Saturday, November 21, 2015
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
Sunday, October 4, 2015
The UVU Chapter
Hello friends! It has been a while since I've posted on here, mostly because all summer I was working for the Girls Scouts of America as a Kitchen Assistant at Trefoil Ranch. I had no internet all summer and close to no phone contact either. It was quite the experience, from that I learned new things that go on in a Kitchen, that my children (if I should have any) will be angels when it comes to manners and patience, also I loved being called "Belle" all summer, I think that was the highlight ahah. I am thankful for the people I met and befriended whilst in the mountains for those 10 weeks.
I've been a UVU for about a month and it's not anything that I expected it to be. I live in place called "Village On the Parkway", which is a nice place. There's a shuttle that takes its residents to and from UVU and on Friday's it'll take you to Walmart. The people I've met on the shuttle have been kind and nice. There's one girl, called Alana (Uh-LAN-Uh) and she's super nice but it's peculiar meeting a person with the name that people have been calling me for years only in the wrong way. Allanah (Uh-Lawn-Uh) and Alana (Uh-Lan-Uh). There's another girl I met, her name is Charlotte and we both have a love for Supernatural -BAM instant friendship haha.
My roommates are fantastic and BEAUTIFUL girls, there's Savannah, Myra, Bethany, Ellen and Regan. They are all younger than me, leaving me to feel like an old spinster but they make me laugh and they go to church with me, which is more than I asked for so I'm truly blessed.
My classes are a little challenging this time. I'm taking Ethics and Values (not the hard class, just incredibly boring). I'm taking Spanish I (learning a language is hard no matter what but my teacher is fabulous). I'm taking Math 1030, this potentially is the LAST math class I'll have to take but I may have to take it twice because my teacher kind of stinks and teaching and I always end up leaving class with confusion and no hope but I'm still trying hard to pass! Finally, I am taking my first MAJOR (the class that actually deals with my major) and that is American Lit. It's a little boring and a few of the kids in the make me upset but I love listening to the conversations we have. I am also taking an institute class, which is the just the best thing ever! It's called "Foundations of the Restoration" with Sister Heapworth and let me tell you, it is one the best institute classes!! In addition to that I'm taking a "Life Prep" class on Wednesday nights at my church building and oh my gosh that class is the just the most amazing blessing I've received since coming to Orem. It's just a good glass that helps me improve myself and how I can be better and better those around me. I could literally write an essay on the benefits I've gotten from that class alone. It's amazing.
My Ward is pretty cool, it's fives times the size of my ward in Ephraim, I think they said that there are 200 members? The best part is that for once the guys outnumber the girls, not that'll help me find a boyfriend any quicker but that's alright, I'm not really looking for a relationship, I'm too focused on my schooling. The nice thing about my ward is they actually care about home teaching more so than my other YSA wards. I've already asked for a blessing from my home teacher and it was a good experience and you could tell that they were really happy to do it, which makes me happy.
Still jobless but have applied to several jobs that are relatively close and may be able to fit with my schedule and it's definitely stressing me out. So if you're reading this would you mind praying that I find a job that's nearby and fits with my schedule? It'd be much appreciated, thanks.
Back to staying positive!! I have some news, which for me is the most exciting thing to happen since I graduated high school. For the first time since puberty.... I HAVE A CLEAR AND PIMPLE FREE FACE!!!!!! I literally can't express to you how happy it makes me to look at myself in the mirror and see a clear face, it's like "oh that's where you were hiding!" It's definitely a confidence booster and I have Doterra and my mother to thank for that, because if my mom weren't involved with the oil company she wouldn't have found that face wash and then I never wouldn't have used it and would still be suffering from a pimply gross face!
Not sure what else really happened that is of significance, OH I WENT TO COMIC CON AND IT WAS SO AMAZING EVEN THOUGH WE ONLY STAYED FOR 2 1/2 HOURS!!!!! If you haven't seen my "Comic Con" photo album on Facebook, check it out and you'll see how awesome it was! Besides that nothing has really happened, I just feel blessed and though I'm still single, jobless and struggling with classes I'm thankful that I listened to the prompting that I got and came here even though it's still not where I want to go. It just goes to show you that blessings happen when you listen to God and the revelation He sends.
