Happy Nevada Day! Oh, and Happy Halloween!!!

As only a few of you may know--actually, probably most of you, seeing as most of you are family--today is Nevada Day. It's a joyous event where we dress up in Costumes and eat candy--oh, and there's no school. Of course this is only applicable in Nevada. However, I'm fairly certain that all the other states wanted to be a little Nevada-y, so they all dress up and eat candy too. They just don't get school off.

Anyway, In keeping with the tradition of dressing up, Bestie and I wanted to dress up as some of our favorite characters. We went to our stake party as Fran and Freba from the SNL skit Fran and Freba. I was Fran, and Bestie was Freba. In the skit Fran is played by a man, so She is much taller than Freba. Well, Bestie is about 4 inches taller than I am, so even in my 3 inch heels and her in her flats, she was still taller. Oh well. It was way fun. We decided I would be Fran because I can act like a man acting like a girl much better than she can...??

We both have rather longish hair so I got creative and made it look somewhat like the real deal. I did both of our hairs with pin curls. The amazing thing is how well they stayed in. I started my hair at 4:00 pm. The last picture in this post is us at Midnight. I believe that is 8 hours. The only thing different is that my bangs were falling out. That is pretty dang impressive, if I do say so myself.

To watch the original skit, go to this link, http://www.hulu.com/watch/52191/saturday-night-live-fran-and-freba.

Here is the original Fran and Freba for reference. Fran is in the coral half sweater on the right and Freba is on the left. This picture is of them putting of lotion. We have a video of us doing the same thing. :D

The Challenge, Day 30

I wanted to do something extra special today but then I realized that it probably wouldn't look that extra, so I just did what I do everyday. :D I took all these pictures and there weren't that many blurry ones or messed up ones, so I couldn't decide which ones to leave out. so you get them all.

I was going to post this earlier today, but I was babysitting and my niece doesn't like it when she's not the center of my attention. :D Now that I've taken her to the real babysitters, I can blog in peace. Or rather, now that I have nothing to do, I will fill my boredom with blogging.

Check it out, Bestie is makin' her debut on my blog. I didn't intentionally get her blow drying her hair in my pictures, but she is there.

The Challenge, Day 29

Can you believe it is already Day 29? It just occurred to me that tomorrow is the last day of the challenge. :(

I'll probably still take pictures of myself everyday because I just like it. but I don't want to stop blogging. I'll have to find something else to blog about to keep my habit regular. we'll see. Maybe I'll be adventurous and find something new to take a picture of periodically to practice my photography skills. Wouldn't that be fun?

I was looking through my pictures, getting rid of bad ones and rotating sideways ones and such, when I came across this one. I thought it was super funny because I don't remember taking it. I am usually pretty careful about keeping the camera off to the side so it doesn't cover any of me and my outfit, so I found it funny that I would take a picture with it right in my face. Check out the focus on my hand and how it's more blurry behind my hands. cool, huh?

The Challenge, Day 28

I went to DI Saturday morning and I got this sweater thing. I think it's pretty. When I went to Khols with Big Sis, I got this pearl necklace and some earrings. Today, I decided to wear those items. the purpose of the sweater is for my Halloween costume, but hey, It's even better if I can wear it anytime I want. :D I get to spend time with my niece, today. It's gonna be good. So far, I've done some dishes. :P

The Challenge, Day 27

I missed yesterday, I'm sorry.

It was a pretty busy day.

We won the football game! Yay! And I saw Anne Tuttle Brown. I didn't say hi to her, but I saw her climbing the bleachers.

Anyway, today, I did not match. look at that. But I'm still so so cute. :D And I'm in a way weird mood.

I've decided to name one of my future children Kardon or Karlin. This means I have to marry a Collin or a Brandon. Story: We were discussing where my name comes from and how I should carry on the tradition, so I decided to see what guy names would sound good with mine, and those two were good ones. :D

One reason I did not bother to retake the ACT

I do better the first time.

So, I made the 2 chocolate cakes for my home teachers; those cakes were perfect. almost. They were big and fluffy and only cracked on one corner: easy fix with frosting. The next cake I made was Jeff's yellow cake. It sunk in the middle, and more pieces detached themselves from it. It didn't turn out too too bad though. Then, today, I made the white cake for the ward Fall Fest. Can we say disaster? I was way excited because it came out looking more like the chocolate cakes then like the yellow: It was big and fluffy. Unfortunately that did not last. Soon the cake was in about seven pieces. I was so sad. I almost gave up. I was really excited to decorate it with Boo; I had even dyed the batter orange to be Halloweeny, but now I didn't see how it would work out. I figured we would end up making a new cake, so I went ahead a glued it together with frosting, the best I could, and decorated it how I had planned. It LOOKS great, but when someone cuts into that cake, their gonna be shocked. You can't tell from the picture, but it is all lumpy and misshaped. My roommates think it is perfectly acceptable. I feel bad and deceitful. But I am still incredibly impressed with how I managed to make it look together and over all good, but I'm positive that it is mostly made of frosting...

The moral of the story, I tend to do progressively worse at things that I try. Most people start out bad and do better with the next try, but I do my best to be perfect the first time and get lazy for the other attempts. With cakes and drawings, anyway.

