dear so and so...

I'm not going to pretend that I didn't copy this idea from someone else. I totally did. You'll get over it.

dear facebook privacy change,

i like you. people still can't see my profile but it seems like nobody else has realized they aren't private anymore making my fb stalking much easier.

dear christmas,

i wish i had more money to spend on you for my family this year. regardless, i'm still excited for you.

dear friday night lights,

you make me happy. very happy.

dear creepers,

how do you always manage to find me?

dear self,

stop being so nice to the creepers. you're not helping the situation.

dear utah jazz,

our relationship is on thin ice after that maynor trade. i'm really mad at you right now.

dear girli'venevermetbutjustdon'tlike,

i just don't like you. plain and simple. you bug.

dear jersey shore(the show, not the place),

you're probably the most ridiculous show i've ever watched. but i secretly love you. guido fist pump!

dear snow,

i don't and won't ever like you. and i can't wait to never have to see you again.

dear reggie bush,

you're dating a whore. but i still like you and just looking at your face makes me happy.

dear couples on facebook,

there is a time and a place to express your "feelings" for each other and facebook statuses are not it. please, spare the rest of us.

dear 2010,

i beg you to be better than 2009. thank you.

dear dillon, tx,

if i could pick any town to live in, real or fictional, i would pick you. especially if it came with a legal tim riggins.

dear family and friends,

have a merry christmas and a happy new year! love you all!

Happy Birthday Dad!!

I don't care what any of you think about your own dads. Mine is, hands down, the greatest there ever was! Happy Birthday Dad. I love you so so so much and will be lucky if I find someone even half as great as you are.

PS. This is a REALLY old picture of us but I couldn't find any others of us together. :)

Childhood Dreams

So as you all know, I'm a big Jazz fan. I've been a fan my whole life. It's in my blood. I have specific memories of watching certain games when I was younger and have many memories throughout my years that involve the Jazz.

Of course I loved John and Karl. But my absolute favorite Jazz player growing up was Bryon Russell. I had a HUGE crush on him starting when I was really young. I thought he was soooo hot (and he was). When I started Jr. Jazz, I wore number 3 just because that was Bryon's number. I used to cut out newspaper pictures of him and save them in a little box. It was like my first celebrity crush! It was always a dream of mine to meet him. Well tonight, a good 15 years later, that dream finally came true!!

B-Russ was in town after he called out Michael Jordan to play him 1-on-1. I pretty much figured MJ wouldn't show up but knew Bryon was coming. His twitter told me so. :) There was no way I was going to miss this! Not even this deathly illness I've had for the past week could keep me from going. So I loaded up on the Lortab(bless this pill) and headed over to the Flash game. When I saw Bryon from a distance and it was like the 11 year old girl that cheered for him all those years ago just came right out! I was pretty much giddy.

After the lame halftime show of them trying to fake everyone out with a MJ impersonator was over, he didn't come back out to his seat and I got so sad! Finally, he came back and Mele and I immediately moved closer so we could get a picture. During the 4th quarter he left and got stuck in the tunnel signing autographs for the kids (who probably weren't even alive to know who he was!). After the game we lingered to see if he'd come out and he didn't. Finally we walked over there and he was gone! We were both so disappointed. But I knew there was still a chance. I walked right into that tunnel like I belonged and there we came upon High Flyin' Bryon himself! We walked up to him and asked for a picture and told him we'd loved him since we were five. He was so nice! And seriously still looks so gooood. :) I even tweeted about meeting him and he tweeted back! haha. I think he loved me. Let this be a lesson to never give up on your childhood dreams. ;)

Douche Baggery

I have just got to get something off my chest.

If I ever saw Levi Johnston live and in person, there is no doubt in my mind that I would "junk punch him all up in his man business. And then he would fall to the ground whaling and crying and saying "Whyyyy?". And then I'd look at him and say, "YOU KNOW WHY!'" (Okay, someone name the quote.)

But seriously, he most definitely deserves to be junk punched. Who does this guy think he is anyway?

What has he done to deserve any sort of attention? Knocked up his girlfriend. That's it. That's the only reason he was ever talked about to begin with. Well congrats, ya douche bag. Now go away.

But go away he has not. He is milking this attention for all it's worth. Let me tell you something, Mr. Johnston. Nobody cares who you are. You are a nobody. You are not hot. Posing for Playgirl is not something to be proud of. Do you realize that straight girls don't even look at Playgirl? You're basically showing your goodies (which lets be honest, I doubt anyone really wants to see) for a bunch of gay guys. Seriously, shut up already. If anyone really cares what you think about the Palin's, well then they need to get a life. And it's not like I have any special love for them. But it's pretty apparent that you're basically talking crap about them just for attention. And it's getting old. And if I have to see your ugly face one more time on any sort of entertainment blog, news site, tv channel, etc., I think I may puke.

STFU and GO AWAY! You're a giant tool.

Oh Hey...

Yeah, so I never blog these days. But here's another brain dump...

• I realize my trip to NYC was over 2 months ago. Let me just say this, I had an AMAZING time. I'm obsessed with that place and would move there in a heartbeat if I could ever afford it. One day I will. I'll post about it soon (hopefully?). In the meantime, checkout Tawny's post about our trip.

• Kelli gets married on Friday. So weird! But I'm so excited for her! She is going to be a beautiful bride and the wedding will be gorgeous! Speaking of, I just got back from her bachelorette party. In other words, I just gave my younger sister some hot lingerie and lube. That just ain't right, people. haha. But no, it's going to be an amazing day and I can't wait!

• This past week I went and saw Paranormal Activity. Hands down, scariest movie I've ever seen. And I'm not one to really get scared by movies. I mean, yeah, during the movies I usually curse myself for being there because it causes me intense anxiety waiting for the next thing to pop out at me but I have never been affected by a movie after the fact. But the night we saw Paranormal Activity, Mele and I had to actually share a bed because we were too scared to sleep alone. No random noise in the house will ever be the same again. And that's serious.

• Sometimes people make fun of me because I'm on Twitter, but it has certainly been good to me! This last week we got free Jazz tickets just because we follow the Jazz on there! It was awesome. It was just a pre-season game so there wasn't a ton of people at the game and we totally sat on the 4th row! And, get this, Deron Williams totally waved at us! haha. So what if we yelled at him like a bunch of fan girls? Getting a wave from him was still awesome. :)

• So lately I've been wanting to delete some friends on Facebook. They're actually people I would probably never delete but some of the things they post just makes me want to immediately click the "Remove from friends" button. Not like the stuff is inappropriate or anything because let's be serious, people would probably delete me from their friends for that before I'd would. It's more just stuff I don't ever want to see. And it's just so tempting to click that one button when it's right there!

• Right now it's football season and I'm loving it. But it's the perfect time of year because basketball season is starting up too! BYU football has been sort of a let down this year besides the big win over Oklahoma but I'm looking forward to the college basketball season. And especially for the Jazz. This time though, I'm trying to uninvest myself emotionally before the season starts so I don't get disappointed as easily. Yeah, right. We'll see how that goes!

• I want to take a trip somewhere sunny. Anyone got any good ideas? Whether it be a cruise, back to Key West for a visit, or hell, why not Hawaii? I just want to go on a fun vacation where I can just relax by the beach for a week straight! So I've decided to start putting some money away and saving up. Starting next paycheck... :)

• Last thing...

Listen to this song. I'm totally loving it right now.

I {heart} NY

2 more days until my trip. I really am so excited!! If I can somehow swindle a way into staying there you can bet I'll try. Maybe I'll find some rich Sugar Daddy while I'm out there. ;) If you want some live updates you can follow my Twitter account as I'm sure I'll be tweeting and "twitpic"-ing the whole time. Just try not to get jealous...

* I am shamelessly stealing these pics from the e-mails Tawny keeps sending me about the trip. This one is currently my desktop background at work. :)

I'm Alive

So, I realize it's been a while but you can probably tell by the lack of posts how busy I've been and how much I need to catch up on.... NOT!

More like that's how boring my life has been lately. Yep, this summer has really not been that exciting. Here's a short update though.

• My sister got engaged!! So what if she's only 19, right? That's normal around here! ;) She's going to marry Robbie, who we love, so we're very happy for them. She found a BEAUTIFUL wedding dress last night. Can't wait for the big day.
  

• I will be leaving for here next Wednesday: Yep, I'll be NYC bound with my favorite traveling buddy Tawny! We certainly love our spontaneous trips.

• Tawny e-mailed me a list of things we're going to do while we're there and I keep reading it because I'm so excited! I'm most excited for Central Park(I didn't quite make it there the last time), Broadway shows, and the Yankees/Red Sox game. Well, more like everything.
  

• Which brings me to my next point-- I'm torn on what to wear to the big game! I'm not a huge baseball fan but I love a good rivalry. Tawny is a HUGE Yankees fan but I sorta feel like I should rep the brother who's out in Boston and wear some Red Sox gear. I'm kinda scared though...mostly of Tawny. We'll see. I'm sure I'll be back with a post with LOTS of pictures! :)

• Speaking of Tyler, I miss him! He's doing great out in Boston though and I know he's an awesome missionary.

• My roommates and I found a townhouse in South Provo that I can't wait to move in to. Mostly because I'm sick of my current disgusting apartment. I keep finding bugs in my room and it's grossing me out! It'll be so nice to be somewhere that is actually nice and it's only like 1 minute away from work. So that'll be really convenient.
  

Honestly, that's about all I got right now. Told ya, life isn't too exciting right now. But at least I've got next week to look forward to!

Trip to D.C.

As some of you may know, in March I flew back East and got to visit our Nation's Capital and hang out with my cousins. I had an absolute blast. It was exactly what I needed. Tawny came along and we got to re-live a lot of the memories we created together when we went our Sophomore year of high school with Mr. Miner.

I know I could go into detail about a lot of what we did and I do have a ton of pictures from the trip but mostly, I don't feel like boring you with minor details. Although, I'm not so sure it would be boring, as all my trips are awesome. I'll try and make it as painless as possible for you though. :)

Tawny and I arrived in D.C. at 7:30 am. We then had to take a shuttle to our hotel in Oxon Hill, Maryland. We arrived there safely and found our hotel(which we were only staying in for one night). We were extremely tired and ugly(at least I was -- bangs do NOT travel well) but didn't want to waste any time. We took a quick power nap and headed for the city.

From our hotel, we had to take a bus to the metro station. Neither of us had ever taken the bus before. As in the bus provided for public transportation. We were in for quite the adventure. Little did we realize when we booked our hotel in Oxon Hill that we would be the only white people for like a mile. That's probably a lie, but you get my drift. If you know me at all, you'll know that I didn't mind that one bit! ;) But it did result in a lot of stares when we boarded the bus from well, basically everyone.

That first day was beautiful and we went to all the Smithsonian Museums. Seriously, I loved them. All of them. I know which one was Tawny's favorite and that was the American Indian museum. We tried to figure out what tribe she is from but didn't have much success.

This is a picture of me at the notorious Wok 'N Roll in Chinatown. When we went to DC in high school we ate at this place and decided to try and find it this time when we went back. It was fun to re-live some of the memories we had from our first trip.

Lincoln Memorial

That's the capital behind me.

It felt like we walked for miles and miles. By the end of the trip, my feet were numb. We walked up and down the National Mall, multiple times. We visited all the monuments and memorials. They're all so beautiful. I loved seeing the WWII Memorial (you can see it at the end of the reflection pool behind our heads). It was under construction the first time we went so it was fun to see it all complete.

Typical DC picture, I know. :)

We spent one day in Georgetown and I loved it! It's probably my new favorite place. The building above is on campus at the University. Isn't it so beautiful? Who wouldn't love to go to school in that.

There was a lot of great shopping there and Tawny and I did a lot more walking. But it was worth it. There was a canal that we walked up and down with beautiful houses and buildings lining it.

I fell in love with all the colorful houses in the town. They're so fun!

One thing we really loved when we went in high school was Mt. Vernon. We decided that we wanted to check it out again. We hopped in the car with the trustworthy GPS system (a HUGE thanks to my aunt and uncle for this. It was a life saver!!) and headed off in the direction we thought was Mt. Vernon. We were wrong. The GPS system wasn't, we were. We didn't have an exact address so we stupidly thought we could type in a general one and we got completely lost. We ended up in Middleburg, VA. The drive was actually really, really beautiful so we didn't really mind the detour.

Us in Middleburg, VA.

We finally made it to Mt. Vernon and it was even better than I remembered. We walked the grounds of George Washington's home and it was gorgeous. It's pretty amazing to walk where so much history has taken place.

In George Washington's woods.

We really wanted to be able to visit the Washington, D.C. temple. I wasn't sure we would have time but luckily on Sunday after church (where Tawny bravely wore her jeans), we were able to go walk around the temple grounds. It's my favorite temple and I was so glad we made it there. It is so beautiful!

Washington, D.C. is probably one of my favorite cities. It was such an awesome trip. I only wish there would have been more time to spend with my cousins and aunt and uncle. They were so great and accommodating and we really appreciated that! We did get to drive down through Virginia with them to their home in Chesapeake which was fun. I actually really enjoyed the drive. The country out there is so beautiful and if I ended up out there, I think I'd really love it. There are so many trees and I love that! I can't wait to go back.

Hey Boston, GET READY!

Many of you know that my "little" brother, Tyler, is leaving on his mission this week for Boston, Massachusetts. I am so excited for him. He is going to be an INCREDIBLE missionary. I say "little" because he passed me in height by almost a foot a good 5 years ago.

Ty and Kelli when they were babies. I love them more now than I did then...One time I poked them with forks!! :)

This would be more how I know them now. Us Davies have a great skill -- we can win any Ugliest Face Contest.

Ty and I have always gotten along pretty great. We've always had a common interest in sports. I'll miss being able to text him during or after a game!!

Crazy kid cut himself a mohawk a little while back. I secretly loved it. Haha. Tyler has always had the greatest sense of humor!

Just look how cute he is! One day some girl is going to be very, very lucky!

Tyler, I love you and am going to miss you so much! I don't think it's hit me yet and I'm not looking forward to Wednesday at the MTC. The people of Boston better get ready. Especially The Big 3! :) You're gonna be great!!

Is it Summer Yet?

Summer is just around the corner and I'm getting excited. Here are some things that would make me happy this summer:

• A trip to Disneyland
• A bike. Preferably a Beach Cruiser that I can take on leisurely bike rides whenever I get bored, which in Provo, is often. I like this one:

• A trip to the beach. Or multiple trips. This can be combined with my trip to Disneyland. I'm flexible like that.
• Lots of sunny days
• Tubing down the Provo River. This time with a film crew following to catch all the amazingness that goes on.
• To catch up/re-watch some great TV shows such as Felicity, LOST, ER, etc.
  
• NEW CLOTHES
• A hot, rich boy to keep me company. ;)
• Easy access to a pool
  
• Lots of trips to the movies
• A nice tan
• Weekend vacations away from Provo

My Response

Dear Tawny,

In response to your question, the answer is ABSOLUTELY. I've wanted to go back ever since we had the time of our lives in that lovely city 7 years ago.

My only request is that we please go here:

Thanks for the invite. See you there.

Love,

Tara

PS. And we get to see my adorable new cousins!! Seriously, is it Tuesday yet??

Cougartown

Last Saturday Mele, Brooke, and I woke up bright and early (actually it was still dark) at 6:00 AM and joined all the ZOOBS who'd been camping out for the BYU/Utah basketball game that started at 3. Some people had been camping there since Monday and although we love our Cougs, I much prefer the comfort of my own bed.

We brought tons of blankets, sleeping bags, a propane heater, and I literally had 7 layers of clothing on. It was freezing!

We were all going on 2 hours of sleep so we tried to get as much rest as we could (none) while we waited.

Later some more friends joined us. Conveniently just in time to go into the game...(I'm still waiting for my present that you all owe me). The game was awesome and luckily BYU came out on top so all the waiting was worth it!

Still Sick

Yep, I'm still sick.

Or sick again. The symptoms have totally changed from my last sick post though. I threw up on Sunday and have felt pretty nauseated ever since. It gets real bad sometimes and other times, it's not as bad and I think I'm getting better. I have absolutely no appetite but then I get so hungry I have to eat something. And then I just start to feel sick again. I haven't gone to the doctor or anything because I keep expecting it all to go away! It's pretty miserable though, no doubt about that. I can't even remember the last time I actually felt normal and healthy! I think my body officially hates me.

Eff Provo

This is exactly how I'm feeling right now. Someone get me out of here.

Out of It

Have any of you seen the Youtube video "David After Dentist"? Well that is how I felt most of yesterday. I don't know if it was due to the drugs that I took or because that's how my sickness made me feel but it was certainly an odd feeling all day.

I started feeling sick on Monday night. My body started aching but I wasn't sure if it was just because I'd spent the majority of my long weekend in bed. So I popped a few Ibuprofens and went about my ways. I couldn't sleep that night (something that is becoming more and more familiar) so at about 3 I finally just took some Tylenol PM and was able to fall asleep. I woke up yesterday and felt light headed, achey, and slightly nauseated. This upset me because I had fully planned on going to work and school all day. I made it to work and the feeling got worse and worse. I flinched everytime the phone rang because I just wanted to be in bed. And that's where I headed as soon as I got home. I fell asleep for about 3 1/2 hours and missed all of my classes. When I woke up, it was worse. I took some more medicine and tried to function normally. Easier said than done.

I attempted to go to the basketball game later that night after taking more drugs. Let me tell you, sitting in the student section was a bad idea. I wanted to kill everyone around me with their stupid whistles, yells, and cheering. I mostly just sat there. At one point I got upset about a call and stood up. Bad idea. I about passed right out. Then I continued to boo. Another bad idea. I sat back down. I had absolutely no energy. I decided to try taking some more drugs and get some sugar in me so I walked up the stairs to the concourse. Seriously, by the time I made it to the top, I felt like I had just climbed a huge mountain or something. I was so tired.

We got home at about 11 and I took some Tylenol PM, expecting it to kick in in about 30 minutes and I'd be out cold. I really shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. 12 rolled around and yeah, I felt pretty out of it but I couldn't sleep just yet. I layed in my bed trying to sleep but it just wasn't happening. Then I got the chills. I was so cold. I could not get warm for the life of me! I turned off my fan(which never happens), turned the heat up in the apartment, and added extra blankets but none of it helped! I was feverish and could feel how warm some parts of my body were so I tried to put my hands in those places. Nothing was working. I didn't want to look at the clock because I knew I'd just get pissed. Then I started to cry. I just wanted to sleep! It was the only relief I could get from all the pain and it wasn't happening. I contemplated getting in a warm shower but decided against it. Finally I sat on my floor with my blow dryer in hand and started using the heat to warm up my body. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to leave it on while I slept. So after about 20 minutes of the blow drying, I climbed back in bed. I then looked at the clock. It was 3. I wanted to die. I think I finally fell asleep after about 30 minutes.

Stupid Tylenol PM not working. I woke up today and am feeling the same as I did yesterday. All achey, light headed, feverish, and now my throat hurts. Not to mention it is taking every ounce of energy that I have just to type this out. Mele suggested maybe I have mono. I certainly hope not. I have been getting sick a lot lately but I honestly think that my immune system just doesn't work anymore. Trying to self diagnose I looked up the symptoms for Mono...

Fever? Check
Chills? Check
Sore throat? Check
Swollen glands? Check
Headache and body aches? Check
Lack of energy? Check
Loss of appetite? Check

found at WebMD

But I also feel like all those symptoms could go with the flu, which is what I think I do have. Who knows. All I know is I want to cry, sleep, and die all at the same time. That's how sick I feel.

Pure Awesomeness

Mele: Jumping on the couch, both arms outstretched above her head, high pitched screams
+
Me: Running around the living room, yelling innappropriate things at a certain someone on the television, even adding a leg kick out of joy
=
Funniest night of last week.

I'll give you one guess as to why this all happened.

Spent

How am I supposed to function today going on less than 2 1/2 hours of sleep?

