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Oh How The Tables Have Turned: An Open Apology to Husbandless Females

“I couldn’t do what you do.” I had a friend tell me the other day as she debated about getting married at the tail end of her senior year of college. Her fear of graduating husbandless was confusing to me, until I remembered the way my brain used to think when I was going to school. For my friends who aren’t familiar with Utah or Idaho culture, a good majority of girls get married off before they graduate.

I remember being halfway through school seeing 23-year-olds leave my college without a rock on their hand and thinking, “wow, that would be terrible.” I felt bad for the hags, and I KNEW that would never be me. There were many times I laid on my bed sulking with friends after break-ups and saying, “at this rate I won’t be married till 2014.” Then we would laugh and choke down more ice cream, because we KNEW that would never happen to us. Fast forward to yesterday when we hit 2014…

Oh how the tables have turned.

This isn’t a post about why I didn’t get hitched years ago. There are plenty of resources for that; starting with half relatives who somehow bypassed getting blocked from my Facebook posts, and ending with strangers who were convinced that forcing a 2nd date with a guy who made me pay for valet parking would do the trick.

No.

This is a post about not fearing what you don’t know and not being worried when your life doesn’t turn out the way you planned it.

I wish girls realized that they have more than one option. That there really isn’t just one way to do things. And that when your idea of perfect happiness dies, you can still choose to live. After sulking around Utah as a post-grad for two years, I moved out of state and had a roommate that changed my perspective completely. She was beautiful, smart, funny, and living life to the fullest. She was 29, had a boyfriend, a successful business, and was making plans on a weekly basis to try things she had never done before. She operated opposite the ‘norm’ and was the happiest person I knew because of it.

From that moment on, I made it a point to find out what really made me happy, and even if it wasn’t the traditional route for someone like me, I did it anyway.

I would never have guessed that at 26-years-old, I would love a life that has turned out to be so different than the cookie cutter lifestyle I had always envisioned for myself. But I am. And I am so grateful for people I have met along the way who have lives as odd as mine that have taught me to enjoy all the elements of surprise that come with being a human being. Life is unpredictable. There is a lot we can and can’t control. But regardless, happiness is yours for the taking if you fearlessly look for it. The road less traveled, my friends. That’s what I’m talking about (or Robert Frost if we are getting credit hungry).

You want a new start? Do it. You want to go back to school? Apply for it. You want to start your own business? Why not? You want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? Hike it. The Babcock did.

Cheers to 2014 from the happiest hag to ever eat her own words. And a toast to the abnormal and the unexpected.

**Note: Most this post was written mid-2013 before more recent events, but I didn’t want to leave it unpublished. My personal life may have changed since then, but the beliefs have not.

January 2, 2014 by Carly Chevalier

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Say Hello To The True Love Spin

When I am in an elevator alone, I walk in circles really fast.

I have no idea when I started doing it or why, but it happens almost every morning. I walk into the elevator, step inside, and keep walking in circles until it stops. Then I walk out as if nothing weird ever happened, as if there isn’t a guy watching the footage on a camera somewhere, and as if I didn’t just speed walk my way around a box like it was a competition in the summer Olympics. (Put that on my list of sports: dodgeball, rope swinging, and elevator rotations. How do you like me now you sporty men?)

Anyway, I don’t think I am the only one.

Someone once told me that our thinking processes can get stuck spinning in circles. It’s common (I just trace mine with my feet.) We tend to overlap the same ideas in our heads until they create ruts inside of our brains that are hard to get out of and hard to stop. Over time these fears, doubts, and mistaken beliefs keep us from doing anything outside of our comfort zone. In other words: We overthink to the point of not needing to think because the rut keeps us revolving in the same limited patterns.

We guess, assume, mind-read, and avoid based off of past experience and future predictions that we might get hurt.

Until. The True Love Spin.

