teeth!!

today was day one of my 7 day teeth whitening program.

January 1, 2011 is the second time ill do it. [that is today and im editing this post] =D

the life of a girl best friend

It's nice to be home. I was so bored the first day I came back from Provo but I feel much better now. I didn't know what to do with my time. I was so used to going 100% full speed ahead 24/7 at BYU but coming here I can actually take a breather and figure out my life.

• I am going on a mission.
• I am starting my papers as soon as I talk with Bishop Munoa when I get back.
• Hopefully, I'll leave right as I turn 21 so that I can leave and come back as quick as possible.
• I want to help people and do what I can to make them happy but figuring out what job lets me do that takes some more thinking.

Mondays Are Marvelous Part II

I just woke up from a long sleep. My body is tired and screaming to go back to bed but I need to stay awake and have a productive day! When I sleep in too long it makes me cranky. The reason for such a long, body-exhausted sleep? Yesterday was THE LONGEST day I have ever had in Surprise. Ever. I don't think I've ever done so little in one day that felt like it went on forever.

8:30 am drove Edison to practice at her high school

9:00 am came home to eat and mop the downstairs

11:00 am drove back to Shadow Ridge HS to pick Edison up11:30 am rode Peyton's rip stick, sat outside for lunch, watched tv

1:30 pm went to my 1:40 dentist appointment

2:30 pm some FBing in there and more tv

5:20 pm picked up Matt to get gas and go to Jump Street (we took pics of how much more tan he is than me and he thinks its hilarious.)

8:00 pm dropped Matt off, came home to shower and eat

9:30 pm Matt came over and we skated in the back with Peyton

10:20 pm Matt and i drove around and i dropped him off at Walmart with his buds

11:00 pm went to Brady's house to meet up with the old krew

12:00 am picked Audrey up from her volleyball party

12:40 am went back to Brady's to see Collin

1:00 am went home

1:30 am CRASHED

and now I'm home and awake and still wanting to go back to bed. I was so tired when I came home... but now I'm up and have had my cereal and walked around a bit. Today's agenda is composed of music listening, tv watching, rip stick skating, upstairs vacuuming, and a little bit of garage cleaning.

GRRRR i just ran out of Pandora music! my 40 hours of the month are up...

Mondays Are Marvelous

i think i have blogged about missionaries before but here i go again. I LOVE MISSIONARIES! i also love mondays because this is the day they send emails home and let the world know how they're doing. its wonderful. it's even better when they send pictures but sometimes they don't have time or forget. i hope that i never ever forget to send pictures when i go on my mission. one reason is because i know my mom and siblings will love it. the second reason is because it'll help me better remember what i did that week and who i saw/met.

i try to send tons of letters to my friends but there are some elders who i forget to write and then, after months and months, they shoot me a quick email or something and ask where their letter is! i have a few friends out right now whom i need to send letter #1 to too... being on break with so much time on my hands will give me little to no excuse for not sending them some holiday lovin'. its time to break out the pen and paper!

however, aside from my lame pen pal qualities, i love mondays. =D

home

with all the friends in the world and the greatest family i could ask for - why do i feel so lonely? life moves on here without me and its almost as if i dont belong here any more. i dont have my old room, all my friends have moved on and my family treats me like i still live here. i dont live here. im from here. i grew up here. now i grow up in another state with different people, different behaviors, different activities, different responsibilities. i dont really like change. i like when other people are assertive and i can support them. i usually take the lead on stuff though because if something needs to get done i know i can do it. this year has gone by way too quickly and i dont see how ive changed but i know i have. i just feel like something is... missing. i dont know what it is though and its bothering me.

blog about me

this blog about courtney walker. she says 'blog about this kari! mmmm'

and then she giggles. *we're listening to A Drop in the Rain by Ron Pope*

i love our apartment! we have so much fun! but when there are 2+ of us we dont get anything done.

i went to grandma louanns today and finished up my mission prep take home test and read most of my mission prep book. it was good to sit in an actual home and study. bought her a peach lily and dropped off mom's christmas present - a way cool frying pan to make pan cakes.

im going to plasma tomorrow morning for my last appointment of the year. it should be really good. i love getting money! plus the new boy who works in the morning is beautiful. he kind of looks like David Boranaz... totally cute

