ceraVe

good news.

as of tonight, all my "lost" items are no longer lost.

i found my moisturizer...

under Brynne's sink.

who knows why i have such a fetish with sinks.

i'm just happy right now.

i've been missing it.



mmmmmmm

today i got all my homework

done nice and early

brynne and i decided to reward ourselves with a treat

so we got

cookie crisp at walmart.

"healthy" alternative to cookies??

we love treats.



i like your arms.

right now i'm waiting for a chicken breast to defrost.

but how embarassing is it that i had to call my dad to find out how to cook chicken?

pretty sad.

but i know now how, so it's all good.

but why in the world does it take SO long????

i'm going to make a yummy chicken sandwich wrap with hummus and tomato.

mmmmmmm

i'm beating myself up a little bit at the moment.

i saw the man with the gorgeous arms today on the bus.

we were on opposite ends

but i really wanted to talk to him

or at least smile at him

or flaunt myself in front of him

or touch his arms.....

but i didn't.

in fact,  i didn't do anything,

the good news is:

i'm confident that i'll see hime again.

to whom it may concern

my missing phone charger
is missing no longer.

i found it under my bathroom sink.

the real issue has yet to be solved

WHY

do i set things in random places?

and

WHEN

will i stop?

These are the intricate pieces of my life.

two hour plays are boring when there are only four characters.
and when you're sitting in a small room with twelve other people.
i don't mean to say it again....but it's a little awkward.

the whole time i watch plays,

i'm thinking about what the actors are like in real life.

what personalities they have

how they really talk

and how they really dress.

it's kind of fun.

or i look around at the audience getting emotional at things i didn't even realize had emotional ties.

like the girl in front of me.

she lost it....and i'm not sure why.

i think it's cool that people are emotionally touched from completely different things.

things that make me cry, may not even make another person budge.

anyways.

today i went to a leadership conference type thing.

i listened to a motivational speech

and i really enjoyed it quite a lot.

i love feeling empowered.

i love relating with what people say to me,

and taking a part of them with me.

if you feel like being motivated,

i have some things i was reminded of from Jenn Twiss:

-Recognize your talents. With them, you can do great things. Don't sell yourself short.

"If you could only sense how important you are in the lives of those you meet, how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.  There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." -Mr. Rogers

I love that quote. I love it because i think it's so true.  There are so many people that have taught me lessons they will never know they did.

People have done something

or said something

or acted a certain way

and i've taken a part of them with me.

People that i don't even know.

and people that i've known for a long time.

I think it's important to understand that we all have so many talents. No two people are exactly the same.

that's amazing to me.

No one is me.

no one is you.

that's a weird concept to think about.

People are people.

we're all just people.

and "we can never appreciate people enough."

take the time to get to know people.

i loved today.

i hope you did, too.

xoxoxo



my love for the bus is diminishing

this day was just all about the BUS.

i have lots of things to blog about right now.

brynne and i decided we needed to go to the gym.

so i went back to my place to get into some work-out clothes.

ended up falling asleep on my bed.

woke up to brynne snuggling me.

after much talking,

we realized we really didn't feel like going to the gym

after all.

we wanted to go tanning instead.

so i had the brilliant idea to

walk

to the tanning salon.

little did we realize that it was MUCH

further than we thought.

we ran through a grasshopper field.

i really hate grasshoppers.

it's their favorite place here in logan.

they're everywhere.

we ended up getting to the salon.

enjoyed some nice

artificial sun.

as we were leaving,

we realized there was a bus stop right outside the salon.

the bus sounded much nicer than walking home.

we had a play we needed to get to for one of our classes

and at the rate we were walking,

it would have taken us three hours to get home.

so we sat under a tree for twenty minutes waiting for a bus.

we didn't know where in the world it would take us.

but we took a chance with it.

wrong bus.

we ended up at the transit station,

where all the buses meet.

there were about ten buses there,

all of them going to different places.

brynne saw one that said:

"route: specialty hospital."

