married to the sea

i found this. and it made me smile
ax me bout ebonics. haha

Best.Birthday.Ever.

Minus me not being home, this was prolly one of the best birthday's i've had in a long time.
erin and chelsea told me they had a surprise for me on tuesday night at 5:45. so i was like..okay.. i wonder what it is. I had already told them and other people we were just going to have cake and ice-cream at our place. they said it was only us three. we have an inside joke, chelsea thinks there's some place called taco-johns but we all think its ridiculous and so thought maybe they had found one and were taking me there.
so they come over i have to put on 1. a ridiculous fuscia happy birthday crown 2. a bright pink blindfold and 3. sunglasses over the blindfold.
so we're driving around for a while and i'm just like.. okay.. where are we going. we get to the place so chelsea has me put in her ipod and plug my nose? (i know wierd).
so they lead me all zigzag through the parking lot, we almost die on a patch of ice and then we get into the place and i take off my blindfold and hey. we're at craigos. and the whole gang is there.
it was perfect.
i had my pizza buffet, my honey butter, the pitcher of DP and the gang (chelsea, erin, melissa, joey, dan and tyler). it was probably one of our best times at craigos, thanks to dan's wit and joey and chelsea's never ending ridiculousness. what more could i ask for.
so pretty much i got my perfect ending to the semester.
the next day (my actual bday) dumb chelsea, erin and joey had all 250 kids in american heritage sing me happy birthday. (i wasnt embarrassed at all)
emily told me happy birthday prolly around 100 times
then i had mom's "party in a box, just add friends" kit and the cake and ice-cream that got delivered. so around 7-ish people came over. it was just a good birthday.
what can i say. i'm blessed.

now i have one final left (math, which i'm predicting is going to kick my butt)
i got a 92 on my american heritage test. i dont think i did that well on my psych test. i'm sad my book of mormon class is over. if i can i'm going to try and get bro. wightman again, cause he is AMAZING. and i just have my family class tomorrow which we turned in everything we're just going to have one last hoo-rah. and then the math final at 3:15 then I. AM. DONE. jessica makes her second (and even more triumphant) return to battle ground where i get to soak up as much of america as i can before i depart to the land of chopsticks and real hot dogs. (ewhewhewww)

the taylor sisters reunite!! FM cant break us down.

this is me venting.

i woke up at 7:45 to wait for dumb RA's and HR.
so last night i went out to the living room i moved one of the chairs to use for my feet and when i moved it theres a bunch of crap under the chair, like food, crumbs, just random garbage. so clearly emily didnt even vacuum underneath everything. she just vacuumed the reglar stuff. so frustrating. i dont think she had any idea what white glove meant, or what real cleaning is.
ugh.
okay so we wake up and we just kind of finish a couple of things (emily vacuums the WHOLE room and dusts of the heater that she didnt before.)
so we're waiting for like 15 minutes and we're like um.. where are they going to start? cause if they start at the bottom and then make their rounds they're not coming for hours and hours. dumb dumb dumb. so i go back to bed and at 11:30 our light gets turned on and one of the RA's turns on the light, looks at our makeup pull out shelf and then opens the window and looks on the sill. then i hear then talking out in the living room.
so me and emily are waiting for them to leave to go out there.
well melissa comes into our room and looks at the same stuff and we're like "what score did we get"
we didnt get a score. we got a freaking redo.
so i'm pissed cause i'm like what the heck. so i ask what got marked down.
ha.
funny thing, and by funny i mean i'm going to punch my room mates in the face. so we get a sheet of each area of the house and it says what we need to redo.
well in our room it said the makeup shelves were dirty and in melissa and tawni's room that the bed wasnt dusted.
in the kitchen it said the oven drawer needs to be cleaned, THE FREAKING MICROWAVE IS DIRTY, and the COUNTERs!!! and the top of the fridge. in the living room it said there was still hair and stuff on the couches so they needed to be vacuumed again. and what? on bathroom? what'd it say? oh yea it said "good job, just make sure you get the soap scum out of the tub and clean the toilet really deep, you may have to use the pumice" okay. the gross stuff in the tub is stained into the rubber. i tried everything like 5 times if i wanted to get it out i'd have to carve out the rubber. and the toilet? i even had melissa come and check. it was pure white. and i did use the freaking pumice stone. freaking dumb stupid people.
soo. we're like well lets ask amy to come back up here and see what she meant by all these so we know what to clean slash can debate on some of the issues. so i take the list and go around to everything it said.
my bathroom is as good as its getting unless we get professional help.
but, heres the frustrating part, i look at the microwave and tawni's like oh well i see what they mean, and i ask melissa about the counters and she's like well i can see a spot where i missed and the fridge there was black marks on the back wall that she did not even clean. and i go into melissa's room to see where the "dust" was and i look and she totally missed a bar of the bed that was covered in dust. and she's like "ugh. well its by the window! how was i supposed to clean it" i wanted to slap her and say, WHITE GLOVE MEANS EVERY PART. move your freaking bed.
and then i go into our room and pull out the makeup drawers, mine is cleaned, cause hey what'd you know. i cleaned it.
but emily's is covered in dust and hair and junk. so i go out and i'm like "hey em, did you really clean your makeup shelf?" and she said yea with "all sorts of cleaners" and i'm like well there's dust and hair all over it. she says "well its a lot better than it used to be"

