Hello!
Well, it's week three of classes starting tomorrow, and I figured I should update on what's been going on. :)
Last Saturday was the huge Oklahoma vs. BYU football game. Now, mind you, there are a few things you should know to begin with-- Oklahoma was ranked 3rd, and BYU was ranked 20th. We had absolutely NO hope of winning this game. We were expecting a dismal defeat, a major killing on the field. But as the game went on and BYU managed to keep up, we all began to wonder if we really could win the game. And then, right at the end, a miracle happened! We managed to score one more point than the other team, bringing it to a total of 14 to 13. And with 20 seconds left to go on the clock, OU gave up, and we won the game.
Now, for the first half of the game, Somers, Sarah, and I were watching the game on these huge projector screens in the Wilk. There were probably close to a thousand people all jam-packed into the ballroom, watching the game on these giant screens. However, we had no seats because we got there a bit late, and so we left to watch it on our wonderful TV back home where we could have front row seats on comfy chairs and couches. By this time, our voices were already hoarse from screaming our heads off every time BYU managed to make a comeback. So back home, we're still shouting at the top of our lungs. And then the game ends and we're stunned. We're shouting and screaming and jumping up and down. We can hear the people in the apartment above us doing the same thing, jumping up and down on our ceiling. And then we finally calm down, sprawled across the couches, and sit in silence, listening to the roar of the crowd on the TV. And then we start to realize that the roar isn't just coming from the TV. It's coming from outside our windows (which are all open because it's still ridiculously hot here). So we open our front door and it's like a wave of sound that hits us, this mass of people pouring out of the apartments around us, shouting at the top of their lungs. And from our balcony, we can see all the buildings that make up our ward, and we see that at Windsor Arms (one of the boys' apartments) there is this mass congregation in the street of people cheering. So we run over to Windsor Arms and join the crowd, cheering and dancing and screaming at the top of our lungs. People open up their car doors and blast music, some people set off fireworks, and everyone is chanting and cheering like there's no tomorrow. It was awesome.
And then this mass of people decides to move the celebration elsewhere--namely, the streets of Provo. So this huge mass of people begins running through the neighborhood, cheering and disturbing anyone who was silly enough to try to sleep that night. We made it out onto a busier road and obstructed traffic, shouting at all the cars as they all shouted out their windows, cheering and honking their horns. Then the mass decides to run up to Brigham Square on campus, so these people book it for campus up a giant hill (since we're on the low end). They run through the Wilk, shouting, and then decide to run to the Victory Bell. By this time, I was far too tired and knew that the partying would go on all night, so I headed back to my apartment to change into proper shoes (flip flops are not the best for running in).
Not too much later, Somers and Mack appear back at the apartment and say that there's a huge dance party in the street on Condo Row. So we book it for Condo Row and see that there's a ton of people in the street, still cheering and dancing. We join in and it's all good and fun, until someone crowd surfing falls into someone else, who then proceeds to hit his head on the concrete and pass out.
Instant kill to the party, of course. What amazed me was how quickly everyone quieted down, and then how quickly we heard the call "Who has oil? Who can give a blessing right now?" And then a few guys step forward and proceed to give this guy a blessing. So this mass of people is all silent in the street with folded arms and bowed heads as these two young men give him a blessing and another girl is on the phone calling an ambulance. The ambulance shows up a minute later and everyone watches as this guy is taken off.
Of course, no one feels like resuming the celebrations now. Everyone feels awful for what happened and everyone's worried about the nameless guy. There are still fireworks going off everywhere, and we can hear other people shouting around Provo, horns honking, etc. But this mass of people is silent, and then, one brave soul decides to step forward...
And proceeds to play Amazing Grace on the bagpipes.
The mass of people laughs hysterically, because the idea of some guy playing BAGPIPES at that moment is just too funny. So the mood is lightened thanks to this guy and then everyone decides to start an impromptu march, with the bagpipes in front. So we begin this procession down the streets, following the bagpiper playing Praise to the Man. And then we hit 9th.
Now, 9th is pretty busy. I mean, it's the street that the Creamery is on, and it's a pretty big road. When we get there, there's a gap in traffic because they're all stopped at the traffic lights. So the bagpiper and a few in the front decide, "Quick! Let's run out on 9th before the cars get a green light!" So they do. And so does the rest of this mass. And so there's a huge congregation of people + a bagpiper in the middle of 9th, all cheering. The cars, of course, take it good naturedly and honk back, cheering out their open windows. We eventually decide to stop obstructing the traffic and move onto the sidewalk, still chanting and cheering. We run through apartment complexes, and eventually end up at some dance party at an apartment. The mass of people decides to crash the party, which the people throwing it have no objection to, and this mass dance party ensues for several hours.
It's then announced that the football team will be arriving at the Provo Airport at 2 AM, and we're all going to go greet them. So we head back to our apartments to await 2 AM, and then we head off. There's a new mass of people there, all cheering as the football team gets off the plane, and they give us all high fives. It was pretty awesome.
By the time we get to bed, it's about 3 AM and we're exhausted. We'd officially had about 7 straight hours of celebration. Our throats are protesting from all the screaming we've done, and our bodies are begging for sleep. So we conk out immediately, and are extremely grateful the next day that church starts at 1. :P
Sunday night we had a dessert social, the ward activity that has replaced last year's ward prayer. We met a few people, and it was the first night I actually remembered people's names. :P We met an apartment of guys that seems pretty nice, and they invited us over to watch a movie. So Somers and I went over and we watched Indiana Jones on their huge TV. One of the guys brought a surround system, a subwoofer, and a HUGE tv. So it pretty much felt like all those arrows were whistling past us. :P
Then Monday was Labor Day, so no school. Somers, Mal, and Mack went to Payson to watch a parade, but I stayed behind because I was utterly exhausted and had a lot of homework to catch up on. That night we watched a movie and just had fun with our last night before classes started up again.
As for classes... well, I anticipate I'll hate biology, but that was no surprise. I dropped my Modern American Usage class because after attending it for a while, I realized that there was no way I'd be able to pass this class with the professor I had. He doesn't explain things at ALL and I was already lost on the first day, which... isn't a good sign. So I dropped that, which means I now have no Friday classes (which my roommates are all very jealous of :P). I've added a Creative Writing class, which I think I'm going to love a lot. My teacher isn't a professor, he's a grad student, and so he's very personable and funny. He's more focused on us just having FUN writing rather than producing writing that's worthy of being nationally acclaimed. Of course, he encourages us to do our best and expects our best, but it's more about just enjoying what you're writing about and exploring your creativity. Which I like. We do a lot of in class examinations on our own papers. So we bring in our work for the rest of the class to read and they critique it. So... half of our required reading is from the class itself.
My favorite class is, of course, Makeup. Tomorrow we start actually working with it. It's our first practice day, and we're doing Youth Male Corrective Makeup. Which means I have today to find someone to be my male model to work on. :P I'm hoping my home teachers come visit today so that when they ask "Is there anything we can do for you?" I can say "Why yes, actually, there IS something you could do for me!" We received our makeup kits on Wednesday, and it was so cool! There's all sorts of fun stuff in there, like stage blood and spirit gum (which you use to make wrinkles and stuff). Haleh, the teacher, is really cool. She's also a grad student, and she's a lot of fun. Every time I walk in class she always compliments me on my hair or my makeup, which, of course, just makes me want to look my best for that class every day. :P Of course, once we start the practice and graded days doing makeup on ourselves I'm going to have to come in with no makeup on and my hair completely pulled back. :P
I love New Testament. I'm pretty sure I already said I have Brother Parker again, whom I took Book of Mormon 2 from last year, and I loved him. He's been one of my favorite professors so far. One of my favorite quotes from him is "Don't be a spiritual couch potato." :P He's been a lot happier since Brother Matthews funeral. I think it gave him the closure he needed, and now he's back to his old self, which is good. It was sad seeing him so depressed.
Chum is pretty good too. I'm expecting I'll like that class quite a bit, and my professor is the head of the Editing minor, so he knows a lot about what I'm going to have to be doing. I'm probably going to end up taking a lot of classes from him in the future.
I've been pretty tired this past week. Both Krista and I have no energy whatsoever. We're wondering if we've caught something, because it's not that we're TIRED and aren't getting enough sleep (because, I know this is surprising, but I go to bed around 11:30 every night now and wake up around 8 or 9). We're just PHYSICALLY exhausted. No energy to do anything. So hopefully we'll both get some of our energy back this week, but last week was hard. We'd both come home from class and just collapse on the couch for a while.
I've seen James a few times. I mean, he's in my bio class, but I've seen him outside class too. I went over to his apartment on Thursday with Somers so I could take a picture of a bio project we were doing (we have to send pictures of us with the experiment for documentation) and we chatted for a bit. He seems to be doing well.
I saw Allison Mitton walking across campus the other day but was in a rush, so I didn't get a chance to say hi to her. James told me that Meghan is now at BYU too, which surprised me. I thought she was younger, but I guess not. Apparently she's now here. I haven't seen her yet, and I don't know that if I did I would even recognize her. :P James also told me that Christina... oh, I can't remember her last name. But they lived in the Adams-harts old house next door to where the Thompsons now live. Anyways, Christina's engaged now, apparently.
Well, I should probably end this. We've got to head off to church soon. It's so weird having church so late... we get out at FOUR now. Which makes Sundays seem a lot shorter. Today will be busy because we've got a CES fireside at 6, and then the dessert night at 8. And then homework. Whoo! (Actually, I don't think I really have any... I think I just have a little reading to do and then I'm done :P)
I'll try to post pictures next time. I've got a bunch of pictures from Julie's wedding and some pictures of the football team at the airport. :) Till next time!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
YEAH!!!!
