I was sorry to leave my job at StoresOnline because I made friends there with whom I became pretty much obsessed--Stacey Gonzalez AKA Gomez and Alicia Hupp AKA Aleesiahh. We had some good times keeping up on the company gossip, talking about going on diets but ordering Fiery Hawaiian pizza from Dominos instead, having girl's nights and playing Beatles Rockband (amazing) with weird popcorn concoctions, watching Modern Family/The Office instead of working, warding off company creepers AKA Mark, and pretty much laughing together all the time. They took me to my favorite restaurant (long live Bangkok Grill) for my last day of work. I now expect them to write me regularly on my mission concerning their pregnancy and boyfriend, respectively. Thanks to StoresOnline, I was able to finish paying for my mission in full. Ooo-OOH!!! (Baby Mama style).
Blessing our food...After finishing my job, I spent a week doing nothing but preparing for Freeze Fest. Mother Nature decided she didn't like our idea of building snowmen on campus to hold our posters, so she kept it snowless that week. Luckily, Bob the BYU groundsman came to the rescue and took us into the deep dark abyss underneath the BYU bleachers and provided us an entire army of creepy styrofoam snowmen previously used for some independent film and then donated to BYU. Does anyone else think that's kind of weird? But I'm not complaining. Pretty sure everyone on campus was frightened into attending Freeze Fest.
Needless to say, Freeze Fest was a success. Kendra and I about fell over by the end of the night, but it was worth it. Plus, I got to lick the swan ice sculpture and tie Cosmo's ice skates.
To quote her, these are the things we accomplished:
We had an ice sculpture. It was a swan...obviously!
We used 48 strands of icicle lights to decorate the facility.
Cosmo was there in his blue Santa Suit. He LOVED us!
We had a cheesy sweater contest. The finals contestants had to do a walk off and I loved it.
We had two service projects going on. What better way to get in the Christmas spirit than with service right? That is what I thought as well.
We had a Hot Chocolate bar. Complete with flavor shots, creamers (7/11 style), nutmeg and cinnamon, candy canes to stir, and to top it all off, spray whipped cream! It dominated everything.
We had an AMAZING dance party! Thanks to the best DJ(s) in town!! Mark Boothe from MBX-treme! I absolutely adore him and Logan was also there to help out! Thanks guys!
We had sugar cookie decorating. 375 dozen sugar cookies to be frosted with 175 pounds of butter cream frosting. Mmmm.
Last but not least, we had ice skating and broom hockey ridiculously enjoyed by all who participated! We accommodated close to 2,000 people for ice skating and even more than that for broom hockey! Thank you so much to Ice Peaks employees who helped out so much this whole evening!
We had an ice sculpture. It was a swan...obviously!
We used 48 strands of icicle lights to decorate the facility.
Cosmo was there in his blue Santa Suit. He LOVED us!
We had a cheesy sweater contest. The finals contestants had to do a walk off and I loved it.
We had two service projects going on. What better way to get in the Christmas spirit than with service right? That is what I thought as well.
We had a Hot Chocolate bar. Complete with flavor shots, creamers (7/11 style), nutmeg and cinnamon, candy canes to stir, and to top it all off, spray whipped cream! It dominated everything.
We had an AMAZING dance party! Thanks to the best DJ(s) in town!! Mark Boothe from MBX-treme! I absolutely adore him and Logan was also there to help out! Thanks guys!
We had sugar cookie decorating. 375 dozen sugar cookies to be frosted with 175 pounds of butter cream frosting. Mmmm.
Last but not least, we had ice skating and broom hockey ridiculously enjoyed by all who participated! We accommodated close to 2,000 people for ice skating and even more than that for broom hockey! Thank you so much to Ice Peaks employees who helped out so much this whole evening!
All in all, it was a new record for people at Freeze Fest and that makes us, as Event Leads, ridiculously happy and proud of our advertising (however creepy it may have been)! :)
I love my wonderful friend/partner in crime, Kendra. Thanks for making it a success!
Once that was over, I flew to Arizona to bid farewell to some family down there...and feel that last bit of warmth for 18 months...then returned to Utah for my Russian Bootyshake Dance Party Goodbye Extravaganza 2009. Thanks to Jay's massive speakers, Herb's knowledge of how to set them up, and Grooveshark.com's amazing ability to find every song I desire, from Ratatat to Beastie Boys to MSTRKRFT to Lady GaGa to Jay-Z, and play it in lovely succession, we had our entire apartment crammed full with hip hoppin' people the entire night. It was beautiful.
Now I am officially moved home and working on finishing some books, studying Russian, preparing a talk, and getting all of my shtuff together so that I'm ready to hit up Russia for some serious preaching. Get ready, my dear Muscovites!
