somebody has the case of the mondays....

BUT not me! oh man it was a pretty good monday. pretty much only things that would make me excited but thats fine. classes boring. huge 3 hour break in between classes, productive but boring until i was on my way to my music class. there was a sidewalk tent sale of things from the bookstore. i was just strolling the outside when something under the tent caught my eye. a little globe. i have been wanting a globe, just for fun so i went and checked it out. picked it up and it doubled as a pencil sharpener!! ya you are probably thing, noone even uses pencil sharpeners anymore, un contraire. i am in an art class were we have to use old school drawing pencils and i just so happen to need to sharpen.

i was super excited just for this globe pencil sharpener until my eye caught a teal beauty. . . a fanny pack!

i bet people thought i was crazy cause i just got a huge smile on my face and picked one up without hesitation and got in line. $2.68 later, my monday was awesomely complete. then i had more boring classes.

also something i have noticed about my self. i dont know if it is because i am more confident cause i am like man i have already gone through this whole getting a bachelor thing and i am just awesome but i talk so much more in my classes then i ever did in my communication - advertising classes. i raise my hand and actually volunteer answers without being called on. like today i was sitting in childrens lit and it was late afternoon and i was pretty tired, i had been up since 6 but i had been participating but my teacher was reading us a book and is was kind of lame so i was kind of dozing and in a little out of body moment and he asked a question and i immediately raised my hand and he called on me cause i was up front (which i have noticed i do that now. i am a front row sitter) but after my hand shot up i was like what am i doing i wasnt ever really paying attention but i said what i had to say, it was kind of dumb but i didnt even care.

and lastly what made me excited about today is the thought of training for a half marathon. i saw the flyer on my car this morning. it is a halloween run and it will be a cool setting. it is kind of pricey which i think is dumb but i kind of want to do it. i like the idea of training for something, i kind of feel cool. so lets see if i get the courage up to actually do it. and as i was sitting in the workout building on campus i was looking through the windows overlooking the pool and watching the swimmers and it made me miss swimming and i want to try and take it up again and go during free swim. i dont have a suit for it and they dont rent them here so this might be a problem considering it is fall now and not swim suit season. we will see what i can find.

well that was my monday.

fall is in the air

so i think i have decided what i want to be for halloween! some sewing will be involved so hopefully my christmas present gets here soon.

and i want to make this cake.

uncivilized

so i was just rimanencing back in the holliday times were me, holli and mikalyn were slackers about getting the internet so we made friends and would just bum it off of them. then i started feeling guilty about using it so i would crouch in the cold dark corner of our apt where i could sometimes steal someones internet that wasnt locked but that wasnt always successful so i then resorted to taking my laptop down to the bathroom in the managers office so i could check things. just me sitting there in the bathroom writing people on facebook. oh those were the times. then we got the internet after about 5 months of not having it and i didnt have to do those things anymore. i could surf the web from anywhere in our apt. but now, here i am again. laying on the hard floor of my apt cause i have to actually connect with the cable to the router. i feel by now the internet should just be in the air and i dont have to go through the annoying process of not having my password work. dang you comcast. i just want to internet it up in the comfort of my own bed.

the unibrow singer slash self talker with the mentality of a 11 year old

yep. that is the description of my roommate. she talks to herself so much that i think someone is in the room with her. and it is not the oh how quirky she talks to herself...it is the insane, needs to be put in an institution cause i am crazy, talking to myself.

and that is not all. she sings all the time. it is not horrible singing but it is not good. she sings the same words over and over and changes the tune of the song and she is so loud and it is so irritating when i am trying to go to sleep.

oh and she only watches nickelodeon or the disney channel and knows all the words to the songs. i mean i like a good icarly as much as the next 12 year old but i dont turn it on unless there is a 12 year old in the room.

oh and did i mention she has a unibrow. i know that takes the cake and initially i really wanted to be her friend because of it but then these other qualities hit me in the face and i decided she is more crazy then anything. but i give her props for sporting the uni and actually would love to do a portrait photo shoot with her cause that thing would be awesome on film.


but today was also labor day and i went and spent it with the family and we went boating. i went wake-boarding for the first time ever. i wish i had pictures but they wouldn't be embarrassing if you were wondering because I NEVER GOT UP. ugh. that is frustrating but i was reassured by my aunt that it is usually the second time out that people get up. so i will just keep telling myself that but for now all i have to walk away with from my wake boarding experience is extremely sore forearms.


BUT i was SUCCESSFUL in getting the blueberry stain out of my brand new white shirt which had only been worn approximately 3 hours before disaster struck .

hello again

summer recap.

worked alot at summer camp. had a blast with all of my coworkers. best summer thus far. last day was great. ended with the golden rabbit, some swimming, pizza party, heavyweights and a girl crapping her pants while giving me a back massage.

oh and i had my car broken into and my purse stolen. that was sucky and still 3 weeks later waiting for everything to be fixed. still dont have my license but not going to lie i feel kind of cool when i need to show ID and i use my passport.

went to seattle. it was great. loved hanging out with tiff. it was just relaxed and i loved it. started it out with some little caesars...classic us and some hocus pocus. then i got to see her play the organ and went to brunch and ate way too much but it was so good and got some cupcakes and had some awesome thrift finds. later that night we went to see the monks sing. monday involved a movie, some sushi, and a gay guy. perfect. then tuesday was BEACH DAY. i havent been to any sort of beach in i dont know how many years. the weather was perfect. and tyler came so that was fun. i didnt go in the water cause i was chicken and it was extremely cold. then it was just some hand out time at tiffs apt and then off to the airport with some ivars as i waited. perfect trip.

provo.
roommates...the asian, the 30 year old and the unibrow. enough said.
first day of school. . . almost started crying after i got home, wondering what i got myself into
school is better now.
week two....to be continued.

WHAT A WEEK....

Oh wowzers. i have a had a fun filled past few days....lets recap

last week i bought all of my material to make my quilt and have actually started on it....that is good progress in this household. i just hope the vision i have in my head can be transferred to the quilt

on friday went and hung out with some friends and went to the observation deck at the airport which is matt jones' favorite. i pretty much fell asleep cause my life has turned to patheticacy (made up word) and i cant get myself to stay up past 11 most days.

then sunday, this is the biggest of them all, i bought my ticket to go see tiffany! this is the first time i have ever actually planed out a vacation where it required me to buy a ticket ahead of time. oh i did go to europe once and that had to be planned but still i think i called my sister in the middle of the night her time and was like i am buying a ticket right now for this day hope it works...so maybe this is my second time but it feels like my first. so i am so excited to see her! oh and did i mention how awesome she is. she always sends me the coolest things...this year for my birthday she sent these...

love them. they will go great with my collection. seattle will be a great way to end summer before my college career restarts.

then monday i was summoned to jury duty...again.
i just was there last august, so maybe it has been almost a year but still there are people that have never gone. but i guess it didnt turn out that bad. it was kind of fun to see how things worked. the first day i got my assignment for a jury that was the next day so i got to go home relatively early but had to be back tuesday for court. there was 72 of us that had to go into court and after hours of sitting 22 people got to be exempted for different reasons then we had lunch. while at lunch i went and sat by a kid who is in my ward but i havent talked to him in like 3 years cause i have been gone or he has been gone and the mutual friends we had in common are no longer here. so i guess i would say that was one of the best things that came out of the whole thing. making a friend at church while not at church but randomly put on the same jury! ha. so we get back to the court room and the prosecutor and the defense attorney go on and on and ask us questions so they can narrow us down and then in the end i wasnt picked. i am glad cause i dont want to be the one that has to choose a punishment for someone. i am a wuss.

thus were my past few days.

week one...

so i have successfully made it through the first week of summer camp. i was really worried this summer cause i am the director of the older kids ( 10-12 yr olds) and last year they were a complete pain and i was just hoping for the best this summer.

well week one they were great. the kids actually played most of the games and there was barely any complaining going on

but let me tell you what consists of a pretty good week....

day one...i had to jump in to the pool and save a girl from the younger kids camp that was going down while doing her swimming test that we make them take before they have free range of the water park. needless to say she now has to stay in the kiddie pool

day two....have a kid diagnosed with anorexia. have to keep an eye on that one.

day four.....ok so we have lunch out at a pavilion and there is a swing set and the base of it is made of pebble size rocks. well a pretty big rock managed to find its way in with the pebbles and into the hands of the sweetest little girl. she was holding it and tossed it to the ground. then of course the heavens and stars somehow aligned and in some weird coincidence of movements the rock hit a boy in the forehead by accident. there was so much blood i thought i was in a horror movie. my heart stopped. oh and did i mention it was the kid diagnosed with anorexia ya awesome. his dad was not too happy when he showed up. the kid was actually ok. he is pretty tough and no tears shed. he didnt even know he was hit by a rock, other kids had to tell him he was bleeding. the cut was small and didnt need stitches but the emt was called just incase cause there really was so much blood.

then while we were dealing with (this.... a little girl got sick and threw up.

friday a parent came in and was mad cause a kid throw away his daughters drink before she was finished with it (and of course the daughter failed to mention that she was scratching the kid and he just got mad and threw it away but feels bad about it and will buy her another drink) ya kids like to leave parts out...but the dad came in and just starts cussing in front of all my kids cause he was mad his daughters drink was thrown away and was calling the boy names. what kind of parent does that?

and then only had one parent complain that her kid was being picked on by other campers which they go to school together and this would happen while they were at school so it is just an on going thing

so all in all....a pretty good week.

timing. . .

once again you suck stamped my life.

but today is a beautiful day. alittle break before the heat wave comes. think i might read a book outside today.

and i am in love with self serve frozen yogurt places. they will be the death of me this summer.

atleast im not made of salt

so as today was sunday i ventured out for a walk. it was beautiful today. overcast and a cool breeze. just lovely. so i go on about a 4mile walk and it is a square around my neighborhood. so about half way through it starts raining and it was going pretty hard there for a bit. needless to say i started stepping up the pace but i thought to myself hmmm i wonder if my mom would come and find me to pick me up since the rain was coming down pretty hard....

....well when i eventually made it home, i am pretty sure she forgot i even left.

oh words....

so do you ever hear a word and you are like i know i should know what that means and you can kind of come up with a definition in your head but of course one that you could never explain cause it only works in your head...well i came across a word of such that nature. NOSTALGIA. i have been hearing that word alot lately and every time i tried to use context clues to put in my definition but it never worked right with the sentence. and i know i should know it but i could not put my finger on a definition for it. so i looked it up today.

nostalgia...
1. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
2. The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

honestly i dont even know if that fit the definition i was making up in my head or not

i love mountain dew

so some impulse buys can be a disaster instantly regretted well not the purchase of today.

i was in the check out line in walmart and turned my head and saw a miniature mtn dew bottle then i saw that it was lip balm. picked it up and put in on the register without a moments hesitation.


it is in the shape of a mtn dew can! people are geniuses!

sorry redbox machine

so lets talk about todays events.

woke up. was a little tired but went and worked out and then went to plasma. right before i left for plasma i noticed my stomach was kind of hurting but nothing i couldnt handle.

so get there and see that the movie playing for my duration of donating was batman, the one with penguin. i hate that one. that is when it all started going down hill.

i made it to the donating chair but was hoping i could make it through cause my stomach was just a pain. i had to do one of those hold on to my stomach things cause it was the only thing that helped.

finished donating. got my 10 dollar bonus cause i am such a loyal employee and went home.

went straight for bed to hopefully sleep the sick feeling away. didnt really work. laid in bed for about 5 hours in fetal position just holding on for life.

then i thought i was feeling better so i was like hmmm maybe i will go get a redbox cause i knew i was going to be hanging out in bed all night and i havent eaten a good meal all day cause of the stomach and the only thing that even remotely sounded good was raspberry sherbet so i headed out to the redbox right out side buy low which is the closest store.

there was no line at the redbox so i decided to get the movie first. (good decision on my part because of the events to come) so i already knew i wanted sherlock holmes cause i havent seen it so i hurried and picked it and just in the time while it was vending my movie i started feeling light headed. i even bent down to wait for my movie. then right when it came out i sat down on the curb next to the machine. luckily i went at not a happening time for the redbox so still no one was there and this was good because the cold sweats started coming and i know this is never a good thing for me. so i just sit there for a few minutes telling my self just to breathe and think good thoughts. welp so much for that....

there is now, throw up all behind the movies to see display of redbox. sorry people.

i quickly got up and left after that. without my raspberry sherbet. i didnt want to take the chance of repeating this. because even though in most situations throwing up makes you feel better, well not in this one. 3 hours later and still feel crappy.

i do what i want.

so sometimes when i need a treat, i walk to to the grocery store across the street....

they always have free cookie samples.

nomad

so i know everyone was thinking i would be sticking around utah for a while. well in your face...im not. so new development in my life, heading back to texas for the summer to make some hard cold cash at the best summer job ever. you know why it is the best job ever, i get the best tan. oh and i just get to play all day and i can live summer how i like it.....never ever getting ready for the day.

but dont worry. i will be back in happy valley in the fall.

favorite blog

so my sister is huge into giveaways on blogs and i really only follow like 2 blogs and none of them did giveaways until now. my favortie....mormon bachelor pad is giving away a free dress from shabby apple and i want it. read their blog it is entertaining.

awesome.

http://vimeo.com/4729762

some talent.

death comes unexpectedly....

so today i went to plasma. i love donating plasma. it is great for people watching.

well today i had some fun things to watch.

so there was this boy and it was only like his second time coming. soon after being hooked up to the machine i saw some of the phlebotomist going over to him and putting a cushion under him to raise his feet.

i got intrigued.

so i was watching. and the phlebotomist were standing over him. then he went extremely pale and his head fell to the side with his eyes open. the phlebotomist was shaking him and and calling his name out and no response. i thought he was dead. he looked dead.

it took about 40 seconds before his eyes started moving. i was relieved.

so note to everyone....dont pass out with your eyes open. you will scare the people around you.


also the girl next to me started freaking out and tried to get up while hooked to the machine and was like take it out of me. ha ha. but the guy calmed her down and she was able to finish.

CUPCAKES!!!!!

so my sister won some free cupcakes....( thank you alisha http://cravings-alishascupcakes.blogspot.com/) and i got to pick them up today. delicious!! chocolate with cheesecake and raspberry filling!!!

i dont even know.....

do you ever have those times when you just completely forget everything?

so yesterday i was driving in a shopping center parking lot and i was turning the corner within the parking lot and thank goodness no one was coming cause i literally forgot what side of the road i was suppose to be on after i turned. it was so weird but thankfully i chose the correct lane.

then tonight i was sitting at the table taking a drink from of my water bottle. sometimes for no reason at all, i hold water in my mouth for a second before i swallow it and well i was doing that and my mouth was open. i leaned forward to look at something and then water falling out of my mouth all on the ground.

i dont even know what to say for myself.

on a stroll

so i can easily say going for walks is one of my most favoritest things ever. i love just going by myself but if others must be there, i will probably insist that there not be more then three of us. i think walks are a great way to get to know other people so if there is more then three then it is pointless for me cause i am not a mingler so i would only end up talking to one or two other people.

but if i am by myself, i just like to walk and think.

so today on my beautiful walk to campus (before the rain and hail hit) these were a few things i thought about ...all things dealing with summer and walking mostly

* the anticipation for summer is almost to much to handle
* future walks to macys in the summer heat to get the huge small ice cream cone for only 51 cents will be awesome.
*bike rides (when i get a bike)
*snow cones
* how byu provo is a lot harder to figure out then byu idaho
*it really irritates me when people starting walking at the cross walk before the sign tells them to go. i dont know that they have cracked the code of the lights and know when it will be their turn. i just dont care. i want them to wait.
*my right arm swings significantly higher and faster then my right arm
* i am excited for the fall... for a few reasons
*i think to much about things (but really i cant help that and going for walks really wont help since thinking is all i have while i walk)



and side note ( i was concerned about this a few days ago and my fears were brought to an end)
so the other day a girl was over at my apt and we were just talking and she asked how old i was and i said 23 and she was like oh i thought you were my age. she is 27!!! NO, I AM NOT 27 AND I REFUSED TO BELIEVE THAT I LOOK LIKE I AM!
so in panic i asked my friend tyler if he didnt know how old i was, how old would he say... and he said he would say 23 which is nice to think i do still look my age but it really didnt count cause he knew how old i was and i bet he could tell that i definitely did not want to hear some outrages number like 27. so that was nice. i kind of forgot about it for a little bit then last night i was just talking with my new roommates which are all younger then me and just out of the blue of the girls was like you look really young. i would say you were 21. oh man that made me feel good.

ppphhhewwww. forever young.

romeo and juliet (leo version of course)

isnt this just the prettiest thing you have ever seen?



i want it. i wont kill anyone. i promise.


also funny story, speaking of leonardo dicaprio. . .

so i was taking a film class while in school. i usually would sit in the middle of the class which was stadium seating. on this fateful day, i was pretty late and could not get a seat in the middle but was forced to sit on the very front row, the seat on the end. we were talking about actors that day and my teacher was like lets go around and say who are favorite actor or actresses are. then with out even giving us a moment to think she looks at me, being in the front and it like lets start here. i panicked. i needed time to think. millions of things were going through my mind but for the life of me i couldnt think of any actors. so i just thought of the first movie that came to me. i had just watched whats eating gilbert grape the night before. leo was the first and only thing in my mind and i felt like if i said that then everyone would think i was a 13 year old. but nothing was coming, not even johnny depp who was also in the movie. just leo.

first person in line. hundreds of actors at my disposal, not one had been taken yet.

my favorite actor is leonardo dicaprio.

then the mortification began. everyone in the class just starts booing me. i didnt know what to do. . .

so i turned around and looked at all of them from below (stadium seating) and said. he is in some very good movies. and then turned around.

and you know what. i dont even know why i was ashamed. he is in good movies. and i do like them.

i declare this to the world...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS MY FAVORITE ACTOR.

day two.

provo. it is going to be good. roommates, like them. it will be fun.

the beginning.

day one...in provo

so today started off with me packing the little annoying things that i had left in my room, into my car.

and dont worry the plants that i had been keeping alive for months now...well i set them on the dash of my car and the sun was pretty intense today and ya, fried them! i was so sad. i rushed them inside and gave them drink. i am trying to nurse them back. one looks promising the other, well not so much.

i started the drive down to provo on my favorite highway. the I 15. if i were ever to become a highway. that is the one it would be. i just love it. it is like a hidden treasure. people forget about it. (mainly because it doesnt go in the direction the most people need) but that is fine. i drive it when i can and enjoy it the whole time.

then. i made it to provo.

so i am sharing a room for the first time ever in my college career. i am super nervous about it. and i already found a fault to it, there is just not enough room for my stuff in a room of two. but it looks like a got a good room roommate cause apparently she is never here and half the time doesnt even sleep here. it is only for two months though and then i am moving to a private room where there will be plenty of space for my precious things. i like things. and i like things to be everywhere.

and dont worry half of my stuff is still in my car and will probably remain there till summer when i get a room to my self.

so out of the other five girls that live here, i have only met three of them. i hung out with one girl jenessa pretty much all day. we are going to get along. i can already tell. it wasnt even like awkward.

i miss my old roommates mikalyn and holli. i purposely didnt finish things in the apt so then i would have to go back. i like though that i will have friends in different locations and the drive up to slc really isnt bad.

i hope my plant doesnt die.

moving day...

so i keep getting so excited and then super nervous. one emotion after another just switching back and forth.

the apt i am moving into, i have to share a room with another girl. i dont even know how to share. i am pretty selfish. so this could lead to lots of good stories. i kind of hope it does.

i am going to miss my roommates. i forget how awesome it is to live with people you know and love....until you move in with ones you dont, yet. especially mid semester.

well we will see how day one goes....

minus well...

so for years i have been saying the phrase, minus well. for YEARS. come to find out, that minus well, is not even a phrase at all. the correct phrase is, might as well.

