176.

Sometimes I just wish that Jenan and I were closer than we previously were.
I'm 99% sure she knows exactly what I'm going through.
Kudos, cause this sucks.

175.

Save the Elephants!
The UN is meeting tomorrow to consider letting people hunt elephants to harvest their ivory.
Not. Cool.
Sign the petition to stop this from happening:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/no_more_bloody_ivory_gg/?rc=fbp&pv=1

174.

I DO have facebook you silly stalkers who want to know everything about me when I go to Idaho.

ACTUALLY.

I'll tell you everything about my life in Idaho right here, right now.




. . . . . . . I'M BOREEEEEEEEEED.



That is it- my life in Idaho.

173.

I have had this blog since I started looking into the church. That is a long commitment for me. (The online blog part.) That never happens. I had livejournals for some time in my life. Each one lasted about 4 months, then I'd get a new one. So, don't be surprised if I just stop posting entirely on this soon.

Sometimes you just gotta move on.

172.

Hrm. I guess people (Bex) like it when I update this. Lo and behold if SHE will do the same.

When I'm told not to do something, I want to do it ten thousand fold more. Ever since Paul's talk at church about choosing friends wisely, I've been really thinking about it. It is stated that we, members of the LDS church, ought to choose our friends wisely. Our friends greatly impact our way of thought and our actions. This isn't just a view of the church, obviously. Everyone uses the excuse, "Oh, he/she fell into the wrong crowd." John Bytheway, a comedian of the LDS church, uses the analogy of a car: where are you going and who are you going with? If someone drinks excessively, it is best to not hang around them for fear of pressures, desires and temptations. Or so it is said. Here is a quote from the For the Strength of Youth pamphlet distributed by the church, "Choose your friends carefully. They will greatly influence how you think and act, and even help determine the person you will become. Choose friends who share your values so you can strengthen and encourage each other in living high standards. A true friend will encourage you to be your best self" (pg 12). While I agree that it is good to have friends who uplift you, support you and encourage you, I still disagree. I have a friend from work who drinks, smokes both cigarettes and pot, and lives with her boyfriend. She invited me to hang out with her and some of her friends one night. I agreed. While I was afraid that it would be awkward to be the only sober one there I also thought that it would sure be amusing as heck. Not going to lie, drunk people amuse the heck outta me. However, I was also afraid that being around alcohol would be a huge temptation for me; I come from an alcoholic family. I've had plenty of alcohol before. I can tell you which wines I prefer, vodka is DISGUSTING alone but mixed with things it is amazing and that I love Bacardi's flavored rums. But, nonetheless, I decided to go hang out with this friend. I had an amazing time. I learned to play beruit, watched Zombieland and more importantly, didn't compromise my standards. Was I tempted? Oh, heck yes. But I have control and I have friends who won't sit there and say, "Oh, just ONE School-bus won't kill ya!" I told them that I don't drink, I informed everyone there that I don't and they said, "Okay." It's that easy. People DO respect opinions and standards. I don't have to sit there and say, "Oh, is your boyfriend going to drink that beer while we watch this movie? Yeah? Oh, I gotta go then. I can't hang out with you." There IS a gray area.

Bex. I cleaned my floor for you. Stop being sick. I misss youuuuu. =[
AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOUSING.
So, go on AIM tomorrow evening.
Should'a facebooked you I guess.

So, SHAWN ROCKS MY SOCKS.
He loves heavy-metal.
AND HE KNOWS WHO DREAM EVIL IS.
And he is straight-edge.
And is going to school for forensic sciences.
Epitome of amazingness right there.

It makes me sad to talk about amazing people who live in New Hampshire.
I'm going to be leaving soon. =/

I went shopping today.
I wanted to be super annoying so I complained in Rue 21 that there is no Rue 21 in Idaho.
Or Utah. (There's actually like.... ten stores in Utah... and some are near the Idaho border haha!)
Or Wyoming. (There is 1 near the Colorado border...)
Or Montana.
(There really aren't any in Montana or Idaho.)
But really, I wanted to justify buying three bottles of their perfume. (I was stocking up.)
I then gave her my Rexburg zip code. "Oh, you really are way out there, aren't you?"
Haha. She didn't believe me? :P

Anywayyyy. I should go to bed. I have church in the morninggg.

171. Dear Jasmine

Re-evaluate the phrase "cold as hell."
BAHA. <3

170.

Ughhh Music Theory class. MUST you require me to memorize vocabulary that is extremely confusing? Classes from home has its advantages such as, I don't have to be surrounded by the academic environment which can be really stressful and distracting. However, since I'm not surrounded by people who are focused on schoolwork... I completely forget that it exists.

