iTunes

After weeks of tears, depression, and pure rage iTunes is BACK!!! (and I got a new iPod)

911!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This post I wanted to blog about all the cool things that are happening like cutting down Christmas trees, going to Christmas programs, and drinking hot chocolate, but that has all been bumped to make room for an emergency.

My iTunes stopped working!!!!

I have spent months compiling all my favorite songs with their actual titles, singers, and album artwork and now it is all gone. I could cry.

I thought things couldn’t get worse until I found out that all my Microsoft programs have seized to operate also. I HAVE FINALS THIS WEEK!!!

The best part is the nerds over in the Tech lab will not help me because it’s a personal problem. It makes me want to hide their glasses and see how they handle that personal problem.

Anyhoo, life is unbearable and now I’m going to go read a book.

P.S. If this following sentence holds any meaning to you because you’re a computer genius please comment. My computer said, “This application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details.” It also said, “iTunes was not installed correctly please reinstall iTunes, error 7.”

Turkey Day!!!

On Thanksgiving day Ryan and Monica had me watch the kids for a bit while they went ran the annual Turkey Trot. For entertainment I had the kids make turkeys out of cupcakes and candy. I loved how each kid had a specific style of turkey. Nicholas's turkeys had red M&Ms everywhere which made the turkeys look like they were bleeding (you gotta love little boys). Audrey's turkeys were utterly perfect, she followed my directions to the t. Sarah's turkeys were hilarious and no matter how many times I explained that the turkeys eyes are not on its butt she continued to put them there ha ha.
This is how the turkeys were suppose to look. Pretty cute huh

This is Ryan and Monica showing off their cool ribbon they got for running.

Although Madilyn didn't participate in the cooking festivities she kept everyone smiling with her cute antics. Jill decorated the table with her beautiful table cloth from Egypt. She's our own fancy nancy.

The Kids Table!

The Adult Table. This years food was beyond good thanks to my families awesome cooking skills.

After we cleaned up cara and I found the wishbone and I say with great pride that I won and now I'm waiting for my wish to come true.

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!!!

This weekend I decided the best way to document my holiday experience was through various posts showing all my family's shenanigans. Today I woke up in thatcher and had to go to one of my classes cause one of my genius teachers decided the best way to make us all hate him was to have a test on the day before thanksgiving. Well Mr. sociology teacher mission accomplished.


So I show up to class ready to take the test and make a mad dash to my car when he decides to lecture for 30 min. Then he puts it up to a class vote if we want to stay for another 30 min lecture or just take the test and leave. I thought that no one would vote for the later choice, but it seems I underestimated the classes obnoxious suck ups. Five kids voted to stay and learn, who actually goes to class to learn, weird concept huh.


Anyhoo the class slackers and I voted the lecture idea down, so I took the test and scurried to the valley. When I got there I met up with the fam at our favorite hang out spot, COSTCO!!!


At Costco I found exactly what I'm getting Adam for Christmas. (he's like the younger brother I never had)

I also taught Madilyn how to pose for all the holiday pictures ha ha

After we dragged mom out of Costco we went home to cook for Thanksgiving. At home Jill came up with the coolest meal, its called dinner in a pumpkin. What we did was carve out a pumpkin and fill it with a mixture of meat, onions, cream of chicken soup, mushrooms, water chestnuts and different spices. After you fill the pumpkin up you put it in the oven to cook. Then you scrap it out of the pumpkin and scrap some of the warm soft pumpkin sides out too. It was SSOOOOO GOOD :)

This is everyone enjoying the wonderful meal......and Adam being......well Adam.

