It's been too long...

...since I have written on my blog.  Since the last time I wrote, I've left Holland, moved into my new house in Provo, and gone through two weeks of school (already).  I also took the final for my independent study class and got an A- on it, thank you very much :)  It's nice to finally be done with that.  But now I have real classes to participate in, and unfortunately, I'm going to have a lot of writing to do, what with my history class and my two humanities classes.  I hate writing essays (so I don't understand why I decided to be a humanities major...).

However, I also get to take four ballroom classes and choir, so I am very blessed.  Six of my eighteen credits are composed of those classes, so I only have 12 credits of "real" classes.  Hopefully it won't be too bad.  However, I do still need to find a job, which sucks, but I will hopefully be able to do so in the near future.  The only jobs that really fit in my schedule are early morning/late night custodial jobs, and those are hard to come by. It's rather unfortunate, to be sure.

All in all, things are going pretty well.  I like my professors, I'm getting along with my eight roommates, and it's nice living close to campus, although I do not enjoy have to walk up the stairs everyday (all I know is, I better have the nicest legs/butt by the end of the year).  And even though my MWF are really long, since most of my classes on those days are dance/choir, it's not too bad.

So today is the 10 year anniversary of 9/11.  I can't believe it's been that long already since it happened.  I still remember being in the car on the way to school in Texas and hearing about a place crashing into a tower, but at the time not knowing that it was a terrorist attack.  It wasn't until as the day went on that I realized the gravity of the situation.  I remember crying and praying.  I remember how long it took to get back on base on the way home from school.  It's amazing how we are still dealing with the repercussions of that day, and I think in some ways, we always will.  It still saddens me to see the grief of those who lost loved ones in the attack.  I hope that those who lost loved ones know that they are never forgotten.

So I know that I still need to tell you all about Switzerland/Italy.  I'm just a really big slacker right now.  I just don't want to take the time to go through all of my photos on my camera.  I definitely won't put all of them on here, that's for sure, but eventually you will see some of them.  I'm pretty sure I'm friends with all of you on Facebook, though, so you'll be able to see more of them on there.

And now it's time for, you guessed, Hottie of the Post!  As I type I'm trying to think of who I could choose, and I think today I'm going to go with...Jonathan Rhys Meyers!

Yet another gorgeous man with amazingly gorgeous eyes.  Seriously though, I need to marry someone with eyes like his or Jared Leto's, because then our babies will be sure to have gorgeous eyes.

Anyway, I'm tired, and still need to read some boring thing for my humanities class tomorrow, and I told a friend I would come visit him at the 9/11 flag vigil on campus sometime, and since it ends at 0730, that means a very early morning tomorrow.  So enjoy Jonathan, and I will talk to you all later :)

One Week...

Goodness gracious.  Where has this summer vacation gone?

In one week I'll be headed back to Utah.  I cannot believe how fast this summer went.  Last summer seemed to go sooooo sloooooow, but the exact opposite happened this summer.  Maybe because it's the last summer before I have to become a full-fledged adult?  And honestly, that is a scary thought.  It hasn't totally sunk in yet that in a year (or less) I will be a college graduate.  On my own in the world.  AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE.  Most people would say, "Oh, just get married and then you'll be set."  Just one problem though: I don't want to be married when I graduate.  I want to live my own life for a little bit before I'm tied down for the rest of my life.  Not that being married isn't great, because I hear it's the bomb, but I'm not ready.  At all.  I mean, I've barely dated, and people want me to get married?  I don't think so.

Anyway, I can't believe the rest of my life is slowly closing in on me.  Especially when I don't know what it is.  I mean, I know what I want, but I need to figure out if I'm going to be able to do it.  Life is just so...aggravating.  It's going to give me even more grey hair than I already have.

Oh, have I mentioned all of my freaking grey hairs?  They are EVERYWHERE.  It's ridiculous.  I mean, it's not totally shocking, since my mom was grey by the time she was 30, and my dad's almost all the way grey now, and he's only 44, but still.  I'm 21 and have a lot of grey hair.  And at the moment, I'm struggling to figure out if I should just suck it up and grow all of my hair own to my natural color.  I mean, it would be easier, but I don't want to look super weird for my senior year of college.  My dad really wants me to get a super short pixie cut.  I think he knows it will make me look much less attractive, and thereby keep his little girl single for a lot longer ;-)  I don't know, I think he just thinks it'll look cute, but I think it will make me look fat(ter).  But we'll see.  I want something new, and I at least need to chop off a lot of my hair to give a head start on growing out my natural color.  I just don't know if I want to chop it all off.

