Bad News

So, due to growing up and graduations, etc, Nutella and I are no longer rooming together :( I am trying to talk her into keeping this going and posting funny things that happen to her (then I can read them too!) but she's not sold on the idea yet. Can you guys help me out?

Chocolate Gone Wrong

The other night I came home to this note from Nutella:

"Funny for the day...I came home after running & found chocolate on the back of my pants. I am sure that is what everyone else thought it was too... ;)"

Tella Texts

Nutella has a very crazy life which often causes her to text without really reading what she just typed. Here are some recent favorites.

After discovering the spray room we wanted to get in, so Nutella left us to it. A few minutes later, she texted me to ask, "Did you figure out the pray room?" She's more spiritual than us.

While discussing check outs for the apartment, Nutella stated that she would "do what the majority derides."

And sometimes they just don't make any sense.
"I needde to grinned wheat but i an almost finished."

Ah, technological communication!

Date Night

Nutella was on a date last night and had some fun experiences. 

Part of the date involved an improv show where the actor turned to Nutella and said, "Give us a good Santa laugh." So, Tella tried but it came out "more like a tired, drunk Santa."

Then she remembered that she had to close up the gallery for work. Well, of course there was no way to get out without causing a scene...so they did. After taking care of business her date suggested they run back to catch the end of the show. Although Nutella wanted to just watch from the door for the last few minutes, her date ran into and she was forced to follow - again causing a scene.

Needless to say she probably won't be going out with him anytime soon, but we had a good laugh about it afterwards.

"Getting Old"

For some reason the subject of popping and cracking has come up several times among roommates lately. These are some of my favorite Nutella quotes about bodies falling apart:

"I was walking around on campus and wondered what that noise was. And then I realized it was me."

"I can't pop my neck. I just hug people and it pops."

Scary!

Today's story comes to you in parts.

Part I: One day I was doing my laundry. Because I was buried in my closet putting clothes away, Nutella didn't know I was there and walked in the room only to see my shirt floating and it startled her a bit. So now this shirt has been dubbed my "scary shirt".

Part II: Nutella and I have been somewhat obsessed with this video and quote it quite often http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTLp14MKDDU (disclaimer - there are a couple swear words so mute it or yell around 3:08-3:09 and again at the last second).

So this morning, Nutella had just woken up as I was getting ready and I warned her that I was wearing the "scary shirt" and not to be alarmed. To which she sleepily replied, "Scaryshirt, what have you done with plain shirt!?!"

How are you?

While on the phone, our friend asked Nutella: "How are you?"
Her response? "Good, just working and school, and painting, and laughing, and yeah!"

It's a good life!

Tie me up

"One time, when i was little, my brother's friends were over and I - being the annoying little sister - went over to them when my brother went to the bathroom, and I was like, 'Tie me up, I bet I can get out. I'm good at getting out.' And they were like, 'What do you have for us to tie you up with?' and I said, 'My jump rope! My Santa Claus jump rope!' So they did and then I couldn't get out, so I yelled at them to untie me and they were like, 'No, you said you could get out.' But I kept yelling and they got so annoyed, one of them took his sock off and stuck it in my mouth and they stuck me under the pine tree and left me. And then my mom came home and my brother Chad came out and figured out what happened." - Nutella

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

This isn't so much awkward as just funny.

"I lost my planner. You know what I keep my life on now? This crumpled, little piece of paper! This is my brain right now!!" ~Nutella

Awwwwkward

So, sometimes Nutella puts me in awkward situations. For example, today a guy knocked on my door and said, "Nutella said I'm supposed to talk to you." Yes, we are going on a group date tomorrow night. The best part: Nutella came home and when I gave her a dirty look she jumped on my bed grinning, "What did he say?" As I told her about the encounter I told her though he was a nice guy "it could not have been any more awkward." To which she responded, "If he'd been standing there in a towel it would have been!" Good Point! That would have made it more awkward. Thank you for bringing a fresh perspective Tel, now the only question: where did you come up with that?!?!

Squeaker Squeak, Squeak Squeakin

"Did I tell you about my squeaky shoes?!" Oh, this is going to be good I can tell! Today Tella was walking through the library when the peaceful silence made her painfully aware that her shoes squeak. In fact she was walking behind a guy who turned around to give the culprits the stink eye. She then proceeded to walk faster - louder, but over quicker. Wondering about this unfortunate experience we decided to examine the footwear and see what might be the problem. They seemed just fine in our hands, leading Nutella to the biggest thing since E=mc²: "shoe + my foot = squeak!"

Is that an Easterner thing?

Sorry it's been a while. Nutella and I have both been real busy and haven't been around each other a lot lately.

Tonight we had a roommate pizza outing though and as we were chatting Tella was telling us a story about a "Tom Peeper" at their house once. We all looked confused and asked, "Do you mean a Peeping Tom?" "YES! That's it!" We decided we're going to call them Tom Peepers from now on. It has a nice ring to it.

Running around

The other night Nutella was running down the sidewalk when she saw our friend Parker (our friend who loves birdwatching). She yelled his name hoping to say hi as she passed but when he heard her he started to run in the other direction. Her natural response: "I saw an owl!" Parker stops! "Really?" As she runs past him she responds, "No, I just wanted to get your attention! I have to go, bye."

You sounded really good!

This one is actually about me and our friend Feather. A small group of us decided to go check out a band playing at the local Sammy's (Rexburg's is 10x's better than Provo's). While Feather and I were standing near the condiments table this guy comments to us about how funny it was that they had a ton of ketchup (which no one wants) but a tiny thing of fry sauce (apparently Sammy's fry sauce is real good). This started a casual conversation between the three of us.

When fry sauce guy (Nick) mentioned that I looked familiar Feather jumps in with the ever so cliche, "Well, what's your major?"..."Oh, I actually just played before this guy (Allred)."- Nick. Uhhhhh... Of course, of course we we were chatting with the guy that just performed and had no idea. That must have been a great boost to his ego! I decided to save us all with, "Well, we couldn't really see from." "But you sounded really good!" - Feather. Needless to say we said a nice, awkward "have a good night" and felt bad. He didn't try to sell us one of their CD's later.

Wrong bathroom...?

The recounting of this story started with, "I've been waiting to tell you this story all day and I can't wait a second longer!" So worth the wait.

As she was working in the library, she had to go to the restroom. As she walked in she noticed an individual with very short hair, a large hoodie and baggy pants sitting in the special Mother's chair. Becoming suddenly concerned she slowly backs out of the bathroom door and checks the sign. Yes, it was the women's bathroom and yes that individual is a girl and just awkwardly waved for her to come in.
On the bright side, at least everyone was in the right place!

Classic

For this post we have a guest star: Bread (again the name has been changed to protect the awkward). Bread and I were walking home from the library last night when we ran into a mutual friend. This friend was walking with a classmate of his, Jeff, who also happened to have a seeing-eye dog at his side. We chatted for a moment on the sidewalk before Bread and I needed to get going. Then, as we were walking away, I tell the Jeff it was nice to meet him and have a good night, while Bread says one thing, "It was good to see...you...Jeff..." (awkward turn and speed-walk away). After walking a feet feet he turned to me; "You know when you say something as it's coming out of your mouth you realize you shouldn't have said it?...YEAH!"

Don't judge me!

Today was the first day of the semester...thus the first day of work for Nutella! Their main office is their boss' office while the other is under construction. Said office was completely empty while Tella was working so, "Don't judge me, but I picked my nose!"

She then got worried that there was a camera in the room and looking around spotted a small camera on top of the computer. Though she knew this was probably just a webcam, the fear that her computer-geek boss nanny-cammed his office was still at the back of her mind and throughout the remainder of her shift would occasionally glance at it and smile...just in case!

Multi-tasking...

Nutella and Lech are back together...let the adventures begin!

We were catching up last night and getting ready for bed. Nutella was trying to get dressed AND tell me a story about getting a job (also a funny story). She was struggling a bit, either changing or adding to the story. At one point she stops everything, looks at me and says, "Sorry I can't multi-task, I'll tell you the story and then i'll get dressed."

I have missed her :)

Go for the neck

I'm never around Tella these days so I haven't had any funny anecdotes but here's a past experience.

Our friend Tella has this funny quirk that when you touch her neck (or if she knows you're thinking about it) she scrunches up like a turtle and makes a funky face. The other day, she asked me to wake her up from a study-break-nap so I did. She wasn't really "awake" though so I decided to help her wake up by poking her neck. She didn't like this though and in retaliation tried to poke me in the neck. However, putting your finger against the neck of someone who doesn't have the same neck quirk doesn't get you too far...I'm just saying

Ice Cream

Here at the Jerusalem Center we have a strict dress code and therefore lovely tan lines. Yesterday, when noticing her sunburn next to her white skin and her tan arms Tella exclaimed, "Look! White, pink and chocolate. I'm Napoleon!"
Even better was how much explaining had to be done for some of the others to understand why this was funny on so many levels.

Abs of...

I didn't get to spend much time around Tella today but here's something that happened the other day:

When Tella was stretching Banana pretended to chop her in the stomach when Tella responded, "You'll break your hand...either that or it will disappear for a minute."

Silly Songs with Nutella

As we were discussing our other friend's birthday and the fact that none of us have prepared an adequate celebration because we are all stressed about a paper due Sunday. While throwing around ideas Tella mentioned playing with the girls's hair in lots of fun ways to help her decide how to do it for her wedding. As she does this, the explanation turned into a nice little song about hair! It was very entertaining for all of us ;)

It's always about food

As we were studying in the Shekel Shack today Tella found a collection of nice smelling things that someone had left on a table. Normally we would be less inclined to just use other people's things but we are one big happy family here so she decided to put one on. Having found a bottle of coconut-lime body spray she spritzed herself and then declared, "Look! Now I smell like food!!!" And she danced around me waving her arms so I too could enjoy this smell on her ;)
 

The Joy of Nutella

Allow me to introduce you to our wonderful friend Nutella (to protect the privacy of the awkward Nutella's real name will not be disclosed). Nutella (or often referred to simply as Tella to save time and finger energy) is fantastic! Her smile warms our hearts, her laugh brings us joy and she often does things that make us laugh real hard! This blog is dedicated to those little things and I hope it brings you as much joy to read about them as it brings me to experience them (otherwise I would not be sharing them with you!)

Enjoy :)