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i've heard from a couple people that my links to the skinit.com thing on my wishlist doesn't work. but i promise, it really does. it's just weird and for some reason, instead of showing the skin on the full page like it was intended, it's like in the right-hand corner and you have to choose the device, which is a MOTOKRZR.

just so you know.

Adventure!

So i know everyone has heard of Twilight. I started reading the books the end of my freshman year, because i needed something to keep me occupied on my 4 hour flight to Florida that summer. In other words, before the insanity and Edward-mania spread worldwide. Well as much as i LOVE these books, i didn’t like go online and order tickets to see the midnight showing of the movie. (To anyone who actually did that… sorry. haha) i was planning on waiting for it to come out on DVD before i saw the movie, until Tuesday night when i heard that it was in the local-ish IMAX theater! Well who can pass that up? So the next day at school, i invited a few girls from my grade to go with me to see it. i did invite Ashley, but she had stupid freaking dance competition this weekend and wouldn’t have been able to make it. In the end, Carley's mom wouldn't let her go, so it turned out to be me, Chelsea, and Brianna. Whoo!

We drove to the theater in my car, but we arrived like an hour early. Either we overestimated our ETA, or i drive like a maniac and don't know it... i prefer to think it was the first option. :) The three of us were STARVING, so we went to this little convenient store that's nearby, bought some microwaveable foods (i got French toast and sausage... yum!), fixed them in the store, then headed over to the theater. We were the only people in the whole entire theater until like 6:58 (movie started at 7), and we were so excited. I thought we were going to have the whole place to ourselves, but then like 6 other people came in... bummer. The old people that were like 10 seats away freaking hated us by the end of the movie, because i was never not laughing at Edward. He was just so... ridiculous.

I'd have to say that the best part of this whole excursion was just hanging out with Chelsea and Brianna. They're so sweet! I even have some PHOTOGRAPHS to share with you! Yay!

Brianna, Chelsea, and me being cute... with presents!


It was a big tree.


"Make faces like you're having a baby!".... don't ask.

Read Me!

Have you ever heard of snorgtees.com? Well i recently discovered it, and i found some of the fuuuniest shirts. Many references some funny funny things. So i think i'll just try to post pictures of the ones that i find the funniest.

P.S. My birthday is in two weeks from today, and Christmas is in two weeks from 4 days from now (whatever that is). And i usually wear a small or a medium... just thought i'd point that out...

What's that coming over the hill?!

When I first started this blog, I did an entry where I basically wrote down anything and everything that came into my head. I am currently having an urge to do a remix of that one, just less erratic and with more detail as to where my thoughts take me. Oh, and if you have a limited amount of brainspace (for the record, I do NOT mean that as an insult), then I wouldn't recommend reading this post. Because honestly, it bears no relevence to anyone in the whole wide world except for me. I just like to share! :)

--Once upon a time, I wrote in my journal every single night without fail, usually somewhere between 3-6 pages. But for whatever unknown reason, I stopped about a week or so before the 2008 California trip that the KHS Music Dept. went on. I haven’t written in my journal since March 21st. And after checking my journal to see that date, and then reading the entry, I decided that I don’t really blame myself. Not to sound dramatic or stupid or anything, but that was honestly the worst day of my life… emotionally speaking. The day I got my wisdom teeth out was soooooo much worse. Ha ha Ironically, right before I turned to that page, I happened to flip open to one of the most perfect days I can remember. That was March 8th, the day of the Chuck Wagon tournament. It was just a good day, complete with baseball, amazing weather, some of my best friends, making new friends, Junction, and flirting with cute boys. Haha! Anyways, the point of this whole rant is that even though I haven’t written in my journal for like 9 months, it’s still like ingrained in me to subconsciously note little things to tell or write about later. Maybe that’s why I’m doing this blog… I just need to get some stuff out.

