HELP NEEDED!

I really, really need help finding a good haircut! Im getting it cut on saturday and I have no idea what I want to do! If you have any thoughts or ideas of what you think would look good on me, let me know! You can send links of pictures too!

Update overload.

Its been too long. Oh gosh, I don't even know where to start. The farthest back I can think is last tuesday when Aliese, Adam, and I hiked the Y for the "Hike and Light the Y" homecoming event that has been a tradition for 90 years I think. We booked it up that mountain no joke. We didn't really stop ever. We got to the top and ran into some friends from the ward.

Thursday I woke up and was walking to class FREEZING. Ok, I wasn't freezing. I kinda actually like the cold. It's really refreshing. Anyway, it was like 37 degrees or something and I was wearing a long sleeve shirt. I went to Spanish and then I studied for a bit then I went to my Spanish conversation lab. The whole morning there were just grey clouds all over the mountains. Didn't think anything of it. I walk out of class and BAMM! This is what I see...snow. Let me remind you that I was on that 'Y' on the mountain less that 48 hours before this happened. It also actually snowed on the ground that day too, not just on the mountain.

That same day, I was talking to my mom telling her how cold it was and she told me to go shopping...so I did. Never would I ever turn down that command. Aliese and I went shopping for winter clothes but weren't very successful, however I did find some lovely jeggings and a blue and white striped cardigan (cougar pride). We were going to go to Mr. BYU but that plan failed miserably. We were hungry and decided to go through the In-N-Out drive thru. We didn't make it that far. We ordered our food and then my car just shut off. We were both really confused. I turned it back on and it shut off. So I got out of the car and went to the people behind us and they said to put it in neutral so that they could push me out of. I did as I was told, got out of the turned off/in neutral car and it started moving without anyone even touching it! I started to freak so I jumped in and put it in park. The whole time, the workers in in-n-out looked super confused and were all sticking their heads out the window. It was pretty funny. It all of a sudden started working again so I got up to the window to pay, got our food and it turned off again. The people behind us pushed us out while I steered into a parking spot. HILARIOUS. It was actually more difficult than you would think. The steering wheel wouldn't turn like at all. Anyway, thats the story of the week. It was an exciting 5 minutes of my life. Oh and then there was this random man who apparently was a know-it-all about cars that explained what might be the problem and then left. Aliese and I just sat in the car and ate while we waited for Kyle to rescue us. The man appeared like 10 minutes later to tell me to go to the Japanese auto shop on center street and then left again. Umm....ok?? haha.

My car works now. Don't worry.

Thursday night was Devery's surprise birthday party. We had cake and played the game of things. If you know what it is, cool. If you don't, I don't know how to explain it but its hilarious haha.

Friday I have no recollection of what happened. Saturday...all I can remember is that we went to the football game. Oh, just kidding. Saturday I went shopping with one of my roommates Jessica and another friend Alena to make up for not being successful on thursday with Aliese. I found a really cute pea coat at Costco for $50. It was more than I wanted to spend but for a Michael Kors red wool pea coat, it was definitely a $50 well spent. MICHAEL KORS people. Designer. Yes.  Wait. Shopping was Friday. Maybe not. I don't remember now. Anyway. Saturday night was the homecoming football game against San Jose State. We dominated. I went with a bunch of people from the ward and then Aliese and Kyle showed up later. They went to the outlet mall in Park City before. Heres a picture from the game!

Since True Blue was cancelled during homecoming week because It was so freaking cold and snowing, it was postponed to yesterday. Aliese and I helped out as part of BYUSA. We stood at the top of the slides to hold them down so that they wouldn't fall down the hill. We were next to the DJ so I had my own little dance party the whole time. After everyone left, all of the volunteers got to have our own time on the slide. It was a ton of fun. 

In the moment of taking this picture (below) I was just thinking, 'man, life is good'. My days just get better and better and I love being here. 

I couldn't be happier with where my life is at right now. Everything seems to be falling into place. I have great roommates, I love being around my sister and Spencer, I love having a car and being independent. Im so excited to be more involved with BYUSA. I got a call from a girl today asking if I would like to work with her in Admin. Im official now. Legit. Watch out everyone, Im taking over! Also, I got an email back from the Graphic Design head professor and got an appointment with him for next week to talk about my portfolio! So pumped! Everything is coming together so nicely :) I love my life.

