Aug 2 2008

100 Things

I’ve found that a few people have, on their 100th blog, post 100 random things about themselves and their life. I found them rather interesting, and decided to do it as well. But, sad day, I’ve passed my 100th blog and in fact this blog post is about 515, not including the ones I deleted because they were to mean or snarky to be seen by the people I wrote them about. Yeah, I am bright. And yes I am that awful, I was working through some crap and by crap I mean, it was/is a mountain of horrible crap. And my bishops wife reads this and I just cannot bring myself to type the word, but I thought it.

So in honor of post 500 I will be doing 500/5=100 things about Makayla Christine Jeppson Robinson

1) I have a BFA in Graphic Design.
2) I will not eat barbecue sauce willingly.
3) I was homeless for 2 months while going to college.
4) I have lived in Magna, the water killed my fish. No joke.
5) I was once in a band called, “Makayla & the boys.”
6) I would bath everyday if it was not so time consuming.
7) Am a True Aggie. But not with jj.
8) I used to cry at the end of every episode of “Full House.”
9) My favorite books are The Red Tent, Maus, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
10) Have 2 sisters, 1 brother, 1 parent who stayed and 1 who quit.
11) Am super obsessed with zit picking.
12) Spent three summers dressed as a cowgirl to entertain European and Japanese tourists. Not that way.
13) I have played the piano, flute, and drums.
14) Want to be good.
15) Just ate peanut butter and chocolate chips for my afternoon snack.
16) I love sushi. Going for my birthday, without a broken arm and pain killer buzz this year.
17) I am still driving my first car.
18) I performed the ceremony for my sister to marry her sweet heart.
19) I am better at making friends now than I used to be.
20) Have repeating nightmares about Tabiona.
21) Have run 2 marathons.
22) Failed Accounting 2010 in college, on purpose.
23) Once threw my shoes at an ex after he broke up with me.
24) Hate applesauce.
25) Love sleeping with the winter windows open just a crack.
26) Am in love.
27) Worked at Priceline.com.
28) Once told a friend I needed to take off her pants in an elevator filled with people. I was wearing them, not her.
29) Am a bit too honest.
30) Almost killed a friend during a strange covered wagon accident.
31) Am a master champion of Clue. I will bring you down.
32) Once bounced a check on purpose so I could buy food. I was in college and knew the apples and yogurt would be worth it.
33) I wish my butt looked like Cameron Diaz butt.
34) One time got diarrhea on a date with jj and did not make it to the toilet. He is incredibly forgiving.
35) Wet the bed on my honeymoon. Again, jj is incredibly forgiving. I had a bladder infection and it was weird.
36) Was pissed at jj for getting up at 9 this morning. I am incredibly tolerant.
37) Once interviewed to be a model. I like food to much and am short.
38) Broke my arm last year in a freak dodge ball accident.
39) Have been working out consistently for 2 1/2 years straight.
40) Peanut butter and chocolate chips are my downfall.
41) Fell in love right after my freshman year of college. We never kissed or dated. We are still friends today.
42) My house is getting consistently cleaner by the year. Some year I may actually be on top of things.
43) Love the person I am today, strange butt and all.
44) Once worked at a foot doctors office. Had to label vials of bloody toe nails.
45) In college took a class on German Memorials to the Holocaust. Want to see them or the lack of them someday.
46) Daydreamer.
47) Am mean to people if they snore around me, even if I am awake.
48) My cousin was my best friend all growing up.
49) Had two really good friends in high school.
50) JJ is my best friend now, and sometimes I throw my food at him. What an honor.
51) I had a summer of broadway musicals. I checked them out from the video store and watched them non-stop.
52) Trust my dreams like they are a dear friend.
53) Things are going to get worse and than so much better.
54) Own personal least favorite feature- junk in the trunk.
55) Went to Day’s of ’47 parade and saw Thomas S. Monson. He looked like he had stepped right out of the ’50s.
56) Once drove to Alabama and back with my siblings and parents. 18 days in a van is fun.
57) Favorite color- white.
58) Diet Coke. My other true love.
59) I once sneezed a huge booger onto the floor in front of company.
60) I love my first year college roommates. They are the best.
61) I wish Gentry wasn’t so scared of everything.
62) Worked as a grocery store cashier.
63) Worked as a human resource manager for the computer labs at USU.
64) Am allergic to cats and spankings.
66) Won $50 at a Buzz game the other day.
67) I grew up at my cousins house. I know her neighbors better than any of my childhood neighbors.
68) Cannot dye my hair. Blond looks to fake and dark just doesn’t show up. Am thinking about extensions. Possibly pink or red.
69) Do not like dogs unless they act like cats.
70) Once watched a neighbor kill a rabbit for dinner.
71) Was scared spitless by a sheep caught in a fence.
72) I love the X-Men movies and am so excited about the Wolverine Movies.
73) Have skinny dipped. A lot.
74) Will not be friends with people who lie.
75) When I die, I want wings. I don’t care if angels are not supposed to have them. Also, I want to choose where I have body hair.
76) Love my first house.
77) Love soft squishy boy who will curl up with me.
78) Love my friends now.
79) Am so mouthy sometimes. I don’t know where Gentry gets it from.
80) Remember going to see Ghostbusters as a child at the drive in.
81) Remember riding in the back of the possibly red truck on the way to Idaho.
82) Remember painting on the side walk with fingernail polish as a child. My mom says I was 3.
83) JJ got a new swim suit today that I am not embarrassed to see him in.
84) We are close to being out of debt.
85) Wonder if when I die I will know who killed JFK. And lot of other mysteries.
86) I know the words to almost all John Denver songs.
87) When I die, I am going to Disneyland.
88) I read the short story that Brokeback Mountain was based on. I get it.
89) Wish people knew the strength that is in them. I wish the same for me.
90) Once pushed my brother into the corner of the wall. He had to get stitches.
91) Was married in the Logan Temple on a brisk December morning.
92) Had Hammer Pants.
93) Had braces in college.
94) Am on retainers 7 & 8.
95) Lived next door to one of my college boyfriends.
96) Have done design work for international companies. Who knew feet were so pornographic.
97) Played Sally Ride in an Elementary School Play.
98) Have learned I am good and deserve good in my life.
99) Once hit a kid in the head with my flute case.
100) Totaled the family van.
101) Look a bonus, thanks for reading. My life is better than I would have imagined possible.


