Happy Friday!

I saw this on someone's blog so I wanted to try it. You go to Google search and type in your name + needs (example Elisabeth needs) then type in the top 10 things that come up. Some were pretty dumb, but pretty funny. I had to edit a couple due to the nature of google. Here it is.

Elisabeth needs...
1. a coffee on Vimeo
2. a lobotomy!
3. a backbone and a wardrobe consultant.
4. another man in her life (hmmm)
5. to go!
6. to go back to high school (no thank you)
7. to stick to what she knows
8. a new job (amen)
9. to get a life
10. to grow up

K well most things were pretty negative considering the fact I share my first name is Elisabeth Hasselbeck and most don't really like her (does anyone really watch the View anymore? Really?) But I thought some of them were funny.
Anyway, have a good weekend!

You know they call us "Utards" right?

I have lived in Utah for 17 years, and in Utah county for 10. I am pleased to say that I haven't picked up on some of those...let's just call them Utah quirks. I am happy to say that my hair is pretty normal and by normal I mean I don't defy the laws of hair growth by teasing it so much in the back that it sticks up 3 inches above my head then flat iron it stick straight. Cause you know how everyone's head is shaped like a box? None of this going on back there. (Side note, I saw a girl who had hair just like this, but even poofier. Is that even possible? And is poofier even a real word?) I have also never had green jello with carrots. I didn't even know that was a big thing, I just always thought it was a joke until someone told me how good it tasted and how Sister so-and-so always makes it for Enrichment night.

I also have seemed to not pick up on the accent, even though I do slip a few times and forget to pronounce my t's in the middle of some words.
Well today, I was sitting in my class with one of my friends. I asked her if she could hand me something from the other table. It came out something like this:

"Hey, could you git me that over there?"

Yes, I said git. And that's not the first time. In the past week (yes I have been keeping track. What do you do in your spare time?) I have said such words as "thin", "melk", "cren", and "seex" which all roughly translate to "then", "milk", "crayon" and "six" (but I guess that's not the first time I have mispronounced the word "six"...I'll have to tell you about that one later). To reassure myself, I said to myself "well at least you're not using "ar" in the place of "or" (example: "go stand in the carner!").

But I spoke way too soon. After getting my hair cut today, I was telling one of my friends where my stylist was from (what do you and your friends talk about?) I said something like this:
"She said she is from up north too. Like American Fark or something".
That statement alone only led to some teasing and a new thing I probably won't live down for a while...especially since (not "seence") that's where the majority of my jokes come from.

So, I guess I am a Utard after all. Did you know that's what they call us? Yup. All those cool Vegas kids.
But I guess I will keep talking this way.

Just don't ever let me look like this.

What if I blogged about this...would you still leave a comment?

Real blogs are coming soon, after I turn in all my math assignments (and I thought I was done with freaking math!)

For lrn

Dear Lauren,

I love you!

Good Gravy! Looks who's back!

Dear blog,
It's been a while, but I'm back. I didn't blog this whole summer because I figured if anyone wanted to know what was going on with my life, they could just come over and ask. But I promised my mom I would be better with the update thing once I got back to school. Now that I am back to school, I have a lot to catch you up on.

April
*I fought with my roommates-for a more detailed story, call me

I think this picture best describes this month:

May

*I graduated!

*Moved home for the summer
*Found a job at a daycare...I basically got paid to play with babies all day
*Sat in a dentist chair for like 3 hours total getting my teeth straight

*I watched Big David defeat Young David by 6 million votes while celebrated the 20th year of Lauren's birth

June
*I turned ahem, 20!
*Hosted my first "break the fast" in my BYU 229th ward...I was apart of every other BYU jokes I make fun of
*Shamelessly voted for So You Think You Can Dance and then watched the dances again later that night on You Tube. I rock.

July
*I participated in the usual 4th of July madness us Houghtons enjoy every year
*I got a nasty little cold, but drank some jello that made my sore throat disappear-again, for more on that story, call me

*Got this in the mail-meaning I PASSED MATH!!!!

*Bought these-can't wait for November!!!

