I love Scrabble. Mostly I love it when I win. Which I did tonight! Race and I are SUPER competitive {at least when it comes to Scrabble and/or Words with Friends} so we get pretty upset when we're losing. But, we still love each other and enjoy the time that we get to spend playing games together. And I supported Race 100% while he was upset and losing and he supported me 100% while I was ecstatic and winning. We're cool that way.
Race set up for the game while I ate a bowl of lucky charms as a late night snack. :]
Please notice Race covering up the board so no one can see and the crinkled paper with our scores on it that he also didn't want anyone to see {I fished it out of the garbage}--I told you we're competitive! Also, you can just see how intense we are when we play. We have some serious game faces!
So I found out why you are supposed to put up the pictures every couple of days. It's because it is so hard to remember which picture is from which day. I think I have it figured out though so here goes some catching up!
January 9, 2011
So I have been having a really hard time remembering to take pictures every day until late at night. So this first picture is a boring one of our living room. The picture shows that we moved our futon back a few feet. We did this so we could play the move without having to sit on the couch or be super backed up against it. We also played games with our family that night and it was nice to have more room in the living room instead of lots of useless room in the kitchen. Haha.
January 10, 2011
Another day where I forgot to take a picture til bedtime. Obviously we were in bed when we remembered to take a picture. So here's a picture of Race and I cuddling up in bed. Also,we were hiding zits with the blanket. Haha.
January 11, 2011
Here is a picture of Race and I playing Rook. This may be my new favorite game to play with Race. It is also one of his family's favorite games so it's about time that I learned how to play. I really enjoy playing two player but I am still a little scared to play with his family because they are SUPER INTENSE when they play. I'll be as intense eventually though. :] Also, this night I got really frustrated because it was another night where I forgot to take a picture til we were in bed. Race recognized how upset I was and went and grabbed the Rook cards and did a full out photoshoot (I might put up more pictures another time). Anyway, it was really sweet of him and we played a couple rounds afterwords which was fun. It was a good way to end the night. Also, we are finding out they we are pretty big gamers. The past couple of weeks we have played Rook, Yahtzee, Apples to Apples, Scum, and a few other games with Teal (Race's sister), Ellie (Race's cousin), and Nick (Ellie's husband). It's lots of fun to play games. We just need to get some more so we can have lots of variety.
January 12, 2011
Finally, here is todays picture. When I got home from work tonight Race was still cleaning so I decided to play on our Play Station Move. So I played some archery, table tennis, and gladiator games before I decided to try Zumba for the first time. I tried it and I loved it! It was really fun and a good workout. It's not quite as good as a legit Zumba class but it is really really fun still and it still gets your heart pumping. So it will be my new favorite workout. I just need to get Race to do it with me!
Well, that's all for now. I hope to update more often so I don't get confused. And hopefully I will remember to take pictures before bedtime more often so they aren't too boring. If not I guess pictures of Race and I cuddling in bed aren't so bad because we sure do like to cuddle. :]
So I'm really not sure how interesting this thing will be for anyone...it might just make everyone realize that Race and I lead pretty boring lives {I think that's what I'm getting out of it. And I'm only four days into it}. Either that or we are just never together so some of this stuff will only be about one of us. I could post pictures of the triplets I watch every day because they are always doing something cute but that doesn't really have anything to do with Race and I. Oh well I guess. So anyway, for today I am going to put up a picture of how I find Race every day when I get off of work.
January 4, 2011
This is Race finishing up some Assassins Creed video gaming. Of all his video games I think this is the one I approve of the most. It's somewhat historically based and actually somewhat interesting to hear about. (Hopefully he doesn't start talking to me WAAAY more about it just because I wrote that though :]) Anyway, although I don't like video games at all I have to learn to deal with it and make some compromises because until life gets even busier I am sure that Race will want to have video games be a way for him to relax from the stress of work and school and being married to a crazy lady like me. :]
So here is my sweet husband rushing his butt to finish some stuff up on his game so he can spend the rest of the night with me!
