20 pounds of brown sugar

Sometimes I just can’t seem to say what I want. There are a multitude of reasons, but I think the most is fear of being embarrassed. Maybe I’ll offend someone. Maybe it will take the things where I don’t want them to go. Maybe I’ll just feel so dumb that I’ll want to crawl in a hole and never show my face ever again. I suppose that goes under embarrassment.
It’s really an awful thing. I dance around what I really want to say and sometimes I end up with something I never wanted in the first place. One of these days I’ll learn to just say what I want right off the bat and just take the consequences. Life is too complicated. Or maybe it’s not and I just make it that way. One of these days I’ll learn. But for now, some books will just be left on the shelf.

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Here's an update on my not so exciting life. Last weekend I went home. Dad was running another Triathlon in Ririe. He did awesome! Looked much better than the Murtaugh. Once he gets that swim down he's gonna be amazing. After the Tri I went to the temple. I love the Rexburg temple.

The weather didn't look like this at all. I just liked the picture.
After the temple I went with my sister to the movies. We saw Green Lantern in 3D. This was my first 3D experience and I was actually impressed. Except for the stupid glasses that kept falling off.
Sunday was rushing to church, missing sacrament, going to some random sacrament and then I skipped out on the other meetings to go visit my friend Lucy (stop judging). It was so good to see Lucy. The last time I saw her she was still pregnant and now she has this two month old beautiful baby, who was all smiles, and just the cutest thing.
Then it was off to the Tolman's to pick up my friend Katie's kids. Katie's parents were watching her kids so she and her husband could have a weekend together. Since I was already in Rexburg it made sense for me to just bring them back instead of people driving there and back to pick-up/drop-off kids. It was my first experience driving with children by myself. All in all I think the trip was a success. We had a small meltdown, cracker crumbs all over my backseat, NO bathroom accidents from the just potty trained child, and it only required one movie and some disney songs to make it home.
Tuesday I went to Lagoon with my sister and 2 cousins. It's the 125th anniversary of Lagoon so they had a Cirque show there to celebrate. It was AMAZING!

Probably one of the most exciting things for me this week is finishing my statistics class yesterday! I'm so thrilled to be done with it!

Freedom

Well the 4th was good. Fairly uneventful for me. I spent the night at Katie's Sunday night since my family was staying there. Not my greatest plan since I forgot to bring my earplugs and dad snores really loud. We were up early (not as early as planned though) and off to the races.
Of course I was last out of the Schultz clan, but I was already planning on that. One day I won't be so far behind, or as my grandmas says "way back there". It was fun to have 6 Schultz's running in the race. Connor got 2nd in his age group.



Afterward we all got cleaned up and then went to IHOP for breakfast. It was delicious and fun to be with the family. Then I went home and slept for 4 hours. It was awesome. The rest of my day followed the uneventful route. I did some homework, went to the street fair by myself. Watched my friends band play and then walked home in the rain. Did a little more homework, watched a little TV and then went to bed. I could see some awesome fireworks through my window as I lay in my bed. It was a good day.

What a week.

Sunday again. Since last week I have, moved, been booted, ran 13 miles, been to two parties, hiked, sat in the hot springs, sewed a skirt, made burp clothes, gone swimming, watched fireworks and not gotten near enough sleep.
Monday was probably my calmest day. I finished packing up my room to move from the Crowe's and did some homework. Pretty dull. Tuesday I was moving my stuff to my new apartment. I got here and the two parking spots right by our back door were taken by my two roommates, so I parked right behind them to save myself making, 12 trips to and from my car in the 85 degree heat. BAD PLAN. The University Parking Nazi's were out. I was gone from my car for 3 MINUTES. I come outside and there is a boot on my car. For those who don't know what that means, no there was not an actual shoe on my car. It looks similar to this.

