tale as old as time.

 

my roommates were in Salt Lake City the past 5 days for AOA Convention (american optometric assoc). it gave me a chance to clean and craft and a tiny bit of baking. a classmate's baby girl was in the hospital for a few days with an infection so I made him and his wife dinner Wednesday night- chicken black bean enchilada casserole and pig pickin' cupcakes. 


yesterday, I went to the farmer's market. I've been meaning to go for over a year now, but just never have. I promise, I'll be going back again. I got some tomatoes, cucumbers, and green beans. The tomatoes are the best ones I've eaten since I was at home last summer. I'm excited to blanch the green beans and eat them too! 

I found this idea on pinterest friday night. What a perfect way to display/organize your dangle-y earrings. Of course, since I had a little bit of free time this weekend, I ran to Hobby Lobby and got a staple gun (cue Tim the Tool Man grunting) and a frame. This project took no more than 30 minutes. It's practical. It's simple. It's super fun! I hung it in the bathroom because the walls are so bare. I wanted the wire to attach in the inset part of the wood (where the glass would rest) so that the earrings would be away from the wall a little, but the wood wasn't thick enough and splintered out a little. Whoops. I think it would be better if it could be propped up instead of hanging, but I don't really have anywhere for it. 

I also grabbed a floral foam half-sphere to arrange some dried flowers. Calleen had the prettiest bouquets and I was able to dry some of the flowers. They've been sitting in a bowl on my desk since August so I arranged them in a(n XL) martini glass.

I was really excited to do some laundry too. We got a new dryer a week ago that is supposed to be better than our old one. It was for the load of sheets I did the same day we got it, but now it took me 3-4 cycles to dry loads of varying amounts... It looks like maintenance men are going to have to do some vent cleaning. You'd think they'd have checked that before giving us a new dryer... 
 A few weeks ago I talked to my friend Janelle about going to a Broadway production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the Orpheum sometime this weekend. Things had gotten busy and I had kind of forgotten about it, but she called me and asked if I wanted to go. I kind of debated it for a while, but came to the realization that there was no way on earth I could turn down the opportunity to go-- who are we kidding here? Beauty and the Beast is MY FAVORITE Disney movie. I think I wore out Grandma Mary's copy of it when I was 4... so much so that she bought it for me. Throw my love for the movie in with my love for live theater... I had a perma-smile through the entire performance. I wanted to take a million pictures, but they frown heavily on that. I did sneak one at the beginning during "Belle." All of the numbers were great. Scene changes were practically non-existent. It just flowed so smoothly. "Be Our Guest" was spectacular- dancing flatware and plates... I am almost tempted to go again tonight. 

The lobby at the Orpheum

My date, the cute Canadian Janelle

Someday, I'll sit here... Someday

Before the show... So excited.

Acquired using stealth.

The only other professional shows I have seen was at the Lied in college- "Hairspray" my junior year and "Rent" my sophomore year. Both were fantastic shows, but I think this one might top it, just slightly. I can't let it be over a year until I see another show- whether it be Community Theatre, School Production, or what have you. I'm too dramatic to not go more frequently.