The Response!!

Here is the response I got back today from Rice-a-roni:

Ann Marie:

We're sorry you feel Rice A Roni is not a San Franciscan treat.

Rice A Roni was first created in San Francisco as a family treat with the DeDomenico family. While Quaker Oats Company (headquartered in Chicago), bought the DeDomenico family's Golden Grain Company in 1986, Rice A Roni is still a treat that originated in San Francisco. However, we're sorry you were disappointed and we will share your comments with management.

For more information about the history of Rice A Roni, please visit: http://www.ricearoni.com/rar_aboutUs/foundingFamily/

Thank you for your business, Ann Marie, and for sharing your comments with us. We hope you will continue to be a valued loyal consumer. We have mailed a full value coupon, good on any Quaker family product, and it should arrive in about a week.

Theresa
Quaker Consumer Relations

Hahahahahahahaha!! Thats awesome!! I'm looking forward to my full value coupon that shall be arriving in the mail!

PS: I'm still disappointed its not really made in San Francisco...I'm just sayin...

The San Francisco CHEAT!!!!

Ok...so I bet you're wondering what this title has to do with anything..let me set the scene for you...
So this onetime tonight I decided to make some yummy Rice-A-Roni, I was real excited cuz I was real hungry. So I am singing a song I made up about the days of the week that went something like..."Today is Tuesday..Today is the day of Tues...why is this so? We do not know! But yet it is the day called Tues." And it pretty much continued on this way til sunday...than I was just so excited about my rice-a-roni I made up a song about rice-a-roni...not the one on the commercials...this one is the original A-Marizzle masterpiece from my mind. So it was pretty much awesome! So I keep thinking, hmmm...San Francisco Treat...I wonder if this stuff is made there...which of course it should be! Hulllllloooo?? San Francisco Treat!! Makes sense right??
So I take a gander at the box and guess where this stuff is made...Its made in flippin CHICAGO ILLINOIS!!! WHAT?? I know, I know...I was totally shocked and utterly outraged and shared my disbelief with my roomie! I than shared it via text to various other friends! Than I put this energy to work and wrote an e-mail of frustration to "Golden Grain" the company that makes Rice-A-Roni in Chicago...this was my e-mail:

"Hello, Thank you for your product...I greatly enjoy rice-a-roni products. But as I was making a box of rice-a-roni tonight for dinner and singing a very catchy song I made up about rice-a-roni I glanced at the box and saw that rice-a-roni is actually made in...wait...where?? CHICAGO!!!!! Ummmm....WHAT?? San Francisco Treat...San Francisco Treat!! Last time I checked San Francisco was in California!!
I for one feel deceived by this new found information...for years and years I believed that rice-a-roni was made in San Francisco...I mean who wouldn't...it says right on the box SAN FRANCISCO TREAT!!!
Anyways morale of this comment is that I for one feel taken advantage of and like you have been lying to the World with your San Francisco treat when your product is actually made in CHICAGO!!! Maybe you should change the box to say Windy City Treat...Cuz right now I feel that the San Francisco Treat...is just a Big San Francisco CHEAT!!! I for one am very disappointed and I feel hurt and led astray by this false advertising and LIE!!!!
I don't know how you sleep at night!
Thank you for your time!
Ann Marie"

And yes you bet I actually sent this!! I will let you know if they respond!! As I write this blog and eat my Rice-A-Roni, I feel somewhat let down by something I loved so much...I trusted that rice-a-roni really was the San Francisco treat.
Next thing I know I'm going to find out that Keebler cookies aren't really made in a tree by elves and that lucky charms aren't really at the end of a rainbow...
What is the World coming to!!!

THE LIE!!!!!!


THE TRUTH!!!!

Whoa! Another one!

So my old roomie/dance party pal tagged me in a post! Wow! This is twice I have been tagged pretty much within a week!! This is outta control :) Ha! So here is another survey tag thing! Enjoy!

I am: a child of God.
I want:you..to want ME!!
I have:a cat named fred.
I dislike:rude/mean people.
I miss:my friends.
I fear:creepy bugs, and losing loved ones.
I feel:pretty dang blessed and Happy :)
I hear: My roomies tv show, on the comp.
I smell: very good!
I crave: cheeseburgers and steak...and french fries!
I cry:when I am hurt emotionally.
I usually: eat pop tarts for breakfast.
I search: google :)
I wonder:where I'll be and what I'll be doing in a year.
I regret: never giving a book of mormon to a certain friend.
I love: Everyone!! And I love my life!
I care: sometimes too much.
I always: wear my retainer every night.
I worry: about certain people sometimes.
I am not: a crook.
I remember: names and faces and where I know that person from, pretty well.
I believe: in Christ!
I dance: like no one is watching :)
I sing: pretty much all the time.
I don't always: eat the best.
I argue: not very much.
I write:letters very frequently!
I win: all the time...in my heart :)
I lose: my marbles in neverland
I wish: I was a lil bit taller, I wish I was a balla!
I listen:to music pretty much ALL the TIME!! Music Rules!
I don't understand: why more people don't absolutely LOVE HS Musical??
I can usually be found: at BMMS, in my apt, walking to the mail box, at church on sundays..on facebook!
I need:some money...and some candy!
I forget: almost nothing...I have a very sharp memory!
I am happy: pretty much all the time! Fo real!!

