Wuv, Twue Wuv!

I took this picture!! :)

Hey! So I have not done anything with this forever and I’m going to blame it on the amazingly wonderful Brooks Lindberg who stole all my free time by his manly charm! Speaking of Brooks, I think I shall dedicate a post to the boy who ended all posts for such a long time!

So I’ve been dating Brooks for 2 years, but I’ve totally been head over heels for him for 3 :/ Yep! The whole “love at first sight” thing is pretty much the story of how I met Brooks.  It was my first audition for a production at Snow College and I was extremely nervous so that nervous energy chose to channel itself into fixing the cow lick of the cute boy in front of me… yeah… touching random guy’s heads is something I did back then I guess!  This really attractive guy would be Brooks which it was also his first audition at Snow.  

American Gothic... our take.

 We were auditioning for Arsenic and Old Lace (a personal favorite!) and Brooks and I kept getting called up to read together for the part of Nathan and Elaine the lovers of the play which I was REALLY okay with!  Brooks got the part, I on the other hand came close but lost out to another girl.  But from that day Brooks was definitely cemented in my head as THE guy. The perfect guy that everyone dreams about but never actually exists. 

Well the semester went by and little by little I got to know Brooks better and start to like him for his personality; he was so funny, intelligent, talented and interesting… unlucky for me I was not the only one to notice and for the rest of the year Brooks was in and out of different relationships.  Always my ideal guy and always out of reach.  

Before we were dating... so cute!

So when I graduated from Snow I figured all chances were dead and gone as I’d be off to USU and Brooks would have his 2^nd year at Snow ahead of him.  Over the summer to my great pleasure and delight, Brooks started texting me, *cue texts of ridiculous amounts of over the top flirting*.  During fall semester Brooks and I kept in contact pretty regularly and I made the decision to go see him in Taming of the Shrew at Snow where he was playing the lead character whose name I can’t even begin to spell.  I told everyone I was going back to see all my old friends, but it was definitely just Brooks. When I arrived I called him and made up some story about me needing to put air in my tires but not knowing how (lies!).  Brooks came to the rescue and we ended up spending the whole day together: perfection!  This happened a 2^nd time during November for their other school play, this time though Brooks told me he liked me which was pretty amazing (even if he did call me a Buffalo in the process)!  Well we worked hard and made it work long distance (3 hours away) we saw each other roughly 4 days out of a month but talked 2 or so hours on the phone every night.  I’m so happy that now we live in the same apartment complex and I can see him whenever I feel like it.

I’m so lucky to have Brooks and so happy to be with him. He writes me notes with the perfect blend between ridiculous and loving, has the enthusiasm of a 5 year old at times, and to top it all off he is my best friend. I feel as though I am constantly growing with him, thinking more than I’ve ever thought and truly discovering myself in the process. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my life and I always want to spend every last second I have with him.  I mean, I love him enough to listen to a 30 minute discussion on the book he’s currently reading when he’s only like 10 pages in. Sorry for the sappy post! Just have to let everyone know!!

Now if only I could get him to ACTUALLY smile in pictures he'd be perfect!!

College Part 2

What’s new with me? Let’s try just about everything!! I’ve been having kind of a crummy week. But I’ll tell you about what’s new with me. I moved into the Townhouse a while ago, it’s the LDS girl housing I’ve been talking about for awhile and it’s rather old but I absolutely LOVE my roommates!! Like there’s not a single one who annoys me or that I don’t get along with or that I can’t talk to. We’re already bosom friends!! (Anne of Green Gables, anyone?)

I’m doing okay in most of my classes, except that I just picked up a new history class so, I’m 3 days behind in class and the teacher moves VERY fast. I’m supposed to have read to page 81 in the textbook that I don’t have yet. Yeah. I feel swamped!!

I’m on the Ballroom Dance Team here, and SOMEHOW I’ve become Co-President… I already have to plan dances, retreats, student lessons, and tours… all on top of taking 18 credit hours. So I’m already feeling a lot of pressure and stress. I’m really thankful that I have a Co-President who when I can’t do something can pick up the slack and vice versa.

