College: Take One

So. I just moved into my college dorm this week, and it has been an amazing six days!! I love college!!
My roommates are amazing, my apartment is adorable, and I am having the time of my life. After I moved in, I was worried that I would be all alone with nothing to do for the next three days until class started, oh goodness was I wrong! In just the six days that I've been here I have:

• Walked all over campus
• Eaten delicious Aggie Ice Cream
• Played crazy soccer
• Played super crazy ultimate frisbee
• Gone to a volleyball scrimmage
• Chilled with the roomie
• Seen a hilarious magician
• Watched an Office marathon
• Played Apples to Apples
• Explored Wal-Mart
• Gone hiking
• Met a ton of amazing people

And that's not even counting class!
I never imagined that college would be this much fun!

Moving In

Yesterday, I moved out of my house and moved into the dorm where I will be living for the next year. It was a very...interesting experience. I had spent most of this last week packing up my various belongings and bidding my various friends farewell. Saturday was my last "official" day at home and I spent the morning with my youngest sister. We went and saw Despicable Me (cutest movie EVER) and then took her to lunch. After the movie, we came back home and then the whole family went to dinner.

I got to choose where we went since it was my farewell dinner, and I decided that Olive Garden was a good choice. I was wrong. We had an hour wait just to get into the restaurant, and then another hour before we got our salad and breadsticks. It must have been the busiest night in history at the Olive Garden, because it was the longest wait I've ever had to sit through. It's a good thing that the food was good. I had this crazy delicious roll up lasagna thing. It was incredibly delectable.

After dinner we went home and watched Chuck, our family's new favorite TV show. Chuck is hilarious, but the best part was when Principal Figgins from Glee ended up playing a shirtless, speedo wearing, incredibly hairy mob boss. I almost died I was laughing so hard. After the hilarity ended, I went to get ready for bed one last time. I came out of the bathroom and got swept up into a bone crushing hug from my father. He told me that he loved me, that I would always be his little girl, and that he would miss me. I started crying, and then my mom showed up and we both started crying harder. When my sisters showed up and started bawling we all kind of lost it for a little bit. It was sad. but good

 Sunday was surprisingly tearless, we went to church, had a delicious lunch, and then spent an hour packing all of my belongings into the car. Apparently I have a lot of stuff. We drove an hour and a half to my new apartment, spent a while unpacking all of my stuff, then I gave everyone a last hug goodbye, and then my family drove back home.

I've been in my apartment for a day now, and I like it a lot. My roommates are crazy awesome, the campus is beautiful, and I'm having so much fun!!!
I'll talk to you soon!

[HD + Eng Sub] Super Junior - It's You (Neorago/너라고) OFFICIAL MV

Guilty Pleasures: My Asian Fetish.

Everyone has a weird obsession, a "fetish" if you will, I have a cousin who is obsessed with feet, another who loves The Polar Express. Some obsess over shoes or sitcoms, or even a certain color. I differ a little from the "norm" of obsessions, because mine is over Asians. It's true, I have an Asian fetish.

I'm not completely sure when my obsession started, but I blame it on Mulan. Honestly, how is any girl supposed to look at Captain Shang's beautifully drawn abs and not go weak in the knees? That, and growing up watching the insane-amazing-holy-crapness of Jackie Chan must have hardwired my brain for asian loving. I'm also fairly convinced that I was either supposed to be born asian, or I was asian in a former life. 

Here, is a very very condensed version of the things I love about asians

• Just the way they look overall
• Jackie Chan
• The way Chinese sounds when people speak it
• Jet Li
• Felice Chu (A foreign exchange student from Taiwan that I was lucky enough to become friends with)
• Super Junior (An Asian boy band comprised of the 13 most gorgeous asian boys I've ever seen)
• Sushi
• Kung Fu
• Panda Bears

Most of this list is pretty self explanatory, but I would like to expound on just a couple.

Firstly, Felice. Have you ever met someone and felt that they were you in another body? Like you from a parallel universe? Well that is how Felice is. Two years ago she came to my high school for a year and we were best friends. She is definitely one of the craziest, funniest, funnest, most amazing people I've ever met, and when she went back home to Taiwan, I was very melancholy. Amazingly enough, she was able to come back and visit this summer and spent two and a half weeks living with me. It was so good to see her again, I love me my asian! 

Secondly, Super Junior. I cannot express the amazingness of these beautiful, talented performers by myself, so I will enlist the help of the amazing Youtube. So I will hurry and post a video of them so you too can witness them in all of their Asian glory. My favorite is named Kyu-hyun, but all of them have a very special place in my heart.

"Click"

"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away" -Eudora Welty
        I don't know what kind of camera Eudora uses, but I definitely need her to hook me up with some sweet moment-stopping action. I am roughly two weeks away from starting the college life as a freshman at USU, and for the last three months (ok for the last year, maybe two...heck maybe even five!) every time I blink 3 months of my life has gone by. I need some way of preserving the moments in my life, and I figure a blog is as good a way as any. I'm warning everyone now (though I'm willing to bet that Lara Smith will be the only person that ever reads this) that I will not be the most dedicated blogger in the world.I've got to do that whole "education" thing so I can have a real life and not end up a homeless bag lady. I will try though, pinky promise!


As I've decided to hold my life's moments hostage, (Muahahaha...they'll never escape...) I find it only fitting to capture a moment from today. As far as my summer has gone, today was pretty eventfull. I surprised the world by abandoning my normal sleep pattern and was awake and dressed by 8:30 this morning, I found that there is a lot more diem to carpe when you get out of bed before 11:00. I then set out on a daring quest to add several important items to my wardrobe, at a very humble price. I exceeded my own expectations and managed to get almost $300 worth of clothes for less than $100. The clearance racks at Kohls are full of exquisite mountain views, and even better bargains. 


The time of college is drawing very very nigh....


Oh. My. Lanta.