journey of life

I know it has been awhile since I have written, but this semester I have been crazy busy with school, work, and friends! I am going to warn you now; this is going to be a long post! I have learned a lot about the gospel and myself. Every semester I learn something new! I think I have said this before, but I feel like my first semester I found out how to live on my own by balancing my time between school and fun. I love cooking, but having to do it EVERY SINGLE DAY is hard! Especially when you don’t want to make something! I had to learn to keep things clean, those shoes that got left somewhere are not going to magically appear in your room!  Same thing if you leave something at home and you need it for class… no one brings it to you! When I went home for winter semester I felt that I really grew spiritually. My testimony grew so much with those short four months at home! I am so grateful for the Relief Society back in my home ward! I know that a lot of help came from those wonderful ladies! I know I grew a lot from my job while being home! I cannot thank enough the amazing people I worked with at Reasor’s! Then my second semester here in wonderful Rexburg, I truly became to know who I am! That sounds self-fish, but it was truly a semester where I needed to discover who I was. Who I want to become and who I want to be known for, a lot of searching and learning went on that semester. I know what I am capable of and I cannot expect less than that from me now; how can I achieve my goals if I lower my standards for a tough time in life or cash in for something right now when the earning are better in the end? Now we come to this semester. This semester has been so interesting for me! It is absolutely nothing like my other semesters! Everything I have learned from the past; from past semesters and just through life, this is the semester where everything has to be mixed together. In other words, this semester has been real life. I have a job that I work everyday except for Mondays and Sundays. I am a full time student taking on 16 credits. I live in an apartment that has to be clean. I have to cook, laundry, and shop! I have church responsibilities. With keeping up on my educational studies, I have to keep up on my spiritual studies. This is the rest of my life, and there is no turning back now! Except someday I’ll be done with school, but I’ll just have a family to take care of! Don’t think I am complaining… I am super excited! In a long about way, this all leads to what I originally wanted to write about on this post. Today I was literally smacked in the face by the Lord and I am so excited to share what I learned with you!

This semester has been a roller coaster of emotions. I am super happy and then slowly I hit the anxiety level which equals no fun! The past couple of days I have been feeling like I do not feel the Spirit in my life as much as I should. I knew I was doing something to keep that from me.  The Savior is not just going to leave me hanging; I am the one keeps him from my life. So last night I was extremely tired and I fell asleep on the couch, but when I woke up I was ready to go back to bed… in my real bed! As I went to bed I started the conflict inside of, should I read my scriptures or just go to bed. I decided I would just recite a scripture in my head, but after I did that I felt like I was cheating the system. I pulled out my scriptures and read a chapter. I then decided I would say a sincere prayer. As I was praying I really wanted to know what I needed to do to be a better person. This is when it hit me! I need to become humble and stop being so prideful! I worry too much about myself and not about others.  After this as I was lying in my bed, it hit me even more. When I am happy and doing well, I slack on my scripture studies and prayers. Then when I hit those anxiety times, I power up on my spiritual juice. I read my scriptures and say my prayers more sincere. By doing this, I become happy and great! But, once again, I stop and I start to slide down that slope. Just like in the scriptures, I get into my pride circle. I need Jesus Christ, I don’t need Jesus Christ, I need him, I don’t and so one. That is completely wrong!

As I went to my psych class, I decided I would read a talk during class so I would stay awake. I needed to read it because I would receive bonus for my religion class. It is a talk by Elder David A. Bednar titled, In The Strength of The Lord. Elder Bednar says, "There is help from the Savior for the entire journey of life--from bad to good to better and to change our very nature." How am I suppose to better my life when I only let him in when 'I need him.' I need to apply His atonement in my life at all times! Elder Bednar also said, "the atonement is not just for sinners... [but] also for saints--for good men and women who are obedient and worthy and conscientious and who are striving to become better and serve more faithfully." When we are baptized I promised to ALWAYS remember him, not sometimes, not when I want to, not when I am going through a hard time, but ALWAYS. That means in the bad and good.

Elder Bednar goes on to talk about grace. In the bible dictionary grace is defined as this,

“The main idea of the word is divine means of help or strength, given through the bounteous mercy and love of Jesus Christ... It is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals, through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins, receive strength and assistance to do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left to their own means. This grace is an enabling power…”

Grace is for everyone, after we do all that we can. I know I have days when I feel like I am doing all that I can do. I cannot go on any further. But then, something happens, by the end of the day I look back and I have accomplished it all and sometime even more. How did I do it? How did I finish all that? Well I didn’t, the Savior stepped in and gave me the power to do it. Some days, I have all the strength in the world! I can get everything done. Because of this, I must be someone’s grace for that day. The Lord gave me the strength to finish something, now I must go share what I have with others. Elder Bednar then speaks about an example in the Book of Mormon. When Nephi was tied up, he prayed to the Lord, Nephi says, “…O Lord, according to my faith which is in thee, wilt thou deliver me from the hands of  my brethren; yea, even give me strength that I may burst these bands with which I am bond.” (1 Nephi 7:17) I love this! He asks for the Lord to give him strength, he doesn’t complain and say ‘get me out of this,’ but he takes it upon himself. Elder Bednar says, “As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the atonement in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We will become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon (2 Nephi 2:14).” We are agents and we must act. We can’t just sit and wait for the storm to pass, the Lord does not work like that. He helps us when we act and try to make the situation better, that is when he steps in. When we know who we are, agents to the Lord, then we will not ask for our problems to be removed because we will know that the Lord can give us strength. It all comes back to knowing we are children of God, and he will never leave our side.

