My Weekend in Pictures

To start off our wonderful weekend up at Darby Canyon, me and my fellow riders left later than everyone else so I could finish taking a test. We got lost but made it while there was still dinner out! Brother Baldwin snapped a picture of us just as we got out of the car we had been sitting in for two hours.

That night, there weren't any planned activities but most of us ended up sitting around the campfire for a while. I ate so many starbursts and marshmallows that I felt incredibly sick to my stomach!

The ladies slept in the main lodge that was there on the old church pews they used as seating. No they were not very comfortable. The boys got real cabins. Lame. This is me and friends getting comfy in our pew before watching Enchanted!

This is an outside shot of the main lodge while we are all waiting for breakfast. I woke up at 7am. I haven't been up that early in a very long time, which is probably why I came home and slept for almost four hours.

There was this crazy 35 ft slide just outside the lodge. It was crazy fun!

We thought it would be fun to go down as a foursome. And it was!!

The landing ended up a little rough, and with much saw dust down our pants. Our second time down as a a group one of us ended up with two sprained ankles (one worse than the other) because her feet ended up bent under her. That brought our fun to an abrupt end, as she headed off to the hospital and we headed home. It was a fantastically fun weekend though. It was nice to get a way from school for a while.

To close, an awesome roommate shot. Now you know why them boys just can't keep away! That by the way is my face of seduction. Yes...I am single far a reason.

Port-a-what?

Hahahaha...only $6 my friends. I love it...I think this might be my new favorite shirt right next to my Batman one. I think I'll wear it tomorrow.

Aside from wonderful t-shirt finds, I made $40 giving plasma today thanks to recommending a friend. My heart rate was just barely under 100 beats per minute, and I think it was only that low because the machine was acting up. But I made it through and I'm happy I did!

This week has flown by, but it's not over yet. I have test to take tomorrow and camping this weekend. Then the craziest 2 weeks of my life, but still only 16 days until I'm home!!

Cooling Nurosis Days

My apartment is now the only apartment in my entire complex with a AC unit. It seems that my roommates MS acts up when it gets too warm and so she convinced the managers to let her install one. Sa-weet! I think now my apartment will never be empty since it will literally be the coolest place to be!!

I also had fun with my camera today while I was falling asleep reading Problems of Neurosis by Alfred Adler for my personality class. This is me face down in my pillow trying to keep my eyes open. I also had fun with the lighting and coloring

I forgot to update you on the thyroid test, it came back normal, so while nothing serious is wrong with me, they are not sure what's going on. I'm just glad to have a clean bill of health and hopefully things will go back to normal on their own, and not get any worse! I am also excited that the semester is almost over. Only 16 more days!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!

On this day approximately a million years ago, a wonderful woman was born to a wonderful couple in Idaho. And today she is the mother to 8 fantastic children and wife to a man even older than she is!

No...I kid. She is a fantastic mother and friend, and I am so grateful that she puts up with all of us and for the great example of patience and love that she been for me.

I love you Mom!!

Friendly Mohawk Weekend Fun

This has pretty much had the most perfect weekend of my life.

Thursday night my friend and old roommate Bri came up to visit me. It had been almost a year since I had seen her and we had fun catching up on our lives and just hanging out together. She spent the night Thursday and stayed most of the day on Friday.

After she left I was going to head to a Pirate themed girls night. We were supposed to dress up like pirates and be piratey while watching Pirates of the Caribbean. All the ladies thought it would be fun to put my hair in a mohawk, cause apparently that's piratey. Bri stayed to help for a little bit as they loaded large amounts of every product they had. Eventually we could only get it to sort of stay up with the addition of Elmer's Glue. I kind of ended up with a flophawk and a nice Elvis curl in the front. My friend took some better pictures, and I'll post those later.

I deffinetly went to Little Caesar's with my hair like this...I know...I'm awesome!

Then Saturday, my bishop invited us to join him for his family barbeque which was tastey and fun! The majority of the people there, at some point ended up in the pool fully clothed, but I managed to avoid it. Phew. After hanging out there I decided to see what Jitta (a friend from back home) was up to...and went over to her place and hung out with her and some of her friends.

Then I got talked into driving Jitta, and a few other friends down to Idaho Falls (in my roommates beat up car) to try and meet up with a group of friends who were already there. I printed out directions to the park where they were at, but the exit google gave me was blocked off so we got really lost. We wandered through crazy roads packed full of cars and people, and eventually gave up on finding them, parked, and watched the last 10min of the show. When I got home I figured out that we were really pretty far away from them the whole time. It was interesting to watch fireworks sitting next to a refugee from the civil war in Sierra Leone...her natural instinct anytime one went off was to duck. She especially freaked out when people would randomly shoot off fireworks in their front yards. I think she still managed to have a good time and I managed not to get a ticket or run over anyone!

Yes, it was a terrific weekend. I have a terrific group of friends that have been made while being out here at school and I am so grateful for their support and love. I also am way excited that there are only two and a half weeks left in the semester, I need a break!!

A Rexburgian Partay

So I was bored on my day off of classes and made this video, which shows off my cut a little better. The music was selected from my itunes...these songs both make me laugh. Enjoy!

Well I am going to party with some friends tonight and then I have a friend coming up hang out all day Friday, then Saturday my bishop is hosting a barbecue for all of us who are staying in Rexburg. Free food..I think so!

Oh, and my thyroid test wasn't done when I went in today, so I won't know anything until Monday. I hate waiting...and I had to get up at 8 on my day off to walk to the Health Center for nothing!

EKG it's easy as 1, 2, 3

For those of you who have looked at my facebook today this won't surprise you...but if you haven't you may want to make sure you are sitting down. Especially if I affectionatly refer to you as Mother or Father...

I got my hair cut...

a lot of it cut...very nearly all of it cut...

And I love it!! I'm not going to lie I had my moment of doubt after my friend had started cutting, but she pulled through! I have already enjoyed the fact that it takes such a miniscual amount of shampoo and that when its wet and shampooey I can make a mohawk. Everyone's reactions have been so fun...and thankfully no one has yet said...eww your hair cut sucks...so I think I'm good.

I also decided that since my heart rate hasn't really settled down from Saturday, that maybe I should get myself looked at. So I went in to the Health Center today (for the very first time I might add) and the doctor decided to do an EKG and a thyroid test to see if he could figure out what was going on. My heart rate on the EKG was fast but not abnormal, and I'll go in tomorrow to find out the results of the thyroid test. But until then I'll keep trying to get rid of the sticky nastyness from the electrodes off of everywhere and study for my British Literature test.