My consolation Paper Store.

It doesn't really have scrapbook supplies, but it's really close to my apartment, and it has paper and lots of envelopes. It'll have to do.

Also, I am no longer down in the dumps about anything. It is sunny, my cold is going away, and I just spent the weekend in PHILADELPHIA!!!

Down in the Dumps.

So, I've been slightly down in the dumps. I have a cold, the weather is horribly cold and rainy outside (not at all what I was expecting in D.C.- well, not the cold part, anyway), everyone is gone all day at internships except for me (I start next Tuesday), AND I just realized, I am suffering from severe scrapbooking withdrawl. I need to get SCRAPPY! Me and Audrey P. used to say that we just needed to "get our scrap on," and boy, am I feeling it now. And the sad part is that I have only been gone from Pebbles for like 2.5 weeks, and I still have ALL SUMMER ahead of me. It's such a shame. My one regret about this whole D.C. experience is that I didn't bring any scrapbook stuff with me, and I thought that I would be okay without all of it. I'm just SO DUMB sometimes!

So, today, my goal is to find a scrapbook store that I can reach by one of my two sources of transportation- my feet, and the metro. I searched online, and low and behold, I found a craft store called Ipso Crafto in the Southeast quadrant of the city that I could easily reach by metro via the Eastern Market stop (one of my fave stops). The craft store even has fabric, and I have been dying to make myself a new blanket. by hand. You see, I CANNOT stand having only one blanket on my bed. I desperately need a blanket to cuddle with.

For a few brief minutes, I was very, very excited about the idea of going to a craft store, buying scrapbook stuff, and finding fabric to hand-sew a quilt out of. AND THEN, I saw a notice that said, and I quote, "Remember, DECEMBER 14, 2008, THIS SUNDAY, is our last day ever! We’re not moving, not closing for renovation, not taking a holiday. We’re shutting our doors for good." Now, I don't have a picture of my sad face, but imagine one, and insert it right here.......

Now what am I going to do?? Pebbles friends, I hope you understand this problem. All you other friends out there, just try to sympathize, becuase this is a BIG problem.

And don't worry guys. I will keep searching. And also, I miss you, Pebbles in my Pocket.

Love, Audrey

THE BEST BIRTHDAY WEEK EVER. Except for finals.

Monday: Okay, fine. So Monday was no fun. I had to write two papers. But we played kickball for FHE!

Tuesday: My birthday!!! YAY! Happy birthday to me! I had to get up early to finish one of my papers, and then finish the other one during my break. It was okay though; a necessary evil. I got to leave campus at 3, and it was the last day of classes, so good news. When I came home I snuggled up on the couch and watched music videos, which is one of my favorite pastimes. My new favorite music videos are Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You," and Katy Perry, "Thinking of You." Kelly's video is hilarious, and Katy's has Kyle XY in it. :) By the way, I'm sorry, I don't care what anyone says. Kelly Clarkson is amazing and I love her music.

At 7:00pm, I got to watch American Idol! The whole thing! I love American Idol. And I love Matt G. We had some trauma this week. He did not perform to the best of his abilities, but, I still love him, and I still pre-ordered this week's song on iTunes. The recording is amazing, by the way. I encourage everyone to go on iTunes and listen to the clips of his recordings, cause they are the best. If you only listen to one, listen to "Human Nature." Blows me away. I love it. When Meghan and I listen to it in the car, we both kind of melt and she says, "his voice just sounds like heaven," and then I agree, and we talk about how amazing the song is for a while. It happens every time. Anyway, what better day to have a birthday than on a Tuesday that is not only the last day of classes, but is the night of American Idol performances? It was perfect.