--So I apparently use the word "face" a lot. You know, "I miss your face!" or "I'll punch your face." or "So's your face." I never even noticed until T-Dub pointed it out in seminary, and I realized he is totally right. I wonder how many other people have noticed? Other than you. You don't count. Because I totally just told you, and now you're going to listen for it every time I talk to you. Kind of like how my dad counts how many times I say "like" in a sentence. (The other one in that sentence doesn't count, because it's a comparison! HA!)

--I love my English class. The last week or so, we’ve been getting into Edgar Allan Poe stuff, and my teacher (the infamous Mr. Luce) has taken it to almost extreme levels. For instance, when we read “The Raven”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “Anabell Lee” (and some other one, but I can’t remember what it’s called. It starts with an L. But it’s that one where it’s like 9 pages about how amazing this chick is and you’re not sure if she’s even real or if he’s just jacked on opium), it was with all the lights turned off, and we all sat on the floor in a circle and read by candlelight to make it even creepier. I really love that class so much. I had a dream the other night that our entire 4th our English class broke out into the “Newsies” medley that X-Press sang this year. And it wasn’t one of those dreams where it’s just like a snippet of it… I mean, we did the entire song. It was awesome. Haha

--Cheer. As some of you may know, I am as of now a cheerleader for basketball and wrestling. But mostly wrestling, because all that involves is sitting cross-legged on the floor and hitting the floor in rhythms and other weird things, and so far I am kickin’ trash at it. I am just amazing. Haha Whereas with basketball cheer, you have to stand there and do stupid kicks and herkeys (sp?) and toe-touchers (which I have yet to attempt because honestly, who wants to try that for the first time in front of like 9 other girls?) and stuff like that. I really want to cheer, I just don’t know how to operate my arms and legs to make them do the right things at the same time, you know? It definitely does not help that our self-appointed “assistant coach” watches me in the mirror when I do cheers, rolls her eyes at me, and then does it “right.” I mean come on! It’s not like I’ve ever done anything like this before, it is all completely new to me. Of COURSE I’m not going to get it right! Gosh. Let me get the actual moves down before you start giving me crap about how my thumbs are positioned, okay? Frick.

Sorry, I’m a little passionate about that situation. In other cheer news, it’s going to take a while to get used to this new environment. Because as cliché as this sounds, cheerleaders are waaaay into drama. I’ve been lucky enough to have almost ZERO high school drama in my life since school ended last year. All I’ve had was a tiny bit at Halloween, but everyone was over it in like a day or two. I don’t even know how to handle it anymore. But my first day at cheer practice went as such: Sally: “So are you still mad at Jill?” Annie: “What for?” Sally: “Because she held hands with your boyfriend.” Jill: “Oh I did not.” Annie: “Yeah you did, but I’m not mad at you for it.” Jill: “Annie, just get over it. That was a long time ago.” Alice: “Hey Annie, do you remember that time that you had sex with my boyfriend?” Annie: “Oh my gosh Alice, freakin let that go. It was like a year and a half ago and I did not even know you were dating!”

(The names were changed, by the way. Not like we just have storybook girls at my school. Ha.) Just back and forth like that while I was standing there practicing cheers to myself and hoping I wouldn’t get roped into any of it. Who knows, maybe I’ll be that odd-girl-out who is just friends with anyone and doesn’t have a boyfriend for anyone to make out with and cause drama. :)

--Which brings me to the point of me being crazy in love with a boy. Apparently. That’s the only conclusion I can come up with after having dream after dream about the same person. And it’s not like they’re all cute, lovey dreams or anything, we’re usually like playing Frisbee at the new town pool with a bunch of people or we’re eating sushi at the middle school. Random stuff like that. But still, if my subconscious spends 4 nights a week focusing on him, what other impression am I supposed to get? Oh calm down, calm down. I don’t actually “like” anyone at this point in time (especially not this kid, at least not that I know of), but I just can’t get over the weird feeling I get whenever I see him in person, because I see him first thing in the morning and I’m like “Hmm I just played jump rope with you in Bikini Bottom.” How would you respond to that? Since I don’t really know what to think of this subject, I don’t know what to say about it. So I think I’ll just stop now.

