So we went and saw "On Stranger Tides" tonight, and it was quite good, I have to say. I really did like the story, and I'm excited for the next one or two movies that are going to follow. Johnny Depp was brilliant, of course :) I would gladly go and see it again, just not in 3D because it's really not worth it to go and see it in 3D. But if you haven't seen it yet, you definitely should, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Rapture...
So apparently there was a ton of hype that today was going to be the end of the world or something. Pretty ridiculous, right? And I had a non-member friend who said that one day, there would be someone who would predict the end and actually be right about the date, and it just boggles my mind that people don't read the Bible, when it says that no one will know exactly when it will happen, so no, there will never be someone who will correctly predict the day the world will end.
Anyway, worldwide drama aside, life has been pretty chill. The parental units and my Uncle Jon and Aunt Monica have been on a Baltic Cruise all week, and I am extremely jealous of them because they got to sail into St. Petersburg, which is RUSSIA, people! I just wish I could get over there. Maybe I'll get to go over there sometime this summer? But it looks like we're staying closer to home vacation-wise this summer, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we'll see if I can get over there or not. My dad said that he was going to try and bring back "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in Russian for me, which would basically make my LIFE, and I'm sure he was successful in his endeavors, so I'm really excited :) It'll give me something to work on this summer (besides my Independent Study course that I've supposed to have been working on for over a year now...yeah, we'll just not talk about it). But yes, I am a slacker (as you well know), and still have to finish my Humanities 202 course. Although my extension lets me have until August 11 to finish it, I want to be done by the end of June. I feel like that is a very reasonable goal, even with all of the essays and reading. I mean, it's not like I have a job or anything, and the only thing I really want to be doing is working out (because I've realized that I'm kind of a fatty and want to get down to AT LEAST what I was when I graduated high school, if not skinnier than that) and reading Harry Potter in Russian, so I think I can do it.
So being at home alone has been kind of interesting. We currently have three dogs and two cats in the house, and needless to say, I never want to get a dog. Don't get me wrong, I love animals, but the dogs we have (two or which are Jon and Monica's) are SO much work. A lot of times one or two of them will follow me EVERYWHERE I walk. It's really annoying. And then I've had to sleep in my parents' room with them, and one of them sleeps on the bed with them, and she's the biggest dog of all the ones we have. I hate the smell of dog, and sometimes I'll catch her sleeping on my blanket, which makes me mad. And the most infuriating thing of all is the barking. THEY BARK AT EVERYTHING. One of them will sit on top of the couch so she can look out the window, and if she sees someone she goes ballistic, and then the other girl dog will start barking, and now our dog feels like he's allowed to bark, too. And no matter how much I yell at them, THEY WON'T SHUT UP. Dogs are just too much freaking work. I'm definitely a cat person. They hardly ever want attention, and you only have to make sure they have food, water, and a clean litterbox (and sometimes you don't even need THAT if they're an outdoor cat). Needless to say, my future [at this moment imaginary] husband will have to do a LOT of convincing if he ever wants to get a dog.
Blah. I need to go to bed. I spent waaaay too long trying to get this thing for primary figured out, and I still need to sleep, wake up, shower, and I have to take the bus to church, which will honestly take almost an hour with the bus ride an walking, so yay me! Then I get to come home and make sure that the house is all nice and clean for when the parents come home. I cleaned the kitchen a couple of days ago, but then I make cupcakes today, and the kitchen is REALLY hard to keep clean for more than a day, because the dishes pile up really easy, and our dishwasher doesn't work, so we actually have to wash everything and then we just put them in the dishwasher to let them air dry. It's kind of annoying, but what can you do?
So I realized that my friend Jocelyn and I are the only girls from our high school class in Vacaville that aren't married or engaged. It's kind of crazy! People are growing up and getting married and having babies, and I still feel like I'm this 18 year old kid, when in reality I'm 21 and going to graduate from college in less than a year and still don't have a solid plan for my life. IT'S SCARY! I mean, I have an idea of what I want to do, but if that doesn't work out? It's not like I have a great plan B thought out. I mean, when I was younger I always dreamed that I would get discovered and be famous and yada yada yada, but at this point, let's face it, it's not gonna happen unless a miracle occurs, so I'm just scared. I read all of these articles about how it's really tough for college grads these days to get a job in the area they majored in, and read an article the other day that said humanities was one of the major whose graduates are least likely to get a job related to their studies. Talk about discouragement. But hopefully everything will work out for the best. I need to suck it up and be an adult now, no matter how much like a kid I feel like, so I guess we'll just see what happens. One day at a time, right?