Later, Adam got a hold of an empty bottle the entertainment possibilities seemed endless. So This is a picture of him drunk...........and this is when he passed out. ( I think the main reasons we keep him around is simply for the laughs ;)

HALLOWEEN

Every year in the dorms there is a decorating contest for the scariest dorm room. This year my fellow community mates went a little over board. Our story line was that our dorm was a insane asylum, but it had to be condemned after one of the prisoners went crazy and butchered everyone and now it is haunted by their spirits. So the following pictures show how amazing and disturbing my roommates all are ha ha. (o and the finally product had strobe lights and creepy sounds that included laughter, screaming, lightning, and chains rattling coming from all around the room)

This is what people saw when they walked by our dorm.

This where we watch t.v.....and witness terrifying murders.

This is why they shouldn't allow guns in Insane Asylums. (I thought it was standard protocol but apparently not)

These are some of the dead crazies that are haunting the place.

O and this is my favorite, this is the table where the attending doctors performed surgeries on live victims. So on the table there is chains to hold them down and a variety of torture devices that they used. I don't know if you can see this well but there is an eyelash curler covered in blood and an eyeball thats been stabbed by a knive......now that is pretty sick

In order for them to do all of his our room was under constant construction for two weeks. And do you know what I did for two weeks.....sprinted straight to my room because it completely creeped me out.

Suicidal Statistics

I just finished my Statistics test and do you know that feeling that you get when you know you’re prepared and you know exactly what to expect on a test. So you go to your class with confidence and the most amazing thing happens when the teacher hands you your paper…..

You get it, every problem makes sense and is exactly what you’ve been expecting. Formulas that you spent hours memorizing come to mind within seconds. Your eyes fill with tears of gratefulness and your heart fills with joy. For that glorious hour you are a genius, an intellectual giant, no problem can thwart your personal mission for an A. And when the bell rings you leap out of your chair and skip to the teacher and hand in your highest score yet.

Well have you ever experienced that feeling…..

Yup neither have I

………I think I deserve chocolate

Saturday Surprises

This weekend I did two unexpected, crazy, and completely out of character things:

First, I woke up early on a Saturday…. 8:00 people!!!!

Second, I went to the gym after I woke up!!!!

I know most of you are sitting staring at this screen in unbelief, but belief it cause I couldn’t make this stuff up.

Since I had never been to the gym so early on a Saturday….or ever on a Saturday for that matter, I didn’t know what to expect. Usually every day of the week there is a certain crowd at the gym for example,

Monday’s are for all the girls who ate too much junk on the weekend and are determined to work out all week......but typically barely make it past Monday.

Tuesday = the regulars

Wednesday’s are the girls from Monday who are mad at themselves for missing Tuesdays work out.

Thursday’s = the regulars

Friday’s are for the girls who know they are going to eat to much on the weeked so they decided to get a head start on burning all those carbs.

This weekend I discovered that Saturday’s are for the elderly.

No joke I walk in and everyone is over 70 and most have canes and walkers to help them get from machine to machine. One guy even had someone carrying him around.

But my favorite person there was this little old lady who could not fathom leaving her pet parrot home so she brought him to the gym in his cage. Now that is a dedicated pet owner.

David and Goliath

Last night my roomies and I went to eat at the lunchroom and boy were we starving. Some people complain about the food, but I usually can find something really good to eat and being poor and underfed makes you love just about any kind of food that is given to you. Well when we got in line we discovered that it was quesadilla night!!! On these special occasions students are allowed to pick their toppings and have a special quesadilla made up just for them. The line for the quesadillas was much longer then the regular line, but I thought it would be totally worth it. I got to the front of the line and ordered mine with all the toppings I loved and continued to the wall to wait patiently as they cooked it.

Then came the football players from practice. Now these brutes like to cut in line and have on occasion stolen others ordered quesadillas that they have been waiting for. This has always upset me, but no one has been stupid enough to actually take mine so it’s never been a personal problem.

Until tonight when it got personal.

I’m standing waiting for about 10 minutes when Marisa tells me that someone has stolen my order and I knew it would be one of those insufferable football players. So I followed her pointed finger and found my thief.

A 6’8” 300lbs massive giant of a man, but this did not in the least discourage me from clamming what was rightfully mine. This is how the confrontation went down.

Me: Excuse me, is that you’re Quesadilla

Brute: umm….

Me: Cause I’m pretty sure its mine

Brute: uhhhhh….

Me: (with hand outstretched) can I have it back. Thank you

Brute: ( looking like a little boy who has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar) sorry.

BOOYAAA!!!

The quesadilla was retrieved.

(And even though it sounds like I was polite there was a lot of animosity in-between the pleasantries lol)

Great, Just Great

Ever since I've been back to EA I have been really good about working out everyday. Now to many this is quite shocking since I don't do healthy "stuff".... EVER.

Well today I was working out before work and I barely made it back to my dorm to take a shower before I went to work. I didn't have any time to fully put myself together for the day, but I figured that I would be working in the game room and hardly anyone ever comes in (mom would be so ashamed). SO I ran to work and my boss tells me she wants me to answer phones for her in the main office......

Bahahahahah the one day I look gross I have to work in the main office!!!

I tell you life has a funny way of messing with you.

Blessing in disguise

This week the air conditioning in our main school building has gone out. Now most kids are complaining about the heat, but I think it’s wonderful. Why you ask, because it’s not just us college kids that are hot…

The teachers are too!!!

And they will do just about anything to get out of the sweating classrooms, even if it means letting class out early. Yup, so far I’ve had three teachers let us out early because they could no longer take the heat. And for a student there is nothing better than class getting out early!

I swear life gets better and better each day :)

Greetings From College

Hello family.....and anyone else who has stumbled onto this blog!

School is in full swing and I've been so busy that I havent been able to update you sooner on my adventures.

I think the best way to get through all the excitement of my week is to do a day by day break down.

Monday: I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed and a bit nervous to start a new year….when I notice that all my sheets and blankets were wet. I was so very confused until I looked at my wall, about 10 streams of water was pouring down onto my bed ha ha only I have this kind of luck.
After I moved my bed into the middle of the room and notified the proper officials I went to school.
My classes were really great.
What I haven’t mentioned is my new roommate. Since Anna (my old roomie) decided to abandon me, I was going to have a random raving loony come live with me (thank you Anna :( ). Well I have been waiting for this new girl to move in all weekend and she still hadn’t shown up.

Tuesday: I don’t know if any of you have slept in a tiny bed that is not next to a wall, but it is very unnerving. The entire night I was terrified that I was going to fall out of my bed.

Today my wall stop raining which was a good sign and all of my classes went great. Still no sign of a roommate so I started using her drawers for purse storage and I moved my Love Sac to the middle of the room to make a reading area :)

Wednesday: I moved the bed back to my dried up wall and slept very peacefully. My new roomie still has not shown up so my roommates and I are using her dresser as our personal pantry.

Thursday: Last night the fire alarm above my bed started making this awful screeching noise every 10 seconds on the dot. Needless to say I was not a happy camper and I received very little sleep.
Roomie still hasn’t come, so to liven up her side I started decorating it.

Friday: I got the fire alarm replaced and am very pleased. Today Marisa and I rearranged my room in order to make me a nap/movie watching area. I LOVE having the whole room to my self ha ha.
There was an institute dance that night that was really fun, but I have to admit I only went for the root beer floats.
Mom and Candace also showed up for the weekend to decorate Kyle’s trailer.

Saturday: Today there was a school sponsored scavenger hunt using cell phones and texting. And basically a bunch of people organized into groups of six and we had clues sent to our cell phones and in order to solve them we had to run all around campus. It was sssoooo much fun. My group ended up winning by like 20 min ha ha. After that the fire department came and made a huge slip and slide and a ton of people were there. I had a blast!
That night Mom, Kyle, Candace and I went and watched a movie and ate out, it was a great night lol.

Sunday: Sunday was really great I love my ward. And after church my Bishops wife invited Marisa, Kelly, and me over for dinner. It was so good :)

Well all in all it was a wonderful week and I’m very excited for the rest of the year!!!

