There is sunshine in my soul today!!!

Yes.

It is true.

There is sunshine in my soul today.

I love this warm sunny weather! Everywhere I go people are sprawled out on the lawns on campus A) sleeping B) studying C) Chatting D) eating or E) all of the above. I love it!

I joined the masses yesterday fully intending to study, but instead I sprawled out like a large majority of them and took a nice 15 minute nap in the sunshine while listening to the new Kelly album.

The best part about it: I didn't get burnt! And my freckles got slightly darker! Woohoo! That was my luck o' the Irish moment. And that was about all the luck I had yesterday... haha.

So, despite having a paper due on Tuesday that I am struggling researching for, yet another Physical Science midterm that I am doomed to FAIL (or at least get another really low score on) tomorrow/Friday morning, and I'm pretty sure I did DREADful on my Italian test today...

YES!

There is sunshine in my soul today! :)

This week in my life

So Sarah, my cousin is getting married tomorrow! I'm very excited, but yet it's weird considering she's only like, what, 9 months older than me? But party on! I love weddings.

Second, I am SO excited for St. Patrick's Day. I think I inherit that from mother. We both LOVE that we have the whole Irish heritage thing going for us. I decorated my apartment with the window sticky things and a "Happy St. Patrick's Day" banner. My roommates love me. Oh and mom and I are going to the St. Patty's day parade on Saturday!

Be jealous.

Third, I got my score back from my Art History midterm finally! And I was so relieved. 85%. Not bad considering my professor freaked us all out saying she was very disappointed with most of the scores. I was very excited I got through with an 85. :)

Fourth, I just woke up... which isn't a good thing. I had a class at 9. But no worries because I can go to the noon class! Woot!

Fifth, I'm WAY excited for dad and me to go to Scotland/Ireland. So so so excited! We've booked our flights, now we just have to plan the trip.

PARTY ON!!!

Sixth, I LOVE that Nat is having a boy! Not that I wouldn't love it if the baby were a girl... we just don't have very many boys in this family people! :) I'm so so excited. So congrats Nat!

And last, I bought the new Kelly Clarkson album yesterday! I haven't had time to listen to the whole thing yet, but thus far, I LOVE it!!! Thought I'd share that with you all...

Love and miss you all family! Talk to y'all soon!

Two Films

This past couple of weeks I found some time to watch two great movies that I highly recommend!

If you are in need of a good laugh, and are a fan of the one and only Dwight Schrute, you MUST see "The Rocker." Hilarious! It's about this drummer for a band in the 80s. His band, Vesuvius, was offered a record deal but were told they had to get rid of the drummer "Fish", so they do. 20 years later, Vesuvius is the biggest band in the world and Fish is still hung up on it. His nephew asks him to be the drummer for his band for a gig at the prom so he agrees. Then it goes on to show how he carried them to the top. It is so so funny. Watch it!

The second film I found totally awesome is "Charlotte Gray". Lately I've become a huge fan of Cate Blanchett. She is definitely one of the best actresses of this day and age. The other day I was reading a list of her movies and this one struck me as something I would love. I've always loved books and movies about WW II.

In this movie Cate Blanchett plays Charlotte Gray, a Scottish woman living in London. She speaks fluent French and has been approached about possibly going undercover in France to help the resistance. When she hears her pilot boyfriend's plane was shot down in France but he made contact saying he was alive, she decides to become an agent and go to France to try and find him. She is placed in a small French town that is in an area of France that has not yet been taken over by the Germans. She meets Julian, the son of a farmer who is also a leader of the resistance. She stays on his father's farm and helps take care of two Jewish children whose parents were arrested. One day she is waiting for a train to Jillais, which is a city that her contact told her her pilot was in. As her train pulls up, loads of Germans unload the train. She then decides to stay and help Julian and the resistance stand up to the Germans. And it goes on and on. I love this movie so so so much! It is definitely now up close to the top on my list. And Cate Blanchett is just amazing. Go rent it! You'll love it. :)

My week.

Midterms.

They will be the death of me.

Actually, they already are... I'm dead inside.

Haha jokes. But really, I am not a fan of Midterm week.

I've taken two thus far and pretty sure I flunked them both.

And now I'm studying for my third and final one. Book of Mormon.

Why are the Book of Mormon tests always the hardest?

Oh yeah... This is BYU.

haha.

Anyway, in other news:

Congrats to Col and Ash who got engaged on Monday! I thought I better mention them.

