Vine Ears

Last nights convo with a sleeping Elliott:

Elliott: Vine Ears
Me: What? Pioneers?
Elliott: Vine Ears
Me: What's that?
(This is where Elliott starts singing some weird crazy song I can't understand. The funniest part of the whole thing)
Elliott: I'm standing up in the basement
Beth: In the basement?
Elliott (annoyed that I'm asking so many questions [which I ask to keep the conversation going of course]) :Yeah geez, you can't hear anything I'm saying?
Beth: Are you awake now?
Elliott (obviously not awake): Basement.
Beth: What?
Elliott (fades of mumbling)
Beth: Okay.

And it doesn't get any better than that. Until next time.

The Story Ark/Christmas/Elliott Talk

If you know Elliott, you know how much he loves radio shows.  He is actually working on starting one on his own. It is called the Story Ark (http://thestoryark.wordpress.com/) and he will be broadcasting on KUTE, the local university radio station. If he can figure it out, he will create a podcast too so anyone can listen. He just finished his first short about the mortuary business and will hopefully post it on his blog soon. Meanwhile, he's looking for good stories to possibly have on the show, so if you have one (and I know everybody has at least one), then go to the Facebook page here, give it the thumbs up, and post it on his wall. It can be one you heard from a friend, funny, sad, anything! The person who posts the best story wins a free American Apparel t-shirt.

It's super comfy and if you don't like this one, Elliott will send you one with a unicorn or your choice of mythical creature.

We are totally behind on Christmas this year. We haven't decorated and still have a lot of shopping to do. To add to the lack of Christmas feeling, it still has not snowing here in SLC. We usually have plenty of snow by now. I'll be happy as long as we get it by the 25th and for months after for good skiing.

Elliott and I had a nice conversation in his sleep the other night:

Elliott: "whisper...whisper..whisper" (he said this in a whisper, of course)
Me: What?
Elliott: "How many whispers do you have?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
Elliott: "Like, do you have a place mat full?" (accompanied by his hands showing me how big a place mat is)
Me: "I have six."
Elliott: Long pause. "That's enough."

Here's some news: I didn't get accepted to any of the graduate programs I applied to this year so it looks like we'll be in SLC for another year! This is good and bad, but overall it's just fine. I'll be building up my resume while Elliott possibly looks into an internship for next year. Meanwhile, we will be here in SLC enjoying
skiing, family, friends, and hopefully learning some new things (like lead climbing).

Elliott Talk

From here on out, whenever I refer to Elliott Talk, I'm talking about the crazy convos we have while he's sleeping. Last nights:

Elliott: (Turns over and starts to pat me on the back) If I do good, can I have your mouth?

Beth: My mouth?

Elliott: No, your mouse

Beth: But I don't have a mouse

Elliott: mumble mumble

Beth: (like always, trying to milk this moment for all it's worth). You can't have it.

Elliott: mumble mumble

And then he fell back asleep.

The FAIL for the week is this video. Elliott and I laughed pretty hard and kept replaying the part where then girl gets totally . laid . out. Do it, it makes it funnier. (Sorry about the advertisement before, wait for it, it's worth it.)

Midnight Conversations

I was up watching Who's Line Is It Anyway? last night. Elliott had been asleep for over an hour when he rolled over to face me, put his arm around me and started talking. Elliott's newest sleep conversation:

Elliott: Teach me how to dye (die?) (wasn't sure which one he was refering to at this point)
Beth: What?
Elliott: Teach me how to dye (die)
Beth: I still can't hear you (I got really close)
Elliott: Seriously? (now getting very annoyed). Teach.me.how.to.dye (die?) (said very slowly as if I didn't speak english.
Beth: What do you mean?
Elliott: Ugh! (still annoyed)
Beth: Like dye t-shirts?
Elliott: Um, yeah.
Beth: Why are you asking me this? Are you even awake?
Elliott: ugh
Beth: Are you awake?
Elliott: Obviously
Beth: I'm just confused why you just turned around and asked me to teach you how to dye things.
Elliott: Ugh
Beth: (after a moment of silence and me trying to prolongue this very entertaining discussion) Do you have anything else to say?
Elliott: Uh, no.
Beth: (laughing) Ok.

*red signifies extreme annoyance and a little arm action and leg kicking

I immediately got up and wrote this convo down so I wouldn't forget. I hope we talk again soon Elliott.

Half Asleep= Completely Entertaining

Today, I woke up trying to turn off Elliott's alarm with the dvd player remote. Not only did it not turn off the alarm, but added the noise of the tv. (I think this happened for two reasons. 1: I was probably dreaming about a really loud tv and trying to turn it off and 2: I usually hear Elliott's alarm before he does).

We both laughed about it later.

I've discovered that sharing a bed can be very entertaining. Especially when it's with someone who falls asleep WAY faster than you (Elliott can usually fall asleep within the minute we stop talking. His record? About 30 seconds). It takes me at least 15-20 minutes before I can fully relax and let everything go. I've heard Elliott talk about many things, including his brothers Alex and Graham. My favorite episode went something like this:

"Alex, don't you...mumble mumble"
"Graham, mumble mumble"
"You know what? You guys suck!"

This was followed by a solid tongue flick. One of those tongue flicks where you stick out your tongue, slightly curl it, and move it from side to side repeatedly.

The best part about it was he was completely out of it and I got to enjoy it by myself.