snapchat of my october

Sometimes snapchat is an eerily accurate representation of your life- as shown below.

 

 

Aside from school, my hobbies lately have been eating, snacking, temple attending, spending time with syd & my argentina-bound brotha, and general schlubbing. It's been really nice. Happy November! 

Love Day

So half the reason I even have a blog is because it's fun to look back and read it. Let's be honest, we all love to stalk ourselves. Who doesn't get a kick of reading old journals, no matter how cringe-worthy they are?! Anyways today I went back and read my blog entry on last Valentine's Day. Oh ho ho I was so incredibly single it kind of makes me giggle. 

Last year my date cancelled on me, day of. We were supposed to double with his roommate and Sydney, and the roommate decided to cancel too after hearing the news. And yet, neither of us were really all too disappointed because it meant we got to go to dinner with Sydney's sibs and mama who was in town. And also at that point we preferred each other's company to any boy in Provo soooo.....

A lot happens in a year! Twelve months ago I was happy to get cards and letters from my missionary pals, and now I'm about to be a missionary myself. 

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm surrounded by people I love and feel incredibly grateful for that fact. Give somebody a hug. Or a side hug, if you're wary about touching other people like my pal Brookie is.

Look how cute my valentine is :)

Gas Cans- a Necessity

So back in the glory days of Texas Summer 2012, Sydney and I met up for dinner with some girlfriends from BYU who live about forty five minutes away from us. As we parked I noted the need to fill up the gas tank- but  (this is important!!) the empty light was not on yet. After an hour or two of free refills and giggling and just general girl talk, we said our goodbyes and went on our merry, respective ways. But, I suuupose my car was parked at such an angle where it was reading the gas tank as empty and subsequently the car wouldn't start. 

Like any rational girls would do in our situation, we hitch hiked with the sanest, most normal people we could see-- a handful of some newly licensed teenage girls. Of course upon arriving at the gas station, we realized we didn't have a gas can. Or whatever those thingys are called. Syd and I scampered across the parking lot to the grocery store (with our new besties in the car waiting for us) but lo and behold, Kroger is also lacking in the gas can department. Luckily the manager overhears our desperate pleas and invites us to follow him around to the back parking lot (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) where has a gas can in the trunk of his car (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE WEREN'T KIDNAPPED but we were high on anxiety and stress and followed him and were rewarded with a sticky and dusty but gloriously real, gas can. We ventured back to the front parking lot where our new besties were anxiously awaiting our arrival ("we were two minutes away from calling the police!!!") and we headed back to my car. 

Ten minutes after being dropped off we realized I left my cell phone in the car of those nice kind wonderful teenage girls. Also on my drive home I got t-boned by a non-english speaker. The fact that he doesn't speak English is fine I just hope you really get the picture of us both getting out of our cars and not being able to communicate. At all.

Moral of the story is... I don't know. I will never know if by having the weirdest night of my life I delayed myself long enough to avoid a future car accident closer to my house, or maybe my tires would have blown the next day. Or maybe I was just supposed to learn a lesson about being prepared? Life is so weird. This entire blog post is because a) i love reminiscing-- especially about myself b) this is my vague, round about way of saying my life is confusing me right now.

Thanksgiving Daily

Today I am thankful for 

::pretty snow

::technology to keep me in touch with high school best friends

::great professors

::rain boots

::thoughtful roommates

::the fourth floor of the hbll

::banter

::ward temple trips

::hot chocolate

::lana del rey

::boys that are gentlemen

::byu basketball

::my sisters

::a warm and cozy apartment

::$5 hot and readys from little caesar's 

::new friends

What I Learned in School Today...

So if you didn't know, and I won't be offended if you didn't, I'm a TESOL minor! Aka teaching english as a second langage. So I'm taking this classes called Intro to the English Language and below is a legimate assignment. Enjoy.

This is Sydney Walton. 

            Friends often joke that my roommate Sydney speaks a different language. After thoughtful consideration and learning about the ways that English words form, I have come to the conclusion that she is indeed speaking English; Sydney is so far advanced that she has crossed a threshold and is merely coming up with new words to contribute to the greater English language.  First she started with the simple abbreviation, or in her mind, abbrev. By clipping a word it becomes shorter and easier to say. Sydney hind clipped the word “perfect” and now instead utilizes “perf.” Additionally, “totally” was much too inconvenient to use on a regular basis and now has been replaced by the word “totes” by applying the same hind clipping. “Obvi” integrates these same ideas, stemming from the word “obviously.” A particularly advanced word in Sydney’s vocabulary is “cray cray” because it utilizes two different types, shortening and then reduplication. First she hind clips the word “crazy” to become “cray” and then reduplicates and it becomes “cray cray.” To describe boys that she has feelings of infatuation for, Sydney calls them her “crushy.” By employing backformation, she took the noun “crush” as in ‘I have a crush on him’ and added the suffix “y” to make another noun, this one describing the person, not the emotion. By hind clipping and then combining, the word “jellyfish” was created, but not referring to the sea creature. First it was the word “jealous” which was then hind clipped to become “jelly” which then was put in front of “fish” to create the final product. Correspondingly, “fun” became “funnel cakes” but skipped the clipping step. "Zerts” is a word that describes any food eaten before or after the designated meal. The word “appetizer” was fore clipped, giving us “zer.” The word “dssert” was hind clipped, leaving us with “sert.” By combining these two, we have “zerts.” Lastly, if our date with our “crushy” to go get “zerts” goes well enough to make our roommates “jellyfish” it is time to have a “DTR.” This stands for ‘Define the Relationship.’ However, it is an acronym because it is pronounced /ditur/.  As her vocabulary continues to expand I would hope that those who assume abbreviations are associated with unintellingence, would think twice.

