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hey dooders,
in the interest of consolidation the husband has set me up a blog area at his website: www.mapledell.com. if you've missed me in these months of silence feel free to go to the site and click on sarah's blog and you can read my ramblings. i'd enjoy hearing from ya'll.
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
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http://premiumipods.freepay.com/?r=27291975
you see them all the time, banners and such advertising a free ipod. well, guess what folks, they really do work. the only catch is that you have to sign up for one online offer and then refer 8 others to the service. the one online offer is no big deal - we signed up for blockbuster online for $9.99 a month for the first three months with an option to cancel after a month. meaning that you get a 60gb ipod for $9.99 and 3 movies at a time with no late fees, all legit. sweet ass sweet.
now the only trick is finding 7 more people to refer, which is what the link at the top is about. if you're interested, click and we'll all be one step closer to a free ipod. if not then, sorry! and i hope we can still be friends :]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
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movies rented in the past couple of weeks:
-jeremiah johnson
-harry potter 2
-me and you and everyone we know
-hustle and flow
-hoosiers
-wedding crashers
-millions
movies rented last night:
-every which way but loose
-harold and kumar go to white castle
-lord of war
-the quiet man
-everyone says i love you
-broken flowers
it's true, we're binging. and purging the following movies out of my mind:
-me and you and everyone we know
-millions
-every which way but loose
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Sunday, January 8th, 2006
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
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[now playing: the sounds of carnage as justin plays some video game. poor sick bebe.]
well, 2 finals down, 2 finals to go. my hardest one was today so it's all downhill from here. 4 days 20 hrs 57 mins 40 secs, give or take and i'll be married. pretty crazy and awesome and exciting and amazing and everything else. so far the weather is holding up and we're really hoping for clear skies. please bless that there won't be snow. it's going to be a quiet affair, not too many people, not too much for us to do. i still have no idea what to do with my hair and my face which makes me think that i probably won't be doing anything different. it'd be nice to have someone do my hair up all fancy and make my face prettier, but in the end i'm just going to be too happy to notice.
in other news...well...there could be a shocking bit of news in the next few days. alot of that depends on my dad and alot of that depends on justin and i. i never expected our lives to be uprooted this quickly, but i guess it's the nature of my life. it's not bad news. it's just...news. we shall see.
oh, and i'm jumping on the bandwagon:
Take my Quiz on QuizYourFriends.com!
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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[now playing: there's no fucking rules - !!!]
justin and i amuse ourselves by naming future children and pets:
first son - daniel scott (the scott definately wasn't my choice. happens to unfortunately be justin's middle name and a family name passed down. i can live with it.)
first daughter - ada patricia
subsequent sons - george david, elliott miles
subsequent daughters - edith june, darla [insert middle name]
cat - robot
dog - rushmore
thanksgiving...eh...better left unsaid.
however, our new apartment is yea close to being fully painted. i wish i'd taken before and after shots so you could understand how much work has gone into this place and fully appreciate how much better it is having a blue bathroom instead of a neon yellow one with purple trim. *shudder*.
things are really really really good. i'm in love and i'm loved back. i'm getting married in 2 1/2 weeks. i have a kickin' apartment. the only damper on my day is that finals start next wednesday, but don't worry, it isn't too much of a damper.
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
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Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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guh. i'm currently sitting in a practice exam review for civil procedure. this class (my least favorite) has a knack for adding another hour onto itself on a regular basis. with final exams coming up it is supposed to help us prepare ourselves, but, i really don't want to be here. i can barely motivate myself to pay attention during regular class periods, much less extra periods.
it's true, i hate law school and i would give anything to get the hee-haw-hell out of it. the reading is completely boring and constant. everyone around me is super competitive and eager to study 15 hours a day and live in the library. the emphasis on picking a career path NOW is frustrating. i was pretty sure before and i'm damn sure now that i don't want to be a lawyer so i really can't say to my career services counselor what path i'm trying to take at this point. it's just easier to let her believe that i want to become a contract's negotiator at raytheon just like my dad (ugh) than to say that i just want to learn and be a mommy.