On a more spiritual note. Keep the faith rollin' people. It will change your life immensely if you rely on the promptings of the spirit. Wouldn't be where I am now without it!

Oh glorious day.

I have taken 18 quizzes/tests in the last 2 days. That my friends, is a little thing called procrastination. Thank you physical science and spanish (but mostly physical science).

Live.

You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

I've always thought that this was very clever, and so true! I can look back on my life and remember multiple times when I had the opportunity to do something, but passed it up. I may never get some of those opportunities ever again in my life only because I just didn't take the shot. It makes you really take a step back and analyze your life. Are you being productive? Taking every opportunity that comes by? Meeting all the people that you can? Exploring the world? Learning new things? You are given opportunities to do things pretty much every single day of your life. Are you taking advantage of that? Do whatever you need and want to do so that when you're old, you can say that you lived a great life full of adventure, knowledge, and happiness. Don't waste your time sitting around thinking that something will happen and you will experience everything. It doesn't work that way. Live your life.

One day at a time.

So this weekend was a good one. Day by day, things are starting to get better. Thursday I went to a meeting for ILP (International Language Program). Taylor is in the program right now and I really want to do it! I would like to go to Thailand so we'll see what happens! Friday I went to class and took 2 tests and then I went with Aliese and Kyle to a stake activity. It was pizza and a dance. It was all fun and games until they started doing slow dances. That was my cue to leave the dance floor. After the dance, I went on a blind date with a guy named Nathaniel. He is Tanners mission friend, so thats how it was set up. We went to Red Robbins for dinner and then he took me back home. It was just a short date. My voice was a little off, but I figured I was just a little congested or something. I got home around 10 and Aliese and Kyle came back to our place along with like 5 other people. I had no idea we were having people over! We all watched Limitless. I think I fell asleep for a little bit but I don't think anyone noticed. Then we sat around and talked/listened to Austin practically run his own comedy show. I swear that kid cant go one sentence without saying something funny. Oh man. The next morning Aliese, Kyle and I went to a service project at 9am. I met a guy named Ryan and he and I kinda stuck together the entire time, while Aliese and Kyle were ''partners". At first we were all shoveling new dirt into the flower bed thing and then the second half of the time we were there, we pulled weeds. I don't think I have ever had as much fun pulling weeds as a did on Friday. But anyways, Ryan and I talked like the whole time. He's an awesome guy and super hilarious! We just got along really well. It felt like we had known each other forever, but it had only been like 3 hours. He's actually the President of BYUSA, which is awesome and automatically makes him a good guy haha. My voice was still a little weird that morning at the service project. I got back home, took a nap, woke up and my voice was gone. Awesome. Its even more awesome when I tell you that when I woke up I had to shower and get ready to go to the very first home football game of the season. Perfect timing Zoe. So I had no voice AND I didn't take any pictures! Whats wrong with me?! I didn't get my voice back completely until today (Wednesday). Not fun.

I am putting off my Physical Science reading because it is seriously SO boring. I cant take it. Oh man. Oh and in my drawing class, we've been working on the same drawing for 3 days (3 hour class) so 3daysX3hours=9hours total...and Im not done yet! But I have never done a better drawing in my life! Im so excited to finish it! It looks awesome and Its gonna go into my portfolio.

Does anyone know a place that you can order 10X10, 8X8, 9X12, and 8X10 pictures prints from? I've looked like everywhere. The only one most places do is the 8X10.

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I've been meaning to write for a while but as of a couple minutes ago, the last 2 weeks of my life have been completely erased out of my mind. I don't remember anything haha. I guess not a ton has happened aside from this last weekend (Emily's Wedding). I've just been getting settled into Provo, getting used to my classes, thinking about applying for jobs but wondering if I have enough time for that. I really want to work, but I don't want to overwhelm myself with too much work because I also need to put together a portfolio for my application into the Graphic Design program which is HUGE. If I don't get in, it's going to set me back in school and I really don't want that to happen. So as much as I want a job, and need a job, I wonder if that could be a bad idea. Oh a positive note, I love living with Aliese and I love my other roommates. Laura and Jessica are awesome. They are super goofy so we get along great. WE all have a good time together. Lindsay and Spencer just got a puppy and they named him Brody. He's the cutest little thing. He's a miniature pinscher/pomeranian mix and only weighs like 2 pounds right now! He will stay small and only get to be 8-10 pounds. Ahh I love that little guy.