Yes, I shared this video as apart of my presentation. Oh and yes. I got an A.

We Cook, it's FINE

Sydney and I made dinner the other night for her brother Peter and his roommate Ryan. Now that we're living in Domesticity Central (aka south of campus Provo) we are just filled with this desire to cook and clean and do laundry all the time. It's so weird! And so totally not true but I wish it was.

We had really tasty green salsa crockpot chicken tacos with Mexican rice and homemade guacamole and sliced peaches. And it was tasty tasty. Granted that's the only "meal" I've made for myself all week but whatever. 

Also you may have thought that you knew every Coldplay song that exists but look here is one that you probably don't know.

Schlubbin

"schlubbin" is a term used by my funny friends Brooke & Avery. Its kinda like lounging but sloppier. It involves snacks and maybe some hulu and/or netflix and staying in bed for a long time. 

I sclubbed hard both Friday and Saturday. IT WAS GREAT. After recovering from an all nighter and a week crammed full of homework I deemed it appropriate and necessary. Plus I don't even have class on Fridays! So I slept in late late late and finally finished unpacking all of my boxes so my desk is finally usable and just did a lot of productive things that didn't require me to leave my apartment until I went grocery shopping with Jen at 4:30!

On Saturday that fun just continued with sleeping in late (again)

going to my most favorite shaved ice place ever

laying out so we don't get Provo Pale

and watching the game with some of my favorite girls at the Ashton's house! And I got to see one of my other favorite married couples: the Stapletons. It was great. 

I also watched White Collar and does anyone watch "Suits" because I can't decide how I feel about it and lots of youtube videos and basically have yet to do any schoolwork since Thursday night. It's great.

Life Sans Sydney

So oddly enough, it's a whole lot easier to get things done when your roommate is in a different time zone. Interesting. Haha it has been an interesting week to say the least. Thoughts about this past week.

• The BYU mens volleyball team is number one in the nation. Who knew?!
• Matt Costa is a singer who is really all of a sudden popular in Provo. Who knew?!
• Sundance Film Festival is actually located in Park City, Utah, not Sundance, Utah. I'm not going to continue with the "who knew?!"s because I'm already annoying myself.
• I am just really really not a sciencey girl.
• I do not get sick of Miike Snow. (the band, not the person.)
• I cannot eat in the Cannon Center twice a day. It wreaks havoc on the insides if you know what I mean
• Albums on Facebook can now hold over 200 pictures!
• I really miss being able to call up Jen whenever I want. Or at all really.
• I'm applying to be a counselor at Aspen Grove this summer!
• I signed at The Elms! So relieved to know that I will have a place to rest my weary head next year after a long day of studying. Oh ho ho if only I studied that much.
• I am in shock at how much chapstick & lotion I have gone through. DARN YOU UTAH WEATHER!
• Thank goodness the Mavs beat the Jazz. Utahan's just kill me sometimes. Sorry anyone from Utah reading this.
• I really miss summer term.
• Snow is pretty! And it also can ruin boots.
• Utah does have some benefits; I got asked on a date by a cute boy who had stamped out "Date?" in the snow outside my window.
• I am such a boring blogger. 
• I really miss Josh and Landon and it's barely been one month.

When I walked out of my dorm to go to church, this is what I saw. Glorious. Am I right?

finals week

Contrary to apparently all of my friends, I have actually loved finals week. Perhaps it's because I don't get stressed out about school? This past weekend and the past few days have actually been perfect. 

Fancy schmancy lunch in the Skyroom, (dining plus is possibly the best thing to ever happen to me) on Brooke's birthday! Buffets are a beautiful thing.

I love these people.

Double header sleepover girls nights with Lindsay and Annabel, two of my FAVORITES! They're a lot prettier in real life... 

On Saturday we pushed our beds together. More room for activities, we can be geographically even closer, this helps with our study habits, the list goes on and on.

 Happy dinner a la Sam with old Texas friends. So fun to be together.

Cliff and Brooke came with Sydney and me to our ward talent show. I don't know what it is about Mormons but eevveryyone has to be talented. I felt great about being an audience member. 

Studying for my Book of Mormon final on our ginormo bed is bliss. Look at Sydney working so hard in the back there. She is a much better student than I'll ever be.

Utah really is beautiful. As much as I hate the cold, I really like snow. I feel that it makes the cold justified. Today was my last walk to the Maeser Building. It was bittersweet. I think it's the coolest building on campus but it also signifies the end of Political Science. THANK GOODNESS. I am so happy I switched majors. I would have been miserable.

I love Rancherito's, and I love love love these people. Brighton is headed to Brazil, Landon to Bolivia, and Josh to Russia. I will miss them very much.

So close.

Tucanos with Brik

Tonight was the Heleman Halls Christmas Invitational that (unfortch for all the freshman boys), Brookie, Syd and I had to miss. Landon's dad was in town so he offered to take us all out to eat. I'd never been to Tucano's before, only heard the stories of people throwing up after eating too much meat. Yipes. I'm really not much of a meat eater in the first place so needless to say I was a little concerned. I'm also a very picky eater. I know, I'm working on it. If I end up going on a mission for my church I'm sure the Lord would find it very funny to send  me to somewhere with food I just couldn't handle. I digress. The food was actually very tasty, the weather freezing and the company wonderful. I'm really gonna miss those boys.

Happy birthday to Brooke, tomorrow!! Isn't she the cutest?

Action shot with the server bringing the meat around. Landon and Brighton love when I take pictures of them. I'd also like to point out Brik's hand. I was too scared to take a full on picture of him.

Who has two thumbs and has the perfect roommate? Sydney.

Please enjoy this gem. This is a great representation of the night. Landon's a little camera shy, while Syd clearly is not.