What's a Pummelo? (And Other Strange Fruits)

I asked myself this very question last week as I perused the aisles of Broulims grocery store.  A large, green-yellow fruit caught my eye.  No one knew the answer.  Since they were only $0.99 per pound, I decided to buy one and give it a shot!  It kind of reminded me of Peru.  We would buy all sorts of fruits we'd never seen before and then try them.  We had hits and misses.  Sadly, some fruits I still never learned the name of.

Me and my pummelo...my pummelo and I???

Pummelos have very thick skin!

And it's pink inside!  The perfect fruit for any real girl.  It kind of tastes like a sweeter grapefruit and a hint of pomegranate...yeahhhhhh whatever it tastes like, it's good!

Peru fruit memories...on film. (Please don't judge our appearance...I apologize to Noelle and Breet for posting these without their consent.  I figured after a year we can just laugh about what we looked like....)

 What we learned to be passion fruit...but we called it the booger fruit.

Tuna...yes, it's a fruit.

The forever nameless fruit...  And even though Noelle says at the end that she really likes it, she didn't.  I don't think she ever ate it again but Breet and I would always buy them. 

This is mostly a tour of our kitchen...I find it appropriate for now.  Also, it is our first Peruvian mango.  The mangoes were DELICIOUS.  I hated mangoes before Peru and still don't love the ones that are in the states, but Peruvians know how to eat a good mango.  PLUS, we could get like 5 good size mangoes for an American dollar.  It's a steal!

I love watching these all together because twice we describe them as mushy apples and pomegranates.  Also, I just cracked up laughing at how funny we are.  Funny looking, funny sounding, funny everything.  It was all so new to us and I'm so glad it's all captured on film!

Interjections!

"show excitement, or emotion!.... 

So when you're happy (Hurray!) or sad (Aw!)
Or frightened (Eeeeeek!) or mad (Rats!)
Or excited (Wow!) or glad (Hey!)
An interjection starts a sentence right!"

Or how about INTERCEPTIONS!!!!!!!  They "show excitement or emotion, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah... YEA!"

What, you might ask, is the purpose of this post?  Well, my brother scored a touchdown in the football game Friday night and the interception is causing me, and the rest of Lima, to shout interjections!  (Yes, he did score for our team, unlike the above video...) 

Let me tell you why this is such exciting news when every Friday night all around the United States there are high school football players scoring touchdowns left and right....

Eli is not the biggest guy you'll ever meet.  Until a year (or less) ago he was probably one of the smaller guys in the high school.  But let me tell you, that kid has worked his butt off since 7th grade playing football.  He loves it!  And he continued to work hard at every practice and lift weights in the off-season even though he didn't get much playing time.  If I were him, I would have quit a long time ago.  But he loves football and didn't let his size stop him.  After countless hours standing on the sidelines watching his teammates play he's finally gotten a chance to play varsity this year and play quite a bit.  And then, what do ya know?!  He goes and intercepts the ball and runs it back for a touchdown!!!  Can I just say I am one proud older sister.  I hate that I wasn't at the game and I really wish I could see him play a game his senior year.  But maybe it's better since when my mom was telling me all about the play on the phone I started crying.  I can't be crying at football games now!!  I have a reputation to uphold....

#42

There he goes!

 If you want to see the video of him click here.  It's the second play they show.

"Darn, that's the end."

My Umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh

Good deals make me happy.  Especially when it was something that I was planning on getting anyways!

BYUI had its Lost and Found sale this week and Alexis and I stopped by.  We got there 10 minutes early and there was already a line all the way down the hall.  You have to get in first to get the good stuff I guess.  We finally got in the doors around 2:10 and there wasn't a ton of stuff left.  I really just wanted a pair of sunglasses but not too many people lose them in the winter months...weird.  

Then I saw it.  It was $2.  My umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh.  Now I'm under my umbrella.  Well I'll be under it as soon as it rains....

You should watch...

 GLEE's "Singing in the Rain/ Umbrella"

and...

the original "Singing in the Rain"

Ow Ow Owww!

Today was a most excellent day.  It started at 5:45 (the earliest I've been up in quite a while) with a trip to the temple.  I feel so blessed to live within walking distance (though I never turn down a ride when it's cold like today!) of a temple.  This semester I've been able to go a few times and I'm looking forward to going more and more. 

At 9:00 I met Jamie (my roommate from last Spring) at the gym to play racquetball.  She may have kicked my butt...four times.  This is only the second time I've played with her and I managed to score 7 points against her one game!  And another game I got the big ONE OH...minus the one....  Oops!  But I really am getting better at the game and by the end of the semester I'll score at least 10.

We then ventured from the courts to the fitness center and lifted weights for 30 minutes.  MY ABS ARE KILLING ME.  Every time I move from a laying down position to sitting or standing I feel like I'm going to puke.  I've done ab machines before but Jamie had me do a new one that really works your abs.  I guess that's a good thing.

After walking home, showering, eating lunch, and getting ready for the day I headed out to have some fun at a film shoot!!  YES, I got a part in a campus video from that audition I went to last week. (to read about it click here)  It's nothing big, but it was a ton of fun.  It's actually going to be part of a new student employee training video.  I was the example of bad phone etiquette.  And I have excellent phone etiquette at work so it definitely was a challenge!

