Goodbye for now USU

Where has the year gone? I swear I just woke up for the year 2011 and now I wake up and suddenly see that I have graduated from high school, worked 2 jobs in the summer, made TONS of new friends, and have almost gotten through one semester of college! How can this be? 

Finals for school have landed upon us and here I am, so very ready to go home with only one more final keeping me away. I just have to get through today and tomorrow morning and I will be set. On my way home for many Christmas adventures with my amazing family! Its crazy how ready I am to get home to them. This has seemed to occur more than once this semester... every time there is a break, I'm ready to drive home 2 weeks before the break cause I just get so excited! All that waiting has paid off though! I get a 3 week reward! So. Very. Close!!!! I'm pretty much all packed up with just about everything in the car. Now all I need to do is take my last final and pass the little cleaning inspection and I am outta here! Vamoose!!! Gone! No more! There are lots of people who are already done with their finals and went home yesterday or today. But not me :( I have to be here until tomorrow. I love USU but I am insanely excited to go back! It just isn't Christmas without my family. Now all I need to do is get the snow to come with me to Idaho so that we can have a white Christmas instead of just a cold, snow less Christmas.

Thanksgiving

What a Thanksgiving! It was actually good this year. Probably because it wasn't at Grandma and Grandpa's house. We had it at the church. We played dodge ball and just hung out. I will never go to another Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa's house and I'm pretty sure that no one else in the family will either. I got to spend time with my family all weekend long :) I like them! I especially like my mommy! She is my bestest friend in the whole entire world! We went Black Friday shopping and I got new fancy boots! I love boots! They are cowgirl boots and they are just very spectacular! But I have worn them all day today and I'm pretty sure that I have blisters on my toes because I'm breaking them in. I love them though! We put up the Christmas tree too! That was great! I love putting up the Christmas tree! And all of our ornaments are fabulous! They are so cute and our tree is unique and just super happy! My mommy made me my favorite Christmas candy too! Toffee!!! Yummm!!! It is so fabulous! I went to both Tanner and Boston's farewells. I really like those two boys. They are good friends. They will both be great missionaries I just know it! I went home with Cassie and Jake and Jacob. They are all super nice! I really like Cassie! She is so cute and is so happy! I have decided that I am going to hang out with her more! I stayed up til 1:30 last night just talking to a bunch of people in my ward. I really like them! Almost every person in my ward is just super nice and they are all great friends and everyone likes everyone. I had a meeting with Ammon today. He is the dude that is in charge of housing. I am moving! I really do wish that I had roommates all like Kolbie though! She is the only good thing in this dump! Well Ammon said that the room in Rachael's apartment is still open so that is where I shall be! I'm so excited! We will never go to bed probably! I suppose that I'm pretty ok with that though cause we won't be room mates next year :( She and TJ are going to get married. I just know it and then I will be room mate less. That is why I am trying to get Kate up here. I like that cousin of mine and I'm positive that we would have a fabulous time together if she would only just commit!! Aaaahh well. I will just have to expand my friend horizon and see what becomes of me for next year.

Home and Snowmen

Aaahhh how sad I was last night. Lindsey called me and told me that she was going home for the weekend and that she would take me if I wanted to. I would have and it took everything in my power to say I couldn't. I have a stupid test that I have to study for and I have to give the Relief Society lesson on Sunday. I miss my family so much! Today my mommy called me and we talked for almost an hour. In the background I could hear everyone being loud and running around. Oh how I miss those loud Saturday mornings! Who would have thought that I would miss them? Not me, that's for sure! I only have 2 more full days til I can go home. I'm so excited for Thanksgiving! I think that this is the most excited that I have ever been for Thanksgiving... Not that that is really a surprise since Thanksgiving for me is usually just kinda boring and lots of times being treated like a little kid... Ugg. But that's ok! Cause now I get to just be excited to spend time with my family!

It is very snowy outside and I love it very very much! There is about a foot of snow and it is wonderful blissful packing snow! Rachael and Josh and I made a snowman and I named him Paulo! Some girls that Josh knows killed him though. I was very sad. We went through a lot of trouble to make him! Rachael dropped her phone while we were makings him and she was going on a date with TJ and it was about 15 minutes before he was going to come and pick her up and she hadn't gotten ready yet. So, Josh and I looked for it while she went to get ready. We cleared pretty much the whole ground. The place where we found it at? She had ran under this huge pine tree and it was face down in the dirt. We wouldn't have found it only when I was under there we were calling it and I heard it vibrate. Then we stuck it in Paulo and covered it with my glove. When Rachael came back out we told her that we hadn't found it and then when Josh went to grab my glove it fell out and he says "Oh! Paulo had it the whole time!" He was actually surprised for real since he didn't think that it was going to fall out. I was laughing so hard that I fell in the snow! Rachael left on her date and then Josh buried me in the snow. All the way. He even made a little cave for my face! He took pictures and you couldn't even tell that there was a person there. It just looked like a pile of snow! It was a fun night even though I was sad that I didn't go home! Aahh well! 2 MORE DAYS!!!!!!

Shoes and sleep

I woke up this morning and you know those times where you can just feel that it has snowed? Ya, I didn't have that feeling. I got ready and went to class and it was drizzling just a bit, not enough that I was really worried. After math, I always go to the library so that I can get my math homework done and not have to worry about it later that night. As I was walking a most terrible sensation filled my shoe. Water. My right shoe has a hole in it somewhere! My sock was soaking wet and it was very uncomfortable! It's ok though, I took off my shoe while I was doing my homework and let my sock dry. Sadly though, in order to get back home I had to walk in the wet again. It really is an unpleasant feeling, to have your shoe and sock soaking wet and not know where the hole is on your shoe. Dreadful. Aaahhh well, that's life! So now I'm wearing boots. They aren't very warm but they keep my feet dry so I can't complain much.

I'm so very glad that it is the weekend! I need to catch up on my sleep! Good thing I'm going home in a few days :) I get my best sleep there. In my own bed, or on the couch, or on the floor... Pretty much as long as it is in my house I can get good sleep :) I would go to sleep right now but alas, I have a paper rough draft to write. It is due in 2 hours. I'm half way done. No biggie, good thing I'm not worried! I shall think of sleep until then though. Tonight will be a good sleep night. I can feel it.

You're gonna miss this...

Its almost here. I get to go home soon! In 7 days to be exact. Not that I'm counting. Even though I totally am. Its funny, just a few months ago I was itching to get out of Idaho and be adventurous and be on my own. Now, lots of the time, I just really want to go home. I didn't appreciate all the little things that are now so very important to me. I miss the nights where me and Daddy would pop in Star Trek and he would make us no bake cookies and we would eat them from cups... even though that drove mommy crazy :) I miss sitting with my mom, who really is my very best friend, and talking, about nothing and about everything. I miss giggling with her and just having fun no matter what we were doing. I miss laughing and joking with Gabe and Lacey. I miss Ninny and when she says something that is really funny and she does her cute little giggle. I miss Nanny and playing with her and snuggling her.
Its like that song that Trace Adkins sings "You're gonna miss this. You're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but your gonna miss this..."
I guess I just didn't get it. Your family really is the ones that you are always going to want to go back to. They will love you no matter what and they are your best friends. I love you guys with all my heart! Thank you for all these special memories that keep me up when I feel like I'm falling. Thank you for loving me even though I wasn't always nice to you guys. Thank you for making me laugh, even when I really didn't want to. You are the greatest family a girl could ever ask for!

Into the abyss

Usually I love Tuesdays. For some reason I just can't get into this one. I got to sleep in til 7:30 which I know most people would say that isn't sleeping in but it is. I promise! Especially since I went to bed at like 10:30 last night. I was so tired and out in about 5 seconds. I got ready and I was feeling pretty good about how I was looking. It's one of those days where I feel like I pull off my boots pretty dang good. I like those days :) Other then that though, I just feel off. Like a little depressed but I don't really know why. I love it here. I have fabulous friends and I'm doing good in school. I shouldn't be feeling all gloomy then, right? I have no idea what is going on in my brain and why it is making me feel like this. I should go on a walk. Where there are no people and where I can just think. It's one of those days. Maybe I need more sleep. I'm not sure why I would need more sleep though since I had a really good sleep. Going to the gym would probably be a good idea... I suppose I will have to do that tonight after everything else in my life is done. Oh boy. I get to go and try to figure out what classes I need for next semester. Just what I need. That was full of sarcasm by the way. I have no homework so I kinda feel like I'm slacking. But I'm not. Dang school! I'm not a slacker!!! I promise!! Well I now get to go and have my English teacher tell me that she hates me and that even though I have an A in her class that I'm worthless. She probably won't actually SAY that but I know she is thinking it. All because of the fruit snack diabolical. Never again will I bring fruit snacks to that class. It's too much of a hassle.

Weekend Visit

On Friday I went with Rachael to the institute and we listened to Kathrine Nelson speak. She plays Emma in the Joseph Smith movie. She was so cute! Her talk was so good and then she sang afterwards and she has a beautiful voice! After that I went and picked up Hannah so that she could spend the night weekend with me. I love that little girl! We had lots of fun and I was sad to see her go. I'm pretty sure that she was sadder though. Especially since when I called mom this morning she told me that Hannah cried herself to sleep last night because of me. We went to church and she was a big hit with everyone. They all thought she was so cute. And she totally is! She hated it though cause she had to sit in all my classes with me and since even I don't think that it is very much fun then how can a 5 year old think that it is fun?!? We got her through it though, with coloring books, silly putty and fruit snacks!! Too bad that it was fast Sunday or I'm pretty sure that Rachael and I would have brought extra fruit snacks for us!!! She LOVED the Marketplace and thought that it was really cool that I got to eat there everyday. I told her that I wish that I had mom's cooking instead and she looked at me like I was a crazy person. I guess that I can't really blame her though since I would have done the same thing my first couple of weeks here. It really was fun to have her here!! I love my little Nanny!!! She is just the cutest little 5 year old ever! It was quiet after she left. It was like there was a little empty space that had followed me around for 2 days. I didn't like it. I figure that it will be ok though and I won't get home sick because the next time I come home I get to stay for 6 days and that will make it all a little bit better!

Leaves are falling on the ground....

My favorite thing about the Fall is that there are leaves on the ground for me to kick when I'm walking. Now I know this sound childish but that is because you have never done it! The best is when there are big piles of leaves and there are tons of leaves all around and you just run and kick all of them. It makes my day lots better.

So it is official. I am moving into another apartment. After my Physiology class I'm going over to the housing office and talking to them. I am done playing mother to my roommates. Kolbie is the only one that is fine!! Its stressing me out way too much. My acne is coming back because of them!!! I refuse to go through that again! It will not happen! I'm going to try and get into Rachael's apartment and then I can finally relax!! I told Brandon about me moving and he asked if I was going to move in with Rachael and he said that we won't be friends after this semester. Oh ye of little faith!! Me and Rachael are too much alike to get into fights and not be friends anymore! Besides, that would really mess up my plans for next year if we decided that living with each other is a mistake. We already have everything planned and stuff! No, we shall live together this next semester and love it!! Then we will be best friends forever and ever and we will live by each other when we are married and we will coordinate when we have our children and they will be best friends and we are going to have secret tunnels to each other's houses and we will live happily ever after. The end. Yes, we have discussed doing all of this!

Speaking of next semester... I have to go talk to my counselor about next semester classes that I should take. Human Anat will probably be my main one that I will take and then I will probably take math too. Not sure if I will take English or not but I probably should get some of my generals out of the way... Oh bugger. I really don't want to have to deal with this. My mommy isn't here to set up my schedule for me! I'm going to have to do it all by myself! Oh whoa is me!!! I don't like being in charge of this stuff! I wanna be a little kid and have other people do it for me instead! That would be a lot easier. I like easy.

Rachael's family came last night and we went to dinner. I really like those people! They are so nice and they have just welcomed me into their family and its great cause I love Rachael tons and tons and it is just fun to have a best friend whose family loves me too :) Yup, yup, yup! That's pretty much all that I can say!

Halloween, Songs,Tests, and Cleaning

Hmmm let's see. Well, my new favorite song is All About Us by He Is We. It's really cute and I am officially in love with it and I listen to it lots and lots. The music video is kinda sad though. The girl gets cancer but her boyfriend sticks with her and then he proposes to her. It's so cute! I have decided that whoever I eventually marry, it is our song. It shall be romantic!! The other song that I really love is also by He Is We and it's called Happily ever After. It's cute too. The music video is kinda funny. Ok, I just really like He Is We. Its kind of a weird name for a band though. Oh well, I suppose that some bands have to have weird names. Maybe that's what makes them even better!

I took a Physiology test today. I have been having kind of a hard time in that class and I spend hours studying for it but this test I didn't really study. I thought that I was going to be in huge trouble and so I just kind of faced the fact that since I really hadn't studied I was probably going to fail this test. I got my results back a few hours ago. I passed. Now I have to say that this kind of infuriates me a bit. I did tons better on this test than all the other tests that I have taken in this class. I DIDN'T EVEN STUDY FOR THIS ONE!!!! Grrrr....

Last night Rachael and I had quite a fabulous night. We carved our pumpkins. They are cute little things given that we had a very difficult knife to work with...  Mine has a HUGE mouth and triangle eyes. Hers has a jagged mouth but looks like it is happy. We went and got little plastic shot glasses and had orange juice shots. Haha! We felt like little rebels even though we weren't. Then we ate candy and watched Glimore Girls. We just finished the 5th season and are on the 6th. we didn't watch the first season though so that is a little problematic. We are working on it though.

So our living room was really dirty and my roommates really don't know how to clean which drives me crazy. So I decided to clean it. The microwave was disgusting. There was about 1/2 an inch of nasty on the little plate thing that spins around. I had to let it soak in water and then spray it with cleaning stuff and let it sit in that too before I could get anything off. Nasty. I was vacuuming everything too and I moved the couches and one of my roommates comes in and says "You're very thorough when you clean" ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! That's what your SUPPOSED to do when you clean!!!! No wonder our bathroom is only clean when either Kolbie or I clean it!!! OH MY HECK!!!! One of my roommates doesn't know that you can't put your hair down the drain and she has succeeded in making our shower a bathtub when any of us shower. I have to get some tools so that I can clean the drain since there is no way anyone else is going to do that ever. I really don't know how to tell them all that they suck either. At least not without them getting mad at me... It's times like these when I have to remember that next year is going to be TONS better cause it will be me and Rachael and we shall make the rules and no one will mess with us!!! Oh my goodness. I really needed to vent about that. It doesn't make it too much better but it makes it maybe a little better

Home Away From Home and Word of the Day

What joy this weekend brought! I got to feed my homesickness and make it better by going home again. I am so thankful that I am able to do that cause I have a car that will get me to and from there and here. Rachael came with me and I was super happy that she finally got to meet my family. I love those people! They make me laugh and feel so happy. Grandma's Halloween party was this weekend too. She is a funny lady. She is kinda like an old little kid because she gets really excited about silly things. I love her though. We ambushed Angela's hair and dyed it. That was really funny. She wanted to but was too scared so I went and got dye and we got it ready and called her up and just did it. She wanted to be mad but was excited so it made it all ok. I love my momma! She is my bestest friend in the whole wide world! I don't think that I tell her enough how much I love her! I love going home on the weekends! Now if only I could go home on the weekends and be able to do my homework too...

When I get online there is a little word of the day thing at the top that I can click on. It's funny and makes me happy. Sometimes I get really weird words. Today it is nyctophobia. Meaning, "an abnormal fear of night or darkness." I think that I get nyctophobia sometimes, like when I watch a scary movie. I think all of us get it sometimes. Unless you are one of those crazy people who loves being freaked out and will do lots of crazy things in order to be freaked out. Me? I will stick with not being scared. I don't like it.

Home, Favorite Time of the Day, and Scandalous

Its Thursday and I can hardly wait for tomorrow. Not because it is Friday, though that does help, but because it means I can finally go home!! I have been unbelievably homesick this week and I don't know if it is because I got to spend 4 wondrous days last week with my family or if it is the fact that I knew I got to go back this weekend. Whatever the reason, I have been unhappy with how slowly the week has gone but now it is so close and so I can finally be almost better. I was even considering skipping English just to get home faster but then I found out that I have a huge paper and that she is giving us all the details about it tomorrow. How rude! She has no consideration for me and my homesickness!

I was walking to the library today and it was one of those times where almost everyone is in class and there are only a few people walking around. Those are my favorite times of the day to walk around campus. Its quiet and peaceful and no one is running around. I can walk as slow as I feel like and no one is giving themselves a hernia because they are late to class and this girl in front of them (me) is walking WAY to slow for their liking. I can look at the beautiful trees that are changing color and I can kick through the leaves that they are dropping all over the ground and I can smell the few flowers that are still alive. Yup, that's my favorite time of day.

So I really like the word scandalous. I don't know why but it is just a fun word to say. Whether I'm using it in the right context or not (usually I'm not, but that just adds to the fun). I use it all the time. Its true, you can ask Rachael if you want. I have other words that I like too but scandalous is at the very top of my list of random words that I use all the time. I don't know why I thought about this. I just did and since I am bored I just thought that I would write about it. I guess it makes life more interesting. I don't think that anyone would be able to say that I am too boring!!

