Joey and Janice's Day of Fun...s!!!!

So...I'm poor. Poorer than I was when I came into this world. Thus, for Christmas I decided to give the gift of time. I spent an evening each with Mum & Dad, Julie & Jana, and Dan & Grandma, with a twelve dollar spending limit each night. It was, if I say so myself, quite ballin'. Here's a recap of our Joey and Janice's Day of Fun...s!!

Evening the First:
I went with Mum and Dad to the Salt Lake City Library to explore. We spent most of our time in the basement in the children's collection and found some great international kids books, most notably the German favorite "Vom Kleinen Maulwurf, Der Wissen Wollte, Wer Ihm Auf Den Kopf Gemacht Hat" (The Little Mole Who Wanted to Know Who Pooped On His Head). We curled up on a LoveSac and I read/translated. Truly, this was quite the literary moment.

Other highlights include three-tiered fireplaces, being mistaken for a teenager, and shakes at Hires afterwards.

Evening the Second:
I went to Ikea with Jana and helped pick out some stellar window treatments and light fixtures for her condo. We picked up some treats and a movie and went home to lounge about with Julie. We took some pics of us lookin' reeeeaal good. Here's a sample:

We are real good looking. We know.

Evening the Third:
I picked up some Del Taco and met Dan at Grandma's. We ate, watched a basketball game, and pulled out the cards for a killer game of Old Maid.

We're also real good at Slap Jack, Connect Four, and Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Joey and Janice's Day of Fun...s were a hit, if I say so myself. Thanks for playing, kids!

Mosaic

Here's Lauren in photo-mosaic form, a'la Flickr:



1. Shelby. And Lauren. We like the latter., 2. Leda, 3. Untitled, 4. Are You Looking At Me ???, 5. A little fight in you. I like that., 6. ready for limeade, 7. Green velvet, 8. McCormick Pumpkin Pie Spice Tin, 9. Professor_Mom, 10. The Earth is God's Canvas., 11. Enjoy summer (and beer), 12. Lou Reed

If you want to play, here's how:

Type your answer to each of the questions below into a Flickr search. Using only the first page, choose your favorite image, then copy and paste each of the URL’s into the mosaic maker (3 columns, 4 rows). Leave me a comment if you do it, so I can check it out!

The questions:

1. what is your first name? (Lauren)
2. what is your favorite food? (bread)
3. what high school did you attend? (Hillcrest)
4. what is your favorite color? (brown)
5. who is your celebrity crush? (Christian Bale)
6. favorite drink? (limeade)
7. dream vacation? (Switzerland--and the pic is from Montreux!))
8. favorite dessert? (pumpkin pie)
9. what do you want to be when you grow up? (professor-mom)
10. what do you love most in life? (joy)
11. one word to describe you. (fun)
12. your flickr name. (laurielou29--nothing showed up so i searched laurie lou)

Lesson Learned, Tough stuff.

I'm a genius. Things that don't look like they'll fit into slots in your computer probably will not fit into said slots and should not be forced in anyway. Lesson learned. The computer is fine. The brand new 4gb memory stick, however, is not. This means that all the pics on it are...gone. Gone gone gone. Gone are the hopes of new Facebook albums, and illustrated blog posts detailing winter break fun. Gone are the videos of my attempts at hip-hop immortality (this is actually a very shiny silver lining...)
It could be worse. The pictures/videos on now-defunct memory stick are actually very small in number and fall into three categories: 1)Joey and Janice's Day of Fun...s, 2)Roadtrip with the ickle Dannykins back to California, including a pit-stop in St. George to see my favorite sister missionary, and 3)January 19 Beach Trip of Sunshiny Goodness with Hannah and aforementioned ickle Dannykins.
What's that? You can only imagine how spectacular these pictures and their accompanying stories were? You want nothing more than to get a taste of what was lost, no matter how pathetic the attempt to recreate such memories? Fear not, huddled masses. I understand.
Coming soon: Pathetic Attempts at Re(-)creation...