What Have I Been Up To?

So the last few months have been busy. As many of you know my Honda Civic was stolen a second time, but you can read about that and my new car Elanor in a previous post.
So in August after my previous trip to Chicago my roommate Allison and I went to the Church History museum for the Boy Scout of America exhibit. They had several Norman Rockwell paintings, and that was what we really went for. After exploring the Church History Museum we decided to wander around Temple Square. It was a lot of fun, and the last big thing me and Allison got to do before she left on her mission in September. She is now in the Rancho Cucamonga, California mission, and is a great missionary.

After Allison left, I had to find a new roommate. Allison actually owns the condo that I live in, so she asked me to stay here and look after the place while she is on her mission. After two weeks of living alone I finally got a new roommate. I will say that living alone was fun but I don't know if I could handle it for longer than a few weeks. I got really depressed and mostly stayed inside, but now I have a roommate who barely talks and is more introverted than me.
In October I went to Chicago for a second time. This time I went with my cousins Anisa and Summer. I arrived Wednesday around noon and rode the train all by myself to my sister's apartment. My parents were very worried about me, but I enjoyed the independence. Later that day Summer arrived and Libby and I went and picked her up at the airport. After we picked her up we went and met with some of Libby's friends at a bar for dinner. We got some burgers and I got the best damn Sweet Potato Fries that I have ever tasted. I don't know if I was starving or if they were just that good, but damn they were yummy! The next morning Anisa arrived and we started our adventures. First we went for Pizza at Giordano's then we went up to the top of the Sears (Willis) tower. Last time I went up to the top of the Sears tower I cried because my cousin Ethan was trying to force me onto the glass box, luckily this time my cousins were nicer about it. They tried to convince me to go out on those boxes but they didn't try to force me on. Libby, Summer, and Anisa had fun on the box while I stood next to one of the windows freaking myself out. Then we went to Millennium park and saw the bean and then we walked to the Buckingham fountain. The next day we went to Navy Pier and rode the Ferris wheel and wandered around Downtown and did the Magnificent Mile. We also went to Wrigley Field and Goose Island bar and got some delicious Ginger Soda. We ate at several different restaurants and had a lot of fun together. On Saturday, Libby got called to work so Anisa, Summer, and I went to a place called Mindy's Hot Chocolate for breakfast on our way to the airport. I got this rich, thick dark hot chocolate that coated my esophagus and was too much for me to even finish. Then we headed to the airport and headed home.

As many of you know Halloween is one of my most favorite holidays. The weekend before Halloween my friends Kymn and Russ had a Psych themed Halloween party so I went as Detective Juliet O'Hara. This year my friend Shelby got married on Halloween so I got dressed up for her wedding. During work I didn't want to get my dress dirty so I gave myself a broken nose and a gash on the side of my face. For her wedding I went dressed as Merida from Brave. There were several people from work so I had to get pictures with them.

Now I need to explain this following picture. The only reason that I am posting this is because I'm so entertained by it. So several weeks ago I finally went to an Allergist because I have some pretty bad hay fever, especially this time of year and I wanted to go see what I was allergic to, and if there was anything that might help. So as you can see by the picture there are several things that I am allergic to. So what they do is take several different samples and scratch them into my skin and let them sit for about ten minutes then see what I have a reaction to. So I am allergic to several weeds, several of which are native to Utah, dust mites, Cottonwood trees, and Timothy Grass. I don't have any allergies to animals or food that we know of, so it's just lovely hay fever. My doctor said that I could get allergy shots which I would have to get twice a week but I don't have the money or time for that. He told me to just keep taking whatever allergy medicine best works for me.

