Wasting time

So, I'm sitting here in the Wilk computer lab trying to take up time until I have to go to work. I was just in stats, and I slept for the first hour, but the second hour was ok. Today was cleaning checks, and I had to do the living room and dinning area, and my part of the room. They have you do sooo many things, and it was totally disgusting. I swear the living room hadn't been dusted in at least 100 years...maybe a trillion. But that's Ok because now I have a sense of accomplishment. And I thought that it would take me the whole time in between my classes, but it didn't, so I got to eat lunch, and I wasn't late for class. So last night at about 11:15, I was in my bed studying the New Testiment, and Mike texted me, asking if I wanted to go running. Then he called me and asked me, and I said yes, so we left at about 11:30, and drove up to the residential places up past the temple. It was fun, but it was really cold, and my blisters were not enjoying the run. Also, my guts hurt, not from running necessarily, but I'm sure that didn't help them. So after we were done running up this monster hill, all I wanted to do was go home and try to make my guts feel better, but he dorve like 20 MPH the whole way back. I was dying! Then when we were walking back to my place, he read the back of my shirt and got very confused by the Julikins across it. Then he tried to get me to stay out with him on the porch or something, but I kind of ditched him. It was already like 12:30. Don't worry, Shelley, I did take my phone, and Melissa knew where I was. We're having a dance party on Friday at 9, and everyone is invited! Wayne will hopefully be there, and pull out his dancing magic. Every other song will have to be Geek in the Pink, for Andrea. I kind of promised.
Well Caleb, I hope you're glad that I finally posted!

The exciting adventures of a Wednesday

Today has been an emotional rollercoaster:
7:30 AM: Happy. I got right out of bed, and got ready very quickly, so that I had extra time to study for Music 202

9 AM: Feeling like a crapulous mass: The Music 202 test. However, there was some humor on the side when our teacher practically gave us the answer, and some stupid kid didn't get it. Classic.

12:40 PM: Relaxed. We got to take a ten minute nap, or just lay there with out eyes closed and listen to soothing music. It was fabulous.

1 PM: Humor. American Heritage, Dr. Holland, and a little girl with a cake and a knife. What can I say more?

2 PM: Fear. The American Heritage test. Not as bad as I thought, but still not great.

Aproximatly 2:20 PM: Surprise. As I was sitting in the testing center, trying to concentrate, who should sit down by me but Tim, taking the same test. So we shared answers, and then had a make out session afterwards. Just kidding. He didn't even see me there, but his presence really distracted me.

3:20 PM: Joy. Tim called me after he got out of the testing center, and we talked for a while. Happiness...

Midterms are making me sad. They are scary and mean, and I have so many of them this week that there will be little to no time for other fun things... like ping pong. I have Book of Mormon, Geography, American Heritage, and Music 202. All very intimidating. But all these tests combined aren't as intimidating as James Madison. ::shudder::

That's what she said

The past couple of days have been really fun, but a little stressful. Stressful because James Madison has been breathing down my neck, but fun because I've gotten to see my friends a lot. Tuesday night, Roxy and I went to play ping pong with Tim, and when he and Joe walked us home at midnight, we ended up standing outside until 2:00. Then last night, I went and played ping pong with Tim for an hour, then we got icecream, then we played pool with Roxy and Andrea. I got lots of Valentines, and a great package from Mom. It was a pretty nice Valentine's Day. That's what she said.

oh, hip hop

Today in aerobic dance, we did some hip hop, and I learned that I am totally white, no matter how hard I try to do it. I can't even do it right for Phillip. But that's OK, because it was ssoo intertaining to watch phillip be totally gangsta. Its awesome how good he looks doing it, and how natural it looks. He made us gangsta walk for like ten minutes. It was intense. Tutoring wasn't bad today. The kids were making those hearts that you weave together, so I got to help them with that. Those kids are so funny. I have the activity tonight, and I am really excited, because we are going to do a variation of whoonu. I told Blaine that we were going to play a kind of get to know you game, and he was like, but we already know each other really well. That's true, but this is going to be sooooo fun. I have to read a book on James Madison by Friday morning, so maybe I should start doing that instead of this. Anyways, I love you!

Feeling good

It is a beautiful day today, much like the winters in Redlands. The cool air and the fluffy clouds make my inward sides smile. As I was walking to class, I saw Caleb Miscin (someone help me with the spelling please), and he said my name to get my attention, and said hello to me. It was great! I didn't know he even knew my name. That was a great start to my day. Then I saw Charlie Lambert, and he said I looked beautiful. I like that Charlie Lambert. I'm glad that I can come out of the funk I've been in for a while. Maybe it's because the wheather is changing, or things are just going better. I've gotten to see my friends way more than usual this week. I am rested. I'm not too stressed out about school or anything, and it's great! I got fun pictures developed, and there are some from Thanksgiving! I laughed out loud when I saw them, and I'm sure the people walking around me thought I was weird, but I don't even care, 'cause friendship is rare. Hand me that shotgun and that chaaaair.

