Great Weekend!

Boston Red Sox won the world series! Yahoo! And my favorite player is JD Drew! He hit a grand slam against the cardinal 2 weeks ago!

I FINALLY took the time to get some new, and well-needed, running shoes.

I got a letter from Jeff!

I had to deal with out-of-control Natalie, who was excited because she is on U.E.A. break. Wopee.

My health class was cancelled this morning, although I'm not that excited about it, because I love that class.

California Wildfires

I am guessing all of you are aware of the horrible fires in Southern California that are happening right now. Well, I was aware, but became especially nervous when I heard on the news this morning that thousands of people in San Diego, and other parts of CA, had to be evacuated from thier homes. I was nervous, because that is where Jeff is serving his mission. But, don't worry, I found out from one of his family members that he is safe and fine, because I knew you all were worried about him.

Graduation Night: June 2nd, 2006

I just got this picture from one of my friends today. This was at our graduation night party on the night of graduation. The Kearns pool hosts an all night graduation party for Kearns high every year. But me being the forgetful peron I am, I did not have a camera with me. Luckily, one of my friends did so she took this picture, and I was able to get it from her. In the boat is Chalece, Me, Jeff, Spencer, and Mike. They are some of my really good friends from high school. What a fun night!

Bye Bye Fall Break!

This entire week was fall break for us U of U students. Things I loved about Fall Break: Sleeping in, staying in my pajamas in the morning, not having to commute to school every day, being lazy. But on Monday, I have to go back to school, and I better get my butt back in gear real fast, because I think I have a psych test next week. Ahhhhhhhhh! I do have to say that though school is hard and extremely tiring and stressful, I am glad to be a student. It's nice to get away from my house every day. Next break to look forward to: Thanksgiving Break!

The Coooooooooooooolest Song Ever!

Monoplastery

Monoplastery - what exactly is it? I have pondered this for the past few days, and still have no idea. In fact, I get the feeling that someone, we won't mention any names, made this "disease" up! Alas! Seriously, what the hellicopter? To my friend who is ill with this "monoplastery," I think what you really have is polydipsia. Maybe you need a hepaticocholangiocholcystenterostomy!

In other news, I've been watching season 2 of Gilmore Girls, which I've allready seen, of course, and just HAD to put these funny clips on here. There are 2 naughty words in this, though. Gilmore Girls is hilarious!

To: Kristen

Of course it is a real disease..........actually it is a virus. I'm coming over to your house and I'm gonna give you a big, huge hug and cough all over you and try to spread my virus to you! Mwahaha! (Allthough I don't think it is contageous, dang it!) Then you can blog about have some disease, and I will be all like "Oh, poor baby!" Your just jealous that you've never had a blog dedicated to you, like I have dedicated for the most amazing Cindy Buckley, who is my favorite person in the entire stake! Bwahaha! Well, now you have a blog dedicated to you! Just teasin'! Love you Kristen..........maybe! Ha! You rock!

For Cindy Buckley, And Anyone Else Interested

I am beginning to feel better. I've been sick with Pleurisy, which is an infection in the lining around the lungs. It is very, very painful. Most people who get Pleurisy, have pain in their chest. But I had it in my back. It got to the point where it was hard to breath, because of the pain. I just have to wait for this to go away, since it is a virus, but the doctor put me on some nice, strong pain pills to help with the pain. I am feeling better today. I've been going to school, which has been uncomfortable. I missed church on Sunday, and pretty much layed on a heating pad all day long. But I got work off yesterday and today, to get more rest. To answer Cindy's question: How do I feel today? Well, the pain is less, but it seems to have moved into my neck a little. I had a bit of a headache today, but after a nice long nap, I feel much better. I am going to go to work tomorrow, and see how I handle it. I will conclude with the fact that pain pills are a great invention!

I Love........

Being Single!

Sunrises

Sunsets

School

Stormy Weather

Rascal Flatts

Cowboys

Whyoming

Flip-Flops

Hannah Montana

Missionaries!

Gilmore Girls!

Dolphins

Beaches and Oceans

The environment, especially the mountains!

Season Changes!

You All Must Read This Article!

Hey everybody! My older sister writes for an online newspaper. Here is the link to her most recent article. It is a very inspiring article!

http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu/

Look under the opinion section and the article titled "In the pool, determined swimmer teaches life lesson to coach."

Nervous Child

Last night, after our family prayer, I was reminded of something funny I use to do when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Well, I always love when little kids bear their testimonies in sacrament meeting and say somthing really funny such as "I hope my sister won't hit me anymore" or something like that. It's so funny because they are young and innocent. I use to be one of these kids. But my silly little sayings occurred whenever it was my turn to give the family prayer. Every time I said the family prayer at bedtime, there were two things I would never forget to say in my prayer. I would always say "Please bless that our clothes won't catch on fire," and "Please bless that our house won't get crunched." Man, if I heard a kid say those two things in a prayer, I think I would bust up laughing. But my parents never laughed - probably because these were regular things for me to say. I aske my mom if she ever thought it was funny or anything. But she just told me it was sweet, because I was so sincere about it. I was a nervous wreck as a child. I worried about all kinds of little things. In elementary school, fire drills and earthquake drills terrified me! These are two serious things to be concerned about, but I remember going home from school so upset after we had a certain type of drill. Now, after going to Kearns High, I have no reaction to fire alarms. Those of you familiar with Kearns and the "fire alarm situations" know what I'm talking about. Well, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!

GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Good News: I donated blood again today. I felt cool because American Red Cross actually called me and asked me to donate, because they needed my blood type.

Bad News: I am very annoyed at my coaching job and I want to quit!

Have you ever heard of sugar free, sugar?

Whoa! Look at Emily swim! Doesn't she look just like Maddie doing the butterfly?

Well, I've messed up my blogging goal allready. I'm bad at this! Anyways, good news of the week: Jeff had his first baptism! Yeah!

My Friends!

This is my gang I hung out with in highschool, well except for like one of the boys, but that's ok. Now, all the boys are on missions, one boy is in the Navel Academy, and I really only see one of the girls regularly, but I have been trying to stay in contat with the girl I don't see much anymore. Anyway, my friends are awesome, and I miss them all!

I have had a request from my Cousin, Willie, to update my blog everyday, even if I just blog about how well I slept the previous night, allthough I haven't even really been sleeping well lately because I feel like I can't get my mind or myself to relax. I am up to this challenge. The only challenge is that my week is so busy, yet I still feel like I have nothing to blog about. So if I ever have some way random blog, that makes no sense or is just pointless, you will know why. I realize I may miss a day here and there, but I will try my best to please Sir William.

Ranting.....

I haven't blogged forever.

We went to the first Utah home football game today. We lost 12 to 20, against Airforce, but it was still fun. Do you know Matt Osiada (I don't know how to spell his last name) from the Utes football team? He was our starting runningback this season, but he broke his tibia and fibia (the two leg bones of the lower leg) at our first game within the first minutes of the first quarter. He is out for the season which stinks for us. Anyways, he is in my health class, which is pretty cool. We were learning about stress management yesterday, and my professor asked us what kinds of things stress us out in our daily lives. Matt Osiada said, "Brokens legs" stress him out. It was funny. There are like 5 football players in my health class. They are huge.

Luke Nevel is extremely tall. He sat kind of by us at the game.

My junior swimmers, 6th graders and younger, stress me out. They are the biggest group of complainers in the world.

I'm really into the Goo Goo Dolls right now. They are awesome!

I miss my friends that I don't see much anymore.

I finally decided on a math minor.

School is good, but extremely tiring.

Gilmore Girls and Hannah Montana are the best tv shows ever!

What The Shrek?

Emily and I had and interesting Saturday night. We decided to make some more of our medley music videos. We had some technical difficulties, as you will encounter in one of the videos, but all in all they turned out pretty well.

Lunch, Hammock, Study

I enjoyed a nice lunch at school today, by myself of course. But I was quite amused by what happened. If you are familiar with the U of U, there is a very large grassy region by the union bulding. It is covered with tall, old trees, and it provides for a nice lunch area and reading. Well, today as I was eating, I glanced acrossed the way a little and saw a student fussing with a large blanket-like material. I thought he had brought a blanket to sit on while studying or whatever. I went back to reading. A couple minutes later, I look up again and the blanket material is suspended in the air between two trees. It was then that I figured out this was not a blanket. This student had brought a hammock to school with him to set up on the trees so he could take a nap in. It was the coolest idea I have ever seen! Man, I'm jealous.

Summer Lovin`!

Today is my last official day of summer vacatioin. I go back to school on Monday. I guess I'm ready to go back. At least it will get me away from the pool a little bit. (I'll still go to the pool everyday for work.) But I've actually decided that I have two pretty sweet jobs. With coaching swimming, and lifeguarding, I get to dress casual any time I want. I can wear flip-flops, sunglasses, shorts, heck I even get to wear a swimsuit for lifeguarding. What more could I ask for? But anyways, back to school. This semester I am taking psychology, health, environmental studies, and intro to visual arts, and for Institute I am doing the first half of D&C. Have you ever noticed that the last three letters of Institute are "UTE?!" I'm still not quite ready for school yet though. There are a couple more things I must get to be totally ready. This morning, I was up at the U with one of my good friends, getting ready for school. Being up at school made me excited to get started with it again.

I've had a pretty awesome summer. I've had fun in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, camping, and backpacking. And of course, I've pretty much lived at the pool most of the time. But, I got a pretty nice tan from being at the pool so much. I really have had a fun time this summer, and for my last party of the summer, we are going to watch the premier of High School Musical 2 tonight, followed by a new Hannah Montana!

I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Has Come!

Wahoo! The four-month long fight is over. Megan and I are finally friends again. I am so happy! I didn't have a recent cool picture to put on here, so I though ya'll might to see what I call "Sweaty, hot, Lauren after her morning jog." It makes me laugh!

6 Months!

My best friend has now been out on his mission for 6 months!