Why Not?

Not being able to sleep has become a very common occurrence for me. So many thoughts swirl around in my head; ideas taking shape, things I could or should do, how to fix things, memories, and many other things. Having so few people to talk to changes things. Being caught in the middle changes things. Inadvertently doing things I don't mean to happens so frequently. It's almost as if certain parts of my life are just dreams that shadow real life. Things almost always never end up the way I want them to or imagine that they should be. Even sure fire things. But that's life - living, learning, and dealing with what ever decides to come knocking at your door. It would do no good to complain about anything, as much as I would like to. So, putting on a happy face, and working through everything positively is the best option. You have to deal with life no matter what, so why not do it happily?

As I Lay me Down to Sleep...

Words are fascinating. Such little things that letters are, make up tons of words, that make up sentences that make up paragraphs and books and newspapers and they actually have meaning. So weird! Why is the word weird so weird? It’s weird to say and even spelled weird so that people end up seeming weird just by trying to spell the word and being unsuccessful. Speaking of unsuccessful I am still hungry. Yes, I know they seem totally unrelated, however it’s true. Haha! Who do you think tests those makeup products since they supposedly don’t use animals now? Can you imagine those mascara-ed Giraffes and those lipsticked monkeys? I bet the monkeys enjoyed it. I saw the Rise of the Planet of the Apes a few months ago. Those monkeys seemed scary to all of my friends and made them not want to be around monkeys that seem cute but in all actuality will stick you with a shocky stick like they did to Draco Malfoy. It just made me really want a monkey even more than I already did!!!! I will have my own monkey in my own monkey room and we’ll climb trees and finger paint and we’ll be best friends! I’ll train him to fling his poo on command. It’s going to be AWESOME! I want a chicken really bad too. I have the most perfect name EVER, but that is information that is not to be disclosed until a later time. I don’t want it stolen. I think I’d make a great thief! I totally rocked every time I’ve played cops and robbers. Plus I love wearing all black. I think it’s cool. If I ever really meet someone with Turret’s Syndrome I’m going to die laughing. That’s one of the most amusing disorders I’ve ever heard of!!! Randomly shouting profanity. Ha Ha! Those people. Can you imagine them in elevators? Or on a gondola ride in Venice? They’d really be able to blend into society as long as they chose the right location. I mean no one would even know they had a disorder if they were at a hockey game, in standstill traffic in a convertible, or even just playing games in a crowded room. It’s pretty sad that that’s what society is coming to. Those people with Turret’s syndrome don’t even have their own claims anymore. Everyone just does it for fun. How are they going to stand out above the crowd even when they shout out loud? No bueno. My most favorite disorder (yes, I sound very sadistic right now) is multiple personality disorder. They can be anyone, as many as hundreds of different people all in one, simply because the brain is trying to protect itself from things it’s not ready to handle. Haha! It would be so awesome if that applied to other places and things. I think Math has multiple personality disorder. It starts out all normal with just simple numbers, adding, subtracting dividing and multiplying. Then you add other things like letters, which start to screw things all up. Then the real fun comes in when they start even adding imaginary numbers. Really?! They don’t even exist? I argued with my high school Algebra 2/Trig teacher that since he was having me solve imaginary numbers, that didn’t exist, that my homework then became irrelevant because I had a page full of imaginary problem with solutions that were imaginary and therefore did not exist. So my homework didn’t exist. So I deserved an “A” because there really was no homework, and I’d solved their entire imaginary problem. Why worry about problems that don’t exist? :) He told me to shut up, in case anyone was wondering. Psychology gets me through the day. Whenever I get bored or start to get upset, if I just start to analyze people time goes by faster and I become less upset at things that are happening. Psychology is therapeutic. Who knew? Haha! I seriously am hungry though. I wasn’t kidding when I said that earlier. All this sidetracking myself from my hunger (and homework) is not working. Procrastination. It’s … eh. I’ll tell you later. I think it would be so funny to just talk to someone to see just how awkward you could make them feel. Not by saying anything out of line or personal or anything, just saying everyday casual small talk things really closely or intensely, with your eyes really wide. Would they just stare? Have you ever purposely put something on your face to see who your real friends are? Haha I know I’ve let some of my own friends walk around with stuff on their faces just to see how long it takes them to notice. True friends will point those things out right away. But REAL friends will laugh at you behind your back and wait for you to realize what an idiot you look like. Haha! :) Well.. that’s all folks.

