School, Sniffles, and Saturday Shenanigans

Hallo there, blogalicious friends. I apologize for my long absence. I'm sure you've all been refreshing your Google Reader pages millions of times a night, waiting for a post from me to show up. Umm, yeah, just kidding. And if you really WERE refreshing your page in anticipation of a post on this blog, then you need help. Email me. I have phone numbers for places that can help you. Conecciones!!

Anywhoodles... Update. School is absolutely insane. The only reason I'm writing this post is that one of my classes got out 30 minutes early (BONUSSS!!!!), so I have some time to spare. I'm somehow keeping up with my grades and whatnot, but I'm losing sleep like woah. That also means that I'm highly succeptible to sicky bugs, hence the sore throat/sniffles that currently plague me. ('S no biggie. I'll get over it. I was dramatizing so I could use the word "plague." It's a good 'un!)

Despite the insanity of school this week (and last week and the week before, and probably next week), things are pretty good. The other day, I had the feeling that I might have actually learned something in one of my classes. It was nuts, yo. And today I found out that I got the highest score in the class on my last statistics test. Woo! :) Sorry, I had to gloat just a teensy bit. At any rate, things are alright. I'm a teaching assistant for an honors civilization class, and so far I'm not completely incompetent. (I have my good moments.) I usually find time to go to the gym (love love love!!!) at least three times a week; therefore, I'm not turning into a complete flabby blob of stress. This is a Good Thing.

Anyway, this is getting boring. Pictures are better. Enjoy!

Adventure in da carAmber (she's totally married!), Ave, and Jessica buy matching cardigans (only $15!)

Ave, Ann, Briana, and Jessica (who looks preggers in this pic.... ew) get henna (don't hate! they're temporary!)


At the park, doing the Sound of Music, extreme sports style

Ann

Me

Averyl
Briana

The calm before

Tomorrow is going to be heinous. That is, I'm probably not going to stop moving for a LONG time. I've planned for a 20 hour day.

Somehow, right now, I am okay with this. Life is very good right now. I had a great day today. I had good church meetings, good time with roommates and a guitar, excellent dinner cooked by an excellent Ann, and Ave is currently packing tomorrow's lunch for me so I won't have to worry about it.

Tomorrow I am waking up very early, but I'm doing it so I can study and learn out of good books. Life can never be too bad when you have good books.

Tomorrow I will be running from class to test to class to study session to work to test, but I'm doing it at a great university where my professors care about what they teach.

Tomorrow I will probably come home worn out, with sore feet and messy hair, but I'll be coming home to a great set of friends who care about me.

Life is good. :)

Teeny tiny home sweet home

Hey friendi-friends. You get a special treat today! You get a look at my apartment's teeny tiny interior! Felicidades!

Here we go!

Wall #1 - mini gallery
The frames are actually cork boards. We put black posterboard onto the cork board (using super cute colored thumb-tacks, then put our own black and white photography up. We are very talented like that. Kudos to Averyl for the design!

Wall #2: Americana gallery
(fancy names, right? I'm making them up as I go)
This wall features my lovely poster and two black and white photos of guitars (purchased at DI, in perfect condition, for $2 each. The lamp is from WalMart ($10).

Windows: Elegance and Innovation
Averyl came up with this and put it all up. The valances are actually just black cloth, gathered and pinned up to the wall. The pins are hidden by black ribbons. VERY COOL. Good job Ave! Total cost: under $15!

Wall #3: Collage

This is all photography by people in the apartment. Yeah, I know, we're hot. This picture wall is slowly expanding, and will eventually fill most of the wall. Exciting! The photo prints are very inexpensive, considering how classy they look. Each photo is about $.15, so each of us pays a relatively small amount for the decor. Besides, we get to display our own artwork, which rocks. GO CREATIVITY! Stay in school kids, so you can be as awesome as us.

Well, there you have it! I'd post pictures of the other rooms, but they're not clean, nor are they as awesome as the living room. Yeah. Anyway, have a loverly Saturday! Peace be upon you.

Meet Curly

It's almost midnight and I should be going to bed so I can Work Out Like Crazy tomorrow morning, but I feel like doing a blog post. You're welcome.

Yesterday, I found a friend at a sidewalk sale on campus. I loved him so much that I bought him and took him home and put him on top of my bookcase. His name is Curly, and he is cute.



His name is Curly because he is... curly. Here's what I mean.


Preshhh!!!!

I bought him because I needed something to put into the pretty planter thing that my sister bought for me this past Christmas. The pot came with a bulb, but somehow I killed that, and then I tried to grow rosemary in it, but the seeds never came up. It looks like I'm a horticultural failure. Hopefully Curly doesn't meet the same sad fate as the previous inhabitants of his little house.

(It probably wouldn't hurt if you prayed for his survival.)

K, I'm going to bed now. Six o'clock is the ONLY cool time to go to the gym, obviously, so I have to get up kind of early. Cha. G'night.

Free Food Fiends

BYU is great sometimes. Take this week, for instance. My roomies (Ann and Averyl) and I recognized a pattern in the campus events that were going on this week. We noticed that EVERY night for four or five days, there was a free food event. That's right, food free of charge. We decided to see how much free food we could hoard in one weekend. Let me lay it out for you.

