Today's been a pretty good day so far. Right now I'm in the library, getting ready to take my midterm for Book of Mormon, which hopefully won't be that bad since it's take home, open book and open note (I may have already said that, but I can't remember). It's due Tuesday, but I really want to have this assignment out of the way so that I don't feel pressured Monday night like I know a lot of people in my building will be---it just always happens that way. It's actually a really beautiful day today. Walking to the library in a long sleeved shirt I actually got kind of hot, which is nice! It will be fun to have a "warm" Halloween.

Tonight I'm going to a concert of the Utah Symphony for my English class (we got free tickets and it's a requirement). Hopefully it will be good, cause I don't want to get bored, and if I do, I might fall asleep which is always very uncomfortable in theater seats. But it's cool that we get to see the Utah Symphony for free.

Today a bunch of us went to go see Hocus Pocus in the Varsity Theater and it was a lot of fun! I haven't seen it for a really, really long time, and then after yesterday's disappointments (it was supposed to be free taco day at Taco Bell--the Cougareat didn't do it...i was looking forward to it for several days...and in response this morning to my roommates commenting on my late hours last night, i just kind of blurted, "No free tacos ruined my day yesterday, so I binged on social life!" it was interesting) anyway, so i really didn't want to be disappointed again....so i was very excited to see Hocus Pocus. It was fun and still kind of a little bit creepy. Then we were going to go to a corn maze, but then we found out it was 8 dollars instead of the original 4 that we thought it was, and so we stayed home and played games which eventually amassed large amounts of people and turned out to be both free and very fun. And now I'm going to write one more sentence on my Book of Mormon assignment for tomorrow (which several of my roommates are going to be up late doing) and then go to bed! Good night!

I'm really excited for this week. Nothing is really happening, but I have a week of just normal homework. That is, until I get my midterm on Thursday from Book of Mormon, which he said will be about 2 or 3 hours....but it's take-home and open book and open note...

But I read Rachael's post today about her freshman year....and I realized that my friends and I need to step it up on the craziness and making memories! Actually, I think we do some pretty crazy stuff, and I guess we've only been in school for a few months....but still....

Tomorrow night, Harriet and I and some other people are going to Hocus Pocus and I'm way excited!! Then I do'nt really know what we're doing this weekend, but it's always a surprise. It's kind of funny, cause some of my roommates are just starting to go out and play and party and they're always talking about it and about how late they stay up and everything....and then they're like, "haha, the roles have kind of switched in our apartments! (cause one of Harriet's roommates is in this group too) Elise and Harriet go to bed at midnight, and we're up till really early in the morning! haha!) and Harriet and I are just kind of snickering and waiting for the sleep deprivation to slam them. We've learned our lesson....theirs is yet to come, and we are eagerly awaiting it.

But it's funny cause their rules are: "well, we work on school stuff Monday thru Wednesday nights, and then we party Thursday thru Sunday!"

But Harriet and I have it planned out much better--we study during the day and then go and have fun with friends till about 11:00 or 11:30 and then we go to bed...and then we get about 8 hours of sleep! And then we still have lots of fun on the weekends! I think even though Harriet and I are seen as more "partiers" we get our work done and our social life in evenly....like for those research papers? Harriet and I were up late working on them...but then I got up this morning (and these same roommates of mine like to get up early and do their work) and I got up at 8 and I asked them how much of their paper they had done...and they said 2 pages (most of them)....the paper had to be 7 pages long....and most of them had class at 9...at the maeser building...so they had half an hour....it was a mess....and i felt much more responsible than my usually very responsible roommates.

Anyway, I think my time management is goign pretty well, which makes me feel better. We have a Book of Mormon assignment due Thursday, but Harriet and I are goign to get it done today becuase we're going to Hocus Pocus tomorrow! Aren't we smart?