After American Idol, we went to Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. Most of the gang was able to come. We missed Lauren, Lorina and Dani, though. :( I love Old Spaghetti Factory. What other restaurant gives you salad with an amazing house dressing, sourdough bread with delicious butter, your scrumptious meal, AND spumoni ice cream for dessert??? It's the best. AND, it just so happens that on Tuesdays this month they have 40% off part of the menu!! Again, lucky my birthday was on a Tuesday!Following dinner was dancing! I know it's loserish to go to on-campus dances because only freshman go to those, but we just wanted a party and dancing. So, me, Meg, Rachelle, and Ann went. It was actually quite fun, except that they played a lot of dumb music. I requested a song, and the DJ said he didn't have time for it. So I told him it was my birthday. He still didn't play my song. What nerve, right? He even played a slow country song. How rude! :)

So, when the dance ended, we gathered up our stuff, and I realized that somehow, somewhere, I had lost my keys. We wandered around the Wilk for a while asking everyone if they had any keys, and nobody had. After about five minutes of looking, I was starting to freak out a little bit. I needed my car keys! First of all, I just need them to get places! Second, it was my birthday! Third, I was parked in an "A" lot, which means that I would get a ticket if I was still parked there the next morning. Bad news. Fourth, I didn't have a spare key. My mom would have to ship me one from St.G. And fifth, it was POURING rain outside. We were not in very good circumstances. But we decided to go outside and retrace my steps to the car. I was very glad that my mom had just given me a new umbrella and raincoat for my birthday. It was perfect for the dreary occassion. Well, we got out to the car and I noticed that I left my purse in there. Locked in. Meghan saw that her purse was also in there, locked in. So, not only did I have missing keys, but I did not have access to my wallet, my camera, my phone, my iPod, my anything! What is a girl to do in this sort of situation? Well, she calls Dani, who comes to pick everyone up, and tells me to call Campus Police. (801-422-2222). Oh the brains that girl has! The policeman said someone would be by to unlock the door momentarily. Momentarily turned in to like half an hour, but once he got there, the door was unlocked in a jiffy, and miracle of miracles, MY KEYS WERE IN MY PURSE!!! Problem solved, major crisis averted.

So then, we realized that it was like 11:50, and almost not my birthday anymore! I had 10 minutes to gather the gang and blow out my candles on my cake before the birthday magic was gone. So, right when we got home, I called Meg, who had ended up at Lorina and Lauren's, and she called Kyle, and I called Paul, and somehow Kaitlin and Spencer just sensed they needed to be there, so they showed up, and it was a regular party, planned and coordinated within 10 minutes! Rachelle had been in charge of my cake- she got this amazing lemon deliciousness at Costco. I loved it.

All in all, it was a great birthday. Quite eventful.

Wednesday: Reading day of relaxation and no studying, and Pebbles. :) Oh, and that night, we went to Wal-Mart to get stuff for Ashley's shower. And guess what? IT WAS SNOWING. Like, really bad. Major blizzard. On the way back, we couldn't see the freeway AT ALL. It was very hilarious.

Thursday: Me and Meghan actually decided to study. We had to. So, we went to the library at about 10 (the plan had been to get there at 9. Yeah, right.) We stayed until 3, when Kaitlin picked us up to go shopping for Ashley's bridal shower present. We were in and out of Victoria's Secret at Provo Towne Center within like 10 minutes. It was incredible. We had to hurry because I was supposed to go in to work at 4. And I made it! I worked a two hour shift, because then I had to come home for Ashley's shower! Rachelle and Kaitlin planned it, and it was fabulous.

After the shower, me and Meg went back to the library. We studied for approximately 3 more hours. and THEN, the best event of the week! 17 Again!!! the first, premiere, midnight showing. Yeah, so I had a final the next morning at 7am, but you're only young once, right? (haha) Me, Meg, Rachelle, Kaitlin, Dani, Lorina, and Stephanie all went. And I just want to say this: ZAC EFRON IS SO HOT IT'S RIDICULOUS. Ok, I'm done. But seriously, that movie was really really funny. We all loved it, and are all kind of obsessed now. We got home around 2, and I went straight to bed.

