tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61207346252227654212024-03-12T17:03:37.382-06:00La Vie En RoseCourtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.comBlogger606125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-24428391811767793712012-03-08T14:42:00.004-07:002012-03-08T14:42:54.581-07:00Real Salt Lake<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1DJ008t9Y" target="_blank">here</a> for the full anthem</span> </div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-70241284692751302662012-02-23T16:11:00.000-07:002012-02-23T16:11:37.441-07:00MR. KNIGHTLEY (aka Michael Sharon)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saw Pioneer Theatre Company's production of <a href="http://www.pioneertheatre.org/" target="_blank">Emma</a> last night and was in love (with both Mr. Knightley--played by Michael Sharon--and the amazing set design) You can still catch the production until March 3rd and I recommend that you do.</span><br />
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Read <a href="http://simplevillagegirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/ill-always-buy-you-book.html" target="_blank">this</a> lovely post that touched on the change in book buying habits and publishing attempts at luring us into purchase with lovely designs and bold endpapers over the weekend that just about has me setting the fantastic goal of buying one new book every month this year. Doesn't that just sound lovely? And while the author specifically references hardback books, one of my favorite purchases last year was this little paperback:</div>
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p.s. after you check out that post (by Simple Village Girl) I referenced above, be sure to check out the rest of her <a href="http://simplevillagegirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">lovely blog</a>--absolutely worth the time.</div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-13410919839943244912012-01-23T19:38:00.000-07:002012-01-23T19:38:36.711-07:00WATCHED: THE ARTISTSaw this recently:<br />
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Loved it. It was imaginative and emotional and just plain lovely (it is a silent movie--in case you haven't heard of it--and they pulled it off beautifully and just won a Golden Globe or something).</div>
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Saw this on Facebook today and it made me smile:</div>
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Now I'm off on a long weekend. Hope your's is lovely and long as well.</div>
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Fun little benefit concert announcement if you are a fan of Michael Mclean and/or The Center for Story: Saturday, February 4th, 7 PM at the Orem Public Library (Just $15). </div>
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Also, if you are interested in Storytelling, Timpanogos Storytelling's Midwinter Conference and Concert is coming up February 9th through the 11th--I highly recommend the concert on Friday the 10th at 7:30 PM (cause we get Donald Davis <u><i>and</i></u> Bil (one "L") Lepp!) Tickets for the concert are available <a href="http://www.timpfest.org/store/home.php?cat=4" target="_blank">here</a> and general information about the conference is available <a href="http://www.timpfest.org/midwinter-event/schedule-of-events" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you know me, you know that I hate cell/mobile phones and think they are basically not necessary. And for many of the past 10-15 years since they have become popular and then basically necessary, I have resisted the pressure to get one--there was that one brief blip when living overseas. Now all these years later, I have caved. Not only have I caved, but I have caved so thoroughly that if my house was on fire the one thing I would grab is my mobile. So this is the lovely model that I purchased:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mind you, I'm not grabbing it for my ability to stay in touch or be in touch via phone or text--hardly use or bother with those. No, the reason I can't live without it is the aps!. Instagram, Goodreads, Lose It!, Pinterest, LDS Tools and Library, Score Mobile, Mint.com, Ted, and don't even get me started on the google maps ap that is so beyond cool for my travel missing self. Sigh, I really don't know what has become of me, but please don't try to separate me from my mobile these days.</span></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-19318279774205634442011-12-14T15:22:00.002-07:002011-12-14T15:26:53.275-07:00AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking for for a great Christmas present for your favorite book lover? Well, Ally Condie, fresh off her latest book tour, thought it would be fun to get some local authors together for a pre-Christmas book signing at my </span><a href="http://lib.orem.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">local library</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Among those authors are, Kristen Chandler, Ally Condie, Bree Despain, Jessica Day George, Nathan Hale, Jed Henry, Brandon Mull, E.J. Patten, Rick Walton, Dan Wells, Robison Wells, and Tyler Whitesides. As an added bonus, books will be on sale at a 20% discount. Hope to see you there!</span></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-12920828010130967302011-12-05T15:31:00.001-07:002011-12-05T15:52:58.446-07:00SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are books that I have loved and that I would love to read again, but...there are so many books out there that I do want to read and that list is just getting longer and longer. That has been my thinking for a long time, but </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/read-it-again-sam.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&emc=eta1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> fun little essay from the New York Times has me rethinking that silly little excuse. I'm now trying to decided which to read again first: The Harry Potter series or the Lord of the Rings trilogy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you see the new <a href="http://www.bard.org/plays/index.html">lineup</a> for the 2012 Utah Shakespeare Festival?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't believe I've seen any of the 3 Shakespeare plays (so yeah for new-to-me stuff), am quite excited about the prospect of To Kill a Mockingbird, and who doesn't love Les Mis? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only thing that could make it better would be putting Stones in His Pockets (one of my favorite plays ever at the Festival) in the Summer lineup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh well, I guess I will just have to go twice next year.</span></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-91180210953740490072011-10-26T13:40:00.000-06:002011-10-26T13:40:06.651-06:00BOOK LOVE<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
What does one do when one has an aching ankle that prevents one from getting around much or sleeping at 2 o'clock in the morning? Two things: first, one reads and second (at 2 o'clock in the morning) one watches that Texas Book Festival on C-SPAN2. </div>