I tag: well I just tagged some peeps in that other post, so I just tag whoev wants to do this and has never been tagged.

Tag!! You're IT!!!

Check it, I was tagged to do one of these things by Hillary, I feel its an honor...I won't let her down!!

5 Things I was doing ten years ago...
1.I was in 8th grade...13, prob playing school Volleyball
2.At this time I had nice braces and long bangs in my eyes that covered my glasses sometimes
3. I was playing the trumpet in band!
4. I was trying to get my beehive personal progress recognition completed
5. I was watching Dawson's Creek every week with my Brother...hahaha!!

5 Things on my "to do" list today...
1. Teach
2. Go to the third student teaching seminar
3. Eat food
4. Start my work sample
5. Call somebody...or not!

5 Snacks I enjoy...
1. Pretty much all candy..I'm not joking.
2. Lately, Pretzels
3. Cereal
4. Otter pops or Popsicles(when its hot and I have em!)
5. Brownies/cookies/good stuff

5 Things I'd do if I were a millionaire...(after paying tithing of course!)
1.Pay off my student loans
2.Buy everyone I know a house and some cars, including myself
3.Save money for my kids missions and schools and all my friends kids stuff too
4.Go to Cocoa Islands with cort and buy one of those house boats(the kind in that picture!) And travel in general!
5. Pay medical bills of people(random people or people I know)


5 Places I've lived...
1. Spokane, WA (millwood, blue house)
2. Spokane Valley, WA (Green house on the corner)
3. Rexburg, ID (like 7 different complexes)
4. Las Vegas, NV
5. That's all!

5 Jobs I've had...
1.Wintech inc warehouse worker
2. Huckleberry's Paper Patch(scrap booking store!)
3. Student Teacher, Bob Miller Middle School
4. Wal-Mart(cashier and ladies apparel)
5. Rigby High Assistant Softball coach!!

5 people I tag...
1.Cort
2.Melissa Keymer
3.Michele Graham
4. Your Mom!!
5. Whoev else wants to do it!

PUMPED UP!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY!!! ARE YOU ALL TOTALLY EXCITED??
High School Musical 3 comes out in pretty much 10 days!!!!!!
Just in case your excitement level isn't quite matching mine..... Watch this and be pumped!!!



Oh Goodness!! After seeing this I know you now all want to be first in line to see this flick!!! I FLIPPIN LOVE HS MUSICAL!!! I'm so excited for this you have no clue!! I'm counting down the days!!
And are we having a High School Musical Marathon before the movie... you better believe it!!! Am I slightly obsessed...no comment :)

I only wish you were all here so we could have this experience together!!

"So what are we gonna be.. T-E-A-M...TEAM!!!!!!!!"

Love y'all!!!

OCTUBRE!!!!

Wow! Can you believe it's october already?? Smokes! September just flew by!! Maybe its just me!

That being said its still in the 90s down here! Next week its finally supposed to cool down to the 80s! So cross your fingers!!

So life is going good down here. Teaching is keepin me pretty busy! The days go by pretty fast which is nice. I'm enjoying student teaching. It sure is an experience. I have wonderful teachers and an excellent school so that makes things really good! Only less than 2 months left! WORD!

I'm still not super positive on my plans once I'm done here, but they go like this so far....finish here, go back to spokane and substitute teach for a while than perhaps move to the East Coast with a friend for the summer. Than I'll move back to spokane or move somewhere else.

Who knows what I'll actually do though? Things can change! I'm taking suggestions in case I forgot to mention that in an early post.

October will be a good month, High School Musical 3 comes out and I am totally PUMPED!! I love HS Musical!! I know its so super cheesy, but its so cheesy that its great and I will most likely see it opening day!! Who doesn't love teenagers that break into song to deal with the stresses and joys that High School throws at them?? HOLLA!! Ok I'm real excited!! That Zac Efron is so hot right now :) Haha!!

Anywho I hope everyone has been doing radical!! Did y'all go to the RS broadcast last saturday?? Wasn't it amazing?? I loved it!

Well...I have just one question for y'all.....

"Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moon beams home in a jar? And be better off than ya are?....Or would you rather be a mule????"

I'm just sayin....

TRUTH

I had a really cool experience this past Saturday. I should prob start at the beginning...it's a very good place to start!

So Friday night me and my roomies had tickets to this really awesome Time Out for women conference/concert type thing for LDS women! We were able to hear Hilary Weeks perform and a band called "A Nashville Tribute to the Prophet Joseph Smith." Both were super amazing and wonderful. "The Nashville Tribute" was pretty powerful! I greatly enjoyed it all. So it was also scheduled for Saturday like all day, which I was planning on going to when.....

I was walking out of the Cashman Center(where the conference was) and I check my voice mails...two new V-mails from an unknown number. So I listen to the messages...and it was my best friend SISTER DITTO!!! Holy Smokes!! I was freakin out! So her messages were something like, her and her comp were going to a few appts. Saturday morn and they couldn't get a member to come with them so she wanted me to come with them to these appts. Ummmmm.....HECK YES!!! So I called her back and got all the details.

Saturday morning I head up to N. Vegas and we go to the first appt. It was with a lady named *Heidi(names have been changed) The mishys had tracted into her before and every appt. that Sis ditto had set with her she had always cancelled. So as we knocked on the door we hoped she would answer. Well she totally did! Anyways so we sat down and we wanted to give her some information about The Book of Mormon so we read part of the introduction with her and than we read the 1st chapter in 1 Nephi. After we talked with her a little more, I was able to share my testimony with her about the importance of going to church and why I go to church each week. As I was sharing with this lady who I had never met before in my life the things that are near and dear to my heart and the things that I know to be true, I just felt the spirit so strong. And I could tell that she felt it too. I think she may have some mental issues, but as I bore testimony of the Love that the Lord has for us and the Spirit that can be felt at church, she wasn't moving all around or changing the subject(like she did before) she was focused on what I was saying and her countenance changed, and I knew she felt the spirit witnessing to her that what I spoke was Truth!

THAN...we went and visited another investigator, lets call him *Nathan. So here's the DL on Nathan, he has been investigating the church for over a year, he knows the gospel is true and he knows it's the Lords will for him...but why is he not baptized? I don't know! But I know that he knows whats right, and he knows what he needs to do, he is just hesitant to commit. So we talked with him about why baptism is important, and that you don't have to know everything to be baptized, in fact we don't know everything right now either! I could see that he still might have some issues that he needed to take care of. I was able to bear my testimony to Nathan about how I came to know The Book of Mormon is true. It was a very amazing experience because here I am again telling this pretty much stranger something that is so personal to me and pretty much the basis of my life. Again I felt the spirit so strong and I know that Nathan did too. I don't even remember exactly what I said, but I basically said that if he trusts in the Lord and follows in faith than the Lord will bless him and he will overall be happy. The Lord isn't going to give us commandments to make us miserable, his plan is one of happiness because he loves us! Don't we all want happiness for the ones we love? And the Lord out of anybody loves us the most of all, of course he wants us to be happy! I said some other stuff and after I finished Nathan told me how he had been feeling that exact way and how he needed to hear that. It was just amazing for me to see the impact my testimony can have on someone who I don't even know and someone who is not a member. I don't really take advantage of bearing my testimony frequently. But as I bore testimony to Nathan and Heidi of the Truthfulness of the Gospel I could feel the spirit present and it was reaffirmed to me that what I was saying was the Truth and from the Lord. I could feel my testimony being strengthened.

It was just an amazing experience! I hope that I will be able to share my testimony more often with everyone around me. I know its a gift from the Lord that should not be kept to myself. It is strength. And I will strive to share that strength and truth with others and hope that it will strengthen them as well.I know the spirit is present every time a sincere testimony is born.

I only think it appropriate to share with you all what I know to be true and a little bit of my testimony.

I know the Gospel is true and that it is of the Lord. I know The Book of Mormon is the word of God and as we read it we draw closer to Him. We can know of His will for us through the scriptures and through the Prophet. I know Thomas S. Monson is the living prophet on the Earth today. He gives us counsel and direction straight from the Lord. I know that Joseph Smith restored the Gospel to the Earth and that he translated The Book of Mormon. I know that Jesus Christ lived and died for me. He atoned for my sins and He is the only one that has made it possible for me to return to my Father in Heaven. There is no other way except through Christ. I know that the Lord knows me and Loves me more than I can possibly comprehend. I am His Child and He will never leave me. He hears my prayers and He answers them. I know that by following His will for me I will be truly happy in this life.

