What I'm Thankful for This Thanksmas

Yeah, I normally do this on Thanksgiving, but I got pretty lazy this year. So let's just call this a Thanksgiving/Christmas list. A Thanksmas list. So without further ado, here's a list of some things I'm thankful for:

• Not having much snow this year. I know, it's bad for global warming and the Utah economy, but I got to walk to school in that crap.
• Also, having NO snow last year for the same reason.
• But having enough snow in the mountains right now to go skiing
• My calling in church. Seriously, Ward Prayer Co-Chair is the best thing ever. It's a ward leadership calling in my ward, but I have to do next to nothing. And it's a pretty social calling too.
• The Wendy's near the Tanner Building. I've been eating there 2-3 times a week. The cashier knows me.
• The free Frosty key chain I have. I think I've gotten about 100 free Frosty's this year.
• The fact that I can get about 2,000 calories off the dollar menu for $5 at Wendy's.
• Group members who do good group work (evil stare at one group member from this last year).
• The fact that I survived spending 16 straight hours on campus one day late in November.
• Getting a 97% on an Art History final and beating the art majors at their own game. Suck on that, liberal arts majors!
• Lists. 
• That my major does not require me to write giant research papers for classes like certain Art History classes do.
• That I have a job offer. Related to my major.
• Facebook friends that tag me in photos (my parents are grateful for that too, beeteedubs. It lets them know that I actually have friends).
• Disneyland.
• That we don't live in a zombie apocalypse,
• but that I'm prepared for one in case I ever have to. Thanks, Walking Dead.
• People who are engaged, but don't feel the need to be constantly touching each other.
• Chester the Molester.
• Chester the Molester not dying this year.
• Surviving my first car accident in TLC, the other car I drove this summer.
• As well as the time TLC somehow had one of its tires impaled by a set of pliers while on I-15. Literally impaled.
• And the time the hood on TLC decided to flip open while driving on I-15.
• That I don't have to repent for hating a car.
• My bishop.
• My ward.
• Not getting hit by cars while riding my bike in Provo. . .Yet.
• The friend who convinced me to run a half marathon.
• The friend who introduced me to Doctor Who.
• The friends who didn't get all political on Facebook this last election.
• The friend who always invites me to dance parties.
• The friend who says she loves my laugh, in spite of how obnoxious it is.
• The friend that was willing to be dragged through the BYU Art Museum and look at all the works of art with me.
• The friend that always lights up when people she knows enter the room.
• The friend who introduced me to frappes.
• Friends in general. Good grief I'm blessed.
• The roommate who did my cleaning check for me.
• The roommates who are willing to listen to my dating stories and gripes.
• My roommates in general.  Seriously, they're great.
• Sunlight
• That time late at night when everything becomes hilarious.
• Sunday dinners.
• Stargazing.
• Frozen food.
• Family.
• Kittens.
• The fact that I can list this many things to be Thankful for.
• The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thanks for the great year everybody!

 

Christmas + Thanksgiving Wrap Up

So I'm still fairly behind with blogging since I did such a crummy job at it for a good six weeks, so here's a bit of a quick update of what's been going on lately.

First off, our family once again did a lot of pies on Thanksgiving. It was amazingly delicious. We usually get tiny slices of each pie so we can sample them all. In the future, we may have to vomit the pies halfway through so that we have enough stomach space for all of them. Sort of like the spitting up whine thing you do when you go whine testing.

Also, my grades just came back, and I received my all time lowest grades ever in all of history. A C+ and a B-. And you know what? I don't even care anymore. I graduate in four months, I have a job offer, and I don't have to worry about keeping my GPA up for scholarship anymore. So why worry, right?

In related news, my brother who just returned from a mission in Japan has informed me that I'm taking a giant dump on every last vestige of Asian left in my blood. I should note that my other younger brother, who I've been living with for the last semester, has just barely received his mission call to Japan. For those keeping score at home, here's where we stand:

• Dad: served in Hokkaido, Japan
• Mom: from Tokyo, Japan
• Younger brother 1: served in Kobe, Japan
• Younger brother 2: going to serve in Fukuoka, Japan
• Younger brothers 3 & 4: almost certainly going to serve in Japan. Probably the Nagoya and Sedai missions, so that we end up covering the whole country with Low family shenanigans.
• Me: Little Rock, Arkansas.

Am I ashamed? Of course not. I learned how to deep fry stuff. And as any stateside missionary will tell you, "stateside is the best side."

Now, for Christmas, I got a graphics tablet. I'm really excited about it, but I'm still learning how to draw things. You might think that art skills would translate to drawing on a tablet super quick, but it doesn't. You have to look at a computer screen instead of your hand, and you still have to learn how to do Photoshop and stuff. I'll probably be illustrating this blog using the tablet from here on out. Even though I'm fairly slow with it, it's still faster than MS Paint or using the sketch app on the iPad. Hey, here's a picture I drew earlier for practice!

"I AM ZIIIMMMM!!!"

As you can see, my drawing on the left is kinda sloppy when compared to the source material on the right. So we'll see what happens from here on out.

Finally, I think I would be remiss if I didn't put up a list of what I was grateful for this last Thanksgiving. I've done it for the last two Thanksgivings, and I feel like it's a good tradition. I know it's super late, so maybe we'll just call it a Christmas List of Thankfulness. A Christfulness? Thankmas?

I'll figure it out. It will be its own post though.

10 Dumb Ways for the World to End

So the world hasn't ended yet (if this surprises you, then you really ought to science more often).

In light of these recent events, I thought it would be fun to theorize the dumbest possible ways for the world to end. I only could think up a couple, so I turned to my Facebook friends for help. Here are our ideas on how the world could end:

1.  Death by failure of Bruce Willis 

2.  "All the cutest animals in the world become viciously evil and take over." -Rich

3.  "Marshmallows start raining from the sky and everyone keeps eating them and can't stop. Everyone gets beyond morbidly obese and are all rolling in the marshmallows laughing. Everyone is so obese that you can't even see the ground b/c of all the fatness and then everyone suffocates in each others fat and marshmallows." -Victoria

4.  "Death by Sasquatches." -Chris

5.  "Winnie the Pooh's Eeyore becomes a prophet. 'We're all gonna die,' he says. At that moment, unicorns and narwhals engage in mortal combat in the heavens above and the earth is flooded by rainbows and then colonies of hippies are the only survivors." -Jason

Dag this one was weird to draw.

6.  "God spills coffee on his keyboard, and he somehow loses the 'earth' file." -Travis

7.  "Jacob low replicates himself exponentially and takes over the planet." -BJ

8.  "The turtle that carries the earth on it's back dives under water and we all drown." -Aaron

Note: Mayans believed that the Earth rests on the back of a turtle.

9.  "Women are banned from eating chocolate. Men lose the right to play video games. Each gender goes nutso and everyone offs each other." -Chantel

 10.  Lame zombie apocalypse. As in, the zombies from Pirates of the Caribbean 4.

Mutton Chops are Like a Hug From Your Hair

Ok, I have been neglecting the blog like a tool for far too long. I guess I can make the excuses like having a crazy semester, lack of time, and other blah blah blah things like that. Instead, I guess I should just start posting. I've got a lot of good ideas, they just take time to make, so be patient and you'll start seeing things on here.

But it probably won't be for a few more days because I'm in Disneyland right now and am enjoying a much needed vacay.

In the meantime, I wanted to share with you a great insight my roommate shared with me: MUTTON CHOPS ARE LIKE HUGS FROM YOUR HAIR.

That is all for now.