The Most Awkward Laundry Experiences

At my apartment building we have a laundry room, a community laundry room because I was too cheap to find an apartment with it's own washing machine so now I community launder with the rest of the wonderful citizens of Continental. It's a laundry party. There is one problem with our wonderful community laundering experience: I am a woman and sometimes there are men. In fact statistically it's probably 50% of the time if there is someone in the laundry at the same time as me it's going to be a man. I feel like laundry rooms should be like bathrooms; we should have one for women and one for men. I mean honestly I have more privacy in the bathroom then I do in the laundry room, which now that I think about it is probably how it should be. But it's so awkward to be sitting there all puttin' my laundry in the washer and in walks a man, usually a friendly one too. Then they want to talk to you and it's all like yes please continue conversing with me about how warm it is today while I subtly try to stick my bra here between my two pairs of jeans and smuggle it into the washer without you noticing. I love when that happens! It's like the best moment of my life. The laundry room is not like online dating we don't go there with the purpose of meeting someone we go there to put clothes in the washer. And I just want to do it alone!

I Am Alive. And Incredibly Happy Too!

The month of November has definitely been an interesting one folks. But it has been so amazing!! I am very happy to say that N is home from his mission and I love him. A lot. Like more than I ever thought possible. He is pretty amazing you guys. This month has been crazy I feel like it has gone by so quickly! It is already the nineteenth and December is quickly approaching. Christmas is upon us! I love Christmas and this Christmas is going to be the best Christmas yet and I am very excited for it. Even if I am incredibly poor because my work is cutting my hours back drastically. I'm looking for a new job. Looking for a new job is not fun. On the positive side I have had multiple job interviews so hopefully I find something soon. Until then I just get to be poor. It's a fun life. I should be concerned but I just can't find it in me because I am so so so happy! Life is good! Go eat some ice-cream for me.

The Awkwardness of Not Being a Parent

I have been to two baby showers in my entire existence. One was when I was in high school and I had two young women's leaders who were due about a week apart. That baby shower really was like a party to me because the young women had been invited so I just sat at the "young peoples" table and talked about clearly not babies. I was completely oblivious to any other conversation that could have been going on. Which is why I was completely unprepared for what was to come. The second baby shower I've gone to was last week, and it was for my beautiful "sister-in-law". Do you know what people talk about at baby showers?!? Not fun things people. Not fun things. I am terrified to have children now. I don't want to go through labor. It sounds terrifying and horrible and disgusting. And then there are repercussions for months afterwards. Horrible, horrible repercussions. Why does anyone want to do this? Why can't men have babies? I'd much rather they do it than me. Just sayin'. The only good I found in this is that women do do this. And then they do it again. And again. And sometimes again. So, there must be something pretty amazing about having a baby that makes all that misery okay to deal with. I'm not saying I'd like to jump on the pregnancy band wagon anytime soon but I am really glad to have family and friends who have gone before me to show me that even though they pretend it's horrible it is still a pretty amazing thing. And I can't wait to meet my little nephew or niece.

Living is a Side Effect of Death

Should I be doing my homework? Yes. But if I was always doing my homework when I was supposed to be you would never read anything on here ever. Life is crazy friends! I feel like I am moving in fast forward and I am not sure how I like it yet. It's already the middle of October! Didn't this month just start? I have too much to do and too little time to do it in. I could really use that time machine now, for purposes other than becoming a pregnant teenager (long story-some of you will get it).
In other news I have recently discovered a few things about myself that I was unaware of until this last week or so:
1. I am terrified of being an astronaut. (If you haven't seen the movie gravity it's really good).
2. I am a bit of a hypochondriac and I believe doctors are the closest thing to angels you could possibly get. This explains why my mom always waited days after I told her I needed to see a doctor before she took me.
3. I'm slightly night blind. It's cool, I haven't died yet so I should be fine. My grandma is night blind and she's been driving at night for years now. If she can do it then so can I.
4. I tried a plum for the first time. Well, it was a dried plum but it still counts. (This isn't something new I discovered about myself I just wanted you to know).
Life is cRaZy!! I have two assignments due by the end of today another due tomorrow and a test due Wednesday. I looooove school soooooooo much. Not to mention I really need to get caught up on a bunch of stuff before the end of this month or I'm going to hate my life. More than I currently do.
Au Revoir peeps! (I think that means good bye but I'm not sure because I don't speak French).

Mount Doom

When my bedroom starts to look like Mount Doom you know it's been a stressful few weeks. It's getting pretty bad. I can barely get into my closet anymore. But what fun would it be to clean it up?

For your viewing pleasures:

In other news...you know that history test that gave me nightmares. I GOT A FLIPPIN' A!!!!! I never saw that coming, not in a million years.

OcToBeR!!!!