Ruby Red Slippers

There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home!!! I am SO homesick right now! I just got back from home! Why am I homesick?!? I want to just jump in my car right now and drive as fast as I can and go home and turn on Star Trek and make no bake cookies and get into my pajamas and snuggle with my mommy and daddy!! And then I want to give Nanny, Ninny, Lacey and Gabey all big huge hugs and lay on the ground with them and just laugh and talk to all of them. I hate this. I feel sick to my stomach and I want to just lay down and cry!!! I know that I'm going home on Friday but I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.... It makes it better cause I know that I will get to be with my family in 3 days but it makes it worse cause its 3 days away!!! I want ruby red slippers. I want to be able to just click my heels and suddenly appear home. Or I want a transporter like they have in Star Trek that gets me home in the blink of an eye. Or a time capsule and I can just turn time back to the weekend and then I can have 4 whole days with them again. I wanna come home. I wanna come home. I wanna come home!!!

And after Fall comes Winter...

The weather has been wonderful and beautiful here. I love the fall. I think that if I could have any season and its weather all year round it would be fall. Not only do you get happy little rain showers but you get the beautiful sunshine and all the leaves changing colors. I have enjoyed it immensely. But now mother nature has decided that she wants to start getting ready for winter. Don't get me wrong, I love winter too... in a I-will-stay-indoors-and-look-at-how-pretty-you-are-from-here kind of way. I will say I am excited for the snowmen though. And snowball fights. But the part where I have to walk in the snow to get to class and the bottom of my pants getting wet thing, well, that could become extinct and I would be just fine with that.

It was nippy this morning so I had to wear a jacket, and my feet are freezing even though they have socks on. Its getting lots colder. I went to the gym last night and coming home was not much fun cause it was so cold. So I got another workout running home. Though I will say that it makes you appreciate a hot shower more... And a warm bed. With lots of blankets. Mmmmm... This is making me sleepy talking about warm blankets. It's only 6:30 though and I haven't had dinner yet. So no bed time for me.

We went and picked apples last night for FHE. That was fun. Until an apple fell from one of the trees and hit me on the head. That was not a pleasant experience I tell you. I had a headache for the rest of the night, but I got to eat some of the apples and they were really yummy. It almost made up for one of their little friends attacking my head. Maybe he knew I was going to eat them and so decided that he would try to kill me so that I wouldn't kill his friends... Hmmm. What a nice apple. I just wish that he had been my friend instead of my enemy and giving me a headache.

Surprise Visit Home

This weekend was one of the greatest weekends ever! It was Fall Break at USU and so I didn't have any classes on Friday. I had 2 classes on Thursday and one of them got cancelled, which meant I only had to go to my 7:30 class on Thursday. So I decided that right after class I was going to go home and not tell my family. Why not? I didn't really have anything important going on and I missed them. I decided that I would pick Hannah up from school and we would go get lunch and go visit mom. When I got home I went down to Grandma's house cause I thought that Hannah would be there. She wasn't but she was getting home soon so I waited for her. The bus stopped in front of the house and Grandma opened the door. When Hannah was about 1/2 way up the walk I stepped out from behind the door. She looked up and yelled "Molly!!" and booked it to me where she clung to me and wouldn't let go (not that I wanted her to.) Grandma told me to go take Syd out of school for the rest of the day so before we went and got lunch and went to mom we went and picked up Syd. She walked out of her class and grabbed her stuff. She told me when I asked her that she thought Grandma was here to get her but when she looked she saw Hannah but didn't know who I was... Until she was about half way down the hall and saw that it was me and then she also yelled "Molly!" and ran the rest of the way to me. We went and got Jimmy Johns and I got to see Brittany and Mike. When we walked into mom's school, Laurie was walking down the hall and I waved to her. I told her that Mom didn't know that I was here and she said to wait so that she could see Mom's reaction. Hannah ran ahead of me and Mom was opening the door when I walked up. She didn't know who I was for a second but when she did she yelled "Molls!!" and gave me a huge hug and started crying. She told me that she had thought I was a mom but was confused cause I didn't have any of the kids that she taught. We had lunch and then I went to Gabe's school so that I could go say hi to him while he was in Mrs. Greene's room and then I could say hi to her too. I saw Gabe in the hall way and he was really confused but gave me a big hug and asked what I was doing here. I hung around for a while and talked to Mrs. Greene and then went and said hi to Bro Francis. I went back to Mom's school since it was almost over and then waited so that I could go pick Lacey up. When I drove up and rolled down the windows she didn't know who I was at first but then when she saw me she hurried and threw her stuff in Mom's car (who was following behind us) and hopped in the car. That was so much fun to surprise everyone. Daddy wasn't home yet but when he did get home we parked my car (Ok, Gabe STOLE my keys and moved my car cause he thinks that he can do that now that he is in drivers ed...) across the street and then I stood by the door. Daddy looked really surprised and then gave me hug and asked if I was skipping classes (Psh! No! Doesn't he know I would never do that?!?) I got to see Jenny and her boys and Eric was there and Michael and Angela came with their family. I got to see Carson and Tara and hang out with them. I actually got sleep and it was dark how I really like it and I got to sleep in a super comfortable bed (MINE!!!) and I got to see Lindsey (who I love to death!) and I got to see everyone at church and I really can't ever have asked for a better weekend. I didn't worry about any work for school and I just got to be with my family. Its crazy how sometimes it takes being away from something for a really long time makes the going back 20 bajillion times better. I love it here in Logan but I love Idaho too (probably not the actual place but the people, I LOVE). I really didn't want to come back. I wanted to stay there for a few more days and just be with my family. Luckily, there is Thanksgiving break and Christmas break and I will get to spend 3 whole weeks with those wonderful people!!!