Family home evening adventures

Tonight was fun. For our activity, RHBen had us play a game called signs. It was so craxy. Talmage and I were sitting next to each other, and we kept talking to each other, and he couldn't pay attention to see if his sign was being said, so then he kept blaming me for missing it. It was really funny. This game ended in an attempt to tell a fictitious story, then a game of honor code spin the bottle, where we hugged instead of kissed. It was me, Talmage, Wayne, Tim, this guy named Joe, Elizabeth, Roxy, Andrea, and this awesome guy named Dan(the same one who danced at me). Anyways, we played for a while, and it was great hugging. It got my endorphins pumping! Then we sort of migrated into the cougar cove. We talked about lots of stuff, then we started playing truth or truth. After some awesome questions, Tim asked me who I would make my valintine in our FHE family, including Andrea and Orson Scott Card. I said everyone, then someone said I couldn't say everyone, so I got the option of top three, so I said the only guys from our family, Tim Talmage and RHBen. Then Roxy made me do the Throw off a cliff make out and Marry. So in code I said my answers, then Joe was like "what? You're going to throw tim off a cliff, marry Ben, and make out with Talmage?" Really loud and it was... interesting. Then Tim started doing the fake crying, and I said there would be a big pillow down there, and Talmage said it would be made of humming bird feathers, which started a whole new conversation. Then we stayed there for many hours, and ended up leaving at midnight. This was a record for loitering after family home eavining time. All in all, it was a fantastically fun night. Horray!

Fun Dance

Last night was the stake dance, and let me just say I haven't had that much fun at a dance in a VERY long time, possibly even ever. We did a bunch of line dances that we lerned for family home evening, and I felt truly mormon. It was so great to wear pants instead of a skirt, because you can dance so much more freely. This kid Dan who is really awesome came up and danced sort of at me, and it was really fun. I have never been asked to dance by other people before. I danced with Blane, RHBen, Talmage, Morgan, Thane, and Kevin. They were all really fun. When Ben and I were dancing, we were really close, so it was wierd to look at him. I would talk to him facing left or right, but eventually I got comfortable with it. During one of the swing songs, Talmage taught me this cool step that you do side by side with someone, and I discovered that it is very dangerous to dance next to him. He kicked like ten people just in that one song. He was also wearing his all white gangsa outfit with a dew rag and hat. He is so wierd. Anyways, it was always fun to be in different circles of people, because there was always a different kind of energy. Wayne was the... most intertaining person to watch. Tim was there, and I guess he isn't much of a dancer, because it didn't look like he was having much fun, and he left sometime through. After the dance, we all loitered around and talked, and I mentioned that I was so hot that I wanted to roll around in the snow, so RHBen was like, OK, and he started pulling me towards the door. Then on our way we saw some other people from our family, and he started convincing them to go with us. We stood there for a while, and I decided to go without him, or else I was going to cool down too much to do it. So Roxy and I went outside and ran around in the snow without any shoes on. I never knew people were serious when they said its like being stabbed in the foot when walking through snow, but it really does feel like that. Anyways, we all went over to T Hall and hung out till 1:30. That was really nice and fun and relaxing. Then when the boys were kicked out, Roxy and I went upstairs and watched the extras of Talladega Nights until 2:00. Thus concluded our very fun day.

Planetarium, Pizza, and more

My FHE dad, Blane, asked me on a date for Friday night, where we all went to the Brick Oven, then to the planetarium show in the ESC. who was there you say? In couple order: Blane and I, Roxy and Talmage, RHB and this girl Racheal, David Romney and this girl Ginny. We had sooo much fun. The pizza we had was so incredibly tasty! The stars being projected onto the dome ceiling were so beautiful, and the guy presenting also gave us a slideshow on the life of a star. It was so interesting and fun. Then afterwards we played with all the scientific toys that are in the ESC. We were in there for like, two hours. Then we went back to the Morris Center, and the group whittled down until it ended up being me, Roxy, Talmage, and Ben. We stayed in there, laying on the floor until about 1:30. It was so fun, and it was the first BYU date that the boy asked me on, which was a welcome change.
On Saterday, Roxy bought the game Cooties. We invited Tim to play with us at about 4, and he ended up staying with us for the rest of the day. We went to Caleb and Holly's house to play Mario, and Tim wasn't too bad. Then he came to Rick and Shelley's and had dinner and watched about 1,000 episodes of the Office with us.
Today has been fun, but it isn't over, so I guess I'll write about it later.

Home is great!

I like being home. It's really nice and fun and really warm. I like the fact that I can walk outside and not have to put on a coat (sorry Roxy, I mean hooded sweatshirt). I got lots of great things for Christmas, like a digital camera, new jammies and slippers, my DVD collection doubled. Surpridingly, one of my favorite things was an antique piece of music from the 20's with notes in it, and it is just the most fun song with the whole 20's style called "She's Got 'It.'" It's been really great to be with my family, and to see all my old Redlands friends. It is a really new experience coming back and and having things be the same, but different at the same time. I got to see my fifth grade teacher and mother of one of my long time friends get baptized tonight. It was really beautiful and very exciting. I also saw my most favorite person Sister Haimson. She is just so fabulous, and makes me feel so fabulous. I really like chilling with my family, but I do miss BYU and Roxy and all my friends.

OK, lets get down to the nitty gritty

So, in my last post, I said what do I need to do to make a boy ask me out. I say this because other people get asked out, but I always end up having to ask out the boy if I want to go out. Not one boy has asked me out this school year, so what do I need to do? This is an open question for all to answer to. Maybe I just need to go on an elbow touching spree.

so many things

I just took my 30 question super easy healthy living test and I got an A. And on the screen, it said "Fantastic" next to it. It made me feel good even though it was totally easy. Finals are sort of intimidating, like someone is kicking my shoe, and yet I'm not as scared as I should be. If I were more scared I would be studying harder, but I think I'll do fine. It will be so fun to go home and have all of us together. It's crazy that school gets out so close to Christmas, but that's the way it goes. Hey, all you married people who read this... what do I need to do to get a boy to ask me out?

"Don't worry... her heart's just imploding"

So the ward temple square trip is on Saterday, and I am so totally stoked!!!!!!!!! I really want all my favorites and I to stick together for the day, so that we can have a rockin' good time. My favorites include: Talmage, Tim, RHB, Andrea, Ashley (pink and blue), Danica, Jamie...really its my whole family home evening group. We shall laugh, play, eat, and go sight-seeing. Can I wait? Of course not, why are you even asking???!!!! I don't know, I thought you were joking. Well, I wasn't.

Home Adventures

We got home late Monday night, or should I say very early Tuesday morning... about 2 AM California time. Anyways the highlights of the break were:
Tuesday- sleeping in, seeing, my family, seeing Adam Cook, going shoping with Mom and getting SUPER cute stuff.
Wednesday- going on a walk... without a jacket. just shorts and a t-shirt. and getting food assignments. Mine were drinks, green bean casserol, and pumpkin pie. Judith and the kids came over too, and it was super fun. baby Justin has blond hair now, instead of black thicknesses.
Thursday- Thanksgiving. tasty everything, and so much derbey pie! Thanksgiving nap, and another walk. we then rented Nany McFee and Big. We watched them both, along with a little Spider Man II that happened to be on TV. I love Toby Mguire!!!
Friday- this was a nice day. I taught Kellie and Carlie a lesson for my Book of Mormon class. We hung out with Megan a little bit, then we went to the hill park! We played a craxy game where me, Mom, and Kellie were throwing two frisbees, then Dad came in the mix, along with a football. That was really fun. Then Kellie and I threw around a baseball. My pitching arm is still alive. We had leftovers for dinner, followed by Eloise at Christmas. Then Mommy and I went shopping a little, and now here I am.

Somthing that is weird about being home is that I miss BYU. I miss all my friends, because they are the closest friends I've ever had. I haven't said Boom Shadow nearly as much as I should. Or craxy. I love both places, so... I don't know. I'm glad I got to come home, and I'll be glad to be back at school.

life is going nice

So, I've looked at myself, and realized that I love being up here in college, with all this crazy weather, and all these amazing people who I love, and the fun things I get to learn and do. Although I am so glad I get to be here, I am way excited to go and visit Redlands. I want to wear shorts, see the mountains, go on a walk, teach the family "cricket owl," eat delicious home made food for days in a row, see fun people like all the young women, Adam Cook, and Kate Hill. I need some fresh stories about her. I'm excited to be able to drive places, and maybe even rollerblade a bit. The ride will be interesting to say the least, just because it will be very full in that car for those 9+ hours. But it will be fun. I hope we sing (charlie will sing with me).
So, I have come to adore Monday nights, just because I get to play with about 15 of my favorite friends. And usually I linger with a few others for a few hours afterwards. It's like a crazy tradition that has been since the beginning of the family: Tizight like unto a dish. It will be sad how the dynamics will change when my brothers start going on missions.
I had my first head-cuddle with my brother Tim yesterday. Blaine and Roxy don't love me enough to head-cuddle with me, but that's OK, because Tim's hair felt funny on my hair. Oh, last night, everyone went around and said something they like about me because I was spotlighted. There were some nice things, like I have a pretty smile, I dress nice, or I'm funny. Then there were some wierd ones, like I have a great imagination because I can build a fort(Tim), or I'm craxy (Ben), or I have duck lips sometimes (Talmage). Roxy said she likes the wierd sayings I make up, and Wayne said he likes all my nicknames, like Jules or Julikins.
This week is going to be crazy homework filled, if I could only get off the computer. I get to go observe children this week. I'm really excited about that.

