Random! Like the numbers in Pi (kind of)

Today I was thinking about a lot of random things.  I decided to post some things about me that are seemingly random, but important to me.


1.  I have a weird obsession with popsicles.  I say weird because I don't eat them just because they are delicious.  Whenever I get upset or sick, I *crave* popsicles.  They're like crack to me.  A box of 24 disappears in a few days, even in the winter.  I'm pretty sure this whole popsicle obsession is because of my mother.  When I was a little kid, every time I got hurt, my mom would give me one to "make me feel better."  I guess it's probably better than craving sweets, which is a rare occasion for me, since there are only 30 calories per popsicle (the Kemps classic kind - my favorite).  The best kinds are Root Beer and Banana!  Grape always gets eaten last, since I HATE the grape ones.  I still eat them, though, I just put it off, haha.  I always eat Cherry and Lime together and the Orange ones are usually singles that I peel off the Grape before I'm forced to eat those.  The last few days, since I've been pretty sick, I begged my ma for popsicles and she brought home a box of classics, Pomegranate Fruit Bars, and Coconut Bars!  I think I ate like 6 today, haha.  ENOUGH ABOUT POPSICLES.  THIS IS LIKE A POPSICLE MONOLOGUE.  HA.  I told you I'm obsessed.  One last thing.  Eating a popsicle and then kissing is BRILLIANT.  Don't ask me why I know this.


2.  If I'm feeling down, brushing my hair always makes me feel better about the world.  I have NO explanation for this at all.  I usually don't brush my hair out, since it's so curly a lot of the time, but when I do, I think, "The earth's gonna be alright."  Yeah, I don't know.


3.  I am SUPER anal about my play count on iTunes and I HATE that it has been reset a few times.  First, after getting my first laptop that was my mom's old one.  After that one died, I had my one for school and then that one died.  NOW I have my laptop (LAPPY!), but when I got my new hard drive, the music count got reset again.  There are certain songs that were up in the THOUSANDS (Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright, Jealous Guy by Gavin DeGraw, and Coffee and Cigarettes by Michelle Featherstone, just to name a few) that now have limited plays.  I love looking at the history of what I've listened to and when that play count is messed up, it hurts!  Another thing about my music - I ALWAYS have shuffle on.  I like to have to know the song by the first note instead of just remembering that it's the next one on the CD.  AND!  I always love getting new music and being exposed to new bands, so please hit me up if you have something that you love!  Or even just enjoy!


4.  Pregnant women are so smoking.  I love babies.  I love children.  I want to have many children and be a housewife.  I've already talked about this, so I'm just going to leave this one where it is.


5.  It really bothers me when people put fake marriages and engagements and relationships on Facebook.  Yes, I know this is a stupid thing to be bothered by, but it's so annoying to me.  I know to some people, it's a funny thing, but to me, it's just a sign of insecurity that they can't put single on their profile.  Just man up.  Plus, it can be confusing at times.  Just don't do it.


6.  I love my godchildren/Dave/Jamie/Maggie with all of my heart.  They are like my true family.  One of the top five moments in my life (Andrew and I had this discussion last summer) was when Dave and I were sitting in his car and we were driving somewhere...  Can't remember where.  Anyways, we were talking about serious stuff and Dave told me that he's always thought of me as his daughter.  I started crying because I was so happy and grateful that I have him and his family in my life.  I know I can tell him and Jamie anything, even if it's sucky or gross or shameful.  They've always been there for me and they always will be.  I love them all so much.


7.  I've touched on this before: I love reality TV.  I don't care how crappy it is.  I think my love for it stems from my need of constant multitasking.  I am always doing more than one thing at once, so if I can put on something that I don't need to fully pay attention to, it works out well for me.  And that's how I fell in love with reality TV.  BRING KID NATION BACK!!!!


8.  I used to hate the radio station called The Current, but now that I have actually given it a chance, I love it.  Thank you, Elizabeth.


9.  I have quite a crazy imagination sometimes.  I have PSYCHO dreams (and I suffer, at times, from sleep paralysis... yes, this is a real thing), but a lot of the time, they just end up being really funny because they're so confusing.


10.  I WILL BRING BACK THE WORD "GNARLY."  IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.  I don't care what anyone says.  It's a great word.  And by great, I mean it's GNARLY.


11.  I love it when I can make people laugh.  I don't care how.  I just love knowing that I brought a little bit of brightness to their day.  I also love laughing!  I laugh alot :)


12.  My favorite number is 11.  HAHAHAHA.


13.  I truly believe that aliens exist.


14.  I am always singing.  I sing at work, I sing in the car, I sing in the shower, I sing while reading, I sing while walking, I sing while talking to people, I sing during blogging (ha... yes.  Right now).  Songs that I can't sing to bother me.


15.  I hate leaving things at "uneven" numbers.


16.  I think I was a fish in other life.  I love swimming SO much.  If I could live in water, I would.  Summer is my favorite season because it is hot and I can go swim ALL THE TIME.  Winter is icky.  And that's that.


17.  I'm usually quite aggressive when it comes to people I like.  It's not that I'm not afraid of being rejected.  I think we can all say, that on some level, we're afraid of that.  But I'd rather just come right out and say how I feel about someone that beat around the bush and have them confused.  Plus, then the ball isn't in my court anymore and I feel less stressed about it, since I know that they know I like them.  Sometimes this gets me into trouble, but nothing I haven't gotten over.  It's just easier to be honest about that sort of thing.


18.  I sleep naked.  It's more comfortable.  And I don't like having my sheets or comforter to be tousled.  It has to be neat.  I can feel the wrinkles and I can't sleep otherwise!


19.  I love math.  Every morning, when I wake up, my alarm is six minutes fast.  I usually set it so I can hit snooze a few times, but I alternate the amount to switch I set it to before I actually need to get up.  The snooze is 9 minutes long.  I think all of that and then figure out how many times I can hit snooze.  Then I go back to sleep, wake up 9 minutes later, and do it all over again.  I know it's ridiculous, but I do not care.  When I have a man, he will wake me up and expect me to rise after he wakes me up at least two more times.  I probably won't remember him waking me up at first.  Yes, this has happened.  I have conversations with people who think I'm awake, but really I don't remember them at all later.  This makes life somewhat confusing at times.


20.  I like rugged men.  I love scruff.  I love ginger beard.  Messy hair and outdooooooors, PAH-LEASE.  None of that pretty boy stuff.  Men should be men.  I'll cook you some dinner after you come home from working all day.  Then I'll push out your babies.  That's how life should be.  RUGGED.  My best friend was born in her house.


Don't ever give up.


THE END.

play play play play play.

Okay, so everyone wants to play.  But when does it become appropriate to play naughty as opposed to nice?  I can't really decide.  And that's all I'm gonna say about that one.

I've had a lot of time to think during the last few days, since I've been quite sick.  I've discovered that I really cannot believe there was a time in my life when I liked this person.  Yes, he tries so hard to be a sweet guy, but deep down, he is such a whiny bitch!  I wish everyone could see that I'm laughing and not yelling and being mean.  It's true, though.  I am quite glad that time in my life is over, because I think he was kind of band aid for everything I was feeling about Wylie, and I think he knew that, sadly.  Whatever, that's all over, so it's all good.  I wish he could have proven me wrong, but in the end, I guess it doesn't matter (hahahah and now Linkin Park is in my head... great.).

ANYWAYS, now that I'm done admitting what I've known for months, I'll tell you about my day.  Basically, I woke up pretty early, cause I wasn't feeling well and my shoulder hurts a fuck-ton, so I took some advil and went back to sleep.  Later on, when I finally woke up for real, I put on some leggings and my mukluks and watched Californication.  I ate some popcorn and potatoes.  That's basically all I've done.  Sleeping was my main activity, haha.  Tomorrow is my official day off, so I have one more day to rest up and get back to feeling normal.  I am looking forward to that moment.

I'll probably end up blogging later as well, since I'm bored out of my fing mind.  That's what being sick does to me.  I want to cuddle.  That is all.

Foggy.

I think I've moved from being deathly ill to being pathetically ill, haha.  After finally getting to sleep last night thanks to a myriad of drugs, I woke up at 8:30 when my alarm so rudely went off.  I took one look at myself in the mirror, blew my nose, and went back to bed.  My eyes were basically swollen shut and they were beat red.  I felt like absolute crap.  I woke up again around ten and called into work sick.  I felt bad, but there was no way that I could have done anything of value.  I probably would have just scared away the customers and then I would have been sent home, since I couldn't really open my eyes fully until about 5 o'clock.

