this is Jacob. It's a pic from his birthday...
disregard me. I look deathtastic. Jake on the other hand... :p
Friday, December 19, 2008
so i took a sick day, but i ended up doing a 'photoshoot' instead of sleeping.
Today was the last day of school before Christmas break and I persuaded my parents to let me have a sick day. So I slept and watched Bonanza for a moment... but then I wanted to get up and do my makeup. Random, right? So I did, and I haven't done eye makeup forever so it was really weird. Anyway, I was just sorta maybe a teeny bit proud of how some of the pics turned out... See? Maybe I'm just biased.
Yup. Probably just biased.
But you have to admit, my eyes are kinda cool in these. :p
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
So not that any of you really read this. unless you do. in which case i'm apologizing for no new pictures ever. i'm workin on it.
So the title says all i have to say on that subject. On to the next one.
So it's WAY snowy and stuff. And i love it and all, but i'm feeling rather caged inside. Also
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JACOB BARRIE! My friend Nicole and I surprised him this morning at five. Uh, yeah, i know. Early. Waaaayyy early. Much too early. Remind me to never be thoughtful and/or creative again. :p Just kidding, it was lots of fun- but now i feel like my head is going to give birth or something. pretty intense right? I know! :D But it's ok. I'm sure with a bottle of IBprofin i'll be fine in an hour or so. Maybe some cheese pringles. Definitely some of those. Did you know that when aunt flo is around cheese pringles are incredibly magical?? Well, they are.
I have a story.
And it's not an enjoyable one. For me. Yet. I'm sure with time the embarrassment will fade and then all will again be well.
Brother jones is jake's teacher as well as mine. And he finds great pleasure in teasing the two of us about, well, us. On student's birthdays they get to be in the spotlight and the class asks questions.
Of course my father had to be in there, i mean, i'm dating jake for crying out loud. He's gotta get dirt on the boy! :p
Every birthay, without fail, the class brings up some sort of affection question. Premarital interdigitation or... lip contact. :) Well... Jake kissed me a little while ago. ok, like seven days ago. or something.
My COUSIN! or... second cousin at least, asked the kiss question. And Jake 'never lies'. Which is good and nobel and all. But did he have to confess kissing me in front of my father??
I suppose the world will never know.
So it's WAY snowy and stuff. And i love it and all, but i'm feeling rather caged inside. Also
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JACOB BARRIE! My friend Nicole and I surprised him this morning at five. Uh, yeah, i know. Early. Waaaayyy early. Much too early. Remind me to never be thoughtful and/or creative again. :p Just kidding, it was lots of fun- but now i feel like my head is going to give birth or something. pretty intense right? I know! :D But it's ok. I'm sure with a bottle of IBprofin i'll be fine in an hour or so. Maybe some cheese pringles. Definitely some of those. Did you know that when aunt flo is around cheese pringles are incredibly magical?? Well, they are.
I have a story.
And it's not an enjoyable one. For me. Yet. I'm sure with time the embarrassment will fade and then all will again be well.
Brother jones is jake's teacher as well as mine. And he finds great pleasure in teasing the two of us about, well, us. On student's birthdays they get to be in the spotlight and the class asks questions.
Of course my father had to be in there, i mean, i'm dating jake for crying out loud. He's gotta get dirt on the boy! :p
Every birthay, without fail, the class brings up some sort of affection question. Premarital interdigitation or... lip contact. :) Well... Jake kissed me a little while ago. ok, like seven days ago. or something.
My COUSIN! or... second cousin at least, asked the kiss question. And Jake 'never lies'. Which is good and nobel and all. But did he have to confess kissing me in front of my father??
I suppose the world will never know.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Catchin up.
Well then. It's been kind of a while, right? That, my friends, is because life gets kind of crazy sometimes. And I'm not even cool and in lots of clubs or sports or anything! I just get stressed with homework (of which sometimes... usually gets neglected... oops? But I'm not failing anything so we're good!) and guys and girls and just... life! So anyway, I finally remembered, "Hey! I have a blog!" when during thanksgiving break (See, I still neglected it after I remembered) my cousin, Angie, said she commented on it or something to that effect. Just as a quick PS, I love Angie's blog! It's basically what made me want to start one. It's so cute and fun and she had this other blog thing that she liked to read- it's about some girl in love with her best friend. And it's awesomely good. :D I love it! Plus I can relate on occasion. :p Or at least it makes me think back to that one really obsessive crush I had. For like... five years. So anyway, I wanted to put it on my blog for easy access. For myself. And you guys too. Assuming anyone reads this. :p (Super fun/time consuming to read, blog!)
Moving on from the random blog.
Facebook. It's rather addicting and I'm noticing a pattern. There are two phases. Really addicted, and not really interested. And when I'm really addicted no one else is so there's nothing to do on Facebook, thus sending me into the not really interested stage. Which backfires because around that time, everyone gets addicted again and I get lots of messages and stuff which then sends me spiraling back into addicted mode. It's like the circle of life.
So we just had our Christmas concert for Orchestra- which was pretty much fun. I'm not sure how we sounded, people tell me it was good but I was sooooo distracted (because it SNOWED!... and Jake was there... which is cause for distraction I suppose) So I felt really detached the whole concert but I noticed all of the intonations, and mistakes and rushing and all of our... flaws? I guess? I couldn't think of a good word besides that. But "Mr. Dr. Seven(/ Neves)" seemed fairly pleased, and my parents were brought to tears during one of our Mannheim Steamroller songs so I'm guessing it was ok. However, the stupid party we had the next day in class, I think we should have fixed. We watched Polar Express- since we played that in our concert. It's pretty music, I like it a lot, don't get me wrong. I just wasn't a fan of Polar Express the first time I watched it, and if you're trying to redeem a movie that you didn't like- watching it in orchestra is most certainly not the way to do it. I love my 'dorkestra' people, but they're crazy obnoxious so I still don't know whats going on in that movie. And the eggnog made me sick I think. And the doughnuts were HUGE! So jumping back to after the concert- we hung out a little bit at the school because Maria (The cutest foreign exchange student from Germany! I'm so sad that she has to leave in May. But we have time to make the most of until then.) and Erin had to go make snow angels (in the new snow that apparently kept falling while we played in the concert! :D Favorite thing of my LIFE!) And of course Eric joined in the fun- Eric is a rather odd, but strangely endeared guy from orchestra. Sometimes I worry about that boy... Moving on. Jake and I were playing in the snow and that little... (choice word :p ) so we're standing under this pine tree right? Right. So guess who pulled on a branch and dumped tons of snow ALL over me!? Yup. That would be Jacob. :) Oh well, I suppose he's forgiven. Then I had to drive in the snow- which I've done before of course. Just not in new snow. It's always after the snow plows and melting has occurred. And it hadn't yet. And we had to drive on the hill to drop Maria off. It was slightly intense. I think lives flashed before eyes a couple of times, but fortunately we survived. Which goes to show off one of my 'amazing talents' (Inside joke. Kinda... well, yeah. Inside joke. From a testimony meeting. It was quite funny actually.) And so once we made it off the hill I took Jake home and stopped to visit Nicole. And my eighty dollar modeling shoes (which we had to dye black) dyed my feet blue. REALLY blue. Like intensely, the darkest color of crayon blue, blue. And they stayed that way for a few days. But hey, it's pretty exciting to have blue feet. You can pretend it's frostbite or something fun like that.
So now that I've rambled about snow and concerts and blue feet: I think it's time to talk about writing.
I'm writing a book. But most everyone knows that by now. And it's more like I'm attempting to write a book. I talked to people about it and let them read it for some constructive criticism- which is always good, right? Well, there was more constructive criticism than I thought. :) It's kind of sad. And Humbling, to realize you're not as good at something as you think you are. It's not like I'm awful at writing... I'm just not some junior novelist protegee. Blast. I was so looking forward to being on Oprah too. :p (Once again, inside joke. Erin, if you read my blog you'll be having a hayday.) But now I'm stuck. And I have lots of revision to do, but Erin had a dream about my book being 'the next Twilight' and becoming a movie and I think I miss Elle and Colten and Liam (AKA my characters). Plus Amy is still lost and wallowing in some strange illness and I need to find her and bring her back into the story. But I don't know how. Maybe Dan can find her.
Also, I want to write another 'book' when I'm finished with this one. Right now I'm trying to work on only Love at Second Sight cuz it's hard to focus on two writing projects at once. But I had an idea for another one (as I was sprinting across a parking lot to hide from a boy in the seminary. No lie. It really happened, that's how lame I am. :) ) So here's a random sample thingy. Let me know what you think.
Jamie woke up early Saturday morning feeling a little bit stiff from her running away escapade of yesterday. Now that she thought about it, hiding in the small closet in her dad's classroom hadn't been very comfortable either. Jamie sighed and got up to stretch in attempt to loosen her sore muscles. She pushed her hair back from her eyes while taking the stairs two at a time. Susan, her mom, had put breakfast on only a few minutes ago and it wasn't quite ready yet, so Jamie went to the computer. She plopped down on the swivel chair and punched in her password. She had seven new messages and all of them junkmail. Jamie rolled her eyes at the subject of the first message: "Jamie, how many people are crushing on you?"
Too many, she thought, far too many.
Jamie Cooper is a bright-eyed, intelligent and beautiful young woman; so it's no wonder she has a string of admirers trailing behind her everywhere she goes. Most girls would be flattered by the attention, but not Jamie. She wants nothing to do with the silly boys whose interest she's captured so easily, and so she runs. Always hiding from their eager eyes until one day, someone comes along who makes Jamie think twice about running. Will she overcome her aversion to love? Or is it on the run again for Jamie.
Ok so it's way corny sounding, but I think it would be incredibly entertaining to write.
Also, before I finally stop writing this random ramblement of catching upness of bloggage, I have a random tidbit of exciting information. Well, it was exciting for me anyway. When I was at EFY we wrote ourselves letters and then the counselors said they'd send them out later on in the future one day. At random. And so without going into detail, life has been a bit of a struggle for me lately. I'm not even going through anything major- which is the lame part. I should be fine, but sometimes I'm not. But really, I'm ok so don't worry. It's just life. Right? Anyway, so my letter came and I was WAAAYYY excited and I'm thinking that it wasn't maybe perhaps not just coincedince it came when it did. :) Sometimes I just so happen to be a little bit intelligent and I sound wise and stuff. My letter was one of those times. I sounded like my dad giving me counsel. And it was PERFECT for the situation I'm in now. It was basically incredible. I actually cried. A good cry of course. But, I just thought that was kind of cool.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately if you're all sick of my rambling.) now it's a really blustery Saturday morning, and I probably have to go scour some bathrooms and vacuum under my bed. (Wish me luck)
Moving on from the random blog.
Facebook. It's rather addicting and I'm noticing a pattern. There are two phases. Really addicted, and not really interested. And when I'm really addicted no one else is so there's nothing to do on Facebook, thus sending me into the not really interested stage. Which backfires because around that time, everyone gets addicted again and I get lots of messages and stuff which then sends me spiraling back into addicted mode. It's like the circle of life.
So we just had our Christmas concert for Orchestra- which was pretty much fun. I'm not sure how we sounded, people tell me it was good but I was sooooo distracted (because it SNOWED!... and Jake was there... which is cause for distraction I suppose) So I felt really detached the whole concert but I noticed all of the intonations, and mistakes and rushing and all of our... flaws? I guess? I couldn't think of a good word besides that. But "Mr. Dr. Seven(/ Neves)" seemed fairly pleased, and my parents were brought to tears during one of our Mannheim Steamroller songs so I'm guessing it was ok. However, the stupid party we had the next day in class, I think we should have fixed. We watched Polar Express- since we played that in our concert. It's pretty music, I like it a lot, don't get me wrong. I just wasn't a fan of Polar Express the first time I watched it, and if you're trying to redeem a movie that you didn't like- watching it in orchestra is most certainly not the way to do it. I love my 'dorkestra' people, but they're crazy obnoxious so I still don't know whats going on in that movie. And the eggnog made me sick I think. And the doughnuts were HUGE! So jumping back to after the concert- we hung out a little bit at the school because Maria (The cutest foreign exchange student from Germany! I'm so sad that she has to leave in May. But we have time to make the most of until then.) and Erin had to go make snow angels (in the new snow that apparently kept falling while we played in the concert! :D Favorite thing of my LIFE!) And of course Eric joined in the fun- Eric is a rather odd, but strangely endeared guy from orchestra. Sometimes I worry about that boy... Moving on. Jake and I were playing in the snow and that little... (choice word :p ) so we're standing under this pine tree right? Right. So guess who pulled on a branch and dumped tons of snow ALL over me!? Yup. That would be Jacob. :) Oh well, I suppose he's forgiven. Then I had to drive in the snow- which I've done before of course. Just not in new snow. It's always after the snow plows and melting has occurred. And it hadn't yet. And we had to drive on the hill to drop Maria off. It was slightly intense. I think lives flashed before eyes a couple of times, but fortunately we survived. Which goes to show off one of my 'amazing talents' (Inside joke. Kinda... well, yeah. Inside joke. From a testimony meeting. It was quite funny actually.) And so once we made it off the hill I took Jake home and stopped to visit Nicole. And my eighty dollar modeling shoes (which we had to dye black) dyed my feet blue. REALLY blue. Like intensely, the darkest color of crayon blue, blue. And they stayed that way for a few days. But hey, it's pretty exciting to have blue feet. You can pretend it's frostbite or something fun like that.
So now that I've rambled about snow and concerts and blue feet: I think it's time to talk about writing.
I'm writing a book. But most everyone knows that by now. And it's more like I'm attempting to write a book. I talked to people about it and let them read it for some constructive criticism- which is always good, right? Well, there was more constructive criticism than I thought. :) It's kind of sad. And Humbling, to realize you're not as good at something as you think you are. It's not like I'm awful at writing... I'm just not some junior novelist protegee. Blast. I was so looking forward to being on Oprah too. :p (Once again, inside joke. Erin, if you read my blog you'll be having a hayday.) But now I'm stuck. And I have lots of revision to do, but Erin had a dream about my book being 'the next Twilight' and becoming a movie and I think I miss Elle and Colten and Liam (AKA my characters). Plus Amy is still lost and wallowing in some strange illness and I need to find her and bring her back into the story. But I don't know how. Maybe Dan can find her.
Also, I want to write another 'book' when I'm finished with this one. Right now I'm trying to work on only Love at Second Sight cuz it's hard to focus on two writing projects at once. But I had an idea for another one (as I was sprinting across a parking lot to hide from a boy in the seminary. No lie. It really happened, that's how lame I am. :) ) So here's a random sample thingy. Let me know what you think.
Jamie woke up early Saturday morning feeling a little bit stiff from her running away escapade of yesterday. Now that she thought about it, hiding in the small closet in her dad's classroom hadn't been very comfortable either. Jamie sighed and got up to stretch in attempt to loosen her sore muscles. She pushed her hair back from her eyes while taking the stairs two at a time. Susan, her mom, had put breakfast on only a few minutes ago and it wasn't quite ready yet, so Jamie went to the computer. She plopped down on the swivel chair and punched in her password. She had seven new messages and all of them junkmail. Jamie rolled her eyes at the subject of the first message: "Jamie, how many people are crushing on you?"
Too many, she thought, far too many.
Jamie Cooper is a bright-eyed, intelligent and beautiful young woman; so it's no wonder she has a string of admirers trailing behind her everywhere she goes. Most girls would be flattered by the attention, but not Jamie. She wants nothing to do with the silly boys whose interest she's captured so easily, and so she runs. Always hiding from their eager eyes until one day, someone comes along who makes Jamie think twice about running. Will she overcome her aversion to love? Or is it on the run again for Jamie.
Ok so it's way corny sounding, but I think it would be incredibly entertaining to write.
Also, before I finally stop writing this random ramblement of catching upness of bloggage, I have a random tidbit of exciting information. Well, it was exciting for me anyway. When I was at EFY we wrote ourselves letters and then the counselors said they'd send them out later on in the future one day. At random. And so without going into detail, life has been a bit of a struggle for me lately. I'm not even going through anything major- which is the lame part. I should be fine, but sometimes I'm not. But really, I'm ok so don't worry. It's just life. Right? Anyway, so my letter came and I was WAAAYYY excited and I'm thinking that it wasn't maybe perhaps not just coincedince it came when it did. :) Sometimes I just so happen to be a little bit intelligent and I sound wise and stuff. My letter was one of those times. I sounded like my dad giving me counsel. And it was PERFECT for the situation I'm in now. It was basically incredible. I actually cried. A good cry of course. But, I just thought that was kind of cool.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately if you're all sick of my rambling.) now it's a really blustery Saturday morning, and I probably have to go scour some bathrooms and vacuum under my bed. (Wish me luck)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
oh life.
wow. it's been kinda forever since i've added anything to this thing! probably cuz no one looks at it. :p hehe. it's ok. it's entertaining for myself. so just to catch you all up.
life= maddness.
i feel so stressed! and school is only like... 1/8th of the problem. :p i was thinking the other day how old i was feeling. (old is used rather loosely so don't get all crazy on me. everyone freaks out if i say i feel old. yeah yeah, i'm still little and all but i FEEL oldER. make sense? :) ) so i'm nearly two less pre's in the elderly (long story) and i realized i have less than two years before i'm gonna be out in the world! Crazy! let's count down shall we? Let's see, it's what, november? let's just skip the end of this month since it's not a full month... december, jan, feb, march, april, may... summer... six months until schools out. um, wow. it doesn't feel like we've already been through three. and then i have three more for summer so there's nine months... then another nine of school and i'm graduated. WEIRD! i wanted to go to snow college for my generals, get used to life on my own... all that good stuff. and then i wanted to go to utah state in logan. but now i'm feeling rather attatched to cedar. maybe i'll just stay home and go to suu. but thats lame. i want to move out and try my hand at independance! except thats scary and stressful because i have a lot of money to save, and not a lot of income or time to bring it in. :p thats the problem with living in cedar, it's a college town so EVERY last job is taken. so i still work at storytellers, but they only have us come in at the end of every month to collate. and then child care is only summer/fall... and now i'm teaching piano, which will help. i have three students, including my youngest sister. Two of them are six, and haven't ever played; and one is nine(?) and played for about six months before... or something like that. it's so weird! playing the piano is one thing- teaching is a whole new ball of wax. i like it most days. :) haha most days, i've had three lessons so far. and i wont next week because it's thanksgiving! (YEs! bring on the turkey and extra ten pounds i don't need. AND the pie. :D of course the pie.)
school is... school. i'm surviving it. :p i have senioritis and i'm not even a senior! i'm SO excited in orchestra because we're playing christmas songs (yes, already) and i LOVE them! we're even playing a manneheim steamroller song. sorry if i spelled that wrong. ... sorry if you knew that i spelled that wrong. :p so orchestra is mostly fun. i keep hoping all that music will stimulate my brain into intelligence so that when i go to math next i'll understand. alas it hasn't worked as well as i wanted it to. yet. so math is still deathtastic, but only because i'm ridiculously slow in that class. seminary is fun, natalie and i are class presidents and it's kinda fun that way... haha i feel special. although it really isn't too incredible i guess. history... well let's not go there. and social dance is way fun, except for the scottish hopping dance. but there's a couple other irish/scottish dances that are fun! like the ping pong one... or whatever it's called, and then the one with the one guy and the two girls and the switching of partners... it's intense. and the cha cha was fun, however i'm not going to lie. my hips do not move. even if i wanted them to. it's a fun dance though, but i have to admit that the tango is still hands down my favorite. and the waltz is a close second. then english is still not as good as last year, but improving... :) and french is good. we watched the count of monte cristo. which inspired me to read the book. finally, after mrs. jordan refered it to me last year.
so. thats kinda an update on my life for tonight. i'll possibly add more later. but only possibly. :)
life= maddness.
i feel so stressed! and school is only like... 1/8th of the problem. :p i was thinking the other day how old i was feeling. (old is used rather loosely so don't get all crazy on me. everyone freaks out if i say i feel old. yeah yeah, i'm still little and all but i FEEL oldER. make sense? :) ) so i'm nearly two less pre's in the elderly (long story) and i realized i have less than two years before i'm gonna be out in the world! Crazy! let's count down shall we? Let's see, it's what, november? let's just skip the end of this month since it's not a full month... december, jan, feb, march, april, may... summer... six months until schools out. um, wow. it doesn't feel like we've already been through three. and then i have three more for summer so there's nine months... then another nine of school and i'm graduated. WEIRD! i wanted to go to snow college for my generals, get used to life on my own... all that good stuff. and then i wanted to go to utah state in logan. but now i'm feeling rather attatched to cedar. maybe i'll just stay home and go to suu. but thats lame. i want to move out and try my hand at independance! except thats scary and stressful because i have a lot of money to save, and not a lot of income or time to bring it in. :p thats the problem with living in cedar, it's a college town so EVERY last job is taken. so i still work at storytellers, but they only have us come in at the end of every month to collate. and then child care is only summer/fall... and now i'm teaching piano, which will help. i have three students, including my youngest sister. Two of them are six, and haven't ever played; and one is nine(?) and played for about six months before... or something like that. it's so weird! playing the piano is one thing- teaching is a whole new ball of wax. i like it most days. :) haha most days, i've had three lessons so far. and i wont next week because it's thanksgiving! (YEs! bring on the turkey and extra ten pounds i don't need. AND the pie. :D of course the pie.)
school is... school. i'm surviving it. :p i have senioritis and i'm not even a senior! i'm SO excited in orchestra because we're playing christmas songs (yes, already) and i LOVE them! we're even playing a manneheim steamroller song. sorry if i spelled that wrong. ... sorry if you knew that i spelled that wrong. :p so orchestra is mostly fun. i keep hoping all that music will stimulate my brain into intelligence so that when i go to math next i'll understand. alas it hasn't worked as well as i wanted it to. yet. so math is still deathtastic, but only because i'm ridiculously slow in that class. seminary is fun, natalie and i are class presidents and it's kinda fun that way... haha i feel special. although it really isn't too incredible i guess. history... well let's not go there. and social dance is way fun, except for the scottish hopping dance. but there's a couple other irish/scottish dances that are fun! like the ping pong one... or whatever it's called, and then the one with the one guy and the two girls and the switching of partners... it's intense. and the cha cha was fun, however i'm not going to lie. my hips do not move. even if i wanted them to. it's a fun dance though, but i have to admit that the tango is still hands down my favorite. and the waltz is a close second. then english is still not as good as last year, but improving... :) and french is good. we watched the count of monte cristo. which inspired me to read the book. finally, after mrs. jordan refered it to me last year.
so. thats kinda an update on my life for tonight. i'll possibly add more later. but only possibly. :)
Friday, September 05, 2008
Pictures!
Hello! So I just ordered some pictures from the Fashion Team photoshoot, and I think they're so fun! I am a bit... flustered, that my poses were all exactly the same, some of the other girls had different poses so their pictures all looked different, but oh well... pictures are pictures. Anyway, just for fun here's a link to my pics! (I hope it works!)
Oh! P.S: Along the top and bottom of the screen are about a bajillion numbers. My pictures start on number 39!
Oh! P.S: Along the top and bottom of the screen are about a bajillion numbers. My pictures start on number 39!
Monday, September 01, 2008
It's gone!
Ahh! Well, there I am. I cut my hair! A lot of it! I didn't tell my familia that I was going to cut it either so it was somewhat of a surprise. I think my mom misses my hair more than I do. :) I LOVE it though! it feels so amazing! I'm going to have to tell you about my 'road trip' now that I'm on here so here it goes.
Aubree and I decided to go to Orem to visit our EFY friends Sarah and MarLynn. We left after school on Friday and drove straight there without stoppin! We were a little excited, it was so weird to be on the road by ourselves... Anyway, we went to a football game and then baskin robins the night we got there, and then got ready the next morning and went to the mall to hang out, and to rumbi for lunch, it's way good... i thought it was anyway. But i was starving so that could have something to do with my preference. :) Then we went to baskin robins for dinner and took our ice cream to a park and laid in the warm sun to celebrate us being there... um, we danced in the rain and skipped around the block... then we went to church and came home. haha that was a very summarized version. Also, we ate way too much chocolate saturday night. we went to harmon's and stocked up on every chocolate candy imaginable and then went to pleasant grove's discovery park... it'd take forever to tell you about our weirdness, but let's just say we were pretty much high off of chocolate. :p we were so hyper! Anywho, i'm off to do homework with some friends. :D fun stuff right?
Monday, August 18, 2008
School!
Hey! School started last Thursday, and although I have to admit that I've complained about getting up and going to school, I like it so far! I love seeing people that I haven't all summer! It's a lot of fun to catch up. So as for my classes, *(I can't remember if I've already told you all of them but oh well if I have- we'll elaborate this time. :) ) A days go something like this:
First hour is Social Dance. No offense meant toward any of the guys in that class, but I'm a little worried about the whole flipping-swing-dance stuff. I'm not sure I trust them enough to risk my head. :p It does sound like a lot of fun though. Second hour is English, and I like a lot of the people in my class but I'm not really close with a lot of them either so it's different than last year. Last year I had Mrs. Jordan (I'd totally recomend her, she's great!) and so it's weird to have Mrs. Seegmiller. She's only been teaching for a couple of years now and you can kind of tell. She's not a bad teacher, by any means, but she's not obviously experienced. We'll see how it goes I guess right? I have a couple of kids from my ward in that class too: Brooke and Tanner. Tanner is so entertaining, I love that guy! His hair is pretty much the highlight of my day. :p Third hour is Food Pro Start and so we're learning restraunt cooking I guess. I wasn't really sure and I haven't really taken Foods one or two, so I'm hoping that wasn't too important. I just signed up for the class because it sounded way fun! Tanner is in that class too, as well as Ammon and Lynae and Payton... they're all way fun! I love people. :) I'm mostly excited for the end of the year (and I suppose the breakfast thing where we get to school at like, six thirty or something and cook breakfast so it's some CHS restraunt thingy mahoojafetchit. Sounds entertaining at the very least.) anyway, at the end of the year we're going to Vegas to some five star restraunt I guess. Which will be pretty fun. We talk to the chefs and all those people which sounds really intriguing since I've actually toyed with the idea of being a chef or something like that myself. Fourth hour is French and it's going fairly well. I mostly understand what the teacher tells us (it's an all french class so he rarely, if ever, speaks english. It gets a little exciting sometimes... but I've discovered that Ceste La Vie means 'it's life' and now I can die. :p I've figured it out! :D ) The best part about French, though, is the end of the year trip. They're going to France, obviously, and Madrid. I've always wanted to go to Europe, and especially Spain so I wish we went there more than France but it's still really awesome! I just need to start saving like crazy. Which usually isn't all that fun for me since the minute I decide not to spend money I find all these things that I really really want and I can't buy them. It's almost depressing but when I'm on the plane to Europe I'm pretty sure the cute jewlry and cute hoodies won't seem like so much of a sacrafice. :)
B days are kinda not as fun as A days, in my opinion... but they're not completely unbearable. Last year I had Science and Math... two of my not so favorite subjects. Science is interesting and occasionally fun if you have a good teacher, but mine wasn't quite as agreeable as I would have liked. The good news is I'm completely done with Science credits so now I just have to suffer through Math. On B days I start out with Orchestra (I try to convince my dad that 'Dorkestra' is our affectionate nick name for it... he doesn't really buy it. Really though, in a way it sort of is affectionate. In a weird twisted sort of way. :p) We're playing some Led Zepplin this year again, but it'll be the whole orchestra, rather than just Chaimber. Auditions are Friday so I'm just a little bit nervous, but I'm sure I'll survive. Maybe. I'm looking forward to next year a little bit more because it's the Disneyland trip... I LOVE Disneyland! :) It's so cute and magical and cute! I especially love mainstreet, but don't ask me about the Tiki room unless you want me to get sick again. (My whole family and My cousins all got some sort of flu. I sort of associate it with the Tiki room because thats what I saw later that night... Pineapple isn't my favorite anymore. :p ) Anyway, I'm getting side tracked. Next after Dorkestra is Algebra 2... not so great, and I really don't have much to say about it. Maybe later on when I'm really stressed I'll tell you about it while venting. :) Just kidding. It's not too bad so far, but I had homework already. I'm not ready for homework yet! :) Too much! Too soon! ... Uhh... yeah. So Third hour is Seminary, I have Brother Jones and I'm way excited. He's so much fun, he should be a John Bytheway or something. He's really good at what he does. We did a 'get to know you' kind of thing today where we have to 'sell' our names to the class. (Bro Jones did advertising for a while before he decided to be a seminary teacher.) There were some pretty entertaining ones, but I'm pretty sure my favorite was Jose. :D He walked to the front of the classroom and started explaining his picture. "This is Brazil. It's my favorite country, there's a story about four great American soccer players..." He was so serious through all of it too. He's awesome, I love that guy! He's really awesome at soccer I guess, I haven't ever seen him play.... Fourth hour is US History... Which might be entertaining if it wasn't boring so far. I like history when I think about it, but sometimes in class it seems to drag on forever. Today was really random too. It was 'outside the US' history... at least thats what I called it. We talked about Marco Polo and Black gold... Nicole is in my class and Jacquelyn and Joree... And Saryn and Cody... they're fun people. With the seating set up I face a lot of the class and so we kinda talk a little bit. But its' like reading lips conversations across the room. It's actually quite entertaining. But not so good when you start laughing and Mr. Anderson looks over at you like he's going to throw you out. :o (Oops!)
So yeah... there's my school schedual. I've been really distracted lately by my story. Like in History I started writing a little exerpt which was very random. And I'm trying to get opinions so let me know what you think of this part... I feel like my writing is kind of weak but a lot of my friends really love it so... who knows. Maybe I'm a really harsh critic. Anyway, here's part of the story! And seriously, leave comments on what you think and stuff... or just comments in general. I like reading them. :)
"Mrs. Aldredge, I think Elle has a really good paper she wanted to share." Colten looked over at me and smiled. I scowled back at him.
"Oh? Alright, Elle. Why don't you read it for us?" She smiled over her glasses folding her hands and waiting for me to begin. I sighed and began reading. My paper was an analyzation of William Carlos Williams' poem, The Red Wheelbarrow. I had gone over my paper millions of times trying to find all the layers, and drawing comparisons. As I read I could feel Colten watching me and I glanced up breifly to see how he was reacting to my paper. I was sort of expecting him to do something silly, but I still stumbled over my words for a moment when he winked at me. When I read the last line and Mrs. Alldredge turned to write some of my stronger points on the white board I looked across the room at Colten. The seating arrangement was set up so that there was a horse shoe shape with two rows in the middle of it. Colten just so happened to sit right across from me and so we faced each other the majority of the time. "We are over." I growled under my breath at him, feigning anger. He looked up with exagerated saddnes and huge eyes,
"I can't," he mouthed, "I need you!" I rolled my eyes, suppressing a smile.
"Fine." I mouthed back- the laughter silently written in my eyes, "But you are in serious trouble, Mister. You owe me ice cream." He looked over with a hint of a smile on his lips.
"Alirght." He nodded solemnly at me. I grinned back at him and then hurried to write down some notes on the lecture Mrs. Aldredge was now giving.
Well, that's all I have of my random exerpt from History. It is sort of based on something kinda similar that happened. Just the talking across the room and the seating arrangement anyway. However, I am now on my way to Dairy Queen for dinner or something equally random. I think it's a reward for loading hay at the farm. Either way, I'm going for ice cream! Au revoir! :)
First hour is Social Dance. No offense meant toward any of the guys in that class, but I'm a little worried about the whole flipping-swing-dance stuff. I'm not sure I trust them enough to risk my head. :p It does sound like a lot of fun though. Second hour is English, and I like a lot of the people in my class but I'm not really close with a lot of them either so it's different than last year. Last year I had Mrs. Jordan (I'd totally recomend her, she's great!) and so it's weird to have Mrs. Seegmiller. She's only been teaching for a couple of years now and you can kind of tell. She's not a bad teacher, by any means, but she's not obviously experienced. We'll see how it goes I guess right? I have a couple of kids from my ward in that class too: Brooke and Tanner. Tanner is so entertaining, I love that guy! His hair is pretty much the highlight of my day. :p Third hour is Food Pro Start and so we're learning restraunt cooking I guess. I wasn't really sure and I haven't really taken Foods one or two, so I'm hoping that wasn't too important. I just signed up for the class because it sounded way fun! Tanner is in that class too, as well as Ammon and Lynae and Payton... they're all way fun! I love people. :) I'm mostly excited for the end of the year (and I suppose the breakfast thing where we get to school at like, six thirty or something and cook breakfast so it's some CHS restraunt thingy mahoojafetchit. Sounds entertaining at the very least.) anyway, at the end of the year we're going to Vegas to some five star restraunt I guess. Which will be pretty fun. We talk to the chefs and all those people which sounds really intriguing since I've actually toyed with the idea of being a chef or something like that myself. Fourth hour is French and it's going fairly well. I mostly understand what the teacher tells us (it's an all french class so he rarely, if ever, speaks english. It gets a little exciting sometimes... but I've discovered that Ceste La Vie means 'it's life' and now I can die. :p I've figured it out! :D ) The best part about French, though, is the end of the year trip. They're going to France, obviously, and Madrid. I've always wanted to go to Europe, and especially Spain so I wish we went there more than France but it's still really awesome! I just need to start saving like crazy. Which usually isn't all that fun for me since the minute I decide not to spend money I find all these things that I really really want and I can't buy them. It's almost depressing but when I'm on the plane to Europe I'm pretty sure the cute jewlry and cute hoodies won't seem like so much of a sacrafice. :)
B days are kinda not as fun as A days, in my opinion... but they're not completely unbearable. Last year I had Science and Math... two of my not so favorite subjects. Science is interesting and occasionally fun if you have a good teacher, but mine wasn't quite as agreeable as I would have liked. The good news is I'm completely done with Science credits so now I just have to suffer through Math. On B days I start out with Orchestra (I try to convince my dad that 'Dorkestra' is our affectionate nick name for it... he doesn't really buy it. Really though, in a way it sort of is affectionate. In a weird twisted sort of way. :p) We're playing some Led Zepplin this year again, but it'll be the whole orchestra, rather than just Chaimber. Auditions are Friday so I'm just a little bit nervous, but I'm sure I'll survive. Maybe. I'm looking forward to next year a little bit more because it's the Disneyland trip... I LOVE Disneyland! :) It's so cute and magical and cute! I especially love mainstreet, but don't ask me about the Tiki room unless you want me to get sick again. (My whole family and My cousins all got some sort of flu. I sort of associate it with the Tiki room because thats what I saw later that night... Pineapple isn't my favorite anymore. :p ) Anyway, I'm getting side tracked. Next after Dorkestra is Algebra 2... not so great, and I really don't have much to say about it. Maybe later on when I'm really stressed I'll tell you about it while venting. :) Just kidding. It's not too bad so far, but I had homework already. I'm not ready for homework yet! :) Too much! Too soon! ... Uhh... yeah. So Third hour is Seminary, I have Brother Jones and I'm way excited. He's so much fun, he should be a John Bytheway or something. He's really good at what he does. We did a 'get to know you' kind of thing today where we have to 'sell' our names to the class. (Bro Jones did advertising for a while before he decided to be a seminary teacher.) There were some pretty entertaining ones, but I'm pretty sure my favorite was Jose. :D He walked to the front of the classroom and started explaining his picture. "This is Brazil. It's my favorite country, there's a story about four great American soccer players..." He was so serious through all of it too. He's awesome, I love that guy! He's really awesome at soccer I guess, I haven't ever seen him play.... Fourth hour is US History... Which might be entertaining if it wasn't boring so far. I like history when I think about it, but sometimes in class it seems to drag on forever. Today was really random too. It was 'outside the US' history... at least thats what I called it. We talked about Marco Polo and Black gold... Nicole is in my class and Jacquelyn and Joree... And Saryn and Cody... they're fun people. With the seating set up I face a lot of the class and so we kinda talk a little bit. But its' like reading lips conversations across the room. It's actually quite entertaining. But not so good when you start laughing and Mr. Anderson looks over at you like he's going to throw you out. :o (Oops!)
So yeah... there's my school schedual. I've been really distracted lately by my story. Like in History I started writing a little exerpt which was very random. And I'm trying to get opinions so let me know what you think of this part... I feel like my writing is kind of weak but a lot of my friends really love it so... who knows. Maybe I'm a really harsh critic. Anyway, here's part of the story! And seriously, leave comments on what you think and stuff... or just comments in general. I like reading them. :)
"Mrs. Aldredge, I think Elle has a really good paper she wanted to share." Colten looked over at me and smiled. I scowled back at him.
"Oh? Alright, Elle. Why don't you read it for us?" She smiled over her glasses folding her hands and waiting for me to begin. I sighed and began reading. My paper was an analyzation of William Carlos Williams' poem, The Red Wheelbarrow. I had gone over my paper millions of times trying to find all the layers, and drawing comparisons. As I read I could feel Colten watching me and I glanced up breifly to see how he was reacting to my paper. I was sort of expecting him to do something silly, but I still stumbled over my words for a moment when he winked at me. When I read the last line and Mrs. Alldredge turned to write some of my stronger points on the white board I looked across the room at Colten. The seating arrangement was set up so that there was a horse shoe shape with two rows in the middle of it. Colten just so happened to sit right across from me and so we faced each other the majority of the time. "We are over." I growled under my breath at him, feigning anger. He looked up with exagerated saddnes and huge eyes,
"I can't," he mouthed, "I need you!" I rolled my eyes, suppressing a smile.
"Fine." I mouthed back- the laughter silently written in my eyes, "But you are in serious trouble, Mister. You owe me ice cream." He looked over with a hint of a smile on his lips.
"Alirght." He nodded solemnly at me. I grinned back at him and then hurried to write down some notes on the lecture Mrs. Aldredge was now giving.
Well, that's all I have of my random exerpt from History. It is sort of based on something kinda similar that happened. Just the talking across the room and the seating arrangement anyway. However, I am now on my way to Dairy Queen for dinner or something equally random. I think it's a reward for loading hay at the farm. Either way, I'm going for ice cream! Au revoir! :)
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The sisterhood returns!
Hey! It's definintely been a while since I've updated this. My most recent excuse is that I'm working on writing a book. It's called Love at Second Sight, and I'm getting pretty into it this time. Usually I get bored before page three. I'm on eighteen now so who knows how long it'll be before I either get bored or give up. Ideally I'd like to have a standard length book, and my dream would be to have it published. But like I said, it's mostly just a dream. My friend, Alex, from Austrailia has been dubbed my editor so I send him sections as I finish them. I want him to co write it with me so he can write the guy's point of view, seeing how he is a guy I'm sure he'd do it justice more than I can. :)
Later on today three of my friends from Piute are coming to watch The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, so I'm really excited. I saw Shay and Lyvi when I went to Shalece's during Piute's county fair, but I haven't seen Tabby since I moved last year and she's coming too! Once upon a time we tried to watch the first Traveling Pants movie but the DVD was scratched, we still love the story though and so when Lyvi moved to Kanab our freshman year, we had a sisterhood of the traveling earrings. :) They didn't make it too far, and fell apart in the envelope eventually... but I think it's mostly the idea that was so much fun. We'll see how it goes, I read the book and I'm afraid it might be a little... questionable. I hope not. But seeing how every movie is these days, it probably will be.
School starts tomorrow. Can you believe it? It's crazy! Time flies way too fast. I went in to register yesterday and even went to all the trouble of doing my hair and makeup really good for pictures, but they didn't do them at registration like they did last year. Bummer. So I hung out with some people at the seminary for a while, and then Nicole Terry and I convinced Greg Kunzler to drive us to Dairy Queen so we could buy frozen hot chocolates. :) YUM! If you haven't tried one of those yet, you need to... today! :D Anyway, I'm excited for school. I've got some fun classes, but I can't actually remember them all so I'll have to tell you all about it tomorrow when I get home from the first day of school!
Later on today three of my friends from Piute are coming to watch The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, so I'm really excited. I saw Shay and Lyvi when I went to Shalece's during Piute's county fair, but I haven't seen Tabby since I moved last year and she's coming too! Once upon a time we tried to watch the first Traveling Pants movie but the DVD was scratched, we still love the story though and so when Lyvi moved to Kanab our freshman year, we had a sisterhood of the traveling earrings. :) They didn't make it too far, and fell apart in the envelope eventually... but I think it's mostly the idea that was so much fun. We'll see how it goes, I read the book and I'm afraid it might be a little... questionable. I hope not. But seeing how every movie is these days, it probably will be.
School starts tomorrow. Can you believe it? It's crazy! Time flies way too fast. I went in to register yesterday and even went to all the trouble of doing my hair and makeup really good for pictures, but they didn't do them at registration like they did last year. Bummer. So I hung out with some people at the seminary for a while, and then Nicole Terry and I convinced Greg Kunzler to drive us to Dairy Queen so we could buy frozen hot chocolates. :) YUM! If you haven't tried one of those yet, you need to... today! :D Anyway, I'm excited for school. I've got some fun classes, but I can't actually remember them all so I'll have to tell you all about it tomorrow when I get home from the first day of school!
Monday, August 04, 2008
Oh dear.
Well, that's it. I've given up on believing in mail men. Men in general also, but mostly just mailmen because my stupid pre-ordered Breaking Dawn isn't here yet. The whole world is going to be finished reading it before I even start it! Which, by the way, is very depressing. Speaking of depressing, school starts in exactly 9 days, 18 hours and 27 minutes. ... Or maybe just ten days. :) I'm pretty sure I'm not ready to get up and get ready that early. HAHA... sorry, I just took a break to re-record my answering machine on my cell phone. I had my sister Erin be my 'personal secretary' apologizing that I didn't answer the phone because Im having a break down over mailmen not delivering twilight, and in the back ground you can hear me freaking out... I didn't know you could hear me. :p It's quite entertaining. Anyway... School is starting and I'm a junior, and that means only two years until college and that's not enough time to save enough money.... life is pretty crazy. But I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there, I'll just save now and then deal with ramen noodles and mac&cheese later when I'm stuck eating that for every meal trying to survive. So now I'm off to run laps around my house while I wait for the mail. Oh! I almost forgot the most exciting news of all! I actually straightened my hair today and in the middle of that excitement my cousin called. I guess we're going on a 'road trip' to Beaver or Filmore to go on a double date with this guy from our EFY and his friend. Fun right? We'll see how it goes I suppose. And if I could ever find my camera I'd definitely take pictures!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Celebration!
Good afternoon :)
So today I totally need to celebrate because I'm FINISHED WITH MY PSYCH CLASS! And I'm done with my final! So now I don't have to be stressed over that and stay locked in my room studying or anything like that. Haha, sweet a few weeks of summer. :p Since I had my class over pretty much the whole break I sort of feel like I'm just barely getting started with my summer, it's gone by so fast! Crazy maddness, first EFY then Girl's Camp, and then the Fashion Team thing... with all of that and then family stuff, work and classes I feel like there hasn't been time to just do nothing! Except I'm sure my mom would tell you that I somehow found time to do nothing. :)
I just read the Twilight series for the fifth time (crazy, yes I know.) in anticipation for the fourth book to come out. It's mostly a sad day that I finished the third one today because I still have a week-ish before I can turn into a zombie/anorexic/whatever else while I obsessively read Breaking Dawn. :) I'm a bit of a finatic I suppose.
Alright, I'm trying to hurry because I want to go swimming and cool off before I have to start getting ready for work so I'm hurrying the last two topics. Firstly I'm super excited because I'm leaving tomorrow after work with my friend from Piute (where I moved from in case you didn't already know.) It's the county fair this week, which is mostly crazy but I love it to death! I haven't seen Shay or Lyvi for EVER it feels like, since my birthday anyway. So I'm definitely pumped for that... REUNION! :) Secret circles and chocolate galore, paradise right? :p Secondly I just got an email for an update on my friend Heath's carepage. He got in a really bad car accident in October a couple of weeks before his seventeenth birthday. It's been a slow struggle but a miracle to see the improvments and progress (even if we're only 'seeing' via emails). I'm so proud of him, he's working so hard that it makes me feel like I'm failing at something just because I'm not so dedicated to life and getting back. I guess that's because I don't really have to 'get back' from anything like he has to, but all the same- he's inspirational. I think it's so awesome, the prayers and fasting and blessings... I love stories like this! The happy ending/testimony building kind. :D Anyway, he's doing awesome and it motivates me to work harder! But now I'm off to do crazy silly jumps and swimming stuffs so until next time... I think there should be a quote of the day. So here it is! "It should take you three seconds to get to that door, I'll give you two." -Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's
(PS Audrey Hepburn is one of my all time favorite actresses! She's so cute! :D)
So today I totally need to celebrate because I'm FINISHED WITH MY PSYCH CLASS! And I'm done with my final! So now I don't have to be stressed over that and stay locked in my room studying or anything like that. Haha, sweet a few weeks of summer. :p Since I had my class over pretty much the whole break I sort of feel like I'm just barely getting started with my summer, it's gone by so fast! Crazy maddness, first EFY then Girl's Camp, and then the Fashion Team thing... with all of that and then family stuff, work and classes I feel like there hasn't been time to just do nothing! Except I'm sure my mom would tell you that I somehow found time to do nothing. :)
I just read the Twilight series for the fifth time (crazy, yes I know.) in anticipation for the fourth book to come out. It's mostly a sad day that I finished the third one today because I still have a week-ish before I can turn into a zombie/anorexic/whatever else while I obsessively read Breaking Dawn. :) I'm a bit of a finatic I suppose.
Alright, I'm trying to hurry because I want to go swimming and cool off before I have to start getting ready for work so I'm hurrying the last two topics. Firstly I'm super excited because I'm leaving tomorrow after work with my friend from Piute (where I moved from in case you didn't already know.) It's the county fair this week, which is mostly crazy but I love it to death! I haven't seen Shay or Lyvi for EVER it feels like, since my birthday anyway. So I'm definitely pumped for that... REUNION! :) Secret circles and chocolate galore, paradise right? :p Secondly I just got an email for an update on my friend Heath's carepage. He got in a really bad car accident in October a couple of weeks before his seventeenth birthday. It's been a slow struggle but a miracle to see the improvments and progress (even if we're only 'seeing' via emails). I'm so proud of him, he's working so hard that it makes me feel like I'm failing at something just because I'm not so dedicated to life and getting back. I guess that's because I don't really have to 'get back' from anything like he has to, but all the same- he's inspirational. I think it's so awesome, the prayers and fasting and blessings... I love stories like this! The happy ending/testimony building kind. :D Anyway, he's doing awesome and it motivates me to work harder! But now I'm off to do crazy silly jumps and swimming stuffs so until next time... I think there should be a quote of the day. So here it is! "It should take you three seconds to get to that door, I'll give you two." -Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's
(PS Audrey Hepburn is one of my all time favorite actresses! She's so cute! :D)
Friday, July 25, 2008
Giggles
Ok so first of all, I should probably explain the randomness of this post. One of my friends was talking to me on Facebook and she was talking about winning and so I decided this is a fabulous quote :) plus I needed to copy and paste it somewhere so I don't forget by the time I get my quotebook and write it down. :)
"winning is wonderful... that saying where people say that it doesnt matter if you win as long as you have fun...well what are you playing for in the first place if you arent trying to win? thats like saying that it doesnt matter if you got food poisoning from eating cookie dough as long as you had fun eating it"
Hehe, I like it anyway...
"winning is wonderful... that saying where people say that it doesnt matter if you win as long as you have fun...well what are you playing for in the first place if you arent trying to win? thats like saying that it doesnt matter if you got food poisoning from eating cookie dough as long as you had fun eating it"
Hehe, I like it anyway...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Too early!
Happy 24th of July and Happy Birthday Grandpa!
This morning we got up at six and put out flags. Yes, thats the reason for the title... it was in fact much too early. And it felt so good to be asleep but we had to get up and it was pretty tragic. So we (my fam) split up and put out flags... Marissa and Bri were with me and mom and so to speed things up we rode in the back of the suberban on the bumper. Pretty exciting don't you think?
There's not much to report other than I have the fourth Twilight book pre-ordered so I'll actually have a chance at reading it. And the movie comes out this December... I have a strange feeling it'll be a disappointment but- if I hadn't read the books- a good movie. I guess we'll see right? Anywho, I'm going to put pictures up of the EFY reunion later today hopefully! HAPPY 24TH AGAIN! :D
This morning we got up at six and put out flags. Yes, thats the reason for the title... it was in fact much too early. And it felt so good to be asleep but we had to get up and it was pretty tragic. So we (my fam) split up and put out flags... Marissa and Bri were with me and mom and so to speed things up we rode in the back of the suberban on the bumper. Pretty exciting don't you think?
There's not much to report other than I have the fourth Twilight book pre-ordered so I'll actually have a chance at reading it. And the movie comes out this December... I have a strange feeling it'll be a disappointment but- if I hadn't read the books- a good movie. I guess we'll see right? Anywho, I'm going to put pictures up of the EFY reunion later today hopefully! HAPPY 24TH AGAIN! :D
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
oh dear. so see all of those J's in the last post? those were originally smiley faces... so you'll have to use your imagination and pretend they still are. :D see i typed it on word and then copy and pasted it onto this so i wouldn't be on the internet forever while i rambled. :) well i'm off to observe ultimate frisbe i think with aubree and random people who texted her... at suu. random right? anywhozle goodbye! :)
Well hello again! Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve updated this thing so here’s what you missed in my oh so exciting life: First of all sneaking out of my window with Dorothy went well. J It’s pretty sad if you get your adrenaline rushes from climbing out your low window and running down the street to meet a friend and go get girl’s camp items from WalMart but hey! I figure my parents have it pretty good if that’s what is considered rebellious. Especially if I actually confess all about it to them the next day. Haha, it was total mission impossible style- Dorothy dropped me off half a block away and turned off her lights while I sneakily ran across the street to climb back in my window… I think I must have some paranoia problems because before I started the ascent back into my bedroom window I had to look in about a million times to make sure my mom wasn’t waiting for me on my bed. J
Next! Girl’s Camp was really fun over all (minus everyone being sick a lot of the time). I was in the middle of a fast the day we went up so I thought I was going to die completely famished since I wasn’t breaking the fast until dinner. The YCL’s set up everybody’s cots and totes after sweeping with a broom half it’s normal size… the YCL meetings were sort of boring and I mostly just wanted to hang out with my ward and be lazy rather than be a leader of youth. J We learned this stick game thing that was pretty intense but I was so tired and I didn’t feel good and I pretty much just wasn’t myself so I almost cried when I didn’t catch one of the sticks… then later I laughed that I almost cried because things like that aren’t a big deal but I guess it was at the time. Our ward’s skit was probably the coolerest of them all! Sister Barry was ‘Madam Satine’ (aka Satan), and all of the girls were the people she was going to hypnotize. Nicole was desperately in love with a returned missionary and she just knew he was ‘the one’ for her. However, ‘he’ just so happened to be my ex and I was the jealous ex girlfriend trying to get between the two of them the whole time… I’m sure we looked ridiculous fighting over a broomstick but it was so much fun! I thought I broke Nicole’s arm though when I accidentally sat down on it when we were supposed to go back to sleep… it all ended when Madam Satine was going to make us think we were the most gorgeous talented pole dancers that Vegas had ever seen and we all snapped out of our hypnotic state to sing some ‘sistah-got-soul’ type song (“you tried to make me break my standards, but I said ‘NO NO NO!” J ). We did a lot of singing in our spare time at Girl’s Camp too, and I had ‘Fall for you’ By Secondhand Serenade stuck in my head for a week after we got home since that was Nicole’s apparent favorite, which is understandable because it was fun for us to do harmonies to that one. As usual, we got rained out on the last night. ALL of my stuff got so wet so I ended up sleeping under horse blankets but it was probably the best sleep I got all week just because I was so worn out!
The evening we got back there was a regional stake dance type deal of some sort… so I went. I wore my white dress that has been at Aubree’s forever that I missed so very much and guess what. I am no longer a size 1-2. Sad day. So we safety pinned it and only zipped it up halfway- to the empire waistline where it refused to be zipped any further- and then I wore a green half jacket over it. As dances tend to be- it was a sauna in there! They had a huge fan in one corner though so when that corner was empty that’s where Aubree and I danced. J We did the EFY dance which brought back many memories of more hot dances. In the temperature way. Jake (a way awesome guy from my ward who is my YW leader’s son) was there so I told him to save a dance for me. :p He’s so fun to be around, I love Jake! Nicole introduced me to her boyfriend (Yeah, he’s tall but I didn’t find him a fine potato at all… sorry Nickel if you’re reading this. If you think he’s cute- more power to you. J ) and then Aubree and I were feeling outgoing so we’d go start singing and dancing to random guys and one of them was weird and introduced us to his “reluctant dancing friends” and somehow I turned into Uncle Rico (which isn’t all that hard to figure out since I have been known to introduce myself as Rico before) and he was Deb and I think Aubree must have been Kip or Napoleon or something… Anyway, he followed us around being weird. They do a ‘Cinderella Dance’ where all the girls throw one of their shoes into the middle of the floor, (now that I think about it, I think my best bet would be to put both shoes in. And have some spares in my purse. One of them would have to get picked up, wouldn’t you think? J ) and then the guys pick one up and find the owner to dance with. Once again- my shoe was one of five left over. They were even the cool flip flops with the big jewel on them! I mean seriously. Who in their right mind would pass up that kind of shoe? Also the last random facts of the Saturday night dance are- Audrey had an awesome tie dress that she made out of old ties… how cool is that? I wish I had a picture of it to show you but, alas, I do not. I met Gentry, the yard boy for Aunt Cherene and Chris- of whom Cherene my aunt has been trying to introduce me to. I suppose he is fairly good looking… fun to dance with… :D Aubree was dancing by him when my dress came un- safety pinned so I went over to get her to come help me and she said he said I was cute. J (Haha wow… she said he said they said too much.) Greg and Jake gave me a ride home along with a couple other guys… they were such a lively bunch. (Rolls eyes while sarcasm drips off of that statement.) They were all so quiet I thought they were asleep. Or mannequins… something like that. Anywho that was the end of that.
My Psych class! Oh goody. I bet you’re dying to hear all about that. Actually I’m not sure anyone is bored enough to actually read these things- they’re more for my benefit so I have some sort of journal going… so if you’re actually reading this and you didn’t skip anything then well done! You deserve a candy bar or something equally cool and chocolaty! I’ve been working on my stupid mid-term forever which is why I was grounded from the computer which is why it’s taken so long to update this. The good news is- I finished it! Now I just have to hurry and finish my project and cram for my final which are (in order) this Wednesday and next Monday. It’s interesting, and I wouldn’t mind looking into Psychology… but I’d prefer the next time I have a class it’s more organized and consistent. This has been kind of chaotic for me since it is summer and I’m so busy with random stuff like the model thing. Speaking of which I need to tell you all about that. But before I launch into that long story; HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN AND MARISSA (as of Tuesday the 15th… sorry I was late. Either way happy birthday). It’s weird to remember being eleven years old because I felt like I was so old and grown up when I turned eleven, but looking at the twins now, eleven seems so young and little! Perspective is weird. Anyway, NOW on to the model camp stuff.
I rode to Provo with the LeFevres… Don’t get me wrong, I love them to death. Just not as much to death when I’m squished between Aubree and Cameron in Sheralee’s little car. I’m pretty sure I have permanent damage from that three hour really hot claustrophobic ride! J Once we got there we realized that one of Sheralee’s tires was on it’s death bed so we hung out at WalMart for half an hour while they fixed it. So I bought a cute new white plastic-y belt because pants are essential (or so I’ve been told) and mine weren’t about to stay up by themselves. Then we found our way to Sara’s house where we hugged everyone and petted Matt’s hair (Sigh! Good times of awesome hair. J ) For the reunion we ordered over $100 worth of pizza, went to a park and ate it… had pizza box sledding moments, football, volleyball, being attacked, laughing, all that good stuff… then we watched “She’s the Man” at Sarah’s house and then we went to Aunt Sharla’s and slept and then checked in at Alyese’s Bridal in the Mall…….. Ok so I took too long to come back cuz yeah long story so I have no idea what I was telling you but tonight was YW and we pretty much just got the solution to all problems at Dairy Queen: Frozen hot chocolate. Weird sounding huh. I thought it would be gross but I’m probably addicted by now. Good news, I’m getting the fourth book of the Twilight series pre ordered so I actually will have a chance on reading it with the frenzy that’ll be going on in every book store for a while after it comes out. Erin is now my loan officer because I didn’t have my paycheck but hey, I get the book right? Um, other than that I’ve just been working on my psych project and stuff and stressing and staying up much too late and getting stupid phone calls at eleven thirty… Sometime I’ll have to go off on my spiel on ‘A Beautiful Mind’ but I’m too tired tonight. J it’s definitely thought provoking. Psychology is incredibly intriguing… I’m just too lazy to do well at anything that requires effort. At least I am today. J love you all, and I’m sure I’ll be rambling again soon.
Next! Girl’s Camp was really fun over all (minus everyone being sick a lot of the time). I was in the middle of a fast the day we went up so I thought I was going to die completely famished since I wasn’t breaking the fast until dinner. The YCL’s set up everybody’s cots and totes after sweeping with a broom half it’s normal size… the YCL meetings were sort of boring and I mostly just wanted to hang out with my ward and be lazy rather than be a leader of youth. J We learned this stick game thing that was pretty intense but I was so tired and I didn’t feel good and I pretty much just wasn’t myself so I almost cried when I didn’t catch one of the sticks… then later I laughed that I almost cried because things like that aren’t a big deal but I guess it was at the time. Our ward’s skit was probably the coolerest of them all! Sister Barry was ‘Madam Satine’ (aka Satan), and all of the girls were the people she was going to hypnotize. Nicole was desperately in love with a returned missionary and she just knew he was ‘the one’ for her. However, ‘he’ just so happened to be my ex and I was the jealous ex girlfriend trying to get between the two of them the whole time… I’m sure we looked ridiculous fighting over a broomstick but it was so much fun! I thought I broke Nicole’s arm though when I accidentally sat down on it when we were supposed to go back to sleep… it all ended when Madam Satine was going to make us think we were the most gorgeous talented pole dancers that Vegas had ever seen and we all snapped out of our hypnotic state to sing some ‘sistah-got-soul’ type song (“you tried to make me break my standards, but I said ‘NO NO NO!” J ). We did a lot of singing in our spare time at Girl’s Camp too, and I had ‘Fall for you’ By Secondhand Serenade stuck in my head for a week after we got home since that was Nicole’s apparent favorite, which is understandable because it was fun for us to do harmonies to that one. As usual, we got rained out on the last night. ALL of my stuff got so wet so I ended up sleeping under horse blankets but it was probably the best sleep I got all week just because I was so worn out!
The evening we got back there was a regional stake dance type deal of some sort… so I went. I wore my white dress that has been at Aubree’s forever that I missed so very much and guess what. I am no longer a size 1-2. Sad day. So we safety pinned it and only zipped it up halfway- to the empire waistline where it refused to be zipped any further- and then I wore a green half jacket over it. As dances tend to be- it was a sauna in there! They had a huge fan in one corner though so when that corner was empty that’s where Aubree and I danced. J We did the EFY dance which brought back many memories of more hot dances. In the temperature way. Jake (a way awesome guy from my ward who is my YW leader’s son) was there so I told him to save a dance for me. :p He’s so fun to be around, I love Jake! Nicole introduced me to her boyfriend (Yeah, he’s tall but I didn’t find him a fine potato at all… sorry Nickel if you’re reading this. If you think he’s cute- more power to you. J ) and then Aubree and I were feeling outgoing so we’d go start singing and dancing to random guys and one of them was weird and introduced us to his “reluctant dancing friends” and somehow I turned into Uncle Rico (which isn’t all that hard to figure out since I have been known to introduce myself as Rico before) and he was Deb and I think Aubree must have been Kip or Napoleon or something… Anyway, he followed us around being weird. They do a ‘Cinderella Dance’ where all the girls throw one of their shoes into the middle of the floor, (now that I think about it, I think my best bet would be to put both shoes in. And have some spares in my purse. One of them would have to get picked up, wouldn’t you think? J ) and then the guys pick one up and find the owner to dance with. Once again- my shoe was one of five left over. They were even the cool flip flops with the big jewel on them! I mean seriously. Who in their right mind would pass up that kind of shoe? Also the last random facts of the Saturday night dance are- Audrey had an awesome tie dress that she made out of old ties… how cool is that? I wish I had a picture of it to show you but, alas, I do not. I met Gentry, the yard boy for Aunt Cherene and Chris- of whom Cherene my aunt has been trying to introduce me to. I suppose he is fairly good looking… fun to dance with… :D Aubree was dancing by him when my dress came un- safety pinned so I went over to get her to come help me and she said he said I was cute. J (Haha wow… she said he said they said too much.) Greg and Jake gave me a ride home along with a couple other guys… they were such a lively bunch. (Rolls eyes while sarcasm drips off of that statement.) They were all so quiet I thought they were asleep. Or mannequins… something like that. Anywho that was the end of that.
My Psych class! Oh goody. I bet you’re dying to hear all about that. Actually I’m not sure anyone is bored enough to actually read these things- they’re more for my benefit so I have some sort of journal going… so if you’re actually reading this and you didn’t skip anything then well done! You deserve a candy bar or something equally cool and chocolaty! I’ve been working on my stupid mid-term forever which is why I was grounded from the computer which is why it’s taken so long to update this. The good news is- I finished it! Now I just have to hurry and finish my project and cram for my final which are (in order) this Wednesday and next Monday. It’s interesting, and I wouldn’t mind looking into Psychology… but I’d prefer the next time I have a class it’s more organized and consistent. This has been kind of chaotic for me since it is summer and I’m so busy with random stuff like the model thing. Speaking of which I need to tell you all about that. But before I launch into that long story; HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN AND MARISSA (as of Tuesday the 15th… sorry I was late. Either way happy birthday). It’s weird to remember being eleven years old because I felt like I was so old and grown up when I turned eleven, but looking at the twins now, eleven seems so young and little! Perspective is weird. Anyway, NOW on to the model camp stuff.
I rode to Provo with the LeFevres… Don’t get me wrong, I love them to death. Just not as much to death when I’m squished between Aubree and Cameron in Sheralee’s little car. I’m pretty sure I have permanent damage from that three hour really hot claustrophobic ride! J Once we got there we realized that one of Sheralee’s tires was on it’s death bed so we hung out at WalMart for half an hour while they fixed it. So I bought a cute new white plastic-y belt because pants are essential (or so I’ve been told) and mine weren’t about to stay up by themselves. Then we found our way to Sara’s house where we hugged everyone and petted Matt’s hair (Sigh! Good times of awesome hair. J ) For the reunion we ordered over $100 worth of pizza, went to a park and ate it… had pizza box sledding moments, football, volleyball, being attacked, laughing, all that good stuff… then we watched “She’s the Man” at Sarah’s house and then we went to Aunt Sharla’s and slept and then checked in at Alyese’s Bridal in the Mall…….. Ok so I took too long to come back cuz yeah long story so I have no idea what I was telling you but tonight was YW and we pretty much just got the solution to all problems at Dairy Queen: Frozen hot chocolate. Weird sounding huh. I thought it would be gross but I’m probably addicted by now. Good news, I’m getting the fourth book of the Twilight series pre ordered so I actually will have a chance on reading it with the frenzy that’ll be going on in every book store for a while after it comes out. Erin is now my loan officer because I didn’t have my paycheck but hey, I get the book right? Um, other than that I’ve just been working on my psych project and stuff and stressing and staying up much too late and getting stupid phone calls at eleven thirty… Sometime I’ll have to go off on my spiel on ‘A Beautiful Mind’ but I’m too tired tonight. J it’s definitely thought provoking. Psychology is incredibly intriguing… I’m just too lazy to do well at anything that requires effort. At least I am today. J love you all, and I’m sure I’ll be rambling again soon.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Oh by the way. Now this other guy is telling me he needs a blog post. (And if anyone else wants one out there just let me know since I really want to write a bajillion on random guys. :p Ok, here goes. )
There's this boy named Chris. He's pretty much amazing.
He and I talk on msn sometimes... We also discuss guy and girl drama... He's sorta strange but kinda cool and he listens to me complain. ... but then he usually laughs at me. Oh well right? At least he's a happy guy. Well, now it is DEFINITELY my bedtime. OK? Ok. :)
GOODNIGHT everyone. I'll write you all blog posts after I get home from Girl's Camp.
Oh, and I'm planning on sneaking out my window to go to Walmart with Dorothy. I'll let you know how that goes too. :)
There's this boy named Chris. He's pretty much amazing.
He and I talk on msn sometimes... We also discuss guy and girl drama... He's sorta strange but kinda cool and he listens to me complain. ... but then he usually laughs at me. Oh well right? At least he's a happy guy. Well, now it is DEFINITELY my bedtime. OK? Ok. :)
GOODNIGHT everyone. I'll write you all blog posts after I get home from Girl's Camp.
Oh, and I'm planning on sneaking out my window to go to Walmart with Dorothy. I'll let you know how that goes too. :)
Well, I'm a little tired. We just came home from visiting my grandparents in Tropic, and my cousins live there too... long story short we had a non-sleeping party and watched Cinderella Story (cute storyline!) and Parental control, or something weird like that where the parents hate their child's boyfriend or girlfriend and so they set their son or daughter up on two dates and then the poor child has to choose between the two dates and his/her boyfriend/girlfriend. Haha it's kind of really entertaining, but that could've been because it was three in the morning.
I still have to pack, so Quincy you better feel special. :) Quincy left a post saying my blog is cool but he's not really in it so it could be better or something to that effect. If that's not what his post says, it's what he really meant. :) So Quinx, here you go! Hevrolet is one of the silliest people i know. :) We discuss girl and guy drama on occasion which is pretty entertaining- but one of the reasons why he's silly. (Hevrolet, you know what... er... who I mean. ;) ) So I'm betting that you're wondering why he's called Hevrolet. Well, I'm hoping you've also noticed that Hevrolet is Chevrolet without the C. :) Ok, so the scene is a tour bus with our stake all dressed up for Martin's Cove. An old Chevy Truck (I think... correct me if I'm wrong Hevrolet) drives past and the C has worn off... So Quincy gets all excited and starts poking Heath Fullmer (who was asleep or something) and telling him there's this new brand of car called a Hevrolet. :D Silly Quincy right? :) Just kidding Quincy; you are a very intelligent young man who just happened to be sleep deprived like the rest of us. Or so we say. ;)
Well, I hope Quincy is satisfyed now, and my blog is now much cooler than it was before. :) Tomorrow at noon I leave for Girl's Camp because I'm a YCL (hehe pronounced 'yuckel' according to Maycee :p) I suppose I'm excited for Girl's Camp. Or at least I'll be much more... agreeable with it once I'm there. I kind of just want to stay home and be lazy. And shower. :) Actually I'm ok with the whole stinking camping type thing because I don't have a mirror and stuff... so oh well right? I'm really really tired and pretty much the main reason I did another post today was to tease Quincy... so I'm thinking I should go to bed. Except I still have to pack for girl's camp, ooh! And I almost forgot. I've decided I'm going to have a quote of the post... and tonight's I think is two because I can't decide. :)
"Greedy boys will never be cradled in the arms of Jesus" (From some weird thing Justin and Beanz showed me on Youtube)
and:
"There's no heart so black as the black black heart of a phony leper!" (From the TV series Monk... of which I am addicted to! ) :) Goodnight!
I still have to pack, so Quincy you better feel special. :) Quincy left a post saying my blog is cool but he's not really in it so it could be better or something to that effect. If that's not what his post says, it's what he really meant. :) So Quinx, here you go! Hevrolet is one of the silliest people i know. :) We discuss girl and guy drama on occasion which is pretty entertaining- but one of the reasons why he's silly. (Hevrolet, you know what... er... who I mean. ;) ) So I'm betting that you're wondering why he's called Hevrolet. Well, I'm hoping you've also noticed that Hevrolet is Chevrolet without the C. :) Ok, so the scene is a tour bus with our stake all dressed up for Martin's Cove. An old Chevy Truck (I think... correct me if I'm wrong Hevrolet) drives past and the C has worn off... So Quincy gets all excited and starts poking Heath Fullmer (who was asleep or something) and telling him there's this new brand of car called a Hevrolet. :D Silly Quincy right? :) Just kidding Quincy; you are a very intelligent young man who just happened to be sleep deprived like the rest of us. Or so we say. ;)
Well, I hope Quincy is satisfyed now, and my blog is now much cooler than it was before. :) Tomorrow at noon I leave for Girl's Camp because I'm a YCL (hehe pronounced 'yuckel' according to Maycee :p) I suppose I'm excited for Girl's Camp. Or at least I'll be much more... agreeable with it once I'm there. I kind of just want to stay home and be lazy. And shower. :) Actually I'm ok with the whole stinking camping type thing because I don't have a mirror and stuff... so oh well right? I'm really really tired and pretty much the main reason I did another post today was to tease Quincy... so I'm thinking I should go to bed. Except I still have to pack for girl's camp, ooh! And I almost forgot. I've decided I'm going to have a quote of the post... and tonight's I think is two because I can't decide. :)
"Greedy boys will never be cradled in the arms of Jesus" (From some weird thing Justin and Beanz showed me on Youtube)
and:
"There's no heart so black as the black black heart of a phony leper!" (From the TV series Monk... of which I am addicted to! ) :) Goodnight!
Saturday, July 05, 2008
4th of July
Check it oooout! :) So how was everyone's fourth of July? I love going to Hatch, but especially on the fourth, it's so cute and small town ish! Aubree, Aunt Sheralyn and I drove over after Aubree got off of work and I had a wonderful nap. :) We got there
Wednesday? I think? Haha I can't remember anything! It was pretty silly... we (we being Aubree, Justin and I... the 'three musketeers' :p ) decided it would be so fun to make a scary movie with Hatch as the setting. I think we decided on "The Blair Witch Project- Hatch Edition"
Mostly summarizing, we 4-wheeled, waded in the river (I got stuck in the mud because it was above my knees! Haha, bull shark. ;) ) 4-wheeled some more, watched way too much Monk (MY FAVORITE!) and made a masterpiece out of otter pop wrappers. :) Oh! The first night we got there, Justin, Aubree and I went to Panguitch to pick up some ice cream for my grandma and to find sprinklers to run through. We blasted the six flags song in the parking lot of the grocery store- whatever it's called- and tried to teach Justin the EFY dance. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen! There were people in the parking lot looking at us weird, and people looking through the windows at us weird. Plus the ones driving past were most likely looking at us strangely too. :) After the purchases, we went to the highschool where we found sprinklers on our last crazy Hatch/Panguitch escapade. Sure enough there they were, sprinklers sprinkling in all of their wet and fabulous glory! :D I'm pretty sure there were angels singing when we found them too. Dancing, bubble blowing, dancing some more with Simba... it's all so much better in the spotlight of streetlamps in parking lots! Haha, we even rolled down that scary steep hill that sorta just stops when the sidewalk interferes too. It was pretty intense. That and the people across the road yelling something at us, we couldn't quite tell what they were saying. Then we sorta kinda ran through... well... walked really fast through the graveyard's sprinklers. We are such chickens! It's pretty silly.
The fourth of July parade was so cute! I love small towns because the little kids always decorate bikes or little cars and it's my favoritest! There was the cutest little boy in a little 'Cars' car. Haha does that make any sense? I don't know how else to explain it. :p Anyway, small world, he was my baby sitter's, 'Big Erin' from Kanab, son! After that we went to play games, which isn't as fun since i'm 'old' now, and Aubree wasn't there to be weird with me. But my mom did talk Erin and I into fishing to get rid of some tickets. The fireworks were fun, I LOVE how it sounds like gunshot at first, but then when they stop going off you can still hear it echoing through the canyon like rolling thunder. It's so awesome! The next morning I went through the trouble of getting up at five thirty and waiting for the sunrise but guess what- no sunrise. :) But the clouds were really pretty, and Hatch is gorgeous and peaceful anyway- but even more so in the morning when you're probably one of the only people awake.
Now I'm home and I have to get ready for work at Child Care. I think I'm hoping that it's a really easy night so it'll be more fun to stay. :)
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
EFY was AMAZING. I can't even really tell you how amazing it was unless you've been there, but even then you don't actually get how amazing my group was or this session or Logan or Utah State's dorms, or the junction's food or any of that. Sheralee, Aubree and I went to Aunt Sharla's house Saturday night and then went to church in one of Sheralee's friend's singles ward at BYU. Which was... different. :) Then after church we hit the road again (Rollseyes. After driving to and from Hatch for the Cattle drive and then going home only to drive to St. George for a Fashion Team meeting and then driving all the way to Provo as soon as we got home only to get on the road again.... see? You get my point. On the road a lot. In a small car with lots of luggage in it.) and drove to Logan. We got lost a few times and so by the time we finally got there and got checked in it was pretty much heaven and a chocolate doughnut to be out of that car. We checked in a day before the rest of everyone did so Aubree and I had the sixth floor to ourselves mostly. Hehe, exploring and the crazy emotional roller coaster was way intense. Happy to be out of the car, mad that there's no outlets, wait There are. Shoot, the blowdryer doesn't fit in them. At least the window opens, just kidding it only opens three inches. EW community showers Happy.Mad.Happy.Mad... you get the idea. Moving on. The next day we went to breakfast at the junction thingy with Sheralee and then went back to get ready and then pretty much goofed off until one thirty ish when we met up with our company. Our counselor, Sarah, was so cute. I love her, and she roomed with my cousin Sheralee at one of the previous EFY sessions at BYU I think. Anyway, we were kind of quiet at first but after all the rules and talking we all warmed up to each other and headed out to meet the other two groups in our company. Megan and Jeremy were the other two counselors, and I loved both of them too. Haha, we played some pretty random games as 'get to know you' type things; like stinger- where I decided I was scared of Preston (er... Idaho. Or Roberto, technically by the end of the week his name was Preston Idaho Roberto Eric Elizabeth Wilber Higgins :p) and his creepy smile. Then we played some random game where you have to face your partner and put your hands in front of you against theirs and then step back so you can't reach them, close your eyes, and spin. The point of that one was to be able to find your parnter after spinning so many times. I'm pretty sure Branson peeked, which is ok because I did too. :D I think my favorite game was the one where we stood in two lines facing eachother and then one person from each end comes to the middle and it's a walk off where you can't smile or laugh- usually I'm WAY horrible at keeping a straight face, but i totally did. :D I was intense. Haha- Anywho, then we went to an opening fireside sort of thing I guess. My favorite thing about going places was the fact we had to be escourted every where, and since there was two girls for every boy I'm sure the guys didn't mind it too much either. :p Aubree and I tried to sit by a new person every time we moved around so we could get to know everyone- it was so fun to get to know all of our company and their different personalities. Jacob told Aubree, Dianne and I some pretty crazy random stories at dinner that night, and Kelly came to get all the plates and throw them away- he was quite the gentleman. :)
It'd take me an ETERNITY and seventeen pages to go over every day in detail so I'll summarize: we had the devotional with our small group every morning at seven and then we'd go to our company spot and have group scripture study and then (finally) we'd go to breakfast (where Preston and I made an AMAZING breakfast creation :D It's so nasty.)
Then on two of the days we had classes, I love our group once again because we'd all kind of stay together even though we didn't have to so that everyone would always have someone. We did that at the dances too. The first one was my favorite mostly because I wasn't exhausted for that one. They taught us how to do the waltz and the three step(?) and the EFY dance... I have no dancing skills I've decided. Poor Matt was WAY patient when he was my partner because I could not for the LIFE of me do the waltz without getting myself confused on which foot went which direction... :) Branson was my ballerina buddy of interpretive dancing, and with the whole three song challenge or whatever (when we jumped for EVER) my calves pretty much curled up and died. I love how we sing all the time at EFY too, when the girls left the dance the guys all sang 'Goodnight Ladies'. :) The sprinklers were on by the sidewalk to the dorms but no one would run through them with me so I ran through them by myself. The dances are soooo hot. It's like a sauna in there, and the jumping, dancing and spazing doesing really help. I felt so lovely after my makeup came off and my bangs were plastered to my forehead... Haha, but we were all still irresistible daughters of Zion. The whole week I'm sure we only got five hours, at most, of sleep every night because the beds were so fabulous.
I love testimony meetings at Girl's Camp, but I think the EFY ones win. I was so proud of our company every time one of us got up to bear our testimony. Everyone was such an example to me and I learned so much just from the other youth there.
The last dance was after the banquet, which was awesome and tasted especially good after eating at the junction for so long. :) Plus there was chocolate cake. We were all dressed up and took a bajillion pictures and then went to the dance but everyone was so tired that it wasn't as fun as the first one but it was a lot of fun. Preston and I danced in the hall by the open door since it was definitely cooler out of the gym. We sang the EFY medly at the end and our company stood in a circle with our arms around eachother's shoulders and just about all of us cried. The medly is so cool, it's "As Sister's in Zion" and "Armies of Helaman" combined. I love it. Anyway, after that the boys left first. Our company did the typical "AAAY"s and "WHO'S IN THE HOUSE"s. It was so sad to watch them all walk out because I didn't think we'd see them again before checkout bright and early the next morning so Sarah (not the counselor Sarah) and I (along with lots of other people, but we were the worst out of everyone) cried forever. But I am happy to say we DID see them again the next morning. Kelly and Ethan were downstairs in the lobby thing when we came down with our luggage and then the rest of our company gathered and hugged and took more random pictures. Haha after we put our stuff in the car Aubree and I turned back and gave everyone more hugs. :)
I'm thinkin' I covered all the good stuff... Oh, except for Pizza night, which was AWESOME. The coolerest sign on our dorm door... Game night was pretty awesome except I was feeling sick, but we won the cheer off anyway and we so would've won spoonity if they would have done it this year. So yeah... that's my EFY ness. I loved it sooooooo so so so much. :D
It'd take me an ETERNITY and seventeen pages to go over every day in detail so I'll summarize: we had the devotional with our small group every morning at seven and then we'd go to our company spot and have group scripture study and then (finally) we'd go to breakfast (where Preston and I made an AMAZING breakfast creation :D It's so nasty.)
Then on two of the days we had classes, I love our group once again because we'd all kind of stay together even though we didn't have to so that everyone would always have someone. We did that at the dances too. The first one was my favorite mostly because I wasn't exhausted for that one. They taught us how to do the waltz and the three step(?) and the EFY dance... I have no dancing skills I've decided. Poor Matt was WAY patient when he was my partner because I could not for the LIFE of me do the waltz without getting myself confused on which foot went which direction... :) Branson was my ballerina buddy of interpretive dancing, and with the whole three song challenge or whatever (when we jumped for EVER) my calves pretty much curled up and died. I love how we sing all the time at EFY too, when the girls left the dance the guys all sang 'Goodnight Ladies'. :) The sprinklers were on by the sidewalk to the dorms but no one would run through them with me so I ran through them by myself. The dances are soooo hot. It's like a sauna in there, and the jumping, dancing and spazing doesing really help. I felt so lovely after my makeup came off and my bangs were plastered to my forehead... Haha, but we were all still irresistible daughters of Zion. The whole week I'm sure we only got five hours, at most, of sleep every night because the beds were so fabulous.
I love testimony meetings at Girl's Camp, but I think the EFY ones win. I was so proud of our company every time one of us got up to bear our testimony. Everyone was such an example to me and I learned so much just from the other youth there.
The last dance was after the banquet, which was awesome and tasted especially good after eating at the junction for so long. :) Plus there was chocolate cake. We were all dressed up and took a bajillion pictures and then went to the dance but everyone was so tired that it wasn't as fun as the first one but it was a lot of fun. Preston and I danced in the hall by the open door since it was definitely cooler out of the gym. We sang the EFY medly at the end and our company stood in a circle with our arms around eachother's shoulders and just about all of us cried. The medly is so cool, it's "As Sister's in Zion" and "Armies of Helaman" combined. I love it. Anyway, after that the boys left first. Our company did the typical "AAAY"s and "WHO'S IN THE HOUSE"s. It was so sad to watch them all walk out because I didn't think we'd see them again before checkout bright and early the next morning so Sarah (not the counselor Sarah) and I (along with lots of other people, but we were the worst out of everyone) cried forever. But I am happy to say we DID see them again the next morning. Kelly and Ethan were downstairs in the lobby thing when we came down with our luggage and then the rest of our company gathered and hugged and took more random pictures. Haha after we put our stuff in the car Aubree and I turned back and gave everyone more hugs. :)
I'm thinkin' I covered all the good stuff... Oh, except for Pizza night, which was AWESOME. The coolerest sign on our dorm door... Game night was pretty awesome except I was feeling sick, but we won the cheer off anyway and we so would've won spoonity if they would have done it this year. So yeah... that's my EFY ness. I loved it sooooooo so so so much. :D
Boredom!
Hello again!
Yes, I realize it's kinda pathetic to be on here again, but I'm silly and bored and bored and silly.
soo... guess what!
Ten things I could probably live without, but I kinda like having around anyway are:
1) My cell phone!
2) Ipod
3) My camera
4) (You guessed it :p) The computer
5) Ice Cream! (... This one deserves a few more exclamation points don't you think?)
6) My awesomely favorite chapstick of the name of Aquafina (Hey. I thought it'd be easier to come up with ten things i could probably live without but like having around anyway ok? :p )
7) Cars :)
8) The color RED!
9) Candy... All sorts of candy. Mainly chocolate though...
10) And last but not least... Uhh... Disney Movies! :D
Tada! I did it! Ten is a big number I've decided... Speaking of which, my lucky number is 5.
Five is a pretty cool number right? And Wednesday is definitely the coolest day of the week.
Woo Hoo! I'm Started!
Well hello fellow friends! :)
Welcome to my blog? Today I feel really technologically impaired because I couldn't
figure out anything on the computer and then I suddenly had the strange urge to start a blog.
Mostly for funness. And let me tell you... it is! :p I guess...
So as of today I'm pretty tired of my Psychology class. I'm taking a concurrent enrolment class on the ednet through Utah State and today we got our midterm test. It's HUGE but at least it's open book and a take home test. Still it's the Fourth of July! :( Testing during a holiday is cruel and unusual if you ask me.
On monday I started a second Job at Storytellers Club. Ok so it's in the warehouse and it's collating, but it's actually pretty fun despite the paper and cardboard cuts i have now. :) There's fun people there, like Kristi and Preston. Haha Preston told us about asking a girl to sit by him and offering her a sucker and then he went to the other room and she was there working! I guess they all teased him so Kristi and my mom were giving him new ideas on how to snare girls. Hiding Andes Mints in his scripture case didn't sound very appealing to him though. I'm pretty sure he'd have girls SWARMING him if he had chocolate... :)
Child Care is going fabulously this year too. I miss the schedual from last year because I worked with Aubree and Sheralee and my mom a lot more so it was like a family night deal! We don't have any shifts together this year though, but there are some of the cutest kids that I just want to take home with me!
One last random thing to get something on here so I can feel like it's started- Aubree and I are going to the Bridal Elegance Fashion Team workshop on the 16th now for a 'Dweller reunion' (aka EFY :D ) which of course means I'm extra excited since I miss all of my EFY 'groupies' and we get to go walk for hours in five inch heels after that! :) I know, I know... you're jealous. Haha I don't blame you! Maybe if you're all lucky I'll give you walking lessons when I get back, with the help of Aubree of course. :)
Well, I think that mostly covers life for now... Have an incredibly 4th of July!
Welcome to my blog? Today I feel really technologically impaired because I couldn't
figure out anything on the computer and then I suddenly had the strange urge to start a blog.
Mostly for funness. And let me tell you... it is! :p I guess...
So as of today I'm pretty tired of my Psychology class. I'm taking a concurrent enrolment class on the ednet through Utah State and today we got our midterm test. It's HUGE but at least it's open book and a take home test. Still it's the Fourth of July! :( Testing during a holiday is cruel and unusual if you ask me.
On monday I started a second Job at Storytellers Club. Ok so it's in the warehouse and it's collating, but it's actually pretty fun despite the paper and cardboard cuts i have now. :) There's fun people there, like Kristi and Preston. Haha Preston told us about asking a girl to sit by him and offering her a sucker and then he went to the other room and she was there working! I guess they all teased him so Kristi and my mom were giving him new ideas on how to snare girls. Hiding Andes Mints in his scripture case didn't sound very appealing to him though. I'm pretty sure he'd have girls SWARMING him if he had chocolate... :)
Child Care is going fabulously this year too. I miss the schedual from last year because I worked with Aubree and Sheralee and my mom a lot more so it was like a family night deal! We don't have any shifts together this year though, but there are some of the cutest kids that I just want to take home with me!
One last random thing to get something on here so I can feel like it's started- Aubree and I are going to the Bridal Elegance Fashion Team workshop on the 16th now for a 'Dweller reunion' (aka EFY :D ) which of course means I'm extra excited since I miss all of my EFY 'groupies' and we get to go walk for hours in five inch heels after that! :) I know, I know... you're jealous. Haha I don't blame you! Maybe if you're all lucky I'll give you walking lessons when I get back, with the help of Aubree of course. :)
Well, I think that mostly covers life for now... Have an incredibly 4th of July!
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