Friday, November 25, 2011

Catching up....

So I know that I have a bit of catching up to do...this week has been pretty busy. And I'm trying to decide whether I want to do this catching up now or later. I think that I may do it now though because despite the fact that I have to wake up relatively early, I fear my short memory will fail me if I wait to long. So...here we go!

Saturday.
After I finished my last entry, which was last Saturday, I went to the football game. The LAST football game of the season. Now although I have only went to like 3 or 4, I went to this one to see my friend that I was talking about in my last entry. While we were getting ready to go, all of my friends bundled up lots of layers, and I knew that at that moment I was going to have to break out the marshmellow coat. I tried to hold it off as long as possible....but it was finally time. Now while they are certainly very warm, they are not my favorite item of clothing if I'm to be perfectly honest. While some people can pull it off and look somthing like this...

I look more like this...

So...it typically isn't my first option unless I am skiing or sledding or playing in the snow. So I get out my coat, then check the weather to find that it really isn't suppose to be that cold.Which was great, becuase I got to put my marshmallow coat back! (: And walking there it was pretty warm too! So I meet up with my friend and we start watching the game...and the temperature starts to drop.
First, I can't feel my toes.
Then, my fingers.
Then, my legs.
Finally, I was pretty much completely frozen. Despite the fact that I had blankets....last time I listen to the weather to tell me how to dress...
So the whole game I kept thinking of how I would really like to be in this situation instead....

Under a nice warm blanket! Alas, I waited through the lonnnnnnng cold game, and somehow managed to survive.
Afterwards, my friend, Garrett, and his friend, Kameron, and Kameron's friend, Cambria, and I all went to Dennys and got hot chocolate. And words cannot even express how amazing it was after being soooooooo cold.
Going from

to

It was complete bliss. And if you have never had hot chocolate from Denny's, you are surely missing out because it is DELICIOUS! (:
As I was drinking the warm chocolatey goodness, I felt like this inside...

 HAPPY!
So after quite a while of hanging out at Denny's, we decide that we want to do something else, despite the fact that it was 2 in the morning...but in the meantime we park on the side of a random road by this apartment. We sit and try to figure out something to do, yet I'm sure our inability to think due to tiredness was certainly a roadblock. So we mainly just sat there and played some games and talked. At one point the car alarm went off for a few seconds, but besides that, nothing of interest really happened. So, after a while, Cambria asks Kameron, in other words if he has gotten past his tired stage and on to the delirious stage that comes when you are past tired. He says that he hasn't. Well, Cambria decides it would be a wonderful idea to go outside and run in the cold. And so she does. And Kameron goes after her. And  Garrett and I look at each other like they are crazy, because there was no way that we were leaving the warm comfort of the car to run in the cold. No, rather we just stayed in there and played some more games. After a while though, I got a little suspicious because they had been gone for a bit, which was totally sketch. And I see a police car drive past the street ahead of us...weird. Then we actually see them coming in the distance. And as they get closer, we notice a third person walking beside them a few feet away....
and bam!

 It's a cop!
But why? We wern't doing anything. Sure, it was late. But we're Mormon. So that leaves drugs, alcohol, and any immoral activities out. So they should love people like us and not be coming towards us?
Well, we had to get out of the car too. And also get out our ids. I was the only one without my license, so he had to get my information.
The guy was young. And when I said my last name was Starks I get the oh so original, "Like Tony Stark?!" Yep, like him. So then after he checks to make sure that we don't have any warrants we finally find out why he was there. Apparently, when the car alarm went off, somebody who lived in the apartments looked out. Yet, when they looked out, what do they find? Cambria running out of the car and Kameron chasing her. So what do they think it is? A girl being held against her will and trying to escape. And that was when I lost it...definitely started laughing. Like seriously, the chances of everything happening in just that order to look like that. It was hilarious really. So despite the fact that I was freezing to death outside, it was totally worth it to hear a story like that!
So while the scene looked like this to us....

To the person in the apartment, it looked more like this...

And it really did make sense how it would appear that way once we thought about it all.
So anyways, afterwards they dropped me off and I got to sleep wayyyyyy later than I needed to.

Sunday.
All of church I was SOOOOO tired. And I'm pretty sure I slept all the way through relief society. And when we came back, Shannon's mom made us lunch so I couldn't sleep. It was actually quite delicious.. Like the first legit family meal I have had since I have been away from home. She made ham, hashbrown cassarole, rolls, corns, aspargus, etc etc. And it was amazing. (: Then, that night, for dinner my whole dorm went over to Jack's and him and Mike made us tacos. (: They were soooo delicious. Also found out Jack is growing a mustache, at least until the end of November. I really don't like no shave November. I mean, facial hair is gross....no one really looks good in it. In the word's of Cassie, "mustaches remind me of hitler or mario, neither of which are attractive" Rightly said. No one looks hot in mustaches. Okay, so maybe Jack is a small exception, he still looks good, but he looked much better without one.
But I mean look at this way, here is a picture of a very attractive individual...

