Ah... Life.

Life is...
Crazy. Hectic. Insane. Busy. Fun. Stressful. Chaotic. Awesome. Dumb. Funny. Tiring. Energizing. Ridiculous. All at once.

I'm sitting here at school, where I've been since 9:30 this morning... and I'll be here for at least 2 more hours, and I should be doing homework or looking up stuff for my freshman advocates or learning math, or talking on the phone to my mom, or something.. productive. But am I? OF COURSE NOT! Who does that anyway?

Instead, I'm sitting here in the Losee center next to the tv screen that is showing UVU's ballroom team on dancing with the stars for the umpteenth time and eating strawberry flavored applesauce that I bought at winco and my brain is just way too tired to do anything except ramble to you on this here blog that no one really reads. I don't even think Courtney Cook reads it anymore because she gave up on me. So maybe I'm just writing this for myself because my brain is sick of homework and life and I just can't grasp mathematical concepts right now. Ah. Life.

They won the dancing with the stars college competition by the way.

But, I promised you an update about my life... whoever YOU are. :) Life is great and insanely crazy all at once. If I'm not working on homework (or sitting with my homework in my lap zoning off into the distance) I'm probably... doing something else. ha. I have a job. That I love. And I don't work NEARLY enough. I haven't really worked since... the beginning of January. IT SUCKS. I get paid to mingle with people. I'm really good at that. I give campus tours and could tell you a million things about UVU that you never cared to know. And I could tell you how to get anywhere on campus. I could even tell you how far away Mongolia is from a certain point on campus. But then again, if you just looked at the arrow, you could probably tell me that too. I just got comments back from my first tour. No one said anything like "Hey Amy Jo, you suck! You should really get a life! Or crawl under a rock!" I guess that's a good thing. Most of the comments were pretty mundane... "Good for a first go!" "You're pretty cool." All that kind of stuff. One of the questions asked is "What is your orientation leader good at?" One of my responses? "Talking a lot." Thanks punk. But anyway, if they let me... I think I would be a serious workaholic. Good thing that they only let me work 10 hours a week at the most-ish. :(

Other than that, my life will soon be consumed with Freshman Advocates. I volunteer to help a couple of students out that are struggling to adjust to college life. It's cool. I feel pretty legitimate because I bought some of those file folders that people paperclip information into to look incredibly professional and cool. Mine are sweet and they look really awesome, especially with my brightly colored triangle, square, and circle paperclips. Yeah. I'm cool. But my girls are really sweet. I'm so far loving being a freshman advocate. It's a good thing I'm an orientation leader or I would know absolutely NOTHING about campus resources!

Random update on life. My friend Shelly has forced me to stop washing my hair every day. I know, you are either gasping to yourself and thinking "What?! you actually wash your hair EVERY day?" or you're gasping and thinking to yourself, "What?! you don't wash your hair every day?" It's a crazy endeavor. Shelly is trying to save me time... so that maybe I can actually have some sometimes. ha. But it's weird. And greasy. sometimes. But it's getting better. But I still struggle. That first day was AWFUL! My mother would have been appalled at what my hair looked like when I went to school. Now I'm to the point where I don't even notice... oh my goodness I just saw a girl with THE CUTEST pixie cut I have ever seen. I wish my hair looked like that... but then I'd have to go back to washing it again. heh. HAIR. Blech. Let's all chop it off. But Shelly says the boys like it long... so I guess that's what I'm doing. Not really. I'm just way too cheap to deal with the upkeep of short hair these days. or something. I don't know. RAMBLE RAMBLE. I need to stop this nonsense.

Instead... Here's a picture... a sideways one of me shooting a confetti cannon on my birthday. In november. Ha. YAY.

Okay, I have to go to class. Adios!

In honor of...

...the series finale of Chuck this evening, I am writing this post.

(IF you do not care about Chuck, Me, My obsessions, My Life, or The Buy More... skip down past the first 5 pictures because you just won't care about anything until after that. IF you LOVE Harry Potter or FRIENDS... make sure to read past those 5 pictures because I will make you GREEN with ENVY)

Chuck is (was?) such a great television show. I am (was?) addicted to it just a little bit. Except here's the problem... I haven't seen the finale yet! YES! I missed it. Shame on me. But shame on them! Shame on them (them meaning the people who decide when a show comes on) for putting Chuck in the worst time slot on television! 7 o'clock on a Friday night? Really people?! Anyway, I digress. That is not the reason for this post because I will just thieve it from my family's TiVo thanks to slingbox and watch it later. Maybe right now. Maybe not. Anyway. I'm not really very excited to watch it to be honest; I just don't want it to end. But it is killing me not knowing the ending. But anyway.. back to what this post is really about.

Over Christmas break (yes I know that was OH SO LONG AGO!), I had the opportunity to fulfill one of my lifelong dreams! Okay, maybe not lifelong... I exaggerate. Sue me. (Please don't sue me!) But as I was saying, I got to fulfill one of my dreams! I got to see THE BUY MORE. *Insert oohs and ahs here* Alrighty, well... the thing is, over Christmas break, I went on a Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Burbank, CA. (Chuck is set in Burbank for those of you scallywags who don't know this). At the time, however, I did not know that Chuck was indeed filmed in this location. I found out... oh maybe 10 minutes before my tour-IWASSOEXCITEDTHATICAN'TUSESPACES! Ahem. So I told our tour guide Rance (that rhymes with France... or Prance... or Dance... or Pants... sorta) that I LOVED Chuck. So he showed me some pretty neat stuff that I shall also show you!

This house was featured on an episode of Chuck... in the middle of Scotland. It was the home of Agent X if any of you hooligans know who that is. It's also the Seaver's house from growing pains. Pretty legit if you ask me!

This... has been in a lot of movies. And it served as part of Budapest in Chuck season 5.

This is me very excitedly standing next to THE NERD HERDER! :) 

I actually got to touch this computer that Zachary Levi too has touched. Shh.. don't tell because I don't think I was supposed to. :S

I forgot to turn it the right direction, but this is the orphanage from Annie. I'm not sure which version, but one of them.

These are the last things for real. Batmobile. :)

Willy Wonka! Pretty self explanatory no?

Anyway, that's just what the series finale of Chuck made me think of. So I thought I would tell you as I reminisce about 5 years of television... that were just so lovely. And nerdy. And full of subway sandwiches. *sigh* Yeaaaaah. Anyway, that's all. I'll give you an actual update about my life later. So much just keeps happening. :)

Anyway, peace out.

One day I'll be at least as famous as them... maybe more so

Well, Hello. Everyone else is apparently blogging again. It must be the new year or something, right? Anyway, I thought it would be fun to update everyone on my life. Woo. So I'm going to attempt to do this in a series of out of order blog posts. Today, I'm going to tell you what happened today. Later, I will tell you what happened earlier. See where I'm going with this? And then even later after that probably, I'm going to tell you what happens later. Coolio? So let's get started shall we?

Today, the cool dudes from The Buried Life came to UVU. If you don't know what the Buried Life is... then google it. Or watch it on netflix. Or read my brief explanation. If you know already, then skip this paragraph. My brief explanation: The Buried Life is these guys who decided to try and do all the things on their bucket list and film it all. They have a show on MTV. You can watch it on netflix as mentioned earlier. Also, when they do something on their list, they help a random stranger complete something on their list. That's pretty cool, right? Yeah.

