My Job!

This entry was supposed to be about my summer so far, but it took so long to talk about my job, I made it just about that. So here goes:

I work in the BYU Visual Arts Dept as a Student Accountant. In fact, that's where I am right this very second. It's a pretty sweet set up I think. The work is not too hard, except when the members of the faculty don’t do their jobs and turn in their receipts. Then I have to hound them, which is annoying, especially when they ignore me or make lame excuses, the most prevalent one being that they are out of town till the end of time.
My co-workers are chill and make me laugh.

Steve is my trainer guy. He and I are very different; we have different personalities, different tastes in music, and different views on pretty much everything. I am a girl and he is a boy. I have long blonde hair and he has short brown hair. He speaks Russian, I speak Spanish. He is tall and I am short. He likes zombies and I don’t. When we have free time at work (which is often), I am usually on Facebook, and he is usually playing a baseball game (on his computer). I like country and poppy songs and he likes "man rock" (his words). He falls down entire flights of stairs and I fall off of chairs. I love to sing and he hates it when I sing because he either doesn't know the song or doesn't like the song. BUT we are still good friends, I think. We get along well and he always makes me laugh, even when he's not trying to, like when he falls down entire flights of stairs because he was looking at a camera. Here are some things we have in common: We are both cool. That's about it. Back to just Steve, he also teaches me everything I need to know, and reminds me of these things about 10 times a day. He thinks he's the boss of me, but Sharon says he's not, so he's not. He's just in charge of me, as Garrett put it. Which is totally different. Also, he thinks Dahl's muscles are so big, they could rip a car in half. For some reason, I laughed super hard when he said that. I told Dahl, and he said only if I was under the car. :)

Dallas is the other guy who got the job at the same time as I did. He is married, and he has one

baby son. He should bring him in, because I would loooove it! He does more of the accounting than I do I think. I do more of the clerical work. He dresses up every day for work, and I do not, since there is no dress code. He is super professional. He’s really nice, and helps me scan things when I need his help. He’s only been in a bad mood once, and that was the day I got a concussion. So I don’t think he should do it again. He plays the zombie game on his computer a lot. He also goes to visit Layne with me sometimes. More on Layne in a second.

Garrett doesn't work in the same room as the rest of us. He is married too, and has a baby. His

wife is super cute. He shows me pictures of his family sometimes. He also showed us the YouTube videos that are our theme videos or

something. They were funny. I still say "It's not a persona. I dress like this all the time. It’s not a persona this is who I really am I dress like Kermit the Frog!" (Lady Gaga), usually to Dahl. He thinks it's weird. And it is. Garrett likes to eat my cereal, and he’s super nice to me too. He was one of the guys in my interview, and I think he sent me my offer letter. He’s kind of like Dallas's trainer. He just got back from Cancun. How unfair is that?? I share my lotion with him sometimes, too. When I first got here, I thought he was the most normal. I think I have good first impressions. Haha. But they are all awesome!

Then there are 2 secretaries, Rinda and Becca. They sit in the front and they are both nice to me. I talk to Becca a little more, but I like them both.

Sharon and Sonya and Linda are the older people who work here. But they are still young! Sharon is so funny and nice. She grades our sneezes, and gives us candy. She hates it when people lick envelopes. Sonya is in charge of the models, and she gave us cherries last week. Linda seems to not be here as much as the other two, but she’s nice, too. She gave us Indian food yesterday.

*Note: I have seen a trend where I say the food people give me and say they are nice. Although these events do demonstrate their niceness, I would think they were nice even if they didn't feed me anything!*

Layne doesn't work here, but he does work closely with us. When I go to talk to Layne, I need to set out about an hour, because he loooves to talk! I think I would make people stay to talk to me, too, if I worked in his office, because he is all alone, and even if I don't talk to Dallas and Steve all the time, I do enjoy their company, and I would be terribly lonely without them. As a result, he has told me all about his family and all of their issues, and I've learned about both of his marriages, and every kid individually. I don't mind, though. I think he has a lot of interesting things to say, even if I do wish he would speed up his speech. It's kinda funny, because I feel like I reverse roles when I go visit him; usually I am the loud one, and I talk a lot, but when I go see him, all I do is shut up and listen. I think it’s probably good for me.

