the old old

my so called life..(also the name of my first blog)

2011-12-02T12:43:00.001-08:00

So for my mom and the occasional person who googled "dessert for every meal" that has seen my blog may think, "Shoot this girl has it all.. got good looo... no. her health, great husband, a job, a wonderful cat that sometimes loves her. she could die..Happy!"

to you i say here is more proof.

Spencer made our Thanksgiving meal all of it. I just bought the pie!

from the blog that is worst than a christmas letter from rich family friends. i thought i would show spencer and i on our bad days..

Francis Ford Coppola's YSA advice (not on kbyu)

2011-11-23T13:40:00.001-08:00

While in the car waiting to get home, which is 2 miles and 1hour away in traffic..this awesome interview with Francis Ford Coppola came on. I usually hate when the audience at a discussion is allowed to ask questions cause I get nervous for the the nerdy college student who might say something stupid but in this discussion it didnt matter cause Coppola is awesome!

case in point: (not sure if i used this phrase right)

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Thank you so much for being here. You're such a big inspiration as well as your daughter. She's changed my life with her films. They're really amazing. And as a young person who is really passionate about film, I wonder what the best advice you can give me today would be? Like, in your opinion, what's the best advice to a young filmmaker?

COPPOLA: To young filmmakers. Well, if it's a guy, I say get married.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

COPPOLA: Because, you know, if you get married - because young men today, they don't seem to think about getting married and having kids till they're in their late 40s, you know, and I was married, I was 22. I was desperate to have kids. I had so much fun with my kids. And, you know, the fact that I was married and I had this family of little kids, I was very responsible. I wanted to have a house that they could live in and so I worked very hard. I didn't go out and, you know, waste time as a young man are known to do, and I was diligent. I would be writing my script and what have you, and marriage had a very good effect on me. When I was married I was broke and, you know, eight weeks later I had a job as a screenwriter and I attribute a lot of it to the sense of, you know, togetherness with my family, the little team I wanted to provide for.

If you're a young woman I would say don't get married.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

COPPOLA: Because then you have this guy who is trying to get you to do everything for his career and you're not going to have any time for your career. So...

(SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE)

Although I am a woman and got married young. I do not think it has got in the way of my career as an aspiring celebrity house wife whos day job is administrative stuff. I do agree that babies are awesome, kids are hilarious when they talk, and teenagers can also be good people..Families in all are excellent!Especially Spencer. I was never a great student but once i got married i would make the effort to go to class cause i knew spencer made the effort to go find a job and work everyday, and still make hilarious jokes, and make awesome turkey's for Thanksgiving.

HAppy Thanksgiving. And thank you creator of God Father for your great words of wisdom.

whole article here

watched too many episodes of "Daria" today, and its raining hard-

2011-11-20T22:14:00.001-08:00

for those of you who dont know what to get me for Christmas.. I want this shirt. its definitely number one on my list. i could wear it to work on casual fridays and people will be like oh your hilarious but really i will tell them its not ironic it is my heart on my sleeve... it is . my heart on my sleeve.

best week EVER!

2011-11-06T22:52:00.000-08:00

my week was AWESOME!!!

despite being in my first car accident (dont worry mom not my fault) I forgot to call and tell you...

and despite a lost wallet i wont tell who's it was just incase you try to track it down and steal identities..

and after discovering someone in our house has fleas- i wont disclose that either so as not to embarrass them. although a clue: its a boy and its not spencer. which still might confuse my mom who refers to them as a "she" still even after lending me the carrier to get the (not mentioned) neutered. once again.. not spencer.

and yet my whole week has been made by this.

yeah you may not have fleas or a young punk (who found your wallet) making fun of all your personalized photos on your debit cards. or 3 dings in your car that all have taken place whilst you were behind the wheel. but you dont have this.. an awesome portrait of a unicorn piercing a floating heart as the words i heart you float in the sky. signed and sent with love from my awesome niece halle which proves my family is awesome. this picture depicts excactly how i feel about them. it totally made my week. i want to make it into a t-shirt and wear it everyday! this is why everyone should get up in the morning, .......... and peaceful flash mobs those are pretty great too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLugrcvlpds&feature=related!

Neverland

2011-09-25T18:50:00.000-07:00

now some may call you crazy for building a world where you could play on rollercoasters all day and play with awesome toys. but i call you a genius. since moving to LA all i want to do is kid stuff. eat sweets and watch disney cartoons and look at cloth dolls on etsy. i am also into the highest form of art called : amigurumi , lately and i cant wait til i have the energy and motivation to create a whole world of friends out of yarn. Also on my to do list is create a small replica of the house i would like to live in some day. A hobby saved for sons that dress up as their mothers and own hotels.

i have no idea what has jump started this obsession with returning to my childhood. maybe its my coworkers constant talk about botox and how white people like me will need it. could it be that i never see children anymore. work party was at the santa monica pier with access to all of its rides for free and everyone was so bummed. only the big bosses have kids that they can afford and bring. everyone else wanted it to be like the christmas party where everyone got to put on really small dresses which i cant wear because i love sweets. i was bummed out a little too because the work party on the pier did not have free access to the arcade. anyways i like doughnuts that starbucks inside the alberstons give away for free after 6:30, because its free and my favorite food. i love it when Wall-e is following eva around in the pixar film and gets smashed by all those grocery carts. i like going to bed early (unlike kids). i love taking pictures of my cat.. everyday. i still doodle in church. i hate aliens and that means you E.T. and i love spencer.

note to my parents i know i wasnt the cutest kid crying in stores, screaming in drs offices and during lighting storms on camping trips but i am better now. i never go to the doctors.

where everybody knows your name

2011-08-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

so last christmas my sister gave my parents coversational cards with questions on it to read and answer. I read all of them to my family all christmas. it was awesome. i learned that everybody's favorite family vacation was hawaii including jen. which was surprising considering that i peed my pants in the hotel elevator all over jenny's foot.
Beside's the point. anyways the real point..one of the cards read -What do you do when you feel homesick? my dad said that service was the best medicine to which my mom agreed. sorry folks (my parents). last time i tried this i offered left over lunch to a homeless man walking by me. he smiled and refused which was when i realized he probably wasnt homeless.
so to which i tell my dad the true medicine for homesickness. CHEERS:the American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. (wikipedia). everytime coach and sam shout out norm's name when he comes in i get so stoked. or the banter between sam and diane... karla and diane or anybody making fun of diane. hilarious! or how coach names all of his glasses so he doesnt mix up the drinks but has difficulties with two glasses called the wilson brothers. so sweet.
all though i may no longer live close enough to my family to be made the butt of every joke anymore. i have diane to make me feel at home.

(check it! I would give anything to join these Cheers impersonators)

greatest mustache

2011-08-03T12:15:00.000-07:00

besides this one

are these ones

back to the motherland

2011-07-05T12:14:00.000-07:00

4th of July:

Went to Santa Barbara super stoked because Prince William and Kate will be there only in a few days after us. Should have left them messages

Caught this on camera..if i posted to youtube easily a million hits.

seal deal from Kim Donald on Vimeo.

Ate at Mac's Fish and CHips. Mac was there and was very British so was his restaurant. boo red coats!

Saw the largest fig tree in America. The most patriotic thing we did all day.

Drove back on the PCH for 3 hours.

Finished the night watching A "Little Bit of Fry and Laurie"

dont take my wings

2011-07-03T22:34:00.000-07:00

Some what good news:

My front tooth will be made out of zirconium.. which is like fools diamond. strong as one but not one. My tooth will cut pennies and blades. Not yet my temporary crown is made of a kernal of corn and my gum is rejecting it. gross. spencer tried to talk me into a gold tooth.. he said he would shell out any amount to be married to the woman with a front gold tooth. he wants one now.

Although it is good news that they will replace my dead tooth with indestructible faux diamonds, when i grabbed the mirror from the counter while the dentist was going to grab the shade chart for my new tooth i looked at how much that shaved down my real one and all I can think of was that part in Pearl Harbor where Ben Affleck is dyslexic and he has to name the letters on the eye chart.. he is talking to his buddy before hand and was like..."They're going to take my wings..they are going to take my wings." Man that hit home so hard. That dentist took my wings. But hopefully they will make me new ones.

good news minute

2011-07-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

Good News! We are moving from our studio apt into a one bedroom apt. so we are looking at craigslist every minute to get things normal people have: couch, dresser, hopefully a puppy, and maybe a generator.

