Best News

Thanks to the new Jessica Beaumont for the text today.

Even better than the news of in-n-out coming to Utah Valley...

Five Guys is coming to Orem!!!!!

End of March is the predicted date. I seriously can't wait! This makes that new area by the movie theater SOOOOO much better.

I absolutely love Five Guys. I have to owe it all to Matt, who would not stop talking about how good it was. So when it finally came to Utah I tried it and LOVE it. You can put as many toppings on it as you want. It's quick and amazingly delicious. They give you SO many fries. NOt only is the container full of fries, but they dump more in your bag. SO GOOD.

Although I do have to report that I was semi disappointed with my meal today at the new Chesterfield Five Guys. It's about 25 minutes from my house, but just down the road from the building I go to for church. So I hate to admit it, but EVERY sunday it is a temptation. Especially since I get out of church at 2 and am ready for lunch...

So today I made a special trip out to check it out. Not happy. Fries were not as good as they are at the Salt Lake restaurants. The bun was significantly smaller than the patties. It just didn't do it for me.

So I look forward to my return to Utah to enjoy the goodness of this burger joint without having to drive 25-40 minutes... HALLE-freakin-LUJAH!!!

p.s. Mom you should check it out. There's one on Cedar Hills Blvd. Be warned, the regular burger is HUGE with two patties, so order the little burger or split the regular one.

My Collegiate Life

This:

just isn't doing it for me.

On Wednesday it was so warm here. It reached 70 degrees at one point in the day! As I stood outside to brainstorm outdoor activities so my skin could benefit from some Vitamin D, I realized something.

all i really wanted to do was drive my car to byu and walk into larry miller field and watch byu play baseball. but alas, byu is a 20 hour drive from my apartment.

So... I have two trips coming up to solve the problem.

Trip #1 - Wichita, Kansas

Sunday I will drive to KC and stay overnight. Monday will make the 3 hour trek to Wichita (home of the shockers)
Weather is looking promising - forecast is a warm 64 degrees for both Monday and Tuesday!

i look forward to seeing the team play in person and enjoy some good sun.

BUT... it's still not miller field

So... Trip #2 (99% set in stone)
Provo, Utah! i never thought i would be so excited to go to provo. and i thought i would be able to live without byu baseball for one season because i have the freakin st louis cardinals out here! but the season hasn't started out here and i am dying...
So mark your calendars for March 12-15th. i will be at the thursday, friday and saturday games. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
and i'll eat at gurus, and cafe rio, and five guys, and joe vera's, and zupas. mmm!!!!
So if you want to see me, i will be at those places or the stadium. and maybe her aparment.
BUT i WILL cancel the trip if the weather isn't at least 50 degrees, but i would appreciate 60 or 70 degrees.

i can't wait to go! thanks to mom for donating some southwest credit! :)

Save the Date

November 11, 2011

Also known as

11.11.11

Many years ago (well actually only 3) I was interested in a certain member of the opposite sex. After leaving a voicemail with the said boy and not hearing from him for at least 24 hours I, like most people in my situation would, got a little nervous that his name wouldn’t be flashing on my phone anytime soon.

I have always been a firm believer in making a wish when you see a digital clock read 11:11. But I had never had a wish granted, and so quickly, as this one summer evening. At 11:11 pm I wished that said boy would call me back. No sooner than 11:13 I hear my phone ring and look to see that he is calling.

Since then I believe so much that wishes can be granted.

But there are some rules:
1. You can’t wish on too many things. No 11:11 wishes, eyelash wishes, fountain wishes and so on. You have to pick one thing and stick with it.
2. No sitting around waiting for 11:11 to show up on the clock.
3. And no pointless wishes. You have to really want it to happen. Many times I have happened upon the lucky time on the clock and have not been able to think of a wish good enough. So I let the clock slowly tick to 11:12…

I recently told a good friend that I love making 11:11 wishes and told him that I love it so much that I want to get married on 11.11.11. (Even though that would only make me 26 years old, and I have always said 27, no younger.)

But said friend told me that if I were to get married on that day, he would and I quote “i would think you're the coolest person on the planet if you got married on 11/11/11. just for the record.”

So people, SAVE November 11, 2011. I’ll work on the groom.

I Love Love

A glimpse into the life of a broadcast intern:
Logging tape = horrible, tedious, boring

Well usually I grudgingly do it and speed through the process to get back to more important things like internet surfing and keeping up on Law & Order: SVU. just kidding...

Unless I get to look at this beautiful face and listen to what he has to say.

I have officially found a new love in the world of major league baseball. So let's all root for David Freese to become the Cardinals third baseman in the absence of Troy Glaus. And then when Glaus gets better, they will take Freese over him because Glaus is old and should be gone anyway...

#1 Goal while I am out here in St. Louis: Freese must know who I am

25 Things

I love using coupons. When I was young I would go through the coupons in the Sunday paper before my mom and cut out the ones that I wanted her to use. During church my favorite thing to do was sort through her organized coupons and take out all the expired ones that she couldn't use anymore. The only newspaper I will subscribe to is the Sunday paper because it's the one with coupons.

My major requires 3 semesters plus an internship to complete. By the time I graduate I will have been in school for over 5 years. I love being at BYU. I am considering extending my college career to another semester. I am in no hurry to get out into the "real world."

For my 22nd birthday I had a Rob & Big birthday cake. I found a bakery that put pictures on cakes and I took them a photoshopped one of me with Rob & Big. Everyone loved it. Even Rob himself! Yes. My cousin saw him in Vegas a few weeks later and went up to talk to him. She had the picture of the cake on her phone and showed it to him. He loved it and told her to tell me happy birthday from him. One of the happiest days of my life.

