I wanted to be them.

These girls rocked. I remember putting on frequent shows in Linsey Daluga's basement performing their top songs for…. our family, and anyone else that would listen. We researched the proper Spice Girl attire, and set up the stage oh so perfectly; I know they would have been proud! We made tickets for everyone. They were free of course. Clayton and Derek were on lights and stage management, so Cailey, Linsey, and I just had to worry about choreography and singing. I adored posh spice and loved scary spice's intimidating nature. I tried to sing with a raspy voice, because that surely was how she sang?… They hit an all-time high, in my opinion, when they came out with Spice World in 1997. I would ask where they went, but I still listen to them quite often, and sing one of their songs every time I go skiing.

So why the Spice Girls?.. Because I'm going to London with the London Study Abroad Fall 2011 and maybe I'll form a rockin' girl band during my visit. :)

PdBio 120= Chemistry.

PdBio 120 is my first real exposure to biology; I took human biology my freshman year in high school, but I would hardly call that "real". So far I've learned a lot about… Chemistry. My book titled: Biological Science reads, "Chemists had worked out the structure of nucleotides and knew that DNA polymerized through the formation of phosphodiester linkages" (62). I also learned Chemists, Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for showing that ribozymes exist in organisms. These are just two specific examples out of the many I have read about in my biology book. Chemists created biology, I think. I think it's the master science… I think this is why I'm majoring in chemistry.

Skyler Daniel Conley.

When I was little I prayed and prayed and prayed for my mom to have a little girl, so I could have a sister. When I was seven my mom had Skyler. He wasn't the little girl I wanted, but he has been much better company than anything I could have imagined. He's my best buddy. Here are a few memories:

At 11:11 Skyler made a wish; he wished he "had a monkey bike and [his] mom loved [him]." He has the best wishes. As we drove by a couple walking on the road, Skyler told me to roll down the window, because he was going to yell, "get some." I didn't roll down the window, but I'm pretty sure they still "got some." One time Skyler took my journal from me while we were reading our scriptures together outside on the grass… I got my journal back only to be greeted by a picture of the Book of Mormon and an atheist person on fire. classic.

When Skyler was asked if he had kissed a girl he quickly responded, "I still wear pull ups, and you think I kiss girls?" One time we were watching a movie together and Skyler told me one of the girls looked like "Anne Hathaway…. well definitely NOT her body." He's so observant and has taught me so much about movie stars and music… Apparently Taylor Swift's voice is so annoying, and it gives you indigestion.

Life with Skyler is pretty good.

*Disclaimer: I still win when we arm wrestle :)