soooo tired. But satisfied.

Fulfilling the obligation I feel to report on the crazy weekend I just had:
I don't know why. It just feels like when I write things down perhaps I won't lose it so fast.
Anyway, I left for home Friday at two. The girls I rode with were really nice, but they all seemed to know each other somehow whereas I just found them on the ride board.
That evening there was a bbq at Jake's house for all those who were going to participate in the wedding. I was kinda hoping they would do toasts or something but they didn't. As I've said before it was pretty nontraditional. Cali was looking really stressed so Mckell and I decided, after dinner we would take her hostage. So we did. We all got in our pjs, got frozen yogurt and then just did whatever we felt like 'til super late then had one last sleepover just for old times sake. Really really fun. One of the best parts though, was when we got to my house I found a note on the door (from my sisters) that said "follow the frosted flake trail to find a prize." So we did. They had actually laid a trail of frosted flakes through the kitchen and into the laundry room. In there was an empty box of frosted flakes that said "this box may LOOK empty, but it's full of love!" hee hee. Plus we found all kinds of other sticky notes all over the house. My sisters are awesome.
When I woke up Saturday morning, it was to find out that the sniffles I had been trying to suppress all evening had evolved into a full fledged head cold. Oh joy. So I was basically drugged up the entire of the wedding so that I wouldn't sneeze when the preacher asked for anyone to "say now or forever hold your peace." :) In spite of that, the wedding was awesome. I think I've come to better terms with Jake even. Here, I'm going to put up a picture. (p.s. I didn't notice 'til now, but Jake seems very serious in this pic. Not much of a smile, and dark sunglasses. Maybe he works for the men in black instead of the army... :) My dress turned out ok even though the sleeves were pinned on. They're going on their honeymoon in a car covered in creamed corn, bologna, sauerkraut, cocoa powder, ranch dressing, and more toilet paper in than out. Sheesh. It's cuz Jake's best man is nuts. Like really really nuts.
Ok what else? Umm, it was held in the park and we were SUPER SUPER lucky it didn't rain. Jeni Allen caught the boquet and her fiance got the garter. Big surprise there.
Mostly I'm glad it's finally over. So much drama over with. But I'm gonna miss that girl.
Also conference was EXCELLENT. The part that I heard anyway, although I'm sure the rest of it was as well. I didn't see Saturday obviously, and Sunday I kept falling asleep on account of the cold medicine was on.
Oh, I am SOO excited to hear that Brigham City gets a temple! So excited! If it's finished before I'm married, I definitely want to get married there. Who knows, maybe Cali and Jake will be sealed there....although I think they want to to that earlier than like two years from now.
Got back to Idaho about ten. Still sick. Have school tomorrow. I might not go to my first class, we'll see how I feel.

Just spitting out random things.....

So its been quite a long time since I've gotten around to updating this thing.....
A lot has happened I guess but most of it is school stuff. I'm in Idaho (obviously) and just you know, schooling. Yay.
Scary thing.....I am three semesters away from my senior recital. Eee! Like, my flute teacher wants me to start working on the music next semester. It's gonna take that long. That is so crazy! But life just keeps going on and on relentlessly. It can't do anything else I suppose. Unless I had the power to go through time or something.
Which reminds me....the new season of Heroes started tonight and I'm excited to watch it! I don't ever get to watch it live cuz we don't have cable (although we do have a TV that works FINALLY so I can do DDR and we can watch movies) but I just watch it online later. I'm gonna watch it to reward myself for getting all my homework (and maybe a little extra) done tomorrow.
So ya. My workload actually isn't too hard this semester, I only have 13 credits because I dropped my English class. I really like it though because now I can get all my practicing done before 4 0'clock every day except Tuesdays on account of having Master class when I'm supposed to practice. I feel more on top of things than I have in other semesters.
This weekend I'm going home so I can see Cali get married. So that's exciting I guess. It's taken FOREVER but it's finally here. I'm kinda glad to be getting it all over with, and I know Cali is; she hasn't been taking the stress very well lately. I'm predicting that getting married won't make any of the stress go away though. Sigh. My mother is making my dress but since I'm not there to do measurements she's using Amber. We're approximately the same size (like everywhere :) ) so it should fit ok.
Sigh. Today is Monday. I hate Mondays. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Off to Idaho......

