I just saw this article on KSL. Oh HAPPY day!!! Granted it is still a long time from now, but still! New countdown chain here we come.

SALT LAKE CITY — The U2 360 tour dates in the US, which were postponed due to Bono’s emergency back surgery, have been rescheduled for spring/summer 2011. The U2 concert in Salt Lake City will be on May 24, 2011 at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

U2’s manager Paul McGuinness thanked fans for their ongoing support, “We’re delighted the dates are rescheduled and in all the same venues we originally planned to play. It hasn’t been easy to accomplish this and I’d like to thank the managers of the many venues and sports teams across North America and Live Nation Global Touring for their help and cooperation in making this complex new plan possible. Above all we want to thank the U2 fans for bearing with us. They’re the best and the band wants to get back to where they belong, surrounded by their audience.”

Tickets for the previously scheduled performances will be honored at the door. Tickets for the rescheduled performances will be available at www.livenation.com and all usual outlets.

We got together just before Easter to celebrate and dye the Easter eggs for our family party. I love it when we get together to have fun and celebrate whatever holiday it happens to be! Thank you for the support and thank you Jenny and Steve for always letting us use your house for the parties!

It was great to watch the kids dye their eggs. It made me laugh when both Tyler and Steve had eggs with Poop written on them. They then placed them in each of the colors to make it look like a poop egg! Boys! Overall we had a great time and were able to have lots of laughs and enjoy our time together.

Thanks guys for the fun time!

Kaka and I are finally in the new place! It is WONDERFUL! I love being on my own. Of course it makes it really nice and convenient to have Jenny and Steve so close to us though! We are so grateful to everyone who put so much work into helping us repaint everything, and for tearing out the carpet and for putting in our ceiling fans, and for putting down the wood floor in the entry way, and for everything else that was done. Thank you for all of the hard work you put into this for us. I know I am extremely grateful since I wasn’t around to help much due to school. Thank you so so so so so so so much for all of your hard work. I will post pics as soon as we have the place cleaned up and organized more. But it looks cute!

Natalie, Libby, and myself have had nothing else to look forward to but the U2 concert. We were SO excited to be going. we made a beautiful countdown chain to help us know just exactly how close we were and we have been listening to a U2 song of the day everyday for a couple of weeks now! Well… when we had less then 2 weeks to go we got the announcement that the concert has been postponed SAD day! Apparently Bono hurt his back and had to have emergency surgery. Yikes. Hoping he is ok. So bummed out for him, and of course for my selfish reasons…. cause I no longer have anything to look forward to! Hope they reschedule the concert fairly soon. I assume Bono will need some time to recover first though! Until we hear when the concert will be our chain is now a sad face instead of a U.

January 21-24 Jessica, Stacey, Jenny, Mom and I went to San Francisco! Oh my word…. I LOVED it there. We had an absolute blast. Jessica wanted to do something fun and special for her SPECIAL BIRTHDAY (she turned 24 on the 24th) so we decided to go to San Francisco and see WICKED!

I cannot believe how amazing it was! The play was awesome. I sat through the whole thing with a giant perma-grin and was just so happy to be there. I was so sad when it ended and wanted to go back again the next night. I will for sure need to see the play again. I normally do not love plays, but I really enjoyed this one. I love the soundtrack, and listened to it 5 million times before we went, so it was a lot of fun to finally see the play. Such a great play!

It was so much fun to get away for a weekend. Granted, next time I want to go somewhere warm and sunny! It rained on us the entire weekend. But it was still SO much fun and really the rain didn’t put a damper on things like I was afraid it would. Instead it was just a great weekend with my mom and sisters (minus Stephanie, Amanda, and Ashley… we missed you guys).

We were able to stay in a hotel close to Fisherman’s Wharf. We only had to walk a few blocks to get down there each day. It was fun going to Ghirardelli Square and enjoying chocolate, and to walk down along the water, and to go shopping in the random shops along the wharf area, to enjoy yummy sourdough bread. MMMM…. sourdough bread! It was just a nice, fun relaxing weekend.

We took a couple of random trips driving around random streets in town. Oh my word, the streets were SO fun and so crazy steep! It was funny to drive on them, especially the ones that were so steep we couldn’t see anything when we got to the top! Scary, but so fun. We had a Dodge Charger for a rental car……

I truly HATED this car. It was fast and worked great, but had HORRIBLE turning radius and way bad blind spots. I didn’t enjoy driving this car through the small and steep streets of San Francisco or attempting to park the stupid thing in the tiny parking garage of our hotel. Next time I will for sure choose a different car. Still grateful that we had a car to get us around though.

It was funny and super scary to walk around because they have psychotic birds that would attack! Seriously I almost got hit in the face several times! The birds freaked me out so bad. One time there were several birds around us. I suddenly freaked out and screamed loudly. Everyone just looked at me and I laughed. I totally thought there was a bird on my shoulder cause I saw one of the corner of my eye! Yeah, I am an idiot! ha ha!

