Motorola Droid

I got a new phone! WooHoo! Mine broke in September so I've been using one of my mom's old phones until I was eligible for an upgrade. (thanks mom!) My upgrade was January 4 so I booked to a Verizon store and checked out what they had. The Droid is the most awesome phone they have and with its features, it seemed it would make life easier. This is if you can figure out how the dang thing works! I'm so not smart with any technology! And I'm terrible with the touch screen, thank goodness it has a slide out keyboard.
We were in a movie the weekend I got my phone and I had set my ringer to silent but apparently that doesn't apply to any alarm you have set on your phone. So we're sitting in the movie (and it was a louder portion of the movie) and i lean over to Mike and ask if he hears that noise? It kinda sounds like a fire alarm? Then we realize its my phone! Shoot! I'm one of THOSE people now! I promise i silenced my phone people! SO i pull it out of my purse (which makes the ringing noise even louder) thinking i can just hit any button to turn the thing off... NOPE. Its still ringing. I don't know what to do! It wont shut up! So i sit on it. But you can still hear it! So I had to go into the hall to turn it off finally. I was so embarrassed, and I felt really bad for my fellow movie-goers. I'm just a girl with a new phone, who has no idea how to use it!

I'm still here!

Oh my. I feel so lost to try to catch everyone up since my last post! It's been so long. It's been a crazy month. I passed Pathophysiology and finally got onto Christmas (which was over in the blink of an eye), then new years. Which was a wake up call to me since Nursing School started 1/14. I hustled to get all my things done to be ready to go back to school, and got things out of the way because I knew I wouldn't have much time to do them during the semester. So here we are. I survived week one of school. Mike and Parker are both taking classes which is fun but I have to study so much more than they do (that's a lie, I don't think they study at all) so it's hard but I was mostly stressed out with the anticipation of school but now it's here so its not so scary. I cant guarantee how much i'll be able to keep up my blog up to date but i'll certainly try!

Tell me how you really feel..

This is a comment that was left on my last post from an anonymous blogger:

"Brooke, look in the mirror you are the perfect example of a ute fan. You lie, you cheat, you back stab, you are an alcoholic, you are a whore. You just don’t get it. I dare you to ask your associates to tell you the truth, no one likes you. You are a manipulating, conniving, lying, evil bitch.

Sorry, the truth hurts."

Wow. Really? All that? Well I'm glad whoever that was got it all off there chest. I only wish whoever let such an "honest" comment out had the balls to put a face on it. If you really hate me that much, don't hide behind the internet. I'm going to assume this is from a disgruntled BYU fan since they say that I'm the perfect example of a Ute fan, and have no clue what the definition of an alcoholic is. I drink socially, that's about it, no alcoholism here. But i'm not here to defend myself. I just thought I'd share this with the world.
This is all just a bunch of sticks and stones.

Why can't we be friends?!

I admit that I may have been a little mad when I wrote my last post. I apologize for some foul language and heat from my heart. What I won't take back is how i honestly feel. I am in no way saying that I'm not going to be friends with any BYU fan. Michelle, I most certainly want to be your friend still. I hate this rivalry because I feel that it clouds fans judgment. When people post things like a sign on a toilet bowl and state that this is the only bowl Utah belongs in, that is not in good fun. I don't take that well (especially after last season). I'm sorry, we still represent the Mountain West Conf. and us doing well is good is good for the whole conference. The same for BYU or TCU or any of us. When one of our teams does well we should all be cheering for our conference. My boss is a great example of that. He is the biggest BYU fan I know, yet I never get any negative comments from him whether Utah is doing well or not, he cheers for Mountain West teams. Why can't we all just get along!? I would like to continue the friendships I have with all my BYU friends, but I will not be friends with people who say they agree with Max Hall, to me that is saying I am classless and rude, which I am not. I'm just a football fan who chooses to wear red instead of blue. And my "GO UTES" signs never say anything bad about any other teams. Lets all have some good sportsmanship and have a clean fun rivalry for heavens sake!

