Tuesday, June 3, 2008
* I am officially Kelly McGillis *
It's almost been a week since my last update, so instead of getting ploughed in to the work I have to do I've decided to update my life. Oh yes.
The thing I love about being on holiday in America and knowing so many people is that I suddenly become integrated into a way of life. Rather than just being a tourist. It's brilliant.
I've been seeing my old 'haunts' and 'stomping grounds' and pinning for the days that I was apparantely the happiest. The two months I spent here before, although there were ups and downs, were, in fact, possibly the happiest and best 2 months I had every experienced.
So being back just makes me miss something I can never have back or do again. I'm sad that it was all nipped in the bud before it had time to flourish. Maybe in the future we will see what that seed would have grown in to but right now, it's pretty much gone.
Last Wednesday Chris Daines drove from Provo so I could have lunch with him and some of his friends. It was such a good day because we ended up in the mountains at Sundance and mount Timpinogos. I love mountains, and trees, and being outside. It just makes me so happy. I hope I have the chance to explore those mountains more fully in the next two weeks.
That evening I witnessed my very first softball game (I've been to three others since then) which took my by surprise. Sporting events in Britain are pretty much empty fields that people go play on if they want to. This was ORGANISED. I've seen nothing like it. Proper baseball fields, score keepers, bleachers. It was impressive and exactly like something straight from a movie.
After the game I was hanging out with Pedro and his many fraternity friends. So good. There was ice cream, driving, scooters, and a lot of lactose invovled. And the most amazing man who had a genuine old original copy of Mein Kampf. In German. AMAZING. It was there that I accidently spilled my strange admiration for Hitler, and it seems I'm about to do it again. I do not agree that he killed millions of people. I hate that, I don't endorse that at all, and I think his ideals of ayrians and hatred towards the Jews was completely unnecessary. I also believe that if he was allowed to go to Art School none of this would have happened.
But I also like the fact that the man had a dream (although it was psychotic and disgusting) and he did everything in his power to make it come to fruition.
I also find it interesting that given his creative and artistic background that he was able to accomplish so much in the face of the politicians that would have had more of a traditional and academic orientation to their jobs. Is there something in that? Is my theory of creatives running the world actually true. I honestly believe that if artists and creatives were in power the world would be a much better place.
Anyway.
Thursday was spent cleaning BrettEr icksen's bedroom. Oh yes. I was roped in.com. I helped him hang guitars and pretty much hang his clothes haha. It was actually strangely fun though. The best part about it though was that the first thing we did was go to a hardware shop to buy hooks and raw plugs. How many people can have too much doing that? Just me I think. I love going to places like B & Q and smelling the wood and having the desire to drill things and make things. Although I can't make anything, and I would end up cutting the plug off my phone charger because in my head I believe I can fix it. Which I did yesterday by the way. Idiot.
Thursday was also filled with two more softball games, which were amazing, and then Friday was all about the water.
I went swimming, and here come the stats... if I can remember.
200 yds front
200 yds breast
100 yds back
100 yds one armed fly
200 yds front kick only
200 yds breast kcik only
100 yds back kick only
100 yds front kick only
200 yds front w/ paddles
200 yds breast w/ paddles
100 yds back w/ paddles
100 yds one armed fly w/ paddles
100 yds front
100 yds breast
100 yds back
100 yds one armed fly
100 yds breast
100 yds front
100 yds swim down
Total: 2500 yds = 2290 meters.
After swimming I went to the temple, and then headed down to the gateway to rip Urban Outfitters apart. I then sat and watched the little kids run in and out of the water fountain at the gateway, which was truley bizzare. People even brought picnics. Brett has been calling it the white trash water park Pah HA.
Amazing.