Peeps! We are now in the month of October! It took long enough to get here! This is what I feel like inside, don't get too many ideas though. I am soooo not this flexible. But I AM SO FLIPPIN' EXCITED!!! It's going to be a great month folks! 27 MORE DAYS!!

I am a Terrible Person Who Does Terrible Things & I Hate History

I have been up since 4:30 this morning, and in between 12 and 4:30 when one might think sleeping sounds nice my body was being plagued by nightmares of my history test. I got like 12.5 minutes of sleep last night you guys! It's going to be a very hard day. I've decided to write a blog post right now for who knows what reason because it's not going to make sense and if it does make sense it's probably going to be one of those posts I look back on and contemplate hitting the delete button. I have no idea why I do the things I do.
I just finished my history test, exactly 15 minutes ago. It was horrible! Why do I need history? I keep wondering this. I'm a social work major, I don't really think I need to know why Britain rose to power. Besides that, most of my academic career all I do is memorize things, regurgitate them, and then forget them. History will be no different, I'm not even going to remember any of this stuff. I really hate history. Reading a history book is like reading the medical encyclopedia for me. NONE OF IT MAKES ANY SENSE! Which is why studying was a stressful nightmare and it literally gave me nightmares. I didn't sleep at all last night. When I woke up, for like the gazillionth time, at 4:30 I finally gave up and just started studying some more. If I don't get at least a 70 on this exam I'm going to cry.
I ditched my practice class this week you guys. I ditched it to go to Crystal Hot Springs, which is basically a really big hot tub. And I don't regret anything. I am a terrible human being. A terribly irresponsible human being. But it's the first time I have ditched a class this semester, which is pretty awesome considering I sort of have a history of ditching class.
I killed a man's motorcycle yesterday. Okay, kill is exaggerating, I barely tapped it. And it didn't look like anything was wrong at all, no scratches or anything. I put a note on it and then left and now I feel like a criminal. I am feeling extremely guilty about hitting his bike. I'm trying not to but I feel really bad. And now I have anxiety that any second he is going to call me and tell me his bike is irreparable and that it's all my fault and that I should die. I am not kidding that's literally what I've been thinking he will say, I am really scared.
I am a terrible terrible person you guys, and now I'm going to go eat a hot pocket and cry myself into a nap.
On the positive-September is almost over!!!

Just Me, Avoiding my Homework

You guys want to see a beautiful picture?

That there is my LITTLE chain!! Look how little it is! Remember waaaaay back when it stretched through the entire living room. It's sooooo small now! 43 links. There are only 43 links left. Do you know what that means 43 MORE DAYS!!! That's less than two months!! AAAAAAHHHHH!!! I just needed you to see this. That's all. I love you all! -Except for the people who come here from random sights and have no idea what I'm even talking about-I don't really love you, don't get me wrong I'm sure if given the chance we would be great friends but seeing as I've never met you and will never even know you are reading this we don't have much of a chance. But everyone else, I love you!! And I'm sorry but you get to put up with this for 43 more days. But at least it's only 43 MORE DAYS!!!!!!

Count Your Blessings, Name them or At Least 1,000 of Them

This week I was reading the Ensign, church magazine, and their was an article titled "1,000 Things to Be Grateful For". In the article Elder Romney talks about his daughter having a school assignment to write an essay on 100 things she is grateful for. She ends up going above and beyond the requirement and coming up with 1,000 things. Well, anyone who knows me knows I complain, A LOT. In reality I shouldn't because I have so much in life to be grateful for. So, I decided to accept this article as my own personal challenge and come up with 1,000 things to be grateful for. All I do at work all day is make phone calls so I figured that's when I will write up my list and it shouldn't take me too long. It is actually a lot harder than it seems. I only have like 200 so far! I know I have a lot to be grateful for I just can't remember what it all is...

Here's the link to the article (in case you were interested) http://www.lds.org/ensign/2013/09/1000-things-to-be-thankful-for?lang=eng

Sometimes I Do Very Stupid Things

This last week was awesome. Just awesome. No, it really wasn't that bad, besides the whole being blinded and embarrassed in front of an attractive man. On Friday I got a flat tire. That was very exciting. And of course I had no idea what to do because I know less than nothing about vehicles. My knowledge of my car goes as far as I press this lever with my foot and it goes and I press this lever with my foot and it stops. So I do what I always do when I am in crisis mode and I called my "sister" who brought my brother in law down to change my tire. They take really good care of me. On other notes I have a paper due in about six hours that I have yet to do because (I believed) I didn't have the textbook yet and I have been waiting for it to come in the mail. I have been freaking out for the last hour about how in the world I was going to write my paper without the book when I realized the book arrived almost two weeks ago. Yes, I really just did that. My life rocks you guys. On the positive I can now stop freaking out about how I'm going to write that paper and start freaking out about whether I will get it written in time. But at least I know I have the book now?