:o Hello again!

Yes, it seems as if this blog has died. But it hasn't! I swear! I have decided to make another blog depicting my travels and adventures in Spain. It's under construction right now, but will be up and running as soon as I make an awesome template. The address will be paellapan.blogspot.com. In the meantime, here is a really weird dream I had a while ago. Names have been changed due to...privacy concerns?

In my dream, I was dead. I could not remember how I came to be dead and all I knew was that I was on a silver escalator going downwards. Looking up, I saw that I was only on the bottom half of the escalator. The half ended on a flat strip of white tile with brown spots at the bottom, with an invisible wall at the end. I walked through this invisible wall; it felt as if I were being sucked in and everything went black. The world on the other side looked exactly as the world where the escalator was. The only difference was that there were people everywhere. Most of the buildings were empty, except there was one filled with people dancing and partying. Figuring that the party building would be the best place to go, I headed that way. As I entered the building, a guy took my hand. I cannot remember his name, but we will call him Jake from now on. He was tall and had dark curly hair, and seemed to be Italian descent. His eyes were dark, almost on the verge of black. He work a black sweatshirt and jeans.

Walking around the party, I hear conversations covering a range of topics. The atmosphere of the party was relaxed and fun, with people mingling and talking to each other. Jake takes me to another room that would be my own room from then on. It was very small, consisting of a twin sized bed with brown blankets and a small desk. On the desk was a laptop plugged into the wall. Curious, I tapped the screen to get out of screensaver mode. One shortcut looks like an internet browser, so I click on it. A window pops open, taking up the entire screen. It was a social network program that kept all dead people in touch with each other. Jake was showing me how to use it when a box opened up; it was an im from a guy named Frank. He wanted to know how his daughters Diane and Julia were doing, both whom I knew. I tell him his daughters are fine, and not to worry.

Jake decides to take me to the surface, and we started walking towards the escalator. We pass a building that was curvy and looked as if it were collapsing. He told me that it was the hospital, and I could see workers in green scrubs entering and exiting the building. Although everyone was dead, bones could still break and veins could still bleed. There was another death as well, a permanent one, where you could never ever visit the living world again. We crossed the barrier to the world of the living. The living could not see the dead, although the dead could see the living. There were hundreds of people walking around, but there was a subtle difference between the living and the dead. The most noticeable difference was that the dead all wore a black sweatshirt with a logo in red on the back.

Jake and I went to my old room, and we were looking around when I suddenly had to go to the bathroom. When I was done, I looked into the toilet and there was this thick black goo with a horrid smell in it. As the smell reached my nose I stumbled backward and almost puked. I ran back to Jake and asked him what in the world was wrong with me. He informed me that when I am in the living world, my body will deteriorate. Our insides rot when we are in this world, causing our breath to stink and anything coming out of our bodies to be a black goo.

Back in my room, I saw my books and a rocking chair and my memories came flooding back to me. I asked Jake why I couldn't take some of my belongings back with me, and he said that if an object was promised to someone, it could not be taken back down. I was most depressed about not being able to take my books back. As I was thinking this, I hear my Aunt's voice behind me. I turn around, wondering why she was dead to only to realize that she was not. She and my mom were dancing to music and yelling "We will triumph!" while raising their fists. Tears rolled down my face as I begged Jake to let me talk to them, but he couldn't. These were the rules. This was our fate.

We started heading back, and as we got to the escalator, Jake picked me up and practically flew through the force field. The moment I was past the barrier, my body became stronger and fresher.

The rest of the dream isn't interesting enough to write about, but perhaps I will make something up another day. :)

2 days until Spain!

Day 6 of the Reunion:
In the morning, my mom, two of my aunts, and me went to a water aerobics lesson! It was fun, and if you sweated, no big deal. You were already in the pool. Later in the afternoon, the girls went to see Mamma Mia. Great movie! Included some really attractive Greek guys. Mom and Dad went to the Brian Regan concert, while us kids went to pick food up at Bajio and then went home to watch three movies (Dragonheart, Dragonheart: The New Beginning, and Willow).

Day 7 (Thursday) of the Reunion:
Horseback riding! My horse's name was Charlie and he was a smart horsie. We just went up and back down a trail on the horses. Christopher hasn't stopped talking about it since... A little while after, just our family went to Tucanos. Christopher was in heaven, all you can eat meat. Amanda liked the all you can eat rice part. We went swimming with Mark & Cathy's kids later that evening.

