1. My sister was a very talented writer. She didn't even have to try. She had one of her english papers submitted by one of her professors to the New Era. They bought the story and paid her for it. I don't know if it has been published yet- I don't thin it has. I thought that was pretty cool.
2. Yang was always ready to laugh at herself. She never took herself too seriously. She was most always laughing.
3. My sister loved milk. I've never been a huge fan of the stuff, but yang would drink milk with anything. She used to love to drink a glass of milk and eat a piece of white bread before bed.
4. My sister had gorgeous thick hair. I was always jealous because mine was so thin- like my daddy's. Yang got my mom's hair.
5. Even though we were 4 years apart we got asked if we were twins. People would go on an on about how we looked alike. Which then made us sit in front of our vanity and examine all the differences in our looks. Different people see different things-funny.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
January 8th
1. My sister loved the Training Table. She was all about their cheese fries with fry sauce of course and the chicken salad with artichoke hearts. When she was the only one living out there and we would go for a visit she would always want to take us to Training Table for cheese fries.
2. My sister was really good at "doing as the Romans do". It took her just a week at Academy for Girls at BYU when she was 14 or so to start talking like a Utahan. It was funny. The first thing she said to us when we picked her up was "Hiyee you Guyees".
3. My sister was drum major her senior year. She loved it. The band director loved her too.
4. To know my sister was to love her. There weren't many people that yang knew that didn't like her. If they didn't like her- they were usually psycho.
5. My sister had a major fear of diving that took her a while to get over. I remember when we first got our swimming pool she was 14- she was still trying to make herself go head first into the water. I never understood that one :)
2. My sister was really good at "doing as the Romans do". It took her just a week at Academy for Girls at BYU when she was 14 or so to start talking like a Utahan. It was funny. The first thing she said to us when we picked her up was "Hiyee you Guyees".
3. My sister was drum major her senior year. She loved it. The band director loved her too.
4. To know my sister was to love her. There weren't many people that yang knew that didn't like her. If they didn't like her- they were usually psycho.
5. My sister had a major fear of diving that took her a while to get over. I remember when we first got our swimming pool she was 14- she was still trying to make herself go head first into the water. I never understood that one :)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Jan 7th
1. My sister was way into Bath and Body Works. She loved country apple- she had the body creams, body wash, body splash etc. After we got ready to go somewhere her whole room, apartment, house whatever was just inundated with country apple.
2. She was all about different kinds of paper. She had a billion little different pads of paper or stationery here and there. She loved pens too. She loved having cute paper and a cool pen to write on it with.
3. My sister loved sushi. YUCK!! I went with her once to a sushi bar. She had all kinds of tuna and other raw yuckiness. But, the nastiest thing was the octopus soup she ate. It had little tentacles in it with the suckers and everything. I couldn't believe she could eat that stuff.
4. Yang was always in style in high school. I remember she would come out with the big huge bangs that were so popular and I would call her 3 story high bang Yang. She would also do the big cobra sides. Remember when it was cool to puff out the sides of your hair to look like the head of a cobra? I wonder when that will come back into style. blagh.
5.She played the flute and piccolo in the band. She was always first chair- I think there was one time when she didn't make first chair for some reason beyond her control and she was really upset about it. That's how she was about everything- she had to be the best or not do it at all.
2. She was all about different kinds of paper. She had a billion little different pads of paper or stationery here and there. She loved pens too. She loved having cute paper and a cool pen to write on it with.
3. My sister loved sushi. YUCK!! I went with her once to a sushi bar. She had all kinds of tuna and other raw yuckiness. But, the nastiest thing was the octopus soup she ate. It had little tentacles in it with the suckers and everything. I couldn't believe she could eat that stuff.
4. Yang was always in style in high school. I remember she would come out with the big huge bangs that were so popular and I would call her 3 story high bang Yang. She would also do the big cobra sides. Remember when it was cool to puff out the sides of your hair to look like the head of a cobra? I wonder when that will come back into style. blagh.
5.She played the flute and piccolo in the band. She was always first chair- I think there was one time when she didn't make first chair for some reason beyond her control and she was really upset about it. That's how she was about everything- she had to be the best or not do it at all.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
January 6th
1. My sister loved to fish. My dad would take us fishing all together and it was just mayhem trying to fish with 4 or more people in the boat all casting at the same time. We loved it just because we were together and there were always good snacks. My sister really loved to fish though- she could sit and be patient and then she would practically turn over the boat when she would set her hook and start reeling in.