If you take anything from this blog, I hope its that I know these things to be true. I hope that you may know for yourselves that they are true as well. The Lord loves you!

I love you all!

Friends we are and friends we'll always be!

HOLLA!! So I was able to see my best friend Blayre Ditto who is serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, down here in Las Vegas. One of my friends from Spokane Nycole Nelson(used to be Brower), was feeding the missionaries from her ward this past Tuesday, and one of those missionaries just happened to be Sister Ditto. So Nycole being the wonderful person she is, invited me to come to dinner as well.

On Tuesday night I was reunited with my best friend! It was so AWESOME!! I loved it with all of my heart! I forgot how much I missed her. It has been about a year and 2 mths since I last saw her, so I was pretty dang excited! I was actually shakin pretty good outta pure excitement! Anywho it was wonderful! We talked and laughed just like old times! She is a most amazing missionary and individual. I love that girl so much!! She is such a great friend. I'm so grateful I was able to see her and have that hour with her, it was a blessing I know. She is a blessing to me! It just made me so so happy, and I'm still way happy about it! I could prob burst with happiness right this second! But I'll refrain cuz that would prob make a mess all over the lappy :) Life is good!

Yeah for Sister Ditto!! Thumbs up for missionary work :)
Yeah for Nycole and Blayre..and me...and Roanoke Virginia..and Spokane!

Anywho I just feel like I am extremely blessed with wonderful friends! I have so many friends that have made me who I am, and who make me so happy everyday! I love them all so much! My life is so great and fantastic because of radical friends and family! I know the Lord loves me because he has blessed me with amazing people in my life. No joke! I don't know what life would be life without them all. It would suck, I'm sure of it!

So anywho...school is going well, I'm teaching about an hour each day so far. Next week I'll teach 2 and so on. I like it! I'm getting less nervous everyday! Its good!

This weekend my friend Jill is coming with my friend Tessa as well!! I'm super duper excited to see them! Jill is my best friend from this past summer in Rexburg. She really made the summer great for me, we had a lot of fun times and good memories were made. My summer would have been major trash if it wasn't for her. I'm very happy to see her again! Last time I saw her we went to Mama Mia at the theater and it was OUTTA CONTROL fun! We pretty much just rocked out to ABBA the whole time...it was AWESOME....doesn't ABBA completely Rock!!

So to sum it up... a. Blayre is amazing and I love her b. Teaching is good c. Nycole is the best d. Jill is rad and I'm excited to see her e. Tessa is coming too and I'm real excited to see them both...and f. I love my life and I am DANG blessed with wonderful friends and family, I love them all so much! Oh...and G. ABBA ROCKS!!!

PS: Where can I get that cape?? ;)

It's gettin Hot out here...

...So eat a popsicle!! I am getting so hot I wanna eat a popsicle!!

Hello one and all! Member how my lappy doesn't like to connect to the internet very well?? Yeah thats still the case...luckily my roomie is kind enough to let me use her lappy! Thanks roomie! You rock!

Ok, so school started this week for me! Its going great so far! I'm teaching 8th grade Health and 6th grade spanish, and I'll also prob teach 8th grade spanish as well!! So I have a full day!! But its wonderful, my cooperating teachers are really awesome and help me out a lot. I'm not actually teaching this week. I'm just observing...next week I'll start teachin an hour or two each day. That will increase each week and than by the end of Sept I'll be teaching all day by myself. YIKES! I hope these kids are ready for me :)

It shall be good times!!

Everyday I come home from school, change, grab a rainbow popsicle...either blue raspberry, watermelon(green), strawberry, or lemonade...and than I walk for what feels like 4 miles to the mailbox to check the mail...most the time the box is empty...which is sad...but at least I'm getting good exercise and nourishment(the popsicle!) Its good times...good times. Anywho those popsicles pretty much make my mouth totally colorful! When that happens...ya just gotta rock it!

ROCK ON TO THE POPSICLES!!!

I hope y'all are doing so wonderful and that life is so super splendid! I love ya all!

Peace out from Vegas!!

Viva Las Vegas!

Hey all! Sorry its been a while since I posted...but I moved down to Las Vegas! I got here on Friday and it has been good so far! My mom and sister drove down with me and helped me get settled in and than flew back to spokane on Monday. I'm glad they were able to come down with me. It was nice to have them here.