Progress

last year i only posted 15 times, this year im at 29 so far! 30 counting this one.

i need to run more. well, i need to run period. it will help my body get into shape and help my core, and my heart, and my back, and my arms, and my legs, and my soul. running is just all around good for me. when i start my gym membership again in january im going to do 20 min running and then cross train with weights and plyometrics. i also want to start biking with a cyclist team. i hear its a killer fat burner because there's no option than to sweat it all off. if there's one thing im a natural at it's sweating. i get it from my dad. thanks pops.

a woman came to our door tonight selling baked goods. she's working to make money so that she can buy a plane ticket to Ohio to be with her kids for Christmas. Courtney's not here or im sure she would have gave the woman some mon

ey like the rest of us did. I hope she earns enough money to be with her family.

im currently working on a paper for my english 293 class. its due on friday at 5 and as always there is a cleaning check that day as well. at least there's no office hours. i have an interview tomorrow with a girl who wants to be an ED for me next year and two more on thursday, plus another girl who hasnt set up a time yet. anyway, my paper is about the relationship between a piece of art correlates to my choice of text and what that text's message is. im writing it on A New England Nun and using a watercolor by Dorothy Weir titled Old Woman in White Sewing. It fits with the story unbelievably well. youll just have to read it by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman to find out how cool it is though. Or read my essay. I will leave you with one word however: domesticity.

well, its 45 minutes past my bed time (10 pm) and i need to wake up, exercise, and get a solid portion of my essay done in the morning. thanks for visiting.

family. dinner. guests.

My FOL kids and husband came over for dinner tonight and we a fantastic time chatting and just laughing together. it was good to be with them again. kind of like an emotional rejuvenation. after dinner - italian night - we took some pictures then as we were about to begin a game some of my roommates friends come home with her from work. their first impressions were horrible and they completely ruined our positive evening. well, i wouldn't say ruined but definitely made it more lively. after most of my kids left the two boys became more bearable and i better understood why my roommate let them come over. a little forewarning would have been nice though.

later, i told one of the boys all about how i heard jimmer's girlfriend only liked him because of his status only to find out he's her brother. i felt like a complete idiot. i will never talk about someone ever again. never. i did it once and it bit me back. hard.

i realize now that i need to not let other people affect me so much. it really doesn't matter what other people say or do - i decide my mood and attitude. it ain't no big thaang! life is good.

thinking about things

When you learn from your past you better prepare for success in your future.

A comic from Bill Watterson illustrates this thought. But of course I can't find the comic online. It's from his 1992 editions thought and in my english text book.

posting for the sake of posting

i feel like i need to stay current on my blog. im doing better at writing in my journal about the atonement and such but right now its too dark to write by hand. Satan is so tough! he does things to make me feel like doing bad things are ok when i know they arent. hes such a poop. i saw my friends today: bj casie and iris. we went to chipotle and had a great time just chatting about life and the people in it. it was fun. then i went shopping with edison to our favorite places: target, barns&noble, ulta, starbucks, yummm. it was a good evening with my sister. i love my family.

ive officially decided im serving a mission. the study abroad is out. im going to work during spring/summer so i can help pay for mission stuff. im sooooo tired and will sleep now. thanksgiving is tomorrow!

saturday saturday

I'm at the Honda dealership and as I'm sitting here, waiting to get my wheels rotated and oil changed, I've stumbed upon a few interesting facts of my current life.

1) my workouts need to be a million times more intense if i want to get back into shape

2) clothes cost way too much money

3) i have possibly ruined my chances of passing my thursday night english class. i turned both of my essays into a program called digital drop box instead of turn it in. if my professor doesnt accept my papers then ill have to withdraw from the class and take it again next semester. i do NOT want to do that but if i have to then i have to. i retake too many classes in college. econ: 2x so far. blehh

As to other developments in my life I've planned out a few options for the next 3 years. If I do according to my plan I'll leave for a mission mid Fall or the beginning of Winter term. Till then I'll go home and work for the spring and do a study abroad in England for the summer. It looks really cool and interesting and definitely worth my time and money. And let me tell you a trip like this one requires a few bucks... I plan on doing more research so that when I talk to my family about it come Thanksgiving (2 more weeks!) I can give them accurate information. I don't know when else I'll be able to go on something like this. The summer is the only time I have to actually go exploring with a group of people. By the time I get back from my mission I could get married and by then I'll have less money and time than I do now! Growing up is expensive.

Last night the girls and I went to the dollar theater, a movie fanatic/college student's saving grace, and finally saw Inception! It was amazing!!! I need to see it a few more times to fully be blown away. I was pooped by the time it started at 10:30 and it was 1:00 when we got home so all that I did see wasn't nearly as mind blowing as watching amazing entertainment and Joseph Gordon Levitt. He's so attractive.

LIFE!! which always includes a bit of boy info...

I miss Kirt!! Is it kind of pathetic that I look forward to Mondays because I'll get to read an email from him? Slightly, yes, but I miss him. Last year I was scared at how much I liked him and so fast too. Now I'm scared that when he gets back I'll be gone and I'll loose any chance with him! What I'm trying to remember is that he is someone else's husband and it doesn't help to get emotionally attached to a missionary. What ever happens, happens.

David is out. Our trip to the president's box was good but I felt like he thought it was a date and he was definitely pushin those "bf/gf" vibes which is not the direction I was looking at. Plus he made us late because his socks didn't match. Sorry, but I'm already a late person and if a guy takes longer to get ready than me then I know right away it would never work. He doesn't take place of Matt in my life AT ALL so idk why I felt like he could...

All this reading is kicking me in the hind parts!! There's so much all the time! Dad and I were talking yesterday while we waited for conference to start and he thinks i should just switch over to English Teaching if I want to be a teacher. He doesn't understand why I'm doing plain old English if I want to teach - which is true. I don't know for sure what I want to do but I do know that I do want to work all day! I want to take care of my kids! If I become a Sales Rep. then an English degree is perfect so maybe that's what I'll do... I just don't know for sure.

good music as of 10.1.10 at 9:10 pm

Whisper - Ernie Halter

Crazy Love - Van Morrison

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

Here Come Those Eyes - Chris Rice

Industry - John McLaughlin

Life, English Lit. & Football

i really do enjoy my life despite what im about to write about. its so good to me. i have wonderful friends, a beautiful family and good music to get me through the day. i can sing and i like to smile which also helps me cope when things dont go exactly like i want them to. i have an english 251 paper due on friday which, in all honesty, wont be that hard but id much rather not do it. for 251 i have to read a lot before class on mon/wed/fri at 9 am and lately weve had a ton of readings online. the sad part is that my microsoft word is down currently ans ive failed to do my readings. our first english test for 293 is on friday or saturday and i havnt even looked at the review sheet yet. i hear its just a ton of dates and things to remember; blehh.

on saturday the presidency is invited to sit in the president's box for the football game and we each get to bring a guest. i wanted ot invite my new friend roger (who love, loves elder holland) but after he said yes to going with me he called back because he wanted to be honest about something. he's kind of dating this girl and doesnt feel like he should be going out with me to the game.
i was wayyyyy bummed because i could really like this guy but i was glad he was blunt about his feelings. now im taking my friend david who is a freshman at wyview and he was way excited to go. i like how hes so open about his opinion which is a delightful breath of fresh air. its kind of weird that hes younger but i like hanging out with him so itll be fun regardless. and he dresses nice which is also fun. i was thinking about inviting scott but i recently found out he asked mary on a date (which is so unbelievably fine with me) and decided not to.
i want to take someone who i can just be chill with and as much as i like scott i dont like being with a guy who is probably thinking about someone else. especially if that someone is my friend and is in the room with us. hes my husband but not my b/f. i mostly just liked liking him more than i really liked him. he got me thinking about the atonement though and because of him i want to learn more about it and better apply it to my life.
man, i really wanted roger to come. =/ life goes on.

ooh also!!! im teaching the sunday school lesson this week! its my new calling. i love it but its another thing i have to worry about! urrgg. so:

thursday: study for eng 293 test and have all that reading done!!
friday: turn in paper for eng 251 after writing it with brittany
fiday/saturday: study and take eng 293 test in JFSB testing lab (its on a computer, cool!)
saturday: dress up and go to football game with david and the presidency
sunday: give lesson about old testament in sunday school after prepping it on saturday night



ah, i just realized why i am strangely attracted to my friend david! i miss matty a TON...their both blond and about the same age and speak their mind. david kind of replaces matt in my life, sort of.

"for i dearly love to laugh"

I am extremely tired. The first devotional is tomorrow and I need to wake up early and hit the gym and get a bunch of reading done for my Thursday class but I felt a need to express my thoughts; hence the blog entry at 1:11 am.

I was having a pretty out of sorts day on Saturday and since I wasnt sure who exactly to vent to I decided to write Kirt a letter and let him have my stress. After the letter writing/venting I read a passage of scripture he suggested to me (DC 122) and amid a few tears and after silent prayer I felt completely better. Today I read his email for the week (I recently asked his mother to send them to me) and he included one of my favorite stories! It's about the two frogs and one just drowns in that silly milk but the other swims around till it turns to butter and he hops out! The moral is this: don't give up. He explained that he had never read or heard of this story before but absolutely loves it. Elder Haynie continued to write about how it reminds him of Joseph Smith's time spent in Liberty Jail and how even when times are tough if we just keep swimming all will be well in the end. How beautiful that even before I sent him my letter he was helping me relax. What a good person he is!

I have 9 too many letters to write to my friends serving in the field but I am way overdue on catching them up on the world. BSU won over Virginia State tonight and I went to a house party in Orem to watch it with some people from my ward. Kennedy and Ashley Carr were there too and it was lovely to catch up with them. It's been too long and even though we're all family we hardly ever see each other... I love my family and I love my ward and I love my friends and my birthday is in 5 days!! crazzyyy!! I'll be twenty!!!! Holy Cow!

Well that is all dearest blog of mine and whoever happens to stumble upon it =] Goodnight.

first days

so far august has completely changed my life.

• i officially finished my first year of college
• i did horrible in econ 110, again, proving that business is not for me (sadly)
• i was a peer mentor at FOL where i met a new family who have drastically improved me
• i participated in the best session of Traditions of Honor at NSO i have ever attended
• i actually found someone that i like and that everyone else likes for me =]
• i finally am living with Courtney, Larlee and Emily at The Colony
• i started my first day of Sophomore year yesterday with English 251 (which i already looveee), New Testament with a new professor who i can tell will make me work to understand the Gospels, Mission Prep with Brother Bott (the best rated professor in the US) where i know at least 5 people
• i experienced my first day as Student Honor Vice President for Fall term and loved it
• i feel like this is the year i will officially get a job

so much has happened this month; i believe i have the best life. a crazy one, but the best one. i love my parents and my siblings and wish i could share it all with them. i love my byusa family and am so pleased at their warm hearts and welcoming arms. i love my roommates and couldnt be happier to share an entire year with them. i love my heavenly father for blessing me with so many beautiful people in my life and allowing me to serve them and help them to be as happy as i am.

BSADI

B.S.A.D.I.

My friend Kirt writes those letters at the bottom of every letter he sends me and I think I finally figured it out. He's a wonderful person. I should have gone to his farewell in January but I didn't. He's serving in Mexico City till February 2012. He truly is one of the best people I know. I miss him. I'm sure he's a fantastic missionary. Be strong and do it he always tells me. He throws some other acronyms in there too but I don't recall those specific letters. Oh, Kirt.

Even though this isn't me, this was from his birthday, September 12 (which, PS, is my birthday too).

please not today

freak!!! today is just 'drain all of kari's patience and parents' money out of the bank' day!

• the car is broken and it costs as much to fix it as it will to just sell it and get a new one
• the car wont be fixed till monday
• i have to move out of my apartment by saturday
• i got a ticket 2 weeks ago and i need to call the ticket office by tomorrow
• i lost the ticket somewhere in the process of packing all my room stuff
• my econ final starts today and ends tomorrow
• its 40% of my total grade
• ive failed the previous two midterms giving me no hope for the comprehensive final
• i need to go to the office and sign a bunch of EAFs so Student Honor can function
• the apartment needs a deep cleaning by friday and today is wednesday
• i want to go to the gym and de-stress but i need to do all of these other things first

FREAK.

