Another What A Great Day!

I had 2 photoshoots today back to back and let me tell you, there are few things in this world that make me happier than taking pictures. I had a wonderful time shooting Cacia and her roommates. They were a blast to work with, as well as doing headshots for Camilo's friend for her dance thing.

After at least 5 hours of taking pictures, then coming back to have a wonderful evening chatting it up with my roommates and Albert stopping by, and gorgeous weather. Oh and Skyping Hannah and Lizzy. Today was amazing! Almost as good as yesterday, but still amazing none the less.

Have to laughed
until you cried
today? I hope so!
Meg

It's a beautiful day and nothing to do....

So I am blogging! Woohoo!!!! I really have no idea what I am going to write so we'll see what happens. I've been in a rather "deep thinking" mood lately and last night I spit out a great deal of my thoughts into my journal for several hours. I almost considered posting it but changed my mind because I rather talk of much sillier things..... Like chocolate chip cookie bars! Guess who has been craving them.....ME and I have more than ONE day off this week to make them.....YAY!!!!!!! *cheering with hands clasped, waving from side to side*

Anywhoo.....I have decided to write my thought process in a few minutes:

To start, it is gorgeous out today and I REALLY wanna take pictures but all my "models" are preoccupied with work or school. =[ I am tempted to dig out my remote and shoot myself (wow that sounded odd....), I have only ever done that once....and the pictures turned out well I think. Maybe I should.....but then I'd feel vain and that is no good.....but it's pretty out, a lovely 45 degrees! Given there is wind but I can't complain, it's warm enough for me. Glad I'm not in Idaho right now....

Though I do LOVE Idaho. Ah Idaho....good times.....6 1/2 weeks until I go back! I like to think it is Friday and then I can round down to 6 because 6 seems SO small, but 7 seems big.....why is that??? Weird. Ah but weird is good like the awesome weird and AWESOME music Yutsil gave me today! Though it didn't all transfer, I'll get the rest Thursday. I am psyched after the first mix she made me. My music library is gonna rock! And then I can dance around like a total goof and have a blast while doing so. Ah I want a dance party!

Maybe if Kris isn't busy after work we shall have to go have a mini little dance party with our silly selves like we did 2 weeks ago when we went downtown. Random little dance parties are the best. The carefree, "I am having fun so deal with it" feeling is great and worth the silliness. Besides, why do we ever care about what the strangers that we'll probably never see again think about us anyway? Exactly, we shouldn't care. And that is why I love goofing off, plus everyone is secretly jealous of all the fun you're having while they're miserable and boring.....well that or that you're a crazy loony.

But yes, actually Yutsil would dance with me too. She is adorable, I wish I was as adorable as she is. I also wish I could sing like her but that is for another story for another day. I love hanging out with her. She's one of those people you can sit down for hours and never have a moment of silence but also never have a one way conversation (yes I know I can talk anyone's ear off except maybe my Aunt Bobby or my mother). But Yutsil is one of those few people that can keep up with me, and puts in equally as much to the conversation as I do and we NEVER run out of things to talk about ever. In all honestly we ALWAYS run out of time before we run out of things to say. Do you not love people like that??? All the same, it helps that she has a very similar mindset to me in beliefs, in morals and all around girly yet somewhat logical topics. I mean we still disagree like normal human beings but we don't fight over anything. Overall I am wondering why I didn't get to really know her sooner and hoping we stay good friends. I'm glad I'm getting to know her now though, even if it's bad timing but heaven knows I seem to make friends with people at the last minute more than not lately.

But yeah I guess that is just what is on my mind today. That and I think I may go hang out with my mother. Gosh I love her! She is amazing and more than anything I just wanna hang out with her all the time lately but it seems our schedules tend to conflict. =[

But we did get to watch Revenge of the Bridesmaids on netflix today. (Catherine go watch it RIGHT NOW!) Everyone else, well....watch it if you're a girl or don't mind somewhat silly chick flicks.

Yeah that's life. Hope you're all having a WONDERFUL DAY! Smiling for 10 seconds will make you and everyone else feel a little better. SMILE!!! Life is an adventure, enjoy the happy moments and learn from the hard ones but don't ever give up. And at the end of the day I hope you've learned and laughed.

I'm awake in the afternoon
Fell asleep in the living room
It's one of those moments
When everything is so clear
Meg

No Pictures, but good stories

So today we embarked on some crazy adventures, some would dare say BOLD, RIDICULOUS and downright SILLY. But all the same it was quite fun. So we (being Cacia, Rachel, Alisa and I) started out our day with pancakes. Cacia made them and though we had to eat them in about 30 seconds, they were quite delicious. Wonderful breakfast to begin a day of adventure!