2. Whenever she sang in the car she would hold her hand like she was holding a microphone and then stick up her thumb for the tip of the microphone. Actually this was when she sang anywhere- the car, the grocery store, the living room...she would always sing into her thumb. hehehehe
3. She had this same funky dance thing she would do in the car when she was driving- and if you were in the car with yang...she was driving!!! She would scrunch up her shoulders and bend her arms at the elbows and then kind of shake around- hard to explain in words, but she always did it- it was fun to make fun of.
4. She always had to drive!! Whenever she was the passenger she was miserable. She never felt safe with anybody else driving except for my dad.
5. My sister made the best blanket houses. We would make blanket houses on Sunday afternoons outside in a tree. They were awesome. We'd turn them into drive-thrus, grocery stores- anything we could think of.
Oh and I've been corrected- To correct one of my recent Yang lists- she got a full-tuition scholarship to BYU not a half. Yeah she was pretty good.
I love to think about how my sister was before she got sick. Thinking about the last 10 months of her life makes me really depressed. She passed away right before Taylor's second birthday and so Taylor learned really early whenever she sees me crying she knows I miss Aunt Yang Yang. She always has to ask though, "You just miss Aunt Yang Yang?" Every once in a while Taylor will say- I wish Aunt Yang Yang were here. I don't know how much she remembers of her, but she took right to her. They met for the first time when Taylor was 9 months. They were immediately best buds.
I just have to say - everybody should thank their lucky stars for their sisters. We were best friends and loved being together...I can't believe I have to wait so long to see her again.
2. Whenever she sang in the car she would hold her hand like she was holding a microphone and then stick up her thumb for the tip of the microphone. Actually this was when she sang anywhere- the car, the grocery store, the living room...she would always sing into her thumb. hehehehe
3. She had this same funky dance thing she would do in the car when she was driving- and if you were in the car with yang...she was driving!!! She would scrunch up her shoulders and bend her arms at the elbows and then kind of shake around- hard to explain in words, but she always did it- it was fun to make fun of.
4. She always had to drive!! Whenever she was the passenger she was miserable. She never felt safe with anybody else driving except for my dad.
5. My sister made the best blanket houses. We would make blanket houses on Sunday afternoons outside in a tree. They were awesome. We'd turn them into drive-thrus, grocery stores- anything we could think of.
Oh and I've been corrected- To correct one of my recent Yang lists- she got a full-tuition scholarship to BYU not a half. Yeah she was pretty good.
I love to think about how my sister was before she got sick. Thinking about the last 10 months of her life makes me really depressed. She passed away right before Taylor's second birthday and so Taylor learned really early whenever she sees me crying she knows I miss Aunt Yang Yang. She always has to ask though, "You just miss Aunt Yang Yang?" Every once in a while Taylor will say- I wish Aunt Yang Yang were here. I don't know how much she remembers of her, but she took right to her. They met for the first time when Taylor was 9 months. They were immediately best buds.
I just have to say - everybody should thank their lucky stars for their sisters. We were best friends and loved being together...I can't believe I have to wait so long to see her again.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Jan 5th
1. My sister loved peanut butter, banana and marshmallow sandwiches. Blagh.
2. My sister loved every kind of craft or art form there is. She took a basket weaving class at BYU and we teased her mercilessly. She made the coolest, nicest baskets. She also took a pottery class- those pieces aren't as nice as the baskets :) sorry gert :)
3. My sister was good at everything she did. She usually taught herself anything she wanted to learn how to do. She taught herself to crochet and then taught me. I have an afghan I still haven't finished because I don't have my sister to show me the stitch-- show me how to start and how to finish :)
4. My sister loved cheese on her whoppers. I always gave her a hard time about asking for cheese on her whoppers. We used to walk to the Burger King down from campus in the mid-mornings when she worked at BYU. They served burgers all day and we would go have an early lunch and sit and drink and drink and drink Dr. Pepper. MMMMmmmm dr. pepper.
