MY NEW UKULELE!!!

I BOUGHT A UKULELE!!!!! I'm so excited!!!

I have the funniest friends.....

CHEERIO FEST!

Melanie and I went down to Utah over the long weekend. We stayed in Salt Lake at her cousins house which was really fun. We went to Temple Square with our friend Katiedee where (as you've heard) I got a tick. Which is the most ubsurd thing I have ever heard of. Honestly, how could that possibly have happened? But it's okay, I don't think I caught any sort of disease from it but we will find out soon enough! Haha. Other than that we just ate food, watched movies and slept. It was actually pretty nice because obviously that's not what I do every other day anyways ;)

Soooooo everyone had Tuesday off from school and we had nothing better to do than go to the gardens and take pictures of ourselves! Haha but it was actually pretty fun and we got some good ones out of it.

I told Papa but I am teaching myself guitar! My friend Tycy has one but doesn't know how to play so it lives at our apartment. I've been playing since the break that we had (so about a month) and I'm starting to get the hang of it.

This is my roommate Bobbie and I. We are thinking of moving toegther in the fall if her parents let her! She's basically a lot like me and is wicked awesome.

Haha this one is really funny.

I had a random bag of cheerios in my bag and I just started playing with them

Bobbie and Melanie

This one is really freaky but really cool at the same time!

Here's Bobbie and me agaaaain.

Okay that's all for the photo shoot haha!

So anyways. I'm not sure what else is going on that would be even remotely interesting. I can't think of anything so we will just leave it at that!

peas outtt.

Jackson Hole!

So this semester has been way fun already!! I LOOOOOOOVE not having classes and just random babysitting jobs.  It's so nice! I really like my new roommates Bobbie and Erin and we get along really well!

A couple weeks ago I went to Jackson Hole with Mike Sponseller, Jonathan Ubri 

and his girlfriend Carolyn.  It was a lot of fun and really pretty!  We also stopped at the Teton Dam on the way back so that was pretty neat.  It took us five hours because we stopped a lot to take pictures and look at elk.  Fascinating, I know.

Here are some pictures though:

Dum de dum....

I'm bored.  So what do I do? Act like every other computer nerd on the planet and write a new blog post.  That's sad.  But not as sad as the fact that I am doing so at 8:15 on a Saturday night.

That my friends, is sad.

Well, I am officially an employee of a potato farmer.  Depressing, much?  But I figure, if I'm gonna live in Idaho, I might as well live in Idaho.  So... I'm living it up!!!  It is really hard work even though it doesn't sound like it.  My job specifically is to stand for roughly eight hours a day at a conveyer belt and watch countless and I mean COUNTLESS potatoes (the first day we went through 7,200 potatoes... hmm okay so maybe you can count them...) go by and when there is a big one, I cut it on the little knife thing sticking out of the table.  Good times.  It's dirty, dusty and a little smelly but it gets me money right?  It's really not too, too bad but I can think of a lot more jobs I would like to have.  At least now I get to put that I have worked on a farm on my resume!!! 

One of my new roommates, Erin has officially moved in.  No more apartment all to myself :( but she is really cool!  I think I will get along better with her than the previous ones!  We are still waiting on Bobby to move in though.  I wonder when she will get here seeing as that classes start on Monday...

Well... so much for the last, I don't know, three minutes of your life that you used so wastefully on reading this.  I should really get a more interesting life...  I'll work on that.

byyye.

I'M DONE!!!

Guess whaaaat?? I am no longer a freshman!! I am officially a sophmore in college!  This year went by really, really fast and I am glad it did!  This semester was so much fun and I'm super sad a lot of my friends are leaving for good!  

I get the apartment all to myself for the next eight days.  I'm super excited about that.  I'll probably go nuts and micro-decorate it or something.  The fact that everyone is leaving was actually pretty much a blessing.  We got so much food that I am really hoping all I will need to buy next semester is milk to eat all the cereal we got with.  However, getting four containers of salt does not really get me anywhere.  I don't think I will ever need that much salt in a lifetime.  I chucked two of them.  We also got a ton of shampoo and stuff.  I'm really grateful for all of it!!