Introduced during the 1950’s and 1960’s by Gene Kelly and Julie Andrews, the true love spin was developed to show that when it comes to showing how you really feel, you should throw your body and caution to the wind. The spin also adds momentum to the euphoric feeling of falling in love, whether that be with a guy, a girl, the rain, or being an Austrian nun.

How to Spin

This tutorial is as simple as it gets:

Spin counter-clockwise of your monotonous thinking process.
Focus your eyes on the sky instead of the floor.
Relax your neck
Let your hair loose

When you feel small explosions of happiness going off in your body, you will know that you are doing it correctly.

The trend has surprisingly taken form, but gone unnoticed in pop-culture and animated .gifs for a long time. Here are my top 10 True Love Spins and why you should try them.

1. The Conservative True Love Spin

This is a great starter spin. It gives you just enough momentum to feel good about your day or good about the new intern who is attractive.

2. The Tandum True Love Spin

For couples looking to spice things up.

3. New Dress True Love Spin

For when you are sporting new threads for a date. For best results, make sure to have a roommate enthusiastically clap while you do it.

Important Cautionary Note: Me and my roommates used to introduce a guy to his date by having the girl do a spin while we sang KC & JoJo on a Karaoke machine in our living room. I wouldn’t recommend this. There were at least two breakups during that time period that we attributed to introducing the new dress spin too prematurely in a relationship.

4. Whip Mah Hair Spin

Close your eyes and take a deep breath through you nose while letting the wind whip your hair. This spin works best in mountainous settings and in clubs.

5. True Love Flip

Ariel one-upped all the Disney princesses when she proved she would do a flip for true love, sell her vocal chords, and sport a sheet if it meant meeting prince charming. It’s a given, but this spin could come off as desperate.

6. Call Your Girlfriend We Belong Together True Love Spin

Accomplished with high speeds while moving towards a specific destination, this determined spin tells guys, “We belong together, call your girlfriend and break up with her.” It’s a niche spin for a very niche circumstance.

7. True Love Spin with Eye Contact

This true love spin is best served in front of your significant other. By maintaining eye contact throughout the entire spin you ensure that nothing will come between your love. Not even a light shower of rose petals.

8. The Colbchella True Love Spin

Skip to 4:15 for a flawless spin for business professionals.

9. Tandem Roller Skate True Love Spin

I can only assume that these are the only two people in the world that can do this. And that we will never be able to experience true love in this euphoric of a moment on roller skates.

10. Double True Love Spin

For times when one spin isn’t enough.

This seems like a dumb post any blog with more than 5 animated .gifs does. But I sometimes wonder where that feeling went that used to pump our blood, that kept us up at 3 am looking for something that we had to have and couldn’t live without. Something that even in the smallest dose, would have us waking up feeling like Beyonce, dancing barefoot out of our covers, and into the living room in our underwear.

Maybe the true love spin is a dumb tradition advocated by absurdly wide-eyed Disney princesses.

Or maybe it’s exactly what you need to counteract ruts in your head built by fear in its most monotonous repetitive forms.

Whatever it is. It’s worth a shot. It’s just a spin.

True Love Spin featuring John Liu, the greatest .gif-t of all

Speaking of True Love…

I was recently asked by some good friends to help advertise one of San Francisco’s finest bachelors. If you are looking for smart, funny, and incredibly successful spin your mouse on this eye candy: Meet Scotty Clawson.

Image Credits- Julie Andrews: Favim, Carry Grant: GifSoup.com, Conservative Spin: Tumblr, Tandem Spin: Perez Hilton, New Dress Spin: Tumblr, Whip My Hair Spin: Fan Pop, True Love Flip: Sky Rock, Call Your Girlfriend Spin: Tumblr, Eye Contact Spin: ABC.com, Roller Skate Spin: Blogfiles, Double Spin: Starcasm.

