a tribute to thanksgiving break

well hello everyone!

so today is officially my last day of thanksgiving break, and a month before christmas!!! oh christmas. how excited i am. but let's not get ahead of myself. I shall speak first about thanksgiving, which was, after all, 2 days ago.

so... on tuesday, I had friday classes. because it's the last day before break, they made it a friday- so I had psych, physical science, and english. it was kind of an exhausting day, even though nothing much was happening. on monday I had two papers due- I'm not sure how well I did on either of them. Probably not my best work, but should be good enough to get me a B+/A- ish. So that'll be ok. Then on Tuesday we had this LAME 10-12 page group english research paper due. How, exactly, do you write a group research paper? Well, if that question has you scratching your head a little bit, just think of how we felt on monday night. So anyway, our group met at the library at 8 and stayed until midnight and wrote a paper. Then one of the girls in the group who had no classes on tuesday took it home to finish things up and make sure it all went together. It was kind of bad, because by the time we turned it in, we were like "GRR We don't care what we get on it! It's turned in, and that's all that matters." Oh well. We'll see how it went soon enough I suppose. Then, on my way back from english, I walked with a girl in my english group who also lives in heritage halls, and I was telling her a story about my latest trip to the testing center (which I will have to post here in a separate entry coming soon...) and these three guys stopped us and asked if they could film us answering church trivia questions for a DVD game-show thing they're making. So... we did. We answered 3 church history questions and got ourselves filmed while doing it, and they suggested that we "be animated" so when we got one right we jumped up and down and all. It was rather... embarrassing. But maybe you'll see me in a couple years when they get that game out in circulation. HAH.

Anyway. So I walked home and then realized that I had misplaced my scriptures somewhere on campus on monday. OH NO! So, I called the lost and found office, but they said they didn't have them. So now I'm all distraught- because I have no idea where they are- they must be getting lonely, and the nights are cold here!!! I hope they're doing alright wherever they are. And hopefully some good samaritan will turn them in soon. (It's almost amusing that I quote a bible story to talk about losing my... bible [and book of mormon, etc].) But anyway. I'm hoping I'll get an email on monday telling me they have them safe and sound; things have been pretty shut-down around here for the thanksgiving break.

Anyway. moving on. So that was tuesday. Then megan and her roommate came on tuesday night. I can't remember if we did anything exciting, so I'm guessing we didn't. Then on Wednesday, we went and ate lunch at the creamery and then we went bowling. I love bowling. I just might stink at it, but I love bowling. I bowled two strikes and a spare though, so all was not lost. Then we... went shopping a little bit and then came back to the apartment. Amy and Ashley left for thanksgiving that day, and then there were three: me, megan, and her roommate kimberly.

We made pies (I made pecan, megan made apple crumb) that night, and made the appetizer (which is orange and grapefruit mixed together with a bunch of sugar- as seen in the punch bowl in the picture of the feast) and then on Thursday we got up at 9 and got picked up by erin to go help her make dinner. I made the peas, corn, and helped with the glazed carrots. I was also supposed to make the sweet potatoes, but there was a war that got in our way. Me and the microwave against the sweet potatoes. Those babies would not cook. I'm telling you- I had one in the microwave (because they'd been in the oven for a while and nothing was happening) for 12 minutes and it was still rock hard. We finally ended up mashing up what we could and throwing the rest away. We did end up having more than enough sweet potatoes- though, I'm not sure if part of the problem was that we were cooking yams. Are yams and sweet potatoes the same thing? I never understood that differentiation. But anyway. Erin bought "Jumbo Yams" at the store because they were on sale. (We took a picture of Erin with the largest of these discount vegetables) Perhaps they were on sale because they were made of rock and no amount of microwaving could soften them, thereby making them completely useless and somewhat detrimental to the making of thanksgiving dinner. Perhaps.

