March 29 - April 4

Hellooooo everyone! I miss and love you all! Here's the update from my last, most recent week...

Sunday afternoon I was hanging with Ashley and Ali and we randomly decided to set each other up on dates for the fireside our ward had that night. We would play Apples to Apple afterward and have treats. It was perfect! Ashley and Ali were all nervous about it but I was just ready to have some fun. I set up Ashley with this RM Brian in our ward. He's way nice and amazing. Ashley set up Ali with John, another Canadian and the EQP of our ward. They wouldn't tell me who they hooked me up with... so I found out when I opened the door to find Neil standing there. I was confused because they said they weren't going to do Neil. So I asked him why he was here, and he said he didn't know but Ashley had told him to come over. Then Ashley was like "Surprise!" So, I was still slightly confused, and Neil had no idea what was going on. Ashley explained it to him and things were fine from then on.

The fireside was really great. There was a Native American who spoke about his conversion to the church. Afterward we had veggie platters and cookies... yum! We stole a platter and took it back the the girls' apartment to eat while we played Apples to Apples for the rest of our date. It was really fun. That game is a blast! When we realized it was time for all of us to go to our different building meetings, we were all disappointed and kept playing "just one more round." But finally it was over. I've decided Sunday Dates are the best!

So, remember Andy? LOL So he's been hanging out with this girl Kelsey in our ward a lot recently. They are really perfect for eachother. It's quite funny. Their dates consist of playing video games and watching movies. A wonderful match! Just thought that was interesting and wanted to throw it in.

Clarissa and I have kind of fallen apart the past few months because of some silly little conversations and things. We pretty much started ignorning and avoiding each other. It was pretty awkward. But Saturday she came in and we started talking and hugged. It was nice to be talking again. I really love her, and I'm glad we are back on speaking terms. :)

So, I keep looking for good places to take naps on campus. I was looking for an especially quiet one the other day. Christine told me that Parker (that hott Canadian DaNae went on the picnic date with last week) told her about this place called the Memorial Hall in the Wilk where it's completely silent and there are lots of couches. It's Parker's favorite place to nap. So I thought I would check it out. So I went, and ended up sleeping for a few hours. I love having couches on campus!

LOL So Monday I was taking a nap in there (it happened to be a really long one) and I sat up and looked over to find Parker just waking up on another couch. I was so embarassed. I didn't want him to see me because I looked horrible from just waking up. So I pretended not to see him so there wouldn't be any exchange. But dang did he look good! Haha. I've decided that guys look really, really cute when they have that just-woke-up-and-have-puffy-eyes look. Seriously, I noticed it on guys I don't even think that way about. I noticed it when I was over at Andy's and he'd been resting and when Ali and I woke up John (the EQP) to give him cookies. And then again with Parker. Ok, but he looks dang good anytime anyway. :)

So Monday night I went to this FHE thing I'd heard about for another ward. Kirby Heyborne was supposed to be the speaker. I didn't know if it was true, so I showed up, and there I am, standing 10 feet from KIRBY HEYBORNE! I kind of freaked out inside. LOL I texted DaNae and told her to come and bring a camera. She had to go to her FHE (I was skipping mine... don't tell!) so she stayed for a few mins and left her camera. I stayed and listened to his talk. It was a really good lesson. He talked about Joseph Smith and the fruits of Jospeh Smith (Book of Mormon, D&C, Pearl of Great Price, and JST) and then he shared his favorite scripture from each. Really insightful. Then he sang two songs. Uuuh-mazing. And then I got to hug him and get a picture with him and he even signed my shoe... that's the picture feature at the top of my blog. He's like the nicest guy I've ever met. He spent a while with each person, talking to them, taking pics, signing stuff, trying to get them to come to his concert-- he's great. What a fun opportunity.

So, I think my Music Humanities teacher is in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He cancled Thursday's class because he said Conference weekend was busy for him. And there have been other hints. Like he gave us a sneak preview of MoTab's new CD that is coming out this month way back in January. And I remember Neil saying that his professor was in the choir (I'm taking the same prefessor he did). I'm gonna look for him when I watch Conference.

Did I mention that I get to go to the Conference Center to watch it on Sunday morning?! I'm so stoked! I'm going with DaNae and her brother and his wife, and Neil and Andy. It's going to be awesome!! I'll get to see them all live!! EEEk!