PERFECT.

we live right next to the hospital.

we were running short on time, so this would mean we would have to do very minimal walking.

so we got on it.

as we were driving,

brynne let me milk a cow and play hair salon

on her iTouch.

 i was so wrapped up in the games that i didn't realize we were driving to SMITHFIELD.

this was not looking good.

it was like a half hour bus ride.

the bus driver announced over the intercom,

"next stop: hospital."

i looked out my window and grabbed brynne.

hospital???!!!!!! no no no no no no no.

we are not ANYWHERE near the hospital.

he pulls over next to this old-folks looking home.

oh....SPECIALTY hospital

i hated brynne in that moment.

wrong bus.

so we had the driver take us back to the transit station.

back to square one.

we then got on the bus that said:

"route: romney stadium."

this one had to be right.

we live right across from the ONE AND ONLY

romney stadium.

i was enjoying my seat,

it was pretty much just brynne and i on the whole bus.

until this obese man came on and out of ALL the many available seats,

he opted on sitting RIGHT next to me.

not even one seat inbetween us,

the one right next to me.

i had had it.

i tried to not laugh.

i tried to not think anything of it.

but then he started making strange noises

and i lost it.

there were 30 other seats!!!!

get me out of this bus.

i looked out the window

and

we started going through neighborhoods,

 i panicked.

luckily,

we ended up in front of our apartment complex.

we would have been home two hours sooner

if we would have walked.

but why would we have walked when we could be

lazy?

i got out of the bus and screamed

"we're hooooooooooomeeee!!!!"

and then fell down the hill.

not kidding.

i slipped down the entire hill.

and four people watched it.

we only had twenty minutes before this dumb play about a

mathematician

started.

so after a brief encounter with the missionaries

and sprinting to my apartment,

we were on our way.

we ran into the theater.

straight to the box office to get our free tickets.

the lady at the counter looks at me and goes,

"here for the play?"

no. i'm here to enjoy all the artwork on the walls.

"yes."

she proceeds to tell me:

"we're sold out."

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.

i tapped my fingers on the counter and nodded many times until i could finally say,

"oh. cool."

so now we have tickets for tomorrow night's showing.

can't wait.

so we went to taco tuesday at cafe rio

instead.

and then worked out at the gym for about ten minutes.

we're really into exercising these days

ahahahahhahahahaha.

also,

for the two of you that made it all the way through this post,

i lose everything.

i have lost so many things since being up here.

for example:

-i have lost a single earring almost every single day.

i have two pairs left, not kidding.

-car keys

-apartment key (every other day)

-my left steve madden boot

(thought i left it at aerobics. started crying...truly...until i found it under my bed)

-debit card

-cell phone charger (still missing)

-face moisturizer (still missing)

-anthropology book...found in my other purse

-my purse

-my wallet

-my pretty little liars book...under brynne's couch

i find them eventually, but it's an annoying habit to always be misplacing things.

that's all for today.

love you all

xoxoxo

oh the bus.

today i saw a girl run into a pole

on her bike.

i was stuffed in a bus full of too many people,

and this girl was riding her bike ahead of us.

she tried to go underneath the poles that come up

and down to let the bus go through



those things ^^^^^

except there were two of them.

she tried to go underneath them,

but ended up hitting them,

and flipping over them on her bike.

she proceeded to stand up and then they chopped down

on her.

hahahahhaha

double whammy.

it was only funny because you could tell she wasn't hurt.

it was just super hilarious.

she was so mortified.

and our whole bus couldn't stop laughing.

bad, i know.

but soooooooo funny.

on my way home from school

on the bus

there were tons of people

again.

some people had to hold on to the bars,

but i was lucky to have a seat.

i fell in love with a guy with

the nicest

arm muscles

i have ever seen.

note to the world:

if you are a male, and you have nice arms,

you'll melt my heart.

i'm serious.

i could not stop looking at him.

the girl sitting next to me goes,

"his name's ben."

that's how much i couldn't contain myself.

i will talk to him.

i will touch his arms one day.

you just wait.

do you want me to turn the volume down?

today i made a fool of myself

and loved it.

i was sitting in anthropology

listening to a boring lecture

with 150 other people.

it was silent.

and i was bored.

so i opened my laptop

and right as i opened it,

music started

BLASTING.

i forgot that i left my pandora up before shutting my laptop

for class.

on full volume.

i was frantically trying to turn the volume down,

but it wouldn't do anything,

because i had to enter my password first.

that would have taken too long.
everyone was staring at me.

my friend buried her head in her hand

and sunk in her seat.

my next reaction was to shut my laptop.

so i hurried and closed it.

