November: a month of hobbies & goodness

Lately the months have flown and before I know it, I've lapsed in posting for over a month! What? So then what happens is I usually look through my phone and figure out what I've done the past month.

One time I got "sick" and was so bored all day that I spent the entire day on Pinterest searching for new hair ideas.

Also saw a bird on the steering wheel at Walmart.

In November I got a new hobbie called "acrylic painting that takes 10 minutes"

Also started rock climbing with these awesome girls in my ward :)

And then I came back to Utah where I enjoyed the beautiful sunsets, as usual.

And converted boyfriend to ginger tea.

Got a haircut & dye

And then someone told me I looked exactly like this (famous 80's) movie star! 

My hands have been getting lots of nice calluses from climbing...

And I have felt like this often after many hard days at work.

I bought some $87 celery at Walmart! 

Celebrated one of my bestie's birthday.

And spent a wonderful Thanksgiving with M in Utah (hike to Bell Lake).

Ate dinner with the Gramps!

And went  snow shoeing!

Up Little Cottonwood Canyon - this is beautiful, no!?

Other than that, I have gone shopping at Smith's & enjoyed it.

My October Opus

October is one of my favorite months. I have fallen in love with it recently, on my many excursions to enjoy her beauty. It has been a full, busy, and wonderful month, with the occasional stresses.

Work has been stressful and tiring as usual. I stay sane, of course by going on runs and trying to wind down every day. I took this picture while on one of my runs on the Bonneville Shoreline trail, my favorite place ever.

 And THIS: Emigration canyon, my new hidden solace. This view is amazing year-round.

 Other than work and enjoying nature, I've been doing a lot of this: facetime-ing with M while he stirs peanut butter. Sound glorious? You have no idea.

 And taking my friends out to lunch for their birthday at the best waffle place I know. #bruges

 And celebrating Halloween Lindsey-style (newly created traditions guys!) by carving pumpkins with my roommates, making/eating the most delicious apple crisp ever, and watching a nice Hitchcock film.

 This year, I was feeling unmotivated about finding a really cool costume. So I found some spandex, a black running long-sleeve shirt, and another shirt to double as a ninja mask and WHOOLA. I was hoping the kids wouldn't realize that my costume took $0 to make and less than 2 minutes to create. Luckily, the energy they [the boys at least] expended upon seeing my awesome ninja costume exceeded the amount of energy I put into making it. #winwinwin #score #besthalloweencostumeever

 After Halloween, I also started another personal Halloween tradition of painting a pumpkin. It was the most windy, beautiful Friday afternoon, and it felt like it was fall's last goodbye to me.

 Painting this was so therapeutic that I decided I'm going to by a canvas and paint a picture. I've also started going to weekly yoga classes with my coworkers/roommate. I love them. Great way to de-stress. The girls I visit teach also expressed that they wanted to start rock-climbing so we're all buying memberships to the climbing gym and we will go weekly. So you can follow up with me on those three new goals for November.

For the Beatufy of the Earth

1.  Red Pines Hike (Little Cottonwood)

 2. Lake Mary

 3. Lake Martha

 4. Lake Catherine

 5. Biking to work at Ridgecrest Elementary

 6. Biking up Emigration Canyon

 7. Hike up Sunset Peak (Catherine Pass) in Little Cottonwood Canyon

Lighting the flamez on Tinder.

Upon my coming back to the wonderful U.S. of A., I decided to jump head-first into the dating pool again, considering I had a 2 month (blissful) hiatus. I have joined an online dating website (again) and it has been less than fruitful (again). I also decided to join "Tinder" a "dating app" by classification, but in reality is really just a mindless swiping game like every other time-sucking app, but this time, there's "real" people involved (are they tho? see below). 

             For those of you unfamiliar with this game, I mean, app, you set up a small profile (with 1-5 pictures of yourself as well as an optional short short short blurb about yourself). Once you have done this, you can begin SWIPING! Yay! When you hit the "flame" icon a picture comes up like the one below. If you like what you see, you can swipe right. If you're not interested, you can swipe left. If they swipe right on you, then it pops up as a "match." It then gives you the option to strike up a conversation, or to "keep playing" (seriously). Or if you just think their picture is hilarious, and/or your life is pathetic, you can take a screen shot and blog about it ;) 

        So here I am. I have gotten 54 matches (meaning, 54 people that I have indicated I would be interested in getting to know have also indicated they would be interested in getting to know me). Out of those 54 people, only 9 have started actually having a (text) conversation with me (big step, you 9 people, big step, great job). And out of those 9, only 1 has tried to set up an actual meeting/date with me. I have initiated a text conversation with 3 of them, and some have not even responded! This is flabbergasting to me. FLABBERGASTING. 

Why? Let's analyze this situation/circumstance.

1. We both know we find the other person at the least, minimally attractive.

2. We know the other person will most likely not reject us.

AND YET

nothing happens! 

            Aside from those 54 minimally attractive/normal-looking individuals, the other 1 million people I have swiped through have been similar to the one's below. At the risk of being a total jerk and making fun of real? people, I have taken screen shots of their profiles just so you can humor me and feel my pain in knowing what a 28-year-old girl is swimming through right now here in Salt Lake City (and I'm guessing the world). I have left comments below each picture.

ARE YOU REALLY EIGHTEEN? WHY ARE YOU ON HERE. YOU LOOK 12.

This is really how you want to present yourself?

Are you real?

Sorry, I can't see you because half your face is covered in smoke. Oh wait, you wanted it like that?

Thank you, Erik, for the carrot costume. I really was needing my vegetables.

Wow.

I have always wanted to be with someone who dresses up like bunnies and carries around beer cans. PLEASE DATE ME!

I feel so Emo just looking at this.

Your hair is hotter than mine. That's a no.

And your hair is either hotter than mine, or you photo-shopped it on, both of which are unacceptable.

Yes please.