dust settling...

whew....I think I'm back at college cause my over all stress level is slightly higher and my back is tight and sore already from my backpack.
All and all the past few days have gone pretty smoothly. i'm moved in to what seems like a GREAT apartment with 5 fun girls and a ward that is very social and open to everyone. I've paid tuition (first time without a scholarship-ouch), bought half of my books (2 of which i had already bought and sold back accidentally-argh) and am TOTALLY gonna check out bigwords.com which apparently gets you way cheap books.

I have to say it is sooo weird being here with a car-it totally changes your perception of the city. For example instead of thinking I need to turn down the road with the cracked sidewalk, i now need to think: I need to turn down freedom blvd or whatever. just a lil diff.

I'm excited for my classes to start-esp my humanities classes 8) I'm only a little nervous that I'll have forgotten everything for my continuing music classes (fingers crossed on that one). I've already seen Austin from the MTC days-it's so weird! and I'm sure it'll only get more surreal as I meet more mission buddies.

surreal...yea, that pretty much sums life up for now.

o yea! and as it turns out the trouble was with my hard drive so i get my computer back today or tomorrow and will be back online more regularly which = 8)

homeward bound

Well it's been a whirlwind the past ten days full of castles, museums, galleries, pubs, and TONS of walking. It is SUCH a gorgeous country-seriously, none of my photos do it justice. Sloping green hills dotted with sheep grazing and crags off in the distance-just too cool. Having spent sometime in Scotland I've built a desire to be able to use adjectives and words such as: lovely, wee, cheers and brilliant without sounding like a pansy-i guess you just have to have the accent. Having said all that, I am ready to stop moving myself around every couple of days. The next few days will be flying sleeping and driving with a shower hopefully somewhere in there. If I can get my laptop situation squared away by the time i get out to school i'll be back on here by the weekend.

hey!
just signing off for awhile. We fly out tomorrow for a wonderful time in Scotland and then it's a pretty quick turn around and driving out to Utah + my laptop is dead at the moment (of course it is) so I'll come back when i come back but i will have plenty to write about and post pics 8)

good day to ya!

out of the wood works

so does my hair say: contact me?
haha it's just funny cause ever since I've died my hair every time I go on facebook there's someone writing on my wall or writing a message etc. and I know you're thinking......and? but see, what you don't realize is, I can go weeks without anyone contacting me on facebook first-i always do the reaching out first, I mean, I can't remember the longest i've gone without a new wall post or message but I bet I can top ya.
Anyway, i'm just not used to it and I'm trying not to get used to it cause it can't last-like all great things it will be fleeting and fickle. haha j/k i don't know where this thought pattern is going-i just got done with my gilmore scarfing for the week and it always makes me feel like rambling on and on through witty references that have nothing to do with anything and by the time you realize that they are in fact relevant and witty i've already gone. see?
k....detoxing.
so mom got this ear thing done today-hope her equilibrium (-am or -um?) isn't messed up, but hopefully she'll be good for all of our flights coming up this weekend. Yup....that's right, this weekend i'll be sitting and listening to the best 3 hours of church in my life...ok a lil blasphemous but really, i will have never been so focused on the word (prolly cause it'll be spoken with a scottish accent!)

so ya know the dawn soap commercials and how they're showing how gentle their product is by washing all these animals that had oil spilled on them and there's an otter? yea...i want that otter. Are there laws against that sort of thing?

the blondes can have their "fun" but I don't think I'm goin back!

LANDON PIGG

so I just found this guy-noticed his song from the AT&T commercial-ya know the one where they're sending pics of themselves and he sends her a pic of herself/where she is and he's there? Well it's by Landon Pigg and I've added a bunch of his songs to my playlist-just hit the back arrow a couple times rather than going through all of them. but, yea! i really like the falling in love one (from the commercial) and sailed on. I also have a french song just before these ones that I really liked-i wanted to get the song from that degree commercial with the girl in the black dress and it's this fun french song anywho...same singer just diff song on my playlist.
yup, that's how i find new music now-commercials. It's really amazing how easy it is to find too-just type in: song from At&t commercial and you're there. apparently i'm not the only one.

welp, gonna go get my hair done tomorrow *insert smile here* nothin' better than walking out of the salon and they've styled it great and you're thinking-yea....it'll never look this good again so i'm living it up while i can.

dear dream diary...

The past few nights I've had crazy weird dreams-and if not weird, a ton more than normal. The night before last I think I had a dream every few minutes and I'd keep waking up and I got so confused cause I'd start having realistic dreams like: I dreamt (sp?) that I was asleep in bed, and woke up from the alarm and got out of bed and started saying my morning prayers in russian and then I woke up and didnt' know if that really happened and I went back to sleep or if it was a dream etc.
Then last night I had a dream that combined: Harry Potter 7th book, twilight, and some past drama all in one. Yea....it was weird and I woke up feeling like I only got 5 minutes of sleep. Ya know you look tired when your mom asks: "whoa....are you ok?" when she sees in you the morning.

I would like to go to bed now.

p.s. went to the natural science museum yesterday with the girls = lots of fun. And I'll prolly get my hair done tomorrow for school= exciting.

Sweet mother it's pumpkin pie!

I've decided that in my house-ya know, the day that I have a house- I will not limit certain seasonal foods to holidays. How cruel is that??? Oh great kids ya love it? yea? good! you can only have it once a year. I mean...where's the sense in that? Hence the title. We had pumpkin pie tonight and I can NOT wait to have it tomorrow morning for breakfast!

So yea, in my house at random moments throughout the year, I might throw out some seasonal food like pumpkin pie or...christmas cookies or....man, why are all seasonal foods just glorified junk food? anyway, it'll be good-like lil mini holidays throughout the year.

I am also going to announce the fact that it is TUESDAY night and I still have one new episode of Gilmore Girls to watch-that's right! I didn't scarf it all yesterday! Maybe by about mid 4th season i'll be able to hold off till much later in the week-of course if they gave us 5 episodes every week instead of 3 it would be much easier to spread it out-someone should notify them.

off to watch the season finale of Tori and Dean.