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The result is a few books being added to my GoodReads account. But let's just stick to a few of the books I've added as "read."</div>
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Gorgeous book in verse that follows a Vietnamese family who flees Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War and ends up in Alabama. I love, love, love books in verse and this one was just splendid.</div>
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Latest obsession that I haven't let myself indulge in (yet): boots</div>
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There is one very simple reason for my new love of this store: I wear a size 4 in their jeans. They sure do know how to make a girl happy.</div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-2584487881416390562011-10-25T08:00:00.000-06:002011-10-25T08:00:04.684-06:00ADELE<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
I count myself quite fortunate to have climbed on board the Adele train way back when she released first album in '08. Lately I have found myself absolutely obsessed with her recent album and with "Someone Like You" in particular--as in scanning radio stations (the downside to not purchasing a hard copy) looking for the song (fortunately a lot of other people must also be obsessed with it as well because I can usually find it). She is just as gorgeous as her voice and this particular clip of the song is just stunning:</div>
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So my sister Janel, who has her own very nice fashion blog <a href="http://www.afoolforfashion.com/">here</a>, has been telling me that I need to put more me in my blog--specifically more pictures of me. So I decided to take advantage of her up-and-coming camera skills and have her take some pics at a recent family pumpkin picking outing. Of course I felt completely awkward posing for the pictures so I did what I always do when I feel awkward: I grabbed a niece or nephew or two:</div>
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How sweet is my nephew in that last picture--I don't look particularly stunning but I just had to include it.</div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-22618410167372356122011-10-24T15:15:00.001-06:002011-10-24T15:15:15.768-06:00BRUISING<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
Saturday night I monumentally failed at walking down a simple set of stairs and have now spent the last two days flat on my back with my bruised and sprained ankle raised and wrapped in bandages. With nothing else to do, today I have firmly planted myself in front of the television with laptop (naturally) in my lap. After a few hours of browsing blogs, <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a>, and watching daytime TV, I've been forced to resort to doing something I've been neglecting for a little while: blogging. To kick off this new run of blogging, I thought I'd start by not showing any gross pictures of my ankle (you are most welcome), but by instead sharing a little something that has already made the rounds of popular blogs--sorry for the repeat but it is just so much fun:</div>
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Up next: either a look at a recent weekend photo shoot, an introduction to my new favorite store (if I were mobile today I'd be showing off my new favorite jeans), or maybe a little book review!</div>
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Anyone local have a pair of crutches? I casually blew off an offer to look for a pair a couple of days ago and am now regretting that silly, silly decision.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fingers crossed that they come true and hurrah for "real" fortunes as opposed to those stupid advice fortunes some places try to hand out--who wants advice? I want promises of money and miracles and love!</span></div>
Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-57596388329964654002011-10-06T15:44:00.000-06:002011-10-06T15:44:00.279-06:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saw this over at <a href="http://frenchbydesign.blogspot.com/">French By Design</a> today:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Totally agree.</span>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-40739236900691001222011-10-06T08:30:00.002-06:002011-10-06T08:30:54.310-06:00RAINY DAYS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm going to see my very first ever 3-D movie! And while it may be true that The Lion King is not one of the top 10 movies one must see in 3-D, I'm still awfully excited.</span></div>
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I've just recently finished a book (the book itself is really not that important) that has me aching for a cross-country road trip. More specifically, I want to drive Route 50 (the loneliest road in America), then find lots a great dinners, and visit Graceland. I so badly want to do this that I have decided it is time to create a bucket list. Here goes:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">image </span><a href="http://mpgtaijiquan.blogspot.com/2007/02/nevada-travel-adventure.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">via</a></span>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6120734625222765421.post-42441639615360734962011-08-25T21:53:00.000-06:002011-08-25T21:53:50.865-06:00I WENT TO PORTLAND...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and it is about time I said something about it because it was pretty nice (the weather was beyond perfect and made it very hard to come back to our dry nearly 100 degree heat).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to Chinatown (except there wasn't much to it except these gates where I pretended I new how to pose:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to Voodoo Donuts which has some supremely wonderful donuts (which we waited 30 minutes in line for) including a maple bar topped with bacon (I am not even too embarrassed to say that I had two of these while in Portland) and this magnificent creation whose name includes language I don't usually use but would use again in a heart beat to get my hands on another one:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to Powell's Books which is just about my favorite place in all of Portland:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the Rose Garden which was much busier than this picture indicates:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And had the most divine grilled cheese sandwich in this Double Decker bus:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And traveled to Multanomah Falls:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also visited the zoo, a couple food trucks (so much fun), the water front (during Portland's Beer Fest--maybe not so much fun), and hit Burgerville for their to-die-for milkshakes (4 times).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really, the only thing missing was a trip to the coast--next time...</span></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04986527567693226393noreply@blogger.com2