Babysitting Madilyn

Last weekend I went to the valley to babysit my niece at a resort while my sister went to meetings all day. The day started out great madilyn was happy, she took a long morning nap, and was being really cute and sweet. Then came lunch...

Madilyn refused to eat her vegetables and when I told her to stop knocking the spoon away this happened. Apparently she did not find my tone acceptable. The rest of the afternoon she did really great and at dinner she kept making the cutest faces that I found adorable.

So the weekend was really fun and I hope Madilyn doesn't harbor any hard feelings over the lunch incident.

Finals Playlist

Everyday I listen to a playlist on my ipod when I walk back and forth from classes. And with finals coming around I made a playlist that was sure to express my feelings towards finals haha ya there is definately a theme with the titles.



Under Pressure by Queen

I Say A Little Pray For You by the guy off My Best Friends Wedding

Stayin' Alive (barely) by Bee Gees

I Will Survive (Public speaking) by Aretha Franklin

Suppermassive Black Hole by Muse

Smile (though your heart is breaking) by Nat King Cole

Winner Takes it All by McFly

(psychology) Gives You Hell by All American Rejects

All These things I hate Revolve Around Me by Bullet for My Valentine (wow this ones really crazy)



But seriously music really helps in stressful situations :)

Happy....wait what holiday is it?

Today was my first day of finals, and let me tell ya it has been a blast….and by blast I mean its been awful. Not only is every one plagued with the feelings of wanting to burst into tears from all the stress, but on top of that we’re freaking out from all the weight we’ve gained by eating massive amount of chocolate to cure the stress. (wow life is an evil circle)

But the lunchroom knew how we would be feeling so they decided to spice life up with decorations and a nutritious meal. But the funny thing with the lunchroom is their inability to correctly decorate for a holiday. Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, so there was red, white, and green streamers it was all very festive. Until we got to the milk dispenser, there in plain view is this.

I don't know about you guys but I thought Cinco de Mayo had something to do with Mexico...my mistake.

Well after that fiasco I got in line for lunch and I decided on a simple burrito because I figured the lunchroom could not mess up beans and cheese.

I sat down to eat to find that the burrito tasted funny. So I opened it to find turkey, stuffing, cranberries, sour cream, spinach, mayo, and guacamoli. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!

What kind of sick joke is that?

My roommates and I just started laughing, only the geniuses at the lunchroom would think that this would be deemed acceptable by college kids. Needless to say I through it away.

Sometimes you just have to say no.

The Cherry On Top

About an hour after I wrote that last post I realized I HAD to go to my public speaking and psychology classes cause I have tests in both. So I ran blindly to school and sat through two hours of mind numbing class while people did double takes on my weird eye to find that both teachers postpone the tests.

Great, just great

My lack of an immune system

So this morning I woke up ready to greet the day when I realized I couldn't open my EYE! I ran to the bathroom to find Quasimodo staring back at me. That's right one of my eyes was swollen shut and the other was very very pink. When I finally got the other open it was pink with some weird stuff in it that looked strangly familiar.....that's when I remembered my little niece who I had played with who had PINK EYE

dun

dun

dun

(dang you madilyn)

So I layed in bed while I waited for the doctors office to open and remembered all the good times I've had this year with diseases. I've had the common cold 5 times, stomach flu 4 times, strep throat once, a strange case of hives, and now pink eye. All in all a great year:)

Now I'm going to wait to go to the good doctor and get eye drops. You may wonder why I'm not going to class in the mean time...well aside from the fact that I look grotesque and my eyes are blurred up from some weird goop (great imagery right) I broke my glasses three weeks ago. Swell isn't it?

