8:16 PM
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Okay, so I'm a lazy layabout and I didn't do any more blogging for the past... very long time. But I'm back in business for the present, although I'm not making any promises about how faithful I'll be in the future.
Well, school is done for the year. I'm back in loverly Minnesota until the end of August, and it feels great to be home. I can't help constantly appreciating how many trees and lakes there are here. Minnesota really is beautiful. School was good. I didn't get straight A's, as plenty of people here have been asking about, but I'm okay with that. I did the best I could, so even though I didn't get to keep my scholarship, I'll just keep moving along. My roommates and I have become really good friends. We all get tired of each other every now and then, but we got through the whole year without a real fight, which I think is something to be proud of. All of us except Julie (who's getting married in August!) are going to be living together in an apartment near campus next year. We're all very nervous and hopeful about who our mystery roomie will be. Our two main worries are that she'll either be a crazy or that she won't feel like she fits in with us since the rest of us are already so close. I'm sure it will all turn out well, though.
I made a lot of other great friends too, mostly in my ward. It was especially hard saying goodbye to most of the guys I became friends with, since most of them are leaving on missions this summer and I won't see them again for at least 2 years, if ever. Next year we're going to basically have to start over meeting guys, since almost all the ones we know will be gone! Anyway, our ward really was amazing, and we had tons of fun together. I won't even try to go through all the things I've done this year, but among them were endless dance parties, lots of movie nights, hiking in the mountains to these natural hot-springs to go hot-tubbing in (I still can't get the sulfur smell out of my swimsuit!!), dress-ups, concerts, picnics, snowball fights, building an enormous tent in our kitchen that we kept up for about 3 weeks, sleepovers, helping Mack (McKenzie) with a wedding video and then going to the reception with her, Fiesta Thursdays every week at lunch time, crazy-fun ward activities, temple trips, and getting locked in the storage cages with Cate for a good 20 minutes by our heartless, traitorous roommates. :D I've had an incredible time, and I'm thoroughly convinced that BYU is the best school in the entire wooooorld. Where else could you have the ridiculous amount of fun I've had without once seeing a drop of alcohol or any drugs or even swearing, along with the amazing education we get for such a cheap price? Answer: nowhere.
So yep, now I'm back in gorgeous MN, and I have a job at glamourous McDonald's. It's not exactly my dream job, but it is a job, which frankly is more than I expected to have at this point. I've been walking and exercising with my mom every morning, which is nice, and I've been going to bed earlier and trying to eat healthier too. Hopefully I can carry those habits with me when I go back to school. It is a little weird to have to answer to my parents again, and to not be able to do pretty much anything I want whenever I want. At school, if we felt like running around on the sidewalks at 1:15 am, we just did it, and our only worry was to make sure somebody brought a key with them. We slept when we felt like it, we left whenever we wanted (which was a lot easier since most places we ever went were walking-distance, and cars were available if needed), and we did pretty much any crazy, goofy stuff that popped into our heads. But I really don't mind. Truthfully, I'm in need of some laid-back, slightly-more-structured down time for now. Plus I'm READING for pleasure again, which is the best feeling in the world. I've missed it so.
Well, that's all I can think of for now. Hopefully I won't go on another many-month hiatus again. Buh-bye now!
8:25 PM
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Hello mostly ladies and perhaps a few gents,
So yes, I realize it's been several weeks since I've updated anything, and I place the blame solely on the fact that I am *gasp* in college. So I'll start off with the date since I'm sure that's what most of you have been bugging my mom about the most.
The date was so much fun! Dustin (McKenzie's boyfriend) and Sam (her best friend) sent us on a scavenger hunt, with all these clues for us to follow all over Provo! It was great. We ended up at Wal-Mart, where they meet us in the doorway wearing these goofy sunglasses with the tags still on, then we went shopping for a dinner. We brought it back to Sam's apartment and cooked it up and watched several episodes of The Office, which was a blast. Then we went to this ice cream shop called Sub Zero, which is kind of like Coldstone only they mix the cream and then freeze it with this liquid nitrogen thing... it's way cool. So, it was a very fun night. :)
To sum up the past few weeks, I basically work my tail off during the week and then waste pretty much the entire weekend partying and goofing around. My calc class is so much work, and it's super hard, but I'll survive (hopefully). The testing center is probably the scariest place I have ever been, not because of the way it looks but because of the potential doom the entire establishment dangles over your head the minute you walk through the door. My lifestyle management class continues to be a phenomenal waste of time, but at least it's two easy credit hours. My BOM teacher continues to be completely hilarious, she's definitely my favorite teacher even though there are other teachers that are better at their jobs. Econ is still mind-numbingly boring, but my teacher is really good. He just has the most uninteresting subject to teach imaginable. Aaaaand... physics. My teacher is still incredibly geeky, but the classes are way fun because a) the demonstrations are awesome and 2) I sit by Cameron and Taylor (who's from the Anoka Stake!!) every day, and me and Cameron pretty much play games and do puzzles the whole time. It's so much fun. Make of that what you will. ;-)
Me and Somers have been going to the temple every week, which is so nice. It's amazing to be able to just walk down there and pop in whenever we feel like it. The fall leaves are sooo pretty, and this past Friday we brought cameras and took tons of pictures on the way back.
My roommates are pretty much amazing. We have so much fun together, and we just fit together perfectly. We were talking a few days ago about how lucky we got with roommates, because we are absolutely crazy about each other. We've heard some other dorms getting into some tiffs, and we've met a lot of other girls that we've liked, but probably wouldn't have clicked as well with. Our basement buddies are really awesome too. Our dorms visit teach each other, so Somers and I were over there this week visiting one of them, and we ended up spending like 30 minutes afterwards gossiping about boys with the other girls. Our Relief Society president is in that dorm, and she's the cutest thing on the planet.
As for the weekends, a sampling of our activities on weekends would be:
-going to the Love You Long Time concert in 80s getups (I LOVE that band!!!)
-The stake Halloween dance
-Watching movies
-Going to Dustin's house to carve pumpkins and then play sock hockey at their church gym with a bunch of their little siblings
-Staying up insanely late
-The ward water party, which was waaaay fun and involved an enormous slip-n-slide and lots of bruises. :)
-Sleepovers in the kitchen on mattresses, and playing the "ha" game on each others' stomaches.
-Playing pool with the Broadbent boys
-Running all over campus
-Cleaning check (bleaugh), which we passed. Yay.
-Homecoming funness.
-Dressing my roommates in clashing clothes and taking pictures. :)
-Seeing Kung Fu Panda at the varsity theater!
-Spur-of-the-moment parties with whoever.
Aaaand I'm probably forgetting other stuff but that probably gives you a general idea. Basically, I love the weekends. I love BYU. And I love you guys! I made you another video with a buncha pictures from various shenanigans. Enjoy!
P.S. Just saw the new Half-Blood Prince trailer today!! It was fantastic, and I nearly had a seizure. I watched it six times. Please watch it. Go to mugglenet. Seriously, it is So. Good. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:03 AM
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Okay, so change of plans. I'm actually not going on my date tonight. My cousin Riley called me last night (while we were watching "The Village" at our friend Jackson's apartment by the way- we really enjoyed ourselves.) and told me that he was leaving for his house today around noonish, and asked if I wanted to come. So I called Sam, the guy who asked me on the date, this morning and asked if we could reschedule, and he said that he was just about to call me anyway. He had gotten the dates mixed up, and it was actually NEXT Saturday that whatever-it-is-he-has-planned is, so the rescheduling was actually a good thing! So the moral of the story is, things work out. Usually. Sometimes. And sometimes they don't and you end up embarrassing yourself, but not this time. :)
The Fall Fest last night was actually not that fun, so we left early and went to Jackson's apartment to watch "The Village" and eat ice cream. I loved it, but of course the end made me mad. I hate it when they leave things hanging. Grr. But anyway, it was really fun. Jackson played guitar for us while we were scooping ice cream, and he's actually really, really good. Like most guys who tell you about how they play the guitar and all just like to talk about it, and then they want to play for you and it's not that great. But he's reeeeally good. We had fun with that. Then when we came back to our dorms from his apartment we sat outside and talked and sang songs. We're a little silly, but it's a great time.
I just thought I'd tell you all about that so I don't get certaaain peeeeople pestering me about how my date went this week, since I won't go until next Saturday. Later, loves!