Sarah

This is Sarah and I at a basketball game at some point. It's virtually impossible to tell which one because we dress the same for all of them and almost always sit beside each other.

It's pretty much a miracle to have friends like Sarah. Actually, allow me to be more specific. It's a miracle to have Sarah as a friend. On many levels we can relate and on some things our views are vastly different, but it doesn't matter. To demonstrate her pure amazingness and great hilarity I would like to share what she wrote on my wall for my birthday today:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY HOORAY HOORAH! ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! I HOPE ITS AWESOME. if i could get tj fredette to sing you a happy birthday rap while jimmer dances to it in his pink shoes, jackson emery flexes his arms, and jake heaps throws footballs into basketball hoops from 500 miles away, i would. buuut i can't. although now the image is in your head so thats the best i can do. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

I literally laughed out loud when I read this. Best birthday post ever? Yes, I think so. Sarah is just too much and I love her.

To Catch Up

I'm just gonna go ahead a write the things that I think are important in a hopefully short format (list style) and catch you guys up.

1. I am now 20. This is magical. I never have to be a teenager again.
2. I had an amazing birthday party, thanks in no small part to Marci for helping me out, but also all my friends made it amazing.
3. Ben (Bright) gave me a picture of a polar bear he drew and I really like it so I hung it above my mantle.
4. My friends (Marci and Sarah) made me amazing birthday dinner and cake on my actual birthday and it was so much fun.
5. We're having potato burritos for dinner on Sunday. Yum.
6. My room mate turned 22.
7. I got sick the day after my birthday party. I was sick in bed for a few days. Boo for the flu.
8. I have tons of new (to me) music courtesy of Sarah and Jaimie.
9. I decided that I'm going to do spring term and then go home for a few weeks so I don't completely not have family all summer because I would cry.
10. I'm considering going to Arizona with Marci, Mitchell, Jaimie, and Sean in May.
11. I'm considering going to the Mae concert with Marci and whoever in May.
12. There were BYUSA elections this week. Let's talk about a waste of my life. I voted to get a free t-shirt.

I think that's a good general catch up. Did I forget anything?

Why I Haven't Been Posting

Ok, so you may have noticed my lack of posting. It's kind of a problem and has been nagging me, but here is why. I got the flu and was sick for a few days and kind of slept it off and didn't want to have to think enough to write a coherent blog post. Then I got over being sick and had a lot of homework to catch up on. Not to mention a lot of pressure to blog about all the good stuff like my birthday party and my birthday and all the amazingness that happened and about being sick and about the Utah game and about how I didn't get to go and on and on and on. So I have all that pressure and it makes me not want to blog at all. I don't deal well with pressure like that, I just avoid doing anything about it at all. So I'm hoping that breaking the week long silence with this post will allow me to come back and post in a sensical way because I like blogging. I really do.

Engagement...Wait, What?

So, I get a text message from Sean today that asked if I could help him out with something at five. I said sure thing and asked what was going on. Sean said he was doing something to surprise Jaimie and he needed my help. I agreed and he picked me up at five. We made a little small talk when I got into the car and then down to business. I asked what sort of surprise he was planning. First he made me promise about a thousand times that I wouldn't think he was crazy. After I had promised as many times he told me. "We're going ring shopping." Wait, what!? I had a spaz attack, but tried to calm down. I told Sean I did like him and etc. etc. and then tried to return to small talk (which is impossible to focus on when one of your best friends is supposedly getting engaged and you're going ring shopping). The whole thing just kept coming up and I was kind of freaking out. We eventually pull into apparently the only strip mall in the Provo/Orem area without a jewelry store. I told Sean I thought we were in the wrong place and so we parked and he said he'd call his dad. He dials and says "Hey, where are you?" Then I hear a voice behind me say, "In the back seat." Once again, wait, what?! I turn around and there's Jaimie buried under a blanket and boxes etc.! Turns out they had to trick me so they could take me to dinner (for my birthday). Then we all went to dinner at Applebee's (even before I sufficiently calmed down to be in a public place). It was delicous and a nice treat. Don't I have great friends (that I'm going to kill)?