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So I have nothing to do tonight. Cuz I'm cool like that. So I decided I'd blog. :) Just about anything and everything. So lately it's been kinda calm in our apartment. I don't know if it has to do with all of us being exhausted from insanity, or if we just lost all our friends to missions. It would be a lie if I said college is just as fun as ever right now. I miss Ryan and Buster and even the random times when I'd go get food with Q. I miss it all! I bet when it warms up things will get more eventful and hopefully there will be more dances and such, but for now I miss the old guys lately. So here I am down in the depths of boredom and just doing school and insanity lately and just going through the motions of life and now I find something to really look forward to.... ALLRED. of course. Yes. I'm obsessed. get over it. If you went to a concert of theirs, you'd be obsessed soon. Check it out, so John Allred is performing just himself in an acoustic set EVERY thursday this month for (wait for it, wait for it) FREE! Boom! That's what's up. 

I'm pretty psyched about that. Also he's playing with my friend Patrick from Astronomy later on in March! That'll be way cool so I told Patrick I'd for sure go and support. I had no idea he sang... but it should be a fun night :) Lately I've had the song Landslide stuck in my head a lot. Explains my life right now. haha sorta? "Well I've been afraid of changing, 'cause I built my life around you. And time makes you older, even children get older. And I'm getting older too" Allred does a way cool version of it mixed with one of his original songs. Also he does this one which is probably in my top 5 favorite Allred songs (the pictures a little corny so you can ignore them):

Another few things to look forward to this week I guess would be my big "b-day" and  then later on this weekend is the sleeping over with the old gang! I can't wait. Janna, Alyssa, Katelyn, Hannah, Camie and I get together every year for the past 3 years and have a giant get away! Usually we go to Janna's cabin in Park City, but this year we are relocating to who knows where! But honestly, I could care less. We could sleep on the top of Mt. Timp in the freezing cold or in the streets of Salt Lake. I just can't wait to be with the girls again. I haven't seen Katelyn in an eternity. Plus a few years. Seriously though, I love those girls. They have been with me through it all! We became friends in Jr. High and even though Janna went to the dreaded Woods Cross High School and we all went to the delightful Bountiful High School, we have all stayed friends and I'm so happy about that. Just thinking of all of us laying out on Camie's roof and drawing on the roof with chalk makes me close my eyes and escape to an endless bliss. I loved those times more than I knew back then! It's crazy how sometimes you don't realize how truly amazing things or experiences are until you take a step back and look at it from the outside. 

Lately Marquel has been on my mind a lot. Don't ask me why. I'm just that creepy college kid who sits and can't wait to go home to see her 3 year old sister. She is just such an important part of my life. I changed for the better once she came into this world. I was humbled. And stronger. And she made me want to be that big sister she looks up to. I hope every day that I can be that for her and that she won't just think of me as that older sister who comes around sometimes. She really has changed my life. The best parts of my days are times when I get to talk to her on the phone or when I go home and she rushes into my arms. One of the hardest parts about my decision to live here during Spring and not go home is not that I'm not going to have friends down here or that I won't know anyone I'm living with, or even that I'm taking some hard classes. It'll be that I won't see her every morning. Or have sleepovers with her all the time. I'll have to wait an 2 extra months! Darn! Here are some pics of her :) It's funny how it takes college for me to really see that "growing up isn't easy". My family means everything to me. Which is probably why I go home WAY too often. But without them I have nothing and with them I have everything I could ever need. 

Insanity

Oh no worries, just getting in the best shape of my life. I'm definitely earning those abs!! haha hopefully. Pure cardio day was really hard today. That is all. Short and sweet post. Have a nice weekend everyone :)

I'm baaaaccck

Hey kids! How are you today? This font is cooler than usual because I haven't done a blog in quite a while. How sad right? To the one or two of you that read my blog, I apologize for my slacking. It has been pretty good down here in Provo lately. Last weekend we went to the j.wride concert which was just fantastic :)

I gave a talk on Sunday on Agency and that went over pretty well so that's a relief! Except I got quite teary and nervous as always and rushed parts, but I think people were able to feel the Spirit and that's all that really matters right? PS I really like our new bishop a lot. 


Nextly I went home after church and came back Tuesday morning because I really wanted to stay out for Nat's birthday dinner! She's just so old I can't even believe it. It feels like yesterday when she would come out on weekends and we'd have singing and sleepover parties in her bedroom :) She's just awesome. 26 is old though. I saw this as I came back from Provo and it was wondrous. 

I rock at taking pics while driving. It only took 5 tries to get a non-blurry one.

Oh and another thing about Bountiful home (I feel as though I still have two homes so I refer to them as "provo home" or "bountiful home") is that it we get SO much more snow than here. It actually feels like winter in Bountiful! We had like two feet or so in our front yard. I miss that a lot. 

Other than seeing Jesse in the j.wride concert and family stuff, that's about all the last little while! Except one thing. Insanity. Today I told someone I was doing this work out program which was pure insanity. They asked what it was called...insanity. obviously. haha It's crazy! I was moving the whole 40 minutes and sweating like a pig (little rascals voice) and afterwards I felt grand. I wasn't too amazing in the intramural game and I was pretty upset with myself. I just missed so many shots I should have had! There's always next game though! Amazing blog post soon to come. probably. 

I'm obsessed with this song right now.

                          Can't wait to see him perform this on the 19th :)

Headphones

(TA for Biology, once again my assignment is posted two below this one! Thanks!)

Headphones rock. I never realized how amazing headphones can be until I came to college and even more-so this semester!! I listen to my headphones without fail to every class this semester! I LOVE listening to my headphones. Here are some reasons:
1. I can't hear anyone. People will yell at me and say my name a million times, but they don't understand that I am in my headphone world of incandescently amazing music. And it's pretty funny when they think I'm ignoring them, but am not.
2. I love my iPod on shuffle. My shuffle is the most random thing ever. It's crazy! I'll be listening to All Time Low, then Dashboard then BAM Wicked comes on, then we go to Taylor Swift, then Allred, then another surprise it's...Pocahontus!! Next comes some Celine Dion and Rascal Flatts and then BAM again! Drop it Low comes on. haha It's so random and it always makes my day. It's a constant guessing game of, "I wonder what will come on next!!" and it never disappoints :)
3. I love when I'll be going along and then a good song comes on and the worst thing happens... I can't help but sing. So there I am walking across campus mouthing the lyrics when I think no one is looking. haha I'm such a nerd. Then a friend comes along and I might sing to them in an awkward manner or make them dance! It's such an adventure!
ANYWHO, I love my headphones. Nuff said.

This is me.....yeah...the tone of my skin has changed since the time this picture was taken.

                              

Jimmer Fever

(Dear TA for Biology: If you are looking for my biology assignment it is located in the post below this one, thank you)

So I was waiting for my biology assignment to be graded before I did another blog post, but... I can't wait any longer!! haha Provo is going crazy with Jimmer frenzies! It's fantastic!!! He's just amazing :) Jimmer for President!! Whenever somebody bashes BYU or anything all I have to say is one word: Jimmer. 'Nuff said. I bet you thought this whole post was going to be devoted to this amazing talent of a man, but nope! Moving on! 

                                                            

So I went home Saturday after my astronomy test (which I still don't know how I did...darn those teacher graded tests) and did not attend the BYU basketball game. I just figured that I waited in line for many hours last week and did not feel like doing so again so I'll skip a week and go to the game against the U! Cuz it's gonna be a really close game (sarcasm). But it'll be fun!! Heading home was just fine and dandy. I never realized how much I love, love, love Bountiful compared to here. It's weird how they can only be 45 minutes apart and still have those little things that make them so different. One difference is the mountains. Ya you know all of these rocky ones here? There aren't so much in Bountiful. Pretty much half of Bountiful is located in/on the mountains. I love it. I loved driving up the hills and through the canyons to my house! Gosh it's so great. I also love how the streets are just long, on hills, and not as busy! I hardly ever had to wait on pedestrians in Bountiful... and I wasn't as scared of cops in Bountiful (clearly. my bad). Bountiful is just so homey for me and I love it. Here is a pic I caught of the sunrise Saturday night :) 

The rest of being home involved lunch with friends, games with family, lunch with the parents and Marquel, some power outage on Sunday, a super bowl extravaganza with the family and some cousins, and then Glee! Before I knew it my visit was over and I was heading back to Provo. It was a good break from life and I loved seeing the family! When I walked into the house Marquel came screaming and ran over to give me a hug! Wow, nothing could have made me feel better. She always acts awkward when I come home, like she knows I won't be there long so she doesn't want to talk to me or it will make her sad when I go. But this time was different! Thank goodness! She ran into my arms, but wouldn't look me in the eye for a minute so that was a little hard, but she went back to normal about 10 minutes later and she started singing scripture power for me! She sang it like this, "scripture power, everybody scream" haha I think she has the words wrong!! Instead of "every day I need" I guess it's "everybody scream"!! She cracks me up!

 

I got my ticket to the j.wride concert from Jesse early last week!! Feb 19th is definitely a day for me to look forward to :)