The Challenge, Days 24 and 25

Thursday, Oct 20, Day 24:

I mostly read my book this day. I'm reading the Baseball Box Prophecy by Bruce Newbold. It's a pretty good book. There is a lot about baseball in it, so at first i wasn't sure if I would be able to get into it. I've learned a lot about baseball, I might start watching the sport. :D

I also baked 3 cakes. 2 for my 2 home teachers who helped me this summer, and 1 for my friend who has been hounding me for a cake for a couple weeks. :D they turned out pretty good. Since those ones all have boys' names on them, I will take a picture of the one I make today that is for the cake walk in the ward Fall Fest tomorrow.

A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine was giving away a bunch of her clothes. I found this lovely shirt during that process. I like the pattern on it, it's like little oval paint drops and they're all soft tones so they blend well.

I really need to get me a bigger round brush.

Friday, Oct 21, Day 25:

Today I wanted to wear another scarf. So I picked out one of my favorite ones, it has purple green and blue in it as well as some silver. I don't like having things close to my neck, so I don't usually wear scarves. Today i really wanted to wear this one, but I didn't want to just leave it hanging down, and I didn't want to tie it up, so I made into a loose necklace thing. That wasn't working too too well, so I just tied the ends and doubled it up (see last picture).

I started getting ready for Halloween. I practiced doing my hair, and I'm going shopping tonight and tomorrow for the necessary accessories. :D Stay tuned to see what I am for Halloween.

The Challenge, Day 23

I'm sporting a matching scarf and flower. I made both. :D

I decided to branch out a little more and try the red with my blue and gray. oooo.

I also decided to wear a scarf. I don't have a ton of jewelry, but I wanted to wear something on my neck. This is what I tried.

My camera must be getting bored of me, because it has been getting increasingly harder to get nice pictures out of it. I think the battery needs to be charged, but it doesn't say so yet.

The Challenge, Day 22

It's Day 22.

I really want to save up enough money to get my hair cut before Day 30.

That probably won't happen, so maybe I'll do the 30 days, and when I have enough, then I'll go in and have my free consultation and hair cut! That would be so fun!

Normally I wipe off my lipstick before I take my pictures because I think it is too dark, but this time, I did not.

I've noticed that since I started doing this challenge, my eyes almost always stand out. I never used to notice them so much. I would see other things about me first, but now I always see my eyes, and I think they are super pretty. Call me narcissistic.

Most Embarrassing Moment

You know when you're with a large group of people and someone decides it will be super smart for everyone to tell their most embarrassing moment? Well, I never really knew what to say. i usually avoid doing things that might embarrass me later. I also don't usually get embarrassed by the things I do, because I prefer to just laugh at myself.

Well, a couple of months ago, I experienced my most embarrassing moment. Most likely.

It was caught on film.

I was messing around with some co-workers during a lull. We were listening to Divine Comedy's Firebolt song ( a Harry Potter rendition of Katy Perry's Firework). I was spinning around on the spinny chair, while Lesa and Sarah were doing whatever. Next thing I know, I'm on my face on the ground. It was hilarious! The best part was that it was totally caught on film. It's taken a while for my friend to figure out how to get it up on youtube, but now it's there. Without further ado, my most embarrassing moment:

The Challenge, Days 20 and 21

Day 20, Sunday, Oct 16:

Saturday night I put my hair in rags so it would be nice and curly the next day. Oooo.

It didn't work too too well, but I fixed some of the straight pieces and put it up. I wore my gray rose dress that I bought for graduation. I didn't think I looked that great, but apparently nobody else thought that.

I went to choir practice that morning and about three people commented on how amazing I looked. they would gesture to all of me and just be almost speechless. weird. Then I continued to receive similar reactions all through church, so I started keeping a tally. Fourteen people made the same comment to me throughout the day. My favorite one was from a boy; he said, "Karrae, you're looking very tall today." bahaha. Anyway, I didn't get a good picture of my whole outfit, but you can see the back of my head. :D

Day 21, Monday, Oct 17:

I slept in a whole extra hour today. Bad idea. Oh well.

I just threw my hair up and put a headband on to cover the grossest part.

My roommate says I look like I'm ready to run off and exercise with Richard Simmons. Thanks, Red, thanks.

The Challenge, Day 19

Today I wanted to come up with a good second day hair do. At the hands-on event they talked about doing a twist down into a low side ponytail. I tried it and decided it would look good in a bun.

I picked out a nice 3/4 sleeves shirt to wear but I didn't want to wear it by itself, so I was looking in my closet for one to wear over it. I grabbed a purple shirt. A bright purple shirt. Everybody vetoed the idea, so I put this one on. I put my green flower in my hair to spice it up. ooOOoo. I think I'm wearing 5 different colors.

Today, I went up the canyon with some friends, the leaves are so beautiful. It's amazing how many more colors there are since last Saturday. Then I went ice skating with some more friends. Here is a lovely picture of us on the ice. :D

Another friend told us not to cut our fingers. We were confused, so she told us that we should keep our fingers tucked when we fall so people don't run them over and cut them. So this is me showing how far my finders are from my blades.