Goodbye Max Hall, ye shall not be missed.

Yesterday was a hard day for myself and all fellow University of Utah fans. But I'll live, there's always next season. That was until today when i saw Gordon Monson's column in the Tribune with Max Hall's comments: "I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them I hate their program, I hate their fans, I have everything. It felt really good to send those guys home. They didn't deserve it. It was our turn, and our turn to win. We deserved it. We played as hard as we could tonight. And it felt really good, again, to send them home, to get them out of here, and so it is a game I will always remember. I think the whole university, their fans, and their organization is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year, and they did a whole bunch of nasty things, and I don't respect them, and they deserve to lose."

Wow. Can the Code of Conduct control this guy? Has he ever heard of sportsmanship? I personally know that there is bad blood between the teams, that's why I don't go south of Salt Lake County when its football season. I don't agree that Utah fans had any right to be mean to a player's family or any BYU fan for that matter. I certainly don't agree with the BYU fan that assaulted Kyle Whittingham's wife either. How did this get so out of hand?! I have never heard any player talk so openly negative about any team. Most of the BYU fans i've known this year have been awful too! I have never seen digs on BYU like I have this year against Utah. Do you all have such hurt egos that we won last year that you have to put down all of our loses? I didn't see any foul comments from Ute fans when Florida killed BYU this year or about the loss from TCU, but the minute we lose to undefeated TCU its foul comments left and right from BYU fans. What was the BYU website talking about? HONOR?! Holy Lord! Do any of you know what that means?! I'm SOOO glad Hall will be gone next year or I may start to have a real BAD attitude about BYU. He can get the F*CK out with his bad ass attitude. People may not remember all of his turnovers from last year, or that he won the game winning touchdown in overtime this season but i'll surely remember his attitude and foul comments about the Utes. I root for Collie, Krueger and all the players from Utah schools who make it pro but I don't have any good vibes for Max Hall.
And to any of my "facebook friends" who agree with Max Hall, If you all have bad attitudes and hate all Utah fans, then clearly we can't be friends anymore because if you think so poorly about me as a Ute fan then I don't want anything to do with that kind of attitude!
Go Utes for having more class than Max Hall.

Drowning Our Sorrows

A patient brought these doughnuts and root beer in for us (Dr Smith and I) 2 weeks ago after the Utah & BYU loses. They are Boise State fans, and of course they won that week. They said they brought us treats to "Drown our sorrows". Well, at least they're looking out for us right?

Compliments as Hints?

The other day I was feeling pale so I decided to go tanning. I get there and the nice, slightly overweight, teenie bopper employee get my info, figures out a bed for me, then, very genuinely compliments me on how white my teeth are. Now, it's something I've been insecure about because I haven't actually whitened my teeth in a while and I drink diet coke like my life depends on it. (OK I'm actually quite sure my life and those around me are in question when I don't get enough diet coke..) Dark sodas can stain your teeth, I'm not giving it up though! Back to the point here, she compliments my white teeth, we talk about it for a minute then I go to my room, and check out my "white teeth" in the mirror and what do i see?! A freaking piece of broccoli, staring me in the face from my bottom teeth. SHIT! How long has it been there? Clear since my veggie crepe for breakfast!? How many people have I talked to since then? I usually don't talk so big that I reveal my bottom teeth, but could she see it and was just trying to politely worn me? She's an employee at a tanning salon, does she have it in her to be that smooth?!

How many times have I tried to smooth out my appearance before going to public places? ALL THE TIME! Once I was walking into Target and I suddenly had the fear that my fly was down, so I sneakily check it, nope its up, but now my $1 "one-size fits all gloves" (you know, the kind that are knit and you have to stretch them way out to fit them on your hands) gets caught on the zipper! This is in the parking lot of Target! Yes, my glove finger was caught on my zipper, go ahead and laugh. Fortunately I panicked so I had enough strength to rip my glove off my pants.. Hopefully before anyone saw me!
Do embarrassing things like this happen to everyone? Or is it just me?