gabrielle's favorite things.

so, oprah can have a "favorite things" show, why shouldn't i have a "favorite things" blog?! so today i got together some of my favorite things and took pics of them. i am included in some of the pics of course, which my mother thought was ridiculous. but at the end of the day, i am who i am, which is a frigging ham bone. let the favorite things begin...


today i took malleri, merissa, ella, ike, and meg to peter piper pizza. favorite thing #1: my kittens, favorite thing #2: peter piper pizza.


this is ella bella who has become my most favorite pal. she is adorable, has the sweetest voice, and she lobes me. and i lobe her.
this is merissa with her pizza. i love merissa because she always gives me a hug when she sees me. even when i am not looking my best.
this is meg. meg is one of the few people who can keep up with me verbally. if you don't know what that means, then you need to spend more time with me AND meg.
isaac. he is five. and he tells EVERYONE. and i love that, because i would love to just walk around and tell everyone what i think they should know about myself. for example: "i like sparkly things." today ike told me the best thing i have ever heard from a man (sadly, it came from a boy). he grabbed my hand and said, "gabby, if i was a cat, i would choose you as my owner." so basically, i want to marry ike. i can wait.
this is my whole party. connor's face looks sour, but he really had a good time. he was a good sport, he even let ike have the front seat on the ride over. ike's argument was "five year olds get to have the front". who can argue with that?!
me and malleri. i asked if we should do pretty face or silly face and she chose silly. funny how she still looks pretty.
ok, see, this is another reason i love meg. because who else does ridiculous faux gang signals with me? no one, that's who.
me and merissa. i want braces. i was practically the only one without them!!
ok, my face is frightening here, but ella?! why does she have to be so adorable. it is criminal how adorable she is. i am going to kidnap her one day. she won't even know that she is being kidnapped on account of she thinks i am "safe people". don't worry, i'll feed her and take her to the zoo. we'll have blasties.
malleri and her pizza. i also must add how all three nuttall girls love ranch on their pizza. just like aunt gabby!
malleri and merissa and an interloper. this girl wanted to BE malleri and merissa. she followed them around and kept tapping on their shoulders and saying "hi".
meg and merissa? could be malleri. if i can't see the hair, i can't tell. not gonna lie.
ok, people. here's where the big guns start. i bought myself a camp rock towel. scratch that. my mom bought me a camp rock towel. why? because i want to dry off with joe jonas every day.
my school supplies for the next school year. hannah montana and high school musical!! favorite things.... office supplies, hannah montana, and high school musical. can i just say that hannah montana can not be held responsible for what that skank miley cyrus is doing right now.
mumus that can be passed off as summer dresses. two of my favorite things in one: summer dresses and mumus. could life get any better?! i submit that it cannot.
ok, my camp rock pillow case. all three jo bros. don't worry about demi lovato in the center there, i am going to super impose my face over hers. i'll keep her body.
JOE JONAS!! sweet dreams, gabrielle.
that cute little pink thing on the left (your left, not mine) is my computer. or what is left of my computer. all my pics, music, and writing from the last two years lies within that little pink mess. and on the right is my favourite movie... penelope. why is it my favourite? two words: james mcavoy.
there's my new phone folks. the tricksters at verizon helped me purchase this bad boy today. i'm super thrilled to have my electronic life back.

may i also add that, though i do not have the pictures to document, the following people have my heart right now: kenny, brad, and leslie. i am actually on the phone with kenny and brad right now (i am on speaker over in ny) and the conversation is really quite ridiculous. can i also add that d.w. (my mom) is obsessed with david sedaris. like badly. everytime we have a conversation, she finds a way to bring it back to sedaris. it is ridiculous.


also people, i am a saint, have you heard? i gave a man $4 today so he could get a tank of gas to go to the hospital to see his dad and after i did the good deed, d.w. informed me that i was hornswaggled by this guy. here i was, near tears over this man's dying mother, and then there's d.w., cold, hard, b. so i said "d.w., even if he was lying, Jesus just gave me a tally mark. and if, like you say, that man was lying, Jesus just took five tally marks away from him." so who really wins? me.
oh, and side note, kenny is lol-ing to me right now over the phone telling me a story about a man who lives in a 1993 van. minus five for kenny.

hope you loved my favorite things, because i do. i am off to bed now to sleep with joe jonas.



love, gabrielle.

tilly and the wall

this past saturday i went to the tilly and the wall concert with chanel and leslie. we had blasties sweating babies while crammed in the small "venue" known as the modified. i think chanel was getting frustrated with lester and i because we wouldn't stop talking in accents- first british and then minnesotan. and then we started talking about politics... don't ask me how bc i know not. lester is the funnest to discuss poli's with though, bc she is super smart- just like me.

woah, i have more bad news. so, my computer broke last week, right? right. and today, my cell phone broke. isn't that lovely?! well it's not. i am BROKE as a JOKE... i am in serious need of some cabbage and i mean the green stuff, not midgets. seriously, whose computer breaks down and then five days later their phone breaks?! THIS GIRLS!! so if anyone wants to make donations to, uh, me... call me.

brad and angie had their babies. i don't know how many of you follow those people, but i happen to think they are fascinating, and i cannot wait to see those little twins. she had a boy and a girl via c-section on saturday night. she named them knox leon (boy) and vivienne marcheline (girl). the bidding for the first pics of the twins is already up to $16 million which they are donating 100% to charity. yeah, they are amazing people i'm pretty sure.

sorry this blog is boring. i really just wanted to get those pictures posted before i lose them. har har... NOT.

love, gabrielle.

i don't know where i am, i don't know where i've been but i know where i WANT to go...

so my computer is still at the geek doctor, i haven't even heard back from them yet (wonder if i should be concerned?) well, anyways, i still don't have my oregon pics :(
side note: it has occurred to me lately that i may be one of those people who use those emoticons... like the parenthesis smiley face. is it a parenthesis? is it a smiley? ya, i am just realizing how lame i can actually be. as if the pictures of myself weren't proof enough, folks... we now have parenthesmileys to verify my L7-ness.
anyways, not much else to say other than i am sick with a summer cold (boooooo). i'm actually just really relieved that i didn't have it in oregon b/c that would have been shasta mc nasty if i was coughing and sniffling the whole time. so very very UNsexy. although i may have sealed my UNsexiness when i wore my owl mumu to bed. it is so sad to me that something i love so much can be so shunned and not accepted by society. but like i always say, if a man can't handle me IN my mumu, he probably cannot handle me OUT of my mumu, and if that is the case, was he really a man to begin with? shouldn't that be like, stitched on a pillow or something? or at least on a bumper sticker.
that is all i have to say for now. i just finished making TEN mixes for my michael and i must send them off to oregon vair vair soon. i am pretty much the best mix maker in the whole YOU ESS of EH, no lie. do you love how i am doing all of this computer madness via my daddy's laptop? well i do. i am working from a mac and i usually work from a p.c. i know, i am ashamed. i cannot wait to get my new laptop though. then i can be back to my old self.
lateskys!
love, gabrielle.


p.s. these are pictures of my hair which i coloured and cut all by myself last week before i left for oregon. let's see how many more times i can say oregon in this blog..... OREGON!



















"this is the first day of my life,
i'm glad i didn't die before i met you.
but now i don't care, i could go anywhere with you
and i'd probably be happy.
so if you want to be with me...
with these things, there's no telling,
WE'LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.
but i'd rather be working for a paycheck,
than waiting to win the lottery.
besides, maybe THIS TIME IT'S DIFFERENT,
i mean i really think you'll like me."

lost time...

And a heart that grieves
Gets lost in everything.
And a heart in need
Finds hope in anything.

If it's all just luck,
It was tough enough,
And if we lost some time,
Then we'll make it up.

Let's make it up.

watch it all come crashing down...

so yesterday in the middle of making a mix cd, my computer shut off. and it wouldn't turn back on. so, the real kicker of the whole shebang is that i had just put all of my pictures from the past week onto my computer... the american idol concert, all my pics from oregon, etc. so i start to have a tizz (enter: psychotic gabby) on account of my life is gone. all my stories, music, photos... everything. and really, i can hate no one but myself for not backing any of that stuff up. anyways i took it to geek squad today and i decided that, since i was getting a new laptop at the end of the summer anyways, i would just not fix it. it is going to cost anywhere from $100-$800 to fix the machine, so it's like.... what's the frigging point? i just had mr. geek squad man transfer all of my life onto this bubblegum pink hard drive. i thought maybe the fact that it was bubblegum pink would make me like it more, but i was still less than thrilled that i had to pay $100 for it. i also have to pay geek man to transfer all of my stuff from the laptop to the bubblegum, which costs $160. which is actually great, you know, because that's what i wanted to pay, so... i win. or not because this really really sucks. i am going to be without a computer for possibly a couple of months until september when i get my new one. i would say at that point i will post my pics from the american idol concert and oregon, except by that time i don't even know if i will want to post them. i will try to keep writing since i have access to a desktop computer, i probably just won't have any pictures for a while. which, i know, isn't the worst thing.