Two words:
GO BYU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
We beat OU (who is ranked THIRD, in case you didn't know. And we're TWENTIETH) and now everyone is partying in the streets, setting off fireworks, etc. It's awesome. We've been running all over Provo obstructing traffic for the past four hours. And at 2 AM we're all meeting at the Provo airport to greet the team as they get off the plane. :P
BYU IS SO AWESOME!!! :D
I'll post more later. But for now, I'm going to go have a bit more fun. :D
GO BYU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
We beat OU (who is ranked THIRD, in case you didn't know. And we're TWENTIETH) and now everyone is partying in the streets, setting off fireworks, etc. It's awesome. We've been running all over Provo obstructing traffic for the past four hours. And at 2 AM we're all meeting at the Provo airport to greet the team as they get off the plane. :P
BYU IS SO AWESOME!!! :D
I'll post more later. But for now, I'm going to go have a bit more fun. :D
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Back to School
Hello!
Yes, I know it's been a while since I've written. Ah well. I'm back at school now, all moved into my apartment. I have a new roommate named Sarah, and she's really nice. She's a junior this year, and she was in the ward this past spring/summer, so she already knows a bunch of people in our ward.
We're in the 63rd ward now, in the 2nd stake. It's different being in a regular student ward. Today was our first Sunday in there. We didn't really get a chance to meet many people since it WAS a Sunday and, well, there was class. :P I only really met one person, some guy sitting next to me during relief society/priesthood (they were combined today), named Aaron who is studying Economics and Japanese. I was just excited about the Japanese part. :P
I really like our new apartment. There's so much more space than last year, we have a LIVING ROOM for once, and we've got an extra freezer, which has come in handy because we've now had two birthdays and have used that freezer for ice cream and ice cream cakes. :P It's feeling much homier than last year, mainly because of the living room. :P And we also have a lot of pictures and artwork up, so that helps make it feel more like a home. :P The AWESOME TV also helps A LOT. :) We've made good use of it already (thanks Mom and Dad). Everyone loves my chair and I rarely get to sit in it now because someone else will claim it first. :P Mack also brought another couch that's really comfy, so now we've got three couches and a chair. LOTS of seating in our living room. :) And surprisingly enough, we managed to fit everything in there.
It's been REALLY hot here. It's just miserable to go outside, so we spend a lot of time just lying around the apartment in shorts and tank tops with all the windows open to get a little bit of a breeze. We keep our windows open all night and in the morning, which is proving to be a problem with SOUND at night and early in the morning, because our windows all open up into the back parking lot of a thai restaurant and a bookstore/frozen yogurt shop. So every night, there are a bunch of guys being super loud down there, and in the morning, some guy who works at the bookstore pulls his truck up and blasts music while he's inside the building. So we're woken up by loud music every morning. Whoopee. We're hoping it doesn't continue forever.
Classes start tomorrow, something NONE of us are happy about. I'm dreading most of my classes, just because I've got stuff like Biology... Modern American Usage Linguistics (aka Grammer. blech.), British Literary History... yeah. Not too fun. The only classes I'm really looking forward to are my Makeup 1 class, New Testament (I have the same professor that I had last semester, and he's awesome), and Print Publishing. Books for this year were murder... I had to spend over $300 dollars this year, which I think is more than I spent last year on books for each semester. I ended up buying a couple off amazon and from the bookstore next door because they were like, $20 cheaper, so I have to return some of my books. I was looking through my Stage Makeup book though, and it looks so cool! I'm really excited for this class. Hopefully it turns out to be really good. I'm expecting it will be, the only thing I'm not too happy about is the time. I have it from 4 pm to 6:30. So... late class. My schedule this year leaves much to be desired, seeing as I end around 6:30/7 every day except Friday. But oh well. Not much I can do about it. A lot of my classes were only offered at one time, so... I didn't have much choice.
Julie and Alan were married last Tuesday, and she looked positively beautiful in her dress. We were waiting for them outside the temple, and they were radiating with happiness. I don't think I've seen two happier people. Even the other couples coming out before them didn't look as happy. The reception was small and cute--perfect for what they were wanting. They came out of the temple around 2ish, and the reception was at 7, so we had a lot of time to wander around Salt Lake City. We spent most of our time at the Gateway, making fools of ourselves in the old train station or whatever it was. It's completely empty and super big, and the tiniest sound echoes. And it also happens to remind us of Anastasia, so we were twirling in circles and singing Once Upon a December. We're pretty sure that the security guards watching the cameras turned on the music in there to shut us up and make us leave. :P
We've been living like the poor college students we are, eating as little as possible to make the food last longer and spending next to nothing. Once we all paid for our books and saw our bank accounts drop dismally low we were all like: That's IT. We're not buying ANYTHING ELSE. :) Mal was able to get hired at the McDonald's here though (she worked at one in Minnesota over the summer), so she has a job. And I was doing some job searching, and one day I was sitting there and was like. Alright. Today I WILL find myself a job! And after searching and searching for hours for a job on campus that worked with my class schedule and finding nothing but football game food hawker openings, I got an email from my old supervisor for my LCC tutoring, asking if I would like to continue tutoring this semester because the University of Hong Kong decided to continue the program this year. So I promptly replied: YES I WANT THE JOB! So. I now have a job. That I didn't have to apply for, I don't have to go through the screening process for, and that I have to do little work for. Whoohoo! So I've got my old job back, it's high paying and little work, and PERFECT! So I'm just waiting until I can get my first paycheck and slowly start seeing my bank account rise again after that huge hit it took from books. :P
And... I just discovered that I have to spend about another $100 because I added my print publishing class AFTER I bought my other books, so now I have to buy some computer programs and stuff. Blech. Yeah. I can't wait for my first paycheck. :P
But I'm pretty much set on food for like... months. So... I guess that means I don't have to spend very much money in that department. :P
Well, I think that's about all for now. I'll update again later once more happens and I actually have something to say. :P
Yes, I know it's been a while since I've written. Ah well. I'm back at school now, all moved into my apartment. I have a new roommate named Sarah, and she's really nice. She's a junior this year, and she was in the ward this past spring/summer, so she already knows a bunch of people in our ward.
We're in the 63rd ward now, in the 2nd stake. It's different being in a regular student ward. Today was our first Sunday in there. We didn't really get a chance to meet many people since it WAS a Sunday and, well, there was class. :P I only really met one person, some guy sitting next to me during relief society/priesthood (they were combined today), named Aaron who is studying Economics and Japanese. I was just excited about the Japanese part. :P
I really like our new apartment. There's so much more space than last year, we have a LIVING ROOM for once, and we've got an extra freezer, which has come in handy because we've now had two birthdays and have used that freezer for ice cream and ice cream cakes. :P It's feeling much homier than last year, mainly because of the living room. :P And we also have a lot of pictures and artwork up, so that helps make it feel more like a home. :P The AWESOME TV also helps A LOT. :) We've made good use of it already (thanks Mom and Dad). Everyone loves my chair and I rarely get to sit in it now because someone else will claim it first. :P Mack also brought another couch that's really comfy, so now we've got three couches and a chair. LOTS of seating in our living room. :) And surprisingly enough, we managed to fit everything in there.
It's been REALLY hot here. It's just miserable to go outside, so we spend a lot of time just lying around the apartment in shorts and tank tops with all the windows open to get a little bit of a breeze. We keep our windows open all night and in the morning, which is proving to be a problem with SOUND at night and early in the morning, because our windows all open up into the back parking lot of a thai restaurant and a bookstore/frozen yogurt shop. So every night, there are a bunch of guys being super loud down there, and in the morning, some guy who works at the bookstore pulls his truck up and blasts music while he's inside the building. So we're woken up by loud music every morning. Whoopee. We're hoping it doesn't continue forever.
Classes start tomorrow, something NONE of us are happy about. I'm dreading most of my classes, just because I've got stuff like Biology... Modern American Usage Linguistics (aka Grammer. blech.), British Literary History... yeah. Not too fun. The only classes I'm really looking forward to are my Makeup 1 class, New Testament (I have the same professor that I had last semester, and he's awesome), and Print Publishing. Books for this year were murder... I had to spend over $300 dollars this year, which I think is more than I spent last year on books for each semester. I ended up buying a couple off amazon and from the bookstore next door because they were like, $20 cheaper, so I have to return some of my books. I was looking through my Stage Makeup book though, and it looks so cool! I'm really excited for this class. Hopefully it turns out to be really good. I'm expecting it will be, the only thing I'm not too happy about is the time. I have it from 4 pm to 6:30. So... late class. My schedule this year leaves much to be desired, seeing as I end around 6:30/7 every day except Friday. But oh well. Not much I can do about it. A lot of my classes were only offered at one time, so... I didn't have much choice.
Julie and Alan were married last Tuesday, and she looked positively beautiful in her dress. We were waiting for them outside the temple, and they were radiating with happiness. I don't think I've seen two happier people. Even the other couples coming out before them didn't look as happy. The reception was small and cute--perfect for what they were wanting. They came out of the temple around 2ish, and the reception was at 7, so we had a lot of time to wander around Salt Lake City. We spent most of our time at the Gateway, making fools of ourselves in the old train station or whatever it was. It's completely empty and super big, and the tiniest sound echoes. And it also happens to remind us of Anastasia, so we were twirling in circles and singing Once Upon a December. We're pretty sure that the security guards watching the cameras turned on the music in there to shut us up and make us leave. :P
We've been living like the poor college students we are, eating as little as possible to make the food last longer and spending next to nothing. Once we all paid for our books and saw our bank accounts drop dismally low we were all like: That's IT. We're not buying ANYTHING ELSE. :) Mal was able to get hired at the McDonald's here though (she worked at one in Minnesota over the summer), so she has a job. And I was doing some job searching, and one day I was sitting there and was like. Alright. Today I WILL find myself a job! And after searching and searching for hours for a job on campus that worked with my class schedule and finding nothing but football game food hawker openings, I got an email from my old supervisor for my LCC tutoring, asking if I would like to continue tutoring this semester because the University of Hong Kong decided to continue the program this year. So I promptly replied: YES I WANT THE JOB! So. I now have a job. That I didn't have to apply for, I don't have to go through the screening process for, and that I have to do little work for. Whoohoo! So I've got my old job back, it's high paying and little work, and PERFECT! So I'm just waiting until I can get my first paycheck and slowly start seeing my bank account rise again after that huge hit it took from books. :P
And... I just discovered that I have to spend about another $100 because I added my print publishing class AFTER I bought my other books, so now I have to buy some computer programs and stuff. Blech. Yeah. I can't wait for my first paycheck. :P
But I'm pretty much set on food for like... months. So... I guess that means I don't have to spend very much money in that department. :P
Well, I think that's about all for now. I'll update again later once more happens and I actually have something to say. :P
Monday, May 4, 2009
Pictures
Here's the pictures I promised :)
Mack and I were driving through Payson and saw this blue car... that has an AWESOME cougar and BYU painted on the sides. We were so excited we had to stop and take pictures. :)
Mack and I are her grandpa's house for the bonfire.