My day is feeling very satisfactory so far. My rough draft of my research paper is done. I got my physical science reading/note taking done. I've gone to all my classes. I've eaten some good vegetable beef soup today (out of a can....) with some of Mary Beth's very delicious homemade bread. I don't feel rushed or stressed. I know what the rest of my assignments are for the week, and I will probably get started on them.....as soon as I have a nap :)

Tonight I went to Mary Beth's for some delicious, real food, and then I went to a fireside by Brad Wilcox on dating, which was hilarious! It was a lot of fun. (And we had some BYU brownies). And I have nothing else to say........maybe i'll talk about Harriet, since she's sitting right next to me.

Harriet is English. She is from the town of Yarm, but she says it like Yahm. And she makes fun of me a lot. But she says I make fun of her too, which is true. Sometimes we have insult fights, which are really fun. Actually, we only had it once, but it was really impressive. And she calls the bathroom, the "loo". (Which she just said is the correct name). Harriet just won the best game of ping pong ever. With herself. It was amazing. We are really tired. Sometimes she grosses me out. But other times she makes me smile a lot. Sometimes I imitate her accent, and she says I am freaking amazing at it. Well, maybe she doesn't say that, but that's what she's thinking. Sometimes Harriet and I watch movies under my bed, and then my roommates think we're really weird. Othertimes we put facemasks on boys and then laugh. She says that every food that is delicious is "gorgeous".

I've run out of things to say for the time being, and I'm needing to get to work on my homework, so I will post more later, and perhaps put some pictures up too.

Last night (well, I guess it was this morning) I had a dream that I was on my way to a dance and my two teeth on either side of my two top front teeth (whatever they're called) all got loose and for some reason I pulled them out! (it looked like there were other teeth growing in on top of them so i figured i should just pull them out if they were loose, but then the "new" teeth came out too!" So then i had these bloody holes in my mouth and Mom got mad at me cause why would I have new teeth growing in! And i didn't want to go to the dance and i was crying about my teeth and i was so sad and then my two front teeth started to spread apart cause the other teeth weren't keepign them in line...and I thought that I woke up crying! (but i don't think i really did--it just felt like it). s

When i woke up i immediately ran my tongue over my teeth and was SO Relieved to have no holes and all my teeth were there...when I brushed my teeth this morning, I thought that my smile was the most beautiful that i'd ever seen it....and then i really appreciated all the money that Mom and Dad spent on my smile. THANK YOU!!!!!

So, aside from that really depressing but ending up positive event, my day has been rather uneventful so far. I went to the creamery to buy milk--so now we have milk....and now i'm in the library getting ready to work on my talk for sacrament meeting tomorrow and my paper for monday...it may be a long day in the library today.

But the good thing is, is it is very quiet in here. There's a football game (which i decided not to go to cause i have WAY too much to do) and so hardly anyone is in the library, so it is very quiet. and now i'm getting really tired........

Oh man. Well, i'll get to work on my paper...and thank you for investing in my smile, Mom and Dad! I SO appreciate it!

Thank you all for commenting! that was very nice......last night after Harriet and I came home from the law library, we meant to make my roommate Lauren a birthday cake, but we came home and someone already had!! So instead we went to go to find birthday candles, but no one had them, so instead we put a few matches sticking up in the cake, lit them and told her to blow them out very, very quickly. Then after eating some cake, showering and feeling very clean, Harriet and I decided to be creative and make use of the fact that my bed is about four feet tall--we made a little nest under it and watched a movie! It was very fun...we ate some canned chinese food (haha....it didn't turn out very well). It sounds kinda weird, but it was way cool! My bed is seriously so high that you can get on all fours and crawl under it with out being even close to bumping your head or your back on the bed. But we had a nice quiet night in and went to bed at a pretty good time.

This morning my 9:00 class was canceled, so I got to sleep in, which was very nice. It is wonderful to not have to set an alarm and just to wake up naturally! In a few minutes, I'm going to the Civ movie and then I'm going to the Planetarium for something, I don't really know what it is, but I need to do it for English. the rest of my class is going to Thanksgiving Point right now to see the gardens, but I didn't want to make up the Civ movie and spend 2 and a half hours wanderign aroudn in gardens i've already seen, so I'm going to go to the movie and the planetarium instead. Then I don't really know what's happenign tonight, but chances are good I'll be working on my paper......I can't wait till it's over!!