Some random facts about me in this office:

• I HATE answering the phone. It's annoying. I just think everyone should email me. So I avoid it as much as possible. Garrett said I could.
• I tell Steve and Dallas everything about what I’m doing. I don't know nearly as much about their lives as they know about mine, I'm pretty sure. I think they’re okay with that.
• I do a lot of side projects here. I applied for a Passport (well the online app), made a collage of me and Dahl, wrote a poem for Dahl, wrote missionary letters, wrote Sarah a card, and I Facebook and G-chat very often.
• We don't have a manager because the last one got in trouble. I'm scared to get a manager, because what if they don't like my side projects? Or what if they're lame? I think we're fine without one. I don't even know what they would do. But everyone else knows best, and I'm sure our new manager will be great!

Alright. That's it I think! I kind of love my little job :)!

Concussion!

Soo this past Monday I got a concussion. It was really weird, because I am SUPER healthy. Like, I have never had anything like that happen to me in my life. I guess I have twisted my ankles and fractured my wrist from ice skating on the kitchen floor in my socks, but those were in my childhood; I don't even remember how old I was. A concussion seems so much more serious... Anyway, this blog entry is considerably less happy than most, but it’s still a good story I think, so read on if you don’t mind hearing about me getting emotional and dramatic (sorry, I’m usually way more happy-go-lucky than this, trust me).

Here is the story:

Monday's are never the best days of the week, and I'm not even a Monday-hater. However, this particular Monday I was feeling very stressed. Work was not the happiest place (PS- usually, it is, I really do need to write a whole entry about it), I felt like EVERYONE was in a bad mood, including me. I had just started my period (if you don't wanna hear about it, don't read my blog), and I knew Heather was coming back the next day. That meant I had a lot of cleaning and preparing to do. This preparation was not just physical, it was mental and emotional as well, because I was worried about how she and Dahl would get along. This particular dilemma had had me worried to the point of it being unhealthy, I think. I am seriously one of the happiest most content people on the planet, but I had been crying far too often, especially for me. Although it had never been huge sobbing fits, I had managed to tear up each day for the past week which is just not normal, for anyone who knows me, which you probably do if you’re reading this blog. This is not to say I was completely unhappy, I was happy when I forgot about the issue, but it was always somewhere in the back of my mind. All of this emotion must have exploded on this particular day, because I allowed myself to have a full-on breakdown in Dahl's car. Poor Dahl, he was dealing with me so nicely, just telling me it would be okay and in general being consoling, but I refused to be comforted for some time. Finally, I pulled myself together after we got drinks (Sobe and Mountain Dew) and we separated so we could change clothes, I think (I don't really remember). The plan was we would meet back at my apartment, make corn on the cob, and clean for Heather's arrival. We were also supposed to set up my iPod. However, none of these things actually happened. And this is why:

I remember reading somewhere that sometimes people added sugar to the water they were boiling their corn in so it would be sweeter. I thought it would be very clever of me to add a little bit without Dahl knowing, and then see if he noticed or liked it or whatever. The sugar was on the very top shelf of the pantry, so even if I stood on a chair I still had to reach up high to get it. So, I got out my little chair and I don't remember anything except hitting my elbow really hard. So that made me dizzy and lightheaded which is normal, except for the next thing I knew I was on the ground crying and I heard my roomie, Malorie, coming in. The first emotion I remember was embarrassment; I vaguely recall not wanting her to hear me crying because I hardly even know her, and so I stopped and tried to pick up the sugar and act like I was okay. When she came in and asked if I was alright, I kept saying I was fine and apologizing. She thought I was acting almost like I was drunk (she knew I wasn't because she knows me) but I was just super confused and I kept saying that I wanted to go to sleep (I don't remember saying that). She ended up leaving and going back to her room.

Left alone, I sat down on the couch and began to examine myself. I started to panic as I found more and more injuries on my body: I had a big bruise on my left knee, my right hand was swollen, my left elbow was scraped and bruised, the left side of my jaw hurt, my left ear was bruised as well as my left shoulder, and some of my left side was sore as well. On top of all of that, I was very disoriented and nauseated, and my head was pounding. I suddenly needed Dahl to be there RIGHT THEN, because I knew something was very wrong and I needed someone to take care of me. I called him and asked when he was coming over. He replied that he would be back in 15 minutes (he was actually about to get in his car to get me flowers, cute boy). I didn't think I could wait that long all alone, as my fears were becoming more and more pressing, so I told him what was wrong: "I think I fell..." I dropped off because I had nothing more to say. "What?!" he asked, alarmed. "I don't remember..." I replied, my voice cracking, and my complete state of confusion becoming more apparent by the second. "I'll be right over."

When he got there, I lost all my control once again and started BAWLING, incoherently telling him how I didn't remember what happened and how I was scared and confused and I thought I fell and I don't know what was wrong with me. So then he had me call my dad so we could get insurance information to go to the hospital, and he went to talk to Malorie. She said she had heard me fall when she was in the shower, but didn't think much of it because it could have been anything. She finished her shower and put on clothes and heard me crying about 10 minutes later, so I must have been out for about 10 minutes before she came and found me.

Dahl took me to the Provo Hospital, and I got a CAT SCAN, an EKG, and some blood work done. The doctor said that he couldn’t find anything wrong with me, so they sent me home with a prescription that we picked up on the way. (Weird, the doctor was my old Bishop… small world, huh?) They recommended bed rest, and the information sheet I got said that it was normal to sleep for up to 15 hours a day after a concussion. They said someone should watch me for the next 24 hours.

Dahl tried to find someone to help him give me a blessing, and finally Kevin answered his phone. He anointed and Dahl sealed, and said I would have a speedy recovery. He also blessed me that I would be comforted and my relationships would continue to grow, and he especially blessed me that I would have a good relationship with my sister, which made me happy.

I stayed home sleeping and such for the next 2 days, especially the day immediately following, because my head hurt sooo badly, and all I wanted to do was sleep. I did go with Heather to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid in the dollar theater that night, however. It was super funny, which was great except every time I laughed too hard my head hurt again. Haha. But it was worth it! Yesterday I ventured out to the pool to relax outside which was nice as well. I also visited Greg’s farm with Dahl to double with him and Mel. I met a baby horse-pony mix that was born this morning, and I watched them tackle calves and brand them. If they were bulls, I watched them put a rubber band around their balls so the circulation would get cut off and they would eventually fall off. This makes their meat more tender. Crazy, huh? They did not seem very happy! We also had a BBQ and watched Ace Ventura. We were supposed to go shooting and 4 wheeling but changed plans because of my head.

This is Thursday, the third day after my accident, and I’m at work now as I’m writing this. It's getting a lot better! My head still hurts pretty consistently, but it’s less of a pounding pain which is good. Hopefully it goes away completely soon J

Anyway, I’m really grateful everything worked out the way it did, and that I am safe and healthy!

PS- The beginning of this post may seem slightly irrelevant, but I think it is very relevant because I feel like my emotional state had something to do with the whole thing. If I wasn't so emotionally drained, I wouldn't have been so physically exhausted, and I might have been more able to stay conscious. I mean, I've hit my elbow and gotten dizzy many times, but I've never blacked out. I was never standing on a chair either... but the point is, I think all of these things played a part in the whole accident.

Back to School!

The title expresses much more enthusiasm than I actually have inside of me about being back. However, where we left off, something very exciting was about to happen-- in the BYU- Utah football game! We were in the 6th row in the end zone, and we got to rush the field when we won in overtime! It was the most intense game of my life. I literally felt sick for the entire 4th quarter.