Anyway, worldwide drama aside, life has been pretty chill. The parental units and my Uncle Jon and Aunt Monica have been on a Baltic Cruise all week, and I am extremely jealous of them because they got to sail into St. Petersburg, which is RUSSIA, people! I just wish I could get over there. Maybe I'll get to go over there sometime this summer? But it looks like we're staying closer to home vacation-wise this summer, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we'll see if I can get over there or not. My dad said that he was going to try and bring back "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in Russian for me, which would basically make my LIFE, and I'm sure he was successful in his endeavors, so I'm really excited :) It'll give me something to work on this summer (besides my Independent Study course that I've supposed to have been working on for over a year now...yeah, we'll just not talk about it). But yes, I am a slacker (as you well know), and still have to finish my Humanities 202 course. Although my extension lets me have until August 11 to finish it, I want to be done by the end of June. I feel like that is a very reasonable goal, even with all of the essays and reading. I mean, it's not like I have a job or anything, and the only thing I really want to be doing is working out (because I've realized that I'm kind of a fatty and want to get down to AT LEAST what I was when I graduated high school, if not skinnier than that) and reading Harry Potter in Russian, so I think I can do it.
So being at home alone has been kind of interesting. We currently have three dogs and two cats in the house, and needless to say, I never want to get a dog. Don't get me wrong, I love animals, but the dogs we have (two or which are Jon and Monica's) are SO much work. A lot of times one or two of them will follow me EVERYWHERE I walk. It's really annoying. And then I've had to sleep in my parents' room with them, and one of them sleeps on the bed with them, and she's the biggest dog of all the ones we have. I hate the smell of dog, and sometimes I'll catch her sleeping on my blanket, which makes me mad. And the most infuriating thing of all is the barking. THEY BARK AT EVERYTHING. One of them will sit on top of the couch so she can look out the window, and if she sees someone she goes ballistic, and then the other girl dog will start barking, and now our dog feels like he's allowed to bark, too. And no matter how much I yell at them, THEY WON'T SHUT UP. Dogs are just too much freaking work. I'm definitely a cat person. They hardly ever want attention, and you only have to make sure they have food, water, and a clean litterbox (and sometimes you don't even need THAT if they're an outdoor cat). Needless to say, my future [at this moment imaginary] husband will have to do a LOT of convincing if he ever wants to get a dog.
Blah. I need to go to bed. I spent waaaay too long trying to get this thing for primary figured out, and I still need to sleep, wake up, shower, and I have to take the bus to church, which will honestly take almost an hour with the bus ride an walking, so yay me! Then I get to come home and make sure that the house is all nice and clean for when the parents come home. I cleaned the kitchen a couple of days ago, but then I make cupcakes today, and the kitchen is REALLY hard to keep clean for more than a day, because the dishes pile up really easy, and our dishwasher doesn't work, so we actually have to wash everything and then we just put them in the dishwasher to let them air dry. It's kind of annoying, but what can you do?
So I realized that my friend Jocelyn and I are the only girls from our high school class in Vacaville that aren't married or engaged. It's kind of crazy! People are growing up and getting married and having babies, and I still feel like I'm this 18 year old kid, when in reality I'm 21 and going to graduate from college in less than a year and still don't have a solid plan for my life. IT'S SCARY! I mean, I have an idea of what I want to do, but if that doesn't work out? It's not like I have a great plan B thought out. I mean, when I was younger I always dreamed that I would get discovered and be famous and yada yada yada, but at this point, let's face it, it's not gonna happen unless a miracle occurs, so I'm just scared. I read all of these articles about how it's really tough for college grads these days to get a job in the area they majored in, and read an article the other day that said humanities was one of the major whose graduates are least likely to get a job related to their studies. Talk about discouragement. But hopefully everything will work out for the best. I need to suck it up and be an adult now, no matter how much like a kid I feel like, so I guess we'll just see what happens. One day at a time, right?
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Holland!