In high school I traveled to nationals in St Louis for get this… Racquetball. For 3 years I was way into the sport and was on the team in high school. We were really good and won lots of awards. I can show you my medals sometime if you'd like.

I am seriously in love with cupcakes. I have been on a Sprinkles Cupcake fix ever since my cousin, Reshea, introduced them to me 2 years ago in Newport. They are divine! I would do anything to have them at my fingertips on a daily basis. But unfortunately they are not. And I have to plan special trips for them. Like when I went to San Diego last week I rented a car so I could easily get around and so I could drive the hour up to Newport and get a cupcake. MMM!!

I want to be in a plane crash. One that no one gets hurt, but that we have to use the slide to get out of the plane. Ever since I was a little kid I would pray that my plane would crash. Every time there is turbulence I think that we are going to crash. I want to use the slide so bad!

Last year I won an award that I am very proud of. I was the director for the broadcast that was named best student newscast by the Broadcast Education Association. We went to Vegas to accept the award. I gave a speech. It went something like this: "Our news director was quoted in the paper saying that winning this award was like winning the national championship trophy in college basketball. Well I wouldn't go that far, but this really is an honor." That broke the ice and prompted a professor at KU (the NCAA champions that year) to come talk to me. He gave me his card and told me to contact him anytime I needed a job or internship. He has connections with the Cardinals. It seems humor CAN get you places in life.

I was secretly (now publicly) happy that BYU Daily News didn't win that award again this year, because they didn't hire me to be a director. It just makes me feel that they NEED me to be good. But I do know it's not just me, its all the good anchors, producers and reporters that we had in the past.

I sleep with a stuffed animal every night. It's Fredbird. The Cardinals Mascot. It's from Build-A-Bear. But not just any BAB, this bird can only be purchased at the BAB located in Busch Stadium. One of the highlights of my last Cardinals trip with my dad last summer. The other highlight: my Cardinals kicks.

I frequently get dizzy and lightheaded on an elevator. Ever since my senior year of high school when I had temporary asthma and used an inhaler, the thought of riding a rollercoaster just makes my head spin. Well now it's going up or down too many flights in an elevator.

I love Sex and the City – when the movie came out I think I watched it 11 times in a 7-day period. I <3>

I love to make lists of things that I have to do or places I have to. But I very rarely accomplish what is on those lists. My problem is once I make the list, I don't look at it again. I am trying a new iphone application that has seemed to help out a bit in the actual "checking off of the list" part.

I need to have things organized and orderly everywhere except my room. It's a curse of mine. I cannot for the life of my keep my room clean. If I take the time do a deep clean it usually doesn't stay that way for long. It's usually just clothes and crap that have ended up on the ground instead of on hangers. But as I look at my room right now, I see way more than clothes on the floor. My problem usually is not having enough places to put all the little things that I should probably throw away, but I keep because I am a pack rat.

I never got a dime of allowance from my parents. EVER. I had to earn my money by mowing the lawn and washing the cars. We had daily and Saturday chores that had to be done before we could do anything else, but we never got paid for doing them. Money was rarely just handed to me. I had to earn it all. And I am actually grateful for that, and that's how it will be with my children.

My goal in life is to go to a baseball game at all the Major League stadiums. This must be done by the time I'm 47. 8 down, 22 to go.

I love love love snail mail. Nothing beats getting a package at your doorstep or finding a letter from a friend or family member in the mailbox. Sometimes I wish that was the only communication we had with people. My freshman year at BYU, I tried to write back and forth with a few friends from high school. It lasted awhile, but then unfortunately died out. It makes my day to receive a letter.

In my 15 semesters at BYU I have lived 9 different places. King Henry, Belmont, UAC, Centennial, and Arlington to name a few. I love to move around and experience new places. Most of my moves have been going from east Provo to west Provo and back again. I have had SO many roommates because of it. Some good and more bad. I hate the actual act of packing boxes and moving, but I love having a fresh start in a new complex and a new ward.

BYU was the only university I applied to. I always knew I wanted to go here, so there was no use applying anywhere else. And I have loved it.

I tend to make a yearly trip to the ER ever since I came out to Provo. The first year was when I had a bad case of Bronchitis. I was having trouble breathing because my throat was swelling up and nothing we could do would help, so we went to the ER. Next year was when I had an abscess tooth that was causing excruciating pain. I got a nice little shot of morphine to help me sleep through the night. Another year was my emergency appendix removal. That was fun. That year I upgraded from the ER to my own room upstairs. I slept over 2 nights.

When I was about 10 years old I slept through a car accident. We were on our way to Utah in our old Suburban when my mom hit a patch of ice that sent us spinning off the road and we eventually ended up on our sides. I had to be woken up to get out of the car.

I love it our here in St. Louis. I have spent many years telling people that even though I love the Cardinals, I would never want to live out here. But being here has changed my mind. I would love to live here someday and have season tickets to the Cardinals. And take my children to the games with me. And be apart of the great Cardinals organization

Welcome

So this is my first post. I decided to do this to easily keep people updated with my frolickings in St. Louis and such. Truth is I am an avid reader of some friend's blogs and thought "why can't I be that cool?"

So here it is.
Live from left field

I am not promising anything amazing. Don't come to me for politics or anything boring like that. I plan to write about anything and everything that peaks my interest.

Enjoy.

-Cumin