2011

I finally had a spare moment today so I put a bunch of the videos that I took last year together. Actually, it took a little bit more than a moment. I happily spent a few hours going through videos and moving things around. It was a great reminder of why I love my major where I get to edit things all the time, of course it's very different when you're putting together your own videos. It's more fun, not gonna lie :)

So here's my compilation of videos from 2011:
(I didn't realize my friends and I danced so much haha)

While I was in the editing lab today cracking up while watching these videos, I kept thinking, wow my friends are so stupid, but I love them!

Feeling Like a Freshman

This past Memorial Day weekend was SO. MUCH. FUN! I haven't had crazy fun like that since freshman year. It was basically the best weekend ever. This is what my weekend consisted of:

Friday:
Hot Dog Friday- Free food!! I don't even like hot dogs, but they have strawberries!
I went home and hung out with my little sisters who are nuts. We watched movies, played wii, and stayed up really late.

Andrea fell asleep before the party was over

Saturday:

I hung out at home all afternoon then went back to Provo in time to go see Bridget in the Miss Orem pageant to pass on the crown.

After the pageant was Matt Duffy's birthday party, it was a crazy dance party and so fun!

What a queen :)

Best friend

Sunday:

After church we had a bunch at our apartment. We had lots of waffles and it was amazing. Only our closest friends came, which obviously means our apartment was packed haha. Basically it was a ward activity and it was great!

We then went to our friend's apartment and played Settlers of Catan and Encore which was very competative.

After everyone left, a small group stayed and played True Colors. It was extremely enlightening :)

Monday:

Kickball in the morning

JDawgs for lunch. YES!!

BBQ at the park for dinner

Ultimate frisbee after it got dark

Sonic run after that... but it was closed so we had to settle for 7/11

This is very true right now

No Sonic run is complete without some good costumes! 

And that was my fabulous weekend! (There are a lot of links in this post, and there's about to be a few more)

My weekend could not have been nearly as good without a couple of people:

Kamree, Mitch, Nich, and my wonderful roommate Chloe

These guys are basically my favorite right now :)

I got so little sleep, got very little homework done, and it was totally worth it!

Best weekend ever!

Perfect

I feel like this today:



Today is perfect. Not in the sense of everything went perfectly, because it didn't. But it's one of those days where you just don't care that things are not perfect, thus making it a perfect day.
A couple of reasons why my day has been perfect:

• It's friday!
• It's GORGEOUS outside, you cannot be in a bad mood when it feels this great out
• I talked to my teacher and realized that I didn't do a project completely wrong, which has been stressing me out
• I met up with Bridget for lunch... except neither of us brought a lunch haha so we just hung out- I love that girl!
• I forgot about half of an assignment last week and my teacher lost the half I did so I had a big fat ZERO. but he let me turn it all in again, and I only have 30% off the part I forgot!
• tonight is my ward talent show, am I excited about seeing everyone in my ward sing and dance? No. I'm just excited because PANDA EXPRESS is catering!!! and I LOVE PANDA! I have been looking forward to this for like a week
• my life has been crazy and busy and, gosh, I love it!

I'm going to go check the mail now. Still checking for letters :)

"Perfectly" -Huckapoo
A good song I thought of while I was writing this
and another one
"Perfect Day" -Hoku
They're cheesy songs, "But I mean for a like driving-around-in-the-car-with-the-top-down-putting-on-your-lip-gloss-loving-life kinda thing, theyre good!" (name that movie!)


OH and BYU won their basketball game!! against NM!!! Jimmer got 52 points :)
DOMINATION

chya

I finally moved into my new apartment at Liberty Square! It took me three days but I'm finally done unpacking, organizing, shopping, and decorating. It's quite an involved process. My roommate got here today but I have yet to meet her. I was asleep when she got here this morning haha and I was gone this afternoon when she started moving her stuff into the room. I want to meet her. It's funny to me that I'm going to live with this girl all year and I still haven't met her.

My room

My bathroom, I don't know how to rotate the picture

look how coordinated it is, it was completely on accident too!

Tonight I have a reunion with my DJ girls at California Pizza Kitchen for a girl's birthday. I'm so excited! I love those girls so much. Today I went to lunch with Eric and Bridget at J Dawgs. It's so yummy. Basically I'm her designated 3rd wheel because she's afraid to make it a date. I'm totally fine with that, I think Eric is awesome haha well so does she but not romantically, unfortunately.

Also, I lost my car keys last night. I'm not sure how that happened, I never lose my keys. I actually have my keys, it's just the one key and remote that I lost.

This is me right now.

One more thing, I'm so jealous of the freshmen this year. I loved my freshman year so much, easily the best year of my life. Bridget and I were creepers and went up to our old room the other day, it was sad that it's no longer ours. I'm so excited for Julie and the fun year she's about to have.

This and That.

I miss this.

and that.

this too.

and that.

even this.

and especially this.

Please let this next year bring as many wonderful memories and friends as the last one.

Home

I'm home, finally. I'm so tired but I can't go to bed yet, even though it's 1:20 am and I have church at 9... I'm still on Utah time which is two hours earlier so it doesn't feel right to go to sleep. I got back at 6 tonight and said hello to my family. By 7 I was ready to fly back to Provo. I'm trying to be positive and happy. I like having my mom to talk to again and it was fun to see Julie while she was around but I'm going through slight BYU withdrawls. I miss my cute little room and having a closet. I miss Cameron. I miss not having to use real money. I miss all of my DJ girls. I miss Colton. I miss my bed, and my pillow. And my big stuffed bear that I slept with. I miss my rubiks cube. I didn't mean for this to become a list of things I miss... I don't know how i'm gonna do this all summer...

Smiles

Some things that made me happy today:

1. Taking an unnecessary but very nice nap
2. Remembering something that Bridget said last night that made me laugh so hard. She was talking about her boyfriend and she said that she might have made a bad choice with him because he doesn't have very much money. "That's why RMs are good, because they're frugal so they save up the money that they get. Then when they start liking you, they'll have money to spend on you." haha it's wrong on so many levels... Bridget is a little bit crazy

3. A Cardinal from the Catholic church came and spoke to us today, he was interesting to listen to. My favorite thing he said was, (talking about leading the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) "I do a better job with the Mormons than I do with the Catholics"
4. There were random moments today when my nose stopped running and I could briefly breath clearly. Those moments were grand.
5. for the 1st time we're having an issue about who is going to buy toilet paper. The conclusion I came up with was that everyone should just have their own roll to take in the bathroom with them... I don't think my suitemates would appreciate that very much.
6. speaking of my suitemates, I realized that one of the smells like maple syrup! I don't know which one but the smell is overpowering and so every time I walk into my bathroom I'm forced to think about pancakes... I don't really like pancakes.
7. Cameron handed me the book that he's reading right now and told me to read a section he really enjoyed. I liked it too, my favorite part said, "Liberals are never wrong. You can ask them and they will tell you. Every time."
8. Discovering a new song, or being told to listen to a song. (I put them on my playlist) My favorites right now are:

Out of my League- Stephen Speaks
Que Vida La Mia- Reik
Unbelievable- Craig David
Cowboy Casanova- Carrie Underwood

Thoughts

So today I had an assignment for my media arts class to look at a blog and write a paper about how the author of the blogs was able to share her family's stories through media. The entire time I was completely distracted by thinking about what I would write if I had a blog... then I really wanted to make one, so I did. It's really late right now but my roommate, Bridget, is still up and being a light sleeper I would be awake until she goes to bed anyway. I have been terrible at keeping a journal since I've been at BYU since August which is really unfortunate because so many amazing things have happened to me. Things that I would really love be able to remember, so maybe having a blog will help with that endeavor. I love writing about myself, that may sound extremely vain but it helps me so much. I can remember things, relive things, and figure out what is going on in my mind. I really have no idea a lot of the time and it takes writing out what's going on to be able to figure it out.

Blogs actually really make me laugh, it makes me think about when I was like 12 years old and I had an Xanga. I wrote about my life... actually now that I think about it I must have been 14. Anyway, it's funny because there was Xanga, myspace, facebook, and now I'm back to blogging. So many things have changed since those days of complaining about not being able to dance with the guy I liked during the last song of a stake dance. Now I'm thinking about how in the world I'm going to be able end my first relationship that is going great because he's leaving on a mission. I'm on my own now, I'm not at home where I just shut myself in my room and be ok with avoiding my problems... I don't want to do that either, that's actually the best part about these changes that I'm experiences, I've been able to see actual changes in myself and I'm ok with taking on my problems head on instead of avoiding them and hoping they'll go away.

The end. (of my first post, let's just see how consistant I am with this)

-Michelle