This month I was able to go home twice for Thanksgiving. Because Libby had to work Thanksgiving weekend we decided to do an early Thanksgiving two weeks early since Libby had that weekend off. So I drove down with my cousins Ethan and Libby and had an intimate dinner with my family. It was the six of us plus both of my brother's girlfriends and Ethan and Libby. It was very nice and fun. We had lots of fun and laughs playing Balderdash.
This weekend I flew home Thursday, which flying on Thanksgiving is great, I walked right through security and the flight was about half full. We had a small Thanksgiving with my aunt and uncle and cousins in Kanarraville. Soon after we finished eating we went black friday shopping at Walmart and I got a few movies. Friday we had lunch together and just sat around talking and I flew home Friday night. There were only five people on my flight home. I think I know how I'm going to get home on Thanksgiving from now on!!!
Last but not least I must tell you about an awkward date I went on last week. I went on a date with a guy I work with. Apparently he has liked me for a while and was shy, so I needed to help him out a bit. So after I encouraged him a bit he finally asked me out. I made him be the man and decide what to do, which took a while, but finally we decided on a day and time and made plans. So the night came and first of all he was a half hour late and waited for me in the parking lot. Then we went bowling and he was so boring! While bowling he showed no emotion, I thought maybe he's just being shy or having a hard time easing up. After two rounds of bowling, some minature golf, and a little time in the arcade he took me home. He did talk a little more, but for the most part I was the one doing most of the talking. Anyway when he dropped me off he just dropped me off. He pulled up and said goodbye, but I wasn't content with that, so I asked him for a hug which was an awkward side hug INSIDE the car. Then I walked to my door alone! Seriously it was so awkward and too much work, and boring! I tried to have fun and I did have fun bowling and what not but I would like someone who would actually try and talk to me. He apparently had a great time, and of course he did because I'm a fun person, but I would like the other person to be as fun as me.
I was happy to go on a date since the last date I went on was quite a while ago, but seriously will I ever be able to go on a fun date with someone who actually interests me and will actually converse with me! So if anyone knows of any single guys please set me up. I'm not getting any younger and apparently the only way I can actually get a date is to get set up.
It's been a busy and interesting couple of months and now it's time to get ready for Christmas!!!!

Have you ever heard of pie shakes?

So today Allison and I tried a little restuarant called Sammy's. There is a location near by, so Allison and I decided to go and try it out. Sammy's is famous for their pie shakes. Allison and I ordered some burgers and fries, I got sweet potato fries, and some delicious shakes. Allison got the mint oreo pie shake and I got the red velvet cupcake shake. Both of them were amazing! They had a lot more flavors available, so don't be surprised if I go back for more.

After Sammy's, Allison and I went and saw Here Comes the Boom. I have to say that I loved it! However, I did have a hard time with the actual fighting, but other than that it was awesome!!! I will say that it made me cry a little bit, but for anyone who knows me well knows that I cry in a lot, A LOT, of movies. My brother will definitely like this movie, especially the UFC fighting.
As for the holidays, they were spent with family. A very chaotic week, but lots of fun. I got a bedspread, a sewing kit, and money to go shopping, and I got a lot of cute clothes. Let's see, I saw Breaking Dawn, Part 2, The Hobbit, Les Miserables, and Life of Pi over the last few weeks. Yes I enjoyed Breaking Dawn, I loved The Hobbit, Les Miserable was good, and Life of Pi was ok, I did enjoy it more than the book, but I felt like the book went on forever! Now back to The Hobbit, I absolutely loved it! Now I know that ya'll know how much of a Lord of the Rings fan I am. Well I totally enjoyed it, plus it had my newish love. A few years ago I discovered a wonderful British movie called North and South. It stars a beautiful man called Richard Armitage.

 See how beautiful he is!

 

He is in The Hobbit and plays Thorin Oakenshield. Even as a dwarf I think he's beautiful, my roommate thinks I'm crazy, but I can't resist his beautiful blue eyes. Honestly I think Richard Armitage is my dream guy: tall, dark hair, amazing blue eyes, and British, seriously I think he's my soul mate, now I just need to find him and meet him ;)

I'm also in love with David Tennant, who is the 10th doctor on Doctor Who.

I think that it's official. I'm in love with British men. I think I definitely need to move to England.

That's about all of late. Until next time.

Introducing the Soon to be College Graduate!

Hey everyone, I just wanted to announce that I am graduating from SUU on May 4th!!! Also my birthday is the day before graduation so I suggest that ya'll send me an ecard, text, or message on Facebook to celebrate my 24th Birthday. Also if anyone is going to be in Southern Utah on May 5th I'll be having a Birthday/Graduation party at my brother's house in K-town. So let me know if you wanna come and I'll give you the address and put you on the list.