I then went to see the Queers and OH MY GOSH I almost flipped out. They were incredible. I want to go to another punk show pretty much immediately. I have a new appreciation for punks that had been quashed before now. I was actually at the front with my stomache pressed against the stage standing at the foot of the bassist (basser for Richy's benefit) and it was incredible. The Queers were wonderful. The four bands that preceeded them were also incredible and all in all it was one of the best shows I've ever witnessed.
Brett was a total gem.5 and came to pick me up afterwards, which was so lucky because there were tonnes of creepy people outside that I was convinced had guns and I had decided they wanted to shoot and rape me. They were that creepy. Before the creepiness though I met some random people that had been at the show and they were so nice. I have one of their numbers now, I should really go make more friends in the Utah :)
You see where I'm coming from? You come once and make friends, then come again and make more friends, then you make more.
PAH.
Saturday, I was working on some shizz for Ruf' then I met up with Kyle and we drank hot chocolate in the sun. That is my Saturday night. I love hot chocolate from Starbucks on a Saturday. It makes me pleased. We then took some time to drive through the mountains. Oddly enough through my favourite part of the moutains. well where I would end up going myself when I was here before.
Sunday was mega, it was all about the church and motorbikes. Brett-a-licious has this amazing black bike that I now officially in love with. If anyone actually knows me they will know how much i love Top Gun and Tom Cruise. Specifically the part with the motorbike and car chase through Oceanside. Amazing. We were hanging out with brett's amigo CJ as well, an awesome guy with a fawn coloured beard :)
We went to this amazing wee apartment where i met two of the nicest girls ever. I think i was surprised because it was Utah and they were nice. I know, what's going on there?
Ha.
Amazing though.
Then at icksen's parental's gaff we had el barbeque and played Shanghai. I suck profusely at that game. I am so good at Gin Rummy, switch, anything... but Shanghai. No. I suck. So sad. One day though, i will be the master.
We totally went on a night ride on the bike as well. Seriously. Loving it, where we actually ran out of petrol and the bike came to an utter stop pah ha. There was a reserve tank so we didn't have to push it or anything, but that would have been a story and a half. After filling up the bike and getting attacked by random bugs, we pitched up at Stu's girl's house and watched the last 3 minutes of Indiana Jones, with my beloved Sean Connery. Oh yes.
And that was pretty much Sunday ;) ;) ;) mmmhmmmmm. Give or take a few other things that I might blog about in a private blog... sorry guys :)
And then there was yesterday. A day of work, and sitting in the mac store attempting to have my mac fixed although it was never broken, aparantly. Hmmm. So at least that is kind of good. No more money and it means I might be able to sell it for quite the packet. yes, GASP the 17inch mac Daddy might have to go. It's just so slow in comparisson to the intel macs, and I should shift it before it looses all value. i will be sad. But I will love the new one as much as the old the one. And the old one will find a good home I'm sure.
Long live the 17inch Mac Daddy.
I also found the B-boy at the Mac store and proceeded to ride on the back of his bike, sans helmet, with a pair of sunglasses that were, moments later, ripped form my face with the speed of the wind. Amazing though. I will miss those oversized glasses but I'm over it. There can be no better way to loose glasses. I honestly wonder where they ended up though. I hope they didn't crack someone's windscreen. Eep.
The night was filled with yet another Softball game, which was amazing, and then a random movie with Big Bob Redford in it, which left me kind of confused, but I was fine with that, and then some watching of the Youtube videos. Youtube is an interesting form of entertainment.
more often than not I have found myself in social situations at home and abroad, where Youtube has become the entertainer and main feature. I wonder how that will progress, and what that actually means.
So good though. So good.
I pretty much slept in today and I have some work to do before I meet Marcus and go shop shop shopping.
I can't believe i've almost been here for a week.
I love it here. I really do.
I also am suffering from some crazy cramps today, but yet again the universe makes sense. this happens all the time. I have a miserable week i think my life is coming to an end and then the cramps appear with their friend Aunt Flo and then the universe makes sense once again. Irrationality suddenly becomes explained.
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