OH
My
GOSH
do i have freaking retarded room mates? yes.
so they didnt even double check everything slash emily's too pampered to even know what real cleaning is. and she was complaining so much last night asking if she really had to do some of the things the list said, and i was like. um. YES. thats why they're on the list.
so we were all outraged at first going to go battle the score. but now i'm just pissed at my room mates who clearly are incapable of anything. so now even though my bathroom was fine, i'll have to super clean it again cause we'll use it this week.
so now they're going to check these things at check out.
i'm pissed. and i woke up at 2 and i have homework and i still dont feel good.
worst start to a day EVER.

but yea.. today = library and homework.
and..packing?...

taming the shrew

melissa, tawni and me went to taming the shrew tonite.
it was really good. i really really enjoyed it.
there was a main guy character that i really enjoyed. he had a certain johnny depp-esque about him that i really enjoyed. though the main girl was a bit over-dramatic at time and had this really disgusting angry look on her face for the first bit.
but over all it was fantastic.
except afterwards i turn to melissa and say, "so.. the moral of the story would be... wife's submission to their husband?.."
ha first byu-i teaches us to marry
and now i know i just need to find a husband and submit to his every will and whim. lol

oh man.

still tons of work.
still stressing out.
but coping, how? i have no idea.

oh-a my gosh-a

its december already. you've got to be joking me.
and i only have 2 weeks left. ah...?
highlights this week, lets see i did work, work and more work??
yea it was pretty sick.
but i tried to fit in the fun in between. we went over to joey's a couple times and oh yea got a ton of his music. yes... so eisley? yea pretty much can't get enough of them. my favorite is golly sandra and trolley wood. they are just amazing and i have the dan in real life soundtrack which is done by sondre lerche (sawn-dra ler-kay) and they are sooo good.
in other news erin told us that she can't cry in movies. she doesnt know why she just doesnt. so our mission yesterday? make erin cry. ha. aren't we awesome friends lol. so we went to the movie store and got a bunch of tear jerkers. we got patch adams, flight 93, pay it forward and the secret weapon, charly. ha.
we watched charly first because if she didnt cry in charly then there was no hope whatesoever. and.... it was a success. we had her bawling along with the rest of us. every single time i watch that movie i just think maybe, just maybe one of these times she'll live. we turned on the lights afterwards and all of us were sobbing and we're like oh gosh our eyes are going to be puffy tomorrow at church. like somebody will come up to us and say, "oh my gosh are you guys okay? who died?" "CHARLY!"
lol
so erin's a girl and human afterall thanks to us.
now its just surviving the last two weeks. ah..

welcome back welcome back welcome back

so got i got back to the burg alright. and it was such a happy reunion with everybody here. but after going through classes today i got a big slap in the face from reality.
i have tons of work to do.
like this next couple weeks are going to be murder.
art: quizes and that's it. one of my good classes
american heritage: repentance exam (doesnt hurt can only help)
and i have to read the rest of 400 pages of malcolm x and write a 2 page paper on it by this thursday and then have a final test the last week
family: i have 9 more files to do (files include a 2 page summary, page application, and notes) and thats due the monday of finals week
math: lamegayface. i have a test and then a comprehensive test. which i suck at because i dont remember stuff from the beginning of the year let alone crap math... mer..and hw everyday for that class
psych: i have 2 psych projects due this week and one more week. and two online quizzes and then a final test.. ugh
book of mormon: i have more extractions (summaries of random chapters and then our impressions) and then an assessment due this week and the next week (these are personal assessments of what we think, they are harder than they sound)

i'm gonna go crazy...
and i'm breaking out again because of idaho and now doubly because of stress..
oh my heck.
i just want to soak it in before its over...