Emily got married yesterday and it was an amazing wedding. I loved every minute of it. It was a party!  It makes it hard for me to not want to get married anytime soon after seeing her and Jeremiah so incredibly happy. I want that for myself so bad but there are so many other things that I want before that and Im still 19, except I feel like a granny, with no money, that has been going to school for 10 years and isn't getting anywhere. How does that sound? haha. But anyways, yes, the wedding was great. Im so glad that I was able to go and even happier that I was a bridesmaid :) Although I wore 4 inch heels, I was surprisingly confident in how tall I was and it didn't really bother me. So Emily...thank you for that. It was super hot at the temple so by the time me and the rest of the bridesmaids got to the luncheon (which by the way took forever to get to because we kinda got lost. Don't know how that happened because its on the same street as the temple) we were super thirsty. Thankfully, the waitresses placed giant classes of cold lemonade in front of us. It was so good. We downed like 5 cups in like 15 minutes. Kinda sad. The food was delicious and it was fun to talk to the girls and get to know them. After the luncheon we had a couple hours to do whatever so we went bowling! But before we went bowling we went to walmart to get socks and decorations for the car. Everyone gave us weird looks because we were all wearing the same thing and the guys were too haha. It was fun though. So we went bowling and it was girls against guys. We won...both times! I hadn't been bowling in forever. I loved it. All the people in the wedding party were so fun to be around. We had a good time. Then came the reception. Everyone had their own jobs and mine was to take charge of greeting people and telling them to sign the guest book. I did that for about an hour. It had started raining so everyone went indoors but it made it very memorable. I still think that it was an amazing reception. When it stopped raining, people went outside again. Emily and Jeremiah cut the cake and threw it in each others faces (cutest thing ever) and then we did dancing and the bouquet and garter toss. Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE weddings?! They are the best. I could go on about this wedding but wont. And they lived happily every after....the end.

So my parents dropped me off at the airport like 40 minutes ago and I don't know why but I just started crying. Have you ever just started crying out of nowhere and had no idea why but you cant control yourself?! Yeah thats what happened. Its weird. And right now I just feel weird. I don't know whats gotten into me. Maybe it's the idea that i'm sitting in the airport on 9/11 and a bunch of creepy old men keep looking at me? I don't know. Oh, ok, so Im C 22 in line to board which means that Im going to be like the last one on with no place to put my bags and Im gonna be stuck in the middle of two big old fat guys. Thats normally how it goes right? haha. Or maybe Ill sit next to the nice missionary. We'll see I guess. 

Oh and you know those high heel toms that are being sold? I thought they looked kinda strange online but I just saw a lady wearing them and they were actually super cute on! You probably just have to find the right color. I think some colors would be weird. I don't know, thats just me.

OHHH! I remember something big that has happened to me in the last 2 weeks. I hiked Mount Timpanogos! Thats a big deal. It was the first weekend here. It was kind of a spur of the moment idea. Aliese was on a date that night so I hung out with the roommates. We talked, got to know each other, went to Panda Express and then came home. Danny (a friend of my roommates) said that she had been invited to go hike Timp with some random people so...an hour later we got picked up by people we didn't know and drove to the bottom of the mountain. We got picked up at like 12:15 and started hiking at like 1:00am. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into until we had been hiking for a couple hours already. I didn't think it was that intense of a hike. Turns out it is a 6 hour one-way hike. I had no idea. I actually thought it was a joke but I was wrong. So we get closer and closer to the top and it gets colder and colder. The higher we went, the more layers I put on. The entire time it was pitch black and i had no idea what my surroundings were. We got pretty close to the top and took the wrong trail and started trekking through ice haha. It was an adventure. It wasn't till we were in the middle of an ice bowl till we realized that we went the wrong way because we saw other hikers lights shining from a different trail. We were probably 30 minutes from the top so we were a little sad haha. We just chilled there to wait for the sunrise. The boys had brought blankets and food. They were so prepared. They gave the girls like all of it while they suffered. It made me realize that there really are good guys out there! We waited for a while but it was taking forever so we starting walking back and thats when the sun came out and it started warming up and OH MY GOSH was it gorgeous. Green everywhere, streams, lakes, mountain goats, flowers, waterfalls, trees...you name it. It was like the sound of music or something and you could see for miles! Im so sad that I didn't have my camera. On the way back, the group kinda split into a fast group and a small group but not on purpose. I was in the fast group and my camera was in a backpack with my roommate in the slower group. Oh well. During the hike I told myself I would never do it ever again because it was so long but when I could actually see what I was going through, and now after finishing it, I think I would go again. I would go just for the pictures haha. It was amazing. We got back at 10am and Aliese was really confused because she woke up and we still weren't home! She thought we died or something. So after pulling an all nighter, hiking for 10 hours, we got home, I took a shower and then Aliese and I went to a ward activity at Rock Canyon Park. It was just a BBQ but I was so exhausted. I wanted the good free food though haha. I met a ton of people in our ward so Im glad I went. When we got home, our house was dead for the rest of the day. I think Aliese got a little bored. Oh well! So that was the Mount Timp adventure!

This post was all over the place and Im pretty sure there were a lot of errors but Im so done with it so Im not going to fix anything. Sorry haha.

Guilty.

So Im back in Provo! Yesterday I drove up with Erika Vasquez. It was pretty fun. She slept a lot and I just listened to music quietly but it went surprisingly really fast. It goes faster when you're driving...at least thats what I experienced. So yeah. It was great. But the thing I really wanted blog about is my near out of gas experience. It was probably one of the freakiest things I have ever experienced. I figured that it was safe to fill up at a quarter tank and no lower so whenever I drive, I fill up my tank when it gets to a quarter tank, so thats what I did the first round of gas in Las Vegas. I called my mom just to say hi and tell her that we were in Vegas and the drive is going fine. I was going off about how we got all the way to Vegas and I still had at quarter tank of gas but I was filling it up right then and she got a little upset/frustrated and was telling me how I should always keep it over half full just to be safe. I thought that was ridiculous because I think that a quarter tank is safe enough. Little did I know that when I got back to a quarter tank, within like 1 or 2 hours till Provo, there was not a gas station in sight. I hadn't seen one since I was at like a half tank (moms know everything). So Im driving, driving and nothing. There isn't a gas station in sight and we are in the middle of NOWHERE! I wasn't worried until like an hour later and there still wasn't a gas station. The gas meter thing is getting pretty close to E and I was slightly freaking out. Kept driving, and nothing, so I looked up where the closest gas station was on my GPS and it said 13.6 miles. That is when I really started freaking out because at that point, I was basically on E. This is when I started praying hard haha. Erika probably thinks I'm so irresponsible now but Im not! I promise. So we get down to a couple miles away from the gas station and I am on the verge of a heart attack no joke. I had a good feeling that we would make it but I was still unsure. So we come around the side of the mountain and off in the distance we can see the gas station! Hallelujah. A minute after we saw the gas station the car kinda started bumping but I thought it might be a bad road or something, but Spencer told me that that meant the car was sputtering, and out of gas haha. Miracles ladies and gentlemen. We were still on the freeway at that point and somehow (miracle) the car stopped doing that the last mile and we safely made it to the gas station. As a side note...Saturday I got a 5 hour energy thing for myself just incase I got tired. So when we pulled up I was completely drained. It was insane. So I drank my 5 hour energy. We got back on the freeway to finish the last 40 minutes till Provo when all of a sudden the song Jesus Take the Wheel by Carrie Underwood came on. Can you say ironic?! Holy cow. The best line of that song is 'fifty miles to go and she was runnin low, on faith and gasoline....Jesus take the wheel'. Umm yeah, this is when Erika and I came to the conclusion that I am an awful person because I just prayed my little heart out that we would make it to the gas station and we did, and then I drank a caffeinated drink (breaking the word of wisdom...on a sunday). Basically yeah. Guilty.

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