Mack was roasting a marshmellow over the small fire next to her grandpa's house.
This was the bonfire at Mack's grandparents' house.
These are pictures of our awesome tent fort that stayed up for a good two weeks in our kitchen. Pretty much all of the credit goes to Alan for the construction of it. :P
Somers and I after we went 80s dancing in Salt Lake. :)
We took roommate pictures, but it was raining outside, so we started dry with umbrellas... but we eventually gave up on that and just got wet. :P
Shooting:
Alan had this ugly Shrek baby thing he'd gotten in a claw machine, and he and Dustin shot it with the shotgun. It exploded all over the place. :P
Alan shooting...
McKenzie shooting...
Dustin looks pretty pro. :P I think he looks like he's advertising the gun or something.
This happened at Mack's house on our hobo day. Somers and Alan took turns pinning me down while the other drew on me. They made a little target for themselves and threw the pen at my leg to see if they could hit the bulls eye. :P
This was at the Creamery after we surrendered our keys. I was tired... so I wanted to take a nap in the booth.
Mack and the start of her hobo day :P
Our bonfire. Eric (a guy from our ward) made a ring of fire out of schoolwork. :P
Nate and Somers. Nate found a piece of wood and decided to make an Olympic torch out of it. Everyone passed it around for fun, but it kept going out, so he kept spraying it with lighter fluid. :P
Okay, these next pictures are from our Ward Movie Awards Night. We were supposed to dress up red carpet status. Our apartment took it to the next level... We decided to be the extremes. Mal and I were wash out celebs on their days off, looking weird and trying to blend in with the crowd. Krista went for a casual but dressy celeb look. Somers went for... the extreme celeb? Julie looked red carpet status... she was the only normal one out of us. :P Alan dressed pimp and dressy in a suit but casual with the sneakers and hat.
We also decided, after a few minutes of sitting at our table, that we were very different from every other table in the room. We decided that were we at a REAL celebrity banquet, we would be the table that appeared in the tabloids because they were loud, obnoxious, and embarrassing to everyone else. We decided to play it up and everyone took a picture of them as if they were a celebrity "drunk and embarrassing" :P
Mal's is my favorite. :)
Somers decided she would just be passed out.
Dustin was awesome. :P
I think McKenzie's comes in second for me.
Julie's is also really good... it may tie for second. :)
Alan just looked out of it... :P
Before we decided we'd be the embarrassing table of shunned celebs :P Notice Alan in the back--he's totally trying to copy my creeper face. I've made it my goal to appear in people's pictures in the background and look like a creeper. He did a pretty good job, but it still doesn't beat my best one. :P
I think Krista was going for a seductive look, but she ended up looking like she was going to cry. :P
McKenzie's dress was GORGEOUS. And Dustin looked sweet in a white suit. :)
Alan and I trying to do the Blue Steel/Le Tigre/Magnum look :P
Well, that's all the photos I have for now!
--Cate
Mack and I were driving through Payson and saw this blue car... that has an AWESOME cougar and BYU painted on the sides. We were so excited we had to stop and take pictures. :)
Mack and I are her grandpa's house for the bonfire.
Mack was roasting a marshmellow over the small fire next to her grandpa's house.
This was the bonfire at Mack's grandparents' house.These are pictures of our awesome tent fort that stayed up for a good two weeks in our kitchen. Pretty much all of the credit goes to Alan for the construction of it. :P
Somers and I after we went 80s dancing in Salt Lake. :)We took roommate pictures, but it was raining outside, so we started dry with umbrellas... but we eventually gave up on that and just got wet. :P
Shooting:
Alan had this ugly Shrek baby thing he'd gotten in a claw machine, and he and Dustin shot it with the shotgun. It exploded all over the place. :P
Alan shooting...
McKenzie shooting...
Dustin looks pretty pro. :P I think he looks like he's advertising the gun or something.
This happened at Mack's house on our hobo day. Somers and Alan took turns pinning me down while the other drew on me. They made a little target for themselves and threw the pen at my leg to see if they could hit the bulls eye. :P
This was at the Creamery after we surrendered our keys. I was tired... so I wanted to take a nap in the booth.
Mack and the start of her hobo day :P
Our bonfire. Eric (a guy from our ward) made a ring of fire out of schoolwork. :P
Nate and Somers. Nate found a piece of wood and decided to make an Olympic torch out of it. Everyone passed it around for fun, but it kept going out, so he kept spraying it with lighter fluid. :POkay, these next pictures are from our Ward Movie Awards Night. We were supposed to dress up red carpet status. Our apartment took it to the next level... We decided to be the extremes. Mal and I were wash out celebs on their days off, looking weird and trying to blend in with the crowd. Krista went for a casual but dressy celeb look. Somers went for... the extreme celeb? Julie looked red carpet status... she was the only normal one out of us. :P Alan dressed pimp and dressy in a suit but casual with the sneakers and hat.
We also decided, after a few minutes of sitting at our table, that we were very different from every other table in the room. We decided that were we at a REAL celebrity banquet, we would be the table that appeared in the tabloids because they were loud, obnoxious, and embarrassing to everyone else. We decided to play it up and everyone took a picture of them as if they were a celebrity "drunk and embarrassing" :P
Mal's is my favorite. :)
Somers decided she would just be passed out.
Dustin was awesome. :P
I think McKenzie's comes in second for me.
Julie's is also really good... it may tie for second. :)
Alan just looked out of it... :P
Before we decided we'd be the embarrassing table of shunned celebs :P Notice Alan in the back--he's totally trying to copy my creeper face. I've made it my goal to appear in people's pictures in the background and look like a creeper. He did a pretty good job, but it still doesn't beat my best one. :P
I think Krista was going for a seductive look, but she ended up looking like she was going to cry. :P
McKenzie's dress was GORGEOUS. And Dustin looked sweet in a white suit. :)
Alan and I trying to do the Blue Steel/Le Tigre/Magnum look :PWell, that's all the photos I have for now!
--Cate
About Time!
Hello!
Well, I figured it was about time for me to update again. School's been over for two weeks now, and I've been staying in Elk Ridge (right next to Payson) with McKenzie and her family. I'm super excited for tomorrow, because Alan will be driving up from St. George to pick us up, and we're heading down a few days early so that we can get in some good tanning, hiking, and fun before it's time to leave. :P
Well, I suppose I should back up to where I left off last time. On Saturday I had my two finals, and boy was that a stress. Oh well, I'm just glad they're over. That night Alan and I went to pick up Rayne from the airport, and on the way, we crashed. Don't worry though--no permanent damage done. There was some debris in the road, and a car wasn't paying attention and slammed on its breaks and then swerved right in front of us. So we hit him. It wasn't really Alan's fault, but, you know, if you rear end someone, it's ALWAYS your fault. So he got a citation for "driving too close" and had to pay $120 or somewhere around there. Lame, I know. We were both okay though, and so were the people in the other car. Since my back still wasn't really healed from my LAST crash, the whiplash from this one really did a number on me. Thankfully though, Alan and Alan gave me a blessing on Sunday night, and I'm very happy to report, I have absolutely NO back pain anymore. Not even the little I had before the crash. It really is quite amazing what blessings can do. :)
I finished up my finals on Tuesday, and then I was free! Of course, I still had to pack up everything, which was a very depressing procedure. On Wednesday, Macey, Krista, Somers, Mal, Alan, and I played in the little waterfall next to Heritage Halls. Then we dried ourselves off and Mal, McKenzie, Dustin, Alan, and I went shooting up near Payson. I also flew a kite, which is the first time I remember doing so. :P I also shot my first clay pigeon! I've never been able to hit moving targets since I'm a horrible aim, but my last shot of the evening I hit one! :) That night Somers, McKenzie, Alan, and I went up to Squaw Peak and went star gazing. We hiked a bit up the mountain since the lights from the city were too bright near where we parked, and we spent a few hours looking at the stars, which was fun. I've never been able to recognize a constellation before--people always try to point them out to me, and I never see them. But I finally saw the little dipper for the first time. :) Somers saw like, a million shooting stars. I still have yet to see one. :P Afterwards we came back and met up with Mal, and the five of us watched Hot Rod out on the lawn. Mal and I were the only ones that stayed awake throughout the entire movie. :P
We had a bonfire on Thursday night and burned all of our schoolwork and the books/packets we couldn't sell back. That was pretty cool. Most of Thursday was spent packing, and we pretty much had everything in boxes and out of the cabinets by then. It was depressing to see our whole apartment in boxes. It didn't really feel like home anymore with everything shoved out in the hall and the walls completely bare. After our bonfire that night, we sat on some couches that people were donating to DI and had left on the basketball court. It was a really warm night, so we just sat out there and talked for a while, which was nice.