September 18, 2013 by Carly Chevalier

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The Hulk vs. The Ex Girlfriend

I wish I could say the picture above isn’t me kicking an ex-boyfriends black Audi in Ugg boots (more sorry about the Ugg boots.) I wish I could say that I never left 4-part voicemails, threw library books, or was straight up close-lined by a set of monkey bars while walking away from a break up. If someone asked, I would deny choking down tubs of ice cream while listening to Taylor Swift. I would also deny that my roommates ever had to play red rover with my Jeep to stop me from driving (in surgical boots) through a snow storm to win someone back. Enter image of surgical boots:

Although all these college stories are mortifying, I learned a lot over those years that may help women who are slowly transforming into hot messes as we speak. At the cost of my pride (as if I had any after showcasing a photo post bunion surgery), I am willing to admit what few women will. My name is Carly. I am 25-years-old. And I am an incredible ex-girlfriend.

Monstor Mash

In May 1962 Marvel comics introduced one of the greatest antiheroes of all time: The Hulk. Wikipedia describes him as mutated humanoid monster with an inability to control his rage.

He is also described as an emotional, impulsive alter ego of a withdrawn and reserved physicist. This makes him the comic book character most relateable to—-

Women and/or EX’s (I won’t be exclusive with this post. Looping in passionate males).

At this point you may be wondering… Why am I drawing a comparison between the hulk and emotionally unstable Taylor Swifts? Because Nerds in a basement somewhere were passive aggressively trying to help those struggling with separation anxiety via sharpie markers and this tiny gem of information:

Dr. Banner was able to find a way to control an overwhelming alterego by avoiding emotional triggers. These triggers were anything that caused: anger, terror, or grief.

To continue the service of Marvel, and to put my years of research to good use, I will be spelling out triggers to avoid. This is specific to anyone trying to get over a breakup in a way that limits their need for damage control later on.

Trigger 1: Social Media

Immediately delete the individual on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. etc. In extreme cases (ie: “the love of your life” or “the one who got away”) unfollow any of their close friends and family temporarily. It’s the same idea as trying to avoid finding out the ending of Downton Abbey before you get to watch it. Shield your eyes and unfollow anyone who is known for being a buzz kill when it comes to epic moments in historic dramas.

Over time you can win these privileges back, but for the immediate time being watching someone live while you are dying is never a good idea. If you give a mouse a cookie, he will want milk. If you give an emotionally unstable girl her ex-boyfriends profile on Facebook, she will will want to read every comment from other girls and question their friends in common for details. It’s like a slow motion train wreck. I have seen entire breakdowns over scenarios made up from reading one 140 character tweet.

Trigger 2: Saying Sorry

A street performer in LA (surprisingly very credible life mentors) once told me, “Don’t be sorry. A sorry person is a sad person.” I believe it. If you did something wrong, say it once. Make it epic. Chase him down in the rain, show up on his doorstep, get edgy and vandalize a freeway overpass by poking millions of plastic red cups through a chain link fence to spell out the word “SORRY.” Make sure he knows you mean it. After that move on.

You accept the love you think you deserve and by repeatedly apologizing you create an idea that you don’t deserve forgiveness or much of anything. Over time this will do damage to your self-esteem and change you into a person you don’t recognize.

Trigger 3: Staying Friends

By far the worst part of breaking up is losing a best friend. And not like a Homeward Bound lost my best friend in the wilderness kind of way. More like a Men in Black my best friend was possessed by an alien type of way.

You may be experiencing hulk tendancies, but the breakup-ee goes through major metamorphic changes as well. But to be honest, it doesn’t matter what strange things he/she is doing to compensate for what happened. What matters is that their relationship to you has changed. They may look the same, they may even act the same around you at different times, but they are not the same person that they were with you before they decided to call it quits. Nor can they go back to that point.

But why can’t you still be friends?

You can. I am not saying you can’t. I am friends with two of my ex’s and we often laugh about the times we ripped each other’s hearts out over brunch. But it takes time. And if you don’t give it enough time, you will find yourself having to repeatedly start all over in the recovery process. I once had a former boyfriend ask me “how long till we can be friends?” Unfortunately, there is not a timeline. For some people it’s two weeks I have seen other’s still recovering three years later. Here is a way to gauge “How long.”