Anywho so now that I live in Vegas I'd have to say that it is way ROASTY TOASTY!! It is so hot here! I keep telling people its like living in a hairdryer. Sometimes its not so bad but other times its just insane!Today is one of those days! I had to wear long pants and a nice shirt for my student teaching orientation meeting, which is what I will prob be wearing to school most days now, but man those long pants in like 110 degree weather is just outta control!! Oh well guess I'll have to get used to it! Thank Heavens for AC!!

So I also found out my placement today, I'm going to be teaching at a Middle School fairly close to my apartments. So far I know I'll be teaching health...I'm not sure what grade, so I guess we'll see! Anywho its exciting times for me down here! I'm on my own beginning a new experience! I think it will be ok. I'm still nervous but I'm excited as well.

Well thats pretty much all thats going on with me right now. I'm sure I will have more to post later! Some things have occured, I bought a digital camera, so maybe there will be more pics on here..but I can't promise anything because I also am borrowing my dads lappy for the fall, and it has a hard time connecting to the wireless internet, so if my blogs are few and far between than you will know why. But I will try my best to keep y'all posted, cuz I really do enjoy blogging.

Ok, also I saw the movie Mama Mia! And I LOVED IT!! That movie was so so good and me and my friend Jill had a radical time rockin out to ABBA!! Next I wanna see the play in real life, I know its playing down here and my friend can get cheap tix so I might go see it, but I would like to see it on broadway in NYC perhaps too, however I would rather see Wicked if I saw a play in NY. Maybe I will see Mama Mia down here, but one downfall of being in Vegas as a student teacher is that I am really poor, so even tho there is a ton of fun stuff to do, I am limited because of funds. Now everyone please cry for me for a moment :)
Anywho loved the movie!

Well hopefully I can get some more stuff posted on here! I hope everyone is doing very grand!
Much love!

Ocho-Ocho-Ocho

Yesssss...it is the all 8's day! Today the Olympics start! Is anyone else really excited about the Olympics?? I sure am!! I love the Olympics they are totally wonderful! I just hope America can pull it through in Softball!! Did I ever tell you I love Softball?? Well...I love softball!! Olympics WOO WOO!!

So wednesday night I was able to go up to Girls Camp for Bishops night, my mom is the ward camp director, so I had the total hookup! But dang, I miss girls camp! It was great to go back and have a flood of memories come back! Girls camp was such a wonderful time for me! I have a lot of friends that were made through girls camp, people who are my real good friends still! Anyways I loved it. I think everybody I know who has gone to OUR girls camp...camp Na-Bor-Lee/Liahona, has only good things to say about it! It seriously was the best!

Also wednesday I got my hair cut! Its still long, but its shorter than it was, and for me its a big difference, I got like 7 inches cut off...I prob could have even gone a lil more. I don't like short hair but I was feelin like I could pull it off, but I didn't go short this time...maybe next time! I like it a lot though! I got hightlights as well, light brown and blonde! HOLLA! I mean I was Hot before but now I'm like HOTT with two T's...I'm just sayin ;)

Ok last night I went swimmin at lake coeur d' alene and DANG it was fun!! I went with some new friends...Cossette(who happens to be my BFF's Blayres cousin!) and her friend John!! It was super fun though! I really like swimming, its just a good time! Anywho good times were had by all! Its kinda a bummer that I'll be leaving in less than a week cuz I can see many more memories that could have been made with these peeps! HAHA I just had a flash back from last night..and I'm laughing! It was pretty funny! Lets just say Cossette knows how to explain through interpretive dance :)

Well...so who knows what the future holds for Ann Marie...Can you believe I'm gonna be a teacher?? Holy Smokes!! Do you think its too late to become an astronaut?? Thats actually my real passion...I would be the coolest astronaut EVER!! No doubt about it! I once heard about a teacher who became an astronaut who was a lady, so I guess I shouldn't give up hope right?? ;)
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!"

Hope life is peachy for everyone! Do something awesome on this 8-8-08!
Much love!

PS: Song of the day is "Grace Kelly" by Mika. "Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me? Why don't you walk out the door!"
PS: Dance of the day is "Cupid Shuffle"

That was.....AWESOME!!!

Ok, so I totally went to Silverwood theme park this past friday and I rode the new Aftershock rollercoaster. Apparently they bought it from Six Flags Great America in Chicago. Anywho...I had a blast riding it 4 times!! I can't explain the adrenaline rush I got from it! I was addicted or something and I would have gone more times but the line was semi-long.

So when I went to Las Vegas last year I went on this ride called the big shot on top of the stratosphere...it was crazy insane and I felt like I was going to die. However I obviously didn't! After my Big Shot experience I went to Disneyland and I all the sudden felt fearless, like on rollercoasters and such I was puttin my hands up for the whole ride, which before I would have never done. Anywho so the Big Shot made me less fearful to try the scary rides and ultimately just less fearful in life I feel.

