O Remember Remember the... month of November!

            Hey y'all, how's it going? I hope it's good :)
November has been a pretty uneventful month so I'm just going to give you the highlights, like I usually do. 
     I got a job interview with Deseret Book and I got so nervous that my home teacher graciously gave me a blessing and it definitely silenced a majority of my anxieties. So I woke up put on my shorter skirt and my shirt and my flats come to find out that it is snowing!! I love the snow but not when I have a job interview for Deseret Book! The interview went fine but I didn't get the job but I'm not stressed out about it. People in my Spanish class tell me it's easier to get a job during the spring... we'll see!
     I got a "beautiful" lesson from Heavenly Father about my Pride habit. After my first blessing, I spoke to my roommates about weak it made me feel to ask for help and how I like to solve my own problems and crap like that. I'm pretty sure Heavenly Father raised an eyebrow and went "Like to solve your own problems eh? We'll see about that!" skip to Wednesday, waiting for my math class to start. I get hit with a massive head ache! I'm thinking "oh I haven't drunk enough water" so naturally I down my water bottle and fill it up before class starts. Six hours, three Ibuprofen and five bottle of water later and the headache worsens. It gets so bad that I  can't concentrate on my homework, can't even wear my glasses. It's making me upset because now I'm going to have to miss Life Prep because I just can't handle this stupid head ache. I decided to google "types of headaches" come to find out that I was experiencing a tension headache. Not fun. So in the midst of my pain a thought entered my head. 'You could always get a blessing' and you can bet I shut down that idea so fast. 'No way! I'll be fine tomorrow!' I would argue. A little after 8:00 a couple of guys from our ward came over, and started talking to me and my other roommate who was in the living room. It was just casual talk until he asked. "Is there anything we can do for you?" without a filter I blurted. "Do you know how to get rid of headaches?" I explained the whole thing and one of the guys goes, "well we'd be happy to give you a blessing." After all my big talk about how I can handle it, on my own came crashing down in that single moment. I knew I couldn't handle but I really didn't want another blessing. I have had so many this semester it's been crazy. I fought against it but then consented and I kid you not the moment those guys walked out the door, my headache vanished. Talk about a humbly experience.
     I came home for a weekend to see Robert's Play, I won't give my honest opinion because this is public but if I'm being honest Robert was the best part.
   OK so fast forward to last night. Mom picked me up from school around 3 and we did her shopping ate at Culvers and went to SWIG before her presentation called "Stand and Deliver" from 3 Key Elements by Kirk Duncan, it was basically a condensed public speaking class. We could stay for a short amount of time because we parked our car on a 2 hour parking spot. The whole time we were there I felt like I had to go to Deseret Book by Temple Square but I didn't want to go by myself for one thing and I knew mom really wanted to see this guy so I kept my mouth shut. Around  8:30 we got up and left and waited for the TRAX. Getting on I sat by the window and we passed the Deseret Book, inside was a gorgeous Nativity display... and a rather big group... plagued with curiosity I focused more closely and standing inside the store was none other than my absolute FAVORITE apostle, President Uchtdorf. Surprised by my discovery I screamed and began to bang on the window. My poor terrified mother asked me what was wrong and I told her who I saw and said that we had to get off. Slight side note: It's my dream (and on my bucket-list) to meet Uchtdorf and express my love for him and tell him how his "Forget Me Not" talk changed my life and I saw an opportunity to do so on the TRAX.
So we waited for the next stop, jumped off and literally ran to the bookstore in the blistering cold only to find that we were too late. Disappointed but thankful for the walk we decided to just walk the rest of the way to our van. We got it and started driving home. It's been fine, mom ran over an already dead deer's chest, which was disgusting by the way but we're having a nice conversation. Now we're about 15 minutes away from the house and in the middle of the road is a buck! It's too close to us for mom to even remotely slow down. I clamp my eyes shut and begin to scream and a thud goes under our car. Mom hit her first deer... it was a little traumatic on both ends... Not even a mile later we almost hit ANOTHER BUCK! LIKE WHAT THE FLIPPING HECK?!? Thankfully, we moved out of the way so we wouldn't hit that one too. Now the front of our car is just about busted but we made it home safely.

I'll probably post another entry for Thanksgiving and stuff. I hope everyone has a fun and SAFE weekend.

Love y'all
Allanah