Thursday, September 29, 2011
Provo Rain
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Stars or whatever
This is apparently what happens when a sick, sleep deprived, seventeen year old waits for astronomy to start. Yeah... I don't really get it either...
So I realized that I haven't properly updated this blog deal of mine in roughly *looks at pocket watch* 1000 years but by Wednesday all of my assignments, exams, and essays will be done and maybe if I'm lucky I won't be sick anymore. So, I'll try to catch you all up on the big detail then.
In other new though, I saw this monster in my room the other night. It's kind of hard to tell from the picture, but it was pretty massive. Also it was hairy, which isn't something I've typically observed in spiders back home. Anyway, the point is, it was kind of gross.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Week one.. again
I really haven't been in the mood to update lately, but my blog is so out of date it's starting to look like Katy's, so I guess I had better get updating
Friday nothing particularly remarkable happened. In the morning my dad and I went down to the bus station. I didn't particularly feel like interacting with all of the wonderful individuals that ride the bus so I mostly read a few articles I needed to finish for my American Heritage Class.
Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning I did find one interesting character however, a 65 year old "Gypsy" from Seattle. She wasn't actually like a full fledged gypsy but she described herself as one and proceeded to tell me all about her life story that lead up to her currently having no house, causing her to live currently in her car which she was returning to in Reno. I got to Provo around 8:00 am I think and proceeded to start to walk to my apartment... 28 blocks away. After I had walked a few, I gave up, called Aaron and asked him to come help me. We ended up meeting at the Provo library, which was block 14, half way. It had taken me about 45 minutes to walk there. Once Aaron got there, he hoisted my huge suitcase above his head and we walked the rest of the 14 blocks in about 20 minutes...... Someday I'll have at least moderate strength.
After I had checked in I unpacked my dishes and a few more things and then Aaron and I went to go eat at the cannon center, pick up my books, and find where our classes were. After that we tracked down Autumn but she was on her way to work so we only saw her for a minute. So we ended up going back to my lovely apartment (it's like super decked out, I'll have to take some pictures of it once my roommates put all of the furniture back) and watched part of a movie. About half way through my roommate Alexis showed up with her family and about everything that had once been for sale in Wal Mart. We talked to them for awhile, and they all seemed pretty cool. Alexis' mom looks like Emma Claudfield too.
While they were all putting stuff away, Aaron and I decided to go to the store since neither of us had any food so we headed off to Buy Low. We stalked up and then rushed home since we had already made plans with Seth to go see Green Lantern at the Dollar Theater. When we got to the theater however the line was incredibly long and by the time we got to the front the show time we had come to see had already started so we got tickets for a later showing, stopped at the creamery where Seth bought a half gallon of ice cream (on the way to the theater he was telling Aaron and I about how it was his only true love) and we went back to my apartment to finish watching the movie that Aaron and I had been watching earlier. When we got back to my apartment however, Alexis' grandma was there...alone... watching t.v. She said that the rest of the family had gone to dinner and she had decided to stay here. The three of us sat in the kitchen somewhat awkwardly eating ice cream while she watched the end of "Failure to Launch". Seth also broke my spoon.
That went on for a little while but we decided to leave the awkwardness and go to Aaron's apartment to watch the rest of the movie since his complex has a commons area with a t.v. When we go there however there was a bunch of girls singing Disney songs and show tunes. Naturally, we abandoned our movie and joined them. When Autumn got off work she even abandoned her zombie dance party and sang with us too. We sang for some time but then the four of us (Seth, Aaron, Autumn, and I) headed off for the movie. I have to say I liked it pretty well. When we got out of the movie a big storm was just starting and we ended walking home in it which I have to say, was pretty awesome. My bread had ended up at Aaron's apartment and his top ramen was still at mine so he and I stopped by my place and got the ramen, and the went to his place where I got bread. After I had my bread, I went home and went to bed.
I didn't really do anything all that exciting on Sunday. I went to church, got acquainted with my new ward, and my roommates and I took some pictures afterward. After ward prayer though, some guy named Ben followed us home on a dare. We invited him in for some of the cookies we had left over and he ended up staying for about an hour.
Monday was the first day of classes and I had Genealogy, Book of Mormon, Astronomy, and Biology. So far they all seem pretty good. After class I went to the book store to pick up a binder and my sports pass. While I was there I ran into Seth and Aaron and we talked for a little while before I went home. That afternoon I went to FHE, where we met our individual groups and played charades. That evening it was stormy again but it didn't end up down pouring like it had on Saturday. Being the foolish young person that I am and having no class on Tuesday until 4:00 I stayed up watching "Definitely Maybe."
