Everything Ends

This blog has been silent for quite a long time. This is due to business and, admittedly, laziness. So what's been going on with us?

Well, Korrin and I got our missionaries back! Now we're all one big happy family again.

I don't know if I can explain what an incredible feeling it is to just know that you're in the same continent as your missionary, let alone the same state. Even now, it's incredible knowing that we have the privilege of shooting a text off to Amanda or Emily and knowing that it won't take a week in order to get a response.

Well. You know. Sometimes, anyways.

But I know the real question everyone has been asking--what will become of this blog?

After much talking, Korrin and I have decided to bring this blog to a close. We've had a great time here. Looking back at all these posts, it's hard to believe how much changed and how much we went through in 18 months. I guess everyone changes like that, but it isn't always documented for the world to see. For us, it was. And there were people who reached out to us, who cared about us when things got rough. It was you, reader. You were the ones who cared what two silly girls had to say. And thank you for that. We know we're silly, and we know that sometimes it's hard to follow us. But you were the person who made us feel like we had a voice. Thank you.

So this is goodbye for now. Remember that you are wonderful and beautiful and that you are one of God's favorite creations. You're pretty epic.


~Kylie and Korrin

JUSTIN BIEBER LOVES GAELIC STORM! The 100th Post Extravaganza

This post was originally written on Friday, November 14th.





Kylie: Hullo, friends! Do you know what this post is? It's important.

Do you know what it is yet?

No?

Do you need a hint?

Well you're not getting one.

Korrin: I'll give you a hint because I'm not a stickler like Kylie.

It has to do with whiskey and a girl named Nancy.

And maybe also Russell Crowe.

Kylie: KORRIN DON'T FLOUT MY AUTHORITY

Also, yes! That's right! Russell Crowe probably gave it away *stares pointedly at Korrin* so I'll just tell you.

It's post number 100!

Korrin: Right because Russell Crowe has everything to do with it being the 100th post and not what the post is going to be on.

Kylie: Um excuse you. Russell Crowe has EVERYTHING to do with a couple of socially awkward Utah twenty-something Mormon girls.

Korrin: Okay, I will give you that one. But enough of this malarkey, lets get onto what we want to talk about tonight at 11:30 p.m.

Kylie: AHAHAHAHA Korrin said "malarkey!"

Anyways, what does whiskey have to do with Mormons? That sounds totes weird. That goes together like Idaho and not-having-any-potatoes.

Well, boy howdy, do we have a tale for you.

Korrin: It all started with an email from the local theater in the town that I live.  Since I had to watch plays there for a certain art class, they now pester me incessantly with ads.

In the beginning of July this year I got an email for the line up of performances the coming season.

Guess which incredibly awesome performance was scheduled to come to my little college town...

Kylie: If you guessed "Justin Bieber," then you're dead wrong.

It was Gaelic Storm.

See, we have a history with Gaelic Storm.

One day, Amanda sat us all down around the table in my backyard and played a song for us. It was an epic tale of a donkey. But this wasn't just any donkey. It was a DRUNK donkey. A drunk donkey that ran through the streets as the cops attempted to pull him over for a DUI and public intoxication. But the donkey, fueled by moonshine and awesomeness, managed to jump into a horse race and win before dropping dead. The donkey's tail ends up forever immortalized on a pub wall. I'll let you make your own assumptions of what happens in the end.

We were all hooked.

Korrin: This started a love for new age rock/country/folk/ Irish music.  The main band being Gaelic Storm. Amanda fell in love and played their music where ever we went, including the Scottish Festival at Thanksgiving Point.

Fast forward back to July 2k14.

When I saw that said band was coming to a theater near me, I immediately told Kylie and we bought tickets the day they were on sale.

One little tiny problem. They were coming before Amanda would be home from her mission.

Kylie: The BIG problem was that her return date was estimated to be four days after the concert.

We were worried. Actually, that's an understatement.

We were terrified.

See, Gaelic Storm had rapidly become Amanda's all time favorite band after she discovered them. How could we in good conscience go to the concert of her favorite band, a band that never came to Utah?

Korrin: Good thing we don't have a conscience.