Friday: The next morning, I woke up at like 6:15 so I could go over my notes before my test. Yes, I love getting 4 hours of sleep. It really was VERY stupid of me to have done it, BUT SO WORTH IT! I took my test- it was British Lit, and I actually think I did okay on it. It worked out very well. Yay! The rest of the day was serene. I came home and went back to sleep. For a long time. And then I studied for Mission Prep for a couple of hours. That night, I had to work my last shift at Pebbles. Sad day! I was so super tired, though, that I just wanted to go home and had a hard time savoring those last moments behind the register. Oh well. I have a feeling I'm going to be really sad about this in a couple of days when I realize that I really won't be going to work there again anytime soon (or ever again). I have loved working at Pebbles. It has meant so much to me. And I have such good friends there. I love you guys!

Saturday: A very busy day. Me and Meg were supposed to have turned in our Mission Prep final that morning at 8, but at about 1am the night before, we realized that we could turn it in next week instead, so we slept in. That afternoon I had Audrey P.'s baby shower to go to. I got Darbi a ducky hoody towel. I love duckies. And I got a 4th of July dress for a 0-3 month old. Hopefully she'll be the size of a newborn by July!

After the shower I went to Pebbles for our party. I pretended it was my going-away party. Danielle, both Amy's, Stephanie, Stacie, and Keli were there- Audrey P. showed up towards the end. Anyway, it was a very productive night! I got Kaitlin's sign-in book done, and I did like 6 pages for my roommate scrapbook! All in like 5 hours! I know, I'm incredible. I have never done that much in such a short amount of time.

And last, after the Pebbles party, we had our MASSIVE SLEEPOVER! We all finally gathered at around 1Am at Hannah's house. We had our mad dance party and played apples to apples, and had a CRS. It was so much fun, and I just have to say that we are the biggest bunch of nerds ever. I love it! Hannah has a king size mattress on her floor that six of us slept on, and then we blew up a queen air matress for another three girls. Before we went to bed though, we jumped on the beds and sang Celine Dion songs at the top of our lungs. If you didn't already know that we were 2o and 21-year-olds, you probably would have guessed that we were 12. It was a blast, though. I'm really going to miss those girls.

And that is the end of the week. It was a good one. :)

Weekly Review (3/29-4/5)

Monday: MAKING MEMORIES WAREHOUSE SALE. Warehouse sales are one of my favorite things. You get good scrapbooking stuff for super cheap! Audrey P, Danielle, Natasha, Stacie, and I went together. I love my Pebbles girls. The super buy of the day was...... some REALLY REALLY sparkly blue and pink paper!!!! It was only a quarter a sheet. And the best news is, I only spent $13!! Okay, so my limit was $10, but still.

Tuesday: Snowy. American Idol--top download week. I'm still in love with Matt G's voice. So hot.
Wednesday: April Fool's!! Elise's birthday. School, work.

Thursday: MEGHAN GOT HER MISSION CALL!!! I drove home from work to see her open it. She is going to Boise, ID. So exciting. If you want to see a video of it all, click on the link to Lorina's blog. Also, on this very same day, Anisa Bennet got her mission call--- to Washington, D.C. South!!! She is going to be in the field while I am still there doing my internship!! Yay yay yay!

Friday: How do I not remember what we did on Friday??? I remember that I supposed to scrapbook with Audrey P, but it didn't happen. Why??? Oh wait, I remember. There was a bridal shower for Ashley that night. A very good, well organized bridal shower, by the way. And one thing to add- I TOTALLY should have won that game. There were cheaters in our midst.

