Last I checked, reading days are holidays. It's not like you are supposed to study for finals or something. :)
1. One day we were having a debate about education in my class. One girl made some comment about how the Lakers are the best team in the NBA because they have the most money. Somehow she connected this to education. So bizarre. Now I do agree that the Lakers are the best team in the NBA. However, this has absolutely zero correlation to education. P.S. Kobe's three that tied the game with 4.8 seconds last night was beautiful. You should watch it. And we're going to the playoffs! :)
2. I saw/read/heard this quote somewhere. I like it. "Make no excuses, make good."
So BYU beat Gonzaga to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. Here are my favorite parts of that game:
3. John Stockton's son was on Gonzaga's team. Thus, he was in attendance at the game. Someone made a sign that read, "John Stockton's really here for Jimmer." Priceless.
4. At the end of the game when BYU's bench got to play, Nick Martineau was taking the ball down the court. Yet, the broadcasters said something to the effect of, "and Stephen Rodgers is taking it down." This is especially funny because Martineau is super short and Rodgers is super tall. Poor Martineau finally gets to play and they don't even get his name right.
5. At the end of the game, the fans started chanting "You got Jimmer'd". Yet the broadcasters said, "The chant you hear is 'We love Jimmer.'" Hahaha. Nope.
6. My family came up to visit for their spring break. A favorite quote from their trip comes from six-year-old Leah. In reference to putting spelling words/vocabulary in alphabetical order, she said, "It gets my nerves out!" I think she meant to say, "It gets on my nerves." :)
7. On Tuesday, my professor used a clip from the Office (the TV show) to supplement his teaching. BYU professors love the Office. I have seen more Office in class at BYU than I have seen outside of class. What is this world coming to?
Guess what. I have completely caught up on blogging. I have no more lists of things to blog about. It's probably because I haven't added to them too much lately. Well, guess it's time to go back to doing nothing on this wonderful reading day. :)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Out of necessity.
Believe it or not, I do not really feel like blogging right now. But there is always the need to catch up. So I will for the next 13 minutes.
1. Once upon a time my parents went to Mexico on a cruise. Someday they will invite their children to come with them. :) They brought back from this adventure souvenirs for their children. I received a Dodgers bracelet. Greatest thing ever. Unfortunately I was unable to locate it for the better part of this school year. In fact I hadn't seen it until probably last October. Needless to say, I thought it was lost forever. However, while I was cleaning up my room in late February I was refolding a sweatshirt. I shook it out. And guess what flew out of the sleeve. The beloved Dodgers bracelet. This is what I call the miracle of the bracelet. Ironically, it is actually lost again right now. I hope to find it shortly.
2. On the way home from our February California trip I managed to stay awake for the entire drive home. For those of you who know me, this is unheard of. I have never done this every before.
3. Anyone who has ever sung a song. OK, perhaps not everyone, but many people have heard that the suggestion to raise your eyebrows to help you not sing flat. During a choir rehearsal, my conductor said something to the effect of, "Eyebrows don't help you [sing in tune], use your brain." She speaks the truth.
4. I mentioned in a previous post that the Cougarettes are super good and they have won a bunch of national championships. I now have the number. The Cougarettes are 8-time national champions. That's a lot.
5. Believe it or not, I still have not finished blogging about BYU's basketball season. A sign that I enjoyed read, "Jimmer's off night = your career high". How true. Needless to say, I am extremely happy that Jimmer won Player of the Year awards for this fact alone. No one else came close to his PPG average.
6. A kid at BYU recently broke the school mile time record. How fast did Miles Batty run the mile? 3:55.79. I repeat, three minutes and fifty-five seconds. Insanity. How fast do I run the mile? Answer: I don't run the mile. :)
Alright, more to come en el futuro. See ya.
1. Once upon a time my parents went to Mexico on a cruise. Someday they will invite their children to come with them. :) They brought back from this adventure souvenirs for their children. I received a Dodgers bracelet. Greatest thing ever. Unfortunately I was unable to locate it for the better part of this school year. In fact I hadn't seen it until probably last October. Needless to say, I thought it was lost forever. However, while I was cleaning up my room in late February I was refolding a sweatshirt. I shook it out. And guess what flew out of the sleeve. The beloved Dodgers bracelet. This is what I call the miracle of the bracelet. Ironically, it is actually lost again right now. I hope to find it shortly.
2. On the way home from our February California trip I managed to stay awake for the entire drive home. For those of you who know me, this is unheard of. I have never done this every before.
3. Anyone who has ever sung a song. OK, perhaps not everyone, but many people have heard that the suggestion to raise your eyebrows to help you not sing flat. During a choir rehearsal, my conductor said something to the effect of, "Eyebrows don't help you [sing in tune], use your brain." She speaks the truth.
4. I mentioned in a previous post that the Cougarettes are super good and they have won a bunch of national championships. I now have the number. The Cougarettes are 8-time national champions. That's a lot.
5. Believe it or not, I still have not finished blogging about BYU's basketball season. A sign that I enjoyed read, "Jimmer's off night = your career high". How true. Needless to say, I am extremely happy that Jimmer won Player of the Year awards for this fact alone. No one else came close to his PPG average.
6. A kid at BYU recently broke the school mile time record. How fast did Miles Batty run the mile? 3:55.79. I repeat, three minutes and fifty-five seconds. Insanity. How fast do I run the mile? Answer: I don't run the mile. :)
Alright, more to come en el futuro. See ya.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Life is good.
At least for now. BYU made it to the Sweet Sixteen. I have nothing huge due this week. My choir is performing at devotional tomorrow. (Come if you are in Provo and if not, watch it on BYUtv at 11 MST tomorrow morning.) My friend Nicole is coming all the way from California to visit me! Baseball (BYU) has its first home game this weekend. And my family is coming to visit next weekend! Life is simply great right now. List time.
1. The second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend California trip was a success this year. Fun was had by all. On the way home, we decided to make stops along the way if we saw something fun to do. Our first stop was made shortly after leaving San Juan Capistrano. We saw the Ferris wheel at the Irvine Spectrum off the freeway and decided to go on it. Quite the experience. Unlike any other Ferris wheel you have ever been on. So that was a bit of an exaggeration, but it was still fun. :) Tangent: In case you were wondering, Ferris wheels are named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. who designed and constructed a wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exchange in Chicago. End of tangent. We also ended up stopping at the outlets in Barstow. Now I know why my parents have never let us stop there before. There are SO many good deals. It's quite hard not to spend money. Let's just say it's a good thing I have a job.
2. Banana Republic Factory Store. Best store ever.
3. Having a job is great except for I often use it to justify my shopping, which is not good.
4. Upon my arrival back in Provo, I ended up staying up until about 3 a.m. waiting for my stuff which was in another car. Long story. Anyway, because I had work at 7 a.m. the next morning, I was quite tired the next night. In fact I was so delirious, I didn't even recognize James Anderson's name. Let me explain. If you can't tell, I love BYU basketball. A lot. I have their team poster on my wall. That night of delirium, my roommate was looking at the poster and commenting on James Anderson, a bench player on BYU's team. Now of course he doesn't get a lot of playing time, but I am still quite familiar with him and his name. However, because of my delirium, the name James Anderson sounded so unfamiliar to me. I couldn't believe there was a player on the team with that name. And this is how you know when Bridget is tired.
5. Singing spirituals is close to the best thing ever. We are singing three of them at our concert in a little less than two weeks. They make me SO happy. Just ask my folder partner. :) Thus, you should come to my concert on April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the DeJong Concert Hall at BYU. I advise you to get your tickets soon though, because they are almost gone. It's gonna be good.
Alright, class time. Note: TGFF. I mentioned this in a previous post. Yes, I know that it is normally TGIF. I failed to explain that TGFF was a new phrase we coined probably at a basketball game. Sorry for the confusion. Have the best day ever. :)
1. The second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend California trip was a success this year. Fun was had by all. On the way home, we decided to make stops along the way if we saw something fun to do. Our first stop was made shortly after leaving San Juan Capistrano. We saw the Ferris wheel at the Irvine Spectrum off the freeway and decided to go on it. Quite the experience. Unlike any other Ferris wheel you have ever been on. So that was a bit of an exaggeration, but it was still fun. :) Tangent: In case you were wondering, Ferris wheels are named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. who designed and constructed a wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exchange in Chicago. End of tangent. We also ended up stopping at the outlets in Barstow. Now I know why my parents have never let us stop there before. There are SO many good deals. It's quite hard not to spend money. Let's just say it's a good thing I have a job.