Tonight, ladies and (maybe) gentlemen, we went to the Gaelic Storm concert.

Amanda is going to kill us.

Kylie: Yes she is! We will probably be murdered! YAAAAAAAAAAY!

But holy crap.

Holy.

Crap.

These people are my favorite people. They know how to put on a show like nobody's business. Between how happy I was to see them perform and how absoultely hilarious they were, I couldn't stop giggling.

The whole time.

The poor woman sitting next to me...

Korrin: I'm pretty sure I accidentally elbowed the lady next to me in the boob.

The theater is old and the seats are way to close together.

Anyway, that concert was without a doubt the greatest performances I have ever been to in my life.  I thought I loved this band before, but now I can't even comprehend how great they are.

There were only 4 songs that I didn't know, and I plan on changing that as soon as possible.

The main speaker could tell a story without letting truth get in the way of it.  His verbal rendition of the story behind "The Night I Punched Russell Crowe in the Head" had me in tears from laughing so hard.

Kylie: I believe 100% of this story. Why would they lie?

Seriously though, this concert was genius. There was so much energy the whole time. It was just... FUN.

Hey Korrin. Do you know what a pirate's favorite letter is?

Korrin: RRRRRRR!

Kylie: No, 'tis the C!

(SEE. SEE HOW FUNNY THEY WERE. THAT WAS A GOOD JOKE. YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT PUNCHLINE.)

Korrin: They were all so amazing.

Now a side tangent, I am a music person. I play the violin. It's something that fascinates me. And that fiddler is so freaking amazing! I loved watching her play.

Plus, there were freaking bagpipes! Who can hate on that?! That's right, NO ONE!

Since we were allowed to record them, they asked one thing of us.

That if we put anything we recorded on YouTube, we needed to title it "Justin Bieber Loves Gaelic Storm."

They hated on Bieber a lot.

It was marvelous!

They also encouraged us to dance like crazy people. The only problem is that there is no leg room in that theater, let alone dancing room.  But we tried anyway.

The main singer is a master of jazz hands and dances as good as Kylie does.

Kylie: Oh yeah, man. Patrick Murphy can totes shake it shake it like he's supposed to do.

We just wanted to shout out a quick "thank you" everyone for staying with us these 100 posts. Your support means everything to us. Although we may be silly 99.9% of the time, we really do know that we're where we're supposed to be and doing what we're supposed to be doing. We are incredibly touched that you've supported us just as much as you've supported our best friends on their missions. Thanks for sticking around to see us through 100 posts.

All that mushy stuff being said, I must say that this post does not end here, because I did manage to record one song.

Can you guess which one it is?

Good readers of our blog, I present to you the song that started it all...

 

Darcy's Donkey.

NEXT BIG BLOG POST

The next post on the blog is post number one hundred.

ONE.

HUNDRED.

That's one hundred posts of crazy fun in just over a year!

That's why we've been so delayed in posting something new. We've been trying to think up something awesome and ridiculously fun for post number one hundred, which is why it's been so long since the last post.

Speaking of which, if you have any ideas of what you'd want to see from us in the next post, then please comment! We'd love to hear back from our readers since you've all been so supportive from the beginning. Who better to tell us what you'd most want to see than you?

So thanks for coming along on this crazy ride with us and watch for post number one hundred!

~Kylie and Korrin

I'm So Glad That Comic Con is Doing Well, But People Need to Get the Heck Out of My Way

Korrin and I went to Salt Lake Comic Con on Saturday, and HOLY CRUD was there a lot of people.

And, as all of you know, I do not do well with people.

At all.

Ever.

And there were a LOT of people there.

When we first got onto the floor, I turned to Korrin and hissed "THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE" in her ear. Thankfully, she agreed.

Later, we found out that the building had reached mass capacity and that the fire marshal shut the building down a couple of times and wouldn't let anybody else in.

The con sold out of tickets TWO HOURS after they opened.

The master himself, Stan Lee, called Salt Lake Comic Con "the greatest Comic Con in the world."

Take THAT, SDCC!

Anyways, the entire experience was a blast (other than people, but WHAT ARE YA GONNA DO).

