Once you turn 16 summer isn't the same...

ahhh...remember the days when Summer meant no school work and no work?  Then 16 happened and you had to get a job?  and suddenly summer was worse than the school year because you had a lame job?  a job that said that you couldn't take work off?  yeah...it was the pits.

Then college came and you ended up taking classes and going to school in the summer...so summer just meant that that long walk to campus was hot and unbearable...and that that sunshine that everyone else was experiencing was only felt through the double paned window of your office building.

BUT!!!  now that I am a graduate (hold the applause) I have decided to make this summer freakishly amazing!  With like summery stuff...so here is what I have been doing/will be doing this summer...

Concerts:
Tempe AZ: Railroad Revival Tour: April 23

Uhh-MAZE-ING!!  Let's be honest I would have spent more than I did just to see Mumford & Sons...and I got to see three bands!  It was wicked cool and a ton of fun.  Even though we were standing on a ton of pointy-painful rocks the show was totally worth it.

Twilight Concert Series: Thursday in July
I missed out on this last year but I am not going to let that happen again!  So many amazing bands I can't wait.  This years line up includes:

Explosions in the Sky

No Age

The Decemberists

Typhoon

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (Who I saw in AZ and they were amazing...)

And a ton more but I am getting bored...

Fleet Foxes: July 22

You know they are good when they all look gross and high...

Trips:

As noted above I already went to Arizona in April.  It was a great trip.  We went to Vegas, saw the Hoover Dam, ate Mexican/Chinese food (one restaurant...the food was a fusion of both), and saw the Grand Canyon.  All in all a really great trip.

San Francisco: June 9-11:

Sadly, I can't do this trip anymore...and for realsies I am super sad about it!  Because I already took that Friday off though I want to do something else epic...so I am having a backyard sleepover with the girlies in my ward!  I can't wait.

Bryce Canyon: June 17-18

YAY!  that is all...

Other Stuff:

Garden Party: June 7

This was way fun!  Sadly I didn't take any pictures...lesson learned.

Colorful Hair:

I had a purple streak in my hair...and then I changed it to blue...I just put purple in another girls hair, I am going to put pink in someone else's hair when they get back to Provo...yay!  I love it.

Timp:

As a long time resident of Utah...slash I have lived in the shadow of Timp pretty much my whole life, I have decided this year was the year I was actually going to hike it.  I can't wait!  Last year my sister and I tried to hike it...but umm...we accidentally took the wrong path...which was still a cool hike...just not timp.

New Restaurants:

a couple of weeks ago me and some girlies from my ward were talking about how whenever we go out to eat we always go to the same places.  Instead of doing that we have decided to compile a list of new restaurants to try out this summer.  Last Saturday we went to Ruth's diner for breakfast and this week we are going to some Mexican place in Midway.

In conclusion...I am super excited about this summer and making it the best I have ever had! 

Shark Week

That's coming up right???  I actually have no idea...I don't watch it.  Why would you want to watch an entire slew of shows dedicated to horrifying animals that still exist!!!??!?!  Why yes I will spend 14 hours watching dinosaur documentaries because as I recall they all died...evolution won...and created something way more terrifying...Did you know that everyone who lives near and swims in an ocean WILL DIE!  I am sure this is based on the large number of killer sharks in the water.  


Moving on...yesterday was a very good day.  To celebrate I drove through Provo canyon listening to one of the worlds best bands!!  BSB or Backstreet Boys!!!  Let me tell you everyone those boys wrote some poignant lyrics!  Don't believe me?  Watch this...

to review here are some of those amazing lines...

you hit me faster than a shark attack

We all know how fast those are...if not see above picture!!

forgive my honesty but you got to go

it's good to not be passive aggressive with your feelings

There were things that made me realize...like all the hundred, no, THOUSAND LIES!!

whoa...1,000 lies...yeah you tell her Brian

Or this music video

to review again:

How can it be you're asking me to feel
The things you never show?

each side has to give ladies and gents

Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling I need to walk with?

Another intuitive question...

Life goes on as it never ends
Eyes of stone observe the trends
They never say forever gaze if only
Guilty roads to an endless love
There's no control
Are you with me now

Wait...that middle part doesn't make that much sense...w/e

If there was any debate over whether BSB was better than say Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber I am pretty sure I answered that question...heck yes they were!

under the covers (playlist for 2/6-2/12)

I believe that a good cover affords you the opportunity to re-discover, evaluate, fall in love, with long forgotten songs or the over worked songs of the present.  Many of the following covers actually "un-covered" songs that I thought I didn't like.  


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cup of ambition...(playlist for January 30 - February 5)

1) Confession:  I love Dolly Parton...many a bad day drive home has been spent singing a long with her (if you are looking for a back-up singer Dolly I am here waiting).

2) I cannot wait until March when I get to see this guy and Cary Brothers...he is quickly becoming my new favorite.

3) Awful video....amazing song (and artist)

4) One of my all time favorites...

5) The Civil Wars have been one of my favorite duos for a long time.  In celebration of their new album one of my favorite singles from them.

6) Sometimes I find myself liking artists that I would never have guessed I would have.  Marina and the Diamonds falls into that category.

7) I can't tell you how excited I have been for Adele's new album.  Since getting it I have been listening to it 90% of the time...

8) It's songs like this that make me realize that the gap between my generation and my parents' might not be that large...