Like I said earlier,Tuesday I didn't have any class until 4:00 and I had stayed up late the night before so I didn't end up doing much all day. The class that I have on Tuesdays and Thursdays in American Heritage. What we ended up doing that day was writing our own syllabus, including learning objectives and some of the assignments. It was kind of interesting. On my way to class, I ran into Aaron at the library. You know, I've noticed the same thing here that I noticed at MP. Even though there are like thousands or people here running around you end up finding people you know around quite often. Tuesday evening after class Aaron and I went to the supposed club fair that happens every Tuesday but there wasn't anything going on so we ended up exploring the library and "fighting" over which was better, Halo or Zelda. We explored the library for an hour or so and then I went home and watched "The Proposal" with my other roommate Karen.
Wednesday was a pretty typical morning. I went to class, and nothing particularly exciting went on. That evening though Aaron and I broke up. What with not having class until 4:00 again, I ended up staying far too late again talking to Karoline and Austin and watching "Because I Said So."
Thursday I went to class in the afternoon and checked out the move in sale at the bookstore. Then Autumn and I decided to check out this ink blot study but it took forever and we decided to abandon it and get snow cones and watch the new "Alice in Wonderland" instead.
Friday was my first day of martial arts class, and that was interesting. We didn't really do much though, just talk about the class and go over the syllabus. It looks like it's going to be intense though. After that class I went to my science classes and then went home. I read my textbook for a while before I went to hang out with Hannah and Autumn. We headed back to campus to go to the carnival that was going on there, but it ended up being majorly disappointing. The one aspect of the fair that they did capture though was the price range. You had to pay money to get in and then if you wanted to do anything else it cost more money. We found Seth and Aaron there, and the five of us left pretty soon after we arrived. We went back to my apartment where we watched "The Prestige."
Saturday was the first football game of the season, which we won by one point. After the game Autumn and I decided to walk to Borders to check out their closing sales. On the way we discovered the amazing and fantastic strip mall for the elegant and wealthy. Everything there was far to fancy and far to expensive. It was fantastic. They had a toy store there that looked like something I have only seen before in movies. We debated eating there but it was to uppity for our meager budgets so we collected all the amazing treasures we had collected at Borders, took one last look, and headed home. On the way home a lot of potential plans were formulated. Hannah wanted to know if we wanted to do something, and so we decided to meet up at Panda Express but on the way back we decided that we weren't really that hungry so we decided to just meet back at wyview. On our way back Aaron also inquired of us to see if we wanted to go swimming but we ended up not doing that either. After that the plan became to go see Super 8, but by the time the 5 of us (Seth was with us too) got there, the line was incredibly long and the movie started soon. We actually didn't end up really doing anything. Hannah and Autumn then decided that they were indeed hungry so so we went to some sandwich shop type deal where they got something to eat. After that we went to Blockbuster, looked at the movies for awhile, and then went home.
Sunday was a pretty typical day. I went to church, did my religion homework, and my roommates and I made Chicken Alfredo for dinner. The one abnormality however was that I think my roommates got drunk or whiffed some drugs or something. The guy that followed us home last Sunday came over again, somewhat randomly and we read "All of my Friends Are Dead." Up until that point everything was fine, but after that... I don't exactly know what went on. My roommates kept yelling and howling, and laughing at absolutely nothing. Two also apparently became the funniest number to ever grace the Earth. After about forty minutes, it transitioned from funny to amusing to awkward to just annoying.Eventually I just left them and Ben (poor guy, I don't know why he didn't just leave) in their state of mental impairedness or whatever it was. I escaped to Autumn's and we walked down to Blockbuster so she could return the movies she had gotten the other night. Well, there was no way I was going back to deal with my intoxicated associates and their friend (Alexis' friend came over later) that night, so I stayed the night at Autumn's.