It hasn’t been long enough if:

You are having to “work on your relationship.” (You are not in a relationship. You are friends. A good friendship requires little to no effort.)
You can’t talk about each other’s love lives.
If they are inconsistent with how they treat you.
You are frustrated more often than you are laughing after hanging out and are distracted when they don’t text you back.
You pretend you are dating other guys, but would fail a pop quiz about the names and occupations of all the people you recently went on dates with.

It has been long enough if:

You have dated multiple people since.
If they asked you if you wanted to get dinner you would go unshowered and suggest taco bell.
Can laugh about how much you hated or still hate each other.
Only think about them when you are with them.
Think more about your good times together than your bad.
Could go to their wedding and hug their other half with the right amount of pressure.

I Gotta Go My Own Way

I hate telling people what they can’t do without telling them what they can. In closing, here are things you can do that are not triggers that do help.

Sleep. There is a reason people tell you to “sleep on it.” Bad decisions involving Damien Rice lyrics as your Facebook status, were never made with a good amount of ZZZZ’s. If you can’t sleep exercise until you can. I recommend Richard Simmons work out tapes for obvious reasons.
Hang out with people who are funny.
Help someone else out. My Dad once told me “If it is too hard to be in your world, put yourself in someone else’s.” Distract yourself by doing good for someone else.
Surround yourself with men who treat you well and say nice things about you. Even if it’s just your nephew. And you paid him in M&M’s.
Stop focusing on what you don’t have and look at what you do. They make movies like Win a Date with Tad Hamilton for a reason. There is almost ALWAYS a guy best friend who has been there all along. Turn around and kiss. his. mouth.
Start over: Get a haircut, buy converse high-tops, rearrange your room, put up poster’s of strong female roles (Stevie Nicks, Carley Simon, Robyn, etc.), and channel your energy to start a new life or start dancing like this:

So there you have it. The best tips I can give when it comes to going your own way.

If you need a support team, you know where to find me and Vanessa.

February 6, 2013 by Carly Chevalier

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How to Get Your Hopes Up

The idea of hope is hard to swallow. Especially when it rests on another person’s shoulders.

It goes along with the cliche phrase “don’t get your hopes up,” and the idea that high expectations in others can only lead to great falls. It’s a skewed mindset, but it is easy to cave into. Unless you saw the idea of hope from a different frame of reference.

Enter City of Hope

Two months ago, I had the chance to take a tour of City of Hope. It’s an incredible cancer comprehensive center in Duarte, California that believes in not only healing the body, but the soul as well. One of the most interesting things about COH is that their hospital was purposely built across from the research center. Every day cancer patients sit in front of windows overlooking a courtyard and a building where scientists spend hours on end trying to find a cure. And every day researchers look across the same lawn to see the faces of the people who believe they can do it.

Hope is the fuel behind the patient’s drive to survive and the researcher’s drive to keep trying. It’s a high hope that chooses to believe more in another person than on possible outcomes or falls. It’s a high hope that in my opinion can become a game changer.

Enter This Video

Recently the agency I work for and COH teamed up to produce this film to raise awareness about the bone marrow registry. In the process we were smitten by the story and by Gavin.

This video is proof of how much we need each other and it’s proof that as my coworker put it life is “pretty damn precious.”

A month after this video’s first preview, I got in my car. I drove a couple hours away from my pride to fix a friendship that means the world to me. As I stood at the top of a windy ledge overlooking a lamp-lit city, I breathed for the first time, laughed with someone I hadn’t let myself laugh with in a long long time, and realized every day should be like this. I am snot-nosed. I am lucky. And life is too sweet to waste on anything less worthy than loving someone else. Regardless of what may come.