We went to Get Connected which is pretty much EFY for freshmen college students. Get Connected is decently cool. We played lots of games, bonded and all that great stuff. Actually we did have a wonderful devotional; by President Clark today about living the standards. So we had our physical boost and out spiritual boost for the day before playing silly games and eating hamburgers. (Aka Cookout, NOT BBQ! Crazy Westerners! JK love um anyway). So after HOURS of games we were allowed to go home. We hung out and started a movie. I am not quite sure if it was due to my roommates lack of confidence in my persistence or boldness but I took the initiative! And told Jake to come over to give us a tour of the campus. =]

(Just to back up for a moment so the rest of the story doesn't get TOO confusing...) So my family flew to Utah, Saturday morning, but we had a layover in Texas. Now being up for 12 hours, running on 5 hours of poor sleep and sitting in a noisy plane for 3 hours makes you just a TINSY bit tired...so sitting in the airport, waiting on our flight, we met 2 RM's (Return Missionaries), fresh from out of the field. Now my family had talked and gotten to know the first one decently, and he was cool, but when the 2nd one came along, I was too tired to notice much except to smile and wave when I heard my name mentioned. So one flight later, getting off, the 2nd Elder was 2 seats on front of my family and as we were getting off. he turned around and handed my mom a piece of paper (meant for me) that says "If you (aka ME) need any help, os someone to show you around. You can call my parents house and they will pass your message......JLH P.S. Or to have fun as well. Up to you. Good luck. JLH"

So I held on to the paper, not really knowing what to expect, so I let it go Saturday and Sunday and finally Monday I decided to facebook stalk him and added him that way, because calling would be too awkward. Could you imagine that conversation? "Uh hello? Yeah so this is Megan, I met your son in the Dallas airport, and he offered to help me around campus..." Yeah not weird at all.....Thank goodness for Facebook.

So we chatted on there and I gave him my number for when he finally got his phone later that day. We chatted and agreed he could come up today to show me and my roommates around. So back to the adventure! So I guess my roommates didn't think I would actually invite him, and if you had went back a year ago....I probably wouldn't have. But what did I have to lose? To be shown around campus by a cute RM? Yeah like I was gonna pass that up...so I invited him over and about half way through our movie "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!!" He came in and sat down. We swapped names and all that fun stuff but ended up just getting into a long conversation for 2 hours (Alisa came in and out so she missed most of the conversation). It was fun and we all got along quite well. But he had to go run an errand but promised to come back in an hour and give us the tour. And so an hour and a Regina Spektor hair style, and Rachel's plans for her first date, later we went on the tour. (Yeah so my hair was curly and we mentioned Rachel had never been on a date before so he told her Friday she was going to have her first! How cute! And apparently I might be doubling with them, I dunno who I'm going with though...I think he has a friend or something he's bringing....we'll see...)

When he arrived the second time we had started to make dinner and our roommates started moving in. We were kinda rushed so we threw some chicken and spices in the crock-pot and veggies in the steamer. And Jake was so nice to help the 2 other girls bring all their stuff in while we worked on dinner. (We have SOOOOO MUCH FOOD!)

So the campus is small and cute and reminds me of NC in April right now. For all those who understand, it's 70 degrees with a GAZILLION flowers! GORGEOUS! SO yeah we walked around being our goofy selves. After finishing, Jake (That's his name FYI) offered to drive us around Rexburg to show us some stores and places we might want to check out.

He brought us back and we said our goodbyes until Friday. With heads spinning, and lack of space on the counter due to new roommates bringing TONS more food, we ate our little hobo dinner in Alisa and Cacia's room. With our plates and cups, we blessed our meal and ate it happily with our little family. (Oh and we didn't get much sleep last night due to bonding and lucky Jake left when we did) So half way through dinner, our sleepiness hit us and we all went loopy, laughing at EVERYTHING, literally! Oh the memories we are building....

So we rushed over to the talent show with our group. It was pretty sick! I won't go into details tonight but basically, amazing voices, beat boxing, rapping, remixing, single ladies and great classic songs.

Now we are home and...crap I was hoping to be out an hour ago.....oh well.....now off to rest and finish our Get Connected stuff.

So yeah, crazy day between touring campus, Rachel getting her first date with a cute RM, our first hobo hyper dinner and new roommates, it goes to show, you never know what will happen when you take the initiative and reach out! So don't be shy, if you get a cute guys number, call him! You might get a free tour and a date out of it!

Initiative, loving every minute of it!
Meg