jessica's triumphant return

okay so pretty much i am SO PUMPED TO COME HOME!!
PREPARE BATTLE GROUND FOR THE TAYLOR SISTERS SHALL BE REUNITED!!
yea so i thought that this week was going to go by just fine.. i mean i get to come home so i'm happy.
but no.
its like one of the most stressful weeks. I have a huge psych test (over 5 chapters) that i am taking tomorrow. I just got done with a 4 page family paper (so at least that's over). Chantelle and me are getting a ride with this girl name katie who is going to the ILP training also. We're leaving thursday because our training is friday and saturday from 8:30am to 5:30. ah. so i thought it was going to be fine to miss classes on friday because so far none of the teachers had mentioned any tests. well stupid dumb college math, teacher tells us monday that we have an in class test on friday. number one, i dont know the material. number two i'm stressed out enough with everything else. ugh. so pretty much college math is the bane of my existence. i talked to the teacher, who i love and is the nicest guy (its the actual class i hate) and told him i wasnt bailing out early that i had training in SLC. so now i have to go to his office at 2pm on thursday and take a test. i wanted to cry on the way home from math..
and i still have to pack and i keep stressing about flying alone. thankfully everything looks like its going to work out at SLC. we're lucky because chantelle's gpa and gma are lending us their car which is SOO nice. and then we're staying at her grandparents place the first nite, going to training and then staying at lori's then training then i'll stay saturday nite with lori and she'll take me to the airport on sunday. then home sweet home.
so pretty much i'm just waiting for this week to be over.

and you best be ready to rock it taylor style when i gets home.

dan in real life

is a.good.movie.
like i teared up and laughed and loved it soo much. steve carell is a very good actor. and i'm pretty much in love with him.
it was a good drama but it still had the steve carell humor in it.
tyler, his gf, joey, chelsea and me went to see it. and then we went back to joeys and played uno, phase 10 and watched bourne supremacy.
i love hanging out with that group. (minus tylers gf, long story but she's just plain and blah and we dont know why he is with her)
um. other highlight.. i went grocery shopping? i'm hoping it will last me the rest of the semester. a majority of the food is tuna. ha. i love it. mom's prejudices has kept me from tuna.
i have a huge psych test this week and a family paper due on wednesday. other than that i just have to get through this week. and my art classes are cancelled so i only have 8 oclock classes on tuesday and thursday. yay :)

and i wont go to class thursday cause i have china training in provo on friday and saturday. so chantelle and me are getting a ride from this girl going to the training also. so we'll leave thursday.

so prepare battle ground for the return of.. JAYLICA TESSOR

dan's house!

okay so dan, one of joey's room mates was really set on taking us up to his house and having his mom cook for us. so last saturday that's what we did! it was so much fun. he lives an hour away in island park (which we thought forever was island park.. woops). group = dan, tyler (nother of joey's roommate), chelsea, erin, melissa and me.
um. number one dan has a really nice house. he looks like this tough hick but he's just a fun goofy kid underneath. and we thought he'd live on a farm. no they live in a freaking nice log cabin. it was gorgeous.
well we got there and had time to spare until dinner, so what do we do? drive to montana of course!! ha. we went to west yellowstone, this little tourist town. i didnt even know we were leaving idaho until we're driving and tyler shakes his hand in the air and says "montana!.. woo!"
we get to this town and everything's pretty much shut down cause its not tourist season. we were going to see an imax movie but what dan wanted to see wasn't playing so instead we go to a bear and wolf park? what?! like real bears and wolves?
yes.
it was this little mini museum and then outside there were real bears and wolves. it was actually quite neat. it made me want to snuggle up to one of the bears and made me want a pet wolf. and we stayed long enough to see the wolves fed and the bears switched out (they rotate them so they don't get bored with their environment).
so we got to see 2 bears, then 4 more came out to scavange for food. and we got to see a 3 second bear duel! it was legit
and we saw 4 wolves. and we got to see them naw on some bones. they are so pretty.. maybe santa will get me one for christmas i mean i have been specially good.. just maybe..

after that little adventure we went back to dan's and his mom made this awesome home cooked meal. i guess she usually serves it in a pumpkin but it had ground beef, rice, vegetables, and water chestnuts. then this good marshmallow fruit thing and home made bread! ah man was it good. so did not want to go back to galley food/my mediocre college cooking.
and then we just played phase 10 for the rest of the time.
but it was really fun.
over all i give it a 10, 5 stars, 2 enthusiastic thumbs up.. um and a smiley face sticker?
(oh ps. dan does the best brian regan impression, like he actually sounds like him. and i guess i was the only one who knew who brian regan was cause i was the only one that laughed.)