So tonight is my last night here in good 'ol Brigham. Yes, I am leaving all my adoring fans and returning to Idaho. Or something like that anyway. I have packed all of my life (except for a small overnight bag) into our marshmallow minivan and tomorrow and like 7:30 in the morning we are going to drive up to Idaho. Why so early you ask? Well we decided to get there in time to go to my cousin's church. THEN we're going to have a somewhat massive Sunday dinner with the Webbs, the Watkins, the Richins/Roemichs AND Aunt Karen and Nichole. It's going to be awesome.

After that it's back to school! I'm really excited about it but also a little nervous. Apparently the stakes have been raised. Or the bar has been raised. Or something. It's getting harder and harder to become a flute player, like the juries are going to be WAY more intense. Also I still have to figure out what classes I'm taking, like I have my schedule planned out, but it could al change depending on what (or if) ensemble I'm gonna get into. Mostly I don't like to think about it, but it's coming so I have too.

One happy thing though is I got a new phone!! Yay! I like it but it's definitely going to get some getting used to. Especially the texting. Sigh. K I just don't feel like typing anything else tonight.
Update when I'm in Idaho.

eyeball headaches and dry lips my favorite!

Well, actually it's not actually my favorite. Thats just how I feel tonight. I thought I'd do a quick update even though it's late.

Lets see, blah blah blah working blah blah blah, I did pick get the materiel and stuff for my dress for Cali's wedding. That was kinda fun....it's going to be lightish teal, and its really really cute! Kinda the same color as that dress that Nyssa has (I think she made it for prom). It's strapless though so we have to make a jacket to go with it.

Also that weekend my cousins, my sisters, and I dyed our hair red and purple. That was fun although after camping most of the sun bleached it out. Jodie's was really purple for awhile. There are, of course pics on facebook. Seriously we pretty much put our whole lives on there.

I went camping with my family this Mon, through tonight. We got home about nine thirty. It was really fun. I turned off my cell phone and with it went the drama. Yay! Even though the nights were super cold, and my feet got blisters it was sooooooooo nice to be away from the drama. And my sisters and I didn't fight once while we were up there which was also nice. I'm so glad we get along so well.

The biggest thing occupying my time now is that Cali's bridal shower is going to be at my house the 29th of August. And Cali accidentallly put 5-9 instead of 5-8 so now we have to entertain a bunch of people for 4 instead of 3 hours. Sheesh its a lot more stressful than I thought it would be. And we have to make the dress which is going to take forever. AND I'm out of money so Cali's mother is funding the shower mostly which I feel really bad about, but I really really can't afford it so it's the only way its going to run. Sigh.

K now I'm off to bed after taking some asprin for aforementioned eyeball headache. Toodles!

Summer depression is setting in.....or something.

Sigh. It has been a loooooooooooooooooong summer. And I still have a month to go. Part of me can't WAIT for summer to get over, and other parts of me really don't want it to end. Also I'm having trouble coping with the fact that my best friend has replaced me, but I don't have anyone to replace her. So I spend a lot of days alone or with my family. On the upside, I'm spending lots of quality time with my sisters.

Speaking of quality time with my sisters....last weekend I went to a secondhand serenade concert with them and it was EXCELLENT. Possibly the funnest day of summer so far. It was at Thanksgiving Point which is like 20 mins away from Provo, and about 30 mins or so past South Salt Lake if you care. It was an outdoor performance so we just put a blanket out on the grass. We weren't that close to the stage though we did walk up as close as we could when secondhand serenade actually started singing so we could be with the group that was jumping up and down and belting out the songs insead of in the back where the people were mostly making out on thier blankets. :) A group called Single File performed first (they were ok......) then We Shot the Moon who was better (and they gave us free samples of their new CD which is pretty good) Then a band called Parachute who's song "she is love" is apparently really popular on the radio although I don't really like it. Hee hee ok. Then at like 9:30 (it started at 7) secondhand serenade actually started and it went til 11. Man I had so much fun it was great. And thanks for letting me rant about it for a really long paragraph.

Seriously nothing else has happened this summer. And nothing else is planned. I don't even get to go to peach days because its a week later on account of Labor Day being a week later on account of September starting on a Tuesday. Usually Peach Days is the last weekend before I go up, but its the weekend after this year. Bummer. And I was kinda planning on being in the Peach Queen Pagent (for the experience and also cuz my job would have sponsored me) but I guess thats out.

