Velocity by: Dean Koontz

If you don't take this note to the police...I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher...If you do...I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.

The typewritten note under his windshield seems like a sick joke. But in less than twenty-four hours, Billy Wiles, an ordinary, hardworking guy, is about to see his life take on the speed of a nightmare.

Because a young blond schoolteacher is murdered--and now Billy has another note.

And another deadline.

This time he knows it's no joke. He's racing a killer faster than evil itself. And Billy must accept his terrifying challenge: The choice is yours.

SNOW!!!

It is finally snowing today!!! It took forever to snow, but it is now! This is a pic of the house across the street taken from my room. IT'S SNOWING!!!

Cell by: Stephen King

I would totally be a phone-crazy or phone-person. I never go anywhere without my cell phone, so I would be screwed. This was an excellent book and I could hardly put it down.

Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people feel victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.

And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...

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The guy in th Mister Softee truck bent down and held out a sundae cup. From it rose a white Alp with chocolate and strawberry sauce coursing down its sides. His beard-stubbly face was impassive. It said he'd seen it all before. Clay was sure he had, most of it twice. In the park someone screamed. Clay looked over his shoulder again, telling himself it had to be a scream of joy. At three o'clock in the afternoon, a sunny afternoon on the Boston Common, it pretty much had to be a scream of joy. Right?

The woman said something unintelligible to Maddy and flipped her cell phone closed with a practiced flip of the wrist. She dropped it back into her purse, than just stood there, as if she had forgotten what she was doing or maybe where she was.

"That's four-fifty," said the Mister Softee guy, still patiently holding out the ice cream sundae. Clay had time to think how f***ing expensive everything was in the city. Perhaps the woman in the power suit thought so, too--that, at least, was his first surmise--because for a moment more she still did nothing, merely looked at the cup with its mound of ice cream and sliding sauce as if she had never seen such a thing before.

Then there came another cry from the Common, not a human this time but something between a surprised yelp and a hurt yowl. Clay turned to look and saw the dog that had been trotting with the Frisbee in its mouth. It was a good-sized brown dog, maybe a Labrador, he didn't really know dogs, when he needed to draw one he got a book and copied a picture. A man in a business suit was down on his knees beside this one and had it in a necklock and appeared to be--surely I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing, Clay thought--chewing on its ear. Then the dog howled again and tried to spurt away. The man in the business suit held it firm, and yes, that was the dog's ear in the man's mouth, and as Clay continued to watch, the man tore it off the side of the dog's head. This time the dog uttered an almost human scream, and a number of ducks which had been floating on a nearby pond took flight, squawking.

"Rast!" someone cried from behind Clay. It sounded like rast. It might have been rat or roast, but later experience made him lean toward rast: not a word at all but merely an inarticulate sound of aggression.

Thanksgiving

I got to go home for Thanksgiving which was totally cool. I left Tuesday, and my planes went from Salt Lake at 6:15 am to Las Vegas at like 6:35 am (NV time). Than it left Vegas at 8:40 am to Reno at 9:55 am. It was a little retarded because the plane had to totally bipass Reno to get to Vegas, but oh well. I had an absolute blast when I went home. On Tuesday, I went to my old high school to see Mrs. Bice and Mrs. Archey. Mrs. Archey was sick adn so I wasn't able to see her, but I got to see Mrs. Bice, which I was totally happy to do. Then on Wednesday, I took Connor and Karissa to the pool so I could see my old coworkers. We had fun doing that. On Thursday, it was Turkey Day. We had Stan over for dinner, since he has no family in Nevada and didn't feel like spending Turkey Day alone. Also, Mom, Britt, and I worked on a 1000-piece puzzle that we finished that night after dinner.

Than on Friday, I got to see Alex and Jen, they actually came over for dinner, which was totally exciting.
Mom had bought another 1000-piece puzzle that we worked on and finished that night. We all had a blast. Saturday, I left to go back to Utah and did the exact same things that I did Tuesday, although it started at 3:55 pm this time.

New Hair Cut

I got a new hair cut on Friday, November 16. I absolutely LOVE it!!! It is nice and short. The lady who cut my hair said she was having an absolute blast doing it, she razored my hair, which was a first to me, what she did was she took a razor blade and just started going to town on the edges. It was different.

Broken by: Kelley Armstrong (6th in series)

Ever since she discovered she's pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she's never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who's given birth. But, thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enough--only the letter contains a portal to Victorian London's underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggers--unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs.

Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what they're looking for--which, for some unknown reason, is Elena...

I'M SOOO EXCITED!!!

I AM SOOO EXCITED TO GO HOME TOMORROW!!! I WILL BE HOME IN APPROXIMATELY 12 HOURS, INCLUDING THE TIME CHANGE IN THAT! OH I AM SOOO FREAKING EXCITED! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MOM AND THE FAMILY AND ALL MY FRIENDS AND OLD TEACHERS!!!

GAAHHAL;FJASFJ LASF ;ASJF DFJFJALJFLJFL

OK, I FEEL BETTER NOW. I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR EVERYBODY AND YOU ALL ARE GOING TO LOVE IT!!!

Haunted by: Kelley Armstrong (5th in series)

Former supernatural superpower Eve Levine has broken all the rules. But she's never broken a promise--not even during the three years she's spent in the afterworld. So when the Fates call in a debt she gave ehr word she'd pay, she has no choice but to comply.

For centuries one of the ghost world's wickedest creatures has been loosed on humanity, thwarting every attempt to retrieve her. Now it has fallen to Eve to capture this demi-demon known as the Nix, who inhabits the bodies of would-be killers, compelling them to complete their deadly acts. It's a mission that becomes all too personal when the Nix targets those Eve loves most--including Savannah, the daughter she left on earth. But can a renegade witch succeed where a host of angels have failed?

Industrial Magic by: Kelley Armstrong (4th in series)

In the aftermath of her mother's murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention.


Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworld's most influential Cabals--a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isn't blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, it's a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance.

Hanzel and Gretel

Last night, Spencer took me to see Hanzel and Gretel in opera. It was really good, I really enjoyed it. The actors and actresses all did good. The person playing Hanzel, the brother, was a woman, probably because Hanzel had to sing some kinda high notes that a guy would have had problems with. Spencer took me because he needed to go for his Creative Arts class as a makeup for a previous performance he had missed. He kept trying to sleep through it, but I wouldn't let him. I'm so mean I know. :P

Dime Store Magic by: Kelley Armstrong (3rd in series)

Paige Winterbourne was always either way too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations--the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge--an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil...and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. Thy are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder--and frame Paige for the crime. It's an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.

USU vs. Denver University

USU played Denver University Saturday night in hockey. We lost 6-3. We managed to keep ahead throughout the first and second period, but in the third period, we lost it. Spencer didn't dress out for this game, which kinda pissed him off, but he got over it. Eric dressed out and only played two shifts in the third period for like 40 seconds each shift. It sucked really. Julie and them were still here, so they came as well. In the third period, there was one big fight, where it was three different little fights happening at the same time. I think one of the DU players was kicked out of the game, and two of our players left the ice, there was like 1:30 or 2 minutes left in the game, so it was ok. One of our guys had his eyelid split open, which really sucked for him, but I'm pretty sure he had enough girls to help take the pain away. Yeah, Spencer, Eric, and one other guy on the team are the only LDS guys on the whole hockey team. This is the pee-wee hockey players that played between the first and second period! Most of the time, they fell down and were sitting on the ice, it was really cute!
Aren't they fricking adorable!!! They are only between the ages of 5-7 at the most. It was sooo cute!

After the game, everybody went swimming-which meant me, Spencer, Eric, Julie, Ben (her husband), Kelsy, and Brad. After we went swimming, we stayed over at Spencer's house and watched Shrek 2 while Ben cooked some antelope for us to eat. It was really good! First time I've ever had wild meat.

USU vs. San Jose State

On Friday, USU played San Jose State in hockey. We lost I think it was 3-2 or something like that, I don't remember. It was a good game. Spencer's sister, Julie and her husband and daughter were here from Montana visiting and they came to the game as well. It was an ok game, we lost, which sucked, but I don't think we played our best. Spencer and Eric dressed out, but they never got to play during the game, which really sucked. Callie, who is Spencer's niece, was playing with my McDonald's animals that I had on my purse and she started to throw them around, and two of them fell down between the players' bench and the spectators' bench, and fell underneath. They're probably still there if the staff hasn't found them yet, I didn't feel like going under to get them, so I lost them, oh well. Callie was so cute that I couldn't get mad at anybody, and plus, I just didn't care at all, I still have three left, so I'm ok.

Stolen by: Kelley Armstrong (2nd in series)

In Bitten, thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman--and the only living female werewolf.

In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals--witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves--are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he finally meets his match.