As I have gone through out this day, I have seen a change. Before I was so worried about what I looked like and being part of the crowd, pretty much saying to myself “don’t be weird.” Today as I forgot myself and helped others, I am way more happy. I know I am doing good. I have to keep it up and the Savior will be by my side at all times! Lose the pride and rely on the Lord because you can’t do it without him.

-love life

p.s. here is the link to Elder Bednar’s talk… it is a must read!

http://www2.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2002_01_08_Bednar.htm

p.s.s. I really hope this made sense in a ramble kind of way :)

"Ob la di, ob la da, life goes on, BROW!"

The first week of school was awesome! (Beside the two mental breakdowns that I had.) The second week of school was A LOT better! Classes went more smoothly and I was getting into a schedule. Also, I got a job! I made new friends and I joined a soccer team! It was the close of the second week… FRIDAY NIGHT! Janae and I were having a fabulous Friday! We got Jamba Juice before dinner. Went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Sat with our Bishop from church and his family. After the AMAZING show, Janae and I went to get cupcakes! After eating our delicious cupcakes, I decided to shower and go to bed. But then Janae said I could rip off one of her eyebrow waxing things if I would stay up and wait for her! This is where it begins…

  

BUT, first I have to tell y’all about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir! HOLY DANG! Hearing them sing live is speechless! During their song, “Betelehemu,” I cannot explain the emotions I had! It was truly the first time when I was tearing up because I was so happy! Everyone should finish reading this blog, and then go look it up on youtube! It is amazing… you know what! I’ll post the link just for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7WdQ1xSkk4

So copy that link and put it into the search bar on the Internet and watch it!!!!!  When they performed this the other night, I seriously felt like I was in a different country and I could not stop smiling! During the whole concert, I could feel the spirit and the love that Christ has for all of us! I love this amazing gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!

Back to the story, So Janae decided to wax her eyebrows at midnight… I got my computer and sat on the bathroom counter while she took on the challenge of forming the perfect eyebrows. As I was sitting there with my computer looking at facebook, reading about the awesome win Owasso had against Union, looking up travel abroad service things, when all of a sudden Janae yells, “OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!! MY EYEBROW IS GONE!!!!!!!” I look up to Janae covering up her left eye and holding the wax strip with a HUGE rat-tail thing hanging off of it! I could NOT stop laughing! When she finally moved her hand, there wasn’t THAT much missing… but she did take a good chunk off. But, now she has to do the right side… pahahaha. She puts on the wax and then rips it off…. She took off too much on the right side, so now the right side is even shorter than the left!!! I try not to laugh… ok I didn’t try not to laugh, but I did feel bad for her cause I have messed up my eyebrows before. I did attempt to help straighten out the eyebrows… they don’t look bad… they are just shorter than usual. But, I’m pretty sure Janae will NEVER wax her eyebrows at night again :)

Janae and I are always doing something crazy...

-love life

a sophomOre in college who still can't spell!

So... it is time to start my sophomore year of college... how weird is that?! (And to be honest... I had to look up how to spell sophomore... who knew it was sophOmore not sophmore… me I guess! pahaha) Any who, lately I have been really looking at myself. I have been really trying to make me a better person, someone that I can be proud of at all times. I am so grateful for the opportunity I had this summer to be an EFY counselor. At the moment of being a counselor, I didn’t see the impact that it had on me. Now being away from it, I see the changes that it made in my life. Because of EFY, I now say more sincere prayers every night. I read my scriptures every night and I actually look forward to it and I learn something new. I know that when I do read my scriptures, I can truly see a difference in my life, I feel closer to my Savior. I hope I helped those youth I was over to come closer to Christ! I know I did!

I am also grateful for the time that I had to spend with the youth at EFY. It opened my eyes! I don’t know how many parents of teenagers read my blog. But I hope that if you are a parent of a teenager, you pay close attention to this part. I know that it is hard sometimes to see the good that your teenage daughter or son is doing, all you can think about at the time is how they won’t wake up in the morning for seminary/school, or that fight you had with them last night about curfew. Trust me, I know how it feels now! I dealt with those crazy teenagers for two weeks! And I also remember the stupid things I did when I was a teenager! But I can honestly say, that the youth are amazing! After two weeks with 500+ youth and spending most of my time with a total 72 of them, I can honestly say I saw things and heard things that you as parents would be so proud of! The willingness they have to serve others amazed me! The temptations and trials they face daily at school surprises me, I swear it is already worst than what I dealt with when I was in high school. They are strong, NEVER give up on them! They trying to do their best even when it seems like they aren't.

