Robble Robbleson

I am an impulsive person. I get really "stupid" a.k.a. fun ideas, and with very little thought, I do them. Well beginning of January I was reading with Thomas (one of the little boys I nanny) and I look up at his dresser and what do I see? 

A goldfish.

Suddenly I have a strong urge to have one. But not just any urge, I mean, I HAVE TO HAVE ONE. Stupid right? Immediately I text Nicole. Now here is the problem with that, Nicole is just as impulsive as I am. Now there are a few things I know, but none better than this...

Nicole+ Lindsey = stupid decisions

I think the problem with us being friends is that we are so similar in that neither one of us has rational thought of any sort. The slightest thing can trigger an idea, and neither one of us stops the other. Instead we egg each other on and the next thing you know we are flinging ourselves out of an airplane. But seriously...we did that once.

My mom keeps telling me that if Nicole and I keep hanging out we are both going to end up dead.

I'll take my chances.

Anyways, I text Nicole and then next thing you know we are at Petsmart. Everything gets a bit foggy from there all I know is that suddenly I am at Walmart buying a giant tubberware to put our new pet guinea pig in. That we almost immediately named Robble.





In this fog it never crossed my mind that Nicole and I are forbidden from having pets in our house. Fast forward to about a week ago. Mom comes to visit. Big trouble. Luckily I stashed Robble in my roomate Jalises bathroom sink for the short time my mom was over. Although I do enjoy the rush that I get from close calls, I have learned that you just don't mess with momma which led me to "ksl"ing the shiz out of Robble.


He is the cutest thing I have ever laid eyes on (and I am not just saying that because I am his mom) but Robble must go. Robble moves out on Saturday and he will be missed, but the time comes when your little bird has to fly out of the nest. I am going to miss my little boy.



P.S. My mom still doesn't know about this little incident. No worries I plan on telling her in about 30 years when we can all laugh about it mostly because she will be too old to get out of her wheelchair and beat the crap out of me.

Late Bloomer

So remember how I had the urge to buy a goldfish but ended up with a guinea pig instead? Life has a funny way of giving you what you want... I didn't just get one goldfish...

I got 84...

in my bathtub.

BAH BOY!

In order to understand how this all came about you would have to go back about 6 years to my junior year in high school. Prom night. That would be the night I spent with Nicole at Walmart because we were both losers and nobody wanted to ask us out. Ever since that night Nicole and I have talked about how we felt like we never really experienced high school thus never really emotionally graduated. Again life has a funny way of giving you what you want because it just so happened that our singles ward was putting on an 80's prom. Not my first choice but I will take what I can get.

The funny thing is that when the announcement was made that prom was going to be held, sitting right in the middle of Nicole and I was the one guy who had always said that he would have taken us to prom had he known us in high school. Shawn Larsen.



Like two crazy people Nicole and I, at the same time, immediately looked to Shawn like we were starving little Ethiopian children that saw piece of bread. I am sure Shawn freaked out inside when he saw the crazy in our eyes but let's be honest he couldn't have said no and made it out alive.

The only problem was

one guy

and

two girls.

Again luck struck and Jared (Nicole's brother) made the stupid mistake of telling me he would have asked me to prom had he known me in high school. Which brings us to the goldfish. All 84 of them.

I came home to a message on the white board out in our kitchen.




Upon entering my bathroom I see the fish with this little note...




I had officially been asked to prom at the age of 22. (And I don't count the time that that lesbian asked me to be her date to gay and lesbian prom.) I almost cried. Almost. Not only was I finally going to prom but I was going with Nicole and two of our best guy friends. I quickly responded with a candy bar poster that went something like this
I Pan!
(I taped a pan to the poster)
You can be my sugar daddy(insert Sugar Daddy here)
Ill be your lil' piece (insert Reeses Pieces here)
We can Mamba all night (insert Mamba there)
and I will shower you with kisses (tape a bag of Kisses here)

It was official! Then of course Nicole and I had all of the typical "prom things" to figure out. What dresses we were going to wear, makeup, where we were going to go to dinner, etc.

Nicole and I tried our best to hide the crazy. I would say we did pretty well other than that one night around 2am when things got really weird, but we won't speak of that. Oh and there might of been a time where I creeped Jared out all the way up until prom. I decided to act like a typical highschooler around him all the way up until the special day. Hey! I had to get the full experience. He was a good sport by playing along.

Anyways, I started to mildly freak out because I didn't think I was going to find a dress until Nicole came home from the D.I. with a $6.00 circus tent that was supposedly a dress. I tried it on and I seriously looked like a tube of toothpaste. I wish I had a before picture because Nicole is a miracle worker she turned that pillowcase into a beautiful dress.

We were all set! We had our dresses, dates and so we were off to dinner. We decieded to go to Macaroni Grill afterwhich we went to the dance with only about a half hour or so left. (The boys wanted to make it as much like a real prom as they could). And of course they said that they had "curfews" to stick to.

Me, Jared, Nicole, Shawn, Jalise, Spencer

Me and Jared

After the dance the boys did the whole doorstep scene, even though they were coming inside with us to hang out. After acting out the most awkward doorstep scene that we possibly could (with everyone in the car still watching us) I went inside. When the door closed I had officially graduated, 6 years later. Let's just say I am a little slower than most.

March 19, 2011

Save Point

"I love you Mom."

That was the last text I thought I would ever send. That was about thirty minutes before I signed what I considered to be my death certificate which stated that I understood the risks of what I was about to do, or at least I thought that is what it said. I will admit I didn't really read the paper because my mind was elsewhere. I wouldn't say that jumping out of an airplane was one of the smartest things I have done, but I would say that it was probably the most fun. It was SO out of my character. Skydiving was always something that I thought was so stupid and I said a million times that I would never do it.

It's weird because something funny happens after you graduate college.

I felt like the world was at my feet.
I felt invincible.
I felt like I had absolutely nothing to loose.

It is what I call a save point in life (a point in life where you feel like if you died it would be alright because you feel like it would be a convenient place to end.) Its like reading a book, nobody likes to stop reading in the middle of a chapter and graduating college was the end of a chapter for me so...

*Graduating College= Save Point (*unless you are married or pregnant)
**Please note I was not suicidal or depressed or crazy...well maybe a little bit crazy. It is just that it is amazing what you will do when you have nothing holding you back. Also I think my logic was that if I could graduate from the University of Utah then I could do anything.



So what better thing to do at a save point than to make as many stupid decisions as possible? I personally can't think of many things that are more stupid then willingly jumping out of an airplane, so I did it.

Jumping out of that plane was one of the best things I have ever done. It taught me many things but the main two were

1. Never say never because you will always end up doing things you never thought you would.
2. Don't let anything hold you back, especially fear. Sometimes you have to feel the fear and do it anyways.

July 21, 2010

Nothing Less Than A Fairy Tale.

Too many times we as girls lock ourselves away in a high tower waiting around for our prince to come save us, instead of getting out of the tower and making something of ourselves. Our focus becomes linear and we miss out on the outside world, all the beauty that awaits us outside the castle walls. You know that quote? The on that says" for guys love is one chapter, but for girls it is the whole book"? I use to live my life this way, only my book was empty and leaving me feeling worthless and alone. When my prince didn't show I would sit in my tower staring up at the ceiling, tormenting myself, wondering what I was doing that was so wrong. But that's just it, that was my problem. I was living my life as if the only thing that mattered was to find my prince. Then one day I got tired of capturing frogs. Left with only slime and regret I decided that the concrete walls had to come down. I realized that no prince is going to want to slay a dragon for a princess who has been doing nothing but waiting around in a tower twiddling her thumbs, and lip locking some slippery amphibian. As I stood amongst the rubble, the dust settled and my vision had never been so clear. You write your own story and it is up to you to make everyday nothing less than a fairy tale.

-Lindsey Wilson

Do It Anyway

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

-Mother Teresa

Absolute Truths

The earth is spherical. If all the four billion people in the world think it flat, they are in error. That is an absolute truth, and all the arguing in the world will not change it.... The Gods organized and gave life to man and place him on the earth. This is absolute. It cannot be disproved. A million brilliant minds might conjecture otherwise, but it is still true. And having done all this for his Father's children, the Christ mapped out a plan of life for man--a positive and absolute program whereby man might achieve, accomplish, and overcome and perfect himself. Again, these vital truths are not matters of opinion. If they were, then your opinion would be just as good as mine, or better. But I give you these things, not as my opinion--I give them to you as divine truths which are absolute. Some day you will see and feel and understand and perhaps even berate yourself for the long delay and waste of time. It is not a matter of if. It is a matter of when. Experience in one field does not automatically create expertise in another field. Expertise in religion comes from personal righteousness and from revelation.