I auditioned for Arsenic and Old Lace and made callbacks, which is kinda a big deal… there were 40-ish girls auditioning for 3 parts. In the end it basically came down to me and this other girl and she got the part. I’m kind of thankful for that (of course I’m still sorta disappointed) because now I have time to get homework done and settle into college a bit before I’m 2x as busy.

Also something sad is I found out that a good friend from last year died in a motorcycling accident right before school started… he was only 22… it seems so unreal for people my age to pass away. It just doesn’t seem fair or real. He was a great guy, I remember one time I was at his apartment and I made the comment that I’d have to go home soon because I was pretty hungry and I needed to eat. Well Wes was making himself some food at the time. When he finished cooking he gave the entire meal to me, then he ran off to his class without eating. He was so funny and could always get anyone to laugh!! It just feels so unreal that sometimes I have a hard time believing it, but if I think about it for awhile, I get pretty sad about the whole thing.

Anyways… sadly that’s about it of my college experience thus far, although I will say that I went to a dance once with my laptop to use the internet, because I’m THAT awesome!!

Summer Blues

If I had to pick one word to sum up my summer (Haha, 'sum up my summer' is a fun phrase!!) it would be "BORING!!" I've been so gosh darn bored!! And I know people are always like "It's only boring if you make it..." in which case I obviously hate myself because I feel so bored about everything!!

Basically all of my friends are either on missions (how dare they!), at school, or so busy working I never see them. There is also the small group of friends, which I feel no longer wish for my friendship as whenever I call them they're always 'busy' and tend to forget to invite me to things! Those savages!! Oh well, people grow apart I suppose...

It's okay though, because I'm so busy with work and making money that I don't really notice. LIES!! My work HARDLY schedules me!! They decided that they were going to hire 15 new people this summer to make my life miserable and contribute to poor college students!! I've made only $800 since April!!! I'm so poor!!

My summer hasn't been all terrible... I do fun things every now and then with people. I'd say at least twice a week I do something worthwhile. But the time in between those things is so excruciatingly dull. I usually find myself home alone everyday with no friends able to hang out with.

Because this summer has been such a bummer I can't wait for school to start again. Maybe this sucky summer was a ploy to make me better appreciate school and learning. In any case I'm counting down the days till I'm too busy with school and friends to even remember what the meaning of 'boring' is!!

I have such a busy schedule set up! And since I'm rather bored and have nothing better to do, I shall share it with you! (Sorry, you'll live!)

On Monday and Wednesdays I have my Theater History class. It's a 3 credit class and it's taught by Dr. K who rocks my socks. Then I have Theater Improv (3 credits) with Professor Olsen, which I've heard is a really fun class and I'm rather not the best at Improv so it's a good choice for me. Then I have Institute D&C with Sperry, I don't really know what to expect about this but it's been awhile since D&C. Then I have my Ballroom dance company class (2), I made the Ballroom dance team and ironically I don't really know how to Ballroom dance, so I'm going to feel really dumb with all the people who know what they're doing, but this is going to be a lot of fun for me! Finishing it off with History (3) I hate history.

On Tuesday and Thursdays I have Biology (3) which I've heard is one of--if not THE hardest class on campus, I picked out a teacher who seemed to be better than the rest, but I won't know until class starts. I also have Biology Lab (1) on Thursdays only for like 2 hours and I think I'm going to die in that class. After that I have American Folklore (3) not to be confused with 'Forklore' which is what I referred to it as once. I really have no idea what to expect from that one.

Friday all I have is Friday Forum... we'll see if I actually decide to go or not, It'll depend on the week I'm sure. I'm pretty happy about having a rather clean Friday because that means I can leave at 3 pm on Thursday for home or whatever... it just sucks because I don't have a car and so finding someone who'd be able to take me home then will be hard.

You may have noticed my theater classes, this is due to my Theater scholarship. I have to take 2 theater classes a semester. Not only that but I HAVE to audition for all the plays. I'm kind of glad that I have something forcing me to audition now, because I ended up chickening out on all the plays last year, I only auditioned for the last one which I didn't make and then for the one act plays, which I did make. So now I've got something forcing me, so I can't chicken out!! Well the thing is, if I make any of the plays they are going to take up SO much of my time. Also if I don't make the plays I can be chosen to work as a tecky, so I'll have a lot of time taken up there too. All in all I don't think I'll be bored come school and I can't wait for it to start.