There's a penny in our butter!

Oh....mymymymymymy....

Preference was so amazingly fun. I can't tell you how much fun we all had. Ice skating is a really good excuse to hold hands... especially Roxy's. I only fell once, and took out Talmage with me. But Ben was right there to help me up. It was great. Lots of other funny things happened, and some awkward things happened, like the combined efforts of Ben and I to almost kill a girl. oh, I felt so bad. Anyways, we had a blast. They had the comedy sportz team there, and we watched some of it. The ref was the bishop from Sons of Provo. He is real funny. On the ice, my hands started to freeze, so Ben let me use his gloves. H tried to teach me how to do that stop thing, but I was a failure. That's OK though, beause he held my hand to make sure I didn't die. Lots of other stuff happened. Thanks to the best brother in law, we got home some time before midnight. Talmage and Roxy and Ben and I stayed outside and talked (and did other random things) until about 1:45. It was really fun. I got lots of good pictures, and I can't wait to get them developed! I am soo obese! =)

waiting for tonight

I can't do it, I can't wait for tonight. I am way totally stoaked for preference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ice skating with my three favorite people will be so magical. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHYLA!!!

Yay for writing until my eyes fall out

I really like writing my novel. I'm writing about my dreams, and so its kind of a flow of consciousness. I kind of just write and write, and I know a lot of poo is coming out, but I think some good stuff is coming.

My crew got off work early tonight, and Wednesdays are visiting hours. I usually get home when boys are not aloud anymore, so when I was walking to my room, I heard man voices and I was disturbed for a few seconds... then I realized I am stupid. Anyways, Roxy and I were sitting here writing our novels, when we get a knock at the door, and guess who it was? Red Head Ben! He came in the last like two minutes of visiting time, just to visit! I felt so special! Can you tell how excited I am by the amount of !!!!s Anyways, I cannot wait for Preferecne!!!!!!!!!!!!

the final answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So lets get started. It was a fun evening at Shelley's house. Once we got home, Roxy started listening to her ten messages. We listened to a few of RHB old ones because they are just too humorous. But it turns out, there's a new message. In it he tells me to call him, even if it's one o'clock, because he says "it's going to be pretty cool." So it's 12:30 and I call him. I'm like, " Hi, it's Julie." and he's like, " Hi, what's up?" and I go " I don't know, what is up?" and he contemplates his wording for a moment. Then he says, "Will you meet me in your lobby?" and i say "Yeah." So I go down there and he kind of sneaks up on me. Then he gives me a plate of snicker-doodles and says, "Julie will you marry me?" and I said, " No you fool! You haven't even been on a mission yet. You pretty much can't go to preference with me anymore, so therefore, the other option of Talmy is now open." Just Kidding, he said, "I wasn't quite sure about my answer." So at first I'm thinking he can't go with me anymore, so now he's giving me these consolation snicker-doodles. But then he's like, "I think you need to look a little closer." So I start moving the cookies, and lo and behold there is a note card on the bottom that says YES! I was sooooooooo happeeeeee. Then we stood outside and talked for a while about my failed plan and his feeling dumb by just saying yes over the phone. We talked about life and about what dance we want to go to. In the middle of it all he sang a song from The Lion King. Pretty much I am totally stoaked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Preference madness

So You all know that I was asking RHB to preferecne, but my plan went horribly wrong. I went to five balloonst o his roommate to give to him, but he didn't show up. Luckily, Charlie came by, so he took them up to his room for me. But then we missed his call, because we gave him a mysterious phone number to call at a certain time, so we could read him a mission impossible thing. So he left a message that was so cute. He was like...Hey, this is ...Ben, I'm not sure what this is exactly, but I think this is the right number...so sorry I was not home I guess. So I'll talk to you later, or something.
Then he called again the next day and said...This is agent Fisher trying to report for duty. Sorry I keep missing you and I'll keep trying. Bye.
So I called him today, and I was like "hi Ben, this is Julie. You know those mysterious balloons and that mysterious phone number? That was me." and under his breath I could hear him go, Yesssss. It was so awesome!!!! so he said yes, and I dont know what dance we're going to, but I think we're going to have a lot of fun. Now if only Roxy would ask a certain someone...