I've written before about my favorite blog to read, www.dressaday.com/dressaday.html. If you haven't yet (and if anyone reads this), go check it out!
Erin, the author of that blog, tagged all her readers. And since I've read that blog for several months now, I feel I must comply.
If you are tagged, you
1) Post 5 things about yourself that you have never posted
2) Tag 5 people whom you'd like to know more about

There are tons of things I've never posted, but now trying to think of some, none come to mind.
1) I hate the sound of ice. Now, ice in-and-of itself doesn't make sounds, you may say. This is true. But if you scratch it, scrape it, ice skate on it (let's not even go into hockey stops), crunch in the squeaky snow, anything-- It gives me chills like nails on a chalk board.
2) I think most Chinese pop music is cheesy and awful... and it is. But there's one talented artist that I enjoy, and her name is Sun Yan Zi, a.k.a. Stephanie Sun. There's actually music in her songs. And variety even. She's got talent, she has.
3) The sunlight in the morning makes my kitchen glow. It feels just like being at Grandma's house, especially when I get up early to make hotcakes. We have a view of what used to be an irrigation ditch, and with all the trees and snow around it, it always brings to mind Robert Frost's poem: Who's woods are these? I think I know. His house is in [Beijing] though.
4) It is my goal to always be frugal without being stingy. I hate wasting anything or spending more money on things than I ought to. But then I want to change Provo's stereotype for terrible tipping. So if we ever go out to eat (not often) or order pizza (basically never), I always try to leave a generous tip. Hey, they're poor college students too!
5) When I was little I loved adventure stories where kids would eke out a living for themselves in the woods. I loved the Boxcar Children #1, Caddie Woodlawn, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, and Kirsten's books in the American Girls series. I haven't enjoyed reading since middle school, and now that I'm done with college, I'm going to start reading what I love again. I went to the Juvenile Fiction section of Provo's BEAUTIFUL library, and I came home with more books than I could even hold (and they were out of bags, of course!). I'm so excited to read them!

OK, now for tagging other people. I'm not sure who all reads this, but I tag
1) Kevin
2) Sarah
3) Calysta
4) Julia
5) Amy

and whoever.... if you have a blog, do it there. If you don't, you can just leave a response to my entry.
Either way, you've been tagged, so you have an obligation!

Attention all car thieves: Provo welcomes YOU!!!
At any public place, whether it's the library, post office, bank, or grocery store, you can find a large assortment of cars sitting in the parking lots, doors unlocked, keys in ignition, engine running. These cars come preheated!
But seriously, I can understand if people leave their car doors unlocked. Maybe they don't care about their stereo or the CD collection under their seat. But you'd think that no one would leave their car in the parking lot with the smoke signal pouring out the exhaust pipe, unless they were inviting thieves to take it.
So take all you want, car thieves. Maybe people will learn.

I love disposable tupperware. No one I know actually uses them and throws them away every single time like they're sandwich baggies, but I love that no one is uptight about them. It seems like everyone, rich or poor, is happy to give you something in one of those throw-away ziplock containers and won't worry about getting it back any time soon.
I also love g3 juice. It is a product sold by Pharmanex, which is where I work. It is fruity and tangy, and has tons of vitamin C (translation: if you accidentally swallow it down the wrong pipe, it is painful for a long time) and beta carotiene and stuff. It's healthy. My mom came to visit, and I gave her a drink of it. After several moments of pensive lip smacking, she told me it tasted like it had crunched up vitamins in it.
It doesn't.
But it's good.
Other good things: On Saturday, it snowed. This isn't the good part. What that means for us is that we have to instantly run out and shovel our driveway, or else it will turn into a large sheet of ice that will stay 'til next spring unless we hack at it on warm afternoons.
But it snowed, and I was late for work. So I drove on our driveway, smashing down all the snow into what would soon be the start of our huge sheet of ice.
I came home from work, though, and our street was plowed (the city tends to ignore the fact that we live on our "no outlet" dead end, so they never plow for us). Then I was even more surprised as the dirt road leading to our driveway and then the entire driveway were all plowed!
Turns out, our neighbor had gotten a new snowplow front for his 4-wheeler, and he came by and plowed our entire yard. He was apparently very excited about his new toy, as after he finished with our yard, Kevin said he saw him plowing the church parking lot behind us at full throttle, yelling and screaming "woo hoo!!!" as he did doughnuts at the end of each run.
Ok, so I made up the 'woo hoo' part.
But that's what I imagine.

I like meeting Kevin's old mission buddies. Especially now that I work at Nuskin, where a bunch of other people learned their Chinese from serving missions in Taiwan, I run into people all the time that served in GaoXiong and know Kevin.
And without exception, the conversation always tends towards this:
Mission Buddy: "Yeah, I was in Gao Xiong from 2001 to 2003 (or whatever)"
Me: "Oh, really. Did you know Kevin Fisher?"
Mission Buddy: "Yeah, Elder Fisher."
Me: "I married him."
Mission Buddy: "Oh, I LOVE Elder Fisher!"
Me: "ME TOO!!!"
Then we marvel about how much we have in common. It is a great conversation.... every time. :)