I love you all and I'm thankful for those who read this blog, I'm sorry I'm not out having exciting adventures but I'm sure I'll have a blog for that when it happens. God be with you and bless you. Love you all :)
~Allanah
I've been a UVU for about a month and it's not anything that I expected it to be. I live in place called "Village On the Parkway", which is a nice place. There's a shuttle that takes its residents to and from UVU and on Friday's it'll take you to Walmart. The people I've met on the shuttle have been kind and nice. There's one girl, called Alana (Uh-LAN-Uh) and she's super nice but it's peculiar meeting a person with the name that people have been calling me for years only in the wrong way. Allanah (Uh-Lawn-Uh) and Alana (Uh-Lan-Uh). There's another girl I met, her name is Charlotte and we both have a love for Supernatural -BAM instant friendship haha.
My roommates are fantastic and BEAUTIFUL girls, there's Savannah, Myra, Bethany, Ellen and Regan. They are all younger than me, leaving me to feel like an old spinster but they make me laugh and they go to church with me, which is more than I asked for so I'm truly blessed.
My classes are a little challenging this time. I'm taking Ethics and Values (not the hard class, just incredibly boring). I'm taking Spanish I (learning a language is hard no matter what but my teacher is fabulous). I'm taking Math 1030, this potentially is the LAST math class I'll have to take but I may have to take it twice because my teacher kind of stinks and teaching and I always end up leaving class with confusion and no hope but I'm still trying hard to pass! Finally, I am taking my first MAJOR (the class that actually deals with my major) and that is American Lit. It's a little boring and a few of the kids in the make me upset but I love listening to the conversations we have. I am also taking an institute class, which is the just the best thing ever! It's called "Foundations of the Restoration" with Sister Heapworth and let me tell you, it is one the best institute classes!! In addition to that I'm taking a "Life Prep" class on Wednesday nights at my church building and oh my gosh that class is the just the most amazing blessing I've received since coming to Orem. It's just a good glass that helps me improve myself and how I can be better and better those around me. I could literally write an essay on the benefits I've gotten from that class alone. It's amazing.
My Ward is pretty cool, it's fives times the size of my ward in Ephraim, I think they said that there are 200 members? The best part is that for once the guys outnumber the girls, not that'll help me find a boyfriend any quicker but that's alright, I'm not really looking for a relationship, I'm too focused on my schooling. The nice thing about my ward is they actually care about home teaching more so than my other YSA wards. I've already asked for a blessing from my home teacher and it was a good experience and you could tell that they were really happy to do it, which makes me happy.
Still jobless but have applied to several jobs that are relatively close and may be able to fit with my schedule and it's definitely stressing me out. So if you're reading this would you mind praying that I find a job that's nearby and fits with my schedule? It'd be much appreciated, thanks.
Back to staying positive!! I have some news, which for me is the most exciting thing to happen since I graduated high school. For the first time since puberty.... I HAVE A CLEAR AND PIMPLE FREE FACE!!!!!! I literally can't express to you how happy it makes me to look at myself in the mirror and see a clear face, it's like "oh that's where you were hiding!" It's definitely a confidence booster and I have Doterra and my mother to thank for that, because if my mom weren't involved with the oil company she wouldn't have found that face wash and then I never wouldn't have used it and would still be suffering from a pimply gross face!
Not sure what else really happened that is of significance, OH I WENT TO COMIC CON AND IT WAS SO AMAZING EVEN THOUGH WE ONLY STAYED FOR 2 1/2 HOURS!!!!! If you haven't seen my "Comic Con" photo album on Facebook, check it out and you'll see how awesome it was! Besides that nothing has really happened, I just feel blessed and though I'm still single, jobless and struggling with classes I'm thankful that I listened to the prompting that I got and came here even though it's still not where I want to go. It just goes to show you that blessings happen when you listen to God and the revelation He sends.
