Where's my pants?

So you think that getting dressed should be easy by now, right? Wrong!!!

For the past 2 or 3 months, my life has felt like it's been going a million miles an hour. Work, school, friends, family, traveling... everything just seems to be happening and I can barely keep things straight.

That is why, I walked out of my condo with no pants on! Yes, no pants. I don't even know how I forgot my pants, but remembered my shoes.

I walked out the door about 100 feet to my car and thought to myself that it was unnaturally cold. I look down, yep, definitely missing pants. Luckily it was early enough that there wasn't very many people, except one guy. Oh well, he got a pretty good peep show... hahaha.

Why our family should never get the iphone :(

We all just got brand new cell phones about a week ago. Goodbye 2002 razor and hello LG EnV3. It even has a keyboard, so I'm sort of 2007ish. I'll never be cool enough to be 2010 though :) My friend Tuhin explained why I will always be 2000 and late... "Phones breed like rabbits." Thanks Tuhin.

I was so excited to get our new phones, that I forgot how wonderful my razor really was. Now that I have my new phone, it's so much more difficult than I thought it would be. I feel like a cell phone degenerate... Yes degenerate when I use my phone. A monkey typing on a keyboard... Ooh.. Ooh... eee...eee ...Why you ask?

1. I am now the slowest texter backer with a keyboard.


2. When I'm texting with the keyboard, I accidentally pick up a call and people start talking to me.


3. I haven't been able to figure out how to change my ring when I have a voicemail. Unfortunately, the default rings sounds like a porn song... I was standing by my best friend Julia and it started ringing... She said it sounds like a porn song and everyone else around us agreed... True story.

My mom on the other hand loves the phone. She barely knows how to answer her razor, so I don't know what she's going to do with this phone. She actually wanted the iphone, but we told her no. She doesn't even have her own voice on her voicemail. It's my dad saying, "this is Hanh's phone."

My mom said for months she wanted a "touch, touch, touch (with touchscreen motions)." When she got this phone, she's been telling everyone how the keyboard is "so cute." Unfortuately, she still doesn't know which way the keyboard opens, but every single person who walks by she tells them "keyboard...So cute." She's so amazed that they make a full keyboard that small. I love my mom... I think she's so cute. Yes mom, this is 2010 and we have keyboards that small.

My dad got a LG Chocolate Touch. He loves it. He thinks it is the best thing next to the Lexus RX. He can listen to FM and AM radio on his touch. We were sitting in the living room as he learned to work his phone...he was showing me all of the functions and it's pretty cool. Not as cool as the iphone, but nothing will ever be.

Anyways, he's trying to show me the voice recognition feature and here's how the conversation went:

Attempt #1

Dad: Call Linda

Phone: Calling Xing Ming Xao

Attempt #2

Dad: I said call Linda

Phone: Calling Mai Ling Pin

Dad: I said Linda, not another Asian!

Attempt #3

Dad: Call Linda

Phone: Calling hospital

Dad: You so stupid. You not so smart. You can't call Linda (Imagine with cute Asian accent)

Attempt #4

Dad: Call Liana (My little sister)

Phone: Calling Linda

Dad: I give up. Now call Linda? I don't want Linda. Stupid phone. Think it's broken Linda.

Me: Dad it's not broken, but why don't you just type in my number.

Dad: I like that. Phone won't mess up numbers, it know better..

Apparently, the voice recognition translates everything to Chinese names. Who knew... With all these problems with these simple phones, how would we be able to handle the iphone? Seriously, we'd be like Hansel in Zoolander who couldn't get the files out of the computer.

Retraction of Love and such is life...

I just turned in my last final for winter semester! It feels wonderful, but a little sad at the same time. As I turn in this paper, it means I only have one more semester until I graduate. I'm officially on break, well except for work.

So I have to retract all of my love for my previous favorite MBA people. I still love Megan, Julio, and Matt, but otherwise, the rest are on my blacklist except Tepin and my field study group. You ask why? Simple answer...

#1- This semester we had to play the role of a "consultant" for a specific company. Ours happened to be the Marriott Library. I had one of the best groups ever with my field study next to my Mean Green group. My original group that was formed the beginning of last year. Anyways, as one of my marketing initiatives, I held an open house. We sent out an email to all MBAers... No one showed. Wow, no love for us. Tepin was the only person who showed up. We even had free food. Boo for my classmates!

#2- I bought everyone in my class, yes all 50 people Christmas gifts. I sent an email to have them arrange a time to get their gifts because I'm not on campus a lot. Only like 5 people emailed me. My plan to give presents backfired. Now I have a slew of Christmas gifts sitting at my house and no one to claim them. Lame!

Yes, this is a public declaration that I do not love my classmates. They don't love me... Now I have to fill my heart with other people, hehe.

The mess cake

So for Tony's birthday, I made a cake instead of my usual cupcakes. That was the biggest mistake of my life. I made the batter according to the box and put it in the oven around mid-night. I remember going to take a shower, watch tv, etc... Then I heard the beep... The cakes were done. I made two pans because I was going to make a giant football since Tony loves Fantasy Football, whatever that is...