Aug 1 2008

i love…


:: cute little pinatas ::

:: saving tons of money on groceries ::

:: simple beauty ::

:: galactic activity ::

:: lots of little tomatoes waiting to turn red in the sun ::

:: eating from my garden ::

:: teaching gentry to conserve ::

:: preschool about to start ::

:: lots of work plans ::

:: the prospects of the future ::


Jul 30 2008

I love integrity.

Seeing my photo work on the web pleases me, I am so flattered to have been a photographer for H20Fun.


Jul 29 2008




Jul 29 2008

a typophiles dream come true


You can go to Wordle and make your own. I kind of want to print this out hang it in Gentry’s room.

Also, here is a fun game.

Your first memory of me…

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn’t matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I’ll assume you’re playing the game and I’ll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don’t want to play on your blog, or if you don’t have a blog, I’ll leave my memory of you in my comments.

OK then.


Jul 28 2008


Guess who is barfing at my house? And as a result, guess who has not brushed their teeth or shaved their legs today?

Man it makes me sad to see him struggle like that. But he should be better tomorrow. We went to the DR today and they gave him a penicillin shot since he would not be able to keep medicine down very well. He was almost immediately better. It was truly amazing. And then he asked for french fries and I knew that we were heading back up again.


Jul 27 2008

i love…


:: fireworks + little guys ::

:: bbq’s + buzz games with friends ::

:: photography by gentry ::

:: hanging out at the lake throwing rocks and looking at spiders :: little boy interests :: new discoveries ::

:: gentry entertaining little tiny guys with superheroes mad flying skills ::

:: afternoon thunder + rainstorms ::

:: finding nightime reusable waterproof training pants (that hopefully work) ::

:: lazy sunday afternoons :: watching hero movies + eating popsicles ::


Jul 24 2008

peek
more later. but isn’t this guy the cutest?


Jul 23 2008

sleep
I went to wake up Gentry this morning and this is what I found. Scrumptious little toes and a boy who did not want to wake up. I love his morning hair as well. All rumpled and smashed. The first thing he asked for, Iron Man underwear. I wish I had some Iron Man underwear as well.


Jul 22 2008

fresh summer food

potato blossom
The garden is going well. These are blossoms from potato plants. I cut up the potatoes that were growing legs in my pantry and put them in the ground and this is what happened. Can you even believe it? It amazes me what will come out of the ground, and these burst out of the ground. It really was astonishing how a full bush rose out of the ground, complete with leaves and flowers. They didn’t even start as little buds or sprouts.

Yesterday we went and pulled one zucchini and two yellow zucchinis off their plants and ate them for dinner. We grilled them with an onion and butter and BBQ3000. And well, it was so good. I love the summer fresh foods that I can harvest from my own garden. And aren’t nectarines pretty much like candy growing on a tree? Oh my word, I love summer food.