Tuesdays with Muerte

I've been obsessed with BOSE® Headphones for years now. BOSE have always been the highest quality (and most expensive) pair of headphones on the market. When I listen through them, I can FEEL the music better. I have owned two pair; both "Triports". The first was Bose® around-ear headphones . After 2 years, the male end of the cord broke so I bought a pair of Bose® on-ear headphones which I returned shortly because they were far less comfortable. The sales people were great about the whole thing. Excellent customer service. Read the story here . But now, I beginning to realize my elitist ways are not necessarily cohesive with my current cash flow situation. And this realization is causing me to question my material values. Mac computers really aren't "better" than PCs. And BOSE products don't really reign supreme in the music listening world. There are plenty of headphones that produce excellent quality sound and are literally small f...

My scavenger hunting party consisted of Bethany, Kristin, Coutney and Nishelle. We got points by taking a picture of: a convertible (extra points for taking the pic from the inside.) a reflection looking lost in a big field jumping together the group at a police station inside a police car in front of a Provo sign Making fun of BYU

Some friends and I found this delorean parked right outside the Applebees in the Mall where Back to the Future was filmed. (Road burn flames not included.) ---------------- Listening to: Weezer - Hold Me

20. The Power-Suit Family Portrait 19. The Bollywood Family Photo 18. Maggie Gyllenhaal's Great-Granparents' Family Photo 17. The Ritz Family Portrait 16. The Non-Creative Family Portrait 15. Wes Anderson's Family Portrait 14. Example-of-the-Photographer's-Poor-Sense-of-Perspective Family Portrait 13. The Alzheimers Family Photo 12. Dad, Please-Close-Your-Legs Family Photo 11. The Overly-Patriotic Family Photo 10. The Dog-Lovers' Family Photo 9. Simply Awkward 8. The 90s Hair Family Portrait 7. The Yawning Family Portrait (WAIT! Isn't this the family from #9?!) 6. Who-wears-the-pants-in-the-family portrait 5. One-Two-Thre. . .wait! Dad?! Wut r u Doing? 4. Not-quite-on-the-lap Family Photo 3. The Awkward Finger-Touch Family Photo 2. The Shop-Him-[But-More-Probably-Her]-In-Later Family Photo [Edited for content] 1. Matching, Fuzzy, Nude Suits Family Photo (not p...

How to evade getting traffic tickets I have a friend who's been pulled over more than ten times. She says that all the Utah PO-lice she has encountered have been jerks; self-absorbed, stoic, and sweetly-disrespectful. The last time I was pulled over , I tried to make the situation less foreboding by stepping out of my car with my hands in the air. The officer didn't show any signs of amusement, but in the end, he let me off with a warning for making a protected right turn from a "non-protected" lane. I attribute my not-getting-a-ticket to changing things up on the cop/thrown' him a curveball. My hypothesis is that many police officers are so sick of the same old routine that if you do something to respectfully shake them out of it, they might just let you off the hook. (If you can't think of anything creative in time, be sure to remember to take your key out of the ignition and put it on your dashboard. That, in and of itself, is a unique thing that ...

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When I was 4, I wet the bed.  Keeping my pants dry was just not a priority for me back then.  To motivate me, my parents bribed me with a Star Wars action figure every week I didn't wet myself.  I LOVED Star Wars action figures!  Somehow I managed to aquire almost a year's worth of action figures.  I can't remember if I strung my parents along by going 3 weeks dry and then slipping up one week just to keep the Star Wars goodness flowing; I probably wasn't that smart.  My parents probably just wanted to support the HOURS I would spend in the backyards playing out battle scenarios. You can imagine my elation when I found this terrific Star Wars action figure Squirrel art on the internet this week!

May 13, 2009 -- KSL.com Provo police are investigating a bizarre incident this week: a van parked in a residential neighborhood with a sign on it, reading: “free candy inside.” It turns out, police believe the sign was harmless. But for neighbors who live in Provo’s Grandview neighborhood, it raised serious concerns with them that a child predator could be targeting kids on the street. The white van was parked on a neighborhood street in front of a home. No one on the street knew who the van belonged to, and the neighbors were worried about the sign posted in the back window. Adults looked inside and did not see any candy, but they did see a mattress and some clothes in the back of the van. Police were called to investigate. Officers tracked down the van’s owner, who is a college age student. He told officers he put up the sign a few days ago as part of a prank with his friends.

10. 15 mins. @ 350˚ 9. This guy has spent a little too long in the family history lab 8. Very Tricky; clever girl 7. Choose The Right, Sucka 6. Sir Mix-a-lot is LDS Source:   BYU Divine Comedy Website

University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was tasered and arrested after causing a disturbance at a town hall forum, which featured Senator John Kerry, at the UF Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2007. Meyer claimed he simply wanted answers to his questions, but his true purpose was clear—he wanted to get tasered: He brought a camera to capture "what would happen". He had friend film it for him. He was clearly there to be heard and not to hear. He disobeyed forum rules and would not sit down when directed. He talked to the crowd. He made statements like "Is anybody watching this?" He wouldn't listen to the officers' instructions. He tried to make his way back to Senator Kerry's stage waving his arms like a wild man. He coaxed the arresting officers into going through with their threat of tasing him using verbal, reverse psychology. He screamed over-dramatically after being tased to make a show of it. Watch the video to see how he provokes one o...

1. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. -Jill Bennett 3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. -Dorothy Canfield Fisher 4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir 5. Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. -Unknown 6. As is the mother, so is her daughter. -Ezekiel 16:4 7. Men are what their mothers made them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson 8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. -Harriet Beecher Stowe 9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves. -Henry Ward Beecher 10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiv...

I wrote my Mom her own post on my family's private blog, because, well, it's private. But I will tell her again that I love and appreciate her and that I'm so she's my mom because every mother deserves to her those words far more often than they actually do; especially mine. p.s. I'm really sorry for not calling for 2 months. Since I won't be able to be with my Mom in Ohio on Mother's Day, I will go ahead and visit my aunt and her family in Centerville, UT. My Aunt Charlene is an amazing; she's beautiful, she's sweet and giving. She gave me a terrific gift last time I visited -- a tupperware of her famous strawberry freezer jam. This is actually three gifts in one: 1. The incredible jam! (I bought a extra loaf of super-nice bread that week just for the jam.) 2. The tupperware. I use that little container thing SO MUCH! 3. A terrific date idea. I still haven't made strawberry preserves with anyone, but I think it is a winner for a...

If there is one message I wish to promote this Summer for our Carriage Cove 167th Ward Elder's quorum, it is the following quote by President Hinckley: "I would like to suggest to you that you ‘grab life by the horns’ and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. … Do not let life control you. … Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you." ~ Ensign, June 2003, 74–75. In seeking a motto to summarize this sentiment, I discovered what I sought in an unexpected place—a quote from the Disney/Pixar film, Meet the Robinsons.  " Keep Moving Forward " Will be our rallying cry.  ( If you haven't seen the movie, I won't spoil it. Just let me say, watch it. It's smart and hilarious. My favorite part was the Tom Seleck joke.) The villain is basically Satan It's funny how answers will jump out at you from the most random places when you are prayerfully seeking them. I sat down to the movie having been searchin...