Hello! School has ended and summer has begun! Bring it on!!! I made it through finals alive. My final grades are slightly disappointing. I wanted good grades so well and worked so hard this semester, but I fell just short. I got one A, two B+'s, one B, and one C. But I can't complain; I know I got the grades I deserved. I started out the semester so strong, spending all day every day at the library. Then I got my internship, which claimed my afternoons so I had to start waking up early to study before classes and stay late after work to study. Then I got a boyfriend, which claimed my evenings. Therefore, my plan to spend all day everyday doing homework this semester, went down the drain. This semester has just about killed me. Trying to spread myself so thing and balance so many more aspects of life than I ever have before. Seriously it's been so the last couple weeks of school, I could barely drag myself out of bed, and when I would get to the library I would fall asleep while studying. It was just bad b/c my self discipline was completely beaten out of me.
But now I am looking ahead to summer and the fun that it will hold. I have a job that will hopefully be enjoyable. I am planning on several trips to Bear Lake, several camping trips, a Real Salt Lake game, lots of trips to Star Valley, and lots and lots of fun. I am going to make this summer the best ever. I'm going to make every day count. It's time for me to start enjoying life again instead of just trudging through it. Watch out world, here I come!!!
Smiling All Day
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
I see the light at the end of the tunnel...
The end of the semester is so close, I can feel it...literally. My body is screaming for me to give up and just get some decent rest. It's a good thing that the end is near b/c I really don't think I could keep this up much longer. This week has been education suicide. I've been working on 3 group projects lately, and they were all due this week. I had a formal presentation on Disney Co. and Hong Kong on Wednesday, and I think that one went really well. I actually enjoyed working with the kids in that group. They were a fun, but hard-working group. Then I had another presentation in my small-group communication class. That presentation went fairly well, but I am ready to be done with that group. There is one girl in the group who is absolutely adorable, and I love. But there was also one boy who we all wanted to strangle. He fought tooth and tail on every little detail on the project, even when every other member of the group agreed that we felt differently about the matter. So we spent a lot of time arguing aimlessly about petty details. I also had two tests this week. It has definitely been a rough week. And it's definitely not helping that I'm running on an average of 6-6.5 hours of sleep per night.
On a different note, remember that last post that I made with the story of the girl and the boy? Well I'm going to add to that story. Well after the girl and the boy started liking each other and spending time together, they started really dating. Now the girl has a boyfriend. This is a new adventure for her, and so far she says that she has really enjoyed it. It took a while for her to get used to, but now she is very happy with the arrangement. The boy is very nice and courteous to her. He always acts like a perfect gentleman. They still get along really well, and things are great.
Now another story time...The other day I came home from hanging out with my friend Jeff, and my roommates started having a Disney sing-along. It was great. Then Sophie tried to steal my phone to txt Jeff. She went prancing through the apartment like a horse, and I went chasing after her to get my phone back. She went into my closet so I had her cornered. Then we started watching youtube videos of Disney clips put to sappy love songs. After an hour or so of that, we started making a list, ranking all of the attractive animated men. We ranked them from 1-20. Prince Eric was #1 of course. Other guys on the list were John Smith, Cornelius (Thumbelina), Dimitri, Prince Phillip. And of course, just to seal the deal, I had to publish it on facebook to make it official. It was the funniest, most random night ever. Janalie and Sophie were so hyper and goofy, it was hilarious.
On a different note, remember that last post that I made with the story of the girl and the boy? Well I'm going to add to that story. Well after the girl and the boy started liking each other and spending time together, they started really dating. Now the girl has a boyfriend. This is a new adventure for her, and so far she says that she has really enjoyed it. It took a while for her to get used to, but now she is very happy with the arrangement. The boy is very nice and courteous to her. He always acts like a perfect gentleman. They still get along really well, and things are great.
Now another story time...The other day I came home from hanging out with my friend Jeff, and my roommates started having a Disney sing-along. It was great. Then Sophie tried to steal my phone to txt Jeff. She went prancing through the apartment like a horse, and I went chasing after her to get my phone back. She went into my closet so I had her cornered. Then we started watching youtube videos of Disney clips put to sappy love songs. After an hour or so of that, we started making a list, ranking all of the attractive animated men. We ranked them from 1-20. Prince Eric was #1 of course. Other guys on the list were John Smith, Cornelius (Thumbelina), Dimitri, Prince Phillip. And of course, just to seal the deal, I had to publish it on facebook to make it official. It was the funniest, most random night ever. Janalie and Sophie were so hyper and goofy, it was hilarious.
Friday, April 6, 2012
I figure my blog is pretty secure, and I don't know if anyone reads it anyway. So I am going to tell a story.
