EEEEK

so it's been a while and (not) a lot has been going on here in my little life.

it's november! (ps. 25 days till my birthday. . . you better get shopping)
but school is slow. choir is so funny. work is slow. my roommates are fantastic. my car died. . .but is alive again.

it was really hard not being able to get my DIET CHERRY LIMEADES for a WHOLE week. but i managed. and am perfectly addicted to them once again. have you tried them?!?!?! you should if you haven't. best invention ever.

but sadly, i don't have much to talk about on here.
although. . .
OBAMA WON!!!!! WHOOOOOOT!

ok. he asked us not to be prideful in the win. . . BUT I HELPED MAKE HISTORY!!!

ok enough gloating.

BUT what's with the new additions to FACEBOOK???
i feel that i'm friends with my peers, old classmates or old friends from dance. i got my election updates, keep up with my boss, and keep my events scheduled neatly, and even get to maintain a mob.

on top of that: i'm friends with parents, grandparents, siblings, kids i babysat, their parents, the bishopric and someone's dog. ok maybe not the dog part but i am a fan of Mushu, from Mulan. close enough.

it's a fantastic craze but i feel like i have to be very mature in all my status updates and commenting. lol. so really, what i'm trying to say is, if i'm not, feel free do "de-friend" me and just keep up with my blog. i am on here much less and say a lot less that can be found offensive.

but on facebook i will keep up with my ute cheerin, byu smearin, obama followin, and my annoying commentin. (that kinda rhymed)

but don't worry MOM, on here, i'll keep nice just for you :)

ps. my wish list is coming!
pps. i really want this perfume. . .and these boots. . . and this coat. oh i'll post later.

dream interpreter

I HAVE THE WEIRDEST DREAMS!!!!

no seriously. the ones i remember creep me out!

so first there was the dream i had for about 2 weeks straight. about the same yet small variations about a boy. yeah. a boy. but that boy is on a mission and i interpreted the dreams that maybe, because he had been out for over a year, he deserved to hear from me. so i wrote him, and now we talk at least once a week. it's fun.

but last night's dream! eek. it was odd. like my mom piled us all in the car and went driving like a mad-woman to park city at like the outlets but we went behind to the little parking lots and ran into some old babysitter of mine who was like, i knew you'd be here. i need your help. . .

yeah. how do i interpret THAT one.

but they keep going!

i dunno. it just kinda creeps me out when i remember dreams. . . cause i swear they all happen down the line sometime.

she was cool babysitter though. one of my favorites.

sorry, random post. but i want to remember this dream so i put it on here. no one reads these anyways.

withdraw deadline

so, being back at byu, i'm back in my stressful state of life. it is the class withdraw deadline on monday so (shh. . . ) i dropped a class. and of all of them, math. haha. which i should be majoring in. LOL. but we will see about that next semester.

so update about my life. my roommates this year are awesome. i got the funniest calling i've ever heard of. and now i only have 15 credits, a job, and am finishing my real estate license between classes and studying. it's fun. nothing really going on.

except i'm going to vegas this weekend. random. to see a cirque do soleil show? maybe. i dunno how to spell it. but the "let it be" one. should be cool . . . i will let you know how it is.

day 5 of week 3

i just remembered i have a blog!

i don't know if anyone really reads it 'cept my mom but hey, it's my excuse of a journal.

so college. YIKES! i ended up with 18 credits. . .didn't i tell myself not to do that in another blog entry? oh well. it should be interesting. i have no time to do anything really. i go to school, practice after school, am in a service choir, then either go home to work or to study. no groceries, no shopping, no boys, no friends, NO LIFE! i know. it's sad. :'( i squeeze in a little on the weekends or if i want to stay up really late (which is very rare these days) but other than that i'm a loser. and so far it doesn't seem to be paying off. i did really bad on my second math assignment and i haven't practiced organ at all this week cause my job. . . does anyone have that time twister travelly thing Hermione has in that Harry Potter Goblet of Fire movie?

THAT'S who i feel like!!! Hermione who lost her cool necklace to travel in time. . . and still trying to make it to everything. no way. nope. no way.

i wonder how long this schedule will last. . .

college: round 2

i think i've grown up a little bit.

hopefully.

the petty things that would work me up just can't this time around. like the garbage laying around? yeah it's gross or whatever, but when one of your roommates has a walking disability and has problems getting around the apartment, things like that don't matter anymore. i have legs. i can take it to the garbage. it's not a big deal.

i'm really glad that i got these awesome girls as roommates this year. like spring and summer too. i've learned a lot and am excited to apply them to a better year. i changed my attitude. and hopefully the dumb bishop has too. . . maybe he just won't remember.

but classes. oh my. it's been a struggle. scheduling problems, prerequisite mess ups, and BOMBING a choir tryout. :( oh well. it may be a simple year after all.

anyways. i think if not only simpler, it will be better.

i think i've grown up a little bit.

