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