It's really cold

But I refuse to drive a car and/or walk a mile to class until it is impossible for me to survive the three blocks I drive to class. I get to park 20 yards away from my classroom.

Exceptional

So about a year ago I became familiar with surveys and ratings that gave me the option of giving "exceptional" as the highest rating.
Exceptional? Isn't that WORSE than "fair" or "poor?" Like: "hey, this looks awesome EXCEPT you really messed up the whole story"
That makes sense. It was great--excepting an attribute--which made it exceptional.
I have always thought this term was NOT a compliment.
Then today I looked long and hard at the word, decided to read a definition, then firmly told myself: "okay, this word does not mean that." And so I had to change because I was wrong.

Wise

Today my teacher was like "Elizabeth Smart comes here! (to BYU) Has anyone seen her? Is she in any of your classes? Well she's not in any of mine. I haven't seen her around"
This made me think of Camille Cleverly, and I wondered if Elizabeth Smart helped search for Camille.
Then I thought of their last names: Smart and Cleverly.
All I am saying is that if your last name is Wise, you better watch out. You are next.

Bon Voyage, Marcilyn

When I first met you, I thought you were someone from my high school. One of those ballroom dancer girls. But you were not that girl, you were so much cooler!
We became roommates and I still recall the smell of our room, your smell. It was kind of a musky fall scent, and I will never forget it. When I think of that room I think of waking up in the middle of the night with those red and black elder bugs crawling on me.
We broke up with our beloved boyfriends and listened to break-up songs together on our front porch. That was our crucial bonding moment as friends. I looked up to your for being so strong and so independent. You are a smart girl and I wanted to be like you. (still do, girl--you are going to change the world!)
It's been a year now and you are going away. We talked on google chat and I sometimes look at our conversations and they make me laugh. I will miss your face and your scrunched-up frusterated/sillybilly look that you make sometimes haha
Have fun in england! Love you!

The second day of school was good too...

Yeah and I am sick.

And just barely I was bumping my head against the corner of the elevator on my way back to the office and 5 inches from my face hiding behind the railing was a spider...a big spider with strips meaning it was a HOBO

So I told my supervisor and asked if I should call the custodian of the bldg (because something like this was not in my job description)

Then I was like "no, I can kill this spider"

So I went to the custodial closet and retrieved a long pole with a duster at the end
And my supervisor supervised me as I poked the spider
And it jumped down and ran really fast toward another corner and I yelled (not remembering to be professional) "HE'S STILL ALIVE, HE'S RUNNING FAST!" so my supervisor stepped on him Real good with her shoe and I yelled, "YOU GOT HIM! HE'S DEAD!!"

And some random lady I've never seen before walked by and was like "It's just a spider? gosh."

But that was exciting

oh and the pole broke in half because that spider needed to go no matter what sacrifice was made.

So I put the broken pole/duster back in the custodial closet with a note that said "Sorry we broke your pole, it was used to kill a spider. <3, B-202"

Back to School, Back to School

Well I just went to my first day of School!
It will be a good year.
I have yet to go to the rest of my classes, but the first two were a HIT!

Goals for this semester:

• Talk to someone in each class everyday--whether it be the same person or move around and meet new people.
• Do every single reading assignment
• Go to every single class
• Complete every single assignment
• Stick to my hot hal cause and go down two sizes
• Stop making fun of people
• Stop saying things without thinking (atleast don't do it so frequently--like Sunday night my roommate and the guy she recently started dating were standing up to leave and I asked "so are you guys off to bed?" I meant are each of them, separately, going off to bed to SLEEP. Then later I was talking about how I liked the decorations in our living room except that jar full of sand and seashells and that we needed to throw that out the window...yeah...the owner of that jar, my roommate, was sitting right next to me. I didn't think it was her's!)

And...I need to get a hot man in my life...probably not going to happen

Have you ever "worked" the full 8 hours without doing a blasted work related thing?

Well today I did.

Explosion

This morning my office is empty because all the full time employees are at a meeting. Well our office bought dough nuts and chocolate milk for all the student employees, like me, who were not invited to the meeting.
Well as I was setting out the food and milk, I remembered that we had a half gallon of orange juice in our office refrigerator. I wanted orange juice more than I wanted chocolate milk. So I got the orange juice out and observed the expiration date which was a little smudged near the bottom, but it looked like it said 8/29/07. So I removed the lid and started pouring when i realized "oh yeah, I need to shake this up to get the best taste" So I closed the lid back on and shook it shook it shook it! I barely started unscrewing the lid when it hissed--like a soda would. So I went over to the trash, which is located between a cubicle wall and a shelf full of books and folders. Orange juice was pouring down the sides of the jug, so i put it over the trash as I unscrewed the entire lid and KA BOOM! orange juice exploded everywhere! Anything within a 3 feet diameter was covered--including three shelves of books and the entire wall on the opposite side...not to mention the orange and white striped jacket I am wearing.

Well I got a rag from the custodial room and got it cleaned up, looks just fine now. So I sighed in relief as I poured what was left after the explosion into my cup. Got my dough nut and sunk into my chair...finally! I took a big swig of the orange juice and my mouth was filled with the most repulsive, sour, and fizzy liquid. I spit it out, more orange juice flying everywhere (not on me this time) and threw the jug and my full cup away.
Yep, the date said 6/29/07. Gross.

Goodbye, Liberty

Liberty Square.
My friends warned me about you:
reeking with American Eagle and pooka shell necklaces.