Two Things:

Help make more stories like Gavin’s possible by clicking here.
Let yourself love and care about the people you are blessed enough to have standing by your side.

September 1, 2012 by Carly Chevalier

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How to Fit in With a Colony of Vegetable Lovers

Rage Against The Green

I am walking down a street in Santa Monica when and a guy with long flowing hair and an accent runs up to me and asks, “Please, let me take you to dinner?” It was as if I had been transported into a Hilary Duff movie and I had no idea what to say. “I am sorry,” I reply “I am new here and don’t really trust anyone. I will give you my email?” He throws his head backwards as if I just have just slapped him in the face. (Dramatic? Yes, but in LA everyone is working on their acting career so it’s not out of the ordinary.) I can see the wheels in his brain turning. We both know he has 3 seconds to say something before I walk out of his life forever. As I turn to leave, he heroically shouts his last argument, “but you can trust me… I AM A VEGAN.” and that’s when I knew…(sigh)…we would never be together.

Attack of the Vegetables

What people forgot to tell me when I moved by the beach is that eating healthy is a real thing here. People actually believe in microwave-less cooking. They LOVE vegetables, farmer’s markets, and the word “fresh”. Every meal is calculated to perfection and people legitimately cook dinners that I have only seen on TV and assumed weren’t a realistic option for anyone less than Betty Crocker status. I have read plenty of blog posts about this lifestyle, but to see it so actively lived and promoted is a whole new story. I have to say I am impressed. In Provo we grab a Jamba Juice, jog around the block, and call it good. Here, eating well is a religion and running around the block would be considered a 5K.

The Alien in The Office

Flashback to my first week of work. I am innocently typing away when an unnamed coworker asks, “what is that?” He points to a red plastic cup on my desk with a Kit-Kat wrapper peaking out of the rim. “It’s candy?” I stammer. He picks up the cup, tips it over, and just like a snow globe an avalanche of empty fun-size wrappers come fluttering out. Time graciously froze so I could see my coworker’s wide-eyed reaction followed by “Gasp” #1. This was the first of many party fouls. I continued to shock this new health-centered community with my diet.

“Gasp” #2 Came when I revealed that I brought a ravioli TV dinner for lunch.
“Gasp” #3 when I suggested McDonalds for dinner
“Gasp” #4 When I inhaled a bag of M&M’s mid-conversation during a meeting.
“Gasp” #5 When I threw up in my mouth after my first taste of this…

Say hello to my arch nemesis, a shake made entirely out of plants called THE SLURRY.

Your turn to “gasp.”

Drink or Die

Sink or swim. I had been thrown into a colony of cabbage patch kids and if I wanted to fit in I was going to have to start drinking this thing.

Special Note to Green Monster Drinkers: This is not a green monster. A green monster has tons of fruit with a pinch of spinach to make it look green and seem unusually healthy but to taste like..Jamba Juice. The slurry is the opposite and could actually be considered fruit abuse. Even if it had a glimmer of hope called a pineapple, it would immediately sabotage it’s flavor with something that tasted like an onion.

This drink does NOT taste good and is a test to prove that you have what it takes to outlive everyone by 30 years. Here is the breakdown.

The Slurry Breakdown

A slurry can contain any combination of the following:

Beets
Celery
Asparagus
Spinach
Lemon
Ginger
Bok choy
Carrots
Green Leaf Lettuce
Pineapple (the poor thing)
Zucchini
Lime

It is then put into one of THESE and regurgitated for your drinking pleasure.

Side Effects From Drinking This Concoction of Earth.

After a burst of morning energy you will realize that the cheap Asian salad aftertaste in your mouth is not going anywhere. However, this drink is said to have vitamins A through Z and is actually really good for you. It can also keep you from getting sick and will help you gain or lose weight depending on what you want.