After the game, Heather, Christine, and I went to the Loft. There, we met Jaren and Jaten. Jaren came up to us and said, "Hey, so my friend just got back from his mission 3 weeks ago and he hasn't been kissed since he got back. So I want one of you girls to kiss him tonight." Heather and Christine immediately said they would not, and when he turned to me, they were like "Kelly it'll be so fun, you should do it!!" So after much hesitation, I said okay. It is, after all, on my bucket list to kiss a stranger. However, Jaten, the recent rm, was far too nervous, which was fine with me, so he ended up just getting my number. More on that later.

That night Jared invited us to come over again, I don't remember why, but we ended up staying forever late, so I was majorly sleep deprived during church.

Sunday we had a singing Sacrament meeting. It was kinda cool I don't think I've ever done that before. Then, after we had combined RS and EQ, Nathaniel came up to me and said "Kelly I choose you." "What?" "I pick you!" "For what?" "To talk about the talent show with me!" "Oh, like announce it at Ward Prayer?" "No, to emcee it with me!"

So I accepted, even though I definitely am inexperienced in that field, and it probably showed. Anyway, that night we discovered that we still didn't know what we as the RS pres were doing in the talent show, so we decided to just do the Mean Girls Dance to Jingle Bell Rock, except we edited it a little to make it more appropriate. It turned out way cute, though.

Then we had a buncha people over to watch Get Smart and 17 again. It was way fun :)

Monday reality struck, so I tried to study, but I really sucked at it because I didn't get any sleep Sunday night either (I was doing my homework due Monday) so I mostly just drove Scott crazy being weird. That night we made gingerbread houses for FHE, which were cute. I mostly just ate. Then Nathaniel and his friend Greg took me and Kal to Denny's to plan MC-ing. We decided to do two truths and a lie for most of the acts, so that turned out entertaining.

Tuesday and Wednesday I mostly just studied. Wednesday Jared took me on another date, this time to Olive Garden, so I was happily fed. It was a fun date :) I planned on studying the whole rest of the night, but it didn't really work out, because a million people came over to visit me. They all wanted to talk and hang out and put me in a movie (which I agreed to) and serenade me and tease me and I wanted to die by the end of it, because I just wanted everyone to leave.

So Thursday I took my test (it took 4 freaking hours), went to Mcomm, practiced ASL, and ran home to change and have Tasha do my hair (she did a great job btw :) ) and rushed to the talent show. It was a great success, we have such a talented ward. It was so fun!

Then, Jacob said we should all go to Denny's so I texted everyone in the ward whose numbers I had and told them to come. I was surprised at the awesome turnout, we had at least 20 people maybe more come, and I texted 21 people. So that was really fun. Then we all went and watched the Grinch at Kellen's.

Friday I did an accounting project, which was really easy actually. Then I got a call from Jaten, who asked what I was doing tonight. I said Freeze Fest of course! And so we met up with him and Jaren and 2 of their buddies. We hung out with them for awhile and danced and ate cookies and took pictures with COSMO who tickled me during the pictures which was funny. Then the boys had to leave because one of their friends had an emergency or something so we were just dancing and all of a sudden these two guys came up and were like hey, we don't know how to dance can you teach us? So we did... kinda. And one of them gave me flowers he found on the ground. They got hot chocolate with us, and we learned we all live in Raintree so they got our numbers too :) Then Heather and I went skating. In the middle, I felt someone grab my hand, and I assumed it was just one of my friends who were there, but it was COSMO! I'm pretty much in love with him! He also took a picture holding me and Heather and spun us, which was fun.

Then we went home and got a bunch of people to watch Elf with us. Most of them I didn't know, but it turned out fun, too. And today I just did part of the Isys project due soon.

Anyway, it was a very busy week, but still fun :)

Thanksgiving Break!

So, this week I only had to go to school on Monday, and that was IT. You'd think that I would be so productive with nothing to do all week, but I hardly touched my homework... oops. However, I am almost done with my practice test for Accounting if that counts for anything.

Sunday I went to church and Heather came too! I also had tithing settlement. I just wanna say that I have the best Bishop in the whole world. At the end of the interview, he asked if we could end with a word of prayer, and he prayed for everything that could possibly be an issue in my life. It was honestly one of the nicest things anyone has done for me.

