Busy Busy Busy

Life is so busy! That's just a fact. My bed is put back together though, and there is no more hole in the wall. It's pretty stinking exciting. My bed is back in place, and it's amazing. I'm not sleeping on the floor anymore.

I have been super-duper busy with crazy amounts of practicing and reading an article for English (I ranted about that in the "my dreams" tab). I still love my English class an awful lot, and all the people are AMAZING, but it has been a lot of work outside of class this week. They are the best. We hung out a couple of Fridays ago to play capture the flag, watch Tangled, and drink hot chocolate. Capture the Flag at Porter Park was lots of fun in the dark. One thing about me, I am usually the kind of person that just stands there in games like capture the flag. I just stand there and pretty much cheer on my teem mates while acting like in some other life I could maybe have the chance of intimidating the other team's members. That's me. I am one of those people that just stand there and say "good job". It's actually pretty pathetic. This time, it was remarkably different though. I somehow got over to the other team's side, and I found the flag. No one on my team had been able to find it yet. I was just glad that I found it. It gets better though. I was able to, through some miracle, bring it back to our side. Yeah, it was pretty intense. I have NEVER done that before! It was one of the most exciting moments of my life. Not really, but it was still awesome.

On a totally different note, I am closer to getting my major changed. It really can't come fast enough. Several hours a day in the practice room is taking a toll on me. It is making me hate the thing that I love the most: music. That's just a crime. Because of this, I am ready to take my life in another direction. Web design is calling my name, and I am ready to answer the call. I had an appointment last Friday to work on changing my major, and hopefully I will have it changed by the end of this week.

My wonderful roommate Emily has sadly been sick these past few days. She has had a nasty cold, and I feel so bad for her. Hopefully we can get her feeling better before her birthday this Saturday. It wouldn't be any fun to be sick on your birthday! Kami and I keep on teasing her by telling her that we have something up our sleeve for her birthday, which we do. She keeps on saying that she is so afraid of what we could have planned. It is going to be fun when she sees the surprise. I just hope she is feeling better by then.

One of the best parts about this week that I almost forgot about was what we did for our Family Home Evening thing recently. We played the game "Assassin" for a week, and it was amazing and intense. I was SO PARANOID!!!!! Every single one of my friends can testify of that. For those of you who don't know what this game is, it's a Roman Colosseum based game. Each person in the group is given the name of another person in the group that they have to track down and "kill" we pinned clothespins on each other to "kill" our targets. Once a person kills their target, they then begin to chase the target of the person that they just killed. This goes on until there are two people left, and they fight it out. Kami, my roommate, won the entire game. Another game with a much larger group of people should start here this week, and I am so excited to play that game!

Oh, and you can tell people are having fun at the store when you see this when grocery shopping:

Time Flys

It has been two weeks since I have last posted, and so much has happened! College is still pretty awesome for the most part. Life isn't worth it, and I still despise math, but I can get over that. Music hasn't gotten any easier either. It's not that music is hard. I get it theoretically, but learning it hasn't gotten any easier. I just have to push through this semester though. The reason why? I just changed my major. I am no longer an insane music major. I am going to be a web design/development major. I am so stinking excited! I feel like this is the right thing for me to be doing right now. I will probably also get a minor in photography. Because of this major change, there might be a lot of changes on how my blog looks here in these next few years. I am very excited to dive into this field. I am going to miss this beautiful walk to the Snow building (where all my music classes are). I guess My other buildings aren't too far away, and one of them I will probably walk this way to get to it.

Enough of that boring stuff. I promise I have been out doing exciting things too. My roommates and I went to  a church Halloween party Saturday night, and we were dressed pretty crazily. Emily was a minion from Despicable Me, Madeleine was a Redcoat from Pretty Little Liars, and I was a person from the capitol in the Hunger Games.

We only made it to the last few minutes of the party, but it was still fun. Getting ready was probably the best part, in my opinion at least.

I had another exciting adventure involving the lovely bathroom this week. Yup. The same one that I got locked in two weeks ago. This time, the problem is a little different. The shower has been leaking a steady stream of water, so we had the apartment maintenance come and take a look at it. It turned out that it was a miracle our shower had even been working! It was dripping because some piece had been stripped. Because of this, they had to cut a hole in the wall behind the shower to take out the parts and replace them. My bed happens to be right where they needed to cut a hole, so my bed is on the floor next to my roommates right now until the drywall gets put back on. It's no fun. Yeah. That's where my bed was, and hopefully will be back sooner rather than later.





Last Friday night, some awesome people from my English class got together to hang out. They rock. That's really the simplest way to say it. They are the best, and I don't know what I would do without them. We had an awesome night eating chocolate chip pancakes and hanging out doing dumb things. I'm just going to leave it at that. Okay, we watched football, talked, and might have pranked a person or two. Don't worry, it was nothing serious, but it was way too much fun.

You can read a little more about that night on the tab (up at the top of the page) that says "My Dreams" if you really want to. Just for your info, I updated all of the tabs, and the "My Dreams" tab is new. I am going to post about the awesome stuff that I am doing there. It's kind of a life-long bucket list of sorts. I am super excited to start working on that project, and hopefully there will be more to come on that page soon!

College life!

It has been way way way too long since I posted, and so much more has happened than I will even be able to remember. College is great, but it also comes with it's challenges. I would prefer to focus on the good rather than the miserable, but I will still touch on some of that to keep the picture of my college experience fairly accurate.

First off, There have been many fun times between my roommates and I. One time, it was pouring rain on the day that we had a campus wide devotional. We hurried home from the building so we wouldn't get soaking wet. My wonderful friend and awesome roommate Emily is an usher for the weekly devotional, so she had to stay after, and thus got stuck in the worst of the rainstorm. Because of this, she took cover in the apartment of some of her other friends that was closer. She waited there until the storm calmed down, then came back home. While she was gone, I had been telling another roommate of mine, Kami, about working for Tracy Jewelers. This led to us both looking at engagement rings. Emily came home and I said to her rather excitedly, "Emily, you missed it! We were just looking at engagement rings!" She just heard the "engagement" part of it, and automatically assumed that I was engaged. Needless to say, the whole apartment was in tears since we were laughing so hard! There have been several other experiences like that, but I think that one alone perfectly illustrates the mood of the apartment...for the most part that is. I would rather not go into the other side. Let's just leave it at that because that's a whole lot easier.

Schoolwork isn't necessarily harder, but there is a TON of work. I agree fully with this pic that I found online

It's seriously ridiculous. All of us just hope to "defy the laws of physics" although we feel that it is utterly impossible. I know that as I get minimal amounts of sleep, yet still do my very very best to maintain good grades and have a social life, I do end up like quite a bit of a zombie. With me though, this usually results in more giggling with my favorite roommates than anything, which tends to make us stay up even later since we can't stop laughing. There have been far too many funny instances of that to even start listing them off.

Yesterday was an interesting day as well. It started off with an experience that I will never forget. I woke up, and went into the bathroom. I went to unlock the door and open it, and then things got interesting. As I grabbed the doorknob to pull the door open, the knob came off the door. That's right, I was holding the doorknob in my hand, and it wasn't connected to the door. I was locked in the bathroom. I tried using pressure to put the knob back into place so I could forcibly unlock the door and pull it open by grabbing the bottom of the door and pulling it open. This proved to be futile, and I had to come up with another idea. Thankfully at that moment, Kami came by, so I knocked on the door. She had seen my hand at the bottom of the door and wondered what in the world was going on. We ended up getting a screwdriver sent under the door so I could completely remove the door handle and get out of the bathroom. We now have a doorknob sitting on our bathroom counter.  

