Wanderings down the never ending road...

It's funny how being alone with your own thoughts makes you contemplate many a things that you never even realized you thought about. But when you look closely, you have been thinking about all those things quietly in the back of your mind the whole time. When you finally say your thoughts out loud, they sound more familiar than you expect. Thoughts are a strange and curious thing. I cannot speak for all women or any guys at all for that matter, but I find it amazing how my brain connects every little thing, from one point to the next without even flinching. A smooth string of thoughts, each quite different from the first but all connected by a word or memory.

I realized this the other day while talking to my friend Rachel on the phone. Yes I know I was not alone but while talking to her I came to this realization. The mind is a vast and mysterious place and I can barely contemplate how it holds everything together. No wonder girls or people in general are as confused as they are; our minds are intense! Bless those doctors souls that study the brain, my brain might just explode taking in what those doctors learn.

All the same, I am grateful for the time I have had for reflection. There is a reason we are taught to keep journals. Mainly I have mom's memory, no offense mom but like you, and sometimes even dad, I have to write everything down because I will probably forget about it; this going back to our minds are complex and I easily can get lost in my own thoughts. If I have ever zoned out while talking to you, I am sorry, it was due to my brain making all these weird connections into other things. But also because writing out your thoughts helps you to organize your feelings and emotions. Or at least mine for that matter.

Maybe that is why I like chick flicks, because they always talk about their ridiculous 250,000 emotions they somehow are managing to feel all at once and I sit there thinking "THAT'S ME!" Like I said, minds are crazy, especially mine. I hope this gets better when I get older but I somehow doubt that it will, but let me hope. =D

But I hope each of you have had time to sit down and reflect on your own lives. You may learn even more about yourself. I know I have.

I never thought I would say this,
but 28 degrees is warm!
Meg

I laughed so hard I think I have a 6 pack

Basically I had a wonderful weekend =]

Rachel White (Elizabeth Moss's cousin) came up from Provo Thursday night. (She couldn't find a Friday ride surprisingly). Plus she got here an hour and a half early! She hadn't eaten anything on the way up therefore, we decided to make some dinner. Rachel is a great deal like my friend Kris, in the sense she experiments with food. We ended up making angel hair noodles with cream of chicken, garlic powder, salt, pepper and corn. It was DELICIOUS!!! Then Brent came over to make cookies but it was more like Rachel and I were making them/having a flour fight and Brent just put some of them on the cookie tray.

It reminded me of "Uptown Girls" where they make cookies and they tell Molly to put them in the oven and while she is doing that the friends ask "Are you sure she can handle this?" and her best friend says "Don't worry girls, it's just cookie mix, how badly could she screw it up?" (The next scene is of the oven with flames coming out of it and everyone is screaming) But don't worry, we didn't burn the cookies at all =D But we were both tired after that and stayed in and watched some chick flicks.

Friday Rachel came with me to my Book of Mormon class. Her and Clarissa (one of the girls I sit next to and also my "companion" when we go teach lessons for class) got along quite well. Our assignment for the next two classes is to reread the talks we read at the beginning of the semester and then discuss them in our group of 5 people. (It sounds like my teacher won't be here which will be interesting...)

Then we decided we wanted to make dinner, this AWESOME salsa stuff but we needed avocado, tomato and green onion. So we walked to Albertson's. And that is a BIT of a walk! But it was lots of good exercise and we had fun especially the random people that yell hey to you from their cars as you walk by. We came back and made this:

Homemade salsa! It is kidney beans, tomato, onion, avocado, green beans (we didn't have corn), lime juice (we didn't have lemon), cilantro, salt, pepper and garlic pepper. It was DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See how yummy it looks?

Then we walked again but this time to The Cocoa Bean and we got an Irish Caminilla Frappe.
YUMMY!

See?

And a Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcake!!!
You know you want this! But too bad!

And my mommy sent my lots of sharpies so Rachel and I had a sharpie party! We drew lots and lots of pictures! I was in such a giddy mood from this! I think the sharpies got to us because we died laughing and I was too giddu for my own good, I was nearly bouncing off the walls!

AND RACHEL BROUGHT CHEERWINE!!!!!
This is exactly what it looks like =D

We did origami! And taught each other different things

She taught me this nifty thing and also one with 6 sheets and it makes a box!

