Last night/this weekend

Last night was so much fun!

So, all week Virginia and I have been plotting and scheming of different ways to cheer Laura up. I heard her mention that she wanted to see Twilight again, so being the attentive and obliging friend that I am, I thought "sure, we'll go take her to see the movie!" But there's no fun in just taking someone to the movie...so we thought we'd kidnap her and take her by force.

So last night Laura had to play the handbells for the chapel service. The movie didn't start until 9:30 and the chapel service started at 7 so there was some time in between. We stayed for the service, then we went around caroling and hanging the wreaths around campus (thus Hanging of the Greens). We ended up at the President's House, and stayed for some hot chocolate and cookies. It was pretty funny, because once we got there we were panicking a little bit because it was getting close to the time when we needed to be leaving. I made up some story about how I needed to call Mom but I could only call her from my phone in my room...I don't really remember what I said, to be honest. So we forced Laura out of the house while Virginia and I are tapping our feet and pacing because she's moving so slow (she really wasn't, but we were impatient). Then, Laura goes to P.E.O. to get Jenn (she's another girl that went with us to see the movie) while Virginia and I run up to Laura's suite and hide in the bathroom. We can hear when Laura and Jenn get in, and Jenn blindfolded Laura with a scarf. So, we walk her down two flights of stairs (blind, mind you) and out to my car (and being the idiots that we are, we forgot to grab Laura's coat). All the while, Laura is kind of panicking. It was actually pretty funny to be quite honest. We drive her to the movie theatre, but I was driving in a way that hopefully I got her confused as to where we were going (she wasn't confused...she pretty much knew right away I think. Which meant I drove like a drunk person for nothing). I ran inside to the theatre, bought the tickets and was like "Four tickets for Twilight. Yes, I'm bringing in a person blindfolded, but it's okay, she knows us!!"...most of the people in the lobby got a kick out of that.

So we lead her into the theatre and watch Twilight. Fun for all! Oh, and before we kidnapped her, we left little post it notes on her closet door that said "we just thought we missed your smile, so we did this for you" and other stickies that said stuff like "you're amazing" and "always remember to smile!"...at first we thought "hey, we'll do something nice for her, make her happy then kidnap her!" but that didn't work. She didn't even SEE the post-its until afterwards, and even then Virginia and I had to practically build a glowing, flashing sign around the door that said "READ THIS." I suddenly had a flashback to the time when Mom walked into the house and didn't see the Christmas tree...yeah, it was a little bit of that.

Anyways, that was my eventful evening. Today is Hanging of the Greens dinner, so I'll be busy with that probably. Um, Sunday...nothing is going on (finally!) but I'll probably work on some homework or something. I have three essays for Am. Lit. due on the 15th, an observation for World Rel. due the 12th, and then four finals (one of them is this coming Thursday, and the rest are on the 16th). Soooo I should probably study for those and work on the essays. Although, as I type this, I know very well that I probably won't. But whatever...maybe I will.

Anywhosits...OH! Just a little side note: I changed my music player and I put the whole Twilight Soundtrack on there, except for two of the bonus songs. They're just "La Traviata" and "Clair de Lune" and I didn't think anyone would listen to those songs (although, I do but I'm weird like that). So yeah...for those of you who don't have the soundtrack, enjoy!

Last Night, Part 2.

Okay, so here's a more in depth account of last night.

Basically, I went to the show last night to see the Maine. Well, when we got there we got pretty far up front, but I pushed my way up even further so I was a few feet from the stage...which meant I was right in the mosh pit. That was an interesting experience. It was so packed and tight that no one could even jump. I'm pretty sure the girl next to me didn't even have her feet on the ground. But anyways, there was this crazy tall guy who was, in a word, stoic. He just never moved, which is quite an accomplishment in a mosh pit. I almost got knocked down a couple of times, but I kept getting thrown against this guy, which was nice because that meant no one was running into me on the side that he was in. Anyways, so I was moshing (me...moshing...crazy, right!?) and I was like two feet in front of the love of my life (aka Garrett) which was amazing. I was dancing and singing every word to their songs, but sadly they only played like 5 songs. They played more songs at the venue I saw them at over the summer in Phoenix and they were the opening opening band then...now they were just the opening band (does that make sense? There's two openers then two headliners, and they were the second opener). Anyways, so they didn't perform a lot.

Well, after the concert I really really really wanted to meet them again, so Kaeli and I hung around at the end. Eventually I saw Garrett standing there so I walked up to him and asked if I could take a picture. He said sure, then this conversation took place:

Me: Oh, by the way, we're from Arizona!

Garrett: Oh really? Where from?