Well this has been rather all over the place and kind of pity-party-ish at the beginning, but mostly sarcastically bored. And besides, I can throw a pity-party if I want to... probably the only party I'll be invited to this summer anyways... ;)

My College Life Thus Far

Alright! So I'm not that great at blogging, go figure. Well I've been at Snow College for quite some time now and it's basically been my life for the past 7 months so I think it deserves some mention. So I came to Snow all by myself eager to make some new friends and be independent. I moved in and found that I didn't really click especially with my roommates with exception of my actual in-room-roommate who I absolutely loved. Sadly as with all things in my life she moved at the end of last semester and I torn between liking having my own room, missing my roomie, and the fact that without her here my room becomes a mess very quickly and stays that way despite my struggles. The rest of my roommates are very nice, friendly girls and really pretty and stuff, we're just not really best buds so I mostly hang out else where's or in my room. They're fun to talk to though!

The school part of school is going really well! I got a 3.68 last semester which is my highest GPA ever!! I was super excited!! I made it on the Dean's List last semester and I'm hoping to do even better this semester. I was really worried about college and I didn't think I was going to be able to keep my academic scholarship (You have to have a combined GPA of 3.75) but it looks like if I really buckle down this semester, that anything is possible!!

I'm taking some pretty fun classes here, I'm in 4 different band classes and I have a love-hate relationship with them all. I love band and absolutely love the people in it, but I hate how much time it consumes and how I feel so not cool when it's all over (I made it in the Advanced Band... BARELY, I'm literally last chair) because I struggle a lot more than others. I'm in Acting classes and I'm loving it SO much!! Acting is really a huge love of mine and since I've come here I've grown a lot as an actress, I'm going to audition for the plays next year, cross your fingers for me! A class I took last semester that I really loved was Courtship & Marriage, and it sounds like it's a really pathetic class for girls who are trying to get married as fast as possible but it's not!! It was my favorite class ever and it applies to my life more than any other class ever has. If anyone goes to Snow I highly recommend you take this class from Poulson because it will change your life. I communicate better, understand people better, have a more realistic outlook, and just feel like it really has helped prepare me for life more than anything else ever has. I'm currently in a Developmental Psychology class which is really interesting. I really like this class, even though it's not an easy class because everything is so interesting and applicable. It's about the psychology of how people and children develop and it's really fun to learn about and I think it'll help me be a better mother when that time comes.

Something cool is I got handpicked to live in special housing next year. The easiest way to try to describe it is as a LDS sorority. Professor's recommend girls to live there who get good grades, live LDS standards, and are friendly girls. I got recommended and after talking to the man who owns the house I'm now going to live there next year!! It's really cheap and pretty nice, like it's an old house so it's not perfect, but I'm excited for awesome roommates because this year didn't quite work out as I would have liked. 7 girls live there and it's just said to be one of the best places you can live environment and roommate-wise which is great!! I'm also excited to make friends with some really good girls because usually I lack on the ammount of friends who are female, so I'm hoping this housing will help.

Awhile ago there was problems on campus with what I like to call "The Campus Creeper" who was a guy who was coming into girl's apartments and watching them sleep. There were also a number of attacks on girls on campus last semester. It's kind of funny because I assumed that hickville Ephraim, UT would be safe from all that, but it shows you're never really safe. Well in light of all this I have learned self-defense! Like serious rip-off-ear-bruised-crotches-pencil-stabbing self defense!! I feel a lot safer knowing this and I have the opportunity to teach other girls what I know which makes me feel better to know I'm helping others feel safer too. Part of me really wants to be attacked so I can use my awesome skills and seriously handicap the guy... but not a huge part of me wants that so I think for now I'll keep having people walk home with me at night and make sure I lock my doors.

Well I can't think of anything else really school related to talk about now except that I'm not super excited to start appling to other schools. The problem of picking a Jr. College (2 years) to go to is that I have to make the huge decision of what college to go to AGAIN come next year. I'm so bad at making decisions too... silly me!! Oh well. I'm sure I'll figure it out all over again. Well I promise to try harder to update this more and let you guys know what's going on with me.