Monday, June 11, 2012

well i'm off to serve a mission

some of you may be like, WHAT THE WHAT IS THAT?

so i will explain...


actually i don't have the time to explain.
boo. so instead click on my badge on the right side of this page that says "I'M A MORMON" and it will link you to a place that can explain everything.

i'm so glad to be able to serve my God, my Savior, and the people of Sacramento!

blog stalk you all in eighteen months :]




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Monday, June 4, 2012

aunt me




this is little
Hazel Mae
when shes just a few hours old
isn't she just the cutest?
I wish I could have been home when





Ryan Fred-Paul
was born too just a few weeks ago
I became a aunty twice within just a few days!
AND
they're going to get so big in the next 18 months!


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Friday, June 1, 2012

oliphant fam reunion 2011

found a fork in the road
played in the snow
had a pet water drop
met a prince
panned for gold
in-n-out
brushed my teeth in a grocery store
made vampire teeth
ate marijauna/hemp pancakes
balayed down a tree in a harness i made from rope
started a fire with my own barehands
widdled my own spoon
tried durian fruit and squid
san fransisco
ran the goldengate bridge
dropped spencer's sun glasses off it on accident
rode on a trolley car
won the 5k oliphant stampede race
visited the red wood sequoias
visited the san juan batistas mission (anyone seen vertigo?)
swam in the pacific ocean
tried to skim board and busted up my knee
roasted laffy taffy
taught all my cousins how to play big boodie
slept under the stars
slept in a hammock
sprinklers woke me up
went to a singles ward sleepover with jeff
sleepover
weeded
fresh bread

the answer to life's big question

Who am I?


To my parents, I am their always scheming irresponsible daughter. To my roommates I am the one who won’t shut up and the one who always sets off the smoke detector.
To the young women I grew up with, I was the ambitious leader that always wanted to have fun. To the deaf lady in my home ward I was an answer to many prayers.
To my co-workers, I am the loud boy-crazy supervisor. To my boss, I am the one who has an opinion who voices it boldly.
To my sisters I am competition for the largest shoe collection and to my brothers I am the tickle monster.
To my friends in high school I am the over devout Christian. To other students in the Harold B. Lee library I am only friendly competition.

To the boys written in my journal I am a heart breaker or the one that held on too long. To the men of my future I am merely a mystery.
To strangers as they walk past me I am just another young adult, I am the girl they will never miss because they never knew me.


To the stars, I am an insignificant nobody staring up at them. To my God I am a heir to a throne.

I am Clarissa Oliphant; I am all these people.

But to everyone I am only a part, a fraction of me. 
Only to my Savior I am a whole. Only he knows me perfectly.

mum and dad


"People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel"

– Irwin Federman 

I don't just love you because you're my parents, I love you because you're always there to lift me. I am so lucky to have such wonderful parents who lead by example.

happy late mothers day,
        and happy early father day.

it is such an honor to by your daughter. someday i hope to make you proud, and be just a fraction of your greatness.

you mean so very much to me.

may

i didn't post for the entire month of may.
and like A LOT happened.
fail.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

do it anyways

   People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.

   If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.
   If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway.
   If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.
   What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.
   If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.
   The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.
   Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.
   In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.


- credited to Mother Teresa

Friday, April 6, 2012

bummin @ home

winter vacation in 109 words: sister bonding time, birthday cupcakes, smoothies, paintied nails w/ sisters, wedding, islam prayer time @ the rest stop, settlers, amish country, running w/ bros, lafollette band concert, mommy comics, bell ringing, kidnapped kids to culvers, goodwill, calling erwin, cleaned up bauers, a white christmas (the movie), bethlehem dinner, nativity act, terrill's exclamation to the entire neighborhood, hallowed out a book, truck time, carol lyrics streamers, stockings, madison second ward, opening presents, noodles and comp w/ calc girls, making moccasins, video chat kassie, pysch, ihop w/ second sistas, wii dance w/ hs buds, milwaukee new years, new years resolutions, mission papers, new years dinner, shed tears over drawing my blood...

beach bummin

trippin down the pacific hwy in 82 words: camping on the beach, deaf boys, skull cliff, epic picture taking, hiking, waterfalls, towers, slugs, 4 leaf clovers, climbing, tide pools, starfish, sea enemies, crabs, hermit crabs, snakes, mooned a lady, more beach, mermaid rock, sea elephants, saw abbey!, transformers at midnight, long beach, light house, manhattan beach?, saw sea critters mesuem with board walk, long beach boardwalk, bought shells, visited my birth place, torrance, LA temple, buried kids in the sand, skim and boogie boarding, pollo de loco, long drove home

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can you guess which one is me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gmM9xGY6us&feature=channel_video_title




funny how six hours of filming condenses down into one minute and four seconds of video

holla for men's chorus. you sound AMAZING!
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