Here's the final product... I put a note with it saying "Like this cake, my life is a mess without you." What else could I do...

Life as a musical

So I don't know how many of you were fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but if you didn't, you are missing out. Buffy was such an addicting television series! Buffy was one of the best times of my life and one of the best episode was Buffy the Musical.

I just love musicals... High School Musical 1, 2, and 3. Glee is my newest addicition. It is so good! It's on Fox and if you haven't watched, you should. The songs are fantastic!

I wish life were a musical and here's why:

1. Everyone would share their feelings. You couldn't help, but sing about love, sorrow, and anger. There's no guessing how someone feels.
2. No one would be fat (i.e. ME). With any good musical number, there better be lots of dancing. Dancing and singing all the time=Best exercise routine ever.
3. It would make life so interesting.
4. Everyone would be in unison. It would be so cool!

What does Linda want for Christmas?

Black Friday is coming up and I'm going to try and get all my Christmas shopping done in one day. I know... right? We'll see what happens, Macy's is having a giant sale, so let's see if I make it out of the clothing section.

Remember when we were little and we made lists to Santa? I was thinking what I wanted for Christmas...

1. Neosporin to go
2. Karaoke Machine
3. Fedora Hat

Unbelievable: Car loses control and no one is hurt!

Our trip to Ithaca, NY came to an end on Saturday at 3:30 pm. We decided it would be ideal to drive down to NYC since our place was leaving Sunday around 2 pm and it takes around 5 hours to drive and maybe even longer with how lost we get. So at the last minute, I got us a hotel in the city.

I went on www.priceline.com and decided to do a hotel bid. I was so lucky and got room at the Hilton for $120 on a Saturday night. It is literally 1 block from Radio City and 2 blocks from the Broadway Theatre district. The Hilton is in an ideal location and it’s really nice. If you go there, I’d definitely recommend it. Just try not to rent a car, parking is almost $50 for 24 hours. I know, welcome to NYC. When I went to Seattle, they charged about $17, so I didn’t feel too bad about it.

Anyways, we had just gotten off track and drove into a pit stop. There was a little eating place called Vince Lombardi. My friend Hannah and I saw a penny making machine, so we spent the time cranking out pennies while the rest of the group got directions.

We got our pennies and the others got directions, we started heading back to the freeway. All of a sudden a car accelerates around us and starts to fish tail. The car was a white Ford Explorer and it did a 90 degree turn and looked like it was going to crash into the ramp, but to all of our surprised, the Explorer went over the ramp.

Then it crossed 4 lanes of traffic and went over a second ramp into on-coming traffic. Yes, he crossed a total of probably 6 lanes of traffic and landed in on-coming traffic. It was crazy! We were all sitting in the car in shock because it was like we were watching a scene from a stunt show. Even when he landed in on-coming traffic, no one hit the car. They were all able to go around it and he had to do a U-turn to continue driving, which meant he crossed another 4 lanes to flip his car around.

When the car went over the second ramp, it was up in the air almost parallel. I thought the car was going to roll backwards. It was truly amazing nothing happened. If I was anyone in that car, I’d probably pass out from fright. It was seriously unbelievable. I wish I had gotten it on camera!

Seriously, it happened so quickly, no one really knew what was going on. My explaination doesn't even do this justice. I mean, this is a once in a lifetime event. It was so cool, yet so scary.

My first flight on JetBlue

I took an overnight flight to NYC and I decided I would never do that again. Jet Blue almost left me! My flight left at 11:40, but when I got there at 11:10, they told my group that it was the last call and if I was not there by 11:20, they would fly without me. Luckily, they were sweet and were not going to board the plane without me. Can you believe that? I can’t believe they would leave a customer who checked-in! Why would you leave me? I didn't do anything!

I must say JetBlue has been one of the best airlines I have flown with even though they wanted to leave me. I’m still hurt about that. They have pretty comfortable seats, your own television, and they give you night masks. I wish they had a rule that people can’t make-out though. The couple in front of me was making out the whole night. I was so disgusted; I even heard them when I put in my headphones. Just because it’s dark, people can still hear your make out. Really, I closed my eyes and ears and I still get the shivers from thinking about it. I don’t know if you know this, but I hate PDA.

I was so distracted because they just kept making-out and then the lady sitting next to me kept coughing. All I could think about was that she would give me swine flu and I would have to miss all my appointments next week including the Hispanic Gala. That would make me sooo sad!

Skinny ties and what boys think of knee-high boots?

Tony, my Italian pizza shop/mob member came over and kept saying "those are f*** me boots." I couldn't believe my ears, I didn't think I heard it right, but after repeating himself 3 times, I did hear correctly. I just think knee-high boots are really cute and they are easy to dress up or down.

Is this what guys think of when girls wear knee-high boots? Really? I think it's hilarious because I definitely don't wear them with those intentions. I'm not that type of girl, so hmm... Very interesting perspective. I feel like I learn new things from Tony everyday.