Beet Me Senseless

After 4 mornings of painstakingly trying to take more than two sips of the slurry, I had lost all hope. Was I ever going to be able to fit in? In this land of Trader Joe’s and granola is there a place for someone who lives for double-stuff Oreos? Head on my desk, my coworkers appeared with a peace offering. “We know how much you love chocolate so we made a slurry just for you.” Tears welled up in my eyes as they explained that they had blended all my favorite candy bars into a cup of hot chocolate.

The Choco Slurry Breakdown

The chocolate slurry contains all of the following, but is not limited to these candy bars. In fact this drink is limitless, there are endless amazing combinations:

A Bag of M&Ms
Two Mr. Goodbars
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Hershey’s Dark Chocolate
Kit Kats
Chocolate Chip Granola Bar
Hot Chocolate- Extra Chocolate

Side Effects From Drinking ALL Your Favorite Candy Bars at Once

After a three-hour burst of energy from the high levels of caffeine you will crash. Completely pass out to the point of drooling only to be woken up by a tornado in your stomach. Worth it? Totally.

Note: make sure you have a solid tooth brush before drinking. 30 minutes of brushing will barely make a dent on the layers of sugar that will cement onto your teeth.

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

What I have learned from hanging with these Wild Oats is that people who love sugar and people who love salad can peacefully co-exist. There is room for both. Your tasting palette doesn’t define who you are, but your willingness to branch out and try something new does. Enjoy the recipes above: one will speed up your death the other will just taste like it.

I am interested to know what people drink or have been forced to drink to keep their bodies from deteriorating, if you have comments or recipes leave them below! Especially if it is a game-changer for your health and somehow doesn’t taste like it.

May 9, 2012 by Carly Chevalier

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The Siginificant Other vs. The Easter Dinner

We have been warning him for months, but he doesn’t understand. “Easter in our family is not NORMAL,” my cousin and I cackle as we start the I-15 drive to my Grandma’s house. The significant other in the back seat has no idea what he is in for and even if he did the car doors are locked and it’s too late now. However, he is not the only one. This year we had not 1, not 2, but 3 significants coming for Easter dinner. In my family this is unheard of. You could even say it was a miracle. As you read on, you will understand why. We have three traditions at Easter that we absolutely love, but that could put any solid relationship in jeopardy. And here we go…

Round 1: Easter Egg Truth or Dare

Easter in my family is centered around one very special family member, my cousin Tessa Farnsworth. This is because none of us can forget the events of Easter 2009 when my dad asked her visiting boyfriend how it felt to date a “more experienced woman.” What my Dad didn’t know is that A) That question was weird and B) Tessa had recently kissed another boy who happened to be my cousin’s best friend AND my Grandma’s archenemy. From my Dad’s comment, my brother assumed that Tessa’s secret was out and made a very special Easter egg detailing the kiss in white crayon.

By the time the egg emerged from the dye, all chaos had broken loose.

My Grandma squealed, Tessa’s boyfriend went rogue, and the rest of the family was either screaming or laughing histarically. The boyfriend never came back, but the tradition did.

Ever since then each cousin writes a family deep dark secret in white crayon on an easter egg. We all sit around and wait for the dye to reveal the much anticipated secrets from the previous year. The significant passes this round if he/she can take the heat and does not leave Easter dinner early.

This years winning egg? Due to a similar explosion of chaos, it cannot be discussed at this time (too soon).

Round 2: The Easter Egg Hunt

I am sure somewhere there is a perfect family that hides bright colored easter eggs in small patches of grass for babies to find. In our family, this is not the case. We leave easter egg hunting to the pros. After giving the two nephews a few eggs and a pat on the back, the older cousins turn into animals and it’s every man for himself.

My grandparents hides 100 eggs a year filled with dollar bills and quarters. When I say hide, I mean that my grandma uses camoflauge eggs and spends hours laughing to herself as she color coordinates the shells to match their surroundings. She is ridiculously good at it and we love it. After an hour of screaming, searching, and tackling each other, we give up and count the eggs. What the significant other’s don’t know is that the egg hunt is a test. We rank them on four things:

Skill: The number of eggs they find.
Survival: The number of eggs they win in a head to head battle for the same egg.
Baby-Girl-Loving: The number of eggs they sneak to their girlfriend when no one is looking.
Persistence: The amount of time they spend looking for the last 2-3 eggs skillfully buried somewhere near the earth’s core.