We got this beauty from a gentlemen who sells couches out of 4 storage units in Korea Town.

yeah that is our bed right behind it and dont worry our front door is only 2 feet in front..2 more weeks!

More good news

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

And some GREAT News Moving farther from my neighbor whitey who lived close to the beach with awesome rent! Bad man though i will not drink the koolaid.

i love trolleys

2011-06-12T18:31:00.000-07:00

i am like esther before she sees john truett, super slow and willing to sit down on a street car but one can of dr pepper.. seriously one can and im the one in front bothering the motorman by ringing his rope. I cant sit down. I feel like i have this huge love for everyone.. which is crazy cause its l.a. and the people in my neighborhood are thirty something old jerks who always have their windows down- riding slow and talking super loud out of their hummers. and the old guy who sells baby cow and lamb skins over a chained fence on santa monica.. and spencer who was seriously thinking of buying one. and the salesman who said i had a great valley accent. and yes even my neighbor who said -"your young right? like way younger?" just before she found out i was but one yr. shy of her. ha! i love all of them and i sing about them but then the ride is over and i have to come down off of caffeine and it sucks. im too tired to be so happy and am just really mad for some reason. and i want to get off even if it means i have to take one of the passengers with me.

The Trolley Song ~ Judy Garland (Meet Me in St... by seasonwitch

this is not exaggerating caffeine deeply impacts me and my lifestyle. i think it is because i have the metabolism of an 80 year old person and get just as angry as one who finds out they will miss a nap on saturday. this saturday i almost missed my nap and was in a mall that had once ruined my holidays.. so what could have been a street car super awesome experience in the booth at the mall i was late by two hours and the caffeine was gone.. poor spencer was left alone and heard this whining all day long..

Hurricane from Kim Donald on Vimeo.

and not to beat a dead horse (which is an awesome line my dad used during a breakup) but i would like to quote in the most sincerely unpretentious way i can ..F. Scott Fitzgerald.. i say unpretentious because its from his short short story The curious Case of BEnjamin Button" which i got cause I love all of Cate Blanchet's films and thought the book should be good too...AND it was an added bonus that it had pictures.

Anyways it perfectly describes me at age 24...

"Hildegarde was a woman of thirty five..she had become too settled in her ways , too placid, too content, too anemic in her excitements, and too sober in her taste. She went out socially... but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.."

I quoted this passage to my friend the other night when she invited me and spencer to take a party bus to a club where R Kelly was going to have his after after party.

Saturday Night Fish Fry

2011-05-29T19:29:00.000-07:00

Now if you've ever been down to New Orleans

Then you can understand just what I mean

All thru the week it's quiet as a mouse

But on Saturday night they go from house to house

It was rockin', it was rockin'

-Louis Jordan

never truer words were spoken.

spencer and i went to new orleans to see his mom become hooded at LSU to receive a doctorate. she earned her Ph.D. in children's education focusing on literacy. she was great and we are all proud of her..especially spencer because now if he ever has to fill out one of those surveys asking about your parents education he can put down that one of his parents is a learned doctor. it was great to see his family.. his aunt and her husband were there as well as his brother and sisters. they are too hilarious. louisianna the state itself was a running joke to them, but new orleans was really awesome and i loved it.

first of all beignets scone like doughnuts you get at cafe du monde if you get it to go in a bag you have 10 x more powdered sugar.

po boys awesome sandwich made with french bread.

all the houses are adorable and straight from disneyland. even in the most run down ones that have been abandoned after Katrina .. every piece of architecture was ornate. i am getting so sick of stucco out here.

riding the street car.. i dont care how touristy it is. still awesome straight from Mr. Roger's neighborhood.

and not really specific to new orleans but the feed store down the street where they have all types of baby animals. spencer had to tell me how irrational it was to bring home any of the following chorkie (chihuahua yorkie mix) morkie (maltese yorkie mix) chic (fashionable baby chicken haha no) and anything with oversized eyes!

bourbon street i would stay away from it..you know the part of pinocchio when all the kids go to the island and the disney cartoon swears..atleast the ride does calling them all donkeys or whatever. i dont know.. but also it smells to.. but bourbon street is not new orleans ..95% of the people on that street are youths from out of state whose parents dont call them every night in college like mine did.

anyways the greatest part was the people! even though spencer's family is not from the south they showed us the greatest southern hospitality and we had a lot of great laughs with them. they also introduced us to great people, food, and places in New Orleans.. all around it was great! But beware every museum botanical garden exhibit and probably even hospitals are closed on Mondays.. actually monday would probably be a good day to go to bourbon street.

happy birthday spencer!

2011-05-28T19:05:00.000-07:00

spencer's birthday was awesome.. i ordered a couple of small things months ahead of time and hid them under the bed only to find later the cat used them for scratching posts . so much hair..gross.

spencer was great he didnt even complain.

that morning a (birthday) shuttle picked us up to take us to the airport. we were going to New ORleans for his birthday but most of all his mom's graduation. She was receiving her docterate/Ph.D...spencer was also very kind to allow me to read one of the books he got for his birthday on the trip there.

once we got there the party did not end. his mom works setting up literacy programs for children with their parents. at the center she works during one of their Prime Time's or reading sessions .. the reader pinned a dollar on Spencer followed by several more from the children..apparently a tradition there which was awesome and sweet..

spencer's mom bought an awesome cake and it was so good especially followed by beignet's later at cafe du monde!

so in all spencer made it to twenty eight years and i am so stoked about. he is also.. stoked about it!

2011-04-17T22:02:00.001-07:00

go fly a kite from Kim Donald on Vimeo.

my whole life i have experienced 4 seasons: spring, summer, fall, and winter. since moving here, fall and winter have become dead to me. which makes every day the same. sunny or slightly cloudy. which makes one week to the next a blur and 7 months go by too fast. the time we lived in salt lake seems 2 x longer than our time here in california and yet it was one month shorter. if this was inception utah would be a dream with in a dream where 1 day there, is an hour in real life, aka california..if you dont follow me its okay. tomorrow i will just wake up and be 72 years old. spencer will be pleasantly bald, and slightly-senile from aspartame. i will have an obese cat who i think i call catbert. fatcat will be sitting on my lap, while i sit in a wheelchair because of my missing leg they took. (too many cookies and ice cream cones) sorry is this disgusting cause really life is great. and i am super stoked about it. i cant wait to be old by the sea with spencer and miscellaneous...

mud, hoops of fire, barbed wire, bears and more...

2011-04-10T22:09:00.000-07:00

spencer has recently ran a 5k in the recent Warrior Dash and i like the word recent. he ran through knee deep water andcrawled through various ropes and up walls. jumped over hot duro logs of fire and crawledunder barbed wire in mud ..all for a turkey leg. it was not told to the contestants that the turkey leg would take longer to get than the race itself especially after purchasing 5 non reimbursable tickets for it. in all though spencer is best described by the words of charlie sheen (the man that makes most mothers and tigers cry) as, " winninggg!"

Happy 24th + 28th

2011-04-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

this came in an awesome package for spencer and me (or i).. for our birthdays from my parents!

birthday surprise from Kim Donald on Vimeo.

Margaret Kilgallen

2011-03-23T10:21:00.000-07:00

Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen Art:21 from Port Shy on Vimeo.

when i was 18 i applied for this job that my sister had when she was in highschool. it was a dry cleaner's in sandy that was family owned. the owner himself was mad with power and in order to get hired onto a minimum wage, part-time job you had to go through two interviews and that was just the tip of it.

the interview with the owner was terrifying. it went like this.."who are the most important people in the world" me-"my mom, and my dad, maybe oprah" "No- the correct answer is George Washington, some other forefather, and the customer" He said something like that. i dont remember the correct answers anymore. He also chastized me on saying the word maybe and how those are words of a failure. And also how gold is the future, while the dollar bill will one day burn in the hands of heathens.

Anyways he was crazy but i thought there was no way i was going to get the job because i think my parents are important people and because i told him i was going to school for art or maybe art history, i wasn't sure yet. "Art!? why art?".."and don't say MAYBE" " You have to look normal for this job and be courteous to the customers. No crazy art stuff." This guy felt artists were ugly people who murdered paying customers for fun.... artists do get a bad rap though, and i would guess it might be because a lot of them act like rock stars, murder customers and use their blood to paint portraits, AND go and break up the beatles. Some artists..