I am babysitting two plants, five fish and a turtle this week, also.  I've been petless for about eight months now and it's starting to bug me.  I think I might buy a 25 cent fish next semester.  Maybe.  I am broke you know.

Anyways.  This past week wasn't too bad with school.  My finals weren't to hard.  I felt like I had 75% less work than I did last semester which is nice and I did pretty well.  I am soo excited not to have classes for the next four and a half months!!  It will be a nice break.  I think I am going to go job searching today hopefully.  I really hope I can find a job!  I probably would be bored out of my mind if I didn't get one anyways.  I'm really glad I get to stay here!  I would be missing out on sooo much if I were to be home for forever!

Last weekend me and a couple friends drove down to Salt Lake to go to conference.  We stood in the stand-by line for all four sessions and got into three.  It was such a great experience.  I loved it!  In fact, I think I am losing quite a bit of my hostility for the state of Utah.  I even wouldn't mind serving a mission on Temple Square!  

(Now that I think of it, maybe I should go back east....... ;))

But it was so much fun and for the Sunday morning session we were in the ninth row! It was really great to be that close to all the apostles and the prophet.  I'm so glad I went.  Here are some pictures from the trip:

From left to right is Kelly, Me, Lauren and Catlin.

Same girls except plus Monique.

Me and the Christus.  I look a lot bigger next to it than the one with Peter and I when I was like three!

Everyone coming out of one of the sessions.  There were SO MANY PEOPLE!

Haha this is me jumping off the water thing in front of the temple at 6:30 in the morning!

Well that's about it!!  I think I'll actually go get ready to go get some applications!

peeeeace.

I was definitely born in the wrong decade...

Okay, I wasn't born in the wrong decade, but I was definitely born at the absolute worst time of the 80's.  That would be in the third to last month of the 80's.  How depressing.  The 80's produced the best music of all time (such as "I just can't get enough" by Depeche Mode) and I completely missed it.  It would be fanfriggintasic if they still played the 80's on the radio.  But I guess I just have to wait a couple decades and just listen to Oldies 103.3... does that even still exist?

So lately in classes we have been talking about how young people, teens, etc. are addicted to the computer.  I mean, they are the computer-aged generation but are we really addicted? I started thinking about it when my teacher said it as I checked my facebook... I think my computer has become grafted from my wrists.  I don't think that's a good thing either.  I feel like when I introduce myself to people now I am saying: "Hi, my name is Elisabeth and my problem is that I can't shut my computer off." and they chant back "Hi, Elisabeth."  They should really have a... hmm... CARP... Computer Addicts Recovery Program.  I'm pretty sure every college student would enroll.  Melanie's computer, for instance, broke two weeks ago.   She didn't have a computer for roughly five days.  FIVE DAYS!  And yet she seemed to always be anxiously rocking back in forth in the fetal position in the corner of our living room.

We should really get out more...

The fact that kids my age use more texts than minutes on average on our cell phone bills really says something.  We are afraid of face-to-face or even just voice-to-voice contact.  Like this kid in my Communications class group called me to discuss something for our project.... most awkward conversation EVER.  I wish he would have just texted me.  That would have -34% awkwardness attached instead of 74%.  Maybe it's just my problem. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks actual human interaction is odd but judging by the fact that walking across campus 90% of the people I pass are either texting, on the phone or listening to their ipod... I don't think I'm that different.  General Authorities have told us to unplug our headphones and keep our phones in our pockets and SMILE.  Then maybe we might make legit friends. I'll work on that this week...

I'm going to work on a potato farm in April!! At least I think I will.  I am really excited!! The Second Counselor in my ward told me I could come help him during the break if I'm not going anywhere.  I think it'll be way fun, I will be... umm... splitting, potato...seeds?  I'm not quite sure, and I'll probably fail miserably at it but I'll give it a shot.  He said it would be pretty hard to mess up.