Me: Mesa =]

Garrett: Oh cool, I'm from Gilbert.

Me: Ooh what part? (I asked this, thinking he'll say, you know "East Gilbert, North Gilbert," etc...just like I would say, when someone asked this, East Mesa)

Garrett: Warner and Cooper.

Me: (thinking: that was...very specific.) Oh cool. I'm pretty familiar with that area. So...picture?

Then we took the picture. And it was amazing! He's so cute, but last night he looked pretty tired. I guess they drove like 10 hours straight through snow and hail from Denver, so it was pretty rough.

But it was amazing, or should I say aMAINEzing! Yeah that wasn't mine, 'cause I totally stole that from Kaeli. I bought a t-shirt and met a really tall guy from Every Avenue. He was standing there, and this was the conversation:

Guy: Hey you want an Every Avenue CD?

Me: ...SURE!

Guy: They're $5.

Me: Uh, no more money. Sorry! I really wanted one too!

Guy: Oh, that's alright.

Me: You guys were really awesome tonight, though. To be honest, I hadn't heard you before but I'm a fan now!

Guy: Cool, that's always great to hear.

(Silence for a couple of seconds)

Me: Okay, so...you're really tall.

Guy: (laughs and looks down) Am I?

Me: Yeah. Really tall. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Guy: Oh...cool, I guess.

Me: Sorry, that was really random, wasn't it?

Guy: Yeah, kind of was.

Me: Eh, oh well. Keeps things interesting.

Guy: (laughs) Oh shoot, I'm supposed to be somewhere, but I don't know where. (Stands there for a little bit)

Me: ...Do you think you should find that out?

Guy: Probably. Hey, see ya later!

Me: Yeah, you too! Have a good night.

Guy: (walks around...confused)

He was nice, and pretty cute but genuinely lost, that's for sure. In all fairness, it's pretty crazy outside after shows normally.

So that was my evening! Fun times! Sunday evening I'm going to see Plain White T's with Laura, and we're going to hang out in Kansas City before hand. There's this giant Barnes and Noble that I'm definitely attacking when I get there. 

Update!

Sorry, I know it's been awhile since I've updated. Anywho...

This weekend was fantastic! I was so excited to see Mandy and Abby and Amanda and her kids...it was just great to get a break from Cottey and spend some time with people I love. It was unbelievably cold in Iowa...in fact, it was colder there than down in Missouri. I asked my suitemates if they had gotten any snow while I was gone and they hadn't...while Iowa was in the 30 degree range, it was still in the 50s here in Nevada. But besides the cold and a little bit a snow (you can hardly call it that), it was so much fun. I drove up Friday night and we went to Wal-Mart then to P.F. Chang's. I had never been there before, and it was actually really good! Then we finally made it back to the hotel and went to bed after awhile. The next day, we went to the mall and shopped around...we didn't get to do much Saturday, simply because I had to leave early enough to give myself time to get back to Cottey. I bought some clothes and a few magazines at Barnes and Noble. I said goodbye, then drove back down. When I got back, I really wanted s'mores again, but we were out of chocolate, so Becky, Tiffany and I drove to Wal-Mart to get some more. Then, we were bored so we played the Ouiji board game. Kind of lame...I'm still convinced that Tiffany was moving it around just to mess with us.

According to the board game, I'm going to marry someone named Larry, who's two years older than me, and I'll meet him in my mid-twenties. I'm going to live in a mansion in L.A. and I'll have 5 kids, all but 1 will be boys. I'm not going to be a screenwriter, but I'll be an author, and what I'm working on now will be what gets my career started. I'll be going to college in Florida (even though I'm not even applying to any schools in Florida, despite how much I love it there), and I'll die when I'm 90. Crazy, right? Yeah, I don't believe any of it either. There's no way on this green Earth that I'm pushing out FIVE kids and marrying a guy named LARRY. Just...no. But anyways, it was a fun game to play...it was interesting to see what kind of responses we got.

Let's see, what else has been going on...tomorrow, I have another show (Mandy knows what I'm talking about haha) and I get to see The Maine!! I'm so excited about that...they're the whole reason why I'm going in the first place. I was going to make a shirt for the concert, but I don't think I'll have time to...oh well. Hopefully, I get to meet the guys again! Fingers crossed! And this time I'll bring my camera for sure...every time I either forget the camera or I bring it and the batteries die...I just can't seem to win.

Anywhos...hope everyone is doing well! I miss everyone from back home, and I can't wait for Thanksgiving! Love you all bunches!

Picture time!