IT KEPT PLAYING.

you should have seen the evil looks

on people's faces.

i got up and climbed over everyone's laps

(i was conveniently in the middle of the row)
and sprinted out of the room--
with my music playing as i ran.
i was peeing my pants.
you have to understand how loud this was.
and how long it went on.

talk about awkward.


i was debating going back into class,
but i decided i needed to.

i think everyone was happy to have me back.



isn't that a fun story??



also, this is like the sixth night i've had a sleepover with brynne.
we decided we're just going to swich off sleeping at our places
every night.


i love that idea.  

invitation only

today brynne, kevin, and

i

crashed the neighboing church's luncheon.

we were hungry

and they had food

so we were there!

there's something
great
about eating food when you're not invited.

it was delicious, though.

awkwardawkwardawkward

i feel awkward.

like...these last four hours have been so weird.

i'm really not an awkward person

most of the time.

but tonight,

i'm just feeling ever so awkward.

i just feel so awkward.

do you ever feel so helpless

in weird situations

and there's nothing you can do about it

but feel awkward??

that's how i feel.

i got locked out of my apartment

and sat outside the door

knocking

over and over and over

like i was homeless

or crazy.

i was kind of both.

but mainly i just felt awkward.

not being able to get into my own place.

so then i went over to watch glee

with my friends

and happened to see my boy FRIEND

and girl FRIEND

being more than FRIENDS.

and they saw me seeing them

and i felt

awkward.

and i made the situation ten times more awkward than it

needed to be.

but i just felt so freaking awkward.

and now i'm sitting in brynne's room

drinking chocolate milk

feeling awkward as i write all of this

hahahhahahahhahhh

i love being awkward.

brynne let me borrow her sweats.

and they have a hole in the butt.

i was unaware of this.

but she just told me.

now i feel awkward that i was with other people.

and this video

portrays how awkward we really are.

and we had a really really really good time

could today have been any more fun??

nope.

probably not.

i won't bore you with the school part of my day.

so

skipping

to the night time...

brynne, mady, brittney, and I

went to Angie's for dinner.

we were so hungry.

the food was delicious.

if you're ever in logan and looking for a good place to eat,

that's the place to go.

after, we went to go

BREAK A WORLD RECORD.

not even kidding.

utah state has an obsession with kissing,

but i'm not really opposed to it.

we broke the record for having the longest

kissing chain

EVER.

we had 1600 people lined up,

and they even cut the line off after that.

the first person kissed the person behind them,

and then they kissed the person behind them,

and so on.

so pretty much everyone kisses two people.

it took FOREVER.

of course i was in the middle of two guys that i really would have

preferred not to be between.

they were fine and all,

but i just wasn't crazy about them.

but i mean,

how many times am i going to be able to say i broke a world record?

so i kissed them.

i really hate even showing these pictures,

because it was SO WINDY.

my hair was so disgusting.

i'm not going to lie, i'm a bit embarassed about it.

but i have to show the night in

picture form.

so we kissed with cameras in our faces

because they send the video into

 the guinness book of world records.

it was a pretty funny thing to watch this chain of people kissing

for an hour.

and then we had to sit there for another hour while we waited for the chain to finish

and for them to count

everyone.

it was a the real deal.

they mean business when breaking world records around

here.

after the chain was another

TRUE AGGIE NIGHT.

it's homecoming weekend,

so there's a lot going on.

so much kisssing.

haha.

so i had the opportunity to kiss a cutie

(at least i thought so)

his name is casey.

but this time around,

things were much different,

because there was no structure to this evening.

the "A" that you kiss on was surrounded by a mosh pit.

of course.

people were pushing, shoving, kicking,

and we were in the middle of it.