Well than we get to Silverwood and we first went on this ride called the panic plunge which is pretty much exactly like the big shot, except it takes you all the way to the top and drops you instead of shooting you off into the sky like the big shot, and obviously panic plunge was not on a tower taller than the space needle. Well so it was fun, it did scare me, but it got me ready for Aftershock! Since I can't really explain Aftershock too well I found this youtube video describing it!!


Yeah I went on it 4 times! 2 times in the Front! It was awesome! I just got a real thrill outta it! When I was on it I was screamin all crazy, not like a high girly frightened scream but like a "HECK YEAH THIS ROCKS!!" Scream...there is a difference!! And without fail everytime we pulled back into the station I was just laughing and laughing and than ran to get in line again! It's like I was on drugs or somethin!! Oh it was amazingly fun! I loved it a lot!

Anywho I also met a lot of interesting people while standing in line, the funniest person was this girl prob like 14 or so and she was like hyped up on cotton candy or something, it looked like she had a popsicle ring around her lips and she had this really big mouth and was just talking, talking, talking! All about the roller coaster and how it was her 8th time riding it just that day! And how its so much better if you close your eyes and all this random stuff! She reminded me of a cartoon character of some sort! It was really funny! But her excitement just made me excited and before I knew it I was jabberin away also! Haha!

I also had a super fun time with my brother Ben my sister in Law Shauna and my nieces and nephew!Anywho it was so awesome! Theme parks rock! Now I really want to go to Six Flags!

Hope everyone is doing radical!

PS: Here is a video from youtube of the Big Shot ride atop the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, this one was taken in the day, but my Big Shot experience was at night!

The Big Shot at 1,081 feet (329 m) is the highest thrill ride in the world.

Blogs, blogs, and...yes more blogs!!!

Wow! So it seems like everyone has a blog these days! I was invited to read someones blog and through her blog I found like 6 other people I know that have blogs now too! Dang it was crazy, but pretty much way awesome!!

I remember back in the day of 2005 when I first started this thing and there was pretty much NOBODY that had a blog, and no one even knew what they were! Now everybody and their great aunt sally has a blog! I mean it's totally cool, but you can just see how technology is such a part of everyones lives nowadays.

Anywho I'm glad I set such a good example for everyone to start a blog back in 2005, I am like an original blogger. I should get an award of some sort...maybe a badge...or at least a high five...well...maybe just me statin it in this post! Ha!

Who knows how many people will be blogging in the next 3 years? I'm guessing the world! Every single person on earth will have a blog! Who wants to bet somethin on this?? Like a high five?? Until that day comes, I shall continue on with my bloggin and continue finding old friends, and new friends! What a wonderful thing bloggin is! Fo' serious!

Well for anyone keeping track (like me!) I'll be down in Vegas in 2 weeks!! Crazy stuff! I'm growin up or somethin I guess :)
When I find out my school placement I'll be sure to let y'all know!!

Tomorrow I am going to Silverwood which is pretty much the greatest theme park in Northern Idaho...and you can quote me on that! Anywho my bro and his fam are comin up and I'm way excited! We are gonna tear that place up!! I'll try to take pics, but I can't make promises!

Hope everyone is havin a fantastic summer!! Keep it safe, I don't know if you know that its shark week this week, so you better watch out! I'd stay out of the water this week just to play it safe. Protect your limbs ;)
Keep on bloggin!!

Much love!!!
Peace out!

Videos!

Here are videos that I have gathered over the times, and now have means to put them on here...enjoy!!

When I was in NY I was trying to figure out how to take a video...cortnie was my test subject!

Penguins at the zoo in syracuse!

Saw some girls playin softball in NY and couldn't resist filming them. I felt better about my HS team after watchin these girls.

More penguins at the zoo, they were crazy and cortnie loved em...I pushed my way past all the children to get such good shots, they were all pretty excited and that one crazy penguin came right up against the glass...that was pretty sweet! :)

Douglas and suzi got married, and than Douglas smashed cake into Suzi's face...awww...they must be in love!!

Suz and Douglas first dance...looks a little planned...you cute kids!

I asked Suzi and Douglas "you're married what are you going to do now?" The correct answer is "we're going to Disneyland!" cuz they really were! Thats why I thought it would be really funny...but no..Douglas had to be a funny guy... Anywho it's still a good video.

This is back when I went to the Eisley concert in SLC. It was awesome! This is just us at the merch table mixing and mingling with the band! It's pretty dark..but Dang, Eisley is so totally the coolest!

Grad pics!