Guess Who......

Who has two thumbs, is 22 years old, owns all 3 seasons of Animaniacs, Knows how to do Hannah Montana's Hoe-Down Throw Down dance, can juggle, does the Rubik's cube, built a zip line in the backyard, fell through two roofs in the last year, can eat an entire package of Oreo's, attracts boys under 10 years old or over 60 years old, can't walk without falling or tripping, Won a car, steals their little brother's clothes, can quote The Princess Bride all the way through & word for word, plays the harmonica and piano by ear, loves to draw, sculpt, and paint, loves music, wants to fly to Neverland, likes to pick up accents, Jumps on the bed, and apparently can't sleep tonight?

This Girl!

A fate worse than death...

WAITING!!!!!

Need I say more?

I submit that I do not.

Why Having a Toddler is like being at a Frat Party

10. There are half-full, brightly-colored plastic cups on the floor in every room. Three are in the bathtub.
9. There’s always that one girl, bawling her eyes out in a corner.
8. It’s best not to assume that the person closest to you has any control over their digestive function.
7. You sneak off to the bathroom knowing that as soon as you sit down, someone’s going to start banging on the door.
6. Probably 80% of the stains on the furniture contain DNA.
5. You’ve got someone in your face at 3 a.m. looking for a drink.
4. There’s definitely going to be a fight.
3. You’re not sure whether anything you’re doing is right, you just hope it won’t get you arrested.
2. There are crumpled-up underpants everywhere.
1. You wake up wondering exactly how and when the person in bed with you got there.

Windowing

Have you ever had something that just terrified the crap out of you? Yes, Literally. I mean something that scares you so much you have to go subtly slip away hoping no one notices so that you can change your pants. No, I'm kidding. I consider myself brave and not really scared of anything (however if you ask my mother she will inform you that I have a fear of commitment, and when you watch me in the store trying to decide which candy to actually buy from that accursed aisle her accusations would be proven accurate, on the other hand, I have some clothes, many packages of Oreo's and a Netflix account which would beg to prove otherwise). But I digress. I hate when people have tons of open windows. No curtains, no mini-blinds, just wide open "Hey, look in here" windows. ESPECIALLY at night. I hate that I can't see outside, but others can see in. Do they make tint for regular house windows? I'd be all over that stuff like my friend Becca is over pickles. I just know when I look out of my window at night, there will be some creepy guy staring back at me with this ridiculous grin on his face. I just know it. I can imagine him in my mind. Stupid Great Mouse Detective movie. The source of my fears is a bat named Fidget. The young mouse girl Olivia has just had her father kidnapped (mouse napped?) and she is getting help to find him and the bat that stole him comes, waits till she is looking out the window and hangs upside down with his million teeth showing while he's smiling at her. I just know he's out there.. waiting for the right time to look through my window in the middle of the night. I just know it.

Some call it Stalking, I call it love.

VS.

I have noticed that I go through phases. I either stalk people or am bored from reading ridiculous things that people think others actually care about. How low do I stoop to actually read things I don't care about to reinforce the fact that they believe people care about things? I read them. Yes, I am pathetic. Yes, I am secure enough in that pathetic-ness to actually admit this fact. My favorite is when the stalking portion of my brain takes over. I owe a lot to the creators of facebook for their invention of cyber-stalking. They have created a whole new level of it. No longer do people have to scale trees and hide in the leaves with their binoculars and dark colored clothing, being referred to by the name "Tom." The worst part about all the information one learns from facebook is that it is so time consuming!!!! You can start off with a little piece of information, click that button, find out what they're saying to another person, click on that new person, and the cycle continues late into the night. Oh, how pathetic a person feels after 9 hours of learning things that will never benefit them in life.

