Where'd it go?

So in the summer, the wards are a little bit messed up. My ward wasn't meeting, so I went to the 4th ward. I didn't see my bishop all summer so I didn't pay my tithing. Instead I have a sticky note on my computer that I have been adding up all the tithing money I owe, so when my ward is back I can pay it. Well I was looking up what I owe, and I can't imagine that I made all that money this summer. By the looks of it, I should have made quite the little fortune this summer, working 40 hours hours a week for almost 2 months adds up! And yet, looking at my bank account, I have nothing! I just don't understand! Okay, I do... maybe this has something to do with the fact that I can spend money like a teenager with daddy's credit card! Most of it is spent on doing things too, not even on stuff! I spend money to go to the movies, to go to dinner, to go to Idaho Falls... The last time I bought myself something just to have something was the aloe vera lotion I got after my trip to the salon (See This Blog Post). I don't really know what I wanted to accomplish in writing this blog, besides just complaining about my poor-ness. One day I will be better at saving more money! Until then, I think I'm just going to be a "starving college student" for the next 11 months of my life.

Go Around Again!!!

Today I went to the Museum of Idaho and saw the Bodies exhibit, and then I went to the Eastern Idaho State Fair!!! Can you say... BEST DAY EVER!!!

The Bodies exhibit was amazing! My favorite part was the fetal development! It was so so so cool!

But the fair was for sure the best part of the day!!! Rhiannon and I got the wristband to ride all the rides! We had such a godo time spinning and flipping upside down! The fair played some of the best music, and had the best/most disgusting food ever! I had a fried bread taco, which was so good! And a tiger ear! Oh My Gosh, I was so in love with all that food! It was so so so good! After some rides and food, we watched this comedian guy, and he was pretty funny! And then we rode some more rides, and ate some more food! I didn't see any of the animals or the rodeo, but I was totally fine with that! I just like riding the rides and eating the food!

Here is Rhiannon and I on the swings ride! We rode this one twice!!!


I wish everyday could be a day off spent at the fair! Too bad I have to head back off to work tomorrow. :(

The Lucky One

I just finished reading another Nicholas Sparks book! The Lucky One is so so so good!!! I would recommend reading it if you haven't. The reason I started reading it is because they are making a movie on it, and Zac Efron is going to be the lead. So the whole time I read it, I thought about him, and how awesome the movie is going to be. Then after I finished it, I decided I needed to watch some Zac movies! Last night Tamazine came over, and we watched him in Carlie St. Cloud!



Then today I watched 17 again...




And now I am currently watching Hairspray!



Anyway, I'm kind of in love with this man! I might be watching some HSM later today too! hahaha, its just one of those weekends! Here is a sneak peek of him in The Lucky One. Logan Thibault, back from war, and ready to find the girl who saved his life in Iraq! I can't wait!!! I just hope the movie comes out before I leave for my mission!

I'm Not an Idiot...

Businesses do lots of tricky things to get you to buy more of their products! Buy one get one half off... Sounds like a good deal, unless you only really wanted to buy one, because now you are stuck buying a second thing because "It was half off, I saved money!" Or buy 3 get 3 free, oh Bath and Body Works! You know I only need one thing of new lotion, but buy 3 get 3 free sounds like SUCH an amazing deal, that I think I will just end up spending almost $40 today, when all I wanted was a $9 lotion... How did they get me to do that?!?!?! Or when you go to Aero and you see the shirts marked for $20, but they are on sale for $15! Really the shirt costs $15, they just say it costs $20 and tell you its on sale so you think you are getting a good deal.

Well, I'm not an idiot (see title of post). I don't fall for these simple tricks, because I took Economics! I know how things work, and I'm all for tricking the system!

Today I had an appointment to get my hair done. A cut and color, costs the same as it always does. But then my stylist tells me that there is a promotion, and with any coloring, you get a free tan! "Would you like to get the free tan," my nice stylist says, her agenda hidden under the fake facade of her nice cosmetologist ways. "Sure, why not!" Free is free! I don't care what my dad said about no such thing as a free lunch, these kind people were giving me a free tan, and I was taking it! I mean, I never would purposely spend money on giving myself skin cancer, but if they want to give it to me for free, and wrap it up in a nice tan package, then I'm all for it! You see they give people a free tan thinking the person will want more, and come in and pay for them! HA, I'm smarter than you guys, I will just take this one tan and leave! Hence the tricking their system, and not being an idiot!

She takes me into the room and explains to me how to use it. As stated above, I'm not an idiot!!! I know how to work a tanning bed! Its not my first rodeo here people! (This will have been my 3rd!) I ask how much time it is set to, and she tells me 15... Well usually I only go 12, and as I am having the internal argument if I should go the whole 15, she is about to leave, so I quickly ask her if she can set it to 12 minutes, and she does. So here I am, lying in the tanning booth, feeling pretty good about my free lunch tan, oh and my new hair cut, and before I know it the time is up! I'm super sad getting out, because I actually really do enjoy lying in the bed! I feel all warm inside, it reminds me of being in Arizona. As I'm heading out the door, I am feeling super great about my whole experience at the salon.

I call up my dear friend Tamazine and tell her I am ready to get my Friday night on!!! She comes over shortly after that call and tells me I look a little red. I explained to her about the free tan, and we go about our evening. Part of our evening included a movie, and as we watched it, all thought of my red skin faded away. But the minute I stand up and walk out of the theater, I feel my skin sting a little. As I get home and change into my pajamas, I see the extent of my free tan. YIKES! As my roommate put it, I got way more color in a 12 minute booth than I did 6 days in California! And by more color, she means the color red of course!

I sting everywhere. My thighs hurt. My back stings. I even have a line on my neck that got more color than the rest (not sure why but I think it has to do with my double chin covering up the other part of my neck.) Anyway, as I brushed my teeth today, I thought to myself why on earth I even took the tan! Never again will I go tanning, even if in the moment it felt great. Even if it was free. Even if someone held me at gunpoint and told me to go tan. (K, I probably would if that last one was the case, but thats a very extreme case and I'm hoping it won't ever happen!)

I guess the point of this blog was to tell you, that I'm an idiot. An idiot... with very red skin, and probable skin cancer.

And now I close with the words of my dear sweet and naive little sister, "Melanoma doesn't kill people!!!!"

Goals

First I want to start this blog by showing everyone what was on my facebook wall yesterday...



That was from my old roommate Bri, basically one of the greatest people you will ever meet! I just thought this was super funny and felt like more people should see it! She's the best!


Okay, now for the real reason I'm blogging. I have always been the kind of person making goals for myself. But I'm not really the best at keeping my goals. When I was in YW, they rewarded me for the goals that I finished. So I decided that I should do the same sort of thing. Yesterday I bought a calendar and some stickers. I have decided that each sticker is going to represent one of my new goals. Every day that I do said goal, I will reward myself with a sticker. At the end of the month I will be able to see how many stickers I got in total! I'm actually quite thrilled about this new idea! I'm not going to go into detail on each goal I have, because some of them are a little personal, but I can tell you one of them is working out! I need to get back in the hang of it so bad! I have been known in the past to be really good at it, and then something happens and I lose my rhythm, and it is so hard for me to get back in the swing of things. I am re-starting tomorrow! (Ok how many times have I said that before!) But really, I have my stickers, and I am determined to get one each day! Also there is a program at my school called the Biggest Winner. Its run by students, and students can join it. I wanted to do it a while ago, but my body fat percentile was 2 less than the required amount. I'm not sure what I'm at now, but I have gained weight, so I'm thinking I should be good! Hopefully if I get into that, I will be working out a lot next semester! If not, I have some back up ideas, like working out with my dear roommates in the mornings!

I had an eye opening experience while I was sick with pink eye! (Eye opening... Pink eye.... Its a pun!) -if you don't find that funny, it may be that you are on the outside of an inside joke, sorry! Anyway, I was watching Say Yes to the Dress. One girl on the show was a little bigger than the average girl. She found her perfect dress, but they didn't have it in her size. Then she found another dress she loved, but it cost an additional $1600 to make it in her size! I am not going to be the bride who can't find a dress or have to pay so much more for my size!!! Also on that show an episode later, there was this tiny little 23 year old looking for her dress. Her mom wanted her to have a more fitting dress to show off her new figure. This girl went from 200 lbs to about 130 by working out and eating right! If she can do it... SO CAN I!!! Hence the goal calendar idea!

The hardest thing for me won't be the working out... it will be the eating right! I eat out WAY too much, my roommates will attest to that, and I love to buy myself treats! Both of those need to stop like... now! Its going to be very hard for me, but I am determined to lose the weight!!! Feel free to be my support system! If you know of a good healthy food I can easily make, email me! If you know of a great work-out routine that you love, put it on my facebook! If you just want to send me words of advice, text me! I am totally available and want to hear everything you have to say!

So here is to me and my goals! I hope I can read this post in a few months and say, yup... that worked out GREAT!!!

Pink

I was going to write a blog post about how much fun I had yesterday with Tamazine! How I got off work early, went to Rigby Lake with her, went to Costa Vida, and then went and saw Kung Fu Panda 2. Then I was going to talk all about how funny that movie was... That was before I became tortured by what I used to think was my dear friend... the color PINK!!!

Today I woke up with a real nasty case of Pink Eye. You see, I got new contacts recently, and they bug me more than my usual contacts. So yesterday when my eyes were itchy, I just blamed it on the contacts. Then when I took my contacts out later that night and my eyes were still itchy and now read, I blamed that on "allergies." But then this morning when my eye wouldn't open, and then when it did and it was still red, goopy, and hurt like heck... I decided to stop blaming the wrong things. It was Pink Eye. And I knew it.

I called my office and told them I couldn't come into work today, but that I was still coming in. I got an appointment early in the morning and the doctor told me I had a really bad case. I was like, ya, I know that!!! He gave me some drops, which I took at approximately 9;30, 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, and just now at 10:00. ( i was a little big late on that last one!) I have to take these drops for the next five days! I was told that I won't be contagious after 12 hours though. But for that 12 hours, I kinda put myself on lockdown. I stayed in my room ALL DAY LONG! Except for 2 exceptions. 1. Go to the doctors. 2. Answer the door for Jimmy Johns. Other than that I was in my PJs in my bed alternating between Hulu and Netflix watching different things. In the end, I watched mostly Melissa and Joey and The Big Bang Theory. I'm not making much progress in Prison Break because this season is still making me mad. I would have read the book that I checked out yesterday, but my glasses are about 3 prescriptions ago, and it is kind of hard to read things with them on. Not to mention one eye glued shut all day makes it hard to read too! Hopefully I will be able to see soon, because I kind of like the book I'm reading!

Also... my skin is still really pink from my vacation! I used to like the color pink... but it has taken over too much of me, and I think its about time I find a new favorite color. One that doesn't involve gross eye infections or skin burns!