Once upon a time there was a girl, and she went to institute where she met a boy. They hit it off pretty quickly. The next week, they happened to run into each other on their way home from school. The boy offered her a ride home, and then he did the same thing almost every other day that week. During their daily walks to his car, they got to know each other and each decided that they would like to spend some time getting to know the other. Then the girl's sister called and offered her tickets to a big event happening in the near by city. So the girl invited the boy to go with her. It turned into a date, (and a rather good date at that). They talked a lot in the car and realized that they had a whole lot in common. In the next few days, they communicated a lot, and saw each other every day. One day they went to get frozen yogurt for the boy's birthday. Another day they played Frisbee for a little while. One day he tricked her by telling her that he knew one of her most embarrassing stories (her friend had told him the story). And one day they decorated Easter eggs with all of the girl's friends. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. :)
Once upon a time there was a girl, and she went to institute where she met a boy. They hit it off pretty quickly. The next week, they happened to run into each other on their way home from school. The boy offered her a ride home, and then he did the same thing almost every other day that week. During their daily walks to his car, they got to know each other and each decided that they would like to spend some time getting to know the other. Then the girl's sister called and offered her tickets to a big event happening in the near by city. So the girl invited the boy to go with her. It turned into a date, (and a rather good date at that). They talked a lot in the car and realized that they had a whole lot in common. In the next few days, they communicated a lot, and saw each other every day. One day they went to get frozen yogurt for the boy's birthday. Another day they played Frisbee for a little while. One day he tricked her by telling her that he knew one of her most embarrassing stories (her friend had told him the story). And one day they decorated Easter eggs with all of the girl's friends. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. :)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Festival of Colors
Once upon a time I went to Festival of Colors, and it was awesome! I came home looking a little like this:
I went down with a car load of my friends (Jade, Janalie, and two of their friends), and we met up with another car load of friends (Shannon, Chrissy, Dallin, and Ali). We parked a couple miles away and had to walk to the temple. On the way there we passed all the people who were leaving the last color throwing. And was we walked past them, they all threw their chalk at me, some even dumped it in my hair. I was already filthy dirty before I even got there. The temple was so cool. I really couldn't believe that there was something like that in Happy Valley. It was huge, and Hindu-looking. And there were seriously a freaking ton of people there. I could not even believe how huge of a party it was.
We got there, and got our chalk first thing. I was going to buy 5 bags, but instead each of us only bought 1 bag, and I was glad. I don't think I would've used much more than the 1 bag. We ran around for 2 hours throwing chalk at each other and taking picture. It was so funny that in that situation, it was acceptable for a complete stranger to walk up and throw a handful of chalk in your face.
The actual color throwing was pretty awesome too. We all gathered in this big outside auditorium thing like sardines. They told the story of why they do the Festival of Colors, and a story about a witch who was burned to death. They burned a dummy of a witch on the stage, and then we all threw our colors up in the air. I closed my eyes and threw mine. When I opened my eyes back up, all of the colors had mixed together and there was just this super thick cloud of brown smoke, and no one could breathe. But it was so totally awesome.
I loved the whole thing. My friends weren't sure if they'd go back again. But I totally would. I thought it was awesome and would definitely like to go back again next year. It was quite the experience. That's for dang sure.
I went down with a car load of my friends (Jade, Janalie, and two of their friends), and we met up with another car load of friends (Shannon, Chrissy, Dallin, and Ali). We parked a couple miles away and had to walk to the temple. On the way there we passed all the people who were leaving the last color throwing. And was we walked past them, they all threw their chalk at me, some even dumped it in my hair. I was already filthy dirty before I even got there. The temple was so cool. I really couldn't believe that there was something like that in Happy Valley. It was huge, and Hindu-looking. And there were seriously a freaking ton of people there. I could not even believe how huge of a party it was.
We got there, and got our chalk first thing. I was going to buy 5 bags, but instead each of us only bought 1 bag, and I was glad. I don't think I would've used much more than the 1 bag. We ran around for 2 hours throwing chalk at each other and taking picture. It was so funny that in that situation, it was acceptable for a complete stranger to walk up and throw a handful of chalk in your face.
The actual color throwing was pretty awesome too. We all gathered in this big outside auditorium thing like sardines. They told the story of why they do the Festival of Colors, and a story about a witch who was burned to death. They burned a dummy of a witch on the stage, and then we all threw our colors up in the air. I closed my eyes and threw mine. When I opened my eyes back up, all of the colors had mixed together and there was just this super thick cloud of brown smoke, and no one could breathe. But it was so totally awesome.