I'm also leaving for England on May 7th!!! I'm super excited, and if you want a postcard you need to send me your address so that I can send you one from England!

Yay me!

Don't be surprised, You knew I would do this!

For anyone who really knows me, you knew that I would be posting this as soon as it was online. I know that I'm acting like a silly teenage girl, but I can't help it I'm looking forward to it. If you didn't think I would post this you don't know me at all!

Why I Couldn't Stop Smiling :-D

I wanted to share a funny story with everyone. Just after New Years I went on a blind date with this guy we're going to call Roberto. For our date we went and played games with the guy who set us up, his name is Ben. We didn't get to talk much throughout our date, but at the end of the night we exchanged numbers. After the date several people were getting after me about calling him and hanging out with him. Well the funny story starts a few weeks after the date.
My friend Kymn and I were doing a game night with a few people, and I decided that I was going to try and be brave. Well me being brave is texting. I text Roberto and said "Hey this is Jessie, I was wondering if you had any plans tonight?" A little while later he text back saying: "Yeah dude, I have a date. Why?" This baffled me. I was confused why a guy I went on a date with would call me dude, then tell me that he was going on a date. I decided then that I was done, if he wanted to see me he would, to quote a movie "A wise person once told me that if a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what." (From the movie He's Just not that into you.) So I told Ben what had happened, and he said that Roberto probably thought it was someone else. Well, the next day I was working at the chocolate factory when my phone rang. I looked at my phone and saw it was Roberto, but I couldn't answer because someone had just walked into the store, so I silenced my phone, and when I finally had a minute I listened to the voice mail he left me. First of all Ben had called Roberto and told him what had happened. Turns out that he thought I was a different Jessie, a guy he works with that he doesn't like to hang out with, so he thought I was this guy and just gave the date as an excuse. If he had known it was me he totally would've come to play games. I couldn't call him back because the store was busy so I text him and told him I couldn't answer, but we ended up texting all day. Anyway after lots of laughing on my part and embarrassment on his he eventually asked me on a date.
So last Friday night he came and picked me up at my parents and we went and played miniature golf, got some ice cream, and spent several hours just talking. It's sad to say but this was my first official second date, but it was probably the best date I've been on. I laughed and smiled and I was a bit giddy after the date, but don't go planning the wedding or anything. It was just a date, and I thought I would share this funny story with everyone. And trust me if anything comes of this, ya'll will know.

Happy Festivus! For the Rest of Us!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Festivus for the Rest of Us!

Adieu For Now

Alright...so...where to begin? Pretty much I'm overwhelmed. I just keep adding to my pile, and the only person that I am hurting is me. A few weeks ago my boss at the chocolate factory asked me if I would like to write on the blog on the chocolate factory website. I'll get paid for every post that I write, and he wants about two a week. I told him that I would love to because let's face it, I doubt I will be getting a job writing after I graduate. I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist ;) I've been getting after him about what type of stuff he wants me to write so that I can get started and start saving more money. So today I was sitting in the library, eating my lunch and checking my email during my hour break. I saw an email from my boss with a list of topics that he wants me to write about. Now I knew that I would probably have to do some research for a lot of the posts, but I didn't realize what type of stuff he would want me to blog about.
I'm trying to see this as an opportunity for me to work on my researching skills. As many of you know I have been considering getting a Master's degree in Library Science, and I've been considering focusing on being a reference librarian, and they are all about the research. This semester I'm even taking a class on Reference and computer skills, so in a way this might help me in my class as well. I started working on my first post today while I was at work at Tuacahn, which did not work out because they had me do a backstage tour and then I had work at the gate, and I just didn't have a whole lot of time to focus. During the week should be better because I have more time since I only work about twenty hours during the week, the weekend is far too stressful for me.

I couldn't help myself it's too funny, and I'm sorry if I offended anyone, but come on it's hilarious!