Tuesday: Ward social (pizza, fizzy lemonade, and Teddy Grahams). The food was ok (not really worth it), the people were bomb. Our ward is hilarical. Also, the hotness rating of our ward is off the chizzarts. More on this to follow.

Wednesday: Honors Opening Social (pizza, chips, salsa). Ick, pizza again. No bueno. But it was free!

Thursday (This has to go in a bullet list...)

• Honors Seminar (brownies),
  
• Women's Services social (brownies - attended by Averyl),
  
• Humanities department social (Hawaiian Haystacks),
• Math major's social (pizza AGAIN - obtained by Averyl and Ann)
  
• Museum of Art (hot cross buns and wassail--yummo!),
  
• Honors Brownie Bash (attended by Averyl only), and
  
• Random Free Food in the Fine Arts Center (cinnamon rolls, obtained by Ann)

HOLY FREE CALORIES! I almost felt guilty attending all of these events. Ann and Averyl are in the Humanities department, so they were supposed to eat haystacks, but I wasn't.... I'm TECHNICALLY not in the Honors program, but I take their classes and whatnot, so the brownie was mostly guilt-free (except for that it contained about a bajillion calories. But that's okay!) I didn't eat the pizza at the math social, but Ave and Ann did (both English majors).

Friday: BYU Fall Fest (pizza and sub sandwiches) This was too gross for words. I don't know why we felt the need to search out this food, but we did anyway.... The FREE frozen yogurt I got at Yoasis (mostly to get rid of the memory of looking at that gross pizza) was awesome, though.

Moral of the story: Free food will probably kill you if you eat it very often. Why can't they ever give out just like a salad or something?

Update FAIL

Hey everyone. I doubt I have any blog followers anymore, since it's been quite a long while since I last updated. Hopefully, if you are reading this, you will find it in your hearts to forgive my slackoffishness. Yes, that is a word. (Not really. I lied.) Anyway.... Here is a wicked short summary of what I've been doing for the past little while. Better posts (with, like, cute pictures and stuff) will be coming soon, hopefully before the week is out. At any rate, here we go: my recent past in bullet list format.

• packed boxes, packed suitcases, packed my car
• moved to Provo
• moved in, chilled with the roomies (Averyl, Briana, Ann, Cali, and Whitney)
• unpacked my car, unpacked suitcases, unpacked boxes
• cleaned, organized, generally conquered the nastiness of the empty apartment and turned it into HSH (Home Sweet Home)
• spent bazillions of dollars on books
• visited my Old People (love them!)
• spent bazillions of dollars on apartment supplies, food, and cooking stuff (I WILL COOK THIS SEMESTER! THIS IS A VOW!)
• watched cars crash into each other at the busy intersection right outside my kitchen window
• visited my fam
• started classes, most of which are pretty good so far
• homework homework
  
• watched my brother run a sweet cross country race at BYU
  
• finally got my ears pierced, in the company of my mom, my sister, and my best friend. Yes, I am turning 20 on my next birthday. Yes, I realize that it is weird that my ears did not previously have holes punched in them. But the holes are there now!
• saw a weird film called Howl's Moving Castle. Culture shock much, but it was pretty good.
  
• homework homework homework homework homework

Aaaand, I think that pretty much catches us up. There ya go! Pictures and blogtasticness to follow, I promise.

Today I was compelled to act violently

Today my mom and my sister and I went shopping together (all part of The Famous Fortnight of Fantastic-time-spending!!). As we were driving down the road, we ended up at a stoplight, right behind the most revolting, horrendous, sinfully ugly thing I have ever seen. It was...

a Chevrolet SSR.

BARF!!!!

I think I have found the ugliest car on the planet. As I stared at its ugly, lumpy, imitation-truck backside, I found myself undergoing a strange chemical/hormonal/whatever reaction. Hatred for that nasty, naaasty vehicle started to well up inside of me. I had a strong urge to act violently toward that pathetic excuse for a car... or is it a truck...? Or a hideous beast of ugliness and death? I don't know what it is. But I wanted to kill it. I still kind of want to maim it a little bit.

Normally, I'm not a violent person. I guess not anyway. But for some strange reason, seeing that... THING made me horrifically angry. I like cars. I drive what is possibly the cutest car on earth.

Ta-daaa!!
Everyone, meet Poppy.
:)

Now, I realize that it is not always practical to drive your dream car. Sometimes you have to stick with the car that has enough space, fits within your budget, and gets you from point A to point B. I used to drive my parents' old maroon Astro van, and I was extremely grateful to be able to do so. I understand that a car is, primarily, a practical item. But the SSR (Super Sport Roadster--what?!?!) is not only ugly, it is impractical! What can you put in the bed of the truck? Umm, pretty much nothing. How many people does it seat? TWO. How expensive is it? Upwards of $24,000! Insane!

Anyway, sorry about the rant. Also, my apologies to any owners of a Chevy SSR that may be reading this. Really, I'm so sorry that you drive that car.