Well I'm off to go ring some bells
(the first was my eye in the morning and the second was my eye later that day, big improvement right. O and I know this is weird to post but its to cool not to)

My Birthday (it was on March 27, so this is really late)

On my birthday I awoke to the faint noises of my roomies shuffling about. Now I usually wake up to this because they all decided that mornings are to be enjoyed through exercise while I decided that if anyone woke me up before 8 I would kill them.

Anyhooooo I woke up and they were surrounding me singing a rap and dancing for MY BIRTHDAY! (ya I’m not kidding) So I got up and found to my surprise balloons and streamers covering my room. How cool is that.



Then they had me open my gifts and every one of them gave me my favorite candy. There was a huge bag of Plain M&Ms, my favorite chocolates, and triple chocolate M&Ms, and that’s when I knew that these people GOT me. They even got me popcorn with M&Ms which if combined create a life changing experience. I was so excited.


I also got a cd from Anna and an iTunes card from Marisa. So for the rest of the day I bought really fun music.

On my way out of our room my roomies made a path that had little squares that tell you to go ahead 2 or go back 3...well I got stuck on go back 3 and thats why I was so late to English (thanks a lot kelly). Yah I did go to school (I know, who goes to school on their birthday!) I was tempted to skip, but what was I going to do all day….sit in my room. Fun.

Well that night we went and ate out at Casa Manana and then we went to Kelly’s sister’s house to make Pazookies. If you have never had one of these you are missing out my friend. What you do is make giant cookies but you don’t cook them all the way through they you put ice cream on them and eat um ….mmmmmmm delicious.

After we ate we went back to the dorm and did really crazy makeup and got all dressed up and played America’s Next Top Model…..yup we’re that weird. After that we made popcorn with M&Ms and watched a movie.

It was a great day, and thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday and to my roomies who made it amazing.

The Dance

Last Saturday my friends and I got all gussied up and went to a dance. The dance was out in discovery park in a three story building…how cool is that. Need I say we were all very excited….

until we got inside.

There were only a couple of people and all of them were high schoolers, YIKES, and yes I know it was only a year ago that I was a little tike excited for a big college adventure, but now I get to look down on these youngiens (kidding and yes I frequently make up my own words).

We decided to stay and make it cool bahahahaha.

Well pretty soon tons of college kids came and it got really fun for a bought 30 minutes and then there were too many people. (I sound like Goldie locks).

Soon the dance floor got crowded and very interesting. Growing up in Saint Johns my idea of dancing is bobbing up and down and on a slow dance being a good foot away from your partner. This was NOT how they were dancing; I just couldn’t fathom how anyone would be comfortable doing what they were doing. Not only did it not look fun but it seemed highly scandalous. I could go into details but this is a family blog. All you need to know is that they were all very close to each other and it wasn’t pretty. They basically showed Baby and Jonny what real dirty dancing is all about (if you have not seen the movie Dirty Dancing….you are not missing out. Sorry if that offends anyone).

And the most shocking thing about the dance was they were mostly Mormons. WHAT!?

My roommates and I were flabbergasted, and there were return missionaries dancing too. Now my roomies and I are going to make it mandatory that we see our husbands dance before we’re married, the more awkward and far apart the better hahaha. I have to mention there was a return missionary who came up to us and was as disturbed as we were. Needless to say he got major points in our book, as did all the guys that looked liked deer caught in headlights at the dance. (didn't know girls kept points, well now you do)

Anyhoo we still had fun in our little corner bobbing away. I love how weird my roomies and I are :)

Best Day EVER!

Today has been GrEaT so far, do you want to know why...

1. I got B+ on my paper in English with minimal work Booya! thats a baby step from an A

2. I got an A+ on a speech in my Public Speaking class Woo Hoo!!!

3. All the lights went off on campus.....this has endless possibilities

I won't have to go to work with the lights off

All my classes will be canceled

The lunchroom might have to start giving away barrels of their melting ice cream

I will finally get to....

The lights just came on


CRAP

(though the girl stuck in our elevator will probably be happy... huhhhhh whatever)

Irreconcilable Differences

This weekend I went home for a few days of relaxation (if you count hauling barrels of leaves out of my yard relaxing) and came back to my dorm which was in complete chaos! Two of my community mates are moving out due to irreconcilable differences and drug related issues.
One of them, I’ll call her Julie, has the cops in our community looking for her cause her roommates caught her with drugs

nice.

And the other one, Sally, has been such a big meanie to her roomie that she is now blessing said roomie by removing herself. Well to truly understand the situation of Sally I’ll have to tell what happened last week. I walked into my community and was disgusted, there was dishes in the sink that has some kind of fungus growing in them and there was a two month old bouquet of flowers still sitting on our counter letting off a foul odor. All of these dishes and flowers belonged to SALLY! And to top it off I was talking to my roomie Kelly, who has mono, who said that someone (cough cough sally) had been using her spoon and bowl and leaving it dirty on the counter, GROSS!

So I kindly wrote a very nice note saying please do not use other people’s dishes and throw away your flowers. Also Kelly wrote that they needed to clean their (sally’s) dishes.

Someone (ahem Sally) wrote back saying, My dearest Roommates you are so immature. Mature people clean everyone’s dishes when the sink is dirty, we’re in college (o that’s where I am, I thought I was in hell).

bahahahahahaha What kind of logic is that? The only dirty dishes were hers!

Anna and I thought this was hilarious, we just laughed and laughed. Seriously, that’s the kind of argument you want to use, maturity is cleaning up after yourself not hoping someone does it for you. So we kindly wrote back that anytime she wanted to be mature and clean our dishes (if we ever have any) she was totally welcome to. YES I know this was not the mature way to go about things but it was hard to resist a sarcastic comeback to such an easy target, I kind of hope she gets Kelly’s mono hahaha kidding, I’m kidding…sort of.

So now sally is leaving….I think our sink will be very lonely without her dishes.

Halloween

Yes I know that it is no where near Halloween but I thought I would do a recap on the EAC days before the blog. For our first college Halloween my roommates and I did not get the memo that Halloween was an excuse for girls to dress immodest and be a princess or a fairy in tights and a mini skirt. I too was a fairy, but instead of going the cute/ho route I dressed just about as ugly as I could get. Anna and I bought fake blood to put on our necks so it looks like our throats were cut and painted our faces white with dark hollow cheeks. It is reported that when my mom saw the pictures she said and I quote," Ya they are not getting asked to dance." MEAN! But my roommates and I did not care, cause what is Halloween without zombies. Soooo we freaked people out at least we'll always have good memories.

Happy Saint Patricks Day (The Art of Blog)

I finally figured out how to post pictures, playlists, and let people leave comments. So i'm going to start showing you all the fun things my roommates and I do. Just yesterday we found this million dollar bill on someones car. Well we picked it up and apparently its a religious card that aks if you do certain sins then condems you to hell. Anna and I just loved it, we took pictures with it and ended up going through the parking lot that night and stealing some for our room. So I'll have to post those pics later tonight.

So this picture is when Candace and I were in Target and we found to our amusement Beer hats for Saint Partricks day. Since we are lowly poor college students we had to take a picture instead of actually buying them. And today Anna and I found beer looking bottles that actually contain Cream soda for tonights festivities. It is very exciting.

(I feel like I have mastered the art of blog hehe)

Why you should stick with the Classics.

At the lunchroom the workers have begun to get really creative. Instead of giving us, o lets say pie, they serve us chocolate cake and put in on top of chocolate pudding and then sprinkle it with Oreo crumbs. Now I have been one to make fun of this and say the occasional, “Who does that to food,” but I decided to change my ways and try it before I knocked it. So I went into the lunchroom with the intent of grabbing whatever the dessert was and eating it even if my survival instincts were shouting, "Noooo!".The delectable dish for the day was lemon jello with strawberry yogurt and topped with granola and gummy bears, o lucky day. It was like eating chunky, strawberry sauce and chasing it with a shot of Pinesol, sweet and refreshing. Well it did add an extra zing to my day, but now I can say with an informed mouth, “Who does that to food.”

Assignments

I would love to say that the first thing college students do after they get homework is say, “o boy,” and skip to their rooms to do it immediately….but that would be a lie. What usually follows is, what I have perfected, procrastination. We could have gotten the assignment for our project weeks in advance, but when do we do it? The night before. Procrastination only brings feelings of dread and doom and so you would think we would learn from it and do our assignments in a timely fashion, but we don’t. It’s like we completely ignore all the bad things that come from last minute assignments such as; bad grades, acne, itchiness, and being constantly on the verge of tears. You may question my motives for this blog, well I know a certain someone who has a 10 page paper that’s due on Friday, ME! It’s not like I planned for this to happen, I thought I had plenty of time to do the paper and now the feeling of terror is setting in. And what’s really funny is I took time to write on my blog instead of working on my paper. And to really top it off I have 450 questions to study for my psy midterm on Friday. Yup I love college!
(don't worry mom I'm officially locking myself in my room)

Story Telling

Last night I went to an extra credit thing for my public speaking class. It was at 7:30 and me and a bunch of girls decided to make it a date and go together. The "thing" was a story teller in discovery park. It turned out to be really neat and even though it was really cold and I lost all feeling in my toes, i had a good time. The story teller was telling us how he rides from town to town on his bike and tells stories for a living. Which makes me wonder why my mom made such a big deal about getting an education. If I knew there were other options out there I definately would have done something different. So I am now exploring the idea of going to Europe and riding my bike town to town and living on my wits. You guys are all welcome to come visit me :)

Trust Your Gut Feeling

Last night I got really bored cause my rommates all ditched me for family, boyfriends, and school. (I don't think any of these things qualify as good reasons to leave me, but whatever). SO I went to the magical land of walmart (I really wish we had a target, walmart stinks) and walked around for awhile. When I was heading home I was closing in on a yellow light, and if I sped up I might be able to make it. But a little voice told me to stop instead. About a second later a cop car pulls up next to me and another one came behind me. I was so relieved that I stopped or else I definately would have got a ticket (thatcher police are known for being jerks). So thank goodness that did not happen cause i have a feeling my mom would not have been very understanding to me running a red light. I ended up spending the night reading my new book Woo Hoo!!! Who needs roommates right!? (jk if any of my roommates read this, and please don't hurt me in my sleep)

The Incoherent Bandit Strikes Again!

Today my friend Carly came to my work and we started talking. Well she starts complaining about a guy that is following her around and she can't understand anything he is saying. Thats when I knew, she was the newest victim of The Mumbler. I thought this was hilarious. Well I guess he has been calling her all the time. Which made me wonder why girls give their numbers out to strange guys. I don't know about you, but if a guy makes me feel uneasy when we first meet, there is no way I'm giving him a way to contact me wherever I am. Thats just silly.

The Mumbler

Here at EA my roommates and I have come across a lot of interesting people, namely guys. Now when I say interesting I mean guys ranging from slightly off to complete crazies. A couple of these guys have made such an impact on our lives that we have made up nic-names to describe them. We have Vampire Guy, Brownie Boy, The Giggler, Guy Who Makes Us Feel Uncomfortable, and have recently added a new guy to this group of odd men named The Mumbler. Now The Mumbler got his name because he mumbles to the point where you can’t understand him. My first encounter with the Mumbler went like this

Mumber: flhey hkwhaut bis uryour memename.

Me: uh……..excuse me

Mumbler: Hldou mmyou mmwhave a mmboyfriend

Me: (I caught the word boyfriend and even thought I don’t like to lie I said this) um…sure.

