cooking spray in my eye.

Things like this seem to be recurring events in my life. Read here for a simple reminder.


Tonight in bread making I was trying to put the lid back on the bottle of pam cooking spray. And you know what? Those lids are gosh dang hard to put on. I was using all the force my upper body could produce, when I slipped and somehow managed to hit the sprayer, where it shot up into my eye. This caused a chain reaction of smacking my forehead on the cupboard, which reopened a nice little scab on my forehead. So I had a burning eye, a contact that was shriveling up, and blood on my forehead. Not to mention half the class was gawking at me.


Twas splendid.


Scott's reaction when I told him: "You are the epitome of elegance and poise." 


He definitely loves me.

welcome to terrgit.

I promise you that Maddi and I aren't completely childish.


Today after bread making we ventured over to Target to have ourselves some fun. Remember that lil' bombshell from VS I told you about? You can check it out here. Anywho. Maddi had seen a wannabe one at Target, so we just had to go compare. 


Speaking from experience, if I were to buy one of those ridiculously padded bras, I'd definitely have to go with the one from Vickie's. The one from Target just doesn't do justice. Although, Melski, the one at Target was purple leopard print. We thought it would make a nice friend for Zeebs. 


After the bras, we headed on over to the shoes where Mad broke the clearance sign. Then I told her that I was sick of hiding my secret: I was pregnant and we needed to go check out the car seats. That's when she told me her secret: "I thought you were getting fat." hahah. We scoured through all the baby stuff, and even tried out the breast pumps.


Then we went to the toys and played with every toy possible, especially the ones that made obnoxious noises. We found some JBiebs dolls and loved them immensely. We played the Wii, and checked out some face washes. We even ran into a fart that seemed more like a brick wall than a smell in the air.






Twas a swell day.






Also, 4 more days until this boy is home!!

I can't wait!!

Peace&blessings.

Sometimes I go to Provo.

Last Monday I decided I was going to go to Provo. I had Schnid book me a flight, and I called up my good friend Rachy and told her I was coming to stay with her. What a splendid decision it was.

I left STG on Friday at 1:15, and arrived in SLC at 2:15. Rach came and picked me up at the airport, and we ventured on back down to Provo. We may or may not have gotten lost in the ghetto of Salt Lake. We were looking for a gas station, and were becoming very, very lost in the process. It was only when we were sitting at a stop light frantically trying to peer down the road to see if we could spot a gas station that we realized we were stopped right next to one. Ha! It gave us a great laugh. 

So after that we took her brother's car back to him and then went back to her dorm room. Then her sister and her brother's fiance and two of their friends came and got us, and we went wedding dress shopping! Well. They went wedding dress shopping. I sat and gawked, and oohd and aahd. It was splendid. 

After that we went to dinner, where I saw Alex Halladay. The look on her face was that of pure shock. ha! It was fun seeing her. .... and I think my brain might be wrong, because it seems so long ago, but after that we went back to her room.. I think. I don't really remember what we did in between there. But! That night we found Fame on netflix, and snuggled up in her bed.. and promptly fell asleep. ha! We lasted I think 30 minutes into it, then we both crashed. When Rach turned off the movie, I got up and went over to my bed. I was laying there when all of a sudden she sits up.

"Alex?"

"..yeah?"

"Are you ok?"

"..yeah?"

"Ok."

yep. then she laid back down and went to sleep. Pretty sure she was sleep talking. ha!

So Saturday morning we had planned to wake up at 9:30. My body is permanently stuck in school mode, so I automatically woke up at 7:00. I didn't want to wake up Rach, so I just laid in bed until her alarm went off. Turns out, she had woken up at 7:00 too, and was thinking the same thing. ha! So great. I got ready, and she went and played some basketball with some of her friends. {ps.. I majorly failed at taking pictures this weekend. ha!} After her basketball game, she came back and got ready, and then went to a banquet with her family where her grandpa was being honored for being a BYU alumni, or something of the sort. I went up to Michelle's room, and hung out with her for a bit. Then Michelle left with her friends to stand in line at the basketball game. So I hung out with Jess for a little bit. Then Rachel returned and retrieved me, and we continued on our way to the basketball game! 

yay! First picture that I took! ha! I was secretly rooting for the U. ..I would have out loud, but I didn't want to be murdered.

{Slightly awkward picture approaching..}

After the game Rach and her friends dressed up to go to Disco night at some skating rink in Orem. I wasn't feeling very well, so I stayed home and studied. Then Michelle got home from her service project, so we hung out and ate fruit loops and sour patch strawberries. 

Rach and I found these nice little writings. Underneath the makeout spot one, the bush looks like it's been sat in. I took a pic, but you can't really tell.

After all that good stuff, Rachel came back, and we snuggled up again and tried to finish our movie. Once again, got about 30 minute into it, fell asleep. ha! We tried.

Today we woke up. Went to church. Ate lunch. Went back to her room and finally ..almost.. finished Fame. I think we were both pretty proud of ourselves. ha! We got so close. There were only 20 minutes left. Michelle came down, and we chatted for a bit. Then Rachel's parents came, and I drove home with them! It was a splendid weekend. I enjoyed it. It was definitely what I needed. 

Thanks again, Rach. 

My brain is imploding.

I'm sitting here in my room, trying not to lose it.


I've got the Biebz and my rice bag keeping me company. And I love having them as company, don't get me wrong. But they aren't completely removing my stress.


I'm sitting here searching my brain for the reason that I decided to take my photography class. And while I'm doing that, I'm trying to remember how to write an essay. One that's due tomorrow. Well. Just the first draft. I don't really think I'm going to finish it... yep. Not finishing it.


Nic told me that I need to makeout with somebody to relieve my stress. Any takers? doubt it. 


I'll just stick to Justin Bieber and my rice bag.

Peacock

[pee-kok]-noun1.      the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.2.     any peafow3.      Maddi, Melissa, and Alex.
Halloween is a peachy holiday. You get to dress up as whatever your heart desires. For us, that desire was a peacock. Pretty great, right? We started the night out with our hair and makeup.

{with some light painting in between}

{cheesy smile.}

My bangs have a life of their own at times..

And then we finally left!

hah! 

"Peacocks always drive at 10 and 2."

"Officer.. It's incredibly hard to drive when your'e a peacock."

Her hair was touching the ceiling.

Anyway. After our exciting time of getting ready and our uneventful drive, we made it to Staheli Farm. That's where the dance was. It smelled like sweaty armpits, manure, and hay.. it was an interesting combination. And even though I had braced myself for the nasty people that would be doing their own thing on the dance floor, I was still shocked. Pretty much everyone is 100% disgusting. I do appreciate the few girls who dressed appropriately. I saw two girls dressed up as a pair of dice. I laughed. And a few wearing lab coats, and random stuff like that. I also appreciate the boys who wear clothes, not loin cloths. I swear almost every guy I saw was shirtless and wearing the shortest pair of shorts possible. And literally, loin cloths. *sigh* My hope for decent people hasn't improved since the last dance I went to. If anything, it's probably worsened. But. We still mobbed up the dance floor and did our own thing. And then we were thirsty, so we made our way to the back of the.. uh.. barn to find some water. But all we found was luke warm chocolate milk. Needless to say, it didn't quench our thirst. We then made our way back up to the front. Which was where some guy came up behind me.. and. ew. Yeah. I felt like crying. Maddi pushed him away, and thankfully he left. Gah! Seriously, people are super gross. But, it was a lot of fun. Melissa drugged me with excedrin before we left because I was dead tired from work. I worked 9:30 to 6:00. It was the booseum, and we had about 300 people come in. It was busy. It was a pretty solid Halloween, though. I had fun. We danced around in our peacock costumes and had a grand time. Melissa's dance moves are definitely the greatest. And Seth Hayne's rendition of the "single ladies" dance had me cracking up. haha! He's a funny kid. I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. And wore clothing that covered more than what is required by law (:

love you all.

I feel so posh right now.

And now I shall continue on with the promised blog post of this past weekend. Get ready. It was crazy.

Friday: Our two beautiful friends Rachel and Berkley were down to run the marathon {you can click on their names to see their blogs about that adventure}. We planned to meet up with them that morning for breakfast! So Melissa and I ventured over to The Egg and I, and had some much missed time with those two.

 Those were their we can't believe we're running a marathon tomorrow faces. Those two are crazy. But I'm so incredibly proud of them and all their hard work! I love them. And miss them.

Anywho. After breakfast, we went home to finish packing, and then hit the road. 

We drove up to Cedar and spent a few hours with with Cody, Sam, Rob, and Tyler. It was a lot of fun. We met their roommates. Heard their stories of college and how Robby exposed himself to the entire apartment complex. Saw their dew collection. Listened to Sam play his guitar and watch him balance his 5 billion bags. Cody clipped his nails. Robby made chili. Cody ate some chips and salsa. You know. Just the usual things you would expect from those boys.

We then continued on our way to Provo. And we saw this gorgeous sunset:

I don't know why, but that's all the pictures I took that day. But once we got to Provo we went to Zuppas with Mary. And then found Michelle. Then Michelle, Melissa, and I went to some intramural flag football thing. Then we drove over to Mike Shepard's apartment and saw him, Kiana Calkins, and Chad. And Mike's crazy roommate Michael. After that we went back to Helaman, and just hung out for the rest of the night. I can't exactly remember. My brain was so tired that it's all just kind of a blur. And now, on to..

Saturday: We slept in. It was glorious. We woke up at... 9:30 I think. The plan was to go do some shopping, and then attempt to watch the last bit of conference. So we arose and went to shower. We got into the bathroom, and Melissa had forgotten something in the room. {Oh. I forgot- we were staying in Alex Halladay's dorm. Both she and her roommate were out of town, so they left us a key.} Anyway, Melissa goes back out to the room. When she comes back into the bathroom, she goes "Al.. You're gonna die." So I turned off my water so I could hear her and asked her what happened. She then says "The magnet fell." The magnet is a trick Alex informed us of - you stick it in the door frame, and it keeps the door from latching shut so you don't have to take your key with you. The bad thing about not taking your key with you is when the magnet falls, you're locked out. Not such a problem when you live there. Major problem when you don't live there, and you're not really supposed to be there. So, long story short: With the help of Michelle and a billion phones calls to get ahold of Alex, we finally were able to get a key to get back into the room. So, after that whole ordeal, we finished getting ready and drove to the mall!

After a long while of shopping, Melissa dropped me off at Chad's apartment, and she went to curl Michelle's hair, and get ready with her and Mary. I met Chad's roommate Bret. Chit-chatted. Twas grand. When it was time for him to go to the priesthood session, Melissa came back to get me. I changed into my newly acquired boots and dress, and the four of us went to this cute little restaurant. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was called. Mary, help?

These were soooo good.

After dinner we walked around to the corner to this spiffy place called SP^RK {you can click on that if you don't believe me about how cool it was.} Essentially what it is, is a fake bar. That serves alcoholic beverages minus the alcohol. They play chill music, like John Mayer. And it makes you feel posh, according to Michelle.(: hah! But it really was so super cool. Here's some pictures of our fun time there:

I was in love with this wall.

And this chandelier.

And this candle.

Here were our drinks! Melissa and Michelle got Double Berry Martinis, Mary got a Pomegron, and I had a Bellini! They were all really good. Melissa got salt all around her rim. I was jealous. But it was really just sugar. Still jealous, though.

And we had a few desserts that were also quite delicious.

She's a neck-nuzzler:

So after dinner we went back to Taylor, and sat around for a few minutes. Brad showed up. That was fun.

Then we went over to j-hall. Where we hung out. And I was instructed to take a picture of this boy whose name I don't even know.

While we were all hanging out it was getting a bit much for my brain to handle. So I went over to Chad's for a little while and hung out with him, Mike, and Kiana. They were trying to avoid Mike's crazy roommate so they snuck out the back window. haha! Then Chad and I just talked for a bit. It was so good. I've missed him a lot. More than I realized, I think. And even though seeing him is making me miss him even more, it makes me happier. Because I know that he's doing well, and that I can still see and talk to him. That sounds silly. I did know that I could still see and talk to him, but this weekend made it seem more realistic. Made me realize that he's not gone. Does that make sense? Anyway. What it boils down to, is that I'm happy.

Then Melissa and Mary came to get me, and we returned to Taylor for a bit, then Melissa and I went back to "our" dorm, and fell asleep. Ah. It was much needed. I was exhausted. And then came...

Sunday: We were planning on waking up early to go say goodbye to Mary and Michelle. They were going up to conference with Brad and a few of their friends, and we weren't sure if we were going to get to see them again before we left. But, obviously, we slept past their departure time. So that never happened. But we woke up at 10:30 and watched conference. After that we got ready, and drove to West Jordan to visit Melissa's Aunt/Uncle/Cousins. We ate dinner/lunch... Linner with them and watched the second half of conference. After that we talked, and then drove to her brother and sister-in-law's new apartment. Stayed there for like 10 minutes, and then left for STG. 

While we were passing by BYU, the song LoveGame by the infamous GaGa came on. "I wanna kiss you. But if I do, then I might miss you babe." We looked at each other and both laughed at the irony. And oh, how true it is. And as I stared at the Y on the hill, my throat tightened up, and I had to choke back the tears of how much I'm missing you, and everyone else. I think I can handle it better this time. Even though a bit more confusion was created, a bit more was cleared up as well. I know I still have everyone in my life, and that I'll see them all again soon. Some within a week. It's just that goodbyes are always hard. So I try to remember them as "see-you-laters."

Anywho. Enough of my sappiness. Forgive me, please. We got home last night about 11:30. gah. I was so stinking tired. I slept like a baby. And then I was awoken around 4:30 by the most beautiful sounds of rain and thunder, paired with lightening. I know that everybody says they love the rain, but I really do. It makes me feel at peace, and so happy. 

And so, to make this happy feeling last, I'm wearing these awesome socks:

And eating this grand orange roll:

 I'm also listening to a new artist I just discovered. Her name is  Stacy Clark. My favorite song of the moment is called Touch and Go. Listen to it. I'm commanding you to.

As if all of this wasn't enough for my to be on a happy-high for a while, I discovered this:

 That's four days of pure bliss, right there. *sigh* I'm so content right now. If you've made it this far, I congratulate you. You probably deserve an award of some kind. I hope you're not bored. But thanks for reading about my amazing weekend. (: 

I hope life is treating you well. And if you're feeling down, connect with an old friend, or find something to make you happy, k?

Love you all.