ACCORDING TO ZAC

In addition to the retail therapy that I very much enjoyed today, I also like: daffodils star jasmine zinnias My dad teaches me plant stuff all the time, but lately I've been trying hard to actively learn new things. I mean, I knew daffodils and zinnias, but I've learned things like star jasmine, nandina, japanese boxwood, and arbavida. Nature is pretty much the best. [For the record, the daffodils were given to us by a friend (thanks Carpenter family!), we did not grown them. The other stuff is ours though!]

Happiness is new shoes, new watch battery, and new cologne.

Really UA? Really? This is unacceptable for one freaking summer school class. I hope you all rot in a fiery pit someday.     On a side note, the statement they sent me today was seriously confusing. Get your act together UA, and stop making it more difficult than it should be to give you money. But I'm not bitter...

Do you ever say something and then think, "Whoa, that just sounded like dad/mom?" Well, I definitely did that the other day, and I was kind of proud it happened. I've got rockin' parents, if you didn't know. Now you know. :: On a different note, Nicole got married today. She looked stunning. It's sad to see her start this chapter of her life, because we're kind of on different pages now (to keep with the literary metaphor). But the more I think about it, the more that's the way it's meant to be. I'll find myself a good spouse someday, as will all of my friends. We'll all leave each other behind to find bigger and better things in this life, and the only thing left in the end will be an empty stretch of road that we all used to travel together. We'll each replace that stretch that we once took together in favor of individual roads that lead us on to better things. We can chase our dreams a little more fervently when you have that comp...

For my Editing class I had to find an article that was poorly reported. The difficult part was that you had to find an article that means something to you. A poorly reported article that rips at your heart because of the way it portrays you or something you care about? That's no fun. Naturally, religion was first to come to mind, and finding something that really misconstrued the LDS church was easier than it should have been. The article was terrible, and the stupid thing is that it wouldn't have been hard to fix and make right. It made me sad that the article had been read by an editor and deemed fit for print in one of the most read newspapers on the planet. It made me sad that in this age of technology, a quick run over Mormon.org would have shed light on a lot of these misconceptions. But, what would have happened had all of these facts been checked and corrected, is that the article wouldn't have really been about much. Her whole focus would have had to shift, in...

It's almost here! Waiting for packages is the worst.

Meet my future wife, Kelly. It was love at first sight.

“ To be a successful photographer, you must possess both vision & focus, neither of which have anything to do with your eyes. ” — Kevin Russo

Let me preface this by saying I've never preordered anything except pizza. However, today I preordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on Bluray from Amazon. While I would say that my $10 credit to Amazon and their awesome shipping that allows me to get the movie the same day it's released without having to go to a store were the real reasons I ordered it, that's just a lie. I ordered it because I'm a teenybopper that loves the Harry Potter series. Though the credit and shipping were particularly exciting bonuses, hahaha. Friday can't come soon enough!

Well, it took me long enough, but I finally took a picture of my long board all done. I took pictures when I had painted the orange accent and clear coated, but never once it was complete. The orange isn't perfect, but I still fall in love every time I look at it. [This was my original drawing. If I ever become a designer (ha ha, good one), argyle will be part of my logo.] Prepping for clear coat. Clear coat. Voila! :) This is happy Zac. He always comes around when the long board makes an appearance.

It's interesting to think back to kindergarten. Life was so different then. Priorities were snack time, lunch time, and play time. Food and game related activities, essentially. Fifth grade seemed like an eternity away. By fifth grade you were wondering when high school would arrive. High school wouldn't arrive until you suffered through three years of middle school, and let's face it, everyone is awkward in middle school. Everyone. Then you go to high school, and as much as people think you start finding out "who you are" in high school, college is what makes you really think about it. College has presented me with some cool opportunities. I have a rockin' singles ward. I have super cool friends. Being an "adult" isn't so bad (at least the parts of adulthood that I've chosen to accept). But what it really does is force you to analyze who you are, what you want to be, and how you're going to get there. Which is completely nuts if you as...

I like Tucson. The end.