So as I sit here venting about this new job that I have I think, my time would be much better spent researching. So you probably won't hear from me very often this semester because I will be working at or for one of my many jobs. I'm beginning to think that I'm about to reach my breaking point. So if I don't comment don't be upset with me because I still love you, just reading your blogs is not at the top of my list as much as I would love it to be because that used to be my favorite form of wasting time was blog stalking.

 

However, if you do want to read my blogs maybe I'll post them or at least the link to them so you can still hear my beautiful voice. And if anything really exciting happens you will see it on my blog.

On another note, I've decided that this summer I will be going to England for a study abroad program with the English Department. I'll probably be leaving right after graduation and I'll be gone for at least two weeks, I'm trying to convince Libby that she should fly out and meet me at the end of my trip and we could tour Europe for a little while. Of course I understand that this will be expensive but I'm going to do whatever I can to actually do it because let's face it when else will I get an opportunity like this?

 For now "That's all Folks!" I hope you won't forget me, just remember I still love you all!

Did I mention to you that it's almost 1am and I've been working on homework and I need to go to bed so I can work all day tomorrow? Let me just say there's a lot of giggling on my side. Goodnight to y'all!

Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Trailer 2 In HD Official 2011 (Kristen Stewa...

I know this is silly, but I had to share, especially since I haven't posted anything in a while. Enjoy!

Coming to a Close, and Enjoying the Adventures!

This semester is coming to an end, and the last few weeks I have been busy studying and writing papers. But now I am done for the semester, and looking forward to my birthday and my road trip! Since I've been busy writing essays and what not I haven't been able to show you all how much fun I've had with my roommates.

My roommates Allison and Naomi and I decided to make some smoothies with our frozen fruits.

We used my wine glasses that have been gathering dust for the last few months.

One night Allison and I were taking a break from doing homework and we decided to watch the LDS or Pink Pride and Prejudice. While we were watching it we decided to play hang man. Allison did the word Yahtzee and I had to go through the entire alphabet before I figured out what the word was. Allison thought this was pretty funny. Me not so much.

Today Allison and I finally ate at the Thai Restaurant Sweet Basils here in Cedar City. This was my first experience with Thai food and I thought that it was really yummy.

Allison did too.

After lunch at Sweet Basils we drove to St. George and went to this totally awesome park. I can't remember the name of it but it is right next to the Santa Clara river over in Green Valley. I like to think of it as an Adult park because most of the things there I would consider unsafe for little kids.

Allison entering the park, getting ready to cross the rope bridge.

Allison on this awesome twirly thing.

These chairs are so much fun, they made me a little dizzy after spinning around and around and around.

This was kind of embarrassing, but Allison thought it was funny and took a picture instead of helping me.

I really enjoyed this thing, but I was nauseous after Allison decided to spin me around really fast.

Here is the entire park. Doesn't it look fun?

Allison on the spinning chairs.

Even though the last few weeks have been stressful, I've been able to do a lot of fun things. I'll miss my roommates since they are both graduating, but it was definitely an enjoyable semester because of them!

Adventures of a Couple of Insane Girls

So over the last couple of weeks Allison and I have been having lots of fun.
On Saturday April 2, 2011 Allison and I had Mid-Night Margaritas. Yes this was Conference Weekend. No they did not have alcohol.

Here are the delicious Brazilian Lemonades that we made.

Enjoying our delicious Virgin drinks.

On Friday April 8, 2011 we were able to see Brian Regen in the SUU Centrum. Allison was there with her sister, and Kymn went with me. I'm really sad because we didn't get any pictures of the four of us :(

Kymn and me just before Brian Regen.

 Last night a certain person who we'll call Allison H, no let's call her A. Haight decided that my teddy bear needed to be strangled, so this certain person took my poor, defenseless, sweet little brown bear Cozy and strung him up on her flower lights. 

Here's the Crime Scene

He wasn't dead but he was bearly there, so I tried to save him.

Don't worry, I was able to save him, so he is still with us.

Don't expect me to leave him alone with a certain A. Haight. ;)

Happy Halloween. mwahahaha

Here is my Halloween costume for 2010.