i suppose in other aspects of my life things are going well. justin and i have just paid our first month's rent and deposit for our apartment - 700 E 270 N. just 5 blocks from where i'm living now with a bus stop right in front of it for when it snows and i don't want to walk the 8 blocks to class. it's a house that's been divided into 2 apartments and we'll be living in the back half of the house. 1 bedroom, large kitchen with tons of counter space. since we're in the back we get to regulate the huge backyard with an apple tree and a cherry tree. i want to plant a garden and buy a barbeque. we also have free reign to paint it and we have a color scheme worked out - a mossy tree for the kitchen, navy blue for the bathroom, chocolate-y brown with beige trim for the living room, and a red bedroom a-la-amelie. we're going to paint tomorrow night and move justin in and most of my stuff in on saturday.
4 more weeks 'til finals. boo.
5 weeks 'til the wedding. huzzah!
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
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[now playing: i want some - the make up]
well, i get married in a little more than 6 weeks and it's about bloody time. i don't understand long engagements. i've been officially engaged now for 2 1/2 months (technically almost 4) and it's torturous. when you figure out who you want to spend the rest of eternity with you just want it to start. this is just limbo. and while i echo the sweet sentiments of the beach boys and think about when we can say good night and stay together i'm also a red-blooded girl who's waited 23 years. enough.
we'll start the apartment shopping this week, then we'll start the furniture shopping. we want to get a place now and have justin move in there a.s.a.p so that we can start setting it up with all our stuff and avoid a huge move in a month. we were walking to 7-11 late a few night ago and talking about this when justin said "...and then when we move in together..." it gave me kind of a jolt because i guess i'd never really thought about it like that. strange, exciting, grown-up...
my dad started dating last week. he does so with my and amy's full support. my mom's been gone almost a year, and amy's fast approaching moving out. it doesn't make sense for him to be lonely the rest of his life. no one will ever replace my mom in his heart, she was his soulmate, but he deserves to find as much happiness as he can. remarriage is probably way in the future though - he's having too much fun dating every woman in paris he can. he's lost something like 85 lbs in the past year and it sounds like he's looking good. i hope he has fun.
so with my dad back in the dating pool and a sister a week away from 16 i feel like the only real adult in my family doing grown-up things, haha. strange times.
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
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[now playing: winter pageant - the softies]
last week sucked with the weekend being the worst. we decided that saturday would be devoted to a car search in orem since i was about at my wit's end without a car. our plan was to take the bus up to the mall with our bikes (about a couple of miles) and then ride down state street in orem since there are about a million car dealerships there. we decided to ride all the way to lindon if we had to (5 or 6 miles or so total).
the first part of our plan worked out. we made it to the mall without a problem and started riding. we made it about 5 blocks when we saw a dealership on the other side of the street. we started crossing the street when justin's bike made a horrible popping noise. about 7 spokes on the same side on the front wheel all snapped at the same time. how does that happen, you ask? well, that's a fabulous question.
so, there it was, the beginning of the day and our only form of transportation was now gone. what did we do? we chained up the bikes and started walking. we walked all 5 miles to lindon. and test drove 1 car. luckily we avoided douchebag car salesmen most of the day. until we ended up at the last place, lowbook sales. there we met jesse who started out really nice and casual until we agreed to let him give us a finance assessment. after that it was all over and he was convinced we were going to buy a car from him. too bad all his cars were crap. finally we decided to sit in a p.o.s. kia just so we could shut the door and have some peace and discuss how to escape jesse's grasp. we came up with a plan of attack - we had a bus to catch back to provo and the next bus was the last one of the day. no problem, says sleezy jesse, i can give you a ride home! point jesse. but we insisted we needed more time to think about the kia and that we wanted to take the bus home. he walked us out of the lot, trying to convince us the whole way to stay and buy the car. we were about to cross over out of the lowbook zone when the bus passed. we know we have a snowball's chance in hell of catching that bus, but we start running anyway. after a couple blocks i was done, but justin grabbed my hand and started to drag me saying "we're not running for the bus! we're running away from jesse!"
the nightmare weekend ended with us in the hospital as justin's brother brandon had appendicitis surgery. bargh.
but! it all paid off! we realized the provo/orem car market was worthless and borrowed justin's brothers' car and went up to salt lake. and...i bought a car last night! no loans, no nothing, and the car is sweetness. it's a 2003 ford focus zx3 hatchback with a cd player, a/c, cruise control, keyless entry, and the tenative name of "cracklin' rosie". i feel so grownup. my parents bought exactly one car in their life when i was about 2 that they realized about 5 months afterward they couldn't afford and had to sell. since then they've always gotten free hand-me-downs from the rich grandparents, so i felt pretty without a frame of reference for this purchase. i think i did pretty good and we felt pretty inspired in how we found this bad boy. it still needed a bit of detailing, but we should be able to pick it up tonight. it looks almost exactly like this:
hurray for transportation!
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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[now playing: somebody that i used to know - elliott smith]
music is very theraputic as everything goes wrong. you can just sit in the law library and listen and cry at your carrel. better than crying in the middle of class right? luckily physical needs become more urgent than the emotional and so i'm off to lunch.
sarah's current sad bastard playlist:
1. So sad - The Softies
2. Cause of your Tears - Aden
3. Somebody that I used to know - Elliott Smith
4. A Night like this - The Cure
5. River - Joni Mitchell
6. Never loved you more - Trembling Blue Stars
7. Crying - Roy Orbison
8. Ex Factor - Lauryn Hill
9. All my little words - Magnetic Fields
10. Songs for a blue guitar - Red House Painters
11. Jealous Guy - John Lennon
12. These days - Nico
therapy through pop music.
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
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[now playing: the usual 'tards hogging class time in torts]
sigh. for the first time in my driving life i am sans vehicle. that's because somebody up there hates me and on our way to get some food saturday afternoon the car in front of us made a sudden stop and we did not stop suddenly enough.
yep. max power got wrecked.
that's 2 cars in 2 weeks. we're on a roll! (
sidenote: justin heard from the insurance company and lucas was totaled. they lowballed him on the price of the car so he's going to try to fight to get full blue book. the car was in excellent condition with new tires for goodness' sakes. plus he has a sister and a fiancee in law school who could potential draft up a scary letter. i'm sure that the minute the word "attorney" is dropped the insurance company will be willing to give up the piddling $500 we're asking for. it's only fair.)
not being able to drive suuuure sucks. i hate relying on others to run chores and all of sudden it seems like there are alot of chores that need to be done. luckily i have completely comprehensive insurance and everything should be covered and i should have to pay at most $200. until i hear from the insurance company, though, a million worst case scenarios go though my head and i worry that my car is gone for good and so is my loan money.
in trying to look on the bright side, all of this turmoil has made justin and me get our heads on straight and figure some stuff out financially and think carefully about the near future. we've got some pretty solid plans that, come december, should get us started on the right foot.
also decided: driving on a saturday? NEVER AGAIN.
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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R.I.P.
Lucas Daniel Bytheway
A Toyota Corolla, loved by all who knew him
1993-2005
so justin and i are driving along, driving along, to go to the paper store so that we can get that much closer to having our invitations done. we're going straight down 700 East, a typical residential street here in provo and as we get close to 200 North (a couple blocks from my house) i finally reach up to put on my seatbelt (i'm absentminded that way). as i do so i notice that a car that had been waiting to turn left is starting to turn even though we're crossing the intersection she's turning into "justin she's turning!" i yell and as i do so justin slams on the breaks and she turns left, right into the front left corner of the car. i fly forward and hit my head HARD on the rear view mirror causing it to go flying into the windshield. i also hit my arm on the steering wheel.
most of the tears came from the shock, although i'm pretty achey at the moment, and from the realization that our amazingly awesome car that had just been given a complete overhaul and new tires 3 weeks earlier is probably totaled. it's a mess and the frame seemed to be out of whack.
sigh. i'm still trying to convince myself that there has to be a blessing in all of this somewhere. i just really wish it had been my crappy ford escort and not lucas.