He had barely put it on. Being the nice man he is he called the Tow Truck to tell him not to come since I had come out. But being the JERK FACE that he is he still made me pay the $50 to take the boot off. "If I hadn't already put it on I wouldn't charge you, but once it's on, I can't take it off til you pay". Can't take it off my eye! It's not connected to the credit card machine. There is no lock that only takes cash! You're just a mean man who wants my money. I showed him all the stuff in my car I was unpacking. No go. He told me to turn on my hazard lights and he'd leave me alone a few minutes to unpack my car. What a gentleman. Pay me $50 and I'll leave you alone for a few minutes. Well apparently I was an $85 speeding ticket isn't as upsetting to me as a $50 boot, because even though I tried really hard not to, I started to cry. I made it through paying the dumb man, but then I started to cry. Really hard. Like a little child, that cries so hard they get those kind of hiccup things. It was awful. And no matter how much I told myself it wasn't a big deal and that I was fine, I continued crying. I'm pretty sure I cried for like 3 hours. I decided to postpone my homework until the following day and went over to Katie's house instead. She listened to me tell my poor sad story and then just chatted with me. I finally stopped crying and went home feeling better. The next day I finished moving all of my stuff. I parked in the EXACT same spot, but made sure to not ever leave my car.
So Wednesday night was homework night, trying to get everything all done so I could just play this weekend. Thursday I was doing more homework and was going to go to a baby shower, but neither of those worked out so I went with my friend Aubrey out to Spanish Fork to go to some hot springs. They didn't inform me that it was a good 3 mile hike. I wore flip-flops. Not the best hiking shoe, but whatever I made it. We sat in the little pools for an hour or so, watched the stars come out, and then headed back down the trail. It was a fun night, except that I was very stinky. Luckily the sulfur smell came off with only one shower.
Friday I went to work, but John sent me home to start my holiday weekend early at 1. So I went and picked up our packets for the Freedom Run, went to the temple and then went with Aubrey to Spanish Fork Reservoir. It was so cold! Especially compared to the hot springs from the night before. After swimming we came back to get ready for the party Aubrey was having that night. We went to a free concert on the roof of a parking garage in Provo. It was really fun. Then we walked around the street fair and then headed back for some pizza. It was such a great night.

Saturday morning I got up early to go run. OH right, I ran Monday (awful run), and Thursday morning. Saturday morning I ran 6.4 miles. I was scoping out the route for the Freedom Run. I think I'll survive. After my run, I started sewing. My friend Camille asked me to finish a jean skirt she was making for her daughter. It turned out so cute. After that I made a potato salad. The first of my life. I think it turned out okay. Then I was off to a barbeque Aubrey's friend was having. It was so fun, lots of people and food. We had people convinced that the the beef Teriyaki kabobs were really rattlesnake. A rattle snake we killed on our hike to the hot springs. It was hilarious. We really did see a dead rattlesnake on the trail. :/ After the barbeque we were feeling quite lazy and watched the rest of Tangled and just lazed around. Then we headed over to watch the fireworks. We ended up in a little neighborhood and had a great view but the traffic getting out was ridiculous and we chose to park and walk down to the creamery for some ice cream and then walked back to get the car after the traffic and thinned out. It was a great night and hopefully the rest of this holiday weekend is just as fabulous.

Parachute

So living in Provo, there are quite a few things to do. I'm close enough to Salt Lake that a drive up there for something isn't a ridiculous idea (although depending on the time it can be less than desirable). This last week there was a free concert up in Salt Lake. It was put on by Fight The New Drug. I saw that a few of my facebook friends were going and I really wanted to go, even though I really had NO CLUE who this group Parachute was. At any rate I put it on facebook asking if anyone wanted to go with me so I didn't have to go alone. Lucky me Casey and Becky said they did! Woohoo!I decided that I should probably figure out who this band was and if I even liked their music so I listened to them on youtube all week.
My favorite song is called She. The song I actually recognized from the radio is called She is Love.
You can click on those to listen to the songs on youtube.
So now that I know I actually like these people, Thursday night we met up and headed to Salt Lake. Parking wasn't the funnest thing to try. We didn't want to pay $5 for every hour we were parked which is what some of the rates were. In the middle of our search for parking, Becky and Casey decided they were so we pulled into the Carl's Jr. drive through. There was a cop standing in the parking lot, patrolling it to make sure no one parked there who wasn't suppose to, so I decided to go and ask him where he would recommend for us to park. He listed a couple places and then said, "I can't do this for everyone, but you could park at that spot back by that wall is this lot". SCORE!! It was right across the street from the concert and FREE!
We loved the first band Allred, but didn't love the next two guys very much. The actual Parachute portion was AWESOME!! I really like their music and have plans to buy their CD as soon as I make it to the store. Call my old fashioned, but I still like the good old CD. I do have my brother put it on my iPod, but I still like to have the actual CD.