Well, it's my night to make dinner! I am going to make pork chops with a homemade applesauce topping thing.  Sound good, hey?

Spring Fever!!

Well first off the fact that it is 38 degrees but feels like at least 50 makes Idaho not so bad!  It's basically shorts weather!

Anyways... I thought I would post some highlights of this semester so you guys all know what happened!

  This is the day that we dressed up all crazy 80's and went around campus and filmed a music video to Pat Benetar's "Love is a Battlefield".  We got a lot of looks that day but we had fun doing it!  Later, we went to Applebee's and ran into the Second Counselor of our ward and his wife.  He still makes fun of us every Sunday. The one in the front is Bryanna and Tycy is in the purple.  They were friends in high school in Canada.  We hang out with them everyday.

This is our friend Chris.  She's from Brazil and is Tycy and Bryanna's roommate.  We had a sleepover at their apartment and got twisty straws and sparkling apple cider.  It exploded everywhere but it was wicked fun.

So this is about 1/4 of the sugar cookies that we made on Valentine's Day.  We counted and we made over 100 sugar cookies and decorated them and brought them to our friends!  We definitely started a tradition!

We went to the Stag dance on Valentine's Day with a few random friends and it turned out to be really fun.  Of course I am the one boycotting all things Valentine's by wearing teal but oh well.  In this picture from left to right starting the back... some guy named Mark (we don't actually know him), some other guy that my FHE brother is friends with, Austin & Eric (they are really fun!), some other guy my FHE brother is friends with, bottom: Andrew (my FHE brother), Chris, Sarah (from New Jersey, I'm driving home with her), me, Tycy & Stefan who are now dating (Stefan is also my FHE brother) and then Melanie.

This is the chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting that I made.  I'm sorry if it looks nasty in the pictures but it is definitely the best cake EVER.

That's about all the pictures I have for this semester!  We kind of layed low on the picture taking!  But I've been having LOADS of fun.  I'll post some more pictures later!  I think I should probably start my homework, or get out of pajamas....

Holy Smokes, am I really doing this?

I once had a blog in 7th grade.  I posted emo tactics and thoughts about how depressing my life was because I was 13.  I'm pretty sure everyone else did, too.  I think it was called something like... I don't know... a dark shadow.  Sound like me, eh? ;)

I think sitting in a library makes you incredibly bored and warps your brain into thinking that creating a blog, and promising yourself to update, probably isn't what I should do on a Friday afternoon.

Slash I just don't want to go outside in the chilling wind to walk to the testing center.  That testing center really does something to the students that have to go there, I swear.  I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the Capitol Hill amount of stairs you have to climb to enter the dreary, plain and almost stale feeling room.  You would think they would try to make it the most comfortable and stress-free zone on campus but the silence is deadly. Deadly I tell you!

At least I studied for this one.

I gave blood earlier today.  Third time so far this school year! I have saved 9 lives so far (or just one cat)!  I love giving blood, and I love watching them stab needles into people.  It's wicked cool, I think.  And the fact that I have done it enough to know that I am not going to pass out ever makes it even MORE fun.  Only 60 days till they do it again!

Rexburg has been loverly the past few days, spring is in the air! And as President Clark announced... SPRING TRAINING HAS BEGUN!!!!  Oh how I love that dirty water and the Red Sox!  I'm gonna miss spring in Boston while I kick around the dirt of Idaho.  Oh well.  LIfe is full of sacrifices in order to stay at the place I am starting to like more than Boston... dangit, that shouldn't happen!  But I really do love Idaho.  As long as I don't think of it as Idaho ;)

Okay I think I should probably go and take this test.  Bummer.  And then hopefully I won't come home to a disaster of an apartment (yes, mom, I actually like things clean and orderly, my room is spotless!)

peace out girl scouts!