Friday morning we had to say goodbye to Krista and Julie. Right after they left, we all just kind of stood in the kitchen looking at each other, and it was the weirdest feeling, knowing two of us were gone until the next school year. We didn't really want to separate to our rooms and clean just yet, so we all went into Somers' and my room and hung out for a while. Eventually though, we had to get back up and pack up everything else and clean, since our check out cleaning was at 6 that night. We just barely finished cleaning when Brianna came to check it. Thankfully we passed, and it was weird at that point because EVERYTHING was cleared out pretty much. We had to say goodbye to Mal that night, which also really sad. Then it was just the three of us, and the apartment felt really empty. We didn't really have much food, but we had random stuff we needed to get rid of, so we all shared a jar of tuna (courtesy of alan) and microwaved quesadillas using the leftover tortillas, spanish rice, and shredded cheese we had from our fiesta on Thursday. We passed around one fork since everything else was packed. It was the first time we felt like poor college students. :P
We didn't really do much that night. Mack moved her mattress in our room and I moved mine onto the floor to make a big bed for the three of us. We watched How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and stayed up talking till 4. We were woken up at 6 by Brianna to finish moving out, and by 8, were were done. We checked out of our apartment, surrendered our keys, and were officially homeless. :P
We ate breakfast at the creamery to use up the last of our meal plan money. We just bought a package of bagels and little individual cream cheese packets. We used the creamery's silverware at the grill and used napkins for our plates. We contemplated taking a nap in the booths there, since we had nowhere else to sleep and we were exhausted. We ended up going to Alan's building cause he hadn't checked out yet, and we slept on the lobby couches upstairs. The RA, Tim, thought we were hilarious, and took pictures of us "cute little hobos." We slept for a good half hour before Alan was ready to leave, and then we went to Costco and ate the free samples for lunch. :P We felt pretty gross because we hadn't had a chance to shower, and it was raining outside and we were walking around in shorts, flip flops, and sweatshirts. So we drove to Payson and went to Mack's house. After a few hours we said goodbye to Somers and Alan, and they left.
I ended up falling asleep around 5:30 pm and didn't wake up again until 9:30 the next morning. I guess I was more exhausted than I'd thought. :P Since then, I've been staying at Mack's house. I have my own room, which is really nice. We hang out at Dustin's sometimes, and we went to see XMen Origins: Wolverine, which I thought was amazing. I got to see Rayne, Chanel, and Jessica on Saturday, and we went shopping, which was a lot of fun.
I'm not sure what the plans are for tonight, but I'm pretty sure we're meeting up with Dustin. Yesterday we went to his house and Mack and I hung out at his grandparents' house, which was a lot of fun. His grandparents are really cool, and his grandpa has a story for everything. :P We also went to the singles ward for church, and it confirmed all of our suspicions about singles wards in all of two minutes. :P The best story of the week: sacrament meetings ends, and in about two seconds, this guy comes and sits behind Mack and I. Apparently he was in Mack's chemistry class when she was a sophomore in high school. He asks how she's doing, tells her he just came back from his mission in Brazil, and, no joke, in less than two minutes asks: are you dating anyone? She's like, uhm... yeah, I'm kind of dating this guy right here, and points to Dustin. The guy, undeterred, asks if they can still go out and if he can have her number. She's too nice to refuse, and they say goodbye. Then he turns to ME and starts asking how much longer I'm Utah. He tells me I should stay in Utah for the summer, I say no, and he says we should get together sometime before I leave. I say maybe, since there's no way it would happen since I would only be in Payson for one more day, and then, best part of the whole thing, just before he leaves he says to me: remind me, what's her name? and points to mckenzie. I had to try as hard as I could to not laugh out loud. He didn't even know her name and asked her out with her boyfriend sitting right next to her! :P
That evening we went to a CES dinner and I met some of Mack's high school friends. Then we watched the CES fireside, which was pretty cool. We went to Dustin's afterwards and hung out there until about 11:30.
And now tomorrow we'll be leaving around noon or 1, whenever Alan shows up. I'm excited to be going to St. George. We're planning on going swimming pretty much every day, and it's supposed to be about 90 degrees all week. Compared to the rain we've had here, it should be really nice. :)
I'll put up some pictures of the past few weeks later. :P
--Cate
Well, I figured it was about time for me to update again. School's been over for two weeks now, and I've been staying in Elk Ridge (right next to Payson) with McKenzie and her family. I'm super excited for tomorrow, because Alan will be driving up from St. George to pick us up, and we're heading down a few days early so that we can get in some good tanning, hiking, and fun before it's time to leave. :P
Well, I suppose I should back up to where I left off last time. On Saturday I had my two finals, and boy was that a stress. Oh well, I'm just glad they're over. That night Alan and I went to pick up Rayne from the airport, and on the way, we crashed. Don't worry though--no permanent damage done. There was some debris in the road, and a car wasn't paying attention and slammed on its breaks and then swerved right in front of us. So we hit him. It wasn't really Alan's fault, but, you know, if you rear end someone, it's ALWAYS your fault. So he got a citation for "driving too close" and had to pay $120 or somewhere around there. Lame, I know. We were both okay though, and so were the people in the other car. Since my back still wasn't really healed from my LAST crash, the whiplash from this one really did a number on me. Thankfully though, Alan and Alan gave me a blessing on Sunday night, and I'm very happy to report, I have absolutely NO back pain anymore. Not even the little I had before the crash. It really is quite amazing what blessings can do. :)
I finished up my finals on Tuesday, and then I was free! Of course, I still had to pack up everything, which was a very depressing procedure. On Wednesday, Macey, Krista, Somers, Mal, Alan, and I played in the little waterfall next to Heritage Halls. Then we dried ourselves off and Mal, McKenzie, Dustin, Alan, and I went shooting up near Payson. I also flew a kite, which is the first time I remember doing so. :P I also shot my first clay pigeon! I've never been able to hit moving targets since I'm a horrible aim, but my last shot of the evening I hit one! :) That night Somers, McKenzie, Alan, and I went up to Squaw Peak and went star gazing. We hiked a bit up the mountain since the lights from the city were too bright near where we parked, and we spent a few hours looking at the stars, which was fun. I've never been able to recognize a constellation before--people always try to point them out to me, and I never see them. But I finally saw the little dipper for the first time. :) Somers saw like, a million shooting stars. I still have yet to see one. :P Afterwards we came back and met up with Mal, and the five of us watched Hot Rod out on the lawn. Mal and I were the only ones that stayed awake throughout the entire movie. :P
We had a bonfire on Thursday night and burned all of our schoolwork and the books/packets we couldn't sell back. That was pretty cool. Most of Thursday was spent packing, and we pretty much had everything in boxes and out of the cabinets by then. It was depressing to see our whole apartment in boxes. It didn't really feel like home anymore with everything shoved out in the hall and the walls completely bare. After our bonfire that night, we sat on some couches that people were donating to DI and had left on the basketball court. It was a really warm night, so we just sat out there and talked for a while, which was nice.
Friday morning we had to say goodbye to Krista and Julie. Right after they left, we all just kind of stood in the kitchen looking at each other, and it was the weirdest feeling, knowing two of us were gone until the next school year. We didn't really want to separate to our rooms and clean just yet, so we all went into Somers' and my room and hung out for a while. Eventually though, we had to get back up and pack up everything else and clean, since our check out cleaning was at 6 that night. We just barely finished cleaning when Brianna came to check it. Thankfully we passed, and it was weird at that point because EVERYTHING was cleared out pretty much. We had to say goodbye to Mal that night, which also really sad. Then it was just the three of us, and the apartment felt really empty. We didn't really have much food, but we had random stuff we needed to get rid of, so we all shared a jar of tuna (courtesy of alan) and microwaved quesadillas using the leftover tortillas, spanish rice, and shredded cheese we had from our fiesta on Thursday. We passed around one fork since everything else was packed. It was the first time we felt like poor college students. :P
We didn't really do much that night. Mack moved her mattress in our room and I moved mine onto the floor to make a big bed for the three of us. We watched How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and stayed up talking till 4. We were woken up at 6 by Brianna to finish moving out, and by 8, were were done. We checked out of our apartment, surrendered our keys, and were officially homeless. :P
We ate breakfast at the creamery to use up the last of our meal plan money. We just bought a package of bagels and little individual cream cheese packets. We used the creamery's silverware at the grill and used napkins for our plates. We contemplated taking a nap in the booths there, since we had nowhere else to sleep and we were exhausted. We ended up going to Alan's building cause he hadn't checked out yet, and we slept on the lobby couches upstairs. The RA, Tim, thought we were hilarious, and took pictures of us "cute little hobos." We slept for a good half hour before Alan was ready to leave, and then we went to Costco and ate the free samples for lunch. :P We felt pretty gross because we hadn't had a chance to shower, and it was raining outside and we were walking around in shorts, flip flops, and sweatshirts. So we drove to Payson and went to Mack's house. After a few hours we said goodbye to Somers and Alan, and they left.
I ended up falling asleep around 5:30 pm and didn't wake up again until 9:30 the next morning. I guess I was more exhausted than I'd thought. :P Since then, I've been staying at Mack's house. I have my own room, which is really nice. We hang out at Dustin's sometimes, and we went to see XMen Origins: Wolverine, which I thought was amazing. I got to see Rayne, Chanel, and Jessica on Saturday, and we went shopping, which was a lot of fun.
I'm not sure what the plans are for tonight, but I'm pretty sure we're meeting up with Dustin. Yesterday we went to his house and Mack and I hung out at his grandparents' house, which was a lot of fun. His grandparents are really cool, and his grandpa has a story for everything. :P We also went to the singles ward for church, and it confirmed all of our suspicions about singles wards in all of two minutes. :P The best story of the week: sacrament meetings ends, and in about two seconds, this guy comes and sits behind Mack and I. Apparently he was in Mack's chemistry class when she was a sophomore in high school. He asks how she's doing, tells her he just came back from his mission in Brazil, and, no joke, in less than two minutes asks: are you dating anyone? She's like, uhm... yeah, I'm kind of dating this guy right here, and points to Dustin. The guy, undeterred, asks if they can still go out and if he can have her number. She's too nice to refuse, and they say goodbye. Then he turns to ME and starts asking how much longer I'm Utah. He tells me I should stay in Utah for the summer, I say no, and he says we should get together sometime before I leave. I say maybe, since there's no way it would happen since I would only be in Payson for one more day, and then, best part of the whole thing, just before he leaves he says to me: remind me, what's her name? and points to mckenzie. I had to try as hard as I could to not laugh out loud. He didn't even know her name and asked her out with her boyfriend sitting right next to her! :P
That evening we went to a CES dinner and I met some of Mack's high school friends. Then we watched the CES fireside, which was pretty cool. We went to Dustin's afterwards and hung out there until about 11:30.