( wow this entry is really long and I haven't even talked about dinner yet...although I have included a picture of our feast)

So anyway. we sat down for our thanksgiving feast at about 2:30 pm. It was lovely. I ate until I couldn't eat anymore, and then I ate pie. And then we were all sitting around playing with will when I notice he needs a diaper change. ("NOOOO!") I tried to stealthily hand him off to Megan, but she was onto me and wouldn't allow it. So I took him upstairs to change him. While I was mid-diaper-change, he started screaming and squirming out from under me. After fastening a diaper around his ankles, I tried again and had to hold him down to keep him from going anywhere. He was still unhappy about the whole project. So, I had to find some clothes to put him in, since he had wet his others. So I'm holding will with one hand and searching through the drawers of the changing table with the other. I finally find a onesie and grab it from the bottom drawer and pull it over his head and then begin to button up the bottom. It is at this point that I realize it is rather uncharacteristically difficult to snap the snaps on the bottom. Not willing to fight with Will any longer, I scoop him up and bring him downstairs and put him down on the floor to play. "Umm, erin, this was all I could find to put him in." Erin looks over and then bursts out laughing. And pretty soon after that she got into that silent laughing where something's so hilarious you can't even make a noise and your eyes start to tear. After she calmed down, she explained to me that apparently the shorts and 3/4 length sleeves will was sporting (which I thought were just part of some new cute baby-wear enterprise) were actually the result of stuffing him into a onesie marked with the size "3-6 mo." William is 17 months old. He would stand up to walk across the room, and his outfit wouldn't allow him to stand up straight all the way because it was so tight and it would propel him forward, and he'd end up falling over again. We laughed until we cried. All of us. And then Will ate pie and had to be changed again and that was the end of my embarrassment and our fun. (I was able to capture him on film though- maybe you can laugh too.)

Anyway. I packed up left-overs to bring home but haven't yet broken them out-- maybe because with Megan and her roommate here, I feel inclined to eat more at random intervals during the day, causing me to never be hungry enough for a second round of thanksgiving dinner.

So we were at Erin's until 10 on thanksgiving and then bryce brought us home. Then on Friday we got up and went to the bookstore and I got pictures developed ( a whole ton of pictures ) because my camera card (which holds 420 pictures) said it only had 16 left to take. Yup. So then we met Erin because she was working and also met my cousin because she was visiting, and went back to Erin's house. We then went on a trip to Cabela's for an unknown reason and then headed up to salt lake city for a meal at "the pie". ("The Pie" is a pizza restaurant that is, apparently, incredibly popular on a friday night, at which they serve gigantic pizzas with about 1" of toppings. We got a 23" pizza to share) Then we went and rode the Trax because Bryce explained: "My boy is going to ride a train tonight, gosh dangit!" So we went and rode as far as we could for free and then rode back the other direction. Then drove home.

Today I got up around 11:30 (oh vacation-- when you can sleep as long as you want and no one can yell at you...) and then got up and showered and sat down to watch the much anticipated BYU vs. University of Utah football game. In case you didn't see it, I'm going to give you a play-by-play. We got two touchdowns right off the bat, so the score was 14-0 and it was looking like it was going to be an easy one for BYU. I screamed at those touch-downs and megan was in the kitchen and said "SINCE WHEN DID YOU BECOME A FOOTBALL FAN!?!?" ... umm... since I became a freshman at byu and got tickets to all the home games? So anyway. We continued to watch. So then Utah got some touchdowns so we were behind by 3 at the half. ("BEHIND!!! GAH!") In the fourth quarter, BYU scored a touchdown and therefore had the lead with 10 minutes left to go. ("Alright. All we have to do is keep them from scoring and we'll win!!!") Then, Utah got a touchdown, giving them the lead with 4 minutes left on the clock. ("Oh NO! We're gonna lose!!!!") So then BYU gets the ball all the way down the field, so they're at the 17 yd line or something, on the third down, with 10 seconds left in the game. And BYU throws, and the guy in the end zone just misses it. 4th down. THREE SECONDS left on the clock. (At this point, I was standing in front of the TV... megan told me to sit down...) seriously. THREE SECONDS. 4th down. THIS WAS IT!!! So John Beck (mr. quarterback) gets the ball, and the three seconds runs out as he's looking for someone to throw to... and he's looking, and he's looking, and he runs one direction, and it looks like he's gonna get tackled by Utah, and then all of a sudden, he chucks it off to the opposite side. And there, in the end zone, with no one around him, is a BYU guy, who slides on his knees into the catch. AND BYU WINS THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy cow it was exciting. I was screaming and jumping around and Megan was too, she says, "I don't even like football, and I don't even care about this game, but watching you watch it got me all nervous and now I'm cheering!!" Oh boy. It was an incredible game. Of course, after that touchdown, John Beck started crying and all the seniors ran out and jumped on top of him, and it was great. I'm telling you, that was one intense game. Seriously, I don't really know when I turned into a football fan, but it happened. But I still don't really like to watch professional teams on tv-- but watching BYU play is pretty exciting. So horrah for BYU!

Anyway. So then we went to the bookstore again to pick up my pictures and to buy some stuff and then we came home and hung around for a while. That's been the extent of my thanksgiving break- I know- pretty exciting.

I have church in the morning and then all of my roommates are coming home at various times throughout the day and megan and her roommate are leaving at some point, and then it will be back to the old routine. But... only four more weeks of the old routine, and then I'm going HOME!!!!

Anyway. The point of this EXTRA LONG entry is that my thanksgiving break was satisfying.

I have posted pictures so maybe you can feel a little bit like you were there with us, enjoying all the antics.

Someday I shall learn to use less words to say what I want to say.

-mollie

partiers and pilferers

Well hello faithful viewers- if there are any of you out there.

So... I should be in class right now. Well, sort of. You see, my only class on thursdays is a physical science lab period at 4. In this lab period we (get this) do labs. So when we don't have a lab, we usually have questions for homework instead. Well, if I go to lab when we only have questions due, the TA tells us to work with each other to do the questions, and that's it. So I didn't really feel like walking the 20 minutes over to class to deliberate with some other kids for about 10 minutes so I could walk the 20 minutes home and do the assignment here. So I just did the assignment and opted not to go to the physical science lab. Maybe I should have gone. But I didn't. This is the first time I've "skipped" a class.

Anyway. So I have some pictures for you. One is of our party that we had last thursday- there's a picture of me taking off the 1/2way link on our paper chain of how many days left until christmas. I told my roommates when the 1/2way mark came, we were having a party. So they all set aside time on Thursday night for us to do just that. We bought pizzas and cookies and sparkling cider and just talked and laughed quite a bit. It was rather fun. So there's a picture of me taking off the celebratory link, and then there's pictures of us "partying". It was fun. It was like 11 pm because it was after the football game, so it was late, and we were all tired, and acting really dumb. Which made it even more fun. So yes. We are 1/2 way to christmas- well, actually, we're more than 1/2 way because I started the chain in October. Hah.

Anyway. So yes. We're excited. That night, we were up late. It was about 2 am and we were in our rooms and all of a sudden I hear Katie give a high giggle/shriek while running down the hall of our apartment- she and nichole go bounding to the back entrance and throw open the door: "IT'S SNOWING!!!" So we all put on flip-flops at 2 am and ran around outside in the snow. It's unfortunate that it did not stick to the ground- I can't wait for whiteness. I don't like the cold, but if it has to be cold, it might as well be pretty too. So yes. I'm excited for that.

Then the weekend was pretty much full of nothingness. We had a dorm thanksgiving dinner on saturday night. I made stuffing. Then I had church on sunday, as usual. The Sunday School Presidency had their first meeting since school started, so I went to that. Apparently the whole Sunday School presidency is going to be out of town for the next two weeks-- which leaves me- the lowly secretary- to solve any issues that might come up, though I do not expect any issues. I could tell mr. sunday school secretary did not trust my ability to deal with any unforeseen issue that might come up while he's gone. O ye of little faith. Oh well.

So then this week, I haven't been up to too much. I have a physical science test- so I got asked to a study group last night and then again tonight. Should be interesting. I'll keep you posted on that. It's with mr. cheerleading friend guy, so it should be interesting- as I said.

