today i'm awkward and awesome

it's once again awkward and awesome thursday.  i haven't participated in this little game for quite some time, but i had a desire to make a list today, so here goes.

awkward

- the girl who was running up a small hill toward the shuttle this morning.  she fell face down into the snow, and everyone on the bus tried to stifle bursts of laughter.  then when she tried to get up, she fell again, and just stayed there, lying face down in the snow while the shuttle pulled away.  waaay awkward.

- somehow in my sleep last night, i managed to not only pull my comforter off the bed, but also the pillow, the fitted sheet, and the bedskirt.  oh, and i pulled the pillowcase off the pillow. i don't know what i do in my sleep but i woke up laying on a bare matress.

- my roomies and i watched a show called the last american cowboy for two hours today.  it's about ranchers.

- yesterday, i was looking for my keys.  they weren't in my purse, so i checked my backpack.  they weren't there either.  i proceeded to tear apart my freshly cleaned room in frantic search of my keys.  finally i discovered where they were.  sitting on my desk. right in front of my face.  whoops.

- i then went out to my car, and tried to unlock the door.  no matter what i tried it would not unlock.  i was completely befuddled, until i realized it was not actually my car.  sorry stranger whose car i was unwittingly trying to break into.  again, whoops.

awesome

- this past weekend, i glued silver leaf to someone's face, swam in a volcano, and wandered through castles made of ice. it was epic.

- my roomies and i just went to cafe rio with our hair in messy buns, no makeup on, and wearing sweats. and it was delicious.

- i had the opportunity to catch up with a few amazing friends this past weekend.  i love my friends, they are truly the greatest in the world.

- the new(ish) adele song, rolling in the deep.  listen to it below, it's amazing.  for some reason it makes me think of a road trip.

- having a day off work to do pretty much nothing productive.  it's refreshing and awesome.

today i am an origami master

in class today, we had an assignment due. what was the assignment?  we had to teach each other a new skill.  in my group, we learned how to float a paper clip on water, make an origami cup, make an origami butterfly, and cut a peice of paper into a loop long enough to step through.  yes, this is school.  i taught how to make the cup.  it took about 60 seconds.  i am a true master.

i hope you all had a beautiful valentine's day yesterday.  i pretty much did nothing special.  i worked, grocery shopped, and did laundry.  you may expect this to turn into one of those little rants about how valentines day is stupid or commercialized.  how we should all love each other every day, and there's no reason to declare a specific day to do so. 

wrong.  i love valentines day.  i don't care about the commercialistic aspects, or the mushy gushy stuff.  but i choose to celebrate the fact that there is a day when people are likely to have love on the brain.  they think about each other, make plans, and try their very hardest to make the person they're with feel like the only person in the world.  yes, we should absolutely love each other every single day, but what's wrong with having a day when we are all really focused on it.  that's like saying we should be grateful Christ was born every day, so there's no need for christmas.  valentines day promotes love and caring about each other.  we could all use a little more of that.  so relax, all you valentines haters.  appreciate that busy working men are out at the grocery store on their way home, buying flowers for their wives.  it's beautiful and we should be grateful that we celebrate love. 

if you forget what true love looks like, just watch this.

she loves jimmer, a player on the byu basketball team

today i am a popsicle

no really, i am.  it is so cold today!  walking to class this morning, i was pretty sure my ears were going to fall off.  i got a massive headache because my forehead was so cold, and my eardrums hurt.  okay, i'm done whining.  honestly though, this is the coldest day since i've been up here, by far.  my roommate looked up the temperature this morning on ksl.  i don't remember what the temperature was, but i do remember the little red warning that told us to limit outdoor activies to 30 minutes or less in order to avoid frostbite.  that's cold man. 

when i got home from class today, i was walking up the steps to my apartment, and there was a little gift on the stairs for us.  want to know what it was?  undies.  that's right friends, women's underwear right there on the stairs.  hopefully at some point, someone will pick it up because i just left it there. 

there's also an aggie basketball game tonight that we're all going to and i'm insanely excited.  i love love love basketball up here.  there's no other school like ours when it comes to basketball games.  here are some videos to show you what it's like. 

this happens after a win, we chant the score, and call them the losing team.  ruthless, i know.

this is before the game, we believe that we will win.