Well, today they came to UVU to give us an inspirational little pep-talk. woot. It was pretty sweet. They pretty much told us to live our dreams and to turn them into "projects" because those are easier to complete than dreams. They also showed us a bit of their journey from a bunch of college kids to breaking into the playboy mansion and playing basketball with President Obama. They kept telling us how regular people can do "impossible" things. It was pretty sweet. And inspirational.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have this knack for meeting sudo famous people. I got a chance to meet and greet them after their presentation and they were pretty cool. Here are some pictures.

This kinda blurry picture is from their presentation. 

This is me and the guys and 10 other random people. They were kind of trying to hurry us along. But Jonnie (in the green plaid shirt) has his arm around me. I feel pretty cool.

Well, that's really all the exciting stuff that's happened and it's not really that exciting. :) Really I just wanted to let you know that I'm not dead. So... I'm alive. Very much alive... mostly because I haven't finished my bucket list yet, so I can't die. But yeah. I hope you enjoyed this little update.

It doesn't mean that you LIKE candy it just means that YOU WANT SOME!

"I know it's green but what else is about it?" "A pinch of salt, a lot of love and lots and lots of tofu!" "What the freak just happened?" "I have one question so guess! GUESS! GUESS! GUESS! Time is running out!"

Hi kids. :) I am finally updating my blog. I feel like life has suddenly gone crazy with it being the end of summer and everything. We have all realized that school is starting (tomorrow in my case) and we have to pack all of the stuff we wanted to do this summer into these last few days. It has been stressful and a blast all in one. So, here's what I've been up to.

Yesterday was an absolutely GREAT day. I got to spend it with some (though not all) of my best friends. And some that weren't there physically were there in spirit. :) But I guess I should start at the beginning.

A while ago I was introduced to a little thing called "kid history." These hilarious videos had me laughing so hard I cried. They are hilarious. Go look them up on youtube. Well, a little while after we had been introduced, I became a fan on facebook. The kid history facebook page informed me of a Kid History PREMIERE! In OREM! So close to me! Unfortunately, the event was completely sold out before I could get tickets. BLAST. :( But I kept watching, kept laughing, and kept falling in love with this hilarious group of family and friends. Lo and behold, facebook alerted me to an ALL NEW kid history episode! And the premiere was going to be in Murray! Not as close as Orem, but close enough. So I called my friend Beth (who also loves kid history) and informed her we were going. I purchased four tickets and got a group together. But... the fun doesn't stop there!

On Friday, I got this crazy idea to make a shirt for the event. Why? Because I can and I didn't make one for the Harry Potter premiere. But I didn't want some lame ironed on quote of kid history, no. I was going to Personalize it. I picked one of my favorite Kid History quotes (This was the hardest part... there are so many) "Girls are mermaids. Some boys are mermaids too." And I made a shirt. With me as a mermaid. And with my dear friend Steven as a mermaid because I knew he wouldn't mind being a mermaid on my shirt! (Don't worry I got permission first). I spent the entire day working on it. I (finally) learned how to use photoshop just to make this shirt. Boy it was a LOOOOONG process! But "I did it! I really did it! I really really did it!"

Anyway, Saturday I went to the premiere. I waited in a lot of lines, laughed my head off, saw an ADORABLE proposal, waited in more lines, got my shirt signed, and got some pictures. The premiere was AMAZING. We were told all of the REAL stories and shown all of the kid history videos. We also saw the premiere of "kid remix." Not quite as funny as kid history... but it was alright. Overall, it was an amazing experience. If you feel like you missed out (and you should feel like you missed out) then watch my video or I will steer... steal... your birthday stuff! and you can be part of the action too! :)

Well my computadora is dying. So I must be off! Chao. (That's the Spanish version... not a misspelling of the Italian just so you know).

Late nights and great friends

Well... I've been at it again. This whole vlogging thing. It's kind of fun. :) I have posted my second video for those of you who haven't seen it.

You can check it out here:

Another one will probably be uploaded by the end of today or tomorrow. :) My life is that interesting. Speaking of how interesting my life is, maybe I should fill you in on the stuff that's not going to appear in my vlog.

Yesterday, we had FHE and I have such a cool group. My roommate Nicole is our FHE "mom" and she's doing a great job (even though yesterday was just her first activity). It was even get to know you games and I had fun! I am super excited to see how this turns out. :)

After FHE we went to our friend's house and played in his pool. It was a blasty-blast. I obviously did not film this event because cameras + agua = no bueno. But we had fun playing ultimate football and Marco Polo. My team totally kicked butt at ultimate football. We had some great teamwork skills going down. It was sweet.

When we got done swimming, a few of us (Chase, Shawn, Staci, and I) went to Denny's for some post-swimming nourishment. It was really cool to just hang out and get to know them a little bit better. It was so much fun. :) I'm really loving this ward and all the people in it. We're seriously becoming such good friends.

We also saw someone being arrested when we got back to Provo at 2:30 am. It was pretty intense. There were literally like ten police cars surrounding this guy. If I find out what was going down I will definitely let you know.

Well that's all for now. See you later. Check out my youtube channel.

www.youtube.com/absolutelyamyjo

Thanks byeee.

Well this is it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you have been waiting for has finally arrived! I posted a video on youtube. I'm hoping as time goes on I will get this whole vlogging thing down. I think it's really pretty fun. So... go watch me and my friends on youtube. and if you like... tell all your friends to watch my friends on youtube. Please and thank you. :)

I have decided to post all my videos (because I'm planning on making more) here as well as talk about my life... since that's what this is for and everything. So that being said.. here's an update on my life in WORDS.

It's been a fun experience getting some footage for my vlog. It seems like every time I get my camera out people have 2 different reactions. They either hide or act completely out of character and go crazy for the camera. These 2 factors make it almost impossible to get any good footage. None of it is real life. I'm hoping as we get past our first couple of videos, my friends will stop acting completely crazy. ha.

Hmm.. I love my ward that I'm currently in. Except. We party all week long. Then Friday rolls around and this place is like a ghost town. It's kind of creepy. Maybe they just all have parties that they don't invite me to because I'm an incredible loser. That's probably it. What a shame.

Well... that's aboot all I have to say today. So farewell for now my beloved blog readers.

Well... we have good news and we have bad news..

The good news: I have been looking for a job for a LOOOONG time. I just had an interview at Harmon's grocery. It went well, but they don't currently have any openings. Today I received a phone call from Golden Corral. They want me to come in tomorrow to take a test and have an interview! Whoopie!

The bad news: I think I have an ear infection. Ouch. :(

The other good news: MY VIDEO CAMERA CAME TODAY! That's right folks, that means that not only will this be a BLOG... but now it will be a BLOG with a VLOG sometimes. Yeah. My dream to be as cool as the Shaytards is... not going to happen. But I am going to vlog anyway. :) Because I can. Woo.

That's all. My ear hurts. I am going to go watch a movie on my love sac in my sweatpants. :) muy bien.

I've got the perfect body... but sometimes I forget.

This title really does not have much to do with this post... except for the fact that Regina Spektor's song "Folding chair" (which contains those lyrics) is stuck in my head. I like it. Nay, I love it. Why? I don't know. It's catchy. It's weird (much like many of Regina Spektor's songs). But I think it's because my roommate told me it's pretty much my life in song. ha. Forget Taylor Swift writing the soundtrack to every girl's life... I'm so much cooler than that. Regina Spektor wrote the soundtrack to mine! ha. Yeah. But just so you know. I have the perfect body. So there. hmpff. I have to be extra large to contain my extra large amount of awesome. And I think that's perfectly lovely.