So, there are some concerns about my major... like, if I did geology, I have to take calculus and physics and chemistry... which frightens me more than a bunch of narrow minded English majors. Annnnnd, aside from geology, BYUI doesn't really have anything else I'd be interested in. Maybe I could do photography, but where would I go with that? IF I were to do photography, I would want to take journalism and geology with it. With that I could write articles and take my own photos for like, National Geographic (or something akin to it.) Really, no matter what I major in, there are going to be classes I will NOT like.

169.

Why do homework when I can catch up on all the episodes of Criminal Minds, Bones, NCIS and Secret Life all day?
Today was an amazing lazy day.
I SHOULD get ahead on homework since I won't have all this free time soon. It WILL get busy at work soon, and when it gets busy, my third class will start... so I should REALLY not dally...

Oh, Bones is on... There's always tomorrow.

168.

Night-after-shopping-at-Wal*Mart-regime:
1. Try new facewash
2. While nose is wet, apply black-head remover peel off strip thing from hell
3. While peel off nose thing from hell is on nose, apply whitening strips.
4. Wait another 5 minutes
5. Peel off nose thing from hell. CRY.
6. Apply upper lip wax cause, we all get it, now get rid of it.
7. While upper lip wax is doing it's work, tweeze eye-brows
8. Wait another 20 minutes
9. Remove whitening strips from mouth. Grimace at the gel left behind in mouth.
10. Apply calming tea tree toner (from Lush) to red areas of face. (Don't use too soon after tweezing or nose thing from hell, because despite the fact that it's calming, it hurts on open pores.)
11. Apply moisturizing lotion made from donkey testicles (reference to Mamma Mia!, the movie... not actually made out of donkey testicles... I think)
12. Brush teeth
13. Floss

This doesn't happen all the time... I'm just stalling. =]
Basic Music Theory... Ughh. HAHA.

167.

I would put this on Facebook, but people there get fired up and pissed off when people state their opinions and said opinions aren't "correct."

I LOVE PRESIDENT OBAMA.

166.

So tonight I decided to hang out with some of my co-workers. I expected it to be SUUUUPER awkward cause they were bringing their boyfriends and errr, I was the only single one there, but it was fantastic.We went bowling! And I'm not as terrible as I thought I would be. I'm not good, either. Haha. It was just really awesome to not be treated like the odd one out... the 9th wheel or anything. Yeah, they'd all be smoochie and sitting on laps, but hey, I got to sit on laps too. :P HAH! I just appreciate them so much more now. And it was nice to NOT just go home and watch movies online till dawn on a Friday night.

165.

My bedroom is being taken over...
by clothing.
Oh hello old habit of mine!
Yes, it's a problem.
But I love it.

164.

I love my best friend.

I promise, I won't doubt you for a second.

<3

"She's the best friend I ever had."

-Fried Green Tomatoes-

163.

