Laura and I learned "Winter Song" by my girls Ingrid and Sara B. An overall success, if I do say so myself.
A cheer-up day on Friday, cupcakes from the Cocoa Bean quite necessary. (Irish Cream for me, Better than Sex, for Laura, Dirty Turtle for Heather, Ultimate Brownie for Hannah)
Now that both parts of HP 7 are out, we had a small get-together to watch both parts back-to-back on our good friends' projector screen. This party was excellent, and complete with Butterbeer Cupcakes, Pumpkin Pasties, Dumbledore's favorite Lemon Drops, and actual (non-alcoholic, of course) Butterbeer. (Not shown.)
Heading home this Friday bright and early (6:45 a.m.) this Friday for the baptism of all baptisms! Spiritual experiences and excitement sure to come!
Time for another week....my first tests are coming!
So naturally instead of reading my research articles for Psych 302 tomorrow
I choose to blog.
So....I have
Lots and lots of confusion.
Lots and lots of fear.
Lots and lots of stress.
Lots and lots of sleepless nights.
Lots and lots of things to do.
Lots and Lots of blonde hair and thinking if it should be turned auburn instead.
(**and also lots and lots of love for my beloved roommate, Laura Beth**)
Lots and lots of impatience for my new home starting exactly 3 months from today.
Please just do yourself a favor and mute the terrible music on this video and continue to listen to the playlist.
Lots and lots of emotion regarding the Gospel of Jesus Christ and an immensely increased testimony of missionary work and the power of the Book of Mormon. An profoundly life changing decision was made by an enormously influential person in my life, and I couldn't be more ecstatic.
I believe. So strongly.
And on that note, LOTS AND LOTS of excitement to return to Dallas next month to welcome said person into the next step, the greatest adventure of his life. Yes, if you haven't already put the pieces together, one of my nearest and dearest has chosen to enter the waters of baptism. If I get permission I'll one day post more of the story.
But for now, thank you so much. I've been walking in the clouds because of you for weeks, and I hope this spiritual high never wears off for either of us.
My heart is so full and my testimony so much stronger.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen....or I guess I should say morning now?
Happy 12:30 a.m!
I just got done watching my beloved TV show, Parenthood, and then (because it's obviously still far too early to go to sleep just yet) proceeded to take crappy webcam photos.
So this is me, barely over a week into 2012 and exactly a week into Winter Semester 2012.
Quick! Scroll down to the bottom and press pause on my playlist so you can listen to this song: I looooove City and Colour and they kept me plenty company while doing my long hours of homework this afternoon.
I regret x 10098208488343 having to miss this concert on 11.11.11. Oh well.
Anyway, here's the rundown of my first week back in the big beautiful mountains of Utah.
Tuesday 1.3
Arrival
Buying books
Filling up on gas
Reuniting with amazing roommates and meeting new friends
Delicious vegan dinner with the fantastic and kind Moreland family in SLC.
Having fun and opening gifts
Catching up, talking and watching movies
Wednesday 1.4
First day of school
Plenty of syllabus discussions
Feeling the stress settle in
Mission prep-going to be the most amazing class ever.
French 201-so excited but I never realized I knew so little
Quick nap.
Midday quick road trip back to SLC.
Humanities-this class is going to eat my dinner but it is SO interesting.
EARLY night.
Thursday 1.5
French class-encore
TA meeting-getting more hours to get paid to do homework? Don't mind if I do!
Psychology Research, Design and Analysis-ughhhhhhhhhhh. I can't wait to get back to the interesting stuff.
Exercising!
Friday 1.6
Français-une plus temp cette semaine
Physical Science audit day 1-adorable nerdy German professor (who says Einschtein for Einstein. Loveit.)
Finally buying food-no more eating cookies and chips for dinner.
Long naptime alone in the apartment. Much needed.
Mistakenly thinking with Amanda and Laura that our $10 monthly Provo Gold's gym passes would work at the super facility in Orem. Embarrassing.
But!!! $2 tanning? Ok sure.
Saturday 1.7
Sleeping in
Doing absolutely no homework.
Climbing a mountain. Apologies. I have to put in a few pictures here.
Catching snowflakes
Snow-covered fence
Beautiful Colors
Snow shoes
Winning at Self-Timer
The path already traveled.
Making it to the top
Being triumphant.
It was foggy all the way up and then the clouds cleared just as we made it so we could see the whole city!
Horizon.
So maybe that was more than just a few pictures. But it was amazing. So rewarding.
Anyway...
Going to see Amanda's play
Watching movies
Sunday 1.8
Not being able to sleep until 6:30 a.m.
Trying to get up at 8:00 a.m.
Not happening.
Going back to bed.
Waking up at 1:00 p.m. for Break the Fast
Meeting New People
Reading for Humanities--SO INTERESTING.
Watching Dear John and The Notebook--girl's night movies much?
Monday 1.9
Mission Prep-I LOVE the plan of Salvation
French-again. Ahhhhhh.
Physical Science-getting hit on by someone with knuckle tattoos. Thanks but no thanks.
Lunch with Creytn :)
Learning the best news of my entire life--an old best friend may get baptized!
Realizing how important the gospel is and how much I love knowing that someone new recognizes the light of Christ in them.
Humanities-you know what I think about that class already.
Skyping
Tuesday 1.10
Free hot cocoa, donuts, and ride to school-yes please and thanks.
French-once again.
Devotional from Cecil Samuelson-marriage took all of 10 minutes to come up.
First library time.
Psychology-what is science? I learned today, as if I had no idea before.
Watching The Girl Who Played With Fire-Swede version. So so good.
So much homework.
So much Arrested Development.
And now True Grit and heading to bed.
So here we are.
Christmas break was great, by the way. I love and do miss my family. I felt so at home reuniting with Sydney Brooke and Stephanie Elise. It was busy though, I worked more than I anticipated, and I found out I'm going to France (but you already knew that). So now I have a big fat check to write to my father. Excellent. Worth it.
This semester is going to be interesting, and hopefully somewhat less impossibly difficult than Fall (as far as schoolwork goes), but I have next to no motivation to do it. I know that France is so close, I just think that these next few months should just.......pass on by. I want to go right now.
Finally, the twins and I have always wanted to start a style blog, so we've got one in the works, in the very early stages. But the idea is to have a place to show how easy and fun it is to be a college student on a tight budget and still find a way to look put together and stylish.
Keep your eyes out for the upcoming facebook page, but for now help us to get off the ground by going to
