Has it really been that long?! I used to be so good about blogging and journaling, and now... Well, that's the past now, oh well.
Life has been exciting! I'm just about done with school, I have an awesome job, a few fun voice students, amazing roommates, a ton of really great friends, and so naturally I will tell you about those things rather than finish up for cleaning check right now. (I am unfortunately a procrastination addict.)
School's been good. I miss taking a lot of classes. Just taking voice is a little boring, but I'm doing some really fun stuff, so I guess it's ok. I can't wait till my masters so I can take more classes...*sigh* oh well.
My job is good too. I'm one of the top sales people in the store, my new boss really likes me (getting a new boss only a couple months after I'd started was an ordeal, but it's all fun now!) It was awesome working there on Halloween because I (naturally) got put on candy duty. I got to talk to all the little kids and gush over their fabulously fantastic costumes. We ran out of candy so fast tho...it was CRAZY!!!!!! I loved it tho..especially the part where multiple moms told me how great I was with kids and that with my enthusiasm I should work for Disney! Now wouldn't that be fun (and so totally me?!) I'm unfortunately too tall (and out of shape) to be a princess at one of the parks, but I would seriously love to work for Disney...that'd be awesome!
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| Our favorite quickly photoshopped pic...the only pic of all five of us...and none of us were together when we took it! hahahaha |
My roommates...where do I start?! Well, I seriously LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!!!!! We all have so much fun all the time and we all get along so well. We've made so many plans, some of which might not ever happen, but a lot of our plans already have! Two of our things that I'm really excited for is our early Thanksgiving and our early Christmas. We decorated like CRAZY for Halloween, and now we're going to have a little apartment Thanksgiving dinner on the Sunday before Thanksgiving and then an apartment Christmas on December 12. We have a "family" prayer and scripture study at least once a week where we go through apartment goals and read scriptures, talk about things that have happened throughout the week and all kneel in prayer together. Just so you can know who and what I'm talking about for future reference here's a little about them all:
Briana (pronounced: BrAI-ana not BrEE-ana...she doesn't like it said wrong...and who could blame her, it's her name) is a freshman at BYU and just about the cutest thing you'd ever see! She is our FHE mom and is always making sure we're doing ok. She's super sweet and super social...kind of impossible to not love!
Kassie is Bri's sister. They share a room and are so so cute in the way they act together. Kassie's on the BYU color guard, is a junior, and dresses super cute! She's always so happy and excited about things...it makes living with her absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Kassie and Bri are also from Spanish Fork..just thought you'd like to know that!
Claire is also a freshman at BYU. She's from Montana, super smart, was Valedictorian of her high school, applied late to BYU and got in with an almost full ride scholarship (she'd have had a full ride if she were a member.) She's super cool...like SUPER cool!!!! I love talking to her about religion because she grew up mostly Lutheran and has a lot of Catholic background too. She comes with us to church occasionally (which is always fun because then the five of us get to be together at church..yay!!!) But yeah, she's awesome!!!
And then there's Brooke. She and I hit it off starting day one! She is so bright and happy all the time, which is good for me (cuz I tend to occasionally not be those things a lot...sometimes). I absolutely LOVE my Brooke! She makes life absolutely fantastic! She puts up with my crazy, is so loving and nice to everyone, helps push me to make friends (I'd be a hermit without her)...oh wow, I just love my Brookery!!!!
So those are my roommates! Aren't they awesome?! Well, like I said, I've got a LOT of friends now...it's kind of crazy, but I'm only going to share a little (a very little) about a select few of them. There are these two apartments down the hall that are right across the hall from each other and my apartment calls them the "touchdown apartments" (long story, but they are the "touchdown apartment" boys.) They are pretty exciting. The Glenwood is doing this big film contest, and their's is probably going to win...once it's online I'll post it here and then you'll be able to see how awesome they are! hahahahaha...it's fantastic!!! (We basically love "Hot" Allen, Chirss, the Heeb, "touchdown" Justin, Rad Dad Chad, Josie, and pretty much all the boys in touchdown!)
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| This is Chirss (he's really Chris, but what's the fun in that). He dressed as a Zombie slayer for Halloween...he's going to protect us during the Zombie apocalypse! |
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| Starting with the guy holding the spear: Rad Dad Chad, Justin, Josiah (Josie), Shawn, Cody, and then the Heeb is the one being eaten by the gator |
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| Two "hot cops", a hippe, and a zombie slayer...no wonder they're our favorites! |
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| Brooke and I with "hot cop" Allen at the "Unleash the Freak" Halloween dance |
So that's life more or less...now I unfortunately really DO need to be cleaning...dang :(
Bye, love ya!
~Manda
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| Bri, Brooke, and Claire right before True Blue |
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| Bri, Brooke, and Claire after True Blue |
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| The night we stole doughnuts from the Krispie Kreme dumpster and then hung out at Walmart...it was awkward cuz I ran into someone I work with that night...yeah, but fun times! |
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| We had two fish, Waffles/Finn and King Louie...but we ended up accidentally killing them in less than a week...we didn't get new fish, but we did hold two funerals for them. |
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| Bri, Kassie, Brooke, and Claire hiking the Y...I was at work :( |
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| Bri (cave woman), Brooke (Robin Hood), Claire (little Bo Peep), and Kassie (something awesome) at the ward Halloween party with Brother and Sister Morris (bishopric...Where's Waldo and Carmen San Diego...they found BOTH of them...yeah my roommates are cool like that)...I was at work this night too |
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| Brooke, Claire and I all dressed in black and creeped around BYU on the real Halloween...this was when we turned wild! |
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| a dinosaur Brooke and I found on our way home from church |
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| Minnie Mouse, Robin Hood, and the infamous pineapple! |
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| Before the creeping and wild woman part of our Halloween creepin' |
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| The day we decided to dress like each other for our ward introductions at ward prayer...we were sad cuz Claire was in Montana this Sunday |