I love you all and I'm thankful for those who read this blog, I'm sorry I'm not out having exciting adventures but I'm sure I'll have a blog for that when it happens. God be with you and bless you. Love you all :)
~Allanah
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The End of a Chapter..
Well that's a wrap on Snow College. I passed all of my classes (including Math, so excited!) and actually ended up graduating Institute but only because my bishop had asked me and I couldn't really say no to the bishop but he assured me that I could continue taking Institute! The thing I want to focus on in this blog post is about all the things I learned during my year and a half at Snow.
1) I learned to be patient and tolerant of people, who I don't get along with. It's incredibly important to try to love those who don't love you. I can tell you from experience that having my first roommate was the first challenge and it was the hardest challenge but I'm sure that there are many bad roommates to come.... hit me with your best shot...
2) God is our shoulder, our anchor. I lost a very special person that first semester of school and it was the hardest thing I had to go through so far in life and for the longest time I thought I was going through it by myself because I didn't have friends at school to cry to, to listen to my pain (not that I would have told anyone anyway..) but through that trial I learned through going to church, institute and my own personal scripture reading that God is there when we are hurting, he wants us to talk to Him when we are in pain. He loves us so much.
3) Opening up to people has always been a trial for me, I think it will continue to be a trial but last fall I learned that not all new people are nice for the sake of being nice or because they have to be. Sometimes there are people out there who do genuinely care and it's okay to let them in. Not all at once but little by little.
4) For being perpetually single (by choice) I found out that I give pretty good guy advice! I have four people (who will remain nameless but you know who you are) who have come to me and either laid on my bed, sat on their floor/or chair, in front of the Bistro or just on the phone and asked me about some guy advice! So in the future when I'm ready to immerse myself in the dating scene I should be pretty ship shape haha (not...)
5) Marriage isn't that bad! Not that I'm close to getting married anytime soon, I no longer resent when people in church talk about the importance of marriage and it's something that I want, one day... I don't cringe nearly as much when the topic in conference is marriage. I'm still rather terrified of the concept but I know that if my future spouse and I keep Christ in the center of our marriage we should do okay... hopefully!
6) God has a plan for us! A lot of the times it isn't going to be the one we want. For a while my plan, my set plan was to finish at Snow then go to SUU and if that didn't plan out then I was going to rejoin some of my friends in BYU-I but for some strange reason it isn't what God wants me to do. I struggled for a long time comprehending with the fact that god wants me to go to UVU, a school I never had any interest in, I was avoiding that place because of certain people I desperately want to avoid (they shall remain nameless as well). I learned that I need to trust God more and that's the reason I am going to Utah Valley University with an open mind and blinded footsteps.
7) Love is hard and most often it hurts, especially when you have to say goodbye to the first best friends you made since moving to Utah. Most of the times you can get so caught up in the happy memories, the hilarious nights and the entertaining days then forget that one day it's all going to end. One day you're surrounded by a fantastic group of girls who make you feel loved in a way that you hadn't felt in over two years. They're always there to listen to you and you're there for them as well. It's not easy to find a group of friends who make you feel special, valued and encourage you to love yourself and to follow your dreams. As of now, I've got a group of friends who are like that in two states but the one thing they have in common? They are so far away.. I hate goodbyes, I've always hated them. Leaving on May 1st was the hardest thing. To walk through the door and to my mom's van, knowing or not knowing rather, when I would see these people again had broken my heart. Now I just feel like a hollow shell, doing what I have to and nothing else.
The year and a half I spent at Snow College was the best and hardest days I've lived so far and the way my life goes I count on plenty more hard days ahead...
Thank you to all who contributed to my journey. Let's start another one this fall!
Sunday, August 17, 2014
There and Back again... SEMESTER TWO
HELLO! So here we are again, well here I am again! I'm all settled in my room and so far I haven't seen life of a roommate.... I hope that changes! I've met one other girl, Darby, she seems nice and I hope I get to know her better. My room is decked out this semester with pictures of Jesus, The Enterprise, Beauty and the Beast, a MormonAd and the The Family: A Proclamation to the World then Two pictures of my passe back in Dayton! Not much going on besides girls moving in and getting situated.
