Life is funny.

Just a heads up: this post is indeed about boys, but it's not about my patheticness, it's just pointing out the irony of life.


I haven't liked anyone basically all semester.  I haven't gone on any dates all semester.  I haven't even thought of schemes to get a guy to ask me on a date... I mean... I never did that to begin with... Yeah.


So here I am, at the very end of the semester, and I kinda actually like someone.  I mean, I guess in the back of my mind I've basically always had a little crush on them, but not really enough to count as a "crush".  Now I kinda do.  


Here are the qualities that make him awesome (these aren't the only ones.  I'm gonna sound shallow with these, but deal with it.):

He's 6'7".  Yeah. That's 3 1/2 inches taller than me.

He's VP of Tall Club.

He's really cute.

He's funny (Elizabeth would disagree).

He's 6'7".

He is a man. haha

Wanna see where the irony comes into play?


He's graduating.  Yeah.  I finally kinda like someone and they are graduating from college in a week and I will never see them again.  Awesome, no?


Life is funny.

Jeez Louise.

Ok.  So hopefully no creepers use this to track me down, but if I don't write it down, I may lose my mind.  So here goes!  (That sentence doesn't make any sense!  Why is that a saying we use? Whatever.)


Friday (today): Study, sell plasma, study.


Saturday: Work from 11-2 in the JSB (DEEEEATH!), take my Book of Mormon final


Sunday: Visit teach, church, cook, ward "eat everyone's leftover food" dinner, ward prayer


Monday: Usage final, Italian final (which I only have to get above a 40% on to keep my grade...)


Tuesday: Work from 7:45-11 in the testing center, study, pack


Wednesday: Hist. of Eng. Lang. final, work from 1:30-5 in the JSB


Thursday: Pack, work from 7-close in the testing center (superrrr deeeeeath!!!!)


Friday: Take everything to our storage place, cleaning check.


Saturday: FLY OUT!




Good grief.  I know my finals schedule has kinda really worked in my favor, but gosh.  The nightmares of running late to the airport and forgetting to pack stuff, or forgetting about leaving altogether have already begun!  

Best. Day. EVER!

So I have finally figured out why I sprained my ankle.  It was so I could be a pathetic cripple at the Unforum today!  Why was it so great?


1)I got to show my awesome gianthood along with other awesome giant people
2)I walked past a huge majority of the basketball team
3)I stood on stage with the entire basketball team
4)I got Logan Magnusson and some other player's autograph
5)I got Jimmer Fredette's autograph
6)I got Abuou's autograph
7)I GOT JIMMER FREAKING FREDETTE'S AUTOGRAPH!
8)I got frozen yogurt


Yeah. Good day.

Who's awesome at trampolining?

Me. Yeah.  See what had happened was... We went to this power tumbling place where there are lots of trampolines and foam pits and uhm a giant bear-lion came roaring out of a foam pit and was heading straight towards little Timmy with his broken leg so I kicked it in the jaw so hard that it died... 


I'm just kidding.  I suck.


Friday night, my ward had its closing social and for the activity, we went to this place called X-treme Air Sports (it's a power tumbling place, like a few blogs back) and I was there for about five minutes, jumping on the trampoline for about 1.5 minutes when my life was destroyed.  I mean not really... But kinda.


I was doing a sweet split - that Elizabeth didn't get a picture of! - and when I landed, my ankles twisted in and I fell the the ground... well, if being on the trampoline still counts as the ground.

I was afraid that I had hurt both ankles so I sat there for a minute before moving to this big pad thing.  While sitting, my left ankle began to swell and I discovered a huge chunk of skin missing from my big toe on my right foot.  After a while of sitting there, I made my way over to the "injured kid corner" to sit with the recently injured Brett Maughan.  When it was time to leave, different guys (I can't remember fully who helped when) helped me out to the car.  Brett left on his own two feet.  Too bad he BROKE HIS LEG and is ten times more of a man than I am! haha

So since I couldn't get up the stairs to my apartment, I went to Erika, Sarah, and Lauren's which is a few steps down rather than about 20 steps up.  John and Matt Bohman, who helped me into the apartment, went home and changed and came back to give me a blessing.

Let me just talk a moment on this.  I have such a strong testimony of the priesthood.  The Spirit was so strong and it was so clear when they were blessing me how worthy they are and how much they care for people, including me haha I am so grateful to have had them there and for them to be willing to bless me.  I know that this whole thing would have been a lot worse if they hadn't given me a blessing!

There was a lot of crying that night, whether from my pain, the Spirit, my patheticness, or laughing and then my tears just slipping out.  I looked like a hot mess!

Saturday, I finally went to the emergency room since no doctors would answer their phones and I couldn't go to the BYU health clinic.  After a tooooon of x-rays, I finally found out that I'm actually just a big baby and have a 2nd degree sprained ankle.  I got a fiberglass splint that I have to wear for at least two weeks and crutches that I have to use for at least three days.  My upper body hurts like the dickens because have no upper body strength whatsoever!

Hopefully I'll get better soon and everything with school and work will work itself out!  I just need to have the patience and faith to make it through!

At least my mom and I will be twins now kinda!

Here are some more fun pics :] 

Brett pre-broken leg

Cindy's shoe (we have the same ones).  What's really funny is that my foot really is this big in comparison now...

I look pained but I'm really just pulling my hair back.

Pink hospital bracelet!  I've never had one like that before!!

What is this feeling so sudden and new?

I forgot what it was like to not have homework and to only have finals (and kinda one test) to study for.  What in the world?  I keep thinking "oh I need to go work on... nevermind.  That's all done now... I don't have to do anything..."

It's CRAZY!  

And is it weird that I miss having Usage homework?  Yeah.  I figured it was.

Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice

This weekend I got the pleasure of watching General Conference, as I'm sure all of you did since I think the only people who read my blog are LDS.  It was such a wonderful conference and I gained so many amazing insights.


After listening to the words of prophets and apostles, I can't help but be filled with optimism.  I think that's why we're given them, too.  Heavenly Father knows life is hard for us and that we would give up if we didn't have something to give our faith a boost to last us another 6 months until we can hear new words of wisdom all over again.  


Anyways, the thing that I took the most out of was marriage.  Maybe that's because they talked about it so much - or not at all according to Lauren.  Maybe it seemed like so much to me because they said everything that's been weighing on me so heavily lately.  I think a lot of why I've been feeling so alone is because... well... I am alone.  I have friends and family and guy friends... But I don't have a boyfriend or even someone that I like really.  As an LDS girl in college, that's really hard.  Especially when I'm in all junior level classes where everyone is either married, engaged, or about to be engaged.  It's rough when you try to do your part, you try to dress nice, fix your make-up, fix your hair, stand up straight (or at least try, Mom), and try are friendly to the people you meet, and nothing comes out of it.  It makes you wonder why you even try.


Conference fixed all of that, though.  Richard G. Scott, I think it was him at least, is the one that helped the most.  He talked about how sometimes we're trying and nothing seems to be working and it seems that we're never going to get married or have kids, but if we have faith in the Lord, it will happen.  He will make it happen for us when it's supposed to happen and we just have to keep doing our part and keep trying.  


That is exactly what I needed to hear.  I have such a testimony of Conference and that the Lord knows what we're struggling with and as long as we're doing what we should be doing, He will give us what we need to be okay and get by. We are never alone; He will always be there looking out for us and proving a way to accomplish all things - we just have to have the faith.