Seriously I love it.

Have you been watching the Olympics?!?! I have!!! Seriously I love it. Swimming, gymnastics, rowing, volleyball, kayaking, tennis, speed walking, synchronized swimming....I could go on. The Olympics are great. I have watched a lot of some and a little bit of others but it's all awesome. Makes me want to cry. I have been thinking about what Olympic sport I will be involving my children in when they are like two and a half so they can make it to the Olympics...I'll let you know when I decide.

Also. Step Up Revolution. Anyone? Came out July 27? Were you there? Cause I was! Seriously I love it. It was great. I thought it was so much better than the third one. The dancing was awesome. The story was just good enough to enjoy when they weren't dancing. Which was a lot. So good.

Also. The Hobbit? Seriously I love it. Anyone hear they are now going to be making three movies instead of two? In the very little research that I conducted I decided that it's true. They claim its not all for the money but that they have done a lot of back story of things aren't necessarily in the book but in other books that Tolkien has written. Which. Whatever. I'm okay with that. BUT. I have decided that I want to try to read The Hobbit and all The Lord of the Rings books before school starts??? Yeah? I have read The Hobbit twice and got all the way The Lord of the Rings until about 3/4 of the way through the last book....... Really not sure why I stopped. I was just done. So we'll see how that goes.

I'm pretty sure there was something else not related to movies or television...but its late so it will have to wait for another day.

done and DONE.

DONE. 2 of 2. Finished.

I won't be at all surprised if I failed miserably.

Currently de-stressing with some very loud music. love it.

almost there....

One down. One to go.

Just too the Geog praxis test. Feel pretty good about it. Spanish is on Wed...

Few lingering questions....

What is an isthmus and where the crap is Bangladesh?

Rain, rain, please please stay.

I LOVE THE RAIN. so much. And also cause it means that my apartment is currently under 80 degrees at 5 in the afternoon. Heaven. Normally its closer 90.

Saw Rock of Ages last night. Do not, I repeat, do not go see this movie. It was terrible in every sense of the word. Lots of good music but so not worth it. I had just seen the commercial awhile ago but never heard how it actually was. no. bad. awful. stupid.

I went fishing yesterday!! And caught a fish!!!!! I went up to Tony Grove with my padre and brother. The weather was sooooooo nice. The temperature was perfect and it was kinda overcast. I could have sat in that canoe all day. I gutted two of the fish. I'd have to say it was pretty hilarious. I'm couldn't really tell you why I was laughing so hysterically. Cause it was gross and....that was my way of dealing with the gross bloody guts and everything? I guess? Kind of amusing. Then we came back and ate the fish. Yum.

I am speaking in church tomaowuwowoeirw. I have been attempting to write my talk for the majority of the day............so in preparation I found this video that I love. (which does not have anything to do with my talk or the preparation thereof...............) But I love the song and it's cool.

right now...

You can buy bagged ice from McDonald's. only 99 cents.
Whistle by Flo Rida (Which I always read as Florida. the state.)
My apartment is 90 degrees right now. (its 10:05 pm)
So I am sitting on the floor drinking my smoothie.
I studied for two and a half hours today at the library. go me. 
Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men.
My flower pot is dying. This makes me sad.
THE BOX ELDER BUGS. I might have a mental break down soon.
Real soon.
I bought a papaya today. :)
I am reading a mystery book. I don't read mysteries. I like this one though. 
Commence mental breakdown in 3...2...1...
(there was just a very large beetle bug...thing on the stove....shudder)
I don't know how much longer I will be able to take this.

Operation Vacation Guatemala.

 So...remember that one time that I went to Guatemala and it was awesome? It was pretty much one of thee coolest and funnest things I have ever had the chance to do! I would highly recommend it folks. So here is a more or less brief explanation of what I did with a few photos. (hopefully different from FB.)

Day 1. On the plane. Bought a book at the airport...it was kinda strange.
Day 2. Antigua, Guatemala. Old city therefore lots of cool old things. And hair things! Look how many there are to choose from!

Day 3. Spent most of the day at the MTC in Guate the mission comp had to work so I just hung out. Oh and the day before I got to see several missionaries that I served with including another companion! It was hard to get a good pic of the whole temple.

Day 4. Sunday. Father's Day. Excellent home cooked Guate food (SO sad I forgot to take pics of the food!) and a visit to a market place to try more awesome Guate food. I love black frijoles! (Ok. Maybe I took a few pics of food...)

Day 5. The beach. Need I say more? Yes. I need to say more. Hammocks. Black sand. The ocean was sooo warm. I was not expecting that. And perfect weather, and a really bad sunburn.

Day 6. Traveling. Temple. Awesome hot springs where we spent the night.

Day 7. Lake Atitlan. Pana. Traveling back home.

Day 8. We went to see a relief map (I think that's what there called?) of Guatemala. It was cool see the layout and mountains and all that business. Next we went to the mall. It was a nice mall. Saw Madagascar 3 in Espanol. (we had a 5 year old with us okay? it was still good though. and during the week the movie is only like 4 dollars there.) Ate a chocobanano. Frozen banana dipped in chocolate. Delicious. Yes I know we have those here but they have little places all over with a freezer full of different kinds of frozen fruit that you can have dipped in chocolate. Kinda awesome.




 Day 9. Traveling. Saw cool ruins, a banana farm, big river, and stayed at the coolest place. It had a ping pong table, a lagoon swimming type pond place, hammocks!!!!! oh gosh. Let's stop a minute and ponder about the awesomeness of sitting in a hammock and relaxing for a very long time. mmm so wonderful. The food was way good, and cheap. My favorite was the cinnamon rolls. Not exactly the same as here but delicious none the less. And don't forget about the mosquito nets!


 Day 10. Tikal. Lots of ruins. Humid. Hot and sweaty but still amazing to see so many pyramid type ruins and buildings and statues, and so many big, tall stairs to climb up. They must have been in pretty good shape back then. We spent the night again at the same awesome place. It rained like nobody's business that night.

Day 11. Traveling back home. Stopped at Castillo San Felipe. Super crazy humid hot that day. And we stopped and ate these amazing tortillas. (Mine was a little smaller than this but I thought the bigger one was more impressive.)

Day 12. Thankful to have made it back in one piece. The driving there is crazy people. Really crazy. We had pretty much seen everything that was close by. We decided not to go to the capital to see the capital building and all that cause there were protests or something going on. And we didn't feel like protesting or dying or anything like that. So we went back to Antigua with her sister and kids and her other sister and I bought a few more things and got another braid and ate good food.

Day 13. Leaving :( We went to this yummy place for breakfast. Back to the airport. Security check, getting frisked. I had to go through the creepy body scanner things both times on the way there and back. I got all 3 seats to myself! Hung out in the airport and back to Salt Lake!

So if you made it all the way down here I hope you all enjoyed the trip as much as I did!! I'm so glad that I got to go!!

hmm.

Gosh. You leave the country for 2 weeks and come back and your parents have bought car.

Guatemala!

Yes! I'm going to Guatemala today! So excited. I've decided to conduct a small question answer session, which really. Is just an answer session...

Yes, I am going to Guatemala.
Yes, I hope my roommate remembers to water the flowers, they're so pretty! (see below)
No, I am not going to volunteer or build anything. Vacationing purposes only!
No, I have not yet finished packing.
Yes, I left my camera in Logan....
Yes, I have mosquito spray.
No, I do not want to get malaria.
No, I did not serve my mission in Guatemala.
Yes, I hope my ipod battery lasts on the airplane.
Yes, I should probably go now to finish getting ready!

Orange ya gonna say orange again?

Ok. So I have never liked oranges. Until recently. When I started liking them. I prefer the little oranges. You know, the baby ones. Clementines. That's the name. Yes. I like those, they are tasty. But I like the big normal oranges too. Something that I never knew was that big oranges have little tiny oranges inside of them, on top (or bottom?). Like this...

See? See the little orange inside of big orange. It is. SO. CREEPY. I cannot explain it. But that little orange is hands down one of the creepiest things I have ever encountered. I have no idea why its creepy. IT JUST IS. The fact that there is small weird baby orange growing inside of your orange. Like in that one show where they lady is convinced that her twin was growing inside of her neck. In My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. It's creepy like that. And I don't like it. Not one bit. It makes me want to throw the orange at the window. And it doesn't even taste good. ew. So grossed out. I don't know if anyone else shares in the creepy baby orange growing inside of the normal orange feeling. But now you know. Now you can always think of me when you eat your oranges.

Officially unemployed...

for ONE day and I am already CRAZY bored out of my mind.

But so far there has been one bright spot in my day. Well I guess I could say two.

1- mailed off my geography project. Done. Finished.

2- I ate a corn dog for lunch!!!!! It was delicious thank you very much. I have been wanting a corn dog for quite some time and I thought today sounded like the perfect day to eat one. So I did. And I loved it.

Also her are some sunsets for you to enjoy. They are both from the same spot on different days in Boqueron and I love them both a lot. These are from my first area when we lived like 5 minutes from the ocean!! Loved it. BY THE WAY. I HAVE BEEN HOME FOR ONE YEAR. On May 27 I have been officially home for a year. I didn't feel like writing anything a few days ago so sorry. Just know that it was amazing and I can't believe that the time has gone by SO quickly. So quickly. I think about Puerto Rico and the people I met there every day. I can't imagine how my life would be right now if I had not served a mission!! The end.

rain and graduation.

ITS RAINING OUTSIDE!!!!! I am kinda a fan of the rain minus the being cold part. Which I am right now. Cold. Very cold. And not doing my homework. Cause, yes its summer and I have homework.

The little brother graduated. From high school. So crazy.

Can you believe it?? Really I'm still not sure how this happened. I mean look at how tiny he used to be! Not so much anymore. But he's still pretty awesome. Congratulations! 

exciting things in the summer.

This is way more entertaining then the real music video. I suggest that you watch it right now.

SUMMER!!!!! O.M.G.

I love it. So far this summer I have played tennis, gone to the park, ridden bikes, gone hiking, gone to the movies, eaten out, gone to work, field trips, read books, and studied (a little) for my tests!!

Yay for summer.

Oh. One more exciting thing. My little brother. He's cool. He won FIRST place in the BYU invitational decathlon. (don't know the official name...) FIRST PLACE. There were 18 boys. 10 events. FIRST PLACE. Very exciting.  

Next week....back to class. But only for the week. And hopefully it includes lots of field trips. Cause that will be much more exciting that sitting in class all day.

Also. Go to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It was SO. COOL. Don't mind that the only people you will see there will be pregnant mothers with there small toddlers. It's to cool. GO anyways. Even if you are childless. I got to touch a sting ray!! And there was penguins, jellyfish, little sharks, and more awesome stuff. So very cool. That's where I went on the middle school field trip. ps. Here are a few pictures. Sorry I didn't have a real camera or a fancy iPhone or something.

May the odds be ever in your favor...

Channeling Katniss Everdeen today.

Careful. My bow and arrow might be in my backpack right there.

(ps. its hard to take a picture of the back of your head)

Finals week...

So I have a final tomrowm that I need to study for. So naturally I was drawn to the Pottermore site that I have been hearing so much about and joined! I am MidnightNiffler290273283. I think the site is kinda confusing. And it looks like you have to go through a bunch of stuff to unlock things and blah blah blah. So we'll see how it goes.... I want a wand! I liked that it just gave you a choices for your name and wasn't forced to think up something creative on my own. Cause I'm terrible at that. Or maybe it wasn't for my (lack of) creative benefit and more so that everyone wasn't HarryPotter5898657752 and Voldermort29984464823 right?? I dunno. Whatever. My name is awesome and I feel very privileged though to now be apart of Pottermore. Congratulations. To me. Go MidnightNiffler.

Also. Can someone please tell me where I can find good audio books? In Spanish. That are cheap. Please. I need your help. 

la primavera.

Um. It's Spring!!! Have you noticed?? Seriously I love it. I do not love the cold. And I love that it is SPRING. Like that it as been raining and not super hot but just totally...spring. Love it. It seems to already be warming up lots but I'll take what I can get! I wish I could have taken a picture of the smell of the those trees. They are in my front yard. There are three of them. Stop by sometime and smell them. It's so lovely. And all the tulips! Those are at the Logan Temple. I'm a fan. I love tulips. They might be my favorite flower.

Also. LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL. I know that this is extremely uncool cause pretty much everyone and their dog is already done with school and finals. Up here we're still in the last week of class and then finals week is next week. SO CLOSE.

This is my foot. At Tattoo Tuesday. Henna. The glitter stuff came off but the sun is still there! I think my mom thought I was strange. I love it though! I couldn't decide where to put it. Cause if would have got one on my arm all the middle schoolers would have gone crazy and thought I was...I don't know. I 'm pretty sure there was something else really important that I needed to say..........I have been applying for jobs!! Aren't you proud of me! It's only April! I am being proactive! Pray for me! (no seriously. Cause I need a job this summer.) Hopefully something will turn up. I feel like it will. Pretty sure that wasn't the important piece of information that you needed to know but I'll just be done now.

I love lunch carton milk.

So I have a journal. Like a real journal. A little book with lined pages that I write in and nobody gets to read. I got it for my birthday. I never ever ever wrote in a journal before my mission. During the mission I was an awesome journal writer. Then I came home and nothing. So the journal for the birthday. I have only written in it a few times. But seriously I love it. I mean this ole blog thing is a form of a journal. But a real journal. So much cooler. Just sayin'

Spring Break # 2 was so lovely. But I am glad to back at work and having something to do during the day. And. Today they are hold some sort of Republican thing at the school. They were practically stealing the table underneath the pear eating children. (Yes we had pears today. They were yummy. I ate one.) BUT. I totally saw Orrin Hatch. Yup.

To end this boringness that is my rambling I am going to go return the shoes. Sigh. I know it's sad. But it has to be done. I just know that I won't wear them enough and feel ridiculous the whole time. So much for embracing....

Spring Break #2

Hey! Who watched General Conference? me! Who loved General Conference? me! Who saw David Archuleta in the MTC choir? Not me!!! I was watching the whole time. And I missed it. Sigh. Conference was really good though.

So I have a confession to make. I like shoes. Like. A lot. I love shoes. So much. I have another weakness. For high heeled shoes. I don't usually make it a practice of wearing them cause I kinda feel like a giant sometimes, usually, all the time. I wore some for the first time in like 3 years last Sunday. But I bought some today. Wedges. First pair ever. I am not sure how I feel about them. I might return them. My mom said I should just embrace it and enjoy it. Just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can't wear high heels. So. We'll see. I might return them...or maybe I'll just embrace it.

Oh and....Spring break #2!!!!! I don't have work for a whole entire week and I'm so excited I can hardly stand it I don't even know what I am gonna do with myself cause I am not gonna have to work at all and I guess I'll just have to read and do my homework and do....stuff. And I can't wait!!!!!!

Oh and P.S. I bought a plane ticket to Guatemala this week. Cause I'm cool like that. 

Looky here.

So I'm at the library. Doing homework ie blogging, surfing the net, music video watching, email checking, people watching, and pondering the meaning of life in general. Very productive I think. All I have to do is write one silly little paragraph about why something is a good thing. Only in my opnion (one of those darn words I will never. ever. be able to spell correctly). I don't t think its a good thing cause I don't think it works. I would tell you what its about but it'd be so boring that it will be more interesting to keep it a mystery.

Someone just walked up the stairs with a Hunger Games shirt on. I have officially purchased my ticket for the Friday night 9:40 showing. We went to go get  tickets to the midnight showing earlier this week and the girl so (not) kindly (snot-ily) told us that those sold out in the last week of February. Geez. Sorry.

And the last item on my list today. Music!! My new favorite boy band. One Direction. The are British. Go listen. I promise you'll love it. And the other. Who I literally just discovered seconds (ok minutes) ago on someone elses blog. Brooke Fraser. She's great. All three songs that I have listened to I have loved.

Ok. Me voy.

Spring Break...

HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED!!!!!

Well REALLY it started at like 9:43 when I finished my Spanish test. WHICH. I totally ACED because she let us use our notes.

And the Utah Symphony came to the middle school today. I got to see BOTH performances. Lucky me. I feel so cultured.

In honor of Spring Break I went to the library yesterday. I checked out like five book. I didn't even realize I had that many till I was checking them out. (Just because it's spring break doesn't mean I won't be up in Logan since I have to work since I need me some DINERO.) I am going to Park City for 2 days though so that should be just super a lot of fun. (Have I ever told you how much I LOVE Park City? I won't start now. Just know. Love)

So yes. I am now officially breaking. Reading. Park Citying. Sleeping. Enjoying. LOVING SPRING BREAK.

P.S.I watched Footloose last night!!!!

Words of the Day.

English.
should
Spelled - s-h-o-u-g-h-t
or..... s-h-o-u.....w...no,no don't tell me...a...no...d...no, that's not it. Don't tell me! s-h-o-u- ....e...no...uhh....f....no that's not right! I don't remember, don't tell me!

(Guess it depends on who you ask)

Spanish.
descuartizar
Definition- To tie each limb to a horse and then have them "snatched" from your body. Sounds pretty pleasant right?