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.