Reality check.

today, i went to my friend Sam's (well... i guess now it's Elder Samuel Pace) missionary farewell. it was in the other stake, so that was kind of a new experience. after he gave his talk (which was pretty funny), 6 people got up to the stand to sing "Army of Helaman/As Sisters In Zion"; Morgan Livingston, Kelsey Barber, Dani Corry, Garett Madril, TJ Reidhead, and Sam. that song always makes me cry anyways, but seeing 6 people that just barely graduated this last year made it extra hard for me to hold myself together. i am such a pansy. but what can i say? he's my friend and i'm going to miss him a lot... but i'm really proud of him. oh and by the way, he's going to the Rochester New York mission. he's leaving on the 6th of August. and in case your interested, here's some more info on friends and missions:

Elder T. J. (I'm not allowed to disclose the actual names that "TJ" stands for. haha) Reidhead is going to the Sacramento California mission. For some reason, he leaves on October 1st even though he put his papers in on the same day as Sam...?

Elder R. Garett Madril is going to the San Paulos Brazil mission. He put in his papers the same day as TJ & Sam, but isn't leaving until October 28th.

on a brighter note, i got a new bedset! whoo! it is just so cute. =]

Please ignore the laptop... i was actually typing up this entry and decided to take a picture, but i didn't want to unhook it from the internet. Lazy? Very much.

What can i say?

alright alright, what can i say? i'm a teenager. this last thursday, i had a "Girls Night" with a few friends, and well long story short, 4 of us ended up putting red streaks in our hair. permanent red streaks. dumb i know, especially because it's starting to fade and the one on the bottom is starting to just turn hot, hot pink. after i showed mom, i went back to my friend's house to see if we could dye one of them brown because it was pretty showy... but all that did was make it a darker red, so we cut some of it out. anyways, here are some pictures of it. not very good ones but whatever...

That one in the front is the one i tried to fix the next day... it's not quite so BAM anymore.


My favorite part about the whole project! haha

and here are some pictures from the girls night in general...


The group... Nikiah, me, Dani, and Kayla. (Kaylie was takin the picture)


Kiah and me... frightening...


Kaylie, me, and Kayla! (Nikiah's in the back) Haha i love this picture so much.


We watched "P.S. I Love You", divvied out who got Gerard Butler (i created the perfect version of him... the voice/music from Phantom of the Opera, the body from 300, and the personality from P.S. I Love You... he's the ultimate person! haha), ate a TON of junk food, did the hair thing of course, and basically just had a blast. whoo! well i'm gonna call this one good. ♥!


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I look like Minnie Driver.

So i got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. All four of them! it was a... special experience. i wasn't allowed to eat for 6 hours before the operation, so starting at 9:30, the only thing that went in my mouth was water and lots of Sprite. which was definitely unfortunate, since i was working at my job in a coffee shop/bakery and we'd just made fresh scones and chocolate chip cookies. and since i'm not supposed to have any kind of soda for a while, i was drinking as much as i could to hold myself over until i'm allowed. =]

mom came and got me in time to get to st. george to the... get ready for it... ORAL SURGEON! dun dun dun. so i finally got into the chair, and got a certificate for joining the "First IV Club." you should've seen me, i was shaking so bad. mama asked me if i was really cold, because my lips were trembling. the last thing i remember before i went under was thinking that the 3 shots he put into the IV kind of hurt my arm. i don't really know how long the procedure took, but it felt like forever. oh, and the reason i had to have them surgically removed was because the bottom two were severely impacted... stupids.

when i came home, i sat in dad's recliner, leaned back, and pretty much didn't move. i can only eat soft foods, i couldn't brush my teeth for the first 24 hours (not like i've been upstairs lately anyways...), i had to have an ice-pack literally strapped to my head for 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off, and i've thrown up quite a bit from a combination of the medicine they used to put me out and as a side effect from the Lortab i'm taking. i ended up watching "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" with dad until like midnight:30 ish. Then i woke up at 5:30 and watched "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." man, i love that show! after that though, i pretty much just chilled, watched TV all day long, and ate mushy food. you know, honestly never realized how many delicious-looking food commercials are shown on a regular basis! seriously right now, i am craving Pizza Hut, Olive Garden, and Applebee's... all at once. i want to eat something solid and delicious more than anything in the world!

i really don't know why i'm going into so much detail. probably because i've only gotten out of this recliner twice today. once to go to the bathroom, once when dad thought a spider was on the chair and i kind of... leapt out. anyways, i'm doing my best to keep myself occupied. but even so, i think i'm going to end this here and now...

Thanks for tuning in, folks. =]

Now what?

"I feel like an Indian!" That's how Kiah plays DDR.

Meet Nikiah Maria Riggs. Alright that's not her actual name, but say it out loud i dare you. You just did, didn't you? And you probably just said it again just because of how much fun it was. I did that the whole time i was at girls camp. Anyways, her name is Nikiah and she is my best friend.

Several months ago, i was walking to math class and i saw Nikiah crying. Well not actually crying, but her eyes were red and she was wiping under her eyes. Naturally, i asked her what was wrong. She wouldn't tell me at first, but i finally got it out of her about 10 minutes after the tardy bell. She told me that her Dad was offered 2 new and improved jobs; one in Manti (i think about 3-4 hours away), and one in Alaska (about 100 bajillion years away). When she first told me this, it was only a "i might be moving." Not too much later though, it became "i'm for sure moving to Manti."