ECONOMICS

this class. its not so much that's it's a lot of work, which it is, or that i struggle with understanding my professor, which i do, but that the tests are so difficult for me. why cant it just be what we study in class?? the online homework assignments are no what we need to study for the final nor does sis M give us a review that we can study. its just frustrating. i really wanted to do well this time around and i fear that i won't. how frustrating.

another thing that is frustrating is that i CAN NOT log into the byu students all sports pass log in page!!!!! i NEEEEEEED my sports pass! i need to go to the games with my girls! what if theyre sold out and i cant get one!??!! that would be horrible...

Desert Rat

im sitting in my room at wyview doing my econ homework. i actually like the current section were studying because its all about bonds and stocks - things that make sense to me. thank goodness my dad is a financial adviser and has been talking about this stuff my whole life. as i was contemplating the concept of debt finance a moment ago (when a company sells bonds to finance its company, kind of like IOUs) i looked around my room and noticed how clean my floor is. i picked up all my dirty clothes this afternoon because i was tired of living in a mess. my room is perfect and its about the size of my little brothers room back in AZ; 4x smaller than my AZ room. its interesting to know that even though i live here and tell people im going home after school this isn't truly my home. my home is in Arizona, im just living in Utah for a while that's all. its an interesting thought. i like living here and am very comfortable with how small it is. its perfect for two people who mostly only sleep when they're home. 3 people is slighty more cozy and 4+ gets to be a tad crowded. if its good company, however; its nice and busy and fun. we dont have people over very often. we get too tired to branch out and have parties. im always doing homework and jennies always editing photos. when we do have free time its late late at night and we usually go to macy's grocery store and pick up a redbox. its a pretty easy going life we have together. its strange to know its almost over. 3 more weeks or so and ill never live in wyview again. i expect the colony will be similar. a fun, easy going and new home to me but not really my home. i live in Utah but my heart is in Arizona.
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yup. jennie smithson is my roommate. i am 300% lucky that she loves to take pictures and is a newly self-proclaimed photographer. that means she wants to practice all the time and that means i get to dress up a lot! these are a few from our latest shoot on July 5, 2010 at an old house and on main street.

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the young victoria

Queen Victoria was quite the woman! I never knew she was the first to live in Buckingham Palace or that she has held England's reign the longest, to date, at 20 years. Jennie and I watched The Young Victoria tonight and it was so good. I feel like watching it again even. The relationship between her and Prince Alfred is very beautiful. I want a Prince Alfred! (I also want to be someones Evangeline but that's a completely different movie.) I want someone who will love me till his last dying breath and say "good morning wife" to me every morning. It's so sweet. Matt Whitehead is in England for his mission and I just wrote him a letter this morning. He said he feels dead to the world! How sad! I miss him and do not want him to feel like the world has forgotten him. I want him to learn all he can about Queen Victoria now so that I can learn about her. She was strong and found her perfect fit. I want to be that way as well. I'm not saying I want Matt to be my Prince Alfred, he is just conveniently in England where one of my new role models grew up and made quite the impact. I want to learn about her and he can help. Plus I do miss my friend. He is so good.
Jennie and I took pictures today and I was looking through some of them and she is a fantastic photographer but I am a lousy model! My first outfit, as cute as the dress is, was not flattering in the least. I should know better. I am so out of shape (and into a weird shape). How can I hope for someone to love me if I don't even look appealing? I have much to improve in my life and my health is one aspect of it. I don't want to get seriously ill when I'm older and I could be so much more fun for others if I was more active. It's not that I'm ugly or have no self esteem or whatever, I just know that I can/should be better. I want to be better for myself. I like who I am but I think if I were more confident in how I looked I'd be more confident in how I acted. That would make it not so difficult to 'work it' as my friend Jamie James always advises me to do. Some of my funky mood is also because marriage is in the air again and I don't have anyone. Bethany and Brent are getting married on Friday and after looking at the pictures from today I don't know if I want to ask Zach to come with me. I'm so nervous of being overbearing and clingy that I don't do anything at all. I need to though! He did come over last night after all - for no reason really. I need to stop being a baby and build my courage! I'm nice and a little pretty and I have wonderful friends so I know I'm not a crazy loner. I make myself the loner and it needs to stop. Hooray for building my courage! All is well, I am well, school is well and life is splendid.