Early Monday morning, while I was at Autumn's apartment, we decided to watch a million movies. We only ended up watching "Room 1408" and "500 days of Summer" though before we went to bed. Later that morning I had a magnificent breakfast of bacon, eggs, french toast and a smoothie before going home to work on some homework. After the homework was done I went back over to Autumn's where I watched the end of "The Fountain", possibly on of the strangest movies I've ever seen, and "Drag me to Hell". Later that evening we played Ultimate Frisbee with a group of kids, took the rest of the movies back to Blockbuster, got ice cream to celebrate Labor Day, and then finally watched "Super 8 with Seth and Aaron. Some crazy people might disagree with this but Super 8 is pretty much "E.T." meets "How to Train Your Dragon". I got home and was ready to go to bed but there were a million people at my apartment who were apparently getting ready to have a dance party. Not particularly being in the mood to participate, I wandered around Wyview for about a half an hour until they all went away.
Tuesday I didn't do a whole lot. Went to my liberal American Heritage class, ran down to Buy Low to save Aaron who had forgotten to take a backpack to the store with him, and went to a cookie party at Hannah's friend's house. It was an interesting party. It didn't last too long, maybe an hour or so, and a bunch of random people from the area were there. I guess Hannah's friend had just gone knocking on anyone and everyone's door seeing if they wanted to come. That's about all the adventures I had that day. After the party I just went home and did homework.
Today there was a club fair type deal on campus, which was interesting. I got few free things including an amazing pen that I really like writing with. Maybe that'll motivate me to finally write the letters I've been meaning to write.
So, that's everything I've been up to since I left. Not really that much, and yet I still managed to write about 10 pages about it. I'll try to update more often so that doesn't happen. That or stop leading such a darn fascinating life.No guarantees on that though.
Friday nothing particularly remarkable happened. In the morning my dad and I went down to the bus station. I didn't particularly feel like interacting with all of the wonderful individuals that ride the bus so I mostly read a few articles I needed to finish for my American Heritage Class.
Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning I did find one interesting character however, a 65 year old "Gypsy" from Seattle. She wasn't actually like a full fledged gypsy but she described herself as one and proceeded to tell me all about her life story that lead up to her currently having no house, causing her to live currently in her car which she was returning to in Reno. I got to Provo around 8:00 am I think and proceeded to start to walk to my apartment... 28 blocks away. After I had walked a few, I gave up, called Aaron and asked him to come help me. We ended up meeting at the Provo library, which was block 14, half way. It had taken me about 45 minutes to walk there. Once Aaron got there, he hoisted my huge suitcase above his head and we walked the rest of the 14 blocks in about 20 minutes...... Someday I'll have at least moderate strength.
After I had checked in I unpacked my dishes and a few more things and then Aaron and I went to go eat at the cannon center, pick up my books, and find where our classes were. After that we tracked down Autumn but she was on her way to work so we only saw her for a minute. So we ended up going back to my lovely apartment (it's like super decked out, I'll have to take some pictures of it once my roommates put all of the furniture back) and watched part of a movie. About half way through my roommate Alexis showed up with her family and about everything that had once been for sale in Wal Mart. We talked to them for awhile, and they all seemed pretty cool. Alexis' mom looks like Emma Claudfield too.
While they were all putting stuff away, Aaron and I decided to go to the store since neither of us had any food so we headed off to Buy Low. We stalked up and then rushed home since we had already made plans with Seth to go see Green Lantern at the Dollar Theater. When we got to the theater however the line was incredibly long and by the time we got to the front the show time we had come to see had already started so we got tickets for a later showing, stopped at the creamery where Seth bought a half gallon of ice cream (on the way to the theater he was telling Aaron and I about how it was his only true love) and we went back to my apartment to finish watching the movie that Aaron and I had been watching earlier. When we got back to my apartment however, Alexis' grandma was there...alone... watching t.v. She said that the rest of the family had gone to dinner and she had decided to stay here. The three of us sat in the kitchen somewhat awkwardly eating ice cream while she watched the end of "Failure to Launch". Seth also broke my spoon.
That went on for a little while but we decided to leave the awkwardness and go to Aaron's apartment to watch the rest of the movie since his complex has a commons area with a t.v. When we go there however there was a bunch of girls singing Disney songs and show tunes. Naturally, we abandoned our movie and joined them. When Autumn got off work she even abandoned her zombie dance party and sang with us too. We sang for some time but then the four of us (Seth, Aaron, Autumn, and I) headed off for the movie. I have to say I liked it pretty well. When we got out of the movie a big storm was just starting and we ended walking home in it which I have to say, was pretty awesome. My bread had ended up at Aaron's apartment and his top ramen was still at mine so he and I stopped by my place and got the ramen, and the went to his place where I got bread. After I had my bread, I went home and went to bed.
