sad

Okay so I really told myself that after my super sad snow post that I would write about something happy... BUT... something legitimately sad happened!!

Ready?

I my laptop broke.

Yes, BROKE. 

It is broken. 

All I did was put in August Rush to reward myself for being productive and cleaning my room, the kitchen AND finishing my homework all by 6 o'clock, and the next thing I know is the screen is black. and just stays that way. Forever and ever.

I think it's Karma for playing Free-cell during Biology...

I am already going through major withdrawals and it has been 21 hours. I think I would rather have my cell phone break than my laptop. I now have to do ALL my homework in the library and have to find a way to recover my journal and all my pictures... somehow. 

What am I supposed to do when I want to Google something?? Use a World Book?? I am pretty sure the Library doesnt even have those anymore... 

Or what about when I need to find a recipe for a yummy dinner? Use a recipe book? So much inconvenience.

Good thing Josh is so good with computers. He'll fix it for me over thanksgiving. Either that or I pay someone too... which is definitely against my religion. 

So in the meantime I will live in the library. And wait for Thanksgiving to come... 26 days from now.

But hey, the snow stopped and the weather feels GREAT! I am only wearing a sweater. No jacket, just a sweater. Brave I know... but I am getting better :)

snow, man?

Um hi, Rachel here.
I think I'm transferring to ASUseless. 
The thought of becoming a Scum Devil is haunting but I might just have to make the sacrifice.
It's just wayyy too cold here!
I'm serious!


My roommates make fun of me, but I guess I really AM a Mesa girl. I'm just not made to withstand this kind of weather! It is 43 degrees and it is 4:15. It snowed on my way home from class. SNOWED. My class ended at 3 in the afternoon... 
Yeah, I thought the weather men were making some sort of sick joke when I checked the weather this morning... 
but they weren't. It's real.


There are snow on the mountains. 
The wind is blowing. 
I can't feel my face, hands, fingers, toes, feet, legs.... okay who am I kidding... I can't feel anything. 


I want to cry, but I am afraid the tears will freeze to my face.
Okay joke, I don't want to cry, but I am serious about the freezing to my face part...

See this car?

Yeah, this is how I feel.

Life was just peachy. Life was grand. Life was awesome and couldn't be better!! But then this weather had to come and rain on my parade.
Mesa... I never thought I'd say this... but I. am. HOMESICK.

I miss the sunshine...

Mesa.

So guess who came to visit me this week??

Yep, only 2 of my favorite people. 

Val Goodman and Lynzi Richardson

This is Chels, Val, Kelc, Lynz, and me of course.

Representing the Mesa Arizona.

They came to provo, the land of the beautiful fall colors, to party for a few days. Yes.

Basically they both slept over at my place sunday night.

me and val slept in the same bed.

TMI? Nah...

 interestingly enough, I slept great and didn't wake up once!

Monday night Val left and it was just me and Lynzi. She got to move up on the bed with me. Haha, good thing none of us felt awkward about sharing a bed... uhh... haha.

But yes, I love these two girls a whole lot and wish they would come move to Utah!! For real. Although I had a boat load of studying and they came in the middle of 3 midterms, I still had a blast with these two. Even if one of them was a little...distracted... :)

AND I managed to pull out a 90% on my physical science test!!!

That is really the best part of my week. 

well, besides the whole Val and Lynzi part.

But after not doing so well on the first science test, it was nice to have my endless studying in the library pay off :)

Ha, well! Just thought I'd share this lovely picture with the world.

oh, and... I had an interesting night tonight. I watched Night at the Museum 2.

and my favorite...

SHE'S THE MAN.

if you haven't seen it, see it.

the end.

new record.

one week ago...

i ate

six and one half

6.5

6 and 1/2

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... and a half.

whole freaking donuts.

not just any donuts.

the one, the only 

Krispy Kreme.

Looking back I honestly don't know  how I did it! I definitely gave into peer pressure that other humans were giving me...

It was approximately 2 o'clock in the a.m. on a sunday night, err monday morning.

and I washed them down with some Purple Kool-Aid and some homemade Chilli-Cheese Fries.

It was painful. thats for sure...

This is the crazy group of us that went to Krispy Kreme at 1 a.m. to go searching through the dumpsters and pull out 3 bags FULL of freaking donuts. It's illegal probably bet we are college students who are too poor to buy them... Anyway, i have been needing to post about that adventure so here it is!

  this is emily. she makes smashed dumpster donuts look gooood.

stressing.

i had a greeat weekend! Surpise? Yes indeed. Anyway... i'm stressing big time.
So listen. There are probably a million and a half choices for classes to fill my GE credits for 
GCA, Civ 1, Civ 2, Arts, and Letters.
Please pleaase anyone who has taken these classes I would LOVE to know which ones are the most interesting and fun and not tooo hard! Really, looking through all of the options is making me want to quit college. And then I go and read about the teachers to narrow down the choices and I cross out all of them. Great.

Love me some college.

OCTOBER

Alright. October has officially been so great to me! really. I know millions of people always love October and I have always been like nah... it smells like gross fertilizer all month... but i LOVE it as of now. But probably just because lots and lots of good/fun things have happened all month! I know, amazing. I am loving this month.
Ready?


October 1st

• I got my first A on a college test!!! YES YES YESS!!
• I went on my first date at college. I know, weird. It was a blind date though... so its not like the dude probably actually wanted to go with me... but it was still fun!

October 2nd

• GENERAL CONFERENCE STARTED. I love it.
• Thenn Me, Emily, and Markie drove up to Emilys house in Bountiful.
• I ate a home-cooked meal. I miss those Big Time.
• We made s'mores, hot tubbed, watched Glee, and fell asleep to Italian Job. A great Friday night. 

October 3rd

• More conference and more home-cooked meal. Need I say more.
• And and... We LIVED. And seriously almost got in a super scary car crash... See pictures at the end of post

October 4th (aka Today)

• I took a nap. Love those
• My biology teacher let us out a whole hour early!! I love that class...
• It rained. And when i say rained I actually mean POURED. Me and Chandler had a ball in the rain. While everyone was running inside me and chandler sat outside and chatted as we watched the wind and rain and listened to the thunder. It was great. Then we went to my home and made some hot chocolate and chicken. Yum. But I loved seeing him and running through the rain with him today! That kid just makes my life :)
• And this day will continue. We are having homemade root beer and pizza tonight for FHE....like I said. October rocks.

Anywayy... Isn't October just being the greatest!? I love it! And if this month continues to be this great I will just have to jump on the I Love October bandwagon.

Oh, and now for pictures on my near death experience...

Here's the story.

So we were driving along the freeway and some car ran over a big like 3 foot long metal thing and flew up it smashed into our windshield!!! It was seriously SO scary. And we are so lucky it didn't go through the windshield... or I'm sure we would have caused some sort of a major accident...

I'm alive. And I love life.

President Hinckley

I was bored in the library and decided to google this amazing man right here.

Soo, here are my all time favorite pictures of him

"Try a little harder to be a little better."

doesn't he just look so happy??

and now, my most MOST favorite picture of him...

I miss him.

He was a great Prophet.

But it is almost conference weekend everyone!

Yesssss...

99 red balloons.

okay I lied. 400 multi colored balloons.
IN OUR KITCHEN.
yes, it was as unreal as it sounds.
and it is as fun as it sounds... most of the time.
except when i want to like move around in the kitchen and open the fridge.


and OF COURSE there will be pictures!

i woke up at 7 in the morning walked in the kitchen and tripped and fell over a balloon... i think this is why...

i wasn't tooo happy about it... i just woke up okay

but then i got back from class and we had some fun :)

anyway, the culprit was our FHE brothers... 


Aren't they just awesome?!

yes.

I love this blog.

So inspiring, and just... amazing.

Have a beautiful day everyone!

It's the weekend :)

Ready Freddie?

Alright. 

I posting about something that I rarely, if ever, post about.

Something that I have limited knowledge and experience in but has been on my mind a lot lately.

Ready?

BOYS.

Okay.. so before you judge its not really on boys, its more about this whole college dating crap.

But boys too.

So this is what I decided. I won't be dating any boys for a good year or two.

And this is not because I have any animosity toward them right now or anything. Somehow I managed to go throughout high school without ever getting my heart broken by any guy. Wait, how did I do that? Huh. Anyway, so i don't have much reason to hate boys, i just feel like complaining.

And here's why.

I hate the whole "BYU dating scene" i don't really get it. i have never been on a date yet, and i definitely have time to figure this whole thing out... but really. it stinks.

Anyway...

So all of High school it is pounded into my head to never have a boyfriend, never kiss a boy.. yada yada yada. 

so sometimes I listened to my parents, and sometimes I didn't. I never was a huge dater in High School. I only had 2 boys friends... each for around 3 months. I never really did anything and I wasn't that girl that had boys left and right.

Soo... I always looked forward to college because its like they WANT me to date! I am allowed and don't have to hide it from my parents or feel guilty about it the whole time. I was excited and was expecting everything to just be so fun and different.

But wait, news flash.

That is definitely not the case

Turns out dating here is going to be more complicated than in high school.

Now i know you're thinking... what, how? College is where you just have fun dating a million people and it doesnt matter!

Well here's the deal... 

I am surrounded by freshman boys. In my ward, in my classes. Everywhere. Freshman boys that either have their calls or are working on their papers. No way am i going to date them! All they want is some girl to send them off/fill their canteen/write them letters. Heck no.

So if I can't/won't date freshman... no big deal then date sophomores. Right?

But, 1 HUGE problem. They are all RM's. 21 years old. Wife Hunters.

You get the point. I'm not looking for a husband. Nor am I ready to become a wifee. 

So it looks like until I feel like I am old enough to get married I will be staying far away from the men...

Awesome.

But hey, life is better that way.

Right?