Warren Miller's Playground (a movie)

Well today, a Warren Miller's movie called Playground was showed at the Kent Concert Hall on campus. I guess Warren Miller is an old guy who goes around the world and video tapes people extreme skiing and snowboarding. It was actually really cool. I enjoyed it. Plus when we went in, everybody got a free one day pass to go skiing or snowboarding in the Canyons, and a ticket to the Canyons is $76, so it is a good deal. Spencer and I are going to go skiing/snowboarding at least once for sure now. I haven't decided if I want to go skiing or snowboarding yet.

N*GGER, WETB*CK, CH*NK

N*GGER, WETB*CK, CH*NK is a play/musical about racial slurs against black people, mexicans, and asians. It was crude and talked about anything and everything that had to do with racial slurs but it was freaking hilarious. It was almost like watching Whose Line Is It Anyways? or something to that effect. These guys told about when they realized they were different and how they figured they were different. They told about different stories where they had racial slurs used against them and how they handled it. It was all freaking hilarious. Spencer took me to this because he had to go for his Creative Arts class and I am glad that he took me, it was great. They explained what each racial slur meant and when it came about and when it originated. It was a really great performance.

Bitten by: Kelley Armstrong (1st in series)

This is a really good book that hooked me from the first words. It is such a good book and I definitely recommend it to everybody who loves a good fiction novel.

Elena Michaels seems like the typically strong and sexy modern woman. She lives with her architect boyfriend, writes for a popular newspaper, and works out at the gym. She's also a werewolf.

Elena has done all she can to assimilate to the human world, but the man whose bite changed her existence forever, and his legacy, continue to haunt her. Thrown into a desperate war for survival that tests her allegiance to a secret clan of werewolves, Elena must reckon with who, and what, she is in this passionate, page-turning novel.

USU vs. BYU

So USU played BYU last night and OMG was it a good game!!! Oh it was a sweet game! No fights or anyone getting thrown out, which was good, although there was almost a fight but the refs stopped it. I ended having some BYU fans sitting next to me, which was really annoying, especially when he would cheer when BYU scored or one of our guys got hurt, which is what I was doing for USU, but that's beside the point. We won, and it was a freaking sweet win!!! The score was 3-2 with the winning shot being in overtime with 0.8 seconds left on the clock. The captain of the team scored and he is on defense, so it was weird to have him score, but whatever, I was so excited that we won!!!

The Undercover Economist by: Tim Harford

I had to read this book for my economics class and I didn't finish it, I didn't really like it, but then it is not a topic that really interests me.

The economy isn't a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product), notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR's Marketplace. "Economics is about who gets what and why." In this acclaimed and riveting book--part expose, part user's manual--the astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial Times demystifies the ways money works in the world, from why the coffee in your cup costs so much, to why efficiency is not necessarily the answer to ensuring a fair society, to improving health care and curing crosstown traffic. All the dirty little secrets of dollars and cents are delightfully revealed by The Undercover Economist.

USU vs. Weber State

Last night, USU hockey played Weber State. It was such a good game!!! We lost, which really sucked, but it wasn't until the very end that Weber pulled ahead so far, the score was 5-7. There were two fights during the game. The first one was either at the end of the first period or the beginning of the second period, I don't remember. One of our guys was thrown out of the game for the first fight. In the second fight, another one of our guys was thrown out and a member of Weber was thrown out as well. I don't know exactly why the first fight happened but the second fight happened because the USU goalie, Cornelius, had his hand on the puck, which means nobody is allowed to touch him, but a Weber member started hacking at Cornelius' hands trying to get the puck, well that is just foul play and so our defense started hitting this guy, than all hell broke loose. All 11 people down there, including Cornelius, just started swinging and hitting each other. There were gloves and helmets and sticks flying. In one of the fights that one of the refs was trying to break up, the ref was actually brought down to the ice and the other 2 refs had to come and help break it up. Holy cow the crowds were going wild, it was crazy. It really sucked that we lost, especially because there is some rivalry between our two schools. But I am really looking forward to the game tonight, we are playing BYU and the stadium is going to be packed, this is a game that everybody is going to want to come to.
Here is a pic of Eric and Spencer in their uniforms and pads.

This is me before the game teaching Spencer how to use my camera, he really liked this pic.

Thursday 11/1/07-Urinetown

On Thursday, Spencer took me to a play called Urinetown. He had to go for his creative arts class and since it was free to go, he took me as well. Urinetown is a play about what would happen if you had to pay to use a public restroom. It was pretty good, it was a musical and the actors and actresses did a good job. I really liked the numbers that they sang, it was an overall really good musical.