I didn't really do anything all that exciting on Sunday. I went to church, got acquainted with my new ward, and my roommates and I took some pictures afterward. After ward prayer though, some guy named Ben followed us home on a dare. We invited him in for some of the cookies we had left over and he ended up staying for about an hour.
Monday was the first day of classes and I had Genealogy, Book of Mormon, Astronomy, and Biology. So far they all seem pretty good. After class I went to the book store to pick up a binder and my sports pass. While I was there I ran into Seth and Aaron and we talked for a little while before I went home. That afternoon I went to FHE, where we met our individual groups and played charades. That evening it was stormy again but it didn't end up down pouring like it had on Saturday. Being the foolish young person that I am and having no class on Tuesday until 4:00 I stayed up watching "Definitely Maybe."
Like I said earlier,Tuesday I didn't have any class until 4:00 and I had stayed up late the night before so I didn't end up doing much all day. The class that I have on Tuesdays and Thursdays in American Heritage. What we ended up doing that day was writing our own syllabus, including learning objectives and some of the assignments. It was kind of interesting. On my way to class, I ran into Aaron at the library. You know, I've noticed the same thing here that I noticed at MP. Even though there are like thousands or people here running around you end up finding people you know around quite often. Tuesday evening after class Aaron and I went to the supposed club fair that happens every Tuesday but there wasn't anything going on so we ended up exploring the library and "fighting" over which was better, Halo or Zelda. We explored the library for an hour or so and then I went home and watched "The Proposal" with my other roommate Karen.
Wednesday was a pretty typical morning. I went to class, and nothing particularly exciting went on. That evening though Aaron and I broke up. What with not having class until 4:00 again, I ended up staying far too late again talking to Karoline and Austin and watching "Because I Said So."
Thursday I went to class in the afternoon and checked out the move in sale at the bookstore. Then Autumn and I decided to check out this ink blot study but it took forever and we decided to abandon it and get snow cones and watch the new "Alice in Wonderland" instead.
Friday was my first day of martial arts class, and that was interesting. We didn't really do much though, just talk about the class and go over the syllabus. It looks like it's going to be intense though. After that class I went to my science classes and then went home. I read my textbook for a while before I went to hang out with Hannah and Autumn. We headed back to campus to go to the carnival that was going on there, but it ended up being majorly disappointing. The one aspect of the fair that they did capture though was the price range. You had to pay money to get in and then if you wanted to do anything else it cost more money. We found Seth and Aaron there, and the five of us left pretty soon after we arrived. We went back to my apartment where we watched "The Prestige."
Saturday was the first football game of the season, which we won by one point. After the game Autumn and I decided to walk to Borders to check out their closing sales. On the way we discovered the amazing and fantastic strip mall for the elegant and wealthy. Everything there was far to fancy and far to expensive. It was fantastic. They had a toy store there that looked like something I have only seen before in movies. We debated eating there but it was to uppity for our meager budgets so we collected all the amazing treasures we had collected at Borders, took one last look, and headed home. On the way home a lot of potential plans were formulated. Hannah wanted to know if we wanted to do something, and so we decided to meet up at Panda Express but on the way back we decided that we weren't really that hungry so we decided to just meet back at wyview. On our way back Aaron also inquired of us to see if we wanted to go swimming but we ended up not doing that either. After that the plan became to go see Super 8, but by the time the 5 of us (Seth was with us too) got there, the line was incredibly long and the movie started soon. We actually didn't end up really doing anything. Hannah and Autumn then decided that they were indeed hungry so so we went to some sandwich shop type deal where they got something to eat. After that we went to Blockbuster, looked at the movies for awhile, and then went home.
Sunday was a pretty typical day. I went to church, did my religion homework, and my roommates and I made Chicken Alfredo for dinner. The one abnormality however was that I think my roommates got drunk or whiffed some drugs or something. The guy that followed us home last Sunday came over again, somewhat randomly and we read "All of my Friends Are Dead." Up until that point everything was fine, but after that... I don't exactly know what went on. My roommates kept yelling and howling, and laughing at absolutely nothing. Two also apparently became the funniest number to ever grace the Earth. After about forty minutes, it transitioned from funny to amusing to awkward to just annoying.Eventually I just left them and Ben (poor guy, I don't know why he didn't just leave) in their state of mental impairedness or whatever it was. I escaped to Autumn's and we walked down to Blockbuster so she could return the movies she had gotten the other night. Well, there was no way I was going back to deal with my intoxicated associates and their friend (Alexis' friend came over later) that night, so I stayed the night at Autumn's.