Thanks Becky for posting this picture so that I could use it.
Friday night I hung out with my friends Rochelle and Brynn who I know from the ward when I lived in Orem. Rochelle and I went to Payson to a Fajita (as in the food) Party my friend Aubree (who I met on my cruise) was putting on. I'm glad that we went since the food was delicious, the game was fun, and I learned that Aubree is a quilter! After the Fajita party we went back to Rochelle's and Brynn came over and we all just hung out. It was so fun. I really need to do more stuff with those girls. What a fun weekend. To finish things off. Saturday I started packing up my stuff and moving it to my new place. :( The Crowe's come home this next Thursday and therefore I have to be out. I'm moving about a mile down the road and it's only until August, so then I'll have to move again, but I went to the new ward today and everyone was really friendly so I think it'll be good even if it's only for a month and a half.

It's Father's Day

It's pretty dreary here in Provo. Woke up to rain, went to church, came out to yet more rain, ate, and now it's still raining. But what a great day!
Friday I left work early and headed to Murtaugh, Idaho. Don't worry if you've never heard of it, I hadn't either and really you aren't missing out on much. We made it there without much trouble (we being Kristi and I, after I picked her up at the gas station in Burley). We sent up the tent and then just hung out for a while. It was a nice day, the lake was pretty, but we were hungry and the food was taking forever. Mom and Julie had the food and they got lost so it took quite a while for the food to arrive. In the meantime Kristi and I set up my tent. After dinner we played a rousing game of horse shoes. We being Kristi, Derek, and I. Julie was too good to come and play with us. (actually she was talking to some people she knew) Once in bed we stayed up chatting for far too long. The subject of our discussion will be saved for another day.
We got up at 5 a.m. to make breakfast and get ready. The race started at 7. Now my dad isn't much of a swimmer and the swim is first. He made it through, but was beat. Derek was out there in a kayak documenting the whole thing so we could always see where dad was. Then he was on to the biking. It's a good thing he's a strong biker and runner. He did most excellent, but the swim definitely took it out of him. I'm pretty sure if I tried to do a triathlon I'd be dead 50 yards into the water and if I some how survived the swim, the biking would kill me. But he finished! And I was so proud! I'll have to get pictures from my mom and sister, since as we know my camera is dead.


Yesterday after driving home, I went swimming with some friends and once I finally made it to my house I was beat! 5am and I don't really love each other. I did stay awake for a few more hours. My body was apparently really tired since I shut off my alarm and then proceeded to sleep til 9:50. Good thing I have 9:30 church. NOT! So I looked up another ward and went to their meetings at 11:30. It was amazing! There sacrament meeting talks were great, the Relief Society lesson was AMAZING, and Sunday school was good too. I think I need to find out where I need to live to be in that ward and move there. It's really just been a good day.
It was fun to go and be with family and I'm just so proud of my dad and the example he is to me. He is always supportive of me and has more faith in me than I have in myself. He's the best dad I could every ask for. I hope someday I find a man to marry, who is as funny, supportive, and hard working as my dad is.
Happy Father's Day Dad!

Teton Dam Marathon

So I've done the 5k, I've done the 5k in the mud, this week was the 10k. 6.2 miles. that's a long way. Wednesday I ran 6.05 miles in Provo, just to see if I could do it. I ran it in 1 hour and 11 minutes. I was happy with it. My hips were pretty sore the next day, but I wasn't dying. Friday I headed home. I'm never driving through Preston ever again. Freaking speed trap. My first speeding ticket. Lame. Other than that it was a very nice drive.
Saturday morning I got up and headed into Rexburg with my dad and my sister, ready as I would ever be to run the 10k in the Dam Marathon.

I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up with my dad and my sister. My dad can do 6 miles in 45 minutes. :/ So I started out at my pace and I kept it for 2 miles and then the beginning of the hills.

I'm smiling now because I'm just turning into the hills.
KILLER hills. You see and think "Okay I can make it up this" and then you do only to see the next big hill. Again "I can do this" only to see ANOTHER BIGGER HILL. It was not fun. So many hills. I walked a lot more in this race than my practice run in Provo (relatively flat in comparison), but I kept going and going and going. Finally I made it to the last mile which was mostly down hill. I made it to the last quarter of a mile and there was my dad waiting to run with me. I turned the corner (it's no longer downhill and it is NOT fun) and now my sister is running with us too and now it's time to sprint to the finish.


I didn't have much left. I was totally drained. I felt like crap for the rest of the day, but I did better on my time, even with the longer (.15 miles) run, the crappy hills and more walking. Not much fast but considering the changes I was proud of myself.
My dad got third place in his age group. Go dad! And we had the best Dam fans ever!