FAST FORWARD TO THAT NIGHT!
So that night there was a dance that I wasn't going to go to but one of my roommates was going and so was Ashley (from last semester) so I figured I should go and I'm sooo glad that I did!! They mostly played fast songs(which meant that I didn't have to slow dance) and they played GOOD music!! It was fun to let loose and just go crazy! When I got home that night.. I still didn't a my roommate and even now as I'm writing this the other side of the room is EMPTY... I hope I have a roommate!
FAST FORWARD TO SUNDAY!!
So something new and exciting happened! ALL OF MY ROOMMATES (that are here..) WENT TO CHURCH! Last Semester only Ashley went with me and that was fun but I felt envious of the groups of girls that all came together because they were all roommates. I'm still in the same ward, that means 1:00 church, which is the best thing and there's even a cute guy in my ward! Sooo Yeah! Tonight is the waffle thing and I'll talk about that more in the next blog because I think I want to post this before everyone goes to bed! We've got a really big stake this year and I'm really excited to get to know everyone! Another exciting thing, a girl in my ward from last semester is in my ward now, I can't really remember her name, which is fair because she couldn't remember my name but we were excited to see each other nonetheless! SO YEAH!
Thanks for reading the blog, it really means a lot! That's it for this week, I'll try and post weekly, if not weekly then at least monthly! BYE!
~ Allanah <3
FAST FORWARD TO THAT NIGHT!
So that night there was a dance that I wasn't going to go to but one of my roommates was going and so was Ashley (from last semester) so I figured I should go and I'm sooo glad that I did!! They mostly played fast songs(which meant that I didn't have to slow dance) and they played GOOD music!! It was fun to let loose and just go crazy! When I got home that night.. I still didn't a my roommate and even now as I'm writing this the other side of the room is EMPTY... I hope I have a roommate!
FAST FORWARD TO SUNDAY!!
So something new and exciting happened! ALL OF MY ROOMMATES (that are here..) WENT TO CHURCH! Last Semester only Ashley went with me and that was fun but I felt envious of the groups of girls that all came together because they were all roommates. I'm still in the same ward, that means 1:00 church, which is the best thing and there's even a cute guy in my ward! Sooo Yeah! Tonight is the waffle thing and I'll talk about that more in the next blog because I think I want to post this before everyone goes to bed! We've got a really big stake this year and I'm really excited to get to know everyone! Another exciting thing, a girl in my ward from last semester is in my ward now, I can't really remember her name, which is fair because she couldn't remember my name but we were excited to see each other nonetheless! SO YEAH!
Thanks for reading the blog, it really means a lot! That's it for this week, I'll try and post weekly, if not weekly then at least monthly! BYE!
~ Allanah <3
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Soooorrry...
OK so this is Paige, my roommate, and this is also my new Hair color! As you can obviously tell in the previous pic and compare to this one, it is DARKER! Just the way I like it!
We had a Facials night - SUPER DUPER fun! My pores felt EXTREMELY CLEAN!!!
SO Paige brought me some British food, I don't remember the EXACT name for it but basically, it's an egg wrapped in Sausage and let me tell you... IT'S THE BEST THING EVER!! Much like the roommate who brought it to me!!!
So this pic is a little old but I let Paige, crimp my hair and took a pic of it at the best angle possible!
So yeah, I'll probably do a summer blog but just extend it through this one, so I don't have to create a whole other one... or maybe... I will... I don't know yet, tell you later. GOOD NIGHT!
~Allanah Staggs
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Week Seven
Hello everyone!! Before I begin.... a BIG thank you to those who read this!! It's really nice to know that I'm not wasting my time writing this!!!
