day213.

At the end of the night I read my daily horoscope only to find out that I did the exact opposite of what it told me to do today. Good thing I don't take horoscopes seriously.


Hopefully one of these days very soon I will be able to write about something I did before I go to work at noon. But I usually don't get out of bed early enough.
So after work today, I met my mom at the Hope Chest. The last Tuesday of every month, they put everything at 50% off the already super low prices. So I bought a bunch of shirts.
We went to TJ Maxx too and I bought more shirts, some pants, and a dress.
I used to hate shopping, I think because we used to go all the time when I was younger, and I had 3 sisters to share the shopping time with. But over the last year or so I've gotten really into it. I just like buying new clothes! I'm such a girl! Although no matter how many clothes I buy, I still feel like I have nothing to wear. No style. What a problem.
While we were in TJ Maxx there was thunder booming crazy loud, then pouring rain, but by the time we went outside it had cleared up so I missed out on that mini storm. I love thunder though.
Oh by the way, as I was pulling up to the Hope Chest, some stupid lady pulled out her car right in front of me and I honked the crap out of her. Why are people so dumb?!
But not as dumb as the girl at Little Caeser's. I went to pick up some Hot n' Ready's on my way home for my family. My mom had given me 4 punch cards that all had a few punches in them so I could combine them and get a free pizza. I went through the drive thru, handed the girl the cards and asked her to combine them, and then handed her my mom's debit card. She then hands me back two punch cards, one of which is completely punched out, saying I can bring it back next time for a free pizza. I was like, "Uh, can't I just use that on one of the pizzas I'm getting right now?" And she said, "Oh, your card has already ran through."
Um are you kidding me? Pretty sure I didn't want you to combine those punch cards for fun. Seriously people, use your brain, it's pretty amazing.
I met up with Sam at Taco Bell to talk, and we decided to not get back together.
I've spent most of the night in my room playing my guitar and singing. I forgot to mention I bought a cheap clock at the Hope Chest today so I could paint it, so I did that tonight too.
If anyone ever wants to go on a night walk, I'm (almost) always up for it...

I took this picture in the Hope Chest dressing room cause it's my favorite place to you know, take a picture of myself. I had a good hair day but I really wish I was smiling in this picture because I realize I have a lot of pictures where I look like I'm trying to be all serious and stuff and it's stupid.

 Baby nephew likes pizza.

 So far I have only found this at the Depot Junction gas station on the corner of Sunset Blvd and Valley View. It is so good but I think it's limited edition.

 All of my new clothes! Except I didn't get that white shirt in the bottom middle pic, it had a stain on it.

 My new clock before and after :)

day212.

This morning I had an interview with Sorenson Communications and I'm pretty sure I basically have the job if I want it.
I had a bit of time before work so I got a sandwich at Subway and took it to Vernon Worthen park to eat it by myself. It was just such a nice, overcast day. I usually just feel gloomy on days like today with no sun, but today was just so happy and beautiful for some reason.
After work I went and took a drug test. I'd never done that before so that was weird.
Then it was raining like crazy. Why is it raining so much this month?
So my friends Kyle, Luke, Nate, and two other guys just moved into this house in Bloomington and Kyle invited me over to check it out. It's pretty dang sweet and I am super jelly of the whole situation. He needed a bunch of stuff for the house so we went shopping at Walmart and stuff. When we came back, Luke was there, and his family came soon after to also check out the house. I left a while later cause let's just say... things got awkward. Yeah let's just say things got awkward. Okay.
I was then trying to meet Sam somewhere, and I told him I was waiting by our tree, but his phone has been weird with texting today I guess so it took him a while to know I was there. I happened to have my guitar so I pulled it out and did my little improvisation I like to do ya know. That was when my mom texted me saying Tasha was leaving for the trek (yeah, late at night, crazy huh) so I told Sam to just meet me at my house. He ended up following me all the way here.
He and I went with my mom and dad to drop off Tasha at the Stake Center with the buses and lots and lots of people. It was raining, just sprinkling, and it was perfect. Sam and I were spinning in circles, holding hands in the parking lot. Dancing. Laughing. Then I decided we should walk back to my house so we did.
I started falling asleep while we were watching Netflix so Sam left.

I like to roll down my windows even when it's raining a little.

 This mirror at Walmart makes me look ridiculously thin.

 I <3 blurry pictures.

 Jealous of their jam room.

 Kyle put on my pants...

day211.