Margaret Kilgallen on the other hand was the mother theresa of artists and it would be great if the first thing people thought of was her when you mention art. She knew what art and life should be about: love for humanity, love for art and other art movements, as well as love for things done by hand. She's awesome! Also she used to work at a library. She loved work that could be shared with everyone which means she took it to the streets...and you can tell she loved everyone. awesome. her work is amazing! she talked about trying not to paint perfect lines because it showed that it was done by hand but her work is so good they are perfect lines. her large lettering is so great! it inspires me so much. im no artist i doodle juvenile things and my portraits often end up cross eyed but she still makes me want to do great things and be a good person. anyways here is some of her work and you can watch videos of her on Art 21 and documentary Beautiful Losers.. Unfortunately she passed away a few years ago only in her 30's but her work still lives on and is making a huge impact. so yeah, take that dry cleaning man!

also featuring her husband Barry McGee pretty sweet graffiti artist.

bring back the limbo craze

2011-02-25T09:47:00.000-08:00

Dad please tell spencer that i am good at limbo!
there are alot of things i can not do.. such as pronounce certain words when i think about them too much like sugar and burger... dance like shakira...divide by decimal points..and limbo.. atleast now.. I use to be awesome at limbo and it bumbs me out cause i have lost this skill and have no record of it. i repeat stories a lot so whenever i tell spencer about my limbo days he kindly tries to cover his disbelief ..so dad will you please tell spencer you were not just being a supportive parent but that i once was a contortionist . and that my back was awesome and so unhinged and that it would have been beautiful sight if it was ever recorded...

my funny valentine

2011-02-17T13:29:00.000-08:00

the greatest gift that spencer gave to me this valentines was a cardboard box he brought home from work.. it smells bad for the years it spent in his step mom's garage but it holds great treasures like health insurance packets, spiderman cards and the best thing of all this beauty!

inside is a card game i never heard of until i met spencer but as a kid it was his favorite and so was this box apparently... it was not until this week did he realize his box was a bit girly. when he went to buy it all the ones his friends had with dragons and wizards on them were gone, but he didnt care. He saw this with the beautiful white winged horse and what looks like to be Bella from twilight and he wanted it..because it was the only one left and he had to have a box with fantastical creatures to house his cards of magic spells.

and the greatest gift for catbert: spencer's voice

greatest ice cream tuesday EVER!!!

2011-02-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

so sometimes work can be really really awesome! especially when they take a good thing they already have going: ice cream tuesday and add a billion percent of greatness to it...what am i talking about read my email..

Dear all,

You’re in for a real treat today…

We know how much you love your Tuesday drumstick.. However, we think you’ll relish in the treats CoolHause ice-cream truck is serving… on...
The truck will be parked in the front entrance of the office at 4:45PM today. One per person, please.

Enjoy!

YUM!

my ice cream sandwich had mint leaves in it and was in between two warm snickerdoodle cookies..and they were WARm and the wrapper was edible..I ATE IT THE WRAPPER..

the oscar goes to...

2011-02-08T13:17:00.000-08:00

oscar season often trumps the superbowl in our house but i would have to say if i were to write the names that go inside those envelopes, it would go to two great commercials that were aired during the superbowl. this may be old news for you butt spankn, pig skinnin mostly male population that watched them the day of.. but i.. who was told by my yw's basketball coach when i was 12, that i was on the b team in our ward for a reason.. have been turned off to sports ever since..anyways besides the point, night after the game spencer and i caught up on what we missed by watching the commercials online. so here are the winners.i am mainly posting them so my number one follwer..me can review them because seriously they are so funny!

runner up

and first prize

be my husband

2011-02-05T23:58:00.000-08:00

remember when i sang this to spencer at my wedding and someone got it on film and i sound amazing and look like someone from STOMP! nahhh! just kidding this is an awesome video and its really "My brightest diamond"...and it makes me want to run atleast a mile in the morning and do great things when i watch it. in other words its like watching rocky climb those steps. but dont take my word for..

new year's resolutions

2011-01-11T14:39:00.000-08:00

spencer recently told me about a blog that displays only tweets and status updates of people who are..crazy self assured. people who say stuff like.."so strong i went to the gym and everyone was complimenting me on my body!" "dont get mad at me for dating hot people" and so on. Looking at my status updates and ones ive thought about would all include negatives. Such as "why do i get stuck in snow storms with no rooms available in a place i would rather not be in" and "why do people cancel my favorite shows" and "what the..who cancelled ICE CREAM TUESDAY!"
So my new year's resolution is...... only Positive + updates and thoughts. i will live longer and i wont feel like that 5 hour energy drink commercial.
when my socks are wet at disneyland i will not wine..im at disneyland
i will not complain how no one brings treats to work anymore because christmas is over
my facebook update/never used twitter account, will be vacant of any ugggghhs and :( and worst day evers..
ANDDD i will try to only say nice things about people..so if i dont like you and how you treat me on the phone when you call me at work i will no longer hang up and mumble "your not anybody"..because i am going to be nice..
and i will try to post more things about how strong i am ...for example i carried a whole bankers box down a flight of stairs today..mostly because im too shy to ask for help..but i did it! snaps for me!
so happy new years to all and to all a good night

I love my family

2011-01-06T23:16:00.000-08:00

Untitled from Kim Donald on Vimeo.

best job in the world

2010-12-14T13:25:00.000-08:00

sunday spencer and i watched a documentary of people who got to play with puppies for a living and domesticate grey foxes so that they are cute and fluffy and family friendly. my job isnt the greatest. people hand me papers with directions while never looking me in the eye..they dont know my name. and i come home with paper cuts all over my feeble tired hands.
Not only is studying puppies the sweetest thing in the world but they found out that puppies and dogs can read peoples faces and reactions better than even the smartest chimps or gorillas..dogs read peoples faces like people read other peoples faces. left to rigt..crazier is that dogs do not read other dogs faces...just with humans..crazier still is through the cute research they found that humans upon seeing dogs or puppies use the same part of the brain as they do when they encounter their own babies using the same hormones and stuff..which is why researchers say puppies are parasites taking the place of children..adorable..
i dont care if i ever have health insurance again im going to quit my job and train dogs to know when people are telling jokes or need a hug so they can laugh at your jokes and hold you..i will invent the super puppy and be the happiest person on earth!

time lapse video

2010-12-08T12:18:00.000-08:00

Natalie time-lapse video: From birth to 10 years old @ Yahoo! Video

i went to check my yahoo email which i never do and still havent done because i saw this..
i think its adorable!

christmas time is here

2010-12-06T22:45:00.000-08:00

this weekend i stayed home in bed. i was sick (which explains my condition in photo below). spencer and i made snowflakes and watched old holiday cartoons which were sometimes disturbing and politically incorrect. but listening to john denver's muppets 12 days of christmas brought a great glow to my soul. so blessed to still have that record. spencer makes the season bright with christmas carols and his all year long holiday cheer... i love christmas! so much! especially now that i can go see my family who will not recognize me and my big city ways. i am so excited to see Gavin and talk to him about Catbert and how much we feed him. Im excited to eat the food that causes our hereditary diabetes. im excited to prove to arien and brayden that big lion dogs do exist by bringing them one for christmas. im excited to hear adorable bryn and jayden's voices say british things like "i want to sit here please" and i cant wait to hear my dads bagpipe recital and slideshow of germany and take naps with mom! and most of all see spencer's face when he opens up the cat trapeze i bought him this year.

the kids table

2010-11-27T01:13:00.000-08:00

happy late thanksgiving everybody! i had fun over this great long weekend we had thanksgiving feast over at spencer's stepmom's brother's house..if you follow. everything was so good including the sweet potato soufflé, air hockey table, and of course family which was awesome. i sat at the grown up table with spencer and the other adults but as the events of this weekend unfolded my true place should have been at the kids table. i enjoyed hanging out with spencer's family and i feel i could have made an awesome impression but near the end of the evening i saw a wooden green toy with a hole in it. i stuck it on my finger on my right hand. it fit perfectly and looked funny. i went to take it off but it didnt move. my finger got fatter. it was also turning blue. i thought it was funny at first that i did such a silly thing and told spencer. then i got scared. his cousins noticed my struggle then his uncle. a minute later uncle patrick was pouring olive oil down a wooden block that my finger was swelling up in. so embarrassing i was nervously giggling. ahh not long after we left. do you think they will remember how i too like pecan pie as much as they do. or how i laugh really hard at their funny jokes ..maybe or maybe they will say "i thought only babies did that" yeah they do.. i stuck a pearl up my nose once cause i thought it would be just as fun but got just as scared. i found it at church and fortunately my mom was cool headed and told me just to blow my nose. i was 7.