Monday was Presidents' Day so... NO SCHOOL!! Made me very happy! What did I do?? I sat in my room... and did homework, whoopee. Then I watched an excessive amount of Netflix then went on walk. It was also the day when all the roommates came back and I'm not going to lie, while it is nice to have them back, I kinda miss all the quietness, not saying they're loud but I miss being able to blast my music with no complaints. Oh well, I'll live. I also studied a bit for my first GNST's test. A vocab test. I have to memorize words like "Procrastination", "Self Esteem" and "Value".... oh yeah... definitely a tough test.
Tuesday, we went through the Monday schedule, so instead of just Math and Dreadful English. I got to go to GNST (well not really because I had a test instead) but I had Theater, Math and Institute! Best part is that... I get to have it again tomorrow!!! ONLY ONE DAY OF DREADFUL ENGLISH THIS WEEK!!!! So happy. Not that I don't LOVE english, because I do.. I'm just bored because everything we're learning, I already learned my Junior year of high school and not to mention my teacher is a complete and utter psycho, I'm not even going to get into that... The Vocab test was pretty easy, hopefully I get a good grade on it! Theater had been spectacular!!! I so wish there was a logical career that involved Theater (Don't say Drama teacher, I completely and utterly refuse) and me acting! Our Shakespearean project is getting along quite nicely, we're hammering memorization, which is vital! Institute was amazing - as usual!! So we get institute tomorrow too!!! EEK! I can't wait!!! I wish I could just have my Monday and Wednesday schedule everyday... to put it short.. I wish I could drop English, but alas, I cannot!
Wednesday was just as amazing as Tuesday! Again... probably because I didn't have English.. but I do tomorrow along with a Math test! Thankfully I can take it either on Thursday or Friday.... I'm going with Friday, more study time! I have a story about today!! If you didn't see it on Facebook then here you go!
So there's these couple of prissy popular girls in my theater class and I've never paid them any mind and they've done the same. In Theater we're doing this game thing that involves focus and the whole game is rather complicated so I'm going to skip the rules.. But the subject of Disney came up. For those of you who really know me, know that I'll know some things but won't attest to being "specialized" in it. Disney is my specialty. I don't know everything there is to know about Disney but I know about 95% of it including all of the Disney Men names... This girl tried to tell me that "The Prince" was Cinderella's Prince's name... and that Snow White had "Prince Charming"... for those of you who watch Once Upon a Time, I'm with you! I've seen it! I know they call him Prince Charming BUT that's because they couldn't go around calling him "The Prince"! Do you understand how confusing that would have been?!? So they switched them and when she said that, I doubted my knowledge (like I tend to do) and said nothing plus, I really didn't want to get into an argument over it. It wasn't worth being hated over. When I got home... I looked it up, just to double check my Disney Knowledge. I AM COMPLETELY RIGHT!!! Snow White's Prince is known as "The Prince" and Cinderella's is known as "Prince Charming"!!! DON'T CHALLENGE ME WHEN IT COMES TO PRINCE'S OR PRINCESSES NAMES! Gah! Really annoyed me because she said it in a way that was supposed to make me feel stupid like *high pitched annoying girl voice* "Duh, everyone knows that Snow White has Prince Charming and Cinderella has The Prince".... No... Just... No....
Besides that, the day was good and uneventful!
Thursday... not as good as Monday through Wednesday! English was insane and boring, math about the same hahaha! Nothing to really report!
Friday! Got the test back from GNST and I still got an 'A' but I missed the first two questions but it's all good. We're learning about Money Management and the only thing that ever comes to mind when I think about Money Managing is my dad trying to teach me little kid me who could absolutely care less about managing money but I'm learning it now.. My partner and I performed our Romeo and Juliet Scene and apparently... I just wasn't whiny enough or as my teacher put it "Pissy" I was angry enough either. I take that as a compliment but I thought we did pretty well. I also took another Math test on Friday, hoping that I passed. I don't care what the grade is as long as it's passing...!!