Early Monday morning, while I was at Autumn's apartment, we decided to watch a million movies. We only ended up watching "Room 1408" and "500 days of Summer" though before we went to bed. Later that morning I had a magnificent breakfast of bacon, eggs, french toast and a smoothie before going home to work on some homework. After the homework was done I went back over to Autumn's where I watched the end of "The Fountain", possibly on of the strangest movies I've ever seen, and "Drag me to Hell". Later that evening we played Ultimate Frisbee with a group of kids, took the rest of the movies back to Blockbuster, got ice cream to celebrate Labor Day, and then finally watched "Super 8 with Seth and Aaron. Some crazy people might disagree with this but Super 8 is pretty much "E.T." meets "How to Train Your Dragon". I got home and was ready to go to bed but there were a million people at my apartment who were apparently getting ready to have a dance party. Not particularly being in the mood to participate, I wandered around Wyview for about a half an hour until they all went away.
Tuesday I didn't do a whole lot. Went to my liberal American Heritage class, ran down to Buy Low to save Aaron who had forgotten to take a backpack to the store with him, and went to a cookie party at Hannah's friend's house. It was an interesting party. It didn't last too long, maybe an hour or so, and a bunch of random people from the area were there. I guess Hannah's friend had just gone knocking on anyone and everyone's door seeing if they wanted to come. That's about all the adventures I had that day. After the party I just went home and did homework.
Today there was a club fair type deal on campus, which was interesting. I got few free things including an amazing pen that I really like writing with. Maybe that'll motivate me to finally write the letters I've been meaning to write.
So, that's everything I've been up to since I left. Not really that much, and yet I still managed to write about 10 pages about it. I'll try to update more often so that doesn't happen. That or stop leading such a darn fascinating life.No guarantees on that though.
Friday, August 26, 2011
The Short Summer
Well, in a few hours I'll be leaving to head back to Utah: A fate worse than death. The two weeks I had at home were nice though.
The first Saturday I didn't do much. I got home around 7:30 pm, had some yakisoba for dinner and watched Rear Window aka The Consequences of Being an Apple Bottom.
Sunday I went to the singles ward where I saw Patty and a few other people. I also saw my paternal grandmother when I got home. Mostly though I just spent the day chilling and organizing/ packing up my bedroom.
Monday my sister and I went to my aunt and uncle's house to watch my two little cousins while my aunt and uncle went out to look at houses. That was pretty fun. Both of my cousins are young, 3 and 1, so they are plenty entertaining. After that my sister and my mom and I went to my maternal grandmother's house where we hung out for a while and cleaned.
Tuesday was my brother Grant's birthday. Our family went out for breakfast and then later in the afternoon we went swimming at a nearby lake. In the evening my paternal grandparents, my maternal grandmother and my cousin's and aunt came up for a BBQ. Oh, we also went to see "Cowboys and Aliens", which I enjoyed but I also felt like it was a mix between "The Searchers" and "Battle L.A." For my brother's birthday I got him the first book in the Hunger Games series. I've never read it personally but he finished it in like three days so, I guess it was pretty good.
Wednesday I hung out with Riley at the park near our house for a few hours. The next day he would be leaving for Utah: a fate worse than death, but he'll be in Logan while I'll be in Provo so we 'll still be some distance away. I also picked up my senior pictures that I had taken with David before I left. The rest of the day I just spent doing more cleaning and organizing.
Thursday morning our family left to go spend the weekend at my aunt and uncle's beach house (a different aunt and uncle than earlier). On the way we stopped at a big hunting and camping store where we looked around and my younger brother, who is big into camping, picked up a lantern. We also had elk and bison hamburgers and a venison bratwurst there for lunch. We got to the beach in the evening, probably around 6:30 or so. Soon after we got there we walked down to the water with my aunt where we hung out for a little while. We then went to my uncle's mom's house for dinner where we had some awesome homemade chicken noodle soup. Once we got back to my aunt and uncle's house, we watch a documentary on the Ocean that was narrated by Pierce Bronson. It was interesting, but what is really weird is that apparently Hillary also watched the same documentary on the same day.