2. Banana Republic Factory Store. Best store ever.
3. Having a job is great except for I often use it to justify my shopping, which is not good.
4. Upon my arrival back in Provo, I ended up staying up until about 3 a.m. waiting for my stuff which was in another car. Long story. Anyway, because I had work at 7 a.m. the next morning, I was quite tired the next night. In fact I was so delirious, I didn't even recognize James Anderson's name. Let me explain. If you can't tell, I love BYU basketball. A lot. I have their team poster on my wall. That night of delirium, my roommate was looking at the poster and commenting on James Anderson, a bench player on BYU's team. Now of course he doesn't get a lot of playing time, but I am still quite familiar with him and his name. However, because of my delirium, the name James Anderson sounded so unfamiliar to me. I couldn't believe there was a player on the team with that name. And this is how you know when Bridget is tired.
5. Singing spirituals is close to the best thing ever. We are singing three of them at our concert in a little less than two weeks. They make me SO happy. Just ask my folder partner. :) Thus, you should come to my concert on April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the DeJong Concert Hall at BYU. I advise you to get your tickets soon though, because they are almost gone. It's gonna be good.
Alright, class time. Note: TGFF. I mentioned this in a previous post. Yes, I know that it is normally TGIF. I failed to explain that TGFF was a new phrase we coined probably at a basketball game. Sorry for the confusion. Have the best day ever. :)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Above and beyond.
So I just finished editing my Joseph Smith paper with about 3 hours to spare before it's due. And I ended up writing more than the minimum requirement and used more than the minimum number of sources. Crazy. Don't expect that to happen again any time soon. There's just so much good stuff on Joseph Smith! It's hard to not write a lot. In celebration of the completion of that paper and in the spirit of procrastination for another writing assignment that is due tomorrow, I am now going to blog. Ha.
1. PB&Js. Delicious. I probably ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch for at least 50% of my K-12 school career. My dad's PB&Js cannot be beat. However, even now when I manage to make one for myself, I realize how good they really are. And I'm not even close to making them as good as my dad's. I usually end up with too much peanut butter and not enough jelly. In honor of this simply delicious sandwich, here are a few facts from dear old Wikipedia:
2. Utah bread. Utah has the BEST bread. Yes, this could be due to the fact that we end up buying cheap bread in California. However, my Grandma Ostler who lives in Utah always has the best bread. Luckily she has converted me to buying delicious, seemingly home-baked bread from the grocery store.
3. One Monday a few weeks ago, I grabbed the Daily Universe (as I do every day) and looked at the top story on the front cover. Because it was the first Daily Universe since a basketball victory the previous Saturday, the top story was about basketball. The headline was something about Charles Abouo having a great game, yet the picture accompanying the article was still of Jimmer. Good one.
4. I'm currently taking an Introductory Astronomy class. A component of this class was being able to identify a list of prominent constellations, stars, etc. I did in fact pass the quiz. The only problem is now when I walk home when it's dark, I can't help staring at the sky and trying to identify the stars and constellations I learned. This is very dangerous considering it means that I fail to look where I'm going. The other night I almost ran right into this girl running in the opposite direction. It could have been bad.
5. If you ever want to take two religion classes at the same time, take Doctrine and Teachings of Joseph Smith and one of the halves of Doctrine and Covenants. They complement each other so nicely. Questions in one class are answered in another. It's great.
Five is far more than enough. See ya.
1. PB&Js. Delicious. I probably ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch for at least 50% of my K-12 school career. My dad's PB&Js cannot be beat. However, even now when I manage to make one for myself, I realize how good they really are. And I'm not even close to making them as good as my dad's. I usually end up with too much peanut butter and not enough jelly. In honor of this simply delicious sandwich, here are a few facts from dear old Wikipedia:
- In Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, they are called peanut butter and jam sandwiches
- Sometimes people eat PB&Js open-faced. (Strange.)