No dobut about it, he's hot. Even if he does have facial hair. But I like him better clean shaven,

Okay, maybe there is still a little something there, but that is pretty dang clean shaven for Orlando Bloom. And I think it gets my point across.

Monday
So Monday was not very productive to be quite honest. I made cookies that night! Ohhh and I got written up with Alex for being in Whitney past curfew...mehhh oh well. I really didn't expect to be over there that long...I brought some cookies around 10. But I ended up staying until midnight cause I was talking to Alex. He's a really good person to talk to though. He's one person that I can talk to almost like I was talking to one of my close friends that are girls, like Cassie or Megan. He's an amazing talker and listener. I am so grateful that he is in my ward, and even more so that he is in my fhe family so that I have gotten the opportunity to know him. I am going to miss that kid sooooooo much when he leaves for his mission, but I'm excited for him at the same time because it is going to be such a wonderful opportunity for him. (: Anyways, once I got back, I really wanted to clean. So I did that while listening to Christmas music instead of reading my psychology like I should have been...Opppps. And then got to bed, rather late actually...maybe 4.

Tuesday.
I got to run in shorts and a tshirt in November!!!!!!!!!! (: So when I checked the temperature to see that it was in the 50's and felt outside, I can guarantee that I looked like this...

Ohhhh yes, I was the happiest person alive. And that run was pretty darn amazing too. Which is good, because it had to make up for all of the reading I had to do for Psych...it turned out that I had 2 whole chapters to still read. I was really overwhelmed and didn't even finish the reading until 6 p.m. And then ate dinner and studied until 8. But, all I really had time to do was flip over all of the chapters.
So by the time I finished I was feeling like this....

But I still went and took the test....
And still managed to get,
An A!!!!! Heck yes, I was pretty happy about that. (:
I'm pretty sure that I'm definitely meant to go into psychology because I have scored an A on every single test. Also, I went straight home and said a prayer to thank God...haha because that certainly wasn't all me.
When I got back, it was Hannah, Conner and Jack over. We end up playing the game Settlers..which I had never played before but was ridiculously fun! (:

Possibly one of the funnest games ever! (: And I was totally winning too! Until they helped Jack to beat me. :/ But it was still a blast!
And when I got back to my dorm, I continued my prior endeaver of transfering my music from my itunes on my old laptop to my new laptop. It had been a long and tedious process....at like 1 or 2 in the morning, Jessica came over and we talked and listened to music....especially...

Oh yes! The soundtrack of our youth! And of course, when This is What Dreams Are Made Of came on, we jumped up and broke out in dance, couldn't help ourselves. (; And we looked exactly like she did in the movie of course,

Granted, we had pretend hairbrushes, but you get the picture. (: Jessica didn't leave until almost 5, and I didn't get to sleep until 6 something...which is rather pathetic...but it is what it is I suppose.

Wednesday
Woke up at 1:30. Ran IN SHORTS AND A TSHIRT AGAIN!!!! So happy. (: Then I went and played Bang with most of the rest of the people in our ward (Jack, Conner, Josh, Soren, Jordan, etc). It was way fun! I absolutely looveeeee that game and I hadn't played since the summer before last when I stayed at Chad and Cody's. And all was going well, until Soren decided to kill me even though he was my other outlaw!!!!!!!! I was like whatttt the heck? I just think they didn't want me to win any games....at least after Settlers when Jack kept me from winning. :p After we played two games of that, Jack came up and we made chocolate chip muffins and watched Batman! (: Our muffins turned out quite great...I'm pretty sure that we are pro chocolate chip muffin makers. (: Then after the movie finished, we went over to Whitney to play night games! Murder in the basement which was terrifying!!!! Seriously, it was sooo freaking dark! And Jack and Josh got wayyyy too into the game haha, they were screaming like half of it. (; After I got back from that I finished transfering my music over to the itunes on my current laptop....yayyy!!!!

Anyways, now that I have caught up, I'm really tired and it is 3 in the morning and I'm meeting Jack at 7:30 for Black friday shopping, which means I have to wake up even earlier to go run, so I'll be lucky to get like 3 hours of sleep if even that, so I'll tell about Thanksgiving tomorrow, or rather, later on today, Chow! <3

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Pictures from our group date!

So I finally got the pictures from Jenny from last night! And they turned out great. (:
This is the delicious food that we made.(: It was kinda tight in our oven, but it all ended up cooking and dinner turned out great!

And this is us enjoying our delicious dinner. (:

Nick and Hannah's delicious sweet potatoes. They definitely made me sad for not going home for Thanksgiving because I'm really going to miss my Grandma's sweet potatoes! Hopefully she makes them for Christmas when I will actually be there!