Monday

So last night I went to bed around 11:30, which is kinda late for me cause I usually go to bed around 10:30 or if I'm really bored and have nothing else to do then I go to bed at like 9:30. I'm a good college student :) Canvas was down and I had to get an assignment turned in so I waited for it to come back on... too bad I didn't check my email a little later cause I found out this morning that my teacher emailed all of us and told us not to worry about it and that it was due today instead. Haha for me! I don't have to do it now!! I woke up at 1:30 this morning and silly Kolbie was still up. I have no idea how she does it! I'm really glad that I am able to fall asleep with the light on though! I have never been able to do that but somehow now that I am in college I can fall asleep when the lights are on and when there is lots of noise... I'm really glad for that cause I don't really think I would be able to function if I didn't get my sleep.

 I went to Math and oh joy of joys (sarcasm) got our assignment extended. Not too big of a deal since it only added about 10 more minutes of work for me. My PSY class is OVER!!! YAY!!! Today was the last day and I didn't have to do anything since I turned in my paper early and I had signed up to do my final presentation last week. All I had to do was sit there and count down the minutes til I would never have to go to that class again. Not that I didn't like that class, I got lots of stuff out of it that helped me but now that it is over it means that I have 6 extra hours in my week to focus on my other classes, which also means I will get all of my work done earlier which means more time to play :)

Another good thing about today was that I didn't have English!!! We are doing this discussion thing and so my teacher split us up into 2 groups and 1/2 of us go on Wednesday (me) and the other 1/2 went today. I really would have preferred to go on Monday but I was ok with Wednesday cause Brandon is on that day too so I won't be super bored. Then I have institute which I totally love! I love being with the kids in my class because they are celestial spirits and they make me laugh really hard sometimes!

Tuesday is tomorrow and I love Tuesdays cause they are super easy. One class and it is also the one day that I get to "sleep in"... Rachael says that waking up at 7:45 is NOT sleeping in but for me it is especially since I wake up at 6:30 every other morning... Sometimes I get lucky and I sleep in til 8:30. Usually this gives me about an hour and a half to go get breakfast and study at the library for about an hour before my class starts. It is also nice since that is my only class on Tuesdays so I get done at 11:45. I really love college! It totally kicks high schools butt and I think that anyone who says differently has been hit in the head a few too many times...

I really like this blogging thing.. Why didn't I start doing it sooner? It's a lot easier then writing in my journal cause my hand doesn't cramp up and I really don't care if anyone sees it cause mostly it just calms me down even when I didn't know that I needed to be calmed down :)

Continuation of the best week/weekend ever!!!