- A 2002 survey showed the average American will have eaten 1,500 of these sandwiches before graduating from high school.
2. Utah bread. Utah has the BEST bread. Yes, this could be due to the fact that we end up buying cheap bread in California. However, my Grandma Ostler who lives in Utah always has the best bread. Luckily she has converted me to buying delicious, seemingly home-baked bread from the grocery store.
3. One Monday a few weeks ago, I grabbed the Daily Universe (as I do every day) and looked at the top story on the front cover. Because it was the first Daily Universe since a basketball victory the previous Saturday, the top story was about basketball. The headline was something about Charles Abouo having a great game, yet the picture accompanying the article was still of Jimmer. Good one.
4. I'm currently taking an Introductory Astronomy class. A component of this class was being able to identify a list of prominent constellations, stars, etc. I did in fact pass the quiz. The only problem is now when I walk home when it's dark, I can't help staring at the sky and trying to identify the stars and constellations I learned. This is very dangerous considering it means that I fail to look where I'm going. The other night I almost ran right into this girl running in the opposite direction. It could have been bad.
5. If you ever want to take two religion classes at the same time, take Doctrine and Teachings of Joseph Smith and one of the halves of Doctrine and Covenants. They complement each other so nicely. Questions in one class are answered in another. It's great.
Five is far more than enough. See ya.
Monday, March 14, 2011
A little out of order.
So that Jimmer post was a little out of order. Meaning: I still have tons of stuff to blog about that happened before his 52 point insanity. However, some things are just a little more important. :) I have class in 9 minutes. We'll see how far I get.
1. TGFF. I honestly can't remember exactly what this meant. But I'm thinking it was "Thank goodness for Fredette." Ha.
2. "Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln.
3. I was at a Valentine's Day fondue party. It happened to be on a game day so of course I was still wearing my Jimmer shirt. One might think that it is a little strange to wear a Jimmer shirt to a Valentine's Day party. But really, it's not. In fact, it's quite logical considering the fact that my love for Jimmer is undying. Ha. :)
4. Because Jimmer is a national phenomenon, BYU made t-shirts that look like his jersey. Nike also decided to make shirts. So, they made t-shirts that look the exact same as the BYU ones except for they included a Nike swoosh and small American flag. Obviously these two minute changes are enough to warrant the $14 price difference.
5. The Brocks. They are a band. They are really great. You should listen to them. My friend, Andy, is the drummer.
Class time. Peace.
1. TGFF. I honestly can't remember exactly what this meant. But I'm thinking it was "Thank goodness for Fredette." Ha.
2. "Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln.
3. I was at a Valentine's Day fondue party. It happened to be on a game day so of course I was still wearing my Jimmer shirt. One might think that it is a little strange to wear a Jimmer shirt to a Valentine's Day party. But really, it's not. In fact, it's quite logical considering the fact that my love for Jimmer is undying. Ha. :)
4. Because Jimmer is a national phenomenon, BYU made t-shirts that look like his jersey. Nike also decided to make shirts. So, they made t-shirts that look the exact same as the BYU ones except for they included a Nike swoosh and small American flag. Obviously these two minute changes are enough to warrant the $14 price difference.
5. The Brocks. They are a band. They are really great. You should listen to them. My friend, Andy, is the drummer.
Class time. Peace.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
James Taft Fredette
More commonly known as JIMMER. He scored 52 POINTS last night against NEW MEXICO. And only one of those points came from the only free throw he shot all night. No one scores 52 points in a game. Kemba Walker (another POY candidate) scored 31 last night. That's nice. Except for Jimmer had 33 in the first half.
Let's take a look of the records Jimmer set last night.
Let's take a look of the records Jimmer set last night.
- He beat his own record for most point scored in a half by a BYU player.
- He broke his own record for most points scored in a game by a BYU player.
- He broke his own record for most point scored in a Mountain West tournament game.
- And of course he is still holds the all-time scoring record in the Mountain West Conference.
- And last but not least, he broke Danny Ainge's BYU all-time scoring record. Jimmer Fredette has scored more points than anyone that ever played at BYU.
Insanity.
Since I know you are dying to see more, here's a video that talks all about it.
And would a post be complete without pictures. Nope. So here they are.
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