We had a great time and I really hope we can do fun things like this again! I vote that we go to New York for my 30th birthday and see plays and enjoy our time together. Start saving your money girls!  

I am truly blessed to have such a kind, caring, and giving Mom. I am so grateful for all that she has done for me. My mom is very talented and LOVES quilting. I love to see the many different projects she is making and you can always guarantee there is a new one. It takes so much time, creativity, concentration, and love to make these quilts and I love to see the finished product.

Anyway, my friend Amy was having a baby shower and I knew that I really wanted to make a certain kind of blanket for her. However, I do not possess the same talent as my mom! I do not know how to sew for the life of me. In fact, every time I touch my mom’s sewing machine… I break it! Oops! So she has forbidden me from touching it unless she is around to supervise! So I went to Thimbles & Threads (the quilt shop mom works at) and picked out all the fabrics for this baby blanket. I was so happy with the fabrics chosen and proud that I picked them out completely by myself, with no help, and they all coordinated well! Surprising!! Anyway, of course, as with everything I try to start in my life… I ran out of time and didn’t even get to start the project. So my sweet mom sewed the blanket together, and did all the work for me, including the binding. Ha ha! She tried to teach me how to do the binding… it didn’t go over so well and wouldn’t have held at all! So she took over! Good thing my mom is patient and knows it is not likely the projects I start will be completed in time!

Anyway, here is the finished project. The pictures aren’t enough. You had to see it in person. It seriously turned out SO cute!

Thanks mom!

I am sitting here doing homework and fighting to keep my eyes open. I decided to browse the web for a minute and found this article. Had to laugh a little cause I RARELY get even 6 hours of sleep. Something needs to change for sure!

Lack of sleep linked to early death: study
LONDON (AFP) – People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.

Those who slumbered for less than that amount of time were 12 percent more likely to die early, though researchers also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours and premature death.

“If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol,” Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain’s University of Warwick, told AFP.

The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found “unequivocal evidence of the direct link” between lack of sleep and premature death.

“We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms,” Cappuccio said.

The findings of the study were published in the Sleep journal.

Cappuccio believes the duration of sleep is a public health issue and should be considered as a behavioural risk factor by doctors.

“Society pushes us to sleep less and less,” Cappuccio said, adding that about 20 percent of the population in the United States and Britain sleeps less than five hours.

Sleeping less than six hours is “more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift work”

The study also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours per night and premature death, but Cappuccio said oversleeping is more likely to be an effect of illness, rather than a cause.

“Doctors never ask how much one sleeps, but that could be an indicator that something is wrong,” said Cappuccio, who heads the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick.

Research showed no adverse effects for those sleeping between six and eight hours per day.

LOVE this stuff! This is one of my favorite things ever! It is a 4 step deep conditioning treatment that works! My hair just hasn’t felt great lately and I haven’t known quite what to do to help it. A client came in to school the other day and I had to do the deep condition treatment to her hair. It was crazy the difference I felt in her hair as I went through the 20 minute process. I had heard that this product worked, but hadn’t ever tried it myself. Well, after feeling the difference it made on her hair I decided to go buy some. This is a product sold only in beauty shops and beauty supply houses to licensed individuals. Anyway, I went and bought some and have done one treatment on my hair. I loved the feeling afterwards and just need to do it several more times to help rebuild my hair. I really just love this product though. 

Anyway, I have thought about offering this as a service to those that may be interested. I do not know how much I will charge for the treatment, but let me know if you would be interested and I would love to provide this service for you.

I LOVE this show. I still have only seen the first season, but I love it. I watched the first season before my mission and then have been wanting to watch them since I’ve been home. I finally borrowed the first season from a friend and have been trying to watch it. I wish I had more time that I could spend watching it and getting caught up. Every week I hear people at work talking about it and speculating about what is really happening and talking about how confused they are. I want to be able to join in on the conversations, but still haven’t finished the first season! Agh. I want to get caught up!

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake Police say at least 100 cars have now been targeted by a vandal — or vandals — who’ve been puncturing holes in tires in the Gateway and Avenues areas.

Detective Dennis McGowan said reports of punctured tires began blossoming around the first of March. “It’s been fairly steady, first of all starting evenings and weekends,” said McGowan. “Then it began to be pretty much every other day.”

Although victims as far south as Sugar House have filed police reports, the majority of damaged vehicles are clustered around the Avenues from 400 East to 1000 East, the City/County Building, Main City Library, Abravanel Hall, Energy Solutions Arena and Gateway Mall.

“As best we can calculate now, we’ve got almost $10,000 worth of property damage as a result,” said McGowan.

Police say the tires have been punctured, not slashed. Many of the punctures are also in the side-walls, making repair impossible.

Police are looking for a thin white male and asking for the public’s help both in finding the suspect and reporting any other instances.

Detectives ask that anyone with information about the identity or whereabouts of the suspect call (801) 799-3000. Callers may remain anonymous. Please reference case #10-71652.