that was thanksgiving but black friday was just as crazy. spencer and i went to westfield mall out in culver city. its huge it has a target and best buy in it. i was mesmerized by a sequined sweater in jcpenny and told spencer i would catch up with him. i thought he said he was going to best buy. i was wrong. as i realized i was too tired to wait in a huge line i went to get my phone. i forgot it at home. remember how when you were little you would hide in the racks of clothes and would pop out and try to scare your mom cause you thought she there but really she was gone. and you get really scared. yeah it was like that. spencer was gone he had the car keys and was probably having lots of fun and i was scared and lost. i went to best buy cause i thought thats where he was. no luck. then i tried to plant myself at jcpenny. got too impatient. so i tried to look for a guest services to maybe borrow a phone or a wheelchair for my paralyzing fear. but they call it conceirge and that freaked me out. so i looked for the closest person using their phone. it was some dude in a fauxhawk so i asked him. he was not impressed by my story so i made my phone call quick when his girl friend joined us. she thought i was a lunatic. i wasnt freaking out i was just like sorry i forgot my phone thanks so much you guys saved me. ..silence.. and i quickly went off to meet spencer at target. maybe because i was in shock or because i never got that wheelchair ride ....but i could not locate target. i was going out of my mind one loop around the place and i finally found spencer. it was good and fortunately no one had to make those announcements on the intercom throughout the entire mall. that could have been worse. or i could have peed my pants. or spencer could have forgotten me and left me at the mall. so this thanksgiving weekend i am thankful that none of those other things have happened and that i am spending christmas with my family who love me and know that i have a spare key for my spare key.

me on black friday trying on hats at claires

wii fit was right..

2010-11-03T12:35:00.000-07:00

so when we got wii fit and it told me i was like 40 or something i thought it was just unpatriotic and was a foreign game that hated americans. my bmi is ok so why would it make me so old..my blood results just came back from my doctor due to a routine check up and i have something wrong with my cholestoral. what ever that means i was laughing pretty hard. first of all because i found out over the phone at work while i was staring at a desktop tiled with a picture of pasta roni..(same one on my blog header: i love pasta roni). second of all i had halloween candy for breakfast. yesterday was ice cream tuesday at work, my favorite day.. and i have blog posts about yogurt land and how ginger is awesome because it allows one to eat as much junk food as i want with out getting sick. i am a fat unhealthy kid and my thorough doctor called me out on it.

happy happy halloween

2010-11-01T22:18:00.000-07:00

this sunday spencer took much pleasure in scaring children in his brother and sisters' neighborhood. with a few simple tools including a microphone, amplifier, sheet, large inflatable pumpkin, and a dark room with blinds. as children would come up, spencer would shout into the microphone from inside the house while his vincent price like skills would reach the little monsters ears making them running back to their parents. no just kidding. kids are tougher these days and most of them said stuff like "shut up pumpkin" to which spencer would say "i love you too pumpkin hahah." followed by "dont get yourself caught in a dead end!" and to parents with babies in strollers he would say "parents enjoy it while it lasts one day they'll grow up and push you around while you ask for candy ah ah ah" ...and to those who got to trick o treat at an age where they can drive to each house spencer would say .."another old trick or treater i see. i have an idea why dont all you older children get together and give candy to the smaller children, you can buy candy with your jobs at the gap and macdonalds" ..."superman, i see..prove you are a hero and donate your candy to the needy"
so funny.. beats any hip party anytime unless i was invited by rihanna to hang out with her and some muppets.

will smith's seed is taking over the world!

2010-10-30T22:45:00.000-07:00

i love this video and i hope kanye west will agree..

my shout out to salt lake..

2010-10-15T16:01:00.000-07:00

i went to a service enrichment activity last week and was able to meet more ladies from the ward. they are awesome! the first three i met were super mature women and have been in the ward since 1950 when their husbands started to work on the top secret apache helicopter?.. one has a dog with an infected spleen ..and one is 95 years old and everybody yells at her because she's deaf. at dinner i sat at a younger table of women who had recently moved to LA.. we all introduced ourselves and where we are from... one funny lady was like “my husband dragged me here.. he knew! i have 3 cities i dont ever want to live in.. LA, new york, and well i wont name the third because someone here is from there" thats when she looked at me.. i was relatively quiet that night but for some reason at that moment i decided to lift my arms above my head to raise the roof while cheering “lets hear it for salt lake! what! what!" she nervously laughed while the lady next to me stared at her brownie..then i asked “you meant salt lake right?” she said yeah.

all the places i remember..

2010-10-05T17:42:00.000-07:00

San Clemente (spencer grew up here) its beautiful it reminds me of Catalina in a way. The beach is beautiful and like a small beach resort town. Except their ice cream shop only accepts cash. Ventura is a lot like Oregon beach town except instead of granola tree huggers you have classic car riding, buddy holly look-a- likes. Its pretty cool. It is some small town where the band big bad voo doo daddy originated. They have thrift stores for every cause which is nice. broken homes, broken hearts, diabetes, pets who are not house trained..i would donate to a store for kids who did not mature or reach 5 feet until after high school so it didn’t matter how cool they were in 2006 or 2010 because they graduated in 2005 and could have used that extra height when she used lockers, when her peers were teenagers TEENAGERS, and had braces with a mushroom haircut. Anyways Ventura gets a B+.

Downtown Disney it does not cost a thing except for the pain of watching others walk into the actual park. It’s the closest ive felt to the feeling as a kid when you are angry when someone wants a bite of your ice cream sandwich.. and your mom gets mad cause you cant share.. still you enjoy the shops and atmosphere at night which is so fun.. and you can hear the fireworks..

HollyWOOD Right near spencer’s work is our very own lady statue not as popular as lady liberty or venus but the one in front of Venice High School. To an unrefined eye it seems like a bronze statue of a girl on her tippy toes but to those who are Myrna Loy fans.. [Myrna Loy most known for the Thin Man Series and being the cause for John Dilinger’s (famous bank robber during the depression) capture and death] it is a statue of young Myrna in a graceful pose representing her own high school long ago before she went on to the silver screen. I made spencer pull over so I can take a picture. Several skate boarders were rolling around the area making sure I was not a cop or a freak but I was neither I am just a fan!

The walk of fame is great. First of all people sell hot dogs with bacon rapped around it on the street. Second of all besides the Kodak and Chinese theater they have the Disney theater specifically for all Disney films. Spencer would not pose for any pictures but I am new in town and would not put my camera down. Here are my pictures I have yet to photo shop my cat into them so this is just a rough draft.

The next greatest thing is a lady in my ward was on a whole season of happy days.. I will not mention her name in case she googles it and finds my lame post mentioning her. So that is kind of cool. I love the fonze…

and the Getty so awesome and i hope they accept my resume and application one day!

new title of blog LA ink?

2010-10-05T17:29:00.000-07:00

Just bloggin from LA where anorexic girls in big fedoras are a thing… where everyone talks like how they think a famous person might talk (really loud and saying baby all the time) ...and where you know you have money when you can afford a dog or a baby (I really want a Long haired dachshunds, bulldog, great dane, chihuahua, afghan lookin kind. Also I want a latino baby boy or a korean baby girl that can speak farsi, french, german, hebrew, and spanish)

the cat is doing well in california. he seems happy in our studio apartment and the both of us are getting fat from inactivity. being next to the beach and around great places such as the getty, awesome scenes in hollywood, culver city, venice beach, and celebrity sightings … and all I know is that I took literally thousands of pictures of our cat sleeping on our bed. I’m pathetic. I will now post them all for you.

You know what I do pledge my allegiance too. Yogurtland! Inside yogurt land are soft served ice cream machines of every flavor including pistachio! I love pistachio ice cream! They charge by the ounce so you can have cheese cake, madagascar vanilla, pistachio and coconut ice cream. Then you can add any o topping..so many and its not extra they charge by the ounce! Cookie dough, yogurt chips, Ghirardelli chocolate syrup, blackberries, capn crunch, fresh reeses everything. I have averaged out once a week it seems since I have been here.
Yogurtland oh yogurtland
Let me always sit or stand
in yogurt land

we're moving

2010-08-09T10:13:00.000-07:00

apartment hunting
due to spencer's geniousiocity (see previous post) we are moving to cloudy in the morning, sunny in the day, warm with cold wind ..california. LA to be specific. and we are moving this thursday. this past weekend we went there to go apartment hunting and found a nice studio in santa monica. it took a lot of tears and laughter. while driving spencer and i sounded like we were riding a rollercoaster. driving through a nice area we would get excited like ooohhh how ni..and then..ahhhh! as we reach our real destination of an apartment once occupied by a crack head.

studio apartment
the studio apartment is nice but i actually just fell in love with the land lady and her stories that i decided to down size instead of taking a one bedroom plus front room apt with pool and gym down the road that was still within our budget. she talked about cats and adopting them off the street and how funny they are when they sleep literally on you face at night. she talked about doves for awhile and about our future neighbors hound dog. I knew that the studio apt was the right place. she agreed. and then i asked her to be my first friend in california and she replied by asking me for a check for 2,600 dollars. i like her. (the last sentence may not be entirely true except for the money)

leaving utah
to my mom dad and sisters who are the only readers of this blog..i will miss you terribly but you already know that. i am more worried i will come back and you guys will have all these inside jokes and be laughing ..and from living in such close quarters with my cat my conversational skills will go down that my visits will only include you guys laughing at me..
to my friends (yes jenny i have friends) thanks so much for all the laughs and catching up with friends i have had since the time i peed my pants in the fifth grade.. spencer and i will miss weekends with brian very much.
to friends who i stalk on facebook.. nothing will change
and spencer..life only is the greatest with you

spencerrrrrrrrr!

2010-08-09T09:33:00.000-07:00

spencer has always been a hard worker, honest with the utmost of integrity, and charming young man but finally someone else besides his mom and myself have taken notice of the next greatest thing since two rainbows in the sky...Today MondayAugust 9th, 2010 Ad Age has published an article of how people in his industry received their jobs. It is a great honor that spencer was included and am sure he would like to thank all those that supported him. (excerpt below)

SPENCER DONALD, PPBH
With social media playing an increasingly key role in digital marketing, it seemed only natural to Spencer Donald to put the platform to use while marketing himself to potential employers.

In June the 27-year-old associate copywriter at PPBH launched a fine-tuned campaign using Facebook's targeted ad platform to reach employees at the agencies he had applied to -- Crispin Porter and Sid Lee and Huge, among others. He hoped it would give him the edge he needed to get noticed. "I was sending out résumés and always getting that form email back," Mr. Donald said. "I wish I could get people to look at me for at least a second more than that. I thought, I really have nothing to lose."

It didn't take long for Mr. Donald's phone to start ringing. Employees at the agencies he targeted started seeing his ads -- which included a headline, a photo, a short blurb of enticing copy and a link to his portfolio website -- appear on the sides of their Facebook pages. He soon heard back from a total of seven agencies, some of which wanted to consider him for specific open positions. He was even contacted by a recruiter from Publicis who had heard of his efforts despite having never targeted that agency. In July he accepted a L.A.-based position at Visionaire, where he was offered a position as a copywriter and strategist. He'll start later in August.

He said he's excited to be working at a smaller shop, and is glad he took a less conventional approach to self-promotion. "That's what you'll have to do for your clients," Mr. Donald said. "There's nothing wrong with showing you can do that."

unhealthy truth

2010-07-22T08:49:00.001-07:00

watch like the first few minutes its mind blowing
this lady shows how our food is impacting us through allergy's, and auto immune diseases, cancer, and possible adhd and autism..
parental advisory it swears near the end..~ sorry mom

why queen latifah is the greatest

2010-07-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

but it's a dry heat..

2010-07-08T08:45:00.000-07:00

for the fourth of july weekend spencer, his two cousins and i all drove to arizona. we left at 5 in the morning and twenty gross rest stops later we are all hanging out with spencer's bumpa, aunts, uncles, mom, brother, and two sisters at village inn. it was so hot there it was a big 112 degrees. so the next day we got up early to go see the animals hopefully alive in the phx zoo. not only could the animals survive the "dry heat" advertised on all the shot glasses around the town, but they were so awesome. they have this huge exhibit of Clyde's...(orangutans) the baby one was awesome he would climb all around the other ones and bother them it was great. an older clyde was hiding behind a huge palm leaf that they provided the monkeys with. he laid on his platform with this 3 foot leaf on his head so that only his eyes would be seen from underneath. so great. also very awesome spencer and i rode a camel. both of us at the same time. so awesome. we did it bare back and did tons of tricks like trying to keep still as possible while the guy lead him around. spencer's two sisters amy and audrey and i.. touched as many goats as possible at the children's petting zoo. they liked us.

all weekend long we spent time with the bumpa and the family and had a blast. spencer's brother peter and sisters amy and audrey are so much like spencer. they make me laugh. anyways the weekend was great!

slc art festival

2010-07-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

jun 25th spencer and i went to the utah art's festival. spencer and i first hit up the food booths cause we were so hungry. the food was good but the atmosphere was way better. so many people. it was great. i got to buy a print from Juli Adams who i saw at the 2006 festival. i wanted an excuse to talk to her so i asked her to sign my print which might have been a no no since i think that makes it more valuable or something. i might be wrong but i was so excited i didnt care. spencer got a print from leia bell of two masked booby birds staring. it's pretty funny it reminds me of spencer. we rolled a big ball of twine we listened to people tell jokes on stage. it was pretty fun and all around success.

spencer's birthday

2010-07-08T08:13:00.000-07:00

here is to being 27 for a month. spencer's birthday was on may 18th but so awesome it is still fresh in my mind. he woke up saying such wise things and seemed so old. here is some proof..

b-day shoes

THIS GUY LOVES ROCKS..

2010-06-17T14:46:00.000-07:00

work has brought me awesome skills and friends. i have memorized the number for the woman's shelter. i recently provided a journalist with triple A batteries so that she might interview the man being executed on friday. this same man held under hard core surveillance on the third floor once tried to shoot his way out of a court..so crazy. and my toothless friend who remains nameless not to protect him but we dont know each others names. he is here a lot because of the bankruptcy court and is really into rocks. his hands are covered in huge rock rings and he admired my great grandmothers ring..he offered to make me a matching one instead i got one of his sculptures which is still pretty cool considering its petrified wood.. put together with liquid nail. right now he is working on a cow skull adding metalic paint and a metal spike with goggles to go into the eye holes..this guy loves rocks but hates cows. still its pretty nice.

E.T. IS THE WORST

2010-06-16T12:48:00.000-07:00

this person probably has a collection of dead bodies
i hate this

GREATEST MOVIE EVER

2010-06-08T09:59:00.001-07:00

WHAT I LOOK AT WHEN WORK STINKS AND ITS ONLY 10:30

2010-06-08T09:44:00.001-07:00

THIS IS NO LEAVE IT TO BEAVER

2010-06-01T09:48:00.000-07:00

so currently spencer and i are watching the happy days series pretty crazy it blows our mind..the first episode was called ALL THE WAY but its pretty funny to watch in french..the fonz will always be the coolest person to never exist..

2010-05-18T08:12:00.001-07:00

Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer on Vimeo.

i dont skateboard nor do i pretend to but this video is awesome..i want to make one but of me walking..all pigeon toed with scoliosis and spencer moon walking and the cat just walking..

PRETTY FUNNY

2010-05-04T06:59:00.001-07:00

pretty funny you have to admit

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK...FOR THIS AWARD

2010-04-24T08:39:00.000-07:00

now apart of the alumni of brigham young university i keep company with these awesome people

and for that i would like to thank my parents for allowing me to continue school after the incident of breaking and entering Ream's abandoned grocery store, for the weekends of raiding their food storage, and the trust they had in me to borrow the ford escort for 4 years knowing that i hate checking my blind spot...and above all allowing me to answer the call from london that the Clash spoke of..
i love you guys! and no magnet with the Buckingham palace can express how much...
i like to thank my sisters..for coming to my graduation and supporting me for years by humbling me with such remarks as "remember how you use to yell SOMEBODY when you..." whenever i brought friends to the house.
I would also like to thank my friends and roommates for all the fun: taking naps, eating in the library, eating at midnight, watching O.C. in the wee hours, finals week need i say more..
i would also like to thank humanities reference crew and coworkers for first hiring me even though my one unique characteristic i listed in the interview was that i didnt eat steak. i have many fond memories of hum ref!
and last but not least spencer! for taking a chance on an unknown kid..rooting for the underdog! and allowing me to eat out of a jar of frosting even though it is not your favorite..for supporting my degree and being the funniest person on earth...from the first time you told me your idea of how babies arent really people but they are such posers trying to talk and walk like us i knew you would be the one..the one to also help pay for my schooling and share my debt

2010-04-07T07:23:00.000-07:00

i want to see this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vupEpNjCuY

23 IS THE THING

2010-04-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

march 30th is probably my favorite day of the whole year. to those of you i sent calendar updates thank you for replying with the appropriate birthday wishes..they were awesome. for that special day i would like to thank my family and friends for the awesome calls and good vibes. for my parents and sisters for their awesome presents and presence on that day.. and most of all to spencer for spending hours trying to fold origami flowers and birds with out which it would have been like i had never been born... and we all know if that happened spencer would be an old maid librarian and mom would be some angry landlord and dad would be crazy and kris, arien, and jenny would not have survived that sledding accident..
anyways what i am saying is thank thank you... love you and i am glad i am born because of all of you!

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

2010-03-27T11:43:00.000-07:00

while watching EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE with the beloved Clyde the orangutan. i realized something was missing in spencer and my family. hopefully one day we will have one of our very own Clyde.

WRESTLE MANIA

2010-03-06T11:26:00.000-08:00

this weekend was awesome ..
on saturday we went with some friends to the WWE... it was the roadway to wrestle mania or something like that.. such a blessing spencer got FREE tickets through his work. our seats were far away so we couldnt tell if people were really being smashed or if they were doing the whole misdirection thing. people were nuts there they had these weird signs and calls they would shout out for each large man that came out in spandex..so crazy i cant handle it.. dads would be like proudly taking pics with there sons as ridiculously strong men in sparkly outfits are highkicking each others face in the background.. people are nuts. cant say it enough so funny BiG SHOW is hilarious though

so funny he is huge too look at this

GRAND PRIZE!

2010-02-25T17:22:00.000-08:00

alright folks heres your chance to cash in on our success if you vote for spencer's room design and we win this thing..we will split that prize with you..so vote here now! win win win win http://www.smartfurniture.com/shop/landing_template_designComm.asp?roomId=570&contest=1

and tell your friends although we will not split our winnings with them!

much love

kim and mostly spencer

THE NEW NEW

2010-01-17T22:47:00.000-08:00

well guess what? i just received my diploma in bachelor of arts via mail and i am now temping a whole 10 hours a week at a sports training center..whats that saying yw leaders always say... reach for the stars and if you fail youll at least reach the moon. well the sweet thing is i still get to take my daily naps and ride public transit for the first time.
Anyway the bus is alright. the other day i met a guy who worked cutting down trees in the Nevada mts and slept outside. now he cooks at a rest home. The thing that gets me nervous it pulling the string to request a stop. others dont even need to look up they just pull it because they are street smart and have tons of street cred. I on the other hand pull it too early or pray that someone else has the same stop. anyways i thought it would be funny to start singing the wheels on the bus go round and round.
on behalf of spencer i would say this year is turning out pretty good for him. while at park city we failed to see the half pipe olympic qualifiers spencer was able to chat with joe as he calls him..Joseph Gordon Levitt. we went into the mall to warm up and we spotted him spencer got the nerve and they discussed shop. spencer likes joseph Gordan LEvitt's film project where anyone can edit write and design..i was excited scared happy and nervous for spencers experience!

well if anyone wants to ride with me on the bus or hang out with spencer and i email call or drop by for more info... this goes too if you want to hire me for an awesome job that is full time...

heres an awesome film

A LITTLE LATE

2009-11-06T15:16:00.000-08:00

spencer wont watch any christmas movies yet. he says its too early. he will though watch all the classic thanksgiving movies. anyways here are some pictures from halloween. we are george and george washington. the powder from our wigs might have messed up the camera a bit and made a mess at everyone's houses that night. for that i am truly sorry.

also i am sorry to spencer and the cat who is still over at our apt. i thought he had fleas at midnite and decided to clean the house and bath the cat with chemicals it was not until we were going to bomb the place with more chemicals that my mom so kindly pointed out it was probably not fleas since i had found no fleas at all. it was dirt. we at the moment have no clothes because i put them all in the dirty clothes and the cat is now trying to hang himself by his new flea collar.. oh man he was so sad.

some exciting news we will be moving from provo and our scary apt on dec 19th

to our new one in Salt Lake
.. so come and visit us.

H1N1 KICK N IT

2009-11-06T14:25:00.000-08:00

here is an awesome viral video spencer's work did for the utah flu fighter campaign. pretty funny spencer is the one in the light blue smurf hat walking with a strange girl its okay im pretty sure she has the swine flu and spencer kicks the H1N1 and those who have it. our friend squink is the H1N1 virus and he does a premium job very funny. anyways enjoy. mom and jenny i hope this makes you guys feel better. i was just kidding about spencer kicking those who have it.

CUTEST BOY

2009-10-26T19:12:00.000-07:00

DEAR FAMILY

2009-10-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

dear parents jenny and jason-
so sorry to inform you but all those stories we heard and passed on to you are now all proven to be false..we were kind of hoping they were true but urban legend search told us otherwise..
anyways for those of you who dont know the stories here they are can pass on to others i guess..
Heber Creeper Train story
guy takes girl on date on the Heber Creeper Train
farts but ends up messing pants
at gift shop buys conductor suit
in bathroom throws out pants and underwear out window
package only comes with jacket and conductor hat
he is so embarrassed that he jumps of train leaving date there

coworkers all heard this on their mission...

Dead dog suitcase story....
girl in NY house sitting
owner's dog dies
they tell her to dispose of it at animal clinic
she does not have car
she puts dog in suitcase and rides the subway
man flirts with her and gets off same stop
she tells him she is just moving some of her stuff
he punches her and steals her suitcase

fake fake fake on snopes.com and fake newspaper blogs

pretty funny though..
if anyone asks where we got it from
brian bender

FORT CONTEST

2009-10-12T09:20:00.000-07:00

spencer has yet again submitted us to another contest spike jonze and boooooom website are doing contest for the best fort and winner wins free x-box "where the wild things are" themed and tickets to the new movie...our pic made it up on the website. yes!..big success i feel.

2009-09-14T17:28:00.001-07:00

for those of you who havent seen yet

SAD NEWS/GOOD NEWS

2009-09-01T11:49:00.001-07:00

so spencer and i are worried about the cat. his owner does not take care of him. he (the cat) is so awesome. he loves people like a dog. he loves to be petted and loved. he loves only nice people. so if you know anyone who wants this amazing guy let me know. he is not neutered but i am willing to pay for that. spread the word and the love. my email is kimbim2001@yahoo.com.

other sad news conan o'brien is not going to blow up our car. some guy from chino won. it was fair his car was crap, but we felt some pain last night at 10:40.
some good news..i started school this week and applied for graduation. so far so good.

other good news..spencer and i have also discovered ginger. we are not the healthiest eaters. i eat candy for every meal and yet a little slice of raw ginger and i feel so good. cake stuffed with candy bars and sugar packets could not make us sick anymore.
this news is just crazy the oldest dog in the world just died it was 21 years old. one year shy of me. awesome. it was a wired dachshund and ate chocolate for breakfast. also awesome.
sad news..i have been lightly browsing the classifieds...i am under-qualified for every job including a server's job that requested that one to have experience in restaurants for 2 years.
good news..craigslist has a contest for those who draw the best picture of a dog win a 100 $'s. i will not even enter but i like that this exists.
good news.. it is awesome to see friends again..

