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