On another note, I LOVE my new church family. It was a great decision to move from the far side of Carriage Cove to my new side. I have made SO many friends... And I've been here... Just barely over a week. Everyone is so nice. Yesterday, we had a flour fight. It was SO MUCH FUN. I never knew pelting someone with flour could be such a blast. It was great. In the words of Annie... "I think I'm gonna like it here..."

Also on another note, I did something I never thought I would be able to accomplish EVER in my life. I wrote a song. I know most of you (except for maybe Steven and Courtney because I told you this already) are thinking something like "but you do that all the time... and they're silly." Yes. This is true. But this time, I wrote an actual song. Not a cheesy usual Amy Jo song about love sacs or fruit roll ups or whatever, but an actual song. I'm quite proud of it actually. Yeah. :)

I'm also taking a serious look at buying a video camera. I'm pretty sure at least most of you have heard about my obsession with the Shaytards. I love them. If you haven't seen them... look them up on youtube. I shall put a link to the Shaytards channel here. Go watch it if you don't know what I'm talking about. :) Anyway, the Shaytards have inspired me and now I want to "vlog" about my life too. So I'm considering buying a camera to document my life. You people who don't get to see me ever single day and miss watching my crazy antics should be excited... because if I do this... then you can watch them. :) Cool huh?! I'm weird. I know. Oh. Well.

Hmm... what else can I talk about? My brother graduates from college on Saturday. That's weird. It's pretty neat though. The best part though is that it means I get to go to Logan! Yay. Even though everyone will be gone.. but I just love that place. It's just so great. I wish I still lived there. Except, Provo might be starting to grow on me... OH MY GOODNESS THERE'S A BABY QUAIL OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AND IT'S SO CUTE!.. ahem. Anyway... I think it's my new neighbors. :) The screen door in my living room faces another apartment's screen door.. we fly paper airplane notes to each other. It's really great. :) We really enjoy it.

Well... that's all I can think of to talk about for now. So.. I guess I'm done. Ciao.

Yikes! Bacon..

Well hello there dear blogging community. I am back. Finally. After a bit of a hiatus from this blog due to no time and no social life, I am back with something to say. And it's all about bacon. (Well...not all of it probably, but some of it most definitely is.)

To start off, I must say that it is rather difficult to type while soothing your aching digits with a bag of frozen spinach (my frozen mixed vegetables thawed out too much... so here I am with frozen spinach.) We don't have any ice cubes. Anyway, you may (or may not) be wondering why I have a bag of frozen spinach atop my digits.
The answer? ...is simple. It's SOOTHING. :) Yeah.

...No. That's not all the answer I'm going to give you. I HAVE A STORY! An epic story... involving battle wounds and bacon. And punching things.
Ahem. Anyway. Gather 'round children and I will tell you a tale....


Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
His skin was pale and his eye was odd.
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
who never thereafter were heard of again.
He trod a path that few have trod
did Sweeney Todd
the demon barber of fleet street.
He kept a shop in London town.
Of fancy clients and good renown
and what if none of their souls were saved
they went to their maker impecably shaved.
By Sweeney,
by Sweeney Todd
the demon barber of fleet street.

Swing your razor wide!
Sweeney, hold it to the skies.
Freely flows the blood of those who moralize.
His needswere few, his room was bare.
A lavabo and a fancy chair.
A mug of suds, and a leather strop,
an apron, a towel, a pail, and a mop.
For neatness he deserves a nod,
does Sweeney Todd,
the demon barber of Fleet Street.
Inconspicuous Sweeney was,
quick, and quiet and clean he was.
Back of his smile, under his word,
Sweeney heard music that nobody heard.
Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned,
like a perfect machine he planned,
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney!
Sweeney!

...oh wait. That's the wrong tale. Nevermind. Mine goes a little more like this...
Today at school we were fabricating chicken and filleting fish. Wahoo. Then we learned how to kill lobsters. It's rather sad. And then we made soups using all the scraps of potatoes from our knife skills over the past week or so. It was during this soup making that our tale really begins. We were making a corn chowder and a pureed potato soup... when all of a sudden we decided that we NEEDED BACON in said soups. Because bacon + soup = extra yummy soup. So... we popped some bacon in the oven. (And this is not a normal oven, mind you.. this one opens more like a 2 door refrigerator... and the outside gets SUPER WAY HOT.) Well, suddenly the timer on the oven buzzed it's annoying buzzing sound. I scurried (cue the scurry music) to the oven to get the glorious BACON! While I was looking around for a rag (we use these instead of oven mitts... it's the cool chef thing to do) I started to open the oven. But right as I did I found a rag and started to reach for it. In my excitement and hurry over the BACON I kind of missed the oven door handle... and PUNCHED the oven. OUCH. I have the SWEETEST burn on THREE, yest three! of my fingers... and my knuckles. It hurts really badly. Hence the frozen spinach. I'm hoping it will leave some sort of cool scar... because that would be super neat. And it totally makes the pain a little bit worth it. But seriously, I've never had a burn that's hurt so bad in my life. It's really kind of gross looking too. :S



So kids, the moral of the story is... Do NOT get overly excited about BACON even though it is delicious. AND Do NOT punch hot ovens. It is in no way beneficial to your health. Yeah.

It's frightening to be swimming in this strange sea...

...but I'd rather be here than on land.

So a few things going on in my life.. just to update any of you that care. :)

1. I've been playing my ukulele nonstop for like the past... 2 weeks. Literally. Nonstop. I don't know what happened to me, but that's all I want to do with my time these days. I've learned some pretty cool songs. And I'm getting much better at switching back and forth between Woody and Halle Kahiki (those would be the names of my ukuleles in case you didn't know). I'm excited for this upcoming weekend where Woody will be reunited with his younger (and much less handsome) brother Buzz (aka my dad's bari-uke).

2. I am currently enjoying the bliss of spring break. :) YAAAY. Already I've accomplished SO MUCH. I learned how to play "Out of My League" on the uke. I can even pick the intro. Poorly. But I'm learning. I am super excited to show Courtney Cook... because I know even if it sucks somehow she'll still be proud of me. She's just that kind of person.

3. Tomorrow. I am attending a fairy dust/glitter party. I am incredibly excited. I even made one of those big tutus with the tulle. Mine is pretty awesome. It kind of looks like how I envisioned Lemon Pop the blue (ish) fairy... for those of you who remember that far back in the day. :) Ha. (My guess that is even if no one else has any idea what I am talking about... at least Wendy Lady will). Man I really wish I had a copy of that story. BUMMER. Except I remember most of it.. so I guess it doesn't really matter.

4. I am really ridiculously (good looking. ha.) excited to go home on Friday. I plan to head out bright and early. I may even set my alarm to awaken me before the time I would normally arise. Yeah. I'm that excited. So dear Idaho Fallsians. Please be ready to PARTY with me! :) Please and thank you. The plans include (not necessarily in order):
A. Home by 1/2 ish. (I know. I told you I want to leave early)
B. Lunch with Mama.
C. Pocatello with Quartney, Katie, and Robbie to see our friends. :) YAY.
D. Play time with Bobbi Sue.
E. Ukulele jam sessions. With whoever will play with me.
F. Making a youtube video with Katie Martin and whoever else happens to be in it. Probably/hopefully Robbie and Quartney.
G. Everything else is currently TBD. But it will hopefully be one ACTION PACKED weekend.

5. Ah. Crap. I just forgot what I was going to put in section five. :(

6. OH WAIT! I remember! I know that I don't know a lot about my life/the future. And I don't even know for sure what I want to do with my life or whatever. But I decided that there is one thing I know about my life for sure. I want to travel the world. See everything there is to see. Learn everything there is to know about the world. I was in my Intro to Hospitality Management class yesterday and we watched a movie about cruises. (We all know how much I love cruises). But there was this one that really stuck out in my mind. It was a world cruise. 107 days. 44 ports. 37 (i think?) countries. I want to do that. I mean.. maybe I don't need to go on a 3 month cruise, but I want to travel. I want to see all those countries. I want to travel. I want to learn about and see different cultures. I want to meet people from other countries. I hate thinking about getting married and living with my husband in Idaho or Utah or anywhere and just being content with that one place... never traveling like so many people I know from the area. I know I could never be happy with that. Not really. I want to see all the states by the time I'm 27... sooner if possible. 13 states in 7 years shouldn't be hard right? Maybe it's because I was spoiled growing up and my parents took me to cool places and we saw cool things. They've already taken me to more than half the states, Canada, Turkey, Greece, and Italy. Living here.. is stifling and stuffy. That's all. Just a look into my brain about something I crave. Need. Desire. Want. Whatever you want to call it. I think I'll go with need. I NEED to travel.
Well. I must be off. I have a lot to do in preparation for this fairy dust party tomorrow. Including, but not limited to: buying socks, buying glitter, Debating whether or not to buy/make fairy wings, etc.

A Collection of Short Stories Including: Tales of the Laundromat and Other Such Adventures

Tales of the Laundromat
You know how when you go to the laundromat, you always lose a sock or some other small article of clothing and/or you find someone else's lost something or other? Today, the latter happened to me. Whenever I tell exciting laundromat stories (because I tell them so often, I know) I always say that whatever article of clothing I find of someone else's is a frilly pink thong. Today, that is actually true. To my horror, my nice clean and freshly dried clothing items had made a friend.. with someone else's unmentionables! Underclothing! Underoos! Panties! Thong! And then I was like... Umm.. I live in BYU approved housing? Why did I just find a thong? Something is amiss. It was weird. And... being the good person that I am, I hoisted it up the flag pole. :) While that may or may not be true.. it was just weird. I mean, yes. I am a girl. I know what girls underwear looks like, feels like. And! To top it all off I even wear it. ..But it's still creepy to find someone else's underpants mixed in with your own underpants or whatever you happen to be washing (I was washing chef coats, personally).

Bottomless Fries and a Pair of Shoes
Once upon a time... there was a girl named Amy Jo. One day she visited the magical land of Idaho Falls. She decided to go out to dinner with some of her bestest friends in the whole world. We will call them Quartney and Katie in order to keep their true identities a secret. They went to their favorite little place... like they always do. It's tradition. They went to... umm... in this case I think we should rename it to protect the innocent. Let's just call it... Perkins. :) So they went there. Katie and Quartney arrived first, since Amy Jo had a prior engagement she had to attend first. Anyway, Quartney and Katie ordered their food. YAY. They had begun to eat it when Amy Jo finally arrived... after being trapped by slow drivers and an old lady with a walker. The waitress asked her if she wanted a menu. Amy Jo proceeded to order a Dr. Pepper. (aka nectar of the Gods). Then the waitress brought all three of them their checks... WITHOUT even asking if they wanted any PIE! It's tradition to get pie. Typically "a la mode" ...which is different than pie. :) And that's all I have to say about that. Anyway, the three girls waited for the waitress to come back so they could be like "YO! I want pie!" But she never came. She never even asked if Katie wanted a box. (She ALWAYS wants a box). Anyhoo... the three girls were not really very pleased with the service they were receiving. After waiting many moons, however, they finally received 2 orders of mixed berry pie a la mode and a Banana nut muffin. Which they devoured. And enjoyed. Very much. :) But they were still kind of disappointed in the service they received.
What does this have to do with bottomless fries and a pair of shoes you ask? Absolutely nothing. But I'm getting to that. Hold on for a second, okay?!
A different day, Amy Jo went with her friends who we shall rename Katie and Bobbi to a little place we shall also rename Red Robin. YUUUUMMM. :) Anyhoo. They had to wait to be seated for about 2 minutes. So they stood. And talked. And quoted "The Producers." Katie and Amy Jo do that a lot. Then they got seated. And the server came. We will call him... Jeff. (And unless you were there you'll never know if I really did make this name up or not... because how often do you remember the server's name? hmm..?) Anyhaway. Jeff explained the menu... yadda yadda. And he told us all the stuff that's his favorite... and the stuff that makes him want to puke. (It made me mildly curious... but not curious enough to order it). Then he was like... "and... if you need me... you can just throw a shoe at me.." This made Amy Jo really excited. She was wearing her zebra print slip-on shoes (Go Sanuk's!) and she showed them to Jeff. He laughed at her. Then he taunted Bobbi, Katie, and Amy Jo all through their lunch date. He was a hoot and a half. Except then he got all the checks mixed up. OOPS! Oh well. The difference was a dollar. Which Bobbi payed Amy Jo in QUARTERS. Which she used to pay for the above story. :) And the fries at Red Robin are bottomless. THE END.

What other stories do I have for you people who actually care enough about my life to read this? Or should I say people who are BORED enough to actually read this? Hmm?

I just played just dance with my roommates. And we played Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. They referred to the dancing man as the wrong gender. It made me laugh. But then again... playing just dance ALWAYS makes me laugh. :)

In other news, I'm going on a date with the beautiful Courtney Cook. I don't know when yet, but it's going to happen. And she's going to wear her pretty dress. And I'm going to... wear... something. Rather than nothing. :) I'm super duper excited. It's going to be so awesome. Because I love her. And you should go on dates with people you love (even if they're just friend dates).

Something in my house is making a strange noise. I don't know what it is. Hmm. It's also really dark in my house right now. I have not turned on any lights and I'm just sitting here in the dark. Maybe I should turn one on. And find the source of the mysterious ticking noise...
...Snape. Snape. Serverous Snape...

Well, now that that's stuck in your head. I shall bid you adieu.

So there's this song...

And I'm kind of in love with it. What's it called you ask? Boogies and Trees. It is the best song I have ever heard (and not just because it's all about me). But my best friend Courtney Cook wrote it. It makes me so happy. :) This is the video. It's the best song ever!



Now I'm going to talk about my weekend. :) Well... Friday I baked stuff. And played my ukulele. Then Saturday I went to Riverton and saw my best friend Utah Katie. We went to taco time and arctic circle. And we played super mario and super smash bros. Wii! While wearing our snuggies. :) Then we ate eggo waffles. And then we watched Moulin Rouge. :)
Sunday was my dear friend Elder Burton's mission farewell. It was great to see him one last time before he heads to the MTC. Maybe if I scope out the MTC every day I can see him? ha. Anyway. He gave an absolutely amazing talk! Everyone loved it. And he looked so dashing! :) After his farewell, we went to the Holloway's house! I sure do love that family! We hung out and ate brownies, watched youtube, and listened to Garrett tell stories about his epic life. It was a jolly good time! They updated me on the life of Dallon so that was muy bien as well! :) After that we went to Nate's house.. where they fed us and we got to talk to Nate (and watch his adorable little brother run around like a maniac. A very adorable maniac). We took some photos. YAY.
And then I headed off to see the old roomies and to pick up my mail they had been holding hostage. Derek was there too. So we all got to catch up a little bit over a dinner of gluten free chicken 'n' dumplings. That was fun. After that I headed back to good ole Provo just in time for WARD PRAYER. WOOOOO. So exciting. :)
After that my home teachers came over. They're pretty cool. They talked to us for almost 3 hours. And it wasn't boring. We had a jolly good time. (I don't know what's up with my use of the phrase "jolly good" tonight). They showed us some of their hidden talents and we discussed everything that is new in our lives. It was great.
Today (which is technically part of the weekend for me) I played my ukulele and made bread. Happy Valentines day. I won't say I hate it... but I definitely don't love this holiday. I think love should happen every day.. not just today. Sure.. like any girl I love an excuse to eat chocolate and smell the sweet scent of flowers, but really I don't think I need a holiday to tell me to love someone.. or to show them that I love them. I'm just going to do it any day I feel like it. So there! :)

And now The top 10 reasons why I love Courtney Cook:
10. She always always listens to me even when all I'm doing is complaining or babbling about something.
9. She paints me with her boogies on trees.
8. She sings to me and plays her guitar/ukulele for me
7. She listens to all my crazy schemes and stories. (even if they're impossible or boring)
6. She never fails to brighten my day.
5. She is ALWAYS happy.
4. The song "Boogies and Trees" that she wrote.
3. She's the blondest lost boy that I know.
2. She's Courtney Cook... who doesn't love her?
And the NUMBER ONE reason I love Courtney Cook...

1. She has the same shirt as me. :)

Yeah. That's the number one reason. Bahaha.

Well, that's all. Ciao!

Oh goodness. Life. It's been crazy lately. School is going well for the most part, but I do have one teacher that kind of makes me feel like I'm a complete imbecile. Even my class has noticed how much he criticizes me compared to everyone else. I guess that's what you get for being in a group with "wonder boy" though. Blech. But at the same time I guess it pushes me to try harder to do things right. I have learned so much more than I did at the Art Institute though. So it's been a good change overall.

I'm starting to get used to the ward and I'm really starting to like the people in it. I've met a lot of nice people so far and I hope we really get to become friends. The Lord works in mysterious ways though, that's for sure. I got a calling before I even became a member of the ward. I'm on the formerly known as the enrichment committee committee (sometimes known as the "other" committee). The first two guys I met in the ward... are my home teachers. And they both remembered meeting me. (One of them I met when I came to visit the ward with Nicole and the other I met while doing laundry). My visiting teachers seem nice too. I thought at first I wouldn't like this ward... but they're really starting to grow on me. :)

This weekend has been quite eventful. Friday night I went to a party at Nicole's. It was a success. :) I met some fun people and had a great time playing cards, dancing, being pelted with cards, and talking about guns and locking our doors. ha. It was a fun adventure that lasted past midnight! And... I made sure to lock my door when I got home. Thank you paranoid gentlemen. (Though for good reason I'm sure).

Yesterday I went to BYU's Production of Peter Pan. It gets a 6.8 out of 10. Their cyc was kind of a cop out instead of actually having a real set. Their flying was cool with all their flips and stuff. The lost boys really disappointed me... especially Tootles. :( That always makes me sad. I did love a few of the lost boys though, Slightly and Curly in particular. They were hilarious! But the others, for me at least, fell a little short. The Indians were AMAZING dancers! It was really fun to watch them. The Pirates though. For me, they literally saved the show. HI-FREAKING-LARIOUS. All of them. Even the pirates that maybe had 2 lines the whole show. They all really played up their characters. I was laughing so hard. Hook/Mr. Darling was really good. Peter was good. Sometimes I think she forgot she was playing a boy though, and had a very womanly voice in certain parts. But she was very spirited and fit the role well. There was one part that I just could not get over though... When Peter gets his shadow back, they had someone dressed in a black Peter Pan outfit walk out on stage and mirror Peter. I thought that was very very strange.
During the Pirate Ship fight scene, I was afraid that Peter was going to die. She was hooked with 2 lines, but one of them didn't get hooked all the way... and they hoisted her up.. I was terribly afraid for her life. I've been that person that worries about getting Peter hooked properly and it scares me to death even thinking about it. Luckily Peter didn't tumble to the ground. They realized and gently lowered her back down. She covered really well and moved on. She found a way to re-hook herself and took flight again. I really admired her courage. I don't know if I could be brave enough to fly again if that had happened to me. Yipes!
They also cut out the "You silly ass!" line. It's not surprising, but it was just cut in a very strange way. And.. apparently Peter Pan can be used as a metaphor for Adam and Eve. Only at BYU...

Well that was pretty much my weekend. Now I'm off to celebrate Sunday. :) haha.

Ciao!

Ohhh Man Life...

Hi.. remember me? For those of you who are wondering, yes, I am still alive. For those of you who I have not talked to recently (which is pretty much everyone) I miss you... I do. I've just been... busy. I know. That's no excuse for not calling/texting/hanging out with any of you... but I've been a little caught up in life. ...Not in actually having one though, so don't get excited for me or anything.. Things have just been.. busy.

School started up since I last blogged. Yes. Good ole school. My classes are CRAZY. For 2 of my classes alone my time spent in class equals about 25 hours a week (and that's if I'm lucky and they don't hold us late.. or have us doing some catering event). So let's just say I've been a little stressed during these past two weeks. New school. New place. New apartment. New everything. It's just been a little hectic. I'm starting to kind of settle in though. But hey, anyone in Provo.. I know a total of about 3 people in my apartment complex/ward.. so if you're ever bored and want to hang out, my weekends are pretty open. :)

The new roommates are... interesting I guess. They aren't scary like the crazies, but we don't really seem to have much in common. One of them I haven't ever said more than "Hi" to and I've only seen her about three times. They all come straight home from school/work and go straight to their rooms with their doors closed. I have the feeling we're not really going to become very good friends. The two I've at least had a conversation with them that was longer than a single word... but I don't really know them yet. Maybe it's just that awkward new roommate thing, but I kind of get the vibe that they're really just not that interested in actually getting to know me. I think most people find me somewhat... intimidating.

My classes are fun though. Except for a lot of things being a major review. But I'm hoping once we get past the first few weeks things will start to pick up. I've learned a TON in my baking class though. :) We're learning more than just how to follow a recipe. We're learning why a recipe is what it is. Why things like water temperature matter. It's a lot more math and science than following a recipe. It's taking some getting used to. But hey, I like a good challenge.

My ward is older. It's weird. Still. Even though they aren't as old as my last ward. But they aren't very outgoing here either. It seems like they've all kind of been here for forever and no one feels the need to make new friends or even new acquaintances. It's been a struggle. But this is only week two so I'm hoping it will get better. :)

Some exciting news though... I'm going to see Peter Pan on Saturday! This is one of the few times I can see myself actually supporting BYU. Hah. I can't help it if (this time) they have good taste in theatre. It's better than what UVU is doing: Oklahoma! (Though don't get me wrong... I like Oklahoma! I would just much rather watch Pan. Wouldn't you?!)

