Provo Provo Provo!

I am home! I am so excited to be here. I am very grateful it wasn't snowing when I drove back and that my car made it safe and sound and I am sooooo happy to see my family!

Can I vent for second?

I go to school not in Provo with people who aren't in Provo and many who aren't from Utah County. If I hear one more person give me a hard time about Provo... I have heard it all: "oh, you are from the promised land?", "ew, last time I drove through Provo I got so sick to my stomach!", "you're from Provo, well welcome to the real world sweetie", "hate to pop your UC bubble", or I this good one I heard the other day "maybe people from Utah county should just never leave, they all need to go to BYU and eat their jello together" (direct quotation). Seriously. I am very proud to be from Provo. I think it's a great place. Yes I know there is a bubble and that BYU kids can be semi-crazy, but really? Just because I had release-time seminary, I can walk to church, and almost all of my friends growing up were members of the church, doesn't make me a bad person or doesn't make the place I am from a bad place. 

So there.

Represent

Did you hear? The Grammys were on Sunday. Did you hear? Coldplay performed and were up for 7. (Watch This Personally, not a fan of the whole Jay-Z thing, but it was still good.) Did you hear? I kinda like Coldplay. I won't get into the whole Allison Krauss thing (yawn) but I did represent my boys by sporting my Coldplay t-shirt and Chris Martin bracelets.

They won 3 thank you very much.

On to more important things...
So I am totally teaching a kindergarten class. It's so much fun. Today was their Valentine's lesson and I get to teach them how to brush their teeth. We are going to make puppets and do a little song because we have to incorporate dance, music, visual arts, or drama to our lessons. I am very excited...a little overwhelmed, but still excited. I am going home this weekend (yay!) I haven't seen my family in like forever! SO happy. Anyway, that's about all that is going on.

I will try not to make my blog suck next time.

Did you miss me?

I am back! Yay! So a little clarification on this media fast for my few friends. The institute had a missionary week this week. On Monday there was a missionary lunch, Wednesday was dress like a missionary day, and they hid a "golden investigator" around campus and if you found him you got a prize. We also had a media fast. Obviously I know and the institute knows that missionaries use media, but they don't use facebook, myspace, blogging, American Idol, and Rhianna (or do they?). We basically gave up the unnecessary things like that to help us focus on the more important things...and I totally made it and guess what I accomplished this week? EVERYTHING!!!! There was dance last night to break the fast, which was super fun and I got super sweaty cause smarty here wore her hair down.
It was a good experience, but it is good to be back. I feel so out of the loop in the blogging world, so excuse me while I go stalk.

Here's a shout-out to the whole 2 people who read my blog:

Not that I blog a whole lot anyway, I am joining my other Cedar City institute friends in a missionary week media fast. No blogging or facebook for a week. Wish me luck with my endeavors and I will blog about it next week.

p.s. Go Steelers!

I seriously never get tagged. Yay!

8 shows to love:
1. American Idol
2. The Office
3. So You Think You Can Dance
4. Anything on the Food Network
5. Planet Earth
6. Will and Grace
7. Gilmore Girls
8. The Soup

8 favorite restaurants:
1. PF Changs
2. California Pizza Kitchen
3. Sweet Tomatoes
4. Cafe Rio
5. Los Hermanos
6. Subway
7. Mimi's Cafe
8. Anywhere but Wendy's...I am so sick of Wendy's

8 things I did yesterday:
1. School
2. Tutoring
3. Work
4. Wrote a lesson plan about whales
5. Slept. Lazy? Possibly
6. Had a semi-awkward visit with a semi-awkward brother
7. Made sugar cookies
8. Homework (like how this is the last one on the list?)

8 things I like about this season:
1. New classes
2. Snow (am I contradicting myself?)
3. Hot chocolate
4. Sweaters
5. American Idol
6. Award shows
7. Australian open (Australians, Andy Roddick, eh?)
8. Winter sales and pre-summer sales

8 things on my wishlist:
1. Learn to speak Spanish
2. Be done with school
3. Snow+melting= :)
4. Warm temperatures! My face was numb this morning.
5. Get good grades
6. I want my hair to grow just a little bit longer
7. I wish I was either a) born in the south or b) an African American that can sing good (go on YouTube and look up "Let it Be" from Across the Universe. Seriously)
8. I wish I could go home this weekend. Oh well, 2 more weeks!

8 people whose 8's I want to see:
1. YOU
2. you!
3. YoU!
4. yOu!
5. YOU!!!
6. you
7. YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!
8. You!

No me gusta la nieve

Seriously?

It snowed last night. When I left for class this morning at 8, it was still snowing a bit. It finally stopped when I went to check the mail at 5:00.

