salsa dancing

It's my new thing... the only downside is that at the moment I can't really salsa dance, but I want to learn. There's a place here in Provo called Salsa Chocolate and every Thursday and Friday night they play different kinds of Latin music. I've been a few times and I LOVE it

byu reality check

Tonight I discovered that a girl on my hall has a pretty ring with three big diamonds on it.... and she is wearing it on her left ring finger

she is my friend

she is 18

... I go to school at Brigham Young University


(btw, congrats dahling- it couldn't have been a cuter story)

dimples

Lindsey, being the good sister that she is, pointed out that the dimples on my cheeks are in fact structural defects in my muscle.

So I decided to google "dimples". I'm lazy though so the search wasn't too thorough but I'm guessing she is right... I did discover that it is a dominate gene, and when considering my sisters' lack of dimples, I probably have a Dd genotype (although it is possible that I have DD)... which depending on my future husband, my future children either have a 50%, 75%, or 100% chance of getting dimples as well.... which basically means that I really have no idea what kind of cheeks my children will have- nor do I care

p.s. i posted pictures on my concert and 9 lives posts

if I could pause time...

...just for 24 hours I would:
1) go to bed right now and sleep for a good 8 or so hours
2) wake up and write in my journal (which I haven't done in months)
3) study for my Book of Mormon test
4) study for my bio quiz
5) write on my blog, maybe even add some pics
6) go to the gym
7) shower
8) clean my room
9) write letters to my friends who I haven't written yet
10) apply for the 7 jobs that I'm considering

and then un-pause time and go to bed so that tomorrow will be a better day :D

not quite there

So I took a wpm test at the employment center to see if I qualify for a bunch of easy sounding secretarial jobs. Well I got 64 wpm.... I guess it was 67 but then my "net" was 64, and my accuracy was 96%... anyways, it's bothering me that I only typed 64, 65 would have been so much better. I like nice round numbers. -- or maybe Alli's ocd-ness is rubbing off on me

I thought I knew what ASAP meant

You would be confused too if this happened to you:

Jan 16th: In the employment center I find a job that says they need 4 people "ASAP"

Jan 18th: I followed the directions, emailed a cover letter and a resume to the guy.

Jan 22nd: No reply from him, so I emailed him a short letter asking if he received my previous email, and asked if he could confirm that he had.

Feb 1st: I searched online for the job and it was still listed, so I presumed the guy had died.

Feb 7th: He writes me back, and tells me interviews will be in a week or so. He ends by saying that if hired I would start "as soon as possible."

Feb 9th: Really?

cats aren't the only ones with 9 lives

After the HHH concert, Alli and I drove to my aunt Renee's house and spent the night.

This morning we were on the road around 8:45 and within 15 min from my aunt's house the roads were terrible... especially as we approached the point of the mountain (I was driving a small Toyota Corolla btw)

Soon enough, as it always happens, the idiot in the lane next to me cut me off, no signal or anything! I didn't slam on my breaks, but I hit them hard enough that I started to fishtail--- and since I got a C in Physics 105 I didn't understand friction well enough to realize that I should turn with the spin, not against it.

We did a 360° turn before whipping 180° in the other direction. Did you catch that? WE STOPPED, FACING THE WRONG WAY ON A SNOW PACKED HIGHWAY!!! AND AND AND IMMEDIATELY behind us were two SUVs driving side by side coming straight for us!!!! So I sat there and clenched the steering wheel... Even though we were in the middle of the road, they both went carefully around either side of the car. It was surreal.
Alli then told me to turn into the spin next time (She's from California, I've lived in CO for 12yrs of my life, go figure)

THE WRONG WAY ON THE HIGHWAY...seriously, that just doesn't happen...I was living one of those dumb blond jokes!

So of course I was EVEN MORE careful, and even followed a big semi who was going so slow that his emergency lights blinking. About 20 min later it happened again- this time it was out of my control, I really didn't do anything wrong, it must have been the tires that hit a patch of ice just right... we started to spin left (into the other lane), but this time I turned the wheel correctly. We spun 270° and I'm proud to say that the spin was much more controlled, graceful, and the ending location was more convenient... instead of facing oncoming traffic, we were now perpendicularly stuck in a snowbank. As luck would have it, the car wouldn't start... so we sat there for what seemed like ages--with cars driving by and giving us incredulous looks. Eventually it barely started... fyi, I didn't go above 25 the entire way home...

and to make a LONG story longer: We got back to BYU at 10:30, a drive that should be only 45 min took more than twice as long.

Sorry to write so much... but I believe it is a truly crazy story- but I guess I haven't lived that long either.

hot hot heat!! concert <3

(I know I posted this on the 9th, but the events happened on the 2nd so I'm post dating it)

I went to Hot Hot Heat's concert with Allison!!! The venue was really small and they had rows of benches set up along with a little room at the front. We were about the 3rd row back and had a pretty good view.

Louis XIV opened. They had a pretty sick violinist... but I didn't like them that much. Their backup singer wore, lets just say, "revealing to the point that I couldn't look at him" pants.

THEN HOT HOT HEAT CAME OUT!!!! I was grooving and dancing to their music... it was a blast :D :D :D I just love yelling out the words with the singer :) I LOVE THEM, they are so much fun. Hot Hot Heat wasn't headlining though, and before I knew it they were off the stage. (about half the audience left at this point---HHH should have headlined but what ev)


The Editors came on and they were superb!!! --they're also from England which is an added bonus!! The lead singer was gorgeous and totally fun on stage. He'd play his guitar, swing it on his back and sit down at the piano, play that for a bit... and then crawl on top of the piano, play his guitar again and then jump off!!!! His voice is really deep too... check them out if you're into trying something new.