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Friday, September 16th, 2005
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[now playing: peace and love inc. - information society]
i'm pretty stoked. i just discovered that if i sit with my computer at my kitchen table at a certain angle then my computer picks up someone's wireless internet connection which means free internet at home! huzzah!
i've noticed in the past little while that there's alot of heartbreak going around the interweb and it's pretty hard not to get sucked into the drama of it all. voyeuristic me.
law school is kicking my trash, as usual. and i'm kicking my trash even harder with a new, rigorous workout. i know it sounds superficial, but i consider it prudent to get myself into shape for the wedding dress shopping that will occur in a couple months. i don't want to limit my opportunities none.
yes, i realize that all of this is boring. sarah happy and in love is much less interesting than sarah tortured and broken hearted. it's true for everyone i think. just wait until law school breaks my heart.
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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[now playing: property lecture on the rule against perpetuitites...say that 10 times fast!]
you may wonder why i'm not paying attention in class. it's because everything we're talking about today we already talked about yesterday at the optional midterm review session. i don't want to get too cocky, but the professor has set this up so it's going to be pretty easy.
fall came to provo, but i'm worried that it's leaving again just as rapidly. i really hope not, i loooove sweater weather.
this has been my most stressful week so far - one memo paradigm draft, one memo rough draft, one motion for summary judgment, and one midterm. and the sucky part is that only the midterm is worth anything to my grade. the rest are pass/fail assignments that don't factor into my final grade. but luckily they're all 6-10 pages and mandatory! AWESOME.
i really can't complain when i'm going to marry the greatest man i've ever met. who cares about law school when i get justin for forever? last night we snuck out of my house at 11, wandered up to campus, and made out behind the old press box. i love his guts out.
plans for the next few days:
thurs. - date night! pizza from costco and then "batman begins" at the dollar theater. all to celebrate having survived the week from HELL.
fri. - italian movie night at my place. seeing mission people that i haven't seen in months. yikes!
sat. - show in salt lake. cherry lime rickeys and the best onion rings in the whole world at take 5.
sun. - rest and relaxation. maybe a picnic in the canyon before daylight savings ends and it gets too cold.
there's alot to look forward to starting at 3 pm tomorrow. i just have to make it that far.
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
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[now playing: memory loss - deltron 3030]
life is good. stressful, but good. school goes forward with me understanding about 80% of what's going on, but i pick up on the other 20% pretty quickly i'd have to say. it just takes a day or two. mostly i'm just really really tired and my brain hurts. i think my thinking is changing.
wedding plans are rolling forward. we're going to be making our list for announcements this weekend and then probably buying the paper and printing them up this next week. it's probably going to cost about $100 for 250 invitations, not including the pictures, which we won't be taking until the end of the month/beginning of october. not too shabby. so! i need addresses people! i want everyone to share in my joy :]
justin and i already bicker like an old married couple, but i maintain that it's just 'cause we have good communication. we never hide when we're getting annoyed and we talk it through until the annoyance dissolves in how much we love each other. we see each other every day and i'm very very happy. the other day i was sitting on his lap and he looked at me and said "i've loved you for a long time, sarah" and i melted.
my family arrived in france and they sound pretty shell-shocked in their emails. i don't know that they really know what to think and i know that things are hard without my mom encouraging them to have a good attitude. it sounds like amy loves her school, at least. they haven't found a house and my dad has to start work on monday, poor guy.
and now, just a few words about the situation in new orleans and politics...
SO, apparently a hurricane levelling a city is president bush's fault. wow. i knew that american presidents were powerful but who knew that they have control over the weather?! next year when the giant earthquake they've been predicting (for YEARS) hits los angeles and levels it to the ground i can guarantee that bush with his obvious dark magic knowledge will have something to do with it. if sorceror bush can conjure up a hurricane why not an earthquake?
give me a BREAK. the weather goes through cycles, the earth goes through cycles. it's always been that way. why do you think that the ice age ended?
as for the levelling of the city being the federal government's fault because they didn't prepare the city well enough, come ON. do you know nothing about american government? the federal government is not concerned with making sure every city is safe. that's something for the city, county, and state government to concern itself with. new orleans was built in a stupid place and they didn't prepare it for a possible disaster. did we blame the governments of thailand, sri lanka, etc, for not preparing themselves for the possibility of a tsunami? what about madrid and london? "well sorry folks, the american people don't care about your disaster because you didn't prepare yourself well enough for this possibility." as well as you prepare you can never ever be perfectly prepared. and if they had spent tons of money building up new orleans and a disaster never occured? then everyone out there that's blaming bush for ruining new orleans would be complaining that he could've used that money to build up public schools or social security.
anyway, i was talking to justin last night about the last 5 years and it's hard to believe all the things that have happened in bush's presidency. is it just me or does it seem like every month has brought some sort of major disaster (not to mention the ongoing war)? it's kind of scary to think what could happen next. i started getting scared last night as i realized that there really is no place safe from natural disaster especially after justin told me that yellowstone national park is just a giant volcano getting ready to blow.
sarah: there really isn't a safe place to hide from all of this.
justin: well, there's glenwood. everyone there thinks it's a safe haven.
sarah: where's the nearest fault line?
justin: right under the town.
it's not that i'm afraid of death. i'm just afraid of leaving others behind and being powerless to help them and i'm afraid of those i love suffering. when i think about my future kids...
speaking of which, i'll talk about something more pleasant now. justin has a crazy aunt and uncle who have named their children in a ridiculous manner. they have something like 12 kids and a slew of them have recieved pseudo book of mormon names. examples: calem and jakem. so we decided to follow suit and give our children pseudo bible names - tomadiah, johnadiah, and bobadiah, for example. either that or give them all the same name with different suffixes, that way we can just call them by their suffixes! example: johnadiah and johnaboam become diah and boam. i know what you're thinking. you're giving these kids the last name "bytheway" AND a weird first name?! what can i say? we're cruel cruel people.
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Sunday, August 21st, 2005
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[now playing: from black to blue - yo la tengo]
well, i think i might have just recovered from the most pathetic beginning to a law career in the history of man. highlights - being in the half of the class that didn't find the magical link on the legal writing website that requested we do an introductory essay for the first day of class (i still haven't found it) and having bought the wrong textbook for torts and not knowing a damn thing the teacher was talking about. after class i ran around like a chicken with my head cut off until i bought a jamba juice and retreated to my little carrel here in the library. adding to my stress is that i can finally move into my house today which means time spent unpacking and buying groceries. argh! and i just remembered that i need to pick up my loan check!
i'm so stressed. but at least i've gotten my property reading down and i feel like i know what's going on and my civil procedure homework tonight is only 20 pages instead of the 43 pages we had to read over the weekend. yes, that's right, i had homework before school started. specifically - 8 chapters for legal research and writing, 43 pages for civil procedure, 6 pages for torts, and 19 pages for property and almost all of them had one or more case that had to be briefed.
stress. stress. stress. never go to law school.
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
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Saturday, August 6th, 2005
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Part Passionate Kisser |
For you, kissing is about all about following your urges
If someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of story
You can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kisses
A total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble | Part Expert Kisser |
You're a kissing pro, but it's all about quality and not quantity
You've perfected your kissing technique and can knock anyone's socks off
And you're adaptable, giving each partner what they crave
When it comes down to it, your kisses are truly unforgettable |
*shrug* what can i say?
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