Merry Christmas =)

Being home is AMAZING!

I have the best friends/boyfriend/family in the world.

This past week I:

-went Christmas shopping in Vegas

-played night games and froze my bum off

-went Christmas shopping with Jazmin

-ate 500 million sweets and loved every minute haha

-got to hold baby Jett at our Christmas Eve dinner

-made Hawaiian haystacks for my family & the Baers

-ate at Chili's, in-n-out, mimi's cafe, Panda Garden

& my mom's lasagna.

-went to an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

... it's been a really good week. haha

*Christmas*

went over to Danny's around 1 a.m.

helped him and Ris build a tv stand table thing.

didn't go to bed until around 4 a.m.

my nephews got me up at 8

we opened presents:

-a digital sewing machine

-a kit to go with it

-a vera bradley recipe holder & apron

-gift cards

-an underwater camera!

-a cool clock

-a keychain from Danny's mom that has his

mission picture on it. (with a note that said "take care of "him".")

**the best gift ever.

so Danny kept telling me he was working on my 'pinvees'

all week. I kept trying to look in his closet to see if I could catch

a peek at it. Jazmin called me last week while I was still in Hawaii

& told me his present for me was really good. ( i got him some good stuff

but his beats mine hands down.)

So when he came to pick up his present for his family

that he was hiding in my room, we exchanged our 'pinvees'.

I got him some boardshorts, an outfit for Hawaii, a journal,

and a book of rainchecks for Hawaii.

Then he handed me a CD and a letter.

The letter was 4 pages long.

It was a list of the songs followed by a reason why

he put it on the CD. Basically its 22 songs that are

in chronological order from the time he got home

and we started to hang out, to this past week with

an explanation as to how i made him feel, and these

songs express his feelings.

*Everytime We Touch -Cascada

*Bubbly (Acoustic Version) -Colbie Caillat

*Remember to Breathe -Dashboard Confessional

*Fallin' for You -Colbie Caillat

*Meet Me Halfway -Black Eyed Peas

*Shirts & Gloves -Dashboard Confessional

*Good Mornin' Life (From "Return To Me") -Dean Martin

*You're My Best Friend -Queen

*I Could Write A Book -Harry Connick, Jr.

*The Best Thing -Relient K

*Vanilla Twilight -Owl City

*Even Now -Dashboard Confessional

*I'm Taking You With Me -Relient K

*The Way I Am -Ingrid Michaelson

*One & Only -Teitur

*Bless the Broken Road -Rascal Flatts (my favorite song)

*Out of My League -Stephen Speaks

*The Luckiest -Ben Folds

*The One -Backstreet Boys

*The Man In Love With You -Rascal Flatts

*You & I -Ingrid Michaelson

*Must Have Done Something Right -Relient K

he put them into sections like pre-dating,

best friends while i was in hawaii,

Thanksgiving week,

3 weeks away from him,

and so on..

Hands down the best present i've ever gotten.

I have the best boyfriend ever.

haha Happy Holidays!

It's almost New Years!!

ohh my goodness.

only 1 written exam

& one spanish 'final conversation'

i'm not finished packing..

but i will be tomorrow!

I'm going to try and get on an earlier flight..

but everyone is trying to go home

so i doubt it will work..

but i'll pray for it =) haha

another form of good news!!!

My roommate Chantal I are moving

from this room...

into this huge room with Bree!

(this is messy.. it doesn't look like that now haha

but look how HUGE it is!! )

we kinda dominate this house haha

so it will feel so much bigger

living in this huge room

plus the kitchen/living room.

we are SO excited!!

ps. i just want to go home.

pps.. happy birthday to my sister JulieAnn!!

(ppps... she's going to the Rochester, NY mission

if i haven't blogged about it haha so yay!)

Adorable.

Photos for previous posts.

Christmas Decorations and the countdown in our house.

EDDIES..

Finals Week Schedule

I probably won't be posting a lot this week because of finals.

so I thought i'd post my finals schedule

so whoever reads this will know what I'm doing =)

Monday:

Doctrine & Covenants Final - 11 A.M. to 12 P.M.

Watch Spanish Class Presentations - 12:10-1:10 P.M.

Theatre - Final project with paper/5 minute play journals due (&review for final)

Tuesday:

Give Spanish Presentation 12:10-1:10P.M.

Music Literature - test opens in the testing center

Wednesday:

Watch Spanish Presentations

Music Literature - Listening Test 7-8:50A.M.

Theatre - Final 3-4:30 P.M.

Thursday:

Music Literature - Final closes in testing center at 5 P.M.

Spanish - Final in classroom 1-2:50 P.M.

plus my BIO final is due by Friday

Flight Thursday night (maybe at 11:15.

but hopefully i can change my flight so i can fly

directly into Vegas or else i'll have a long flight

and layover in Oregon =( )

=D its really exciting i know.

No.More.School.Please.

Last night I saw the Blind Side = SOO good..

it totally brought me back to

living in the South.. with all the

rich people, who have coach bags

and wear designer clothes to school.

And all the southern style houses

and the snooty people

&the beautiful trees..

and all the colleges they talk about..

it made me miss my friends haha

i probably know at least one person at each of those schools.

Craziness!

This morning I woke up early & went to the Swap Meet

Christmas Presents for my family? Check.

Friends? not yet..

We stopped in Haleiwa & had Pizza Bobs & Matsumotos.

I need an Ugly Christmas Sweater.

Christmas.. Christmas.. Home.. Home.. Christmas.. Home.. Christmas

I haven't blogged like all week because all i would be doing

is complaining about school. haha

I have so many assignments that i've had to get done all week.

