Pumpkin Extravanganza

Today has been an obnoxious day for many reasons...sad that it should be so annoying already, because I've only been awake for about 5 hours now. Even sadder, it is Halloween, and isn't it some kind of rule that no one should have a bummer of a day on Halloween?

Here are some pictures from this week's FHE to help rekindle the festive, happy thoughts I should be having on this glorious, costume-wearing, spirit-celebrating, candy-getting day.

Like every typical Mormon family on the Monday night before Halloween, we carved pumpkins...for each others' apartments.

Mask of Zorro

Apt 185 Lovin Pumpkin...and Anthony's arm brandishing a knife.

a prime example of apt 185 lovin, which inspired our pumpkin

Very standard BYU pumpkin.
Funny because neither of the guys that carved it actually go to BYU...haha

Aww this was the guys' gift to our apartment...
a pumpkin carved with the likeness of Pierre, our pet fish,
as well as his name on the side.

Oh Halloween...how I love you.

A day in the life of cerulean

So this past weekend I had the most fun I've had in a long time. I wasn't planning on going to the stake Halloween party, but at the last minute Loni and I threw together a costume consisting of matching sweats, electrical tape, and iron-on letters...all purchased at Walmart.

It was a pretty brilliant costume if I do say so myself. The general consensus was that the best part about our outfit was our hair. We put water bottles inside our ponytails to hold them upright, and used lots of hairspray. And colored hair dye, of course. What kind of costume could you possibly make with these items, you might ask. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...

You can't really tell in this picture, but our Crayola colors are on the side of our legs. I am Cerulean (everyone's favorite color of blue) and Loni is Razzmatazz (pink).

The only downside to this costume was that people kept picking me up to color things...

Aww cutest roomies ever :)

That, my friends, is how it is done.

Tagged by Saurin Lauren

Here are 10 quirky things (to name a few) that you may not already know about yours truly:

1. I pace around the room/house/property when I talk on the phone. The more intense the conversation, the more I pace. No one knows exactly why I do this, I just do.

2. I have a mole on the bottom of my right foot.

3. I am anal about oral hygiene. I am sure I picked this up from my mother, who drilled into my small brain at a young age the importance of brushing your teeth several times daily.

4. I have tiny hands. Literally, they are the size of a child's hands. It's a miracle I can play piano as well as I do, since I have trouble reaching many chords.

5. I can whistle louder than probably anyone you know. It happens to be my favorite talent.

6. I cannot walk in a straight line. This poses a problem in large groups of people, because I tend to bump into everyone every few seconds.

7. I am generally a nice person, but on occasion I cannot resist subtlely irritating really annoying people. Usually I only do this when the person has consistently exhibited annoying or rude behavior. Then I work my magic. An example of this actually occurred today in my one of my classes:

There is a girl who I sit by in one of my classes who for many reasons, annoys me a great deal. She is often frustrated when she doesn't understand things, sometimes to the point of tears. If I try to kindly explain them to her, she takes offense for some reason, makes some rude remark, ignores my advice, pouts, and then insists on asking the professor. Granted, I am not an expert on the subject, but I generally know what I am talking about when it comes to easier concepts that she doesn't understand. It often seems like she looks for opportunities to be offended, so lately I have just not been helping her. Also she knows she is an amazing singer and insists on belting (opera style, might I add) the hymns that we sing in class, and is sullen if she doesn't get to pick out the hymn every day. It's also funny that even though she sings louder than anyone in the entire class, if anyone should be singing too loudly next to her, heaven forbid, she SOMEHOW cannot hear herself, and has to cover her ear to better hear herself. Good grief.

Well today I was particularly annoyed by her, so I decided to play the sing too loudly game. Basically this consists of me singing loud enough to bother her, to the point where she has to cover her ear. Hahah. Subtle yet soo satisfying.

8. I am very touchy feely. By this I mean that I hug people, pat their heads, play with their hair, and pick lint off their shirts constantly. Also nothing makes me feel better than a hug or a massage.

9. I cannot fall asleep at night if my feet are not a comfortable temperature. My whole body could be perfectly comfortable, but if my feet are too hot or too cold, I will lay in bed staring at the ceiling until I work up the energy to either remove my socks or go put some on.

10. I am obsessed with photoshop. It has reached the point now that I cannot show any pictures to anyone until I have first adjusted the lighting, fixed the redeye, gotten rid of any zits, removed any unflattering facial shine, and sharpened the clarity of the photo. It's ridiculous, really.