Last Christmas I gave Tony a Calvin Klein skinny tie. I mentioned that he should wear the tie with a suit. He didn't think that he could pull it off, but yeah he can! Skinny ties and suits are so in style. I think they look so sleek. The Brad Pitt, black suit, shirt and tie is still sexy as ever, but so are skinny ties and suits. I saw Daniel and Matt wear it on Ugly Betty. If the case members of Ugly Betty wears it, it's legit.

Here's a picture Zac Efron and he wears skinny ties. Look how HOT he is. If Zac Efron is wearing skinny ties with suits, you know it's in. Zac is such a good dresser. Take notes boys...Dress to impress... you can visit www.express.com. The men's section has such well dressed models. I went into a store in California over fall break where they had their men's collection. I was very impressed. All their styles were chic with a touch of edge. LOVE IT.

My Favorite People(s) EVER!

So a majority of my life is either spent at school or work. That's a sad fact, but it's true. If I'm not at good old Zions Bank, I'm at school. Due to that fact, a lot of my classmates have become my greatest friends.

I work with techTITANS as a marketing director!?! I know, how the heck did that happen? It's my buddy Dan Wilson. He recommended me and he's the chair this year. I hope I don't let him down. Marketing is hard because you end up doing a little bit of everything. One of my responsbilities include completely redoing the old website... finally after months of going back and forth, here is the final product: http://www.techtitans.utah.edu/.


I wish I had a picture of Dan Wilson, but I don't! How sad is that? He is the funniest guy ever! He was my 2nd friend in the MBA program. I remember I went to a reception before school started and he came up to me and said something like "Hi I'm Dan. I'm an engineer, but I realized it's not for me. I like people." I didn't know how true this was, but Dan is a people person. He can make friends with everyone. The best thing that I've ever heard from Dan thought is when he pronounces FAQ as "FU-Q." HILARIOUS! It always makes you think twice what he's trying to say. Only Dan can pull that line off. I found a picture of Dan, thank you Facebook!

This is Tony. Yes, he's a walking Geico advertisement. This kid is the most awesome person in the entire world. I heart him SO MUCH! He's the only person, who I would make cupcakes and a cake for his birthday. I cried after making his cake this year because it got so messed up! I had the best plan to make a football cake because he's a HUGE fantasy football person, but it failed. I'll post my mess cake pictures another time. Tony is just a sweet guy. He is a great listener, but he's not afraid to tell is like it is. He also writes the blog for the MBA. If you want to know what it's like to be us, read it. His blog entries are hilarious. Very entertaining! Check it out at http://desbmba.blogspot.com/. His full name is Antonio Furano. He sounds like he should be part of the Italian Mob. Could totally be a New Yorker, but he's not. For reals, his name is totally mob like, but this guy couldn't hurt a fly! Favorite person in the WORLD. So anytime I ask him what to do about a guy, his advice "Grab his junk." I laugh everytime.

I was at the Tailgate and I won a waterbottle! Yay! It's so exciting to win something! It made my day. So here is Bryson. This guy is my ray of sunshine. He just makes me smile anytime I see him. He has that way about him. Always a happy guy. Anytime I'm sad, all I need to do is see his face! He's our BBQer at our tailgates. He always does a great job. He's in the MHA program and is just an overall great guy, the only thing is... He didn't even dress up at all for Halloween... BOO- costume scrouge!!!!


This is Jen in the middle and Nana on the right. Jen was part of my team last year, the Mean Green. We were awesome, we were such a great team which included Tony, Joe Holland, and Josh Parkinson. Now I don't even have any classes with them. WTF!?!

Jen, one word- FANTASTICAL. Just a great professional, teammate, friend, and much more. She's helped me out in so many situations both at school and personally. Jen has this laugh that is super contagious. When she laughs, I laugh. She bought a super cute house in SLC last year and lives with her boyfriend, Tim. They are just a really compatible couple. Jen has the best fridge ever. It's gigantic. Literally, we could have a tea party for 5 in there and still have room to move around. Here we are in good old Disney. We both have giant sunglasses... We are sooo SO CAL!

Nana is from Georgia, the country. That's how she says it everytime. Again, another fabulous person. She loves to cook and she also loves her husband so much. It's so adorable. She is very intelligent and can speak 3 languages fluently. So admirable.





Love these two girls! Here we are at Noodles and Company after my 10K Run. I was rushing through the run to be able to meet these girls. Even my bloody knee from falling couldn't stop me. Brit Walker is like my other half. She is such a smart girl, I am always amazed at her wealth of knowledge and her passion for business. She's the one in glasses on the left. She is a business woman for sure. She worked for a Venture Capital firm this summer. That is HUGE. We also have a blog that we started together. It's sort of halted because of our busy schedules, but hopefully we can pick it up again. It's http://www.serenchicidy.blogspot.com/. She is also the chair for the UEC, http://www.uec.utah.edu/. I love her to death. I'll talk about Ashley Anderson later. Absolutely love her too!