5. She said about 5 curse words in her life. They were all directed at my older brother. Those two were always at it. They were so competitive with each other- I guess that comes from being only 18 months apart and both are annoyingly brilliant :)
2. My sister loved every kind of craft or art form there is. She took a basket weaving class at BYU and we teased her mercilessly. She made the coolest, nicest baskets. She also took a pottery class- those pieces aren't as nice as the baskets :) sorry gert :)
3. My sister was good at everything she did. She usually taught herself anything she wanted to learn how to do. She taught herself to crochet and then taught me. I have an afghan I still haven't finished because I don't have my sister to show me the stitch-- show me how to start and how to finish :)
4. My sister loved cheese on her whoppers. I always gave her a hard time about asking for cheese on her whoppers. We used to walk to the Burger King down from campus in the mid-mornings when she worked at BYU. They served burgers all day and we would go have an early lunch and sit and drink and drink and drink Dr. Pepper. MMMMmmmm dr. pepper.
5. She said about 5 curse words in her life. They were all directed at my older brother. Those two were always at it. They were so competitive with each other- I guess that comes from being only 18 months apart and both are annoyingly brilliant :)
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Funny Realization
My little brother and I had a funny realization this last summer. I always knew something didn't seem right about the way I stood. Well, I figured it out- my freaking arms are turned wrong. When I stand with my arms by my side- my forearms face out in front of me. Normally- your arms would fall gracefully at your sides with forearms, wrists, and the tops of your hands facing to the opposite sides of the room. Well, not mine and oh- not my little brothers'. We look like freaking gorillas. On males it doesn't look as strange- I keep telling him. He played football and has the gorilla physique (not fat, Page, just built) to go with the freakishly turned arms- Me no matter how much weight I lose or how much I work out I'll always have gorilla turned arms. Thanks daddy- I know it has to be one of your genes. Check yourself out and let me know just how freaky we are in my poll- thanks
ps Glen do you have this?
ps Glen do you have this?
January 4th, Sister list
1. My sister had gorgeous light green eyes. They were almost yellow. She got tons of compliments on them. My dad has brown eyes and my mom has green and she just knew all her children would have brown eyes. Nope, we all have green. I think Yang got the most compliments on her's though.
2. She served a spanish speaking mission in Louisville, Kentucky when she was 26. She loved the people and they loved her. She would get calls from several of her friends from her mission on her cell phone daily. She would start talking a mile a minute in spanish- she said she used to think about spanish so much it would make her head hurt, but she was determined to speak the language and speak it well.
3. My sister was extremely intelligent. She got a half tuition scholarship for her first semester. She really wanted the Benson Scholarship- but she was 1 point shy on her ACT's to qualify. I can remember her crying after getting her ACT results. She started out as pre-med- she wanted to be an OBGYN. After she decided that boy watching was much more fun (as most of us do) she tried several different majors, but ended up in Marriage, Family, Human Development.
4. I never really realized how boy crazy my sister was until I read some of her journal after she passed away. There was a different boy on every page :) There was a boy in high school who was one of the cutest, smartest, sweetest guys ever. My sister and he were very much alike and he really liked her. She liked him too, but I never knew how much until years later. She told me she really had liked him, but he wasn't LDS. She told me she had cried buckets of tears over that one.
5. She only kissed one boy her whole life. I know she really regreted it too because he turned out to be a SUPER dipsmack!!!
2. She served a spanish speaking mission in Louisville, Kentucky when she was 26. She loved the people and they loved her. She would get calls from several of her friends from her mission on her cell phone daily. She would start talking a mile a minute in spanish- she said she used to think about spanish so much it would make her head hurt, but she was determined to speak the language and speak it well.
3. My sister was extremely intelligent. She got a half tuition scholarship for her first semester. She really wanted the Benson Scholarship- but she was 1 point shy on her ACT's to qualify. I can remember her crying after getting her ACT results. She started out as pre-med- she wanted to be an OBGYN. After she decided that boy watching was much more fun (as most of us do) she tried several different majors, but ended up in Marriage, Family, Human Development.
4. I never really realized how boy crazy my sister was until I read some of her journal after she passed away. There was a different boy on every page :) There was a boy in high school who was one of the cutest, smartest, sweetest guys ever. My sister and he were very much alike and he really liked her. She liked him too, but I never knew how much until years later. She told me she really had liked him, but he wasn't LDS. She told me she had cried buckets of tears over that one.
5. She only kissed one boy her whole life. I know she really regreted it too because he turned out to be a SUPER dipsmack!!!
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