8/8/08

Here are 8 things I'd rather be doing right now than sitting here at work.

4 Things I could easily be doing:
1. Sleeping in my bed.
2. On a plane to anywhere outside of Utah. Okay, I could more easily be driving out of Utah but whatev.
3. Watching a sappy chick flick.
4. Laying on my bed watching Law and Order: SVU (my new favorite).

4 things that I can fantasize about doing:
1. Getting ready to go to the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing.
2. Laying out at the beach in Hawaii.
3. Riding Splash Mountain at Disneyland.
4. Enjoying myself on an African Safari.

You won't believe what I'm about to say...

If you know me at all or have read this blog you will know that I LOVE this guy:

If you know me at all, have read this blog, or have even brought up NBA basketball to me in a passing conversation, you will know that I absolutely depise this guy:

And now they are teammates:

Which means that I'm now being forced to cheer for Kobe. It pains me to say it, let alone do it, but I guess it's a must. Of course I want Deron to do well. And if that means throwing alleyoops to Kobe-freaking-Bryant, then I guess I have to do it.

I don't like it at all. Not one bit.

Blogging

I'm not very good at it, let's be honest. I haven't updated in over a month and I'm not sure I really have anything exciting to blog about now. I wonder if I should just give it up. I probably won't, but I need some ideas on what is blogworthy as it seems nothing in my life is right now. I'm getting a new camera some time this week so hopefully I can start taking lots of pictures of all the exciting things (nothing) going on in my life!

The Good Life

I went to the Kanye West concert the other night. So much fun. Ran into Zac Efron there. We had a moment. He was with his High School Musical posse though so it didn't last too long. They're all so cute...not. Kanye was great. Rihanna performed as well and I now have a girl-crush on her. I also formed a new love for Lupe Fiasco. So worth the money.

I am totally loving this song right now.

2 of my faves together...Chris Martin and Kanye!

My Summer Can Officially Begin

I love this show. It makes my summer every year and will hopefully continue to do that this year. Who am I kidding? I have no doubt that it will do just that!

The Plan

One of my biggest pet peeves is when hot guys date ugly girls. Okay, that's a lie. It doesn't usually affect me, unless I have a crush on them. Then it's hella annoying. Especially if I would be more than willing to give up all my standards and date them too, even though they could very well be a big, fat loser. Case and point: Quincy and LaNasty*. Quincy is an attractve guy who I could almost guarantee get any girl in Provo. He was a well known athlete around here and has now moved on to bigger and better things, aka, more money. His girlfriend, LaNasty, is exactly how you would picture someone with the nickname "LaNasty". She's fugly. And I'm not just saying that. I admit that sometimes I've said that about girls who really aren't that ugly and basically said it to make myself feel better. But that is not the case. LaNasty is not cute. Not even a little bit. One time I even saw her wearing hot pink tapered jeans. Really?? That has never been acceptable. Not even in the 80's! So this is The Plan - I need to break that shiz up! Seriously. The question is how. Any ideas/suggestions/info(if you've figured out who Quincy and LaNasty are) would be very much appreciated. The world would be a much prettier/better place. Trust me.

PS. I know I'm a creep.



*Names have been changed.

Textually Active

Texting is not my favorite thing to do. I do it though, probably more than I should. It seems that I have all these texting relationships with people that I'm not that great of friends with, although we have met and hung out (none of them are strange creeps I've never met). A few of them don't live near me and it makes me wonder if they even lived in the same state, what sort of friendship/relationship we would have. As in, would we even hang out? Would we even talk to each other? Would we maybe even like each other? It's just weird and I need to stop the texting. Verizon knows it is costing me a fortune.

No Guts, No Glory.

I don't think anyone fully understands my love for this man.

As in it really is too bad he has kids because the whole marriage thing wouldn't be enough to stop me! Okay, that's a joke. Kindof.

My New Favorite Show

This show is basically amazing. Deion is ridiculous but I love it. And their kids are so cute, it's not even funny. Watch it.

Goodness

In February of 2006 I attended the best concert I've ever been to. My sister and I drove down to Las Vegas with my dad to see Coldplay at the MGM Grand. We had a great time and Chris Martin and co. put on a fantastic show. I've been waiting and waiting for Coldplay to go on another U.S. Tour and the other day I opened up my Coldplay E-newsletter to see that they had announced their U.S. Tour dates. I got all excited and figured I'd be able to see them in Vegas again. As I scrolled through the tour dates, I came to the very last one and literally rejoiced out loud when I saw that they are stopping in Salt Lake City! It's their last tour date on November 22. I'm so freakin' excited! Coldplay just makes me happy. I'm going to try and see them in Vegas as well and make a weekend out of that trip since it falls on the weekend after my birthday. Hopefully it all works out!!

Here's a few pics from when Kelli and I saw them a few years ago:

Kelli and I anxiously waiting for the concert to start.

Chris Martin, doin' his thang. ;)

Kelli and I after the concert.