it took forever to get on top of that "A"

but it was well worth the wait.

we had a fun kiss.

and then the only way down was to

crowd surf.

so i fell back into the crowd and went

SURFING.

so fun.

crazy.

look how gross we look.

this was taken after crowd surfing.

brynne kissed casey's friend.

this story gets even better.

as we were walking away,

i ran into one of my many

crushes

up here.

i think he's a cutie and i've loved talking to him.

he was with a friend,

so after talking with brynne and i,

they decided we should take advantage of the fun evening,

and go kiss.

so we got back into the mosh pit.

and had a blast shoving our way through

crazy people

(trying to take a picture of the mosh pit. couldn't even lift my arm up far enough)

it was one of the funnest

kisses

that i've had.

just the whole experience

and getting shoved to the ground

and having people pushing at us

and screaming

and cheering

as we kiss under the moon

and falling into everyone's arms

as i surf across the crowd.

soooooo fun.

i wish i had a picture with this boy,

who will remain unnamed

for privacy purposes

hahahahhahahahahaha

just kidding,

but kind of serious.

but we forgot to take a picture.

it was a really fun night.

mady and i trying to get a good picture...

didn't work haha

i love her.

oh and ben and jerry's has this red velvet ice cream-

listen to this description on the box:

red velvet cake batter ice cream with red velvet

cake pieces

and

cream cheese frostine swirl.

it doesn't get better than that.

well i'm having a sleepover with mady and brynne in the family room

right now.

we're so exciting when we're all sitting on our computers.

cheers.

xoxox

gleek

today was a lovely day.

tonight, christina and i were craving breakfast for dinner,

so we got on pinterest

(finally have an account)

and found an idea for

rainbow waffles.



so we got right on that.

we made waffle batter and separated it into different bowls for different colors.

cute, huh?

we had a lot of fun.

i discovered that i'm really not that artistic.

i try to be.

but i'm really not.

i made the waffles look like poop,

all the colors blended together.

so christina took over

for good reason.

we had cody, jeremy, and clint over for our lovely

breakfast for dinner.

christina and i could have eaten more than they did.

i swear guys can eat sooooooo much

they're like bottomless pits.

so we were kind of

offended

when they didn't eat more.

how ruuuuuuuude.

we even made homemade whipped cream

and cut up fresh fruit.

doesn't this look like something you'd order at a restaurant?

...just pretend.

later, mady and i went over to 16b for a

"glee"

marathon with our favorite people

aj and kevin.

we watched three episodes.

now i'm sitting in brynne's room with her and mady.

we've been here for about four hours.

talking.

and laughing.

we're going to start having more sleepovers.

when someone isn't so gassy.

because that kind of ruins a sleepover.

by the way,

these were the wafles christina made.

don't they look great?

i'll take credit for adding the food coloring.

 

have a lovely evening.

xoxo

empowerment

 



i want more ice cream

i loved today.

went to classes.

got my butt kicked in

kickboxing.

have i mentioned how much i

LOVE

that class????

i love it.

especially the girl that stands next to me and gets

soooooooooo into it.

i mean, it's great, i have full entertainment for the entire sixty minutes.

she's a champ.

after classes,

brynne, mady, aj, kevin, and i

drove to idaho to this really cool place.

it's so hard to explain what we did, but i'll try my best.

pretty much we floated irrigation water in a pipe.

yum.

but it's like a "half-pipe" filled with rushing water.

kind of like the lazy river at lagoon.

but faster.

and colder.

and filled with live frogs.

and swarming flies.

but sooooooooo much more fun.

we did it quite a few times.

had a blast.

i wish we could have gotten a picture of this place,

so you could at least see we were somewhere somewhat cooler than

in the middle of shrubbery.

but knowing me, i would have dropped my camera into the water.

it's happened before.

i changed into my footie pajamas for the car ride home.

we listened to hercules and laughed at the name of the city we were in:

Cornish, Idaho.

cute huh?

and look at us entering the great state of our citizenship.

very fun afternoon/evening.

we got back and went hot tubbing/did laundry.

and then had an ice cream/movie making escapade/movie watching/sleeping

party.

we enjoyed it.

here's a video of brynne and i you can enjoy.

if you get bored, skip to last minute and a half

(at least)

we get pretty into it.

also: the notebook has the greatest love lines ever told.

never disappoints.

xoxo

science day/boring post.

today was a very relaxed day.

and i loved it.

i went to my alien class (Astrobliology) at noon

in my sweats

to take my test.

it's my only class of the day on tuesdays,

and i didn't feel like getting ready

when i knew i'd be coming home and sleeping

right after.

i was a little worried to take my first test in the class,

because i didn't fully know what to expect.

but i am so excited, because i think i did really

well!

i smiled as i was answering questions,

because i knew the answers to a huge majority of them!

i guess alien life is my forte.

i came back to my apartment

and ate lunch.

pretty much all i eat for breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner

is

and i'm not kidding about that.

i buy two boxes at a time when i go to the local

walmart.

after my lovely gourmet meal,

i crashed.

when i say crashed, i mean i was completely

out.

for a very long time.

i rolled over at seven tonight.

SEVEN IN THE EVENING.

i didn't stir in my sleep

once.

not to any of my missed calls, texts, or the sun going down.

my hair was stuck together by my drool

....and that says something.

i haven't slept like that during the day in who knows how long.

i feel great though.

so once i realized that it was night,

i was a little creeped out,

but i got over it quickly.

had dinner --

honey bunches, of course

and got dressed to go do

MORE SCIENCE.

i went to the observatory

(a place set up with telescopes)

to observe the stars, planets,

and possibly aliens.

it was pretty fun.

i realized something today.

i like science.

i've been reflecting on my favorite classes in high school

and the ones that i'm best at.

i came to the realization that one of my strengths,

surprisingly,

is science.

i don't always think i like it,

and maybe i don't always like it,

but i'm pretty good at it.

i have retained the information i learned in

biology, chemistry, and physics.

obviously, i have to work at it,

but i think it's something that i had/have the ability to succeed in.

anyways.

i really like learning.

i have talked to people that read my blog,

and many of them think that all i do is play.

i play.

i play A LOT.

i find a ton of enjoyment in being with people.

i love social atmospheres.

i love interacting with

people.

and i like to have fun.

i like to laugh and have a good time.

but

i can assure you that i LOVE learning.

i know that sounds cheesy,

but i really do have an inner nerd within me.

going to classes is a drag to me,

but i do enjoy when i learn new concepts,

or think in a way i've never thought before.

there is no end to learning.

and

sometimes i think people need to learn to have more fun in life.

does someone want to come clean my room for me?

goodnight or goodmorning

i need to go to sleep.

it's late.

or early?

one of the two.

but i'm not asleep,

i'm on the computer.

feeling akward, because i walked in on my roomate

kissing her boyfriend.

whooooops.

that was a nice way to meet him.

sorry guys....

tonight was the paint dance.

it's just an outdoor dance that you go to in grungy clothes

and paint is sprayed everywhere

the whole time.

besides my random gagging fits

(i've never even liked finger-painting. gross)

and getting shoved to the ground in mosh pits

(still trying to decide what it is about usu and moshing)

and having my poor feet smashed by tongan men,

i had a great time.

truly, i did.

it was a different kind of fun.

 

afterwards,

brynne and i went to

Taco Bell.

who would have guessed it would take 45 to get

a burrito and quesadilla.

they were a tad bit slow at making our food.

and they even still made me pay.

but i'm obsessed with the mountain dew blast there

the "blue drink."

mmmmmmmm i want another one right now.

we went over to kevin, aj, and ben's apartment.

i was loud and woke up their fourth roommate.

not my fault their place is FREEZING,

 i just wanted a blanket.

so they gave me a freaking towel.

i was too dirty apparantely.

we sat and talked to them all night.

i would have slept there,

their love sac is ten times more comfy than my bed

but i had to shower.

too gross.

so then...

that leads me to walking in on my roommate.

it wouldn't have been awkward if they didn't make it awkward.

but they did.

and now it's morning,

but i'm still living the night life.

i have to go to sleep now.

i have a class at noon.

that seems so soon.

oh and i think my favorite part of the day was at about 9:30

when this girl randomly started playing her ukelele

and SINGING

in front of our lecture class of 600 people.

hopped right on the stage.

proceeded to sing for three minutes,

without warning.

why was no one feeling uncomfortable

besides me?

and brynne.

like......who does that?

i bowled a strike.

yesterday was a fun day.

i went to poetry and a beverage with mady

we listened to great live bands,

drooled over a boy playing the guitar AND harmonica at the same time,

while singing occasionally.

i kept saying how he is beautiful and i'm sure he has to be single.

we were talking about him for a good five minutes.

so...convenientally....after the performance he comes over to where we were sitting with a bunch of other girls surrounding us.

we were so excited for our opportunity to talk to this beautiful man.

don't worry....he leans down and KISSES his GIRLFRIEND who was sitting

RIGHT

next to us.

the whole, entire time we were talking about him.

if that's not awkward....i don't know what is.

after that fun event i went bowling!!!!

i'm not the best bowler,

but jeremy and I beat christina and cody.

fair and square.

thanks to jeremy who scored/bowled/earned

all the points.

kudos to you.

it was a good time.

we then went back to their apartment and watched this depressing movie called

8 seconds.

it's a movie made in the 90's

the whole time i was laughing at the clothing worn during that time period.

i think it's coming back...in a much classier, put-together way.

fun night.

today i woke up early and went down to salt lake with mady.

we got mcdonalds on the way, and listened to britney spears.

i love her.

i went down to see my cousin austin who just got back from an

LDS mission

in Ghana, Africa.

it was a wonderful homecoming.

the speakers after him.....i wasn't so sure about.

my mom loved them, too.

it was nice to see my family.

this was the first time i went back to salt lake since moving

up here.

i love them a lot.

i will see you guys more, i promise.

it was a fun day,

but it was also nice to pull up to Logan again at the end of the night.

mady and i were excited to be back in this town.

i love it here.

cheers to a great weekend.

Q: why do sour gummy worms burn my tongue if i eat too many?

i don't have any taste buds in my mouth right now

it was a good time.

today was a fantastic, wonderful day.

it began with my first class of the morning being cancelled

(although i would have loved to know that in advance).

i went to math, and correctly demonstrated how to do

basic algebra

on the board in front of the class.

i seriously did almost ten problems for the class.

i'm really really really dumb when it comes to math,

but i feel extremely smart in this class i'm in.

maybe because it's

basic algebra.

shhhhhhhh.

after all my classes,

i went shopping with mady and JO!!!!!

i love that jo came with us, even though she hates shopping.

sorry jo, i know it wasn't your idea of fun,

but i loved you being there.

i got a couple cute tops on sale.

yayyyyy.

we shopped for quite some time,

and then i came home and took a night-time nap

before going out again.

these all-night things make me exhausted if i don't have enough sleep already.

at about eleven,

brynne, mady, nessa, and i went to a little get-together

with some fun people at their house.

it was a good time.

after leaving, we went to this guy's house and sat on his porch and listened to the rain

for a while.

very calm and quite relaxing.

we got back to our apartments and mady made brynne and i sandwiches.

they were DELICIOUS.

we had the fabulous idea to go hot tubbing at our pool.

it closes at eleven, but it was raining and hot tubbing sounded

SO NICE.

so we got in our suits and walked in the cold rain to the pool.

locked.

so we climbed over the pointy fence

(quite the task)

and enjoyed the rain from the hot tub at 3:00 am.

we went swimming

and laughed

and talked about life.

we had a lot of fun.

at 4, we decided to go on a walk around oakridge.

in our swimsuits.

barefoot.

in the cold.

we love college.

now it's almost five and we're supposedly going for crepes in the morning.

not a chance i'm going.

i'll be sound asleep in my sweats

in my bed

if you need me.

but don't bother coming if you need me,

i won't be waking up anytime soon.

i love this life i live.

i love everything about it.

xoxoxo

Q: what item are YOU most excited to wear this fall?

i can't wait to wear my Minnetonka boots.