My Article on the Demolition Derby :]

‘More fun Than Kicking a Dead Chicken!’
-Erica Rawley

Unfortunately, though I’ve never had the opportunity to kick a dead chicken, I’m going to take a shot in the dark and say that the Demolition Derby at the Sanpete County Fair this past Thursday was, in fact, a whole heck of a lot more fun than kicking dead foul. Actually, before Thursday I’d never had the opportunity to go to a Demolition Derby, either. Ah the joys living in a small town brings to your life!

It was quite an adventure just getting into the Derby. Jessica, my trusty photographer (and roommate), and I got to the Derby about half an hour before it was scheduled to start, but little did we know that 1. You needed a ticket to get in and 2. The tickets were sold out.

WOOHOO!

So I pulled the “I’m with the ‘paper’” card, batted my eyelashes and they let us in! I knew I loved small-town people for a reason.

Anyways, so the two announcers bantered back and forth about their awesomeness, the awesomeness of the rodeo royalty, and how much they were looking forward to the awesome destruction that was about to commence. Call me crazy but from what I gathered, I think they thought it was going to be pretty freaking awesome.

And then finally, after twenty years of waiting, the dilapidated cars bounced their way into the tire-encased dirt arena; engines growling, idling in some sort of special Derby arrangement, like cop dogs that wait ever so patiently for the command of their officer to let them loose to rip into the flesh of the perpetrator. And then their moment came; the announcers counted down from three and they were off! Flinging giant rooster tails of dirt and kicking up insane amounts of dust. I loved it! And after the first two or three cars flipped over and got stuck on the tires surrounding the arena, I got sidetracked by the people around me. The cute little snot that kept kicking me in the back, the munchkin and his little sister that played on the fence, and the cuties with their fun little light saber-jobs; I think I had more fun watching them enjoy themselves than watching the cars smash into each other like bumper cars on acid.

After one of the heats, the car that got the last smash jumped out of his car, ripped off his helmet, and dashed over to the fence to hug his baby girl. That was the best part of the night. Yes watching testosterone driven cars speed around crashing into each other is great fun, but when you really get down to it, being outside and spending time with your family and friends is really what it’s all about. In such a small, out of the way community such as Manti-Ephraim, good entertainment is hard to come by. But when everyone pulls together and makes fun out of seemingly mundane things, that’s when true fun is had and priceless memories are made.

My Hometown has more than one stop light :]

Hey people!!!

Sorry for not writing... our modem went out so :( yeah... no 'net in our apartment so I'm forced to use computers in less private spaces. 'Cept for now, cuz I'm typing on my dad's computer.

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YAY!!!!!!!!


WE'RE HOME FOR LABOR DAY!!!!!!!!!


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So yeah, Jessica, Sarah, Deanna, Aaron, and I came home yesterday afternoon and we're never going back to Ephraim!!!

Haha.. jk, we're leaving for E-town late Monday afternoon. :P


If I had my news article on this computer I'd totally put it up.. but I don't... so I can' :(


Anyways... My fam. is having some sort of bbq or something tomorrow night, so I'm going to see if I can't take pictures and then I'll post those up!

Laterz!!!


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Boys are DUMB!!! o.0

So... we were totally just HAD by our neighbors in B10!!!

They (4 crazy guys) come a knockin' at our door and say that they are supposed to move in here. That they just checked in and were told to move their junk into C16. And then they proceeded to tell us that we moved into the wrong apartment! That they just got back from Iraq and had reserved this particular apartment over a year ago!

And we totally bought it!!!

So we invited them in for until they could get ahold of the night manager cuz we didn't want them outside all alone and cold and.. blah blah blah...

But they refuse a sit on our couch and leave.... and then the cute one.. the 'spokesman' if you will, of the group comes back not even one minute later and tells us that we were just punk'd!!!

They live in B10 (right across the freaking grass patch from us!!!) and they just wanted to tell us that they were single.

o.0



Boys are dumb


Case and point.

O Man!! o.0

Alright! This is going to kind of a long blog... so bear with me!

Erica has decided to give 'manymuchmoosen' a makeover and fix it up to be a blog dedicated to updating our family and friends on our newfound college life here at Snow College.


This past week has been kind of crazy. Adjusting to new schedules, surroundings, roommates, football players, navigating our way through the vast *cough*not*cough* campus, so on and so forth.


Here are a few random pictures from this past week:

Jessica inside my federdekkan(sp) cover helping me put my comforter inside :P

Another angle... very dignified :P


We got henna tattoos! This is mine before I was able to take off the paste.


Here's one of Jessica's... hers is pretty freakin' sweet

Her other one... Jess is pretty much a die-hard Olympics fan :P

Here are here rings after we picked off the dried Henna paste.


And my hand after the same said picking...

...And Jess' leg...



You can see we had fun :P


Also... just so you know, I (Erica) am on the staff for Snow College's newspaper, the Snowdrift and I will be posting the articles that I write on here as well. Jessica (my trusty photographer) and I went to the SanPete County fair this evening and attended the Demolition Derby! It was a HOOT! So please stay tuned for that amazing article. [The articles have to be in by 10PM Saturday and the paper will be printed and ready for distribution on Wednesday... so I'll try and keep the blog to that schedule as well]


We love and miss all of you!!!


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Jacob_2

So... I've also updated Jacob's playlist. The first one kind of had a bitter note to it. But in 'Breaking Dawn' Jake pretty much rocked the block... So now he has a kickin' soundtrack!

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Jacob

1. Wait For You -Elliott Yamin
2. Heat - Apocalyptica
3. It Makes Me Ill – N*SYNC
4. Hanging by a Moment –LifeHouse
5. More Human Than Human – White Zombie
6. Dreaming With A Broken Heart – John Mayer
7. Quixote - BOND
8. Selfish – N*SYNC
9. Love & Memories - OAR
10. I’ll Fly Away – BOND
11. I’ve Just Seen A Face – Jim Sturgess
12. And So It Goes – Billy Joel
13. Hemorrhage [In My Hands] - Fuel
14. Might Have Been – Kate Voegele
15. Quutamo - Apocalyptica
16. You’re the Only Place – Josh Groban
17. This is How A Heart Breaks – Rob Thomas
18. Love Song For No One – John Mayer
19. Misconstruction - Apocalyptica
20. Drive - Incubus
21. From My Head to MY Heart – Evan & jaron

Alice_2 - I've Edited It Further o.0

Ok... so that was fast....

I've settled on the songs for 'Alice_2'

[You're going to notice a bit of Rihanna.... well... she has good music with great beats and basically all of her songs are very 'Alice' to me. I've cut down my selection of her choons for the CD drastically! Also a lot of BOND, but you've got to understand... I LOVE BOND!! :P ]

1. Shut Up & Drive – Rihanna
2. Korobushko - BOND
3. Around the World - ATC
4. Play – J.Lo
5. Victory [Mike Batt Mix] - BOND
6. Love At First Sight – Kylie Minogue
7. Untouched – The Veronicas
8. You Make Me Wanna Fall – Amy Collier
9. Homecoming - BOND
10. Jump Up [If you Feel Alright] – Da Beat Bros
11. Let’s Get Loud – Jennifer Lopez
12. Fuego [Caliente Mix] - BOND
13. S.O.S - Rihanna
14. Viva [Orion Mix] - BOND
15. Goodbye to You – The Veronicas
16. Wintersun - BOND
17. Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow – Paula Abdul
18. Pon De Replay - Rihanna
19. Speed [Crash Club Mix] - BOND
20. 1-2 Step - Ciara
21. Disturbia - Rihanna

Disturbia

I'm in the process of making a new 'Alice' cd (for those of you who don't know... I'm a bit too psychotic for my own good and I've made playlists for Alice, Bella, Edward, and Jacob... I'm contemplating putting together ones for Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie... but its only speculation at this point in time :] )

because my last one wasn't so great. I mean, it has good music, just ... it doesn't SCREAM Alice. Just mildly pushes it on you. This one, however, screams to you AND shoves it in your face.

Very Alice

And this song, 'Disturbia' - Rihanna, to me, says 'Alice'... If you think about the lyrics like I do... it's very profound.... But that's just me :]

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (What's wrong with me ?)

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (Why do I feel like this ?)

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (I'm going crazy now)

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

No more gas in the rear

Can't even get it started

Nothing heard, nothing said

Can't even speak about it

all my life, all my head

Don't want to think about it

Feels like I'm going insane

Yeah

It's a thief in the night

To come and grab you

It can creep up inside you

And consume you

A disease of the mind

It can control you

It's too close for comfort

Put on your break lights

Were in the city of wonder

Ain't gonna play nice

Watch out you might just go under

Better think twice

Your train of thought will be altered

So if you must faulter be wise

Your mind is in disturbia

It's like the darkness is the light

Disturbia

Am I scaring you tonight ?

Your mind is in disturbia

Ain't used to what you like

Disturbia

Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Faded pictures on the wall

It's like they talkin to me

Disconnect unknown calls

The phone don't even ring

I gotta get out

Or figure this $#!t out

It's too close for comfort

It's a thief in the night

To come and grab you

It can creep up inside you

And consume you

A disease of the mind

It can control you

I feel like a monster

Put on your break lights

Were in the city of wonder

Ain't gonna play nice

Watch out you might just go under

Better think twice

Your train of thought will be altered

So if you must falter be wise

Your mind is in disturbia

It's like the darkness is the light

Disturbia

Am I scaring you tonight ?

Your mind is in disturbia

Ain't used to what you like

Disturbia

Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Release me from this curse I'm in

Trying to remain tame

But I'm struggling

If you can go go go

I think Im going to, oh oh oh

Put on your break lights

Were in the city of wonder

Ain't gonna play nice

Watch out you might just go under

Better think twice

Your train of thought will be altered

So if you must faulter be wise

Your mind is in disturbia

It's like the darkness is the light

Disturbia

Am I scaring you tonight ?

Your mind is in disturbia

Ain't used to what you like

Disturbia

Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum