What's That Word Again?

My fellow readers you are going to be so proud of me. This post isn't about work! That means I do have a life outside of school and work. Today's topic? A returned missionary! I can't believe two years is already over. Nate is back from the Philippines! It is so good to have him back. Yes I got to see that kid last week.
He came down to Provo for the day. I caught up with him after I took a test. Nate, Erik (a friend of ours from high school) and I all went out to eat dinner. 

I won't lie it was a pretty entertaining dinner. We were catching up on all that has happened in the past two years: missions, relationships, school, work, family. There were times our conversations were a little bit difficult to understand. You've got Nate who just got back and speaks better Tagalog than English, Erik who is deaf and me. There were a few times where I'm pretty sure it took us five minutes just to explain a thought or two. 

My favorite part was driving back to Erik's place and we talked about what he ended up naming his car. He said Kneego and I wasn't sure what that was so I just thought it was a cool word. Nate said he couldn't remember that word in English and asked what it was. Erik responded back saying that since he bought a Honda Civic and all the Mexicans have Civics he decided to name it Kneego which is Spanish for friend.
AMIGO! It was a lightbulb moment! I just laughed to myself.
I won't lie, thinking back on this dinner, I realized just how mismatched all of my high school friends are. But we're seriously amazing friends, so not much more than that matters. 

Now if only I had my two Elder Mulitalo's back from their missions. Manu is serving in McAllen Texas and Tyler is serving in Tulsa Oklahoma. Here's the latest picture of Manu for those of you who haven't seen it yet. And the biggest thanks to Cujoe for sending it to me. I'd say he's rocking the sweaters. 

Phantom Time

BYU put on Andrew Lloyd Weber's production of Phantom of the Opera.
I had tickets for opening night and my mom bought us family tickets for closing night. 
As much as I enjoyed it opening night, it greatly improved and was pretty amazing closing night. 

My little sister was very much impressed with everything. Right from the very begining when the strobe lights and fog starts, she started to freak. And it was pretty much like that the whole musical. When the man in stilts came out during Masquerade, she leaned in and whispered to me, "One, two, three TRIP!" Then she continued to laugh the rest of that song.
For a college production I was very much impressed and I think my whole family was. And yep we'll be singing Phantom for the next week. 
And whoever plays the Phantom has an amazing singing voice. I would totally marry him. Too bad he proposed to his girlfriend a few weeks ago. 

Also just a side note, we went to Texas Roadhouse here in Orem after the musical and who knew that it would be that crazy! I kid you not, I felt like I was back in South America where you try and see how many people you can squish into a bus or building. Or perhaps a game of sardines, only with a bunch of people you don't know. 

Be The Good

My faith in humanity has been restored. Nothing better could have happened at work a few nights ago than what did. 

A married couple came into work and they mentioned how their car got a flat tire. They were along the side of the road trying to fix it for about an hour when a man pulled right behind them and asked if there was anything he could do to help. They said they've been trying to change the tire for a while but couldn't fix it. The man pulled out a $20 and gave it to the couple telling them to go get something to eat while he fixed it. 
(That's number one faith in humanity.)

The couple is ordering and the cost with drinks was $20.48. The man said I only have a twenty with me, so I just took the cost of a drink off their meal. But what really amazed me was that there was a lady who had just walked up to the cash register (because she overheard that he was short for his meal) and offered to pay for the couples meal! It was probably one of the best things I've seen in my life, that as a humankind we really do care about the welfare of others. 

People really are good people. 

Happy Working Song

It feels like it has been forever since I've blogged. But have no fear! I am back, but the sad thing is no big juicy exciting stories. 
But its a new year, new semester, new major. Same old work, new people though. 
Our fridge? Missing a leg. I don't know why that was important to post about.

But work really is a lot of fun. We really do have some great times. Taco Tuesdays are always crazy. Keeps us busy. But what about the other days of the week? We get so slow sometimes. So I think Mustache Mondays will help keep us entertained when we have nothing to do. I think I'll email the CEO of the company and have him implement it into the new dress code.

Les Miserables

Within the first week of the release of Les Mis I had the opportunity to go see it twice. I went opening day with my family and then about a week later I went with my coworkers. Aldon, one of my coworkers said that we should all go see it together as a group, but that we should tell the theater workers that majority of our group was hearing impaired so they would have to put on the captions and it could be like a big sing-a-long in the theater. Too bad we didn't do it. Well we didn't need the lyrics anyways. We knew them by heart...except for the new songs and parts that they put in.

So after we got out of work at 10:15 we hurried over to the theater, bought our tickets and popcorn and the movie started. Oh how I love Les Miserables. I've seen it live before once and it was amazing. I thought the movie was pretty good, it's obviously not going to be like it is when it is live, but I thought they did a pretty good job with it. 

My coworkers that hadn't seen it before or didn't even know what it was about loved it. All of us were crying. I was pretty proud of my boys then. They do have a heart! A few weeks later and we're still all singing Les Mis at work. 

So for those of you who haven't seen Les Mis, go see it! I'm pretty sure you'll like it.

And if you can't make it to the movies anytime soon have no fear! This video is pretty much the movie in 10 minutes...all by one man.

Quick Update

To the creeper who kept prank phone calling my work last night, you made work interesting for those working. At first we thought that our phones were broken and that's why they kept ringing. Then we wondered if it was the Rubio's Ghost. The Rubios Ghost is real my friends. He opens the doors in the restaurant when no one was there, even the heavy 40 pound doors I have a hard time opening. Tomas, one of the cooks, thinks that the Ghost is a female and she wants him. But don't listen to Tomas, the Ghost is a guy!
But then last night, I had a thought, the phone calls are probably some teenagers doing some prank calling. And they did it all night long! Finally after about an hour and a half of the phone non stop ringing, I answered the phone and said in my creepiest voice "Helllllooooo." I then just started to laugh my head off and then the voice on the other end of the phone said, "You have 7 days. 2 PM next Thursday." Well folks looks like I've got my due date. If I don't see any of you again, I love you all. They called back again and then what creeped me out was when they said, "Teresa I see you." Okay creeps. After that they didn't call back very much just two or three times. 
So pretty much work was very interesting last night. But hey at least we weren't bored when it got slow.