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Nicole
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Nicole MoneySmith, wife, daughter, and puzzler, died Friday at the age of 25. She died of a red vines overdose, while at home. Law & Order SVU was playing on Netflix when she was found.
Her last words were, "That's it; I'm dead." (http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm) She was survived by husband, Collin Smith, 28; father and mother, Alan and Sandra Money; three brothers, Alan II, David, and Joseph; cat, Sneek; and dog, Mickie.
Nicole was born in Provo, Utah on March 13, 1984, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She attended and graduated from Desert Vista High School and was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
She was attending Mesa Community College, planning to major in English and minor in Art History. She loved museums, Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, music, film, po-going and cats. She also loved traveling, and studied abroad in Ireland and the Czech Republic. She and her husband recently traveled to Mali, West Africa, and did assessments for a Non-Profit Organization in 7 villages in the Ouelessebougou region.
A favorite scripture and inspiration to her is from the New Testament:
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring."
Acts 17:28
Nicole's body will be donated to science, and there will be no headstone or grave, but there is a small plaque at the Arizona Historical Society Musem which reads, "Nicole E. MoneySmith, lover of clouds, french food, and city buses, died Friday, August, 21, 2009, but gives her heart to her best friend and husband, Collin Smith."
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Happy sexy ole fourth of July. |
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Collin made me dinner. What a man. |
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Back to life; back to reality. I find myself in America, and completely unable to be normal in social situations. I have a hard time expressing myself and what I have in my brains to people. They say, "How was Africa." I say, "Awesome. Great. Wonderful. Beautiful. Hard. Nice to be home." We're heading to the gym all this week. We hope to stay skinny. But I just keep eating good food. I have to go to the cycling class now. Collin's beard is hot and his hair is long. I love him. He is my best friend!!!!!!! Self-reliance! Photos coming.
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On my last night in America for dinner I ate a giant salad, spaghetti, and a cheese tortilla. I'm actually getting that "going on a trip" excitement feeling!!! Collin just said, "I'm kind of excited to get there, now!" Seriously, we've been through a lot this week, and cried wolf to ourselves so many times that we won't believe it till we set foot on Bamako soil. We're going to practice singing our Nora Jones song. (Collin plays and I sing Come Away With Me.) ((We're super serious about our career.)) We don't have many assets to will to you all. Anne, will you get our affairs in order?
Record player and records to Anne
TV (with DVD player) goes to Aaron
Juli and Isaac, Collin wants you to have our bed.
Our fabulous wardrobes: mine to Morgan
Collin's to Aaron and Ryan Barnhart.
DVD and VHS collection has no monetary value. Please place your bid here.
Books go to Childrens Hospital throughout the US and Canada.
Everyone gets ONE piece from our beautiful and bright Fiestaware Collection. Please indicate here which color you prefer.
(Red, Orange, yellow, green, blue, dark purple, dark cinnebar)
I'll give my computer to Joseph Money.
Anne, please make sure our brains are donated to science. The End. Goodbye. Forever. PS. Add Collin's livejournal. Carcassonne_Col
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After the most stressful, disappointing and exhausting week of our lives, we got our documents on Friday. The pressure was off. We spent the weekend at Collin's Aunt Katie's house, eating whatever food we wanted, ice cream twice a day, watching hours and hours of tv. We hadn't watched tv in months! HOURS OF MINDLESS TV!! We're finishing up our laundry, then bus down to Provo where we will -bank stuff -Get something delicious to eat -spy on the lady living in our home -fear our debt but ignore it for now because we're going to Africa(yikes) Tonight we're going to my cousin Jason's birthday party. We searched the house for an appropriate present.
An unopened Settlers of Zarahemla will do just fine.
"Is that stealing?"-me
"You can't steal from family."- Collin We're going back to the program director, Jodie, and her husbands house tonight, then
one more day in the OUA office. I turned in my two articles for the newsletter, and I'll sit down
for a chat about them with lame girl.
