They've done it again

First, McDonald's came out with $1 double cheeseburgers.

Then it was $1 Dr. Pepper's.

But, now they have done it again.

Two words. Rolo. McFlurry.

Did you get that? McDonald's now has Rolo McFlurry's.

And they are amazing.

What is McDonald's trying to do to me!

Straight from Brooke's mouth

Tonight when I got home from watching Lost, Brooke and I were talking about the new characters from the tail end of the plane. In the course of this conversation we started discussing all of the romances that are going on and the ones that are to come. Brooke was being very mean and not telling me who was going to fall in love with who. (This is a vital question that needs to be answered. I can't believe she's ignoring me.) At one point, I thought she slipped up and told me one of the couples because she started laughing after I guessed it.

Instead Brooke said, "no, it was something about something I can't say."

I told her she could just tell me and that I wouldn't tell anyone she told, but she stood firm. Since nobody will tell me anything, here is my official guesses of couples on Lost:

1. Kate and Sawyer
2. Kate and Jack (lets face it, Kate is gonna play them both, and its going to cause problems. I guess that there is going to be a battle royale for Kate's affection.)
3. Libby and Michael (although I kinda hope not cause Michael bugs me and so far I really like Libby)
4. ewww, maybe it's Libby and Locke! (gross!!!!!! I seriously hope not.)
5. stupid Analucia and Jack (I hate Analucia. I hated her before she killed Shannon. She is crazy and has some major issues.)
6. Hurley is gonna have a romance with someone, but I can't decide who yet.
7. there is probably more, but really they're only on the island for a few months, and how many times and ways can a group of people fall in love before it gets ridiculous

UPDATE: I changed my mind. Libby is not going to fall in love with Michael. Mostly because Michael is finally gonna die, well thats what I predict anyways. I OFFICIALLY change my prediction to a romance between Libby and Hurley. I don't know why I didn't see it earlier! It's going to happen, just wait and see.

More questions

I know my last post was about Lost questions, but I just have so many more now! And they're plaguing my brain. Last night instead of just asking the questions as they popped into my head I saved them as a draft text message. Here's the list and my commentary, along with a few questions I thought of today.

1. Where/what is the black rock? You know its gonna be important. I picture it looking like the rock Harry and Dumbledore apparate to before they swim to the cave to get the horcrux.
2. What is making the light in the hatch? This is just weird and it creeps me out.
3. What does Claire name her baby? Charlie can't keep calling him Turniphead. Also they obviously used a different baby for each episode I watched last night. And it's super obvious when they're holding a doll instead of an actual baby.
4. WHAT'S IN THE HATCH? This is just weird and it creeps me out.
5. Does Kate have a baby? When I read John and Brooke my list of questions they laughed at this one and actually told me that she doesn't. It's officially the first question they've answered for me.
6. Where is Kate's husband?/What happened? Also what happened to Jack's wife?
7. Why is Kate's mom scared of her? What did she DO?
8. Why does Walt want off the island so bad now? Walt is weird. First he burns the raft and then Locke touches his hand and now he wants off the island as fast as he can. But it's ok, he's going to die soon. IMDB says he's only in 33 episodes and we're getting close to that. I think he's going to die in the season finale. Also it would be to hard to keep him in the show because he's going to start growing up and looking noticeably different over the 6 years they do the show, and the show is only suppose to take place over a couple months.
9. Are there aliens in the metal container with the hatch? This also REALLY creeped me out. More on this to come.
10. Is Walt one of the aliens? Walt creeps me out too.
11. Why is Walt weird/different? Is Turniphead like him too? There is something weird about Walt. I hope Turniphead isn't weird like him.
12. Why did Locke hit Sayid and keep him from using the satellite thing to triangulate their position? Are you kidding me?! It was Locke?! Locke is weird. He creeps me out.
13. Why doesn't Locke want off the island? Again, Locke is weird.
14. Is Locke crazy? Again, Locke creeps me out.

So, today at work all of a sudden I was struck with the thought that it could be aliens in the hatch making it glow. And that really freaked me out. I don't know why, but aliens scare me. I just kept thinking about it, so I texted Brooke and John and asked them if it was aliens. I said that it was really distracting me and that I was going to mess people's orders up so they should tell me because it benefited the greater good. (notice the Harry Potter reference, I was quite proud of it). John told me I was close and Brooke just laughed and said nice try. So to get Brooke to understand how serious this was I told her what I was picturing. Here it is, word for word.

Brooke, I'm picturing ET with rabies jumping out of the hatch and massacring the whole island and then tanning on the beach eating Reese's Pieces, please tell me if there are aliens?!?!?! And then, when ET gets sun burned he jumps on his bike with all the Jesus drug statues in the little basket and flys to the moon. Also ET will be wearing Sawyer's glasses and reading Watership Down while tanning in one of Shannon's bikinis.

And Brooke ignored it! She is very good at avoiding my questions, but how can she ignore that level of detailed terror?!?

An observation, Lost question updates, and Persuasion

First, lets do the Lost question updates.

