Aaaand, BEGIN!

Homesickness.


All I want to do is go home and curl up in my own bed and eat my parents good food all day every day. I've been going home more the past couple of weeks and I'm pretty sure that helped bring the sickness upon me. It really is to the point that I could cry about it. But I won't. I don't cry at all because I have a roommate that could just walk in and then it would just be awkward. For her and me both. I have a feeling that one day I'm just going to blow up with stress and everything and not be able to control myself. Let's pray that never happens.


I'm SO FREAKING (is that appropriate?) EXCITED for Conference weekend because a) We get to hear from the prophets and b) I'm going to be sleeping in my bed for two nights! *party dance and happy squeal*


I'm avoiding my American Heritage studying (test this week) which is probably not a good idea at all. I plan on living in the library the next two days. Kind of. At least I'll be there as much as possible.


I successfully avoided my orthodontist for four months but I finally gave in and scheduled an appointment. Dang it.


I got 85% on my Chem test! I was super stoked. It's not a 95%, but I seriously did a lot better than I thought I would. I was expecting 70%. I am very happy with my score :)

Then I got a 90% on my Book of Mormon test (that's not including the written part...I might get some points docked for that). And I only got 1 point docked on my "Mission of Jesus Christ" paper because of so. many. embarrassing. grammatical errors. I can't believe I didn't read it through more carefully. I was shocked he only took one point off.

Went up the canyon today with Sarah and Ellie. Love those girls.

There's my life story.

Happy Autumn!

The leaves were pretty decent up the canyon. Not super, but decent. 

More playing around with photoshop

Tonight I decided to try out "double exposure". They are far from totally working but it was fun to play around with.

Peace out. I'm going running. (Yes Natalie, real running. No machines.) Wish me luck.

Input?

This is currently my favorite spot on my shelf(in case you were wondering):

Okay. So you know how with editing photos sometimes you think "Oh I like this. Lets try this now" and you do that about fifty times? It's exciting but annoying at the same time. You get many different looks of a picture and you just can not decided which you like best because they are so different. So the following simple picture is one I edited a couple different ways (2 are actually shown, a couple more done). Which is your favorite? Any suggestions on others ways to play around with the picture?  I'm just having fun with these and experimenting, so throw out your comments if you want!

See what I mean by different? It really depends on the look you're going for...but what if you can't decide what that look is? 

Surprise!

Discovering new things on Photoshop is like Christmas for me. Even if it's the tiniest, smallest, 'you wouldn't find it a big deal' thing. So I've been wasting my time playing with pictures. There isn't anything spectacular about them (at least for you). It all looks pretty normal. But I discovered just little things that I think help make a picture better. Well...better depending on my mood. Sometimes I go back and look at what I thought was 'better' and I prefer the way I did it before. Not sure if this makes sense. But. It is exciting. All this. Photoshop. New tricks. Pumpkin pie.

picture taken by Kim

"That's a very cute baby by the way" said the man that was trying to get  passed me before class started(I was editing the picture at the time).

I said he was my nephew. Not sure if he heard that though. Hopefully he did....

The cat ate the pizza as it danced under the sunlight.

Random things that have happened to me at school so far (At least the ones I remember to write down)

• A lady asked me if I was okay while I was in the bathroom. She thought I was crying. No ma'am...just blowing my nose.
• I was sitting next to this guy (married...and good looking. Those guys are everywhere. And it sucks) and he just starting laughing. It was a quiet, hard laugh (we were in a quite zone). Since I didn't know what he was laughing at, it was left up to my imagination. He probably was watching this:

• I was walking through campus on my way to the Wilk when this boy (he looked 16....no joke) just turned around and smiled at me like he knew I was there. I'm pretty sure he didn't see me before, but he just turned at smiled. No turn. look. register. smile.  Anyway, you get the  point. It was weird.
• I was in the really quiet zone in the library working on homework when the Harry Potter theme song started playing. The really quiet one that Kimberly used to dance around to. I looked around and every. single. person had this huge grin on their face. It was great.
• A kid in my writing class compared the scriptures to inception. "You get something new out of it every time! It's just like the scriptures!"
• Even though I'm in college, seeing my professors and TA's out of class is still awkward. 
• This guy in the HBLL walked by me who looked like a tall Peeta!!!!! I was like woh... Exactly like that. 
• So...I sleep talk more than I thought. My roommate has already heard me sleep talk 3 times so far. One night I guess she walked into the room and I turned and just looked at her. My eyes were open. She said I was staring her down and she felt awkward so she asked how I was. I made a mumble noise. She said "what...?" and I turned on my back, looked at the ceiling and said "I don't know" and sighed. Then turned to my side and didn't say anything else. And I promise, I was not aware or awake during this. This is legit. I didn't do it on purpose. My eyes were open....?  Weird. And funny. Hopefully I never say anything I shouldn't in my sleep...

Aaaaaand that's it. I guess. So nothing too exciting. Kind of a lame post. 

Soooooo yeah.....mBye.

I've got a date tonight

Fans? Hmmm....

I try to be nice about it. The rivalry. If I'm being honest I have to say that I do not like utah one little tiny tiny bit. I dislike them so much that whenever I refer to them I don't capitalize their name. I'm a rebel.