This year the significants passed. Previous years, this has not been the case.

Round 3: It’s What’s Inside the Egg That Really Matters

You can’t judge an Easter egg by it’s shell. It’s important to understand that regardless of looks a person’s personality is really what matters most. This is exactly why my Grandparents hang up every mortifying picture of their grandkids they can find to create the ultimate relationship test.

Upon entering the house, the significant is bombareded with photos of braces, chokers, baby fat, tie-dye shirts, and scrunchies. This forces him/her to focus their energy on the sweet spirit of the person they are dating because…. let’s be honest… you won’t be looking at them the same after you see these photos. The significant passes this round if he/she A) Does not offend anyone by how loud they laugh and B) Can get past the fact that the person they are dating used to rock pucka shells and sky-high bangs.

Congratulations Significants 1, 2, & 3!

I am happy to report that this year all the significants passed and we all loved them. I have to give them props for giving 100% effort. Easter was as great as it always is and we can’t wait till next year.

April 15, 2012 by Carly Chevalier

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4 Solid Reasons You Should Be Dating Travis Hatch

Say Hello Ladies

Alright so… I have this friend. His name is Travis Hatch and we have known each other for 6 years now. Anyway. He is currently SINGLE (which rarely happens) so I thought I would help advertise my favorite Provo bachelor. In 10 minutes we put together four compelling videos that will surely tug at the heart strings of all single-women in Utah county. Here goes. Four SOLID reasons to date Travis:

Reason #1: He is creative

This trick/code/pen-drawn tattoo I am about to show you is as good as it get when it comes to male creativity. If you aren’t impressed by this you are either A) a dude that stumbled on this post by accident B) someone with moderate to low expectations. Prepare to be amazed:

Reason #2: He is a musician

Who doesn’t like a guy that can play a few notes on a guitar? The whispering is what will really get you:

Reason #3: In The Hipster Realm But Not Of It

It’s very easy to find a hipster in Provo. It is somewhat difficult to find an average guy who got attacked by a “indie” hairdresser on his way home from school. If you are looking for someone that could pass as a hipster, but won’t waste your time taking instagram photos of nature landscapes and mexican food, this is the guy for you:

Reason #4: Was Once Voted the Most Interesting Guy in Rexburg

Yes this really happened. Travis has been haled as the most interesting guy in one of the smallest towns known to the state of Idaho. The runners up for “most interesting” were Bear world and the Potato museum. Click here to see the video.

Get Him

There you have it ladies. The best of Travis Hatch. What are you waiting for? In all honesty, this is one of the all-around greatest guys I know.

December 20, 2011 by Carly Chevalier

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NEWS FLASH: Katie Pratt is Going Off the Market

Men, We Regret to Inform You

I happen to have a best friend that looks like a SUPER MODEL (pictured below) and is getting married in three weeks! There is only one problem…her up and coming wedding has caused severe depression to spread across the whole male population. It has also caused a decrease of stalkers contacting me in creative ways to get her number. I will miss that.

It wasn’t an easy road to filter through trillions of dudes and there were some almost barely even close runner-ups. So, in honor of the many men that are now having to throw the towel in and are currently de-friending her on face book, I thought we would re-visit a few of KP’s past relationships. This old video is golden so here goes:

A Tribute to the Those Who Tried

Props to TJ Nokleby

Congratulations to Katie Pratt and more especially TJ Nokleby for beating out Shawn White! You have the girl that men can now only dream of and the avenues is officially giving you props. Can’t wait for the wedding!

Love..pride and virgins

September 27, 2011 by Carly Chevalier