The Next Martha Stewart

So I needed a change of decor in my room. Everything on the walls has been in the same spot for almost a year, which might not sound so bad to some, but I am used to moving to a new place at least once a year. And with moving comes a new palette to put all of my decorations. Recently I have just needed some change. I have been thinking of projects that I could do for a few months now, and bought a few canvases and paint and brushes so I could do some cool painting project. I started, then realized that I am not a painter. Luckily I had only painted on one of the canvases, so they weren't all ruined. But then I just set my supplies aside and forgot about them for awhile. The other day I was in IKEA and in one of their display rooms they had canvases covered in fabric. I CAN DO THAT! No artistic creativity is needed. Just fold some fabric over a canvas...which I had! So I looked through their fabric and couldn't find any that matched my room, so I kept going and came across curtains! And they were perfect and so amazing! I brought them home and made such a cool project with them. Well, I think it is cool, but I made it, so I may be a bit partial. All it consists of is 5 canvases, curtain fabric, and brown paint...and tape because that is the only thing I had to attach the fabric to the canvas. I will skip all the boring details of how I made it and just go straight to the finished product!

T.G.I.......W.

Because that means that it is Farmer's Market day! I have never been to the Sacramento Farmer's Market, but I decided to give it a try. So yesterday I was bored and got the grand idea of looking up local events in Sacramento and see if I wanted to go to any of them. And the Farmer's Market came up. I have been to a few Farmer's Market in my day and I really enjoy walking around to look at what everyone has at their tents. So, I decided that it would be a good activity since I never go anywhere in the city. So today I set out on my adventure to downtown Sacramento...by myself. I have to add in here that I don't do well with directions and finding my way around places that I don't know. So this really was an adventure for me. And I am proud to say that only once did I get on the wrong freeway, and that was on the way home, and it wasn't completely my fault. I was fully aware of the correct freeway entrance, someone just wouldn't let me over, so I had to take the scenic route. Anyways, when I got downtown I was a little nervous about finding a place to park, but luckily found a place just a block away from the market. One cool thing about downtown is that they don't have parking meters, so you don't have to worry if you have quarters or not. But they have little pay "stations" that you can use a credit card at and then it prints out a little sticker that you put in your window. I know that they have these in parking lots and such, but I have never seen them just along the street. I was very excited about these, because I have no quarters. So, I get to the Farmer's Market and it is great! It is so cool that there is just a park on it's own block right in the middle of downtown surrounded by buildings. But in this picture you can't even tell....that is why it is so great!There was everything from blueberries to popcorn, flowers to nuts, almost every fruit and vegetable you could want, herbs....I think you get the point. It was just so much fun to see all of the different booths and everything they had. It was hard not to buy a lot of things, because
everything is so cheap. But I had self control and only bought 3 things. And the total was under $10! I got a beautiful bouquet of flowers for only $5. Seriously, where can you get flowers for that cheap??? And I got a few delicious peaches for $1/lb. But I think the purchase of the day was Pizza Bagels. I remember buying this kind of bagel from the BYU Twilight Zone. So if you have ever had those, imagine a pizza bagel that is about 14 times better than that. Seriously. These bagels are just so delicious! I can't even begin to describe how good they are. And if you don't know what a pizza bagel is...then I truly pity you. The bagel itself has a bunch of herbs in it, then it is topped with pizza sauce and cheese. That description does not do them justice...just imagine. So that pretty much sums up my day at the Farmer's Market. I will definitely be visiting it again and will hopefully be able to get a few more things. I got home safely, and had a fun time trying to figure out all the one way streets and trying to figure out how to get to the freeway I wanted. Another thing I have had to get used to in Sacramento is that there is more than one freeway. In Boise you only take one freeway to get anywhere. In Utah I only took one freeway to get anywhere. Here we have to take 3 freeways just to get to FHE every week. But I am getting the hang of "Bigger City" life. Oh yeah...I made a homeless lady's day. I was walking past her and smiled and said Hello. Of course, she asked if I could help her out, unfortunately I don't carry cash so I didn't have anything for her. So I apologized for not being able to help, but she said that the smile and Hello were good enough for her. I thought that was nice of her to say. So in a way, she made my day too!

Mmmm......

I REALLY want this right now.

But we don't have any.

Charlie Bit Me!

This video is so freaking hilarious. We watch it over and over again. A few tears might have been shed because of how hard we laughed. This is definitely my new favorite video.

Mr. Lucky

So last night we were in a part of Sacramento that we have never been to before, and right there on the side of the road next to a light rail station was this special little Buddha troll statue thing. So after we were done with the YSA dance...feel free to laugh right now...and we were on our way home we couldn't pass up the opportunity to pose with this very attractive statue. And the funny part is when you get closer he has a name tag type thing on his neck that says "Mr. Lucky". And I must say, last night he was pretty lucky.

