R-R-Redo!

So.

Sometimes you look at your life,

and some things need some change.

Sometimes it's big things, like your address, your major, or your last name.

Sometimes it's little things, like which side you part your hair on, or what color you paint your toenails.

And sometimes.

It's inbetweeny things like tote's redesigning your blog.

That's right Ladies and Gents, Illumination Apparatus is no more. Not because there was anything wrong with it, I was just ready for a change.

Hopefully you like it,

but if you don't....

I'm not going to beat myself up about it.

So.

Other than this cute li'l switcheroo I did, there's not much that has been going on in my life.

Finals are over and done, and I'm spending my break in good ol' Ogden with my good ol' family.

I forget how much I love being home while I'm in Logan, then every time I come home I remember how much I just love it here.

My house is just so comfy and it always smells like pine trees and my dad's bread.

I just love it.

I love home.

Also, I love Christmas!

Last Sunday I had a little mini Christmas with my roommates, it was adorable. We all pitched in together to make a delicious dinner, and then we all crammed around our pathetically small table and ate and laughed together.

We've all been through a lot this semester, and it was so nice for us all to just be able to relax and forget about all our problems and just be happy for a little while.

That's what I love most about Christmas, it's a chance to forget about all the hate and the sadness that we're subjected constantly to in this world, and just focus on love, and giving, and happiness. Christmas is like summer break, but for the soul.

Have a Merry Christmas Guys!!



HOWLOWEEN

What a night!

Oh goodness y'all, no joke I had the time of my life.

Kind of.

Last night happened to be USU's annual incredibly amazing Halloween Party aka

{THE HOWL}

As my idol Stefan would say:

This place has everything!

Stilts

Rubber chickens

Men wearing nothing but fig leaves

And tons of freezing cold air.
Be jealous.

( Adorable McKenna, Gypsy Emily, and Me as a fairy)

The Howl was an adventure right from the start.
Me and my three friends walked the three blocks from my apartment to the building where The Howl was being held only to discover that to buy tickets we had to walk two and a half blocks away to the Basketball Stadium.
We scampered, fast like little rabbits, purchased ourselves some tickets, and then walked the two blocks back to the Howl.
Once we finally got in, holy poop it was a party.
The entire building was completely full of people,
they were EVERYWHERE!
Tall people, short people, fully clothed people, half naked people, more than half naked people, this place was crazy.
I had a bunch of friends who had gotten there earlier who wanted me to meet up with them at the dance, so on to the dance we went. It took us ten minutes to get in- the line was CRAZY, and when we finally did get in- things got even crazier.

Now when I see a crowd- I'm not the kind of girl who just dances on the edge- I dive right in. So we did. We were packed so tight in there that you could barely move, but we did our best and tried to dance. After a few minutes some guys came up and asked if they could dance with us, I said sure.
Big Mistake.
One of the guys grabbed my hips, pulled me super close to him, and proceeded to rub his hands all sorts of all over my butt.
Um. Awkward.
His friend was doing similar things to Emily who also felt her personal space bubble had just been popped to the max. The four of us girls sneaked away through the crowd, away from the Octopus men,
and right in the middle of a fist-fight.
'Twas scary my friends.
Very scary indeed.
Two very large men were both all sorts of upset and were being poorly restrained by their friends. One of them stepped on my foot.
It hurt.
Eventually they got calmed down, the dancing resumed, and me and my gals decided we'd had quite enough.
So we left.
And found this awesome snake man.

Holy poop y'all, we tote's loved that snake.
His name was Malfoy- which is most definitely one of the coolest snake names of all time.
Kudos snake man.

My BFF Jackie loved him too.

Also I love the snake-man's creeper face.

After we spent the better part of 20 minutes annoying the crap out of the snake man- we went and saw the band Cartel.

As you can clearly see, they are as a whole incredibly attractive.

Especially the adorable lead singer.

The concert was pretty much a blast, and they had their bass turned up so loud that my ears are still a little fuzzy.

It was good times.

When it was over, we decided we'd mostly had enough. So we mostly just meandered around.

then Then THEN!

-The greatest moment of my life happened:

That's right

I met the one

the only

Captain Jack Sparrow.

Basically, my life is now complete.

Be so jealous right now.

When we finally left the Howl, we spent 40 minutes searching all over 2 different parking terraces for Jackie's car. The dear, darling girl forgot where it was.

When we finally found it and were leaving the parking terrace, we saw a group of very attractive, very shirtless, very cold sailor's.

They saw us drive up, saw that we were girls, and begged us to drive them to their car.

We're nice, and they were babes.

So we did.

They were hilarious,

and I wish I had thought to take a picture so you could see just how gorgeous they were.

You'll just have to imagine as best you can.

So there you have it folks.

The Howl 2011

I'll see you there next year!

The End.

 

"There Ought To Be a 'Captain' In There Somewhere"

Today is a  momentous day. A day that I wait for all year long. Do you know what it is?

If you guessed the Chinese New Year...you're wrong.

If you guessed National Ginger Day...you're also wrong. Because every day should be spent in celebration of gingers.

Nope, it's Johnny Depp's birthday.

I know that was probably the last thing you ever would have guessed, but I happen to celebrate it every year. That's right. Every. Year.

Mock me if you will, but in my opinion Johnny Depp is one of the greatest actors around and the fact that he is ridiculously good looking is just a bonus. A really big bonus. Especially since he's now 48 and still more attractive than most actors 20 years his junior. 

Oh goodness. He's just so darn sexy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY DEPP!!!!!!!!!!!

The End.

The Things You Learn From Friends...

It was another fabulous weekend in which I journeyed far and wide to the magical land of Vernal, Utah. I have a love-hate relationship with this town because I always have so much fun when I go there, but I always end up having to say goodbye to an awesome friend. It seems like all I do anymore is go to farewells. I love them, but they're sad.


This weekend seemed like the first rain-free one this year! Holy Biscuits y'all, I am so sick of the rain. If it was a person, I would punch it. Even if it was an Asian. All Asians aside, it was a great weekend. We hiked, (so much easier in the daytime I tell you what!) ate, talked, joked, teased, danced, sat around, and just had a stellar time. I know it has only been two weeks since I was living down the hall from all these people, but I really have missed being around them a lot; and it was so great to have some time just to hang out again.


Some Highlights of the weekend were:

• The Drive Up: I rode up with my friends Whitney and Mackay and we spent the entire 4 hours teasing the crap out of each other. I don't think there was even a moment a silence, it was immensely entertaining.
• The World Didn't End: I admit it, I was a little worried that it would. Thank goodness it didn't though, the Glee finale isn't until tomorrow!! Are they going to win Nationals? Do Fin and Rachel get back together?? I CAN'T HANDLE THE SUSPENSE!!!
• Night Hiking: Something we always end up doing when we go to Vernal. This time we went to a quaint little rock formation known as "Moonshine Arch" unfortunatey we didn't have any moonshine, but even more unfortunately there were in fact several moons that shone over the course of the evening. It was a lot of fun though, and the stars in Vernal are incredible, I could almost see the Death Star. 
• Learning: Mackay found a very educational book at his house called "Self Knowledge: A Companion To Know Thyself". It was full of intellectual gems about relationships including: "Spooning is the kindergarten to prostitution" and "Symptoms of Impregnation: Childbirth" there was much guffawing involved with this novel.
• Names: We spent much of the weekend calling each other names, but this is mostly referring to a very interesting website that we discovered. PoopNames.com. That's right, there is an entire website devoted to naming the different styles of excrement that exit the human body. It might have been the fact that we were in Vernal and sleep-deprived, but we were laughing so hard at this website that we cried. Don't Judge.

There was a lot more that happened, but sadly, these are the best parts. Of course getting to be at Caden's farewell was great, he's an awesome guy and he's going to be an amazing missionary. I was sad to leave Vernal, but I know I'll be going back later in the summer to party and try my hand at wakeboarding. I think I'm going to rock, but we'll see.

The End

Where's The Love?

So, like today is tote's Earth Day!! 

Which is one of my favorite days of the year because I get to act like a total hippie and no one can make fun of me!!!

Today I was barefoot

Being barefoot is the best of times

Earth day is just awesome because it reminds you to take a step back and really appreciate the wonderful world we live in. Ferreal guys, this planet we have, it's AMAZING!!!!!! I haven't even seen very much of it, but what I have seen has been incredible. 

This is 2nd Dam in Logan Utah, it's barely a mile away from my apartment. It's gorgeous

Waterfall Canyon in Ogden, Utah 

(If you look closely you can see a rainbow right over my head)

Dixie Rock in fabulous St. George

A very sexy snowman that was sitting on a bench outside the Engineering Building for most of the winter

DISNEYLAND!!!

I'm for reals here people, there is so much on this earth for us to be thankful for!! So I challenge all of you to show a little love for your Mother Earth today, show her you care! Recycle some stuff, turn off the water while you brush your teeth, ride a bike around instead of driving, go take a nice walk in the sunshine, or my personal favorite...

Hug a tree

Happy Earth Day everyone!!!

Live It Up!!!

Groundhog Day in Apartment 310

As you all know, today was a very special day, the celebration of a glorious tradition that has been handed down for centuries. IT"S GROUNDHOG  DAY!!! 


WooHoo!!

If you really think about it though, groundhog day is probably one of the dumbest holiday's there is. Even dumber than Columbus Day or Hooray-A-Man-Made-A-Wrong-Turn-And-Destroyed-An-Entire-Indigenous-Civilization-Day or  April fools aka A-Long-Time-Ago-A-Bunch-Of-People-Acted-Stupid-To-Get-Out-Of-Paying-Taxes-Like-Responsible-Citizens-Day. Groundhog Day should really be called Hey-Look-An-Unattractive-Furry-Creature-Is-Doing-Normal-Furry-Creature-Stuff-And-We're-Going-To-Pretend-He-Can-Tell-The-Future-Because-We're-Dumb-Politicians-With-Nothing-Better-To-Do-Day.


Despite the idiocy of the tradition, my apartment decided to host an epic Groundhog Day party. We invited our whole floor over, fed them delicious brownies, and then performed a re-enactment of the Groundhog seeing his shadow; complete with a fake groundhog, and a motivational speech proclaiming that there are only six weeks until spring! Then we explained to one of our chromosomally challenged neighbors that it didn't really matter if the groundhog saw his shadow or not. Either way, Spring is equally far away. Plus the groundhog is only 19% effective.


Have a great Groundhog Day everyone! I hope it was a ludicrous and ridiculous as mine was!!!


Brittany