I've really gotten bad at keeping this updated. Although.... I have to admit I'm a little nervous to post, since I found out a certain someone..... (Yes, YOU, Jason. :P ) has been reading my blog.

School and work have been keeping me really busy lately. And spending time with Jason of course takes lots of what used to be extra time (which I don't mind at all), but I'm not as stressed as I would have been any other year. I don't know what it is. I'm a little more easy going, I don't really let my stress get to me as much this semester. Of course, there are always the bad days, but I haven't had weeks where I just want to cry my eyes out all the time. (And I have to admit I'm LOVING being happier.)

Again, another Spring Break is coming in which I will not be able to spend time with my family, even though our breaks ARE at the same time. I made some prior commitments and I'm going to enjoy my spring break, even though it won't be with my family.

I'm still taking each day on it's own (hence putting homework off until the day before). =/ I'm getting bad at not getting it done. (And I am writing this currently instead of writing an essay... Oh well. I'll get the essay done in time.) I always do better under pressure, I think.

I am loving life, loving my boyfriend, and loving the rain we had recently! These are awesome times! <3

Just a little note

So, you know I'm not doing something I'm supposed to, because I'm blogging. Well, in my defense, I've got a light headache (more just annoying pressure in my head), it's been a long day, and I can't focus on my midterm essay.... so you get a new updated post about what's happening.

School. Work. Boyfriend.

That's about it. And most often in that order.

Things are going well between me and Jason. I love spending time with him, although I feel like I'm taking him away from more important things. (I still don't see how anyone could love me. I don't look very good most of the time, I'm overly emotional, and can be very dumb.) My favorite things we've done have been watching the Olympics (almost every night) with him having his arms around me (I will admit I've fallen asleep more than once), and going to see Mary Poppins. Those are the best times. Just enjoying something together. If Wicked were here, I would really take him to see that, because it's AMAZING!!!!

Anyways, that's pretty much it. Olympics have been most of what we've done because we're both tired from school and work and things. He's made me happier than I ever remember feeling. I feel special. Worthwhile. When I know I get to see him, things just seem so much better. He's an amazing person, even though he doesn't think he is. These are some of the best times!

News Flash!!

Alright, not sure who follows/stalks me on Facebook..... but there's a reason why I haven't written anything since December.

I've got a boyfriend. (First official one ever!) And no, it's not James.... he ditched me for BYU. Jason (Yes, another J name. lol Kinda.... long story that I'm not at liberty to discuss....) Anyways, I met him briefly at a Christmas concert, and a few weeks later he asked someone we both know whether I was dating anyone, then asked for me number. Well, the first Saturday of the year was our first date.

I will admit it was a little awkward at first. But amazingly, I felt pretty comfortable around him. (It was a group date.) So the first date ended. When I was deciding about my Birthday bash that I had the day after my bday.... that turned into a double date type thing..... I felt like I should invite him. Not sure why, and if Alana hadn't encouraged me, I probably wouldn't have. XD But I did, and he came. We hit it off even more. Well, our 2nd date was set for that Saturday (9th). We went and had a lot of fun. I learned to Cha Cha. :) We then got some Sonic before heading back to my house where we chilled for a bit. And we held hands.... It actually felt nice.

Sunday, we went to the CES broadcast, and held hands almost the entire time. He got the keys to his new house on Monday, and Tuesday evening, took me to see it. Well, after we had seen it (in all it's ugly yellow color), we were driving back to my house, when he saw a field... pretty empty. We ran out onto it just because. It was pretty fun. Wednesday, we went and saw the Young Victoria.... (GREAT MOVIE!!!!) Held hands and cuddled..... as much as one can do in a movie theatre. And we pretty much saw each other for the rest of the week. I went to church with him on Sunday, as well as my own.... We've hit it off pretty well. He's a good guy, a good dancer, wonderful at piano, smart, funny, nice, gentleman-like.... etc. :) I like him.

Anyways.... long post, but that's why I haven't posted in a while. Hope everyone is having a fantastic new year! :D

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I love this time of year!! Not because it's winter and gets cold (my least favorite thing), but because it's such a joyful time. This season has been especially wonderful. I've spent more time with friends than I have pretty much any year previous, I spent time with family (like every year), and it's just been amazing!

I was very pleased with myself for actually getting presents for my friends this year. I've never really done it before, but this year, it just felt right. Most of my best friends (I have 3) are leaving (most = 2/3) for anywhere from a few to several months. I understand why and I'm happy for them, but it still leaves me a bit melancholy, to be honest. One friend is going to work at Disneyland (YAY ALI!!!), and my other friend is going up to BYU for school. My third best friend (Yes, that's you, Kara! ;D ) is student teaching, so I probably won't see much of her, either. :( (We need to watch Pushing Daisies sometimes. ;) Especially since I got season 2 now. hehehehe)

Christmas was amazing this year! I'll just go through from Wednesday to today, because most of the time I work. Wednesday I got to go see Princess and the Frog again with Ali and James. It was amazing! You know a movie is good when I don't talk at all during it. XD And I didn't talk at all. Usually I make comments left and right throughout the movie. So that was fun. :) I then went to work for a while and then came home, and prepped (kind of) for Kara to come over, so we could watch PD, Season 1. (We watched episodes 6 & 7.)

Thursday, I went to work in the morning, until about noon, and was counting pills for most of that. XD Not so fun, but whatever. That afternoon, I picked up a copy of my book from Americopy, where I had had it bound for James, since he wanted to read it. I then proceeded to head over to his house for a gift exchange, and a look at some mission stuff. 2 1/2 hours of chatting, laughing, and looking at pics and things, it was amazing. I had soooo much fun! He's a neat guy!

Thursday night was our traditional family Christmas Eve gathering, where we eat dinner and have a program. It's really neat to have a musical family. Four of the six of my family performed a song called Baby in a Manger by Sally DeFord. Here you can listen to it. It's a wonderful song. One of the joys is our Christmas Carol time, where my Uncle Brent (Brent Jorgensen, LDS music composer and arranger extraordinaire) plays the tunes to different songs and we all sing along. :) This year, he wrote his own song, and it's AMAZING. I wish I could have recorded it or something, it was absolutely beautiful. After our program is over, we head back home and read the Christmas story from the scriptures, and then open our 1 present, or in this case 2, because my mom made us all pajamas, so we got to open that one and then another. It was awesome. :)

Christmas morning was amazing. It started out like any normal Christmas, with the gift opening and whatnot. At about 9am, we were told to go outside, and in the driveway was our next Christmas present. Mary Martin and her sister, Marilyn Crosby, had ridden down, on our very own horses. It was AMAZING!!! I was shocked!! Their names are Mack and Seinfeld, and a thoroughbred and purebred Arabian, respectively. They are so awesome! It's exciting! Kristen and I spent a lot of the day with them (she more than I), and Saturday we spent most of the day riding. It's awesome. There are still some things we need to get, but it's just awesome. :)


Anyways, that was my week. It's been intense and crazy and fun, but I love it! :D I can't wait to see what happens next in my life!!! It really is the most wonderful time of the year!

Alright....

So I got begged to do another post. ;) hehe

Sorry it's been so long. =/ Just been taking things one day at a time and trying to survive the semester. And.... now the semester is over, and I'm that much closer to finishing my college degree!!!

The past few weeks have been amazing, challenging, wonderful, hard, fun, and stressful. All those emotions mashed up together, varying on the different days and such. I finished the semester, and I didn't have any finals during final week, which was AMAZING!!!! Our institute choir performed 5 times in one week, and we rocked!!! ;> James even went to see a couple of them, which made me happy, and by now he's pretty much met all my friends that I've made since he's been gone. At least, all my close friends. :)

On Wednesday, I had a Muppet Christmas Carol watching party, and there was me, Josh Arbizu, Kara Morris, and James. Alana and Derek showed up not too far into the movie, so they joined us for a little bit, and definitely joined in when we started playing Curses. XD Awesome game! We got some pretty funny things going. lol I put some videos up on Facebook that I got on my phone. It was pretty awesome!

