I'm Obsessed

Found this on StumbleUpon.  It's fine that I love spending my time on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and there, right?

The Good Life

I love living on my own!!!  Seriously, it's gotta be the bestest thing ever.

And I love living in Cedar City.

1)  It's small enough that there's not tons of people, but big enough that there's not nothing to do.

2)  I get to see awesome people all the time.

3)  I'm pretty sure I meet someone new every day.

4) My besties live here too!

5)  I just love it. Period.

So classes started yesterday, and they were good.  I had Marriage & Family Relations and Spanish yesterday.  Today I had Photography, Chemistry, and Spanish.  In a couple weeks I'll also have a Chemistry Lab, but til then my Tuesdays have been shortened two hours!  I really like my professors so far.  They seem really chill...  Another random fact, they're all male.  Weird.  I didn't notice that until I was thinking about them all and realized, huh crazy.

I've loved seeing all my friends.  I've yet to see Micadyn, but other than that I'm pretty sure I've seen everyone!  It's so fun to see everyone's smiling faces and just how happy they are.  It's just the good life!

I Never Realized.

Today marks the end of RA training.  We had a little staff party/get together tonight and I honestly can say I've never felt more at home than I do right now.  After we played around and took pictures and had made banana boats (super awesome and yummy :)), Teata had us all gather around the fire in a circle with our backs facing the fire.  Three people at a time went around touching others as he read off statements like "Touch someone who has taught you something" or "Touch someone who you care about."  Simple statements like that.  I never realized how much I have touched people's lives by just being myself.  I didn't necessarily go out of my way to help someone or say something because I knew someone needed to hear it.  I simply was myself and that made all the difference.  I just never realized it til then.

My cheesy side of the whole night though.....It nearly felt like a testimony meeting with the "spirit" that was there. It brought back memories of girl's camps and youth conferences.  Crazy how everything in life relates back to the gospel in some way or another.  I'm not one to boast of my spirit or how spiritual I am, because that's definitely something that I struggle with.  But this was an amazing testimony and relationship builder and the solitude that comes with it is awesome.

At this time in my life when I'm dealing with so much with myself and my family, it's reassuring to know that I have such wonderful people surrounding me and willing to help me with anything that I'm going through.  The friendships I'm making and the lasting relationships that are being built are what I'm going to be relying on.  I can't wait for Katelin and Tiana to move back to Cedar; I miss them soo much!  They keep me sane and holy cow I love them more than they know!

Sorry for such a random spiritual/touchy-feely post.  Everything is just so good right now.  I feel so good.

The Provo River Fiasco

Simply put, it was a minor catastrophe.  What started out as a fantastic idea ended in losing the following:  one pink powerade, one red flip flop, and a tube.

First off, Cindy's tube was missing the cap so it wouldn't keep the air in it.  Easy fix, we put me and her on one tube with Clay on his own.

Wrong.  Me and Cindy were struggling to maneuver our tube from the second we jumped on.  We managed our way away from some trees to shortly find ourselves headed for rocks.  We put our feet out and pushed off of those only to find ourselves in the swiftest and strongest of currents headed for the skinniest part of the bridge.  We're screaming and freaking out and the next thing we know we're hitting the bridge and I'm sucking in a lungful of water.  I surface and start grabbing all of our belongings that I can while Cindy is holding onto the popped tube.

We're hitting rocks and bumping along the river as we're carried downriver and all we're trying to do is get to the side and not drown.  Probably one of the scariest moments of my life, but funniest experiences too.

After like a few minutes of scraping up our legs we come to a stop and figure out all that we've lost.  We were both in one piece and Clay was just really concerned that we were okay.  This seriously happened 30 seconds into our float.  So the trip lasted less than 5 minutes.  It's fine.  We walked our way back to the truck and hopped in.  Clay gave his cousin a call and we went to their community pool.  It was really nice to just chill and not worry about anything although I definitely felt like some hobo with only one flip flop.  So that was my minor catastrophe but I enjoy telling the story now.

