I just want you all to know that we are singing this song in choir. Except we won't have string accompaniment. Feel free to come and watch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iRxZMudrAY&feature=youtu.be
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Today
If we're starting "today" at midnight, then today started spectacularly! I was looking for my anatomy book that I used in high school, which I bought because it's the coolest book EVER and it was only six dollars. Anyway, Emma had ear infections a ton when she was little, and now she has giant holes in both of her eardrums. I have no clue how she has no hearing loss. So I was going to read the chapter on ears and figure it out. Much to my dismay, it wasn't on my desk with all of my other books. I started digging around under my bed, and I looked in one of the boxes. My book wasn't in there but something else was. I found my black jacket! The one I'd given up all hope of finding! Hallelujah! Also, there was another pair of jammie pants in there, which was great because all my other ones were dirty except for my shorts, and it was REALLY cold yesterday.
After I woke up this morning at 9, I went out to the kitchen wearing my newly found pink plaid PJ's, my fuzzy pink slippers, and my ginormous duck robe. Toasty warm. :) I was sitting at the kitchen table with Emma, fighting to keep my eyes open while eating. We had been there about 5 minutes when she turned to me and said, "Look," and then she opened up the blinds really fast. It was snowing! Not just wimpy snow either. Like, we're talking snowflakes as big as Manhattan. I still can't decide if I'm excited, full of dread, or just shocked that it's snowing in October.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCubllXIe10
Anyway, after all that, I showered, got ready for the day, and did a little homework. I had a meeting with my Advisor lady today at 11:00, and the bus was leaving at 10:40. At 10:39 I started walking over to the bus stop, because I live less than a minute away. I was wearing my newly found jacket and some shoes that are definitely NOT the warmest, and definitely not even close to being waterproof... in fact, they're more like sponges. So I got to the bus stop and didn't see the bus. I figured I was a little early, so I stood there waiting for a few seconds. As I was looking around, I spotted the bus at the it of Wyview, driving away without me! I SPRINTED after it waving my arms, to no avail. It left me there.
I was NOT going to be late to this meeting. I turned on my heel away from the dag blasted bus exit, and started walking toward campus. On a normal day, it usually takes me about 25 minutes to get to the middle of campus, where all the important buildings are. By this point, I only had about 18. Good thing I'm an excellent speed walker. Thank heavens for marching band.
I walked all the way there, including up the MASSIVE hill at the end of the walk, and went into the Wilk, which is where the meeting was. I ran into the Advisement Center at 11:04, worried that the lady I was having the meeting with (Irene) was going to hate me and yell at me for being late. I talked with the guy at the desk and told him what I was there for, and he buzzed Irene. She came out at like 11:20 or something ridiculous. I apologized for my lateness, figuring she was thinking something like, "She wasted my time, so I'll waste even MORE of hers." She replied with something to the effect of, "Oh you were late? I was the late one. I was just having a nice pleasant chat with one of my colleagues and didn't even look at the time. Also, I've started taking steroids, so I hope you don't mind if I take forever to lay out all of the calcium and vitamins I'll have to be taking now, because steroids are bad for your bones apparently. I play the violin and the viola. You'll need to buy these expensive pens to write in your planner with, it's the only way you'll be organized. It's okay though, they're only three dollars a piece! My favorite color is purple. Let me write that IN YOUR PLANNER because I'm slightly doofy. 'I like purple', there we are. Great. You're taking 15 credits this semester? Wow, that's a lot of classes. You'll need to study at least 700 hours per week. I hope that won't be a problem. Here, you should fill out all of these to-do lists and weekly calendars. Also, I want you to color code them with the fancy pens you'll be buying. blah blah blah..."
My reaction:
I got all sweaty and gross for nothing. She was 20 minutes late.
I don't exactly care if you're taking steroids.
Heck no woman, I am NOT buying no three dollar pens. You crazy.
Don't write in my planner, even if your favorite color is purple. (By the way, she was wearing a LOT of purple.)
Yeah, I know it's a lot of classes. Thank you for pointing that out.