James and I have hung out a few times randomly. He got to come with me and my sisters to an American Idol Christmas show at the MAC, which was awesome, even if we were a little bit too close. XD We were in the orchestra pit seating. It was awesome, though! James a pretty cool guy. :) I'm kinda bummed that he's leaving to go to BYU this next semester, but like I said, I'm just taking things one day at a time. It's better that way. :)


Christmas is coming up!!!! :D I'm done Christmas shopping, so now I just get to sit back and wait. ;) Not long after Christmas is New Years, and then my BIRTHDAY!!!! I cannot believe I'm almost 21! It's crazy! :D But it'll be interesting.

We had some drill performances this weekend which rocked, even if it was really pretty stressful. =/ Anyways, hope everything goes smoothly the next few weeks as the holidays really start happening. ;)

BEST WISHES!!!!!!

Chatting, parties, and a date

Alright, so I know so much has happened in the past like 2 weeks. It's crazy! Not only do I have less than 2 weeks of school left, things are just going crazy.

Alana and Derek Funkhouser are officially dating now. They are a couple. Together. Boyfriend/Girlfriend.... lol Still a little weird to think about, but w/e. hehe

Anyways, onto the stories that everyone wants to hear. XD

James has been home for like 3 weeks now. In those three weeks, we've talked on the phone, probably 3 or 4 times. (2 or 3 of them were me calling. XD) I don't call people. At all, so me calling him is pretty big. We mostly would chat about how are days had been, a little bit of mission stuff and whatnot. Just fun friendly stuff. :)

The next step was getting together. So, Alana and I threw a party. We had about 30 people show up. It was pretty fun. ^_^ James and I talked and played the wii and did DDR and talked and ate M&Ms and things. hehe Overall, super fun night! Best part of the night was him asking me on a date. Not the fancy, extravagant way that high schoolers like to ask. It was to the point and to my face. With a somewhat minor interruption by the Soward brothers. XD And of course, I said yes.

Soooooo........... Where is all this leading you may ask? Well, our date was Saturday night. (Last night, technically. ;>) Now, you may be wondering what happened. So I'm gonna tell you. We started off by going to In-N-Out, which I have never eaten at before. It was pretty fun. We ordered, talked some, got our food, talked some more about almost everything: his mission, Hungarian money, the roads in Hungary, life in general, random discussion on fruits vs veggies (which led to me telling him about "flying saucer" squashes), which then led to drawing on some paper I have, and it was super fun. :D After a 2 hour dinner at a fast food restaurant, we went to the temple grounds, to look at the lights. I said that it looked so sparkly because of the lights, and he said "just like you". Which made me giggle. So we walked around, saw Rex and Paige and talked to them, talked to an elder that was serving in my ward at one point, and after we had been all around, we went into the visitor center, because it had been a while since he had gone in it. (About two years. XD) And as we walked around, we saw Daniel Button, so we stopped and talked to him for a while. Then we went to look around some more before the visitor center closed, so we quickly looked at the nativity scenes, which were a mix of cute, cultural, and colorful. I LOVED IT! hehe After that, we headed back to the car and we were thinking about what to do next. "This was as far as I had planned" was what he said. I gave some options that had been suggested by a friend. I suggested going and getting hot chocolate, or going back to my house and getting some. He chose to come back to my house, so that's what we did. We had hot chocolate, watched some Brian Regan videos, and chatted some more (we were always chatting and laughing). We talked with my parents for a bit, and he was leaving just as Alana and Derek were getting back from their date thing. So he left, after we hugged. :) It was honestly one of the best, most simple, least expensive dates ever! :D I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!

And hopefully he'll come to the institute choir fireside thing tonight. :D I'm so looking forward to singing! :D I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!


Anyways, that's the update for anyone that cares. ;) I'll hopefully update pretty regularly, but we'll see.

I know I know....

I know I need to blog again. It's been FAR too long. And so much happening. But I haven't felt like it's the right time yet. I'm having my little adventures in life. And as soon as I have something more substantial to talk about, I will.



Trust me. ;) Until then.... patience is a virtue. ;D