Today was amazing.
I slept for a billion hours, read half a book then went to work.
I accidentally hung up on a customer. Ooops.
Then I went to lumber, my favorite part of the store. Lumber is like, a family. Well, while I was down there, I was doing some LLCs (Lowe's Learning Center) stuff to keep me busy at the Commercial desk which is about 15 feet away from my normal register. This man walked in who appeared to be afraid of showers and combs. I decided not to judge and said hello to which he says hi, ignores me, then comes back to the register to talk to me. OH MY LANTA. He told me about how he was sleeping in his truck in Alton when he felt the ground shake underneath him. He talked to someone in the area and they said that a fault line runs directly under the town of Alton. Well, I can tell you that there have been no recent earthquakes in the Alton bay area. The last earthquake in New Hampshire was on the second of January in the south west corner of New Hampshire. It registered at a 1. He then asked me if I knew why the earthquakes in both Alton and Haiti happened. I was about to launch into how Haiti was a strike-slip fault line, how earthquakes there are pretty common, however, not of this magnitude, and that, although NH isn't on a fault line, nor does it have any faults in it, the earth is always in motion and the ground does move. Before I could even start, he said,
"Planet X."
*Blink, blink, stare*
"What?" I ask. He continues, explaining that the extra-terrestrials from planet X are responsible for our tectonic demise.
"Do you know how the moon was created?" He asks.
"Yes," I reply.
"So you know that it was engineered?"
"Engineered?" 'WTF?!?' goes through my mind. He then launched into how there were too many mathematical coincidences for the moon to be a coincidence. Something about how the moon does something in 366 days and so does the sun and how the sun is 400x the size of the earth and the earth is 400x the size of the moon or something. I have no idea. I stopped listening and was trying to figure out ways to get out of the conversation without being rude.
"Yeah, forget all that bogus about how there was some cosmic collision and the moon was formed from that rubbish. It was CRAFTED. The material for the moon was taken from the ocean. They're in the process of proving that."
I wonder who "they" is referring to... certainly not NASA.
"And when they landed on the moon, they found out that it's hollow. Back in the sixties, when they landed on the moon, it rang like a bell cause it's hollow. Only, the government has been keeping that from the public!"
Then how the hell do you know this? Somehow he switched the subject on me to the book of Genesis.
"The flood really happened in Genesis. Only, it wasn't Noah. It was Gilgamesh. You know where Gilgamesh is from?"
I respond, "The Epic of Gilgamesh was written by the Sumerians."
"The who??"
"Sumerians."
"No, it was the Mycenaeans"
Say whatt? No, bud, no. It was DEFF the Sumerians. So I explained Sumer to him, which apparently Sumer made sense not Sumerians... anyway, I was hoping that since I shut him down he'd make his point and leave. WRONG.
"So, Gilgamesh was Noah..."
"No, it wasn't Gilgamesh."
"YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH??" He leaned in closer to me. Hello, personal hygiene?? No, none? Didn't think so.
Apparently my knowledge of Sumer wasn't enough to show him that I know what I'm talking about.
"Yeah, it was actually Utnapishtim that was your Noah."
"Okay, well, that's the true account; it was around THOUSANDS of years before Genesis. And all that crap about God this, God that, it's fake, he's actually called Elohim."
That sentence didn't even make sense. I look over at my register (since I'm still at the commercial sales desk) and see Rob talking to Marilee with their backs to me. Then the commercial sales phone rings. I call over to Marilee who works Commercial Sales. Rob says, "Just answer it." The extraterrestrial man is still talking about Jesus and Noah. (By the way, apparently, according to him, the cross isn't a sign of Jesus, it's a sign derived from the planet that goes around the sun perpendicular to our orbit which makes a cross...)
"Commercial Sales, this is Cat."
"Cat, it's Marilee. Do you need to be saved from that ... man?"
"YES."
"Okay, repeat after me, 'I'll be right over to help' okay?"
"I'll be right over to help. Okay, thanks, buh-bye."
I hang up.
THE MAN KEEPS TALKING AFTER HEARING ME SAY THAT. Rob and Marilee are like, WTF, so they come over. Marilee pretends that she is the cashier and goes, "Hey, did they call you?"
"Yeah, I gotta go help Rob in Lumber." I turn to the man and say, "Well, back to work. Have a good day!"
Rob and I walk off into lumber, and Rob, the fine actor that he is, starts talking about how we have to move some top stock, rearrange the pine aisle and fix the OSB stack. Marilee called Rob to confirm that the guy was gone.
I told them what he was talking about and for the rest of the night, Rob blamed EVERYTHING on aliens.
Anthony and I hung out for a while. I like to talk to him. He is rational and positive. His girlfriend is very lucky to have him. He believes in chivalry and though I'm just some girl he works with, he respects me and treats me like a lady... though I'm far from a lady.
THIS IS MY FAMILY. And when I thought about the fact that I'm leaving my family, I started crying... at work. hahaha. I love them so much and I'll be leaving them in a couple of months. Lowe's has taught me to doubt my customers, in a good way, to prevent shrink. I've learned SO much about random things. I know what sofit is. I know how to mix paint. I know what paint brush you need for what job. I know the difference between different fertilizers. I know the advantages of an infrared grill. I know the difference between different caulking. I know tons about string trimmers, lawn mowers, cultivators. I have also learned that there are good men left in this world. While Devin is not what I'd call dating material, he is still a good guy. He lacks morals, ethics and dreams, but I still appreciate him. Then there are the other men I work with. While there are a couple that are just perverts, the rest are amazing men that I look up to and hope that my future husband can be like. I hope he has Todd's humor, Sean's faithfulness, Ande's positivity, Rob's hard-working persistence, Philip's intelligence and Kollin's quirkiness. I love my job so much. I have the ability to learn and grow there and work with people I love. I'm going to miss them so much.

162.

I recently visited an Eastern sage and asked him, ‘Is it possible to live for ever?’ ‘Certainly,’ he replied, ‘You must undertake to do two things.’ ‘What are they?’ ‘Firstly, you must never again make any false statements.’ ‘That’s simple enough. What is the second thing I must do?’ ‘Every day you must utter the statement ‘I will repeat this statement tomorrow.’ If you follow these instructions faithfully you are certain to live forever.’

– Jacqueline Harman, letter to the Daily Telegraph, Oct. 8, 1985

No, really,

Think about it.