The meeting was supposed to be only 30 minutes, and she kept me in there for an hour. And I asked if I was supposed to bring the schedule/to do lists back so she could check them off or something, and she said that sounded like a great idea and to come in sometime next week. Nice.
After I was done on campus, I walked up to the bus stop so I could go home. I got there right on time, only to see the bus pull out of the parking lot just as I got there. NICE. At least it had stopped snowing by then. I called mom, which improved my mood by about 6000%, and then the bell tower played the Harry Potter theme music, which made it even more awesome. The bus came after about 20 minutes, right as it started snowing again. I sat next to a really sweet girl from my ward named Alyssa and it was great. She's from around Augusta, GA and she has the same accent as Sister Adair.
Anyway... I just wanted that documented.
In other news, I got a letter from John! Aunt Susan's John! He's doing pretty good. He'd LOVE some letters though, I'm sure. So get on that. :)
I don't have ANY tests this week!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNA!!! I can not BELIEVE you're 17, old woman. I still feel like I'm 17 all the time. Sometimes I forget I'm actually 18. You are so beautiful and hilarious and intelligent and wonderful and fun to be with and awesome and I reeeeeeeally love you a lot! I miss you all the time. I'm really glad we're sisters and also that we're besties 4eva, yo. And hey, now you can get your DRIVER'S LICENSE!!!!! 10:00 AND 2:00!!!!! Even though you're definitely a clog pump. And a shawty pomp. And this video reminds me of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3v4nC3iuMo
Marching practice is INSIDE today! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are all awesome. :) Love you!
Friday, October 19, 2012
Perfectly Happy
I'm done doing homework for the night, this crazy week is FINALLY over, and now I'm sitting on my bed in my jammies listening to Luke Bryan and eating a bag of salad (because I'm vegetable deprived). AND, in the morning, there's no game, just a trumpet breakfast at Clif's house where I will be stuffing my face with hashbrowns, bacon, orange juice and Clif's wife's famous stuffed french toast, which actually sounds disgusting, but which I will eat anyway.
PLUS, I didn't shower today, my hair was in a ponytail, I had zero make up on, and I was wearing my GIANT plaid shirt... and 3 people told me how beautiful I looked today. And I only knew one of them. The other ones were just random people in classes.
Also, I'm going to a corn maze soon with the trumpets.
Pretty much, right now is fabulous, and a welcome break.
PLUS, I didn't shower today, my hair was in a ponytail, I had zero make up on, and I was wearing my GIANT plaid shirt... and 3 people told me how beautiful I looked today. And I only knew one of them. The other ones were just random people in classes.
Also, I'm going to a corn maze soon with the trumpets.
Pretty much, right now is fabulous, and a welcome break.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Crazy Week
I've got the craziest week of my life coming up. I'll be taking three tests this week (Humanities, Physical Science, and New Testament), a smaller quiz (Env. Bio), turning in a paper I've got to redo completely, since I did it wrong the first time, giving blood for the first time on Wednesday, and I've still got practice three times this week. Wow. I would really appreciate some prayers on my behalf... I'm going to need all the help I can get this week.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Sorry this took so long ma
This is the one picture where you can actually see my uniform. I know it's not a good one, but still, it's a picture.
Also, I found this little gem:
Pretty much, we're great.
PS- That guy is Devin, the guy who makes me laugh at EVERYTHING he says, regardless if it's funny or not.
PS- That guy is Devin, the guy who makes me laugh at EVERYTHING he says, regardless if it's funny or not.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Holy Mackerel
I love General Conference! I think it is pretty much the most awesome thing ever that we get to hear the prophet and his apostles speak directly to us twice a year. I always come away from conference feeling spiritually rejuvenated, and pondering the talks that stuck out to me most.
This year's 182nd Semi Annual General Conference has had me pondering on things all day long; I feel like today's conference was an especially good one. I've been rereading my notes from Elder Cook and President Uchtdorf's talks from the morning session, and I really liked M Russell Ballard's and Neil L Anderson's talks from this afternoon. It is truly amazing how they knew just what I needed to hear!