At least it's pretty, right?

One of my new year's resolutions is to blog more, I think I may have insomia, and I just wanted to see how long I could make this title

I am so tired. That's all. Just really freaking tired. I go to bed at 3 at wake up at 6:30. Except today, I slept in until 7:30. Way to splurge, eh?
p.s. I so couldn't even watch American Idol last night!! The only pre-Hollywood night I really wanted to watch, I had Relief Society stuff to do. Fill me in please.

Oh ye of little faith

I was fresh out of mascara. My roommates and I went on one of our nightly outings to Walmart. There I saw this stuff:

(Loreal Paris: Double Extend Mascara)

It apparently makes your eyelashes longer. It was cheaper than my usual mascara so I bought it. Some argue my gullibility, but I really am skeptical about certain things (warm delights, atoms, if Lance Bass really is gay, etc.) I was skeptical about this. But in a kind of freaky, bam! you have huge eyelashes way, it works.

Before:

After:

So maybe you can't tell by the pictures...you'll just have to take my word for it.
The feathered bangs look was exactly what I trying to not go for.

Happy New Year!

Do you likey my new look? My lovely mother helped me out with it. 

Christmas break was great, I just wish it was a week longer! I got some fun stuff for Christmas and can't wait to play with it some more. I am heading back to school tomorrow, wish me luck!

Help!

This Friday marks my family's annual Christmas party. It is tradition every year for the cousins to put on a talent show. Every year, I play the violin. Well, the other night I took out my violin to play (I know right?!) and pluck, my A string broke. So, unless I can borrow $17 and a possibly another $15 cause my D string is looking a bit shabby, or if you would like to wrap me up some and give me an early Christmas present (Dominant strings please...I like my strings all matchy matchy) I am talentless.
I need your help. Here's the million dollar question: What should Elisabeth do for the family Christmas party?
If you think this is ridiculous, you may not know my family...or my grandma. This is serious business folks. I can't be the only cousin not prepared.

Here are possible ideas:
-singing: I have had this inner desire to sing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" for the LONGEST time. The problem is, I don't sing. Or sing in the enthusiastic style that is needed for such a song. I also tend to chicken out. That is a big problem.
-dance: If you are a regular to this blog, you know my avid obession with So You Think You Can Dance (SYTCD for short) I could pull what I have seen and create my own composistion to dance to. This actually could be a great idea. I could start with a waltz, then break into hip hop, then end with some jazz hands. This could be a problem condsidering I don't really dance either. Oh, and I am totally NOT SERIOUS so this is completely out of the question!
-piano: This would actually be a superb idea. Problem, I will only have a keyboard to play.
-joke telling: I'm not funny. Plus, I ruin jokes
-painting a picture: This is a funny suggestion. Really funny.

So, I am out of ideas. Every comment will be taken into deep consideration, so make it good. JK Bring on the comment lovin!

The last two weeks have been sheer hell. No joke. Sorry for the language. I pulled 2.5 all-nighters in a row and slept for about 2-3 hours for the rest of the nights. I just took my last final, closed up the book fair (I totally helped run a book fair. Thanks to everyone who went!) and I am now FREE!!!

I sold back my books today. BTW, my heart goes out to my dear amiga and her story. So I go up to the window to sell them back and the guy is a big time jerk. He rings up my books and tells me the total. Before I can say, "Hmm, maybe I think I will keep that one" or even "Mary Poppins", he handed-no threw the money at me. I was able to save some, but some of it landed on the ground. As I was bending over to pick up the rest, he yells "Merry Christmas!" Yuck.

Anyway, have you heard about this website? Because I am so on top of charging my ipod when I really need it, Pandora.com has been a serious life saver to me during my late nights in the computer lab. You should check it out. You type the name of an artist and it pulls all different artists that sound like them and creates your own radio station for you. It's great for all you underground music junkies like me.

To make this post even more random and to give you more fun links, have you heard this song? How about this one? Also, have you heard of this book? Like the cutest thing ever (sorry, my inner book fair is speaking)

Just hanging out here in the computer lab

I have spent the last 3 nights (and mornings) in the school computer lab all in the name of ESL and procrastination.

I will blog after 10:00 tonight...and then after I sleep all weekend

A to the MA to the ZING...sorry this is a long one but so worth it

I love Coldplay. They are my absolute favorite. I was so excited to go to their concert. We all left the BYU game (super lame), piled in the super beetle and drove up to the Energy Solutions Arena. We got to our seats. We thought to ourselves this wasn't too bad. We thought of how it could have been worse and we could have been ALL the way up in the nose bleeds. My brother and I talked about how one day, when we are old and established, we will be able to afford the floor seats and we are just going to have fun this time around.