I loved the whole thing. My friends weren't sure if they'd go back again. But I totally would. I thought it was awesome and would definitely like to go back again next year. It was quite the experience. That's for dang sure.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Adventures of a college bum
Sorry I haven't posted in so long. I've tried to start a few times but haven't ever had time to finish a post. So I'm going to tell you some of the things I've been up to this semester.
First post that I never finished was about a boy in my ward. This boy moved in in January and every single girl in my ward (including myself) is madly in love with him. He's amazing in every way imaginable. Anyway so one day out of no where my little sister sends me a txt saying that I should marry him. I about died. I asked her if I'd told her about him before & she said no. She had just been creeping on Facebook. Which makes it even better. Proves the fact that he is amazing. I mean who else can make people fall in love them them just over Facebook?
Next post I never finished...janalie trying to flood our kitchen. Ok now this really was the funniest thing of my whole life. Tyler owed Rachel a diet coke and he wanted to bring it over to surprise her but she was over at Katelyn's apt. So we were put in charge of getting her home and we only had so much time b/c Tyler needed to be somewhere. So we went over to Kate's and casually chatted but we could tell Rachel was really annoyed so we left. But before we went I asked when she was going to come home b/c I needed help with accounting homework. She was grumpy and said she would be awhile. So we came up with the idea to tell her that the dishwasher was overflowing. She wouldn't come when janalie txtd her so I called her and begged her to come home to help us b/c we couldn't get it to stop. The best part was that I stead of just telling her it was flooding, janalie decided we needed to make it believable.so she dumped a ton of water on the floor and Tyler dumped a bunch of dawn soap in the dishwasher to make bubbles. So when Rachel got home janalie was on the floor mopping up the water and absolutely of laughter. It was hilarious. It was the most random thing ever.
Next great thing was a mustache party at my neighbor's apt. It was their birthday so for the party they had a bunch of Mexican food and piñatas and everyone had to have a mustache. If you came without a mustache, they painted one on you. After we hung out there for a while we went and hung the piñatas off the balcony and everyone took turns hitting it. Then we watched nacho libre. I don't think I've seen the whole thing before so I was laughing so hard. When everyone else was just chuckling I was busting a gut. It was real Quite funny.
then a couple weeks ago jade and I watched the rescuers down under with Spencer. That was so fun. I love that movie and I definitely got in touch with my inner child. I laughed so hard at the movie mostly Joanna. Then the other day Sophie and I watched an American tale and it made me want to watch all of the movies from my childhood. So that's what I'm doing this week on spring break, watching all the movies from my childhood.
I still love my internship. There are always so many Fun people around. Right now I'm working on meeting with all of the program directors to get an overview of their programs. It's good but slightly difficult b/c with 20 some directors it's hard to track them all down to meet with each of them I'm making some new friends there though. There's a kid named Trent who works in The office next door and we have a class together. He comes over to the service center a lot and we are getting to be good buddies. He's a funny kid. I like him.
On a different note, I've been getting lots of letters lately. There's my usual from Ryan and then I've got a couple from tanner and I got one from Harry's companion that I still need to translate and reply to. I also got a letter from Sophia's friend Elder Rousseau and a letter from Brandon Taylor just before I came home for spring break. Oh, also I didn't get a letter from saylor but if you get a chance go read his latest post on his blog. It's amazing. I wish all missionaries had that type of attitude. But anyway, so I have a lot of letters to write this week. Yay for letters. I love them.
And in case anyone really cares, there are no real or potential love interests on my life at the moment. I've been way too busy to think about boys this semester.
First post that I never finished was about a boy in my ward. This boy moved in in January and every single girl in my ward (including myself) is madly in love with him. He's amazing in every way imaginable. Anyway so one day out of no where my little sister sends me a txt saying that I should marry him. I about died. I asked her if I'd told her about him before & she said no. She had just been creeping on Facebook. Which makes it even better. Proves the fact that he is amazing. I mean who else can make people fall in love them them just over Facebook?
Next post I never finished...janalie trying to flood our kitchen. Ok now this really was the funniest thing of my whole life. Tyler owed Rachel a diet coke and he wanted to bring it over to surprise her but she was over at Katelyn's apt. So we were put in charge of getting her home and we only had so much time b/c Tyler needed to be somewhere. So we went over to Kate's and casually chatted but we could tell Rachel was really annoyed so we left. But before we went I asked when she was going to come home b/c I needed help with accounting homework. She was grumpy and said she would be awhile. So we came up with the idea to tell her that the dishwasher was overflowing. She wouldn't come when janalie txtd her so I called her and begged her to come home to help us b/c we couldn't get it to stop. The best part was that I stead of just telling her it was flooding, janalie decided we needed to make it believable.so she dumped a ton of water on the floor and Tyler dumped a bunch of dawn soap in the dishwasher to make bubbles. So when Rachel got home janalie was on the floor mopping up the water and absolutely of laughter. It was hilarious. It was the most random thing ever.