progress

im making progress! after 11 months i finally meet the boy across the street. he basically lives in his room and doesn't care about playing outside. hes just a homebody who likes to go hiking, snowboarding, long boarding and read. hes incredibly good looking, pretty funny and just chill. his name is zach and he finally knows who i am. finally. i never knew how to introduce myself because he never came outside but yesterday it all changed... he was out yesterday and was out tonight! and we talked both times! hes from fresno and is thinking about being a doctor when he comes back from the mission. what a guy.

running

i want to start training for a half marathon in october. right now the plan is to run/jog 4 miles a day. im starting off by jogging in 2 mile increments so i can work up to running 4 miles in one exercise. im about to go jogging up to the temple which is a little over 2 miles there and back and later tonight ill go run the treadmill for 2 miles at the gym. its nice to be exercising again. ive missed it and my body certainly needs it! running is a pain when im out of shape but i really enjoy the burn and the endorphins and all that. plus getting a tan is nice.


not exactly a running commercial but im a huge believer in nike motivation

NSO

Exactly a year ago today I was having my interview to be an Executive Director in Student Honor with Karen Moyes-Milne. Today, I'm getting ready to go to NSO and volunteer at the BYU/SA booth to find those freshman who, like me and my buddy Ty, want to get heavily involved in service. It's quite a crazy realization - I'm a sophomore now. No longer the freshman I've always been. Weird. But cool. Anyway, now I'm going to go to campus and pump kids up about BYU/SA and when I get back I have a talk to write for church tomorrow and a new roommate to help move in (one of my greatest friends Jennie Smithson). Self, good day.

patrick verona.

Ethan Peck from ABC's 10 Things I Hate About You is my new favorite. He plays Patrick Verona very, very well. I think Heath Ledger, the original hottie from the 1999 movie, would be pleased with his successor. What a babe.

Matty

i miss matty!! hes in hawaii now. HAWAII!!!! ooh man. its so weird. hes havin a freakin blast though, so thats good. i need to get myself out of this funk and start livin it up! college is about getting good grades and having new experiences with new people! i need new people. good thing all my old people are leaving i suppose! ha. but really though. i need to find a good, cool, fun group to chill with for the summer or im sure i will go insane. there are some boys that live across the street i need to make cookies for or something ;). which reminds me of how badly i need to go to the gym! i used to go every day! what happened?? oh yes, college happened haha. well, enough is enough! the freshman 15 hit me and they hit me hard but they will meet their maker. so long extra baggage! see ya when im prego - which will only occur after im married which brings me back to the boys across the street.

tyson

I saw Ty today. It was wonderful. He has sweaty palms. I really just wanted to hug him. But he was already set apart. He's always had wet hands. I miss him. I think he will be a fantastic missionary. The girls in his areas will fall head over heels in love with him. I did. It took a while but finally happened when we were studying. He is such a good guy. He's goofy and weird and rude and completely selfless and does what he can to help people. I've never met anyone like him. I am so lucky to have known him. He once told me that I shouldn't be sad over him leaving on his mission (I was nervous that we would never be friends again because by the time I see him one of us may very well be married). He said "Kari, don't think like that (I was being negative and logical). Even if I don't see you after our missions we will be friends in the forevers. There's no way we couldn't be." He is wonderful. He helped me yesterday in church when I was feeling down on myself. A while ago he sent me some advice that helped me get over a time of weakness and major self doubt issues I was having. I wrote it down in my scriptures:

1. Get on your knees and pray
2. Fast
3. Go to the temple
4. Read your scriptures
5. Matthew 10:39
6. Don't worry about what you can't control

Wonderful, wonderful person. I will forever be thankful for Physical Science 100 during summer term 2009.

fall programs

i feel like blogging tonight. i really should be sleeping, its only 11, but i have stuff on my mind that needs to come out! im 6 days behind on my work for BYU/SA. Im supposed to have a list of what programs i want for student honor in the fall and still haven't written it out. so tonight i will will write them down and post them. its more fun to write them here than on word because i feel like this makes it more of a fun project than an assignment. =]

Activities
Special Speakers Series
Student Honor Choir
Booths (hold at Activities events and work with Center for Service)
Honor Week (plan during fall so its ready in January)
5KRun -- Winter

Media
Fashion blog
Monthly Campus Newsletter
Monthly Campaign Posters
Photo shoot of SH team

Student Outreach
SH Grass Roots Team (work with SAC)
Honor Your Professor
Honorable Music Contest
Off-Campus BBQs

Group Outreach
Cougar Talks (work with Peer Mentors and On-Campus Housing)
Athletic Round Tables
A Virtuous Woman Seminar (work with Woman's Resources)
Honor Your Culture (work with Clubs and the multi-cultural center)
A Man's Honor -- Winter


yup! that looks about right. tomorrow i will write out 2 lines or so each about what i expect from each of these activities. now its time for bed!

Pre-mis and Freshman Girls

I'm a realist. I won't see half of the people, boys or girls, that I've met this year until we all die and live in the same neighborhood in heaven. However; I think it's horribly rude for BYU to put freshman boys and girls in the same living quarters. The boys I've become wonderful friends with are leaving to go on their missions and I will never see them again. Well, maybe, but most likely not. We all go on to have adventures in our lives but knowing that for the rest of my life I won't see most of the people I've lived with for my first year of college is sad to think about. Life is a strange creature. It presents you with the best experiences and the worst realizations.

For example, this is Matt. He's going to the England MTC today. In fact, he's probably already there! He will be a wonderful missionary because he is a wonderful person, friend, FHE brother, and obviously a great uncle. I will miss having him around.

only i can go from $444 to $77 in less than 4 days. moving into a new apartment and buying food for said apartment is pricey. not to mention when you dont buy enough food and then have to go out to buy lunch or something. oh, dont forget the parking ticket for accidentally parking in hr/daily parking at the airport for 5 days resulting in $160 payment. gross. sorry dad.

anyway, school is starting off nicely! i dont have too much work to do so it should be pretty simple to get straight As this term. that is the goal for the whole year. i need to get straight As in order to boost my low GPA. freshman year did not do great things for me in regards to my academics haha

my best friend chelsea is gone to wyoming for a job and wont be back till winter =[

hopefully someday...

Pandora's Music Box

I'm a HUGE fan of Pandora Radio but every time I log into my account there's a new station!!

If you are the mysterious music radio adder on my Pandora, QUIT IT.

It's bugging me. I'm not sure if it's someone at home or someone in the BYU/SA office but it frustrates me that i can't ask them to stop because I don't know who it is! Plus, i really want to know who added this super sick station haha, its amazing! It's called Sondre Lerche & Regina Spektor Radio and was added on February 18th. It's cool music and I enjoy the station, I just want know who it is that keeps adding music to a station that's not theirs...

@ the lib. again.

my internet is down at home which means that i am stuck studying at the library until i have enough time to renew my internet safety thing = ill be here forever!!

its nice though because at home i get distracted way too easily and ive finally found a nice place at the library i can actually study! its quiet here on the 5th floor in one of the side rooms. i was wandering around, something i do often and always have done, and found the coolest old book!! i have no idea when it was published, indicating its oldness, but its titled The Boy's Guid to Sports, Illustrated. its small, about the size of my palm with the thickness of the Bible and just made my day. there was a game in there called dragon-apple (something like that) where you pour spirits/wine on a bunch of raisins then lite them on fire! whoever can grab the most out of the fire and eat them wins! it said the main point of the game isn't to win, but to have fun watching everyone through the blue flames of the raisins. brilliant right?!?!obviously the book is wayyy old, no one would publish a game book about lighting stuff on fire and then eating it. too bad the world isnt as old fashioned as it once was.

well, i have an American Heritage 1 page paper and 6 page homework assignment plus 1 page paper due in Economics tomorrow. estimated time completion is 6 hours!! ill be back later tonight to finish them haha

well, here i am at the library again. not studying. i have a HUGE econ test tomorrow. im nervous. but it will pass and life will go on so im kind of ignoring the nerves. my friend is on a mission to finland right now and i just found out they dont have peanut butter there!! horrible, i know. anywho i just thought id get on real quick and say that i had a very good valentines day with 3 of my girlfriends. we went to idaho for the weekend! haha it sounds kind of boring, but it really wasnt. it was a good break from being in provo. we went to a high school basketball game, sledding, movie watching, sleeping (not too much of this but still), and really we just got to spend time together and have fun. it was great and now im back at school trying to figure out what i want to do with my life and what major to focus on and such. ooh to be in college. its an adventure every day and im just trying to keep up.