My Church-Going Thoughts

So yesterday was my first day back in a real single's ward since Fall 2006. It was interesting, to say the least. Here are some of my thoughts on the whole experience:

• 9 AM church sucks.
• Having church in a place where the BYU Men's Volleyball team plays is weird.
• For some reason my ward felt the need to split the Relief Society and Elder's Quorum into 2 different groups. I don't get it and I don't like it. Our lesson in RS was about unity and including people and I'm not sure having 2 separate groups builds any sort of unity in a ward.
• I've always felt that Sacrament meeting was supposed to be, you know, sort of a reverent meeting. But there's something about being in the room with mirrors covering the walls, with sayings like "Practice like Champions" hanging behind the Bishop, and where the Cougarettes practice that seems to kind of take the spirit away.
• There's a certain BYU football player in my ward who's pretty great. Ask me in about 3 weeks and I'll probably be able to inform you that we're dating. I always knew I was meant to be an NFL wife.
• One of my pet peeves is when people crack/smack/pop/or chew gum like a cow. In fact, I could probably dedicate an entire blog to how much it bugs me. If you're gonna chew gum in church, that's fine, but don't chew it so loudly or pop bubbles during the Sacrament!
• Yesterday was the first time I've attended a single's ward for the first time and not cared one bit about looking good/impressing anyone. It was a great feeling. It may or may not have had something to do with the fact that I had to wake up at the butt crack of dawn so there was hardly any time to care.
• We were able to make some friends in the ward who like the Jazz and we've already planned a party to watch the game Wednesday night.
• Rugby players love Mele. :)
• There was a cute boy in my ward and I could maybe see myself liking him. That's a huge MAYBE. Two major problems though: He doesn't watch TV and he's short.

Overall, I have a good feeling about this ward. I want to get more involved and go to activities this time around because I've never really done that with any of the single's wards I've been in. I think that would be good for me. Here's to me waking up in time to actually make it there for the whole summer!

I Suck

So I never blogged about my trip to Key West back in February. Oopsie. I really wanted to and have basically written up about 75% of the post already, I just never got around to finishing it so it's just sitting in my list of posts, waiting for me to click that "Publish Post" button. Just so you know, I fully plan on posting it, even though it's been close to 3 months since I got home. It was a good time and I want to be able to remember it!

Movin' Out

So yesterday I moved into my new apartment. I'm not completely moved in but I'm getting there. I hate the whole moving process. I haven't done it since I moved to and from Key West last year when I had to pack everything into 2 suitcases. That was hard! I met my roommates and luckily they seem pretty cool. We haven't really had a conversation longer than 2 minutes though so we'll see. We've all just been unpacking though so we've all basically been confined to our rooms. We each have our own room so that is going to be way nice. I need some decorations for my room though. It's so bare! I even whipped out the old posters that Kristine and I purchased during our good times as roommates. I don't know that I'll put any of them up, but take a look at my poll and tell me which one you think I should put up, if I decide to do so! My personal choice is Adam Brody (the poster I stole from my klepto roommate a few years ago) because he's a dream boat!

Summa Lovin'

So if you've noticed my new poll then you've probably gathered that I'm moving out on Monday. I am so freakin' excited, it's not even funny. I've been living at home ever since I got back from Key West and seriously, it's time. Time to leave my room downstairs and never come back. Well, that's the plan anyway. We'll see how it goes. I've been thinking of some plans/goals for myself to do this summer. Here are a few of them:

• Eat lots and lots of Otter Pops.
• Catch up on LOST. I'm SO behind.
• Lay out 3 times a week.
• Go on lots of road trips where I only spend $20 total.
• Get in shape for the possible trip to Havasupai (Still not a sure thing though, Tawn)
• Take lots and lots of pictures.
• Watch a lot of TV.
• July 11th = Thunder from Down Under.
• Sleep a lot.
• Learn how to cook at least one thing.
• Relive my childhood memories at Disneyland.
• Go to sleep before midnight at least once a week. HA!
• SYTYCD.
• See option 3 on my poll.

Clearly, my plans have AWESOME written all over them and clearly, my priorities are in the right spot. My summer is going to be frickin' awesome. And to think that this is just a smidgen of what I have planned for myself! If anyone is interested in joining me for ANY of these activities, please, don't hesitate to call. ;)

Just another Saturday night in Provo...

