microwave massacre.

today has been a great day so far and i just wanted to write it down before i go and do more stuff and forget everything else! today i woke up, just like any other day, got ready and went off to school. as soon as i was done with classes i went and picked up stephanie and we went to walmart and picked up some gifts and such, and then we went to the filling station!! so delicious! the filling station is this awesome little diner that used to be a gas station back in the day. they have the best bacon cheese burgers! not to mention amazing steak fries AND fry sauce, which is my favorite! so pretty much i guess you could say that the filling station is my favorite place to eat in rexburg!! although the taco bus does come close. but after that steph had to go home. so i came home and not too long after megan got home and megan, angela and i went down to the farmers market!! it was so fun. they have it every friday during the summer i guess and people come and just sell all types of things. mainly there are flowers, jewelry/accesories, food, and pottery. megan bought some really cool flowers

and i bought some very pretty gerber daisies.

i like that they are orange! my favorite color! after that we came home so that megan could get ready for zumba, and then she left and angela and i decided to go to MICROWAVE MASSACRE!!!!

i named it myself, it was actually a little event the physics department was putting on called, "things your mother told you not to put in the microwave." it was so cool! they started with three microwaves and ended up with one left "standing". It was actually really cool seeing the reaction from all of the different things they put in the microwaves. They put in a bag of marshmallows (bag and all), ping pong balls, c.d.'s, christmas ornaments, light bulbs, a glass bottle, black lights, christmas tree lights, matches, and probably some other stuff that i cant remember right now. my favorite was either the ping pong balls or the matches. the ping pong balls caught on fire and disintegrated and the matches caused plasma rays or something. it was really amazing. this is a video of the matches in the microwave.

all in all it has been a really fun night so far. i am looking forward to many more amazing nights this semester!

scripture of the day:
Alma 5:26 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?

today i am thankful for:
* pretty flowers from really cool farmers markets.
* angela and megan! i love hanging out with them and going to do cool things with them.
* physics!! i never thought i would be thankful for physics, but it allows people to do really cool stuff.
* creative people who turn old gas stations into very tasty diner's.
* my ability to write papers for school in as little as 25 minutes.

<3.

canada eh?.

yesterday, as megan and i were contemplating the intricacies of life, (or venting about things or people or situations), we decided that what we needed was a nice vacation and so ...

CANADA!!!! we are going to go to canada, eh! no we have not gone yet, this is like a preview so that you will get excited and ready to read about the trip once it actually happens. we decided to go up fourth of july weekend! haha, we figured everyone else will be trying to come to america, and so we'll leave! i am very very excited about this adventure we will have! i just had to let everyone else know! i am so excited!!!

scripture of the day:

2 Nephi 10:23 Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves - to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.

*also see talk titled, Choose You This Day.*

today i am grateful for:

* megan! she is so wonderful! she likes to go places and have fun, and i like that too!

* my mommy! i had so delicious nachos for lunch, beans provided by my mom!

* school. as hard as it may sometimes be for me to wake up and go to class, i am always happy that i did. i love learning! i am so grateful for the opportunity that i have to be here at byu-i!!

* lazy days, and how they help people to just sit around and talk instead of run around trying to get everything done!!

* random people who compliment you and make you feel extra special.

* cute boys who talk to you in class. :)

* music. i love listening to music! it is always able to make my day better!!

<3.

sunday adventure.

so, at about 4pm yesterday, as everyone else was taking their sunday nap, i decided that i was bored and wanted someone to entertain me. so, i wrote a quick message to megan on facebook. i didnt think she was awake, or that she would even respond. i wrote it in spanish, because megan and i are helping each other perfect our spanish skills by only speaking the español to one another. so i send her this message real quick. "hola mi amiga. tu es muy bonita. te quiero! debemos ir a tomar fotos por el tren, cerca de los columpios embrujada. ¿no? (p.s. i stole that last sentence from a spanish translator. haha.) ♥ ."she then proceeded to respond, within about 5 minutes, with "Si! Vamos ahora! Pero primero, un pregunta... Que hora es? {Bahahahahaha! I mean...Jejejejeje!}" i laughed, because it is funny.

(if you are confused and are wondering how this is funny, then look up que hora es ep. 2 on youtube, and you will soon know.)

so i wrote back with, "hahaha. santa barbara! santa maria! santa claus! oh, mis corazona esta muy contento a causa de usted!! ♥ ." again, funny because of the youtube video. and then before i knew it we were off on our adventure. we drove out towards the haunted (or mystical) swings and took some pictures out by this train, most of mine are of my new guitar the i bought online for six dollars!! (shopgoodwill.com) it was really fun.

after we were done taking pictures at the train tracks we travelled through rexburg, past the "hidden valley" and found the bird house lady's house. and took pictures of the really cool bird house tree.

after that we came home and had a pretty quiet rest of the evening, but it was really fun and i was glad megan was willing to go with me to take pictures and entertain me!

today i am thankful for:

* Megan! because she is fun, and likes to go places with me and take pictures! and because she knows about cool places like the bird house lady's house.

* friends both near and far, and how much they help me, and that they trust me enough to help them too!

* my laptop and all of the things that i am able to do because of it.

* prayer!!!

* extra credit projects that help me boost my grade, even when it doesn't really need it at the moment!

<3.

moose on the loose.

today as i drove out of my apt complex with my roomies, headed towards stake conference i saw a cop car with its lights on! now, you have to understand, this is rexburg. in the 5-6 months that i have lived here in my life, i have not once seen a cop car with its lights on, and i have only seen a total of about 3 cop cars at all! so i was very interested in what finally got the attention of the cops! as i strained my neck to see the car that this cop must be chasing i realized, only in idaho. it was not a car that the cop was chasing, but rather, a moose. yes, mr. moose had decided to come take a little vacation in rexburg and was busy breaking all traffic laws and getting the cops sure wound up. it was really funny. we took a little detour getting to stake conference and saw cop cars zooming back and forth looking for the loose moose. we just laughed and laughed! as we were driving by one cop car my roomie megan spotted mr. moose hiding in someones backyard behind a tree. we could not help laughing, it was so funny! the whole time i kept imagining one of the moose from brother bear running around thinking in its head, with a canadian accent, about why these crazy cars with lights were chasing them around. it was an excellent and funny morning to get us ready for a really good stake conference. it was a state wide stake conference, broadcast from salt lake. we got to hear from, c. scott grows, which angela pointed out is also funny because its like see spot run, only c. scott grow. anyways, we also heard from sister barbara thompson of the relief society presideny, and i think elder packer, but i just had a major brain freeze and cant remember, and then president monson! it was really good. One of my favorite things they said was, "don't risk being deceived by going it alone." and talked about how important it is to have the constant companionship of the holy ghost and to study the scriptures daily. it was a really good stake conference.

today i am thankful for:
* roommates who think a moose on the loose is as funny as i do! and are okay with detours to find mr. moose.
* technology and the ability it gives me to talk to people in different states and look up recipes for chocolate cakes with no egg.

* music that uplifts me and makes me happy.

* nannette and her delicious ability to make heavenly good food for sunday "supper".

* clean clothes!!.

haircut.

today stephanie and i decided to go and get hair cuts. here are some before shots, we forgot to take actual before shots for me, so i had to find some, but stephs we took right before we went into the hair academy.

when we started out on our day we had a plan set to follow. first i would get my hair dyed black, and then trimmed just a little. next, stephanie would get her hair trimmed and we would be done. simple enough? i think not. i got to the hair salon and instantly wanted a big change! i wasn't really sure what to do though because I had pretty much tried everything there was to offer. i had done short, i had done long, i had done lots of layers, i had done no layers, i had tried punk hair, and i had tried the professional bob, what could i do that would stand out and make people go, "oh my goodness! you cut your hair!" turns out that i really like to "shock and awe" people. so as i am sitting, getting the dye rinsed out of my hair, i see a picture in the book steph is looking at and start wondering. right when liz, my hairdresser, is about to start the process of trimming my hair, i say, "just a second." then i grab the book, show her the picture and say, lets actually do this. stephanie looks like she is about to faint, liz asks to make sure i am sure thats what i want, and i say, "yeah, what the heck, lets go for it." i sat impatiently as she cut, and grew more and more nervous as the minutes went by. stephanie kept laughing. i started worrying about whether or not i had made a good decision. after what seemed like forever liz was finally done cutting, drying, and styling, and i was given back my glasses and allowed to see the final product.

bangs!!! i saw a picture of this lady with bangs and thought to myself, "hmm, now there is something you haven't tried yet." and so i decided to give it a go! i am loving them so far, although it is a little weird! i don't think i have had bangs since i was probably about 7. it is definitely strange, but i like them! well, then stephanie was thinking maybe she wanted to do something new and exciting too. but she was too afraid because she had had the same haircut for like 6 years! and i will be the first to admit, that that first time you make a change is the hardest, and then it gets easier, and more fun after that. I finally convinced her to make a few little changes and in the end it looked so great! she was more nervous than i was i think, but now she looks awesome!!

we just added some swoopy side bangs and more layers. she wasn't sure she liked it at first, but by the power of three witnesses! haha, but seriously, i think she finally decided she really liked it once everyone started complimenting her on it. all in all it was a great day! it definitely didn't go the way we had planned, but i think it turned out better! i love change! i think it is so fun to be able to be one way one day, and a different way the next! i love that you can make life whatever you want! it's so fun to get to try out different looks, and different things and make changes just because you can. <3.