devestated sir, devestated.

today, i experianced a loss. a devestating one.

i went to the temple as usual on wednesday and i ALWAYS have my anklet on and i ALWAYS take it off to do baptisms.

i forgot to put it back on.

i did not realize this until i was home for a few hours.

sure this doesnt sound devestating. but it was. for you see, there was a story about the person who gave me this anklet.

it was supposed to be a bracelet but it was too large. i have always wanted an anklet to i put it on my ankle and its been there for like 4 months. . i went to an old folks home to sing christmas carols to them. back in the day, that scared the CRAP out of me. not the singing, the old people. they used to scare me soo much..... they still do...a little.

anyways! we always talk to them after we sing and chat and be friendly. i sat down next to this man, i wish i could have remembered his name, i want to say it was gerard. but no clue. anywho. he was a classic tale of the american dream. he grew up here worked hard, went to college, got married, supported his family, and he loved his wife. i loved hearing his stories. i noticed he was wearing a few bracelets and the conversation sort of stalled, so i complimented him on his bracelets. he then told me a story of how his son went to a country and bought a lot of them and was selling them to people. his son gave him a few. he then looked at me and smiled a beautiful old person smile, i do love their smiles, 'do you want one?' shocked i said 'oh, no! your son gave them to you! i couldnt.' then he preceded to take the bracelet off and put it on my wrist. i was in awe. and love. but mostly awe cause he is old. he was the sweetest. i hope to see him someday or in heaven and we can talk and be like remember that bracelet? yeah me too. then i could meet his wife and children and we could have a playdate. assuming i out live him and his posterity. lets hope so.

tangent. while at this old folks home i got to talk to this other lady. we were talking and she wasnt really making sense. she was a nurse in some war. and i asked her if she ever hit on the men she treated. she laughed really hard. she was great too. then she said she had cancer and i was sympathetic. then she said, and i quote, 'they took away one of my boobs. i only gots one boob!' yeah. not kidding. then she continued, 'its ok though. its not like im feeding anyone with it'. yep. love this lady too.

just remembered another moment with the first man. hahahah ok this cracks me up. so me and him were talking and there was a lady behind me and she was talking really loud. my man looked at the girl a couple of times. i joked, 'you got a crush on that one?' his face got real serious, quote again here, 'no! i hate her. she is so annoying! she talks during the movies and i really dont like her'. haha i laughed really hard at that one.

thats it. im sad. i have lost my anklet. maybe i could find it next week. hope for me!

xoxox kk

can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

i was coughing still a little sick from the plague.

being a smoldering housewife.

yes, we are besties with testies.

closet housewife.... who is smoldering!

her luchradores....she got one and loved it so she got another one.....or five...

our 20 min detour.

my roommates locked me out, so i snuck in my window. yay 1st floor!

Sister Lopez.

salt lake temple.

yeah....left them in the oven for like 40 mins.

smoldering housewife.

and another smoldering housewife.

classic leg shot.

LA LA LA LA LA Lakers!

cool hair.

she asked me to spell orange. distressed.

holla fo a dolla

i got rocked with purple

hindu temple

the hindu temple....and some girls..

after round one!

during round one!

before round one.... before even getting to the event!

Literally painted with the colors of the wind. this past weekend my roommates and i drove down to utah and visted various places. it was quite an adventure let me tell you. again, i shall bullet point events. its effective, simple, lovely and of good report. i will start off on friday.

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wrong way - before we started out on our journey to utah, we got on the freeway. then we had to do a a freeway change. this change ALWAYS trips me up. i always ask if i am going the right way, then i always go the wrong way. that led us on a slight detour. since idaho is rural and we are in the middle of nowhere, there was not an exit for like 20 mins. once we found an exit we had to go another few mins back to the freeway change and then we were on track.

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china.... more like crappa - soo this isnt raciest, i love chinese stuff. i speak some chinese. wo xiao ni. i think that means i love you....or something weird. anywho. while driving, i was hungry, we were hungry, and ali is gluten intolerant. so we had to find a place that had some gluten free food. my brother suggested a chinese place called manderian. it happened to have a gluten free menu and after some contenious conversations, manderian it was. we had a roommate who had a bad experiance with chinese food. but she is lovely and of good report and she went to manderian still. well. we get there. have to wait 30 mins to be seated, nbd. im pretty patient. when seated no waiter talks to us for like 10 mins. as that 10 mins went by, the table who was seated a minute after us, got their food. as our drinks came, the other table was done and they left. so that was frustrating, especially because we didnt get our food until an hour later. yeah. no joke. we timed it sir.

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the square of the temple - since dinner took forever, we got to temple square when everything was already closed. i was a little disappointed, but we still got to walk around and have a good time. i climbed a 6in ledge by myself. rocked it.

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north carolina - so after the night of fiascos we got to the place we were staying. that was great. oh wait, first we got a in-n-out milkshake. soooooooooo good. we slept there and woke up around 9.