I was Tagged!

Four jobs I've had:

1. Day Care Worker-made me realize I will never put my kids in day care!

2. APX Alarm-I just talked to salesmen all day and entered in new accounts

3. Humanities Lab Assistant at BYU

4. Dental Assistant

Four places I've lived:

1. Boise, ID

2. Provo, UT

3. Sacramento, CA

4. I have only lived in 3 places...that is kind of sad.

Four movies that I love:

1. P.S. I Love You (if you couldn't tell from the previous post)

2. Zoolander

3. Never Been Kissed

4. Hook

Four favorite foods:

1. Potatoes-any way...you can never have anything gross with potatoes in it

2. Ben and Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream

3. Cafe Rio Pork Salad

4. The Teriyaki Burger from Carl's Jr.

Four weird things about me

1. I have only kissed one boy in my entire life

2. I can't wear socks when I go to bed...it drives me nuts!

3. I eat burritos with ketchup instead of salsa-I pretty much eat anything with ketchup

4. My roommate and I have the same birthmark

Four favorite TV shows

1. Prison Break

2. 24

3. The Office

4. Lost

Four places I'd love to go

1. Ireland-so I can meet a hot guy like in P.S. I Love You

2. Thailand because the food is delicious

3. France just because it is France

4. Heaven-but we all know I will go there anyways


I tag anyone who even reads this

P.S. I LOVE HIM

Tonight was GIRLS NIGHT! And it was a most amazing girl's night, I must say! We went to the movies and saw P.S. I love you...and it is my new favorite movie. Tears were shed, laughs were laughed, squeals of giddiness were squealed (yeah, that one is a stretch). But my point is, all of a girls emotions were covered in this movie. It was so GOOD! I just don't know how else to explain it! Oh, and if all of that wasn't enough to make you want to see this movie...the main guy in the movie, Gerard Butler, is gorgeous and has an accent! That pretty much seals the deal on how amazing this movie is. Seriously. And if you are at all skeptical on the whole aspect of Hilary Swank being the main character then rest assured. I am not a big fan of her, but again...this movie is amazing and there was nothing bad about it! If that wasn't enough to convince you to go see it then I might have to have a stern talking to you. Or you can just go see 27 dresses. Because it was amazing as well. That was last week's Girl's Night out event. And that movie is very highly recommended as well.

Here is just a little sampling of the glory of Gerard Butler. You know you want to see the movie now, don't you?

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!

Well, not yet...but in about 5 hours! So I am sitting here in the Sacramento Airport waiting for my flight to take me home to BOISE!!! And I thought...what better thing to do than to write a new blog! (Since I am not so good at keeping up on it, if you haven't noticed.) And hopefully my battery doesn't die on me...because lately it doesn't last longer than about 20 minutes. And I can't find an outlet ANYWHERE in this darn place! But anyways, I am just looking around at all the different people in the airport, and noticing that there are people from everywhere! You are probably thinking to yourself "duh, Heidi...nice observation" but it is true! Last night I was at In-N-Out with a friend and I could not hear a word of English the entire time...except when David was talking to me. I heard a lot of Russian, some Japanese, and of course a whole lot of Spanish. I guess I am just a little sheltered, but it is weird to feel like English is becoming the minority as far as languages are concerned. Pretty much the only time that I would hear different languages at all in Utah or Idaho is when white boys were speaking them to other white boys who went to the same mission! Maybe that is a bit extreme in thinking...but you know it is true. Anyways, I guess that is just a random little tid-bit for you. Just something that has been on my mind lately...that is what blogs are for, right?

And one more thing...How in the world do you put titles on each post? I am a little blog stupid.

"Winter"

Where the heck did this year even go? It is already December, and Christmas is only 3 weeks away! In California it doesn't even seem like Christmas time. Hardly any people have Christmas lights/decorations up, there is NO snow (just tons of rain), it is still VERY green outside, we haven't had to turn our heat on yet, the other day I had the A/C in my car on, palm trees are decorated with Christmas lights...I miss Christmas time in Idaho. Normal Christmas time. I miss driving down the streets and seeing every house you pass have Christmas lights up. The other night we went to the Oakland temple to see it decked out with Christmas lights, and I felt a bit of normalcy (is that even a word) seeing all the lights and watching a Christmas program. Although, as mentioned before, it was very odd to see palm trees with lights on them. It was nice to feel the Christmas spirit once again, if only for a night. But I won't give up on it just yet, hopefully more people will get into the whole Christmas scene. And hopefully it will feel more like home here.