:]

a dozen reasons to smile about march twenty-seventh
1. woke up early and went to classes
2. called home just to chat w/ mi madre. its also my brother's birthday. little zak turned seven today
3. explored the sixth floor of the library with great company
4. co-worker showed up with a whole tray of leftover byu brownies and fresh fruit
5. a really sweet lady sent us a package of chocolate covered macadamia nuts all the way from hawaii just for helping her fix a sticky situation with her tickets. all i did was do my job yet she was so thankful! who takes the thought and time to do that!? some people are so great!
6. chatted with many of my favorite people today... including ms. enthusiastic stacey :]

[photo was here]
7. a dear friend took the time to stop by to say goodbyes
8. dinner with mady @ our usual chinese place, who couldn't speak a word of english
(speaking of which i left my fortune cookie in your cup holder)
9. sister ortolano flew home today and i got to have a big tear jerking hug
10. my really great roommate put up with my obnoxiousness and was a total sweetheart
11. kels demonstrated true friendship and bought me fro yo when i needed it most
12. playing chess with mac and nate

Saturday, March 3, 2012

hobbies

[[hob-ee] an activity or interest pursued in spare time for pleasure or relaxation]

long distance running
blogging
discovering new music
organizing/planning
reading random articles online
cooking
gettin' my freak on dancing

["time enjoyed wasted, is not wasted time" -George Meredith]

Friday, March 2, 2012

TGIF

this was a tough week. but it only made me tougher. so take that.

thanks you to the following individuals for
making my day this week!

M: katniss
T: the freshman of men's chorus
W: elder gerald n. lund
Th: brandon white
F: guy with the boom box on campus

Thursday, February 23, 2012

February 1st

*ahem*ahem*ahem*

I would like to make an announcement
 

[on the home hard drive, CrissaMissionCall.3gp.  Doesn't want to upload right.]
 
 Also I would like to say a special thank you to 

Mom
Dad
Gma
Gpa
Alecia
Kassie
Emmett
Richard
Bobbie
Amanda
Stuart
Terrill
Hyrum
Terrill
Lydia
Zadok

Our server at Tucanos

Aaron
Adam
Alan
Becca
Brandon
Calvin
Cassie
Elvera
Emily
Erwin
Ian & Jenni
Jill
Jon
Kelsea
Kelsie
Kylie
Lindsey
Mady
Max
Melissa & Greg
Michael
Nicole
Noah
Russell
Sasha
Sian-Amy & Nathaniel
Stacey
Steve
Thunder
Trevor
Will

for sharing this special evening with me.
(There are a few who could not make it but...)
You are the friends I so truly cherish :]

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

true love

(...and that's not supposed to be read in a princess bride's accent)
 
 
 
 
over winter break i got another sister.

that doesn't just happen everyday so we celebrated, had a big party and such. we even dressed up in matching colors for the occasion.

the day was wonderful, and while the food was gourmet, it wasnt even the best part.
the best part of the whole day was seeing the look on richard's face. it just kind of stuck there all day.
it really just said it all.
pretty sure he wasn't sure if he had died and gone to heaven.
i have never seen that expression on his face in my whole life... and i've known him just a year and half short of his whole life.

and who blames him. he got an angel.

...

now looking at this picture i realize that i have a huge family. growing up i always knew i had a big family but wow things sure have grow recently.

congrats to alecia and kassie who are both expecting in the mid may
way to go mom and dad for surviving thus so far and for raising such superb kids ;]
thank you to gma and gpa for your over flowing kindness
and
thanks everyone else for the late night amusement, lego parties, walking to home, not making fun of my running pace, being quick in the bathroom, and and letting me win at settlers... on occasion.

today is a day of love.
and i love you all so much.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

jimmer love

the other day i realized i have not been to one men's basketball game all year.
fail.

i do love byu and even basketball, but there just will never be a season that could compare to the jimmer year.
i pretty sure im suffering from post-jimmer fever.




camping out on the concrete at the marriott center last march
other great memories from last year:
learning and practicing the flash mob dance at the wyoming game!
braggin to everyone that byu was ranked 4th in the nation
the jimmer mania and idol worship that popped up everywhere
the life size jimmer that hung in our kitchen 

my friend kelsie ran across these.
happy valentines all.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

the mailman is my favorite person today

today I got a big white envelope in the mail that is addresses to Sister Clarissa Oliphant.

 [picture was here]


inside this envelope there is a letter signed by the first presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that announces when and where I will be serving the Lord for 18 months.


holy flippin smokes there is so much going on in my brain right now.
and I haven't even gotten the guts to touch it yet. 

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

january

it seems when life gets flipped inside-out and upside-down one of the first things that gets ignored is this blog.
my apologizes.
you see my life is kind of out of control right now. when i say out of control i don't mean that in a bad way but rather the best way possible. i usually love lists but currently i don't want to brainstorm everything that has changed in the last month. you will have to wait. to fellow bloggers and blog stalkers, know that while i've taken this little breath of fresh air from the blogging world i want you to know i am so very very happy.
 
(Something was here ... )