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kk's son, kk's - we wanted breakfast. we got a dozen krispy kreme donuts. we each ate 4. end.

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back to the future - at 9 we went back to temple square and went to the salt lake temple to do bapstims for the dead! and let me tell you, A.W.E.S.O.M.E. the inside of the temple was amazing. so much history in there. i was loving and memorizing as much as i could. i cannot wait to go back. it was also really cool that me and my roommates were able to be in the temple together and enjoy preforming ordinances. after baptisms we rocked around the square for a few mintues.

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asthma - then we rushed to spanish fork to attend the festival of colors. it was crazy sir, crazy. basically what it is is this: the hindu culture celebrates something and how they celebrate is by tossing colored chalk in the air and at people. lets just say, i got rocked. before we even go to the festival, some guy chucked green chalk in my face, as i was talking and my eyes open. hahah it was awesome. i loved it.

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Cj's sir - CARLS JR. mmmm i love their famous star burgers. sooo tasty and sooo yummy. and i could each like 500932 of them.

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bud not buddy - then i visited my brother dressed in my chalk. he wouldnt hug me. thats alright, i wouldnt of hugged me either. i got a hug from my cousin Adny though. so sweet.

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HSM 1,2,3, Wicked, Hairspray, etc. - driving home singing everything we had. yay!

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DISCLAIMER: This next section contains spiritual things.

slizzard with a blizzrd - so as driving home we hit a CRAZY snow storm. no joke. i was driving. it looked like we were going into light speed like in star wars. yeah i used that reference and no, thats not the spiritual thing. so i was really nervous. i didnt show it though because if i got nervous, then the whole car would have gotten nervous. i jsut kept singing and said a little prayer. after an amen and a few mintues, i felt a overwhelming sense of comfort. and then i heard in my head 'slow down' and 'its ok'. needless to say i was comforted and we got back safely and all in one piece.

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so that was the weekend of fun. i'm really glad i had the oppertunity to have a fun spiritual weekend. i love getting closer to my roommates and just thankful for them and our friendship.

seriously,

kimmah

p.s. 11 days til spring break. : )

Sick of it

Monday brought the plauge.
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as the morning sun rose i woke slowly. i coughed once. not thinking and continued on with my day. just two classes, thats it. no big. i get home and have some lunch cause i was starving! lasagna and a piece of garlic bread. mmmm so tasty. i had felt really tired all day, but i figured it was because i went to bed at 2 that morning.
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we built a fort on sunday. it was epic and glorious and great and i love forts. it was large and spacious and we could fit like 8 people in there, not comfortably mind you, but they could sit in there. actully if we are not caring about comfort, then we could have about 20 people stacked in there. a nice stackable lunch.
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now back to the story of the black plague. so that whole day i was exhausted and tired so i finished as much work as i could and took like 3 naps.
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FLASHFOREWARD
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Tuesday morning i felt soo nausceous. i finally was like, okay. i need to throw up and i need to do it now. so i did. then that continued from around 10 in the morning to 5 30 the following morning, every 20-30 mins, throwing up. really great. loved every second of it. though, shout out to my roommates, they rock. they delt with me smelling up the apartment with vomit and just grossness. they got me meds and fluids and just were overall soo sweet. i truly have the best roommates and i love them and appriciate everything they do for me!!!
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good news of the plague. i lost 8.8 pounds. granted half of that was just water to half of it came back once i hydrated.
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gross new. chocolate milk. if you know you are gonna throw up, drink chocolate milk. it tastes relatively the same going down as when it comes up. yeah gross, but its a proven theory. it also gets rid of the acidic vomit after tastes and helps you relax and sleep between throw ups. so next time you are throwing up like CRAZY! give momma (me) a call and i'll take care of you.
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On that glorious note.
xoxo
kimmah

you should sing tenor! .... ten or eleven miles away!

great joke right?
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but it is relevant, sort of. well the ten part. i ran 10 miles today! yay! outside! yay! in 30 degree weather! yay!
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i wa super pumped. i havent been able enjoy running outside for a while and it is sooooooo much different from the track. first off, there are hills. uh yeah. lots. so my time is a lot different than if i had been on a track. regardless, i am satisfied with my time. 2:06. ish. i say ish, because i am not too sure when i exactly finished 10 miles. but i did finished. i could have stopped. but i did not.
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another fun trivia. my roommates ran with me. i usually do not like running with people, but i didnt mind. we have a understanding, you dont talk and run. it gets you tired a lot faster.
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i got a new bathing suit from old navy. i love O.N. suits. they are made the most comfy materials on earth. i am a tad obsessed with the suit. i couldnt resist it.
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i am gonna make some bean dip. legit bean dip. authentic mexican bean dip. mmmm
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thats it.
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xoxoxo
gg AKA kk

Hocus Focus

San Diego Temple. AKA Disney Princess Dream Castle

Rexburg, Idaho AKA temporary home temple

Los Angeles Temple AKA My home temple

So this week i decided its time to focus on Kimberly Turley. Thats me. not that i have been neglecting myself, but i just havent been taking the best of care. As you can see, these temples are sort of the focus. i try to go the templ every wednesday, so far i have been pretty good. i am so excited to be doing temple work weekly. it is such an amazing experience everytime. i usually go by myself. which, if you have been reading this blog consistently, i love! this is step one on focusing on myself.