Saturday I woke up at eight in the morning and didn't get out of bed till noon... I was watching a movie! After the movie, I spiffied up in my room, got dressed and walked to Walmart with my list. Got everything I needed and it was within my budget!! I had $61 in my wallet and part of me wanted to splurge a little bit but I told myself not to go over twenty five dollars... The total amount?? Twenty Three!! Hooray! The weather had been nice too! That night, I watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in my room while attending to some laundry. Didn't get to bed until midnight! The movie was good, slightly anti climactic but pretty good!
Sunday! At church we got a new bishopric and I felt a little bad that I didn't cry.. Girls all around me were sniffling and I just sat there like. "Ok, bye, nice knowing ya!" Probably because I barely knew them but I like the new bishopric already, they seem nice. Going over to the counselor's house for Waffles tonight (Yay look at me being social!)
Can't wait to take on next week's challenges! I love you all and thank you for reading my blog, truly means a lot to me!!
Monday was Presidents' Day so... NO SCHOOL!! Made me very happy! What did I do?? I sat in my room... and did homework, whoopee. Then I watched an excessive amount of Netflix then went on walk. It was also the day when all the roommates came back and I'm not going to lie, while it is nice to have them back, I kinda miss all the quietness, not saying they're loud but I miss being able to blast my music with no complaints. Oh well, I'll live. I also studied a bit for my first GNST's test. A vocab test. I have to memorize words like "Procrastination", "Self Esteem" and "Value".... oh yeah... definitely a tough test.
Tuesday, we went through the Monday schedule, so instead of just Math and Dreadful English. I got to go to GNST (well not really because I had a test instead) but I had Theater, Math and Institute! Best part is that... I get to have it again tomorrow!!! ONLY ONE DAY OF DREADFUL ENGLISH THIS WEEK!!!! So happy. Not that I don't LOVE english, because I do.. I'm just bored because everything we're learning, I already learned my Junior year of high school and not to mention my teacher is a complete and utter psycho, I'm not even going to get into that... The Vocab test was pretty easy, hopefully I get a good grade on it! Theater had been spectacular!!! I so wish there was a logical career that involved Theater (Don't say Drama teacher, I completely and utterly refuse) and me acting! Our Shakespearean project is getting along quite nicely, we're hammering memorization, which is vital! Institute was amazing - as usual!! So we get institute tomorrow too!!! EEK! I can't wait!!! I wish I could just have my Monday and Wednesday schedule everyday... to put it short.. I wish I could drop English, but alas, I cannot!
Wednesday was just as amazing as Tuesday! Again... probably because I didn't have English.. but I do tomorrow along with a Math test! Thankfully I can take it either on Thursday or Friday.... I'm going with Friday, more study time! I have a story about today!! If you didn't see it on Facebook then here you go!
So there's these couple of prissy popular girls in my theater class and I've never paid them any mind and they've done the same. In Theater we're doing this game thing that involves focus and the whole game is rather complicated so I'm going to skip the rules.. But the subject of Disney came up. For those of you who really know me, know that I'll know some things but won't attest to being "specialized" in it. Disney is my specialty. I don't know everything there is to know about Disney but I know about 95% of it including all of the Disney Men names... This girl tried to tell me that "The Prince" was Cinderella's Prince's name... and that Snow White had "Prince Charming"... for those of you who watch Once Upon a Time, I'm with you! I've seen it! I know they call him Prince Charming BUT that's because they couldn't go around calling him "The Prince"! Do you understand how confusing that would have been?!? So they switched them and when she said that, I doubted my knowledge (like I tend to do) and said nothing plus, I really didn't want to get into an argument over it. It wasn't worth being hated over. When I got home... I looked it up, just to double check my Disney Knowledge. I AM COMPLETELY RIGHT!!! Snow White's Prince is known as "The Prince" and Cinderella's is known as "Prince Charming"!!! DON'T CHALLENGE ME WHEN IT COMES TO PRINCE'S OR PRINCESSES NAMES! Gah! Really annoyed me because she said it in a way that was supposed to make me feel stupid like *high pitched annoying girl voice* "Duh, everyone knows that Snow White has Prince Charming and Cinderella has The Prince".... No... Just... No....
Besides that, the day was good and uneventful!