I thought since I had made up a fake boyfriend that this would give him reason to stop coming by, but instead he visits me every day at work and talks to me for 15 minutes on average. I have yet been able to distinguish what he is saying. Our conversations consist of me saying Ya, no, um.., excuse me, and what did you say. Well after our initial awkward conversation I see him everywhere I go and yesterday Marisa came home and started complaining about this guy who she can’t understand who is following her and I immediately made the connection. We both knew The Mumbler! I guess we are not the first to be stalked by this incoherent bandit and certainly not the last. Even though I have come up with clever devices to keep The Mumbler at bay (such as pretending I’m on the phone with someone, or hiding behind bushes) he still finds me, he has memorized my work schedule....yikes!

Laundry

Here at college students are all participating in a game that some don't realize they're in. Its called "How long can I go with out washing this". The rules are basic, every time you wear something you smell it to so see how long you can go before others realize how bad you stink. Some are better at this than others. I for instance have perfected the art of smelling great (if I do say so myself) and still making it home before my clothes need a good scrubing. This saves me time and money and I get to bypass the questionable washers at the dorm. Sometimes my careful planing fails and I have to wash my clothes at the dorm. It makes me miss the magical hamper in my bathroom where I could put dirty clothes in and in a day they would appear washed and folded on my bed. (I still wonder how this happened, washing fairies?).

This Weekend

This weekend we went to a BYU perfomance called Living Legends. It was pretty awsome, but we soon realized what BYU was really trying do.... convert people. They sang I am a child of God and also kept singing about getting an education which is weird cause the program was about ancient Indians and I’m pretty sure they didn’t have college back then. Also a voice kept coming on telling about the ancient people and it basically was the story of the Book of Mormon. My favorite was when the dance moves started to resemble getting baptized. As you can see we were not fooled by clever Mormons. Ha Ha you got to love BYU (well….except Adam).
On Saturday we woke up at about 11 (we went to bed at 3 in the morning so we're not as lazy as it sounds) and that night we went to the Basketball game. It was a really good game and our team won with a shot at .8 seconds left on the clock. The crowd went crazy, it was amazing. Then there was a dance in the room right above ours. Well we decided to check it out and basically it was just an excuse for guys to smoke questionable things and jump up and down. We soon had to leave because the air quality was less than perfect. After, we were going to go watch a movie outside, but chickened out cause the dance had just broken up and we feared for our safety ha ha. We ended up watching Groundhogs Day inside. You can’t go wrong with Bill Murray.

Audrey Hepburn

So I have to write a information speech and I decided to do it on Audrey Hepburn. I love her, not only is she an amazing actress she is a humanitarian that has helped children all over the world. Well I had to do a survey to see what people thought of her and.... only three people knew who she was. WHAT!!! I was Flabergatsed, what kind of world are we living in where kids know who homer simpson is but no idea who the great Audrey Hepburn is.
Anyhoo my report is due tomorow and I'm really nervous cause I've heard the teacher is a really hard grader. I guess all you can do is your best....and if you get a bad grad you toilet paper his house ha ha I'm kidding ...maybe.

Rumors

So I decided to start blogging cause its a cool way to keep a journal .... and I get really bored at work.
You have got to love small towns. Here at EA a 50 year old women dies in a canal and somehow the story is three college girls have been brutally stabed dozens of times. And whats worse is the police have decided not to talk about it so the rumors are getting crazier and crazier. So I know that as a girl I should not go walking by myself, but these rumors are making me scared to go from my apartment to the library at 9 o'clock at night. Seriously this guy (I'm sure he is an upstanding citizen) is walking behind me and I start imagining kidnapping scenarious ( I think this is partly my mom's fault, she puts ideas in my head). So I start a sort of walk/run to my apartment and make a total fool of myself ha ha.
Ok so Marisa Brown is running for office so as her dedicated roomate I have decided to become her campaign manager. So last night we made posters for like and hour and went out to put them up. Now its like 1 in the morning, so probably not the smartest time to go out in the dark next to the football players dorms and put up posters....but we did it anyway. I'm happy to say no one died.