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Life at RA Training

Alex, Hilary, and Jana hiding in the lavender bushes

We spent probably a good 20 minutes sniffing febreze scents.

sitting in class....

after our snowcone run!

we all had red tongues :) me, heidi, eva, jana, hilary, alex

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Now, a midst all this crazy and fun times with Clay and Cindy and Johnny.  I had major drama going on at home.  My parents were wanting me to be home at midnight, and I think that is ridiculous.  So I wasn't following it.  I would get home around 1 or 1:30.  Finally after the rodeo day I believe, my mom was waiting up and we had this huge blowup outside our house.  What it came down to was basically if you live in this house you follow my rules and if you don't follow the rules then you move out.  So I was ready to move out and was just fine with that.  It was a week before I headed back to Cedar so I wasn't too concerned.  Cindy and Johnny have an extra room and I'm always more than welcome to use it.  Anyway, the next morning my mom felt way bad so she let me stay til I moved.  Needless to say, I haven't talked to my mom since I moved.... I feel bad, but at the same time I'm really serious about never going home.  I'm not going to follow the midnight curfew and I'm going to hangout with whomever I please.  So now I'm moved to Cedar and where I'll be next summer no one knows!

Well Everyone, I think that is my life caught up.  I sit in a classroom for 8 hours a day currently learning about different protocols and stuff about the university.  Oh and I have a small crush on a gay man. Is that a bad thing?

Everyone, I love you much and can't wait to see everyone in the next couple weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Holy-Damn-Moly"

I love Cindy.  And this is my favorite thing to hear her say.  And it's how I feel lately.  So holy damn moly, my life is so crazy I can't believe it!  I really love blogging, but I've been horrible at posting, my apologies.  My life takes over and I forget things.  But I just needed to update this and I have a lot of stories to tell I feel.  Because I know that Kate and T and waiting to hear about them since I haven't seen them in ages and ages (two more weeks ladies and we will be reunited!!!).  Anyway, one week ago I moved back to Cedar and it was about freaking time!  Let me lead up to that point though.  Oh goodness, I haven't been on here for a month so this will be good.  Alright, well I think I left off with the weekend of the 4th at Clay's house in Provo.  That was just the beginning of fun with him :)

So Clay is 28 or 29. That's fine right?? I dunno......  Okay, well it was either the next weekend or right after that but we went back to Provo because we were going to try and go to the Spanish Fork rodeo.  We didn't end up being able to get tickets so we just had dinner and walked  around the carnival thing.  Johnny bought Cindy dinner, but that's expected cuz they're married right?  But then Clay bought me dinner.  So I was like um okay??? I didn't know what to think.  Then while walking around the carnival he played this game and won a stuffed animal monkey and gave it to me.  And picked out purple cuz he knows I like that color.  Cute right? Except that I'm still way confused at what's going on.  Finally later on we were all talking about something and he said the following "...we're on a date."  And I don't say anything out loud, but in my head I'm like is he being serious?  What is going on?  Freak, I dunno.  So then the next day is Sunday and Clay came to Bountiful to hang out with us.  We went to some friend's house and just talked and roasted mallows.  Then Monday we had these huge plans to float the Provo River (Story to come).  Anyway, we ended up spending the day at this pool instead and then going to the Spanish Fork Rodeo that night.  It was way fun and my first time ever at a real rodeo!  So anyway that was the end of Clay for that week...Til Saturday anyway.  That Saturday I went on a really awesome 6.5 mile run with Cindy, Scott, and Schatzie.  Then headed to Johnny's golf tournament with Cindy.  Next we headed to Provo to go hang out at the pool with Clay.  Clay picked me up at one point and threw me in the pool and when we were going around the lazy river he was always doing all this flirty stuff like holding me under the waterfall or dragging me backwards.  It was just a way chill day and then we went and got some groceries, made a delicious dinner of shishcabobs or however you spell it and fruit and veggies and chips and this yummy salsa dip.  Then we put in a movie, and me and Clay cuddled.  Guys, I'm 19.  What am I thinking?  Well, I for sure don't know!  Clay is just a sweetheart and way nice and when the night had ended we had kissed.  WHAT?????!!!! Yeah, I know, crazieness.  And then I moved two days later.  It's fine.  We've talked a little but what can you expect when we're both way busy and he like has a real life and job and I'm in college.  It's fine.  Did I mention he was married a couple years ago and his wife left him?  Yeah......... People, I have no idea what I'm digging myself into.  If anyone knows, please inform me.

Here's the cute purple monkey Clay won me!

Okay I feel like this is a long enough post and with way too much deep information that I'm completely clueless about.  More will follow, be excited!