--I’ve been having such a great week. (Not counting cheer… but it’s going to get better, I can tell.) Every day I wake up and I am just so happy, and I go to school and say “Good morning, sunshine!” to all of my friends that I see. And I sit on the bench in the hall and say hi to people and smile and me and Ashley just laugh. And throughout the whole rest of the day, I am just so happy. I think it was probably the great visit that I had from my brothers and sisters. I know I’ve tried to explain exactly how much I love love love love love them all, but I don’t think I can ever get it across. Except that oh my goodness, I just started thinking about Bryce and Dena and Aaron and Sarah and Pyper and Hakan and Keith and Rachelle and Todd and Kristen and Kimberly, and I honestly just started crying a little. I know most of them live close-ish to me, but they’re not close enough unless I can say “Hey Mama, I’m going to go hang out with ________, I’ll be back for dinner.” To all of you that I just mentioned, I just want to say that you mean everything to me, and Thanksgiving couldn’t have been more perfect if I had planned every moment myself. (Well… maybe I would have won some more in Nerts. But that’s about it.) It made my heart so sad when you all had to leave, but as soon as you were gone I started getting antsy and excited about when I would get to see you next. Also, I just want to say some things right quick. Kimberly: I’m so proud of you for going on your mission! Way to be. I’ll send you cookies. :) Todd and Kristen: I’m speechless. Who even saw this coming? Haha just kidding, I really am excited for you two kids to get married… I’m invited to the reception, right?! Keith and Rachelle: I hope you find that perfect tree to get married under, and I hope it doesn’t have any big ugly bugs in it. Sarah and Aaron: I think it would be wise to name your kid Nerts. That way, even when you’re mad and you yell at him, you’re still feeling happy and exhilarated on the inside that you got to say it. Bryce and Dena: I’m doing my very darndest to wiggle my way past the whole pay-actual-money-for-your-airplane-ticket thing just so I can come visit you as soon as possible. :)

--Man. When I’m in the shower, I come up with these thoughts like crazy, but when I sit down to type them, I have to really grasp to try and remember my key points. Well it’s late anyways, and I have to get up early because… well… I’m a girl and it takes me like a hundred years to get ready in the morning. Not really, but still. I’d way rather get up early than late.

I ♥ you!

Here's a great big dose of crazy.

Well, i started doing the first part of this post, then realized that i'd wanted to do one about State football! So if you don't care about one or the other of these subjects, the tiny piece about State is in red... FYI. :)



This has definitely been an off week for me. I'm not really sure why, but it just has been. Yesterday was a prime example of it!

Maybe it's because i started the day off by sleeping on the couch. See, we got our carpets cleaned on Monday, so all of my stuff had to either go on my bed or in my bathroom. By the time i got home that night, i was SO not in the mood to clear off my bed, so i just crashed on the couch. It was actually really nice! Unfortunately, i slept so comfortably that i slept until like 10 minutes before i had to leave for school... so i chose to wear like ZERO make up! (haha Justin, you totally missed out.) That was nice at first, but then every once in a while i'd see myself in a window or a mirror and be like "AHH! Oh... right." Plus, i literally grabbed a random shirt when i was getting ready, and wore it. It's a classic. Are you ready for this?

I bought this shirt in 8th grade and it still makes me smile.

Moving on to 1st hour, i started off my school day by going up to my dear good friend Ashley and saying these words: "Psst hey Ashley... i have a secret for you." And she said "What?" So i leaned in and said "A sante sana, squash banana!" WEIRD stuff. I then spent all of lunch and part of 5th hour practicing how to whistle loudly with my fingers.

The craziest thing about yesterday was last night. I honestly went out of control with my room. I threw away so much stuff, rearranged like everything, cleared out most of it... it's like a whole new room! To help you visualize the fact that i can indeed clean my room, how about i post up some pictures, si?


The most random little corner there is... 5 musical instruments, 2 cardboard boxes, a homemade table with a 30 year old typewriter on it, and a Mexican blanket. :)


New bedside table... handy!


This is the lid to that typewriter on my table. In it are 3 of my favorite books (The Kissing Hand from Aunt Tricia, My Master's Touch which never fails to make me cry, and The Book of Mormon.) The other two are books by Ambrose Bierce that dad likes a lot. Also, my Patriarchal blessing is in there... i like to read it a lot. :)


Long, painful story short, we lost 12-22 against North Sevier. But i'm not all hateful or whatever about it, because apparently they've never even been to state before, so they first time they actually go, they won. Good for them. (Also, when we lost my freshman year against Duchesne, i wasn't mad because i heard one of their coaches had recently died of cancer.) Here are just some cute pictures from the trip. (I don't usually post this many pictures, huh?)


Me and Kizzle on the bus... i love this picture!


Reppin' "CO-D" (Cody) #32 and King Tom #75... i wish you could see my cute little pigtails! Compliments of Carley. :)


This picture is like... epic. The girls in my grade really started this tradition, and i can't wait until we can do it again next year. I love it!

Bye, football season... hello basketball...

BODY WORLDS!

Today I had the opportunity to go up to Salt Lake to see the Body Worlds exhibit. See, at my school there is a MAPS (Medical Anatomy and Physiology Science) class taught by a certain Ms. Warner. That class, a chemistry class taught by Mrs. Smith (no idea why they went), a random sophomore in Biology (even though I’d heard that only juniors and seniors could go), and me, Savy, and Matt Vaughn from Earth Systems went. By the way, Earth Systems is the science class you’re supposed to get into when you’re a freshman, but somehow me and a few other people go away without having a science class at all in 9th grade. So now as juniors, we get to hang out with the freshman during 7th hour… whoo hoo! The three of us didn’t even have to go, we just really, really wanted to. And since Ms. Warner like loves us, she called it good. We’re just special like that. :)

I just realized that not everyone might know what the heck Body Worlds even is. I know Keith does, because he’s the one that got me all psyched to go! “This is a traveling exhibit (the one we went to is, like I said, in Salt Lake and will be there until January 11th, 2009… in case you’re interested.) of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures.“ (Wikipedia’s words, not mine.) In other words, it’s a big museum of the human body with actual human bodies which are plasticated so they don't smell and they last forever and ever. It was SO cool! There were 22 full body features, which showed all the muscles and tissues and internal organs and… other organs… The grossest part for me though was the fact that these people, who had donated their bodies to this after they died, still had their ears, lips, eyebrows, noses, fingernails, and BELLY BUTTONS. Yucky! But other than that, they were just amazing. They had people in different poses, like “The archer” and “The trapeze artist” etc.

An example of one of the people... and the eyebrows thing.

The hardest part for me to see was actually optional. When we had our orientation before the tour, the lady warned us ahead of time that there was a section devoted to the progressive stages of the fetus during pregnancy, and that if you didn’t want to see it you could just keep going straight. Well, by the time me and my two friends got to the point where we had to decide if we wanted to see it or not, they had started to go in, so I just followed. In this little section, it was so much quieter than the rest of the museum (which was already pretty reverent considering how many people there were…). There was a counter that had some tall glass tubes lined up, each with like a glass shelf thing in the middle and cards at the bottom saying “Beginning of 5th week,” “Middle of 5th week,” “End of 5th week,” etc. On the shelves were actual fetuses that women who had miscarried had donated to this exhibit. The first few tubes were just kind of “meh” to me, because I didn’t recognize them. But once I saw like the end of the 10th week, it actually looked like a little person… and I just broke down crying. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen. But it was important, too I suppose.

Anyways… I just want to throw in a little tribute to Ms. Warner. As some of you might know, she and I got off to a rocky start at the beginning of last year when I had her for Biology. But after a while, she got slightly less crazy (only with the difficulty of the work… in no other way did she gain even a little bit of sanity.) and I got better at the work and now we’re friends! I am so sad I don’t get to have her this year. She is an amazing person who has traveled all over the world, built schools and clinics in Nepal, gotten an infection from a leech while hiking the Himalayas, etc. Also, she is the only person I know who can sit there with 4 chatty teenage girls (me being one of them) and explain how heart transplants work without being boring. She actually came to the back of the bus today because I guess we were being too loud, and “threatened” to sit back there with us. Little did she know that we LOVE hangin out with her, so we ended up sitting her down right next to Brianna and showing her pictures on all of our phones. GOOD TIMES!