LAS VEGAS

2009-08-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

well spencer and i did not go to anaheim but to las vegas for our free trip. it was pretty fun. i will just note some of the highlights.
becoming disenchanted with tropicana soon after seeing the other guests
listening to "here comes timbaland, i'm also from the south"
eating at in and out everyday
broken light shows at caesar's palace
anthropology at caesar's palace
swimming with smelly drunk familys
the best pretzels in the world at NY NY
tastes from around the world from the coke store

drinking ginger cola

drinking too many colas...
mumbling toothless guide at the m&m store
laughing uncontrollably about the guide during the show
watching angry british children on pbs
loving the lazy lion at mgm
riding the monorail for fun
reuniting with our friend tim smith at the century art gallery telling us about picasso and his series of la celestina
running out of johnny rockets
losing $
the belagio...and its amazing patisserie
buffalo exchange thrift store
beautiful beautiful sky after prescribed fire in southern utah
will soon post more pics

UP DATE ON CAT

2009-08-20T09:35:00.000-07:00

so on friday as i was coming home from work i passed the cats yard and it began to follow me home when a guy walks out from the driveway and starts calling for the cat. the cat and i turned around. the man walked up and called the cat. neither of us moved. he said the cat never acted like that. i asked the guy if the cat was his not believing it since i have been taking care of the cat. apparently david was gone for a minute which means prison for a month and he was now looking for his 4 cats. my friend, he calls olie was his favorite and he was looking for him first. i told him that i kind of watched out for the cat while he was gone and if he was ever gone for a minute again i would love to watch the cat. i repeated that like 10 times. anyways he seemed harmless and nice enough but i am sick and sad for the cat. i have not seen him since for i have been in las vegas which is another post...

THAT DARN CAT

2009-08-13T11:52:00.000-07:00

some exciting news. i have befriended a cat. he is so pretty i call him good girl all the time. i cant help it. the cat actually first came by long time ago to check out what spencer was bbqing in our parking lot.. we fed him some meet and a week later he came back until now we are seeing him everyday. at first we only had human food for the cat but then as luck would have it we got a late wedding gift card to target. although we are poor semi newly weds we bought some cans of cat food just in case. each day i have learned the cats routine. in the early afternoon he lounges in the bushes next door. later on he visits a lady on her porch and sometimes her husband. i see him while i ride my bike to work.when i come back he stops by our window hops inside eats plays with my heart and leaves. he is an awesome cat. he comes back for dinner says hello to spencer who wants to call him rudolph and leaves. he belongs to know one and yet everyone in the neighborhood wants him. he plays it pretty cool.

WE WANT CONAN O BRIEN BLOW UP OUR CAR AND YOU CAN HELP

2009-08-07T14:10:00.000-07:00

conan o brien is going to blow up the crappiest junky junk car judged upon the best video and pics. so we thought that if our loved ones and friends rate (positively) and comment on video..we might have a winning chance. conan will blow up a car and replace it with a new one. we need a new car and someone like conan to give us one. you dont have to but if you are so kind it would be appreciated...
love kim and spencer donald

and you can vote here

KARLA?

2009-08-03T22:12:00.000-07:00

i laugh so hard every time i see this commercial spencer does not understand why this is so funny but it is because he did not grow up with us...

FOUR DAY WEEKENDS AND GRAND PRIZES

2009-07-30T13:30:00.000-07:00

the twenty fourth: thursday my training was canceled and spencer had the day off. i joined him. i ate at sushi ya. although i hate the smell of fish. but spencer promised to not tell me what i was eating. it was good. spencer told me later that i ate raw eel. we made our way up to salt lake and browsed gateway.. little note about anthropology i want the whole store so badly it makes me so sad .... i go into denial saying i dont want this crap. then i just get angry rushing at other shoppers telling them that its my store. i begin to bargain with the store clerks saying if you let me have this 100$ hand painted dish that holds gum i will give you all my plasma..then depression sets in as i am escorted out onto the street where spencer has been waiting since anger set in....and i begin to accept it. after that we went to the gallivan center early to save a spot for us and brian and friends who came later for land of talk and m. ward. it was all fun til a girl passed out from the heat and babies or i guess adolescents began drinking from bottles not filled with milk we left m. wards performance early and ate at big h hires with brian and friends. shake was good grilled cheese was not. i know never order grilled cheese. anyways after that to the grocery store nearby where a drunk junkie noted that we had the same hair...which we did. saying loudly and straight to me "hey she has perfect hair too" which is orange after i tried unsuccessfully to lighten it. comment brought tears to my eyes...brian thought it was pretty funny.
twenty fourth: next day we slept and walked around walmart...
twenty fifth: bbq with brian's family i am starting to like certain board games spencer likes home made ice cream sandwiches
twenty sixth: church was good...watched the fountain awesome beautiful movie. i cried.
twenty eighth: celebrated my dad's birthday with a snicker's cake HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD and funny stories about ladies on diets
thirtieth: spencer wins a frand grand prize in chair form.. maybe.. for his story and we found a spider the size of a half dollar. we are ready to move.
ok.. ok (in honor of mom)

ALL THE SINGLE LADIES

2009-07-11T12:43:00.000-07:00

lately we have been taking advantage of the random dvd collection of the provo library..it is a hit and miss..but i like the older movies...the grand hotel is awesome..it has greta garbo and supposedly she was a babe back then but really she walked like hunchback and has a man voice.. joan crawford tells men to jump off railings which was funny..myrna loy my favorite is hilarious and owns the sweetest dog..ginger rogers has the craziest wink and its okay if she gets a divorce for fred astaire because they both dance and her husband is fat.. anyways i like the melodrama and falling in love in 2 seconds and the tap dancing and gentlemen robbers..so awesome

MAD ABOUT THE MOUSE!

2009-06-17T09:22:00.000-07:00

we earned a free trip to anaheim airfare and condo expenses. we of course will pay up to see mickey and friends but everything else is free. we went to a meeting for timeshares. it was led by this guy who we all knew grew up in utah but for some reason talked like jeff foxworthy with a fake tan and shell necklace. He said he graduated from college 5 years ago he was 30 and talked about a 20 year old daughter which might explain the accent and a near death experience that made him realize that a timeshare is what really matters in the end. spencer and i were laughing the whole time ... especially when our friend began to draw pictures of what we would be with out time shares. the final picture was a face with a large frown. he asked us what it was and spencer said a man with an awesome mustache the guy was mad but we made some more friends after that. i went through 5 cookies and sodas while spencer kept saying no to the 32,000 $ deal they were pushing.. in the end i felt bad so i left all ya's numbers for them. anyways we are excited and are already planning the details. i want to ride the indiana jones ride so many times and spencer wants to talk to goofy about road rage and stretching. we will go through that haunted mansion and drink mint juleps from the french quarters with our fritters.

FUN TO DO

2009-06-09T19:13:00.000-07:00

so here is another website i waste my time on it is suppose to be an online portfolio used by designers and they post and send their urls to prospecting companies but instead i use it to play pretend im awesome and i dont work at an empty library all day long

WHAT KIM DOES @ WORK

2009-05-28T21:24:00.000-07:00

lady sings the blues

sufjan stevens

favorite movie

she is actually sad not happy im not that good

myrna loy

WII FIT FOR 26

2009-05-19T17:43:00.000-07:00

it was spencer's 26th birthday yesterday!!! what a day...there were no clowns or ponies..but there were chicken hearts and 39 year olds in twenty something year old bodies.. before spencer went to work and after a bee fell dead on our stove i made him german pancakes without butter. then 8 hours later we went to tucano's where some of you may remember we had our wedding luncheon at. i ate so much meat and spencer felt awful since he just watched "Meet Your Meat" earlier at work, but he loved the rare tri tip too much to complain oh and there were chicken hearts. afterwards spencer was so grateful for contributions and gifts and bought a wii fit. even though it told us that we are overweight and in a 39 year old's physical condition we played it for hours so fun. after our workouts we had fudge brownies and watched spencer's new edition of billy madison which is funny near the end. we have come to the conclusion that adam sandler was severely bullied in high school and makes all his films as retribution to all the bro's .
spencer had a great birthday i believe..and he makes me happy everyday.

GREGORY DEAN JR

2009-04-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

i have just finished my two last finals and it is a good thing too because we just barely got the tv stations to work so i am all set for the summer. i have already had two bowls of ice cream today to celebrate . while watching tv spencer and i saw our dream pet...it is the cutest thing. its litter box trained, 10 pounds, so so cute royal dandy miniature pig...

another great discovery has been dad's long lost son. i was watching the ellen degeneres show and this little red headed boy who sings like an angel and the spittin image of gregory dean comes on like that. pretty funny..his name is Brett Dennen..pretty sweet huh!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4789254191463460030&ei=xIXuSeWWKJrWqAObwY3NBw&q=Brett+Dennen&hl=en&client=firefox-a

UP TO DATE

2009-04-02T22:01:00.001-07:00

i was born...

first date

wedding

family

us

cake

gifts

mold in apt

valentines day

family

22nd birthday

25 (theres no cents symbol on the keyboard) DOUGHNUTS

2009-02-09T10:26:00.000-08:00

been married a month...its great! really! so much better than being engaged, in fact engagements suck. now we can watch movies past midnight but we dont instead we go to bed and complain about all the food we ate. our apartment is coming on very nicely. our new friends thomas and his friend i cant remember his name built us a new wall to replace the moldy sweaty one in our bedroom.
i watched a whole super bowl for the first time...still boring and i have to say the commercials were disappointing only one funny where the guy shakes the magic 8 ball and then throws it at his boss. hahaha pretty funny. the rest were stupid.
spencer and i have discovered the public library. pretty cool. we checked out tootsie and the musical camelot. we have only watched camelot and it is flamboyant and long. havent yet watched tootsie. we have also discovered 25 cent doughnuts at macey's around 6-7ish o clock. i like maple bars better than krispy kreme free ones.
my new favorite movie is penelope it is such a b movie and is so silly but i like it and it is fun for all ages and kinds.
anyways school is going well. french is kicking my bottom and my literacy class is a bit intimidating but after this semester i have 15 credits left wahoo and no more french! this is a rough draft and i will probably fix this later.

CHRISTMAS MORNING

2008-12-29T14:00:00.000-08:00

TALLEST MAN ON EARTH

2008-12-22T19:36:00.000-08:00

anyways christmas is great i love it and i love this sweet story of the tallest man in the world. Leonid Stadnik. he is bigger than the ghost of christmas present! sweet big guy who use to be a veterinarian until he got frostbite on his feet in his hometown ukraine because he had no shoes that would fit him. his house is too small and he relies on crutches to support his body. After he was internationally acclaimed by Guinness to be the Tallest man Ukrainians began to donate oversized clothing and supplies. volunteers helped make his house more comfortable by expanding the entrances and such. The president of ukraine recently donated him a car to make it easier to get about. the friendly giant is a great example of kindness and how it goes around.this story is a modern day christmas story of giving, peace on earth, goodwill to men..i love it.

BLUE CHRISTMAS

2008-12-22T17:12:00.000-08:00

christmas time is here happiness and cheer! the snow is nuts outside and my feet are always cold, walking to school is the pits and finals make regular tasks such as showers infrequent. my diet consists of sugar cookies so i love christmas. finals are over. the snow is awesome at night making everything bright. space heaters are nice with socks.
spencer brian and i bought a family christmas tree, the real kind. we decked it out with singing lights. we also went to byu's freeze fest. pretty sweet it included a free trip to 7 peaks ice skating rink and this awesome portrait.
and better yet this saturday i will go to the temple to receive my endowments and then in a little over a week i will be MARRIED! so this holiday will be excellent! this christmas will be a little different spencer will be up in sandy. we have already decided what we will do for the coming down the stairs christmas morning tradition. spencer will go down each step on his bum and i will slide on the banister.

THE MONSTER MASH

2008-11-04T09:49:00.000-08:00

we are not sunny and cher but yoko ono and john. i dragged my feet the whole way not wanting to celebrate halloween but this was spencer's favorite holiday and he said he wanted to share it with me hahaha. so i celebrated halloween. weeks leading up to the day was filled with spencer reading us scary stories watching old horror movies and several stops at costume shops. well halloween came and we really had no parties to go to but we knew we had to show off our costume so we went to the wilkenson center knowing that some ward parties would be going on. we crashed a couple cake walks and thriller dances and joined in on ward pictures. mindy's stake halloween activiy was the coolest..they had no cake walks but they had this sweet spooky alley with a foam pit. afer all this we saw our friend hank in his debut of sweeny todd concert series..he was really good and i got scared of one of the chorus girls who got really into her part. overall halloween was a success and i am glad spencer shared this special day with me.

IT WAS SAD WHEN THE GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN--TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA--CHILDREN AND WIVES AND HUSBANDS LOST...

2008-10-16T18:37:00.000-07:00

as i was checking my email today i saw the craziest story on yahoo..the only living survivor from the titanic is now selling her memorabilia from the incident to fund her stay at her current rest home. such as a t-shirt that says i almost died on the titanic and all i got was this lousy shirt. no not really actually it is a really sad story. she is auctioning off her mother's suitcase that carried all their possessions while they were on the titanic, and other supplies they were given as compensation for being on the titanic. she was only 2 months old when she was on the boat, and was saved by being draped down to a life boat by a blanket. anyways i dont know if universal health care would help her out but i hope all goes well with MILLVINA DEAN.

BACK IN SESSION...

2008-09-18T19:08:00.000-07:00

back to school. i love my classes i do. i am taking french lit class, asian humanities, literature theory class where my teacher is awesome but in any other setting would be a big nerd, new testament and marriage prep. this semester will be a little different than others. i spend most of my time at the library and the rest on its lawn. byu is getting a little old to me but it motivates me to graduate so thats good. my diet consists of cereal and candy of the gummy type which is probably why i am now down with the flu due to no immune system. unknowningly i bought a protein shake the other day. the cashier looked at me weird probably wondering why i wanted to be a meat head. i just wanted a chocolate drink. i have never felt so good. it was amazing all that sustenance mmm. but overall life is good. spencer still loves me. smith's is still in walking distance. i eat with mindy everyday. i only have to read french. my bed now faces east. and i sound awesome with this cold. seriously though.

BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE

2008-08-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

finding pennies,completely sealed sticks of gum,bobby pins...walks during the evening...drinking fountains...samples at costco.....all are amazing free stuff! spencer and i discovered the gallivan center twilight concert series last night. we were able to see and hear one of my favorite bands broken social scene in our own backyard for free! a lot of our friends were there, the weather was amazing, and the atmosphere was awesome. I highly recommend it.
also you should check out gallery strolls those are free too. they usually are once a month. salt lake's was on the 15th but you can also find those dates on the web. if you come down to P town the stroll is always on the first friday of the month. they can be fun and sometimes they have FREE snacks! I sound like i am writing a brochure so i better stop.

YARD-SALE FOR A WORTHY CAUSE

2008-08-14T11:52:00.000-07:00

Good NEws...We will have a place to live! Spencer will be moving in now and I will join him later i guess. As of now his cousin is taking my spot. It is that Truman place previously mentioned. I love it. Its close to campus. Hard wood floors. Can paint/spray paint our walls. And there is two entrances to the place which means i can give anybody the slip if i needed to get out of the apartment fast.
In preparation we will be hosting a yard-sale extravaganza at Spencer's apartment this Saturday if you have any untouchables you are wanting to get rid of you can donate it to me...I will take care of it for you. The money will go towards a good cause. We have already been collecting for this thing...we found a working organ on the side of 100 W yesterday and rolled it all the way home. So anything crazy like that is more than welcome. ..

BACK TO BLOGGING...BACK TO SCHOOL... BACK TO THE STREETS

2008-08-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

Well i feel lame coming back after deleting my old account..I erased it after realizing i had no babies to post pictures of and felt a little conceited but mom talked me into thinking otherwise..I guess i am still conceited but mom will still love me.

So school is coming up and looking for married housing has been hard for Spencer and I...last Sunday we walked for hours around Provo taking down numbers and wondering if we could rent a commercial space. Every time we go to pick up an application there are 10 other couples there. The competition is rough and our egos have been hurt several times. We looked at this one place called the Truman and it is our one hope right now...It looks like an old paper mill or something but the inside is sweet. I love Provo though! Trees are everywhere and there is a fine line between pretty cool and trash. Provo is a good equalizer!

P.S. We have also decided to take up odd jobs to make extra cash..such as selling our plasma, setting up kissing booths, medical experiments..i know someone who just made $4500 doing a spinal tap one (no joke)..fruit stands and such.