Saturday: General Conference, work at Pebbles, and then the best game ever. I got, in my kids' meal at Arby's, THE BEST GAME EVER! The improv version is my sisters' favorite game, but I got an official one. It's called... "Would you rather..." In my family, the questions go something like this: "Would you rather go roller blading with Nick Jonas, or Jump rope with Joe Jonas??" The answer is always immediately, "JOE!!!!" Why do we even ask??? Or recently I asked Stephanie, "Would you rather play a regular role on 'Boy Meets World,' or co-star in a movie with Christian Bale?" She practically screamed at the idea. The answer was emphatically a movie with Christian. Anyway, the game that I got at Arby's had questions like. " Would you rather have a giant eyebrow that goes in a big circle all around your face and is un-pluckable, or ear and nose hair that is very long and cannot be trimmed??" Oh gosh, both such horrible options! They were really funny to talk about. I said, that if you were a boy, neither of these options would be as bad because your giant eyebrow could look kind of like a beard, and your long nose hair could possibly mistaken for a mustache- if you comb it right. And the ear hair could be sideburns. Too bad we aren't male.

Sunday: General conference. I watched the first session at home, and then the second at Grandma Colleen's house. Steph and I drove up to Ogden between sessions, and she made us THE BEST DINNER. The problem with eating at Grandma's is that she makes a ton of food, and then she expects you to eat it all, and tried to give you more. We has salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, a roast, broccoli, army rice, pineapple and cottage cheese, lemonade, strawberry shortcake, and ice cream cones. I ate enought to nourish me for a week. But it was yummy.

By the way, I had a dream that Meghan was going to Bora Bora in her mission. That did not come true. I'm losing my psychic powers.

Also, make sure you check out the post below this one. It's got some great stuff in it. :)

More pictures of the other events are yet to come.

And last, I am DYING to see "17 Again." It comes out on Friday. YAY!!!! Here is a picture from the movie, just to motivate you all to go see it.

Breakfast at Kaitlin's

Me and Kait

Kaitlin and her Mama.

Okay, so it wasn't breakfast, and it wasn't at Kaitlin's apartment. It was a "Breakfast at Tiffany's" themed bridal shower! BEST BRIDAL SHOWER EVER (except for the other two that I threw... Uh, I still love you BSC!).

We all wore black and white and pearls, and it was so fancy! We drank sparkling grape juice in tiny champagne glasses that we bought at the party store for $9. Kind of pricey, but so worth it! And Meghan, Lorina, and I made cupcakes- I made black-bottomed cream cheese (thanks for the recipe, Ash, it's my new fave!), Meg made strawberry shortcake cupcakes (that were ADORABLE, by the way), and Lorina attempted to make red velvet, and they would have been amazing, we just ran out of time to finish them before the shower started. Anyway, it was great. We decorated with black, white, a little bit of silver, and a little bit of Tiffany blue. We had pretty table clothes, and Audrey Hepburn posters, and balloons, and all sorts of festive things.

As for as activities for the shower went, Meg made a movie of Spencer answering questions about himself, and Kaitlin had to guess that answers. She actually did a really good job. :) Props. We also played a new game called, "Name that body part!" We took pictures of bunch of boys' arms, hands, feet, eyes, lips, butts, etc., and then we all guessed which ones were Spencer. Kaitlin, incidentally, was the only one who got them all right. It was a fun game, but a little hard to prepare. It was slightly awkward asking the boys if we could take pictures of their butts. We have cooperating friends, fortunately. I also made a little book for everyone to sign notes to Kaitlin in.

To sum up, it was really fun, but TOTALLY stressful. I forgot until just now how crazy it was that morning before the shower. When we woke up in the morning, we still had to take pictures of boys, print off the said pictures, clean the apartment, grocery shop for our cupcake ingredients, make the cupcakes, decorate the house, go the Pebbles to put together the advice book for Kaitlin, go to the party store to get dishes and such, buy balloons, AND shower and get ourselves ready for the extravaganza. The shower was at 2, and we didn't get to the store in the morning until about ten. To put it lightly, I WAS FREAKING OUT. I think I'm a pretty good party planner, I make things fun, right? But for some reason, this all just fell through until the last minutes. Part of the problem was my burnt hand because it made me do everything ten times slower than normal, and the other part was that I was totally out of party-preparing commission on Friday because my family was in town (which was great, by the way). I also have to say that NOTHING would have worked out if I had been doing it all myself. Meghan, Lorina, and Elise helped A LOT, and Ashley, Rachelle, and Ann did a lot too. Thanks, guys. (Also, I don't want to make this sound like it was my shower to throw- we were all kind of in it together- well, mostly Meghan and me). So, back to me freaking out. I was rushing around trying to do everything, making the cupcakes and throwing pots around, and Ann finally said, "Audrey, how about we put on some relaxing music. That usually seems to help you." So sweet, Annie Bananie. She knows that I can't live without my music. The problem, was, though, that the speakers that would have made the music worth playing were IN THE WAY, and we were trying to clear everything out of the living room, so music was not an option. Sad day.