From left to right: Cori- This is Dan's wife. She always wears the cutest shoes.

Chris Zarek- He is a genius. Literally. If you have a question, he can probably tell you the answer. His brain is so big, sometimes I wonder how it fits in his head and why he doesn't get more headaches from thinking all the time. He is a MBA/ Architecture student and he's launching his own firm spring of 2010. He works with me on techTITANS and also he'll be helping us on our Real Estate Challenge Plan. His wife is a OBGYN at the U. He used to go to school in Virgina I think or South Carolina. He used to live in a mortuary with some other guys. There were no dead people, but still. That is creepy. This guy is so funny. He's just the life of the party. You can hear his laugh from miles away. I wish him the best and I know 5 years down the road, he'll be a multi-millionaire and hopefully he'll remember the little people.

Aline: Really pretty, smart, and walks in high heels ALL day long. Even at football games. She even wore heels to Disneyland. Hm... It's amazing she never falls. I would be on my ass 80% of the time if I wore 4 inch heels everywhere. That's Aline. Fashion first.

Jesse: She's hilarious and good in accounting. I'm jealous. I hate accounting. She also has bad luck with getting her cars broken into.


We had a family reunion in California to commemorate my grandfather's death. It's a yearly tradition for us. Good food, good company. Not everyone was there, but here are some of the women. Can I just say I have the best family ever? My mom is the sweetest lady ever. She's 56 and looks like she's 40. The favorite thing is that my mom loves "Lit-al Mer-may" as she calls it. I love it too! My two sisters are GORGEOUS and smart. They put up a lot with me. Forgetfulness. They always have to run errands for me. This week, they had to drop off a sack of underwear and socks because I forgot to bring some from home. :( Ah, my sisters. I HEART THEM. Well, I heart my family!




This is Yogesh. Unfortunately, I didn't really get to know him last year, but then we went to Minneapolis for a NSHMBA conference and that's when I got to know him a little better. NSHMBA was a very good experience. So many large companies in one place. http://www.nshmba.org/. I would recommend anyone go just for the eye opening experience.

Yogesh used to work for Motorola as a software engineer. Ah yeah. I love "eng-gin-ers" as my dad says. Both my parents graduated with electrical engineering degrees, so I hold engineers near and dear to my heart. This guy is always happy. Always has a smile on his face.

Here's a picture of Yogesh carrying my purse. Minneapolis is a scary city. You feel like you are going to get mugged. I was scared I would get killed and I didn't even have a chance to say good-bye to my mom! Anyways, we got so lost because Yogesh's iphone was confused to say the least and took us in all directions and I was scared my purse would get stolen. He held my purse the whole way back to the hotel. What a great guy! Not many guys would do that without complaining too much. He's definitely become one of my favorite people.



Ah... these 3 here have basically changed my life in so many ways. Don't they look like they are heading down a runway? I look at this picture and it reminds me of the scene is Zoolander where the three walk down together. They have seen me grow professionally and as a person for the past 4 years. These 3 people and I make up what I would like to call the Dream Team. We get along wonderfully. We know each other's strengths and weaknesses and just work together really well. With the 4 of us, we can conquer anything!

The one with his arms swinging is Julio. Yes, for some reason, he walks with his arms swinging out a lot. People have commented.

He is my life coach and tells me what to do. We have a love/hate relationship, but we work well with each other. The first time we met, we were in the 7th floor break room. I wasn't even on the floor, but I met my friend there. Julio had a mullet, I thought to myself... Who is this goober? Yes, goober. I said that back in my younger, immature days :). Anyways, I was talking about Idol and something random. In his head, he thought "who the HELL is this girl?" Little did he know, 2 weeks later I'd become his cubi-neighbor. We've been cubi-neighbors ever since. He thought/thinks I'm a weirdo to this day, but yet, I know he'd miss having Lindo Ho in his life. I share my Flintstones gummy bear vitamins with him almost everyday! That means a lot. I don't share my vities with anyone. My life would definitely be a little boring without him in it, making fun of me, being there for all of my goof-ups, etc... We laugh about what our first impressions of each other now because it's just a great story.

Megan and Matt. Two of the most wonderful people in the UNIVERSE. Yes, not just world. Universe. I can't even really explain how great they are, but take my word. If you ever get a chance to meet these two, you'll know why.

Of course I have more favorite people, but I'll stop for now since I have to be up at 6 a.m. to get ready for the Student Entrepreneur Conference tomorrow. Plus you don't want a novel of people. What can I say? I love people and everyone I've met is great and has taken a special little place in my heart. I think every single person I meet plays an important part in my life.

Why does everyone think my name is LINDO HO?!?

So, I have no idea why, but apparently my name in Lindo Ho. Not Linda. Lindo.

Last year, someone sent out an email to the whole entire building at my work with my name in it, which is fine. I'm ok with that, but instead of saying Linda Ho, the email said to contact Lindo Ho. I just laughed it off, but since then it's happened several other times.