After a few hours of Disney songs, the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song, random sneak attacks from Tyler, and lots and LOTS of Laffy Taffys, we finally made it home. By the way, i am typing this at 12:23 AM because I really wanted to blog about it, but the next chance I get won't be until like Sunday. So... hopefully I can get up on time in the morning. :/

Come back.

i miss my friends so dang much...

Justin, Chasen, and Matt...


Mike...


Mark...


Ashton...


Kaylie...


Elder R. Garett Madril...


Elder T. J. Reidhead...


And most of all, Nikiah...

Why do they all have to leave?

Whoo!

8 TV shows I love to watch:

1. Scrubs
2. Family Guy
3. That '70s Show
4. Chuck
5. Psych
6. Reba
7. Friends
8. Sunday Night Football

8 things that happened to me yesterday:

1. Burned myself with my straightener.
2. Discovered 5 new bruises.
3. Went to the football game.
4. Was bored to death by the football game.
5. Hung out with my friend Mike!
6. Filled up my car with gas.
7. Trimmed my bangs.
8. LOST MY PENCIL!!!

8 favorite places to eat:

1. Olive Garden
2. Panda Express
3. Junction
4. Mongolian BBQ
5. Little Caesar's
6. KFC
7. ??
8. ??

8 things I am looking forward to:

1. THANKSGIVING! I freakin miss my family like crazy!
2. My birthay... 50 days!
3. Seeing Nikiah... whenever that will be.
4. BYU game!
5. State football
6. Christmas?
7. My scary movie party... again, whenever that will be.
8. Other stuff.

8 things on my wish list:

1. Texting.
2. And iPod Touch!
3. A Macbook or one of those little tiny laptops.
4. Internet that isn't dial-up.
5. Wii.
6. A house in Kanab.
7. A job.
8. Or just an endless supply of dollars.

8 people I tag:

1. Kaylie
2. Justin
3. Kelsie
4. McKenna
5. Chasen
6. Mom
7. Dad
8. Anyone

Good times.

I guess i haven't really done a real post lately... and i'm not sure this one will count as one either, but whatever. I do what i can. :) And just so you know, some of these things actually aren't what they sound like. Seriously.

In the past 24 hours i have:
--Gotten sick of the words "Oh my gosh, i LOVE this song! Turn it up!"
--Repped King Tom of Kanab.
--Helped 3 guys pick out make-up at Wal Mart.
--Seen and high-fived Hitler in aisle 7 at Wal Mart.
--Nicknamed someone "Wal Mart". (These last three were last night, by the way. haha)
--Frozen my toes off.
--Ordered and drank a Strawberry Margarita.
--Became family with the football cheerleaders.
--Invented 2 new school clubs.
--Been a-flutter.
--Slept until 3:40 in the afternoon.
--Raided a grocery store with the football team and the cheerleaders.
--Decided who i am going to marry.
--Craved peanut butter and birthday cake. (NOT at the same time.)
--Laughed until i literally thought i was going to puke.
--Smiled like an insane person.

Needless to say... yesterday was a good day. Here's some photographs i'd like to share with you. :)

The group reppin' Thomas, Cody, Shadoe, Rhees, and Dason.


The cheer section: Misty, Calli, me, Ashley, Chelsea, Savy, and Carley... i have no clue what she's doing. haha


Recreating a reaction to a touchdown. Seems like Carley is always the random oddball... haha

Thanks for tuning in, folks!

P.S. We beat Enterprise 28-0, in case you were interested. :)

Just so you can smile.