This morning in the beginning of the session, President Monson made an extremely important announcement that pretty much flipped my world upside down. I'm kind of freaking out a little bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_nfQUt7d2o
BAM. There it is. This was my reaction when I heard that- :O -> : ) -> :'D. This has gotten me so excited for the young men I know, like Spencer, Colin, Luis, and Kevin, all from back home. All of them will be eligible to leave for missions in December! (Well, Colin, Luis and Kevin could go right now if they wanted!) It is so crazy and wonderful. Crazy wonderful. And then, to top it off, they lowered the age for women to 19. There were several shouts/tears of joy around my apartment, and we heard a bunch of other people through the walls too. It was truly a historic moment that will change everything, and I will never ever forget it. Even just thinking about it now gives me chills.
This has caused me to do a LOT of reflecting and pondering today. For some girls in my ward, the decision was easy. I know of like three people who have decided to go on missions, some after just this semester because by then they'll be old enough. There's also a girl in my section, Julie, who decided she was going to go as well. This is so amazing!
Here are my thoughts, as far as serving a mission goes:
1. I'll be 19 this April, so I would have at least this whole school year done if I were to go, which is excellent.
2. Every decision I've ever made in my life I feel has been very heavily influenced by people who are older than me in our family. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just the way it is, especially because I've always been slightly indecisive. When I played trumpet in band, it was because pretty much everyone else did too. I tried out for drum major mostly because Beck did it. When I applied for college, I only applied to UGA and BYU, because that's where almost everyone else went. I feel like this will be the first decision I have ever made completely on my own. No one else in our family has ever had this opportunity before. I'll have people all telling me to do different things. But in the end, it all comes down to what I feel like the Lord wants me to do. There will be many prayers involved, and I'd appreciate them from yall also. : )
3. Financially, I don't know if it'll even be possible. I was talking to Spencer the other day, and he said for guys you're supposed to have $10,000 saved up. I assume for sister missionaries it's a little less, just because missions aren't as long... but yikes! I don't know if I'll EVER have even close to that amount of money any time soon.
4. I feel like going on a mission would be the best thing I've ever done. For the past while (since I graduated), I've just been feeling kind of lost. I very recently made a rough outline for my life (the whole physical therapy thing), but I just don't know- classes are SO HARD and I've been trying really hard, but I just don't know if I'm going to be able to make the grades to get into medical school ANYWHERE. I feel like if I went on a mission, it would help me to mature both spiritually and emotionally, as well as teaching me important things like responsibility and diligence, both of which could probably be improved from what they are right now, and those lessons would enrich my life forever. There's really no reason NOT to go, if I can get enough money saved up. Unless...
5. Dating. Obviously, this is something I have pretty much no control over what happens when, but it's been kind of lurking in the back of my brain all day long. What if while I'm on my mission, should I go, my husband is here at BYU just waiting around for me? Although, I guess the Lord wouldn't give me the green light if I was supposed to get married instead...
This is a very exciting but also very scary thing. Prayers are VERY much appreciated on my behalf, just so I can have some idea of what I'd like to do. I've got a while to think this all over, but I see no point in putting it off until my birthday. : )
This is so exciting! Hooray for modern day revelation! And missionary work! And general conference!
Oh, PS- If anyone knows where my black jacket is, you should let me know because I don't have it anymore. : ) I love you all!
This year's 182nd Semi Annual General Conference has had me pondering on things all day long; I feel like today's conference was an especially good one. I've been rereading my notes from Elder Cook and President Uchtdorf's talks from the morning session, and I really liked M Russell Ballard's and Neil L Anderson's talks from this afternoon. It is truly amazing how they knew just what I needed to hear!
This morning in the beginning of the session, President Monson made an extremely important announcement that pretty much flipped my world upside down. I'm kind of freaking out a little bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_nfQUt7d2o
BAM. There it is. This was my reaction when I heard that- :O -> : ) -> :'D. This has gotten me so excited for the young men I know, like Spencer, Colin, Luis, and Kevin, all from back home. All of them will be eligible to leave for missions in December! (Well, Colin, Luis and Kevin could go right now if they wanted!) It is so crazy and wonderful. Crazy wonderful. And then, to top it off, they lowered the age for women to 19. There were several shouts/tears of joy around my apartment, and we heard a bunch of other people through the walls too. It was truly a historic moment that will change everything, and I will never ever forget it. Even just thinking about it now gives me chills.
This has caused me to do a LOT of reflecting and pondering today. For some girls in my ward, the decision was easy. I know of like three people who have decided to go on missions, some after just this semester because by then they'll be old enough. There's also a girl in my section, Julie, who decided she was going to go as well. This is so amazing!
Here are my thoughts, as far as serving a mission goes:
1. I'll be 19 this April, so I would have at least this whole school year done if I were to go, which is excellent.
2. Every decision I've ever made in my life I feel has been very heavily influenced by people who are older than me in our family. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just the way it is, especially because I've always been slightly indecisive. When I played trumpet in band, it was because pretty much everyone else did too. I tried out for drum major mostly because Beck did it. When I applied for college, I only applied to UGA and BYU, because that's where almost everyone else went. I feel like this will be the first decision I have ever made completely on my own. No one else in our family has ever had this opportunity before. I'll have people all telling me to do different things. But in the end, it all comes down to what I feel like the Lord wants me to do. There will be many prayers involved, and I'd appreciate them from yall also. : )
3. Financially, I don't know if it'll even be possible. I was talking to Spencer the other day, and he said for guys you're supposed to have $10,000 saved up. I assume for sister missionaries it's a little less, just because missions aren't as long... but yikes! I don't know if I'll EVER have even close to that amount of money any time soon.
4. I feel like going on a mission would be the best thing I've ever done. For the past while (since I graduated), I've just been feeling kind of lost. I very recently made a rough outline for my life (the whole physical therapy thing), but I just don't know- classes are SO HARD and I've been trying really hard, but I just don't know if I'm going to be able to make the grades to get into medical school ANYWHERE. I feel like if I went on a mission, it would help me to mature both spiritually and emotionally, as well as teaching me important things like responsibility and diligence, both of which could probably be improved from what they are right now, and those lessons would enrich my life forever. There's really no reason NOT to go, if I can get enough money saved up. Unless...
5. Dating. Obviously, this is something I have pretty much no control over what happens when, but it's been kind of lurking in the back of my brain all day long. What if while I'm on my mission, should I go, my husband is here at BYU just waiting around for me? Although, I guess the Lord wouldn't give me the green light if I was supposed to get married instead...
This is a very exciting but also very scary thing. Prayers are VERY much appreciated on my behalf, just so I can have some idea of what I'd like to do. I've got a while to think this all over, but I see no point in putting it off until my birthday. : )
This is so exciting! Hooray for modern day revelation! And missionary work! And general conference!
Oh, PS- If anyone knows where my black jacket is, you should let me know because I don't have it anymore. : ) I love you all!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Mood Swings and Hilarity
I feel like for the past few days I've been going through extreme and slightly abrupt mood changes. There's been hours of greatness, where I feel super productive and on top of the world. There's been yesterday, where I just felt slightly indifferent to everything and also a little anti social. There was last night, where I could not stop laughing at EVERYTHING. And then today has been rock bottom, filled with lots of crying and chips ahoy and feelings of inadequacy and being overwhelmed.
I just want to say that even though I was feeling so awful, pretty much as soon as I started watching this video, I laughed my head off for like 10 minutes straight. It's so hilarious. It's also really weird though, just a heads up. But it's too good not to share. Enjoy the awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ji6HQJOM_lc
I just want to say that even though I was feeling so awful, pretty much as soon as I started watching this video, I laughed my head off for like 10 minutes straight. It's so hilarious. It's also really weird though, just a heads up. But it's too good not to share. Enjoy the awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ji6HQJOM_lc
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
KALLIDGE!