I went over budget by about $10, but it was totally worth it. TOTALLY worth it.

And Korrin even got to see Alan Tudyk as we walked by his booth. She freaked out a little and then marveled that his head was bigger than she expected it to be.

I also caught her inspecting a man's kilt to see if he was wearing it the traditional way.

(He wasn't.

In case you were wondering.

Korrin noticed.)

We dressed up as hipsters while sporting our Hogwarts house colors. Nobody really caught on to what we were doing, but it didn't matter. We felt awesome anyways. It was even greater when we hopped on Trax and sat near some actual real live hipsters. One of them was even wearing skinny jeans that matched mine.

And speaking of trains, there was a mighty fine Capsicle riding back on the train with us. We were very sly, though, only occasionally turning around to look and then immediately whipping back around to giggle at each other following the staring. It was obviously very secretive and nobody knew that we were ogling some boy.

We have standards.

But yeah. Comic Con. 10/10 would recommend.

~Kylie

New Feature!

Hey, everyone!

I was thinking today about how our posts don't always get a shout-out on other social media sites. We get busy and sometimes forget about letting everyone on Facebook know that a new post is up.

So there's a fancy new application on the toolbar to the right!

Use it to get email notifications every time we post something new.

Thanks!

~Us

I'm Packing Up and Moving to Broadway to Live in the Basement of the Theatres Like Erik Does

And, much like Erik, I shall also be speaking in the third person.

Kylie likes speaking in the third person.

Kylie thinks she will make a spectacular theatre ghost, just like Erik, except with less murder and more unholy wailing every time she sees a spider.

Perhaps she won't make a spectacular ghost...

Anyways

I have been tweeted at TWICE by Broadway.

TWICE.

They lahve-a me. Lahve-a me, lahve-a me, lahve-a me.

The first time was completely unintentional. I was just watching So You Think You Can Dance, and I got super excited by the new "prize" they are giving/possibly just gave away.

So I tweeted about it.

It floored me when I saw the response. I had purposely avoided tagging anything because... well... I'm antisocial and shy and don't like to be noticed unless I decide to be noticed and then I will be obnoxious until everyone pays attention to me. But there it was. They even retweeted it and showed it to all of THEIR followers!

I couldn't believe my luck.

Some people wish to have their favorite pop star notice them. Me? I get excited when Broadway notices me.

And now, we have today.

After the absolutely INCREDIBLE number performed at the Tony Awards, I had to look up "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder." The Tony it won for Best Musical didn't help, either.

I cannot describe to you how happy I was to discover that you could listen to the entire album on YouTube. For the past week, my computer has been spouting this music over and over and over again and, I'm sure, it's ready to die along with the rest of the D'Ysquith clan.

So what else could I do but turn to Twitter to confess how much I loved it?

Well

After this, Kylie has had no choice but to conclude that the Broadway stage is calling to her and requesting her presence.

~Kylie



(PLEASE NOTE: No, I will not give you my Twitter handle. Sorry. I am a SUPER obnoxious Twitterer, so really I'm saving you from the pain of seeing it.)

Five Senses Poster Experience

In case you aren't hip and down with the times, I am going to preface this by saying that I have recently won a sweepstakes by the wonderful IMAX Twitter page and am now in possession of a very special movie poster.

It is a Guardians of the Galaxy movie poster and it is signed by the cast and the director.

Now, as I have always been taught that I must share with those less fortunate than myself, I have decided to enact a system allowing others to also observe my poster in its natural habitat.

Here is the pricing information on the Five Senses Poster Experience:

To See The Poster: An exciting roller coaster for your visual orbs! $5.

To Hear The Poster: If you listen closely, you can hear the whispers of pure awesomeness. Includes the rewards of the previous tier. $10

To Touch The Poster: Some say it just feels like a normal poster. Find out if it's true. Includes the rewards of the previous tier. $25

To Sniff The Poster: It smells like the blood of the vanquished. And pina coladas. $40

To Lick The Poster: You may not lick the poster. Why are you even asking to lick the poster. What kind of sick person are you.



Please schedule your Five Senses Poster Experience at least two weeks ahead of schedule.

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