I have but few words, so here's a list instead

So as you'll remember, Tuesday I was too tired to blog so I had Jordan do it for me. That was a great decision.

He wrote about a perfect summer day. I'm trying to come up w/ something to rival that but it just doesn't exist right now. I'm not sure if yesterday was perfect but it was quite brilliant as far as Wednesdays are concerned. I have no complaints regarding yesterday, but it's not a day that's easily described. 

It's best to call it awesome and leave it at that. It really was awesome for a lot of reasons too. So have a list of why yesterday was awesome. (This reminds me of when 5AG was still completely a thing. I miss those days.)

• At Ikea, Jordan and I found the perfect couch.
• Visiting Ikea in general. (The Swedes know what they're doing when it comes to interior design, that's for sure.)
• I had a grilled cheese panini w/ pesto as part of my dinner. 
• Stacy shared her mango with me.
• We, as in Stacy and I, saw The Hunger Games at the dollar theatre and it was as epic as ever.
• Becca told me she's starting to make her unique brooch bouquet for her wedding. Let's not forget that Becca IS NOT GETTING MARRIED. At least not anytime soon. Like, at all.

I mean, any day that includes Ikea is automatically wonderful so all the other stuff is just bonus niceness.

Enjoy the rest of your summer, my friends. School fast approaches.

Last YouTube video I watched: 1st Day of School Outfits

Soundtrack to my spring

For the last three or four semesters, and the last one or two summers, I've created playlists of music that define the time. Basically, it's just the music I listen to during the semester/summer. As I find new artists or as old artists come to define things I do they get added to the list. And as spring semester winds down I figure now is as good a time as ever to share my spring 2012 playlist.

What I've noticed though is that my spring music was heavily influenced by other people and other places.

• Walk Off The Earth was suggestion given to me by ShayCarl in a good number of his videos from the end of April. You'll probably recognize them as the band who made the song Somebody That I Used To Know famous.
• Jason Mraz is one of my old artists who happens to have a new album. Love Is A Four Letter Word is lovely and the songs are perfect for warm weather.
• Joe Purdy's Wash Away is a song from an episode of LOST that I randomly remembered halfway through the term. I've no idea why I thought of it but I'm glad I did.
• Young the Giant's Apartment is a song Jordan told me to listen to forever ago, a suggestion I never really heeded for whatever reason. And then Trent started talking about Young the Giant so it got added to the list.
• Imagine Dragons is now a stand-by band that will probably always be on these lists.
• Can't Stop Won't Stop does a lot of music for Devin Graham's awesome videos. They're great pick-me-up songs.
• Radical Face is a band I learned about because of a YouTube musician who always used to do covers of their songs, and then Matthew/booshoe37 mentioned them a few times this spring so I took up listening to them again.
• Elliott Smith's Somebody That I Used To Know is not what you think it is. No, it is not Gotye. It's a very lovely song though. I honestly have no idea how I came upon it.
• Brofriend by ShayCarl. This song really just needs to be watched.
• Daddy Yankee's Lovumba I got from zumba class.
• The Gardener by The Tallest Man On Earth is another song I'd heard covered a bunch of times and took up listening to in its original format.
• Karmin is perhaps my favorite artist of the spring. Karmin is a YouTube artists who has basically made it big. Most people will probably recognize their song Brokenhearted. We always listened to it in zumba and then I finally find out who it was. It made me love it even more.
• Kings of Convenience became a new favorite thanks to Trent. One day he invited me over to sit in the grass with him while he was cleaning his climbing equipment. He had Kings of Convenience playing and it was the most relaxing and chill music I'd heard in a long time.
• M83 is another band from Trent, and also Grant. They adore the song Midnight City. I'm pretty sure whenever I drive anywhere with Trent we listen to this song.
• City and Colour is a band I learned about ages ago from my friend Margaret but until this spring I'd only heard a few of their songs. 
• Ministry of Magic brings me back to the glory days of Harry Potter. I've needed that this term.
• Passion Pit's new single Take A Walk is what I've been waiting for ever since I started listening to Passion Pit some time around freshman year. I'm hoping to see them live this summer.
• All Will Be Well by the Gabe Dixon Band is a song that was in an episode of Parks and Rec. I already have a few songs by the Gabe Dixon Band so when I realized this spring when watching Parks and Rec who the band was I was hooked. It's such a happy song, and spring has definitely been a time of happy songs.

I realize now this list looks a bit daunting/overwhelming. Oh well. I wanted to share all of it. Choosing certain artists/songs just seemed unfair.

As for today's plans, as it is my first official day of summer vacation, will be spent watching, you guessed it, more Euro Cup. While I watch I'm going to try to finish the second Game of Thrones book. Then this afternoon I'm going out to lunch with my friend Jeff since I won't get to see him again until August.

Last YouTube video I watched: High School Graduation Speech/Song - Rhett and Link

10 things that make home exciting

I took my only exam this morning and now all that's left to do until next Tuesday is have as much fun as seemingly possible. But while I wait for the Germany/Netherlands Euro Cup match to start, here are 10 things that make home an exciting place to be.