Hey Here are some pictures from graduation, these ones were taken on my bros camera and so they are a lil...random. But thats how we roll. I will hopefully post the ones from convocation that are on my moms camera soon. Anywho enjoy!


Excitement!
Aly, Tasha, and I, they were my neighbors in 317, they are cool people!
Sneaky sneaky!
Woo Woo!
Huh?

Yeah for graduation!
Peace out!
We are graduating!
My bro being a deer in the headlights!
My official name card!

I wasn't sure if he was taking a picture or what...turns out he was taking a video...we were ready for the pic though.
PS: Notice that carousel music in the background...apparently thats the graduation music, but man, we were right by the organ dude and he was on repeat or somethin cuz for like half an hour that music just looped and looped...it gets annoying after the first time.

Stick a fork in me...

I'M DONE!! In case you haven't heard the word on the street since Friday, Ann Marie Wise has graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho. Receiving a degree in Health Education and Spanish Education. Woo!! Tis true! I am done in Rexburg! It's slightly weird to think that I won't be going back there for classes anymore. What I've done for 5 yrs is now done! Weird to think that! I'm excited for the next part of my life...the moving to somewhere new, doing something new, meeting new people part of my life. I get somewhat nervous thinking about reality and Yes I am going to be doing this...but I'm more excited than anything...the nervousness is a happy excited nervousness. It's good!

Anywho I am back in Spokane for these 4 weeks before student teaching in Las Vegas. I went to the ward today and it was great! I remember why I love it, I love the people. I know it constantly changes, but I can always find many friends there, and I love it! I always feel welcome and known there! I was able to see many friends and that made me really happy! I love people! Aren't they just great! I think often about the people that have made a difference in my life and the list is really long...it's pretty much never ending. Everybody has made a difference in my life...whether it be good or bad, the difference has been made. I have been impacted by everyone. We all have! Even that customer who was really rude to me this onetime when I was a cashier at Wal-Mart, they affected my life. I know its crazy but its true. People matter to me...some more than others, but either way, they matter.

I have known a lot of people while I've lived in Rexburg these last 5 years of my life. They have helped make me who I am today, because of them I am a better person. Thank you for that! Thank you for being my friend and impacting my life! I know I can never repay any of you, but I think you are all AMAZING individuals, and I love you all so much and I will never forget any of you! So thank you for being genuine good people and good friends! You have changed my life :)

Anyways, this blog went a little deeper than I thought, but it's all good! I'll try to post pics from graduation on here, we have to get them off the camera first!

Just real quick some advice that President Kim B. Clark gave us at graduation. He gave us 3 pieces of counsel:
1. Don't let the world into your heart.
2. Always have the Holy Ghost with you.
3. Follow the Prophet.

I really appreciated his words and I will take that advice with me as I go out into the "real" world. Hopefully we will all strive to follow these things as well. They may be simple, but how important they really are.

Ok, well now that I'm graduated you can expect my blogs to be much more sophisticated and scholarly...when reading you can say..."I'm reading a scholarly Journal of Health Education" Than whoev you're talking to will be impressed...trust me it will work...just try it and see :)

Hope you are all doing great! I love you all, and sincerely thank you for sticking by me through it all!

PS: My fastpitch competitive team won the championship...go here to read about it and see pics. Thanks whit for the great post!
PPS: I was jokin about that scholarly and sophisticated junk...this is ME we're talkin about here :)

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NO BUENO!!!!!!

Ok, so Happy late Independence Day to everyone out there! I hope you all had BBQs and fireworks and ate popsicles and spent time with family/friends and had just a wonderful time!

I'd have to say overall my "DAY" was great...I went and played in this softball tourney out in Menan(Rigby area) with my friend Jill and her cousins and cousins friends. It was fun! We were down there by 9am and played 2 games, which we won, so all the sudden we were in the Championship game, but that wasn't til 5pm. So we went back to Jills and ended up floatin the Snake river over at her fam's cabin. It was way nice because it was HOT. Actually not super hot, but sticky sweaty hot, especially from playin softball all day. So it was refreshing to be in cold water :)

Back on track...so we played the game and we lose..which was a bummer...but overall the tourney was fun. So Jill wanted to go to Jackson for fireworks so around 8:17 we head out to Jackson with some of our other friends JaNae, Andrea, and Jen(?) The ride over was outta control! I was on somethin I think cuz I was just makin jokes and singing patriotic songs and being a lil wacky...but I did get limited sleep the night before so I was way tired...still it was really FUN...I remember laughing really really hard...not sure why?But it was good times!!