August
*Went to Lagoon with the family
*1 Word, 3 Syllables O-L-Y-M-P-I-C-S
*Did a little Salsa dancin'
*Woke up at freaking 4 am to do baptisms at the Manti Temple
*Quit the day job-ha!


I am back in Cedar City, the happiest place on earth...after Disneyland. I am living in an apartment where I can nail things into the walls! I start school on Monday and am taking only Education classes. I am very excited for this year. I will keep you updated on what goes on.

I Promise.

Happy Tuesday!

This is true

Motivation < Laziness

I hate math
4 more weeks!

Happy Valentine's Day Love Me

I had a Valentine's tea party in my apartment. There were like 8 or so people there, but for some reason I only got like three pictures out of it...

These are 2 of my roommates. Sam and Natalie.

Hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day!

Monday!

Tonight being Monday night, my roommates and I received a note from our family home evening group leader telling us that there was FHE tonight. It said,

"Hey! FHE tonight at 7 in the lower lobby of D. We will be having so much fun, you might wet yourself. Hope to see you there!" (that's how we roll were I live)

I was extra excited because we have never received such notice this whole entire year. I have never been to a family home evening because my group has been literally non-existent. So tonight at approximately 7:00, my dear roommate Katherine and I brushed our teeth, put on our jackets, and headed over to the lower lobby in D. We went into the building, sat on the couch and waited for 15 min. Lo and behold,

We were stood up by our FHE group.

My brother would be so proud

Basically the most exciting thing happened to me yesterday.

I played ping pong.

As I was walking out of my institute class yesterday afternoon, I found my old home teachers playing ping pong. They pulled up a couch and I had to place a "hypothetical bet" with "hypothetical money" on a "hypothetical team". I decided to join Team Greg, which if I did actually make a real bet with real money, I would have made some fun cash. Then I had to play the winner. I suck at ping pong. Maybe I should take a few pointers from Jake next time instead of calling him a geek when he asked for a cover for his ping pong paddle for Christmas...and I probably should have watched "Balls of Fury"over Christmas break like my brothers told me to, "Cause you never know Beth". Now I know.

It's Official

After May 2008, you can refer to me as "Elisabeth: Associate of Science".

Yup, it's official.

Now I have to study

Halloween-the after Thanksgiving edition

Because I am a firm believer of celebrating holidays way after they actually happen, I give you my Halloween post. This year, I carved some pumpkins with my roommates, attempted to make a mariachi dancer-looking skirt which turned out NOTHING like I wanted, went to the SUU's Halloween dance The Howl, went trick-or-treating in the rich neighborhood, and went to some parties.

Pumpkin Carving


This is my super cute roommate Sam. She carves super cute pumpkins


The ending result.
Top to bottom: Amanda's, mine, Sam's

Trick-or-treating


3 of my roommates and I. This was actually taken right before The Howl, but we'll just say it was before we went out trick-or-treating. It took us like an hour to figure out how to make Sam's fake blood, which late got all over the place (sidewalk, grass, volleyball court, don't ask) Katherine was Bond girl that night but on Halloween turned into a pirate. I was Flamenco dancer, but not really. Natalie was a German girl who turned to 80's rocker sensation on Halloween.



Steve: He went to Timpview...need I say more?



She's just kinda crazy. He's just weird.



The trick-or-treating group minus 4
Front: Jeremy, Sam, Natalie, Neal (standing)
Back: Katherine, Brittany, Moi, Adam, Shay

There's that. Stayed tuned in December for Hey Jude's amazing Thanksgiving update!! (not)

A post about a fish

Let's take it from the top.
My old roommate Shanna dated this guy named Tyler back in March-ish. Tyler was cute and all but he was a high school senior who worked at the pet section at Wal-mart, so naturally their relationship didn't last very long. One day in March-ish, Annalie, Brittany, myself and Dustin went to Wal-mart. While Annalie and Brittany were shopping for their food, Dustin and I decided to go and look for Tyler in the pet section...just to be annoying. Well we never saw Tyler (we all think he quit shortly after the break-up) but we did end up buying a blue beta fish. We later named him Topher.

Topher was a good little fish who live on my desk in my dorm room, but I was almost certain that he only had about a month of life left in him mainly because I am not a good fish owner. I was mistaken. He ended up living through countless weekends of not being fed, the bitter coldness where I thought for sure he would freeze in his water, and he even survived Spring break AND Easter weekend with my roommate Carrie (We later called him Super Topher for that).

The end of the semester was approaching and there was no way I was going to take him home with me. I tried to think of different ways I could not bring him home which equals different ways I could kill him off (I know, I AM inhumane). But at this time, he is now Super Topher so he just wouldn't die. Thoughts of Finding Nemo and just flushing him down the toilet came to us, but we just couldn't do it. I told Dustin to take him home with him because he was 1/2 of Topher's owner, but "Elisabeth, I'm going on a mission blah blah blah blah blah What if he makes it through the summer, then who will take care of him? more blah blah blah blah." I then had the ingenious idea to randomly leave him by the big statue of Sharwan Smith in the Sharwan Smith center here at school with a note that said "Needs a good home". Well, move out day came and it was too late to just strand him in a crowed room. So I just ended up giving him to my RA who was getting married in June.

Fast forward September this year...
I am walking down the halls in, you guessed it, the Sharwan Smith center. Suddenly I am stopped by the old Relief Society President Catelyn Holladay telling me that she still has my fish Lindsey told her to watch while she was on her honeymoon (ooh la la?)
Well to make a long story somewhat shorter, Topher is back!!! His bowl has been upgraded and he now has a cute little seashell to play with.
And that is the story of my fish Topher, the fish who lived.

*My roommate Bree helped me figure out a way to upload pictures onto my computer without my cord...which is basically A to the MA to the ZING Be prepared for my next few posts to be very picture heavy-if you know what I mean*

Are you ready?

For a massive picture post?
You're wait is almost over
I think I am this close to finding my uploading, camera cord thing.
Hang on...

Excuses: Why I haven't blogged lately

Homework
Eating
Sleeping
Occasionally talked to Lauren on instant messenger
Homework
Sleep some more
Facebook
Homework

oh yeah, and i cut my hair
and I saw a very scary movie last night
I love scary movies
But I love movies based off of Beatles songs more. Too bad in this lame town I live in doesn't agree with me.

You can be my new best friend...

if you can teach me to dance like this. For reals.

"I don't know who Coldplay is, but The Goo Goo Dolls are pretty cool!"-Cedar City

Last Friday I went to see the Goo Goo Dolls. MTB became el presidente a SUU, so SUU had a concerto to party.

We sat Row 9.
Cheya.

Last Weekend

Last week marked my parent's 20th wedding anniversary. In honor, my brothers and I held a surprise party for them this last weekend.

The Surprise

The committee (the fourth member was taking pictures)

The parentals cutting the cake

All the counsins

Happy Anniversary!

Thanks to everyone who came and helped!

Tonight I will be attending this

More on that most likely Monday

90

So, sorry about the lack of blogs up to this point. I know this is the typical excuse, but I really have been way too busy. I am at school now (woot!) and it basically is the same (woot squared).

I am back in good ol' Manzinita with 4 new roommates. My actually roommate, Sam is a sweetie who plays volleyball all day everyday. She's fun. My roommates and I haven't done anything too crazy yet, although they did go and egg someone's house without me because I was being responsible and doing homework...

SUU lost their first home football game, I am hooked to The Office, I've seen Becoming Jane so many times I'm almost to the point of quoting it word for word, I cut my hair and it's short enough that I can't put it back in a ponytail without 40 bobby pins and 2 1/2 lbs of hairspray, I've been rudely awaken by a prank call, I got called as a Sunday School teacher, my apartment balcony faces the volleyball court so I can sometimes hear people playing into the wee hours of the morning, and my new favorite number is 90.

That's about all right now. Next weekend I am going to see the Goo Goo Dolls in concert here at SUU!

I will be out for the weekend (previous engagments) so I will write about all my fun this weekend and post some pictures on Monday...if you're lucky

I knew my bad attitude would come back and bite me...

...and now I have to teach Sunday School tomorrow!