Because I was so sleepy, and yet so extremely sick, I kept waking up and then falling back asleep.  I watched The Royal Tenenbaums to pass the time, per Kent's suggestion, and it was wonderful.  I have vowed to view it again when I'm feeling better, so I can be sure to catch all the jokes!  Then I decided to watch Blow, starring Johnny Depp, which is a drama about George (Depp) dealing drugs, falling in love with a beautiful woman (Penelope Cruz), and having a daughter, whom he loves the most out of everything in his life.  He decides to do one more job in order to get enough money to gain custody of his daughter after he and his wife divorce.  However, the job was a set-up and George ends up in jail for the rest of his life.  It's quite a sad story, and it was actually based on someone's life (Something Jung, I can't remember).  Since I kept falling asleep, it took me FIVE HOURS to watch the movie, haha.  It was alright, but I probably would have been more interested if I hadn't been feeling like death the whole time.

Anyways, I'm feeling quite miserable still.  I'm at the point where I just want to cuddle and eat a popsicle and fall asleep on my guy's shoulder.  Unfortunately, the only men around are my father and brother... gross.  So I'm just sitting on my futon by myself, feeling icky.

ANNNNNNNNND as I look at this photo, I just think that I look really dazed, haha.  This is my "I don't know what I'm doing, I'm really sick, I'm probably going to accidentally take too much medicine and giggle for two hours" face.  And, yes, that did happen once.  I kept telling Megan that she was the funniest person I knew and I couldn't stop laughing.  At least it made me feel better, haha.  I feel like that pic makes my head look likes it's floating.  Whatever.  Floating heads are bitchin'.

I'm hoping to feel much better tomorrow.  Since I was sick all day, I didn't get a chance to make my doctor's appointment for my shoulder, either.  I finally caved in last night and took some Advil, but I don't think it helped.

Quick tangent: When I feel sick, I tend to think crappy things about my life and I'm feeling particularly bummed about things right now.  So here goes.  All I want in life is a real family.  I want a husband and four to seven children and to cook and clean my house with a swimming pool and a barbecue and a family that loves each other, no matter what.  It will be hard, but that's what I want.  I want to stay at home with my kids until they're in school.  And then when they're old enough, I want to take them to football games and to the park and read them books and tuck them in at night.  I've been told that's a silly dream, but I don't care.  That's part of the reason I don't mind that I'm not going to school right now, because that's not part of my dream.   Yes, I want an education, but I don't feel like I need it at this second.  Everyone wants to do everything so fast.  Why can't we all just slow down and love people and each other?  Having two parents that have three jobs each, I never see them.  I don't ever want my family to become like the house I live in now.  And that's what's keeping me going, the notion that one day, I'll have my dream.  If the swimming pool doesn't happen, I guess that's okay...  But the family and cooking and cleaning my house?  And the love?  I have to believe it will.

Because it will.

My future family, in a nutshell.  And that's that.

When a heart breaks, no, it don't break even.

HAHAH so first of all, I love Megan SO much.  The song "Breakeven" reminds me of her!  One of the first times I heard it, instead of singing the actual lyrics, she sang, "What am I supposed to say when I'm all fucked up and you are gay!?"  Maybe you had to be there, but I literally cannot even remember what the actual lyrics are anymore, haha.  Every time I hear this song, I think of her and her beautiful face!  MEGS, I can't wait to see you when you're in the cities!  YAY!

Anyways, so after four days of working nine hour shifts, I finally got a day off today.  I NEEDED IT SO BADLY.  For the last week, I have had NO extra time on my hands.  Actually, I had no time on my hands at all.  Proof:

As you can see, I was not very happy about that.

And now that I have had a chance to relax, it starts to warm up (hooray), but then I get sick like I do every spring and now I look like this:

Life is just not enjoying me right now.  However, I am trying my best to enjoy life.  Work is going really well, and other than my painful shoulder (which has been aching for over three weeks now - I'm finally setting up a doctor's appointment to get it checked out, since it's been getting gradually worse), I'm doing alright.  I'm just not really looking forward to the next few weeks when my kleenex box is going to be my best friend.  Damn allergies.  But what can you do?

So since I had my day off today, I slept in and didn't get dressed until two in the afternoon, haha.  I had this crazy dream in between waking up, eating a bag of popcorn, falling back asleep, and then waking up again, haha.  In the dream, I had a weekend off of work and I didn't have anything to do.  Derrick called me up and told me about this trip he was taking to Sierra Leone.  I decided to go and then all of a sudden this 15 passenger van squealed into my driveway and Anna popped out!  Apparently, Derrick had told Anna, Ashly, and Liz as well, so they were all going, too.  A woman in a giant parka also jumped out of the van and explained everything that I needed to pack.  She also told me that I only had a few moments!  I ran down to my basement, pulled out a suitcase, and Anna started to help me pack.  Unfortunately, I didn't have a coat or anything, so I just packed what I could find.  I also packed a few books, specifically a young adult fiction book about Obama's life written by George Washington, Jr.  On the cover of the book was a white general riding a horse (George Washington??  Who knows.).  Anyways, I packed it and that's basically all I remember, but I think we made it to Sierra Leone.  Our ultimate goal was to climb a mountain there.  And why we were climbing the mountain?  Because we were in love.  And you'll only understand the last part if you've seen the Captain Kirk video.  Watch it if you haven't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ.

After having this crazy dream and getting dressed, blah blah blah, I went over to Emma's and chilled with her and Erica at their place.  What a wonderful night.  We went on a walk, since it was wonderful outside (except for the damn pollen).  I can't wait for the summer when I can go swimming all summer long!  When I'm not working of course, haha.  It's going to be a wonderful summer, I can tell already.  We also went to Tea Garden, I met this kid named Noelle (SPELLING?!?) who was super nice, and then we watched The Butterfly Effect.  Emma and I had never seen it before, and, man, was it intense.  I haven't felt that stressed out watching a movie in awhile.  And by awhile, I mean since Liz and I went to Remember Me, haha.  That movie was so crazy.

Anyways, I'm chatting with my friend Matt now, so I should be off.  Gotta work again tomorrow and set up my doctor's appointment for my shoulder.  And gotta call Andrew after I'm done chatting with Matt.  Oh, I love being busy.  Night, friends. :)

Thinking hard is hard to do

SO!  It's officially St. Patrick's Day and I'm just hoping I don't forget to wear my green tomorrow.  Although, knowing me, it's bound to happen.

Yesterday (meaning the day before St. Patty's) was a pretty typical day.  Got up, forgot my lunch at home, missed my bus, had to quickly find a ride, worked for nine hours, shopped for a new wardrobe...  You know, the usual.  It's the Goodwill sale at work, so I got a 20% discount on every item I bought, plus my 20% employee discount!  There were such good deals!  I got a bunch of new clothes that I can wear to work and then if I throw a pair of jeans or shorts on, they can work for going out, too!  Haha, the girl in me.  :)

Also!  I watched "Food, Inc." recently.  It was an incredibly enlightening, if at times terrifying, film.  "Food, Inc." takes an in-depth look at today's food industry and attempts to analyze if our food system is ultimately helping the country as a whole.  I have told many people that I am not an advocate for PETA or anything of the like - that I could care less about the animals and that I don't eat meat purely for my own health reasons - but after watching this, I am convinced that a major change needs to happen within the food industry.  It is not only inhumane, but also disgusting how the animals are treated.  Cows and chickens literally stand (or sometimes lie, as they can get too large to hold their own bodies up) in their own feces all day long!  Then, without proper cleaning, they are butchered and doused in chemicals to "kill the bacteria" in which they've been residing and with which they are now covered!  Any time we eat a burger, we may be eating cow poop.  Doesn't that disgust you?!  That in itself should be enough to warrant a change.  However, since big time food companies do not want to lose or reduce profit, they resort to politics.  Many of the members of the FDA and the USDA are actually politicians and they have a lot of power within major votes in regard to food safety.  Because of this, no new laws have been passed and the regulation of food is still incredibly sketchy.  I really want to research more about this topic, so next time I'm at the library, I'm picking up The Omnivore's Dilemma and Fast Food Nation, both of which were suggested readings in the film.  I would definitely recommend this movie, especially to those who are unaware (like I was) about the underground workings of the food industry.

Enough of my preaching about food!  I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow and I have a horrible headache, so I should be getting to bed.  Hope you all have a wonderful St. Patrick's!  I'll be working, so party hard for me, children.

And here's the story of the life you lived.

No matter what happens, you can't change the past.  But what if you *could*?  Would you?  I can't help but think I would be tempted.  But if I forgot everything I've learned from the past, would I choose to forget and instead once again become ignorant?  I hope not.  I'd hope that I'd choose to know the real nature of people and of the world.

Part of me feels incredibly cynical lately.  It hurts to believe that something so great like love, for example, exists and that it can be taken away so easily.  On the other hand, how can I believe that it's not out there?  I've seen it in people, people who are striving so hard to do something meaningful with their lives.  And what am I doing?  Working at a retail shop.  What meaning does that have?  I *have* to believe that something is going to change -  one day - but for right now, I'm content with who and where I am in life.

Does everything have a meaning to you?  Every giggle, every tear?  During this last week, I've been thinking about that a lot.  Life is so fleeting.  You have to live every second like it's your last.  Whatever that means, you have to do it.  Because if you don't and your life ends, then what do you have to show for it?

Most of all, I wish people would stop being so scared to live.

This blog is really all over the place today.  This week last year was when one of my friends (Nick) died.  My godson Ryan also had a major surgery on Friday (he's healing wonderfully, though!  I visited him after he got discharged from the hospital today).  It's been tough, but I got through it.  Here's to a new week, kids.  Let's live it up.

Bon Iver makes me want to wet myself.

So I'm just chilling waiting for my food to be done and I decided to write.  Nothing has really gone down today.  I got home from work about half an hour ago and, man, am I tired!  An 8 to 5 day with only one break to sit is LONG.  Tomorrow I start at noon, though, so I'll get to sleep in.  Hurrah!

I'm making myself a delicious dinner.  Baked tilipia with lemon and thyme, rosemary and cheese risotto, and veggies.  I really should just become someone's chef (although I would want to eat right along with them, so that might become a problem...).

Tonight I have the house to myself for 2 hours!  And I'll probably spend that joyous alone time watching tv because I'm so exhausted, haha.  My dinner is going to make up for it.  Mom and Andrew are eating tacos at church.

*WINNER*

I own unique mugs

Well, I'm watching LOST, so this blog might be a bit scatterbrained.  I forget it was on, which is so sad!  I am ashamed of myself, haha.  I had a very long day at work.  After getting only about 3 and half hours of sleep, I was off to my 8 hour day.  It was my first day up in my actual department and it was super fun.  The only complaint I have is that my feet hurt so bad!  But I can live with that :)  Since my department (better sportswear... which doesn't really describe it at all, since all of the clothes have nothing to do with sports or activewear) has so many items, it's going to be hard to learn where everything goes, but I think I'm picking up everything pretty quickly.  Tomorrow I work from 8 to 5, so it'll be another long day for me.

Tonight after work I met up with Emma and Josh and we went to her place!  Erica was there, too.  We were all extremely tired, so it was a quiet and classy night.  Emma cooked a wonderful dinner for Josh and I and I was so grateful I didn't have to take the bus home, since Josh gave me a ride!  What a nice boy.

Here's the thing about this LOST mug.  It is so cool!!  The outside is black when it's cold and then when you put in hot water, it turns white and you can see the design.  I bought it a few years ago, and since I'm freezing and watching LOST, I figured I would use it.  I am drinking this fabulous tea by Yogi (the brand, not the bear) and on each tea bag, there is a little fortune-type thing attached to the string.  Here's todays: "Where there is love, there is no question."  Sadly, I used to think that was true.  Deep down, maybe I still do, but sometimes I think no matter how much you love someone, you can still question whether that love really matters or not.  What a sad notion.

Hahah, I didn't know this photo was occurring.

LOST makes me so joyous!

And yet, also very suspicious!

BROCCOLI MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm getting the sleeves of my shirt wet for no reason at all.

I'm having a bad night.  Why?  There are so many things that I want to say to people that I never will.  I just hole them up inside.  I can't stand it any more and I don't really care if I'm being passive aggressive.  I don't give a shit.  Here they are:

I love you with all of my heart.  I don't know if I can stop.  God knows I've tried.  And I will never put away that picture of you and me like I did when I was at school.  I thought it would help me not think about you anymore.  It didn't work.

You are one of my greatest friends and I miss you so much.  I try not to act sad about it, but it broke my heart to leave you.  I hope you know it's as hard for me as it is for you.

I hate that you didn't say goodbye.

Because of you, I will never listen to Bob Marley in the same way.

It hurts me when you tell me you don't think you're beautiful.  Because you are, my darling.  You are so pure and kind and thoughtful and you're one of the most beautiful people I know.  Please start seeing it.