And now tomorrow we'll be leaving around noon or 1, whenever Alan shows up. I'm excited to be going to St. George. We're planning on going swimming pretty much every day, and it's supposed to be about 90 degrees all week. Compared to the rain we've had here, it should be really nice. :)
I'll put up some pictures of the past few weeks later. :P
--Cate
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Decisions!
Hello!
Well, I am officially DONE with classes!!! Woot! I've just got a weekend of finals left, and then I am done with my first year of college!
With the end comes a lot of decisions in terms of classes for next year, what I want to DO with my life, yada yada yada. And so I've made some big decisions. :)
Decision #1: I'm going to switch my major. Again. I realized that publishing editing just isn't something I'm passionate about anymore. Yeah, it sounded like a good idea to me at the time, but now that I'm here, it's not what I want to do. So I sat for, literally, HOURS on the computer, searching the other majors here. And I realized that BYU didn't have what I REALLY wanted, which is cosmetology. But I still want to go to BYU. So I was trying to figure out some sort of major I could take that would at least PUSH me in that general direction. Because my plan is to work at Disney World over the summers and hopefully get the cosmetology position there and work my way up, hopefully into the movie industry. And after many many hours of searching, I finally found the major I want. So. I am going to be a Theater Arts Education major. With this major, it gives me a background in not just makeup, but also costuming, directing, set construction, and a lot of other things that I think would really help me get into the business. I'm actually really excited about it. It's the only major where I actually think ALL of the classes will be fun, and its not like, a BOOKWORK major. It's mainly hands on. I even get to take a beginning stage combat class! :P With this major though, it's an education major, so it's not just theater in general, its how to TEACH theater, or certain aspects of it. Which... could really come in handy, I think. It makes it so that there's more options for me. So there's a few courses where I have to actually TEACH a class later on. But I think I'll really enjoy it.
Decision #2: I had to sign up for classes recently, and since I'm switching my major, I was kind of off track from my original plan. And if I had stuck with English anyways, it wouldn't have mattered, because the class I needed to take was full and at a time I couldn't take it anyways. :P So. Next semester, I'm taking two classes towards the Theater Arts Education major. Makeup 1 and Theater Production 1. Then I'm taking three GEs: Western Humanities 1, New Testament, and Principles of Biology. And then... there was NOTHING else I could take that would go towards anything useful. And so I did a lot of searching. And picked two fun classes so that I would be a full time student, and I'm planning on spending next semester working since my workload is bound to be light. So my two filler/fun classes are ice skating and bowling. :P Yeah. My schedule is PRETTY easy. Its only 12 credits for SEVEN classes. So I plan on just getting a job as well so that I can earn up some money while I've got an easy workload.
Decision #3: This was made a while ago, actually, but I don't think I ever talked about it. So classes are over, and I have to move out by next Saturday. But I'm planning on staying in Payson with McKenzie, and we're going to work for a few weeks, cleaning out Wymount (the married housing), and I'll earn some more money before I go home. And then on the 7th or 8th, we're going to drive down to St. George, where we'll meet up with Alan. And then on the 9th Alan is going to drive me down to Las Vegas, I'll get to see him one more time before he goes on his mission, and I'll fly home out of there. Then I'll be home that night, just in time for Mother's Day and James' homecoming talk in church the next day. :)
Well... I feel like I made more decisions, but I guess that was it. :P
So today Dustin and Dallen got their mission calls, and Dallen is going to Chile, and Dustin is going to Guatemala. So cool! So we went to Payson to watch them open their calls and just hung out there for a while.
Today was pretty laid back... Alan, Somers, and I went to an American Heritage review session at noon until one, and it started SNOWING again. Blech. I love the snow, but I don't want to wear my boots anymore. I got used to the sun. But it was just like a blizzard today, and everything is completely covered now. My poor shoes are STILL frozen from this morning. After the review session, we just came back to our apartment and took a nap on the kitchen floor in our lovely blanket tent. :) Actually, scratch that. I think I was the only one who fell asleep. Alan was on my computer, and Krista and Somers were both on the couch doing I don't know what, but then they left and Mal came in and laid on the couch and played with my hair. I think that's about when I fell asleep, while she was playing with my hair. We basically just lounged around, until Somers and Krista went to a music recital or something that Krista was accompanying on the piano, and Alan, Mal, and I went to the Creamery because I had ZERO food. I haven't been wanting to buy food because I need to clear everything out now, but I was down to the bare minimum and didn't have any food left. So I just bought a bunch of perishables. :)
And... then we lounged around again until we went to Payson. :) It was a nice, relaxing day. Tomorrow I have to buckle down and study though, because I want to take most of my finals on Friday, and I have two scheduled finals on Saturday. Saturday night after my last final (which goes till 8:45 pm. YUCK!) Alan and I are driving to Salt Lake to pick up Rayne from the airport. She may or may not stay the night at my apartment. She has yet to find out if the Hutchings will be back from Tahoe that night or not. :)
Well, I should probably go to sleep so that I can get some studying done tomorrow. I'll update later!
--Cate
Well, I am officially DONE with classes!!! Woot! I've just got a weekend of finals left, and then I am done with my first year of college!
With the end comes a lot of decisions in terms of classes for next year, what I want to DO with my life, yada yada yada. And so I've made some big decisions. :)
Decision #1: I'm going to switch my major. Again. I realized that publishing editing just isn't something I'm passionate about anymore. Yeah, it sounded like a good idea to me at the time, but now that I'm here, it's not what I want to do. So I sat for, literally, HOURS on the computer, searching the other majors here. And I realized that BYU didn't have what I REALLY wanted, which is cosmetology. But I still want to go to BYU. So I was trying to figure out some sort of major I could take that would at least PUSH me in that general direction. Because my plan is to work at Disney World over the summers and hopefully get the cosmetology position there and work my way up, hopefully into the movie industry. And after many many hours of searching, I finally found the major I want. So. I am going to be a Theater Arts Education major. With this major, it gives me a background in not just makeup, but also costuming, directing, set construction, and a lot of other things that I think would really help me get into the business. I'm actually really excited about it. It's the only major where I actually think ALL of the classes will be fun, and its not like, a BOOKWORK major. It's mainly hands on. I even get to take a beginning stage combat class! :P With this major though, it's an education major, so it's not just theater in general, its how to TEACH theater, or certain aspects of it. Which... could really come in handy, I think. It makes it so that there's more options for me. So there's a few courses where I have to actually TEACH a class later on. But I think I'll really enjoy it.
Decision #2: I had to sign up for classes recently, and since I'm switching my major, I was kind of off track from my original plan. And if I had stuck with English anyways, it wouldn't have mattered, because the class I needed to take was full and at a time I couldn't take it anyways. :P So. Next semester, I'm taking two classes towards the Theater Arts Education major. Makeup 1 and Theater Production 1. Then I'm taking three GEs: Western Humanities 1, New Testament, and Principles of Biology. And then... there was NOTHING else I could take that would go towards anything useful. And so I did a lot of searching. And picked two fun classes so that I would be a full time student, and I'm planning on spending next semester working since my workload is bound to be light. So my two filler/fun classes are ice skating and bowling. :P Yeah. My schedule is PRETTY easy. Its only 12 credits for SEVEN classes. So I plan on just getting a job as well so that I can earn up some money while I've got an easy workload.
Decision #3: This was made a while ago, actually, but I don't think I ever talked about it. So classes are over, and I have to move out by next Saturday. But I'm planning on staying in Payson with McKenzie, and we're going to work for a few weeks, cleaning out Wymount (the married housing), and I'll earn some more money before I go home. And then on the 7th or 8th, we're going to drive down to St. George, where we'll meet up with Alan. And then on the 9th Alan is going to drive me down to Las Vegas, I'll get to see him one more time before he goes on his mission, and I'll fly home out of there. Then I'll be home that night, just in time for Mother's Day and James' homecoming talk in church the next day. :)
Well... I feel like I made more decisions, but I guess that was it. :P
So today Dustin and Dallen got their mission calls, and Dallen is going to Chile, and Dustin is going to Guatemala. So cool! So we went to Payson to watch them open their calls and just hung out there for a while.
Today was pretty laid back... Alan, Somers, and I went to an American Heritage review session at noon until one, and it started SNOWING again. Blech. I love the snow, but I don't want to wear my boots anymore. I got used to the sun. But it was just like a blizzard today, and everything is completely covered now. My poor shoes are STILL frozen from this morning. After the review session, we just came back to our apartment and took a nap on the kitchen floor in our lovely blanket tent. :) Actually, scratch that. I think I was the only one who fell asleep. Alan was on my computer, and Krista and Somers were both on the couch doing I don't know what, but then they left and Mal came in and laid on the couch and played with my hair. I think that's about when I fell asleep, while she was playing with my hair. We basically just lounged around, until Somers and Krista went to a music recital or something that Krista was accompanying on the piano, and Alan, Mal, and I went to the Creamery because I had ZERO food. I haven't been wanting to buy food because I need to clear everything out now, but I was down to the bare minimum and didn't have any food left. So I just bought a bunch of perishables. :)
And... then we lounged around again until we went to Payson. :) It was a nice, relaxing day. Tomorrow I have to buckle down and study though, because I want to take most of my finals on Friday, and I have two scheduled finals on Saturday. Saturday night after my last final (which goes till 8:45 pm. YUCK!) Alan and I are driving to Salt Lake to pick up Rayne from the airport. She may or may not stay the night at my apartment. She has yet to find out if the Hutchings will be back from Tahoe that night or not. :)
Well, I should probably go to sleep so that I can get some studying done tomorrow. I'll update later!
--Cate
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Back Again
Hello!
I realized it's been a while since I last updated. I've been doing so much that when I have free time, I'm usually catching up on sleep. :)
Of course, I'm not going to be able to REMEMBER everything I've been doing... I just know I've been busy :P
I DO have some pictures though! Here you go!