Favorite quotes of the day:

--"That one song from 'Wicked' is really sad... you know, the one with Glinda and Bath Sheba?" and "'Defying Gravity' is too a sad song. She doesn't want to fly, she wants to be normal!" -- Rhees Jackson, in defense of all country songs after the accusation that they are all sad. Maybe the second one is one of those "you had to be there" things, but you have to admit... the first one is dang funny. (He meant Elpheba)

--"Wow... that was like a combination of... of... Fergie and Jesus!" -- Matt Johnson after tryouts for a solo in "Newsies."

--"I know! We're learning about filthy parables!" -- Ben Cserepes in seminary... awkward, i know.

--"I don't wanna do that none more!" -- Erica Soderquist



Long day. I left my flash drive at school, which holds a paper for Sociology that i'd spent a total of 7-8 hours after school today and yesterday trying desperately to finish by tomorrow, because if i got it turned in by tomorrow, i'd get 25 bonus points.

I guess that means no extra credit for Jennifer. :(

P.S. and i somehow ended up joining FFA today... ?!?!

Today

I smashed a freshman in the face with a steel door. On accident, just so you know.

After only a few words from me, the conversation that had started with the event of me almost breaking his nose ended with him saying "You're right, Jennifer... i'm sorry." His friend Branson that was standing there just stared like he couldn't believe what just went down.

I don't know if it's a girl thing or a Jennifer thing that i made him apologize for what i did, but that was amazing.

Homecoming Week!

Sorry for the delay, but i haven't really had the time (or motivation) to do any new posts.

To pick up where i left off, i'll tell you about how i answered Matt to homecoming. On Monday morning, i left my house like a half hour early for school so i could pick up Ashley and head to school. The plan was for me to write a poem on his assigned parking spot with sidewalk chalk before he got to school, but i'd forgotten that he has a 7 a.m. ASL class and had been there for a half hour before i got there. so what ended up happening was that we waited until lunchtime when he left, and we did it. but i was in such a hurry to do it before he left that i forgot to take pictures... oops, sorry.

In other news, i'll tell you more about Homecoming Week. Monday was Blast From the Past, Tuesday was Superhero Day, Wednesday was Old Timer's Day (probably a total of like 10 people dressed up for this, most of them were freshmen), Thursday was Cowboy Day, and Friday was Red & White Day. To be honest, i didn't really go all out on anything except for maybe Superhero Day. I only took pictures for one day, unfortunately, and it was Blast From the Past. It wasn't even that sweet, either. haha

On Thursday, we had our skit. Ever since freshman year, my class has had the sweetest skit of all the other classes! And that includes this year. We sooo won, mostly in gore and laughs. Me and three other girls wore some jerseys that belong to some juniors on the varsity team. I was Craig Brinkerhoff #7, Ashley was Dustin Reidhead #30, Savy was Justin Orton #22, and Carley was Dason Ott #51. It was sooo much fun! The basic idea was that we were having a blood drive for the Rich Rebels because they "lost so much blood" in the homecoming game. And FYI, Rich was the team we beat at State last year, so they were pretty riled up. Anyways, the skit was soooo funny that when me, Ashley, Savy, and Carley were "taking a knee" for the players, i laughed so hard i fell over on Ashley like twice, and all four of us were crying. Like, a lot. But of course the seniors won, because they're seniors and it doesn't matter how lame the actual skit is!

On to Friday night. That was probably the most intense football game i have ever been to in my life. Rich was ahead until the last half of the fourth quarter, when we scored and were ahead by 4 points. I'm not kidding, they came sooooo close to scoring every time they made a play. Me and a bunch of other girls in my grade all borrowed the white away jerseys from our friends and stood on the fence to cheer the entire game. It was sweet! So at the end when it was getting all intense, it was complete insanity. I was screaming sooo loud and i was just about shaking.

Me and my tasty football ring-pop thing. And Chelsea doing... wow i don't even know what.


Me wearing Rhees Jackson's jersey after the game... that we WON!