Rexburg, ID

Lawrence, KS

Now, for the youth that read my blog, if you went to EFY or not, I hope you are continuing to “arise and shine forth” every day at school! For those who went to youth conference, girls camp, and/or EFY I hope you remember those feelings you had when you went! And if you don’t, pray! You will remember. Know that you are closer to your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ than you think! You know them! Know that you know this gospel! Yes, there is always more to learn about it, but you know more than you think! Always strive to be better than you were yesterday! The lord hears your prayers! And he will answer them! Sometime we are asked to do things we do not want to from the Lord, do them! It will be hard, but it will be worth it!  I know that high school is hard some times, NEVER lower your standards for friends and especially for that cute boy or girl, IT IS NOT WORTH IT! You deserve friends that lift you up, not down. (cliché… I know! But it’s so true!)

Any way, sorry for that ramble! Sorry for no funny or embarrassing story! The only thing I can think of is today when my roommate and I were driving back from the store I sang to people as we drove by them, “HEY, I JUST MET YOU, AND THIS IS CRAZY, BUT HERE’S MY NUMBER, SO CALL ME, MAYBE?” Ya… I’m pretty sure I made this one guy’s day the best cause he smiled when we drove by him and I sang that to him, maybe he was hoping to get my number to actually call me and say “YOU DON’T KNOW YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL!”… Too bad I already know I am beautiful and plus you don’t need my number hehe (I know, we are all tired of these songs… but EFY dances… they make those over played songs fun AND addictive!)

Two more weeks of summer and then it will be time for sophOmore year of college to start :) Time for classes everyday, late nights talking with Janae, zumba with Lucy and more stories to be added to "The Life of Alyssa Marie!" Stay tuned, because knowing my life, the embarrassing and funny stories will continue into this year of school at BYU-I! Life is tough at times but I say it all the time, and it is true, LOVE LIFE and you will never regret the moments, the stories, or the trials that make up your life! 

-love life

p.s. I hope it doesn’t bug you guys, but I am going to write more about what is going on in my life to the addition of my funny stories :) 

 p.s.s. I forgot to say, I ABSOLUTELY love my parents! They are the most amazing parents ever! I cannot thank them enough for all that they do for me! I love you Mom and Dad! 

"plunge" right in!

Sorry it has been so long to write! The last couple of weeks of school are STRESSFUL! 10 page research papers due, other essays due, finals, and of course you got to party in there some where! This semester has been a blast! I have loved every moment of it! I feel like my first semester I was trying to figure out who I am and how to live on my own. When I went home for winter semester I feel like I grew a lot spiritually, my testimony grew a lot during those months. This semester I feel like I came to school knowing who I was. I know who I am! And I love it! This semester I learned that I can do many things! I am trying to make myself even better! My testimony has grown even more! I especially know that everything always works out, even when you think there is no possible way it will... some how it does! I PROMISE! Any who, enough with this, on to the story...

I have been debating on if I should share this story with all of you ever since it happened. When it did happen I knew I would have to post it on my blog because it is so epic… but I still get embarrassed just talking about it! But, according to my English teacher, she said that the best way to get over something is to write about it… and plus it’s the end of the semester so lets end on a great bang! So here it goes… this is the story of… well you will have to just read and find out :)

So at the beginning of the semester my best friend, aka my roommate, went on a date with a guy name Joe. He was in our ward at church… and little to our surprise Joe and I had a class together. After Janae went on a date with Joe (just as friends though), the next thing I knew, I started to like this Joe Pearce! We started to sit by each other in class and studying together for our class. Then we went on a date and then to my surprise, a week later… and not in my book of plans… we were boyfriend/girlfriend. Couple of weeks later we were sitting on the couch in my apartment, we were watching the OKC Thunder vs Miami Heat game, when he said to me, “so I am going home in a couple weeks.” “Oh Cool!” I said, but secretly thinking, *please invite me please invite me!* Then he said, “want to come with?” “YA!” I said. Little did I know this would bring my MOST embarrassing moment of my life!

We left to go to his home on a Friday after I got out of class; we started the six hour drive to New Plymouth, Idaho! We got there and everything was just dandy! We watched a movie with his brother and sister that night and then went to bed. Well that night before bed I noticed the toilet was acting a little weird… but I didn’t think anything of it. Some toilets just flush slowly so what ever! The next morning we rode horses and went four wheelin’ with the family. Again, the toilet was acting weird, but eh, just pushed it to the back of my mind! Then that night we stayed up late again playing games with his brother and sister. The next morning was Sunday… I woke up and went to the bathroom. Ok, so it wasn’t just a tinkle… it was kinda… sorta… a number 2. (I CANNOT BELIEVE I AM WRITING THIS!) Well, I should not have pushed the whole “the toilet isn’t flushing real good” in the back of my mind… cause now the toilet is not flushing! It actually almost over flowed all over the floor! I started to freak out! So I decided I was just going to take a shower and maybe it will be better when I get out and it will flush! So I took a shower and then when I got out I crossed my fingers and pushed the toilet handle… nope. Nothing. Nada. It did not work. Now I started to panic and die of laughter! I did not want to tell Joe and his family that I freakn clogged the toilet! I mean, first off this only happens in movies… well not any more it happened to me! Secondly, I do not want my boyfriend, who I like very much, to see my poop! So I called my mom… no answer. I texted my mom five times… no reply. I texted TWO of my roommates 50 billion times… no reply. Called both of my roommates… no answer. I finally texted a different roommate, Larissa, she texted me back. THANK GOODNESS! She laughed at me and told me I should probably tell him. I don’t know what I was expecting my friends or my mom to tell me… I just had to tell them. I got all ready for church, toilet still disgusting! And not smelling that great…. And it was time to leave for church. I could not tell Joe.

Of course driving to church is when my roommates texted me back and my mom calls me… ummm can’t talk to them now since I am in the car with his family and Joe is sitting next to me! We get to church and the only thing going through my head is, how am I going to fix this toilet! My mom texted me saying “PLUNGE IT! Do you know how to do that?” PSH! Ya, who doesn’t know how to plunge a toilet……… hmmmm ya. Wish I could take that statement back, keep reading to know why!

After the first hour of church, Joe and I were walking to Sunday school when I decided I would tell him. “Hey Joe, I have to tell you something… don’t be mad.” I said this whispering. With a questioning look on his face he said, “what…?” me dying of laughter I say, “this is my most embarrassing moment! But the guest bathroom I have been using… the toilet is clogged!” Joe starts to die laughing, I start to die laughing… oh great! He tells me he would fix it when we got home, but I told him I would try to plunge it first when we got home. When we got home I went straight up to that bathroom, took the plunger and plunged the toilet (little did I know you have to flush the toilet while you plunge… who knew?!). And then I flushed it!!!!!! AND!!!!!!! Nothing. It almost over flowed again! CRAP DANG IT! So I texted Joe to come to the bathroom and fix it, I could not fix it! I was so embarrassed! But, he never came. So I texted him three more time… did not come. I started to get confused of why he wasn’t coming to fix it… I didn’t want to walk out of my room and say to the whole family, “HEY JOE CAN YOU COME FIX MY DISGUSTING TOILET!” or say “joe can you come to my room real quick.” I couldn’t say the first one because that would be embarrassing cause the whole family would know what I did… and I couldn’t say the second one cause that just sounds like im being all seductive like! So I walked out of my room he is standing there with his brother and I say “did you get my text?” and he said, “no…” and I go ok. I walk back into my room and he knew what I meant. I sat on my bed bright red from embarrassment and dying of laughter, he walked into the bathroom, took the plunger and FLUSHED the toilet and then plunged it while it was flushing and BAM! It was fixed. That fast! One try!

Never in my life I thought the first time I would go home with my boyfriend and clog the toilet at his house! I never in my life thought I would have to have my boyfriend unclog a toilet… that I CLOGGED! I still get pretty embarrassed about this. You would think it would be one of those topics that would never be talked about between Joe and I… well we talk about it and he just makes fun of me. lol oh the things that happen to me.

:)

-love life

p.s. EVERYONE should learn how to plunge a toilet! It is an important life skill!

roommates to sisters!

Well it is fabulous Tuesday… “Another great day at BYU- Idaho!” This last weekend my roommates and I decided to take a weekend trip to Salt Lake City. Well let me share with you the adventure we had! It started with us all being friendly roommates and ending in being fighting sisters :)

We left Friday after I got out of class and Larissa off work. We packed up all the stuff put it all in the trunk of my car and we were OFF!!!!! Me as the driver, Janae as my right had “women”, and Autumn, Chloe, and Larissa all piled in the back seat! We blasted the music and headed out to Utah! When we got into Utah we decided we would stop in Brigham City for some Sonic. We do not have a Sonic in Rexburg so we were all kind of craving that! Lol after we ate we decided we should use the bathroom before we hit the road again. It was a one person bathroom so Janae went first. We all decided we would bang on the door and jiggle the handle when she was in there. So, we did! Janae was yelling at us and burping like a man! So we finally stopped and sat down at a table to wait for her to come out. Well this worker went over to the bathroom door and tried to open the door and then knocked on it. Right when she did this Janae came out of the bathroom and yelled, “BOO!” to her because she thought it was us again.  She was super embarrassed! We then told her that who was knocking on the door the whole time! She TOTALLY believed us! She was then SUPER embarrassed! She told us how she was yelling at the person that was knocking on the door, all we did was laugh, now if you know Janae, you know how hard it is to trick her! We had to keep it going! When we finally got back on the road we decided to play the story game. That’s the game when each person says one word to make a story. Here is the story, “Once” “upon” “a” “time” “there” “were” “some” “boys” “CHLOE! NO, YOU ARE SO DUMB! girls” hahaha “they” “went” “to” “Sonic” “they” “then” “used” “the” “bathroom” “Janae” “THOUGHT” “a” “worker” “was” “knocking” “on” “the” “door.” “when” “really” “it” “was” “her” “ROOMMATES!!!!!!!” you should have seen the confused look on Janae’s face! After finally making it through the crazy traffic in Salt Lake we finally made it to the Provo area where we were staying. We stayed at Autumn’s aunt and uncles home. Which was freakn gorgeous! As soon as we got there, Janae and Chloe broke into a little argument about sharing a bed… they have a hard getting along sometimes! Finally when they stopped fighting we all went to bed, we were ready for a fun morning in Salt Lake the next day! 

Janae, Larissa, Chloe, Autumn, and Me!

The next morning I woke up at like 8:15, everyone was still asleep so I decided just to stay in bed. At about 8:30, the bedroom door opens and it is Autumn and Larissa, they decided they were going to “jump” in the bed that Janae and Chloe were sleeping in… BAD IDEA!!!!!! The next thing I know Janae is freaking out and Larissa is on the floor next to me scared for he life! Janae jumped out of bed landed into a ninja like stance ready to fight for her life! She then yells GET OUT DON’T TOUCH ME! Lol Give Janae some credit, she was half a sleep! Great way to start the morning! When we were already we got back into my car to head to Salt Lake. We first went to the farmers market there in the park. It was really fun! We saw so many cute crafts and tried some great food! We got strawberry and raspberry lemonade! YUM! After walking around soaking in the “hippie” way of life, we went to temple square. As soon as we got there this crazy guy came up to us and said, “Do you hear that?” we all had a blank stare on our face and said, “whaattt!?” He then said again with his hand to his ear listening up, “Do you hear that?” We all said “no, what is it?” he said, “That’s God speaking to you! When was the last time you poured your heart out to Christ?” kind of shocked, not trying to laugh because he is talking pretty loud to us about this, we say, “ummm this morning! We all prayed together over our breakfast.” “Well when was the last time you seriously listened to what he was saying to you!?” *blank stares* He then sees us holding our phones and cameras he then says, “you need to put those damn things away and listen! *points up* Please excuse my language. But you need to listen!” all of us about to die laughing we said ok and walked away! Lol now stop for a minute… do you hear that?? Pahahahaha just kidding! :) after walking around temple square taking pictures and seeing 50 bilion brides! We decided to go to the mall. After shopping, we needed to find the car… who knew finding my car would be so hard! We parked in a parking garage across from the mall, we thought it would be faster if went to the parking garage under the mall and walked out of that to the one across the street… BAD IDEA!!!! We looked like total country girls never been to the city.. who knew that the parking garage comes out into the middle of the street! Luckily we didn’t walk all the way out into the busy streets and realized it half way there though when cars were coming at us! Oh the things you learn when you are in the city! When we finally got out of the parking garage, we decided to go find the pianos around salt lake by foot, NOT car. Because one, they were all in walking distance, and two because I hate driving in busy crazy areas! so we looked up the pianos on the gps system on the phones… I HATE GPS ON PHONES!!!!! We would walk down one street think we were going the wrong way, walk back up that street and then find out we were going the right way so we would have to walk back down that street… oh ya. It was awesome! By this point we were freakn hot, dehydrated… and starting to get tired of each other! We found the pianos though! We then got back to my car, ate ice cream and drove back to Provo for a pizza party at Autumn’s aunts home. After some delicious pizza and learning how we should “listen to our bodies” when it comes to eating, we watched Phantom of the Opera in the Theater Room… surround sound baby!!!! Talk about loving the music from that show even more! We then went to bed for some much needed sleep… because five girls being together for 24 hours… well think about one girls drama then multiplying it by 500! But sleep solves everything… right? Think again!

Lemonade at Farmers Market

Salt Lake Temple

one of the pianos!

Sunday morning we left to come back to Rexburg, well... it was intense talking all the way home! Lol we all love each other, but we all agree that we could never do a road trip together again! Like I said at the beginning, the trip started with friendly roommates, and ended in fighting sisters… but just like you know in a family, fighting sisters only mean that they love each other! :) that’s right, we are no longer roommates we are all sisters, who I love very much! 

-love life

p.s. i know this one is not as good as my others, but i promise next week will be good! it will be all about a shower curtain :)

MR. POOPY PANTS

Sorry it has been a week since I have written! I have been trying to decide what to write about…. After talking to my roommate and dying laughing at our self… I decided I would write about this EXTREMELY embarrassing story! Well, its not embarrassing at all… but the fact that I am writing this story on a blog where ANYONE can read it… that makes it embarrassing! So here it goes… you will forever laugh at me and my roommate Janae.

Every Thursday I go to zumba with my best friends, Janae and Lucy. Before we went, Janae and I could not decide on what to eat for dinner. We then remembered that we had a coupon for; a grilled cheese sandwich, bag of chips, pop, and ice cream for only 5 dollars at this restaurant! So at 6:30 we went to go eat… zumba starts at 7. So we ate super fast… and a lot of dairy! While we ate, Janae kept telling me that we were going to get sick at zumba but I just kept saying “what ever we won’t!!!!!” After we ate I did not feel that great and Janae didn’t either, but what ever. Lucy came over and we all left to go to zumba. When we got there we started to do the dances… I FELT TERRIBLE!!!!!!! Janae kept telling me she felt super sick. Janae and I kept trying to dance, but we felt DISGUSTING! Lucy just kept laughing at us because 1. We were about to get sick and 2. She is pregnant and she was able to dance to all the things but Janae and I were about on the ground dying! By the third song I went over to Janae and whispered… “I do not feel good!” Janae whispered back, “I feel like I am going to get sick!” Then I said something I never thought I would tell someone… but Janae and I are close enough, so I decided I would tell her the truth. I then whispered, “I feel like I am going to poop my pants!” Janae then said, “ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!” this was the the breaking point, we could not stop laughing! I don't know why we didn't leave, but we danced the rest of the class, we had like 40 minutes left of pure torture! When it ended, we finally got home and Janae and I RAN to the bathroom! (luckly we have two of those!) well… I was sitting in there and looked over… NO TOILET PAPER!!!!!!! So I have to yell… “Janae……”, “yes….” She said. “ummm, there is no toilet paper in here!” both of us start to die laughing! She then looked under the sink…. “we are out of toilet paper!” seriously?!?!?!?!?! Just my luck!!!!!! Luckly we had a tiny bit left in the other bathroom. After dying of laughter from our adventure, we ran to the store and bought a big thing of toilet paper! Janae and I do not eat before zumba any more, AT ALL!!!!!! We also always make sure we have toilet paper under the sink!