stake conference was this weekend and to everyone's shock the topic was temples and what? marriage? oh no.. we never speak of marriage at byu-idaho. hah.
ery thang else is good. i can't believe thanksgiving is coming up so soon. i half dont like it, cause i like it here. but it will be good to see everyone again.
and yes mom i'm trying to enjoy every minute of it.
in closing i look good in red.
check it out butt dance! butt dance!
slideshow:

i got the idea from uncle onion

this pretty much cracks me up.

i met john stamos

so the day of satur our group (melissa, chelsea, erin and joey) we call went to the Joseph William concert. Okay seriously i don't know anyone that can make playing the piano so hardcore and legit as mr. william. we joked the whole time cause we said he looked like john stamos. so i kept yelling "ITS UNCLE JESSE!! OH MY GOSH I LOVE YOU ON ER" it was pretty fantastic. and he was taking requests at one point and i shouted "full house theme song!" but he didnt hear me.
but yea. you can go to his website and hear a little bit joseph-william.com. its intense.
at one point he even played it upside down. it was ridic.
we decided we are no longer going to air-guitar. we are going to air-piano.

and yesterday i had a freak out bad day.
by that i mean everything was going wrong and my patience reservoir dried up.
tawni was listening to headphones while whistling/singing (that's just a rule of social skills) and emily was in one of her screech-laughing moods. and i'm just really getting tired of living with girls. i mean i love them. but they are just high maintenace. i'm better now. i'm just exhausted into putting all my energy into not snapping at them when they make a dumb comment. or yelling at tawni to take OUT the trash not just tie it up and leave it by the doors for days until i take it out. it just wasn't a good day.
but of course, stadium singing made everything better.
so just for your information not everyday is sing-song birds and sunshine.

but la la la life is wonderful again. somewhat. just stressful now and again..

happy all hallow's eve.

wait until dark for the haunted mill

last nite chelsea, erin, melissa and me all went to the haunted mill. it was student nite so it was only $5 dollars. this place was freaking sweet. its an old mill that they turned into haunted house and it. is. legit. there's tunnels you have to crawl through and a huge bridge with a gushing river that you cross over twice. it was so funny cause we were going to go in pairs but chelsea just had a death grip on my from behind and we just went in a line. don't ask me how i ended up in the front. (not by choice i can tell you that). but the creepers came from everywhere, even from above! and they would follow us and scare us twice. we screamed like little girls all the way through. so pretty much we loved it. and it was a full moon. swweeet.

then tonite melissa, tawni and me all went to go see Wait Until Dark. suuuch a good play. i teared up at the end. i'm such a girl... but the acting was suberb and it was cool because part of the time it was pitch black or only a darkroom light was used. we're going to rent the movie with audrey hepburn in it to compare.

so melissa emily and me all worked out yesterday and we went to abs that rocks (thank you, now it hurts to laugh) and i had this girl as a partner and we were introducing ourselves and she asked where i was from, and i said battle ground washington. and she says "do you know a megan taylor?" and i'm like.. um "YA! she's my sister."

i was seeing how long it took for somebody who knew you to recognize me, or think that we're related. her name was amelia and she said she was in a class of yours and on your soccer team.

so that was neat.

in other news.. um.. oh! funny story so this picture . amy gave me with another one and its in a frame on my desk. before i left megan saw it and said only i could look tan in a black and white picture. ha. so chelsea saw it and said, who's that girl? and i said me. and she like "whoa! you're way tan"

then tawni the other day looked at it and said that girl is really dark. and i said it was me. and she said "yea right before i notice i was about to say who's that black girl?"

ha.

ha.

....

i miss my tan.

nothings happened so you get pictures

nothing has really happened so you get picture gallery post. these are pictures i took like the first week. its called the gardens and its just a place where you can go off in solitude and think, or read, or just enjoy the beautiful landscaping... oh and apparently its good for dates HA. oh and engagement pictures cause i've gone there twice and ran into girls in wedding dresses getting pictures taking.