Now, don't you feel like you know me better?

So much time, so little to do. I mean...

8 T.V. Shows I like
1. House
2. Burn Notice
3. CSI
4. Friends (reruns)
5. Seinfeld
6. Who's Line is it Anyway
7. American Idol
8. So you think you can dance

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Red Lobster
2. Spring Creek BBQ
3. In N Out
4. PF Changs
5. Macaroni Grill
6. Chipotle
7. Jason's Deli (complimentary ice cream, baby)
8. Taco Bell?

8 Things That Happened Yesterday
1. Church at Davey's
2. partayy with the Johnson fam
3. saw Trav :)
4. talked to Zack, Ty, Mom, and Dad
5. had Ward Prayer, aka write love notes time!!
6. ate wayyyy too many desserts
7. watched Surf's Up
8. talked to Haunted House boy...

8 Things I Look Forward To
1. this freaking test being over with
2. going to bed early tonight
3. Thanksgiving
4. Christmas
5. seeing trav again
6. Friday
7. checking the mail!!
8. Monday emails from D-ron

8 Things On My Wish List
1. please help me pass my test today
2. more self-discipline in going to bed earlier
3. a puppy, and somewhere to keep it.
4. a boyfriend
5. be able to study abroad.
6. more time in a day
7. the ability to fly
8.world peace.

8 People I Am Tagging
1. Mom
2. Cristy
3. Lauren
4. The End.

Still running on last night's adrenaline

I can now officially say that I have been to a haunted house.

Last night, I drove up with some friends and their friends to go to an apparently famous haunted house in Ogden, UT. (Click on the picture below to read the "legend" associated with it):

It took us something over an hour to get there, so you can imagine the worrying and nail-biting that took place on the ride up, at least for me.

The haunted house itself took us 40 minutes to get through, and was comprised of several different sections, including a CAVE, a SWAMP, a FOREST, a MINESHAFT, a CORN MAZE and several creepy old SHACKS. It also boasted some pretty interesting characters- a chainsaw murderer, a guy wildly waving a blowtorch, some demented clowns, an 8-foot bearded creeper, and a man entirely covered in blood who crept up behind me and whispered in my ear when I wasn't paying attention...just to name a few. Needless to say, I was freaked out.

It's a good thing David had the sense to bring some of his mission buddies along to serve as escorts for us girls...not that I was looking for an excuse to flirt or anything. I am just the most easily frightened/startled person I know, and I honestly don't know what I would have done if I didn't have someone to grab onto. Also I was very grateful with how patient the guy (Dallas) was with me, despite me dragging him along at reckless speeds and occasionally causing him to hit his head on various ceilings/beams. To tell you the truth, I think he kinda liked it, in some weird, manly, macho way.

It's crazy how hard my adrenaline was still pumping and how hard it was to just calm down, even hours after the fact. I must have looked pretty beat/overwhelmed, hahah, because everyone (or the boys at least) would ask me every few minutes if I was okay, and tell me how proud they were of me for being such a trooper, hahaha. How nice of them. I must say though, after going through something like that, I'm pretty proud of myself too.

Go me. There's another thing I can cross off my list...

Staplers- they're out to get me.

Currently I am exhausted...no thanks to the sweat I just worked up wrestling for 30 minutes with a stapler at work, trying to pry the dumb thing open to refill the staples. Which, by the way, makes it the second time I have beat myself up over one of these dumb objects this week. At least in today's match, I came out the victor. Last week, I wasn't so lucky.

Long story short, last week I was filling up a stapler, when it decided to spontaneously not close. Frustrated after a couple minutes, I slammed the thing down in a last resort to shut it...and it happened to slam down on my finger. I came THIS close to screaming as the staple penetrated my left middle finger...but then I remembered that probably wasn't a very professional thing to do while on the clock. Anyway, I pulled the stupid thing out of my finger and to my extreme surprise, it's didn't bleed a single drop. Que suerte.

Why is it that I cannot get along with these very useful and necessary office tools? Once I figure it out, I'll let you know.

Where have all the girls gone?

Upon sending out last minute invites for Lanae's birthday get-together this week, I discovered that most, if not all, of our friends in our ward are boys. This became increasingly obvious as the night progressed, and boys kept pouring into our apartment. The guy to girl ratio was very top-heavy that night. One thing is for sure, us girls definitely know how to throw a party :)