And Happy Birthday to Chloe and Bryan this week!

I will call you guys probably later today or tomorrow. But Happy Birthday and I hope they were/are great!

In even MORE news:

Wednesday night I performed with Club Style at a Benefit Concert for a program that teaches disabled kids to dance. It was a way cool experience and an AWESOME concert. There were some AMAZING dancers that performed. Including the one and ONLY Benji Schwimmer. Yeah, I met backstage with Benji Schwimmer and Matt Dorame from season 2 and season 4 of SYTYCD, only my favorite show EVER! It was SO much fun.

Cool Story:

So, one of the girls that is in the program is confined to a wheelchair and had met Benji about two years ago when he was here filming something. They have kept in contact and when Benji heard about this concert he drove all the way from LA for it so he could dance for this girl, Mariann. It was so so cute because he just wheeled her up onto the stage and then they started playing "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. He danced to her and it was the cutest thing I have ever seen. I almost cried. It was a sweet sweet moment.

Anyway. Thought I'd share that with you all.

Hope everyone is doing just Fantastic!!!

All my Club Style peeps before the performance.

Us with Mariann. The sweetest girl you will ever meet.

Us with THE Benji Schwimmer. Gotta love him. :)

Some more random thoughts:

My paper for my 19th C. Euro. Art class is going to be the most rockin' paper ever. What is my topic, you ask? Paul Delaroche's artistic treatment of women in conjunction with the social treatment of women in France in the 1830s. Brilliant. I know. Wish I came up with it on my own. Thank goodness for professors that are brilliant and willing to help.

I still am obsessed with Veronica Mars. I thought I'd share this love with you all by posting below a video I found on YouTube of a lot of the funny scenes from one of the seasons. Enjoy.

And last, I heart 3 day weekends.

Random bits

First random thing: I found an apartment! Yay! They are way nice and I'm excited to live there next year.

Party on.

Second: I love music. And I bring this up because I'm watching the Grammy's. I heart Jennifer Hudson. And Justin Timberlake. And Carrie Underwood. And Beyoncé. I think they are all performing.

Yes.

Third: I watched "The Secret Life of Bees" last night. It is now one of my favorite movies.

Phenomenal.

Fourth: I have an obsession with Veronica Mars. If you have never seen an episode, I highly suggest you do. I wish I were as clever and witty as that teenaged P.I.

Awesome.

That's all I have to say for now.

Ciao.

Apartment Hunting...

Yes. It is that time.

Apartment Hunting time.

Just ask me how I feel about Apartment Hunting.

Here's what I'll say:

Stressful.

How the HECK do you decide which place is right?

Why does it have to be so complicated?

Why do all the good places have to be so dang expensive?

Why can't you all just have private rooms and be in a social area that's not too far from campus and have good landlords and a good rate and not have year round contracts and not be a total DIVE?

This is what I've been doing this week.

Right when I think I've found the perfect place, something gets in the way.

i.e. expensive rent.

Thank goodness for ratemyapartments.com.

They've helped me narrow it down.

Apartment Hunting...

That's all I have to say about this.

Oh, just an update

So I realize it has been a long while since I last posted. Here are some things that have happened since my last post: I started off the semester with a bang, or not - I scored the lowest score on a test I've ever gotten in my life (in Phys. Science, hate it), dropped out of my Modern art class because it was just too dang overwhelming, had a weekend with the fam and some friends at the cabin and saw some movie stars (including Ryan Devlin, Edward Herrmann, 81% sure we saw Patrick Dempsey 4-wheeling, William Baldwin, some guy from the second "Bourne" movie, the lead singer of Goo Goo Dolls singing "Iris", and some others that we couldn't remember their names...) It was great fun I must say. I love Park City. I don't know why I don't go there more, it's so gorgeous and like only 45 minutes away! The things we take advantage of... Anyway, that was my January. How was yours? More posts to come. More often. I promise ;)

Us with Edward Herrmann, AKA "Richard"

on Gilmore Girls, "Norman" on Gray's Anatomy, etc. etc.

4-wheeling at the cabin. We're 81% sure we saw Patrick Dempsey drive past us on

a snowmobile, but he was going pretty fast and wearing sunglasses so we're not positive... :)

Ryan Devlin, AKA "Mercer" on my new fav TV show Veronica Mars. He's coming out in a new movie called "Weather Girl." Love him!

John Rzeznik, the lead singer of Goo Goo Dolls