This was taken after Holi, the Festival of Colors. It was up at the Hare Krishna Temple, and Alan, his friend from home, Scott, Mal, and I. We got dressed in our white and went up to the temple. We had to park a good mile or so away from the temple, it was so packed, and traffic rules were pretty much out for the day. Everyone was walking in the road because it was too packed. Once we got to the temple, all of the powder had been sold (we were about an hour and a half late), so we resorted to running towards people when they threw their bags around and picking up bags on the ground to look for a little powder left in the bottom. When we got back, Mal tried to take a picture of me, but missed, so she only got my eyes. But you can kind of see the powder. My entire right cheek was covered in purple because Alan found a bag that was still like, a third full. He dumped most of it in his hand and then just threw it right in my face from about a foot away as we were walking back to his car. :)
This was taken before the Valentine's Day Ball. I'm pretty sure I've aready talked about that before, but this is a picture I didn't have earlier. :)
Don't be fooled by his innocent smile. He hit me in the head with that stick. :P Of course, it wasn't intentional, he and Julie were messing around, and he happened to thwack me in the head with the end of it. :)
These two pictures are at a Chiefs Hockey game. Alan (Julie's Alan) is the goalie on the Chiefs team, which is a city league team. We went to several games this season, and this was taken at the last one. Julie had jerseys for Alan and I to wear, and she had her own Chiefs shirt. This game was rather... well, I don't know quite how to put it. :) This game was on April Fool's Day, and Alan was planning on helping me pull a prank on my parents by pretending to be my fiance. That day, however, Julie told me that this guy named Jeff, a friend of Alan Rosenhan's, wanted to ask me out. As flattered as I was... I really didn't want to go out with him. :) So Alan was ALSO going to pretend to be my boyfriend, so that Jeff would think I was taken. So we walk into the ice rink, holding hands, and guess what? He wasn't there. Alan promptly broke up with me. :P Of course, then Jeff gets my number from Julie, calls and leaves a message asking me to go to Divine Comedy with him, and I have to call him back and tell him, sorry, but I can't because I already have plans (which I did... I didn't just make plans once I got the message. Our ward was having this huge red carpet movie awards event. and there was imported Alaskan salmon. No way was I passing that up for a date I didn't want to go on).
This was on April Fool's Day. Somers stole my bed and everything underneath it while I was gone. :P
This was on our way back from Las Vegas. Alan wanted to stop in St. George, so we took some pictures in front of the temple. :)
We fail at jumping for the picture :)
When we were leaving Vegas.
We got the 16 different flavors from around the world at the Coca Cola factory. The Italian one was NASTY.
Julie loved the car, so we took a picture :)
We were going through a drivethru, and Julie wanted to take a picture, so, of course, I had to be a creeper and make an appearance in the back. :P
On the way to Vegas.
This was at the surprise party for Somers. Alan and Mike crack me up (in the back).
Let's see... what else have I been doing?
Well, last week, Alan, his friend from home, and I went up to Rexburg, Idaho. I stayed with Rayne overnight and went to classes with her. On the way back, a storm hit and we were driving about 40 mph and it took us about 3 hours to get out of Idaho, which it really shouldn't have. But it was a fun trip, and I was glad I got to go up and see Rayne.
This past week has been super busy. First off, we built an epic tent fort in our living room. It covers half of the kitchen. It's still up, and we're planning on leaving it up until we move out. :)
On Thursday, Alan, Mal, McKenzie, Dustin, and I went to some Peruvian place for dinner, which was DELICIOUS. Later that night, Alan, Eric (Alan's roommate), Somers, and I went to Area 51, another club in Salt Lake City. They have 80s night every Thursday night, so we got all dressed up. It was a lot of fun, and we got back around 2:20. Somers and I still had to write some papers, and so by the time we finished and I took a shower, it was 4. We woke up at 6 and met up with Alan again and went to watch a movie for our American Heritage class, and afterwards came back and passed out for a couple hours. I woke up again around 11-ish, and Alan came back over and we watched some episodes of 24.
We spent most of the day just lounging around because we were so tired from lack of sleep. Then we left around 10:3o and went up by American Fork. We hiked for 2.5 miles on some trail and stopped at some hot springs. We stayed there for a while, and it was so relaxing, but smelled so strongly of sulfur. We then hiked back to the trailhead, climbed in the car, and drove to another spot, where we watched Cloverfield in the car, wrapped up in blankets because we were still wet (Alan was the only smart one who brought regular clothes. Somers, Mal, and I all had our bathing suits on underneath our clothes, so our clothes soaked straight through). By the time we came back to campus, it was 5. I ended up going to bed around 6, and I slept till about 11ish. We went to Costco to buy stuff for our Easter dinner (salmon, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and rolls). afterwards, Anelise, Dustin's sister, took pictures of us so that we could finally have some apartment pictures. It was raining outside, so we tried to take pictures with umbrellas, but we ended up ditching them after a while and just got soaked.
Afterwards we raced home and got ready for our ward's red carpet Movie Awards night. We'd made movies with our FHE groups (and some people made other videos), and so everyone dressed up like celebrities, and we had a nice dinner of steak, salmon, salad, rolls, and three different types of pie :) The movies were hilarious and all in all, it was a really fun night. We then made a quick trip to the Creamery to finish getting everything we needed for Easter dinner, and then we dressed in white and neon colors and went to a party in some apartment from our ward. They'd taken their lights out and replaced them with blacklights, so we had a sweet party in their kitchen. :)
That pretty much catches me up to now, I think. And now I need to go to bed, because I have to wake up for church in 7 hours and I'm still extremely sleep deprived. :)
--Cate
I realized it's been a while since I last updated. I've been doing so much that when I have free time, I'm usually catching up on sleep. :)
Of course, I'm not going to be able to REMEMBER everything I've been doing... I just know I've been busy :P
I DO have some pictures though! Here you go!
This was taken after Holi, the Festival of Colors. It was up at the Hare Krishna Temple, and Alan, his friend from home, Scott, Mal, and I. We got dressed in our white and went up to the temple. We had to park a good mile or so away from the temple, it was so packed, and traffic rules were pretty much out for the day. Everyone was walking in the road because it was too packed. Once we got to the temple, all of the powder had been sold (we were about an hour and a half late), so we resorted to running towards people when they threw their bags around and picking up bags on the ground to look for a little powder left in the bottom. When we got back, Mal tried to take a picture of me, but missed, so she only got my eyes. But you can kind of see the powder. My entire right cheek was covered in purple because Alan found a bag that was still like, a third full. He dumped most of it in his hand and then just threw it right in my face from about a foot away as we were walking back to his car. :)
This was taken before the Valentine's Day Ball. I'm pretty sure I've aready talked about that before, but this is a picture I didn't have earlier. :)
Don't be fooled by his innocent smile. He hit me in the head with that stick. :P Of course, it wasn't intentional, he and Julie were messing around, and he happened to thwack me in the head with the end of it. :)
These two pictures are at a Chiefs Hockey game. Alan (Julie's Alan) is the goalie on the Chiefs team, which is a city league team. We went to several games this season, and this was taken at the last one. Julie had jerseys for Alan and I to wear, and she had her own Chiefs shirt. This game was rather... well, I don't know quite how to put it. :) This game was on April Fool's Day, and Alan was planning on helping me pull a prank on my parents by pretending to be my fiance. That day, however, Julie told me that this guy named Jeff, a friend of Alan Rosenhan's, wanted to ask me out. As flattered as I was... I really didn't want to go out with him. :) So Alan was ALSO going to pretend to be my boyfriend, so that Jeff would think I was taken. So we walk into the ice rink, holding hands, and guess what? He wasn't there. Alan promptly broke up with me. :P Of course, then Jeff gets my number from Julie, calls and leaves a message asking me to go to Divine Comedy with him, and I have to call him back and tell him, sorry, but I can't because I already have plans (which I did... I didn't just make plans once I got the message. Our ward was having this huge red carpet movie awards event. and there was imported Alaskan salmon. No way was I passing that up for a date I didn't want to go on).
This was on April Fool's Day. Somers stole my bed and everything underneath it while I was gone. :P
This was on our way back from Las Vegas. Alan wanted to stop in St. George, so we took some pictures in front of the temple. :)
We fail at jumping for the picture :)
When we were leaving Vegas.
We got the 16 different flavors from around the world at the Coca Cola factory. The Italian one was NASTY.
Julie loved the car, so we took a picture :)
We were going through a drivethru, and Julie wanted to take a picture, so, of course, I had to be a creeper and make an appearance in the back. :P
On the way to Vegas.
This was at the surprise party for Somers. Alan and Mike crack me up (in the back).Let's see... what else have I been doing?
Well, last week, Alan, his friend from home, and I went up to Rexburg, Idaho. I stayed with Rayne overnight and went to classes with her. On the way back, a storm hit and we were driving about 40 mph and it took us about 3 hours to get out of Idaho, which it really shouldn't have. But it was a fun trip, and I was glad I got to go up and see Rayne.
This past week has been super busy. First off, we built an epic tent fort in our living room. It covers half of the kitchen. It's still up, and we're planning on leaving it up until we move out. :)
On Thursday, Alan, Mal, McKenzie, Dustin, and I went to some Peruvian place for dinner, which was DELICIOUS. Later that night, Alan, Eric (Alan's roommate), Somers, and I went to Area 51, another club in Salt Lake City. They have 80s night every Thursday night, so we got all dressed up. It was a lot of fun, and we got back around 2:20. Somers and I still had to write some papers, and so by the time we finished and I took a shower, it was 4. We woke up at 6 and met up with Alan again and went to watch a movie for our American Heritage class, and afterwards came back and passed out for a couple hours. I woke up again around 11-ish, and Alan came back over and we watched some episodes of 24.
We spent most of the day just lounging around because we were so tired from lack of sleep. Then we left around 10:3o and went up by American Fork. We hiked for 2.5 miles on some trail and stopped at some hot springs. We stayed there for a while, and it was so relaxing, but smelled so strongly of sulfur. We then hiked back to the trailhead, climbed in the car, and drove to another spot, where we watched Cloverfield in the car, wrapped up in blankets because we were still wet (Alan was the only smart one who brought regular clothes. Somers, Mal, and I all had our bathing suits on underneath our clothes, so our clothes soaked straight through). By the time we came back to campus, it was 5. I ended up going to bed around 6, and I slept till about 11ish. We went to Costco to buy stuff for our Easter dinner (salmon, mashed potatoes, asparagus, and rolls). afterwards, Anelise, Dustin's sister, took pictures of us so that we could finally have some apartment pictures. It was raining outside, so we tried to take pictures with umbrellas, but we ended up ditching them after a while and just got soaked.
Afterwards we raced home and got ready for our ward's red carpet Movie Awards night. We'd made movies with our FHE groups (and some people made other videos), and so everyone dressed up like celebrities, and we had a nice dinner of steak, salmon, salad, rolls, and three different types of pie :) The movies were hilarious and all in all, it was a really fun night. We then made a quick trip to the Creamery to finish getting everything we needed for Easter dinner, and then we dressed in white and neon colors and went to a party in some apartment from our ward. They'd taken their lights out and replaced them with blacklights, so we had a sweet party in their kitchen. :)
That pretty much catches me up to now, I think. And now I need to go to bed, because I have to wake up for church in 7 hours and I'm still extremely sleep deprived. :)
--Cate
Friday, March 6, 2009
Hooray for the Weekend!
Well, it's FINALLY the weekend again. This week has seemed to drag on, and I'm so glad it's over! Not much happened--other than that I was sick, Alan was sick, and we had a surprise birthday party for Somers. :)
I'm still trying to get over my cold I got last Friday, and I thought I'd given it to Alan as well, but apparently he had something entirely different, thank goodness for ME, because he had the stomach flu. Poor guy. On Monday he just laid on our couch and was totally out of it, and Tuesday when he didn't come over, Krista and I panicked (it's a rare day when he DOESN'T come over now, so if he's gone, it's noticeable). On our way back from the Creamery, we stopped at his apartment to check up on him and see if he was okay, and, as it turns out, he wasn't really. He'd been throwing up and sleeping all day. Yuck. Well, yuck to the throwing up part. :)
He'd only had some apple juice for the day, and so Somers and I took him to the Creamery (he hadn't thrown up in a while so we figured he should try to eat something) to get him some dinner and then took him back to our place, where Somers made him some mashed potatoes, since that was the only thing he said he would eat. And, as I warned him, he ended up throwing up again. But he said it was worth it to eat the potatoes and get SOMETHING in him. I don't think I've ever seen someone as pale as he was.
I also had a little learning experience this past week/weekend. I've recently come to realize just how easy my life is, and how absolutely blessed I am. I'll just create a little list to show exactly how good I've had it lately :)
1. We got the second to last apartment at The Regency when there were still like, 50 other girls there waiting.
2. Since I was sick, I ended up sleeping right through the last time I could take my religion exam, I freaked out, I emailed my professor, and he let me take it whenever I was ready this week within his office hours without any penalty for missing it, just because I was sick :)
3. When I finally took my religion exam on Wednesday, I didn't feel prepared for it at all, but I'm pretty sure I answered just about every question right.
4. I realized how awesome my roommates are and how lucky I am that we're all good enough friends that we ALL wanted to live together again, which doesn't normally happen people's freshman year.
5. I've gotten all my work done quickly and had a TON of relaxation time this week.
6. Even though I stayed up until 5:30 on Wednesday night/Thursday morning talking to Somers, I was still awake for the whole day.
7. Last night we had an awesomely fun surprise birthday party for Somers at her sister's fancy apartments (she lives in the rich people apartments)
8. My workload is not hard at ALL and probably won't EVER be that hard--at least compared to Mal's or Krista's. They stay up forever doing work. For every hour of homework they do, I do about a minute. :)
9. I've got an awesome job that I don't have to do squat for and get about 400 bucks every two weeks. And it also looks really good on my resume with my major. :)
10. I live really comfortably--true our apartment may not be the biggest apartment on the planet, but it's pretty good, it's clean, it looks relatively new compared to other apartments, and I actually have more space in my room than I did at home. And next year I'll have an even bigger apartment. :P
So those are some reasons why my life is terrific. :) I've also been doing a lot of thinking (I had a lot of downtime this week, as you can probably tell) about what I want to do for a career and in the upcoming years. And I have finally come to a tough decision. Actually, my RA made it really easy for me to make a decision, but BEFORE she came over last night, it was a tough one. :)
I really REALLY love makeup. I would absolutely love to be a cosmetologist, but the problem is, I still want to go to BYU and they don't have a cosmetology program here. I would also really love to work for Disney as a cosmetologist. But in order to do that, they want me to either have a license or experience. In order to get a license, I have to attend two years of beauty school, and the tuition for beauty school is 2000 MORE than what tuition for BYU is. But I know I would have a LOT more fun as a cosmetologist than as a publishing editor. Don't get me wrong--I love editing, and I love reading, and I know I would enjoy that job. But I think that I would always regret not taking the chance to possibly work as a cosmetologist. So. I was debating whether or not I should contact a beauty school and see if it was possible for me to not be like, enrolled at the beauty school, but just take a few classes so that I could get experience and hopefully Disney would like that. But I wasn't sure what BYU would think of me taking classes from another school, or the beauty school having me not really be a student there, so that was kind of difficult.
BUT THEN. My RA came over last night to return Somers' apron, and she stayed and talked with us for a bit, and we got on the topic of makeup and how I really wanted to work at Disney as a cosmetologist, and she told me that BYU has makeup classes!!! In the Theater and Media Arts major they have several classes teaching theater and stage makeup, as well as prosthetics. So my plan now is to stay in the English major and get a degree with that, but also take the makeup and theater production classes so that I have experience, which I think will appease Disney for makeup experience :) So then I will work at Disney over the summers as a cosmetologist, which would be SO COOL because I'd get all the people ready for the major shows there and help with photoshoots and stuff, and then I'd have a degree in English so that I could be a publishing editor if I wanted to. Then I'd have TWO options. :)
So that is my grand plan for now. I'm really excited about the makeup classes. In Makeup 2, we start working with prosthetics and advanced theater makeup, so I'm thinking I'll take Makeup 1 next semester and Makeup 2 for winter semester, and then work at Disneyland over next summer. At least, that's my plan for now. :)
Well, tonight we were SUPPOSED to go to some hot springs, play night games, and then watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in someone's car, but everyone BAILED like I figured they would, and so now we're not going to the hot springs or playing night games. Soooo.... We're watching Madagascar 2 and Benjamin Button in the same night.... :)
And tomorrow we're going to see Vocal Point, which should be awesome. I'll update again later once I actually know everything we're doing. :)
--Cate
I'm still trying to get over my cold I got last Friday, and I thought I'd given it to Alan as well, but apparently he had something entirely different, thank goodness for ME, because he had the stomach flu. Poor guy. On Monday he just laid on our couch and was totally out of it, and Tuesday when he didn't come over, Krista and I panicked (it's a rare day when he DOESN'T come over now, so if he's gone, it's noticeable). On our way back from the Creamery, we stopped at his apartment to check up on him and see if he was okay, and, as it turns out, he wasn't really. He'd been throwing up and sleeping all day. Yuck. Well, yuck to the throwing up part. :)
He'd only had some apple juice for the day, and so Somers and I took him to the Creamery (he hadn't thrown up in a while so we figured he should try to eat something) to get him some dinner and then took him back to our place, where Somers made him some mashed potatoes, since that was the only thing he said he would eat. And, as I warned him, he ended up throwing up again. But he said it was worth it to eat the potatoes and get SOMETHING in him. I don't think I've ever seen someone as pale as he was.
I also had a little learning experience this past week/weekend. I've recently come to realize just how easy my life is, and how absolutely blessed I am. I'll just create a little list to show exactly how good I've had it lately :)
1. We got the second to last apartment at The Regency when there were still like, 50 other girls there waiting.
2. Since I was sick, I ended up sleeping right through the last time I could take my religion exam, I freaked out, I emailed my professor, and he let me take it whenever I was ready this week within his office hours without any penalty for missing it, just because I was sick :)
3. When I finally took my religion exam on Wednesday, I didn't feel prepared for it at all, but I'm pretty sure I answered just about every question right.
4. I realized how awesome my roommates are and how lucky I am that we're all good enough friends that we ALL wanted to live together again, which doesn't normally happen people's freshman year.
5. I've gotten all my work done quickly and had a TON of relaxation time this week.
6. Even though I stayed up until 5:30 on Wednesday night/Thursday morning talking to Somers, I was still awake for the whole day.
7. Last night we had an awesomely fun surprise birthday party for Somers at her sister's fancy apartments (she lives in the rich people apartments)
8. My workload is not hard at ALL and probably won't EVER be that hard--at least compared to Mal's or Krista's. They stay up forever doing work. For every hour of homework they do, I do about a minute. :)
9. I've got an awesome job that I don't have to do squat for and get about 400 bucks every two weeks. And it also looks really good on my resume with my major. :)
10. I live really comfortably--true our apartment may not be the biggest apartment on the planet, but it's pretty good, it's clean, it looks relatively new compared to other apartments, and I actually have more space in my room than I did at home. And next year I'll have an even bigger apartment. :P
So those are some reasons why my life is terrific. :) I've also been doing a lot of thinking (I had a lot of downtime this week, as you can probably tell) about what I want to do for a career and in the upcoming years. And I have finally come to a tough decision. Actually, my RA made it really easy for me to make a decision, but BEFORE she came over last night, it was a tough one. :)
I really REALLY love makeup. I would absolutely love to be a cosmetologist, but the problem is, I still want to go to BYU and they don't have a cosmetology program here. I would also really love to work for Disney as a cosmetologist. But in order to do that, they want me to either have a license or experience. In order to get a license, I have to attend two years of beauty school, and the tuition for beauty school is 2000 MORE than what tuition for BYU is. But I know I would have a LOT more fun as a cosmetologist than as a publishing editor. Don't get me wrong--I love editing, and I love reading, and I know I would enjoy that job. But I think that I would always regret not taking the chance to possibly work as a cosmetologist. So. I was debating whether or not I should contact a beauty school and see if it was possible for me to not be like, enrolled at the beauty school, but just take a few classes so that I could get experience and hopefully Disney would like that. But I wasn't sure what BYU would think of me taking classes from another school, or the beauty school having me not really be a student there, so that was kind of difficult.
BUT THEN. My RA came over last night to return Somers' apron, and she stayed and talked with us for a bit, and we got on the topic of makeup and how I really wanted to work at Disney as a cosmetologist, and she told me that BYU has makeup classes!!! In the Theater and Media Arts major they have several classes teaching theater and stage makeup, as well as prosthetics. So my plan now is to stay in the English major and get a degree with that, but also take the makeup and theater production classes so that I have experience, which I think will appease Disney for makeup experience :) So then I will work at Disney over the summers as a cosmetologist, which would be SO COOL because I'd get all the people ready for the major shows there and help with photoshoots and stuff, and then I'd have a degree in English so that I could be a publishing editor if I wanted to. Then I'd have TWO options. :)
So that is my grand plan for now. I'm really excited about the makeup classes. In Makeup 2, we start working with prosthetics and advanced theater makeup, so I'm thinking I'll take Makeup 1 next semester and Makeup 2 for winter semester, and then work at Disneyland over next summer. At least, that's my plan for now. :)
Well, tonight we were SUPPOSED to go to some hot springs, play night games, and then watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in someone's car, but everyone BAILED like I figured they would, and so now we're not going to the hot springs or playing night games. Soooo.... We're watching Madagascar 2 and Benjamin Button in the same night.... :)
And tomorrow we're going to see Vocal Point, which should be awesome. I'll update again later once I actually know everything we're doing. :)
--Cate
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Housing
Well, it's official! We don't have to live in cardboard boxes next year like we were planning to! :)
We got up at 7 and ran over to The Regency, where they were having a lottery picking of names to fill up the open apartments there. We'd been TOLD that since there were five of us, there was a higher chance of us getting one, because that was five names to pick from. But we were horribly disappointed when they paper-clipped all of our names together, giving us an equal chance of getting picked as everyone else. There were a TON of people there too, and it was freezing as we sat there for about two hours. We heard someone ask at one point how many apartments were left open, and the guy drawing names told her there were only two left. We kind of panicked, but at the same time we were still pretty calm because we knew that there were openings at The Elms. We were all really tired, so we started falling asleep on each other, and with each name before, we'd all said "This one will be us." But by this point I just didn't say anything and didn't even open my eyes or lift my head from Somers' shoulder when the guy said he was drawing the next name. And then he shouted, "McKenzie Stevens!" And it took me a moment, and then I opened my eyes and was like, "Oh my gosh, that's US!" So we got the second to last apartment. Hooray! And we ended up getting the apartment that Somers and I had looked around before, so we know EXACTLY what the inside looks like. We're right next to the manager, so I'm not sure whether we'll like that or not... We don't really have to worry about disturbing other tenants since there's none right around us, but at the same time, we don't know how the manager is going to be.
It was so funny, though, while we were all waiting for the drawing to begin, and even while it was going on. I was looking around at all these girls, wanting the spots that we wanted, and it was just this huge competition. I saw some girls just glaring at everyone, looking at everyone as potential enemies. And with each name that got called, the less people liked each other, because it meant that the other person might get the next spot and not you. And whenever a name was called, people would politely clap lightly, but it would die out quickly, and you could hear some girls grumbling under their breaths. The girls that were chosen would scream and jump up and down, glad they got a spot, while the rest of the girls looked on angrily, not happy at all for them because they'd taken a spot that could have been their's. It was just so funny. And I was thinking about how these girls all viewed each other as potential threats at the moment, but the girls that got chosen (that had been doing the same thing previously) would now be living with the other girls who had looked at them the same way, and no one would even think about how they used to be "enemies." Everyone would be all "buddy-buddy" and befriend each other and act all cheerful come next semester, and people would become good friends--but originally, they had all looked at each other as threats and had wished that the others wouldn't get chosen. I just thought it was pretty funny, seeing some of the glares girls were giving each other. And it wasn't even up to the girls whether they got an apartment or not--it was all up to chance. I just found it extremely amusing. :)
When I came home, I ate quickly, took some medicine (I'm sick again) and went to bed. And I've been asleep for six hours now, and just woke up. Holy cow. I better be able to sleep tonight. I imagine I will, because I could go to bed right now and sleep another few hours if I wanted to. :)
--Cate
We got up at 7 and ran over to The Regency, where they were having a lottery picking of names to fill up the open apartments there. We'd been TOLD that since there were five of us, there was a higher chance of us getting one, because that was five names to pick from. But we were horribly disappointed when they paper-clipped all of our names together, giving us an equal chance of getting picked as everyone else. There were a TON of people there too, and it was freezing as we sat there for about two hours. We heard someone ask at one point how many apartments were left open, and the guy drawing names told her there were only two left. We kind of panicked, but at the same time we were still pretty calm because we knew that there were openings at The Elms. We were all really tired, so we started falling asleep on each other, and with each name before, we'd all said "This one will be us." But by this point I just didn't say anything and didn't even open my eyes or lift my head from Somers' shoulder when the guy said he was drawing the next name. And then he shouted, "McKenzie Stevens!" And it took me a moment, and then I opened my eyes and was like, "Oh my gosh, that's US!" So we got the second to last apartment. Hooray! And we ended up getting the apartment that Somers and I had looked around before, so we know EXACTLY what the inside looks like. We're right next to the manager, so I'm not sure whether we'll like that or not... We don't really have to worry about disturbing other tenants since there's none right around us, but at the same time, we don't know how the manager is going to be.
It was so funny, though, while we were all waiting for the drawing to begin, and even while it was going on. I was looking around at all these girls, wanting the spots that we wanted, and it was just this huge competition. I saw some girls just glaring at everyone, looking at everyone as potential enemies. And with each name that got called, the less people liked each other, because it meant that the other person might get the next spot and not you. And whenever a name was called, people would politely clap lightly, but it would die out quickly, and you could hear some girls grumbling under their breaths. The girls that were chosen would scream and jump up and down, glad they got a spot, while the rest of the girls looked on angrily, not happy at all for them because they'd taken a spot that could have been their's. It was just so funny. And I was thinking about how these girls all viewed each other as potential threats at the moment, but the girls that got chosen (that had been doing the same thing previously) would now be living with the other girls who had looked at them the same way, and no one would even think about how they used to be "enemies." Everyone would be all "buddy-buddy" and befriend each other and act all cheerful come next semester, and people would become good friends--but originally, they had all looked at each other as threats and had wished that the others wouldn't get chosen. I just thought it was pretty funny, seeing some of the glares girls were giving each other. And it wasn't even up to the girls whether they got an apartment or not--it was all up to chance. I just found it extremely amusing. :)
When I came home, I ate quickly, took some medicine (I'm sick again) and went to bed. And I've been asleep for six hours now, and just woke up. Holy cow. I better be able to sleep tonight. I imagine I will, because I could go to bed right now and sleep another few hours if I wanted to. :)
--Cate
Friday, February 27, 2009
Pictures!
Ok, so I promised to put up pictures later, and right now is later, so here they are. :)
Alan at our halfsie party for Mack's half birthday. :)
McKenzie was heating up the hot fudge for the ice cream sundaes and accidentally left it in too long... and it exploded. :)
The delicious cupcakes that Mal made for Mack. They each have 1/2 on them :)
Mack and her cupcakes :) She was really excited. She loves half birthdays.
I left my camera on the table, and people decided to take random pictures with it. I just loved Krista's face in this one. She looks utterly repulsed by Alan. :)
The Studio 600 party in Salt Lake was a Whiteout party, so this was us before we left. It was really cool with everyone dressed in all white and the blacklights on.
On Valentine's Day, Mack and Dustin came in the morning while we were still asleep and decorated the whole apartment for us. They left us a breakfast of crepes with a delicious pudding filling and nutella. Mack left each of us a little note and a flower, and Dustin left a little bear with a note outside each of our doors.
This was our hallway when I woke up. The little bears there were for Somers and I, left outside our doors with letters from Dustin.
And that's all the pictures I have for now. Today Somers and I went to look at other housing, and we found two WONDERFUL places, and we're pretty much guaranteed an apartment at at least one of them. So we no longer have to camp out overnight! Hooray! They're much roomier, have more storage, look nicer, and are just better all around. So we'll see which one we get tomorrow morning :)
--Cate
Alan at our halfsie party for Mack's half birthday. :)
McKenzie was heating up the hot fudge for the ice cream sundaes and accidentally left it in too long... and it exploded. :)
The delicious cupcakes that Mal made for Mack. They each have 1/2 on them :)
Mack and her cupcakes :) She was really excited. She loves half birthdays.
I left my camera on the table, and people decided to take random pictures with it. I just loved Krista's face in this one. She looks utterly repulsed by Alan. :)
The Studio 600 party in Salt Lake was a Whiteout party, so this was us before we left. It was really cool with everyone dressed in all white and the blacklights on.
On Valentine's Day, Mack and Dustin came in the morning while we were still asleep and decorated the whole apartment for us. They left us a breakfast of crepes with a delicious pudding filling and nutella. Mack left each of us a little note and a flower, and Dustin left a little bear with a note outside each of our doors.
This was our hallway when I woke up. The little bears there were for Somers and I, left outside our doors with letters from Dustin.And that's all the pictures I have for now. Today Somers and I went to look at other housing, and we found two WONDERFUL places, and we're pretty much guaranteed an apartment at at least one of them. So we no longer have to camp out overnight! Hooray! They're much roomier, have more storage, look nicer, and are just better all around. So we'll see which one we get tomorrow morning :)
--Cate
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