Not dead, just busy

I went home for Winter semester and I let my blog die. I apologize and I'll try not to let it happen again.

The past four months were spent working most of the time and playing volleyball every week. Not much to write about. Well, except that I dated Matthew Wehle for the whole semester and broke up with him when he came out to visit in California. Bad timing. But it had to be done.

Now I'm back in Rexburg and I'm happier than ever. I thought I was completely content last semester, but I wasn't. This semester, only a week into it, and it's far better. I've moved off campus into Tuscany Place, which is only a block away from the school. The apartment is really nice and we have our own rooms. That really helps with studying. There are six of us living here and we're all second semester freshman except for Rachel. She's a junior. We've got Heather from Nebraska, Rachel from Portland Oregon, Taylor from Corona California, Megan from Lynchburg Virginia, and Randi from Charlottesville Virginia. I love them. Already, I love them. We've spent several nights staying up talking in the bathroom and we've gone out to dinner together and watched movies and TV shows and made food and bought fish. Just a week into the semester and I feel like I've known these girls for ages.

Randi is really hilarious. She was here in this apartment last semester and she used to have my room (aparently there was a leak and the ceiling caved in but they've fixed it now).

Rachel is sort of like the mom, but not really. She's a lot of fun and she has more boys over than anyone. And it's always a different boy.

Megan has the cutest southern accent ever! She's so bubbly and adorable. It's hard not to like her a lot.

Taylor has the best laugh. Ever. She's also in my spanish class, so we check our homework with each other and sit together in class. She's a lot of fun.

Overall, I've got great roommates. AMAZING roommates.

I love all my classes. Especially my spanish class. I haven't taken spanish for a year now and I miss it. I didn't realize until now just how much I missed it. And how good I am at it. It comes naturally. It's easy. And I love it.

I'm happy in Rexburg. I miss home and the people there, like my family and Carly and Sam. And the warm weather (we got a snow storm here on wednesday). But really, I can live without them for three months. And it will warm up soon enough.

The BYU-Idaho Winter Dancefest

So tonight for my dance class we had to participate in the winter dancefest, which is a ballroom dance competition.
For this Elliott Dennis I chose to be dance partners and dance the Foxtrot. It started with about 90 couples and then went to the second round, which we made. And we also made the quarter-finals...and then the semi-finals...and then the finals! Out of the last seven couples we ended in fifth place, which is actually really pretty good! Oh man, we were so excited.
I'm in a great mood tonight. Seriously, a great mood.
=)

The Ben and Jerrys

As roommates we have become the BJs (Ben and Jerrys). Well, I guess I shouldn't say as roommates, because it's really just me, Heather, Kelli, and Shelly. We eat an obscene amount o Ben and Jerrys ice cream because it's very easyto get it late at night (as well as any other time of day) without walking anywhere. About a month ago we started to save our ice cream containers with the intent of making a christmas tree out of them. Instead we've ended up with a rather large pyramid.

It's amazing but disgusting at the same time. Next semester Kelli and Shelly will take the containers and then leave them for Heather and myself over summer semester so we can continue building the pyramid of ice cream goodness.


Something fun we've discovered in college: Methylene Blue.
It's supposed to be for fish tanks to destroy bacteria but if you mix it with water or another drink it turns your urine blue then green and lasts for days at a time. We're ridiculously idiotic and figured getting a 32 ounce bottle would be fun but we didn't realize it only takes a very small amount of the the methylene blue to do anything. So now we have a TON and we'll probably never use it all, even with all the boys who stop by our apartment specifically to take a couple swigs from the water bottle we've got it mixed into. Still, it's pretty amazing (the taste gets worse and worse, however, with every drink taken).

And we all got Scooby-doo socks for christmas.

'Tis the Season!

Wow, it's been a while!

This past week has been pretty busy, so I haven't had time to write anything before now. I've been studying hard and getting al my papersand study guides done for class, so I guessnot writing for a while is a good thing.

It's the last three weeks of school and I've found that I'm actually very sad. I don't really want to leave my roommates or even this area, despite the cold (it's been VERY cold this week). I have fallen in love with BYU-Idaho and Rexburg. True, there isn't a lot here, but it's still so fun and such a great environment. I'm going to miss Kelli and Shelly a whole lot over winter and summer semesters. We're had a good fall semester together and I canNOT wait until next fall when we get to room together again!!

This evening the five roommates went out to take our apartment Christmas photo (cheesy, I know, but it was fun anyway. And it didn't take very long, only abut ten minutes so don't worry!).

We had a little bit of fun just goofing off.
And we also tried some pictures outside,but it was cold and it wasn't working so well with getting all of us in the pictures...
So we went back inside and thought this would be cute! So this is our dorm christmas photo.
Oh yeah, we got mistletoe in our dorm. Matt was being a silly boy.

I've been tagged--revised

Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share seven random/weird facts about yourself. Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.


7 strange things about me:


1. When I set my alarm clock, it canNOT be on a 5 or a ten. It's always something random, like 7:17 or 12:58. I don't know why, but I just like to have my alarm set for a weird time.

2. I eat my foods in order of dislike...or order of like but backwards so I end up eating what I like best last. And I never eat a bite of one thing and then a bite of another. I eat it all at once and then move onto the next

3. Heather says that I should mention that I play the harp. It's not really weird, but it's not really normal either. I love the harp. I love it.

4. My laptop is named Lloyd, after Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything. My car also has a name. He's Jack, but that's just because he looks like a gentleman.

5. I discovered something interesting about myself this week. I've had a whole lot of tests and papers due these past few days, which has caused me a lot of stress. Well, for the past two nights I've been told that I've talked in my sleep. I've hissed something that sounded like "suck it" or "second" and apparently Heather thought I was going to kill her. And then last night I actually said a whole sentence...but Heather had her ear phones in, so she can't tell me what I said.
But there you have it, I talk in my sleep when I'm stressed.

6. I'm still stuck on what to add.

7. And I have no one else to tag...so this is going nowhere.

Preference

The preference dance was so fun. Our costumes turned out amazing! I had a blast...

Dear Rexburg, it's going to get cold

Last night I was looking at the weather forecast for the next ten days herein wonderful Rexburg, Idhao.
Six of the next days have been forecast with snow and cold cold weather. I am not looking forward to this. But actually, it's not going to be too bad. I'll be here for just one more week after Saturday and then I get to go home to Sunny, Warm California! I'm so excited for Thanksgiving break. I am SO excited for Thanksgiving break.
On another note, Elliott responded on Monday. I came home from dance feeling very irritated because he wasn't there and I was just in a bad mood and then I saw a big pack of double stuffed oreos on our porch...and a note that said, "I would be OVERSTUFFED to go to Preference with you!!!!!! Elliott Dennis". And then I was all happy and giggly. And apparently we're going to the dance in togas. The theme is Famous Couples in History and Elliott thinks wearing togas would be fun. Soooo we'll see!
Another guy in my dance class, Aaron, has asked me to dance a swing routine with him for som Mr. BYU-Idaho pagent his ward is having. We got together on Monday night to learn some lifts and drops and it's so fun! I can now do the candle stick, the L drop, and a backflip! I'm way stoked about this...