We're So Small…

While driving towards the UVU library, enroute my 'road rage-less' way to school, I pulled off to the side of the road at

the site of the sunset tonight. I immediately grabbed my camera and snapped away while the sun and clouds posed

for me. You can never capture it the way you see it, because it's always changing. I felt so small compared to these

cosmic 'after rain' clouds. It doesn't matter how many papers or logos or crazy life problems you may have; when

you are staring at the magnitude of God's creations, all your worries melt away. Too bad you can't bottle it, eh?

I've Got The Blues

Not really though, just the blues for the color blue. After class tonight, Alishia and I went out on a hunt for the perfect

subject matter… the sun had come out, the rain had stopped and all the colors were so vivid from the rainfall. This

lovely vintage boat was parked on the side of a building. I fell in love right away (must've been the old vinyl); lately I've

been very drawn to the color blue, especially when paired with gray. I was working on a logo for most of the day and

my color pallet was just that. I also revisited my website today and there it was: blue and gray. I still love green and

I've succumbed to orange, but I believe blue is taking over my creative color pallet. I think I need to find a new color.

Comedic Relief… S.O.S.

I realize I've posted a few comics on here… but this one is real. Today was a bit of a rough patch, school deadlines

eating at me, life just in general making me second guess myself. But there is one thing that can't get me down…

comedy. It's awesome. Sometimes you just have to laugh til you cry or cry til you laugh. Another thing that ultimately

lifts my spirits… hanging out with my buds and pals. If homework weren't the priority, I'd be all over chillin' and talking

it up with all the people that make me laugh and smile til my cheeks hurt. True story: two summers ago when all my

friends got home from their missions, there were so many reunions of old friends that I went so overboard on smiling

that my cheeks would start to cramp up from smiling and Nikki would have to use her mad Massage Therapy skills to

make them go away. So… tomorrow is another day and these problems will be gone next week. Bring it on life!

Beet Stained

Beets, Beets, the more you eat the more you dry heave. It's real. Nikki and I are on this three day diet where they

tell you what to eat for every meal for the first three days of the week and then you can eat whatever you want for the

last four days of the week, without over doing it, of course. Downside: one of the items on the menu is pickled beets.

They taste fine, the smell is more on the stanky side, but when I chew those puppies, the bits want to slide down my

throat before I am ready to swallow, causing me to dry heave. Upside: beets are a pretty color, a color that seems

to get everywhere once you open the can. Super upside: this diet allows ice cream with every dinner, um, yes please.

Stormy With A Chance Of Betty

Remember how bad our oven was and how we were trying to get the hang of it? Well by george, Nikki's outdone

herself on that one. Friday she made a peach cobbler and banana muffins, yesterday she made apple crisp and

tonight she made another apple crisp, that's two times bro. Lets just say she's got this baking thing down to a

science. Oh, goodness, wasn't conference just lovely? I'm so pumped to take on the world now. Conference Sunday

is always spent (well the latter session) and my Grandma and Grandpa Duncan's house… alway a pure delight.

Primping Platypus

Conference was absolute awesomeness. In between sessions, Nikki, Alishia, Aubrey and I painted our nails. Aubrey

has thee coolest colors. My favorite color is this one… does it not remind you of Perry the Platypus from Phineas and

Ferb (in the top five best things Disney Channel has every produced)? Best part: Aubrey is letting me keep this color.

I know this post may seem a bit girly to you, but nail polish is really the only extra 'primping' I do, and even then, I do

it myself; none of this going to pay to get my nails done. Doesn't this photo take you back to this post? Back then I

was only three months into this blog, now I only have three months left… crazy cakes, eh? Are you sad? or ecstatic?

The mess of black and white on my thumb was my attempt to make a Perry the Platypus eye; one on each thumb. But it wasn't drying

fast enough and ended up smearing everywhere. By then I was done with the idea. One day I'll get it… one day, you just wait and see.

New York Up

Remember how while in New York, for the first couple of days everything seemed to be going just a tad bit off

(delayed flights, lost luggage, uncomfortable nights)? Well, I guess it would only be fair to assume that when it came

time to hang our New York Show that the 'off-ness' would follow us back to Utah and six months later. See, this

morning we were scheduled to hang our show on the fifth floor of the UVU library. Once I got to school, I received

word that there was a gas leak scare in the library and they evacuated it and all the surrounding buildings. Cut to

two hours later, and we were finally able to start hanging the show. It took forever; my pieces took the longest to

hang. Go figure since there were seven of them and they were 3D. A good chunk of my day was spent in that library.

Hooray, my little sister is in town from Snow and staying with me for the weekend. Happy Conference eve everyone.

The show will be up starting tomorrow and will run all the way until the twenty-eighth of October. If you're in town, I strongly suggest to

take a look. There are some magnificently talented people at that school. That mixed with the inspiration of NYC, you can't miss it.