{beautiful day}

Monday, January 14, 2008

I've Been Tagged!

Courtnie has tagged me in an effort - I believe - to get me blogging again. Well here it goes....

Six things you never knew about Sara Lynn Olds (or maybe you did)

1. My name was originally spelled Sarah Lynn Olds but when my parents received a card from my aunt Kathy congratulating them on the birth of their daughter "Sara Lynn" they like the spelling so much more they changed it.

2. I am shy. I don't know why people don't believe me when I tell them but I am. One year my New Year's Resolution was to just say "Hi" to people I knew as I passed them in the halls at school. Crazy, I know.

3. I was practically tone deaf until I was in high school. Okay maybe tone deaf is a bit of an exaggeration, but my ability to stay on pitch was severly lacking. Don't believe me, ask my parents. They had to the endure years of me singing at the top of my lungs cluelessly off key.

4. I love to drink Diet Coke (okay so not so much of a surprise) while sitting in my car blasting the heat - summer or winter. It is the best feeling ever!

5. Warning: This item may gross you out, so be warned before you read - and don't hold it against me.
I used to have a "claw-toe." When I was little my pinky toe nail was so small it grew like a little claw.

6. I'm an Anglophile. I generally believe most things are better in England - especially in comparison to New York (i.e. the Tube, Hyde Park vs. Central Part, the architecture, taxies etc) and if I had the chance I would move there in a heart beat!...okay maybe two or three heart beats because, as you all know, I am about as indecisive as they come!

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Let me tell you...No, let me sum up...

Since turning in my thesis, though I promised I would, I have not blogged. I have not had the desire to blog. I know it is a fun way to document my life but sometimes I feel like I am wasting time that could be spent living life writing about it.

But inquiring minds want to know, so here are some of the highlights of the past three months.
(pictures to come later)

1. Seeing Young Frankenstein & meeting Sutton Foster
2. Going backstage for Mary Poppins, meeting the cast and making friends with a Southern girl named Emily
3. Thanksgiving in New York
4. Staying at the Waldorf Astoria
5. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
6. Starting my internship at Bloomsbury Auctions
7. An amazing weekend at the Montage
8. Christmas!
9. Mexico
10. Disneyland with my family

Sunday, October 21, 2007

A Committed Relationship

In the past three weeks I have received many calls, texts and messages wondering if I have died or fallen of the face of the earth because I have stopped blogging. Well, I haven't died, nor have I fallen. I have entered into a committed relationship. In fact it is long-term realtionship I have been carring on for quite some time, but in the past few weeks it has gotten a bit more "serious." But I feel the relationship has run its course and it is about time to call it quits. So this Friday I will be ending my relationship with....

William Merritt Chase.

Monday, September 24, 2007

My Not So Beautiful Day...

I just have to share this befuddling and agravating incident that occured today.

This past weekend I went to Utah to visit my sister and my dear friend Megan. It was a very nice visit and the end of my trip came upon me more quickly than I expected. Being in a rush to complete my check list before my departure, I was left to go to the Distribution Center on my way to the airport. After my brief stop I threw my wallet on the front seat of the car so I wouldn't forget it or lock it in the trunk as I had almost done with the keys. Well, little did I know the wallet had bounced off the front seat to the floor. So when I rushed to get all of my belongings out of the car my wallet was left behind.

It was no more than five minutes later, when I was standing at the ticket counter, that I realized my wallet was gone. Afraid I was going to miss my flight I ran back to the rental agency to get my wallet but the car was gone. I found the agent who helped me return the car who then instructed me to talk to another agent. Time elapsed 10 minutes.

This agent radioed the remote location where the car was being cleaned and asked them to look for the wallet and return it. He then informed me that they were coming back with the wallet.

Elapsed time 15 minutes.

When the wallet returned to our location the agent handed it to me and asked if it looked okay. I was rather befuddled and panicked by the question considering the wallet had been out of my presence no more than 15 minutes and had only been in the rental vehical - and I was about to miss my flight. But when I looked at the wallet I immediately noticed something was wrong. My wallet was open and ALL of my money was gone! Literally all of it. Even my old and rare $10 and $20 bills that I had hidden in my wallet were gone. The only thing that was left was a $10 bill that was mixed in with my receipts.

I just can't believe this happened. The only saving grace is that I think Enterprise is going to refund me the money. I hope they do!

Saturday, September 15, 2007

The big O!

I few years ago my friend Brianna was in a car accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down but since that time she has done some pretty amazing things. She has performed at the VMA's, written a book and now she is the new O girl for Overstock.com. She is even featured in her own Overstock.com commercial. Talk about not letting life get you down!