So, I'm adding a whole bunch of new pictures from this weekend. A batch of them are from Halloween, a few are from the past, and a few more are from late, late last night. Tiffany got insanely hyper and decided to build a fort out of our cushions and so we took pictures. It was a pretty sweet fort I might add...even sweeter since we made it at 3 in the morning...well, actually 2 in the morning because daylight savings is over now. Tiffany I guess has this tradition where she stays up for daylight savings so she can adjust her clock right away (remember, she's insanely OCD), but she was really tired last night and got pretty loopy...thus, the fort.

But anyways, yeah so I've updated pictures...you can click here or go to my main profile page and click "My Web Page."

So, this weekend has been really long. Yesterday I did absolutely nothing. I literally didn't move hardly at all. I went to Sonic then the library, and that was the most movement I did all day. Tiffany and I sat on the couch all day and watched four movies (Little Miss Sunshine, Thirteen, Hook, and Peter Pan) and I think I might have gotten up about four times from the couch. I didn't even get up for dinner--we just ordered pizza and Tiffany went out to get it when it was delievered. Yeah...crazy. But it was fun. I'm glad I just vegged all day and did nothing. Well, late at night Tiffany decided to build the fort, but that was the most activity for us. Today, I think I'll actually do my homework and possibly get ahead...who knows!?

Ooh, I decided to bite the bullet and pre-order the Twilight soundtrack. I wasn't going to at first, because I only liked the song by Paramore, but then last night someone had posted links to the (not-even-released-yet) songs and so I got to hear the soundtrack, and it's actually pretty good once all the songs are put together. My favorites are still "Decode" but also "Never Think" by...dun dun dun...Robert Pattinson! Yes, ladies and gents, he can sing--and well. I've heard him sing on YouTube, but trust me, those do not do him justice. He sounds so much better in the studio, where they can kind of clean it up a bit. But on the pre-order soundtrack, there's 3 bonus songs, and one of them is another song by Robert Pattinson, so I'm pretty excited about that. The Linkin Park song is growing on me...I'm not the biggest fan of them, but I think the song fits. I also love the Muse song, but I've had that song for awhile now.

Most of you can probably see I added a music player to my blog. Those are my four favorite songs as of right now (except I did want to add "Decode" by I couldn't find it because it's so new). But you should all take a listen to the songs...they're fun. I've been fortunate to see three of the four bands on the playlist, and I can say they're all amazing live.

Let's see...what else to update on...um, about 3 weeks until I'm home! Woot!! I'm super excited and I can't wait to be home in Arizona. Yesterday, when we were watching Little Miss Sunshine, I noticed how some of it takes place in Arizona and I think I was driving Tiffany crazy because I kept being like "ooh, look, that's I-10! Oh, Carefree highway! Look, Scottsdale! ARIZONA!" and I think she could have cared less. But oh well, seeing my home state in movies just makes me happy. But anyways, I'm going to be home soon!

Woot!

These are from our s'mores-making adventure. Our marshmellows almost exploded. They were so huge, I wanted to take a picture of them in the microwave. Then the other picture is of Tiffany...we melted the chocolate too much and she could barely eat it and she got the stuff all over her face. She looked like a 3-year-old...

These pictures are from this weekend's GP tradition. GP stands for Great Pumpkin and it's where the seniors put together a haunted house for the freshmen. I was a crazy girl in a mental hospital that cut her wrists to paint with her blood. Creepy, right?

For the squeamish, I'm just posting the links to two of the pictures, instead of the actual pictures. It's NOT real, but it looks it.

Wrists 1

Wrists 2

So, this was on MSN today on the homepage. It made me pretty darn excited, I'm not gonna lie.

He looks mighty handsome! I saw another new TV advertisement that included a few snippets of Renee talking with Bella. I'd post the link but the quality is really bad so it's not really worth reposting as of right now.

There was something else I was going to post about on here, but now I can't remember. Hope everyone is doing well!

I'm kind of angry with my computer right now. For some reason, earlier today the internet just cut off unexpectedly and when I logged back in, all of the old settings were restored. It shows when I misspell a word (which is a lot...but still!), it doesn't highlight things in the color I had it set to...it's just obnoxious.

Um, anyways...nothing else to update on. Tomorrow night I have another show I'm going to. It's The Academy Is... and other groups that I've never heard of before. Ha, I'm just along for the ride!

Week Update.

So, I had a pretty busy week, basically.

I wish I could remember that busy week I had, but I just can't. Basically, it's more of the same...it just feels like a lot. October is going to be one crazy busy month, I know that's for sure! This weekend is Family Weekend, so that's going to be insane. Next weekend is our 3-day weekend (finally!) and my senior, Miranda, will be down here. It also happens to be my suitemate, Marina's, 21st birthday! I'm not quite sure how we're going to celebrate, but I know she wants to do something. Then, we have "C For Yourself" weekend the following weekend, and chances are we'll have a perspective, which means we'll have a girl or two stay with us in the suite for the whole weekend. Somewhere in there is another suitemate, Tiffany's birthday. The week after THAT is another suitemate, Arlette's birthday. On top of all of that, I have two concerts that I'm going to. PLUS, I have midterms, Halloween, club activities that I have to do, work stuff...oh, and did I mention school? Ha, yeah that's kinda important.

I wish I were home right about now. If I were, I know this month would be a lot less crazy, and I'd get to see the family (Tammy's birthday is coming up...seriously, is everyone's birthday in October!?) and I'd get to see the friends (Kristyna and I plan on having a Twilight day along with a veg-and-watch-cheesy-80s-movies day). Granted, my schedule would be busy at home as well, but it just wouldn't seem as crazy. Maybe that's because I'd have family and friends there to help me with things. Here, it's all on my shoulders. If I don't do something, it doesn't get done...and I guess that's just what happens when you have to become "mature" and "responsible." Who said being mature was a good thing? Could you imagine a world in which being immature and lazy would be the norm, and it would be seen as a bad thing to be responsible? I'm not saying I'd like that kind of world too much, but it would be interesting if everything were reversed.

Now I'm just rambling. I guess I have nothing to update everyone on, just the fact that I'm insanely busy...but that's not much of an update. Anywho, I miss everyone at home! Hope Arizona is treating everyone well...it's getting chilly here in Nevada. I wore a sweatshirt all day today...even during Ballroom dance!

Speaking of Ballroom dance, I kind of want to show everyone my new sweet dance moves when I get home. We learned the Swing, and now we're doing the Cha Cha. Pretty exciting stuff! I'm actually getting really into it, and I really love that class. I find myself looking forward to it quite a bit.

Weekend Recap.

Well, I had a busy weekend. I guess I'll break it down by day.

Friday

Friday was kind of crazy because I had school but I also had a concert in Kansas City later that night. School went fine...didn't do much in classes. I had to get ready quickly for my concert and I had to pack for spending the night at Kelsi's house. Kaeli had offered a girl from Cottey a ride up to the airport (since we were already headed that way), so we drove the girl to the MCI airport, stopped at Chipolte for something to eat, then went to the Starlight Theatre to see Augustana, Counting Crows, and Maroon 5. We were kinda sad because we thought the concert had started at 7:30 but it started at 7. By the time we got there, Augustana had played all but 2 of their songs, so we missed out on that. Counting Crows were good, although I've only heard a few of their songs. Maroon 5 (the main reason why we went to the concert) was AMAZING. Absolutely fabulous! They sounded as good--if not better--as they do on their albums. Anyways, we didn't get out of the concert until 11:30 and we had to drive up to St. Joe to stay with Kelsi and her family. By the time we got there and got settled in it was 2:30am, so needless to say, we were pretty darn tired.

Saturday

We got up around 9ish, but didn't end up leaving Kelsi's house until 11:30 or so. It was so amazing to see her family again. Her mom and dad were there, along with her boyfriend, Adam. I was kind of sad that we didn't get to spend much time with them, but Kaeli wanted to leave early to go shopping in Kansas City, and since she was the driver, we left relatively early. We drove back down to Kansas City and went to Zona Rosa. First we went to get movie tickets (we saw Lakeview Terrace which was surprisingly really good!), then we went to this frozen custard place that was very yummy! After the movie, we walked around Zona Rosa shopping centers. Kaeli wanted to go to Forever 21, so we spent some time in there, and I wanted to go to Barnes and Noble. It was a really nice B&N...it was even two stories! I bought this book, but I haven't started reading it yet. I think it's an interesting story though, especially since it's a memoir. After B&N, we decided we were tired so we headed on back to Cottey. We didn't get back until 7:30ish, though. Once I got back, I hung out with Tiffany at work and we watched Big Trouble...man, I love that movie! After that we just hung out for awhile, then eventually I made my way over to bed.

Sunday

Woke up early because I had to be at work by 9am. Worked for an hour, then decided that I was still sleepy, so I went back to bed. I must have been really sleepy, because I didn't wake up again until noon. When I woke up a second time, I decided it was time for a change. So I did something crazy...

I know this isn't the best picture, and it's the only one I have so far but I'm sure more will come. Click here.

All I'm going to say is it's a big change but I love it! I'm so glad I finally did it...and more pictures will be coming!