Crazy Socks & Writer's Block

It's no secret that I want to be an author. I think I've been saying that since I was, nine. Anyways, I was wondering if I should include some of what I'm working on here at times? What do you think?

I done did go get my huuuur cute today. Haha! I love getting my hair cut, it's like special pampering for an hour. I have my special haircut lady that I always go to and I have NO idea what I will do if she ever moves! I always just go get a trim because I've been trying to grow out my hair since fifth grade and it's taking it's sweet time. Maybe one day I'll be bold and cut it real short. Maybe. These photos were inspired from my hair cut. And photo booth. Had to do the duck face peace sign picture. 

Yesterday was a pretty weird day. I had to wake up early to go get some cash register training at work because they're updating the system and bla bla. So I woke up earlier than I have all summer and headed over to work. My sister was taking her driving test so I had to take my mom's huge car which scares me to death to drive. Funny thing about her car. It has one of those little clicker remote things to unlock it. The remotes are broken though so you can't unlock it. You'd think you could just stick the key in the door and unlock it like back in the olden days, but no. That sets the car alarm off. So I got to set the alarm off early in the morning yesterday and at work when I left. It was embarrassing.  When I got there I was five minutes late and all the doors were locked. So I banged on the windows for a good five minutes before calling the store. When someone answered I said ever so nicely, Hey, I'm locked out and I need to get in. Except I said the wrong mana...

Please pray for Colorado.

Well, I found a roommate. I waited just a little bit longer and BAM! We instantly clicked and are now roommates. I hope all goes well! My freaking out melt down is officially over. Shabam! I no longer am a desperate teenage boy who falls in love with rocks. I'm a sophisticated girl who has taste and can wait for that big fish. Man, my metaphors are weird today. I might have confused my roommate earlier with my metaphor about how immuno deficiencies. Or how I got in trouble for googling if fertilized animal eggs will grow in human uterus's. Hey. I wasn't the only one who googled it because the answer was on Ask Yahoo. It's no for those of you scared of googling it. The bestby's leaving on Saturday for a family vacation. I'm going to miss him sooooo much but it's only for a week. I have to keep telling myself that. It's only a week, it's only a week. It's only a week! But I'm going to miss him. He's my bestby! I attempted to throw his sui...

College is almost here. AHHHH!!! Which means I need to find a roommate. AHHHHH!!!! And, since the school only uses its email system, I missed the email a few weeks ago saying we pick our roommates on this weird Facebook app. So, being two weeks late to the show, I'm on there, thinking that everyone who shows up doesn't have a roommate. I thought about it for an hour, and narrowed my decision down to two people. Then, I sent the fateful roommate request. Guess what? Both of those people already had roommates. That's ok, I told myself. I looked at the other people and sent them all emails, pouring out my soul, ok not really, but they were all really long emails about why I thought we would be great roommates and what we had in common. Guess what? Since I wasn't already friends with them on the Facebook, none of them got the emails. So now those are all just floating around out there, for them to randomly find someday years later, and to think I'm a total creeper. ...

The only thing I can seem to write right now are Haikus. Maybe I should become a poet. Ha. Ha. Ha. Haiku for an Earwig:                                             Earwig crawling by So gross and unwelcome here Go somewhere and die.      Haiku for Baby Moth:      You are so very small      Babies are usually cute      But not you Baby Moth           Haiku for College Major Switch:           Who knows what I'll do           But tonight I'll write haikus           Major switch, maybe?                Haiku for Facebook:                You were addicting                Now you are jus...

Salad with craisins and sunflower seeds. Tire from car used as replacement knob Pink fluffy slippers. They're mine by the way. He steals them Chicken Strips shaped like seahorses Packages in the mail. I love the little things. 

This is a very personal post, so please be respectful. If you want to learn more about what I'm talking about and temples, go Here . Thank you. :) Part of the summer bucket list was to go to the temple with the bestby. He's never been up close to a temple before and was so excited. Today we went! Last night we both had crazy butterflies. He was so cute, he was on the internet looking at pictures and telling me which were the prettiest and all the ones he wanted to go to. (My personal favorite is the Manila Phillipines Temple. My seminary teacher gave me a picture of it for my birthday two years ago because it was rededicated on my birthday. Why'd it have to be rededicated? Because it got hit with a cannonball in a revolution. How cool is that?!? Plus it's pretty.)  I could hardly sleep, I was so excited to go. Deep down I was a little scared though because you always hear all those horror stories about people who are just trying to go and their car breaks down, ...