I keep thinking it's a typing error, but no. I think people really think Lindo is my name. On the keyboard, the "a" and "o" are in totally different spots.

I had to order individual business cards for the conferences that I've been going to and I send them all the right information.... Name, address, etc... So I get a proof back and this is what I get:

Come on people! Do you really think my name is Lindo Ho? I even Goggled it and no, not too many people named that.

So then to make it worse... I told them to fix my name. They then send me another copy saying "Lindi Ho." So if my name isn't Linda, it's Lindo or Lindi.

I just don't get it? It's not like my name is super hard. LIN-DA or LIN-DUH as some of my friends say.

The last 3 months of my life... Summed up in 1 blog entry... Hmm..

Dear Blog-

I have ignored you! Please don't hate me and I promise to never ignore you again. There has been so many random things that have happened. Pleasant surprises and a heap of embarrassing moments. I don't even know how to I fall so much. It's some kind of undiagnosed illness. I wonder if I have vertigo or my eardrums have too much fluid, which in turn affects my balance.

Life is fantastic! I cannot believe I have about 6 months left for my MBA program. How the heck did 1 1/2 years pass by? I feel like I just barely started the program, scared that I wouldn't have any friends. It's such a weird feeling, like an end of an era to know you are almost done with school. I know I will not miss the tests or homework, but I will definitely miss everyone!

I wish I could see all of my friends everyday, but since I don't, here's the second best thing... My stories. This is going to be the longest blog post in the history of blogs. Just kidding, but it will be long. These are in chronological order.

This doesn't just happen in the movies:

One of the coolest things about my JOB at good old Zions Bank is working on different non-profit events. Back in the end of September, I helped organize the auction for the Chili Affair. This is an auction to raise funds for The Road Home. After months and months of work, the event was finally here. It was at the Salt Palace and there were tons of people coming for a chili tasting. I was super busy getting allt he auction things ready, but finally my co-worker Julio and I got a break to go eat.

I had him sit in the lobby while I went to the bathroom. As I head back, I give a big smile over at Julio because I was so excited to go eat. Oh no, he gives me the most random blank stare ever, so as I head over to him, I said "What are you looking at?" He just looks me up and down and keeps looking down at my feet. I finally figured it out, I had a trail of toilet paper stuck to my shoe. WTF?!?

Julio was saying the only reason he knew was because some girls were staring and he was wondering what they were looking at. I think the best moment was the shocked look on his face and he said, "I only thought this happened in movies, but no it happens to Linda Ho." You know, I could have been really embarassed, but we just both laughed until we cried. It's too funny not too. Seriously, it was meant to be. At least I know how to make an entrance right?

Mission: Mustard Colored Purse
The color mustard is so HOT! I love it, I especially love it in a purse. It's funny though, you think any mustard colored purse would do, but it's not. It has to be the perfect fit, the purse that calls out your name. Unfortunately, I haven't found my perfect purse, but someone else did! I was walking to work, it was extremely cold. I was walking as fast as I could and then I saw it. A lady with a hobo style, mustard colored purse. I was so sad, her purse was filled with so much stuff, it looked like was going to burst. If it were my purse, I would never ever overstuff my purse. I would take care of it like it were a diamond. I would try to never let it touch the ground.

.50 for pajama pants! ?! How is this possible?
My BF, Julia Portillo and I headed to Anne Taylor Loft one Friday, but we had no luck. So we decided to head to Old Navy because Julia has an obsession with mustard colored shoes. You see why we are BFs? We compliment each other.

Anyways, no yellow shoes for her, but we did find pajama shorts for .50. No joke. It was like .49 cents per item. How can Old Navy even sell it for this cheap? Seriously, I don't even know if my 2 quarters covers the cost of the material. But it was AWESOME.

Minneapolis- NSHMBA Conference
This is my first conference ever. I realized looking back that I probably should have never gone. All the signs were there to say, NO DON'T GO! First off, the night before my flight, I got a call from Expedia to say my hotel was overbooked. They tried to move me to a lower class hotel and so I got so mad! I was staying at a luxury hotel and they tried to put me in like a 2 1/2 or 3 star hotel. I know that sounds super bratty, but hotels mean a lot to me! The Ho Family doesn't really like to stay in anything less than a 4 star hotel.

Anyways, after finding out that I couldn't get a nice hotel, I couldn't help, but cry on the phone. Seriously, I was so mad, I started to cry which is not like me. Everyone knows I'm not much of a crier. We were finally able to book a nicer hotel after many hours spent worrying about our stay.
Then I head to the airport... Our flight was supposed to leave at 6. Oh no, it was canceled. We spent like 5 hours in the airport. I did see David Archuletta though! He checked in right in front of me. I so wanted a picture, but his giant body guard was there and was scared :(. I missed out on an opportunity of a lifetime.

So we get there, late and tired. After our reception at the conference I went downstairs to use the computers. Oh no, I was stupid enough to forget my flash drive. Yep, it's gonzo. I was so sad, but I realize in life, sometimes sad things happen to make sure you remember what happiness is.
One thing that I'm super glad though is that I got to know Vatsala, Yogesh, Tuhin, Noi, and Kiever so much more! I haven't really gotten a chance to talk to these guys, but with the trip, I fell in love with each and everyone of them. Minneapolis is cool, but I decided it's a place that I could never live at.

Sunny California- Love it!
Family reunions are the best! We were in California for part of fall break and I'm going to say, by far the best experience. My cousin, Cindy or as we like to call her Kinty... Took us to get the best hand roll ever! So good! I heart sushi so much. Then she took us to get fro-yo. It's such a big craz to get frozen yogurt, but I'm going to say, it was DELICIOUS.

Dang 10K, got the better of me!
So why did I do a 10K? Joe Holland. I love him to death, but he got me all pumped for it. He told me to sign up for the Human Race and of course I did. So I start off the race really good. About 60 minutes and 4.5 miles later, I felt the pain. I've never ran that much at one time before, but I had to keep continuing. I was too far to stop. No matter how much my butt hurt.

So I was almost finished and the guy on the bike came and told me I was .2 miles away. Well, at this point, I said, I better book it, plus I had to meet Ashley and Brit for lunch so I needed to hurry. I start to run as fast as I can and next thing I know, bam, I just hit the cement. There's leaves all in my sleeves, pockets, and underwear. My cell phone flew and I have scratches all over my pink razor! I'm so sad, even more about the razor than my bloody knee.

I did meet a few friends. They saw me fall and came running over to help me up and we finished the race together. They were so sweet, they kept saying that it was uneven pavement. I'll take that explaination any day.

Who cares about anything else? Save the Jamba Juice!
Julio and I have started to go on a diet together. He gets Naked Juice and I like to get Jamba, mango mantra... Best thing ever! Julio always drives because he's just cool like that. I get my Jamba and we head back to good old Zions. As I am walking towards the building, I'm just chatting away and all of a sudden I fall. Julio is in shock. He doesn't even know what to say or do, so I hold out my hand for him to help me up. We just both started laughing because my shoes were in place. It was as if someone had put super glue and I tripped. We thought my Jamba was a goner. Nope, I was able to save it with 1 hand! Take that! I do have a bloody knee, but small sacrifice for keeping my Jamba safe.

Most of the time, I don't even know how Julio deals with me. I must give him props. I remember one day, we wanted to go to Ahh Sushi and I had left my wallet at home. We got to the door and I told him that I didn't have my ID. Normally people would be mad, not Julio. He's not even surprised. He just turned around said, "well I guess we are not going" and headed to Gandolfo's. This is why he has been assigned me two un-named people as my guardian angel. He has a 24/7 job taking care of me.

Well, I hope you enjoy my life story so far. I have more to come, my trip to Disneyland, etc... but that's on hold for another day.

How embarassing...In front of the library!

So I wake up today, thinking "what a great day!" I head to the gym and run a mile. I am not a natural runner by all means, I am slow and have to take breaks, but my goal is to make it through the U of U alumni 5K on September 26. I have to do it, it gives me motivation towards a goal and get in shape.

So, I run 2 miles and then decide to head to the library. I wanted to pick up this book called "The Power of Nice," while I wait for my sister to finish class and I am going to get some work done. Oh no, I asked too much for a peaceful day...

I walk over to the library and pick up the newspaper for my dad. My dad has this quirk where he wants all three newspapers. Yes, all three... Salt Lake Tribe, USA Today, and New York Times. He seriously sits in our living room and spends close to 2 hours everyday reading each section, except sports.

On a side note, he is the reason, newspapers still exists. Let's face it, our generation doesn't sit down and read a newspaper that much anymore. We get our news by television, cnn.com, etc.. and sadly enough sometimes tweets and facebook status updates. My dad is the lone generation that still loves reading something that is gigantic and makes your fingers all black. Also, it smells funny.

So I pick up the three newspapers and noticed one of the headers was the "New Fall Television Preview." I was reading and walking and my foot slipped into the flower bed and I tumbled down. This wasn't just a small fall, this was basically falling flat on the hard cement. When I hit the ground, my waterbottle flew from my hand, bag flew, all my papers for the "chili affair" flew as well.

I left a giant mess around me. I turned around and this boy (Ryan) ironically a grad student in the sociology department ran up to help me and I was so embarassed. He asked if I was ok, I told him I was just reading and walking. He laughed and said, yeah I saw that you were about to fall in the flower bed and he made me feel a lot better that he falls all the time and that whoever is here at the Library on a Saturday falls as well. So now we are falling friends, but it's still really embarassing.

My knee is bleeding as well and I have shorts on. People must think I was attacked by a wild animal. Sad :(

How did this come to be???

I never thought I would be considered a "workaholic." Little did I know myself, I am one. I think I've bitten off more than I can chew, I'm talking about school, work, and extracurriculars. School is a full time job, but I have a "real" full-time job too that takes care of the bills. Boo for bills.