Next great thing was a mustache party at my neighbor's apt. It was their birthday so for the party they had a bunch of Mexican food and piñatas and everyone had to have a mustache. If you came without a mustache, they painted one on you. After we hung out there for a while we went and hung the piñatas off the balcony and everyone took turns hitting it. Then we watched nacho libre. I don't think I've seen the whole thing before so I was laughing so hard. When everyone else was just chuckling I was busting a gut. It was real Quite funny.
then a couple weeks ago jade and I watched the rescuers down under with Spencer. That was so fun. I love that movie and I definitely got in touch with my inner child. I laughed so hard at the movie mostly Joanna. Then the other day Sophie and I watched an American tale and it made me want to watch all of the movies from my childhood. So that's what I'm doing this week on spring break, watching all the movies from my childhood.
I still love my internship. There are always so many Fun people around. Right now I'm working on meeting with all of the program directors to get an overview of their programs. It's good but slightly difficult b/c with 20 some directors it's hard to track them all down to meet with each of them I'm making some new friends there though. There's a kid named Trent who works in The office next door and we have a class together. He comes over to the service center a lot and we are getting to be good buddies. He's a funny kid. I like him.
On a different note, I've been getting lots of letters lately. There's my usual from Ryan and then I've got a couple from tanner and I got one from Harry's companion that I still need to translate and reply to. I also got a letter from Sophia's friend Elder Rousseau and a letter from Brandon Taylor just before I came home for spring break. Oh, also I didn't get a letter from saylor but if you get a chance go read his latest post on his blog. It's amazing. I wish all missionaries had that type of attitude. But anyway, so I have a lot of letters to write this week. Yay for letters. I love them.
And in case anyone really cares, there are no real or potential love interests on my life at the moment. I've been way too busy to think about boys this semester.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
I love the mountains!!!
I went snowmobiling this weekend. It was utterly fantastic! I took some friends from school with me, and it was so fun.
There was Mindy, Derrick, Tony, Kendra, and Josh. We took two cars and left Logan early Saturday morning and headed to Star Valley. When we got there everyone (especially Tony) was so excited. We changed all our clothes, packed lunch, then headed up to Grover Park with Dad. We rode in and set up camp on the back of the hill-climbs hill. Everyone hit the slopes pretty quickly. I sat at the bottom to take pictures while they all went sledding. Then Dad started up a fire, and we had hot dogs. Nothing beats a hot dog cooked over a fire in the mountains.
After we ate, Dad and I took everyone out on the snowmobiles 2 at a time. We'd each take one person and let them drive. On all three trips, one machine got stuck every time. The first time, Derrick nose dived into a ditch, and he flipped over top of the hood. From where I was standing way far back, I just saw him dive and his feet fly in the air. And from way back there, it seemed kinda comical. The next time around Kendra took a corner too fast and ran off the road. And the last time, Dad turned around off in some powder and when Derrick and I tried to follow we got majorly stuck. It was definitely a work out of an afternoon. But I loved every minute of it.
Around late afternoon we headed back to the house, where Mom fed us dinner, and I gave everyone a grand tour of the house. Then we hit the road. We wanted to get back to Logan before the blizzard hit. On the way home, Josh and I had a great time with Disney Karaoke. Needless to say, the duets were especially fantastic. haha. As soon as I got home, I curled up on the couch and fell asleep for an hour. Then I saw a text from Josh wanting to watch a movie. So I invited him back over to my place to watch the last Harry Potter. And I am seriously impressed with myself for staying awake for the whole movie despite my complete exhaustion. It was the most fabulous day ever!
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Lack of Bordom
I'm so sorry that I haven't written in so long. I have been so unbelievably busy in the last month or so. But especially in the last couple weeks. School was already keeping me super busy, but then I also took an internship at the Student Involvement Office and Service Center. It's taking a lot of my time, but I love the job. I get to hang out in the service center for 2-4 hours almost every day. Meet lots of cool and fun people, and get out of the library. My job is going to be a big one once I really get into it. I'm going to try to put together some sort of organizational system in there b/c right now it's not very organized. I'm also going to be helping all of the 20+ directors of the service organizations on campus as well as the service council. It's going to be a very involved, hands-on experience. Yesterday in our meeting, my boss told me what he hopes for my position is for me to eventually work my way up to being like the council members. That means eventually I will hopefully become a person that the directors come to for help and guidance and advice instead of just "Hey Kelsey, can you make this copy for me?" So that's pretty awesome. I really like my boss and the Service Council President Maddie. They're both really awesome. And all the directors are really nice. It should be a really great experience all around. I'm excited. Let the good times begin!!!
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