So for Christmas I bought Jasmine a book called "How To Be An Adventurer Of The World". It's a fun book with silly activities and things to do to get you thinking and observing the world around you. On the back of the book it says, "At any given moment, no matter where you are, there are hundreds of things around you that are interesting and worth documenting." So, Jasmine and I did a few of the activities at church on Sunday (yes, I know we should have been paying better attention...haha we're working on that).
The first one we did was called Right Where I'm Sitting. You had to observe ten things from where you were sitting that you hadn't noticed right when you sat down.
This was my list: 1. Messed up hymn books. 2. Warm (almost too warm and there is no room to take off my coat). 3. Smells good (but the smell comes and goes or I'm just used to it now). 4. Crayon on floor (blue, under pew, rhymes!) 5. Green thing on floor (gum wrapper possibly?) 6. Crying kids (unlike the SILENT singles wards) 7. Jazz is sitting way too close! Haha. 8. I can hear the speaker (not too loud though). 9. Blue and redish maroon design on pews. 10. Our pew is smaller than the one in front of us. So that was my list. Then Jazz and I exchanged our lists. It was interesting seeing the differences in our lists.
Here is Jasmine's: 1. The bench in front of me is made out of purple material instead of the usual odd green they have at church. 2. They decorate with wreaths at this church which I've never seen that before in the chapel. 3. This is the kind of thing Knowlton does at school. This must be the page in the book he read when Emma showed him. 4. There is a blue crayon on the ground. 5. The exit sign is red not green. 6. The baby next to me has a sister with a really big bow on her head. I'm surprised she doesn't fall over. 7. The missionary talking is boring. 8. There's a camera or projector in the very back of the room. 9. There is a sweater on the bench next to us and it matches with the bench. 10. Emma is really antsy about me finishing. Hopefully she doesn't make fun of my spelling.
So those were our lists. It's funny to notice that I stuck mostly to things super close to me (usually within a couple feet) and Jasmine branched out a lot more. And even included some of her thoughts that had nothing to do with the things around her.
The next thing we did was answer five questions that they had in the book. They were: 1. What is your current favorite book? 2. Who would you like to have dinner with? 3. What super power would you most like to have? 4. What food would you eat every day? 5. What is your favorite smell?
I said: 1. Nineteen Minutes 2. My Grandma Usher 3. Elastigirl powers. 4. Potatoes 5. Apples
Super random, I know. But fun to think about. The final thing we did was to write down every thought that comes to our minds. It is harder than it sounds because our minds think crrrazy fast. We did this for a while and it was pretty interesting and funny.
Here are my Small Thoughts:
1. I still don't like Jazz's green bag.
2. I suck at paying attention in church recently.
3. This guy has a really deep, kinda weird voice but he doesn't speak too fast. That's good.
4. His voice doesn't match his looks.
5. He's kinda cute but lots of missionaries are. And who knows if his personality matches his looks. (yeah I know I shouldn't be thinking about missionaries like that. I promise I don't ever go after them)
6. I wonder if he has a good singing voice or one of those annoying deep opera voices. (sorry to anyone who has an opera voice...)
7. I wonder what Jazz's weird thoughts are.
8. Skylar took his suit jacket off. I wanna take my coat off but there's no room.
9. Bishoprics are always funny to watch. They look so bored sometimes. Or like they are trying REALLY hard to look like they're paying attention.
10. My hand hurts.
11. I'm coming back to Flag on Thursday I think. For New Years.
12. Hopefully we can find something to so.
13. I love having lots of quiet time to read. I forgot how much I love reading.
14. Nineteen Minutes is a good book but it sounds like they might make it seem okay that this kid shot people at school just 'cause they've always teased him and I don't agree with that.
15. I can't imagine raising a kid who did something like that. I would feel guilty even though it wasn't my fault. Or would it be my fault?
16. Jodi Picoult really makes me think about controversial stuff like that.
17. The Lovely Bones was a weird book. I liked it though.
18. I love my big black bag. I can fit so much stuff in it!
19. So many people have been and are getting married! Super exciting!
20. My hand still hurts.
21. I skipped over some of my other thoughts. Is that cheating? (Jazz says it is.)
22. I wonder if we're gonna stay for one, two, or three hours of church.
23. One more minute.
This is a super interesting activity and a fun one to do when you're bored. I did it a few times in my classes last semester and it's always funny to go back and read them later because daaang do we humans think some random stuff. Anyway, there's a little glimpse into what Jasmine and I do when we're bored and a little glimpse into my brain. I hope you enjoyed!!