I slept til at least 10 today, but when I went to church I was so tired, and went I got home from church I was still so tired. I don't know what's wrong with me. I hope I'm not dying.
But we seriously had the best dinner tonight. Best rolls. Mmmm.
So tonight I went to ward prayer but I only stuck around for about 20 minutes. I've gotten into this habit of slipping out of ward prayer randomly without saying anything and it's definitely better than awkwardly saying bye to people or something.
So I went to Ezra's house and hung out with a bunch of people. 9 of us played Phase Ten but only made it to the second phase before getting bored with it. It was fun but I left around 10:30.
I came home for a second.
Then Rory picked me up and we went for a nice drive. It felt so good with the windows rolled down at night. And we listened to way good music. He gave me the CD we listened to for most of the night and I'm stoked about it. Here's one of the songs we listened to tonight.

I found this shirt in my sister's drawer and I am mad that I didn't notice it was gone. PTM.

 Nephew love.

 Seriously how could you not love this place?

 Yet another sunset.

day210.

Who are you?

Oh okay. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but the first thing I do in the morning is look at my phone, like I'm sure lots of people do. So if I wake up and it's early and I'm still half asleep, weird things happen. I'll look at my notifications for all the different things and for some reason they just seem so weird to me as I read them all. Then I re-wake up a few hours later and realize how normal they were. I don't know why I just wrote this. Maybe someone should send me a weird text that I can wake up to and we'll see how I react to that.

Anyway. I made more stuff for my room today. Also, my mom was really bored today. At one point she was running, chasing my little sister around the house while they both laughed hysterically. And so what did we do to cure her boredom? Went shopping of course. But it's not like my mom bought anything. Nope, just me. We went to Urban Renewal, our favorite store to go to together, and I bought some shirts. They're the top left and middle pictures in the collage below. I also got some shoes. They didn't have any clocks today though, so we went to the D.I. and I got this weird one that I can put pictures in or something. It's almost tacky.

So tonight Sam picked me up and took me to see Ice Age. I got this new Pepsi at the gas station beforehand, it's the Paradise Mango kind and it's soo good. The movie was pretty funny, and Sam thinks they should make a movie just about the squirrel. Every flippin time the squirrel came on the screen he would say "Yes! Yes!" Afterward, we went to Arctic Circle and got ice cream cones.

We came to my house and talked to my mom for a bit. She made fun of me, Sam made fun of me, the usual teaming-up people do to make fun of me. My mom laughs at everything.

Sam and I sat in my room and just listened to this song and a few other ones until he left.

 I came across this little booklet that the senior cheerleaders put together for me when I was a junior. They made one for all the cheerleaders and each senior wrote on a different page. It's cute.

 Weird clock.

 My mom was creepin on Sam and I and took this picture from our balcony.

 I love the sky.

 He just won't smile when I try to take pictures.

day209.

Today went by really fast.

Sam brought me some nachos and a Mountain Dew from Taco Bell today while I was at because he knows I love them.

After work I came home and my mom made me finally get around to hanging up a picture that fell off my wall weeks ago. After that I was on a roll cause I hung up a whole bunch of stuff and reorganized my room. It looks awesome in here I must say.

Ryan Porter picked me up around 9:30. He's a friend I've known since high school who I've only seen once since he got home off his mission back in October. He took me to see the new Step Up movie. I thought it was really cool cause I like watching people dance like that. But now I wish I was all cool and sexy and that I could dance like that. Oh well.

I think it's crazy how different I look in two pictures that were taken only hours apart. All I did on the first one was an Instagram filter. What the?

My clock collection as of now: 12! Sam gave me the one on the bottom right a couple days ago.

day208.

What a day. If I could even begin to explain all the thoughts and feelings I have running through my mind right now. If you even had the slightest idea what I'm thinking.

Well work was fun today. You should've seen me out there with my clippers doing work. I visited my mom at her work afterwards, then went home to shower and make myself decent-looking. I went to Ulta and bought some new lipstick, then to Target and bought a new shirt. Then I went to Luke's apartment to meet him, Nate, and Kyle. We jammed and it was so super awesome. It's been a long time since I've had friends I can jam with. I used to do stuff like that fairly often when I lived in Provo, and I haven't really jammed with anyone since Chase. They're all way talented and have lots of cool stuff, and so hopefully it turns into something awesome. We'll see.
I came home and Sam came over with his new jeep because he wants to work things out or something. I don't know.

Wish my hair would grow back at 10x the speed.

day207continued.

Remember how I said nothing significant would happen today? Well I broke up with Sam. If you want to know any details go ahead and ask me. I'm not asking for attention or anything, I just figured I might as well post about it so I don't have to vaguely write about how he's not hanging out with me anymore. Last night I said I loved him and knew he cared about me. That is still true. We'll see what happens, but for now we're not together.

day207.

Why am I doing my daily blog at 7 p.m.? Because I don't plan on doing anything significant for the rest of the day.

I was supposed to go shooting. And play my songs at Jazzy's Rock and Roll Grill.

But I'm not.

day206.

I woke up around 8:30 today so I could go with my sisters Kirsten and Tasha to Zion National Park. We rode the shuttle to the end of the line and hiked the Narrows. For some reason, I'd never done that in my life til today. We didn't hike the hole thing because of time, but we did swim around a bit in the river and it was super fun.
We met the rest of my family outside the park and got some really good shaved ice. Then we went back to St. George and got pizza at Pier 49. Mmmmm.
I was so excited to get home and shower off my fire plus river water smell. Sam came and picked me up and we went to his house. We had a barbecue with his family, Tyson, Seth, and Mark. We had home made ice cream, watched some TV, lit a few fireworks.
Sam's family is hilarious. He is the youngest of five boys, which means lots of playful harassment going around.
I love Sam. He is very good to me and I know without a doubt that he truly cares about me.

 We went swimming here on our way back from the hike.

Our hot after picture!

day205.

It was so nice not having to wake up early today, but it was still hard getting out of bed. I was tired at work too.
I went to dinner with my family at Red Lobster. Yum biscuits yum! Sam picked me up from there in his jeep and we went to RJ's house to meet some people. Sam, me, RJ, Natalee, Kiersten, and Tyson drove up to Central to have a fire and stuff at this place. Terik and Mark met us there. It's like this old house place thingy. It's super cool cause it has a big fire pit outside. Also, hanging from some trees are these chains and somehow they put a mattress on it. So Sam and I were swinging on that for a while. I MUST have one when I have my own place and I'm married and stuff.
We all went back to RJ's and Sam had to drive me home. On the way, we stopped and watched the lightning storm for a bit. It was way cool cause it wasn't raining or anything but there was lightning everywhere.
I smell like smoke now. And I have had hiccups for at least 5 minutes now.

RJ's dog had puppies! Soo cute.

 Dessert at Red Lobster. It was perfect.

 I make cute faces, I know.

day204.

I'd be lying if I said my life isn't really really weird and random sometimes.



Today was the last day I had to do Tony's routes, thank heavens, because I don't think I could have survived one more day. I came home and slept til I had just enough time to run to church. I got to play the piano for the choir today. After church Sam came over and we hung out with my family for a bit. We were both so tired so we mostly chilled in my room. He came with me to my ward prayer, then we drove around and ended up at the temple, so we got out and walked around. It was beautiful and lots of people were there but it was so hot even at night. We went back to my house and turned on the Prince of Egypt on my laptop (we'd started it before ward prayer). Halfway through my laptop decided to just turn off, but I was fine with that cause I just wanted to sleep. Sam had his arms around me and let me just lie there. I told him he couldn't leave without saying bye, so at 2 a.m. he woke me up and kissed me goodnight and left. I found out later that he had to drive home in a thunderstorm.. in his jeep with no top. Poor guy haha. It was such a wonderful day with him though.

Cutie nephews.

 Cutie boyfriend.

 Cutie... tree and sunrise.

day203.

After getting home this morning from the routes I went back to sleep til after noon. Ah I can't wait til this is over... tomorrow is the last day.
Sam is in Vegas right now with some of his mission buddies and with Tyson so I didn't get to hang out with him today. But I did go to the mall with Laney and that was a pretty good time. I got some way cute white heels with a bow on them but I think I'm going to take them back because they're too tall... Ahhh.
Anyway, I made my brownies for my sisters and I because we had a girl's night in our basement. We watched the movie "Now and Then" and gave each other facials, pedicures, and manicures kind of. It was fun. Des and Tash even went to the movie theater to get popcorn for us.

Boyfriend's shirt <3

 This dog kept barking at me this morning and I thought he was cute.

  Sorry I'm obsessed with my baby nephew.

 Cute things my boyfriend says. I know I'm being cheesy by posting this but I like it.