day twenty-eight.

can i just tell you I AM SO DONE WITH THIS THIRTY DAY CRAP.
^^maybe a slight overreaction, but still.

[a picture of your favorite book]

don't have one. HAH. in your face, thirty days.

so here's my current read:

stop. stop. i'm not that far. stupid school gets in the way.
say nothing.

day twenty-seven.

[a picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently]

no, no, not laying upside-down on a bed with kim and lindsey. nor is it photo-shopping pictures to make myself and others look blue-skinned. 


it's got to be good ol' byu. though i disliked it at first, loathing the lack of diversity and seemingly endless restrictions, it's become another home to me. 


i believe that college is the place where you become who you will be for the rest of your life. at least in many respects. i feel so blessed to be surrounded by people who have pledged to keep their standards high - academically and in their everyday lives.


the majority of the many "end of freshman year surveys" ask this question, "if you were to go back in time and make your college decision again, would you choose byu?"


most definitely.

day twenty-six.

[a picture of somewhere you'd love to travel]


i would love to...

see cherry blossoms in japan

visit easter island in chile 

go for a swim in iceland

ride a camel past the taj mahal in india

marvel at hagia sophia in istanbul

climb a tree in madagascar

explore a castle in scotland

sleep in the ice hotel in sweden

"the ice hotel! it's amazing! i read about it in the travel section. it's a hotel totally made out of ice. the roof is ice. the floors are ice. the tables are ice. the chairs are ice. the chandeliers are ice."

"i think i'm beginning to get the picture. wouldn't it be amazing if you went down the hall and the ice machine was empty?" 

^^name it and earn five minutes of un-interrupted eye contact.

day twenty-five.

[a picture of something you're excited for]

flowers

summer

moving home

to hang out with these hooligans

hopefully beaching

being tan again

all in about 23 days.

day twenty-four.

[a picture of your outfit today]

coat: old navy
scarf: wallymart
mittens: forevs 21
hat: pst
(all the fashion bloggers do that^^ okay?)

there you go. me in all my awkwardness snappin' a photo before my afternoon class. what seems like an overreaction is actually my attempt to maintain the warmth i felt just minutes before this picture was taken. my bed is exceptionally toasty.

day twenty-three.

[a picture of someone you do the most messed up things with]

the phrase, "messed up" in itself makes me think of the one and only jamie vawdrey.

i'm not sure it's as much, "the person i do the most messed up things with" as it is, "the person i watch do the most messed up things."
i'm sure you've all seen this.

signature face. (one of the many)

st. george take one.

our typical: buying popsicles at kohler's then going somewhere random to eat the whole box.

need i say more?

st. george take two.

cleanin' the sink.

surprise.

but srsly, jamie is the very best. though i mock and ridicule her relentlessly, i hope she knows i love her with my whole heart. from matching shirts at classic skating (age eight), to waiting outside my bathroom door on my birthday (age 19), we've been through it all together. though we recently realized that we have literally nothing in common, i know she'll always be there (needed or not). love you bff, def totes.

day twenty-two.

[a picture depicting your dream last night]


i'm not sure which picture to use to depict the following snippets that i can remember:

• junior high friends were there, which is weird because i haven't seem those boys in ages.
• someone entrusted jamie with their baby, which promptly got spun around by her right arm and foot.
• all my teeth fell out. (which i dream about a lot, and if someone could explain that to me, it would be much appreciated.)

that is all i can remember.

and now the picture to depict it all:

we all took our jr. high crushes to sadies. presh.

this doesn't depict it at all, but it incorporates some of the main characters.

day twenty-one.

[a picture of the contents of your purse]


that's right, i took the time to actually take a picture of it. that's how much i don't want to do my accounting homework.

$24.37, temple recommend, driver's license, byu id card, atm card, cafe gift card, chile's gift card, health insurance card, car insurance card, address to chandler's mission blog, tiny horse, two bobby pins, stride gum, chap stick, lip gloss i've had since the ninth grade, pencil, pen, tampon.


there ya go. i know that interested you beyond belief.

letters.

got the best letter from my brother today.

"Elder Tingy saw a picture of you and now I cant get him to stop talking about you. He's going home in 6 months and he thinks that he's going to marry you. Also along the same lines if a Tyler Hodge comes up to you don't trust him. He tends to stretch the truth to near breaking and he also told me he was going to track you down and marry you, he went home a couple of weeks ago so watch out."

i'm only a bit terrified.

on a related note, patrick is no longer just over a mile away from me now. off to COLOMBIA for him.

day twenty.

[a picture of someone you could not live without]


cheesy/religious alert.

when i thought about writing this post, i thought of all the people in my life that i love with all my heart. the parents, the bffs, siblings, niece & neph, etc. i thought about how hard it would be to pick just one to write about. but then i thought about it differently. there is a high chance that, sooner or later, i'm going to have to live without some of these people. there is, however, one person that i know i would never be able to live without.


that person is my savior. i know that when no one else is there, he is. i know that without this, there would be no way for me to live. i've felt his love when i had trouble feeling it from anyone else. he is hope. he is love. he is the one person i could never live without.



^^i just love hilary weeks. don't judge.

day nineteen.

[a picture of your day]
yesterday.

logan temple. "don't get hit by a car, that's my camera..."

lunch at the bluebird.

book store.

too much of this.

day eighteen.

[something you hate]


scratching.

my all time biggest pet peeve. mostly only that loud, never-ending scratching that people tend to do. or scratching their scalp loudly. all of the above freak me out.

day seventeen.

[a picture of something you love]

festivals.

festival of colors.

japan festival.

lamb and wool festival.

llama fest.

balloon festival.

i absolutely cannot wait for festival season.

day sixteen.

[a picture of someone you miss]


our dear elder pst:

okay facebook, patrick's going to swallow his fish now

okay facebook? that'sthedumbestthingever.i'mnotdoingthisforfacebook.ifyouputthisonfacebook... youdon'thavetoputmineonfacebook.

okay i won't put it on facebook.

i miss: 

gentlemanliness.

doin' smart things.

^^this face.

....this face.

and others. 


also, i thought i would take this time to share a hilarious anecdote that i remembered today with you all:


one day (the sunday before he departed) patrick invited me to dinner with his lovely family. we ate, enjoyed, his father told me i was adequately tall, played cards and skyped with his sister in china. in the middle of the skype conversation, patrick and i had to leave so he could take me home. we arrived to the car and he realized he had forgotten his keys. as we enter the kitchen, patrick comes into view of the webcam before me and his sister shouts, "patrick, did you get some aaa..." she stops mid-sentence as i walk into view. sudden laughter erupts. hilarious. i love how awkward i can make people feel.

day fifteen.

[a picture of something you want to do before you die]


a peek into my bucket list:

gallon challenge.

donate blood. (i will conquer my own body and do this)

serve an lds mission.

yodel in the alps. (recreating this picture exactly)

get married here.

be this grandma.

day fourteen.

[a picture of something you're afraid of]

^^something everyone is afraid of.

^^something i'm afraid of.

i'm aware it's completely irrational, but these, as well as most apocrita, terrify me to no end.