Untitled.

This post is untitled for one very BIG reason.  There is no title that can ever be good enough for the topic of this blog post.


Yes, I know it's a little late, but my summer has been kinda insane since before it even began.


I miss school.  I miss my friends.  I miss being so exhausted at the end of the day that I was out within two minutes of closing my eyes.  I miss the people that I met.  I can't believe that something as minor as the decision of what apartment to live in changed my life so completely.  


This part of the blog is where I'm going to do something very unoriginal.  I'm going to make a list of people, some will have attached pictures, that I am so very grateful I was blessed to meet.  For the most part, if I hadn't decided to live in Wyview Park Building 24 Apartment 315, I wouldn't have known any of these people.


The order listed has nothing to do with favoritism, so don't get your panties in a wad.


1) Eric Fletcher Perry

You are the strangest, silliest, scariest driving, weird, random, awesome boy I have ever met.  When I try to even describe you on here and the things you did, I draw a blank.  Not because I can't think of anything, but because there simply are no words.  I was a major stick in the mud, and I kind of still am, but for the most part, you helped me change.  You were so wacky that it made it easy for me to be silly and not look weird - at least compared to you ;]  I miss you a lot and it makes me so sad to know I'll be graduated by the time you're home from your mission.  You'll be great and the people from Japan will ADORE you, but I'll still miss you!


2) Matthew Kirkham

I miss you.  There just aren't words.  You were the best husband, even if we were really just adulterous swingers, I could have ever asked to have.  Especially for my freshman year at BYU.  You are so strong and incredible.  Your blog leaves me smiling and so very proud of the man you are.  You're someone that will be in my life forever.  God truly gave me more blessings than I deserve by placing you in my life.  We broke so many rules together hahaha Only my journal is allowed to have them written down on... (Don't fret, Readers.  We didn't break the Honor Code... Well... Mostly... ;])  I can't wait to be able to hug you again!  That was the most painful goodbye before you left on your mission.  Luckily it's not the end :]


3) John and Matt Bohman, Thomas Hansen, Rees Atkins, and Brett Maughan
This part is equal for each of you.  I love you boys so very much.  I know none of you will ever read this because you don't read my blog, but that's ok.  I hope any sons that I'm given are a wonderful mixture of all of you guys.  You are such wonderful boys (I sound like a grandma.) .  You are all so kind and loving and supportive.  Most of you guys saw me at my worst, gave me blessings, and helped me laugh even though I was bawling.  You all let me be a girl and lean on you when I wasn't strong enough to carry myself.  And I mean that literally.  I will never forget any of you.


4) Elizabeth Dalton

You were the best roommate I could have been given this semester.  You are so great and after telling me your story, I respect you and love you so much!  I can't wait to see you again in the fall!  You are so strong and beautiful.  You have such an awesome testimony.  Don't let anyone or anything let you believe otherwise.  I hope that someday I'm as amazing as you!  I wish I could have had all year with you instead of just one semester!


5) Dallin Solomon

This is literally the only picture of the two of us.  Pathetic.  But fitting.  Dallin, hunny, there are no words.  I love you SO much.  I just want to cradle you in my bosom forever.  It was so hard to say goodbye to you.  I know we didn't get to do a whole lot of stuff together, but what we did do was enough to show me how much I care about you.  I would seriously do anything in my power for you.  Like for reals.  I miss you :[


6) Lauren Smith

You are the person I miss the most.  Sorry if that offends anyone.  You are one of my absolute very best friends.  I can't believe it took us 19 years to finally get to meet each other.  How have we survived all of this time without each other?  You are so dear to me and my very favorite leezbeen partner (that sounds bad.  Oh well.)  I know you will really be in my life forever.  When we're 92, we'll be sitting in some parking lot saying "What do you wanna do?  I don't know.  What do you want to do?"  Some things never change.  One of those things is our friendship.  Even though I can feel that something big is gonna happen in the next year or so and our proximity to each other may not always be as close as it will be living with each other next year... You will always be close to my heart.  Nothing can change that.  Not even silly boys ;]


7) Katie Kesler

Calm down everyone.  Just hear me out.  You'll never read this and I know we didn't see eye to eye and we didn't really like each other, but I'm glad I met you.  You were the root of one of the biggest trials and blessings I've had this year.  Living with you was hard.  I'm not going to deny that.  But living with you taught me a few things. I learned so much of our Heavenly Father's love from living with you.  I had to grow and mature so much to survive that semester.  Surprisingly, I didn't cry as much as I would think, but living with you drained me.  I do love you though.  I'm sad that you have so many trials in your life and that you weren't able to fully experience life at BYU.  I wish more than anything that one day, you will be able to experience the joy of life that I have been blessed with.  I know that Heavenly Father loves you and, even though life with you was hard, I love you too.


There is a follow-up blog that I need to post too, but it's not coming right now.  Something has been tugging at me for so long to write this post but I just haven't had time.  


There are many more people I met this year that I didn't blog about.  Even if you aren't on here, know I love you and that you are part of what made my year so incredible!  I have learned from all of the people I met this year and I hope that I was to at least some of you what you all have been for me!  

Nothing Better

How should I take it when an old lady in Wal-Mart says to my brother, "You can tell your sister personally, I think it's the prettiest thing for a girl who's tall and big to stand with her shoulders back." 


















.....Yeah.  My thoughts exactly.

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.