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.