OH lovely

so today.

ugh. it was long!

but at least i got some stuff done? no that's not how i should put it. . . i went shopping some :D that's better.

so after taking my cousins to the aquarium and driving downtown to get rid of them, i decided to hit up nordstrom rack. i found my mom an AWESOME YOGA shirt. . . you will see her sporting that around the gym thanks to her thoughtful daughter ;)

THEN, my aunt, mother and I, before seeing MAMMA MIA, hit up TARGET for some quick browsing. I was admiring my first zit of the summer in the big 3-fold mirror. HORRIFIED. my aunt decided to make it a public notice. "ATTENTION TARGET SHOPPERS! HOLLI HAS A ZIT" it was lovely. then this lady walked by me and was like, "shit happens." i guess she was right. shit does happen. . . too bad it was on my face and was announced to the world. :S

so we make it to our movie, and i was graciously treated to the ticket by my aunt lee :D (thanks) so yeah. after humming along, enjoying the old man butt, and slightly suffering through the not-quite-in-tune voices, the credits finally come on. oh yeah. but it's "DANCING QUEEN." hmm. good song and all till my mom starts DANCING in her seat. not like little dancing so that only me and my aunt who are surrounding her can see. NO! like arms waving and singing at the top of her lungs dancing. i scooted over a chair. i'm not gonna lie. BUT after getting over the embarrassment, i just decided to join. so my mom and i are definitely dancing to dancing queen after the movie and we got our share of giggles and followers. it was fun. good memories with my MAMMA :D

ticklish feet

so i'm sitting here with the kids i nanny and thinking i need to blog some more. they are tickling my feet and wiping their spit on each other. fabulous :S maybe i should discipline. . . .but i'm sitting here listening to the camp rock soundtrack and am a bit. . . involved :D

but this summer has flown by. only another month. and it will consist of more nannying. i love it! i get to hang with kids and fund my shoe addiction. lol.

breaking dawn comes out tonight! i'm so excited. i'll give you an update on that book once i finish it. . . hopefully sunday! hahaha. i'm so excited for it. and in the newspaper this morning, there are all these groups of the fans of the vampire books. some even traveled to Forks to explore the area in the book. . . wow. that's dedication.

so i get to go put the miley cyrus cd on some ipods. . . go me

nightmares, naps, and nannying

so last sunday, as many of us do, we roll out of bed, sit through church. . . then usually, i take a nap. hahah. but i haven't been sleeping well lately. i've had the worst dreams EVER! i keep having this one dream that there are mountain lions living in my yard so they pretty much want to eat us. hahah. but the repetitive one that is even worse is me dreaming i was forced to move into my old apartment with my old roommates. IT WAS A HORRIBLE DREAM! i woke up at like 6 this morning panting and in a cold sweat it was so terrifying. YIKES! i just hope nothing like that does happen. i mean, i think i learned a lot of lessons that needed to be learned and i really don't wanna go back. haha.

but for now, i think i will just enjoy living back at home where my mommy makes me dinner. . . sometimes.

and i am working 3 jobs. ya think that's enough? i started nannying today. . . eeek. the kids are growing up and they have ATTITUDE! i dunno how i feel about them freaking out about the little stuff but it's ok, it was the 1st day. it should get better. but i got home and am pretty much drained from playing mom. . .

so i think i'll go take a nap.
SWEET DREAMS!

ode to mom

so i remember those times that my mom would be like, holli, seriously, don't just take clothes out of the dryer and throw them in a basket. it makes them wrinkly and just makes more work.

well- now i understand this.

everyone says that the stuff your mom teaches you doesn't really sink in till you have to deal with it or whatnot. well, i apparently do now.

i got a new roommate.

i don't even know her name and she's lived here for a few days.

but i went to work, (note a 3 hour shift), and had left my clothes to dry. i came home and my clothes were beautifully stuffed onto the dryer. mmmm. all my wrinkly work pants will have to wait for my new roommates clothes to finish drying till i can try to dewrinkle them. . . and i don't have an iron so that's not an option.

moral of the story.
fold your laundry.
or karma will get you.