All of the craziness is a success story, though. We were all totally ready by like 2:15 (so a little late, but everyone arrived late anyway). Miracle of Miracles. And Kaitlin, we love you, and all the stress was totally worth it to throw you an awesome shower. I hope you loved it, because it was pretty dang amazing. :) And Hannah, Dani, and Lauren, I'm so sorry you couldn't make it. :(

Sunshine

The weekly review: (I really like this game, by the way)
Sunday: I spontaneously drove to Huntsville, Utah for my cousin Dallas's ordination to the Aaronic Priesthood. It was great to see my aunts and uncles- and me and Dax are still best friends :) After all the festivities at Dave and Sherry's house, I drove to my Grandma Colleen's house. That was very dangerous because she very nearly convinced me to stay the night. I would have missed my Monday classes, which is not good. I refrained, luckily. And yes, I know that I look pale and gross in that picture with Daxton.
Monday: School, Cafe Rio, and 80's BOWLING!!! YAY YAY YAY! I LOVE Cafe Rio. My St. George Pebbles friend Becky was in town, so she took me, Lauren, and Kelsey all to Cafe Rio for dinner! It was like a mini St. George Pebbles reunion! I love those guys. Thanks Becky! For 80's bowling we dressed up in our favorite 80's attire, and no, it does not get old! Pictures are below! I have to say, though, that I am a very, very, very horrible bowler. I think I've had one strike in my entire life of bowling. But that's okay, because bowling is super fun anyway, and it's even more super fun when it's cheap and you're dressed all crazy! I also have to comment that my side ponytails are AMAZING.
Tuesday: School, AMERICAN IDOL!!!!! Not only do I love American Idol, but I also love Michael Jackson. And guess who was featured on last weeks' episode???!! The one and only! I thoroughly enjoyed the episode. I obviously watched with a very critical eye and frowned at the majority of the contestants' imitations (how DARE he try to perform Beat It??), but I LOVED Matt Giraud's version of Human Nature. I actually bought it on iTunes, and I have now listened to it more times than the actual version. I have even admitted to several people (and now the world) that I like Matt's version better than Michael's (collective GASP! here). Also, I think I need to update on the MJ/London concerts/This is it thing. So, there were originally going to be 10 shows, like I mentioned in the last post. However, the demand was SO HIGH, that he actually extended the ten shows in July to 50 shows running all the way into February of 2010. To add to all of that, all 50 shows SOLD OUT in the first 5 HOURS of pre-sale. RIDICULOUS, but SO COOL! So, even if I could afford a plane ticket to London, I couldn't go to the concert anyway. It is simply no longer even possible. :)
Wednesday: School, Work.
Thursday: School, work, employee crop night! This is starting to be a regular every Thursday thing, and I love it. I love scrapbooking.
Friday: School, work, Baskin Robbins with Meghan and Lorina, and Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. It took me like a half an hour to even remember what we did because it was so uneventful and SO not exciting.

