happiness is...

I started this post as a continuance of the last post I did, but I didn't finish it and then lo and behold my old roomate from Disneyworld came up with a list like this one on her blog the evening after I started this one! Coincidence? I think not. Haha just kidding. very random though.
Anyway. Here's the list I promised:
happiness is...

• oreos and milk
• having a random guy walking down the hall who finish whistling my Les Mis song after I had stopped
• the shiny gold coins with the presidents on them
• listening to the rain spattering on a tin roof
  
• factoring
• a new pair of rockin' kicks
• packages in the mail
• knowing God has a plan for me
• marsupials
• complaining about silly classes with my roommate
• panda express
• quoting Harry Potter all day long with my sister
• blasting James Penguin during Christmas
• linzer cookies
• flowers, namely peonies
• sleeping zzzzz
• zumba
• watching mindless shows like Modern Family and Chuck
• eating nothing but swedish fish and chocolate covered almonds for two days because you don't have the means to go to the store
• cheesy bread from Tucano's
• the random phrases I got from mom, you hear me cluckin big chicken?
• not having an midterms to study for on the weekend
• having two canceled classes right after break and no physics homework due!!!
• Gregory Peck
  
• a big bowl of honey comb
• making someone laugh
• a brand new box of crayons
• mad as a hatter nail polish
• chocolate almond fudge ice cream
• seeing parades and hoedowns almost every day for a whole summer
• building a house from the ground up
• big furry dogs
  
• s'mores
  
• ms. Emily Dekam
• fresh baked bread
• pandora radio
• toy story band aids
• hazelnut lindor truffles
• Rock 'n' roller coaster
  
• jimmer fredette
• going to the temple
  
• Ikea
• a new jug of moo juice
  
• moose shaped pasta
• finding money in your coat pocket
• staying up late talking with your sister nothing in particular
• maple oatmeal scones
• ti 89 magic
• fake mustaches
  
• feeding a new born cow
• decorating the tree at Christmas

it's a pretty long list, and like I promised, filled with mostly food. Sad? Maybe. Delicious? Most definitely.

happiness is...

For the past couple days I've been noticing that my attitude has been less than ideal. I realized this while talking to my home teachers. They were asking the usual questions "hows school" "how was your weekend"- cosas asi. To each I replied something along the lines of "awful". That's a bit over dramatic don't you think? Sure I had a trillion tests to study for, but seriously, it wasn't that bad. After I said these things I could tell what they were thinking "gee, talk about a daisy downer". I don't know whats been putting me in such a bad mood lately but really I apologize profusely to those on the recieving end of my pessimism. I don't know what happened, I used to be what you could call "grotesquely optimistic". What happened to these days? when did I become such a brutal bucket of reality? I need to stop watching Italian Neorealist films, and going to physics... if only.
I need that list like whats her noodle from the Sound Of Music has when she gets sad, frightened or whatever it is. Mine would be a very long list and would have a ton of food on it for sure :) I was going to write it down but I need to do this thing called studying...:( Ill try keeping my list in mind so that I don't get all doom and gloom though. Sounds like a plan.

I think I'll move to Australia

I'll admit. As far as traveling goes I haven't had many opportunities to get my passport stamped. BUT if I could go anywhere in the world it would hands down be Australia. I know I'm always talking about Belgium and their waffles, but you know what Belgium doesn't have? Marsupials...and Hugh Jackman. I'm not sure visiting would be enough though. There's something so intriguing about a country that has their own order of animals. I mean sure, America does have the Opposum, but Australia has a whole slew of animals unique to their region! Honestly, have you ever seen anything so wonderful as a Kangaroo or a Koala? I doubt it. Plus it doesn't snow there, as far as I know.
I'm also fairly certain that I want to marry someone that's not American. Why are accents so intriguing to Americans? I know it makes no sense, but it doesn't stop me from wanting a guy with one! And since there apparently are no Australians here on campus, I will just have to move to a place that's full of them! I'm sure that I will end up marrying some kid from St. George, but it's nice to dream right?

I want to go there so bad!!! I want to study all the animals in the Outback during the week and swim in the Great Barrier Reef on the weekends!
But how! How do I do it?! No idea. But I'll figure something out. mark my words.

My weirdy new music

yes, I got a playlist. Emily had one and I couldn't stand being left out. Just kidding, I just didn't want to do my homework. They're kind of an odd collection of songs but they all have special meaning to me, except the Man that Can't be Moved song. I don't really have experience with lost love or anything, so I really can't relate, but the idea that there is love like that out there is really sweet.
The Les Mis song is there really just because it's awesome. I was very pleased that they had the version with Micheal Ball and Lea Solonga on it because thats the version I grew up listening to. My mom bought the 15th or 10th, I'm not sure, anniversary edition from PBS and we'd watch it all the time. I just have to say, Micheal Ball is the man. Sorry Nick Jonas, you're cuter, but he sings better.

The Dino song also reminds me of my mommy. She would make us listen to those songs all the time and we hated it! But after years of listening to it, you either have to keep fighting it, or just go with it. Apparently I chose the latter, I love Dean Martin, and other kinds of oldies now.

I guess I lied. The "Be Okay" song really has no meaning to me either besides the fact that its really cute and fun.

O, El Paso. O the memories! This was song of choice for all our car trips. In order to sing this song one must sing with complete and utter gusto. No mamby pambying around here. I don't think I like the story so much for it's twangy music about a lovesick cowboy. Mostly I just love this song because it reminds me of my family, and the times when life wasn't so complicated. Life's kind of funny sometimes.

Anyways, these are just a few of my favorites. They don't really mesh, but I like them :)

Mission accomplished!

I met with my Impact partner EE and our buddy Jake for the first time on Saturday. Really I don't know what I was so worried about, Jake's a very nice kid.
All we really did was make breakfast and play some wii dance game, but it was really fun. I got some egg shell in the batter somehow, so when we were eating our pancakes some nasty crunchy stuff kept cropping up. Because of this Jake banned me from ever cooking again, which made me kind of sad. He might be on to something though. One time when I made popcorn flames started shooting from the pot, another time I turned on the wrong burner for my macaroni and our only 9x13 heated up and exploded everywhere, and today I forgot about my cheesy bread and when I opened the oven door the bread was on fire. What a waste of cheesy bread :(. I'm a danger to everyone!
Well on a lighter note, Jake is in his school play Pirates of Penzance so we're going to go see it sometime. He also wants to play ultimate Frisbee on Saturday if the weathers nice-pray that its not! just kidding. I can just imagine him banishing me to the edge of the field because I can't throw in a straight line hee hee.

Well, th th thats all folks!

I'm having a thought here...

The other day my roommate and I decided we should be more than menaces to society so we went down to the good ole Y serve to see what we could do. We ended up choosing an organization called IMPACT, which is basically Boys and Girls club. Yesterday I found out I would be working with a guy named EE from Singapore and the boy we would be hanging out with is named Jake.
Today I called Jake's house expecting to talk to his mother, but guess who answered the phone? Haha Right-O! Jake himself! It was quite shocking and I could already see myself saying something so stupid that he would already be wishing for a cooler less socially awkward "big sister". He seems like a way cool kid though, he was very nice and enthusiastic about the whole thing. The only problem is he seems to like things like roller bladeing and frisby. Athletics- O no! Well what do you expect from a 14 year old boy anyhow?

I'm not really sure how this whole thing is supposed to work. I think we're going to breakfast on Saturday, so pray that he likes me!

AMAZING!

watch this! you'll die laughing I promise!