That night I went to a crepes party at Nate's house. They always end up drawing quite a crowd and bringing people I know randomly together, so it turned out fun.

Unrelated, but Monday my back hurt SO bad. I didn't know why, but I did manage to get about half of my FHE brothers to try to rub it out, so I considered it a successful evening. Haha. We finger painted cards and brought them to the nursing home. Then me and the RS presidency had a meeting and went to Starbucks for hot chocolate/ caramel apple cider, and drove around. It was so fun, I love those girls to death. Then we went over the Chris and Brent's apartment to watch a movie, which was fun until I was thrown to the floor and kicked randomly. Thank you Brent :)

Tuesday I went to the BYU basketball game where we owned 107-51. Then I went to Inn-and-Out for the first time in my life. I thought it was good, but nothing could really live up to the hype. Then I went back to my apartment to find my Tashi, Tasha, Rico, Katelyn, Kali, Kellen, and Kayla all eating French toast and bacon and all sorts of yummy breakfast foods around the table. Apparently they had an impromptu party. Then we went to visit Rico's crew at the hot tub, and listened to a girl play the piano in the clubhouse while Tasha waited her turn. Then Tashi realized that some of her friends were in the hot tub, so we went to visit them. They invited us back to their house to watch So you think you can dance! So we did, and then we went to this party at someone's house, except it was pretty much over once we go there, so me, Tasha, and Kaleigh went hot tubbing, where we were asked really awkward questions to pass the time. But it was fun.

Side note: that night, before Kaleigh came out with us, she had kind of a funny experience. She got a text from a guy named Kelly in the ward, who was her awkward home teacher. She thought it was me. So the conversation went like this:

"Hey what are you doing tonight?"

"Oh hey girl! Nothing I just got off work!"

"This is Kelly Johnson.*name changed* Wanna watch a movie??" (In her head this didn't register, and she still thought it was me)

"Yeah we can watch a movie I'll be home in five minutes come over!"

So he came over and she was sitting on her laptop. She told Tasha and Tashi that I was coming over, so they were all expecting a girls movie night. He came and sat on the couch, and she realized, as she surfed facebook, that my name was really Kelly Connor. So then she was like "Who the crap is Kelly Johnson?!?!?!"

"... That's me!" he said. So that was embarrassing for both parties I'm sure, but he still stayed to watch a movie, and we came in the middle to interrupt before going to the hot tub.

I should also mention that the reason my name popped up so quickly was because my darling FHE brother, Kellen, changed my status to engaged on Facebook. That lead to an interesting evening of phone calls and texts and comments all over my life.

Wednesday I slept mostly because I got home at 5 from hot tubbing and talking to the girls for an hour or so. Then I packed and Heather and I drove with Tashi to Colorado. It was about a 3 1/2 hour drive, and we were supposed to start at 5, but then everything bad that could have happened did happen. First, we went to pick up Myles, her brother in law. Then, we went to get her brother, Scott, who we were caravaning with. He had locked his keys in the car, so Heather and I called AAA and they came to get them out. In the meantime, we sweet-talked the guy in the clubhouse so he let us girls stay in there until the boys came and he let us into Scott's apartment (those keys were locked in the car too). Then we decided that it was late enough that we could caravan with her other brother and his wife and 2 daughters, who were 1 and 2, and 15 months apart just like me and Heather. They were still rushing around packing things, and so we finally got out the door at 7:30, and out of the gas station at 8, because they forgot about everything at their house as it turns out, so we just waited. on the car ride, we talked about what any group of girls talks about when they get together: boys. It was so fun.

We finally arrived around midnight. We all three squeezed on an air mattress, and then woke up to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Then we ate dinner, napped, and went to the park. We played Catchphrase until it was time to go. Their family was so sweet and hospitable the whole time, I honestly loved it. I'm so glad Tashi offered to have us come. On the way back we talked more, and ended up getting home about a half hour early thanks to Tashi's speedometer not working :)

That night, Heather was sleeping over, but Jared started talking to me on Facebook and said Tashi was over and would I like to watch So you think you can dance? And I did, so I did.

