New Years! Bring On 2012!

Highlights from 2011

Greatest lesson learned: Just tell it how it is. Don't try to make everyone feel bad. Just be completely honest.

Hardest thing of the year: Rachel quitting school. I don't know if it was school pride or my guilt that I should've been there with her more. She might've stayed had I given her the time of day.

Favorite memory: Well there's quite a few. But I can narrow it down to these for now...
-tanning with Alex
-CABIN TRIP, 'nuff said.
-pulling pranks with my roommates
-going to random places I've never been before
-dance parties...seriously. Without these, my days would've never have gotten better
-Ben's Manhood Trip
-Being there for nephew's birthday
-Working at Mango Tango with Rachel
-Skype played a BIG part of my year
-Camping in Boise
-The bike ride in Boise
-Just Dance at Nick's house
-Thanksgiving trip with James
-General Conference with my awesome FHE family
-Scroll Digital, especially filming the show!!
-Dessert competitions with my FHE family
-Playing truth or dare until the early morning
-Glow in the Dark Hide and Seek with Ben
-Watching terrifying clips from scary movies with Andrea (then watching Mormon Messages to feel better)
-Walking around, playing Hide and Seek in a dark giant cabin
-Getting attacked my two murderers in the cabin
-Talking a long, dark, scary walk with Alex and James & James scaring the CRAP out of us
-Staying out ALL night long for Nick's birthday
-Hanging out with James and his roommates
-Making homemade Touscana soup with Aaron
-Johnny's JamCakes

Okay okay, I'll stop there. I didn't realize how LONG that sucker was gettting!

What I loved most about 2011: It was an amazing year. I did a whole lot of growing up, that's for sure. My best friend and I are closer than ever and I couldn't ask for a better person to share everything with. She's amazing in every way and I strive to be just like her.

I also met the perfect gentleman of a cowboy and who is the Lamar to my Khloe. Haha (Sorry, it's been a while since I had a K-dash reference) The smile to my face, the tune to my song and all that other lovey-dovey stuff. Haha
And education-wise, I learned a LOT. In my classes, I was actually absorbing everything and realizing this is what I'm meant to do because I just absolutely LOVE it!! And of course, my testimony grew tremendously, especially being the Relief Society president and I am so blessed to be in such an amazing place where I can feel the spirit and people are just so nice and friendly. I have President Clark and great teachers and a great bishopric all looking out for me and I pray more that I may have ever before. Plus, I am really starting to figure myself out. Plus I had SO many friends get married and have babies! I am so happy for everyone.

Looking forward to 2012

Want to learn: More skills. Technical skills. Piano, guitar, sewing, etc.

Want to get better at: exercising...EVERYDAY. And becoming a better chef.

Biggest goal: Lose. That. Weight. And be the best Maid of Honor ever!!

I'm Ill, ya hear that Lil Wayne?

Things I would die for right now...

1. Rock climbing
2. Swedish Fish
3. Camping trip
4. The Tootsie Maki or Viva Las Vegas rolls at Ra Sushi

5. A car so I can drive around listening to music
6. A nice set of colored pens so I can journal all artsy-like
7. The obvious one-a nice, big bag of Lifesaver gummies.

And a partridge in a pear tree. :) Being sick makes me a loopy. On the bright side, I do get to have as much soup as I can eat! Aaand I get to watch home videos. That's the best part of being sick EVER.

Winter Bucket List

Ok so I did saw this same thing for fall and I really hope I can check off every single one of these things by March!! Well, I mean, some I'm sure I won't...but it's the thought that counts right?

UPDATE: January 6th 2011
Okay. So far, I have...

-Eaten Peppermint Bark (thank you, James!)
-Looked at Christmas lights, multiple times
-Been ice-skating...okay it was tubing, but I'm counting it!
-Volunteered
-Eaten Gingerbread
-Made cookies for "Santa" (you're welcome Dad. Haha)
-Drank hot chocolate
-Filled stockings
-Decorated the Christmas tree by myself (so making ornaments)
-Gave a Secret Santa
-Saw Reindeer Food-it counts.

California Cat

DUMBEST THING EVER.

Maybe you've heard, maybe you haven't. But a stray cat that was taken in by a woman in Rome was just left with a GIANT fortune....Let's just take a second to let that settle in.

Who the heck leaves a $13 million dollar fortune to a stupid cat?! What is that cat going to do with it, make a nice bed? So dumb. People, do something worthwhile with your money! Give it to a nice charity if you really don't care about it that much. I mean, I get it. She didn't have any children so she left it to the closest thing she had. But does anyone else see that as just a wee bit irresponsible? There are people starving or trying to recover from HUGE natural disasters all over the world. We're in an economic crisis! So yes, obviously the smart thing to do with your leftoever money is to give it to a dumb, lazy cat.

Okay. Sorry. The world these days, I'll tell ya. Common sense is getting less and less common.

On a somewhat better note, I go home on Friday!! I have mixed feelings. I love home and California and my family, but I definitely am going to miss Rexburg. There is always something productive I can be doing, people to see and play with, places to go...and a couple of my favorite people. All together in one place, where it's nice and easy to get together.

Ah. Well. This is how it always is. And hopefully not MUCH will change just because of distance. Ah well. Back to my final project....there are definitely some things I would LOVE a break from.

Scroll Digital Awards Night

Tonight was a VERY good night.

First of all, we had our Scroll Digital Awards Night, which was so fun! I'm so glad I finally got to go because last fall when I did I-news, I couldn't go. :(


And I even won TWO awards!! This picture is TERRIBLE but it's the only one we took. (Also, please ignore the "I'm right about to go to bed" look I'm sporting) I know, stupid. But Aaron gave me the award for Best Reporter and Kayla gave me the award for Most Consistent Quality. I was so so so happy!! Especially because Aaron gave the NICEST little speech when he gave me my award about how he's seen me just consistently get better and he was very proud. My favorite part was when he said that he is usually critical and doesn't give a lot of compliments because he doesn't want people to get a big head and then plateau. So he basically complimented my work, which was very nice. And Kayla talked about how positive I was to work with and how I was always getting better and better. So nice. The whole thing was just great. And I was so happy to see everyone else get their awards!! We had THE best crew ever. I was so happy to work with them all so closely and get to see them all get the recognition they all deserve.

Also, I had a very nice talk with a very sweet boy. :) I obviously won't go into tooo much detail because that's creepy and weird to journal all this (who knows whose eyes read this) but I also know I'll forget it until I write it down somewhere. So I'll just say we took out the toothbrush to brush the surface of a very important subject. James and I drove around to look at Christmas lights around Rexburg, which was awesome because James knows ALL the awesome spots from his mission. But anyway, then we went to one of the churches and just sat and talked. It was really nice. I'd say I had quite the lovely night. I spent it with the people closest to me and nothing beats days like that.