The Saturday after that, I have plans to go to some improv thing with Nicole. It's apparently really popular. And we're getting in for FREE! (I love having connections... or at least knowing people with connections). We're also getting a backstage tour from her uncle who promised to introduce us to all cool people. He also said he would tell us who to flirt with and who to avoid. Haha. It's going to be great. I love improv. And boys. What could be better to mix them both together?!

Courtney Cook.. is one of the greatest people ever. She wrote me a song. That is now my ringtone. And I feel so special because it's the best ever. :) And she has the best Spanish accent. I love her so and she makes me happy.

Umm... Let's see what else about my life? My dear best friend Elder Dallon Holloway is almost at the year mark! Today is day 341 of his mission. :) Woohoo. I find this very exciting. Yes I do.

Is there anything else about my life you're just dying to know? Umm... I just awkwardly walked in on my roommate spooning with a kind of attractive young gentleman. That's pretty interesting. And they just stared at me. AWKWARD. ha.

Oh. And I am kind of swooning over this boy.. except the problem is that I don't know his name. But I see him every Thursday and Friday. And sometimes Mondays (it depends on where my class meets). But I've talked to him once. And he's kind of pretty. And he's super nice... from what I know from talking to him once... but yes. That's that.

Okay well I think I'm done blabbering on and on. OH WAIT! No I'm not!!! Pineapple Wednesday is BACK! YAY. (If you don't know what this is... check out http://www.pineapplewednesday.blogspot.com/ for more details on my crazy experiences with pineapple).

Footie Pajamas, Dora Coloring Books, and Animated Movies

What do all these things have in common?

They are all things I still enjoy at the age of 20 and things I enjoyed at the age of 2 as well (except for the fact that Dora the Explorer didn't exist yet, but you get my point). What I'm trying to say with this post is that... I still want to enjoy my "childhood" or whatever you want to call it. I may be past my "teen years," but that doesn't mean I am completely ready to be fully responsible. I am in no way, shape, or form ready to get married and/or have little demon children of my own to take care of.

I think a couple of things about this matter:
1. Sex makes babies. Unless you want babies, don't have sex. And if you do have sex (which you shouldn't) BE CAREFUL about it. Use protection. Don't be an idiot.
2. If you're my age and you're married... you are crazy. Seriously how are you ready to be married at this age? For real?
3. If you're my age and married and already have a kid (or one on the way or a kid AND one on the way) then you have got to be completely insane! Motherhood and I are just simply not ready to be used in a sentence together, unless that sentence is "Motherhood and I are not ready to be acquaintances, friends, or even come in contact with each other yet."

Instead of doing these things I am going to ENJOY my YOUTH! (That's a better word than childhood). I like to wear my footie pajamas. I like to color in my Dora the Explorer coloring book (Thanks Katie Matheson) and I like to watch animated movies. (Yes, I know the third one is weak... but I couldn't think of anything else that was relatable to future topics to be discussed).

During my Christmas break, I did:
1. Peter Pan Cast Reunion. I never knew everything that "It's so fluffy I'm going to die" could mean. This party was a hoot and a half, even though every other person hated every other person. Except, it seems, for me and Quartney.
2. Had a footie pajama party with Katie and Courtney, complete with a pajama clad trip to Jack in the Box at 2 am (where they forgot Courtney's tacos) and a a tiny bit of sleep. We also had pancakes! Yum!
3. Katie and I went to visit our dearest Steven. :) This made us happy. We went shoppin', went to starbucks... and whatever it is that Katie got for me... was YUMMY, watched a movie about a horse, ate pizza, and PARTIED. TWAS great fun. <3
4. Got introduced to Just Dance 2. I am now obsessed with this ridiculously fun game. "Ra-ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine" is probably one of the best songs I have ever heard.
5. Glee Karaoke Revolution. According to this game, together my beloved Courtney and I, despite our epic whiteness, make up 2 halves of Mercedes. We sang all her songs together, and both got 50%. We are incredibly gifted. No one else can compete with us (except for maybe Mercedes herself). I am so proud. :)
6. French Fries and Mushrooms. This is a tradition that started oh so long ago (Okay maybe like... 2 years ago really). Katie and I always get an appetizer sampler from Perkins. And a side of fries. And a side of sauteed mushrooms. Fries + Mushrooms = Heaven. Try it. This is one of favorite times together. And this time we saw GINA! :) Which made it even better.
I think those are pretty much the highlights of my Christmas break.

Now I'm in Provo. I start school tomorrow. Again. YUCK. I'm not really very excited to be honest. But alas, it's part of the VERY slow process of growing old...

CIAO.

I don't know about you but...

I don't know about you but...

1. I don't really enjoy being harassed by crazy people. (Rant to follow later)
2. I'm really excited to go home for Christmas.
3. I actually understand what a white elephant gift is supposed to be. :)
4. I passed my finals (that I've had thus far)
5. I'm procrastinating something I should be doing right now.

1. Okay... so remember my post like TWO MONTHS AGO... or whenever it was that I told you about how I bumped someone's car in the parking lot? Well.. she won't stop harassing me. I gave her my information and what not (I didn't know who she was to talk to her personally). Well I found out later that she's this crazy lady. I'm not just saying this because she keeps calling me over and over and over and over again to yell at me, but because I know who she is now and... I really think she's got a few loose screws. Apparently she's been calling and leaving messages for my insurance agent (poor thing) that have (to put it lightly) not been very kind. If they're anything like the messages that I've been getting I really feel bad for my insurance agent. So this crazy lady keeps calling me and saying that she waited for weeks for my insurance company to call her back. BUT SHE CHANGED HER NUMBER! How does she expect them to call her... when she changed her number? My insurance company has been trying to get ahold of her, but with the number change how could they? Ugh. And she keeps calling me and telling me all these sob stories (that I don't really believe... she doesn't have a very good record of telling the truth) and yelling at me to do something. I gave her the information. I gave her the number to call. I gave her the claim number. There isn't anything else I have to do. But she won't stop calling/texting me and leaving me rude messages. We talked to my agent again today and she said she FINALLY got ahold of her after my dad told her the new number. So hopefully she stops harassing me. If not... be aware that I WILL be changing my number. I will let you know if that happens.

2. I can't wait to get out of here! I'm so excited for Friday to come! I will be done with finals. I'll start moving in to my new place! I'll get to play with Katie (probably not Friday... but sometime that weekend). We're having a snuggie party where we will sit in our snuggies and watch movies and eat junk food! Maybe we can even play super smash brothers in our snuggies! How fun would that be? (We're kind of obsessed with super smash brothers wii... just a little *okay a lot!*)
THEN HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! First on the list is the PETER PAN CAST REUNION! WAHOOO! I'm so excited to hang out at Perkins with a first rate cast, then head over to my house to watch pan and play IMPROV!!!!!!! I still think we should play "Peter Pan Lines" (a peter pan themed version of movie lines). But maybe this is just me! I'm so excited to get to go home though. See people my age (what a change from this place!) We're going party it up like we're in some obscure 80s movie... and have as many adventures as an episode of Chips... Someone stop me before I start making too many references to things most people reading this have probably never heard of! Moooving on!

