I'm Laura!: January 2009

Saturday, January 24, 2009

A little update on my life-a.

So life is good, nothing too extraordinary right now, here are a few updates:

I got a car, which is awesome! The only problem so far is that I don't quite know how to drive stick.. Oh well, it's a new adventure! My car is a 1991 Geo tracker! It's 4WD and it's cute and very me! I'm thinking of naming it Shia LeBeouf.

My sister recently came home from Au pairing in Holland for a year! I'm so happy to have her home, she's one of my best friends in the whole world! When she came home she wanted her big bed back (I've been sleeping on it), so I opted for a new twin in my room! The reason I'm so happy about having a twin bed is because now I can fit a huge bookshelf and a drafting desk in my room! I'm so excited to get the desk in there, but I can't get it until I get some help moving it (it weighs a million billion pounds!)

Lately I've been pretty happy to live in Saint George. I still miss Virginia terribly, and it will always be my home in one way or another...but it's nice to not hate Saint George anymore. Saint George is beautiful to behold, and perfect if you like the outdoors. I have friends and things to do, and the dramas of life are calming down a bit... Here are some pictures I took from the top of Dixie rock:

Other than that I'm applying to the masters in education program at Weber State, in Ogden, Utah, for the fall! I'm so excited to have found a program, and school, that seems to be just what I'm looking for! My only real concern about it so far is the weather up there, I don't know if I can handle that much cold and snow! At least now I have 4WD car to attack northern Utah with!

And for your viewing pleasure, an amazing music video from the one and only Queen! Warning: this video includes scantily clad cross dressing men and spandex interpretive dance, it could offend you.

Monday, January 19, 2009

I am the Duckie, coo coo Ka choo.

Do you ever have those days when you just feel like you'll never get the boy (or girl)? Like you are the most awkward person on the planet? Like you can't say anything right? Like you are Duckie from Pretty in Pink?

Life is good! I have so much to be grateful for! I don't mean to be negative...but I cannot escape my Duckiness. Maybe one day I will find someone great who wants a Duckie...

Some similarities Duckie and I have:

1. We are perpetually awkward

2. We have amazing clothes and accessories

3. We have brown hair

4. We fall hard for the people we love

5. We like music

5. We ride our bikes (or cars) past the house of people we like

6. We freak out

7. We sometimes say too much

Other than that, my amazing sister dyed my hair!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Etiquette and snakes.

I just wanted to make a list of etiquette pet peeves. I know it's whiny, but I've simply got to get this out. All of these are complaints based on actual behavior exhibited by other people. I know I'm not perfect and I don't act perfectly, but come on people!
At the movies it is rude to:

1. Have conversations on your phone during the movie, or even worse, have three conversations on your phone. I'm not talking texts here people- an actual conversation.

2. Kick my seat.

3. Have conversations with your seat neighbor the whole time- on top of it all, conversations that don't even have to do with the movie!

4. Leave your trash everywhere.

5. Bring babies- unless they're showing Baby Einstein for some reason, get a babysitter.

6. Bring your children to mature movies. I saw 4 year old kids at the last Pirates movie and 8 year old at The Dark Knight! Are you kidding me! I was once at a movie and it said something sexual, the little girl behind me had to ask her mom what it meant. The movies are not the place to have the sex talk with your kids.

7. Douse yourself in perfume or cologne pre-flick, or on the other hand, forget to bathe.

At church do not:
1.Eat in the chapel.

2. Talk uber loud next to the chapel when people are in sacrament meeting.

3. Talk through sacrament, Sunday school or priesthood and RS. If you're conversation is so important go in the hallway! Some people go to church because they want to hear the lessons and learn something. We're not 14, we're in singles ward, if you don't want to go to church stay at home.

4. Storimonies, thankamonies, travelmonies, talkamonies- any sort of monie that isn't a testimony.

5. Socialize in the chapel after sacrament meeting, go in the hallway.

6. Leave or enter sacrament meeting in the middle of some one's talk or musical number- wait until speakers switch, a congregational hymn, after the sacrament (certainly not during) or before/after.

That's all. Sorry, I don't think this even applies to anyone who reads my blog, but I just had to get it out!

Other than that I was organizing my closet and I found my brothers HUGE king snake under a box. It was alive and it's been missing for 6 months. I don't even want to think about it.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Insecurity/Heart Tribute

Do you ever have those days where everything just seems poopy? Well I guess everything didn't seem poopy today, but it wasn't all sunshine and unicorns either. I blame the cold! It's too cold for me! The funny part is that it's only 30 degrees here, and I'm going to apply for a graduate program in northern Utah- it's a lot colder up there!!!
I guess I wasn't terribly grumpy earlier today, but later I got grumpy and then it was down hill from there. I mean, I went hot tubbing with my swell friends, but mentally I was not having it. I felt awkward and insecure. I had really negative thought processes, like, "this person is only my friend for this reason or that, they don't actually like me..." I hate those kind of thoughts! I'm sure my friends actually like me...I just hate the idea of being some sort of charity project....Insecurity!