 minutes last year) After buying 7 bags of chalk and feeding the llamas we sat down to watch the performers who performed all types of dance from India and the surrounding countries. Way cool for me.... not so cool for the girls in my ward I was there with.

Next was the main event- the burning of the witch effigy and the color throwing! the first few minutes it's impossible to see 10 feet in front of you, or to even breath correctly. (I'm in the cloud below)

But soon the color settled and the real party started. I worked my way up into the mosh pit and soon ran into (quite literally) other friends from my ward. We did our best not to get trampled as we watched the crowd surfers.

Me: I've never been crowd surfing.
Girls: You want to try it?
Me: Ummmm....... I'm not so sure.
Girls: You should.
Me: Ok.

I'm not so easily convinced in all things... :) But I gave them my color and they lifted my up into the hands of the crowd. I was one of the first girls to go up in a crowd of 85% men so they were careful not to drop me. Unfortunately they wouldn't put me down either. And there was that one who decided to pull my shirt up and show my belly button to the world. But in general it was an experience I would recommend. ;)

When I made it out and had thrown the rest of my color I went up to the temple for some awesome vegetarian food and dancing. And in the little Indian shop under the temple I got ankle bells for classical Indian dance!

It was a good weekend :)

THAT roommate

Yesterday, I overheard one of my roommates talking to her friend about me....

"One of my roommates..."
"Which one?"
"The kind of weird one"
"Oh... THAT roommate."

And I realized I was THAT roommate. You know.... THAT one.

~THAT one who keeps a container of floating tofu in the fridge.
~THAT one who probably voted democrat.
~THAT one who will probably join the Peace Corps after she graduates
~THAT one who listens to all that ethnic music with unintelligible words and even more unintelligible instruments
~THAT one who thinks that the Word of Wisdom actually endorses vegetarianism

~THAT one who shops at DI, not because she can't afford otherwise, but because she thinks buying new clothing is wasteful

~THAT one who rolls sushi for Sunday dinner
~THAT one who prefers to get her groceries by bike
~THAT one who reads poetry, books on eastern religion, and dystopian fiction.
~THAT one who thinks reality TV is trash. In fact the TV would provide more entertainment if she got to throw it in the pool.


Yesterday I realized I was THAT roommate.

I laughed, wholeheartedly congratulated myself, and went back to reading about Tibetan Buddhism and sipping my peppermint tea.

:)

Mmmm.... Mint.....

mint.com = my new favorite site.

I like to budget but I hate having to type in all my transactions, in a certain format, every month....

mint.com automatically downloads all my transactions every night while I sleep.

And I hate having all sorts of yucky spreadsheets with lots of yucky formulas and no pretty colors.

mint.com has pretty colored graphs and large buttons that say "push here"

Because mint.com loves me.

I love you too mint.com

Currently reading: The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Taylor's blog. :)

3 x 5 Cards.....

Move over Relief Society! No floofy, lacy boxes and 3 x 5 cards for me!

http://yummycollegefood.blogspot.com/

Yum.

11 Great Things that Happened this Week

1. Jon taught me how to waltz. And my ballroom shoes didn't give me blisters. :)
2. I rode Lucy, my beach cruiser, for the first time in a few months. :)
3. I finished the Beautiful and Damned. :)
4. I made sushi. :)
5. I got $5 Shade shirts and a dress at the Provo High fundraiser. :)
6. I went star gazing with a whole bunch of astronomy nerds and their telescopes. :)
7. I enjoyed the morning sun in bare feet and shorts (the rest of me was wrapped in a blanket.) :)
8. I went to bed on time. :)
9. I had lunch with Andrew. :)
10. I went to the BYU basketball game and we won. :)
11. I ate 32 GIANT snowflakes. :)
    

Currently reading: The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Secrets of the Heart by Kahlil Gibran

OOO! LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!!!

My folk dance team rented out the tumbling gym in Provo last night and it was so much fun! And I learned to get into a bridge! I had my roommate Becky video it this morning before breakfast. :)

I'm so cool... I'm so cool... I'm so cool...