All right lets see.... Friday night was pretty much the bomb! First of all I got to hang out with my very best friend in the whole entire world!!! Rachael and I decided that it was time to take our dating lives into our own hands... Not that I haven't had the most dates in these 2 months than I have EVER had in my whole entire dating life but still... We really wanted to go to a corn maze cause that's just what you do when it is close to Halloween!!! So I asked Brandon and she asked TJ (who she met in the library). We left around 8:30 even though we were supposed to leave at 8 cause TJ wanted to pick up Rachael but then he couldn't and then we waited cause he was driving back home. And it is just a really long and funny story.... But ANYWAYS we went and got the boys and then went to the corn maze. TJ treated Rachael like the BEAUTIFUL Queen that she is :) and Brandon treated me pretty much the same :) The corn maze that we went to was HUGE!!! 20 acres of corn, with dead ends and people waiting to jump out at you. The boys tried to pay but TJ got rejected cause they wouldn't take credit cards and I just cut in front of Brandon... They weren't very happy about that but Rachael and I had asked them to come and so we payed. We went into the corn maze and proceeded to get lost. Brandon kept pushing me in front and I kept getting behind him. He wasn't scared, he just thought it was funny to watch me freak out being in front... He did get scared one time though and it was super funny!! We got turned around a few times and we lost Rachael and TJ a few times. I don't think Brandon minded that very much though cause he wouldn't let me call for them :) We eventually would run into them though and walk around and then loose them again... I told Brandon that I was scared of the creepy clowns and then when we ran into one he told the guy so then the guy followed me around for almost 10 minutes, which Brandon found very funny and I did not. We ran into a guy with a black robe lookin thing and he had a mask on with a long white beard and long white hair and Brandon kept saying "It's the corn Moses! Part the corn!!" I thought it was really funny but I'm not sure the guy did cause he left and stopped trying to scare us. We eventually made it out of the corn and were surprised to find that it had only taken us about 45 min... In 20 acres... How did we accomplish that?!? I have no idea. So we decided to go get hot chocolate from Maverick but then we decided that we were more in the mood for chips and salsa (I have no idea how we switched from a sweet to a salty... but we did!) So TJ said that he had homemade salsa at his house and Brandon said that he had chips at his. So we got the salsa and went over to Brandon's apartment. We played a card game called Lucky Duck first and then played Egyptian Rat Screw (which Rachael is really brutal at... my hand still hurts from her slapping it) Then Rachael and TJ found a dictionary and started asking it questions and putting their finger on a random word for an answer. Brandon started to teach me how to play the guitar and it is really hard since my fingers are really small and don't fit where they are supposed to. So then he got his roommates guitar that had nylon strings so it would be easier and he played on his and I attempted to play with him. It was a disaster but so much fun!! Then we just talked. Apparently it wasn't 11:45ish like we all thought. Oh no, it was about 1:30 when we finally realized what time it was. So then we went home. It was a super great date AND I get to go on another one with him next week to a play :) Granted, it is for English but I'm pretty sure that still counts and I don't care if it doesn't! I'm counting it!!!

The next day was Rachael's birthday. I was really excited cause I was pretty sure that I scored on her birthday present. She loves the Pillsbury Dough Boy and I had found a stuffed animal of him and then I bought the Pillsbury cake mixes and frostings to go along with it. I got cupcakes with rings on them and we had streamers and balloons all over. We have discovered that it is really fun to blow up all the balloons in the bag and then frolic in them. Her mom and brother came and we went out to lunch. Then we watched Gilmore Girls and then we went to midnight pizza and then watched The Princess Bride. It was a great day!! I love Rachael! I am pretty positive that she saved my college existence!!! We are so alike and we get along so well. We can laugh at anything and everything. I am so glad that she decided to come to USU and that she came alone and that she let me sit by her at church and that we went on a walk in the cemetery and just had a blast! I'm certain that we will be friends forever... not like the high school friends forever cause that usually doesn't work out... but college friends forever which usually do work out. It really was one of the greatest weekends I have had in a long time :)

Best Week EVER!!!

So I'm pretty sure that starting with this last weekend, this has been one of the best weeks ever! I got to go to Rachael's house and meet her family. Then I got to go visit my awesome uncles and aunt and cousins!! They have little baby bunnies! They were so cute :) This week has been pretty relaxing along with being great! I have been ahead in my classes and one of my classes ends this week. I got to talk to my little brother who I miss bunches and bunches!!! I got to talk to Lula Bean and my Mommy too!!! Who I also miss bunches and bunches. I get to go on another date with Brandon tonight and today he pretty much asked me on another date :) Gabe sent me a text yesterday that said "So tell this guy (Brandon) that this is Gabe, your brother, and if he doesn't know who that is tell him that he can see me on ESPN tonight doing MMA fighting." My little brother is SO funny!!!!!

BUT the best story of my week happened only a few hours ago... I was on the phone talking to Hannah and this random guy walks past me and says "Hello Beautiful" I was so confused and kinda smiled and kept walking while looking for this girl that he had just said this to... I'm the only girl around. So I look back and he is just watching me and I start laughing cause I finally realize that he is talking to me. He comes up and I am still on the phone with Hanny (luckily she was busy watching Rio) and sticks out his hand so I shake it. He says "Hi, I'm Luke. Whats your name?" I have no idea what to say cause this kind of thing has NEVER happened to me before, not even kinda. Like this is so beyond what I have ever experienced that I am totally out of my element. So, I gave him my name and when he asks for my number I have no idea what to do but give it to him.... Stupid? Yes, probably almost definitely, but I had NO idea what else to do and by the way, I'm still laughing as this is going on. He grins and says "Well great, I will text you later." I'm pretty sure he won't text me, which I'm totally good with because I'm pretty sure that the story of how all this came to be is tons better anyways :) Now I get to go to a haunted corn maze tonight and tomorrow is Rachael's birthday and I have to best birthday present for her and we get to out to lunch with her family and it's just gonna be GREAT!!!! The End :)

Boys=Stupid

I think that is probably the best mathematical equation to ever have existed. How come boys are so stupid? And how come it seems that its always the girls job to fix things and make everything better? I protest! I'm tired of waiting for the text that will never come but I find that I am too stubborn to commence on the texting. Why can't guys just get those little missing feelings that girls get and text them? Why can't they just admit when they are mad at you? I have to say that I might explode if I have to read that they are "distracted" one more time instead of just saying "Yea, I'm mad at you!" Duh stupid boy! I KNOW your mad at me! Just say it! Oh dear, what shall I do for dinner tonight? I refuse to ask.

Rainboots and Beehives

Its raining here. Alot. I got to use my umbrella which made me very happy and I have decided that the only thing that would make it better would be if I had rain boots. Cute ones. And maybe a coat to match. A whole matching rain outfit. That's what I want. It's too expensive though, I looked. Maybe I can afford just the rain boots though. I want to splash in the puddles very badly.

I was at the library today with Rachael. I love her! We studied and then we stared playing on paint. Who would have thought that it is so much fun? I feel like I do lots of little kid things. But I'm in college. So they are big college kid things. Like draw with chalk on the sidewalk. And color in coloring books, and on paint. We laugh a lot. It makes me happy. I love college. Who would have thought that I would adapt so quickly? Not me. I thought it would take me forever to get a best friend. It didn't. And now I have Rachael! We are rooming together next year and I am so excited.

Its Thursday. I like Thursdays. They are the days that mean yucky Wednesdays are over and happy Fridays are here. I like Fridays. They mean that me and Rachael have pajama and movie nights. Not that we don't do that practically every night anyways, but Fridays we get to stay up later. We feel like big girls when Fridays come.

We are going to Layton tomorrow after I get out of my last class. We are excited. We are going to go to Michael and Angela's house and helping them collect honey from their bees. I get to see Scott and Andy. I like them! I think that I have to best uncles ever! They take good care of me. Then we are going to Kaysville and sleeping over at Rachael's house. I'm excited to do that. I think it will be fun to meet her family. Since I love Rachael I'm pretty sure that I am going to love her family.

Bonding Time

On Thursday my momma and I went to my orientation for school 2 and 1/2 hours there and 2 and 1/2 hours back. We woke up at 5 to get there so that I could take a math placement. Oh what fun that was :) The car ride was fun and I really miss just sitting down and telling my momma everything. That hasn't happened in quite a while. I really love that lady!!! And I will really miss not being able to see her face every day when I leave!! She is one of my very best friends and I don't tell her enough that I love her! I know that occasionally we have disagreements and such but we love each other and in the end everything always works out for the best (usually with me saying she was right!). I love my momma and I could never ask for a better one!

Oh, where does the time go?

    One month and 24 days. The college count down has begun and though it seemed so far away a year ago, how fast it has come. This time last year I was getting to be ready to be a senior at Skyline and college was just a lovely thought in the back of my head. The year has gone by so quickly and I am amazed that life as I have known it for the past 18 years will soon change drastically. At the moment I am just thinking about blessings that I have been given.
1) I have been given unbelievable parents who love me unconditionally and have taught me so much.
2) I have been given the best little brother and sisters anyone could ask for. They have been amazingly patient with me all these years and who strangely, still love me, even after everything that I have put them through.
3) I have been given the greatest opportunity to be born into a family who has the gospel.
4) I have been given wonderful friends who have been great examples to me and have helped me grow to be who I am today.
5) I have been given multiple opportunities to strengthen my testimony.