Thursday... not as good as Monday through Wednesday! English was insane and boring, math about the same hahaha! Nothing to really report!
Friday! Got the test back from GNST and I still got an 'A' but I missed the first two questions but it's all good. We're learning about Money Management and the only thing that ever comes to mind when I think about Money Managing is my dad trying to teach me little kid me who could absolutely care less about managing money but I'm learning it now.. My partner and I performed our Romeo and Juliet Scene and apparently... I just wasn't whiny enough or as my teacher put it "Pissy" I was angry enough either. I take that as a compliment but I thought we did pretty well. I also took another Math test on Friday, hoping that I passed. I don't care what the grade is as long as it's passing...!!
Saturday I woke up at eight in the morning and didn't get out of bed till noon... I was watching a movie! After the movie, I spiffied up in my room, got dressed and walked to Walmart with my list. Got everything I needed and it was within my budget!! I had $61 in my wallet and part of me wanted to splurge a little bit but I told myself not to go over twenty five dollars... The total amount?? Twenty Three!! Hooray! The weather had been nice too! That night, I watched "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in my room while attending to some laundry. Didn't get to bed until midnight! The movie was good, slightly anti climactic but pretty good!
Sunday! At church we got a new bishopric and I felt a little bad that I didn't cry.. Girls all around me were sniffling and I just sat there like. "Ok, bye, nice knowing ya!" Probably because I barely knew them but I like the new bishopric already, they seem nice. Going over to the counselor's house for Waffles tonight (Yay look at me being social!)
Can't wait to take on next week's challenges! I love you all and thank you for reading my blog, truly means a lot to me!!
Monday, February 17, 2014
Valentine's Day Weekened!!
Since nothing really happened last week, I'm most going to focus on the weekend!! It was a great weekend!
So on the Fourteenth of February is commonly known as "Valentine's Day", where loved ones get chocolates and flowers for their significant other. My significant other is a million miles away and doesn't even know that we're supposed to be together... ah the life of a fan girl... There are other girls like me so I've changed the name from V-Day to "Single Awareness Day" and I'll have you all know that I've been calling it Single Awareness Day for about four years... since High school... Anyway, I digress...
I have been looking forward to this particular weekend because that Sunday I got a phone call from my parents and they told me that they were coming to Visit!!! Made my day. The week that followed wasn't the best but I'm not going into that.
Friday finally comes and I handed out my little Single Awareness Day treats to my roommates and went to my two classes. Theater got out a LOT earlier and my parents were due to come get me an hour and a half later. So I spent that hour tidying up a bit while pinning my significant other on Pinterest. I got the call that they were here, so I walked outside and greeted my parents! Showed them my apartment and the campus, which they seemed impressed with. We got back to the apartment where they surprised me with the fact that I would not be coming back to my room until the next day!
Clumsily I packed an over night bag and off to Provo we went. I blabbed the whole way and of course they thought it was a twinge annoying but I bet they missed it! We ate dinner at a Pizza Buffet place, I don't remember the name (sorry) and I had about four pieces of small pizza and was stuffed. We walked around a LDS bookstore that wasn't Deseret and found perfume called "Pink Chocolate" and I was tempted to ask for it but decided against it. We drove around BYU and UVU mostly because we were looking for the Pizza Place but it made me thankful for my own school because there would be no way that I would go to a school that huge. Never.
After Dinner we walked around a mall, which had a Hot Topic and it was beautiful! When I say 'beautiful' I mean, I love all there Doctor Who, Disney and Harry Potter stuff but besides that... the store gives me the creeps. We also saw... A DISNEY STORE!!!!! Next to the late 'Borders' the Disney store is my next favorite! In the Disney store I was fortunate enough to get a Minnie Mouse t shirt that actually looks good on me! We also Pre ordered Frozen and got some snazzy looking pictures, which are hanging up in my room as we - you read this.
After that we left and journeyed to Heidi Alldredge's House where we all talked for about four hours then mom and I talked for another hour before we went to sleep. It was great to listen to them all talk about their college days and it also made me feel better about having pervy friends... Won't get into that.
