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...