Friday my uncle made us all a humongonous breakfast and we headed into town to get stuff to go fishing. When we got home though, my mom and my aunt, who had gone running out on the beach weren't back yet, so my uncle, brother and sister went swimming in the bay and my younger brother, dad and I went kayaking. After we were a little ways out though we decided to go clamming. My sister, uncle and brother, and eventually my dad and other brother, would dive down and pick up a clam and then I would come over and they would drop it in my kayak. It was a lot of fun and we go so many! Probably close to 100. When we got back my mom and aunt were home so we all ate and then we went out in the boat. We weren't gone for very long though because the water was choppy, the weather ended up being really bad and foggy, some people started getting sick, and we were kind of pushing it anyway with so many people in the boat. Later that evening we cleaned the clams, went swimming at the local country club type place, and watched a movie back at the house.
Saturday we had another humongonous breakfast and then went for a long walk on the beach. After we got back, we packed up all of our stuff and headed out. On our way home we stopped at Skippers and
had lunch since apparently we hadn't had enough of sea food and the ocean. That evening I ended up going to a local park to meet Katy, Hillary, and Scott. We stayed at the park for a while but it was getting dark and we ended up going back to Scott's house where we mostly talked and roasted mashmellows.
Sunday I went to my home ward to hear my older brother give his farewell talk since he'll be leaving soon to serve his mission. Both of my grandmothers and an aunt of mine (a different one than before) came to listen to him as well. I saw some people there I know too and Halden, Jared, and I had a good time in Sunday School. Halden had brought some gummy worms with him and we spent the class trying to figure out how to break into them without being disruptive. He also gave me a tissue as a token of our friendship, which I must present to him next time we meet as proof that I have not forgotten him or something. The rest of the day I spent trying to fill out forums for school but the internet kept crashing so it took forever and was rather annoying. I also played apples to apples.
Monday I had made plans with Hillary, Chelsea, Katy, and Scott to go to a local beach/ island thing but it ended up pouring rain so we went out to breakfast at IHOP and then went back to Scott's where we played Life, Mario Party, watched "Space Thunder Kids" and bummed around. That evening Katy, Hillary and I went back to Hillary's house where we watched the rest of an anime, Fullmetal Alchemist, which I hadn't finished watching. It was pretty awesome and I really enjoyed it, with the exception of one guy that just would not die! He was in that annoying lingering before death stage for like 4 episodes! Every time you thought that you were finally rid of him he just kept coming back to torture you. That one obnoxious guy aside though the show was great and I was glad to finish it.
Tuesday I left Hillary's house around 12:30 and spent the day at the store. My older brother, my mom and I went to the nearby mall and I got boots, a coat, and other winter cloths to keep me from freezing to death in the arctic tundra that is Utah during the winter. While we were there, the guy who was working at the shoe place was a kid that was in my third grade class, which was kind of weird. While we were at the mall we also went to Borders to look at their close out sales. I didn't see anything that I was too particularly interested in buying, but I did think it was interesting that they were sell absolutely everything. Aside from books you could also buy there tables, chairs, bookshelves, and I even saw price tags on the flavorings that were left over from the coffee shop that was inside the store. If I had a place for it, I think it would be pretty cool to have a bookshelf or something from Borders. After we went there my brother and I went to Half Priced Books while my mom went to pick up our 9 year old cousin who was staying with us for a few days. That evening my mom and I also went to another store where I got an awesome tiger hat and we picked up some food for the bus ride.
Wednesday our family went to get some portraits taken and then we spent most of the rest of the day in a small town a little ways away looking at stuff in antique shops (the parent's plan). That evening I we also played Life.
Thursday I spent the morning with Karoline. We walked to a local park near where she used to live and hung around there for awhile. Then we came home and I almost an entire melon. I spent my late afternoon watching some divine comedy skits and then went to another local park with James and his friend Robert for a few hours. I spent the rest of the night looking up quotes with my parents for my mom's quote wall she's putting up in her classroom and making sure I had everything I needed ready to go.
That brings us to today, early Friday morning. In a few hours I'll catch the bus in Seattle and then in 21 hours, around 8:00 am on Saturday, I'll be back in Provo. I'll probably spend Saturday buying books, going to the store, unpacking my things, and finishing my work for American Heritage. Then Sunday I'll get acquainted with my new ward and then Monday it's back to school.
The first Saturday I didn't do much. I got home around 7:30 pm, had some yakisoba for dinner and watched Rear Window aka The Consequences of Being an Apple Bottom.