Or should I choose not to function and go home and sleep?

Not going to lie, I'm leaning heavily(and so are my eyes) towards the second.

What to do, what to do...

Gravity

Love this song...



And have for a long time. Her whole album is pretty great.

Viva La Vida

I want to preface this post by saying that I reallly never win anything. I know everyone says that and everyone probably feels that way too, but for me it's true! I mean, as an example, just the other night I was at some dance and this shirt came flying towards me. I stupidly thought some lame guy had gotten too hot and took his shirt off and got rid of it so I just threw it back into the crowd. It wasn't until like 4 seconds later that I realized they were throwing out free t-shirts. I was upset.

Anyway, this post is a little bit overdue but better late than never, right?

So November 22nd, 2008, as some of you know was a very special night for me. It was the night of the Coldplay concert. I've loved them for years and so I was very excited for the concert. Kelli and I saw them a couple years ago in Vegas and we had an absolutely amazing time. I was just hoping that this night would be half as good as the first concert. Boy was I in for a pleasant surprise.

Posing with our new best friends, Marta and Stephanie.

We arrived at the concert early enough to get our souvenirs. We waited in line and Tawny purchased a shirt while the rest of us poor students got some key chains and posters. Tawny immediatly put on her t-shirt and we headed up to our seats in the upper bowl. As we got right outside of our portal, two girls approached me and asked if they could talk to us for a second. I thought sure why not. As we called back to Tawny to come join us, I noticed that these girls were wearing official Viva La Vida tour shirts and they also had British accents. I thought they had to be legit. Stephanie and Marta asked to see our tickets. We handed over our tickets and they said, "Wow, you really paid that much to sit clear up here?" I immediately thought, "Um...yeah. It's freaking Coldplay."

They told us that they worked for the tour and wanted to play a game with us. At first we were a little sketched out but thought, eh, why not. The rules of the game were that all we had to do was give them our tickets, close our eyes, and put our hands out. In exchange they promised that they would put something in our hands that would be better than the tickets we gave them. I thought, well okay. Something in the lower bowl maybe, who knows. We agreed to play and handed over our tickets. Kelli, Tawny, Sarah, and I all closed our eyes and held out our hands. We all made sure to keep our eyes closed tightly so that there wasn't a chance of losing! They placed new tickets in our hands and said that on the count of 3, we could open our eyes and they would tell us where we were sitting. So they counted...1...2...3 "You're sitting on the 2nd row on the floor!!"

We freaked. And I mean freaked. I screamed "NO WAY!!" We all hugged each other, twice, three times. People stared and we screamed some more. We freaked all the way to our 2nd row seats, which just so happened to be right in the center of the stage as well. I honestly couldn't believe that this was happening.
Rocking our new shirts from the 2nd row.

We got to our seats and looked around and this is basically what we saw. Suckers. :) But seriously, it was so surreal. The only thing I could compare it to was if this had happened to me when I was 12 at an 'Nsync concert. I seriously felt like a 12 year old girl again, minus the tears (although I'll be honest, I came close to shedding a tear). Sarah, Kelli and I decided that we needed to remember this night forever so we went out and got our own shirts. If it wasn't for Tawny's purchase to begin with, this wouldn't have happened so we figured we'd donate as much money to the cause as we could.

We texted everyone we knew, updated Facebook statuses, and waited for Chris Martin to come out and make our year. And that he did. They put on an AWESOME performance that I would give anything to re-live.

Here are some pics from the night:

Me and my boyfriend Chris. He's seriously hot.

Yeah, that's how close we were. Yeah that's his happy trail.

Here's some videos as well:

I have another one I wanted to post but will have to do it later.

Back in the Game

I've decided to start blogging again. I realize I have been a terrible blogger for a whlie now and I've decided to change. That's the first step, right? So until I find something to blog about, I'll just post some pics from some things I never wrote about.

Chillin' by the crick in Torrey, Utah.

Hanging out with Chasey!

St. George

I got some bangs!Before the BYU/Utah basketball game.

Oh and only one of the best nights of my life! Coldplay Concert. Which I do plan on dedicating an entire post to. :)