Wednesday, November 13, 2013

oh hey.

THINGS I REALIZE:
1. in two days, it will have been a month since I have blogged.
2. I will make the excuse like I always do that I have been busy, but let's be real. mostly i'm just lazy.
THINGS I NEED YOU TO REALIZE:
1. this is going to be long.
2. most of the stuff I would imagine you really don't care about.

with that being said, let's do this. first of all i'm doing this on my laptop and I usually blog from my phone so I can include pictures. if I had to choose two words to describe me, it would probably be these two: TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED. so I really don't know if this will have pictures with it. we'll all just be surprised.

so let's back up about a million years.

before i begin this story i just want to make it a point to let everyone know that it probably took me half an hour to get that picture in this so YOU'RE WELCOME. for fall break we tossed around quite a few ideas. and if you can believe it, camping at grafton won out. if you know my family at all, you know we're not big time campers. my dad and brothers THINK they're some great outdoorsmen, if that counts for anything. but once in a great while, we go real life-dutch oven dinner-harmonica playing and jokes around the campfire-sleeping in tents- honest to goodness camping. and this was one of those times. i always dread it when my dad decides it's time for another camping trip, but once we were out there and got everything set up, i was a literal happy camper (; we decided to go into zion and hike angels landing, and me and jord and kaden made it all the way to the top! here's a tip to anyone thinking about hiking angels landing: the view from about halfway up is the exact same view from the top, so if your pride will allow it (which mine wont) just go to the halfway point and you're golden.

me and haylee decided to be fun college students and go up to the howl (according to the site, the biggest party west of the Mississippi river..we had to go once in our college careers, right?) in logan. so we began our trek north.

 
this is one think about logan that i learned on that trip. you can drive and drive and drive and drive and you still won't be there. about 5 hours into our trip, i began to believe that logan was a myth. this whole party was one big prank to make poor college students spend all their money in gas for nothing. but finally FINALLY we got there. and i can honestly say it was worth every second spent trapped in our car. and then some. we picked holly up on the way in orem, and kalli lives in logan (i don't know why in the world anyone would ever live in logan, but whatever floats your boat) and it was fun to see them! anyways, the party was completely nuts and so so much fun.
the day after the howl was my birthday and haylee oh so generously bought me these birthday antennas that i sported while driving even though it meant i couldn't sit straight. i am such a good sport. my birthday was a good one this year. nevermind that i'm NINETEEN FREAKING YEARS OLD AND NEXT YEAR I'LL BE TWENTY AND HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN. haha but anyways, we drove back to hurricane that day and i just spent the day with my family and friends!
 
exactly 8 days after returning from cedar from salt lake it snowed. yup. real life snow. in November. you're reading all of this correctly, i understand your shock. me and my roommates left the room at like 11:00 one night to get some chicken nuggets from Wendy's and BAM. snow everywhere. they're both from up north and don't understand that i was born and raised in hurricane Utah, and they didn't understand why i was freaking out. anyways, i tell you this because of the following: 9 days after returning from salt lake and one day after it snowed, i got a binder out of the back of my car and proceeded to scrape the snow and ice off of my car for roughly 30 minutes in the 16 degree weather so i could make the drive to salt lake again. my only thought while scraping? why in the freaking heck did i willingly move myself to cedar city, Utah.
 
 it is kinda pretty though, huh? and it was totally worth it. because that night i got to see Shelby, eat at the cheesecake factory, and see FREAKING MAYDAY PARADE LIVE OH MY GOSH. nobody will ever know what a big deal that is to me so i'll be brief. it was the best day of my life and i love them and they are so good live i can't even.
 
this is a real life picture from that night. i was that close to him. i love him i love him i love him.
it was most definitely not the last mayday concert i will be attending, we'll leave it at that.
oh yeah, i am still at college. i love it here. college is freezing though. i don't know why cedar has to be as cold as it is. i don't know what it's trying to prove. things are always crazy busy around here. i love my roommates, my classes, and my job. i don't know how i lucked out and love all of those things, but i do.
 
well, that's about all I've got. if you actually read through all that i give you props. if you didn't, i completely understand.