Fantastic!

Let me tell you, I love the Los Angeles temple. Thursday night is designated for non-appointment baptisms, and there's usually a group of us that go and more often than not, we get food somewhere in Westwood after. Last night we meant to get home early-ish. We really did. But we got to talking to another group of people and we all ended up going for Thai food. I got home at 12:30 this morning. When I got home, my dad looked at the time and said "Weren't you at the temple?" That made me laugh.

So far, I haven't done much today, either. But I'm cool with it. Jared's teacher said it was okay for him to play hooky today because yesterday was Open House and they're not doing anything today. So now we're having a Doctor Who marathon.

Dude.

I'm writing this post on an iPod Touch. I love technology.

Long Live the "Vote for Change" shirt worn ironically.

Because of the awful weather, I didn't drive back to Rexburg. I flew! The flight was fine, but the shuttle from SLC broke down. It was awful. I pulled out the only time-passer in my bag whose batteries wouldn't die--my scriptures. I laughed when I got to D&C 121:10-- "Thou art not yet as Job." I felt better then. I did skip my morning class, though.

My tripod and camera remote are here! So despite how I looked today, I HAD to test it out. Chelsea's in this picture giving me a weird look, but I cropped her out on her request.

I have no formal post. Just captions for pictures.

 This is my dad fixing the pipes. They're partway through redoing the kitchen, and it's going to look great!

 There's a clothesline in the backyard of my new place. 

 I plan to take unnecessary amounts of pictures of my clothes drying this summer.

 I actually plan to take unnecessary amounts of pictures in general, because now I have a real camera for the first time since November! I bought a Canon EOS Rebel XSi for my photography classes. Huzzah.

I was home alone with nothing to do tonight, so I got started making chocolate hazelnut gelato. 

 Side note: I made the bacon ice cream earlier this week. It was really, really good. My family loved it, too! (See? I am neither pregnant nor crazy.)

I wore an apron and everything!

It's not finished yet, though. It has to chill for a lot longer before it can go into the machine. But it'll be worth the wait. 

Stranger Danger

Skype is a wonderful tool. It's a video chat application. 

Today I learned what happened when you set your availability to "SkypeMe!"

What happens is that 29-year-old Algerian strangers and see your picture and start IMing you, telling you how "beuatiful" you are. (Seriously, your first language is french. No excuses for spelling "beautiful" wrong, man!) It's a wonderful opportunity to practice your french, but you get truly creeped out. So you lie to Samir the law clerk. It's true you're a student and want to be a photographer and you go to a Christian university, but your name sure isn't Mimi and you certainly don't attend APU.

He wants to add you as a contact. You try to say as nicely as you can that you don't talk to people you never met in person online, that the whole SkypeMe thing was an accident, that you have to go. 

I'm okay with people I don't know reading my blog or seeing the pictures I take, but being accosted online by strangers is near the top of my "dislike" list. Anyone looking to Skype to meet girls is a creeper, no matter what. Using a dating website is one thing (3 of my uncles met their wives online), but Skype? That's like MySpace creeping--I deleted mine last summer because I was sick of creepers. If you want to meet people, go out and get a life!

So be careful out in Internetland, boys and girls.