1. I no longer care too much about whether Claire's baby is a boy or a girl (well I do, but this question eclipses it), what I really want to know is: what does Ethan wants with Claire and her baby? Ethan is freaking creepy. And weird looking.
2. WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN?!?!?!?!? Brooke said that the numbers are confusing even at the end. That just will not do. I have issues with unanswered questions.
3. Do Charlie and Claire fall in love? I don't know why I'm obsessed with coupling everyone, I guess it's just because you can't be trapped on a weird, creepy deserted island and not have a few people fall in love.
4. And that's all the questions I can think of for now. I'm sure I've asked a bazillion more, but I just can't remember them all right now. I haven't been awake long enough for that.

Second, I'm watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on the ABC Family Harry Potter Weekend Marathon and I realized that my hair looks just like Hermione's if I do nothing to it.

Like, if I just woke up and started walking around doing stuff, my hair would look exactly like Hermione's from the first 2 Harry Potter movies. Except her bangs look better. Cause mine look like crap if I don't do anything to them. (You can read about my struggle with my bangs here.)

Third, Kelsie and I saw the play Persuasion on Thursday night.

(The girl sitting down wearing the gold dress is Mary. She was hilarious. The girl sitting in front of her played Louisa Musgrove. She was really funny too.)

It was sooo good! I like the actors in the BYU play better than in the movie. The girl who plays Mary was amazing. I would go see the play again just for her. Also the guy who played young Frederick was very attractive, minus the weird clip in hair thing that was super obvious because you could see the white clip holding it in.

Probably one of my favorite parts was right after Mary met Captain Wentworth and she's talking to Anne about how nice his name is. "Weeeentworth. Went-worth. Wentworth. Captain Wentworth." And then, "wouldn't Wentworth be a wonderful name for a dog? Come here Wentworth! Oh, good boy Wentworth!" If I had a dog I would name him Wentworth. But, since I'm 100% positive I will never have a dog, I don't really need to worry about it. In fact, the only reason I would ever get a dog now is so that I could name him Wentworth.

This is the text conversation Kelsie and I had when we were discussing when I would pick her up.

Kelsie: "Why don't you pick me up at 5:45 and then we can go to McDonald's for dinner."

Katie: "Why McDonald's? We can go someplace nicer if you want."

Kelsie: "Shamrock shakes!!!"

Katie: "I may have already had a Shamrock shake today..."

Kelsie: "Well you can have another one!"

We ended up going to Olive Garden for dinner. But then I did take Kelsie to get her Shamrock shake before I took her home. It was the least I could do for her on St. Patrick's day. Everyone reserves a Shamrock shake on St. Patrick's day. On a side note, I'm glad to say that my influence has been increasing Kelsie's dependency on McDonald's. That could be one of my greatest accomplishments.

Tiger Wrestling

I found this picture today at my internship.

Yes, that is a real tiger.

And yes, that guy is wrestling it.

Did they really think this was a good idea?

This is what must have been going through his head:

This is soooo awesome! I'm totally kicking this tiger's trash! This stinking tiger is no match for me and the 2 feet of string I wove last night. I'm a total Bad A! Good thing all those people are behind that barrier made of twigs, because if I wasn't holding this tiger in submission right now they would be knocked over my my awesomeness!

At least this is what he was thinking until he realized the tiger clawed him new pants to shreds (gotta impress the ladies with his fashion sense while he wrestles a mighty predator into submission), and took a huge bite out of his hip.

This was part of the OFFICIAL Brigham Young University homecoming celebration in 1968. I mean it took place right in front of the McKay Building! Other activities included ostrich racing and cougar hunting.

Where do you even get a live tiger from? I mean, when you ask for the tiger do they ask what you need it for? Because, if they did ask, and then the answer was that a bunch of students were going to wrestle it, the person who gave them the tiger is either an idiot OR seriously needed some humor in his life and has a sick sense of humor. Because lets face it, this would be HILARIOUS to watch.

I vote we bring this time honored tradition back for all future Homecoming Celebrations. I mean what is a blue foam slip 'n slide to wrestling a tiger?

True Blue slip 'n slide is epic, but it's epicness just doesn't measure up to wrestling a live, full grown tiger.

Lost

I started watching Lost last week.

I'm up to episode 10 of season 1.

I have a lot of questions.

But nobody will answer them for me. John and Brooke are really mean. Brooke has started ignoring me. I keep trying to surprise her and make her answer my questions without realizing it, but it's not working very well. For example, I've tried asking her first thing in the morning when she wakes up, I've tried bursting into the room and asking her, I've tried texting her (which she just ignores), I've tried just randomly asking her when we're sitting doing nothing, and I've even asked her while she was praying (though that was on accident). And John just won't even let me finish my question or says that everything is important.

One of my major questions has been answered already. For your information the Koreans do speak English. Well at least the wife does. I felt so vindicated when she started talking to the black guy in English.