Ode to Netflix

How do I love thee... let me count the ways!

Netflix is the best investment I have ever made in my life. Instant streaming, SOOO many movies and tv shows, movies sent to me as often as I choose right to my door step. Pure bliss. I have watched so many things on netflix that I refuse to admit exactly how much time I actually spend on there purely because it would make me seem pathetic. However, I LOVE NETFLIX!!!!

Just thought I'd share.

Cravings

I really want to play this game right now! It's so addicting and I love it so much!

First I need to get an X-box 360. . .

Craving #2. Letters. I can't get enough. I need more, way more often.

Too bad that's most likely not going to happen.

Craving #3. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Yes. Please. All of them. I want the equivalent of my own Harem. I'd live a happy life. We. I mean we all would live a happy life together. :)

Craving #4. The Happiest place on EARTH!!!

Soooo not going to happen anytime soon. :(

Craving #5. Playing Poker.

I have not played poker in a long time, and I really enjoy playing it! So I want to.

Thus ends my current cravings at the moment.

My best friend

He's been gone in the MTC for about a week, and my phone is basically useless now. I don't really have anyone to text my random thoughts to or anything, and therefore rarely runs out of battery any more. Waiting for replies to things is annoying and I'm really not used to not having him there all the time, anytime. AND to top it off, he's down the street from me. I have thought of more ways to get into the MTC and put more thought into it over the last week than most bank robbers put into their plans.

HOWEVER, I love that he is such an example to me and that he is so willing to do what is right and to serve the Lord. Elder Benjamin Thomas Hardy is my best friend and he should be proud of himself for how far he has come. I will always love him and be very proud of him and support him in his decisions, especially this one. There's just one problem left... how much I'm going to miss him.

Ben's last time playing Drums for 2 years

Iron Man 2

I don't know about anyone else... but I absolutely LOVED this movie! and was so super excited to see the midnight showing (okay it was really 12:05) with all my friends! It was SO MUCH FUN!

I have now made it my personal obligation to start searching for my own iron man... minus the textbook narcissism. :)

Reunited con blog

I have not written or updated this in a long, long time! So, since I'm way overdue, here is a synopsis. I am done with college in about 46 days! I am doing an internship and being a TA (teacher's assistant) and getting paid for it, and taking one other class this semester. I have a lot of time to lounge about and return to my inner nerd, which is coming back with a vengeance considering I've been to the library twice in 3 days and now have about 13 books to read! (i'm almost done with them too...) So in summary I'm just waiting out my release! I'm going to fly to Tucson in a few weeks to see my cousin Benjamin! I'm super excited about that and also Greg, my almost 19 year old Brother received his mission call to Maceio, Brazil.

This is Where he's going to be sent....yeah, I'm Jealous too.

He leaves August 11th (1 day before my graduation commencement) and we have many plans for this summer! I'm Completely done June 17th and will come back to Vegas that weekend! The perfect Father's day present I think! My Father on the other hand said he'd be much happier with a Pepsi and a bag of Doritos. haha TOO BAD DAD!!!

Addiction

I am so addicted to the show "Bones". I started at season one and it's just horribly escalated in addiction. I want to watch it all the time and if i'm not careful it could be the downfall of my college career!!! haha ok maybe not really, but I've decided that I want a man like Agent Seeley Booth. This is a picture of him.

This is Agent booth and Temperance Brennan "bones". Seriously i love this show!!!

He's quite the hunk!!!! I must say. So... I feel like posting some other pictures of some other shows i'm quite addicted to lately. Yes, I really do realize how pathetic I am. =)

I Blame my Uncle Loren for this one.... all 10 seasons. practically memorized. Lame.

SOOOO good!!! It's scary but so so amazing!

I learn so much watching this show!

My mother and I are addicted!!! It's like our new religion. Seriously. And Dawnie joins in on the fun too!!! I can understand them and I have the same habits! It makes me feel so much better about myself basically.

He is so flipping adorable! Such a nerd but he is handsome and funny! Love this show so so much!

Boy Meets World. Classic. I got my momma addicted to this one too haha!

An hour of a heart attack !!! Longest hour of my life! it's so intense!!!

That is a preview of my life. As pathetic as it is, living vicariously through these shows does have its advantages. How many other lives do you get to wear your pj's for and eat pop corn through?!

I rest my case.

I would be a happy camper

If I had these things right now (minus a couple other things) I would love it and never want it to end!!!

Here's to dreaming!!!!

Things on my mind

So I realize I haven't posted anything in a while (being yeah, I know, almost 3 months.) well... Oh well. I decided to write some things that have been on my mind lately.

1. Why in the world an almost 20 year old girl would want to learn the Hannah Montana Hoe Down Throw Down? I mean seriously. It's Hannah freaking Montana. (my head is bowed in ultimate disgust and shame).

2. Teachers guaranteeing an A in the class if you show up and actually put in some effort. That man happens to be my Psych 302 teacher (not that that means anything to anyone else) and that man is basically an angel. Definitely getting a Christmas Ham or whatever I can send in the mail that costs less than $5.

3. Drowning. While above water. Walking down the road actually. This lady or dude (I don't remember which exactly)drowned while just living their everyday lives after getting water in their lungs like 3 days prior. Didn't even see it coming. Poor person. I bet we could have been friends. The world may never know.

4. My parents are pretty amazing. I know I don't tell them nearly enough, but they really are. They're funny and cool and I love talking to them. We'll be best friends when I (the favorite/good child) move back in with them when they are miserable from all their kids moving out and become their life long friend who lives in their house and eats their food. Come on, some one has to. They'll be old and not have much appetites. And let's face it, my dad will be diabetic so someone will have to drink all the Pepsi's he's got stored for the millennium. It'll be tough, but I'll make that sacrifice.

5. Do you know how many flavors of ice cream there are? I thought I was somewhat of an expert and had great taste in ice cream. HOWEVER I have discovered that I have yet to even BEGIN to live!!! If you've got some spare time check this out. You'll know what I mean. http://www.who-sucks.com/food/101-frightening-ice-cream-flavors-from-around-the-world

6. I have no life. Seriously. I work, go to school and classes, and do homework. Jeez. Basically I'm an uber nerd. (for those of you not so acquainted with Utah lingo "uber" means "super", "a Lot" "huge" "really") I have been in Utah too long.

I Have Discovered

I have discovered that my most favorite time of day is Mail time. I'm not saying that I sing a song like in Blue's Clues or anything, but I absolutely LOVE getting mail. It's so much fun and I just love it. It snowed again today and it was warm the other day. This weather is just crazy and i can't wait for spring. Real spring not this fake spring we've been having. I was talking on the phone to my littlest Brother Jacob the other day and he was telling me about the movie Bolt that he was watching and he'd randomly tell me "listen to this!" and hold the phone up to the tv for me to hear. Cute. He also told me about this one part where the helecoptors poop out motorcycle guys. Precious. I guess I now have to actually watch the movie and see if there is any truth to this. I can't wait for this semester to be over so I can watch tons of movies again!! I only have 2 more weeks (plus finals but we don't count those!).

Don't Be Ridiculous

OK. So i will tell you right now that my children WILL talk like this. My husband will have to go to work sometime and will have no choice in the matter. He'll come home and they'll say cheerio daddy and ask him to join them for crumpets and they will excuse themselves politely to visit the loo. The accent will be PREVALENT!!!It will be amazing and i will love them. This is called "Goodbye To The Normals" as far as i know and i really like it. It made me laugh mucho grande sized. My favoritest line is "don't be ridiculous." This little kid is adorable! My new favorite thing.

