Joseph and Custer

The high note

There I was; Dozing in the single's ward sacrament meeting in Laramie, Wyoming. Before resting my head on the pew in front of me, I had checked the hymns that we were supposed to sing, and decided I'd wake up long enough to sing them.
"Mmm-hmmm. Pretty good line-up I'd say" I said to my sister Kylee as I shut the hymn book and resumed my nap.
The first few went well I woke up after the talks and I even got the harmonies going. wooo! they were good.
THEN: Carry On.
Oh baby. I just remember one time in my own ward, something musta been in the sacrament water because when we sang that song: We. really. sang.
My family usually sits in the back of the church with the crying babies, snoring husbands, and toddlers throwing cheerios and crayons, so we don't hear too much singing from the people around us. But on that Sunday there was not a voice in the chapel that wasn't belting it out.
"AND WE HEARD THE DESERT SINGING CARRY ON CARRY ON CARRY ON!!!..."
except it sounded better than that... probably, depending on how you made it sound in your head.

Well anyway this lady behind us was singing along. sing sing sing when the last line came, and the last note of the last line sounds kinda like this;

Well she nailed it. Really it was good. She also gives voice lessons to kids in the ward so I guess that makes sense.
And while I was in that Laramie church building I decided to go for that note. To Mariah Carey the shiz outta it.
Here it comes:
"CARRY ON CARRY ON CAR-RY......OOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!"





and it sounded how this looks:

Well needless to say I screwed that up. The guy in the pew in front of us even turned around. (jerk) just kidding I do that to sometimes. Just turn around and give them this look like "what are you doing?" and shake your head. As they go quiet and close the hymn book. "leave it to the choir buddy."
But that guys dissaproving look didn't stop me. NO NOT I. errr.. NAY NOT I. I went for that note again. AND THIS TTIIIMMEE...

It ended the same way.

Music

I've discovered songs and music have the ability to preserve memories. Well I guess I didn't discover it. I'm pretty sure most people would know what I'm talking about.
You put your ipod on shuffle and a song comes on that you haven't heard in forever then alla sudden you're back snowboarding, or on a car ride, or remembering something that happened the moment you were listening to that song.
 Here are a few memories that some songs have preserved for me:
Ambling Alp by Yeasayer- reminds me of a car ride to my little sisters softball game. I remember the treehouse I saw when the chorus first started. I remember being paraniod the whole ride. Looking for yellow cars because I was in the middle seat and my siblings were playing Bingo and I didn't want to be punched again. I looked for cars even after they had fallen asleep.
Passion Pit- reminds me of my first year on the Crew team. Haha! of making coach Henrikson mad and being punished with 100 jumpies. and of climbing on the roof of the shed and having Philip tell us how things were done in Romania
Cat Stevens- probably contains the most memories. Sneaking into a junkyard near the mouth of the canyon with Aspen and later Josh and Andrew. Boating with those same friends. Wandering through the Mountains playing Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Oh good times! I'm smiling right now...Another Saturday Night reminds me of a car ride back from Josh's house. I don't remember what we'd been doing but I remember the car ride and the road we were on.
Space Man by The Killers - Reminds me of a HUGE pow day two seasons ago. Snowboarding with Aspen and trying frontflips. Then later taking our boards off to sled on them and watching mine slide down the mountain without me... Oh baby! Bob Marley is a part of that whole season too. It was a good season.
Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn was the theme song of the week I spent in Bear Lake at Nicole's Cabin. We played it no less than... ONEBILLIONTIMES.
Patterns by Simon and Garfunkel- brings back the time I spent doing drivers ed at Brighton. Of the kid who said he liked the beads in my hair. And of the girl who did observations with me and looked like Adele.
Fur Elise- reminds me of this pink music box I had that I decorated with tweety bird stickers. I think Fur Elise is the only song to ever make me cry. And I don't even know why. I remember sitting in the big green chair in my living room and listening and crying. I was a weird kid.
These are just the ones that come to me right on the spot and well, I could go on forever. But I won't. I could probably go through the playlists on my Ipod and write books on the memories they bring back.  All those memories come to my head everytime I hear them. Sometimes I even save them; I only listen to the songs on rare occasions because I don't want the memories to be replaced. 
Some songs are only for certain times.

Self-portrait

overheard at the snuffer house

These are things you may hear if you ever stop by my house:
- you wanna know why I'm so mad!? number one: buttsweat, number two.... number five: buttsweat. Butt sweat is both number one and five...
- all right, faith-off right now!!
- I call butt-crack!
- God would totally babysit for a hooker
- Lettuce pray, celery pray, tomato pray
-I had a perfectly good reason to pee on you; you peed on me!!!
- we gotta climb things! we gotta jump offa stuff!!
-  a-bomb-in-a-bowl, Abominable
-Waterrrr you doing?
- oh, that's where my pants went..
- just swallow your pride and bubble!
-It's a good thing I can be so freakin' mean and you guys just laugh. I don't know, maybe you're just too dumb to feel..
- one bite, I bet you can't eat that in one bite.
- Guys shhh!...you smell that?
- My left hand is so good at catching what my right hand drops, and my right hand is so good at catching what my mouth drops.
- Is that a challenge?!
-you think you know me (usually followed by: "I knew you were going to say that")
- Wait,  I couldn't hear my eyes were closed.
- I can't wait till you grow up
- Don't sing when I'm singing
- ok so, kylee plus a locker room, divided by a bad smell...
- That's it! I quit this family
- I just want to put a diaper on my head
- Carson, be fair, and let Regan punch you one more time
- Often times I just open my mouth and hope something brilliant comes out
- I'm so freaking good at swimming. I could go to the Olypmics
- yeah all my friends- I gotta stop saying that. They are NOT my friends. So the people I go to school with....
-Nope. This is awful. If anything I just dumped water on the rekindling love...