So I guess I should update this more often...

I am having a good time here still. Spring is coming and it is glorious! Yay for shorts and skirts!
School is good. It is actually not the most stressful thing in my life right now. (Surprise!) I got into the Elementary Education major (they only let in 95% of the people who apply) and so I'll be starting that as my second half of my program in the fall.
I just found out that I got into the spring opera. As in, BYU's opera that is put on in the DeJong Concert Hall and is really big and intimidating. I am a very small part - a nun (I forget my exact title) but I am just so excited to be getting back on the stage! It is a cast of about 20 people - all girls, so I'm sure we'll have a blast backstage.
I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but I got a job working in the adminstration building as part of the Records department. A bunch of different offices send us all of their documents that people send in and stuff and we scan them and link the scanned image to the electronic file of the student that it belongs to. It kind of reminds me of working in the barn...in a way. But it's money, not a lot, but a whole lot more than zero and we have a lot of fun in the office.

Anyways, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Jazz Band

so this semester I sang a song with the Jazz Lab Band and we had our concert last night. I sang a song called "Orange Colored Sky." It was originally Natalie Cole's song. She's Nat King Cole's daughter. No pressure there. HA!
Elise took a video for me and now I get to share it with all of you! The audio isn't too great. A friend of mine made an audio recording of it for archival purposes. I'll see if I can get it from him and share that too.

See you all in just a few days!

This is hilarious

A New Look

so I thought I'd mix it up a little and I made my own template! It was kind of exciting figuring out the html...or following directions on how to do it from another website, but it was still an adventure with many twists and turns. And now I have something to show for it. If you'll notice, I added a link on the right-hand side that will take you directly to my photo site. (I figured out how to do that one all on my own)
Life is going well, just school. I feel kind of boring just saying that, but that is kind of my life. Thanksgiving was really good. I went to a friend's house. His family lives here in Provo so I had a family dinner. It was really fun. We played games and stuff. Yesterday was fun too. I didn't really do that much. Some homework, played some games with friends, OH! and I made dinner for everyone. I had a leftover lasagna from the last time I made dinner group that I hadn't cooked that I had just stuck in the freezer. I pulled it out and invited my friends over and I cooked dinner for everyone. It was pretty good, especially for having been in the freezer for about 3 weeks. I felt very motherly, making dinner for everyone.
After that I went downstairs to a girl's apartment to watch The Fellowship of the Ring with them. THere was a whole group there and one by one, the girls that lived there went to bed, so Patrick, Bryan (his roommate) and I moved the movie to their apartment so they could go to bed and we could turn up the volume so we could actually hear. Then Bryan went to bed so it was just me and Patrick. THEN the DVD player was having a heart attack so we took out the DVD, cleaned it, and put it back in. This happened a couple more times before we gave up and put it in his laptop to watch the rest. THEN his laptop ran out of battery and we had to plug it in and reboot it all. It was quite an adventure, but the movie was pretty good. Kind of intense, but good.
So that's my life. OH! I forgot! I get to play the egg shakers for one of the women's chorus songs. I'm one of two or three girls that get to do it. I'm really excited. AND I get to conduct the opening song at devotional on Tuesday. So this week, Tuesday at 11:00 (Utah time, I think) you all should watch for me. I'll be waving my arm around on national television!
Hope you all had a good thanksgiving, and I'll see you at Christmas.

So it's been a while...

Well, I haven't written in a while, and I'm sorry about that. I guess I've just been really busy. I mean you know, I AM so popular (no. not really) but I have been doing a ton of stuff. School is going well, I took a huge midterm on Friday that actually didn't go very well, but I think it will all even out in the end. (Who knew Music History was so hard?)

Halloween was fun. My roommates and I dressed up like a cast from a TV show my roommate watches and we had a fun time trying to copy their outfits and personalities. All the characters work at a fashion magazine. I was the creative director (ironic?) and our friend Brandon was my assistant that will pretty much do anything for me so that I don't fire him (I'm kind of mean, I guess) so this is how it turned out:

Does he look scared of me? And um…look at my hair! It's huge!!!!

Here's a group shot of all of us:

So from left to right is Jes (the receptionist), Patrick (the editor in chief), Mark (the cute, nerdy accountant), Stephanie (assistant to the editor in chief who knows nothing about fashion), Me (creative director who is conniving to take over the company from Patrick's family), Brandon (my assistant who is just very funny).

So that was Halloween, nothing like you guy's costumes, but I did see some good costumes at the parties we went to. On campus during the day there was a pacman and a ghost (from the game) who were chasing each other all over and they even had a soundtrack with the little beeping. It was very impressive.

So last weekend I went to the opera with my friend Chris and we had a good time. We were already planning on going to the BYU Singers concert in two weeks but that night he told me that it should be a real date so I guess we're going on a date in two weeks. I'm excited. He's a good guy :)

Other than that my life is pretty normal. OH! My friend Jordan invited me, my roommate Courtney, and his roommate Nathan (who is dating Courtney) to his grandma's house for Thanksgiving. So I'm going to that, I'm kind of excited. This will be my first Thanksgiving turkey! Kind of a big deal.

Oh, also, my ward is planning a trip to the Salt Lake Temple to do baptisms and stuff. We did it last year too. I'm really excited to go again. I mean, it's the Salt Lake Temple!

So that is my life. I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. I'll try to keep up more often. Also I think I'll be putting pictures up on that site again. Here's the link

A fun weekend

so this week we had our first choir concert. I think it went really well. We had a lot of fun and it was great to be back up on the stage, especially with Women's Chorus.

On Friday night, a group of us went to Walmart and then we went to this park nearby that has these really cool swings. It is kind of a carousel kind of thing. It has three swings that hang from a central beam-y thing that you can spin around. It's really cool. Anyways, we did that, which was way fun and then drove back home, going around the roundabout many many times on the way. I felt slightly sick.

On Saturday, I had a reunion with the girls from home at Stephanie Andreasen's house (used-to-be-Hieb). That was really fun. It was good to see the girls again.

Then came Sunday. We got a new bishop, which was very sad, but I'm excited for our new one. He seems very nice and like a good teacher. Then Chris came over to make cookies. 

Love you all and talk at you next week (or maybe earlier if I'm really on top of things)


PS here is the link to my web album. I added more pictures.

PICTURES

I put up some pictures on my google picasa web albums. Facebook was having a heart attack so I abandoned it. Hopefully I can update these more often.

here's the link.

PS I helped out for the first time in a real school with real kids this morning. I'm going to be a student helper for the elementary school choir at Wasatch Elementary. I'm really excited about it, the only bad part is that it is at 7:30 in the morning on Mondays and Wednesdays. But it was good to get up and going early.

PPS I have a pseudo date set for Sunday. My friend, Chris, is going to come over and make cookies with me. I'm so excited! He's a very nice boy.