Relationships. They're hard. In the beginning it's all smiles and laughs. But then life sets in. That's what everyone keeps telling me, and they keep telling me it's just going to get harder and harder. That I haven't seen anything yet. I know I still have a whole lot to learn. A lot of growing to do. But I know this is real, and I know this is different. That everything will somehow work out. This week I've been thinking a lot and praying and just trying to figure some things out. I was blog crawling and Jessica at  The Morning Letters  posted a video of her singing a song for her anniversary. It was beautiful and heartfelt and gave me goosebumps and made me cry. It was the exact song I needed to hear at that moment. That even when things are hard, not to give up. I wasn't planning on giving up, but it was nice to hear those words. They boosted me up. So did the loving words and advice of friend and leader. Reading her words gave me goosebumps and feel so m...

So, I have curly hair. And I absolutely love it! One of my fears is that later on in life when I get preggo, that hormones will ruin it and then it will be gone. If that happens, I'm screwed because I have no idea how to style my hair. Anyways. I noticed a little knot in my hair. And another. And some more. So I decided to brush them out. That is what brushes are for. And then this happened. My curls + brush = BAD IDEA!!!!! Don't get me wrong, I brush my hair everyday, just when it's wet. (I know, that's bad for your hair, but I don't want to look like this everyday!) I think I'll be this for Halloween.

Last night, I finally checked out the pictures of the dogs in the ugliest dog contest. I was really bothered by it! These poor dogs, they have names like Icky and Creature. Yeah, they aren't the prettiest faces in the world but I bet they're loving dogs! Why on earth would you name your dog Icky? Like really? If we named people based on what we all looked like when we were born, we'd all have names like Alien, Creature, Cone Head, etc. Who came up with the idea of having an ugliest dog contest? I'm worried about humanity.

My last post about work wasn't very, uhmm, positive. Now that I've been there a whole week though, I'm starting to enjoy it a whole lot more. I'm getting into the groove of things. I feel so cool walking around with my beauty belt and radio and having voices talk inside my head constantly. I love the people I work with. They're all very quirky and different. I love how my managers always say thank you for every little thing. It's like, hey you don't have to be thanking me I should be thanking you for the opportunity to work here! On my days off, I've worn as much color as possible though. Just saying. For example Bam! White, red, and orange. All in one outfit.  People are still giving me funny looks when I tell them where I work. And my bank account isn't looking so hot. I put everything away and I'm like I want this and this and this and this, and yeah. It's not good. I'm so grateful to have a job though. :)  All those new co...

So confused. Not sure what to do. Nothing feels right. Everything feels wrong. Up is down and down is up.

So, I was in the shower. And I was deciding whether or not I should wash my hair because it looked fine. Then the power went out and it was pitch black. That answered that question. I wasn't done though, so I just kept on showering in the dark. When it was time for soap, I felt around the shower cubby. There's a slight problem though, I'm allergic to one of the soaps in there. So I fumbled around until I found both bars of soap and smelled each, trying to figure out which one was the right one. Luckily they don't smell anything alike. So I put the other one back and just went on with my shower. A few years ago my mom put those touch lights in every room, so that if the power ever went out, we could just use those instead. I was so grateful for that today. I hopped out of the shower and fumbled around until I found the light. I knocked over a crap load of stuff though and my family just laughed downstairs every time something fell. When I was completely dressed and cle...

I have the best dad ever. Everyone always says that, but it's actually true here. To preserve his secret identity, I shall not post pictures of him in this post. I love him so much though and am such lucky girl. He knows about practically everything and is one of those dad's who needs a piece of graph paper and pens to explain the simplest of things. He has one of the strongest testimonies I've ever seen and has definitely helped mine. He knows all about computers, cars, and rock and roll. You can always find him strumming on his guitar. I saw a bumper sticker today that said yes this is my truck, no I will not help you move. It instantly reminded me of my dad. He's always there to help with the many, many, many moves that happen. Always there with his truck. One time I told him he should sell the truck so that we wouldn't have to go on so many moves. He said that since we had been blessed so much it was our responsibility to help others. That really stuck with me...

