oh the snow....

so ive decided im not a real big fan of snow. i really enjoy looking at if from inside, sipping my hot chocolate where it is nice and warm, but actually being out in it is not so much fun! maybe its one of those things that i will learn to love... maybe...

let me tell you a little story... so i went to bed somewhat early last night... i was tired [and i had finals today], so i went to bed at like 10... and i fell asleep by 11:30 [im having this issue sleeping lately... its rather strange. maybe im just lonely... lol. just kidding.] i woke up at 3:30... am... and looked outside and there was snow everywhere! like everywhere, everywhere!! and i just thought to myself how creepy utah weather is... specifically their weird misty rain and the snow... and how you can never hear it! im used to the loud monsoon rains! and the loud winter el niños! [be impressed with my little squiggly tilde eñe thingy... it took me forever to figure out how to get it on there...and how to spell that word... not niño... but eñe lol] okay. so im laying there and i remember thinking to myself that snow is death. lol... how easy would it be to die in the snow? for serious. like if you were in a blizzard or something... and you just curl up and freeze to death. im sure its not that simple, or quiet... i watched this movie one time about these hikers... maybe they were skiers or something... that fall down this crevice in this huge mountain and one of them dies from hypothermia... and it shows how he [she... maybe... i seriously dont really remember] gets progressively worse... you stop shivering eventually.... and then you get all blue and puffy and then you get amnesia and junk like that. anyway. i was laying in bed thinking about dying in the snow... and i couldnt for the life of me fall back asleep... i got up and got a drink of water... i turned on some sleepy-sounding music.... i put socks on [sometimes that helps]... i took my socks off [sometimes that helps more]... i even tried that counting thing that mom and dad told me to do when i was little and couldnt get to sleep on christmas eve... you know where you start from a certain number and count backwards... but you have to take a deep breath between each number [remember that one?] they told me to start from 80... i started from 200 last night... i got down to 120 last night before i messed up and had to start over... then i could only make it to like 176... lol. i would go 199... breath... 198.... breath... 198... breath... 197... breath... 196... breath... 197... breath...and so on and so forth. i finally started falling back to sleep around the snow plows came out... around 5 ish i think... then i woke up at 7 to take my finals. i was walking to school in the snow... and i was crossing crosswalks and swore i was gonna fall... so i was walking in all this snow with it snowing all types of everywhere [and apparently waterproof mascara doesnt work if its snowing... so i look wicked cute today... mmm yeah no... lol]. and i got outside hogi yogi and apparently it was icy under the snow... cause all the sudden i was on my bum. and i started laughing... basically because it was funny. i got up... dusted the snow off my bum... and kept on walking... i had three finals to take today and i was slipping all over campus... but i caught myself- so i never fell again. but seriously everytime i slipped i would start laughing... it was pretty amusing. i havent laughed that much walking around campus... ever, i think! haha... oh and i inhaled a couple snowflakes up my nose a few times... that is an interesting sensation to say the least! :) welp. thats my exciting snow-filled adventure for the day [hopefully the walk home wont be as treacherous!]

oh and....

tomorrow!

ToMoRROw!!

TOMORROW!

...and i'll be home! :)

blah blah blah....

so i dont really have antything to blog today.

i went to paulas for dinner last night, and it was a-mazing!! [we had really yummy steak and baked potatoes and a salad and all types of yummy-ness! they are so sweet to invite me!] i was going to my car, to drive over and there was snow on my car... and icicles. i kid you not. icicles. well remember that one time that paula got me that stinking huge ice scraper? [click here if youve forgotten] and she was telling me how i would have to brush off the snow and then scrape the ice? yeah. she was totally right!! it was crazy! haha... but i got my car all de-snowed, it was qutie the adventure. and my hand was freezing! lol! :) but i really am so thankful for that beast of an ice scraper. it saved my life.

oh and i walked to work with snow all around me today. it was crazy cold. and apparently my left eye waters when its cold. its kind of embarrassing.... i wonder if anyone notices. im for serious going to have to wear waterproof mascara for the whole entire winter. haha... oh well... whatev.

the end.

sad day...

so danielle left this morning.

its kind of a little sad for me. we [me dan and jared] went to kneaders for breakfast... and had their amazing french toast. it was delicious. and then jared took her to the airport. ill see her next week, but for some reason it just feels so much more final today. sheesh. shes only getting married... shes going to be living just down the road, shes not dying or anything. but this past week weve been doing a lot of "do you remember that one time..." and we would both start laughing... its funny how we rarely have to finish that phrase for us both to remember the same exact event.... like that one time my mom invited her to my 16th birthday and she shared french fries with natalie evans... or that one time that stephanie got scared of a frog and fell and dented the dishwasher with her elbow... or that other time... hahahah!! :) weve been through a lot together, me and dan. a lot. its an exciting time for her though, starting her life with jared (who i love... hes awesome for danielle)... i know its going to change our friendship a little, but i cant help be excited for them! they will be all types of married next friday. i cant believe its time already. i moved up here in june, feeling like i had forever to be with my best friend. now my time is up and its jareds turn. i do love you like crazy dan! :)

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on a happier note, since she left i switched sides of the room and moved my stuff over to danielles side... you know just to mix it up a little. lol. and i just finished up... she left her posters for me, so i still have a little piece of her. it feels a little more like home having so much stuff on my walls! i love it!



and! its snowing like crazy! we are supposed to get a few inches from this storm... we almost made it a full semester without it really snowing. oh well... its still fun! :)

it really is thursday...

so i think im going insane.

all of my days are blurring together... and this week has been going by so very very slow!! i seriously thought yesterday [wednesday] was thursday... i got to work and got the bucket to water all the plants... its part of my job... lol. but i water on thursdays... anyway. i told paula that i was going to go get water... and she kinda gave me a funny look, and i then i remembered that it was in fact wednesday, not thursday and i started laughing and was like... hmm, maybe ill wait till tomorrow.
silly silly me.
today has been a little less confusing but it seriously feels like a friday... maybe even a monday.... :) and! today was our last day of classes [tomorrow is "reading day" which is just a finals prep day and then next week is finals!] and i can i just say how very strange it feels? it feels like it was just last month that i moved up here and was laughing about my blunders in learning my way around campus.... but that was june!!
ca ra zy.
im happy its over though... just a year and a half more... thats not too long, right? right. time will keep flying by, right? right... ill be home next wednesday [well, wednesday night]. it feels silly to have come back up here for two weeks. i think byu should change its semesters and start in august, but then have their finals the week before thanksgiving... then we could have a month and a little for christmas break before we come back in january. its a brilliant idea if you ask me!
:)
welp... 6 days till im home...
less than a week! its gonna be great!
im super excited!!

oh and i cut my hair... short! and i have bangs again! i know. who woulda ever thought? i like it a lot, its definitely different. oh i didnt blog it when it happened because i wanted to suprise my fam when i went home for thanksgiving... and it worked!! they loved it! [maybe someday ill post more pics! :)]


and i hate bananas. and i think there must be a peel in the garbage. cause ive randomly been smelling nasty banana-ness this whole time ive been at work.
yuck.

relapse...

okay. so i made a goal to stop drinking soda.
i even have a counter on the bottom of my page...

i had a relapse saturday night...

i already i told you that i was in a really funky mood... and i really needed to paint... so i painted. and i decided that i really needed a soda... so i bought myself a dr pepper [which i love!] and drank it while i painted. ive done really good... so i figured it wouldnt be that big of a deal. one every now and then is cool- right? right. [oh and i was burping left and right. they were wicked sweet burps... if only i coulda blown a couple to kels... lol] anyway. last night i went to jason and laurel's for dinner... we had really yummy pancakes with this really yummy syrup [i need to get the recipe from laurel... it was way good!] and eggs and orange juice and stuff. and then afterward we played this game called nertz... which im gonna have to teach you all... it was super fun.
as always with card games, i sucked... but it was fun!! :)

and i had another soda...

lol a ruby red squirt- in case you were curious. haha. so i think i have to reset my timer now. its only fair i suppose...


















oh. and it was so worth it. :)

painting for nicole...

first of all...

don't look, nicole!!
for serious!! dont!

its a SURPRISE!!!


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second of all.

considering that im a poor starving college student, i decided to make nicole her christmas present this year. she has this adorable apartment [which i am totally jealous of... i wish i was making bank like nurse nicole so i could have my own apartment!! lol!] and i promised her i would paint something for her. i hope she likes this... i thought it looked like nicole! :) but i was gonna do it when i got to tucson for christmas... but i really needed to paint last night. so i did. and i really like this one.... now i just have to figure out how to get it home. ill probably just wrap it in bubble wrap and take it as my carry-on! haha... anyway.

there you go! :)

number twenty two...

so i should be doing my homework... but im not. instead im working on goal number 22... im teaching myself to be ambidextrous. and i feel like im in 1st grade again. lol...

another one bites the dust...

i give up.
ive bought two bettas and two gold fish.

all have died.

at least this new one (i bought it a few weeks ago) lasted longer than the other ones... but still! what is my deal? i keep killing all my fish... well at least edmond is still alive. hes a tough little booger. but i was really starting to like this one... he was a sweetheart...a very calm fish. although he wasnt really eating much... maybe thats what did it. maybe its the container. i got it from d.i. ...maybe its still contaminated with other peoples dirty germs and stuff. i have cleaned it though. oh i dont know... no more fish for me i guess... :(

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yesterday at work i decorated for christmas...
i really like my job. lol...

i can hardly believe its december 2nd already... almost time to go home again. [15 days.] it was a killer to make myself come back up here and finish up school.... i wish i coulda just stayed home... i miss my family!! it was crazy fun being there for thanksgiving. mom... as always... did a great job on thanksgiving dinner... we even broke out her china! :) kelsey and i made the funniest looking rolls... they still tasted afreakingmazing... we were laughing the whole time... and grandpa was laughing at the both of us. haha. oh and i made cheeseballs.... including a naked one for nicole [who got to stay all thanksgiving day with us!] grandma and granpa farr were there too... and i think grandma approved of the cheeseballs, it was her recipe after all! lol. we... me kels tino adrian dustin and nicole all went to see twilight thanksgiving night with the townsend kids... good times! [whoda thought movie theaters arent busy on thanksgiving night? lol...] i got to see all of baby hayley's new stuff [all of which is pooping cute!] and i even got to feel her kicking and moving a few times!! it was was exctiting!! seriously though... adrian is too cute all pregnant and stuff! i played mario party with tino and put up christmas lights outside with him and dad... i put a few up in the trees... and as always my hands got pretty scratched. lol... but it was worth it! anyway.
15 days... and i cannot wait!

oh and yesterday was our ward christmas part slash closing social. danielle and jared and i went and ate... it was at this cute little place called wadley farms. it was yummy [thats the room where we had dinner... roast beef with carrots and mashed potatoes and stuff...] it really was a very cite little place!


right after that we went to the mall to buy myself [well... its from the parentals really] a new cell phone... its my christmas present! im really super excited! its an awesome phone! and i hear great things about it... its really cool looking too! its an enV2... pretty sweet. lol. my poor little razr has been crapping our something fierce the past few months... but ive had it for a little more than two years... and it has served me well! im still trying to figure out this whole keyboard thing! lol... but i love it! merry christmas to me! thanks santa! :)

rolls and honey butter...

so i volunteered to make rolls for today's dinner at paula's... scept, ive never made rolls by myself... its always been kelsey's job! but i decided it was time for me to learn.... 'sides its my number 4 on my to do list... lol [do i get to check it off yet? i havent perfected it yet... lol]. so i was a little bit nervous making them... i texted kelsey a few times to make sure everything was going the way it was supposed to.... hahah!! [and thanks kels!] and they did turned out alright. i think the little shelf things in the oven were too low... the bottoms are a little dark... whoops. so i made honey butter [lion house honey butter nonetheless] to try to cover up any mistakes of first time rolls... hopefully paula and fam like them... i'll let you know! :)




psst... everybody loved them!! :) they did taste mighty yummy!!

i love books....

so danielle and i finally went and got library cards!! :) and im super excited... i havent been to a public library in a long long time!! it was fun! and the provo city library is super cute! we got some random fun books... danielle and her sci-fi's and i got a novel, it was fun!

this is my card... its a pretty cute one... especially compared to the pima county library cards... lol.

anyway. yay for library cards!! :D

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oh and i am missing adrians baby shower... i wish i were there. i really am super bummed....im missing all the baby excitement! i fully expect to see lots of pictures! but its still kinda sad. actually i was watching a baby story on tlc the other day (it comes on right after what not to wear) and the husband (and brand new daddy) came out to tell everybody that it was a girl, and all the grandparents and aunt and uncles were giving him hugs and congratulating him... and i just started thinking about how i wouldnt get to be there for adrian and dustin (not that i would be in the actual hospital when it happened... but afterwards i would be...) but instead im gonna be stuck in utah and it will be a month to a month and a half until i get to see my beautiful little niece and give my hugs to adrian and dustin.... and i almost started to cry.

anyway. im missing my family something fierce today....

but the good news is in 3 days ill be home!! 3!
woohoo!!

im really sorry....

i have been a terrible blogger. i havent really done anything exciting this last little bit though...

i just keep on keeping on.

and its really not actually that cold anymore... it was 66* as i was walking to work today... pretty warm. i kinda like it... the sun is warm but the air is cool, does that make sense? haha... i keep waiting for it to get all types of cold... and it will for a couple days, but then it warms right back up.and it is pretty chilly
at night still...

so im at work right now... dont really have much to blog about. i ate my little snack that constitutes a lunch... its a tuna salad with crackers. i bet people think it is cat food... thats kinda what it looks like, with the can and everything. and then it smells like tuna... even more cat-like. haha. i try to eat it fast... when nobody is around... so they dont think i am weird. lol...oh well.
but it really is quite yummy.