I did this for some thing on Facebook and I not everyone has facebook so I thought I'd put it on here too. Just some random facts about myself. Enjoy! :]
1. I love making sound FX. (Examples: GAHHH!Psh!Bleh!GRRR!Argg!)
2. I try to write in my journal every day and I love going back and reading my old journals although they are sometimes ridiculously embarrassing.
3. I love buying school supplies, especially notebooks...I don't really know why though 'cause I'm not a huge fan of school or anything.
4. I love making lists (packing lists, grocery shopping lists, things to do, goals, etc.)
5. I talk to both of my parents about pretty much everything and I love them sooo much! It's hard to be away and not get to talk to them everyday. Lucky for me technology is amazing and I get to call/email/web chat with them quite often. I think my parents are two of the wisest people I know.
6. I write everything in my agenda but rarely ever look at it when I'm doing homework and stuff. I guess just writing it down helps me remember.
7. My name is Emma Olmstead and I am addicted to Spider Solitaire. (It is distracting me as I write this)
8. I love YouTube and could watch it for a really long time but I never find cool videos myself...other people have to tell me about them.
9. I can touch my tongue to my elbow and to my nose. (No, touching your tongue to your elbow is NOT impossible)
10. My all time favorite color is red. I have four pairs of red shoes, a pair of red rain boots, a pair of red slippers, at least four red sweatshirts, two red bags and I don't even know how many red shirts.
11. I am 5 foot and almost ½ of an inch tall. My 15 year old sister is taller than me and so is my almost 13 year old brother. And my 7 year old sister is about the same size I was in 5th grade! Once everyone in my family is grown up I am pretty sure I will be the shortest. And no one knows how I got to be so short because none of my relatives are nearly as short as me...as far as I know.
12. I love getting dressed up and doing my hair all fancy (when it's long enough) but I have never really learned how to put on makeup all fancy. But I'm not a big fan of makeup so it's all good.
13. I have eight brothers and two sisters and I love all of them more than I could ever explain. I am the fourth child but first girl so I am a middle child as well as an oldest in some ways.
14. Losing someone I love is one of my biggest fears although I do know that I will be with them again.
15. I love reading but I have a hard time finding good books so I rely on other people (mostly my mom and sister) to suggest good books to me.
16. Shopping is one of my favorite things to do...when I find things for super good deals.
17. I love getting compliments on my clothes and being able to tell people how cheap I got the shirt/shoes/pants/whatever for. I think I like being able to say that more than the fact that someone complimented me. I hate when I didn't get something for a good deal because then I don't know what to say. And I almost always know the exact amount something cost me (not including tax).
18. I wish I had stayed in gymnastics after sixth grade but I am also grateful that I was able to try lots of different things over the years (diving, dance, choir, piano, sewing, cooking, pole vaulting, running, public speaking, swimming, etc.).
19. Doing backflips on trampolines is one of my favorite things to do so when my parents bought a trampoline the week after I moved away from home I was bit upset.
20. My little sister, Helena, is my best friend in the entire world. I don't know what I would do without her and I am so lucky to get along with her so well. It's hard being away and not knowing about everything that is going on in her life and being able to tell her all about what is going on in mine.
21. My sister and I shared all of our clothes when we were living together. Before I moved out we had to do a week test-run to see if we would be able to survive with only half of our wardrobe. Luckily we did!
22. I crashed a motorcycle when I was 12 or 13 and now have a fear of riding them. So I have a goal to get over that fear.
23. More than anything else I want to be a mom when I grow up.
24. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I love it.
25. I love to dance but I'm not all that great at it. My sister and I dance to pretty much everything and now I dance with my roommates (especially to the Evolution of Dance on You Tube). Interpretive dances to EFY music are the best. I would love to learn to ballroom dance but I like other kinds of dancing as well (jazz, ballet, hip hop, etc.).