Shoeless is the way to go. Ok, maybe not in all situations, like at dirty gas stations or in the middle of Wyoming. But whenever I have an opportunity to slip my shoes off, I go for it. It's just so liberating and free. Whenever I take big tests, I make sure to wear shoes that easily slip on and off. For some reason I always do better. I remember the first time I went shoeless while driving. I was running late for who knows what and didn't have time to put my tennis shoes on and untie the laces because I just always kick em off and I know you're not supposed to do that but blah blah blah. I was so late though that I just hopped in the car, and drove shoeless. It was liberating. I felt so free. So, dangerous. Like I was living on the edge. I know, all I did was drive without shoes. But man. People think I'm weird when I tell them this. But then I tell them to try it just once. Just once put your barefoot onto that gas pedal. I've converted a few people to sho...

Back in eighth grade, my science teacher was, let go. So we had subs for a couple months while they tried to find a replacement. Subs who just turned movies on for us and let us do whatever. So my friend and I decided to write a story. It was one of those ones where you write a section and the other person writes a section and so on. I was reading through it today and it made me laugh, so I thought I'd share it. Please note, it has lots of references to movies and tv shows we liked in 8th grade, so if parts don't make sense, just google the names. Like Alex Rider. And Perry the Platypus. And that flop of a movie Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium. Winnie the Pooh. Blue's Clue's. My weird best friend in the first grade who would shake and fart on command. Anyways. Enjoy! P.S. I write a whole lot better than this now. :) P.P.S At the end there's a poem that I read at an actual poetry cafe. Nobody understood it. Ha ha ha! Once upon a time there was 75945. She or should ...

I FREAKING LOVE MEG CABOT! Need I say more? I know I already did a post about her, but, I just love her so much! I just finished reading Big Boned, book three of one of her series and it was soooo. good. So then I needed more Meg Cabot and since the library has nothing else of hers, I hit up my handy dandy bookshelf in my room and picked up another one of my favorites by her, the Mediator series. (It has a sexy Mexican in it, and I love my Mexicans;) But I freaking love Meg Cabot. I can't get enough of her. So, I thought I would do some reviews of her books, for those of you who haven't had the delight of reading her books. She writes teen and adult and I loooove all of them. All of her stories have feisty protagonists who kick butt. And there's always just enough romance. I absolutely love that she'll drag it out over a series, but not too long where I just want to throw the book at the wall. It's just right. I just finished reading the entire Heather Wel...

Yesterday was my first 'official' shift at VS. From 6-midnight. What a crazy first shift right?! Nonetheless I was excited. I had to go get a bunch more black clothes before work though. The hardest thing was shoes because I work in the back room and I have to climb up a lot of things. But I still want to look dressy. So Toms it was! Except they don't sell the fake toms anymore, so I ended up getting the real thing. The guy at the shoe store was adamant that I get the tightest pair possible because they're going to stretch. Hey, I got new shoes and another person did in the deal. So I went to work. I had an unpleasant visitor that morning though, my period. Stupid period. Need I go over all the times it visited this past year? My birthday, the bestby's birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, college interview, graduation, and now this. Stupid period. Stupid cramps. Anyways. The store closed at six so that we could get to work on the SEMI-ANNUAL SALE!!!! Yo...

I remember when I first read Twilight and was like wow. This is the best book ever. And then I read about how she had a dream and that's how the whole story started. I was like man, I hope I have an awesome dream someday that becomes an awesome book. I think I had it! I had a dream about a little orphan girl who was taking a trip to the beach with her orphanage. She saw a teeny tiny baby lobster and wanted to get a picture of it real close. So she got up right next to the baby lobster. Then the baby lobster bit her and told her that he knew who had killed her parents. It was the director of the orphanage! So she went to school the next day, and wore a blue shirt. She wasn't allowed to wear blue to school though so she had to be secretive and wear a jacket over it. She was having a conversation with the guy she liked in the library when all the sudden the director of the orphanage came over and told her she wasn't allowed to read that book. She'd had enough though an...

You know you had good girl time when you had no time to take pictures :) I got to hang out with Kelsey today and it was awesome! We've known each other since the 7th grade. It hasn't been all unicorns and daisies though. We've gone through some rough times. But when it really matters, we're always there for each other. Girl Time consisted of: Frozen yogurt Petting Puppies Taco Bell Thrift Store Resisting going back into the puppy store. . . Multiple times Looking for consolation cards for not being able to afford a puppy Sitting on couches and NOT getting kicked out of a furniture store for once! And much, much, more. :)