today i had an extra little bit of food... pomegranates!! yummm... danielle and i went to macey's (the grocery store, not the department store) and bought pomegranates, they were on sale. 99 cents. and they are really yummy! but i dont really know "the technique" for pomegranate peeling.... the juice got everywhere. lol. whoops.


anyway. im glad i could tell you what i had for lunch. hahaha... (oh and i have a water bottle too...)

umm... oh yes.

one week until i am home.
7 days
168 hours
10,080 minutes
604,800 seconds
604,800,000 milliseconds
[approximately]

and i simply cannot wait! :)

its officially cold...

so it did snow wednesday morning.
i woke up to snow!! it was crazy cool!!
it was all melted my 1oam though. bummer.

so it is official. its cold.

so.... i put on my flannel sheets!!
(actually these ones are tino's... so thanks buddy
for letting me borrow them!)
:)
i put my down blanket on too...

and i slept as snug as a bug in a rug last night.

umm...

so i really dont have a title for this post. lol... so we will just begin.

its been really stormy these last few days... and pretty chilly too. it was really rainy all day long... and then started hailing tonight... but it was really soft hail... almost like a slush. it was pretty cool and its supposed to snow tomorrow... and i think its quite likely! and im kinda excited!! :) but it did snow on the mountains... and this is the first time the snow has gotten to the y (granted, its not a lot... but still!!) ... so im thinking we have a good shot at getting snow tomorrow! anyway. ive decided that i have a fairly good tolerance to the cold... as long as i cant see my breath. if i can see my breath, its much too cold. haha... maybe thats not a very good tolerance... lol but still. so... pics!

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alright. and at work today... i worked on another bulletin board. too fun. :)

halloween part 2...

okay. so i was cleaning up my room today and i found the cake mix and icing and sprinkles that my mom gave me when she was here for conference... i meant to make them yesterday... you know, like for halloween... but it was a busy day, so i made them today!

yay for halloween cupcakes!

thanks mama! :)

halloween...

alrighty so last night was halloween!! ...and now its november! crazy!! but... back to halloween---danielle and i found these seriously cool eyelashes in the beginning of october... it might have actually been the end of september. they are so wicked sweet we just had to get them. and we were trying to figure out what we could do with them... after thinking of many ideas we decided to be bugs... danielle was a butterfly and i was ladybug...oh and jared was the stick bug. which absolutely made me laugh... i thought it was awesome! he was the best stick bug ive ever seen! but seriously, mine and dans costumes were amazing! (i didnt get a halloween last year...the last time was the year before, with danielle actually... and we were both superheros... with wicked sweet eyelashes then too!) danielle painted her wings and i made my little ladybug back out of felt and posterboard and newspaper. prett sweet! so we got all dressed up to go to our ward party... which actually was a tri-ward party. it was pretty cool... they had the standard lame mormon approved dance songs... like freaking cotton eye joe. i hate that song. but it was fun anyway... there were a lot of fun costumes. this one guy was kuzco... hahah. anyway. after that we rented an american haunting and watched it at jareds apartment....
all in all it was a good halloween. :)

happy halloween!
from the cutest little suzie bug ever... :)

presents!!

okay... well, actually only one.

so every monday wednesday and friday paula drives me home (she leaves work early on tuesdays and thursdays). we were walking out to her car to leave today and paula said that there
was a present on the front seat for me... and i opened the door and this is what was on the seat....

could paula be any sweeter? i submit that she could not.

apparently she was in the store the other day and saw this and thought of me... she figured i wouldnt have an ice scraper for my car... and i definitely dont. this is a beast of an ice scraper too!! theres a brush on there to brush off the snow and then the scraper to scrape off the ice (paula was explaining this to me as we were driving home). hahah. anyway. its "unseasonably warm" right now according to all these utah-folk and i am still enjoying it... im used to this kind of winter! lol. anyway its a little hard to imagine it getting so cold that i will have to brush the snow off and then scrape the ice off. but i have no doubt that i will
eventually have to use it... so
thanks so much to paula
for thinking of the little non-winterized arizona girl!!

i voted....

so... yay for being able to vote!! i wasnt old enough to last time... but i did get to this time! :) yep im a grown up... lol mom sent me my early ballot... then i called her and said "okay. what do i vote for? i know im voting yes! on 102... and
NO for obama...
but i dont really care about anything else..." haha
so she told me what to vote for. hahaha!

yep. im a grown up now.

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oh and this is for dad...
i was telling him about a little flier i did for work a few days ago... whipped it out in an hour or so... it was probably closer to an hour and a half. lol. anyway. its pretty cute...