Just call me Marian

That's right! I'm gonna be a librarian! I got accepted to Simmons College in Boston! I actually got into the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Mmhmm, and how! :)

I thought I'd take a moment and reflect on our many influential librarians. First off is Marian from The Music Man. Then there's the scene in the library at the beginning of the first Ghostbusters movie. You have the older librarian, played by Alice Drummond (who's been in tons of stuff). THEN, there's the ghost librarian. I love when they're down in the stacks trying to catch her..."Hee hee hee! "Get her!" That was your whole plan, huh, "get her." Very scientific." Love that movie.

Then there's Evelyn in one of my favorite movies The Mummy. I love the part where she's drunk...

Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I... am a librarian.

Here's a funny clip from Weird Al's movie UHF:

A fun mosaic!

At the top we've got a cool wagon thing, then next to it is one of the first Maytag washing machines, then there's a cool room all Victorian style, on the bottom left is a rock that Kit Carson wrote his name on, then a cool old stove...all found at the Fairview Museum!

Fairview Museum

I'm currently in a Public History class, talking about Oral Histories, museums, archives...that sort of thing, and for one of the requirements we're supposed to visit different museums. With spring break, I wanted to do something fun, but all my roommates go to BYU...which means no spring break! Ahh! But luckily, my friend Scot agreed to go down to good 'ol Sanpete County with me, to Fairview, to visit the Fairview Museum of History and Art...

and apparently the home to the National Shrine of Love and Devotion?!? Wha?! Come to find out, all the love and devotion was about this Fairview couple who lived long enough to celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary! Woah! There was a statue of them too, done by this guy...

Arvard T. Fairbanks...well that's not really him, that's his statue of Abraham Lincoln...but yeah, among his more noteable subjects, he immortalized the old love and devotion couple as well. So we learned that Fairbanks married a Fairview native, and went back later and bought the school house (where the museum is now located) to use as his studio. When the school house was bought by the museum, he let them keep all his casts, models and rough sculptures. You can see more of his work here.

There was a lot of cool things to see. I love this artwork. They used to have some of this same artist's work in the Ephraim Public Library.

See, the museum is pretty cool, considering it's in middle-of-no-where Utah.

I love the beautiful mountains!

Christmas with Lukas

Lukas came to Utah and spent Christmas break with me. We followed Kuligowski tradition and made Polish perogies! They turned out really good. We made LOTS. Even Matt was willing to try them and liked them!

In the powdered sugar covered Utah mountains lies...

Soldier Hollow!

Lukas and I went tubing. It was great, it had a rope tow up the hill...so all you had to do was sit on the way up, and sit on the way down. The perfect winter activity!

Magical Temple Square

On Monday, DeRae, Matt, Lukas and I went up to Salt Lake to look at the lights at Temple Square. Here is documentation:

"Wow! Look at those killer icicles!!"

"Killer icicles?! I worship killer icicles!"

This is the pretty Little Mermaid fountain. I took the picture and thought it was magnificent and wonderful...but it came out masterful...go figure

The magical floating nativity with the magical floating candles

DeRae and Matt livin' it up

Matt and his magical reflecting coat on a snowed-in bench

Look at all those lights! It's amazing!!

Lukas and I...one of these things is not like the other...

We made Matt frolic through the trees...well I suggested it, and he was all over it.

Porcine Pals

My favorite part of our Best Friends Animal Sanctuary stay was working with the potbellied pigs. Matt and I had a lot of fun and learned a lot about these unique pets. Did you know they are smarter than dogs? And cleaner too! They designate one area of their area as the "bathroom", whereas with dogs...well, that's not always the case.

We started out on a tour of the pig pens, and then worked on getting dinner ready. We chopped lettuce, added food pellets and vegetables. Than we took Sprocket on a walk. He was a cute little pig. He was young, so he still had a few good years of growing. We than went around and gave all the pigs a snack--Popcorn! The pigs loved it.

We then took Naniue on a walk. Naniue means beautiful in Hawaiian. She was a lot of fun. She kept up with us, thanks to the Shredded Wheat.

The Walking of the Pigs

Little Hollywood

Who knew that Kanab, a southern Utah town, was once known as "Little Hollywood"? Kanab was the place to film western movies cuz of all the landscape. The big red rock formations are stunning! I loved it! These pictures don't do it justice. The city's website has better pictures.




But with Kanab's place in cinema history, they have to have a way to commemorate it, right? You know it!! My cousin Matt and I had a lot of fun looking at the different sets...as our pictures will tell you.

We started out by breaking into a house where the Rat Pack filmed some western. We sat on the bed, but it was uncomfortably wet...

Well the sheriff caught us in the Rat Pack house, and took us to the big house...the clink...jail that is. Luckily we made some new friends.

But justice was swift, and I was tried and hung, and faked my death.

Why fake my death? To get Matt out of jail of course!!