if there was something that should be known about the concert/my trip that i could say without posting pictures, it would be that the american idol concert was amazing. truly, it was. i had so much fun with my mom and our other friends that we went with. all of the idols did really well, with the exception of only one or two who just really didn't seem comfortable on stage.

as far as oregon goes, there's not much i can say about it at this moment, i am still a bit overwhelmed. what i can say is that there are a few moments in my life where i can remember thinking to myself that i am truly happy. that's not to say that i am not a generally happy person, because i love my life and i love the people in my life and i am quite happy for the most part. but there are some distinct moments that occur in life when everything is perfect- the people you are with, the sounds, the colors, the smells... everything is amazing. it is in those moments that i become very aware of how lucky i am to be in this world and to be able to associate myself with certain people. that being said, i had TWO of those moments last weekend in oregon. two. that is a pretty amazing ratio since i was only there four days. that means that 50% of my time there was amazing. i haven't been one to cry much lately, but i did a fricking heck of alot of it last weekend, so operation: scare everyone into thinking i am an emotional mess was a complete success. hooray. i guess that is why i was so sad to leave. i felt part of something, part of a group, i belonged. i was wanted, accepted. and the whole time, i was just me. i didn't have to pretend to be someone else, because who i am was good enough. it was better than good enough. and coming home after all that, it just kind of felt... sad, i guess? i don't know how to explain it with english words. i just miss that feeling. i miss it already.

TAGGED.

three joys:
1. drinking dr. pepper straight from the can. nothing burns quite as nice as dr. p from the can. and by "can" i do NOT mean toily.
2. playing super mario brothers- old school style. i usually do that wearing a mumu which is also a joy of mine. so... double prizes.
3. talking to mike on the phone. no explanation for that one, really. we just make nonsense on the phone and it makes me happy.

three fears:
1. LOSING A TOOTH. yikes! worst fear ever. my brother knocked my tooth once and i felt like it was gonna come out and literally... my world stopped. i was like "hold the phone, sister just lost a tooth!"
2. telling someone i love them and having them look at me like "woah! we're just friends!" right, like that's ever happened... haha.
3. becoming a spinster a.k.a. cat lady a.k.a. the "cool" aunt. haha only kidding. i really don't have a third fear that i can think of except maybe not being able to beat mario. that plagues me daily. i am constantly squashing goombas and shooting fire out of my mouth in my dreams.

three goals:
1. woah boy.... isn't everyone's goal to lose weight? maybe with the exception of the olson twins... i think we all think we need to lose weight. the difference with me being the fact that i actually do need to lose it. i could probably lose a small child and be alright. by "small child" i mean 50 lbs.
2. save money.... bah hahahaha. like fun that's happening.
3. be a good person. all the time. not gripe so much. urgh. sometimes i vent too much. and i have to tell myself to shut up.

three current obsessions/collections:
only three?! hahah jk.
1. felicity on dvd. if you don't know what t.v. series i am talking about, shame on you. it is AMAZING. it is so my life sometimes, it's not even funny. it is my life with prettier people, who doesn't want to watch that?!
2. tanning. help that. i am a gingerbread man pretty much. maybe one step away from being beef jerky. only kidding, i won't let it get that bad, but i am definately tannorexic. my mom has given me an intervention on numerous occasions. but guess where i'm headed in oh, about 10 minutes?! TO TAN!
3. helter skelter. ok i KNOW it sounds crazy, b/c the whole story of helter skelter IS actually crazy, but i am pretty fascinated by this whole thing. mainly b/c i just found out about it like two weeks ago when i was watching a documentary on roman polanski. i really honestly had no idea this went on. the story of the murders and trial is fascinating to me. weird people fascinate me. who knows about that one?

three random/surprising facts about... me:
1. does number 3 up there count? um... no? ok then. mt grandma's dog bit my lip off when i was 2. i have the huge scar to prove it. the worst thing anyone ever said to me was "why do you have that scar? were you a hare lip?" ok, first of all, no. and second of all, no. who asks that?! honestly. and to be real, it wasn't the worst thing that someone asked me, but it was a close second to "why do you have a mustache?" hahah kidding... maybe.
2. i am writing a book. i won't elaborate on that one. i'll just say that it's happening and there's not much anyone can do about it.
3. i want to meet a person (preferrably male) one day who will describe me as "hauntingly beautiful" and "adorable". that makes it sound weirder than it is, really. i just have always wanted to be those two things. ever since i was little. i even wrote it in my journal from like seventh grade. oh, hey! that is also one of my goals! think about it... how cute would it be if someone told you they adored you? because you were adorable?! shut up.