3. White Elephant Party! Yesterday for Family Home Evening, my singles ward had a white elephant gift exchange. People brought like... actual stuff! Boxes of chocolate, hand soups/other good smelling things, and other NICE things. There were only about 3 of us who brought something "white elephant" worthy. One of those things was a pair of child-sized, used, mis-matching slippers. One was a "home-made snowman kit" with a top hat, and 2 sticks. Mine was a box of rocks and an autographed picture of my face. It was just weird to me that people actually brought good... expensive-ish stuff! Crazy. The girl who got my picture... didn't even think it was funny. :( She didn't even crack a smile. Bummer. I was hoping someone fun would get it. But no! Laaame.

4. Just that. I passed all my finals. :) GO ME.

5. I have a 5 page paper due tomorrow. I have less than 2 pages. I REALLY need to work on it. But I have absolutely no desire. I am tired, grumpy, and have been working my butt off for the past 2 weeks to finish everything for this week. Blech.

WHALE... that's all for now. Ciao. Adios. Aloha. Bye.

I tried to be like Grace Kelly...

But all of her looks were too sad...

So I have a fewww things to say in this little blog post. So I'm going to tell you a list so you can skip over the boring ones. :)

1. Whiffenpoofs 'n' Whatnots
2. Ode to Risotto
3. Messiah Sing-In
4. Question for Quartney
5. Escuela and cookin' mmm.
6. I'm gonna go off on a little tangent that I got from a circle... because that's where you get tangents. :)
7. What's the opposite of an ode? to Upcoming Finals.
8. Any other random crap I decide to talk about with then come out right in this section. :0

Ahem. Anyway. Here we go. :)

1. Whiffenpoofs 'n' Whatnots
So I've been watching the Sing Off. It's so great. I absolutely love it. So natural compared to all the other singing competitions around these days. For those of you who don't know, it's an a cappella singing competition. And I LOVE it. Specifically, I love the Whiffenpoofs. The should NOT have gone home so soon! I bought their songs on itunes... and I love them. I also like... street corner symphony. and I didn't like them at first, but they've started to grow on me... the umm... what are they called? The group with all the music teachers... Groove for thought. I LOVED "Cooler than me." It's pretty much my new obsession.
I need some MAJOR Choir back in my life. It's killing me to not sing everyday. :( Blech. But seriously... when the Whiffenpoofs came out to sing... they looked so dashing that I was instantly in love. And then they opened their mouths... It was just not like any of the other groups... there was none of that boom-sha-whatever that I don't know how to do. It was just SINGING. Beautiful. And that's really all I have to say about that.

Moving on!
2.I love risotto. It's just so freaking tasty. This is my ode to Risotto:
Oh, Arborio
Rice of the Gods
I love to cook Arborio
We're like peas in pods
When you turn into risotto
you taste so great
Creamy risotto
we came together by fate.
I want to cook you and eat you
each and every day
and I would too
If I could get away
with that.

And that's my ode to Risotto. :) I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed my dinner tonight (that consisted of a baked chicken breast with a mornay sauce on top with risotto and glazed carrots) YUMMM. :)

3. Messiah Sing-Ins
I love Christmas. I love the Christmas season. Everything is beautiful. Everyone is nice. And tis the season for Messiah Sing-Ins. As much as I don't really like living in the Salt Lake Valley, I will give it props for the mass amount of Messiah Sing-Ins they hold. I've been to 3 already and might hit up at least one more. :) Woo! I love taking my score and going to sing it. Handel was definitely inspired to write this wonderful work.
The first one I went to was in the Alpine Tabernacle in American Fork. So Amazing. It was a great place to sing! While I didn't really like most of the soloists for this performance (way too much vibrato and awful vowel shapes) it was fun anyway!
Singing the Messiah always makes me think of Mrs Blackburn. Not just from choir in high school... but clear back in the day when she was our ward choir director... and made me, valerie, and Beth sing those recitatives... you know the ones "And lo an angel of the lord came upon them..." that little group... in front of our whole ward. I'd never done choir before and I totally messed up in front of the whole ward! Ah! (That's why it took me so long to get into choir in school by the way... scarred me for a while). But now I've had some more experience... and my nerves don't usually get in the way. HUZZAH.
But anyway. Messiah Sing-ins. Are great. I love them. :)

4. Question for Quartney.
This is random. But. I have a question for you Quartney. Can I be a bridesmaid in your wedding? Whenever it is that you end up getting married. :) That is all.
P.S. I LOVEEE YOU!

5. School. is CRAZY right now. Finals start... TOMORROW. Yes, my finals start on a friday. Weird. I know. But it's my practical... my baking final. And next friday is our written final in baking. This is my crazy homework/finals schedule: Tomorrow is my baking practical where I will be making 1. Chocolate cream pie. 2. Soft dinner rolls. 3. Apple Cinnamon cookies and 4. Banana nut muffins.
Monday: First is my American regional practical where we are having a black box challenge. That means we don't know our ingredients. It has to be Hawaiian themed though. We need to make an appetizer, entree with a starch and a vegetable, and a dessert. That's 5 different things ladies and gents. AH! Also that day, I have a final purchasing project and purchasing portfolio due. Then we have our purchasing final.
Tuesday: American regional written final. Kitchen cleaning. And GIGANTIC portfolio is due.
Wednesday: English portfolio is due. 2 page book report. 5 page research paper.
THURSDAY: Packing for my move. :) No finals though!
Friday: Written baking final. Kitchen Cleaning. MOVING DAY. And the start of Christmas break! WOOHOO! :)

6. I changed my mind about the tangent. This is getting too long. ...maybe next time.

7. Opposite of ode to upcoming finals.

Finals I hate you.
so does everyone else.
It's kind of like... pooh.
that we even have to take you

By the time you roll around
No one likes school anymore
complaining is an oft head sound
and everyone wants to be homeward bound

I'm not much of a poet
and I think we all know it
but with finals coming up
i really can't help it.

They really suck
and it's just my luck
that i'm still in school
and teachers don't give a... very helpful study guide.

Gotchya didn't I? :)

I'm a regular Dr. Seuss. Except I'm not a doctor... nor is my name Seuss... but then again, I guess his wasn't either...

8. RANDOM.
I don't know how to pop my ears. I never have. I'm broken. I can never learn to scuba dive because I can't pop them. This upsets me. Katie Matheson can scuba dive. I think it would be really neat. But I can't. Because I can't pop my ears. I'm broken. :(

Well. That's all. This was long. GROSS. Sorry!

CIAO! ADIOS! ALOHA!

It's a beautiful night we're looking for something dumb to do...

Hey Baby I think I wanna marry you!

No. I'm not getting married. Let's just establish that right now before anyone gets confused. That's the song I'm listening to right now on my ipod. :)

And. Yesterday was a beautiful night. And I had something dumb to do. haha. But I don't want to marry anyone I was with (no offense Benjamin Rufino or Briana... I love you. Just not in that way).

So what happened yesterday? Well.. I thought it was just going to be another boring, homework-filled Thursday. Blech. But. It wasn't. :) YAY! Well I made plans with Benjamin to have a study party in the library. Woot. Well.. I got there and BRIANA was there too! WAHOO! That means it's a PARTY!! I love those two. They're pretty much my only friends here. I'm going to be sad to leave them. :( But I will come back and party. woop woop! Anyway...