Pepsi Is My Favorite

I Love Pepsi and this made me laugh. I'm taking a Sign Language class this semester so it was even funnier for me!!!

Thanks to Stephanie

So this blog I dedicate to my WONDERFUL cousin Stephanie who has been literally bugging me for MONTHS to do another blog and i promised her i would do one (finally) tonight. So here it is. I am in my second semester at BYU and it is cold. there is snow all over the ground that just won't melt or go away (which makes for mighty slippage when walking). I'm taking a lot more classes toward my major, which i finally decided on doing psychology. not only is it going to be the easiest track to actually graduate within a reasonable time frame, but i really enjoy it too! so once again i have tons of homework and am super busy. My latest adventure however, i want to inform mostly Stephanie and give her a detailed report on my most recent story that i feel like telling right now because i still to this day (not like it really has been that long) am super duper excited about it!!!



i just thought I'd put him in there because i just love to look at him. he is AMAZING!!! (I love Carey Elwes btw)

On Saturday i was recruited to go with my friend Shaina Johnson to go look at wedding things at a Bridal Fair at Thanksgiving Point so she can get an idea about plans for her wedding and also to look at Wedding Dresses. So i ran home (because I'd spent the night at Todd and Kristie's house Friday night) and i quickly changed into my Blue sweat pants and a thermal short sleeved t-shirt with a blue tank top on (sorry mom it really didn't match very well) but that's OK because i covered it all up with my white Tinkerbell hoodie.

We (me, Shaina, her fiancee David Richardson, her sisters Amber and Chelsey Johnson, and also Justine Winsor) arrived at the barn where it was held. we watched Shaina and Amber sign in and print off a paper in order to get in free. well, I'm no dummy. i didn't want to pay to get into a thing just to help my friend so i signed myself up thus becoming a blushing bride myself.

just so everyone is aware... my wedding is on July 11Th (year not mentioned purposefully) and it will be in the Las Vegas Temple. =) I also picked out my husband but i will not disclose any names. if you need to know i will tell you in person in a self-destructive note.

I got a sticker that said "bride" and it is an amazing empowerment.


I walked around looking and Shaina and the rest got distracted registering for things so Chelsey and I took off on our own with our own bride stickers. We talked to Dj's and caterers and so so so SO many Photographers!!! We got a big white bag that said Bridal something or other and got many papers and magazines to put in it. I have discovered that it is highly favorable to give brides chocolate. Everyone was handing it out. it's a free "hey come indulge. don't think about how you're not going to fit into your dress at ALL with all those calories you're consuming!" but it worked for me. Indulge i did. =) They also had a lovely section where you could get your hair done as a type of "practice" for the big day. Yes, you guessed it. I got my hair done all Bridely. it was so much fun!!! i got asked so many questions about my wedding, and my dress, and what plans i was working on and concerned about, how HE proposed, when the wedding was, where it was, how we met, et cetera et cetera. (said with the King and I accent.) all of those stories (Chelsey can attest to this fact ) i made everything up on the spot and never faltered. AND i kept it all straight. What can i say? it was a BLAST!!!!

Naturally my parents were informed of this as i progressed in my wedding plans in case anyone was concerned.

So we spent a good hour to an hour and a half there and i was LIVING IT UP! i LOVE being a BRIDE!!! I'm considering doing it professionally. i am now introduced to Bridal fairs and i am going to become a menace !! hey, it you have lying talents such as mine, why waste them?! (plus free food, cake samples, sparkling martinelli's, and CHOCOLATE!!!).

After that we went to lunch at Olive Garden and then went to look at Dresses. (i did not try any on however, i decided to leave that until my appointed time.)

but i really really loved this dress!!!!!!