I am so brain dead right now! I got up at 7:45 today, studied for my EBio test till around 9, and had class from 10-3, which included my test. Which isn't too bad, right? (By the way- I feel like the test went pretty well! But after my first test which I was extremely confident about and ended up getting a 67 on, I don't want to get my hopes up too high... I'm hoping I got an 80, to be safe.) But THEN in New Testament, Brother Griffin mentioned, "Oh, and by the way, don't forget your "Scholarly Research Paper" is due tonight at midnight!" Wait... WHAT?!?!?!?I spent the whole rest of the class worrying about that stinking paper. How could I have missed this?
I got home around 3:15, made cake bars for FHE and did all my dishes in speed record time, and started in on my paper at about 4:00. I ended up not even getting to go the FHE, and everyone ate all the cake bars. : ( But the point of this whole story is, I just turned in my paper about ten minutes ago. (It's 12:02 right now.) I've been sitting at my kitchen table, hunched over and squinting at the screen for almost 8 full hours. Wow. What has college done to me? And I still have all my homework for tomorrow to do. Ew.
In better news, at ward prayer on Sunday, a guy named Hunter made a bunch of balloon animals. We would call out an animal, and he could make it every time, without fail. It was pretty awesome. Also, my ward has started playing a ward-wide game of assassin. We each have a target, and to kill them we have to hit them on the wrist with a spoon. Mine's a girl named Ashley who I've only talked to like once. But I saw her playing basketball once, so I'm hoping I can just stakeout the court and play with her and then kill her when we're done. :) Also, it's going to be super sneaky because I got one of the little tiny sample spoons from the creamery today. For those of you who aren't creamery spoon savvy, they're about as long as my pinky. Oh yeah. Stealthy. Once I kill her, I get to take on her target, and at the end the winner is crowned the ultimate assassin.
No, I haven't gone on any dates yet. However, things with Jamie are going swimmingly, and October is the month of corn mazes and haunted houses and pumpkin carving... and I reeeeeally like pumpkin carving. *cough* Also, there's a guy in my ward named Ben who looks just like Julian Smith. His name's Ben.
Thanks to everyone who's written me letters! They are SO great! They put a smile on my face for like 3 days, for real. It's great! Thanks!
I'm the visiting teaching supervisor! I can't remember if I already told yall that. But I'm really excited! I can't wait for visiting teaching assignments to come out!
Alright- I've got to get away from this blasted computer. Love you all!
I got home around 3:15, made cake bars for FHE and did all my dishes in speed record time, and started in on my paper at about 4:00. I ended up not even getting to go the FHE, and everyone ate all the cake bars. : ( But the point of this whole story is, I just turned in my paper about ten minutes ago. (It's 12:02 right now.) I've been sitting at my kitchen table, hunched over and squinting at the screen for almost 8 full hours. Wow. What has college done to me? And I still have all my homework for tomorrow to do. Ew.
In better news, at ward prayer on Sunday, a guy named Hunter made a bunch of balloon animals. We would call out an animal, and he could make it every time, without fail. It was pretty awesome. Also, my ward has started playing a ward-wide game of assassin. We each have a target, and to kill them we have to hit them on the wrist with a spoon. Mine's a girl named Ashley who I've only talked to like once. But I saw her playing basketball once, so I'm hoping I can just stakeout the court and play with her and then kill her when we're done. :) Also, it's going to be super sneaky because I got one of the little tiny sample spoons from the creamery today. For those of you who aren't creamery spoon savvy, they're about as long as my pinky. Oh yeah. Stealthy. Once I kill her, I get to take on her target, and at the end the winner is crowned the ultimate assassin.
No, I haven't gone on any dates yet. However, things with Jamie are going swimmingly, and October is the month of corn mazes and haunted houses and pumpkin carving... and I reeeeeally like pumpkin carving. *cough* Also, there's a guy in my ward named Ben who looks just like Julian Smith. His name's Ben.
Thanks to everyone who's written me letters! They are SO great! They put a smile on my face for like 3 days, for real. It's great! Thanks!
I'm the visiting teaching supervisor! I can't remember if I already told yall that. But I'm really excited! I can't wait for visiting teaching assignments to come out!
Alright- I've got to get away from this blasted computer. Love you all!
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