Creole Wisdom

clean apt & rolls

•friday i cleaned my apt. i am the only person who cleans in my apt. i thought, since i'm only here for the summer it's not worth it to try to get my lazy roommate to pitch in.
•plus it's not much to actually clean, and i love doing stuff on the weekends so i can spend time in a clean apt!
•then, yesterday, i decided to make my most favorite rolls, and then try my hand at using the same dough for cinnamon rolls

•to make the cinnamon roll sugar mixture i just threw together: butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and pecans. i could of been really bad and made a drizzle frosting, but i restrained my self for the love of my hips/boobs/thighs
•i love baking! and this is my very first time making a yeast dough without a) mom b) a thermometer.  I can't believe it all worked out!
•i can make bread, and so i can survive!
•i can't wait to get back home to MN and make these for my sorority sisters : )

same.

I meandered over to my high school's website, and decided to check out their alumni/general newsletter.  sigh. And you know, I was so disappointed. One thing that always, always irritated me about St. Mary's was the push, push, pushiness towards big careers (translate: big money) and lots of braggy, braggy, braggy. 

I am sorry.  St. Mary's might be the "best high school in Portland" as I recall hearing during our rose festival day, but it's no Exeter. 

So, they have an entire section for people of certain graduation years and small blurbs about their lives.  Now, I am all for "so and so had their first baby" or "sally is a senator," but the entire "janie is on the deans list at (insert A-list college) and will spend her summer feeding orphans in Capetown while curing aids while writing her own screenplay" is just a bit much for me. 

PULEEZEE.

But oh, so St. Mary's.

And about two weeks ago Alyx (an old HS buddy) and I were chatting, and she told me that a girl from our class was trying her luck at acting in New York City.  Now, I am no Halle Berry, but let me tell you, this girl- not cute.  Sure she had semi-good talent, but New York?  Let me tell you about New York.  It's rough. And the acting/modeling circuit.  Even worse.  But what really irritated me was the fact that it is this type of unrealistic confidence that plagues some SMA grads. And was promoted by some teachers!

When did we begin to believe that we were the best?  When did we start telling women that mommy hood/housewifery were not as desirable as solving world hunger or running a law firm.  Yes, it's no lie that I am not a feminist, and would be content to be a "lady who lunches" until her death, but- why is one definition of excellence/success okay?

People constantly plug the benefits of a single sex education.  I have no idea how I feel about it.  I'm a full three years out of high school, and still do not understand why over-confidence was plugged instead of realistic confidence. 

Blah.

fall in new york

i. just. bought. tickets. to. new. york. for. the. fall. see:

eee. so. siked. so. siked. oct three to eight. i will be back. in my second favorite city. in the world.

like i tell you readers: sometimes good things happen.

and. i am flying my most favorite and trusted airline: northwest (naturally) and they were pretty cheap (shocker) and there are no layovers and i leave in the morning. and it just couldn't be more perfect.

and so now i need a cute very bradley or lands end weekend bag. because i broke my stepdads and gave the nike one back to the roberts.

i want to chill at sarah lawrence, eat dinner at the family of the kids i used to take care of, run around bronxville, play in manhattan, and take 5,000 pictures.

yes, sometimes good things happen.

to go back. to see ny in the fall. if you are new to creole wisdom, read about my year living in new york here.

my favorite web princess

Dear readers, today is the birthday of two of my most favorite people: my mother and Jay.  If you want to read about how much I adore Jay and why go here.  I wish I could talk to my mother today and wish her a happy 30th (just kidding), but she is off in the boundary waters or some god-forsaken-place-i-do-not-care-to-go, camping with friends, and as a result- her cell phone is nill. 

So, if I had planned ahead and actually done good this year I would of purchased some flowers from my new blog friend, and favorite web princess, Lasertron.  I stumbled across this gem of a blogger last week, and she promptly featured me regarding my sorority snaps (which I updated, so go peak).  She is dang cool-

Princesss Lasertron, or Miss Megan had not only her cute self, but her wedding dress, and homemade bouquet featured in this very magazine which she is so kindly sending to me:

She makes amazing felt-button-jewel bouquets/pins/barrettes and sells them in her etsy store.  I have never seen something like this, and my eyes get out, my eyes get out.  Amazing!

Doesn't she have great style?  And get this, not only did she design her flowers she had her very only wedding dress custom made.  I have never seen a prettier gown, and again my eyes have seen a lot.  Below she is with dad on her special day. 
 
I highly recommend taking a walk over to her blog right now and checking it out.  She is inspiring and the little glimpse that she gives into her colorful life is so fun.  Plus she is midwestern and a communications girl like me, so if you like Creole Wisdom, you'll like Princess Lasertron, too. 

i like it all cept the heat

•wednesday felt a lot like friday because today is a holiday- only in utah though- and i'm serious, even the bank was closed.
•i finally got my booty over to robynn's house.  she is so kind, and we have hiked stewart falls with her adorable puppy, but never got to meet the famous husband or see the cute house
•but now I have!

•um, i don't know what to say about my expression/awkward head tilt. cleary, robynn has posing for pictures down
•i like the girl, so i knew i'd like the hubby.  they are so cute together, great couple, and so dang funny
•anna was with us, too, and we managed to polish off an entire bag of potato chips with the help of my famous dip that is really horrible for you-
•they have the cutest newlywed house, i am tellin' ya.  it is so "old provo," and full of great details that you can only find in old houses.  no wymount for these guys! seriously, their house was awesome, and this is my favorite detail- evil stickers on dishwasher liquid bottles! so cool.

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•so today, pioneer day, i didn't have work or class so i slept in really late.  like really late. like, uh, afternoon- it's my fault though, i stay up way too late
•i got up. i got ready, and i took the garbage out.
•then i took a really, really, really hot walk downtown and passed two inspiring sights:


•then i went to maestro's, and instead of getting something cool like i planned i was not wise and ordered a nutella filled crepe, making my walk back in the 100-degree heat quite the experience

•then i scrapbooked and made a huge mess in the living room in front of HGTV with the air cranked. it's really, really, really hot here!

results

here are the pages i created with brittany at pebbles in my pocket.  i love that place.  they were fun. i loved using paint and just being messy and crazy scrapbook-y.

•Reunited: you know i adore the kettle sea salt & vinegar chips.  i had fun painting all the edges of this with (my favorite) acrylic paint-

•Seaplane: this is such an incriminating photo of me back in my days interning here.  they (sob) made me model against my will in a high fashion show when i was miss. snobby back in high school and (sob) people from school came to see me (roll eyes here).  obviously i am not model material and you can tell from this lo, and yes, the photo is on the web and i screamed (a horrible, 1950s alfred-hitchcock-the-birds) when i saw it-

•the boston lds temple: gorgeous. i am really into ribbon right now, and they have such a good selection at pebbles. the big clear "m" is for mass : )

juve-nile?

am i too old to wear my hair like this?



... you tell me... and i am 21 (forever, eternally, it feels like)

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as creole-in-dc asks, is it hotness or hotmess?!?

the weekend review: sun-day, sunday

•So Curtis was begging and pleading for me to go down to his town for Church, and meet his parents (okay, he didn't beg- he kindly asked, but it would of sounded better the begging way, huh?)
•He came and kindly picked me up, under the disclaimer that I would not make fun of his car (I did not, at least he has one- don't get me started ; )
•Church was good. I am 100-percent-positive I distracted Curtis enough where he could not pay attention to the speaker.  It was a great older building with pretty wooden pews, and neat ceiling work.  It was a really nice break from the 1987 wannabe fashion show that is the King Henry ward on Sundays.  I know that was mean, but come see for yourself!
•And because I know you wanted to see:

•Disclaimer: he did not wear that to Church.  This was taken by his littlest brother after dinner. 
•And how fun was it to go to Church and be able to hold hands/mug on each other bwahaha I am so bad, I mug on my very own RM (return missionary).
•I got to meet the family, eat dinner (mystery jello, ahh!), and then play games.  I won phase 10- and as a result Curtis will never play another game with me ever again.  He also has trouble eating in my presense, as he dropped not only his drumstick, but dessert on his lap.  His parents were cracking up and they say he never does that- hilarious.  Ingrained in my mind forever.
•It would not be a fun weekend without a little "crisis"- Curtis got a flat on the way home.  I pretended to "learn" how to fix one:

•Oh no, a flat.  Images of the swearing scene in A Christmas Story were rushing through my mind!

•Jacking the car up.  Look at those sexy arms?  Puny, skinny arms are not my thing, give me some workin' mans arms.  Yum!

•Because I was not really learning car care 101 from Mr. Citris, I decided to do a self-portrait in the pitch dark. 
•After that "crisis" was resolved we drove on down to the baby capital of the world, i.e. where I live, and sat by the Temple and talked for an hour.  I was tired.  Then he took me home so I could go to sleep- at 2am!
•Good Sunday!  Loved it.

the weekend review: saturday's edition

•It was such a treat to meet Miss Brittany.  She is good people, as I say, good people. 
•A little background- she and I met via the wonderful world of blogging and instantly became blog buddies
•Since Britt works in "da business" (no, not the mob, the other business) we had to crop.
•First stop P.F. Changs for lunch:

•Oh my goodness how cute is she?  I wish you could see the darling little sundress she had on- very southern, a girl after my own heart!

•So um, maybe we ordered the wrong stuff, but we were not really impressed.  But it was about nourishment dear readers, nourishment.  We had lots of scapbooking to do.
•Well, just take a look at Britt's trunk.  She obviously came prepared!  Thank goodness Pebbles has a ramp, I about peed my true religions when I saw this...

•We did not lack for a thing!  I really prefer cropping, it is I think, more economical than buying stuff then going home.  When you're right there you just buy what you need.  I made 4 layouts while spending $20.00 I think that is pretty dang good.  This was my first time cropping at Pebbles, I've done it at Archivers before, and I love all the space they give you. 
•And wouldn't you know it, a nice girl came up and talked to us, and we all exchanged blogs.  It was nice to meet you Erica : )

•We stayed for about four hours, laughing, and making a mess.  It was scrapbooking discord at its best- my favorite kind of cahois!
•Because cropping is akin to a mental/creative/left brain marathon we were hungry
•Back to University Mall, but this time for CPK. Mmm.  She had the white, I had 4-cheese with avocado (it tasted so good!)
•Then, because she is a Bath & Body Works expert we ventured there and picked up goodies- I love their new, mini hand sanitizers, and as usual I picked up a giant tub of sea island cotton cream : )
•Back at the ranch we chanted for another few hours about life, school, jobs, boys, Church, Utah... you name it.
•She's a gem! 

new home

I've moved.  In hindsight, after taking advice from this lovely blogger who I am now addicted to, and only with a bit of googling- in under one hour I had my own domain name*.  This was one of my elusive goals, and it just feels good to have it checked off.  It's cheap.  Do it. 

So, now adjust your bookmarks please, introducing...

Creole Wisdom
www.creolewisdom.com

*Dang, I should of majored in computer science or something.