Day 8 of the Reunion:
Checkout! We all cleaned out the condo we were in and bolted, heading for Provo. The plan was to hike Timpanogos Cave with Mark & Cathy + kids. However, when we got there, we discovered that the tickets were all SOLD OUT because a ranger didn't show up. Then the tickets for Saturday were all sold out as well. We would have to get there at 6:30 on Saturday to get in line, and still not even have a guarantee. We took family pictures instead. Christopher was stung by a bee by the river. After the pictures, everyone headed to Iceberg for shakes and fries. It was chaotic, to say the least. My parents checked into their hotel, and Alex went to his apartment and I went to mine.

Day 9 (Saturday) of the Reunion:
We spent the entire afternoon at my Grandparent's house in SLC. Mostly sitting around talking about the family and eating watermelon. Later, we went to Selena's house for barbecuing and socializing. I left my car there for the rest of the year :'(. This was also the last day that I'll be seeing my family until the end of the year. Sad day indeed.

Day 10 of the Reunion:
This day doesn't really count because this is when everyone who hadn't already left bolted out of Utah. I went to dinner at Brittney's house though!

Today leaves only two more days until I board a plane for the other side of the world, by myself.

Day 5 of the Reunion

Today we went on the ziplines! They were over where the Winter Olympics were held. There were two ziplines, and of course we went on both :). After sliding down the hill with the ziplines (I lost the race), we moved on to the Quicksilver (where I was too slow and got bumped into).

Next was an entire afternoon/evening spent in Salt Lake City with my dad's side of the family for the celebration of my grandmother's 78th birthday. Ahh, so fun to see the contrast. Instead of discussing iPhones, lesbians and anorexics were the topic of choice. Oh, and how I'm going to get married in Spain (not happening). Seeing some cousins I haven't seen in a while was the best part though (Paulie!).

This entire trip so far has been exhausting. I start falling asleep around 8:00 pm, which is incredibly weird. So on that note, ciao!

Day 4 of the Reunion

Day 1:

After the hectic packing and storing, my family and I all headed up to Park City. The night at our place of residence was filled with zombies, godzilla, and monkeys.

Day 2:

Saturday was the first family reunion on the list. It was Grandma's side with the Osguthorpes, Platts, and Koncurats. We played partner tag, ate sandwiches, and heard the history of Grandma O (my great-grandma) and Grandpa O (her husband). The amount of iphone's in sight was a true testament to the nerdiness and gadget-loving-ness of my mom's side of the family.

Day 3:

Sunday. We had a birthday party for my Grandma at night. It was a glorious night filled with ice cream cake, singing, and chaotic noise.

For right now, that's pretty much it :).

July is NEXT WEEK

A coworker commented today that we have friday off next week. Why? Because it's the 4th of July! Already! That means I have only 7 more weeks of work left, and 8 weeks before I leave this country. Only 8 weeks to get everything together. Eeek, how intimidating (sort of, but not really).

Woohoo it's friday!! TGIF right?

Today at work we have "treat friday" except I totally forgot that it was friday and didn't bring anything in. Our department went out and bought J-dogs though, and it was my first time having them, so good.

One of my roommates moves out today, which is kind of sad. There will be one less person in the apartment now. She claims she'll come visit us a lot though, but we'll see how busy she gets at home.

Today Alex and I are going to his birthday dinner at Fudruckers (of all places, eww). All well, it's his choice.

I had a weird dream filled with honey and zombie like creatures and cute boys. I'll have to write it out and post it. But until then, goodnight. And good luck. (Hey, that's a great movie!)

Provo Blackout!

It was a sunny morning when I arrived at work today. I thought it would be another typical day at work, but how wrong I was. On the first floor of the building, I begin to punch in when POOF the lights in the entire building shut off. Anything connected to electricity (including the water fountains) were out. After a few minutes, most of the electricity came back on. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) the computers in Data Entry, the department I work in, were not coming back on. We sat around and talked, then trekked down to the break room to get some food out of the fridge. As we were walking back to our area, the lights mysteriously came on. Apparently, the entire Provo area blacked out. Something the Provo City did shut down the entire area, including all of BYU campus.



This is me at work! Hahahaha. It was taken for the Photo Directory in our databases. It was before my haircut though, and my move to Data Entry. Next I'll post a picture of the origami tiger I made.


Don't let the heat get to you :D