Now, my major questions are:

1. is the baby a boy or a girl?
2. does Locke ever have to be in his wheelchair again?
3. where does the electricity for Danielle's shelter come from? It just doesn't make sense, because there is this big, fat power cord that goes into the ocean, so it has to go somewhere, and someone had to put it there. So where did it come from? Danielle didn't put it there because she was shipwrecked on the island. And how did she find it? Hopefully this makes sense, it makes sense in my head, but that doesn't make sure it makes sense in real life.
4. do Jack and Kate fall in love?
5. do they play golf a lot while they're on the island?

These may seem like silly or inconsequential questions, but they are plaguing my mind.

Luckily I grew into my large forehead

I recently cut my bangs. Now bangs are not a new hair style for me. I rocked bangs pretty much from the time my hair started growing until 8th grade, with a small interlude in third grade. In general looking back at pictures of my bangs I guess they weren't that bad. But there were definitely times that I look back and cringe in horror at what I see.

8th grade is a perfect example. In 8th grade I was right in the middle of my awkward years, so luckily there isn't very much pictorial evidence, but the memories are bad enough. My hair changed from straight to curly around that time too, so instead of my bangs drying nice and straight and flat like they did my whole life they started to do funny things. Because of this I had to blow dry them and curl them every morning. To make matters worse if they got wet or if it was humid, my bangs would split in the middle and flip out. Like completely change directions of how I had curled them that morning. It was bad.

You would think that because of all that trouble I would just grow them out, right? Everyone was growing their bangs out, it was the cool things to do.

But see, I had a huge forehead when I was little.

No joke. I'm totally serious.

And someone who I love very dearly told me that I had to have bangs because my forehead was too big to not have bangs. (Recently I was showing my roommates some picture of me without bangs when I was little and one of them said that this was kinda true but that luckily I have grown into my forehead. I was very relieved.)

I remember being jealous of Laura Ingalls Wilder for not having to have bangs and thought that she was a complete idiot when she cut her bangs. I was internally indignant about this. I always thought why in the world would you cut bangs when you have a normal sized forehead!? Besides who wants to curl their bangs with a pencil that you heat over the fire? It was the one shortcoming I found in Laura. It almost ruined my hero worship of her. Just kidding, I don't think that was possible...

But anyways, like I said before I had bangs all growing up, expect in 3rd grade. Most people experience their rebellious streak in high school, but not me, I had mine in 3rd grade. And it was over my bangs.

One day I told my mom that I didn't care if my forehead was too big and that I was growing my bangs out and she couldn't stop me! I think she was tired of me complaining when she trimmed my bangs. Or maybe she just knew that this was going to be my one really rebellious fit.

This ushered in a period of my showing off my large forehead and pinning my bangs back with these heart-shaped glittery clips and way too much gel. I think I was too emotionally involved to make wise fashion choices and can't be held accountable. Eventually, sometime in 4th grade I realized my forehead really was too big and so the bangs made a return.

Now fast forward to right before 9th grade. After the huge 8th grade bang debacle where my bangs took over and grew a mind of their own, I was blessed my the popularity of sideswept bangs. Sideswept bangs solved all of my problems! They generally covered my forehead, but they were easier to control and if they misbehaved you just tucked them behind you're ear. Really, whoever made sideswept bangs popular deserved an Oscar, a Nobel Peace Prize, etc.

Sideswept bangs have been my go-to hairstyle ever since. Recently though I was feeling a little daring, so I cut my bangs again, and I have to say bangs and I have reconciled. I actually love my bangs, and I have gotten a lot of compliments so they might be here to stay awhile. Luckily I no longer have the desire to curl and tease them, and I can control them with a straightener.

As a reward for reading this very long post chronicling the history of my hair, here is a picture timeline of my bangs.

*Note: I could find very few pictures of my "no bangs rebellion" probably because my mom just couldn't bare to have proof that I walked around for several months with out bangs. I really don't blame her, my forehead was huge and probably took over the pictures. Also I refused to have my picture taken in 8th grade so luckily that AWKWARD time in my life is inadequately documented that we could all just pretend it never even happened...

They didn't start out too bad. In fact I really like them. If only I knew what was awaiting me... Eventually even matching Pochahantas sweat suits wouldn't be able cheer me up...

Don't the bangs go perfectly with the sponge-curler hair? It was all th rage among the 2nd graders.

Isn't my forehead HUGE?! If you don't think so, just wait till the next picture...

See what I mean? But its ok, Brendan's looks just a little bigger...

The return of the bangs. Notice the Winnie the Pooh jumper. I was pretty darn cool even then.

It is my personal opinion that from 6th grade through 9th grade the school photographer should just take a step back. We look funny enough without the camera close enough to see every freckle with our faces filling up the ENTIRE picture. See following pictures for further evidence.

I just realized that I also had this weird, reoccuring phase when my bangs just split in the middle. Kinda weird.

The infamous 8th grade bangs. There are no words.

The birth of the sideswept bang. It was a work in progress.

Sideswept bangs were a lifesaver.

And luckily I grew into my forehead.