Then Friday, this random guy who friended me on Facebook who I assumed I must know because we had five friends in common but ended up not knowing (apparently I was in a snowboarding ad for Sundance and he wanted someone to go with) invited me to go to the basketball game with him. I didn't wanna go alone, so I found out Mike was going, and invited Tasha and Jared, so we all went, and he ended up having to babysit his brother's kids anyway, so all the planning was unnecessary. We won, by the way, even though for a little bit I was worried. Then Natasha, Jared, and I went to get free Magleby's because it's free if the Cougs score 80 or higher, and visited Winnie at work. She and Christine were there, and they were closed, but they still let us in and gave us random free food which was nice. Then we went back to Jared's apartment, and Duran was there. He suggested o go watch Twilight, and so we did. It was soo over the top mushy I couldn't believe it. Jared hated it, he was sitting next to me and he couldn't watch half the time. Jacob was looking mighty fine though, I must say. He was for sure the highlight of the movie.

And now, I'm blogging and getting ready to go to the BYU vs. Utah game!!! I'm so excited and worried. Hopefully we'll win! Go Cougs!!

Birthdays and Business and Other Fun Stuff

Sooo this week, I began my duties for being in charge of birthdays in relief society. On Saturday night, I still hadn't gotten anything for it, and I started talking to Troy on Facebook. Troy is one of the pest control boys who we had over for dinner every Sunday this summer. He wasn't doing anything, so I told him he should take me to Walmart. He said he would if I bought him a Big Mac, which I agreed to. So, we happily trooped to Walmart, where I bought nail polish, lip gloss, and candy, as well as the deodorant he said smelled the best. Then, I bought him a Big Mac with his buy one get one free coupon, so I got one too! He took me back to his apt where he, his buddy Brad, and I watched 2Fast2Furious or whatever it's called. I didn't really follow a lot of it. But it was fine. Then I got home at like 3:30, and got up for Ward Council at 8, so that was lovely.

On Monday, we had a whole ward FHE where we learned our ward emergency plan, and practiced walking to the field. We also learned CPR and the Heimlich and stuff about bleeding.

Tuesday it was Tamara's birthday. Katelyn was such a doll and got her friend Joe? to use his brother in law's limo to take us to get ice cream at Coldstone. It was pretty sweet.

Wednesday I finally got an email letting me know I was accepted into the Business program!! I am so excited to have finally made a decision :)

Thursday I got to hold a FALCON! My Business Writing teacher is really into falcons, and he brought one in for us to see! I was so exicted, I was the only one who held it. I think everyone else was scared? I dunno...

That night I went on one of those sign up dates. Jared Bulloc was my date, and we just got ice cream at the Creamery on 9th. There were a bunch of Utah people there who decided to sing their fight song which was annoying, but the date was good. He was a total gentleman and whenever I would be about to leave the car he would stop me and be like would you mind if I went around and got it for you? And I didn't mind at all. I love boys who open doors for me, it's my favorite thing ever. Anyway it was a fun date :)

Then on Friday I went to lunch with Jeff, one of the DC interns. We went to this Italian place called Gloria's, which was really good. It was a fun date too!

Friday night I went hot tubbing with some of Katelyn's friends, and then we played this game called "Body! Body! Body!" It's like a more active version of Mafia. We played in this sweet abandoned Biomedical building/ club/ apartment (It used to be all three), that one girl had the keys to. We weren't allowed to touch any of the doors or alarms would sound. It wasn't very well lighted, except a little in the bathrooms, and there were boards and random things strewn all over the floors. It was incredibly dusty. And it was the perfect place for this game. What you do is draw, and you're either a killer or citizen. Then you walk around and any of the killers can kill you by slitting your throat with their hands (not really of course). Then they can move you or whatever, and go kill other people. Play continues until someone who finds a body (it could be a killer) calls "Body! Body! Body!" Then everyone comes and votes on who the killer is. If they vote right, the killer is out, if they vote wrong, the person just keeps playing and is immune from accusation. No killers can be killed, so that's how they usually find each other-- by trying to kill each other. It was soo fun! I was a citizen and a murderer (we played 2 rounds), and both roles are quite exciting. It's such a creepy place that it's scary even if you're a killer.