Tuesday night I went with Ashley to pick up Ali from the library at midnight. After that we drove up to the temple to look at it and daydream. It was pretty with these huge snowflakes falling. It was a wonderful midnight treat.

Wednesday I was writing a paper for anthropology and I was on a computer on campus. My iPod was dead, so I decided to use Pandora, the online radio. It's great! This was like the first time I really listened to it for a good amount of time. I made a "The Beatles" station and got a great mix of songs! Seriously I heard a lot of hreat new songs. Pandora is my new favorite thing.

Later, I went over to the guys' apartment with DaNae and Rebecca on Wednesday evening. John and Neil got into one of their "fights." They act like a married couple. John told Neil to make him dinner. Neil offered him rice and beans. John said he didn't like rice and beans. Neil said John complained about how Neil would never feed him, but when he offered him food he didn't want it. John said all Neil made was rice and beans. Neil said beggars can't be choosers. John said fine, he would put it on a chip. I guess Neil didn't hear that part, cuz he warmed up some food and gave it to Andy, being sure to rub it in John's face on the way. John was like "I said I wanted some!" Neil said "No you didn't." And then John grabbed a big jug of salsa out of the fridge and banged it on the counter while saying "I said I would put it on a CHIP!" *bang* Suddenly I felt splatters on my cheek, and my eye was stinging. The side of the salsa jug had split and sent salsa flying. I thought it was just me, but then I saw chunks in Rebecca's hair, and spots on DaNae's face. Then I looked on the wall behind DaNae and it was COVERED with salsa. Then I looked up and the ceiling was covered with salsa too. John had collapsed with laughter and then disappeared into his room laughing hysterically. He came back out and started wiping it off. We were all just laughing out heads off. Andy had been sitting on the couch playing a game on his computer and looked up just in time to see the kitchen covered in salsa. He was so lost. Neil grabbed his camera and started videoing us. It was great. I had salsa on my clothes, which reminded me that I needed to do my laundry, so I headed off to do that.

So, I went to to my laundry and, since I've run out of detergent, I used a sample of Gain I got from Christina Vanfleet. Oh my gosh... it smelled AMAZING! I am sooo buying Gain detergent from now on! <3 style="font-style: italic;"> The Elm Tree. I definitely recommend you check it out! I love his style.

We hung out in the lobby afterward to see if the line to see him would go down, but it was getting late, so we just left. We went back to Ali and Ashley's apartment and watched The Three Amigos. We ate hot pockets and rice and brownies and ice cream, too. We also watched parts of Singing in the Rain. I still haven't seen the whole thing, but I really want to! The parts I've seen are really good. I love musicals. I really like how they film entire dance sequences in almost one cut. That's talent!

Saturday I was totally going to wake up for the first session of Conference, but my phone was on vibrate, so I laid in bed all morning waiting for my alarm to go off, but too lazy to actually grab my phone and see the time. I need a clock on the wall. So I slept in until noon, just barely missing the first session (Utah time-- don't forget). So I got up and ate and facebooked until it was time for the second session. I went to watch it at Andy's with him and DaNae. It was really good. I love Conference!

After that I hung out at DaNae's and we made and ate food. We even had chocolate covered strawberries. We ate them while we envied the boys who got to go to the Priesthood session of Conference. :) I'll read it when the May Ensign comes out, no worries. Then DaNae and I tried to track down a bike she could borrow so that we could go on a bike ride together. We eventually got Steff to lend her one. By then it was getting dark and starting to rain, but we went anyway. We decided to go up by the temple. DaNae was having bad luck with bikes, yet again. This time the wheel was wobbly and kept rubbing against the brakes, so she couldn't really ride it. So we walked up the hill to the temple and took some beautiful pictures. We were wet and cold but it was great. Then we coasted pretty much all the way home down the hill. It was great.

After that we decidedly to randomly make Sprite Lemonade. You just make lemonade like regular, except your use Sprite instead of water. It's REALLY good. Mmm. We are watching High School Musical 3 for the second time in a row right now. And we really need to go to to bed so that we can wake up for Conference...! Let you know how that goes..

Oh and I will post pictures for the past 3 weeks' posts sometime soon... I hope. :)