This picture is kind of blurry, but it is taken from where we were sitting.



Me and Jake



This is the opening band with our zoom turned way up. We thought it wasn't too bad and that we would be able to take pretty decent pictures.



Malaina


Sam and Summer


So we are sitting there listening to the band from Texas, patiently waiting when a lady comes up and taps my friend Sam on the knee. She asked Sam how many were in our party and if we could follow her out. She said it was about our tickets. I was kind of worried, but we left with her and she led us to another lady outside in the lobby. They had on Coldplay t-shirt and headphones and looked pretty legit. They looked at our tickets and told us they want to help us get some better seats, but we would have to answer some questions. We agreed.
Question 1: "What is the name of Coldplay's first album?"
Me: "Parachutes"
Question 2: "What is the name of Chris Martin's two children"
Me: "Apple and Moses"
Them: "Congratulations, you just won better seats!"
We had to close our eyes and hold out our hands where they placed 4th row floor seats!!!! We kinda screamed. We hugged the ladies and ran to our seats. The way the seating goes, it turned out we sat row 2, front and center. We got wrist bands and soft seats.

K seriously, this kind of stuff NEVER happens to me.

Jake looked like he was going to cry. I couldn't stop shaking. We all just sat there and screamed and texted everyone. (my brother and I like to show off our excited faces and gross fillings in our teeth)



For effect, we took took a picture of where our old seats were from the view of our new seats.



And after like 2 hours of waiting and waiting (no joke) out popped Coldplay!







I know this picture is kind of freaky, but he seriously was right there.


Me with Mr. Martin singing in the background


During the song "Lovers in Japan" they shot butterfly confetti out from the ceiling. It was basically amazing


They all bowed at the end. I tried to take a picture of them right before they bowed, but they moved too fast.


They came out for an encore of "Yellow", which made me happy...and everyone else around me


The stage


The groupies.


Probably the greatest night ever. We saw the sweat bounce off of Chris Martin's forehead while he danced all crazy around the stage, we saw him switch between the guitar and piano, and he threw out his guitar picks. Malaina caught one. I almost fought her for it, but then I remembered how she plays the guitar so that was pretty awesome. If she would have caught his piano, I would have definately fought her for it.
I loved "Violet Hill" which he changed at the ending and sang "If you're from Utah, won't you let me know", "Viva La Vida", "The Scientist" where they moved to 4 extra seats in the audience and played there, "Yellow", "Death and All His Friends", "Fix You", "Lost!", and so much more! I took lots of video, but saddly ruined much of it from my singing and screaming. I will give you some, but don't judge me and my ability to sing so off key

Death and All His Friends

My video of "Fix You" isn't loading which isn't a bad thing since it's my absolute favorite song and I totally ruin it with my singing. Here is a version from some kind soul from youtube (with a close-up of some random kids...). Not from the same spot, but just as good. I loved when he turned the mic to the crowd and when he started to dance. We went nuts during the chorus when he came right to the edge of the stage. We were right there!!!

It was a good night.

7 daaaayyyyyssss!

That's what my brother left on my wall on facebook. This is why.
Back in August, we purchased these:

And so this upcoming Saturday, we will be watching a little bit of this
and some of that
and maybe a little bit of this

I am a bit excited.
Now for a little update:
I got a new job!! I am going to be a TA for the Native American Students at the local High School. I get this office and get to organize things and help them stay on track to graduate. I am pretty excited. I also get to work with my super awesome roommate Sydni.

I am also taking a round trip on the Greyhound to Provo and back, any advice?

Kinda worried

So I have math at 8:00 am. The teacher gives us 3 free absences and then she starts dropping our grade after that. Not gonna lie, I have missed a few classes (read 8:00 am, also note I have 18 credits with homework up to my eyeballs causing me to stay up until about 1 every night to work on it. The next person who tells me that being an Elementary Ed major is easy, I will shoot). I only had math today (one class!) and I still managed to sleep through my alarm. Not cool. I emailed my teacher and asked her if she offered any make up classes or if I went to her other class she teaches, I could count that as being there today. I just got her reply saying "think of this class like a job where you have to be punctual and responsible".
Teachers who take roll. I guess this is one of the perks of going to a smaller school.

Hallo-allo-ween-ween

(The title is supposed to be sung kinda like Rihanna via Umbrella ella-ella-eh-eh)

I am going a little backwards, but I was sorta excited to do the whole voting thing so I jumped the gun and posted that first.
I was 2 things for Halloween this year (haha to those who were only 1!) Our ward had a Halloween party at our stake president's airplane hanger at the airport. We ate chili in a bag of Fritos (I was kinda confused as well), line danced, and sang/but mainly watched others sing karaoke. I was a doll for that party. With really thick eyelashes. And gross hair. It was fun.

Myself

My roommates

The Thursday before Halloween, the institute had a trunk-or-treat party. It was kinda cold and I had to work kinda late so I didn't really want to get all dressed up. So I put on my cheapest costume ever (the one where I borrowed everything I didn't have) and went as a cowgirl. It was fun. There were trash can fires, donuts and hot chocolate, and live music by Corbin Allred (yup, the Saints and Soldiers guys really does go to my school) I would so a picture so I wouldn't have to explain everything, but Sam's camera freaked out and erased all her pictures. Since Sam's camera is the source of many of my pictures, I am currently picture-less.

On Halloween, my awesome roommate Sydni made hot wings and rootbeer, Brittany made some chocolate popcorn, Heather made some chips and dip, my roommate last year Natalie supplied us with some shrimp she left in our freezer last year (ya and I so got to keep it, along with all the other food she and the other one left. thanks), and I made some truely delish subs with some help from Gandolfo's. It was a feast that could probably feed a small country somewhere. We invited some people over and watched some movies and one thing led to another and we somehow had the 2 big bowls of popcorn all over the floor. Also, in the middle of all of this, we had a couple of trick-or-treaters. We gave them Little Debbie Snacks...just cause we're cool like that.

Sam and I. The cowgirl and the gross doctor with $1 fake blood all over her.

I apparently was trying to squeeze her head off.

The popcorn. My roommates wrapped me up in tape and rolled me across the floor. It only squished the popcorn more.

The end.
P.S. notice the lack of makeup on my face. Guess where ALL of my makeup is? In Provo in Jake's room. I sure hope he's not having too much fun with it. That would be gross.

Elisabeth Feels...

...like a super big grown up! That's right y'all, I voted. You should go and vote too. All the cool kids are doing it.

Up to the Date

I realized that after having my blog for roughly 31/2 to 4 years now and only posting 100 times is super lame.

Here's a little update on my awesome life.

I just got back from the Harvest Holiday/Fall break/The Hunt. (my roommate went hunting...awesome?) I went to Zion's with my family (see full report here) and it was super pretty. After that, I basically just hung out in P P P R O O O O V O P-R-O-O-O-V-O PROVO! It was a lot of fun being with my family and laughing at my brothers, sister, and father. I also had my mom there to take super good care of me while I was in my ill and fragile state...semi-ill. It was a very good weekend.

I am at school. (really?) I live in this cool place called Stadium Way and have my own room. I will take pictures of my apartment later. I really like my roommates, we get along really well. We watch stupid movies together and look at boys who live across the way from us *insert fit of giggles...HERE*

I am totally loving my classes. My teachers are pretty awesome. I saw like 2 of them at Zions. Weird. I found out that I will be graduating for reals in 2010 for reals. I can't wait. We are learning all these cool things and I am afraid I will forget all of these cool things I am learning so I need to hurry up and become a cute little teacher (don't ever call me that)

I work at a depressing little daycare. I can't really say too much about it right now because I signed a thing that says I am not aloud to publicly discuss the center in a negative matter or I could be fired...which wouldn't too terrible. I called a dirty Mexican by a girl there. She's a brat. But I can't blame her entirely for being a brat. She's there like everyday. I would be a brat too.

I was going to be an 80's prom queen for Halloween this year but the cheapest poofy 80's dress I could find was $25 and it wasn't even that good. So, I don't know what I will be. I was thinking Twiggy, or a Southern Utah girl with poofy hair and lots of make-up.

Anyway, I that is all. I have to get ready to go to class. I didn't have to tutor today because the class I tutor is on a field trip to the post office. Yay!

p.s. Will someone come and help me make my blog look as cool as yours? Any takers?

Have you seen this movie? Well why not?

This post marks my big 100th (I know, right?) In honor of Jude's big 100, I give you "Hey Jude" from Across the Universe. You should watch this movie. Seriously. Straight up Beatles. Like 2 hours worth. Watch it now!

You Could Win This Bag!

One day my grandpa and I were driving down Center Street past a car dealership. They were giving away a free car. The car was this old, banged up piece of junk and the tires were all flat. There was a sign with deflated balloons on the side of it that read, "YOU COULD THIS CAR!!!" That has been an ongoing joke for a while now.
But seriously, these bags (unlike the car) are pretty sweet. This site is giving away 24 bags-1 every hour-on October 15th to launch their new website. You should go check it out.