Some good new: I finished my independent study class!  I know, I had over a year and waited until the last possible moment to do it, but hey, it's done, and that's all that matters, right?  So all I have to do is take the final once I get back to BYU, and it'll all be good.

In other news, I might be graduating in August instead of April.  It's more or less up to my parents, so I guess we should figure that out soon so I can refigure some of my schedule and make it a bit less cluttered.  So here's to waiting for that.

I know that I still haven't talked about Switzerland/Italy yet, but I don't have my own laptop yet and don't want to upload my pictures to someone else's computer.  So once I can get it all figured out, I'll post some so you can all be jealous of my awesome vacation this summer :P

So anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their summer!  Some of you I'll see soon, and others...well, I don't know when I'll see you, but I hope you are all well :-)

Oh!  I almost forgot!  I need to do a Hottie of the Week post!  I recently watched "Becoming Jane," and the leading man was the ever-so-dashing James McAvoy.

Yeah.  It kind of pains me that he's married.  But he sure is lovely to look at.  And he has the most lovely blue eyes.  And he's actually Scottish, and his real accent is so adorable.  And he and Fassy have the most adorable bromance haha.  Anyway, that's really all.  Talk to you all later!

Hello my loves!

We are back from our vacation :)  Let me tell you, it was pretty splendid.  I have to say, Switzerland is amazingly gorgeous, and Italy was a bit of a letdown, at least where we were.  Rome was quite dirty, but Florence looked beautiful for the hour we were there.  And the food was the BEST I have ever had in my life.  Gelato it sooooooo good, and we went to a little restaurant outside of where we were camping, and they had the best ravioli on Earth!

Anyway, I'm sure you're expecting more about vacation, but it's late and I had my wisdom teeth pulled this morning, so I'm thinking I'm going to force myself to go to bed now.  But don't worry, I'll be back to tell you all everything, and maybe add some photos as well :)  However, before I leave, I feel I should leave you with a Hottie of the Post, and today's winner is Jared Leto.

I will admit that he is not always this good looking; he makes some...interesting choices with his hair and make up while he and the rest of 30 Seconds to Mars are on tour (as well as in his dating life.  Lindsay Lohan, anyone?), but when he looks good, he looks DANG good.  And yes, I'm aware that he's 39 years old.  That still doesn't detract from the fact he is amazingly hot.  And those eyes of his?

Yeah, talk about gorgeous.  Anyway, I am now off to brush my teeth very carefully and take some more drugs.  Talk to you all soon!

A Mountain, Not a Hill

So I'm sure that you guys are expecting something about our first day in Berlin.  However, I got online and found out some terrible news: my friends' baby had died.  He had been born with only half of a heart, but it was very unexpected (at least for me), because he had been home for a little while and I thought he had been doing well.  I don't think they really expected it either, really, they just thought it was an infection, and he ended up dying a few hours after they got to the hospital.

What do you say?  I mean, I know  there's always "I'm sorry for your loss, you're in my prayers," but I feel like that just doesn't cut it.  I guess there really isn't anything you can say about in this situation.
I didn't mean to depress any of you.  But I suppose I'll talk about Berlin.  It's really quite the city, I have to say.  It reminds me a lot about Paris in some ways.  We did a bus and boat tour around the city today, which was pretty good.  It was really hot, though, and my chest has a square shaped sunburn on it, and I also have a rosy hue to my face now haha.  But the food here has been great; we went to the Hardrock Cafe yesterday, and it was DELICIOUS.  They also have the best McDonald's here, too.
So after dinner my brothers and I went to go look at the henna tattoo set-up we'd seen yesterday and to see if we could get one.  We were looking at the different options, and this huge gust of wind came and blew one of the displays into my face, and it hit me right above my left eye.  Let me tell you, it really hurt, and I had to sit there for a few seconds and just breathe.  I lifted my head and felt something dripping down my face, and I looked at Kathy and asked, "Am I bleeding," and of course I was.  I guess we'll see tomorrow if I have a bruise or not.  Not gonna lie, I'm kind of hoping that I do haha.  I definitely have a scratch/mini gash.
Anyway, since I'm on here, I might as well do a Hottie of the Post.  Not gonna lie, I've been doing the best ones first, so personally I don't think I'm going to do better than what I've already posted on here haha.  But there are plenty of beautiful people in the world, and in honor of the soon-to-be released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, today's winner is Daniel Radcliffe.

