Ice Plant

I am fully aware of how long it's been since I've posted last. It annoys me sometimes when other people who have blogs I follow, take so long to update. How hypocritical am I?! I just haven't felt like I've had anything noteworthy to say.

My birthday was on the 10th. That was fun. I still had to work and go to school, so not too much celebrating. But I received some nice presents from people I love. I gave up candy for lent but allowed myself to eat some Swedish Fish for my birthday. Sort of my present to myself.

Last week was Spring Break. I still had to work, so not too exciting either. I did go to Bikram Yoga a few times though. I enjoyed that A LOT. For those who don't know, Bikram is yoga that's performed in a REALLY hot room. 110* and 35% humidity for 90 minutes. I like it. And each time I went, my urge to throw up decreased. That's progress at it's finest.

I went snowboarding last Friday for the first (but not last) time this season. I love snowboarding, it's just so hard for me to schedule it in. I work M-F in the evenings and I have school most days. Plus, it's expensive. But I still love it.

There was a gas leak on campus yesterday. Apparently two pipes were accidently drilled into by road workers so they shut down everything and evacuated everyone until the leak was fixed. UNFORTUNATELY it happened right after my last class got out so no canceled classes for me. Also UNFORTUNATELY I still had to work. Double Plus Bonus lame. Although, I did get hazard pay and there weren't many on campus wanting rides.

Yep, so there's my exciting life. Everything that's been going on in a nutshell. OH! This isn't news but I just found it amusing. So my friend Leslie, who is from Central Eastern Utah (Emory County), went home with her roommate for Spring Break. Her roommate is from Temecula. And she saw Ice Plant for the first time. This is what she said about it: "Apparently it is the fad to have purple flowers in your lawn. It is called ice plant and it is a very popular thing to have covering half your property. But, I have to admit it was very beautiful especially when combined with the bright orange poppies." That made me laugh. I guess I just forgot how 'unusual' it is to someone from Utah. Those of us from California are just so used to it we never give it a second thought. Ice Plant just reminds me of Elementary School. I picture the embankments at Pine Grove covered in it and the Noon Duty Ladies always yelling at us to stay off of it. Once when I was in one of the lower grades (1-3, I don't remember which) a gardner snake was found in the Ice Plant on the side of the school in the area that separated the upper grade field form the lower grades field. Anyway, the custodian was to scared to catch it so one of the teachers, Mrs. Ater (sp?), had to catch it. This was headline news to us at the time. I think that possibly Allison would be the only one who reads my blog who may possibly remember this. Anyway, my point is, Ice Plant reminds me of Snakes, Pine Grove Elementary School and Noon Duty Ladies.