And this was definitely the best part of the meal. (; Tyler and I's peanut butter brownies. Haha, it was definitely kind of an experience, but it turned out great!

So anyways, there they are! Tonight has been rather uneventful, to say the least. I woke up pretty late today since I was up late. So I woke up, got my 6 mile run in, got ready, worked on psych a little...and there you have it. It is not 6:36 p.m. and that is about all that I have achieved. Alex came over a bit ago and he has been hanging out for awhile. He walks in our place with a really ugly Christmas sweater, a scarf, and a really big, warm hat. Haha, and that is why he is like one of the greatest persons I know, haha. And then Tanner came over and is watching Hotel Rwanda with Hannah. And they are sharing popcorn...right beside me...and it's pretty cute.(: This movie is pretty disturbing though. I have actually wanted to see it for awhile, but it's really sad. :/

Tonight is our last home football game too! Luckily I got a ticket from this girl that lives right next to us who isn't using hers. I never got a sports pass, so I had to find one if I wanted to go. And I didn't plan on going, but my friend, Garrett, who lives in St. George is coming to see it and I haven't seen him in almost 4 years so I kind of have to go too now. We went to the same EFY the summer after my freshman year, which is where we had met, and he just got off his mission like this past summer, so I'm pretty excited to see him! So I better get off and work on psychology some more so that I won't be more overloaded than necessary tomorrow. I'll post later on tonight if anything interesting happens, or simply if I feel like blogging, so bye!

Welcome, welcome to my first blog entry

So here it is, 2:30 in the morning, and I am still awake. I really did have intentions of going to bed early tonight...it just didn't happen.But that's alright, it has definitely been a fun night. (: At 6, my roommate, Hannah, and another girl that lives right next to us, Jenny, and I had a triple date. I had been really excited for it because both of these girls are awesome so I knew it would be a lot of fun. The guys that we went on the date with were from an event called Men Tell All that we had in our building that our RA Melany hosted. There were like ten guys so like ten of us won dates with one of them. I got Tyler, Hannah got Nick and Jenny got Mike (or Steve...haha). They were all very cute and fun to be around. Since we got to plan the dates, we planned to make dinner. So we had the guys draw a paper that said what part of dinner them and their dates would be preparing: appetizer, main dish, or dessert. And then we picked what main ingredient we had to include. Tyler and I got dessert and chocolate, so it was a piece of cake. (; But they other two had more challenging ones. We ended up having: as our appetizer, sweet potatoes (by Hannah and Nick), as our main dish, cinnamon rolls (by Jenny and Mike), and brownies (by Tyler and I). The brownies were actually pretty good. We decided to spice it up a bit and make peanut butter swirl brownies with cream cheese icing on top and they were delicious. (: The whole meal was actually delicious, to be quite honest. And we also played Apples to Apples. After about 3 hours, we went down to visit Melany, since they are friends of hers, and we stayed down there for quite a while. Overall, the date was a blast! Tyler is definitely cute and we all had a lot of fun. (: After I came back up, I found Cassie and Suzanne all cozy with this kid Kyle and his friend watching a movie in the dark...totally sketch, but they are both cute so I left them be and hung out with Hannah and Jenny for a bit. Then, I really had an urge to make pancakes. So I made chocolate banana wheat pancakes for my roomies. (: And then I watched Hot Rod with Cassie, Rebecca, and Shannon while Hannah was in and out some and Suzanne went to watch  a movie, probably mackin' with some boys as I type. (; But that pretty much sums up my whole evening! College has been pretty crazy....and super busy! I love it here though and I have made some great friends! My roomies are the best! It's going to be hard to leave them at the end of the year and it's not something I'm looking forward to. :/ Cassie is amazing. We have been friends for forever it seems but living with her at college has been a blast and she is definitely someone I can always confine in. Suzanne is sooo funny; guy crazy, but I totally love her! Rebecca is great as well; we share a common Disney loving bond and I can talk to her about like anything. Hannah is so nice and has the cutest personality! And Shannon is so sweet; her obsession with hot sauce and a certain tall blonde haired boy makes me laugh. (: We also have amazing FHE brothers: Alex, Spencer, Stratton, Wes, Will, and Ethan. Alex is honestly the funniest person I have met in my life. And he is sooo nice and I could talk to that kid for hours; he never gets old. Spencer is superrrrr nice and cute and everyone loves him. (: And the rest are great too! I can't believe that Thanksgiving break starts next week! I am soooo excited! Although I won't be going home to see my family, I will at least have some time off! But I'm super tired and need my sleep so I think I am getting off. I'll post some pictures from the date once Jenny puts them on facebook. But for now, adios! (: