2011

HOLY BUCKETS

It's 2011.
Dang.
Well, what an evening I had on New Year's Eve.
First it started out with bowling with Kyle and Kayle (who is Kyle's best friend just returned from his mission.)
Next we go to Kyle's house where we think it's just going to be me, Kyle, Kayle, and Brad and his lady.
Wrong. The whole gang is here!!! Chris, Andrew, Pat, Cam, Brad, Kyle, me, Kayle, Rachael, and Cam's girlfriend. DANG. Lots of people in that house. So much fun.
We then played Killer Uno (way fun!) till around 11:00 and kind of mingled until the ball dropped.
It was so fun to hang out with everybody. I love those guys.
Once the party started dying down around 12:45, someone (I won't name names to keep their identity a secret hahah) got sick.
Pretty dang sick.
So we tended to unnamed sick person until they were feeling up to going home.
Which was around 3:00 am.
Haha what a night.
Nonetheless I think we all had fun. Here are some pictures of all of us!

Left to right: Sarah (I think that's her name), Cam, Andre, and Kayle. Don't look so happy to be here, Kayle.

L to R: Jeff, Pat, Brad, and Rach.

Chris laying on the floor.

And then one of Kyle and me trying to be cute. Ha

Well Friends.

It's been a minute. So I decided I better blog.

I had Christmas with Kyle's family on the 20th since that was the only day we could all gather to celebrate. Kyle's brother did an outstanding job at getting all of us up at 6:00am. Oi. But it's a good thing he did, cuz we had a lot of presents to open.
I was trying to upload the picture but it's not working. You're just going to have to trust me when I say I got spoiled! Seriously.
And with all of the presents we had under the tree (113 presents to be precise.) it took us 2 1/2 hours to sleep. We were all tired of opening presents. Ha but there were so many because there were presents from Kyle, Brad, Jeff, Ryan, Gary, Tammy, and then Gary's daughter, Bev. Lots of people= lots of presents.
Then.
I went to Reno for Christmas! That was a blast.
I flew on a plane out and back all by myself for the first time.
You should be proud of me.
I'm proud of me.
Got spoiled. AGAIN.
I know. It's nuts.
I got this adorable Sign Language ornament from my mommy (:


Luke made sure that we had a checklist for all of the things we needed to do before Santa came on Christmas night.The next morning he left a letter for Luke thanking him for the celery and carrots for his reindeer and for the cookies for Santa. Luke was beside himself with excitement.

Kyle's family also got a letter from Santa.
They forgot to leave cookies out for Santa.
He wasn't happy.


The rest of the break I just hung around with my family.
And my favorite nephew.
Who loves me very much. (:

Finally....

Well Boys and Girls,

I'm finally going to post the pictures of Kyle's birthday present.
It's been a long time coming, but hey.
Here we go.

Special shout out to Jordyn for helping me make the tags and lending me more fun letters. (: Couldn't have made them without you.



I love this boy.

NEEEW MAJOR

Guess what, you guys?!
By you guys I mean the whole 2 people that might read my blog. Hollah at Justin and Jordyn!!! haha
I've settled on a major and a minor!
Ooh ooh!!!!
I'm so excited!
I'm going to major in Deaf Studies and get a minor in Theatre. (:
Oh, actually a Bachelor of Arts in Deaf Studies. That's right.
I'm gonna be legit.
I'm gonna have a Bachelor's Degree.
BAM.
I feel so great.
No integrated studies major for me.
It was too many philosophy classes. Which I don't like.
They piss me off.
Though they do allow me to be more open minded, the teachers just talk at the class for 50 minutes.
Too much.
But yes....
Bachelor of Arts.
I'm cool.
(:

Ohhh boy

Just to catch you up on all my happenings lately...
Surprisingly there have been quite a few.
1. My grandma was put into the hospital for a rapid heartbeat and her diverticulitis was acting up. She was in the hospital for a few days because they couldn't get her heart rate down and she was at a risk for blood clots if they couldn't get it under control. They finally did and she's home now. But her shots she has to take now are pretty expensive and it's making money tight for her. I wish I could help some. Please send some love and prayers her way. She needs them. I also wish I could be out there to give some support or something. But alas, my car is a piece. Which leads me to the next happening.
2. My car. Gee, what a gem. Okay, so car. Here we go. My car is STILL leaking oil or something. I don't know for sure what it's leaking, I can never figure it out and surprisingly no one else in the auto shops around the world can either. This car is a mystery. THEN I get out to my car yesterday and there is an inch of water on the bottom of my passenger side floor. Coooool. Turns out the hole in my convertible top is actually a gaping hole now. It rained for two days consecutively and now there's a large amount of water in my car. Sweet. Convertible tops are much more expensive than it's worth for me to spend money on this car at this point, so I went with a much cheaper alternative: Duct tape. That's right. Duct tape.
I put a plastic bag on the inside to seal up the hole and duct taped that, then duct taped the hole on the outside. I'm not entirely sure how waterproof duct tape is, but I guess time will tell.
3. Remember how I said I wanted to do Integrated Studies Major? Yeah, I did, then today I had an epiphany. I don't want to do Integrated Studies, no. I want to do and ASL major with a minor in Theatre. Yes, that's the good stuff. This would be an exciting thing for me normally, however at this very time it's not a super good thing to come to terms with. Why, you say? Because I can offically register for classes at 12:00 on Wednesday. Like as in tomorrow. I had all my classes picked out for if I were to do and Integrated Studies major and now I'm going to have to focus on ASL and Theatre classes. Problem, now I don't know what classes I'm going to need.. eff. Call a counselor? Wish I could. None of them are answering their phones because they're helping all of the other students on campus with their life crisises. Luckily, the language counselor did email me back, so I have a meeting with her on Thursday morning.
Theatre counselor I have yet to hear from. *gulp* I hope she calls me soon.
I do have 3 classes that I know I'm going to need in order to carry on with this. Which is the good news. I can register for those classes tonight/ tomorrow morning. I just hope the rest of the classes I'm going to need are going to be available by the time I can talk to the counselor. *cue panicked breathing*
So this epiphany comes to me in the middle of class today, about 11 hours before I can register for classes. Oi. Granted, it's a much better time to have this epiphany than 2 years into an Integrated Studies Major. However, I wish I could have had this epiphany last Tuesday. Definitely would have been more beneficial.
4. School will be overwhelming this next semester... eh. 12 credits on campus. I think another 4 off campus so I can get finished with my math credits right now and never have to take a math class for the rest of my life. Joyous occasions in the far future.
Stressful headaches in the near future.
Anyone have $1500 I can have to pay for those math classes with? :/
5. I GET TO GO TO RENO FOR THANKSGIVING!!! I'm so excited! I miss my mom like crazy!!! I can't wait to see her, my sister, and my sweet nephew! It's going to be great! Hopefully Kyle will be able to go with me. (: Keep your fingers crossed for me.
So that's my soap box.
Good news: Grandma's going to be okay, my life is on track to be what I want to be when I grow up, and I get to see my mommy sooner than I expected to.
Bad news: Car is lame and it's effing snowing. Grr.
That's all.
Amen.

Oh, and in Other News

School is awesome.
I think I've settled on a major.
Da da da da!!!!
Integrated Studies Major: ASL/Theatre.
Best of both worlds!
Did you know there's a job where you can interpret actors' lines in plays!? Because you can!
And that's my dream job!
And then I could just interpret for classes or whatever when I'm not on the stage.
AND I could act too.
Do you not see how perfect this major is for me?
I do.
I'm going to talk to my counselor this week and I'll get my life figured out (:
I'M SO EXCITED!!!!
My life is awesome.

Perfect Websites. In Case You Need Some.

In case you were wondering, I've uncovered a gold of cute clothing websites.

The first one: www.modcloth.com
Cuuuute clothes and necklaces. Like this necklace that I've been fighting with myself to get for like 4 months... no joke.


THEN I found www.lulus.com
MORE cute things. I'm dying here, people.
This dress I would gladly wear everywhere... If I had somewhere where I could wear it everywhere everday.. if that makes sense. LoVe ThIs DrEsS.


Then today I found this perfect website:
www.shopplasticland.com
This is just the home decor. They've got clothes, too. But these are things that I probably need in my future household.

A fish bath plug.


Salt and pepper shakers. So cute. OMG.



Aaaaand the world's cutest cookie jar.

And then in case you needed some inspiration, this girl is probably the coolest thing since sliced bread. She takes UUUH-GLY dresses and turns them into glorious cute dresses that you'd kill to have. Well, maybe not kill, but you'd do something a litte insane for them. I think. I might. Maybe.
www.newdressaday.com
This girl is a genius. (: