day305cont!

After work last night I invited Randon to follow me to Jazzy's where we waited for our friends. Markus got there first, then Bryce with his brother. I got called up to the stage and started playing my Halloween song right as Carissa, Lewis, Ty, and Tyson walked in. It was way fun because the crowd was referring to me as "Ashlee WOO!" and just being awesome. Pretty sure some guy in front was filming me and an old asian lady was taking pictures of me with her phone. It made me feel kinda cool. Katlyn and Kyler were too late to hear me play but that's okay. Last time I played at Jazzy's, a random guy messaged me on Facebook saying I did a good job and mentioned how when they called me "Ashlee Woo" he assumed I was of half-Asian descent or something. I was telling this story to my friends when I and they realized I was dressed as an Asian for Halloween. Classic.
We all chilled in the parking lot for a while deciding what to do when we finally went to my place. All of us but Bryce came, and Sarah and Bernice showed up too. It was a blast just hanging out with everyone in our little house. I love people. I like Markus a lot a lot a lot. He got off his mission five days ago.. haha. He's not even weird.
We were waiting on Markus's friend who didn't have a phone (Markus had it) and had never been to our house. Dallas invited us all to Blair's house to watch Zombieland but we couldn't leave until Markus's friend got there. Well, almost an hour went by so we just left. But by then almost everyone was sleepy, so it was just me, Markus, and Randon.
When we got there, it was just us and Blair and Dallas and Kahryn. Markus couldn't stay long so I drove him to his car and we hugged goodbye. He ran at his car and slid across the hood all cool-like and that's when I knew we were going to be good friends.

Bryce, me, Tyson, Carissa, Lewis, Ty, and Markus. Oh, and Randon's head.

day305.

Happy Halloween!

Here is the final version of my song, which has been renamed "Crystallize." Please take a listen :)

http://soundcloud.com/ashleewoo/crystallize

So I woke up today with just enough time to get to my piano lesson, so I didn't dress up in a costume. My lesson went very well and afterwards finished some homework. I went to music theory, then went with my friends to guitar ensemble to do some more homework while I listened to them play. Then I went to choir!
I went with Kimi Gubler to Panda Express for lunch. She was dressed as Katniss.
I dropped her off then went home and Kirsten reminded me that they had a Geisha costume so I am now wearing that complete with a bun wig and white makeup and red lipstick. Yay.

After work I'm going over to Jazzy's to play my cheesy Halloween song and also the acoustic version of Crystallize... maybe. I just barely got a call from this guy named Markus who I haven't met yet but he is in town and wants to hang out so hopefully he comes to listen along with Randon and Bryce and Katlyn and Carissa and whoever else wants to come and chill. Yay!

day304.

So on Sunday I lied and said no pictures were taken that day but guess what, I just remember that Kyler took pictures of us while drawing the Monopoly board so I'll post one of those here. Woo!

Tuesday.. Hmmm. I made it to school and stuff. I practiced some piano and guitar. After choir I ran home and started my laundry and ate lunch.

My ward planned a temple night and we had a time slot from 8:00-10:00 p.m. and I was planning on going to that. But then I realized it was going to be the only time I would be able to record before my surgery, and I don't know when I'll feel like recording after. But I didn't want to trade the temple for a song so I went to the temple alone at 3:00. I was in and out of there in barely over 20 minutes, it was amazing. I hadn't been in a really long time, and it was just the most fluid and peaceful thing ever. It was a beautiful day.

I went home to finish my laundry and get ready for stuff.
I went over to the baseball fields for a sec to say hi to Carissa, Lewis, Derrick, and Sarah, then I practiced piano at the Institute building for an hour or so.
Then time to eat again and head to Cedar!

I recorded a new song! Freak yeah. Can't wait to upload it :) It's different than my other songs.
I got back into town around 11:00 p.m., and Bryce invited me over to hang out with him. We watched How I Met Your Mother where I left off months ago and then I went home.

Where all the magic happens.

This is the master in his natural habitat. 



day303.

First of all I just want to include this because I thought it was adorable and made me smile:

"let's be in love. but let's pretend it happened in some fantastical way. like you were a princess and i was the son of a stable hand and we were forbidden to mingle but we did anyway and then they found out so they sent guards to my house and made my family leave the country but while they were carrying me away i promised you that i would come back for you someday and then like 15 years later you were kidnapped by an evil sorcerer who wanted to take control of your father's kingdom and then i fought armies and dragons and sorcerers to rescue you from a castle that was surrounded by a moat full of lava and i brought you back to your country and your dad made me a knight and then we were in love. that's just off the top of my head though."

Today has been a weird but good day. Katlyn woke me up and made me a chocolate chip waffle and I went to school. I can't really remember what was weird today it just was. But people were super happy and friendly in the music building, even more than normal, and it just made happy. I have so many friends in the department now.

I went to my parent's house to check the mail and MY PHONE WAS IN THERE. YES.
For a second, it wasn't working when I first turned it on and I was really upset but now it's working and I'm so happy. It was extremely difficult communicating with people and working things out without being able to text or make phone calls. Also, I wanted to take pictures so many times but I never could!
Praise the Lord that I was under warranty.

After work I visited Austin for a minute at his work. Then I was going to go to the school to practice but as soon as I got in my car I got a thousand texts from my roommates saying "Ashlee. Ashlee. Ashlee." So I went to my house to hang out with them. We went over to Derrick's for a bit to watch the dudes play COD and I played a couple rounds of Nazi Zombie. We didn't stay long though and went home to go to sleep I think..  I'm losing my mind.

First picture with my new phone!

The work bathroom.. haha.

Some pictures of my new pocket watch necklace!



day302.

Missed you, Henry.

Sunday.
I woke up not knowing where I was.
I forgot to mention in my last post that Carissa didn't go to the corn fields with us. She took her car home while I rode with someone else. So, while Ty was driving me home that night, I realized I didn't have my purse, meaning I didn't have my keys, meaning I was locked out of my house. So Ty offered to let me crash on his couch. What a nice guy.
So I woke up in his house and said hi to his family and then Ty drove me home and for a minute we convinced Katlyn that we had gotten lost in the cornfield all night and that we were just now getting home.
That made two nights of not sleeping in my bed.

So anyway, Katlyn went to a ward at 9:00 and Carissa went to our church ward council meeting at 11:00. We didn't have choir because Adam was out of town, so I got an hour before Sacrament meeting to wander around and talk to random people. It was fun.

After church we went home and got dinner ready for our guests. Blair, Dallas, and Lewis came over at five for enchiladas. The six of us sat at our cute little round table and had great conversation. Blair and Dallas owned at darts, then they left to go watch The Walking Dead. Lewis brought Battleship and us girls had never seen it before so we watched that. I actually really really liked all the special effects and everything. Awesome movie.

Then the four of us all went to ward prayer late, ate some treats and hot chocolate, had a good time, then went to Derrick's house to play Mario Kart on Nintendo 64. There were four controllers but six people so if you got 3rd or 4th place you had to hand off your controller. I got first and second every time so basically I owned at Mario Kart and I don't know how because I've never been so good at it.

After more people showed up and we played some more, Katlyn and I left to meet Kyler Mitchell and Mike Wilson at the Institute building. They had a bucket of chalk and we attempted to draw a Monopoly board around some squares on campus. We didn't have a whole lot of chalk so we couldn't draw the full board but we did the main squares and it was pretty fun. A bike cop came and asked our names but we didn't get in trouble since we weren't drawing on the buildings or anything. He was cute, too. Officer Gibb.

We went to Denny's after midnight and got some yummy foodses and the boys were nice enough to pay for us.

Good day and night :)

day301cont.

Okay after work Saturday night, I went home to eat some food of course. Then I went to my house and met my roommates so we could figure out what we wanted to do that night. We were invited to Monks' house to watch a scary movie but Katlyn doesn't like scary movies so she went to hang out with Nate. Carissa and I went to Monks' and hung out for a while with him, Berkley, Zack, Mindy, Clarissa, Ty, then Blair and Dalls showed up. We all watched Signs. If you haven't seen it, it takes place right next to a corn field. So after watching it, someone got the great idea to go out to the corn fields.
It was kinda scary and pretty fun until I tripped and fell (of course).

day301.