Needless to say, Harry Potter has grown up.  I'm not saying he's the most attractive guy ever (you already know who I think that is haha), but he has his moments.  Like in the above picture.

Anyway, that's all for now.  More Berlin tomorrow!

BERLIN.

So, I'm pretty excited about going to Berlin.  We are leaving early tomorrow morning, and will be there all day Saturday and Sunday as well, and then we'll leave Monday morning to come back to Holland.  So I won't be on here for a couple of days, but you can expect some awesome blogage and pictures once I return.

Actually, come to think of it, you might not hear from me for a while, since Malachi and I are going to the Harry Potter movie marathon at the Pathé in Eindhoven, and that starts at 0030 on Tuesday morning, and goes until very early on Wednesday morning, and then I think we leave Thursday for Switzerland/more Germany.  So I will be very busy the next few weeks.  I know you will miss my Hottie of the Post, so I'll make today's a really good one.  The winner today is...Christian Bale!

I know he's married, and has a kid, but he is SO nice to look at!  I used to obsess over this guy after Batman Begins came out, and then I started watching some of his other stuff and realized that he makes very good movies and is a very good actor.  I watched (most of) The New World yesterday, but had to turn it off.  I mean, I don't usually mind slow dramas, but this one was sooooooooo slooooooooooooow.  And I only really watched it for him, and he didn't come until almost halfway through the movie (which is 2:15:30 long, let me tell you), so I watched some of it with him in it, then turned it off because I just didn't care anymore.  Then I watched a movie with Fassy in it.

Oh people, he will always be my favorite hottie.  The red hair, green eyes.  The sexy scruff.  I can't get enough.

Anyway, I need to go and clean something or other before we leave for tomorrow.  I hope you can all survive without me ;-)  I'll miss you all as well.  Ta ta!

OH MY GOSH!!!

GUESS WHAT?!

:D

Sorry, I just tricked you all into thinking I have super exciting news.  I don't.  Unless you count the fact that we're going to Berlin this weekend.  Not that I'm not looking forward to that, because I am.

But Mom and Kathy got home from Poland and Germany yesterday.  Mom brought back some great pottery, and even got me an adorable giant mug with its own spoon that I shall be making lots and lots of hot chocolate in.

Isn't it cute?!?!

yeah.  I'm almost done with all of my lessons with assignments attached to them for my class.  Then all I'll have to do is go back and read other stuff, but I can do that on the road.  I am pretty content with life right now :)

So as usual, it is now time for Hottie of the Post!  Today's winner is Henry Cavill.

You may recognize him as Albert from the 2001 production of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Remember this cutie pie?

The last ten years have been veeeeeery good to our Mr. Cavill here.  He was actually Stephenie Meyer's original choice to play Edward in the Twilight movies, but by the time production started, he was too old.  I think he may have dodged a bullet there.  BUT, he will be playing Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: Man of Steel, and you can see him as Theseus in Immortals, which comes out on 11.11.11.  Ironically, Kellan Lutz will also be in this flick as Poseidon, and he plays Emmet Cullen in the Twilight franchise.  But I'll be paying for attention to Henry, I think.

Yeah...

The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave

So this is the second year in a row I've been in a foreign country for Independence Day.  Last year, at least, we had a barbecue and celebrated with other American friends here in Holland, but that's not going to happen today.  I've always been very patriotic, probably more so than a lot of others because of growing up as a military brat, but I do love America.  It's a great country to be from in this world.  My favorite verse from the Star-Spangled Banner is this one:


Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


I think it's beautiful.  I first learned it in high school, and others I've known have also expressed their love for this verse.  I remember I heard it play one day, and thought about how beautiful our national anthem really is.  I've sung it many times, whether in ROTC or getting payed to for little league games in California, but often never pay attention to what I'm saying.  When I stop and actually think about the words, it's really beautiful and very spiritual.  I so grateful for the men and women who fight for my freedom.  I know God wanted this country to be found, and without His help we would have lost the war and would all be British right now.  I wish all Americans would remember "In God is our trust."  The Founding Fathers weren't idiots, they knew what they were doing when they founded this country.  I wish we would listen to them.


Anyway, I'm done with preaching.  Time for a new edition of "Hottie of the Post!"  Today's winner is...Chris Evans!

After a bit of searching, I thought our very own Captain America would be a nice, patriotic choice for today ;-)  Pretty gorgeous, right?  Anyway, I've got a lot of homework and laundry to do, so I must bid you farewell.  Happy 4th of July!