i am happy thanksgivingful for:

I feel I should join the trend and write a post about what I am thankful for, I mean, "Thanksgivingful" for. I realize that I won't possibly be able to name everything, but I shall try.

First off, I am SO grateful for my family! This morning, after scriptures, we sat around the table eating the delicious breakfast my momma made. It started out normally, just chatting etc, but then we started to get silly. We repeated lines from movies (You've Got Mail, Finding Nemo, What Happens in Vegas) and laughed out loud. My momma and daddy left the table to do other things in the kitchen and Kati, Sarah, and I all lost it. I somehow ended up with a hair in my mouth, which made Kate nearly hyperventilate as she tried to relate a story about how she ended up with a hair in her mouth once when she was taking the sacrament. We were all hysterical at this point, I almost cried. Now, I get pretty silly sometimes, but I never laugh as hard as I can except when I'm with my family. I LOVE them. If nothing else, I love that I can be my normal, obnoxious self with them and they laugh right along with me. We have our rough times, when things aren't so happy, but at the end of the day, my Mom and Dad, my brothers and sisters are my best friends. I'm so grateful that I can be with them forever.



I am grateful for my friends. I'm afraid to say names specifically because I know I'll forget some, but they are all SO wonderful! They keep me laughing, they keep me happy, they make me feel loved. They put up with my shenanigans, they laugh when I'm not funny, they study with me in the library, the give me hugs. They are awesome! I have so many memories of laughing in the library, watching movies, sleeptalking, hiking, longboarding, cooking, concerts, puzzles, etc. You know who you are. You know you rock. Ya'll are the BEST!


I am grateful for all the opportunities that I've been given. I go to a great school where we can talk about the Gospel during the week. I belong to the true church. I've been taught the things I need to know so that I can return to Heavenly Father someday. I have a job that I love and that pays my bills. I have a car that has been especially reliable as I've been traveling a lot lately. Work, school, home, Salt Lake, this faithful little care runs well and plays music for me as I drive.

I am seriously so blessed.

living the life

i was just driving home from work and i saw a really old guy driving a bright yellow scooter with a matching bright yellow helmet. how freaking cool is that?? i hope when i'm old, i'm as cool as he is!

some funny moments

1- i was in the library yesterday with a friend- it doesn't matter who it was- and i received a text from him/her. he/she was sitting about a foot from me, so i gave him/her a funny look and proceeded to read:

"um, awkward question. can you smell me?"

i laughed of course because i could not smell him/her and asked why they would ask that. the response: "because i can smell me."

haha, ok....?


2- my wonderful roommate provides me with many good laughs. not only is she hilarious, but she also talks in her sleep (i do as well, i just never hear what i say)! over the last several weeks, she has gone to bed several hours before me due to procrastination or slacking on my part (see previous post, or just note, that once again i am blogging instead of homeworking), so i've heard her say some awesome things. here is a sampling:

"such a good idea. this is SUCH a good idea. you are SO smart!"
"oh wow. fantastic. wonderful. that's amazing."
"HEEEEEE. ha ha ha ha ha. oh. that's so funny (said like on the bluh-dah video on youtube)."

oh katy how i love you. who will entertain me over thanksgiving break? i shall miss you desperately.

3- this actually happened a few weeks ago, but one day i was on my way to work. right as i pulled out of the driveway, i saw katy crossing the street on her way to campus. she was wearing her blue and white coat with the hood up because it was pretty cold. naturally, i honked at her and waved. she looked over at me and then looked away and kept walking. a little confused as to why she would ignore me, i honked again, this time motioning for her to come get in the car and i would drive her up to campus. again, she looked over and this time she took off her hood. turns out it wasn't katy after all. now some poor girl thinks that some creepy girl was trying to solicit her, hahaha. needless to say, i hit the gas and drove away as fast as i could!

almost done

being the huge slacker/procrastinator that i am, i naturally forgot about two papers and a test due this week in addition to the rough draft of my capstone. hahaha (i'm hysterical about this, not because it's hilarious, but rather because i'm writing this on approximately 2 1/2 hours of sleep last night).

so monday, i sit down to work on my capstone and all the sudden remember that i have a paper due the next day in history 221 about two books that i have not read yet, let alone picked out. so i head up to the library, pick out two books to write the paper on and proceed to read (skim) them and laugh my head of with study buddy, colby. after trying unsuccessfully to get it all done at the library, i head home to "read" the other book.