Things I want to remember about this place:

• The person I was before (normal) and the who I am now (psycho)
• How my relief society teacher looked like my first blind date...and I couldn't look at her.
• The flowers I found on the brink of death and so I watered them and now they are beautiful
• I Capture the Castle movie in the lounge
• The fact that I ate a total of 3 meals there
• My ruthless bros before hoes roommate (and in some cases bros before boyfriend)
  
• The pool
• The red lips shaped soap bar
• The time where I said the opening prayer for sacrament meeting: After the opening hymn I forgot that I was supposed to pray so I just sat there...then I remembered and said "OH!" kind of loud. On my way toward the podium I forgot to be graceful so I walked in my infamous "gestapo" way and stumbled to the front. During the prayer I got mixed up and forgot it was morning so I said "we're thankful for this morni-afternoo-morning..." and everyone busted out laughing.

Tag, I'm it.

Thanks to Krystal, I got tagged. I bet you are so excited to get to know me better!

Jobs I've had:

• Cold Stone Creamery
  
• Seven Peaks (for one day)
  
• Sandal Salesperson for a mall kiosk
  
• Michaels Arts and Crafts
  
• BYU-Idaho Custodial
  
• Kneaders Bakery and Cafe
• Inbound Sales rep
  
• Administrative Assistant for Dish Network
• Receptionist for Student Academic and Advisement Services at BYU
  

Favorite Movies:

• All the Harry Potter Movies
  
• Love, Actually
• What About Bob?
  
• Any Jane Austen Movies (sense & sensibility, emma, p&p)
• Disney Classics

Places I've called home:

• Provo, UT
• Orem, UT
• Rexburg, ID
• Glendale, AZ

Favorite TV shows:

• Hannah Montana (seriously)
  
• The Office
• So You Think You Can Dance

Vacation Spots:



Fav foods:

• CRAB LEGS
• Seafood mmmm
• Cream Cheese Chicken
• Flan
• Raspberries
  

Favorite Websites:

• facebook.com
• gmail.com
• blogger.com
• macu.com
  

Places I'd rather be:

• by the ocean
• Anywhere foreign
• watching a sun set
• reading a book
• all of the above at the same time
  

Now I get to pick a friend to "tag": Holley (seeing you there)

What I have been eating for lunch for the past week

the shoes I will be walking in beginning tomorrow

cousins

I love my cousins.
Cousins always laugh at me. They think I am funny. I love when people laugh at me. Even when they are laughing AT me. Because it's not my sense of humor, it's my embarrassing way of saying and doing things.
Cousins always love you. They don't live with you for prolonged periods of time and you don't have to see them everyday of your life, so that makes their visits extra special.
I feel completely comfortable around cousins. Not usually the older ones because they think I am annoying. But when they aren't around I can really let loose and be crazy and usually people laugh.

Pet Peeve #2: the word "sweet"

The word sweet should only be used to describe the antonym of sour and the synonym for someone who is nice.
Anyone found using this word in another context will likely be wearing a pukka shell necklace.
Nothing against Emily.

It's just a pet peeve, if you say it like that I will still love you.

8:42 AM Emily: sweet!

me: you work til 5?

Emily: no, 4.

me: perfect

Emily: So if you want, I'll go check out the stuff, and you can pay me later, if you want

My mom has to go too for another gift

8:43 AM Any ideas?!?

me: oh okay

yeah

i'll just pay you

Emily: unless you want to go with me!

me: i would love to go with you

Emily: sweet!

me: i get off work between 12 and 2

so it could totally work

Emily: sweet!

8:44 AM Are you going to be at home, or at your apt?

me: at my home

no one is at my apt during the day so i just chill with the parents

Emily: sweet!

Would you mind going with my mom too?

me: no not at all

Emily: hehehe, she's so cool, it'll be a party! ;)

me: YESSS

Emily: Sweet, so we'll swing and pick you up when I get her

SPOILER ALERT! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I bawled. 3 times. And I haven't cried for months!

I love this book so much. Before reading it I made the conclusion, as i am sure many others have also, that the 7th horcrux is the lightning scar on Harry's forhead. I thought for sure Harry would have to die in this book to truly kill Voldemort! But I, as Voldemort, underestimated Harry Potter.

The snitch deal was driving me crazy the entire book! I kept thinking, "HEY!! What about the snitch?" It was worth the anticipation, because it was so beautiful when his dead loved ones walked him to his supposed death. That part was so touching!

I was totally Harry in this book, usually I am Hermione.

I really like that Dumbledore was able to talk things through with him. There was no way Harry could carry on without the information that he gave him. And how crazy it must have been to have Draco's mom lie to Voldemort to help Harry! Ohhhh so good.

That whole wand deal! I loved the look on Voldemort's face! I totally remember Draco disarming the wand from Dumbledore! AHHHH

There were so many twists that were so brilliant. J.K. Rowling is a master artist! I want to read through the whole series now...and make connections and go completely crazy, then go back to a normal life.

THANKS JK!

INFP

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

What's Your Personality Type?

My FHE group

darkwing duck!

I decided to go dark. BECAUSE out of the millions of people I asked, only a handful told me to go blonde--and that was mostly because I threatened them. The rest firmly suggested that I go dark.

So dark is what happened.



I like my bangs. Thank you hairdresser.

transformers

Today I am having my hair transformed to a different color...dark brown or blonde?

my mom told everyone

about the 2nd cousin thing. my Aunts and Uncles and cousins are in town. everyone knows and they laugh at me.