As frustrating as it is that we didn't win last night, I hate it when people totally bash on "their" BYU team. Sometimes I just hate BYU fans. We win - "yay! that was awesome! We're the best!" We lose - "we suck. I hate BYU. They are always terrible and disappoint me" That's how a lot of the "fans" seem to be. And it's stupid.

 Why do people pin the loss on one or two people only? It's not the teams fault, it's the punters fault. Or the quarter back made that one bad pass that completely ruined the whole game. And the running back only ran a yard on that play in the first quarter, which totally killed us.

Really? It's a game. I know it's an important, intense game and we as BYU fans want nothing more than to completely dominant utah, but we can be mature about it. I'm not saying we can't be a little disappointed or sad or frustrated, but we don't have to make rude comments about our own team. And we can have fun making little jokes and comments about utah, but don't be an idiot about it that either. I think there is a line. Maybe it's just me though.

I understand that we will all be in depression mode for the next week(possibly two), I'm in the mood myself. I wish we could have had a couple things go differently in the game in order to win. But. What happened happened.


There are jokes going around saying that we had to just end the game because we couldn't play on Sunday :) Haha, that's pretty funny.


Anyway. The point of this post isn't to sound like a brat who hates everything that people do and wants to blog about it publicly. It's simply to vent a little and share my opinion on being nice to others, especially when they are your team. The players have feelings too. They have already beat themselves up about it like crazy I'm sure. We don't need to make them feel any worse.


I love my BYU Cougs :D

That boy.

He's now 17.

Happy Birthday Cameron!!!

My random cat post. I miss them.

Having kittens around was a highlight of the spring and summer for a couple of years in my younger years. They were the best. I wish I had one with me right now to just cuddle up with on a blanket outside in this 'beginning of fall' air. Doesn't that sound way nice?


Mom, Dad...don't you miss seeing this:

 Didn't it melt your heart every time you saw them all in those flower pots? Lets get a female cat so we can have kittens around again next spring.

If you could have a cat here at the dorms....I would have one. Outside, probably. But I would still have one. 

KITTENS 2013!

the pictures are ones I took of our dear, dear kittens way back when. Fred, George, Azure, and Bella

Stoked for Fall

The crispy air is on it's way!

best. calling. ever.

You are looking at the new ward photographer! Woot! Seriously....this calling will be fun. I hope people don't think I'm creeping at them with the camera. Now I just need a camera case...

Praying in public...not my thing.

"Are you willing to pray in class?"

...No.

I feel like I'm going to go to heck whenever I say no to that question.

I was going to say 'hell' in that sentence...but then that made me feel worse than I did for saying no to the prayer. Not that it's much better just putting it in a smaller text. Oh well. 

Home.

Today while eating my lunch I had a random thought. About home.


A home is where I can:

• Eat out of a container (not a plate, bowl, etc)
• Lay on the kitchen floor
• Sing and dance around the kitchen while baking cookies
• Go to the bathroom without feeling majorly awkward
• Fall asleep on the couch
• Randomly take pictures of everything
• Do weird things while attempting to get rid of a runny nose (walking really fast while plugging my nose until I need air, then sitting and doing short breaths and repeating)
• Practice/play the piano
• Eat in a not so lady like manner
• Curl up in the middle of the hall because of a cramp
• Yell when I stub my toe

...with out feeling judged. The other people in the area may not be judging, but that doesn't always mean you don't feel judged. You know?

I hope to get that way soon in my apartment. I'm trying. My roommates are great! :)

The Ward Directory.

It's for those who need your number if they want to ask you on a date, need your address so they can leave you secret love notes and plates of cookies, and need your email because.....I have no idea on that one.


Unless you're picture is absolutely terrible and completely unflattering.


Then it's just for people to look at and go "....eh." and then never notice you again.


Lovely.

College

It's great. I'm loving it. My head is going to explode because of the lack of sleep and the amount of reading I'm doing.


I'm studying at the library right now. Well, I will be when I'm done with this post. I feel super cool when I'm at the library. The girl next to me is humming. The guy 7 seats down from me is really good looking.


I would say college is a success so far. Especially because of the fact that I've seen the most attractive guy I've ever seen in my life, twice. 


LIFE IS GOOD, PEOPLE.

Super cool

I'm loving college

"The melodious strains of the orchestra wafted over me until I hit the hay."

(Writing and Rhetoric - Supplemental Guide by McInelly and Jackson)

Hahahahahahahahaha! I am either tired, or just needed a good laugh. That sentence right there definitely provided it for me.


I'm reading in my writing and rhetoric book about grammar and all that fun jazz. That particularly funny sentence (to me) was in the little section on tone. It is obviously the bad example.


I would have never thought that a writing and rhetoric/ grammar book would get a good, solid laugh out of me. I tried to be quiet about it so my roommates didn't hear me.


Now enjoy another laugh while I go back and continue my reading:

Photo Booth. When you're by yourself and bored...

The chipmunk version of me...

The frog...

and then bug eye...or something like that. 

Yes, I am well aware that I am posting these ugly pictures up on the internet. Oh well. I think they're as funny as they are ugly.