Sunday I went to the singles ward where I saw Patty and a few other people. I also saw my paternal grandmother when I got home. Mostly though I just spent the day chilling and organizing/ packing up my bedroom.
Monday my sister and I went to my aunt and uncle's house to watch my two little cousins while my aunt and uncle went out to look at houses. That was pretty fun. Both of my cousins are young, 3 and 1, so they are plenty entertaining. After that my sister and my mom and I went to my maternal grandmother's house where we hung out for a while and cleaned.
Tuesday was my brother Grant's birthday. Our family went out for breakfast and then later in the afternoon we went swimming at a nearby lake. In the evening my paternal grandparents, my maternal grandmother and my cousin's and aunt came up for a BBQ. Oh, we also went to see "Cowboys and Aliens", which I enjoyed but I also felt like it was a mix between "The Searchers" and "Battle L.A." For my brother's birthday I got him the first book in the Hunger Games series. I've never read it personally but he finished it in like three days so, I guess it was pretty good.
Wednesday I hung out with Riley at the park near our house for a few hours. The next day he would be leaving for Utah: a fate worse than death, but he'll be in Logan while I'll be in Provo so we 'll still be some distance away. I also picked up my senior pictures that I had taken with David before I left. The rest of the day I just spent doing more cleaning and organizing.
Thursday morning our family left to go spend the weekend at my aunt and uncle's beach house (a different aunt and uncle than earlier). On the way we stopped at a big hunting and camping store where we looked around and my younger brother, who is big into camping, picked up a lantern. We also had elk and bison hamburgers and a venison bratwurst there for lunch. We got to the beach in the evening, probably around 6:30 or so. Soon after we got there we walked down to the water with my aunt where we hung out for a little while. We then went to my uncle's mom's house for dinner where we had some awesome homemade chicken noodle soup. Once we got back to my aunt and uncle's house, we watch a documentary on the Ocean that was narrated by Pierce Bronson. It was interesting, but what is really weird is that apparently Hillary also watched the same documentary on the same day.
Friday my uncle made us all a humongonous breakfast and we headed into town to get stuff to go fishing. When we got home though, my mom and my aunt, who had gone running out on the beach weren't back yet, so my uncle, brother and sister went swimming in the bay and my younger brother, dad and I went kayaking. After we were a little ways out though we decided to go clamming. My sister, uncle and brother, and eventually my dad and other brother, would dive down and pick up a clam and then I would come over and they would drop it in my kayak. It was a lot of fun and we go so many! Probably close to 100. When we got back my mom and aunt were home so we all ate and then we went out in the boat. We weren't gone for very long though because the water was choppy, the weather ended up being really bad and foggy, some people started getting sick, and we were kind of pushing it anyway with so many people in the boat. Later that evening we cleaned the clams, went swimming at the local country club type place, and watched a movie back at the house.
Saturday we had another humongonous breakfast and then went for a long walk on the beach. After we got back, we packed up all of our stuff and headed out. On our way home we stopped at Skippers and
had lunch since apparently we hadn't had enough of sea food and the ocean. That evening I ended up going to a local park to meet Katy, Hillary, and Scott. We stayed at the park for a while but it was getting dark and we ended up going back to Scott's house where we mostly talked and roasted mashmellows.
Sunday I went to my home ward to hear my older brother give his farewell talk since he'll be leaving soon to serve his mission. Both of my grandmothers and an aunt of mine (a different one than before) came to listen to him as well. I saw some people there I know too and Halden, Jared, and I had a good time in Sunday School. Halden had brought some gummy worms with him and we spent the class trying to figure out how to break into them without being disruptive. He also gave me a tissue as a token of our friendship, which I must present to him next time we meet as proof that I have not forgotten him or something. The rest of the day I spent trying to fill out forums for school but the internet kept crashing so it took forever and was rather annoying. I also played apples to apples.
Monday I had made plans with Hillary, Chelsea, Katy, and Scott to go to a local beach/ island thing but it ended up pouring rain so we went out to breakfast at IHOP and then went back to Scott's where we played Life, Mario Party, watched "Space Thunder Kids" and bummed around. That evening Katy, Hillary and I went back to Hillary's house where we watched the rest of an anime, Fullmetal Alchemist, which I hadn't finished watching. It was pretty awesome and I really enjoyed it, with the exception of one guy that just would not die! He was in that annoying lingering before death stage for like 4 episodes! Every time you thought that you were finally rid of him he just kept coming back to torture you. That one obnoxious guy aside though the show was great and I was glad to finish it.