Saturday: BEST DAY EVER! I slept in until eleven, went to the gym, went to Zupas for lunch with Meghan (I LOVE tomato basil soup), and then went to the BASEBALL GAME! I love baseball games! It was really warm and sunny and beautiful and perfect. We just basked in the sun for a couple hours while we watched BYU kill Utah at baseball. What could possibly be better? And when you look at the pictures, notice the sun in our faces (I love the sun!) and the beautiful baseball field with the mountains in the background. I love BYU. Then, me and Meg went to Pebbles to make invitation for Kaitlin's bridal shower and to Wal-Mart to get groceries (and a key lime pie). THEN, against all rules of Audrey Life, me, Meg, Kaitlin, Paul, Kyle, and Spencer went to Pizza Factory for dinner. I am not supposed to eat out 2 times in one day! I don't have any money! I am on a money spending fast now, and I promise, I can totally do it. I didn't any money except on gas for like the whole month of July because I was saving for D.C. The last event of the day was the PIE PARTY! Because it was March 14th, or 3.14, it was Pi Day, and we ate pie to celebrate. It was very delicious and festive.Kaitlin and Spencer had a fight with their pie. :/ Engaged people. Pah.

So that was my week- the end. And if you read this one, you get bonus points, because I know that my posts are getting more and more boring because my blog has turned into a journal and an account of my life, and not anything that is actually exciting. And, I am starting to write a plethora of run-on sentences, because let's face it, that is how I talk. THE END!

P.S. We finally got our dishwasher handle fixed! It had been like 6 months since it broke!

This is it

Several memorable things have happened this week, and several things that were supposed to be memorable didn't happen this week. I will list them and be brief:
1. Monday: my massive British Lit test, 12 hours spent on campus, Meghan's birthday party (that was super fun, by the way), and the HOT SPRINGS in Midway. Elaboration later, and perhaps never. How I had time for all of that in one day I will never know.
2. Tuesday: School, American Idol, and Kyle's surprise party! Yay! I swear, it was like birthday week!
3. Wednesday: School, Pebbles, back to campus for a group project.
4. Thursday: presentation of said group project, Pebbles, and scrapbooking with Audrey P.! I am happy to say that my ugly stage from last week disappeared, and I was able to create 2 fabulous pages! Yay! The thing that went wrong: my ward was supposed to go tubing at Soldier's Hollow that day. First, I couldn't go because I had to work. Second, the Soldier's Hollow people wouldn't let them come anyway because it was too windy.
5. Friday: one class from 8 to 9, and then Audrey relaxation day began. I came home, put my pj's back on, fixed a bed on the couch, set up my laptop on the coffee table, and put in my newest arrival from those nice people at netflix. I love those guys. After the movie, I got ready in what was supposed to be warp speed but ended up taking a lot longer, and Rachelle and I drove to Draper for the temple open house! It took a couple hours, but it was SO beautiful and SO worth it. We loved it. After the temple, we drove to the Fashion Place Mall in SLC. The point of going was to see Stephanie, who was working an event for Lancome, and of course, to shop. The event was the grand opening of the new Nordstrom's at that mall. It was just like Stephanie said: shiny, sparkly, and you kind of want to buy everything. After braving the masses in Nordstrom, we were super tired, and decided to settle down for some cheesecake. At Cheesecake Factory. Lemon Raspberry all the way. Yum. After eating more sugar in one piece of shared cheesecake than either of us had eaten in a week, we attempted to drive home. I really don't know what the problem was. I think I suddenly came down with a disease called, "I no longer know how to follow freeway signs." Actually, I'm just going to blame it all on the cheesecake. In a matter of minutes, we found ourselves at the airport, not on the way to Provo. After a while of examining distant roads and thinking really hard, we found our way to downtown Salt Lake where we KNEW that we could find our way to I-15. Piece of cake. Piece of cheesecake, rather. However, it took us like twice as long to get home as it did to get to Draper in the first place. So dumb. Below is Rachelle and her happy face while eating our cheesecake!

Also, my plan for yesterday depended wholly on sunny, very warm weather. There was a double header yesterday at BYU, and ALL week I was determined to go to one of the games. I wanted to SO BAD. But who wants to sit as a baseball game when it is like snowing outside?! No one. So we stayed home. I ended up going to "Bedtime Stories" with Meg and Lorina, which was great, but still. I was muy disappointed.

6. Saturday: Pebbles all morning and afternoon. We counted inventory. Fun! I worked on Pebbles, Inc., which is a massive job. Ashlee laughed at me when I said I wanted to do that company today. haha. I had a plan for today too, that DID NOT work out. I wanted to go to the basketball game REALLY BAD. I wanted to all week. But when it came down to it this evening, no one wanted to go. Sad day. Instead, we went to Kneader's for dinner (instead of Zupas, which was my one heart's desire since I couldn't go to the basketball game), Baskin Robbins for some delicious pistaschio almond ice cream (yay Audrey Squared!), and then came home and watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. The exciting thing of the day came after the movie, and Rachelle, Paul, and I were just sitting around listening to our favorite songs. Paul mentioned something about Michael Jackson and his upcoming tour. This is when my jaw dropped and an explosive "WHAT?!!!?!??!" came out of my mouth. I immediately did the research. It is not actually a tour :(, but, he is performing 10 concerts in July, in London. LONDON??!! Why not New York, or WASHINGTON D.C.??? What is wrong with you, Michael?? Do you not care about your American fans?? Also, the concerts were announced as his final bows- the last curtain call- a retirement from the entertainment business for good. The tour is actually called, "This is it." And it is. Anyway, I looked up flights to London in July, and they are like 900 bucks. So it's a no go. But for a small, glimmering instant, I thought I was there. I will never ever see MJ live. No longer possible. (Unless I can win some sort of sweepstakes and fly to London for free. Keep your eyes out, everyone.) I know I'm a weirdo, but wouldn't you go if you could? I mean, who wouldn't? No matter how creepy he is, remember what he was. If you want to see the announcement, here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKaySqh1XPU

That's the end of this week. Hopefully next week will be more eventful. This weekend was definitely a dry spell. Too bad. I'm running out of weekends to spend in Provo, so next week has to be super double amazing to make up for it. You hear that peeps? Make it up to me.

So much for trying to be brief.

Basketball games are inTENTSe!

Once again, I had a very eventful weekend. One, I'm sure, everyone wants to hear about. So, pretty much, I have the coolest friends ever. A bunch of boys in my ward are HUGE BYU fans, and because the BYU-Utah game was this weekend, they decided to camp-out for tickets. The game was on Saturday, but the tent went up outside the Marriott Center on Wednesday. They brought their mattresses to sleep on, their TV, a space heater, and three different gaming systems for entertainment. Coolest ever, right? So, the deal was that if my roommates and I wanted to be able to get in line with them on Saturday when the actual tickets were disbursed, we had to do tent duty. Jeff made out the schedule, and Meghan and I were assigned Friday afternoon. Big problem. I really wanted to hang out in that awesome tent, but I had LOADS of homework to do. So I did something that a year ago I never would have done. I blew off my homework and opted for a day in the tent. I spent 5 and a half hours on tent duty, but don't worry, it totally paid off when it came to game time. One might have suggested that I do my homework while I sat in the tent for that long while. Doing homework in a tent, though, is not realistic. Especially not when you are sitting with Paul and he makes you play Mario Cart and Blackjack. Yes, I lost my car, phone, wallet, camera, highlighters, lotion, and lip gloss. Being the gentleman that Paul is, however, I got it all back. :) I do have to say that I owned his Audi and iPhone for a significant portion of the game, though. And those two things are worth WAY more than all of my stuff plus the tent and everything in it. So all in all, I think I won. Anyway, it was a day of tent adventures and no homework. I just wish I wasn't so wired to do homework, because I had a knot in my stomach about it all day. I swear, I'm not going to do well on my British Lit midterm tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a day for some hardcore studying. :(
Once 4:30 hit, we managed to pull ourselves out of the tent, and Meghan, Paul, and I went to Costco to buy candy. The idea was that we were goint to play candy poker in the tent. I know that is kind of technically against the rules, but Paul is kind of the devil, and he convinces us to do all sorts of sketchy things like play poker and break the midnight curfew by 5 minutes. We got LOADS of candy, but when we brought it back to play poker, Drew was entirely against the idea, and the game never happened. Now we are stuck with $17 worth of bite-sized candy bars and laffy-taffy. Oh dear.