i woke up early the next morning and wrote my 221 paper only to receive an email about the paper that is due in my e-business class the next day on another book (this time, i already had the book). so i finished my reading for 221 and then started to work on my next paper before class. after class was over, i rushed home to work on my paper so that i could proceed to my next important task. false. i went up to salt lake to hang out with dallin. when i got home late that night, i stayed up to finish "reading" that book. and i did of course.

wednesday morning i woke up and went to work until one. then i came home, wrote and submitted my e-business paper, and then frantically started writing more for my capstone paper. eleven hours and 15 pages later (at almost 4 a.m.) i closed the laptop after numerous potty breaks, food breaks, phone breaks, and story breaks. my rough draft was still very rough, but at least i had a copy to submit. (and yes, i spent over $5 making enough copies to distribute to my class this morning for critiquing purposes).

7 a.m. this morning saw me opening my eyes to a brand new day. another day full of so many things that i hope i can get them done. a short rundown of the things i have to get done today:

1- submit 6 copies of my paper to professor and students in class at 9:30 (done)
2- read and submit written report for supplemental accounting lecture (done)
3- attend supplemental accounting lecture
4- take post-lecture quiz
5- finish my calligraphy assignment
6- study for and take my calligraphy test early

only then does my thanksgiving break start, wahoo! i'm off to a good start today by blogging instead of studying. oh, and i should probably shower too. yeah, i'm awesome like that.

# 6 and # 7

6- the BYU-Utah game- ok, but i'm actually not so excited for this. i'm more nervous... the way we've both been playing... not to mention the fact that season records and whatnot go right out the window in rivalry games. i don't want to say that i don't have faith in BYU to pull this one out, i just don't know if faith will be enough. so let's cross our fingers and hope that we win this thing!

7- going to see twilight with alison- and by this i mean, just spending time with my awesome sister. i'm not excited about the movie, i'm convinced it will be a flop, but A and i don't get to hang out much, so i'm just excited to spend time with her! she's kind of the best.

10 things i'm excited for in the next week

i love top ten lists!

1- the coldplay concert! one of my very best friends (ashlee) GAVE me her extra ticket to coldplay. she says it's my christmas and birthday present (for the next 5 years). i am so excited to go. coldplay is my all time favorite band, so i'm pretty stoked to be going

2- quote wars- my friend dallin and i always have these quote fights were we pick a movie and take turns quoting as many lines from it as we can. i always lose. i'm determined to win this week.

3- relief society sleepover- ok, i'm working on being more excited for this. in an effort to do so, kati and i volunteered our house for this. so on friday night, our relief society is driving to our house in lehi and we'll have a party/sleepover. service projects, games, movies, makeovers, and all the other super girly things i hate. i figure if i have a good attitude, it will be more fun

4- turning in my first draft for my capstone paper- at first, i meant this to be sarcastic, but i thought about it for a bit and decided i'm REALLY excited to turn it in. i'm just not so excited about writing it... it only has to be 25 pages though, so i figure it'll be a walk in the park (not!).

5- having thursday be my last day of class until after thanksgiving! i don't have class on mondays or fridays, and since thanksgiving week we only have two days of class and tuesday is friday classes, i won't have class again until the 2nd of december! (talk about run on sentances! i couldn't figure out how to say that without being confusing)

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ok, so i thought i had a lot of exciting things coming up, but apparently not. i'll just leave it here though because a top 5 list is dumb (a half-filled top ten list is WAY cooler).

maybe i'll add to it as the week progresses

cutest car EVER!

i found this gem in the mall parking lot this morning.
i think it's even cuter than my old car!

viva la vida!

i'm going to the coldplay concert on nov. 22 with my best girl ashlee!

i voted

what not to wear

my fashion sense is pretty much non-existent, but even I know this doesn't match.

what did the skeleton say to the vampire?

...you suck!

kate and i tried to keep count of how many times we said "i hate halloween!" i think we both lost count around 30ish...

but despite my lack of love for this unholy holiday, i still participated. everyone else loves halloween, so i thought i'd give it a try (again). i dressed up thursday for the ward party, dressed up friday for the haynie's party, and i even carved a pumpkin and helped adam carve his. also, friday, at work we passed out candy for the mall trick-or-treaters. i tried to tell rhett that i hated halloween, but he laughed and said he couldn't take me seriously. i don't know if i'd take nearly naked cowboy seriously though...

conclusion: don't let these pictures fool you, i still don't like halloween very much. ask kate, ash, katy b, mike or colb if you don't believe me.

anyways, enough talk. here are the pics.