1. My orange room.
2. Kopp's custard and burgers and onion rings and fries and Sprecher root beer. I just checked the flavor of the day for when I'll be in Milwaukee on Tuesday. ONE OF THEM IS CARAMEL CASHEW, aka one of the best flavors of all time. (We're stopping on the way home, if that's okay Mom and Dad).
3. The bike path, which I usually use for my longboard but since I won't be bringing it home this summer I think I'll take out my bike instead.
4. Kate and Megan.
5. Chocolate Factory subs.
6. Shopping trips to Bayshore.
7. My home ward and home ward friends, both adults and youth alike.
8. Delicious and wonderful and perfect chocolate chip cookies made by my father.
9. Really anything made by my dad and mom from the America's Test Kitchen.
10. Having a car to at least use some of the time. I miss driving terribly while I'm in Utah.
11. The possibility of Brewers games. (Who are we kidding? There's no way I could stop at just 10 reasons)
12. Dinner out with all my family. It's not so much the fact that I'm with my family but more so the fact that I get free and delicious dinner, though sometimes being with the extended family does make for some great entertainment.
13. Thunderstorms.
14. A nice HD television and comfy leather chair w/ an ottoman.
15. All nine seasons of Seinfeld. At least I think they're still at home; my brother may have taken them to Idaho.
16. The possibility of seeing Imagine Dragons at Summerfest. I'm going to try so hard to make that happen.

So there's 16 reasons instead. It should be a good summer, even though I will be working most of the time, but I take satisfaction knowing if I work all summer I get to come back to Utah and do awesome stuff without needing to work.

Last YouTube video I watched: Superhero - Luke Conard and Landon Austin

100 THINGS I WILL DO THIS SUMMER.

1. Go to Six Flags.
2. Spend an entire week, known as the "Week of Awesome", w/ Margo before I go to school.
3. Dance party.
4. Read one chapter of some book every day.
5. Write in my journal, well, more.
6. Make a YouTube friend.
7. Finally go to a Wizard Rock concert.
8. See Half-Blood Prince at midnight.
9. Send someone one of the random letters I wrote for them.
10. Spend one entire day at the tennis courts.
11. Buy a swimsuit & feel good about it.
12. Start [another] & [maybe] finish a short story/novel.
13. Spend extended time w/ Marcas.
14. Beat Spongebob Squarepants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman.
15. Write one song about Harry Potter.
16. Make dinner for my friends.
17. Watch every single episode of Seinfeld.
18. Walk w/ Kate for hours.
19. Catch up on LOST.
20. Drive downtown, windows down, have Julia Nunes playing, & sing along. Loudly.
21. Dance in the rain [Thanks for this one, Rosey!]
22. Sleep under the stars.
23. Have a real conversation w/ Matthew, aka booshoe37.
24. Slow dance w/ one kid from church one last time before college.
25. Play lazer tag. Like, the home version w/ the crazy chest dealios.
26. Hide N' Seek. In the dark. Old school, man.
27. Dig a hole at the beach.
28. Ghostbusters marathon.
29. Leave my house for the entire day w/ no electronics.
30. Buy gifts & leave them on my friends' doorsteps.
31. Watch a sunrise & sunset on the same day.
32. Swim in the lake, most especially when it's really cold.
33. Run around the sand dunes.
34. Have a picnic. Basket and all.
35. Wait around the young adult book section & recommend books to people.
36. Super Soaker Battle.
37. Be the first one to watch a video on YouTube.
38. Make sketch shoes.
39. Direct my friends in a fashion show at Target.
40. Invite a friend to church.
41. Make homemade pizza.
42. Read outside on a blanket.
43. Dress in one solid color.
44. Draw a chalk mural.
45. Talk to my roommate on the phone.
46. Fly a kite.
47. Write letters to my brother.
48. Run.
49. Take a long bike ride.
50. Wade in the creek.
51. Fish w/ my dad.
52. Buy a whole outfit at Goodwill.
53. Climb a tree.
54. Teach a friend something.
55. Get the Chameleon Circuit CD. [I NEED DOCTOR WHO MUSIC!]
56. Have the same food for every meal of the day.
57. Make/eat pudding cup freezee pop dealios.
58. Buy a friend a milkshake. Like, randomly. [Thank you, Rosey, for this inspiration]
59. Learn a few chords for guitar.
60. Drive to Kopp's out of the blue just for fries & custard.
61. Go to at least 2 Brewers games.
62. Grill myself lunch.
63. Finish Forever On the Mountain
64. Go to my first real concert. [BARENAKED LADIES WERE AWESOME]
65. Make my photo wall.
66. Learn to tie a tie. [I can't say I remember now, but I did learn]
67. Buy Harry, A History
68. Listen to the episode of PotterCast w/ Jo Rowling. [Yeah, haven't done that . . .]
69. Not care.
70. Eat my usual summer lunch.
71. Buy a pair of Adidas Samba.
72. Have a YouTube theme week.
73. Watch all the vlogbrothers' videos. [As in the official B2.0]
74. Give The Notebook another chance.
75. Laugh at The Notebook after the second chance.
76. Color.
77. Finally see a movie w/ Joseph after saying we would for something like four years.
78. Set up my brother's tent.
79. Laugh more.
80. Write down my goals.
81. Go to Bay Beach.
82. Build a fort in the living room.
83. Watch a movie while in the aforementioned fort.
84. Design a t-shirt.
85. Learn the rest of Ice, Ice, Baby
86. Learn all the words to An Awful Lot of Running
87. Make a list of words that should be added to the dictionary.
88. Be awesome. [I thank Lexie for this one]
89. Make a cake.
90. Window shop.
91. Read a book about a person.
92. Write haikus.
93. Light sparklers.
94. Make smore's over a legit campfire.
95. Have fun at the museum.
96. Visit the CCP concessions.
97. Wear my acid-washed jeans to the mall.
98. Throw a frisbee forehand. Do this well.
99. Play Top Spin and win a Grand Slam.
100. This one shall remain secret. [Keyword "jersey". This way I'll remember who it's about]