One thing that some of my friends and I like to do is go out dancing. Something that I think is normal for single, 21 year old girls to enjoy doing(yeah, I get that this is Provo and we should probably be trying to find a husband or something but I'm over that whole idea). The dancing scene in Provo isn't the greatest but we always try to make it the best we can. Personally, I just enjoy dancing with my girlfriends and don't really care to go and impress any of the guys there. Frankly, I hope that my future husband isn't spending his Saturday nights on Center Street in Provo, dancing with girls who wear clothes that they shouldn't. So needless to say, I'm not going with the idea in my head that I'm going to meet my future spouse or anything, I'm just going for a good time. Last night, we thought about going, but decided against it once we got there because we didn't want to pay for something we knew probably wouldn't be worth the money anyway. So we just chilled outside for a bit talking to some friends that we saw there. At one point, some sort of fight broke out inside and all the "security guards" had to attend to that. So a few of us just walked inside the door to see what was going on/try and get in without having to pay. In all honesty, I don't think we would have stayed longer than 5 minutes anyway but we didn't even have the chance to decide that ourselves before one of the security guards on some power trip randomly yelled specifically at us to "GET OUT!!!". I just pretended like I didn't see him and walked out the door. No later than 3 minutes after that the security guard hunted us down in the crowd of people outside and yelled at us again. This time he told us to "NEVER COME BACK!" Huh? I was so confused. I didn't understand why he'd felt the need to search us out and yell at us, 3 girls who hadn't gone out of our way to do anything to him. When he'd "asked" us to leave the building, we'd left without even a word yet he still felt like he needed to scream at us to never come back again. I mean, really? Really?? Well guess what. We weren't planning on coming back anyway cuz they are LAME. If it wasn't for 16 year old hookers and a bunch of creeps you wouldn't have your minimum wage paying job anyway! Thanks to Mele, we were able to get that message across to at least some of the people there, even if the ugly security guard didn't hear it all. :)

An open letter to the Utah Jazz

Dear Utah Jazz,

On the eve of the playoffs and the wake of another disturbing performance on the road the other night I just want to say, if you don't beat the Rockets in the first round, the Davies household will be a very, very unhappy place and trust me, my family will hate you for losing more than I will. Don't do it.

Regards,
Tara Davies

PS. Kyle, this is grounds for breaking up. You're lucky I'm a forgiving person...

What ARE you doing? Whatever it is, it's definitely not defense and it would be in your best interest to NEVER DO IT AGAIN. Thank you and see you tonight. ;)

Weekly Poll

A few of my friends have started to include polls on their blogs. I decided to add that element to my blog as well. Check out my first poll about a weekly poll in the right corner. (Oh and sorry about the hell word. That's just the type of enthusiasm I want you to have about the polls!;) Just kidding.) I already know that not a lot of people read this blog, which is fine so in all honesty, I only expect a few votes each time but whatev. It gives me something else to do with this blog. Feel free to participate in the poll whenever you please!

Not tagged. Just bored.

Twenty years ago I...
1) was beginning a life-long friendship with McKensie Mulliner
2) was being spoiled by Wacko Grandma (being the first-born grandchild definitely has it's perks!)
3) was 1. I wasn't doing a lot.

Ten years ago I...
1) was getting over my 4 year crush on A.O. and continuing my 3 year crush on B.S.
2) was one of the taller girls in the 6th grade. Pretty sure that only lasted about 1 more year before everyone around me continued to grow while I stayed the same height.
3) was lusting after Bryon Russell and loving the Jazz just as much as I do today. Maybe even more since they were making to the Finals and all that good stuff.

Five years ago I...
1) was playing high school basketball. I know, weird to think I actually played sports at one time.
2) was not doing homework and sluffing school a lot...things haven't changed too much. :)
3) wore an ugly dress to my Junior Prom.

Three years ago I...
1) was dating a short guy who took my VL and wanted to marry me.
2) was at my second semester at BYU and not really loving it.
3) rekindled my love for the best show ever, Felicity.

One year ago I...
1) was living on a tropical island and having the time of my life.
2) didn't surprise anyone when I told them I was making out with a black guy. ;) Oh and he was my boyfriend.
3) was showcasing color-changing tee's to drunken, white-trash slobs.

So far this year I have...
1) traveled back to Key West and almost didn't return.
2) not cried once.
3) been very sleep deprived.

Yesterday I...
1) woke up at 4 to take Lou to the airport.
2) had a phone conversation with someone and can't recall one thing that was said. I don't even remember saying hello.
3) watched Memphis ruin my life by playing like they've never shot a free throw in their lives. WTF. I could've used that money, dang it!

Today I...
1) have been at work since what feels like the butt-crack of dawn...even though it was actually only 9.
2) ate a Double Cheeseburger from McDonald's that was pure luxury.
3) will go home and watch the Jazz beat on stupid New Orleans. Here's hoping anyway.

Tomorrow I will...
1) go to school, I guess.
2) probably watch American Idol.
3) take a test that I will have not studied for.

In the next year I will...
1) watch Andy Roddick play in one tennis match before I lose interest in him due to his recent engagement.
2) travel somewhere that is totally fab and get a killer tan.
3) find my EC at "Marriage Cove". HA! Kidding.

Cradle Robber?

I know I said I like 'em young in my last post and this may be pushing it a little seeing as David Archuleta is 17 years old but good heck, this guy can sing!



Okay, I don't really have a crush on him but seriously, he's good. I could listen to him sing over and over and between you and me, that might not be a far stretch from reality. :)

Thank you People.com

In the wake of this recent tragic news I've decided it's time for me to come out and attest to the fact that THIS is actually true. I can attest to this simply because Chris and I are actually dating. Yes, I like 'em young.