What part of I HAVE A [BOYFRIEND/Fiancé] Don’t you understand?

No seriously… I don’t get it.
Promptly after THEboy and I well you know, kissed and like became an item (in my head the term item is so out, it MIGHT just be back in) I had to like tell the rest of the country that the FLIRTING must come to a prompt and complete HAULT!

It was {AWKWARD} to say the least. I mean it was bad enough to have to break up with someone who I wasn’t dating. Then I had to tell all my flirtations that the ummm other boy I was referring to was now my boyfriend and that we were serious and planning to marry. Because it was a whirlwind romance, things kind of progressed quickly. The letting people know how serious was like playing catch up.

I just don’t know how serious these habesha boys thought I was when I told them I had another and we planned on marrying.

So I still get messages like this

All the time.

I have started to ignore them. I am sick of saying thank you…remember how I have a fiancé. I am sick of trying to explain. I am sick of saying that is flattering BUT…


Moral of the story, DON’T flirt while living aboard.


Don’t FLIRT recklessly when living in a new country.
DON’T FLIRT.
DO NOT FLIRT.


♥ Single Girl

CONFESSION: iM having mixed emotions about leaving here again

I am so unbelievably ready to leave. To be back in {Ethiopia}. To be back with THEboy. To be back with my widows. To be back to my normal schedule. To the kids. To my friends out there. To the life I love. The life that is [fulfilling/entertaining/challenging]



I am so torn leaving my friends and family. My nieces. The convenience of this life. The ease and comfort.


Maybe its my hormones are going crazy- thank you birth control.

Maybe it’s the stress of planning a wedding.

Oh yeah, did I tell you guys iM getting married…well I am- More on that later..I've spent my entire time off planning a wedding as quickly as humanly possible. Sorry for the lack of posting...


Maybe its because I love the summer and sitting by the pool eating grapes and talking to my girl friends.


Or maybe it’s the  plane ride from hell.


Whatever it is, I have been on the brink of tears for days.


 ♥ Single Girl

BIYA in the USA

My DEAR friend BIYA visited the states for ummmm {cough cough} work purposes & then he married my friend Carolyn.

It was AWESOME. My favorite part- aside from seeing Biya’s face light up when he saw Carolyn walk towards him in her wedding dress

was the NACHOOOOOOO Libre party Carolyn threw.

Nacho got us through some rough times and boring nights in Ethiopia. He {NACHO} was also to litmus test to see if Biya after years of dating was in fact Marry-able.

He passed with flying colors.

It was complete with The Lords Chips, Fajitas, roasted corn & and outside front row viewing of NACHOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Dear Jack Black,

Can we be friends in real life? I think we would get along.

Thanks,

C

♥ Single Girl

Experiment 2010-005

Ok so there was this once when I started getting a common cold.

I don’t know why, I mean it {FINALLY} started to warm up here in Utah. But none the less I started getting sick. I was talking to THEboy and he was like: baby you sound sick, are you ok?

No seriously, that is how he talks- I love it. I told him how I was getting stuffed up and getting a cold. He told me a home remedy from Ethiopia.

They drink boiled Orange  Mirinda and everything will be ok!

Alas there is no Mirinda in the US, and I don’t keep orange soda stocked at the house. What is a girl to do at 10:00pm?

OK SEE why I want glasses?

I mean OBVIOUSLY I had to convince Morgan to go with me to the nearest Macey’s and buy some…THAT wasn’t even enough, we had to go all out. Go BIG or go home. We were on a mission for a cure. The best tasting cure we could find (for the sake of future generations and science professionals everywhere).

So we bought one of each, brand of orange soda we could get our hands on. Literally,

Then we drove home and started boiling. OK so we boiled some and microwaved the others. Its was taking WAYYYY too long to boil the ones that were in glass bottles. And this was the only was we could think of doing it, unless we wanted to use 6 tiny pots (which we don't even have) and wash them all. So at the time putting the glass ones in a pot to boil made sense. I SWEAR that is how you used to heat up baby bottles, but maybe I made that up at some point in my life.

The down fall of the boiled orange soda is that it is HOT. I do mean H-O-T HOT! There were a few times when we might have burned out mouths! So Morgan went for the blow and sip method to try to cool the sizzeling liquids off.

We created a a rating system* that we thought best outlined what we were looking for in a home remedy.

 One time my mom gave me this weird fake tea drink, it had like salt and pepper and lemon in it. I think it healed me, but it took all my will power not to vomit. I haven't used the cure since.

The results are below:

In the end Stewarts won! We had WAYYYY too much sugar & I still have a cold. But at least I could tell the THEboy we took his advice seriously &I tried.


♥ Slightly Sick Single Girl

*PLEASE NOTE: this was a highly scientific research project, double blind study. These results can be TRUSTED.

I wish I were more interesting

But this is all you get…for now. My SUPER SEXY friend Krissa tagged me…so here goes!


1. If you were about to eat your last meal. What would it be?
Umm I have been on a big BEEF kick lately. But my all time favorite- sour cream enchiladas.

If I were in Ethiopia…. Tibs…yum…tibs or doro wayt. Well it’s my last meal right? I would have both with fresh pineapple juice.


2. You got front row seats and backstage passes to your favorite music artist. Who would you want to see?
DAMIEN RICE…or swell season…No DaMIEN RICE…Wait I saw him once at UVU and it was so intimate that we were basically sitting in his living room listening to him live. SO maybe swell season.


3. If you went back and did High School over. Would you change anything? Why?

 Not at thing. I had a [LOVE/hate] relationship with high school. BUT who didn’t? I mean it was amazing and terrible. I mad good and bad choices. I cared WAYYYY too much about what people thought of me.

In the end all of that lead me to go to school at BYU. Where I met my best friends, and found out what was most important to ME in my life. So I cant complain.


4. What's a movie you watched growing up that brings back memories of your childhood?

 Adventures in babysitting. OR sandlot OR three amigos….OR What about bob!
Yeah what about bob…totally reminds me of summers at the cabin with my mom and my crazy Auntie Diane.


5. Introvert or Extrovert? EXTROVERT for SURE! Have you read my blog?

6. You can inherit one talent.... what would you choose?
Anything related to Music.

Though recently I think being able to make wedding cakes out of my basement and charge people at least $500 a pop wouldn’t be bad.


7. What is your signature scent/perfume?
Ed Hardy…and I hate that its Ed Hardy because I feel a little like white trash when I go to Nordys and drop $70 on it. BUT I love love love the smell.


8. Are you a phone, email, text, and/or chat type of person?
For now {SKYPE}!




♥ Single Girl

I've Been Up TO

A Little of{THIS}

and a little of that

and my work space looks like THIS:

iM up here when iM not on SKYPE...or the phone...or out to lunch with friends.

♥ Single Girl