Then Wednesday morning everything SHOULD go according to plan, and hopefully we will be on our way to Mali.
It's going to be hot and I can't wait.
I gotta go. Collin's about to die or something. 
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Charles de Gualle Arc de triomphe Notre Dame Champs Elysee Pompidou Louvre (just look at the outside. We don't got the time.) Memorial de la Shoah Le Tower Effeil Excellent, my friend. Excellent. Then to Bamako and Ouelessebougou. THIS TIME SHOULD BE FOR REALZ CAUSE WE GOT OUR passports and visas FINALLY! rice with peanut sauce and vegetables we will be eating with our hands every day.
Interviews in French, English, and Bambara
MANGO TREE IN the yard of our compound!! I'm excited, man. Only 4 weeks instead of 6. That's okay! Love, Nicole Ps. I'm pretty sure we're going to die on the plane ride. Hopefully it will be on the way back so that we can at least go to MALI!!! Aladdin is so good. We watched it this morning.
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TODAY Juli and Isaac King came over to my house I share with my husband!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!! What a great night. Then my cousins made me Japanese food and we played my new favorite game, Munchkin. GET HERE, TOMORROW, VISAS!!!! Hurry it up!!!!! I leave for Mali, West Africa at 7am on Monday, IF WE GET THOSE VISAS tomorrow!!!!!! I'm completely hopeful and faithful, though! That boy is cute in my bed. |
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The WORLD RECORD for most consecutive jumps on a Pogo Stick is 177,737!!!!!!!!! It was set by Gary Stewart in 1990 at Huntington Beach, CA!!!! It took him 20 hours and 20 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The record for longest distance Pogoed was 23.11 MILES! Ashrita Furman, New York, 1997! I think I got a shot, boys. Syke. But serious, this makes my 449 look like used-up floss in the sink.
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Collin left for a conference in San Diego about 12 minutes ago. I miss him. I'm sad. This will be the longest we've been apart since we were married. I need to get productive while he's gone: apply FAFSA
find somewhere for us to live
clean the house
do the laundry
register for classes
work Tues, Wed, Fri
getcha ready for Easter
play video games with David Money
bake something delicious
POGO
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Me getting Yellow Fever shot. Breath in and out.  Yellow Fever:
 Hepatitis B and Meningococcus. The Hep B hurts SO BADLY. It has kept me up all night!!!
 Hepatitis A, Tetanus, AND Polio -No biggie.
 We started taking our very high-maintenance Typhoid pills this morning. Collin has no clue. You have to do it on an empty stomach, so I woke him up, we took it, and he's out cold again.
Malaria pills coming soon. I'm such a complainer. Next post to be positive and uplifting, I swear!! I saw The Haunting in Connecticut.
It was kind of freaky, man.
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Today is a bummer. Got 5 shots. Hep B is the most painful thing ever.
Plus Yellow Fever yesterday makes 6 and $800.
PLUS Typhoid pills and Malaria pills that will COUNTERACT my birth control pills
AND could possibly cause BIRTH DEFECTS.
great. Had to walk home (10 blocks) with a billion pounds of groceries
and my shots arms hurt. BUT a Nigerian man pulled over and offered to drive me home.
I told him he is kind.
He said, "God is kind to me." |
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You know, Livejournal, I love you. But working with you means working with photobucket. I'm really trying here, but photobucket just isn't making things easy. |
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The weather here is freaking crazy. After a freezing cold winter (and no car, so walking back and forth to work everyday), it has finally started to get nice. It was sunny and in the 50s-60s all week! And the other day was the first day of Spring, so we naturally started busting out the shorts and picnics. BUT today was super chilly-windy-RAINY. AND it's supposed to accumulate 2 inches of snow tonight!
And it is supposed to snow every day this week. I just might die. Good thing we're going to Disneyland on Thursday.
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I won't give you a bloody nose. |
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We are going to Mali in April! |
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