Idaho Falls, the fall of idaho?

a small group of 12 from our ward went to idaho falls to do baptisms for the dead. way way different experience from the portland temple. it made me miss it. and it made me appreciate how beautiful the portland temple really is. the marble is one of the best features.

i mean don't get me wrong the idaho falls temple is pretty too but in a more simplified way. and the set up and baptismal font is soooo different. it threw me off so much. but it was very intrigueing.

i mostly did names from 1850's. alot from enland and then jumped to massachusetts but i had one girl from paris which was way neat.

there was an awkward moment because a guy named mike was doing the baptizing and he's about half a foot shorter than me, so you can imagine my panic of maybe him not being able to pull me back up. but it was actually fine. it all worked out. i just thought, man this could be awkward.

and turns out our bishop own a restuarant. its one of those homey country kind. so we went there for cheesecake. its was really good. and fun. good time over all

then we went to joey's place to watch the office. and everytime his room mate tyler makes this awesome sausage dip. oh man is it good. and joey has this room mate dan. oh my heck is he funny. totally what i would think of as this tough hick kid. he's way skinny though. and he does this thing where he has this look like he's about to punch joey in the face but then just cracks up. he's hillarious. and turns out a soccer player. all of joey's roommates are on a team. we went and watched them last nite. and dan and tyler are actually really good.

temple trip, sausage dip, office. what more could a girl ask for on a thursday nite.

mediocracy rocks the house

i cant really think of anything too exciting to report on.
i took my american heritage test today i was for sure i was going to fail.
yup. pretty much 85%. pretty much proud of myself. out of our group of friends i got the second highest, joey got an 87%.
lets just say its not the easiest class so its exciting i did good on the test.

um what else... i went to a soccer game tonite. joey's room mates play on a rec team. and theres this one kid named dan. he pretty much cracks us up. he looks like a skinny hick kid that will punch you in the face if you just look at him but then he smile this huge smile that just makes me laugh. he's pretty much pro soccer. they won 3-1 and he scored 2 of the goals. i love watching soccer. but it just kills that i cant play.. and it was freezing.

oh yea so get out of math today it was already really windy and raining today. miserable to say the least. but i get out of math and its like blizzarding!!
it snowed for a good solid hour and i thought it was going to stick. but it just rained afterwards.
but mr. frost has def made an appearance at rexburg.

um.. yea. not too much else. oh i'm going to idaho falls temple tomorrow to go do baptisms and i'm so excited and happy. i've only been to the portland temple. so i'm excited to go to another one. yay and i guess we get to go cheesecaking afterwards. its no bv shakes with bro kolditz but i spose it'll do ;)

but yup. um. times flying by too fast.
melissa, erin, emily and me are starting to look for placing to live next fall. cause we pretty much decided we're living together. but erin and emily are summer fall but melissa and me are winter too. and i'm going to see if chantelle wants to room with us too.

la la la la life is wonderful

the curse of idaho

okay i'm not sure if you know exactly what i'm talking about, but idaho is cursed. part of its the climate i think, part of it, well i guess there some other force at work. okay we're not sure if its just the area but food goes bad really fast. it seems by the time we buy our milk we have to like chug it down before it expires. things that i've had that have gone bad (mind you these werent pleasant) rotten salad, rotten cucumber, semi-rotten milk (it was like 5 days past expiration but it still tasted fine.. it just freaked me out), rotten peppers, rotten yogurt, and nobody will fess up but i found a couple days ago a half gallon of oj and half gallon of choc. milk. the oj was inflated like all the sides popped out and the choc milk had seperated into different ingredients and just didnt look like chocolate milk. i buy gallon chocolate milk, and tropican oj so its not mine. i think its emily's but she wont admit it. and who had to go throw it out? yes, good samaritan jessica.
second curse is idaho makes me break out. and it womps. in washington i would never break out and here its like pizzaday everyday. and my bangs have grown out so i haven't been able to use my normal way of covering at least half of them up.
and this could be the climate but hair is exremely frizzy here. i will straighten it and just comb it and it will fray out to the sky slash cling to my face. or you just run your fingers through it. same thing. not fun. cause my hair isn't cooperative anyways and this just adds another factor to its difficultness.
those are just some examples. but its wierd.

anyhoo. went to guitars unplugged it was AWESOME. there was this girl who didn't play it normally. she said she learned it in canada from some guys. she wouldn't strum it she would press down on a couple of strings and then beat her guitar. then she'd sometimes strum while doing it. she said it was like keyboard, percussion and acoustic guitar all in one. it was sweet. there was alot of talent. it was sweeet.

melissa and me went to broulims for the first time. (erin and chelsea went to SLC so we lost our transportation). that was.. exciting? well we got jamba juice so it was way worth it.

i gave the lesson in Relief Society. it was on strengthening the family. and of course the bishop showed up for our relief society. as if i needed more pressure. but i think it went well. a lot of people told me it was good.. but sometimes you can't quite differentiate between sincere and just wants to be nice. but it was good.

um... yup. suns been out. cupboards are full of food. life is swell.

oh ps. last weeks office was amazing. i watched it three times on nbc.com
genius. best episode of the season so far.

favorite quote
"dwight's mercy killed angela's cat.
its complicated.
and its caused some unpleasantness between dwight and angela.
who are already prone to unpleasantness."

i love it
and andy's character was genius. he had some good lines.
speaker phone serenade. i can see somebody here trying to pull that off to ask a girl out.
but andy's growing on me. still creepy... something about that smile. and can i just say, what is up with those light blue pants?
but its cute.

and i wanted to give dwight a big hug when he had his sad face on..
oh and the dwight prank was legendary. ha. why you were typing this i learned every fact about everything. and mastered the violen. oh and sold more paper.

oh and go phyllis. i want to try those for reals.

it was a dark day in rexburg...

i get back from american heritage and i walk in and i see melissa.

and she says to me..

"so you know raphael died right?"

um... no...

welp turns out beta need semi-warm water.

and we left the window open

and we left the tank near the window.

we froze our fish to death.

we had a toilet service today.

it was nice.

melissa's words "raphael was... a stupid fish"

seriously he kind of was stupid. he always swam under the rocks and we thought he was going to get squished. so we took out the rocks and built him a tunnel out of the rocks.

so he was kind of suicidal. but then we froze him.

poor raphael. but we're going to get raphael jr. or raphael II.

other happenings. last night i went to the Ying Quartet.

alone, because nobody has the same refined taste as i do.

i felt like a stuffy old cultured person.

but i'm a sucker for strings.

and this was some of the most beautiful music. very classical.

but beautiful.

......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................tonite we were sitting in 405 chelsea, melissa and me

and we were looking at eachother

and chelsea announces that she's hungry and melissa and me agree.

and we're really craving pizza.

but not any pizza

craigo's pizza.

so we called up chelsea's sister to drive us.

and we went to the dinner buffet.

seriously some of the best pizza EVER.

ugh. it was sooo good.

and then joey met up with us and we just chilled.

you know.

tomorrow we're walking to broulims because erin and chelsea are going to SLC and we usually drive with them to albertsons

so meh.

and then sunday i teach relief society. um.. ah?

i'm the first teacher to teach. the past two weeks have been just volunteers. i'm the first actually called teacher to teach.

on strengthening the family.

so pray for me.

other than that. ery thang's good.

RIP Raphael

may he be in our hearts forever.

and jessica misses her sister too. ♥

this is what we call routine

so i pretty much feel established here. i'm no longer awed and wowed by the happenings here. i mean, don't get me wrong i still love it to death. but the newness of everything is starting to wear off.
i've fallen into my routine.
which isn't necessarily good but its not necessarily bad.
-i no longer have to look up what building my classes are in.
-i'm getting used to waking up at 7 everymorning (but i dont think i'll ever be TOTALLY used to it)(its kind of funny that now waking up at 9 is sleeping in... not in a hillarious way, more like i hate my life and i need sleep)
-i'm seeing more and more familiar faces in the crowd.
-the drama's started. haha.. oh drama.
-complaining has started. not on my part, i try my hardest not to. but people are starting to take advantage of what they have here.
you hear the first week so many times in prayers "and we are so thankful for this university and for the spirit of ricks that is here."
but i hear that less and less, and i think people forget what an awesome place this really is.
-i have the readings and the workload down for every class. which was really hard because i would forget that some class would have a quiz or that i had to read this one thing for another class. but i think i've got them figured out
-i know which annoying kids NOT to sit next to in each class.
-little things about my room mates that didn't bother me in the first couple weeks are starting to get on my nerves. but i really do try my hardest to not think about it and not get irritated.
-dishes are piling up. we were like the cleanest people. it didn't even look like anybody lived in our dorm but now we're getting lazy. like just dumb stuff lazy like leaving something in the sink that could clearly have been thrown away in the garbage 2 feet away (example empty yogurt cup) and i always have to take out the garbage because tawni will tie the garbage and set it by the door but nobody will actually take it out. lame.
-but we did get 100% on our last clean check. so at least we clean up well.
-i'm getting more and more apt to go to the galley than actually cook. maybe its because i've ran out of my good food. but probably more i'm just lazy

everybody's just settling in. and its nice but i do miss the newness a little. but it really feels like my second home here. i have awesome people around me that love me (more than i think they should lol). and i'm seriously seriously going to miss how things are this semester. because they will never be this way again. they'll be good i'm sure, just a new good, a different good.

oh. ps. you know how it was like blizzarding here on sunday? yea. it was pretty much really warm today. like in the high 50's.
oh bi-polar weather.