For real....no comments=no posts on this blog....so comment! otherwise, i might decide that that means no one is reading it and so it's not worth it for me to post on here.

Anyway, Harriet and I went to go see Mary Beth a little bit ago and it was fun talking to her (although it took forever to find her carrel) Now we're studying on the main floor of the law library and it is DEAD QUIET. very nice....now i just have to buckle down on my research paper, which i am DREADING....but in other good news, they cleaned our carpets today, so they are very nice and slightly less flat and packed down and kind of damp...it kind of feels good to walk barefoot on them! and i cleaned my room for it, so my room is very clean too! it's a good feelign....i carved a pumpkin last night, and the hardest part was cutting the top off! (which i'd never done before...i said that to my friend Caralee (who i was carving the pumpkin with--it was a very spontaneous thing--we went to the creamery meanign to get groceries and came back with pumpkins and carving tool things) and she was like, "Me too!" and i said, "My dad always did it, " and she was like, "Me too!" so we were very proud of ourselves (although i did miss carving it with you, Dad!)

I carved Batman into mine...it looks really cool...i'll see if i can put some pictures up of it too.

It's our friend Rochelle's birthday today, and so Caralee and I decided last night that we would make her waffles with strawberries and whipped cream today. But then we thought it'd be really cool if we could do it exactly at midnight, right when it became her birthday. So we went to the creamery to get strawberries at like 11:30 and...they were out. So then we decided to go to Wal-Mart to get strawberries and really hurry so we could do it at midnight. Well.....we lost track of time, and came out an hour later with men's fleece pajama pants with deer all over them, thermoses to have hot chocolate in on the way to class, and then some barely remembered strawberries (which happened to be their last carton). It was a very fun, very spontaneous night...and I LOVE my pants...they're incredible. ANyway, i need to work on my paper.....

I'm sitting once again in the library, this time trying to motivate myself to study. It's getting more like fall here, the leaves are all turning and it's getting colder--it was freezing this morning and then it's just nice crisp fall weather right now. This morning I got up at 5:45 to go to the temple with our ward at 6:00--it was a good experience, although it was VERY cold and I wasn't able to stay for breakfast. I had to meet with my advisor at 8:15 and I kept worrying about it the whole time of whether I would make it back in time to meet her, so that detracted at little bit from the experience even though I tried not to think about it, but it was still a good experience. I did have to leave right after however; the rest of the ward got to go to the cafeteria in the temple and get whatever they wanted for breakfast--and the bishop payed for it. I was so sad that I had to miss it! My writing class came in and they were like, "oh man, i'm so full, i'm so stuffed, that was so amazing, best meal since i've been here, yatta yatta yatta" and i was just like....oh man.......sad.....

but anyway, i need to get back to my homework....

I don't really have time to write in here cause I have so much to do today, but I have to do a journal entry--it's part of my homework I guess. Right now I'm in the library studying for my physical science test, which I'm planning on taking tomorrow. I'm in the process of taking the vocab quiz online for it (you can take it as many times as you want...so you can take it, look at what you got wrong, go back, study, then take it again). I was just checking a few terms, and then I was coming back to take it and hopefully be done with it, and then Blackboard crashed!!! Stupid Blackboard...so now i'm waiting and hopefully it will be up soon so I can get this over with, study some more for the test, and move on to working on my Civ paper that's due tomorrow--which will probably keep me up late. I don't think I'll be able to make it to FHE tonight, and I don't know if very many of my roommates will either, cause we all have that Civ paper--everything is basically creeping up on us very quickly. So after I have my Civ paper turned in and my physcial science test done, then I have my big research paper to do! AGH! lots and lots of work---last night I got to bed at a decent time and then I kept waking up in the middle of the night! It was the first time since I've been here that I haven't slept soundly--the funny thing was, it didn't really annoy me, cause I woke up at 2:00 and I was like, "I have 5 more hours!!" and then after I eventually got to sleep, I woke up at 6:00 and watched my roommate get up to go work in the library on homework before class and thought gleefully that I didn't have to get up for another hour and a half...it made me happy. Anyway, I think I'm going to try to see if I can take that quiz---then I'm going to go home for dinner at some point, finish whatever physical science stuff I need to do, then come back to the library to do my paper. I've found that I really can't study very well at all in my apartment...so Harriet and I go over to Young a lot, but we can really only study there for an hour or two before we get distracted by the company...so if I want to go to bed at a good time tonight, I need to come back to the library.

Anyway, back to my homework!

So, tonight was a stake Halloween party/dance thing, and it was fun, but i got tired! So now i think i'll go to dances an hour or so late so that i don't get so tired. I did end up going as a lumberjack...i had a red plaid shirt and suspenders and my pants were rolled up above my shoes and i had a fake russian fur hat toboggan thing and i put dirt/soot looking stuff on my face, so it was a pretty fun outfit. Pictures will come later when my friends put them up.

We actually had a very scary incident this week. My roommate Krista had a pretty scary seizure and she had to go the hospital and everything...it was VERY scary to be there and to see it. There were lots of tender mercies though--my roommate Ashley was just about to go to sleep, but some quiz thing kept her awake, so she was more alert when Lauren came running and able to call 911 immediately and be coherent and calm. I had just walked in the door and was getting ready to go to Wendy's with some friends (we were going to leave earlier, but Harriet's homework was taking a long time and was being kind of difficult--if she had finished earlier, I would have been gone). I happened to be hanging out with our RA so I knew exactly where she was and ran to get her. Two of the boys I was hanging out with as well were at my apartment immediately ready to give Krista a blessing. There were just so many things that were exactly right at exactly the right time that was too much to be coincidence. I was really thankful that we were all where we were at that time so that we could help Krista right away (oh, and when she had the seizure, she was talking on Skype to a friend from home....the same friend had been with her when she had her first seizure 7 years ago--that was a blessing too--that friend called Krista's parents and was able to give us more information to give to the paramedics when they came). It was a really scary experience, but Krista is doing well now and we're all really thankful.

We had cleaning checks today, which was probably the most stressful time I've had since I've been here...I got home a half hour before our RA came to check and was REALLY stressed out about getting everything done...but we did very well and our apartment is very clean now! So now i'm going to bed, except there's lots of stuff on my bed that my roommates dumped on there while cleaning other parts of the apartment.....anyway....

I'm getting more and more excited for Christmas...it seems so far away, but this last month and a half has gone by way fast, so it won't be that long before Christmas! (which also means that exams will be fast in coming...) anyway, love all of you!

HALLOWEEN COSTUME HELP??

Quick, what should I be for the stake Halloween party tonight?!?! Costume ideas?!?

Well, I don't have much to say, but I figured I should probably update this before everyone starts thinking that I've died....just sometimes I'm way too lazy to actually write in this, so I just write in my journal for a bit...but my 9:00 class is canceled tomorrow! Yay!!! and I don't have it on Friday either, so I'm way excited about that! I do have lots of researching to do, however, in the meantime....

My room is very clean! We just cleaned it a few days ago, and it looks very nice! I'll take some pictures soon and put them up so everyone can know what it looks like :) um....Grandma, I wrote a letter back to you today, but when I went to go get stamps, they were out, so I couldn't send it today...but just know that I have a letter waiting for you!

My bed is starting to get a little too comfortable in the mornings...I might have to fix that somehow...it sometimes is nearly impossible for me to get out of my amazing memory foam mattress soft sheets, comforter, and blankets to get up for a cold mile walk to class (often with wet hair) every morning at 9:00

Well, that's long enough for now, I promise that next time I post I'll have some more substantial information...but it's an update!

So, I kinda lied yesterday when i said i had nothing to say---i'm going to homecoming this week...with a date...and it should be fun! it's so funny to see all the creative ways that people are asking each other and responding. anyway, tonight we all went to starla's to look at their closetful of dresses and everyone came home with one! but now i'm very tired and my arm is doing some kind of weird muscle clenching/cramping so i'm gonna stop typing...but this weekend should be fun :)

i really don't have much to say today....i'm way tired and i want to go to bed. maybe if i sit here for five minutes thinking about what i want to say, then it will count. it's getting way cold in the mornings and then hot in the afternoons...so it's difficult to know what you should wear for the day. i burned my finger like half an hour ago, but Starla has a little baby aloe plant and it's juice saved my finger. anyway, i've definitely been working on this for over 5 minutes....so bye!!

This morning Ashley and I got up at 6:30 and went to the creamery to get stuff to make breakfast for Krista, cause it's her birthday too. So we did that and it was very cold and dark and i was wearing sweatpants and sweatshirt and i felt like i was getting up and leaving for seminary! so we made hashbrowns, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and orange juice for Krista. Then I went to class and stayed after my classes in the library to work on homework and got my 2 hour long take home civ test done, which wasn't necessarily hard, it just took FOREVER. Anyway, i got that done, came home and made rocky road cookies for Mary Beth which didn't really turn out as well as i had planned because of some mistakes i made....i accidently put ALL of the chocolate chips in to melt with the butter...then i didn't let it cool long enough so it was very liquidy...then i put the flour in before it was cooled and it wasn't doughy enough, too runny, so i kept putting flour in till it was of a good consistency...which wasn't good when it eventually cooled all the way and became kind of like a paste...but they were still okay, and now i know how to make them better for the future!

Then we went over to Mary Beth's for dinner and had some delicious chicken enchiladas, mexican rice, baked beans, some good Ruth lemon cake, and whatever other delicious things that i've forgotten. it was fun to be with family, although we were all tired and ready to be done with homework...although Mary Beth has a week off! What a good birthday present!!

anyway, i'm going to bed at a pretty good time tonight, so have a great day tomorrow everyone and for one last time, Mary Beth, happy birthday today!

Right now I'm working on homework and it's killing me. I am trying to do this writing homework test thing and for this one question I have to do this thing but it needs a pop-up to do it...but I can't make my computer allow pop-ups! And it's killing me! This is the first time in college when I've felt totally stressed out about school stuff, and it's only over a stupid homework/little test question! so miserable right now............

But I have to write in my journal every day....so i'm doing it right now......and i'm having a horrible time! but we're working in the lobby right now and there were a bunch of people out here that came in started being loud and i got really mad at them and said something very shortly, but i don't remember what it was.

anyway, conference has been good, i've had fun watching it with friends and eating and making food. tomorrow is Mary Beth and Krista's birthdays and i can't say what i'm doing for mary beth, but i'm getting up early tomorrow and going to the cremery and getting stuff to make breakfast for Krista tomorrow. For FHE we were going to go ice skating, cause Krista used to ice skate, but i'm going to have dinner with Mary Beth and Ruth and Jordan tomorrow instead of FHE (which i want to do anyway--the dinner) but i don't feel as bad cause i'm going get up early and make her breakfast even though i might be up late and i feel horrible and feel like crying....arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Conference

Ruth called me in between sessions and Ruth, Mary Beth, Harriet and I all went to Macey's!! It was incredible! Mary Beth said that we looked like little European immigrants coming in and looking at the huge American supermarket---there was SO MUCH FOOD!!! I used my Visa gift card from the Christophers to buy some stuff--we didn't get a ton of food cause we didn't have that much money, but it was just nice to have choices and to be able to buy stuff at a cheaper price. (oh, i also got a bread pan! Yay for breadmaking!!)

So then Harriet and I took almost everything that we bought and took it over to a guys' apartment and we made a fun lunch and watched conference. We had some gouda cheese with some French bread, nutella, Grandmother Jere-homemade raspberry huckleberry jam that I convinced Matt Bahr to give me a while ago (and there was some forced rationing on this jam...but we did discover that that jam on gouda tastes AMAZING). Then we also had some gala apples with caramel dip and one of the guys made some bran muffins with fresh peaches cut up into them. I'm trying to remember what else we had, cause it felt like we had a ton! But I guess we didn't...anyway, we ate ALL of the cheese (7 oz) and then felt incredibly full and tired. Then we somehow got on the topic of these wraps at the Cougareat that I guess are really good, and they wanted to go get some. And I was like, "Are you guys seriously still hungry?" And one of them said, "I'd be hungry anytime for this thing".

So we went to the Cougareat, but only Taco Bell and Subway were open. So we wandered around in the rain and decided to go to the JFSB and see if they had good sleeping couches. Then we discovered that if you spin around really fast in an elevator while it's moving, you're CRAZY dizzy when you come out. That was entertaining. Especially when we took it to the Kimball Tower...eleven floors. There, we also discovered that if you jump at the end of your spinning (like you normally do in an elevator when it slows down....) then it feels like you're flying for a second and then you just fall. Unfortunately, this doesn't work very well when you've been spinning for eleven floors and no one else in the elevator can spin straight anymore and you jump and then come down really hard on the hand rail...that HURT!

Then we came back and had hot chocolate...then the boys went to Priesthood and Harriet's at work and I'm doing homework--later we're going to watch the Prestige!!! YAY!!!

Oh and last night was crazy fun too! We went to have a campfire up Provo Canyon and roasted marshmellows and played lots of games and had lots and lots of fun, then came back to campus and had even more fun there. Then people gradually drifted off to bed and those of us that were still up went to Kiwanis Park and sat on blankets playing more games and talking. It was funny when people would randomly fall asleep in the middle of games...especially when the round between turns is really short and fast! It was the walk back that was a killer....we were all so tired and were walking so slow that if you'd been like 20 feet away we wouldn't have looked like we were moving. Most of us were wrapped up in blankets so we looked like homeless people! And then we got to the Cremery and decided to sit down and rest...so we sat at the tables outside for a bit and were all getting more tired. I put my head down at one point and kind of fell asleep and when I lifted it back up (a few minutes later, I think) Harriet and Chris had their heads down in the arms, Scott was curled up in a ball on the two-seater bench and Rochelle was just sitting there...and all those other three were asleep! I seriously think it hadn't been long at all, cause Rochelle was still awake by herself...haha. Anyway, I woke everyone up and I was like "Guys! It's been a half hour! We need to go to bed!" Although it'd really only been like two or three minutes, tops. Anyway, it was really funny cause we all looked so homeless! We thought it'd be funny if we just stayed on the table sleeping and seen what people did in the morning when they came to the Cremery, but we all wanted our beds, so we continued on the trek home...which all in all took about an hour! A fifteen minute walk took an hour! It was way funny! But it was lots and lots of fun. It's so crazy how much fun I have every day. I work during the day and get my homework done and then I have so much fun every evening! It's a blast!

Anyway, I need to go work on my homework....so bye!

I don't think I really have anything to say...but it's been a few days since I've posted on here, so I figured I probably should. I had steak and it was heavenly. Harriet, Rochelle and I decided that we were going to buy steak and go over to a guys' apartment to make it and eat it...but not give them any, cause they had their own steak and wouldn't share it with us last night. So while we were at the cremery getting steak, we saw them just as we were leaving! And we were like, "we're coming over to make steak for ourselves" and they were like, "whatever" and we were like, "no, we really are" so then we debated about that for a while, and as we were leaving, i asked one of them (Ben), "is your door unlocked?" and he said, "probably not" and he reached in his pocket and gave me the keys. The other guy (Chris---see? i'm giving names) was like, "Seriously?" and Ben just kinda muttered, "They're gonna come over anyway"...

So then we had the keys to their apartment...but then on the way back, Rochelle had to go to the bathroom, so we decided to go in a guys' apartment and use their guest bathroom and meet guys at the same time....so we ended up visiting one of Rochelle's apartment and meeting all those guys and were there for like 15 mins....and then got back to the other apartment after the guys got home....but we still had steak!!!!

anyway, must go, love all of you!