(ohhhh!!!!!)

ya that is right. no one has ever said anything to me. i dont know if it was because they figured out what i meant. see say, minus well and then quickly say might as well. they sound the same huh. ya they do.

or people just thought i was an idiot and had know idea what i was "minus welling" about.

but thanks to a good friend i can now use the correct spelling of the phrase. i mean, i minus well write it right.

OBSESSED

so i have been trying to get into this whole blogging thing for a while. i try to get interested in other people's blogs. i will look at one for a few minutes and then blah i am over it and i dont check anyones on a regular basis. but yesterday this has all changed.

and this was the blog to do it. http://mormonbachelorpad.blogspot.com/

i am completely obsessed. i really dont know why maybe just cause they are funny and it is entertaining. well lets face it that is the exact reason why i read it. but completely obsessed. they started the blog months ago so of course i had no idea what they were talking about in recent post so to rectify this i went back to the very beginning and read like 7 months worth of post. i am crazy. its like when i start to look at peoples pictures on facebook and i cant stop until i have looked at all 637 of them. i literally have to look through them all. anyone else have this problem?...

guess i found my ocd.

but my only hope is that these boys are for real. and that one day i might meet them. even if i dont know that they are the real "jake" and "calvin".

friend destiny

so i consider myself somewhat of a friend snob. i dont keep people around that arent worth the time. if we have known each other for a while and i still talk to you then guess what you have passed the test and you are awesome and we will probably be friends for life. (there are a few friends of past that i might not keep in contact with but i still think about and loved the friendship fondly and probably miss it but i have a think about calling people on the phone. i am just not good at it)

i usually know after the first or second meetings if you are a person that i am willing to put the time in and make sure we become friends. if you arent....then i probably make it that you cant even be friends with me even if you wanted too. i kind of get annoyed that you are probably putting the effort forward.

i love the friends that i have. they brighten my day. with most of my friends, it was just meant to be. destiny. we just get each other.

my friend jenny, we just get each other. even though it has been years since we have seen each other, every time we talk it is like we havent missed a beat and and we can tell each other all our "im a girl so i am psycho sometimes" stories and we get it, no judging.

well i was talking to her tonight via facechat and the first thing she said to me solidified our friendship.
me: "hey jenny" (or something to that affect)......(her reply)
jenny: " I WAS JUST STALKING YOU"

made my day.

we will be friends for life because i will be stalking her too (and anyone else who i consider to be my friend)


unfortunately this was the only picture of just us that fb could provide

if its funny, im going to laugh

so today during church we had a speaker named John Bytheway. He is pretty well known and known as a funny person. so he is up talking and he makes an hilarious face, one that should be laughed at by all. so when he makes this face, i bust out laughing. i didnt hold anything back. well apparently no one else thought it was funny. it was dead silent and just me sitting on the very back row cracking up. needless to say, heads turned and looked which made it even worse for me and i couldnt contain myself. people need to get a better since of humor.


and i was thinking. sometimes the best things are things that cant be defined.

like this picture. i maybe the only person who really knows what it is but i dont care. i love it. as long as i understand it, that is all that matters to me.


lastly everything is brought to you by this camera...

thanks best sister.

HAPPY VALLEY

oh i got into byu.

8 years later

so i was bored one day and so i went up to visit olympics past. to park city, home of the 2002 winter games, is where i went. this is what i saw.



view from the top
in the city

this is of the ski lift. not sure what happened. but i like it.

and thus concludes the park city trip.

nice knobs

one day i will have enough door knobs to fill a whole wall.
all different kinds.
not a single duplicate.
i am going to love that wall.
till then.
knob one.

knob two.

and counting...

one man's trash, another man's treasure

sometimes i spend my time finding things in thrift stores. this was a good day and my findings.

muirfield

may 1st, soon approaches

i want some tom shoes for my birthday. i have never been one to make lists or really know what i want ahead of time. especially three months ahead of time. but if i dont get them i might scream.....

and i want a goose that lays golden eggs on easter