Well we end up seein the fireworks and they are totally spectacular! I loved em! We were really close and they were shooting them off at the base of the mountain and so it was beautiful! So after the fireworks I was thinkin, "dang, my stomach feels funky!" So I share my observation with the group. Anywho we walked around Jackson for a bit and eventually went to Albertsons to get some Coke to relieve my stomach pains...well to make a long story short I ended up tossin my cookies in the parking lot of Albertsons, next to a lovely tree planted in some lovely bark! After a while of this we decide we should head back to Rexburg, we still had an 1 1/2 hr drive(mas o menos). We get going and man I just feel like I could keel over at any moment! It was a horrible drive, we had to stop 2 times so I could puke in some weeds. It was far from the happy journey I had ridin over there...very far. I think I said 3 words the whole trip back which were "Stop the car!"

Now take that picture of my ride back and apply it to ALL of friday night! That is why this post is entitled NO BUENO!! Anywho I'll spare ya all the details, but I was really sick...the works! Saturday and sunday were spent loungin around watchin the disney channel and wimbledon. I had to cancel my date to the Chukkars baseball game which was what I was lookin forward to the whole week. It would have been fun. BUMMER!

So now I am restored to practically full health...not totally. I still feel somewhat weak and a lil tired, but that could be due to the heat as well. I'm just glad my sickness and throwin-up-ness only lasted one night and that I didn't have to miss any school. I absolutely HATE being sick. I haven't been that kind of sick in a long time, first time since I've been away from home and the whole time I just was thinking "when will this be over?? I want my Mom!!" It really makes me appreciate my health though and how overall I am a really healthy person! It definitely is a blessing. I'm just glad I don't have any major sicknesses because I feel so helpless when I'm sick and I don't know if I could live that way.

Anywho so morale of this very long blog, Appreciate your health everyday, because it is a major blessing and even when things are rough(and you're throwing up for pretty much 8 hrs on a holiday) there is always someone who is worse off than you. It is but a moment! Be grateful for the health which you possess and do what you can to live a long healthy life!

That is also my plug for health me being a future health educator and all!!!

Well hopefully everyone had a better weekend than I did! And hopefully this blog finds you in good Health :)
Much love!

WE'RE GOING TO THE 'SHIP!!!

Hello all! How is life? Life is super splendid for me these days! Thanks for asking :)

So I thought I would give everyone a lil update on things lately...mainly...my LIFE!

Ok so my fastpitch softball team DOMINATED at our game on Friday! We played the Hawks and we won 14-0 in 4 innings! It was pretty much super awesome! Everyone on my team did super good! I played third base and not to toot my own horn or anything(but I do play the trumpet!) I did really really good! It was prob my best game so far as far as fielding goes! I made 5 outs out of 12 for the game! I even had a pretty sweet double play! Caught the hit than threw out the girl who was attempting to run to second and didn't think I'd catch that junk...but dang..I totally did! So that was awesome! I also did well hitting, I had a sweet triple which it could have been pushed to a homerun, but would most likely have been an out instead. I held up on third even though I was very tempted to run home! My team is really good I'm not gonna lie...and I'm pretty sure we're gonna win the 'ship! I'll keep ya posted fo' shizzle!

Also my flag football team and my slowpitch softball team have a good chance to win the championship as well! Both those teams are pretty killer and I feel confident we will win!

Oh yeah last week I went down to Utah to chill with some of my old roomies. My friend Rock(Jamie Bennett) had her farewell, she is going to P-town on a mish for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So it was nice to see my old roomies Carolyn(coach) and Ashley, and hang out a bit with them. I also was able to eat dinner at my old roomie Carlys casa. She is sooooo awesome and I don't see her much at all so it was a major highlight to spend time with her and her sister Melanie who is also my good friend and their family!! They are some of my most fav people EVER!!!I love those Deans!!

Other than that things are rockin! Just chillin like a villian..keepin it real in the 208. I have about 3 weeks of school left than my life in Rexburg will come to an end as we know it! Time to move on to bigger and better things(hopefully!) I'm excited for what the future holds! In fact..."the future's so bright..I gotta wear shades" :)

I hope everyone is staying cool...literally and figuratively!! Much happiness to all! Be happy, life is too short to be anything else :)
Love ya all!
Peace out!

PS: Have you heard Coldplays new song "Viva la Vida"? check it out in my playlist! Also check out "New Soul" it's pretty catchy and gets in your head! I love it!

*Tear* :'(

Pom Pom is no longer living...I saw her on the road...and she wasn't chasing a butterfly...Pom Pom will not be returning to me and Jill anymore...I'm deeply saddened by this...I can't write anymore...except...goodbye Pom Pom...you were a good kitty for the times we knew you...you were loved!