Tuesday I left Hillary's house around 12:30 and spent the day at the store. My older brother, my mom and I went to the nearby mall and I got boots, a coat, and other winter cloths to keep me from freezing to death in the arctic tundra that is Utah during the winter. While we were there, the guy who was working at the shoe place was a kid that was in my third grade class, which was kind of weird. While we were at the mall we also went to Borders to look at their close out sales. I didn't see anything that I was too particularly interested in buying, but I did think it was interesting that they were sell absolutely everything. Aside from books you could also buy there tables, chairs, bookshelves, and I even saw price tags on the flavorings that were left over from the coffee shop that was inside the store. If I had a place for it, I think it would be pretty cool to have a bookshelf or something from Borders. After we went there my brother and I went to Half Priced Books while my mom went to pick up our 9 year old cousin who was staying with us for a few days. That evening my mom and I also went to another store where I got an awesome tiger hat and we picked up some food for the bus ride.
Wednesday our family went to get some portraits taken and then we spent most of the rest of the day in a small town a little ways away looking at stuff in antique shops (the parent's plan). That evening I we also played Life.
Thursday I spent the morning with Karoline. We walked to a local park near where she used to live and hung around there for awhile. Then we came home and I almost an entire melon. I spent my late afternoon watching some divine comedy skits and then went to another local park with James and his friend Robert for a few hours. I spent the rest of the night looking up quotes with my parents for my mom's quote wall she's putting up in her classroom and making sure I had everything I needed ready to go.
That brings us to today, early Friday morning. In a few hours I'll catch the bus in Seattle and then in 21 hours, around 8:00 am on Saturday, I'll be back in Provo. I'll probably spend Saturday buying books, going to the store, unpacking my things, and finishing my work for American Heritage. Then Sunday I'll get acquainted with my new ward and then Monday it's back to school.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
I have returned
So, back in Washington.
It took 26 hours on a bus to get me here and along the way I met some interesting characters. A potentially homeless man who told me in detail about the stalker he had who he was sure was trying to steal all the drugs he was toting. Upon later reflection though he decided that the stalker was actually gay and was trying to seduce him. A moderately blind 30ish year old man by the name of Angel who was headed from San Diago to some place in Montana to visit his parents. A 18 year old kid named James who was going to home to Spokane from Reno after having attended his mom's wedding. He told me in great detail about the story of his family and his dog and how his father left his mother. He was actually a pretty cool kid though. I saw a bad cross dresser, and by bad I mean he was clearly a man that was about 50ish but he was wearing a pink sequence shirt, a woman's jean jacket, girl's pants, and had long layered hair in a pony tail. There was also an old guy who got kicked off the bus because he refused to surrender his knife, and apparently our bus driver was accused of assaulting someone but I'm not exactly sure what went down there since I was asleep. So... this experience has cause me to conclude that riding the bus is much like being trapped in a bar without the alcohol or the karaoke. Or the food for that matter. So nothing to eat and drink and no singing, but everyone feels the need to tell you their life story.
It took 26 hours on a bus to get me here and along the way I met some interesting characters. A potentially homeless man who told me in detail about the stalker he had who he was sure was trying to steal all the drugs he was toting. Upon later reflection though he decided that the stalker was actually gay and was trying to seduce him. A moderately blind 30ish year old man by the name of Angel who was headed from San Diago to some place in Montana to visit his parents. A 18 year old kid named James who was going to home to Spokane from Reno after having attended his mom's wedding. He told me in great detail about the story of his family and his dog and how his father left his mother. He was actually a pretty cool kid though. I saw a bad cross dresser, and by bad I mean he was clearly a man that was about 50ish but he was wearing a pink sequence shirt, a woman's jean jacket, girl's pants, and had long layered hair in a pony tail. There was also an old guy who got kicked off the bus because he refused to surrender his knife, and apparently our bus driver was accused of assaulting someone but I'm not exactly sure what went down there since I was asleep. So... this experience has cause me to conclude that riding the bus is much like being trapped in a bar without the alcohol or the karaoke. Or the food for that matter. So nothing to eat and drink and no singing, but everyone feels the need to tell you their life story.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
So close...
Two more days, one more final, one more paper, one moving to a new apartment, and one 25 hour long bus ride until I'm home free.
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