dateline addict.

So..... I looove watching dateline. We tivo all of them and I have to BEG Sean to watch them with me. He isn't as fascinated by the secret life of a soccer mom as I am :) We watched an episode today about 10 unforgettable 911 calls. One guy called 911 from inside a garbage truck where he was trapped {see here}. How does that happen? It never explained and I was kinda bugged. I've ruled out the scenario that he was a homeless person looking for food, because he was calling from a cell phone. I don't know. I was really disappointed in dateline for not giving me the full story.

loves.

1. there is nothing i love more than watching fireworks with sean. what is more romantic than that?
2. i have been wearing this ring on my finger for 3 years. time flies. and i have loved every second. i still think my ring is the most beautiful i've ever seen.
3. i am deeply obsessed with traditions. i kind of hate the kaysville parade... but at the same time, i love going out in the sweltering heat every year because it's tradition! fireworks at davis high... another tradition i don't think i'll ever be able to break away from :)
4. i love crepes. especially when stuffed with wild blueberries and a combination of cool whip & boston cream pie yogurt. yummmmmm.
5. i looooooooooooove my new camera. i finally got a new memory card so i can take 4,000 pictures instead of 15. hooray!
6. i love the food that i grew up eating, no matter how weird some of it is. fake crab salad. frog eye salad. stuffed green peppers. zucchini pancakes. home-made mint tea.
7. i love our families. it was so fun to hang out with them yesterday. and i really love how close they are to each other.
8. i love sleeping in after a loooong day & late night.

happy 4th!

feeling like all kinds of piano today.

1. in other words, ben kweller
2. die bekehrte, dawn upshaw & richard goode
3. the boys are too refined, the hush sound
4. brightest, copeland
5. so much love, the rocket summer
6. liz on top of the world, pride & prejudice soundtrack
7. the secret life of daydreams, pride & prejudice soundtrack
8. dreaming with a broken heart, john mayer
9. what we hate we make, the rocket summer
10. shadowboxer, fiona apple
11. unsafe safe, the hush sound
12. soledad, yo-yo ma & octavio brunetti
13. jesus once of humble birth, mindy gledhill
14. lied der mignon, dawn upshaw & richard goode
15. run to you, the rocket summer
16. the heart asks pleasure first (nyman), jean-yves thibaudet
17. piano concerto no.2 in c minor (rachmaninov), jean-yves thibaudet
18. andante spianato in g major (chopin), the pianist soundtrack
19. 2 arabesques, L 66- arabesque #1 in E (debussy), kathryn stott
20. living life, ben kweller

{piano more}

lazy + uncoordinated.

equals Ariel. So a couple of years ago in the dead of winter, I bought an aerobics dvd. I must have been depressed about the frigid weather outside to do such a thing. Anyway... I popped in the dvd and watched some really fit ladies doing lots of crazy moves that I could never make my body do... and realized that I'm extremely uncoordinated!! That actually wasn't the first time I had realized that I'm not coordinated AT ALL. Example: gym class from elementary through high school :) Gym was torture. I can't express how glad I was when I hit my senior year and no more gym was required! I just don't do sports/dancing/aerobics/yoga without looking like a total fool! So if I want to exercise, my options are A.walk B.run C.ride my bike. That pretty much sums it up. Well this morning I realllllly didn't want to get on the treadmill, so I thought I'd dust off my aerobics dvd and give it another shot. Come to find out.... this is shocking.... I'm still uncoordinated! I watched those fit ladies again for about 5 minutes and gave up. And then I grabbed a diet dr. pepper and came upstairs to blog. Thus the "lazy" in the title :) I'm making record of this so that next time I think I want to try aerobics, I can look back on this and realize that I will only be setting myself up for failure. Don't do it, Ariel. Get on the treadmill.