Saturday we went to the gardens to take some pictures and we did though it was quite cold, we ran back to get my gloves and my remote for my camera. While looking around for a place to take pictures......I am not sure who instigated it......but I think we both looked at each other, read each others minds and instantaneously grabbed some snow off the table, patted it together and threw it! We spent about 20 minutes running around getting snow everywhere and making ourselves even colder! But finally we settled down and took some pictures.

Pretty Rachel!

I can fly! Shhhh it's a secret.

Besties! =D

And I went in the library for the first time!!! (Normally I just go upstairs just to mount prints but not IN the library part) Rachel was trying to do homework but the computer didn't have the program she needed.

Instead we made Arizona Skillet Dinner and it tasted SOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!! =D =D =D =D
Then I took her to Sammy's and we had a Mint Oreo Pie Shake and listened to the band and I saw a kid from my Book of Mormon class.

We went home and decided to make pizookie but we knew we couldn't eat it all so we invited Clarissa over. We had a little TOO much fun making the cookie dough, and making a practice test (because the altitude does weird stuff to food here). The cookie was HUGE! I wish I had a picture. We of course smothered it in ice cream and chocolate syrup. But we only ate around a third of it (not being hungry after Arizona Skillet and Sammy's). But we decided to sign the door
while making fun of some really dumb chick flicks such as "Dear John" "500 Days of Summer" and "Charlie St.Cloud"

Thanks to mom for sending me ALLLL those pretty colored sharpies! We had to keep the door open to write, so we froze, plus being hyped up on sugar and then working with sharpies sent us into a rage of laughter where I don't think we breathed for a good 30 minutes, if only barely.
If I don't have some amazing abs after this weekend I will be quite upset.

After all the laughter we settled down to introduce Clarissa to the show "Chuck" and watched 17 Again until Clarissa had to leave and I fell asleep on the couch.

Today we all had cold showers because "Luke Warm" took the place of "warm" today. =[ Anyway we had church but it was snowing really hard when we left so 6 of us packed in Nicole's TINY car then we couldn't find parking so we had to drive to the other side of campus but we took the long way plus the window kept fogging up. It was QUITE the adventure but we ended up parking by the girl dorms. Church was good and we came back and hung out and watched Psych until Rachel had to leave.

FUN WEEKEND! THE END!

"Oh and he died too"

Meg

Weekend

Sorry it's taken me so long, CRAZY busy this week, not so much homework but just so much to be done. On the bright side I did get laundry done Monday! And I made Arizona Skillet dinner tonight =D It wasn't AS good as mom's but still pretty good, everyone liked it. (We made it because we're out of meat...) Plus I've been DYING to have it!

But I'll let the pictures do the talking for this weekend =D

This weekend I got to see some AMAZING people!

Catherine and I went to the Cocoa Bean and got the most amazing cupcakes ever!
Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake & Better Than Whatever

Got got yummy Frappes!

My cute sister!

We painted our toes crazy colors!

And watched Confessions of a Shopoholic

Catherine curled her hair since I brought her straightener to her.
Then I went to go see Rachel White =D

She had Cheerwine, I hugged it for at least 5 minutes! Sadly we forgot to drink it =[

We wanted to make cookies, Rachel is short so she had to climb to get the sugar =]

Rachel and Kelsey! And the most amazing Double Chocolate Chip Peppermint Drop Cookiedough! It was better than the cookie! So we ate it!

But it kinda looked like poop....

But we still ate it because it was the yummiest nasty looking stuff ever!

Dinglehopper!
(If you don't know what movie that's from....you make me SAD!)

We made pazookie =D

And Jared and his friends came to visit and eat pazookie! =D

Then I went back to Catherine and Jesse's apartment and we carved pumpkins!!!!

Jesse carved leaves, I carved a sun! and Catherine carved rain drops!

Then we made Lava Baby Cakes!
(Chocolate cupcakes with creamy fudge inside, with strawberries and powdered sugar)

Another look because they just looked like pure heaven!

And my sister is SOOOOO crafty that she makes bowls out of magazines!

And pictures out of buttons and paper!

Not sure what this is, but it looks cool!

She stitches too!

Crazy awesome!

More basket things!

Cute huh?

Stricklan <3>

It looks like a flower =D

All her CRAZY homemade awesome jewelry! And the little bowl thing is the cutest!!!!

Little stars! She made me some for my apartment! Some of them got knotted though =[

And magnets! She made me some too! =D

So yeah my sister is pretty much amazing and this weekend was fun! =D =D =D

Get of town!
Meg