My new favorite sport

I played rugby this morning. It was awesome!! I played with a bunch of guys from Fiji and NZ. There were a few girls there too. I am so out of shape, but I'm going to go every week so I can get in shape and get better at the game. We just play touch, otherwise I would be broken right now--those guys are HUGE.

I have a brain

In my expert opinion, I believe that education is important for both women and men. I was surprised to find out today that some men still have the antiquated belief that women should not worry about education. Mmm…I wonder if they’ve ever heard President Hincley say anything about that.

I, for one, think that education actually improves people, and that it never hurt anyone to learn something. I hope I will find a guy who is mature enough to appreciate that I have a brain, and that my children will benefit from that.

Ahh, weekends, glorious weekends...

Two reasons why this weekend may quite possibly be the best weekend ever:

1) My best friend Mike is coming to SLC for business and we're going to hang out on Friday night

2) My whole family is coming down to visit me!! They are all going to stay at my place on Sunday and we will spend all day Monday together. Weeeee!!

It just doesn't get any better than that. I can't wait to see my niece, Maria (1yr old on Jul 16). Here's the latest cute story of her. She climbed up on a shelf in the kitchen, and from there grabbed a banana from the second shelf. She popped the top off and ate the whole thing. She couldn't peel it, so she just kinda smashed it into her face. She dropped it a few times, so it left little slimy globs of banana everywhere. Her mom and dad thought she only grabbed one banana, but she was eating another one later on too! Apparently she took two, but one rolled under the shelf and she snagged it later on when they weren't looking. So cute! Sometimes you just need to eat a banana or two.

The phone call

So I go to bed at like midnight, totally exhausted from the day, knowing that I have to wake up at 6:30. Suddenly I am woken up by my phone. I was all confused--did I sleep in (cuz who calls very early in the morning)? But if I slept in, why is it still dark? Unknown number? The only time my phone shows that is when Mike calls me from his computer. I just talked to him two days ago. Why is he calling me early in the morning?

I answer it. Some foreign voice says something unintelligible. "What?" "This is Ruth!" Finally it all connects--my favorite companion, Ruth Nyamugara from Zimbabwe. It's 4 a.m.!!! She totally forgot about the whole time difference thing. She told me she got married, but I thought she said, "I'm not married." I was like, "oh." Then she says, "I got married." I thought she was joking at first cuz she's a tease and I thought she had said she wasn't married the first time. Anyway, that finally connected for me. Gimme a break guys, it was 4am, ok!

Then she tells me she's making an appointment to go to the Johannesburg temple. I was thinking she meant a temple trip, but after I woke up again when the real morning time came, I realized she meant that she made the appointment for a sealing. Once again it was 4am.

How cool is that? You just don't get calls from Zim every day. Aparently she called my house in Oregon at 3 a.m., but my dad forgot to tell her what time it was. Hee, hee, my parents were mad until they picked up the phone and it turned out not to be someone trying to call their voice mail (which happens all the time--our number is one digit off).

Blog requests

• Erika and/or Corey should write about how they hooked up. Am I the only one who doesn't know the story??
• Nessa should explain how she got so dang hot
• Jon should write something
• So should Liz, Chris, and Rach

The Villa Management

Ok, so y'all know that I'm still waiting for the remaining amount of my deposit. I moved out April 23. Yeah, they're a little overdue. I think I have sent them over 15 emails and called about 25 times.

Anyway, I know that we have all had serious problems with the new management, so I was thinking we should talk to Off Campus Housing about kicking that management out or revoking their ability to offer BYU approved housing or something like that. Maybe we could get all the residents to sign a petition. I know that if they couldn’t offer BYU housing, residents would have to move, but don’t most of them want to move anyway? I don’t know, but the abuse has got to stop. They are treating residents like crap, and we/they can’t do anything about it. Any ideas?

I have never dealt with anyone so difficult and so rude in all my life. For heaven's sake, I can barely afford to feed myself and they are just sitting there keeping my money. It's like they're not human or something. I called and left a message with OCH to see what we could do, but they haven’t called me back yet.

So, who’s with me? We have got to do something!

Double-blind date, the sequel

I know you are all dying to find out what happened on my blind date. Ok, so a couple days before the date Susie said she found out that that guy was from Texas and he liked blue grass music. That’s all I had to go on. Anyway, the day of, about an hour before, she calls and says, “Um, he’s not from Texas, he’s from India.” That’s a little ways away from Texas, but whatever.

So we went over there and the guy Susie was going with was one of those people who only has painfully awkward conversation. Ugh. Why me?? I was the only one that was really saying much of anything—keeping the conversation going every time it died out (every 30 seconds or so). Sunet, my date, was talking more than the other two, and he seemed to be fine with conversation. Finally I said all enthusiastically, “So, are we going to go hiking?” Susie’s date, Mike, said, “Are you in a hurry to get somewhere or something?” Man, I was just thinking that since the whole purpose of going on the date was to hike, and since we were having such a boring, painful conversation, it might be a welcomed idea. I guess not. Anyway, so they agreed to leave—whew!

We went on this hike up in Santequin Canyon. As some of you know, I like to play on hikes—play in the creek, climb on stuff, cross the creek wherever there is a log, have leaf races, etc. So I was having a ball, and everyone was just kinda looking at me funny. After a while they started to get into it and have a good time. After that, it was great! I had a wonderful time. They all started talking more, so I wasn’t bored trying to carry the entire conversation. What a relief.

The Indian guy was studying in Texas, and was here for an internship over the summer. He’s actually Hindu, which was cool. I talked to him about his religion, traditions, culture, food, etc. I love to learn about things like that.

So, overall it was great fun. I was worried about it because of the experience Jen Harms had with an Indian guy (you’ll have to ask her about it), but Sunet was super nice and easy to talk to.

Later that evening Susie gave me a call and said, “Sunet said that he’s not interested in a relationship or anything, but he does want to have friends to hang out with, and he wants to take you to the Llama Fest.” Mmm… I’m not sure if I want to go. I have gone out with so many foreign guys, and that is what they all say before they try to date you. I would love to go to the Llama Fest, but I’m not sure I want to go with him. What do I do?