Anyway, there was a barbeque back at the tent at 6, so we bought some hotdogs and pringles and enjoyed a little feast of unhealthy, questionable food. There was also a slight hitch in the plan for the evening. THE FUSE BLEW. That meant that our tent no longer had power, which also meant that we no longer had a space heater. Earlier in the day Meg and I decided that we would sleep in the tent too, and just have a huge slumber party. It would be perfectly appropriate and okay because there would be lots of people, we could sleep on one of the matresses in one of the side rooms of the tent, and we probably wouldn't get any sleep anyway (that was the boys' reasoning anyway. I told them that we should just name the tent "den of iniquity" since we were going to play poker AND have a co-ed sleepover. Luckily, neither of our scandalous activities ever occurred). But, without the heater, it was definitely a no-go. I did not want to sleep in the cold, and BOY WAS IT COLD! We hung out in the tent until about midnight, and froze the whole time.

One last thing- throughout all of our tent experience there were two things that were pervasive and consistent. First, the tent next door BLASTED music, some of which was not entirely wholesome and appropriate. But, they did play some good music, and we educated Paul on the world of hip-hop and rap. Good times. Also, there was a constant joke about things that are intense (camping, circuses, weddings, etc). It was muy hilarioso.
So that is the tent story. The actual basketball game story begins at 12:30pm on Saturday. We had to line up by then beacuse they opened the doors at 1, and the game started at 3. The tents were all cleaned up by this point, and the line stretched VERY FAR. I don't really know where it ended because I was at the front... All I can say is that when they finally let us in, the entire all-sports pass section filled up within like 30 minutes. We were about mid-court, 6th row. It was nice. The game was very INTENSE, very loud, very exciting, and very crowded. Rather than summarize the whole game, lets just say that we were down by 6 at one point, got fouled alot, I ate a Cougar dog at halftime because I was starving to death, we said, "whoosh, Cecil!" everytime we made a foul shot (to honor the Pres.), Cosmo came and cheered with us for a couple of minutes, and we WON BY THIRTEEN!!!! It was quite incredible, and very exciting. I love basketball games. I feel like I haven't talked about them at all, but I promise, I do love basketball.

After the game I went to Pebbles. No, I didn't have to work. I voluntarily went to scrapbook on a Saturday night! Yay! Audrey P. and I had a scrapbook party! We signed up and went to the Moonlighter! It was super fun until I got super burnt-out, and I made the UGLIEST scrapbook page ever. Audrey can attest to the ugliness of my page. But it was fun anyway. I love scrapbooking. And Heather saw a picture in my scrapbook and asked if it was of one of the engaged couples. Um no, Heather, it is a picture of me and my roommate. I said, "Are you saying that I look like a MAN??!!!" True, I was wearing an ESPN hat with a ponytail and a black T-shirt, but still. It was like the funniest thing ever. The whole class of like 18 people heard our whole conversation, and it was SO FUNNY. Me and Audrey were practically peeing our pants laughing. Also, Audrey and I have decided that before I leave for D.C., we are going to make twinner mini albums all about "Audrey Squared." We will include all of the strange things that we have in common, including our awesome name. I'll keep you posted on that, because it's going to be AWESOME.

Now, I'm sorry this post in FOREVER long. I'll try not to do that in the future. But props to you if you read the whole thing. You get bonus points. When you leave a comment, tell me if you get the bonus points, and I'll keep a talley. :) Until next week, have a lovely day!

Oh wait, I also want to ask for advice. I need help with motivation. For some reason, I have been having a really hard time being a good student. I officially NEED HELP!