Next day we went to Old Navy, where I got some much needed clothes! This includes another Minnie Mouse shirt!! Then we ate ourselves sick at Chuck o rama! We drove back to Ephraim, stopped at Walmart and came back! When they had left I learned that it was only Ashley and myself in the whole apartment... not going to lie.. It was absolutely HEAVENLY! Didn't have to worry about being judged! Ashley's cool with me singing in my room (at least I think she's cool with it.. hasn't complained) and I'm cool with her playing her clarinet!
Ashley and I both went to the combined church meeting on Sunday and for once the girls outweighed the boys and we both thought that we got the short end of the stick when it came to males in our ward. The weather was nice, all the snow finally melted so I went on a walk and Monday I've been attempting to do Homework....
Thank you all for reading this blog!! I love you all!!
~ Allanah Staggs <3
So on the Fourteenth of February is commonly known as "Valentine's Day", where loved ones get chocolates and flowers for their significant other. My significant other is a million miles away and doesn't even know that we're supposed to be together... ah the life of a fan girl... There are other girls like me so I've changed the name from V-Day to "Single Awareness Day" and I'll have you all know that I've been calling it Single Awareness Day for about four years... since High school... Anyway, I digress...
I have been looking forward to this particular weekend because that Sunday I got a phone call from my parents and they told me that they were coming to Visit!!! Made my day. The week that followed wasn't the best but I'm not going into that.
Friday finally comes and I handed out my little Single Awareness Day treats to my roommates and went to my two classes. Theater got out a LOT earlier and my parents were due to come get me an hour and a half later. So I spent that hour tidying up a bit while pinning my significant other on Pinterest. I got the call that they were here, so I walked outside and greeted my parents! Showed them my apartment and the campus, which they seemed impressed with. We got back to the apartment where they surprised me with the fact that I would not be coming back to my room until the next day!
Clumsily I packed an over night bag and off to Provo we went. I blabbed the whole way and of course they thought it was a twinge annoying but I bet they missed it! We ate dinner at a Pizza Buffet place, I don't remember the name (sorry) and I had about four pieces of small pizza and was stuffed. We walked around a LDS bookstore that wasn't Deseret and found perfume called "Pink Chocolate" and I was tempted to ask for it but decided against it. We drove around BYU and UVU mostly because we were looking for the Pizza Place but it made me thankful for my own school because there would be no way that I would go to a school that huge. Never.
After Dinner we walked around a mall, which had a Hot Topic and it was beautiful! When I say 'beautiful' I mean, I love all there Doctor Who, Disney and Harry Potter stuff but besides that... the store gives me the creeps. We also saw... A DISNEY STORE!!!!! Next to the late 'Borders' the Disney store is my next favorite! In the Disney store I was fortunate enough to get a Minnie Mouse t shirt that actually looks good on me! We also Pre ordered Frozen and got some snazzy looking pictures, which are hanging up in my room as we - you read this.
After that we left and journeyed to Heidi Alldredge's House where we all talked for about four hours then mom and I talked for another hour before we went to sleep. It was great to listen to them all talk about their college days and it also made me feel better about having pervy friends... Won't get into that.
Next day we went to Old Navy, where I got some much needed clothes! This includes another Minnie Mouse shirt!! Then we ate ourselves sick at Chuck o rama! We drove back to Ephraim, stopped at Walmart and came back! When they had left I learned that it was only Ashley and myself in the whole apartment... not going to lie.. It was absolutely HEAVENLY! Didn't have to worry about being judged! Ashley's cool with me singing in my room (at least I think she's cool with it.. hasn't complained) and I'm cool with her playing her clarinet!
Ashley and I both went to the combined church meeting on Sunday and for once the girls outweighed the boys and we both thought that we got the short end of the stick when it came to males in our ward. The weather was nice, all the snow finally melted so I went on a walk and Monday I've been attempting to do Homework....
Thank you all for reading this blog!! I love you all!!
~ Allanah Staggs <3
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