Guest post: Caroline, Carolyn, Carolytte, Carolina, Carolmary

Pronounced Row-smmm-air-eeeee. My dear sister is letting me post on her blog. She is very trusting. So we will start out with some basic facts about her:
1. She is deathly afraid of spiders. I have to kill them for her as she runs as fast as humanly possible to the other end of the house.
2. She is stronger than all my older brothers put together. I can beat her in an arm wrestle though.
3. She can throw a mean punch. It hurts really really bad.
4. Sometimes she pretends that she is black and uses the phrase "tru dat".
5. We text song lyrics to each other. The last few songs have been, "I Want Love" by Elton John, "My Friends", and "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd. If you havent' heard these songs, I highly recommend you look them up.
6. She dances like Elaine Benis from Seinfeld.
7. She has random outbursts of emotion that can be shown in a variety of ways. These range from yelling and dancing, to punching me and giving me a dead arm.
8. She is going to Thailand for the summer. I don't know what I am going to do.

Now I will write about one of my views of the world. Right now, I am sitting in the middle of my 20 year old sister and my now 26 year old brother. They are having a war by throwing markers at each other. He just threw a tennis ball at her and hit her in the head. What if all the wars in the world were fought like this? What if instead of sending their nations to war with each other Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler sat in a room together and threw tennis balls and markers at each other? The winner would be determined by who could pin the other down and draw a mustache on them. This would be great. They could show it on tv. There would be no blood, killing, or violence. It may even be as widely watched as the Olympics and all the money would go to the winning country. The losing country would have to wait until the next marker war to gain their world dominance.

Another view that I have is that ice-dancing should not be an Olympic sport. I'm sorry if I offend any of the readers of this blog. In the Olympics, there are extremely athletically talented people who can do tricks such as a double mctwist 1260 or go flying down an 80 degree vertical hill at 90 miles an hour and still manage to stay on their feet. There are also those who can slide on the ice on a tiny blade and somehow manage to jump off the ice and spin around 4 times before landing back on the ice. In ice-dancing, there is no jumping, no spinning, and they don't even skate that fast. They twizzle. They move their feet in fancy ways across the ice, wear revealing clothes and shiny neon blue onesies. I'm not a good skater but I'm pretty sure that if I practiced for 1 or 2 years I could do that. They should trade this for skiing halfpipe.

My last issue is that snow does not seem to feel the need to stick to the ground in the Salt Lake valley, which makes it look brown and ugly. At least we can get relief from this through our wonderful mountains.

Caroline

Here.

I should be studying but...yeah. Watch this.

and this



Regina Spektor is cool.

Piano man waving on a yellow brick road

So, my awesome sister Caroline (Care-ole-in), well, she had a birthday back in November. And for her birthday, she received a lovely gift from our parents: eight tickets to the Elton John and Billy Joel concert. With no pressure at all from any of her siblings, Caroline invited us to go with her. When Billy Joel got sick, the concert was postponed so we had to wait. But guess what was Friday night? Oh, just an amazing show of iconic talent. The Delta Center was bursting with fans and we were probably the youngest people there by about 20 years...even Jonathan, who's pretty old. My parents fit right in, though.

My dad said the last time he saw Sir Elton Hercules John (chosen name) was when he was in high school and Elton John came to the Huntsman Center. And my uncle Pat apparently came home from a concert at Kingsbury Hall one night raving about an amazing pianist he saw there who turned out to be...drum roll, please...Mr. William Martin Joel (real name).

So these guys are old, but they're definitely still alive and kicking. Elton John jumped on the piano bench, Billy Joel danced with his microphone. They complement each other well.

Sunday dinner had us talking about how fun the concert was, which somehow led to a discussion about Beyonce and her Single Ladies music video. My parents find that video to be highly offensive and inappropriate. Surprise, surprise. We tried to explain again, that Beyonce's dance moves in that video are really quite mild compared to many things we see every day, even living here in our conservative Mormon culture. But my parents wouldn't buy it. They think we're being corrupted. When my parents were young, the Beatles were, you know, sort of popular, I guess. One year the Beatles came to Utah, to Lagoon and my mom really wanted to get a ride out to see them. I don't think that ever worked out for her because, as my dad put it, "the city fathers" thought the Beatles were a bad influence and would corrupt the youth of Salt Lake City. Interesting trend...

Anyway, the most amazing thing about the Billy Joel/Elton John concert was what my dad mentioned afterward. These guys played for three hours and I lost track of how many songs they played, but every single one of them was a hit that we all sang along to. If that doesn't make them both a couple of the biggest icons and legends in American pop culture, then my name isn't Rose and Holly is 6'1".

Yup

I sometimes wish I was one of those people who gets really excited about Valentine's Day, but I've tried and it just won't happen. But I'm not opposed to giving out valentines, so in light of Holly's recent contribution, here's some more cool stuff. The first video of excellent creativity is a lovely valentine gift for Holly and whoever reads this from someone who shall remain nameless. The second video is just genius.





If you want to know more about Imogen Heap, Wikipedia is a great source.

In other news, the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics are tonight and although we won't be able to watch them in real time even though we're in the same West Coast time zone, I'm sure they're going to be sweet. And let's just hope that Lindsey Vonn will be able to ski and that Vancouver will get the snow they need that they're not getting because storms apparently have minds of their own and decided to go dump in places where people carelessly shovel it out of the way like it's not valuable or something.

im due

yep its true.
rose told me so.
its my turn to write a post.

a couple things -

1. rose and i have learned how to make a delightful and delectable smoothie we have oh-so-originally named strawbanaraspine. i know what you're all thinking - "i wish i could have that in my mouth right now", but unless you own a blendtec blender, you're out of luck. the shear power of that machine can blend food into bliss and it is required to make this smoothie.

2. oh, what was that? you do have a blentec blender and you want the recipe? ok -

1 cup this
1 cup that
1 tbs. of the other
ice

combine all ingredients and blend

3. if you ever find yourthelf reading the bible, thpethifically Ithaiah, and are having a difficult time conthentrating, try reading it with a lithp. now you can read Ithaiah for hourth.

4. now, to appease topher. actually probably not. the marriage document looks like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me, its too long, and i simply dont have to the time. obviously...

...or else what chris, or else what.

5. who the heck decided that people like he-she, hermaphrodite lady gaga should walk the red carpet when there are real musical artists like this guy out there???

Listen to this
watch this
and maybe this

6. peace.

Hey Holly, you still alive out there?