Tonight's going to be a lonely night at the apartment for me.  Alexis is back home babysitting, Lauren is at a retreat, Lindsey went to IF, and Brittany and Hillary are going on a double date.  Oh well.  Every once in a while I enjoy some time to myself to just relax and enjoy the absence of craziness.  I would watch a movie but I can't ever seem to finish them anymore.  I always fall asleep.  Or get up and do something else.  Whatever I do, I'll make sure it's awesome :) 

A post for the sake of blogging

I will apologize a head of time for this post...there's really nothing funny about it.  Usually I wait until I have something important to say before I blog.  Actually, looking back, I rarely have something important to say.... interesting? naive? time-wasting? completely random?  That's more like it.  But since I am also trying to use this blog as a journal of events, I feel I should write for the purpose of writing and recording my happenings.

I'm back in Rexburg after a two week vacation at home (well I got back on the 5th).  School is wonderful!!!!  With two religion credits (and ONLY two religion credits) my work load has been quite a bit lighter than last semester.  I've had a lot of time to do things that I only dreamed of doing in the fall.  I've been to the gym almost every day (one day I worked out next to Jack Weyland (a well-known LDS author) who wrote Charly which has been made into a tear-jerking movie) and my muscles yell at me constantly for not using them the past few months.

I've cooked a few meals although I hope to do more as the semester goes on.  I still enjoy my calling in Relief Society and am looking forward to getting to know all of the girls better.  I baked delicious polar bear cupcakes!

 
Last Wednesday I was dragged to country dancing by my old roommate, Lexie, and have decided to go back every week.  I'm pretty awful at it at the moment but I'm really hoping that if I keep going I'll someday figure out what I'm doing.  Hillary and Alexis came to the instruction with me last night and we learned a few things.  The problem is that more girls show up than guys so I didn't have a partner for most of the instruction which complicated things only slightly.  I was the stereotypical bad dancer who stepped on too many toes and could not follow half of the twists and turns I was supposed to do.  But I will get better and by the end of the semester I will rock the country dance floor...or at least not break as many toes.  

Alexis, me, and Hillary all ready to rock the dance floor!

We had our first FHE (Family Home Evening) on Monday which was a blast and a half.  Usually the first one is super awkward because you don't know many people and no one knows what to say but this time we all hit it off right away!  It felt like an fhe from the last month of the semester.  This is good news and hopefully we'll all enjoy going and getting to know each other.  

I'm an usher for devotionals again this semester.  We're in the new BYUI Center which makes it a much more difficult job because there are new rules and most students aren't aware of them and when they are made aware they don't want to comply.  I still love doing it and I feel like I'm able to give back to the university by volunteering some of my time to make it a better place.

BYU-Idaho made an amazing lip-dub/ flash mob movie at the end of last semester that I was able to be a part of.  I got on a committee to organize another one for this semester and am really excited to get to do something like this!  I miss theater productions from high school and making movies with Eli so by helping with this I am able to get part of that back and enjoy the creative process again.

Last weekend I got a surprise visit from my Tucker grandparents and cousins from North Carolina.  My cousin, Kimberly, left on her mission to California for two years on Tuesday and they stopped in Rexburg so she could say bye to a bunch of friends.  I loved seeing them all and even got to give them a tour of the new parts of campus.

Today I've been so lazy it's embarrassing.  Alexis just took a picture of me writing this so I thought I'd post it...for memory's sake....

Thank you, Alexis, for reminding me how pitiful I look today.  I promise that this is the only day I've been in my pjs at 11:30 am!!!!  I'm usually up before 8:30 and headed to the gym.  Today was just not my day I suppose.

I'm getting my butt in gear now.  There's real things I need to accomplish today that require exerting energy.

Awkward-ness Runs Through my Blood

There are times in life where things just get awkward.  Sadly, I find myself in these situations quite often.  Case and point: A group of us were going to Extravadance Friday night and I hadn't picked up my ticket yet so I wanted to get there a little early.  Whitney, conveniently, had a date and he came to pick her up.  I was standing out in the cold waiting for Alexis and I honestly can't remember if he offered to give me a ride or if I asked.  I'm really hoping I wasn't dumb enough to ask for a ride.  BUT somehow I ended up in their car on the way to the dance.  How do you spell awkward again??  Let me tell you.  A.W.K.W.A.R.D.  Don't ever do what I did.  Learn from my experience.  It was only a five minute drive (less actually but we had to find a parking spot) and I felt like I should just curl in a ball in the backseat so as to not be seen or heard.  As soon as the car turned off I swung my door open, yelled a "thanks for the ride!" and bolted towards the door so they could walk in without an awkward third wheel.  It's a good thing they were already friends and it wasn't a blind date or anything.  Hey, I'm trying to look at the bright side!! 

Now on to other business.  If you didn't know, Eli and are are pretty cool siblings.  We know how to have a party.  And also how to make a "killer" music video.  The singing gene kind of escaped our family but we can act and we can edit.  Last winter, the two of us made a video for The Killer's Spaceman and if I'm allowed to brag for a bit, I think it's decently awesome.  It took us about 3 months to make, although it's not like we worked on it every day...We aspire to be on Ellen one day so if you would kindly watch it and get our views up we would very much appreciate it. 

To view the video on youtube click here!!

Or you can just watch it on my blog because I've learned how to post videos on it!

Enjoy!