We left Sand Cove at about 8 this morning, and so I had time to go home and change and make it to our choir performance at the Tabernacle. Although I smelled like fire and I was wearing yesterday's makeup. Woo!
I got to go home and shower after that and hopefully my hair doesn't smell like fire anymore but now I have a bunch of laundry to do.
I took Carissa and Katlyn up to Steve's Mini Mart with me so I could get a soda, and I said hi to the guy who works there. A few weeks ago I asked his name and told him I would be a regular but I hadn't been back since and I forgot his name. I felt bad because he remembered mine. Also, I had just gotten out of the shower and hadn't put any eye makeup on yet and I was dressed dumb. I was chatting away as he handed me my receipt and I walked outside with Carissa and Katlyn following behind me. They were both like.. Uh, Ashlee, he just gave you his number! Yeah I had no idea. Good thing I didn't throw the receipt into the garbage can right outside the door like I usually do.
But I can't text him (Colby) because my phone is broken.
Yeah. The three or four guys I like the most happened to want to hang out the weekend my phone is broken. Such is life!
I thought I was going to have all afternoon to get stuff done but then Carissa remembered it was Dana Little's bridal shower. So the three of us went to that and I'm glad we did because it was fun and there was good food and Dana is just adorahle. Katlyn had to leave early to go to her other friend's bridal shower, so Carissa and I walked home. It was a lovely day and I really should walk places more often when they are close by. It was just so pretty.
Now I'm at work and I'm trying to write a song for Halloween.

day300!

Wow 300 days of blog posts. Holy cow.

Friday was a pretty dang good day, although quite stressful.
Because my phone is broken, I couldn't set an alarm, so I had to do so with my iHome. Didn't matter anyway because I went back to sleep. But I did wake up with enough time to get ready and get to class.
So I went to my classes, music theory and piano performance. I performed my Bach Fugue in class for the first time and did a pretty good job I thought. After that I met Colter, James, and a bunch of people at Ocean Buffet for lunch. So yummy.

I then went back to the school to practice until it was time for Austin to pick me up. He was there right at 3:30, right on time. It was my first time riding on his motorcycle, and he took me all the way around the Gunlock loop. It was beautiful and a great time. And he got me back to the school just in time to start getting ready for the vocal recital.

I changed into my skirt and tights and met Celeste to start warming up for her performance with me as her accompanist.
The first song, the German one, went great! During the second song though, we got lost and I thought I'd messed up and ruined the whole thing. We did pick it back up though and finish it well, and later Celeste told me she watched the recording of it and she had actually sung the wrong part which threw us both off. I guess it wasn't too bad because afterwards one of the teachers in the music department told me I did some "good work" and that he wanted to add me to the list of accompanists to use me elsewhere. Yay!
I'm so glad I'm furthering my piano skills by studying music in college. It's wonderful.

I went to my parent's house for some pizza before meeting Alex at my house at 7:30. We rented some weird movie from Red Box and the DVD player skipped toward the beginning and we missed a big chunk of the movie so we never really figured out what was going on.
Katlyn and Randon came back from their date and we all chatted a bit before Carissa got home. The boys left so the three of us could go up to Sand Cove to meet our friends and camp the night!
We got up there in no time and sat around the campfire talking. It was us, Ty, Monks, Nathan, Berkley, Mindy, Sarah, Brian, Brayden, Rafael, Trevor, and some other people I can't really remember because not everyone stayed the night.
After midnight, Brent called me and told me that he and his friend Chase were coming up to camp with us. I'd invited him earlier and tried to coordinate it by having Katlyn text him and I guess it worked out!
Thank goodness they came, because there wasn't enough room in the bed of the truck for me and Carissa to sleep. So we slept on some pads and sleeping bags on the ground with a bunch of blankets, then I had Brent next to me to keep me warm, and Carissa had Chase to keep her warm. Basically I was in Brent's arms all night and it was wonderful and cozy until we woke up and it was freezing.

day299cont.

So last night after work I went and got gas from Smith's with my family then went home to eat.

THEN, Katlyn, Dave, Rebecca, and I met a bunch of people at Nathan Mitchell's house and all headed over to the Snow Canyon caves. Monks and Ty started running ahead on the trail and so did Nathan, and then I did too. I eventually caught up to Nathan but Ty and Monks were way ahead and everyone else was way behind. We kept following the trail and got to what looked like the opening to a cave. There were two silhouettes of people walking on the other side of it and we called out to them thinking it was Ty and Monks but they didn't respond. We got weirded out and turned around to go back. We still couldn't see anyone else. We went back up the trail and saw a glow stick lying on the ground and Nathan said, "Well... that's creepy."
But apparently that was for us to see to know that everyone was down there. We got all freaked out for nothing. Then as we were climbing down, Sam Pace and his brother showed up! I invited them but knew it'd be hard to communicate with my phone not working properly.
But we all went down in the caves and played hide and seek with glow sticks. It was a blast.
As we were leaving, we ran into Austin Hall, a guy from high school and before who I hadn't seen or talked to in like ten years it seemed. It was a way good little reunion.
We left and went through the McDonald's drive thru. For some reason, Nathan went through it backwards. We all had a dance party in the parking lot (well, Katlyn and I) and some people in line thought we were on crack.
Sam, Ben, and I all cuddled on the floor of my house until it was time to go to bed. The end.

Oh and during the day I went to the mall to get my package from my mom and this is me and Desi.

day299.

Last night after work, Randon invited me to go to Applebee's with him so we went and split the appetizer thingy and got a blondie. It was so delicious especially since I hadn't eaten more than a donut since six in the morning. After that I went to my parent's house for a sec, then home and to bed.

Today has been almost as bad as yesterday. I mean school was fine and everything, but then I dropped my phone in the parking lot... yeah.
It doesn't look damaged or anything but the bottom  half of my touch screen doesn't work. So I can open some things if they're on my home screen or if I get a notification because they're at the top but I can't click the back button to exit out of things or my home button. So it's basically useless. I can't text people back.
Good news is, I'm still under the year warranty with Verizon. I went to the Verizon store and they didn't even ask if I dropped it, just looked at it then said they will send me a replacement. YES.
Bad news is, it won't get here til Monday.
So I hope everything works out okay this weekend... because I don't have internet unless I'm at my parent's house so I can't even communicate with people that way.
Also, I obviously can't send pictures from my phone so I can't put on any pictures today that I take.
I don't think I can even take pictures.
So here's some stuff from the lovely internet.

day298.

I woke up at 5:00 a.m. today to sub Tony's wife's route for one day.
Thinking back on my day I'm 100% sure the only things I have put into my system are a chocolate sprinkled donut, a Dr. Pepper, and later a Diet Cherry Pepsi. I don't recall eating anything else.

I'm hungry. Three and a half more hours until I can get any sort of food.

Anyway, my piano lesson was alright. I went home inbetween classes to wash my hair because I felt so gross.

I had my appointment for my pre-operation today. I had a similar appointment about a year ago, when a doctor was telling me about the surgery (because I was going to do it last year but didn't get around to it). Anyway, I remember him holding my foot and rubbing it, describing how he was going to cut into my foot and break my bone and just the thought and feeling of it made me nauseous. Even typing about it right now is making me sick to my stomach a little. Probably some of that has to do with me not eating anything but a donut and carbonated beverages.
So, today was the same thing. I needed a cup of water because I felt so sick. I'm a baby. My little sister was going into surgery once and I couldn't even be in the room where they were getting her ready without feeling squeamish.
But you know, I'm just dramatic or whatever.

I hate waiting for the doctor.

Yeah. 

day297.

Monday night I decided to go up to Cedar City right after work to record with Chase for the first time since April. It was a stupid idea.
But here's the song if you want to listen to some mediocre talent:

soundcloud.com/ashleewoo/visit-me-here

I got to the college before class so Celeste and I could practice in the concert hall.
After choir, I met with Colter to jam a little bit before his next class. Then I practiced the piano.
I went home and hung out. Went to my parent's house to eat lasagna. Rushed back to the college and made it in time to watch the Jazz Band Concert.
Waited around for my roommates to get home. Went to play volleyball at the Ence's. Went to Del Taco for Taco Tuesday. Went home and showed friends my new song. Went to bed.

My sister made fun of my outfit. But a stranger told me he sees me a lot and that I dress interesting and asked for my number.

My phone doesn't like taking action shots. 

The flash made us all look possessed. 

Nathaniel and Katlyn being adorable.