So afterwards we went back and i decided that i would change my facebook status to "I LOVE BEING A BRIDE!!!" and i meant it just for Shaina and Chelsey and amber but i got such great responses that i left it up for a while!! ha ha it was great!!
Chelsey and I - - notice the amazing "Bride Sticker"


Shaina and I analyzing dresses. She loves the one still on the Mannequin though. She's trying it on this Saturday.

And the icing on the cake (ha ha did you catch that?) is that i won something!!! i won $300 toward laser hair removal!!! ha ha it's so much fun!!!!!!

I LOVE BEING A BRIDE!!!

Dun Dun Dunnnnnnn

So it is just turning midnight my time and I’m still awake. But everyone says that is typical for college students anyways to never get sleep. I’m adjusting to the norm, trying to lay low and fit in. So even after all the lectures adults try to give kids about how important sleeping is and how you can only grow while you’re sleeping. Dude I say that is false. I’ve been sleeping for over 19 years now and I have yet to hit 6 feet in height. That would present some problems though because if I were to be 6 feet even though I’d have the advantage of being able to reach the top shelves and never having to get a ladder I’d risk the possibility of dating men shorter than me (which I’ve done and it just doesn’t work for me. I’m short. He needs to be taller than me. I mean seriously someone has to block all the sun from getting in my eyes). What would the world be like without tall boys to assist girls in that way? I submit that it wouldn’t be a very worthwhile one. Plus by being abnormally tall I’d also risk having a long neck. For some reason I’m picturing abnormally large women as having long necks. And I’m talking these are necks that even scarves or neck braces couldn’t cover up. Those girls pretty much have only one option in life; to paint brown spots on themselves, find a tall tree from which to forage and get in the giraffe pen in the zoo. I have been to a zoo a couple times. The one time I went in Kindergarten I wore these overalls and my Phoenix Suns hat because they’re my favorite team still even though they lost Charles Barkley when I was young. Tragedy. Mucho Grande. Oh back to the zoo... Well this goat tried to eat me. I’ve heard goats eat everything and you always see them in movies eating cans and stuff, well it tried to eat me. Speaking of eating I am hungry hold on I’m going to go get some chips. Ok I’m back now. I really love barbeque chips they are so good!! When I’m at home I’d have to 007 it and hide with my beloved bag of delectable crunchiness but here I can eat the entire bag all by myself. Without my father waiting until I’m not looking and grabbing the bag and literally stuffing the entire thing in his mouth just so I can’t have any. What a jerk. I learned how to do a Rubick’s cube a while ago and one I learned, other people who also learned would go out and get like a 4x4 or a 5x5 which is bigger than the normal 3x3 cube (which I can do.) so I decided that all those who did that are just trying to show off. I mean seriously if you can do a freaking Rubick’s cube to begin with you are impressive. (I know this because I can do one). It’s just beyond showing off and has reached a potentially dangerous level. They should be flogged on sight and rapidly lashed with 30 tubes of tide to go. That stuff is amazingly genius. My friend had a chocolate fountain at her wedding and kept spilling it on her white dress... genius... No one could tell thanks to the amazing tide to go! If/when I get married I’m going to have to buy the company or something because even though my mother says I won’t have a chocolate fountain, I will. By the love I have for chocolate coating on edible things I swear it. I went to this reception once and they had a POTATO BAR!!! They had these amazing little cup thingies and various topping of which to apply to your scooped potatoes! I’m so going to have one of those in my house. Right next to the cookie bar and my own personal Wendy’s/Panda Express. (Hey they do it with A&W all the time why not Wendy’s and Panda? Did you notice those two boxing Panda’s on the Panda Express doors are the exact same but with different color shorts? Curse those lazy advertisers for their lack of originality. I think they should make them first different Pandas and then give them both a personality. They are fighting for two different types of chickens so why not? Well this is extremely long. Fun stuff. So if you actually read this whole thing just let me know and I’ll apologize for this lameness. I know I’m nowhere near as cool as Rufio! =)