halloween

so i haven't been trick or treating in at least i guess one year. so i went trick or treating tonight at the boys hall. it was amazing. as one of the treats one guy made smoothies. it was really delicious.
the shout out today goes to the testing center because my test that i took today at me alive, for breakfast even though i took the test in the evening. it also goes to rick for being upset that i didn't ask him to preference. sorry rick, but i think that you're taken.
that's about all i have to say. read and enjoy while i play some mad mario kart.

my preference experience

so tonight i claim a moment of temporary insanity. i'm just glad that i was sane when i was in class today, other wise i would have asked gc. but anyways, about three hours after family home evening was over i asked talmage to go to preference with me. i finally decided to take advantage of the opportunity of all the mormon guys out here. it's slim pickings in iowa so i decided to make iowa proud and ask someone to preference. i really want to go to the ice skating one, so we'll see what happens.
i also got the mother load of cds today from bmg music. 10 cds. it was wonderful.
the shout out of the day award goes to alex bitter because of his status on the facebook, i read it and shouted out really loudly BOOMSHADOW ETERNAL. it was wonderful. alex is tired of being like a brother to everyone. it was the greatest joke of the day.
the killer moment of the day award also goes to alex. he crashed the end of family home evening and stood close to juliekins and kinda talked to her. he then came over to me a grabbed my waist. i proceeded to look in shock at juliekins, and to loose at the card game. i then told him that he was fired. he laughed and walked away. little does he know that i wasn't joking.

back to the future

so juliekins hasn't seen very many movies and i see it as my duty to introduce her to the miracle of several movies. the back to the future trilogy is the movie of choice and has been for the last two nights. we shall finish it tonight. i look forward to the experience. there are hardly any better trilogies in the world.
so shout out to ben again, yes i think that it will classify as a date. i think it could be really fun.
shout out to all my many friends out there. i just wish there was such a thing as chocolate mutiny. today was a good day. reasons why:
1. i don't have to go to my eight oclock class tomorrow because the teacher decided to take a holiday. i love him, especially his accent.
2. i got to go to my percussion class today, and realize how bad i still want to get into drumline next year. just to prove my old band director that i can do what i want to do. i'm really excited that i don't have to listen to him shooting me down all the time. he is such a loser. false....i do not miss him.
3. i got to have a relaxing day reading the dragon reborn by robert jordan. i enjoy reading it.
4. i got to join the dunder mifflin provo branch for facebook. i'm the accountant. who do you think i would fit more, the accountant or the receptionist. but i think it is really hilarious.
and finally number5. today...... was just a good day, and because i get to watch back to the future 3 tonight it makes it even better.

quiet you about preference!

so as we all know i live with boy crazy juliekins. she believes that i should ask the aquaintance/friend to preference. she says that i should bribe him with a drumstick ice cream bar. my thought is whatever. the odds are that he will probably be like you fruitcake that's the last i'll ever wave at you. elizabeth, my friend from iowa says that i have nothing to loose, which could be true. i just lack the courage i guess. julie has informed me that she will put on a roxy mask and go to class and ask him for me. crazy i know, the sad thing is that she won't be able to recognize him because of his shapshifting abilities and mad skills. i thought that at first she was just going to log onto facebook as me and ask him that way. i'm glad that she agrees that that would be soooooooooooooo mean.
let me give a shout out to ben, who since i'm going to go to the opera with him, alex thinks that i should go on a date with him. only one word: NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO. incase that wasn't enough i wish you could have seen my sarcatsic reply when alex informed me of this. our special understanding is a thing of wonder to me.
shout out to shawn saunders. i love the phrase sweet ruckus that he always says. i am in fact jealous that he started saying it first, and that i didn't think of it myself.
i was just a witness to one of the most amusing phone call of a lifetime. juliekins called ben and blaine and she asked to talk to blaine. she then put one her top secret voice and asked him for help with her preference plans for ben. blaine doesn't know what preference is from the sound of it. but make no mistake, tomorrow, will be the most amusing day of a lifetime. a day which shall be known through history as a red letter day. tomorrow i shall celebrate juliekins getting a date to preference. not as dramatic sounding when it is written then spoken.
so therefore: QUIET YOU, AND LET ME NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT PREFERENCE. IN PEACE TOO! NO MORE OUTLANDISH SUGGESTIONS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY KNOWN AS MY ROOMATE!

Julie just wrote the funniest fake story about me and Graham. In fact, she is typing this right now. That's why there is capitalization and punctuation. Anyways, if anyone wants to read it, too bad. Love, Julie

i love drumline

his name is graham and i saw him today in the drumline. i went to the devotional and watched the drumline. i didn't see anyone that looked like him. so as i was walking home from the administations building, and i saw some kids walking to band practice. i listened and i heard the sweet music of the drumline. i went walking right through the middle of the drumline, and i looked to my right and there he was. he waved and asked how i was. i said that i was fine and then said so you're in the drumline? and he said yeah, and he apologized for how noisy it was. i said it was okay and then i pointed to the tenors next to him and said that i played those. he said oh that's really cool. i then said that i would type out my notes for him, and he said that he really apprecieated that. and then we said goodbye, and see you tomorrow. i love drumline.

the perfect guys in the ward

recently(today i mean), while at church i realized that we have lots of hot guys, and they do believe in chivalry out here. it's a wonderful world. you might think this is leading to talking about saturday, but if you want to read about that, read boom shadow. however, the biggest realization today was how hot our choir director is. he has a barely there georgian accent, actually you can hear it but it's not very thick. he also has a pocket watch satchel. i haven't gazed into his eyes to see if they're blue, but that should be a goal. but anyway, he is really good looking, funny, and very nice. also on a side note from julie, talmage is a wonderful singer and very funny also. the one thing that she forgot to add to her blog was the fact that she thinks that talmage and i make a good pair. according to julie, we just fit. how does she know this, i don't have a clue. (oh that's right, while we were laying down together in the back of a truck.) (don't worry, julie and xinyi were the chaperones. in fact, julie was resting her legs on us and that is when she saw me put my head on talmage. i think that the beautiful testimony was for julie, but she is convinced otherwise. but she would like to think it was her.
also, our home teacher is really hot. i love him and the elders quorum president is really nice and cute. our home teacher is really nice too, but julie didn't get to meet him. we'll save that for this coming sunday.
red head ben gets a shout out from julie.
so today, during sunday school, lyndie said i love you to me( she was also sitting next to the hot choir guy, mat green is the name). so i said i love you back to her. boy scout ben thought that i said that to him. it was really funny to see him turn around and talk to lyndie, because i started laughing on the inside, and lyndie and mat and boy scout ben just about started laughing on the outside. after the laughing session was over, he looked at me and gave me the i don't know shrug. it was the priceless moment of sunday school. also the priceless moment was when the teacher mixed up everything at the end of the lesson today. you could just tell that he wanted to be done for the day.
the reason that i sound so boy craxy is because a.) i live with julie; b.) it's late at night, and i'm tired because i didn't get my nap today. and i still have to have my love affair with the book of mormon. go mormon squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

don't let the fake duct tape fool you

so i came out to utah with two great tools. if something is too loose, just put duct tape around it. if something needs to be loosened, just use wd40. well, i didn't buy real duct tape, i bought the walmart look alike. original duct tape is so much easier to tear apart than the fake stuff. i made myself a duct tape sash for the dance tonight, it was hard. mostly it's just because i'm challenged with long pieces of duct tape. i made it through though, and it will be great tonight. from now on i think that i'll leave the duct tape to the hall of famers.
as a side note, sons of provo is an even funnier movie if you watch it with the commentary. it's just hilarious.

jonesin for a jones

today, while in the byu bookstore i went into the store at the far end where you can buy food and what not. in the drink section to my happy surprise i found jones soda. i was so excited that i quickly bought two of them and went outside and fufilled my need for liquid. it was wonderful. i then proceeded to the testing center and took the biology test. i got the average, which isn't that bad considering that it is a four hundred person class.
in the bookstore also, my lips cracked and started to bleed. i bought four things of chapstick to last me the entire year and probably so on.
today, was a good day. you just can't top the jones.

the teacher who changed my life.
when i was a little kid, we moved around a lot. it unfortunately made me grow up faster than other kids my age, and also to have different interest than all of my friends. it was something that made me bitter over time. i would make friends, but never best friends because i was always afraid of having to move again.
in my seventh grade year i met a teacher named ben wahlund. over the next three years, he changed my life. by this time i was living in iowa. i had made good friends and maybe even a coulpe of best friends. i remember one day in music class he said to me, you know if people didn't know you they would think that you weren't happy. i asked him why. he said everytime he looked at my face he saw that bitterness there and perhaps even sadness of what i still was then. i thought about it and decided that i would change it.
i did start to change. it wasn't just because of Mr Wahlund, though he got me thinking about it. everyone in my family helped me grow up and change the way that i acted and reacted to things. thank goodness it was a change for the better. i started to have friends and to become best friends with a lot of people that i knew. it was the most fun i ever had growing up. it was all because i didn't want people to look at me and see what ben wahlund saw. i changed my entire life, of course i still have rough edges, but i'm a lot happier now than i have ever been.
the only thing that i regret is that ben wahlund never got to see it. he moved to illinois before i could show him the new and improved me. he probably still thinks of me as that bitter girl that he used to know, just as i will always think of him as the skinny guy with the tie.
now because of Mr. Wahlund, i look for people who were just like me and i try to help them too. serving people makes me happy. it is one of the funnest things i have ever done in life and will ever do. thanks ben wahlund and my family and God.