But even at our swifted speed, we couldn't break from the concrete. . .

so, going into my last week of spring term , i figured i should sit, blog, and catch my mom up before i'm overwhelmed with my whole 2 finals, one of which is open book. lol. and the other is not comprehensive. i'm SO EXCITED!!! i really like this spring term. i don't know why i just don't do it and skip fall or something. hahah.

but i saw STOMP last night at Capitol Theatre and it was AMAZING!!! the beatboxing with brooms? garbage bags? then the clapping? i so can't even clap that fast. it was crazy!

so because it is the last week of class, 3 of my 4 classes were canceled today. i only have psychology. . . in which the teacher is. . . ummm. yeah. let's just say i wouldn't get my week's eye candy if that class was canceled. but really.

crushes on teachers? did anyone else suffer from this? like, 2 of my teachers- i would just love to be like, "hey you. date me!" they are grad students(one from sandy and the other from LIVERPOOL) so it's not that bad. . .but still. argh! it will never happen :( but i can add them on facebook after finals are over. lol. oh BYU and it's dating game. wow.

keep a goin'

so as we all know, david archuletta lost and i'm sad. but not at all, right? i mean. now he can negotiate his own contract. go him

ANYWAYS. lol. i did get a roommate. she's so stinkin cute! she's from Georgia and has the most fun accent ever! her name is steph and i really am glad to have someone in the apartment to keep me semi social during this stressful spring term.

spring term is over half way done and i'm so excited. i only have a few more tests and assignments and am excited to just about be a junior in college. yeah. a junior at 18. go me! lol.

so i just thought i'd give those minor updates. and my mom's phone broke so she can't talk to me as much so i decided she can catch up on here now. hahah. right. . . cause she's obviously on here a lot (NOT!)

well, till next time!
gotsta go do homework :S

SHOES!!!

ok so i've been working a lot lately. . . not really for my store cause apparently i'm not needed, but for park city. So i haven't really been shoe shopping with all the new stuff. But i was helping park city do their shipment and i saw these ------------->
I fell in love. lol. no really. i tried them on and pulled up my pant legs and CUTE!!!
so. . . MOM!!! *cough cough*
what do you think?
i think i will go into work thursday and see when they are marked down cause $80 isn't in my price range as of yet. . . but with my discount it's so tempting. . .

a Severe case of the GiGgLeS!

well, my mom said she'd post this story. . . but she hasn't gotten around to it yet. but i laughed so hard i thought it may be funny to share.

so the other night i was working at factory brand shoes, at the outlets (super fun, but really hard not just to shop) and i had to close and open shipment and by the time i arrived at my house in sandy, i was SO TIRED! It was about 11 and i decided, with shoes on and all, to crawl into my parents bed, just to throw them for a loop. my dad was awake, and my mom, who's side i got on, was now joyfully awake as well. we started talking and i don't know what was even funny but i just started laughing. then i was laughing cause my mom's butt was hitting me. and that they needed to scooch over so i could fit. and that i needed my own pillow. and that when i started laughing, the bed shook which make me laugh even harder.
i just was lonely!!! and they understood. hence the reason i stayed and chatted and dozed in and out of consciousness on their bed for just a bit less than an hour. just. . .18 year old crawling into bed with mom and dad. oh and they wouldn't even let me in the middle. HOW RUDE :)

this is the provo city police. . .

i had a minor heart attack today.

it was scary.

so i walked out of my 2.5 hour class (which doesn't have cell phone service- so it feels like a 5 hour class with no entertainment) to find i had 3 texts and 1 new voice message. i put those off to call my mom to see how sleeping in 'till 12 was. :D

so i read my texts and replied and got dinner all arranged then decided to sit on a bench in the GORGEOUS weather and listen to my voicemail.

"this is the provo police department and you have been accused of damaging a car" (ok that wasn't a direct quote but i was too nervous to remember it) DAMAGING A CAR?!?! oops. i don't remember doing this. but. . . i calm down and start the phone tag with the investigating officer. i finally get a hold of him sometime during Bones and get the low down.
1-reported today.
2-ex-roommate.
3-only one he is contacting.
4-keyed car.

SO. . . the paraphrased low down. i was accused of keying an ex-roommates car. sweeeeeetttt. cause i didn't do it and there is video surveillance of me not doing it :D

but seriously?

are those the terms we really left on?

pathetic.

here's to spring

well, after eating tubs of sorbet and lots of soup, i'm about 100% again. which is good. spring term started yesterday and i'm taking a few classes. I only have 8.5 credits which should be ok this term. it's a lot but i'm taking private organ, voice, and piano lessons. go me!