The three of us then sat in the library pretending to work on our homework (though Briana and I did actually do a little bit.) Then Briana got hungry so we all headed out to In-N-Out for some grub. ...Even though we're culinary students that doesn't mean we don't like greasy fast food too. :) After debating whether or not Briana was going to steal the wet floor cone (she didn't) we went back to the school because Briana had class.

So Benjamin and I went back to the library... where we talked more than worked. But that's okay. It was fun. We talked about... ITALY! And FOOD. And organic food. And middle names. (Which is why he now gets called Benjamin Rufino... because that's probably the coolest name I've ever heard). And Catholicism and Mormonism. And missionaries. And the SUPER CRAZY Mormon people... that are just so great. :) And Italy! (Yes I know I already said that... But we were both excited to talk to people who have actually left the country. That's hard to come by in Utah!) Then we talked about how all the "normal" people at school have/had crazy roommates.

Then Briana came back. And we went to have an adventure at WALMART!! :) A plethora of things happened that were highly entertaining. I shall now elaborate.
1. We looked at fish.
2. Benjamin got really excited about humidifiers.
3. Briana and I hid from Ben and I got stuck in a bathrobe hanging on a rack. :S oops.
4. We set all these creepy baby toys to go off about 5 seconds from each other... and their singing was all out of tune.
5. We played bop-it... on 3 different games... that get's confusing when they're all going at the same time.
6. I found a magic wand. a TINKERBELL magic wand!
7. I skipped up to random people and waved my magic wand at them. And pushed the "magic sounds" button! I got some weird looks.
8. We played in the 5 dollar movie bin... to see who could pull out the worst movie out of the three. This seriously entertained us for almost an hour.
9. Briana bought Oreos! :)
10. I left my tinkerbell wand (much to my dismay) with the mayonnaise... because the place it was supposed to go was oh so far away!
11. Briana threw oreos at me and Benjamin.
12. I stuck an oreo to Benjamin's car.
13. He freaked out. And threw a fit.
14. I threw oreos at Benjamin.
15. Briana and I both stuck oreos on Benjamin's car.
16. He didn't notice and drove away with oreos still attached. YAY. :)

And that brings us to today.
Baking bright and early at 7 am!
Briana and I are the BEST team. Today in class we made:
1. Bagels
2. Lemon Meringue Pie
3. Gingerbread Cookies
4. Orange Pumpkin Muffins
5. Amish Bread
Everything we made today turned out GREAT! This is a great feat for me in baking. :) Chef Allie said our bagels were the best in class. :) Hooray! I made a perfect bagel that she used as the example to show the class. :) HUZZAH!
I made Amish bread... with no mixer. And it turned out PERFECT. Chef Allie thought it would be tough and gross because we didn't have a mixer... but it was AMAZING. :) I got to bring home half a loaf. YES! I'm going to eat it ALL.
Our orange pumpkin muffins were the best in class too! Chef Allie LOVED them! :) Woohoo!
Our final is next week though... I'm scared!!! ...Not really. But yeah. Woo. Briana and I are in the same group though so it will be FUN. :) Heehee! Go Chef Allie forgetting to mix up the secret envelopes.

Well that's my life. Oh! Tonight I'm going to the first of FOUR Messiah Sing-Ins that I'm attending this December. This one's in American Fork. I'm super pumped! Woohoo!
AND MOVING IN 14 DAYS!! :) :D I get to be Nicole and Whitney's neighbor again! How exciting!!!

Okay well really that's it. CIAO!

I Got a Pocketful of... Sunshine? No. A Wocket in my Pocket? No... Not that either

I don't really have anything in my pocket... not even my phone or my keys... nothing.
I'm really really ridiculously (good looking) FRUSTRATED. Here's the story:
I found a girl who wanted to take over my contract for my apartment. YAY! Then... she backed out. BOO! Now I'm stuck trying to find ANOTHER replacement... in 16 days. Yes, I am supposed to move out in 16 days. So... if you happen to know anyone who is moving to the Salt Lake Valley and wants to live with some great LDS girls. Send them my way por favor. :) I'm really stressing right now... stupid being sick, finals coming up, crazy ridiculous projects due, countless papers, new kitchen rules that made things a bazillion times harder. Life's just been rough this week.
Christmas break, why do you have to come so slowly?!

Some good news though... :)
1. I bought a snuggie. And it is the best purchase I have ever made. That's right. I joined the revolution.
2. Katie Matheson and I have already planned a snuggie movie night. Complete with Movies! Popcorn! Hot chocolate! Hot dogs! and A BUCKET OF FUN! And a Pocketful of Sunshine!
3. Only 16 more days then I am DONE with the stupid ART INSTITUTE!
4. After those 16 days it will be CHRISTMAS BREAK
5. There is another PETER PAN REUNION being planned for this holiday season. WOO-to-the-freaking-HOO-ray! :)

Birthday Confessions

First off, let me just say that I don't really like birthdays. You get your hopes up that your day will be fun and then BAM. Your day just sucks. Or at least half the time anyway. Don't get me wrong, I mean it's great that we celebrate the day we broke free from the womb. It's liberating. But... for me, I rarely have a good birthday. It's kind of hit or miss thing for me I guess. Birthdays just make me think of that time back in the day when you were five when all you wanted was a pony. But you woke up that morning and SURPRISE! No pony. That was a big deal.

My mom was trying to make me feel better about my birthday's uneventful-ness by saying "you know when you get older birthdays won't matter so much." Thanks mom, but even though I'm not a teenager anymore, I still like to have fun! And it's not like my birthday was on a Wednesday or a day when everyone has school/work the next day. It was a Saturday... the day when you're supposed to have PLAY TIME!

My day went like this:
* Got up and started cleaning my house.
* Birthday dinner got canceled and changed to birthday lunch therefore making my Saturday night BEREFT of plans.
* Cleaned my house so I could show it to a prospective renter.
* Showed my house to a girl who will hopefully rent it.
* Sat at my house... while my roommate was asleep.
* Sat at my house... while my roommate studied.
* Sat at my house... and called my dad to tell him birthdays suck.
* Sat at my house... and replied to every single birthday message someone sent me on facebook.
* Sat at my house... and texted everyone in my phone within a 1 1/2 hour radius to see if anyone could play. ...They couldn't.
* Sat at my house... and got a call from my mom who told me it's okay because birthdays aren't really important when you get older.
* Sat at my house... and talked to Katie on the phone. *HIGHLIGHT* of the night.
* Drove to Walmart to buy myself cake and ice cream because no one else did.
* Sat at my house... stuffing my face with cake and ice cream and talking to Katie.
* Went to bed at 10:00pm.
Aren't birthdays fun?
..I didn't even take any pictures from the day... and you all know how I love to take pictures...

Yesterday really made me miss Dallon. He wouldn't have forgotten. Last year he was trying to hard to be the first person to wish me happy birthday. It's the thought that counts... even though Dayton came running into the room and beat him by literally three seconds! I miss Dayton too. I had the best friends last year. :)
Gah. But really you have no idea how much I miss Dallon. It's day 284 today. Not that any of you care... because I don't think anyone (if anyone) who actually reads this ever met Dallon. Which is quite unfortunate. I know I haven't known him nearly as long as some of my other friends, but you know when you meet someone and you instantly click? You meet and all of a sudden you're best friends. That's how it was with Dallon. Only 446 more days. :) And I can't wait!