I sleep with Rudolph because you gave him to me.  I should have gotten to know you better before you died. I'm so sorry for that.

I was really scared when you first talked to me about getting married, but I know now that fear was unjustified.  You're the most grown up of us all.

I love how nerdy you are.

Sometimes I feel so selfish.  And lost.  I guess I'll just keep going, because what else can I do?

In other news, I inhaled a supersize filet o' fish meal from McDonalds tonight.  That's probably contributing to my "I feel like crap" night.  But it tasted so good at the time...

I went on failbooking.com to cheer myself up.  Here's a few gems.  You can click on them to make them bigger.

Leaving it all behind

Today I feel a bit defeated.  Sometimes I feel like I miss people I shouldn't be missing.  To cheer myself up, I played some games with my bro (and yes, he kicked my butt in all of them), but it only really provided a distraction until he went to bed, haha.  I also tried a Klondike bar for the first time!  Here's my reaction:

I was skeptical at first.

And by at first, I meant, even as I was eating it.

Meh.  What would *I* do for a Klondike bar??  Not much.

In fact, I didn't even eat it all.  I washed what I ate down with my favorite cold beverage, water.  Thank goodness I had some handy!

Basically today I discovered that Klondike bars are not really impressive.  I wish someone would have told me that so I could have bought a Snickers ice cream bar instead, haha!  But now I know for myself :)

Anyways, I don't really have much to say about today.  I am really hoping tomorrow is better.  It was just one of those days that kind of sucked all around.  I'm gonna kick back with my music for the next few hours and chill.  Speaking of which, I found some AWESOME indie rock playlists online today.  Blalock's and some other one that I can't remember how to spell.  But they are both wonderful (although I trust Blalock more - they come out with a new one every month).

Tea Time!

So after almost three weeks, I've finally found time to write.  Liz and I are chilling at the Tea Garden!  I got some coconut chai and it is DELICIOUS!  On top of that, the Current is on nice and loud (and believe me, it was *really* loud earlier.  We actually had to ask them to turn it down and it's still sups louds.  Whatevs, Tea Garden is my favorite, so it's all good :)

Anyways, most people already know this about me, but I've decided to take a break from school, move back to St. Paul, and work for an indefinite amount of time.  I know it'll be tough, especially with the parentals, but I need to do this for myself.  I've wasted a lot of time, energy, and money to figure out what I want to do with my life.  However, I think taking a break to actually give me a little extra time to think is really going to help.

I officially withdrew from Concordia about a week and a half ago.  It was definitely time to get out of there.  I absolutely loathed that place.  I love a lot of people there, especially Megan, but I had to leave for my own sanity.  I was going absolutely crazy there.  I wasn't motivated without any goals to work toward.  Yes, I could work towards a college degree, but in what?  I need to discover who I am first, or I'll be going crazy forever.

I started work today!  I got a job at Herberger's (which sounds like is going to be full-time), a retail store that I've worked at before.  I think I got really lucky, since I'm actually replacing someone who is leaving.  I believe I'll be working mornings, which is nice!  I have my first official shift tomorrow from 8-5.  Today was just an orientation and filling out a lot of paperwork.

And shout out to Liz: I am officially stating that I love The Current and I am incredibly regretful and sorry that I never listened to your adamant suggestions about listening to the station.  LET'S GO TO JM!!!!!!!!  

Finally, I made the BEST salmon today.  Really simple, too.  Put down foil in a baking dish and put in a thawed piece of salmon (which, if it's frozen and packaged, just put in a bowl and run lukewarm over it until it's about room temperature).  Pour a little bit of olive oil around the fish.  Then drizzle in lemon juice and sprinkle brown sugar over the top.  Then put in the oven at 375 degrees for about 13 minutes.  About 7 or 8 minutes in, the olive oil/lemon juice will be bubbling.  Use a spoon to take the hot juices and pour over the fish.  This ensures that the fish doesn't get dry.  Finally, turn up the oven to 450 degrees and pour the juices over the fish a second time.  Leave the salmon in the oven for about 2 more minutes.  The fish should be flaky when you pull it apart with a fork.  Mmmm.  This is DELICIOUS and it only takes a few minutes to prepare :)  I ate it with the spicy bean and potato soup I made last night.  Such a good dinner.  I love cooking!!