Today I went to the football game and we won! It was against the Air Force so I wasn't surprised. It was freezing though, so we left early. Today is Katelyn's birthday, but I had already promised my roomies from Freshman year we would do something, so Kali and I are just gonna go to dinner and then probably bring them back to our apartment for games with Katelyn.

Also, Kelsey got married today! I hope she had a wonderful wedding and has an even better marriage :)

Well, I think that's it! I'm about to go out to dinner with my freshman year roomies so I should go!

Love,

Me

You know how when you think the semester will get easier, and then it doesn't?

That's exactly what's happening in my life. Every single time I decide that it'll all be smooth sailing after _____, I am completely incorrect. Which is why I am sooo glad that in a month it'll all be over. This week was pretty stressful until Wednesday, and then it slowed down considerably. I wish that the work load would just even out, because when I do have time to relax I feel like I'm spending the whole time just trying to recover.

On Monday and Wednesday I did Bikini Body workout, Monday with Kellen, Chris, and Weston, but they quit pretty early, and Wednesday with just Kellen and Griffin, who stuck it out. It was fun. I think boys doing bikini body is pretty ridiculously entertaining.

So this week I went on two dates. One was Thursday night with a guy who used to teach me social dance. So he's been asking me out for awhile now, and I've never been able to... I mean I probably could have if I really wanted to but anyway, I saw him randomly on Monday and that night he texted me (yes, texted, I know it's against the rules) and said something to the effect of "You took me off- guard today, you looked beautiful, I'd ask you out for the weekend but I have to work so how about sometimes this week?"

So I went to my roomies and explained the situation and they said I should just go, this way it would be small instead of a weekend date, which would be big. So I said okay, and he said how about a late night dessert? And I said ok sounds good... and then he said okay, 8? And I was like oh... when you said late night, I thought it'd be later... so he said 10? and I said oh it doesn't matter I was just surprised. But then I realized The Office was on at 8, so I made sure that it was at 10. Because I don't miss the office for textually- scheduled dates. No sir.

So for some reason I really didn't wanna go when the time came, you know how sometimes you just feel like hurling when sitting at home on the couch is not an option anymore? But, I sucked it up and went, and it actually was fine. We went to Sammy's which is so cute, so that was fun.

Then, on Friday I went on a date with Jason. He was an intern in DC so we sometimes went to his ward. I randomly ran into him on Monday as well, and pretty much 10 seconds after I texted my dance teacher back about the date on Thursday, Jason called me. He asked me how accounting was going and if I would go out with him on Friday. We went to this murder mystery thing at the Spring Haven Lodge, which, by the way, is sooo cool! It's a beautiful cabin.

Basically what happened was we went there and they gave us name tags and drinks and we mingled with the cast. The story goes that this old man who owned the house changed his will a week before, and just barely died. He invited his entire extended family to come to the reading of his will, and so we just talked to the cast about the strange circumstances of his death, who they think should get the estate, and so on. Then they read the will, and the man who got all the money was a complete jerk who was engaged to a maid and dating the daughter of the high society family who expected to receive the large inheritance. Then he was mysteriously killed, the man who owned the estate in the first place came back and was like it was all pretend, I didn't die, but you killed someone! And then we listened to some of the characters being interrogated, and then met as groups to decide who done it. It was pretty entertaining, the acting was very good, and the whole atmosphere was just fun and mysterious. Jason got sooo into it, and kept noticing new clues and stuff, and I contributed my thoughts too, although I was not as interested in playing detective as I was in the food and socializing. Anyway, it was a cool date, I'd recommend it to anyone.