I am going to go to drive my mommy to Salt Lake on Friday so she can get her chemo, and since it takes like 4 hours my Aunt Wendy is going to take me (and Jodie) to lunch and also perhaps shopping if we're lucky. So I guess that'll be fun.
K thats it. Bye

Update!!

Heeeeeeey there folks! It's an update!!!
Pretty much my life is about chicken and tacos and stupid stupid drama right now. But thats ok.
Lets see.......
Well I went to Heber with Cali last weekend to go shopping and also a family reunion. The shopping was really fun, the reunion was really boring especially since it wasn't even my family. To alleviate the boringness Cali and I took like a billion pictures which are, of course up on facebook. So go look at them if you want. Also, maybe I'll stick one up here. Might as well.We're nerds I know, but life is so much more fun that way. I know I'll stick up the one of us with the gigantic Stormtrooper made of Legos. He was quite the guy.

K what else? Well there's the whole wedding drama thing, which I guess is just panning out the way most do with lots and lots of drama. But I don't know if I've said but I get to throw the shower which I am sooooo excited about. I'm going to do it in my (well not MY but my parents? K whatev you get the point) backyard cuz it's real big. Not sure what we're going to do yet, games, or whatnot but it's going to be awesome! Planned for the last Sat in August.

I did go see Harry Potter though not on opening night or anything. Like everyone I've talked to LOVED it, but I actually didn't like it that much. I really liked the 5th one so maybe my expectations were too high. The thing was that it didn't really ever have any action. Or maybe it didn't seem like it because I've read the books and I know whats going to happen. Someone ahead of me got mad cuz I was getting bored and when they were in the cave I practically shouted "Don't touch the water!" Also the Inferi looked like Gollum. I kept expecting them to go my precious! Hee hee. Also I was mad they skipped the whole battle at the end. And instead of acting everyone just stood around awkwardly. Ok fine I'll stop criticizing. I told Jodie I'd go again with her so I'm giving it a second chance.

What else? Oh. I officially made my nerd status go up 7 points by purchasing Star Trek 1-4 from Kimber for 20 dollars. I didn't really like 2 but for 20 bucks it was worth it. Ahhhhhhhhhh. If that stupid movie had never come out I would not be wasting so much of my time on this. Oh well. I usually get really obsessed for awhile and then I'm done. Shouldn't be much longer 'til I'm done.

K well that's all I can think of. Hmmm last night I went to a potluck in the park with my sisters and my mama, (who is doing really well despite the fact she's now a baldy. I totally thought she'd cave and buy a wig but she didn't! She's awesome!!!!) and then came home and just hung out with them. It was nice, I haven't done that it quite a while.
K well I guess I'm pretty much done. Have fun y'all and I'll see if I can't remember to do this a little more often.
Bbbbbyyyyyyeeeeee

"Being a nerd means you're allowed to get unironically enthusiastic about stuff.....when people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is "you like stuff!" which is just not a good insult at all." -John Green-

Back to the usual as you can see.....

Sigh.
It's been forever since I've updated this. I really need to. Life is life is life is life. Same as usual I guess. Today I went to work 11-4 and then at 6 they called me in til 11:00. Things like that happen way to often to me although I really need the money.
Umm something huge huge huge huge that has happened is that Cali is engaged to Jake now and I'm her maid of honor. I'm really happy for them but it is so much work! Holy cow! And I'm not even the one getting married. Also there is way too much drama. I think when I get married drama is going to be illegal. The date is set for Oct 3 so I'm gonna have to come down for the wedding, and also tons of other things that first month. I really hope school won't be too crazy.
Speaking of which I can't even register for the bloomin' classes I need to and I really need to get it figured out soon. Sigh. It's just hard to think about school when there's so much else to think about.
Oh Rena went home that was sad. We really miss her. Uhhhhhh what else? I've spent a lot of time walking with my dad, ddr-ing with Jo, and watching way too much star trek to be considered normal.
Tomorrow and Saturday I'm going to be attending a massive family reunion on my mother's side of the family. I don't think all of my moms brothers and sisters have gotten together in a very long time so it's going to be quite the reunion.
Oh also my mom is doing really well. She had her first bout of chemo a few weeks ago and her hair is starting to fall out a little bit. But she staunchly refuses to by a wig and says she's going to wear scarves the whole time. I think she's going to cave. After chemo there's going to be radiation every m-f for like 3 weeks. She'll be done in like October. Sigh. Man I've been sighing way too much. I should be more cheerful. :P :)
Ok I'm done. Sooner than last time I hope.