I was a Totally awesome intriguing alluring gorgeous dark elegant dead sexy beautiful seductive mystical suited up magical lovable legendary adorable mysterious demonic intelligent bewitching tantalizing eerie bloodthirsty vampire librarian.

I vant to suck your blood!

Toilet Duck Commercial

As some of you may know I was christened with the nickname Toilet Duck by my loving older brother Cash. My roommate Allison and I were talking about nicknames and I told her about mine. From what I understand Cash saw a commercial with a Toilet Duck and thought it was funny and started calling me Toilet Duck. Allison wanted to see this commercial and I decided to look and see if I could find it on YouTube, and there it was. So enjoy, it made me laugh.

Period Drama Montage "It's Raining Men" (REDO)

I found this on one of my friend's Facebook pages, and I just couldn't help myself. I don't know if any of you will appreciate it as much as I did, but it sure put a smile on my face!

The joys of sharing a Room

So this is just a really funny story, that I thought might give a few people a good laugh, I sure laughed.
So a couple of weeks ago, it was a Sunday evening, I took some Benadryl to help with my allergies (which were terrible). Now as some of you know when I take Benadryl it knocks me out. Well lately I have been getting into the habit of having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Well this particular night I woke up around 2 in the morning to use the bathroom. I was NOT fully conscious so when I went to the bathroom and the bathroom door opened when I was about a foot away kind of freaked me out. As some of you know I have been sharing a room this summer with my friend Allison. Well as I was about to walk in the bathroom she was walking out. Now when you are half asleep that is a bit of a shock, and I gave Allison a good scare. When we talked about it the next day I found out that I had been talking in my sleep moment before I woke up. Allison being in a weird state began thinking as she was in the bathroom. She was worried that I was walking in my sleep then she started thinking about what if she accidently woke me while I was sleep walking and I attacked her. Needless to say we had a good laugh. Oh the joys of sharing a room. I don't think Libby and I ever had any fun adventures similar to that when we shared a room.

Me and My Obsessions

So the reason for this blog is because I was a bit disappointed that I did not get any cutouts this year. For the last two years I got cutouts for Christmas, and I have to admit that I was kind of hoping for Jacob without a shirt ;-P
Anyway as I was thinking about how upset I was about not getting a cutout this Christmas I realized that a life size of Jacob without a shirt is not important, besides I got a funny present for Christmas anyway, but I won't tell you what it is yet. But as I was thinking about not getting a cutout for Christmas it made me think of all of my many obsessions. As many of you know I have an obsessive personality, especially when it comes to books and movies and even music sometimes. This is also why I stay away from the hard stuff ;)
So here are some things that I have been obsessed with:
(We'll start from the earliest to the latest)
Spice Girls

Grease and Grease 2

The Lord of the Rings

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Jane Austen

Twilight

Anyway since my latest obsession is Twilight, and since I'm thinking of switching from Team Edward to Team Jacob, (okay not really, but you have to admit that Taylor Lautner is a lot more attractive than Rob Pattinson, especially now that Taylor Lautner has a very sexy body), I was hoping that someone would be funny and give me Jacob for Christmas, but since no one did, I got something funny in place of it. A lady I work with, who I love terribly, gave me Twilight the board game. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but I've looked through it and let me just say that it is hilarious. Which brings up another point, I think this is a new collection I'm starting Trivia games. I now have Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit and Twilight the Board Game.


What next? Why can't I find a guy to get obsessed over, and not in that psycho/stalker obsessed way. Anyway, I don't want to sound desperate, besides I'm too young to get married just yet. ;D

New Talents!!

So over the past couple of weeks I have discovered a couple of funny talents I have. They are all little talents that won't really get me anywhere in life, but I think that they are funny. Also, this is why I wanted to do a talent show at Thanksgiving, so that I could show off my talents but I can do that anyway. So my new discovered talents are saying the alphabet backwards pretty fast, which Papa could do so it makes my talent to do it so much better, and I have a really good wink. I can wink without flinching. I also can do tricks with my tongue but I've known about that talent for a while. So I just wanted to brag about my newly discovered talents, and maybe I will show them off at Thanksgiving anyway.