Watch this video before you read what I've written below.
HP "Create Amazing" - Director's Cut from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Travis and I recently watched a film called Food Inc.
Here are some of the not-as-horrifying-as-the-rest-of-the-film-facts:
An average hamburger contains meat from 50-100 cows.
There are essentially only 13 slaughtering houses in America, so if one factory is affected by E-Coli or something else then the entire United States will indefinitely be exposed to it.
McDonalds is the largest consumer of Meat, Tomatoes, Chickens and many other products in the country, because they want all their food to taste exactly the same, they have to raise their products in exactly the same conditions. Aka, in a dark enclosed space, being fed ONLY corn and anti-biotics. Cattle are kept in rooms so small that they are ankle deep in manure from the moment they're born. Their coats are covered in manure, and when they go through the factories, our food is filled with their manure.
When the FDA or USDA tries to crack down on companies they are sued for libel, taken to court and inevitably told that they have no real authority.
After putting 1.5 million Mexican laborers out of work by cheapening the cost of corn, Meat companies actually advertise for themselves in Mexican newspapers and on the radio, and bus hundreds of workers a year to their factories. Because the workers are illegal immigrants they do not treat them with any civility, denying them such basic rights as drinking water, or safety regulations. Occasionally there are government raids, but the companies are never punished, only the workers.
Due to the crappy diet of everyone in America, type 2 diabetes, previously unheard of in children, is now almost as common among kids as adults.
This film is a must-see. For realsy. I'm still freaking out.
Here is the TRAILER.
Also, the Child Nutrient Act is being reinstated in this year. To vote for fresh vegetables, whole grains, and no soda pop in schools, sign this petition.
new friends! new married friends! new married friends with a baby!
yay!
We made friends at church, and we like them very much. They're super cute and funny, and like the same things as us. (Uh-oh. Does this sound like dating to anyone else?)
At his family's Halloween party Daryl Lee told us, "No one tells you how much harder it is to court couples than a single person. You like the wife, he can't stand the husband and you have to start all over."
That's super funny too, because as soon as we got married we had this need for married friends. We still love our unmarried friends (nothing could diminish that love!) but there's something about inviting another family into your home that is really fun.
We invited two couples over after dinner today for dessert. One family had relatives in town, but the other family came over. Unfortunately, Travis and I got into a baking craze and made about 12 dozen cookies of various kinds, and it was all I could do to talk him out of brownies, too.
We talked and laughed and lost track of time, and oops, now the boys are late to their priesthood meeting. But it was really nice. We loooove the family ward, it's surprisingly diverse, and has YW/YM and everything, and a lot of people who are a lot like us.
Maybe Kaylie and LJ will even be in our ward, they live just a few blocks away, and we have pretty big ward boundaries for Provo.
Our new friends even borrowed some DVDs, now they'll have to come back. Muwahahaha!
Hide in fear, ye friendless masses, because you could be next!
The friend maker strikes again!
(p.s. Why hide in fear? We're lovely people and a swell couple. Come eat some tasty peanut butter cookies. And if you're allergic, we also have chocolate chip!)
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e.e. cummings
Yesterday my brother-in-law Chris told me a story.
While riding the bus home from class, he saw me sitting a few seats away.
I was wearing sunglasses, and obviously ignoring him. He tried to catch my attention.
He could not.
He glared at me with an angry face, only stoping himself from yelling out my name because the bus was crowded and it was rude.
He wondered why I was getting off at Wyview but figured that I had lived there before and was visiting friends or something.
Only after I got off the bus did he realize that the sunglassed girl was NOT me.
"How could you tell it wasn't me if she looked just like me?" I asked.
"She got off the bus," Chris said, "and I was like 'Becky is a much better walker than that girl.'"
YES! After years of walking into doors and falling down stairs, it's nice to think that I can be recognized by my walking skillz.
I was a cocky eighteen year-old. I knew what I wanted, where I was going, what classes to take, and never had a doubt about my major.
My other friends took generals, experimented with different classes and slowly decided what they wanted from life.
Now most of them are on the right track to their ideal life.
I however skipped most of my generals, because I only wanted to take English classes.
Now my junior year in college, I have 18 GE creds to take, and I have changed my mind. Suddenly, I do not ever want to take another English class again, unless it's Children's Literature or poetry.
Dang it all!
Katie said, "You could do an advertising major, it's like 50 credits."
No Katie, it's like 36 credits and an internship.
It's like, my new major.
I am legitimately excited and happy to study communications, and I believe that I could totally get a job in advertising.
But here are some pros and cons:
PROS:
Could be completed in two or three semesters
Does not require a foreign language (Huzzah!)
I could easily work from home
I could easily work in New York (where we're planning on living for Grad School)
I could totally find work with a publishing house, and work with Children's Media or literature (Yippee!)
I could work with Travis.
CONS:
The College of Communications is on the opposite side of campus. (Freaking Brimhall Building, NO ONE LIKES YOU.)
Starting a new major is scary
Because I am no longer taking French, I might have to take *sobbing and fear* a math class!
Communications might be hard.
There are two tracks: Creative and Management. Creative is hard to get in to, but Management sounds boooring.
And to share with you, this is my favorite advertisement. I could make beautiful ads like this.
What it says literally is that you could find a beautiful asian wife. Underneath that it actually says "Are you a nasty fat lazy slob and pervert who could never find a girlfriend, let alone a wife, because you spend all your time playing WOW online? If so, send us your money, we'll send you a slave!"
It's all about changing the words up.
I could TOTALLY do that.
TRAVIS JUST INTENTIONALLY POKED ME IN THE EYE WITH HIS FINGER.