Luckily, i plan on today being my last day for make-up work..

and tomorrow starts the studying like CRAZY for finals.

Finals:

Monday:

Doctrine & Covenants

Tuesday:

Spanish Presentation

Wednesday:

Music Listening test

& Theatre final

Thursday:

Music written test

Spanish Final

(i fly home tonight!!!!)

Friday:

Bio Final is due

So basically..

i LOVE that i live in Hawaii because the weather

just makes me happy

except for when there are HUGE EDDIES on the north shore

(Eddies are like 25-40 ft. waves in memory

of Eddie Aikau (the Eddie Would Go guy)

and i can't go see them because i have to study..

the last time there were waves like that at Waimea

it was 2004.... =(

totally missed my chance. but i watched it live on quicksilver.

Anyways..

i can't want to go home.

and finally be done with this semester!

December Weekend

Friday night:

Christmas movie with the roommates

Deciding whether to go to my friend's Bachelorette Party

in Honolulu.

Deany Weeny convinced me to go

(they usually go clubbing and prostitute watching..

and that's not really for me)

Ashley's Bachelorette Party! :

Partygoers:

Brea Echard,

Erin Dean,

Becca Stoner,

and me =)

Drove in Ashley's car to the Cheesecake Factory

in Waikiki

Shared salads & a slice of original cheesecake.

We all got ring pops and whistles

and gave her cute thongs and edible underwear haha

(ashley didnt want to go clubbing from the beginning..

they were going to try and convince her to go.

luckily for me, we didnt end up deciding to go)

But..

we went prostitute watching.

and it was CRAZINESS.

we were sitting on round plant thing and watching all

these prostitutes walking around flirting and stuff.

(it made me really sad)

then all of sudden this chick in a sweater dress thing

comes up to another guy (RIGHT in front of us)

and started grabbing his face and punching him.

they were fighting and her dress came up

and we thought she didnt have anything on

underneath it...

but it turns out it was a flesh colored thong....

and it was a guy............

with long hair and shaved legs..

with his bum hanging out for the world to see

beating up on another guy.

and the cops came and took her/him away.

Craziest. night. ever.

we went home after a while

and it was a fun night

but i had my scared face on the whole time

and will never do that again. haha

Dear Santa..

Things I want for Christmas:

....This is my random list.

I don't expect most of this haha

but why not?

i've been good this year. ;-)

-Friends seasons 4-10

-ship my car to Hawaii or a scooter

-Itunes giftcard to buy a whole lotta music

-forever 21/urban outfitters/sephora/victoria's secret giftcard

-waterproof digital camera

-a laptop hardcover

-nail polish haha (this is random but its expensive

and i'm sick of buying it for myself)

-a 2010 calendar (i always love getting calendars ha i'm weird)

-baking cookbooks (uncomplicated ones

that i can actually use in Hawaii)

-a cruise to Europe

-an engagement ring (hahahah.. jk baer family.)

-surf lessons

-guitar lessons

-tickets to see ingrid michaelson

Lemon Poppy Seed

I should be doing my Biology homework.

I have 5 Finals coming up;

-Biology

-Music Literature

-Theatre

-Spanish

-Doctrine & Covenants

And a whole bunch of assignments to turn in.

This semester has gone by pretty fast..

and i still am just not in the whole schoolwork mode.

I hope i don't fail any of my classes because of my lack of dedication.

Other than that..

i am just trying to enjoy/endure the end of this semester.

I can't wait for Christmas and to go home and see Danny =)

We're going to have a hug competition to see who lets go first haha.

i will win. because i miss him a lot.

My mom just called me to ask a question about my computer..

and apparently my parents are going to Europe? alright mom. have fun. haha

i asked her why she was packing..

"oh we're just..... going to Europe for a couple days..."

I want to go to Europe. I've been to Portugal, Mexico,

the Dominican Republic & the Bahamas..

i want to see Italy, France, & Ireland.

And India.

And Asia.

Impressionism

In my music class, Professor Duerden talked about the "isms"

of the 20th Century.

She focused mostly on Impressionism today.

Honestly, all the "isms"of the world are kind of abstract

and i haven't really understood what they all are.

This is what I got about Impressionism:

For example;

Monet paints just a bunch of brush strokes

so up close it looks like just strokes on a canvas

but when you look from farther away, it creates something

and gives you an impression.

So we learned about how music, when the 20th Century came,

started to branch out and not follow the previous rules

that the composers would use to compose music.

So impressionistic music is something like

the Clair De Lune from the twilight soundtrack.

it doesn't follow a lot of rules,

but gives you an impression.

So Cool.. needless to say i was really intrigued haha

Eat. Pray. Love.

(this is about the man she dated after her divorce)

"but oh, we had such a great time together during those early months when he was still my romantic hero and i was still his living dream. It was excitement and compatibility like i'd never imagined.

We invented our own language. We went on day trips and road trips. We hiked to the top of things, swam to the bottom of other things, planned the journeys across the world we would take together.

We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other the same nickname, so there would be no separation between us.

We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me, and he did my laundry.

The first summer looked like the falling-in-love montage of every romantic movie you've ever seen,

right down to the splashing in the surf

and the running hand-in-hand through the golden meadows at twilight. "

I love how everything she writes is so poetic.

Cotton-Headed NinnyMuggins

-25 Days 'til Christmas

-17 Days 'til the end of the semester

Roomies & i

.....made a list of

Christmas movies checklist

until the end of the semester.

Today is Home Alone I & II

..... beach/christmas

photoshoot

........ ugly christmas sweater party

........ christmas shopping at

the swap meet this saturday

......... Ted's & the Hukilau Cafe

before going home

I Love the Holidays!!