going to the store for the TP!!!!!

 So moral of the story… NEVER eat before zumba! But if you do, make sure you have your best friend to do it with you, so you can suffer together! :)

-love life

You're A Liberal...

Sorry for not posting yesterday!!!! This week story will be about Richard…

So one day I was gone from the apartment and when I came home Naomi told me some guy name Richard came over asking for me. WHO IS RICHARD?! Later that night Richard came back and he asked for me. So I went to the door and this guy was standing there… he proceeded to tell me he was in my ward at church. I still didn’t know who he was. He then asked me to go on a date with him, we would go to dinner and then to a show on campus. I couldn’t say no, so I said yes.

So a little background on this, before I go on with the date… that day… THAT VERY DAY at devotional (at BYU-I we have devotional every Tuesday), this lady gave a talk and in her talk she told the boys to stop hanging out with girls and GO ASK THEM ON A DATE. Boys, wait at least a day or two after a talk like that! Well, I guess he listened… what a weirdo… any who onto the date.

So he came and picked me up at my house and we went to Gator Jacks … I guess that is one good thing from the date, he introduced me to the best sandwich place EVER! So during dinner he just kept asking me question after question after question after… you guessed it, question. It was like no natural conversation at all! After dinner we went to the school so we could get good seats at the concert. We got there like 45 minutes early. So we were sitting there and he asked me if I would like to color. I said, “what?” because I wasn’t sure if I heard him right… but I did! The next thing I know he pulls out folded paper and a box of crayons from his back pocket… WHO IN THE WORLD KEEPS THAT IN THEIR BACK POCKET?! So I sat there coloring for like 45 minutes… did he think I was like a four year old and I can’t sit patiently? Any way, while I colored, he said something about politics; boys, when you are on a first date, DO NOT bring up politics! lol So we started talking about politics and I said that my dad and brother are really into that stuff. I said that my brother and dad get into it sometimes because my dad is conservative but my brother is even more conservative, he then asked where I was. I said I was conservative but not crazy conservative…. He then tells me, “oh that explains why you like music so much.” I said, “What do you mean by that?” and he says, “You are a liberal because you like music and so free spirited.” WHAT THE!?!?!?!? I am anything but liberal! But I guess he thinks I am! lol

After the concert, which was good by the way, and my picture was freakn awesome that I drew before the show, he drove me home. When he was walking me to my door, he asked, “So, do you want to go on a second date sometime.” In my head I started freaking out! I can’t say no but I don’t want to go on a second date! We couldn’t even carry a conversation, does he really think the date went good?! Here is another tip boys, don't ask the girl for a second date RIGHT after the first... unless you KNOW she wants to go on a second one! So I said, “I don’t know. I have my percussion music I have to practice for the Christmas concert. So I don’t know if I will have time to.” I really had music… but this happened at the end of October pahahahahahaha poor kid! Lol

So at the end of November/beginning of December, he called me to go on another date, Janae was dying laughing because he was asking me again. But I honestly was busy and I told him I couldn’t go… so he asked “how about your roommate Janae? Is it ok if I ask her on a date?” With a sly smile on my face, I said, “Go for it!”

-love life :)

HALF WAY THERE!!!!!!!!!!

So I don’t want you to think all I do at college is find weird boys and then write about them, so today I am going to write about Janae and my music videos :) plus... this friday we will be half way there to the end of the semester.

Janae and I first started making these music video during the first snow fall during fall semester. Our first video was “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” We dressed up in our winter gear and after many takes, we finally made our first music video! If you would like to see that video it is on facebook in my videos :)

Our roommates, Katelynn and Naomi, made music videos with us also! We made one when we missed home and we sung the song “Home” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. But my favorite one that we made was when we sung “Dynamite” by Taio Crus! We had our snow hats on and we were going crazy, when our friend Carter opened the door and scared Naomi, Janae, and Kate! I saw him so it didn’t scare me…. For once in my life I wasn’t the one that screamed my head off! I cut the video of us and have just the part of Carter’s scare. Hope you watch it and laugh! 

But my ALL time favorite music video EVER is the one that Janae and I made right before Thanksgiving break! We had been singing “Livin' on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi because we were half way there with our semester. I put red red red lipstick on my lips and face with my awesome white bandana. Janae wore red lipstick and had her hair all weird. Lol While we were singing our roommate Naomi, (I have her permission to tell this story by the way) was not having a great night and gets mad at us during our awesome video. Sadly you can’t hear her yell at us, but you will see our expressions from it! At the end since Namoi and I were roommates and she was mad I was scared she was going to kill me in my sleep… so at the end I say to Janae, “do you want to sleep with me tonight?” But of course, Naomi is an amazing person and she forgave me :) LOVE YOU NOMES!!!!
              -love life
p.s. Janae and I need to work on our lyrics to this song... 

THREE WEEKS!?!??!?!

“Janae? Can you and Kate come pick me up?” I said as tears were streaming down my face. “Where are you?” Janae replied in a concern voice. “On a mountain…”, I replied still crying. Janae said, now kind of angry. “WHERE IS GRANT?” Now I reply still crying but in a kind of chuckle, “On a different mountain.” The next thing Janae said would make me laugh, “OH HELL! We are coming!!!!” *click* went the phone. 

Janae, Kate, and I

Here is the story I am sure you all have been waiting for. Yes—it is the story of being left on R Mountain. Now to give a little back ground on the situation, Grant R. and I met at a dance during the summer session. He was nice and cute, just got off his mission. So we started hanging out, pretty much every other day. Yes, we liked each other. We were dating, not official… but it was official; girls coming to college for the first time… DO NOT DATE FRESH OFF MISSION BOYS!!!!!!!!!!!.  (I bolded, underlined, and italicized that so I make sure you understand and got it!) Any way, it was the third week of dating and I wanted to go hike R Mountain. This is where the story starts…

It was a beautiful Friday and summer session had just ended! Janae had just came back to Rexburg after spending the past three weeks with her family in Arizona. The next day I was going to be leaving to go back to Oklahoma to see my family. Grant and I wanted to hang out before I left so we decided to go hike the mountain. Before he came and got me, one of my friends from summer session was over at my apartment hanging out with me because it would be the last time I saw him before he left for his mission. So he was still there when Grant got to the house. I could tell Grant didn’t really like I was hanging out with another guy but I really didn’t care because I like my guy friends! Any way, so Grant and I finally left to drive to the mountain, ok it’s not like a mountain mountain but everyone calls it a mountain. But when we were driving there I got a feeling that I needed to break up with him, but of course I just kind of pushed that thought aside. So we were driving there and FINALLY got there cause we couldn’t figure out how to get to the parking lot! Pahaha so we started to hike this mountain. When we first got there I made the joke about how we were going to get eaten by a bear cause it is in the middle of nowhere.

Now this was not hike like “lets follow the trail…” it was more like, “lets make our own trail and climb over huge rocks. So on the way to the top I kept having the feeling that I needed to break up with him. So by this point I KNEW I needed to but I was not going to do it on the mountain, I was going to wait till we got home. So we kept climbing and Grant could tell something was wrong so he asked me what was wrong.  And I said nothing, because like I said I wasn’t going to break up with him there. So finally we sat down and again he asked what was wrong and I said, “I need to talk to my mom.” As soon as I said that, I knew why I needed to break up with him. When I said that he flipped out and said why can’t you tell me? And I said because. Not a good answer but that’s what I said. So he stood up and walked up the hill a little bit… about two minutes later he asked, “So what does this mean?” and I said “exactly what you are thinking, we need to break up.” I know, I’m harsh, but I had to say it! Well, he then started telling me how this isn’t happening and how this has to be a dream… sorry bud, but this is real life and this is really happening. lol Well he then yelled at me… this is prob my favorite thing he yelled at me, “SO LIKE THREE WEEKS AGO, DID YOU JUST THINK YOU WERE GOING TO STAB ME IN THE HEART?! *hands in the air*  BECAUSE THAT WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW ALYSSA *acts like he has a knife in his hand and slams it against his chest*” I then just stare at him like he is a dummy and kept walking. I told him I was going to get a ride home from Kate and Janae because I didn’t want someone angry to drive me home. But I didn’t know if that was going to be possible because one, I was on a mountain and usually phones don’t work up there and two, Kate was on one of her runs. So he told me he was going to stay up on the mountain and think for a bit. This is when the whole convo happened with Janae, I also called my mom, needless to say, my mom and ESPECIALLY my dad were pretty angry. So I started to walk down, I was wearing Vans… not hiking shoes. lol so when I started to climb down I kept falling down cause of my shoes, I also got lost and had to hike back up and try to find  a different way down, when I was climbing back up I saw Grant pass me. So now he was a head of me. When I finally got down and into the parking lot, I saw him get in his truck, back up, and then… yes, he drove off… he later said he didn’t see me… but I honestly don’t know how he didn’t see me. But any way by this point I was no longer crying but very very very very angry! Just to let you know, this mountain is about 30 minutes away, there is no way I could just “walk” back.

Janae and Kate eventually got there, just in time because the sun was almost gone… And they brought me a fairy coloring book (I had been wanting one for the whole semester), and a nurf gun so I could shoot Grant. On the way home I told them what happened and we all yelled and were mad. pahahaha Later that night I got a wonderful text from Grant that said (remember what we joked about when we first got there…) “So, did you get eaten by a bear?” REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I then burned everything that night that he had given me; two pictures and some notes. I did not want them to remind me or tempt me to go back to him.

Luckily Grant is off track for spring semester, but when fall semester comes, I will be on the look out every day. It is very awkward to see him because he talks to me like nothing ever happened… I will be nice if I do see him and I will talk to him. In Spanish, I can say ‘Hola’ and ‘Coma estas’ and that is as far as the English conversation will go with him, ‘Hello’ and ‘How are you’. I have learned my lesson. Do not go hike a mountain if you have ANY feelings of breaking up with the person you are going with (especially if you don’t have the car). 

So you probably think I am totally bitter towards this guy with spiky brown hair, big muscle arms, and a big cheesy smile that NEVER goes away... I'm not. lol Janae, Kate, and I just laugh about this ALL the time! If you ever see us yelling 'three weeks' with our arms in the air, you will now know, we are making fun of Grant’s little tantrum up on R Mountain. :)

   -love life

lovely R Mountain... this picture is taken about where campus is

P.S. If anyone was interested, Chuck from my last post. I saw on facebook the other day he is engaged! So, CONGRATS CHUCK! At least we know he paid off his tickets and didn’t end up in jail!

not ONE or TWO... but FOUR tickets!

So, I am sure you were all hoping I was going to share that story of being left on the mountain… BUT I am not going to share the very best for first! So you get this one… a story about how this guy gets FOUR tickets!

Janae and I in Chuck's van

It was during the summer session here at school. I was living on campus in the dorms with Kate and Janae. Since BYU-I doesn’t have a summer vacation, we have a seven week summer break, or you can take classes during the seven weeks. Lots of people are gone during the seven weeks, so there is a group on facebook for everyone that is still in Rexburg. So one Saturday night, Janae and I were board out of our minds and we wanted to hang out with people and make new friends. We didn’t know anyone since we were brand new little freshman. We decided to get on the facebook group and see what was going on, there was a bonfire! We wanted to go so bad, but we had a problem, we had no ride to get to it. We decided to be brave and write on the facebook board that we needed a ride… BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!!!! DO NOT EVER DO THAT!!!!!! Any way, we got a reply from Chuck; he said he would take us if we paid him five dollars each for gas. Ok, FIVE DOLLARS EACH!!!!! Heck no! Janae and I decided that we were no longer going and we were going to be stuck inside AGAIN for another weekend.  Thankfully, this nice guy name Chris wrote on the comment and told Chuck that he should not charge us and to go make money somewhere else. So Chuck decided he would take us for free! We then gave him our address and he came and got us. He was this nice guy… balding, but what guy isn’t balding at college? We walk to his car… well we thought it was going to be car… but it ends up being this GHETTO van… let me tell you about this van. The door was broken, the seat belts were messed up, but the scariest thing about it was, there was NO rear view mirror! So, everyone was meeting at this gas station right outside of the town part of Rexburg, so we could all go to the bonfire together. When we got there this other guy, Brian, joined us for a ride out to the fire. But! Chuck got a phone call from his friend wanting a ride, so we had to go back into town so we could get his friend… this is where the TRUE adventure starts. We were driving back into town, we had just crossed the train tracks when… red and blue lights start flashing behind us.  Chuck didn’t even realize he was getting pulled over till Brian said something. So we pull over and the cop comes to the door. Chuck wanted to know why he was getting pulled over. The cop proceeded to tell him it was because he was flashing his lights. (first mistake) Chuck then told him it was because he cannot not tell how fast he is going because that light doesn’t work. So he has to turn of his head lights so the light on the speed thing would work. Then the cop told him, his tags were also expired (second mistake), so the cop asked for his license and registration. Chuck then said… (third mistake) he doesn’t have a registration card and that this car is his brothers not his. The cop then asked if he had insurance on the car. Chuck will now make his forth mistake, quote, “Oh, we don’t have insurance on this car because its always breaking.” WHAT IN THE DANG WORLD!!!! The cop then told him how unsafe that is, he then walked back to his car to write up the ticket… when the cop came back to the car it was like a scene from a cartoon. You know when in a cartoon and they read a proclamation and they unroll the paper and its like a mile long… ya that was like Chuck’s ticket! I really wish I knew how much it was because he got a ticket for like everything under the moon; broken lights, expired tags, no registration, and no insurance. The cop then said you need to go park this car and not to drive it till you have everything fixed on it, and if he gets caught again driving with none of this stuff fixed, he is going to be in lots of trouble… Janae and I thought, well we didn’t get to go to the bonfire, but at least we had an adventure. We thought we were going home… thought is the key word. YUP! He continued to go get his friend then go to the bonfire… just to let you know, Janae and I got a ride home from someone else… and we now avoid Chuck at ALL costs! This was the first real adventure and crazy thing that happened at BYU-I!

   -love life

lovin' life

WELCOME! I have decided I need to start a blog. Not just any blog, but a blog about the crazy things that happen at BYU-I. I have some crazy stories! So when you read these, make sure you are ready to have a few chuckles!

      -love life