So I am officially back in the Netherlands now! It was weird, because I consider California as home and would NEVER call Holland home, but driving back to the house, it felt like I was coming home. I guess it's because it's where my family is, and we're finally all together again :)
I flew in early on Thursday morning, and Mom and Dad picked me up from Schipol and drove me home. Then the Elders and Harry came over from dinner that night. It's been forever since I've had missionaries over! You don't really get that in college, which kind of stinks, but oh well, I'll get to do it this summer. It looks like they come over every Thursday night, which is nice for them, because they get yummy American food ;-) This week is steak, so it's good for everyone haha.
So my family has been letting this German kid, Robin, from my brothers' school live with them, because he used to have to wake up REALLY early to take the train to school because his family lives so far away. He's a sweet kid, he fits in pretty well with the family, which is nice, since he's here from Monday afternoon to Friday morning, then he goes home for the weekend. But he'd been living in my room, and we had to switch everything out, so now he and Chris are sharing a room, and I get one all to myself :-)
So Mom and Dad are supposed to go on a Baltic cruise next week. The big stop on this trip is St. Petersburg, which makes me SO jealous, because you can't imagine how badly I want to go to Russia haha. But my Mom just says that someday we'll get to go on our own cruise, and it took her how long to be able to? So I get no sympathy from her in my plight haha. But it's all good, I'll get over to Russian someday, I guess.
So my best friend from freshman year, Trevor, is going to be coming home from his mission in about 6 weeks! I'm super excited to get to hang out with him again next year. A lot of guys from my freshman year have started coming home, so it's a really exciting time. I remember when they were all leaving, and how I thought it would be forever, but two years really isn't that long at all. It amazes me how fast the time has flown. I mean, I'm graduating from college in less than a year! That's a very bizarre thought to me. You always think it's going to last forever, but college really doesn't last that long at all.
So this summer is going to be pretty busy. I have an online class I need to get done, and Chris is supposed to be flying out in a little over a month to go back to the States to work and save up money for his mission. He'll be over there until he has to come back for his mission farewell, which will probably be at the end of this year. I can't believe my brother is going to be leaving on a mission at the end of this year! It's crazy. And then my tia, Kathy, will be coming over here to vacation with us for about a month, which should be a lot of fun. She'll be here for pretty much all of July, and then I'll be leaving in the middle of August or so to go back to Utah. I don't even think I'll be able to move into my house at that time, I'll probably have to kick at my Uncle Ivan and Aunt Lori's place again, or maybe with Kathy's sister and brother-in-law, so we'll see what happens. I didn't want to have to come back until the 22nd, but there's a chance I'll have to get my wisdom teeth out at the end of the summer back in Utah if I can't get it done here, so my parents decided to send me back a week earlier just in case we had to do that. But I didn't need to be back until August 22nd (which is the move-in day on my contract), and then I have new-student orientation training on the 23rd, and then the actual NSO from the 25th-27th. I'm actually excited to by a Y group leader for NSO this year. I think it will be fun to welcome the incoming freshman my senior year of college, and give them a nice intro to the campus and BYU life. I hope they like me ;-) But then orientation will end on Saturday, and the Monday after I'll start school! I'm excited for next year, because I get to take a lot of ballroom classes since I decided to make ballroom my minor (more or less. I'm not doing the actual ballroom minor, because I would have to extend my graduation date in order to do that, but I have to have 8-9 hours of non-humanities coursework, and since I already had 2.5 for ballroom, I just decided to make things fun and continue on with that). Needless to say, I'm really excited for all of my ballroom stuff :-) I'm really hoping I'll make it onto team next year some time, but we'll see how things go, I guess. It would really be a dream come true if I could make that happen.
So I'm kind of an old lady, and I've been going to bed really early since I got back. I sleep for almost 12 hours, but because I'm going to bed so early it's not making me wake up very late in the afternoon, so that's good :-) Tomorrow I have to go to a doctor's appointment with D.J. and Mom, because D.J. needs more meds and Mom wants him to get his lungs tested, and then she also wants to get me in so we can talk to a doctor about my skin. For those of you who see me on a regular basis, you know I have pretty bad acne on my face, and nothing topical I've been given has worked, so we're hoping the doctors will actually listen to me this summer and give me a pill of some sort to get rid of my acne. I can't tell you how much I want to get it gone; it's only gotten worse since I've come to college, and I hate having it. I get the really gross cystic acne, too, so it's even painful to have. Needless to say, once I can get it gone, life will be AMAZING. So here's hoping :-)
I flew in early on Thursday morning, and Mom and Dad picked me up from Schipol and drove me home. Then the Elders and Harry came over from dinner that night. It's been forever since I've had missionaries over! You don't really get that in college, which kind of stinks, but oh well, I'll get to do it this summer. It looks like they come over every Thursday night, which is nice for them, because they get yummy American food ;-) This week is steak, so it's good for everyone haha.