I was able to go to the management of the apartment complex i live in and request to move. I did. and was given. . . DUN DUH DUH. . . AN EMPTY APARTMENT NO ONE HAS EVER LIVED IN BEFORE!!! how cool is that? So my cute mom came down to help me move. BUT. the best part is. my apartment has clear view of the dumpsters, which conveniently had shopping carts parked next to them (by some lazy college kid with no car who refuses to only buy as many groceries as he can carry). so my mom prances over to these carts, picks one up and makes her way to my old apartment to load it up. so after only 3-4 cart loads, looking like some well-dressed homeless people, sneaking past the front office with Sam and a drawer set from the old apartment, i am almost settled.
yet sadly, i am not away from the drama of my old roommate. she's crazy. she keeps texting me stuff like, "let me know if you have questions about what your kitchen stuff is cause ours is similar." Or the best one was last night when i received, with both of my parents standing there, and i quote, "hey when youre out give us the key." i replied, "no i give that to the office." her response, "k, will they call and tell us that you turned it in(?)" i replied, "Why? are there trust issues or what?" Her final response, "YEAH" How horrible is that? those snide comments have been flying for the past 8 months and i've had no way to escape. UGH!!!
and i still have never shared the story that spawned the move. i think i will start drafting. lol. BUT i'm out, and almost safe, just a check out later this week. HUZZAH!

words of wisdom

so. as of thursday morning i was fortunate enough to get my wisdom teeth out.
YUCK!
ok. so it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. like not at all. i guess they just keep getting better at it as time goes on. But, i am wishing i was a little more prepared here at home. i am SO BORED! i have been sitting in my bed, with this think on my face that makes me look like a frozen chipmunk to keep the swelling down, popping advil, and watching grey's anatomy on abc.com. isn't it the life? it was the first day.
today. i tried to be adventurous and i made it to costco and harmons with my mom. not the best idea. all the samples were so tempting and i couldn't even buy rice! lol. oh the rationing. it's ok. i couldn't eat rice anyways. i am living off of jello pudding. mmmmm. so i really have nothing to say on here except, if you make good soup and live nearby, I AM SO HUNGRY! mom. got that. i'm hungry. thanks for the concern. lol.

final-ly

It is finals week and i'm slightly going mad. well. . . maybe a little more than slightly. I procrastinated too much i guess. but more like, i again just took too many classes.

but. . . the roommate situation has gotten much more interesting.

One is moving out- home- tonight.
and i believe i can get a new rooming assignment saturday!
how exciting is that?
now everyone just pray that i get roommates who clean up after themselves and that have common decency.

my mom keeps saying that if the problem doesn't go away, then i'm the problem. but there is a good story to come about me being the spectator to the drama this time! SO IT'S NOT ME MAMMA!!! haha. well at least not all of it. :D

MINE MINE MINE

so. take a look at that picture.
as many of you know, a person whom i have been living with has been taking some of my stuff. and, about a month ago, we had a nice talk about this and she promised it wouldn't happen again.
BUT LOOK IN THAT PICTURE!
it was posted on facebook by another person in that pic. . .and that jacket? in the back on the left. that cute orange one. well, IT'S MINE!!!! and i gave no permission for anyone to go into my private room and raid my closet. i'm a bit bugged. UGH!!!

any suggestions? i hate keeping my room locked cause it takes too long to unlock. . .but if that is my only resort here, i guess i will have to.

some random pics

where are my organ shoes?

so i just ran home for a lean cuisine lunch (the panini's are the BEST) and realized i had an extra hour to catch up on my social life. so i get on here? hmmmm.

well. this semester is almost over and i'm so excited to get a new schedule. i mean, really. 17 credits? that's just too many! i mean. look at today.

7:20; wake up (note: this is after going to bed at around 2)
finish paper for BOM
9:33; leave to catch the 830 bus that will take me to campus
10; book of mormon lecture (zzzz. . . )
11; chemistry- go to lecture but work on organ homework on the back row
12; university chorale- i fell asleep today. oops. we have a concert next week too. realized i forgot my organ shoes and i need them!
1; should be in american heritage. . . that's where that extra hour came from. came home for lunch and the shoes
2- A BREAK!!!
3; women's choir recording session- prepping for a CD release
4; ASL
5; Organ (where the shoes come in) where i will be staying until 6:40 to pass off any last minute pieces and hand in written assignments. ugh. then catch the bus for home, change into a dress and. . .
7:15; leave for provo tab to watch an organ recital where i am supposed to pick up important skills for my playing and write a 5 page paper on the pieces chosen :( boooo!
9; get home. get working. I have american heritage to do. ASL. chemistry. organ, organ, organ. and music 200. wow. yay me.

luckily this schedule is only normal on Mondays and Wednesdays. PHEW! i may explode if this was an everyday occurrence.

Studying?

So as I have been overwhelmed with the stupidity of taking 17 credit hours my 2nd semester of college, i decided. . .
I DON'T WANT TO STUDY RIGHT NOW.

my mom has one of these funny "blogspots;" so in order to make sure i stay more technologically savvy than she, i decided to make one of my own, and not study right now. i think i am benefitting from this decision.