Dear January

This month is almost over and I have thus far done terribly on my new year's resolutions. The only one I have done remotely well at, or at least better, is drinking less diet Pepsi. I don't drink near as much as I used to, but I haven't completely cut it out. Which is my goal. I've also become worse, I think, at keeping in touch. Ha. Hopefully I can get my act together and change that. January has been a pretty good start to this new year though, and I can't wait for the rest of what the new year brings. So since I've done pretty poorly with my blogging resolution, here's a quick recap on this month...

School started. It's my 4th semester in a row... yikes. So far it's been pretty good, just really busy. I'm taking Motor Development, Exercise Physiology, Sports Nutrition, Chemistry 106, and Photography... a grand total of 16 credits. I'm also volunteering as the Getting Started Coordinator in the Fitness Activities Program and a member of the PT/OT Society. I also. Have a job. But it's kind of a joke. When I say that, I mean it shouldn't really even be allowed to be called a job. All I do is sit there for 3 hours at a time and let art students draw/paint my head on canvas. Aka I'm an art model. It actually is kind of hard work. Sitting there without moving. This past week I think I irritated a few people cuz I was starting to fall asleep. Haha. Oh well.

What else. Oh yes. My friend Pierina just got married! It was GLORIOUS and WONDERFUL! I loved it. It was during MLK weekend, which actually turned out to be quite the eventful few days. I'll start with the bad, and end with the good, because really I'd much rather forget the bad that happened. Anyway, so the wedding was wonderful (I'll go into detail in a second). Me and my friend Maegan spent the night at our good friend Carly's and the next morning we were going to go eat, go shopping, etc. Maegan had to get back to Logan, UT and when she went to grab her keys to leave, they were not where she left them. So long story short, after 5 hours of searching, turning the house inside out and upside down (literally), getting a locksmith to come open her car (just in case they were in there), and a plethora of other things, they were still not found. So we decided they had accidentally gotten picked up by someone else and put in someone's things from the party the night before. We had a plan...to just have someone take Maegan home and then she'd figure out the key thing later in the week when she could come back. So I decided to take off, to go to my grandma Cheri's, so I could hang with family, etc. So Carly and Maegan decide to check the reception hall just in case. On my way to my grandma's, they call me to tell me they were at the reception hall. Haha. Ridiculous. I'm so glad they were found, but it really was a very frustrating situation. So then the next crazy thing that happens makes this key thing look like fun. I went to see Brian Sunday evening. We were going to watch a movie and just chill and stuff. So when I get to Provo, I park in this public parking lot to meet with him and drive to another location. I left my car there thinking it was okay because that's what I would do in any other town. A few hours later, after much laughter and good times, I went to go get my car to leave and drive back to my grandma's annnnd my car was GONE. from that public parking lot. My first thought is YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. THE CAR WAS STOLEN! And then my next thought is NO. THERE'S NO FREAKING WAY. THIS HAS TO BE A JOKE. I was literally going into shock I think. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to say... It was nuts. So Brian's roommate, Nolan, who was driving me over there, finds this number to call, and I get on the line with this dude who is like Oh yeah the Passat? YEAH YA BUM! How would he automatically know which one it was? Jerk. So he's like oh yeah you can come get it right now I'm going to leave in about ten minutes. I'm like oh that would be great thanks! He's like but its $145 dollars. My heart stopped, yeah I'm pretty sure. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE DOLLARS?!?! you're kidding me. I was like well. I'm not coming tonight buddy. I had no choice but to stay the night at Brian's apartment with him and 7 other dudes. Not my idea of fun at all. Come to find out next day, the reason they tow is to discourage students from staying the night at apartments of the opposite sex. OH REALLY?? Because I had no freaking choice buttholes! I tried and tried to get them to take away the charge or at least lower it but no luck. So my poor (literally) dad has to pay the fee because I obviously couldn't. It broke my heart that he had to do that. But I'm also really grateful that I had people there to be there for me and take care of the pickle I had gotten into. AND you better believe I'm going to do whatever I can to get this thing appealed! GOSH. I got In-N-Out from Melanie afterwards though which definitely helped my mood...

Okay so WEDDING. It was gorgeous first off. We went to the reception. Which was in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. The food was really good. It was a huge reunion too! Soooo many friends there that I haven't seen in forever!  Here are some pictures...