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step dos: stop gorging myself like i will never eat again. i can remember feeling so sick so many times this semester just because i have eaten until i literally felt sick. NOT OKAY. sure i work out, but then i get frustrated when i dont see results. well duh.

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step twa: (thats french for three. dont know how to spell it) school. school. school. school. school. school. school. school. school. school. i have not been super focused on my studies. i have good grades, but i havent learned anything. i do what i am told, but i do not focus on what i am doing. so, i am focusing on school.

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step fourth: sleep! ok going to bed at 2 every night. another NOT OKAY. my goal has been 11 o'clock bedtime. going strong so far. except i could not sleep for the life of me last night. woke up every two hours. but i did take a nap, so that was to be expected.

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step up 5: be more happy.

so yay.

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last saturday i ran 8 miles! yay that was fun. i only walked a total or around less than a 1/4 of a mile. so i think that is real swell. i finished at 1 hour 31 mins. i was pumped. i for sure thought it would take me a hour 40. so i am happy with it. i am doing well with keeping on track with my running. i take pride in that. not the bad pride. but the 'i acomplished something good" pride.

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still love Adele. go listen to the song Someone Like You. its great. lovely. divine.

thought provoking question: When Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

you laugh now, but think about it. eh?

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xoxoxo

KK

5 miles and donalds and midgets.

5 miles in 53 mins. i'm lovin' it. speaking of donalds, that sounds tasty. but ney, i shall resist.

bee tee dubs, donalds is short of McDonalds. my nephew, who thinks i am the coolest person ins the entire planet, always says ' hey i wanna go to donalds'. though we tell him countless times that is is McDonalds, he just goes, 'yeah, donalds'. like we dont understand. this kid ceases to amaze me. he is so smart and growing into a regular human every day. then his little brother colby, adorable. one day he will also think i am the coolest ever. my goal: be the favorite aunt. i have some tough competition. my sister nat is pretty awesome. it shall be a bloody fight. but since i have no younger siblings, its weird to watch little kids i know grow up and be little donkers. they just walk around like real people. i think it freaks me out because they remind me of midgets. and midgets scare the CRAP out of me. sorry if you are a midget, but seriously, you scare me. i guess its because i have never known a little person (corrected myself. midget is a negative term in some countries), but since they scare me, i doubt i will ever get to know one. i feel like a midg.....little person is gonna pop out under my desk and kick me. i would do that. anywho. enough.

saturday i run 8 miles. whoooaaah nelly. i have had this blister on my right foot for almost a month and it is just gettting into the final and most painful stages of healing. its like three blisters inside each other because i kept running on it. thank the heavens it did not pain me today. i can only hope that it holds up on saturday.

End.

xoxox
special k

The wait is over

I know you have been in suspence about what my run time was right? well bad news, i didnt run.....

JUST KIDDING!

but seriously i did run. come on, you knew something like that was coming. if not, i apologize for your pants now being moist. ew. moist. hate that word. moist.

so my time as 66-68 mins. i know i said i was giving myself a cushion, and i used it! hahah. i am okay with this time. it was a hard run. but i am proud to say i yaahhgged the whole thing with walking for mere moments. yaahhgged = a slow jog. i was excited to finish. tomorrow i get to 5 miles. we will see how that goes. then saturday..... BA BA BA 8 miles. i am excited.

now for normal people news. i shall go in special character fashion.

~ the new Adele album came out last tuesday and i am obsessed. no joke. i wish i was kidding when i say how much i love Adele. i just want to hug her. she is so stinkin adorable. this is my ode to Adele. if you do not know her, you suck. but i forgive you. you can still make up for it and go and listen. her music is uh-mazing. this will not be the last time i mention Adele, and i am sorry it is the first. Her album 21 literally is my life right now. i was talking to my roommate, bri who is also obsessed, and i was like "Adele how do you know my life right now?" but am i so glad she does? yes. her voice is so emotion-full. there was prob a better way to word that, but she just embodies her songs. i can feel her pain, happiness and triumphs. i love her.

! i just finished the book I Am Number Four. it was a delight! they happen to just make a movie out of it so i am glad to have finished it before i see the movie. its funny, i have always seen this book in good ole B&N and have picked it up, read the covers, held it like a baby, then put it some where back in the store never purchasing it. in my young adult lit class my teacher hands out books to borrow and guess what book she offered last thursday? I Am Number Four. i snatched that thing up so fast. literally. she held it up. before she even said a word, i raised a hand and yelled i wanted it. i feel bad for the girl in front of me, she prob lost her hearing in her right ear. she might have also gotten some saliva in the face. sorry girl. you can come to the movies if you want.

@ thats all for now.

# kimmmaaahhh