i'm so excited about life right now. here's why:

1. "the year one" with jack black and michael cera comes out in june.
2. the "paper heart" trailer.
3. the trailer on shauna's blog for "500 days of summer".
4. the sequels to night at the museum and transformers (i love shia lebeouf)
-they're not all movies, i promise, but there are so many good movies coming out-
5. elantris... which is the title of the book i just finished, that you should all start reading today if you haven't already. sooo good!
6. heir to sevenwaters, which i am about to start reading, which is book number four in a series that i love by an author named juliet marrilier. look it up, they're also real good.
7. the office and 30 rock are so funny.
8. it's about time to start our garden.
9. our lawn is coming in so green and pretty.
10. julie's wedding.
11. writing is like, my favorite thing to do... and my book is coming along real well. i love to write dialogue. it's kinda like playing scrabble against yourself (which i have done). i'm not sure how else to put it.
12. i'm planning on going to tahoe this summer.
13. the cooking club girls + shauna are coming to stay at my house this weekend- yay!
14. my latest two amazon purchases which include the cd of steve martin's stand up act in the 70's, "let's get small", and shakesphere's sonnets. both classics.

i could go on and on, but you get the idea.

reading is so hot right now

i'm always a voracious reader (which is why i know words like voracious)... but i have been on a roll even for me.
i'm currently reading "extremely loud and incredibly close", and it is amazing. i keep calling kelly and reading her lines (which she hates), and cornering tyler and reading him pages (which he tolerates). it is so brilliant and witty and endearing and emotional and laugh out loud funny. it is also very inspiring to me as a writer- yes i call myself a writer now (which kelly tolerates)- because he writes in such an unorthodox way. it helps take the scariness out of writing by reminding you that really, there are no rules.
i also just got in the mail from amazon (my fav) the collected poems of emily dickenson. it is such a yummy book cover. i have also been calling kelly to read her lines out of that (which she only pretends to listen to). here is my favorite so far...


Did our Best Moment last-
'Twould supersede the Heaven-
A few- and they by Risk- procure-
So this sort- are not given-

Except as stimulants- in
Cases of Despair-
Or Stupor- The Reserve-
These Heavenly Moments are-

A Grant of the Divine-
That Certain as it Comes-
Withdraws- and leaves the dazzled Soul
In her unfurnished Rooms

just a few things

we learned early on with our new primary class that they need to be occupied with arts and crafts if we want to get them to listen at all, and that they love love love to use scissors. so today in our class one of the little girls asked if it was time yet to "color and snip". i thought that was so funny. the same little girl last week, during a trip to the bathroom, told me that at her house she wasn't allowed to say "what the?", but at ellie's house she was allowed to say "what the?". she is real funny.
by the way when i took her to the bathroom last week, tyler was left with the boys in the classroom, and apparently one of them told him he had to the bathroom too. he's pretty hyperactive/naughty/possibly autistic (we think haha), so tyler assumed he was just trying to get out of class, and told him to just poop his pants. (ty told me this later.... and yes, tyler says things like that to the kids... and fake cries... and sings songs in real funny voices... and makes fart sounds...). well i get back to class and this little boy doesn't want to sit in his chair. there is also a strong aroma of poop in the classroom. yep, you guessed it, he pooped his pants. oh primary.
last week while ty and i were walking to the car, he was texting someone and asked me "is there a space in asshole?" oh tyler.
in sacrament meeting today i had to give the closing prayer, so during the closing song we were discussing what i should say. tyler was telling me that i needed to say a really bad prayer so that we would never get asked to speak in sacrament. we were laughing so hard at the things we were coming up with... please help me not to hate my husband.... please bless our little puppy dog dottie... maybe you had to be there.

i should have been a great many things...

... not the least of which is a dancer. oh boy, i had the house all to myself last night as ty was at his bowhunter certification course.. and there's nothing i love better than a house all to myself- especially at night. i'm weird that way. so i went to red box and then came home and made a scrumptious dinner and watched... drum roll please... center stage 2: turn it up. it was sooo horrible and i loved every second of it. i mean the main girls acting was worse than a school play, but she did have some moves. oh i loved it. immediately following the credits, i rewatched a few selected scenes, then turned up my stereo real loud and danced for -no joke- like 45 minutes in my kitchen. and i'm talking full on dancing. i was sweating. i haven't danced like that in years. it was a wonderful night.