So over the months, the shock has worn off. But still, i can't forgive myself for how much i've taken her for granted. Me, Ashley, and Nikiah (we're basically inseperable. and a little bit chemically imbalanced.) have been spending literally as much time as possible together. You'd think that we'd start to get on each others nerves after a bit, but that almost never happens. And when i say "almost", that's only when it's both mine and Ashley's time of the month. At that point, she is extra mean and slightly insensitive and plays lots of tricks (she knows this is true so i don't feel bad saying it) and i just get impatient and emotional and super irritable. BAD mix, and poor Kiah's always in the middle! Wow okay anyways the point is that the three of us somehow manage to love each other through all our faults.

Yesterday (or was it the day before...?), Nikiah called me while i was closing up at the coffee shop at around 2:30. She was just asking me if i could hang out, and i worked it out so i could. Little did she know that i've been trying to hang out with her, just the two of us, for a few days because of this:






This is what i always say to Nikiah, and she's always sure to say it back.

If you don't know what that is, it's called an Exploding Box. I saw the one mama made for Mommer for Mother's Day, and i new i just had to make one for Nikiah. But there were some complications. One being my own laziness, so even though i had the stuff to make it like 2 weeks before school even got out, i didn't even start working on it until like last weekend. Another one was that by the time i got to Nikiah's house (about an hour later because i had to take mama home), there was another girl there. Not that i had a problem with the girl, it was just frustrating because i didn't want to give Nikiah this really, really special present in front of someone who not only wouldn't understand how much it meant, but would ask us to explain every picture and every inside joke. (That was a long sentence.) So i had to wait until she went home, then i gave the box to my best friend. I recorded it on my camera, but i don't really know how to put videos on here. Oh wait... is it that film stip lookin thing up top there...? Well look at that, it is! I wonder if it will work...

Nope no luck. Anyways, i made her cry with this. Me, mama, and Ashley all predicted that once she took the lid off, she would keep doing it over and over because well, Nikiah is very easily entertained. But we were all wrong, because she took the lid off and... well, if this video would work you'd see what she did. At first, all she could say was "Aw...!" After a minute though, she started to cry. A lot. She told me she was really glad i'd waited til her other friend was gone, because that could have been embarassing.

Later that day, we went to my friend Kaylie's house so i could get my hair cut. Ashley met us there, and we went on a secret adventure. Oh you'd like to know where we went, wouldn't you? Oh well, too bad. =] lol

Well i guess the main point to this essay is to show off what i made for Nikiah (i admit, i seriously considered keeping it forever. it's my pride and joy.), to say how much i love her, and to explain why i asked for gas money to travel to Manti on my wishlist on our family blog. Ash and i are going to take as many road trips as possible to visit Nikiah, who promised to act as stupid as us while we're there. ;)

i wonder why all my posts are super duper long... ? I'm sure i get made fun of for it *cough* Chasen *cough* but i don't know who would do such a thing.

♥

I hate apricots.

so this morning at 6, i got up. don't forget, but it is saturday. so i got up at 6 so i could be ready to leave by 6:30. somehow, mama talked me into going to work in the cannery in st. george at 8 am. lucky, lucky me. okay for the record, i'm not really that grouchy about it. yeah, i wish it could have been a wee bit later, but still.

well in the cannery itself, mom and i got the easiest job there. basically all we did was keep the cans going on the belt and measure the apricots to make sure they werent too full or whatever. the only really bad part was the fact that it was loud, super steamy, and very very scary. oh, and the fact that it lasted 4 whole entire hours. that about killed me!

well i just thought i'd let you know that i actually did something worthwhile on a saturday in the summer! it's a first, believe me. =]

yours truly.

News Flash!

i just thought i'd announce that my family is now doing kind of a group-blog thing. we've still got a bunch of things to work/figure out. but still, it's fairly interesting and we're all pretty excited about it, and that has to count for something, right? well that's about all i have to say. ♥


Oh and just for Todd...
"Liberty Bell, you put one more bacon on that potato and i'll kick your little monkey butt!"--Juno

Braceface no more!

Before…

Alright alright you can breathe now… my braces FINALLY came off! At approximately 11:33, they started snappin’ the brackets. It hurt SO bad, though. See, my brackets were ceramic. So instead of neatly popping off like metal ones, they shattered all over the room and into the back of my throat. Yeah, that was pretty unpleasant. But it was all worth it in the end! My teeth felt so slimy and I have to admit, I’m still not completely entirely used to how small my lips feel.


After...

My retainers are so cute! I got kind of a deep purple with black and white polka dots on it. They suck, but at least they’re cute, right? That’s what I have to keep telling myself, anyways. So yeah, there’s an update and here’s a couple of pictures for your enjoyment! =]


After the after (retainers)...

well... i'm tired. so that's pretty much all i want to say. have a great day!


"That ain't no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle can't be undid, homeskillet."--Juno

i LOVE that movie and i had the sudden urge to quote it. =]