I didn't have to babysit will today because erin has a stomach bug and didn't go to class. So I didn't have to babysit. But then I slept an extra 2 hours today- trying something of a preemptive strike against illness. All day I've been feeling kind of weird- but I'm not sure if I've ACTUALLY been feeling kind of weird or if I just think I feel weird because I'm worried I'm going to get my sister's stomach bug. Let me tell you, I'd take any illness over vomiting. Ick. So I'm hoping that it's all psychological and that my immune system is doing just fine. I think I have a pretty strong immune system anyway- so I'm hoping the extra sleep this morning gave my little immune system soldiers a little extra buffness to fight off those pesky sickness-causing germs. Come on! Go white blood cells!!!

I'll be sure to keep you posted on their success.

Anyway. So that's today. I didn't do much of anything. But then I have a "girls' night" that I helped plan and therefore have to help succeed. That's at 7. Then I have this study group at 9:30 tonight- yes, I know- 9:30 is late for studying. Then Friday I have American Heritage lab/quiz, psych, community council meeting, physical science. Then I have to meet with my group for student development. Then I'm going to do service with a roommate from 6:30-9 I think. Then we have to stay up late to clean again because it's that time again: cleaning check is at 11 am on saturday. So then Saturday. Cleaning check. Last home football game- (at which I must get a picture of me and my cheerleading friend jorgen... maybe I'll post it.) Then possibly taking the physical science test at some point. Then bowling with my ward (for free!!!!!) from 5:15-7:30, then Freshman Academy Bonfire in the canyon from 7:30-11ish.

It's going to be a busy weekend. But then, it'll be monday, and then on tuesday I have three papers due- and then it's THANKSGIVING BREAK!!! yay!! I'm so excited for real food- and having the apartment to myself for a few days.

Anyway. So that's about it. I don't have much to say- as a matter of fact, I'm not sure I really have anything to say. We got our carpet cleaned today- ooOOoo. AhhHHhhh. I know, don't get too jealous. It was the most exciting thing that happened today- that's almost sad. But it was. These two guys came and cleaned the carpet. It's nice to get rid of the stains that have been here since we moved in... but it's somewhat inconvenient to have the carpet wet for the rest of the day. I was jumping down the hallway to cause minimal foot contact with the damp carpet, and made it down the hall in 5 jumps (of which I was very proud) and then jumped the last time to the kitchen. I had quite the momentum because of the nature of jumping, and when I reached the kitchen, my wet feet slipped on the kitchen tile and, well... the rest is history. You'd think I would have made the connection that wet feet on tile was not really going to work out well, but I didn't. And physical science is my best grade right now. Hah.

Anyway. Really. Not much to say. I'll post the pictures and get on with my night.

-Mollie

p.s.- an update on the silverware issue. Well, I'll give a synopsis in case some of you missed this. So about a month ago, I was going to eat a bowl of cereal, and found 2 big spoons, 2 little spoons, 2 salad forks, and 3 dinner forks missing from my silverware collection. I was rather distraught by this fact and put up a "Missing" poster in the kitchen. Since, all have returned except 1 salad fork. Most showed up without explanation, but two spoons were found in random places, and, well, and I am now convinced someone was/is just messing with me: one was in Amy's make-up kit under her bed. The other was found today, in Nichole's computer bag in her closet. So, I'm not sure who has been relocating my silverware, but I am happy that it is returning. I wonder where the last fork was stashed. I'll let you know if it returns. I made a new "Missing" poster to advertise this poor fork's lost state.

just some pictures

So here are some pictures from recent events in my life. The first one is of my roommate Amy. She tried to curl her hair with saran wrap (I don't really know how...) I only know that she woke up with hair like shown in the picture... which looks much similar to the hair I woke up with after trying to do rag curls in my hair for the school play. That was a disaster... trying to get them unwound from the rag and then trying to comb it out- I lost much hair in that production. Anyway. The

point is, I know how she felt. Except, she didn't have time to take a shower and get rid of those crazy little curls... so she wore her hair like that all day. Bwahah.

Anyway. The second picture (going across) is of William in my closet again. I was worried he was going to start throwing my shoes out again, but he just opened the door and sat down on the ledge and watched me as I cleaned my room. Silly little boy. So I, of course, had to take a picture of him. The third picture is of me with my precious halloween loot. Not much, but enough for a college student to get by.

In the second row, we have another picture of William. He fell asleep in my arms the other day, so I put him down on my bed. He rolled over and slept in the shown position for about 1/2 an hour. I took a picture because I know Megan and I used to favor this sleeping position when we were little. Does it run in the family?! (o; The next picture is of me for preference. I asked one of my roommates to take a picture of us, and she purposely took it only of me. Lovely. I think she was trying to showcase my hair- which she did for me.

But anyway. The rest of the pictures are from preference. Pretty exciting stuff. We had the boys over for dinner before and made them hawaiian haystacks because we were going to a hawaiian themed dance (we thought we were pretty clever).

My date and Amy's date (the guy in the driver's seat of the car) are from our FHE group. Ashley's date is from her archaeology class and Eryn's date is... a stranger to us all. He's visiting from new jersey and she met him that evening.

Anyway. It was a fairly amusing time. After preference we drove to my sister's house and played a game and stuff. We didn't stay out too late- we were all rather tired. But... we managed to squish 8 of us into a dodge neon... and drove around provo without getting pulled over, though we had two close calls. It wasn't our plan to do so- but Ashley's date didn't bring his car because apparently he was misinformed about our plans after the dance. But anyway.

That's about all I've got for you. I hope you enjoy the pictures- I must say none of them are very flattering. But my next door neighbors were all impressed I could wear the same dress I wore to the HS semi-formal sophomore year. Haha.

Well anyway. It's 12:30 am on Wednesday November 8th and I should go to bed now.

Later,
mollie

just saying hello

hello everyone.

i'm just letting you know that not much has been happening. well, actually, a lot of stuff has been happening, just nothing i feel the need to post here. my weekend ended up extremely long, which is good in some respects, and bad in others. i ended up having plans for both nights- of a weekend i should have spent studying. how did that happen?! i got asked on a quasi-date on friday night and then asked someone out on saturday night because it was preference and a girl is, after all, expected to ask a boy. it was pretty fun. and then sunday was just busy. it was definitely a tiring weekend. lots happening around here.

but anyway. my roommate was using my computer to register for classes at midnight. it is now almost 1 am on tuesday. ... let me just say that supposedly registration dates are determined by how many credits you have, and yet, i have been assigned the last day. the LAST day. you know what that means? craptacular classes for mollie next semester.

which reminds me- i really should look up courses so i have some general idea of what to frantically try to click on at midnight on the morning of november 10- although, it probably won't do much good because anything even remotely popular will pretty much be full by then. but either way.

so yes. i took a psych test today and i have an american heritage test tomorrow. i have a group english paper due on wednesday- a rough draft- 10-12 pages. don't get me started on that.

tomorrow i will be babysitting and then going tutoring at the elementary school and then going to work on the group paper and then going to my 4 o clock class and then taking the american heritage test. it's sure to be a treat.

i have a ton of pictures to put up- i need to start getting them developed- i'm down to 40 pictures left on my memory card that holds 350. oh no! i think i have come to the conclusion that i take too many pictures.

but anyway. really. i promise my next entry will be more exciting... that is assuming that something more exciting will happen between now and then :oP

good night (or good morning...)
-mollie

"trick-or-treat!"

well hello everyone!

it's been a while since I've updated here, and I don't have too much to say. On friday night I went to see the foreigner with my roommates. It was fun. We went out before and bought hot cocoa and treats and sat outside and ate them. And then we laughed a lot and got our picture taken together, as shown. Then on Saturday, I went to the ward halloween party. It was alright. Ashley took a couple pictures of us so I posted those also. The candy corn in the nose was not my idea. The candy corn fangs were a result of seeing the bishop do it when we went to that Avon devotional- I had to reenact it for my roommates.


That's about all I have to say for today. I went to a party last night, but it wasn't very fun... and one of my roommates convinced me to go trick-or-treating with her. Even though I'm 18 years old and haven't gone trick-or-treating since I was 11. But I went. I have a picture of me with my candy (not much- we only went for an hour) but I haven't posted it yet. Maybe next time.

Preference is this weekend- which means I asked a boy to go to a dance with me. Exciting. Hopefully it'll be fun. My mom sent my dress, so I'll have something to wear, which is always a good thing.

Until something exciting happens,
Mollie