Day 81

It has been far too long!!! I suppose I just haven't had anything to say! Which could be good or bad, depending on how you look at it...

Well, not much has happened since I last posted. We had thanksgiving break this past week. I got to get out of Rexburg (FINALLY!!!) and headed down to Provo for the first few days. Then on Tuesday, Morgan, Juliet and I picked up Grandma and headed down to Cedar City! On the way, we decided that we would go all the way down to St. George instead, where my Aunt Becky and Uncle Steve now live. They moved there just a few months ago. We stayed there for the night because we had heard about a huge snow storm coming our way and we figured we would rather not drive back up to Cedar in a blizzard. That night, we drove out to Hurricane, my old home, to visit with some friends of ours, the Halls! After putting up their tree and lights, I didn't want to leave. The second we started driving to Hurricane from St. George I felt like I was going home. It was a bittersweet feeling. I may want to go back there someday for good, but at present, that is not possible. It's sad that there is only one place out of the many that I have lived has felt like a real hometown for me. I miss it very much.

Anyways! No more sad feelings or memories! So after we put up the Halls christmas tree and lights, Yovonda invited us to come see Tangled with them at the early showing the next day. I was absolutely delighted to be spending more time with my family away from home! Yes, the Halls are my family away from home :D So we went back to St. George that night and the next day went to see Tangled back in my hometown. I can now say that I officially have a favorite movie! I have never had one before! It was absolutely wonderful!!! :D It made my life! That afternoon, we drove up to Cedar City to my Aunt Debbie and Uncle Robs for Thanksgiving. We made the 6 pies on Wednesday so that we could give some to a charity I believe.

Then it's Thanksgiving all of a sudden! We had a wonderful meal with lots of family to share it with. After that, we rested for a while, thought about sledding, found out there wasn't enough snow left to sled on, and started playing games with the everybody. My favorite was the Piggy game where everyone sits in a big circle and one person is blindfolded in the middle. While they are spinning blindfolded, everyone in the circle switches spots and then the person in the middle points to someone and says "Piggy piggy who art thou?" They then have to guess who the person is by the snort that the person makes. What makes it so fun is that the person being pointed at has to snort until the middle person guesses. The best part about is was that I got chosen three times, two of which I was recording on my camera. Which means that the person pointing at me is looking directly into the camera and I am behind the camera snorting my little heart out! What makes it even better is that almost every time somebody else snorted, the person in the middle would guess me as the snorter :D I must be good :D

Well, after games and such, we were all tired, so we rested by playing board games and watching movies until we all finally crashed. Then on friday, we went to see Tangled again! :D It made me very very happy :D I also played my guitar and sang for my Aunt and Grandma. After friday is pretty much boring and unimportant.

I gotta run now! I have a class in less than fifteen minutes! And I'm not even dressed! :D Kehehe :D

Day 58: Taylor Swift

I love Taylor Swift's songs. She writes the best songs and has the best guitar parts. I spent nearly 2 hours playing her songs today, just for fun and because they're amazing. I commend her for being a great role model and not falling into the depths of hollywood and their corrupt ways. She is a wonderful person and I hope she stays that way.

I'm five years old and it's getting cold
I've got my big coat on
I hear your laugh and look up smiling at you
I run and run
Past the pumpkin patch and the tractor rides
Look now the sky is gold
I hug your legs and fall asleep on the way home

I don't know why all the trees change in the fall
I know you're not scared of anything at all
Don't know if Snow White's house is near or far away
But I know I had the best day with you today

I'm thirteen now and don't know how my friends could be so mean
I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys
And we drive and drive until we found a town far enough away
And we talk and window shop till I forgot all their names

I don't know who I'm gonna talk to now at school
But I know I'm laughing on the car ride home with you
Don't know how long it's gonna take to feel okay
But I know I had the best day with you today

I have an excellent father
His strength is making me stronger
God smiles on my little brother
Inside and out he's better than I am

I grew up in a pretty house and I had space to run
And I had the best days with you

There is a video I found from back when I was three
You set up a paint set in the kitchen and you're talking to me
It's the age of princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarfs
Daddy's smart and you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide world

Now I know why all the trees change in the fall
I know you were on my side even when I was wrong
And I love you for giving me your eyes
Staying back and watching me shine and I didn't know if you knew
So I'm taking this chance to say that I had the best day with you today

Day 55: Testing Services

When you first saw that title, you probably expected a post about the crapiness of testing services or how I hate tests or something negative. But, this may come as a shock to some of you, so you may want to sit down, which you should be doing anyways (Who stands up when they're on the computer?), that I actually very much like the testing services here at BYU-Idaho. They have plenty of seating, well spaced seating as well, a very quiet environment in the testing center, it's like soundproof I swear. They run very efficiently, they make sure people are being honest by asking them what they can use on their test before actually giving them their test, they prices for retakes are very reasonable too.

It's only 50 cents for the first retake, that's just awesome, and perfect cause I wanna retake a test later today. Not that I totally epic failed on that test, I just wasn't satisfied with my grade. Lets just say I spaced out about the exam review last night and I have now vowed never to miss another exam review. And it's not like a lower grade is going to do a ton of damage to my grade in that class cause I already have an A, I got a 100 on the last test and it's science, which comes super easy to me. Which is odd because I don't like science like at all, but I'm really good at it. I don't know about you but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Anyhoo, enough about my science issues. So I'm glad the testing center has cheap retake prices cause this will be my first retake this semester. And I doubt I will ever do it again. I've learned my lesson about studying beforehand.

That is all for now! Thanks for reading! :D

Day 52: Guitars

I play the guitar. Not very well, mind you, but I do play. And I love it. I love having calluses on my fingers. I love the pain in my fingers felt after playing for hours on end. I love the black leftover on my thumb after strumming. I love the feel of stings beneath my fingertips, just waiting to be plucked and strummed. I love that you can have a hundred songs all using the same chord progression. I love using a capo. I love acoustic guitars. I love electric guitars. I love bass guitars. I love ukuleles. I love playing a chord and experimenting with different ways to play that one single chord. There are so many possibilities. I love how my parents got me a guitar long after I said I wanted one. Which, by that time, I had forgotten that I wanted one. I love finger picking. I love how there are so many different people that make guitars so well. I love going to a store with tons of guitars and playing every single one. I love that the majority of songs involve a guitar in some way or another. I love muting. I love hammering. I love steel strings. I love nylon strings. I love the ring that comes from picking one string. I love that you can see the string vibrating. I love guys that play the guitar. I love that so many guys play guitar now days. I love the wobble sound you can get from shaking the body of the guitar. I love playing chords. I love playing blues chords. I love playing scales. I love playing blues scales. I love tuning the strings to the perfect pitch. I love that you can put any song to guitar, whether it has one already or not. I love that I can strum a few chords really loud and hard when I'm angry or frustrated. I love that it can calm me down in the peak of any emotion. I love the smell of the inside of the body. I love that you can plug it into an amp and blast it until the neighbors scream at you. I love that you can play it on any street corner and get donations. I love making up my own chords. I love sight reading songs. I love playing tabs. I love making up my own songs. I love bar chords, no matter how hard they are to play. I love how the neck feels in my left hand and how my right hand just knows what to do. I love custom guitars. I hope to get my own custom guitar someday, a smaller than normal size though for my big palms and short fingers. I love the perfect harmony that comes when all the strings are in perfect tune. I love the hum that is still there long after you stopped strumming. I love the echo inside the body. I love dropping my pick into the body and having to shake and turn my guitar upside down to get it. I love being able to say that I can play the guitar.



By the way, this was me on Halloween :D Dark purple lipstick is the way to go :D