ok, no one reads this blog lately, so people probly won't even know they've been tagged. but here it goes, friends. I TAG (AND YOU BETTER DO IT OR NO CHRISTMAS CARD THIS YEAR!!) MELISSA, KAREN, RYAN, NICHOLE, AND KIM. do you guys think you can handle it?!


love, gabrielle.

utah.

dear utah,
we've known each other a long time now, and i'm not going to lie, you still creep me out. namely the way everyone's backyard connects and the fact that your cemetaries don't have fences and are located in the middle of neighborhoods (hello, pleasant grove?). but i will give you a pass since you are the home of so many wonderful things... just to name a few: the cirque lodge (celebrity rehab, anyone?), sundance, strawberry days, the purple turtle, the italian place, brick oven, high school musical 3, slc temple square, FRY SAUCE, and did i mention THE OSMONDS?! you're also the birth place of the frost family, like it or not, and i gotta admit, there is nothing better than my mom's pleasant grove tour. i love learning about the history my family has there... the house my mom grew up in, where the allen's lived, where my mom crashed into purple turtle's fence when she was fifteen, where the polygamists lived in relation to my mother's house (again with the creep factor!), what route the strawberry days parade drives through, the house on smiley drive, the lot where my grandma lucille's catering used to be (they tore it down... that is probably the most horrible thing i've ever heard.)... the list really could go on. how about stadium of fire? this is just about the first year in forever that i am not going and guess who will be there? miley cyrus and glenn beck, probably two of my favorite guilty pleasures. you're also the home to my frostie cousins who i love so much, and for that you receive a pass on the creepy lawn/cemetary situation.



me and my cousin mckell. she is the only girl in her family, so she clings to me when i am there, which i love. i don't have any sisters, so i love having these little girl cousins who think i am the bee's knees (i.e. malleri, merissa, ella, danielle, erika, noelle). they are so much fun to spend time with, and they are SO BEAUTIFUL. i swear, the frost family spawns more GAP babies than we know what to do with.
chase working hard at his very difficult job. he is pretty much the best sandwich artist in the entire state of utah.
this is pretty much what being in a car for 2 days will do to a person.
hello, purple turtle fry sauce. you will be the star of my wedding reception (assuming that i actually get to have a wedding...)

my hotel bed. wow. i love hotels. i love them alot. i'd like to note the lack of mice droppings in hotels. way to go!
the view from our hotel room. so beautiful.
last picture with corbin :( he is such an awesome cousin. ever since the beginning of time, corbin and i have been arguing over who is better at phase 10. we decided recently that he can have that title, and i will take the title of "best at skip bo". so we split it 50/50. it's fine though because secretly we both think that we are the best at both of them. so it's a good system we've got going.
this pretty much sums up corbin.
there's mike with his "costco" face. he uses that face for any i.d. photos he has to take. that pretty much sums up michael as well. this is the frost family sans curtis, clay, and chase, who apparently had better things to do.

the conference center. 21,000 seats because 20,000 isn't enough. there is an amazing calm inside that building that is impossible to describe. it is a work of art, truly.
my family and our tour guide on the roof of the conference center.
the view of the temple from the roof. i do not appreciate the construction that was happening during our stay. for the record, nobody ok'd that with me.
more from the roof of the conference center.
trees on the roof. the sun was so bright that day and it was really really hot. not too fun to walk around.

this wall is amazing.


c.j. and i inside the conference center.

our feet in the conference center.
dad and c.j. eating dinner at brigham young's house... i think it's called the lion's head or something.
me and d.w. she is still getting the food out of her braces.
ah, the lion house. see i knew it had something to do with a lion.
front view of the lion house.

views of the slc temple. simply gorgey.

the temple's reflection.

me and c.j. on the steps of the temple. i am putting my arm around stefan, we intend to super-impose him in there with us. we miss him :(


connor and i enjoying the hotel bed.

connor insisted that i keep this ridiculous photo. who has a face like that? honestly....

i'm wearing a mumu, just so you all know. that is when i am most happy. in a mumu with an evian in my hand and my hair in a pony and dr. pepper chapstick on my lips.
check out my tan. i'm workin' on it....
idk how he deals with me. hahahahah he loves it though. i'm sure of that.