Pretty much the second the game got over, Ashley hauled me to the truck so we could beat the traffic out of the parking lot to her house to get ready for the dance... if that made any sense. For some reason, the dance was on the same night as the game. I guess that's how it used to be, and that's how most schools do it, but we usually have it on Saturday night which is WAYYY better. To skip all the boring details about me getting ready and all the pictures that were taken, my date Matt finally picked me up at Ash's house. Then we went to the dance which was pretty fun. Except that Matt was so tall that every time i danced with him, i got a knot in the muscle in my arm. And we got pictures taken by Matt Brown, who is the employer of my date, so we got an employee discount. As in, we got one of just us and one of us with Ashley & her date Dustin, and my friend Megan and her date Aaron for the price of one. Anyways, after the dance was over (at like almost midnight. It was supposed to start at 9:30, but that's when the game got over.), Matt took me to this kid Blaine's house for ice cream with a bunch of other people. Then i went home, and struggled to stay awake. I didn't get home until 1:30!


Me and my Ashley, ready for the dance!


Me and my cute date Matt!

P.S. At the dance, the school councelor Mr. Stewart came up to me and the group of people i was with and said "Guys, thanks for wearing ties. You look really spiffy. And ladies... well, you all get gold stars for being modest. Thans so much, you really make it more of a special night." I felt so special!

Story!

alright. so you may or may not know, but i've been kind of worried lately because homecoming is next week and i wanted to go, but did NOT want to go without a date. well today, those worries went away, because i have a date! and believe it or not, this will only be my second date since i turned 16. the first one was with my best friend, and we went so we could get out of playing in the pep band at a basketball game. haha

well i'm thinkin you might want to know who and how he asked me... even if you don't, i'm going to write about it anyways. :) i could tell you all the details leading up to it, like how when i asked my best friend/lunch buddy Ashley where she wanted to go for lunch she said the middle school (even though she NEVER wants to go there) and when i asked if she said drive or walk, she said "walk." very purposefully. i could also tell you about how Ashley has been whispering not-very-discreetly with this girl Sara Carling who is this guy's best friend the last few days and wouldn't tell me about what even though we tell each other everything.

but i won't tell you all that. i'll just tell you how he asked me! so ashley and i were just walking around the inside of the school during the lunch period (we'd already been to the middle school and back... ha.) when we ran into this freshman girl that's on the volleyball team with Ashley. after talking for a minute, Josie (before mentioned freshman girl) turned to me and said "Hey Jennifer, i think something happened to your car..." Ashley's eyes got huge and went "JOSIE! You weren't supposed to say anything! Crap!" so obviously, i'm bookin it for the back door to where my (well... mom's) car was parked. unfortunately, i forgot that Ashley is slightly faster and much, much stronger than me. so she put me in a chokehold and wrestled me to the floor (this is in the front lobby of the school, by the way. meaning... we had an audience.) until i promised i would stay inside until she could at least check and make sure it was done. she left and after a minute or two, came back and told me the coast was clear. what i found was like 20 or so red and white balloons taped all over my vehicle, and this sign on the driver's side window:

There was a safety pin under that tape, but it was in use when this picture was taken.

And when it says "Hint: Eat the candy!" it's referring to the Tootsie Rolls and things of Smarties that were in every balloon. it took a while for me to pop all the balloons (Ashley assisted me by at least taking the balloons off the car so i wouldn't have tape and rubber all over it), and then i collected all the candies and headed for the tables in the library. there, i had like 3 other people helping me unwrap all of them... i have no idea why it was so hard for me to figure out what i was looking for, though. because in one of the Smarties wrappers, there was a tiny piece of paper wrapped around the candies. i was like... wow, how did i not see that? anyways, here's what the paper said:



so that's basically it. i have to figure out a way to say yes to him in a cute way, though. i have a good idea, but i'm not going to put it on here because well the internet is a tricky place! haha i'll update you sometime next week, though... or whenever i get around to it.


Me popping my surprises.

As a couple side notes, Josie has been apologizing nonstop every time she sees me and/or Ashley all day for spoiling the surprise. i told her i was going to find out eventually, and not to worry. Also, Todd claims he needs to interview this kid. HA right. like i'm going to bring my date anywhere near my family! ;) haha just kidding just kidding...


:)

i effin love my family.