Well, I usually deal really well with stress, but right now, I have many doubts, especially with work. Lately, I have found myself thinking about nothing but work. I consistently dream about work 2 to 3 times a week. I also have panic attacks, especially when I think how far behind I am.

Why is this? Has anyone else felt this way or am I just crazy? I feel like I'm in a kun-nun-drum (I can't spell this...) and I really don't know what to do. I want to go back to having a life without consistent worrying. The other day, I found a full-length white hair. OMG! I'm going to have to start using hair dye soon. YIKES.

Life is full of ups and downs...

First off, Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush broke up! Devastating... I watched Keeping up with the Kardashians religiously every Sunday since Season 1 and these two seemed to happy. I thought they were perfect like two shiny pennies, was I wrong. My heart is a little bit sadder after hearing this.

I almost fell at work today... twice. The first time I stumbled like a drunk and luckily caught myself on a nearby table. It made a loud enough sound that two of my friends mentioned again how worried they are. Oy vey!

Last week, my skirt accidentally decided to tuck itself in when I was sitting in class. Of course I didn't know and bam... I flashed my class. Who knows how many people saw... I guess all I can say is... at least I wore underwear and didn't pull a Britney Spears. I'm sticking to pants for a while.

I don't know how these things happen. It's like when I fell in the shower a few months ago. I scared the hell out of my roommate. It was a slow motion fall where I saw my life flash before my very eyes. I didn't know where or when I would hit the tub, but on the way down, I took my shower curtain and the rod with me. That's the noise my roomie heard, she was pounding at the door, but I told her not to come in! Awkward!!!

On Access Hollywood, they did a story on this YouTube video that has become a huge hit. This couple decided to do a dance to "Forever" by Chris Brown for their walk down the aisle. So I checked it out... Saturday- 2 million hits.... fast forward to today- 11 million hits. Huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

Not going to lie though, I'm not doing do a boring walk down the aisle after this. I'm totally composing a medley and having my bridal party dance their faces off. They better watch out!

More to love... A reality show that has a boy or girl falling in love with average sized people, not perfectly beautiful people like on the bachelor. It premieres on Fox tonight Hmm... can I say it's going to be a hit! Where can I sign up? I'm all over this business.

My sister is waiting outside the Marriot Library to pick me up. I have to go. She's hungry and it would be rude to keep her waiting.

Shopping is my medicine

I never realized, but I have a tendency to fill any emotion with shopping. It does not matter if I'm sad, angry, or happy I just can't get enough of shopping. It always makes me happy, especially finding great deals. That makes me even more happy.

I went shopping with Tamara and Katie dear today and it was so much fun. Even though I went MIA for a while, I was helping Tammy picks clothes and my favorite part of the day was when Katie said that it's so funny to see Tammy taking directions from another person. I'm not usually decisive, but when it comes to shopping, I can make decisions in 2 seconds and do percentages in my head in like 5. It comes from childhood when my dad would not let me buy anything unless I could accurately do the math. So I learned never to ask him, "How much is this dress if it's 33% off?" This would mean no dress if I asked.

I had so much fun today and I received my daily dose of shopping. Thanks Tammy and Katie!!!!

The Best Shows are Back!!!

American Idol started last week and it's fabulous! I can't believe that it is already season 8. It makes me feel extremely old because I started watching during season 1 with Kelly Clarkson and Justin. This is back in the day when there were two hosts, Ryan Seacrest and Duncan. I can't even really remember Duncan because Ryan Secrest is such a great MC. I love him!

I missed my chance this year, but hopefully they come back to SLC. I absolutely love Ryan Secrest. One of my best friends, Julie Farley and I have been waiting for the day that we could meet him, but she was not in SLC when they came this year. I couldn't go audition without her because I don't think that I would make it to Hollywood, but I could meet and hug Ryan! Meeting Ryan Secrest is on my list of 100 things to do before I die.

This year on idol there was Bikini Girl. She wore a bikni to audition. She was actually quite good, but there's been so much buzz around her. The second guy that I would love to highlight is Scott MacIntyre. He is blind, but he can play the piano and his voice incredible. His voice reminds me of Jim Brickman and James Morrison. He is someone who I predict could easily be in the top 10. He has the voice, the look, and charisma.

America's Best Dance Crew started auditions as well and right now I'm not as impressed with the team, but you never know what other teams will come as on the weeks follow.

The City, Real World: Brooklyn, and Bromance are on MTV. I really love these shows. They are all reality shows and probably totally set up, but it's still very entertaining to watch.

For those who were fans of Pushing Daisies... I'm sorry it is no longer on the air.

Mid-twenties Crisis

Now that I'm 23, I feel like there's so much more responsibility. Don't you? Schools ending and I decided to take the summer off. A summer to take care of me. Start exercising, golfing, and doing the things I like. I'm also making a list of things to do this summer.. If anyone would l.ike to join me, that would be great...

1. Play 18 holes
2. Try out for American Idol aka meet Ryan Seacrest
3. Get a pink bike
4. Run a marathon
5. Go cliff jumping
6. Go to vegas and see a show... Lion King?

I used to be a very structured person. Not the new Linda. I've come to the realization that life is way too short. You need to really live each day. Take every opportunity to live it up. Do what you want and do what makes you happy. I think our main problem is worrying what everyone else thinks. Really in the end, it's ok to be a little selfish. I hope you all do what you want because I am!

New Years means fabulous deals

This is a little overdue, but I'm catching up on my posts. Each New Year's Day, Dillards has an incredible sale. You take 50% additional off permantly marked clearance item.


I have never really gone shopping on Black Friday and this was probably equally as bad. There were swarms of people everywhere, especially in women's shoes. People were taking anything in sight. One time I put my boxes on the floor and a person tried to grab it. When I saw my beautiful black boots in the hands of someone else, I jumped up so fast to grab them. I don't think she saw me coming, but I had to be swift as an eagle to get the best things.

I went a little crazy... I bought 6 new coats for myself. They are so beautiful... I just could not help myself.

Please all of you must help me stop my shopping addiction. It is deadly to my wallet!

Redesigning a blog- Lots of work

I spent the whole weekend designing my blog. I did not realize how hard it was and how careful you have to be? I deleted my widgets many times, but in the end this is why I love my blog and it was worth it...

1. It's a way that I can keep in touch with everyone while I'm working and in school
2. I was able to make the header something that reflects me.. What can I say? I love shopping.
3. I'm extending my life. I read in an article in US News that people who blog are more happy because it's another way of communicating.

Let it snow! Let it snow!

The snow just never stopped coming over these past few weeks! My aunt was supposed to fly in on December 19th, but her plane got canceled with the arrival of the first big storm. My cousin from Corona, Cali came over to stay with us over her school break and it was so much fun to have her. I love my cousin!

Since she has never really experienced the greatness of snow, she was super excited with everything from the snow falling to icicles. It made me realize how much we take snow for granted here. I know that each time I hear about a snow storm I have 3 thoughts in my head...

1. This sucks, we have to shovel the snow.
2. Traffic is going to be a pain in the you know what....
2. It's is so cold and my hair and purse is going to get wet.

Having my cousin here brought me back to my childhood. We took her sledding and my dad even found our sled from when we were little and our hot pink snow pants for my cousin too.

We also made a hecka-tight snowman. We have a video of our efforts. We had a brilliant idea of rolling the snowball down the hill in my backyard, but it was gigantic, so it created a few problems trying to make the head and the middle proportional. We had to have four people to lift the head on and also one person standing on a chair. In the end, our snowman was awesome! Since it hasn't been as cold, the snowman looks like he's been losing weight. It makes me sort of sad.

Start of a New Year!

Can you believe another year has come and gone? Every year when the clock strikes 12 o clock, it always makes me feel a little sad. I look back on the year and realize how quickly time flies. What have I done with my life? What have I seen?


It's so easy to let time slip by. I wish I had done more this year.


There were some highlights for 2008, some mile stones:

• I went to Cabo San Lucus with my best friend Kim by ourselves. This was my first time out of the country, other than Canada and it felt very adult like.


• I started the MBA program


• Took real golf lessons instead of just getting tips here and there. Also bought a pink golf set.


• I got new and exciting responsibilities at Zions

It's time to set up New Year's resolutions! Here are mine listed below...

1. Lose 25 lbs
2. Hit past 150 yards with my irons
3. Get at least 6 hours of sleep a night

Tell me what some of your resolutions are!

Mission Impossible!!!

My sister's boyfriend came over and met my parents for the first time on Friday. Our family doesn't know much about him. I guess things went well and the night ended after a trip to the bowling alley where my car got stuck in the snow. Everyone had to get out of the car to push and a cop drove by and did not even stop to help. I don't get it? Aren't cops supposed to help? Especially for a bunch of girls?

My car got us home safely and my sister and her boyfriend headed outside to say good-bye. I went upstairs to clean my room when I heard my cousin and youngest sister come barreling up the stairs... "Put on your black hoodie and follow us!" I have no idea what is going on, so I follow my cousin. She opens our front door and tells me to be quiet, but follow her.

As we are basically crawling on the cold, icy ground. At that moment, I knew exactly what we were doing. We crawled up towards my sister's car. My cousin whispered,"Look over there." I take a peek and I am truly scared for the rest of my life. We caught my sister and her boyfriend making out in the car. We were about to head in when we heard the door open... "Crap!" We didn't know what to do, if we sat there my sister will catch three sitting ducks. If we went on the other side, her boyfriend would see us behind his car.

There were two choices: Be caught or run. We choose to run. We ran like the wind into the house and my cousin was yelling, "Take off your hoodie and jump in the bed." For some reason, no one ever questioned any of her instructions. My dad heard the screaming and asked what was going on... Well, he knew what was going on, so he stomped out in the garage and busted my sister.

Whoops... We didn't mean for my dad to catch them, oh well next time go down the block. This was my first and probably last spy mission. All that spy work made me pull my thigh muscle and it still hurts, so I've learned my lesson.