So my family has been letting this German kid, Robin, from my brothers' school live with them, because he used to have to wake up REALLY early to take the train to school because his family lives so far away. He's a sweet kid, he fits in pretty well with the family, which is nice, since he's here from Monday afternoon to Friday morning, then he goes home for the weekend. But he'd been living in my room, and we had to switch everything out, so now he and Chris are sharing a room, and I get one all to myself :-)
So Mom and Dad are supposed to go on a Baltic cruise next week. The big stop on this trip is St. Petersburg, which makes me SO jealous, because you can't imagine how badly I want to go to Russia haha. But my Mom just says that someday we'll get to go on our own cruise, and it took her how long to be able to? So I get no sympathy from her in my plight haha. But it's all good, I'll get over to Russian someday, I guess.
So my best friend from freshman year, Trevor, is going to be coming home from his mission in about 6 weeks! I'm super excited to get to hang out with him again next year. A lot of guys from my freshman year have started coming home, so it's a really exciting time. I remember when they were all leaving, and how I thought it would be forever, but two years really isn't that long at all. It amazes me how fast the time has flown. I mean, I'm graduating from college in less than a year! That's a very bizarre thought to me. You always think it's going to last forever, but college really doesn't last that long at all.
So this summer is going to be pretty busy. I have an online class I need to get done, and Chris is supposed to be flying out in a little over a month to go back to the States to work and save up money for his mission. He'll be over there until he has to come back for his mission farewell, which will probably be at the end of this year. I can't believe my brother is going to be leaving on a mission at the end of this year! It's crazy. And then my tia, Kathy, will be coming over here to vacation with us for about a month, which should be a lot of fun. She'll be here for pretty much all of July, and then I'll be leaving in the middle of August or so to go back to Utah. I don't even think I'll be able to move into my house at that time, I'll probably have to kick at my Uncle Ivan and Aunt Lori's place again, or maybe with Kathy's sister and brother-in-law, so we'll see what happens. I didn't want to have to come back until the 22nd, but there's a chance I'll have to get my wisdom teeth out at the end of the summer back in Utah if I can't get it done here, so my parents decided to send me back a week earlier just in case we had to do that. But I didn't need to be back until August 22nd (which is the move-in day on my contract), and then I have new-student orientation training on the 23rd, and then the actual NSO from the 25th-27th. I'm actually excited to by a Y group leader for NSO this year. I think it will be fun to welcome the incoming freshman my senior year of college, and give them a nice intro to the campus and BYU life. I hope they like me ;-) But then orientation will end on Saturday, and the Monday after I'll start school! I'm excited for next year, because I get to take a lot of ballroom classes since I decided to make ballroom my minor (more or less. I'm not doing the actual ballroom minor, because I would have to extend my graduation date in order to do that, but I have to have 8-9 hours of non-humanities coursework, and since I already had 2.5 for ballroom, I just decided to make things fun and continue on with that). Needless to say, I'm really excited for all of my ballroom stuff :-) I'm really hoping I'll make it onto team next year some time, but we'll see how things go, I guess. It would really be a dream come true if I could make that happen.
So I'm kind of an old lady, and I've been going to bed really early since I got back. I sleep for almost 12 hours, but because I'm going to bed so early it's not making me wake up very late in the afternoon, so that's good :-) Tomorrow I have to go to a doctor's appointment with D.J. and Mom, because D.J. needs more meds and Mom wants him to get his lungs tested, and then she also wants to get me in so we can talk to a doctor about my skin. For those of you who see me on a regular basis, you know I have pretty bad acne on my face, and nothing topical I've been given has worked, so we're hoping the doctors will actually listen to me this summer and give me a pill of some sort to get rid of my acne. I can't tell you how much I want to get it gone; it's only gotten worse since I've come to college, and I hate having it. I get the really gross cystic acne, too, so it's even painful to have. Needless to say, once I can get it gone, life will be AMAZING. So here's hoping :-)
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