That day, something else really random happened. I was sitting there in the Cougareat with Carla after Heather and Lisa and Winnie had left me after the former two and I had practiced ASL for an hour. She asked what I was doing, and I said the murder mystery, and here, I'll show you a flyer hold on I'll run and get one. When I was walking back, I saw this guy standing at the table talking to her. I was like, "Oh he's cute, I wonder who he is?" and then when I sat back down he said, "Oh, you're back! I know you! Do you know me?" I didn't. Well, at least I didn't think I did. "Maybe...?" So we started going through where we were from, EFYs, places we've visited, where we lived, on down the line, and nothing came up. We didn't even have any friends in common on Facebook. His cute sister was there, and she made it more relaxed by teasing him about how he never knew me and how he just wanted to get my number, which of course, had crossed my mind. He was adamant that we had met before, and my name clicked with my face and he knewwww he had hung out with me before. Apparently he just moved here a few months though, and he never went here, and he is already graduated from an AZ school and applying to medical school. He served his mission in Dominican Republic, he's from AZ, and he might have passed through MD, but he doesn't know. So we're pretty lost. He got my number though, and I friended him on Facebook, so I guess we will see.

Anyway, I guess I should do my homework.

Love, me :)

Past 2 weeks

So Saturday we took Meg to the airport-- me, Heather, Jordan Lee, and Meg. It was a disaster. We first tried to park at U of U because Meg wanted to see it. They were having a home game that day, so parking was impossible. Jordan and I drove around while Heather and Meg tried to explore. We got tired of driving around, so we called them to try to pick them up, but it turned into a 45 minute search because none of us had any idea where anything is. Then, we went to eat, and figured we didn't have time for the mall, so we went to spoon me instead, and took some pictures. Then we went to the airport. And then Meg thought she lost her ticket, but found it, and then after we dropped her off, Jordan got a ticket because she had an expired registration and was speeding. the cop let her off for the speeding though. I felt so bad for everyone.

The whole next week was filled with projects and tests and random things that my professors all wanted to throw at me at once. I was a very stressed girl. The Relief Society presidency went on that date with the EQ presidency. It was fun... only me and Shannon actually went because Lori had to work late and Tashi flew to Colorado because her Grandpa died. Shannon was on time, and I was about an hour late, so she spent quite a great deal of time with them alone... poor girl. We went hot tubbing and ate pizza and drank soda. Apparently they want to do it again... probably to see the other girls in their swim suits, and they don't seem too excited about it so I don't know.

Earlier that day, I missed the bus, and I started talking to this guy who told me how to get on the next bus, a different one, and which stop I should get off at, and where to walk. For anyone reading who doesn't know me, I know essentially nothing about directions. I've been going to school here for 3 years, and I still have no idea how to get around Provo, not even from my apartment to BYU. Then I was texting Lori and saying I would be late for the date, and I said in the text that I was walking part of it and "I dunno, some guy's explaining it to me..." and suddenly behind me this guy's voice said "Some guy's explaining what?" and it was Brian Delmage, one of my friends from MD! He said he would walk me home, because he lives right across the street at Wyview. It made me happy to see such a nice little miracle, because without him I would have wandered around forever.

That night Caitlin came into town. I was pretty lame for her visit, because I kept studying for Accounting 210, which was SO HARD btw, I got a 77.5%, which made me quite happy actually. I got a 98% on my marriage and family test, AND Andrew's, my ASL professor's car got broken into, so they stole his bag with the tests, and we all get 100%s!!!!!!! That made me so happy :)

On Friday night, we went to the stake Halloween party, which was fun, and then to the Alpine village dance party. It was fun, too, we saw Adam, one of the pest control boys, and he introduced us to his friend, Mark, who got Heather's number. The Saturday night we went to this big block party at 50 East, it was fun, it turned into this big moshing thing, but it's kind of entertaining to be all falling into each other, I think. Then, Mark texted Heather and told her to come over and watch a movie, and so we went and watched this scariest movie about this family who moves into this house and the previous owners we all killed by the father of the family because the voices told him to do it.... it was sooooo scary! We also held a boa constrictor which was cool. the boys were more scared than we were I think. But we have Hammer in our blood so we like snakes. Thanks mom!

This week I just studied, and took tests, and then I just relaxed. Anyway, we're going to the temple tomorrow morning (I'm so excitedd!!!!) so i should get to bed. Night!