Being a music major has been stressful as anything gets! I have just about had it! Music is great and everything, but it has been far too frustrating. I have been putting in the extra effort to learn the music correctly, but it has made it so much more difficult as of the past two weeks. My first week learning the song, I was able to learn the sections of the piece perfectly. Since then, I have practiced twice as hard and long as that week, but have accomplished way less. In the hour that I have practiced so far today, I have only been able to learn one more measure. For all you out there that don't know what that is, it's about 3 seconds worth of music when played. This is not fun to handle at all. I will figure something out though.

All in all, life has been super fun, but I'm not sure I will be involved in music on the academic level for much longer.

I'm Finally Here!

After all the wait, I finally am all settled in to my apartment, and will begin classes tomorrow. It is a new experience for sure, but I LOVE it! I have already made several new friends, my roommates are the best, and I am super excited for this. It is still kind of frightening, but I will feel much better once I get settled into a schedule. It is still pretty darn nerve racking though Orientation this past weekend was a BLAST, well I-Night was probably one of my favorite parts, next to spending time with my I-group (orientation group). I am excited to see what life here at BYU-I has in store for me.
Everyone has so much energy and is so kind toward everyone. This is truly the place to go if you ever want to feel like a part of something that's important.

It was quite the hectic day on Friday while moving in, but we finally all got settled, and now I'm ready to begin my new adventure. We made several good friends from the apartment just down from us, and I made some friends in the music/art department as well.

Here goes nothing! I start everything for real tomorrow!

Four More Days...and a Social Media Rant

With less than a week to go, I  am having a hard time believing that it's here already. I'm leaving on Thursday for my new grand adventure. The preparation is practically done, with just a few things left, like packing up my clothes (which I will be doing tomorrow) and loading up the car. I also have a random boxes to pack, but that shouldn't take long. I am excited to move on in life, but at the same time, it's pretty daunting. I can't go back now, and would much rather go than stay at home and not progress in life. It's just new. Not that I don't like change, but I have never done anything like this. I mean sure I have moved before and had to deal with that, but I have never gone to live on my own (kind of, I mean there are five other girls in the apartment and I already know two of them) and I will get to see a different side of life. It will be fun, yet stressful. I feel like I'm ready for the challenge if anyone is though. So on Thursday, we will embark on the six hour journey to Rexburg, Idaho, the place where dreams begin...but really, it is going to be the start of something new. I will be able to develop skills that I have, learn new ones, and learn more about my various artistic passions while at school.

Gosh, I don't know what else to say. I love my new computer, I just bought a mouse for it on Friday, the screen protectors for it came in the mail yesterday. I don't know. I am just to busy thinking about getting ready to think about or do anything else.

Oh yeah, we are taking family pictures this afternoon. I guess that's something different than college prep and the stress that it entails. For me though, I would much rather be taking the picture than being in it. I think a lot of people are never really happy with the way they look in pictures. It doesn't help for me that I was on the yearbook staff for two years and spent a lot of time behind the camera instead of in front of it. I love taking pictures! I really do, I promise. There is something satisfying about getting an artistic "vision" of sorts and being able to capture it. I guess that's why I Instagram a lot too. I just get some crazy idea, or see something cool and try to bottle up the emotion and story of that thing. It's fairly addicting when it is a good emotional outlet I put way more on Instagram than I put on Facebook. I don't usually feel the need to tell everyone in Facebookland how I feel about what I ate for dinner. Unless it's in some amazing five star restaurant somewhere in Europe, I honestly don't think people really care. On Instagram however, I can share emotion through art, and let others enjoy it too. I mean, It's not like if I posted something about the previously mentioned restaurant on Facebook that everyone that saw it would suddenly be able to eat the food and enjoy it too, but with Instagram, I can let my audience see and enjoy the same thing that I saw. It's just different.

And sorry there are no fun pictures on this post. I put several on the beloved Instagram this past week though, and there is a link to my page off on the right sidebar of this blog, if you feel so inclined to view them I guess.