177th Semi-Annual General Conference

Chantelle and I decided to meet outside the dorms and go watch conference in the Taylor together. (all of the other roomies are too lazy and watched it at home)

first of all i'm sitting in the living room waiting for it to be time to leave (because somehow i always wake up way too early and have a little time to just sit and do nothing)

and all of our curtains are closed. I'm sitting there, you know, just thinking and i'm wondering "hey i wonder if its raining" (cause it was yesterday)

and i kind of peer through the curtain and i see something, but its no rain.

ITS SNOWING!!

and big flakes too! and its coming down hard. and the best part... ITS STICKING!!

so that automatically just put a smile on my face.

So we're watching conference and its amazing, too bad i havent been that dedicated to actually listening all the previous years. First Elder Henry B. Eyering was called into the first presidency, because of the passing away of Elder James E. Faust. Which is sad but neat that Elder Eyering was called.

The talks were going good and then all of a sudden it cuts out.

Apparently they were expecting this because there was some sort of satellite eclipse. so they tell us we can wait 10 minutes or go home. we waited and still no good. then they tell us they set up cable in one of the classrooms. so we all move into this huge lecture room and watch it. well because of the snow storm and all, this cuts outs periodically. the funniest part was a banner across the bottom from the news station: "BREAKING NEWS blah blah blah County and Sheriff Station advise that everyone stay indoors because of trees crashing to the ground, hazardous road conditions, and power lines down"

i just loved the phrasing "because of trees crashing down" like i'm picturing just walking down the sidewalk and huge trees just falling like dominos. haha.

anyways so it gets to President Monson's talk and we're all jazzed because who doesn't get excited when he's about to talk? But it cuts in and out his whole talk. it was ridiculous. he'd say "then i said to her..." cuts out. "and then we'd..." cuts out. so i'll have to wait for the ensign on that one.

but what turned into an inconvenience turned into a pretty neat experience. the final hymn was being sung and it kept cutting out, so the whole classroom full of people (at least 100 ppl) started singing. So we'd be singing with the Mo Tab choir then it'd cut out and we'd sing louder and then the choir would join back in. It was really neat.

Then Chelsea had some friends from BYU come down for the weekend so in between sessions we went to Craigo's, which is pretty much FANTASTIC. the only downside is these girls are kind of air-y and snotty. like they're fun they just complained the whole time. like this girl that goes to BYU hates it and just complained. and they were super skinny and wore really cute clothes (i know right, i'm a snot) but they would just stair at me and erin sometimes like there was something wrong with us.

but its such good gourmet pizza it made up for the company. we got the buffet and ate soo much but it was soo good. i had this kind that had bacon, pineapple, and a white sauce that was my favorite.

Then we went back and i met chantelle back at the Taylor for the afternoon session. By far best talk was Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin. It was one of those that you can't just read to feel the power of that talk. If you missed it, go back and watch it, cause mom told me you guy's recorded it. I love hearing Elder Uchtdorf talk too. There was some other really good ones.

But i am so thankful i could be here to listen to conference. And its throwing me off because today felt like sunday.. but then tomorrow's sunday too. but i love it all the same.

oh and this pretty much made my day

(there were 3 other snowmen in our courtyard, one was a snowman cat and mouse, they were actually really good but this one wins BY far)

yea, that's right. its a snow temple (i think rexburg to be exact)

(you can't see but it actually says 'House of the Lord' on the front)

:)

oh byu-idaho kids... you gotta love em

Q'd

oh em gee.

suck a big fat problem that could've been solved so easy but no its turned into this big fat deal.

emily had a boy over and they were on the couch, feet on the ground, lights on, curtains opened all the way, tawni and me were both in the front room

elise, RA comes over and says "they can't sit like that, you guys are Q'd"

so we're confused a little bit after she left and put the Q up on our door. I asked emily and we are 100% sure we did nothing wrong.

so we're just confused.

the next night we're at a birthday party at 403. there's like around 10 people there. elise, in the middle of the birthday party comes and Q's them for no joke, having there blinds 2 inches down from the top!! ITS A BIRTHDAY PARTY. she made the boys leave, so we had to relocate. can you say LAME

so we're pretty much outraged.

well that's not even the beginning.

so emily came home like 2 minutes past curfew and elise was on duty so emily asks her what exactly she did wrong so that it wont happen again.

and i quote "oh, you guys didn't break any rules, its just that somebody might have felt uncomfortable"

excuse me?

EXCUSE ME!

so emily talked to the HR(head resident) and she totally sympathized with her. and apologized and said that that was wrong what elise did and that there's nothing wrong with cuddling or holding hands. so we're thinking she's going to talk to the RA's and then we'll get our Q taken down, since, you know, WE DID NOTHING WRONG

they had a big RA meeting but

turns out last night she sent around an email saying rules are rules and you need to the respect the RA's.

um. well that was the final point. we're all pissed, not because of the email but because its exactly the opposite of what she told emily the day before.

so emily got called down to talk to amy, the HR. and she said that she wasn't there so she doesn't know the circumstance. she says elise told her that her feet were on his and that they were breaking rules. so what the flip. we've all decided that elise is just some nazi RA that takes her job way too seriously.

the whole thing has just really not made us too happy towards dorms, or these people.

our reasoning

1. we did nothing wrong. you have no right to punish us for not breaking rules

2. if we did something minor or on accident, freaking just give us a warning. its not like we're trying to get away with as much as we can

3. it just plain makes us look bad. poor emily almost started crying when elise came and Q'd us. people hear that we got Q'd and then it was emily. that makes people think we're slutty mormons and it gives us a reputation that we deserve in no way shape or form.

4. they should want us to hang out with boys here where they can keep an eye on us. now we're being forced to go to other people's apartments or other places where anything can happen.

now we have to resort to dates in parked cars, in dark alleys ;)

we still have our Q up (evidence below)

which i feel like burning

there are currently 8 Q's up in lamprecht. around 6 are from elise.

no other dorms are this strict. no other RA is as psycho as elise.

this has just pissed us off.

the worse part is i have to listen to my room mates talk about it. and melissa just get really angry and annoying in her tone of voice and it just gets everybody else mad. and tawni wrote an email to the HR which she told emily "i just got a really nasty email from your room mate"

and what nobody realizes is this will only get better if you go about it the right way, not like some pissed off freshment college kids. so i'm mad at tawni for sending that, cause that was just stupid and immature.

i just want to tell them to just let it blow over and just see what happens.

its totally ruined the spirit here, that we now have to try and rebuild.

on a happier note i got an email from dad that had these pictures, that pretty much made my day.

KITTIES!!

watch this. it made my day

thank you cody uskoski.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

his name is.... raphael

we have a new addition to our family!


his name is raphael (you have to roll the r and say it with an accent. its the rule)


he's a beta from walmart.
he's good looking.
and fiesty.
just dont mess with him





























he's our excuse if we dont have dates or plans. we can just say we're going to go hang out with raphael.


and this is us at the relief society luncheon, before the broadcast.


















(me, melissa, erin, chelsea, emily)

FORT CLUB!!

so some of us girls got the crazy idea that i'd be really fun to make a fort out of blankets.. and take over the upper lounge!

so last night was our designated night. everybody brought sheets and we made it from ceiling to the floor. we used all of those weird personal couches (that's what they are) and tucked the sheets into the ceiling. it was pretty much the most amazing fortress i have ever seen.















so we barricaded ourselves in and some girls walked in and were like "OMG this is SO amazing!!"















we ate popcorn and drank kool-aid (its probably been a good 10 years since i last had kool-aid)(and its surprisingly good if you mix flavors)

then we played the skittle game.














if you dont know what the skittle game is, well number one you're lame, number two i'll explain it. you get a huge bag of skittles and pick two at a time without looking. if they are the same color you get to chew them, if they aren't you just put them into your mouth. but no swallowing allowed. so if you're chewing and someone else gets a match then you have to stop and they start chewing.

so the end result is a mass of skittles and drool, half chewed half decaying in your mouth. we had napkins to wipe away the drool. things to know: don't laugh, that only makes the drool come out faster, and talking doesnt work so well.

we all gagged it out at the end and our mouths had this awful taste. we all brushed our teeth right after and it looked like i was spitting out blood. gross but fun. and one girl said that its really fun if you have sour skittle. oh em gee. (we'll def have to try it at home)

okay so then to top off the night we settled into our fortress and watched thumbalina. loove it.

we went to bed around 3-ish.


then. woke up. its freezing. we left the windows open because it was really hot up there. but little did we know we'd be waking up to snow flurries everywhere.


we woke up at 10 and its been snowing since. not sticking, but if it keeps going idk.
but we made waffles and french vanilla hot chocolate so it made the cold go away. :)

but we decided to do this every month.
we are...











































THE FORT CLUB.

(for picture reference) (emily my room mate, white shirt) (chelsea 405 girl is in a gold shirt)(erin 405 is in gray shirt) (melissa my dormmate in a dark blue shirt and dark hair) (chantelle dial, you know her)(kristy 403 is in purple plaid pants)