Spider

Dear spider in my shower,

You are rather ugly, not the normal kind where it is easy to kill you. You are big, brown, and make me want to pass out. Since my friend won't come kill you for me, you might get to stay in my curtain for a few more weeks unless you GET THE EFF OUT. I really wish you would go down the drain or up a vent because I hate taking quick showers. I'd rather ponder life, and wash my hair slowly making sure every strand is clean. So please I beg of you- LEAVE!!!!!!

No hard feelings right?

Life. Goes. On

Today I have so many thoughts going through my head like:

I tried and that's all I can do

Spider: 1 Lexi: 0

Best weekend in a long time

Summer where are you

How the freak am I going to get all this shiz done by Wednesday

Where am I going to live next year

Why are you such a gosh darn hypocrite

Clothes pack yourself

So grateful for my amazing friends

ugh well I just gotta take things one step at a time right?

Hair

My hair has really been frustrating me for several reasons.

1. It has naturally decided to do the whole ombre look. When I was sick but didn't know it my hair came in super light (and also thinned a whole lot) and then after awhile it started coming in really dark. So it was then almost black and white. I could not handle that so I bought some lightening spray and decided to make the transition a little more pleasant. But now my roots are coming in dark so my hair is THREE different colors.

This is a little darker and more grown out than mine, but you get the idea.

2. My hair does not dry the same. When I let it dry naturally the front dries pretty straight with a little wave, but the back is like ultimate perm. It is soo annoying. The really light parts of my hair don't really curl. Yesterday after I showered and washed my hair I put my hair in a bun, and left it in, even over night, the ends were just straight, probably because when it started growing in lighter it also came in straighter than previously. After my hair had dried completely and I took it down the right said of my hair was moderately curly and the left side was pretty straight, and once again the back(until the super blond tips) was a FREAKING PERM!!

I just really want it to grow out, I miss it when it was longer, but at least its back to its normal thickness. Hopefully by the end of the summer it will be pretty long, it does grow really fast, so let's hope that doesn't fail me.

uh...

Well there is no particular theme for this blog post, I am just going to let my thoughts run wild.

Yesterday in my Humanities class we were discussing this and we were talking about those nit-picky people at BYU that think they should tell you what you are doing wrong. I literally felt like my teacher had video taped my house, my roommate is just like that. He was saying how he couldn't stand those people who are so quick to tell you what you're doing wrong and then he said something that my mother had said to me a few weeks before "obviously people like this are guilty of something themselves" I could not help but laugh hysterically, on the inside of course.

On a deeper note I have thought about somethings. This semester I have been MUCH better about attending the gym. While there I saw this man in a wheel chair with his legs strapped down, and he was still working out his arms. Another experience is in my LDS temples class, my teacher is blind. If he didn't tell us (and I sat towards the back of the class the first day and couldn't see his eyes) I would have no idea he was blind. He gets around so well and does things without help from the class or anyone else. It made me think, my body works and all 5 of my senses work, why do I limit myself sometimes, I think we all do it. If I were actually handicapped I don't know that I would be so proactive about life. Gives me something to think about.

Also we are more than half way done with this semester and I CAN NOT WAIT for summer. I went home this passed weekend so it was like a touch of summer in February. ugh. But the thing is....I have NO idea what I will be doing. ugh. I need a job.

Summer

As of late I have really been craving the summer. Its funny because just 2-3 months ago I was craving Christmas. I think the underlying theme here is that I crave home. When I was leaving California to start my freshmen year at BYU I was soo excited to get away and start a new life, not have a curfew or rules. Don't get me wrong I still do appreciate that but there is something about being home that is just great, maybe it is the stress free life, or free food, or lack of roommates I do not like, or sleeping in my own room in a big bed, or the continual sunshine that California is so great for, probably the combination of them all. But I keep dreaming of the sun flowing, wearing some shorts and flip flops not caring about a thing in the world.

One of my favorite things about the summer is waking up in the morning and hearing the birds chirp. It is so great. I didn't get to go to the beach last summer, which I kind of regret, as I look at my extremely pasty skin, but what ever. I miss laying in the hammock in the backyard falling asleep with a book in my hand.

I miss flowers in bloom. Sad to admit, but I miss my dads farm in our backyard and front yard. I miss not having a care in the world.

Summer....come quickly please

Sports Hero Day

Yesterday I volunteered for BYU's Sports Hero Day. Sixth graders from around the Wasatch county come to BYU and get to learn about sportsmanship, overcoming obstacles, setting goals, and such from BYU's athletes. I had some very funny experiences with these sixth graders. When they first got to me the boys and girls naturally were segregated and the boys REALLY wanted to meet Riley Nelson and football players, but sadly our group didn't get to see the football players. I had one guy think he was just great, but when the athletes had them do little drills, sadly he was no A-Rod, but that's all right. They were soo hyper, I couldn't believe anyone could be so hyper at such an early time. We mostly saw female athletes and this only little boy would get caught in a gaze and wave and say "I like you" it was pretty funny because the other kids were like "dude that's weird" The last workshop my group went to was the cheerleaders and they were ECSTATIC to meet CHEERLEADERS!! On the way there non stop I heard "I wanna meet a cheerleader" and lucky for them they did. One of which was Jimmer's Fiancee and she gave them hugs at the end, and then they found out who she was and they could not stop talking about "I GOT TO HUG A CHEERLEADER" it was probably the best and only thing they will remember from sixth grade. The cheerleaders had them play missionary tag and this one girl in my group DID NOT want to be partners with a boy. Her partner had gone to put her jacket down and the boys were like "Erica (I don't actually remember her name) I will be your partner" and she gave them the sassiest look ever. I couldn't help but laugh. All in all it was a lot of fun and will definitely do it again!

Zumba

So last night I went to Zumba with my friend Alyssa. Neither of us had ever been before and we wanted some new variety to our workout. Man oh man was it INTENSE!!! Several times throughout I thought I was going to die, but I definitely want to go again! However I learned that I am soo unattractive while working, most people would be like "oh yeah me too, I'm all sweaty and stuff" but there are just some people who just don't get super gross. For example my hair must be up in a ponytail with a headband to keep the loose ends out my face, there are some people that work out with their hair down and it looks find, mine will get all nasty and curl and frizz up. Not. Cute. Also my face turns BRIGHT red and then super pale, some just have normal colored face. My face also drips with sweat, others don't. I don't understand it. But whatever it was a lot of fun, my body does hurt today though, the stairs to campus felt never ending. I think the best part was the guy dancing in front of me shakin his thang like it aint no thang!

Home sweeeet home

I love being home especially after a stressful semester. I was home for almost three weeks!! When I came home my dad picked me up from the airport and on the drive home sure enough there was thunder and lightening. oh yipee. We got to go to Maria's, my favorite Mexican restaurant, for dinner. It was only chilly for about three days and then after that it was nice and sunny.

Significant things I did whilst home:

Helped my mom make 70 caramel apples-too many

Had the missionaries over for dinner for the first time in my 20 years on this earth

Shared a car with Mac

Went to Mac's baseball game

Had lunch with Sadie GEALTA

Wore shorts almost everyday

Baked some delicious red velvet cookies

Had some awesome Christmases

Got two new pairs of shoes

Shopped with my mom and grandma

Went to a pretty slow New Year's party

Made pink lemonade

Played with Rookie

Got to hang with my girl Julianne

All in all a wonderfully warm Christmas break. Being back in pootah makes me miss home for several reasons:

Bill and Shauna- yes at times do drive me crazy but not more than other roommates I have had to live with

Snuggling with my Rookie

Hearing some great stories about my precious A.

Watching TV with Mac

Sunshine

Maria's

Until next time Covina

Bucket List

So today I was talking to my brother and we were discussing our New Year's Resolutions and he was like well you know you have to write them down to achieve them and I nodded my head like yeah I know. I am not going to show you my new year's resolutions but I was thinking hmm I should write my bucket list down so here goes:

-Hang glide

-Sky dive, even though I will probably crap myself

-paddle board

-Visit every country in Europe

-Visit every pacific Island (hello tan self)

-Live in a different country for at least a year

-Buy a pair of REALLY expensive shoes (those who have seen my shoes are probably thinking umm you don't need any more shoes- says who?)

-Get my picture taken with a celebrity

-Be friends with a celebrity

-Work for the International Olympic Committee

-Watch all episodes of every season of Friends

-Be on Amazing Race or Survivor

Well this is it for right now! When I expand it or complete one of them, I shall be sure to let you know! I hope everyone had a good Christmas and happy New Year's!!

Scholar by day Gangsta by night

Now I know all 6 of you that admit to following this beauteous blog of mine probably thought I had fallen off the face of the earth- I didn't. Although there have been times where I wish I had, such as today when I had to take my math test. Remember how much I love it? Here. So yes I am done with math and spanish FOREVER!!!! Praises be. After I take my D&C test tomorrow, I shall be a free woman for approximately 3 weeks! These three weeks will consist of free food, sleep, sleep, chauffeur Mac/Mom/Dad, family, tv, sleep, rookie, sunshine, shorts, sleep, PRESENTS, and not 9:00 church. So all in all life is grand, or will be soon enough. I will no longer have to wake up before the sun rises to go to class, as today when I left for my first test the sun was no where near making it over the mountains and when I got out of the test it was EFFING snowing. Probs gonna be worse next semester. ugggh. Someone told me that when they is around me they start talkin all ghetto n stuff, I decided its a compliment. Also if any of you don't read/follow this website PUHLEASE DO! Someone should buy me Hustla da Rabbit shirt.

yours truly

part time scholar, part time gangsta

Hearing the sentence "you've got a lot of hair" is something I have really missed hearing

Ode to Calculus

Actually this is more of a rant because I absolutely hate that class!!! I hated it 4 years ago when I took it the first time and I hate it again. Its so freaking dumb. The worst is online calculus because if you forget a close parenthesis-WRONG, oh you wrote ex sqaured divided by 3 instead of the cubed root of ex squared (due to parenthesis nonetheless) -WRONG AGAIN. Oh you didn't write the lim as ex approaches blah blah every step of the way? haha WRONG AGAIN. They don't even give you bonus points for being partially right- UGHHH. This stupid class shall be the BANE of my existence, I am so glad this is the last math class I will EVER have to take. Don't get me wrong though I used to LOVE math, until I got to calculus, my brain just doesn't have much more capacity than that. cant. handle. this. Honestly if I didn't have smart friends *ahem Matthew* my grade would suck!!! Oh did I mention that there is this really annoying girl in my lab who thinks she is like the little assistant that can answer questions students ask- oh wait you can't, every time she opens her little yap I want to throw my hands in the air in be like YOURE ANNOYING NO ONE LIKES YOU ZIP IT. But I don't, instead I try and get splinters out of my finger whenever she speaks. uggghhhh only 2 more weeks, which means 7 more lectures and 4 more labs HALLELUJAH.

The perfect life

Yesterday I saw this supa cute word-wall-art thingy I really liked:

Wouldn't life be perfect if sweatpants were sexy, Mondays were fun, junk food didn't make you fat, Girls didn't cause so much drama, guys weren't so confusing, and goodbyes only mean until tomorrow.

So true

It's that time again....

Well out here in Provo we had our first snowfall a few nights ago. It wasn't much, most everything had defrosted after we got home from church. Now the mountains and trees were all pretty with little white frost across them, but aside from the pretty scenery there are some negative effects from winter season. Coming from California (notice I didn't shorten that to 'cali', nor will I ever) our winters consist of throwing on a hoodie and whipping out your cute vans or uggs, because rarely does it get below 60- maybe 57 if you're lucky. But here in P-town things are a tad different.

You may wear a hoodie-under another jacket

You rarely wear vans, you rock the rain boots or other HOTT boots.

You most definitely do not wear uggs when it is icy because you will fall (the only girls I have ever seen fall on campus were wearing uggs)

You wear at least one pair of gloves.

Tights or thermal underwear go under the pants.

The second you step out of the shower you immediately put lotion everywhere because you will regret it an hour later when you are soo itchy from all that dry skin.

You constantly have dry boogies that hurt like a mother (oh wait just me? eh well now you know one of my winter flaws)

Your chances of slipping and eating it on campus in front of hundreds of people drastically increases-however many boys will rush to your side and offer you a hand

Now for some nice things:

Cutesy scarves and hats.

Fuzzy socks, of which I own more than my fair share, and will continue to buy more.

Hot chocolate

The holidays

Ski season, I am more enthusiastic about this than I used to be because I haven't gone for like a year and a half, since before I get sicky poo. So I need to get back on the slopes

Christmas parties

Just to name a few things

Now that those of you not from Provo get a little taste of what winter is like here I hope you are superbly grateful you can just get away with a hoodie.

I am slowly emerging from this mid semester slump. Last week I had tons of ish to do and this week had no energy to put more effort than needed into anything! So here is a low down on what has gone down the past couple of weeks:

I finally spent all my birthday money, it wasn't too hard at first, but I couldn't figure out what to spend the last couple of dollars on:

Halloween came and went. I went as snooki, I looked like I was rolled in dirt, but I think I did snooki justice. I helped the hombres make their spartan costumes, luckily they found someone else to sew them last minute, as their sewing machine lacked a pedal:

what girl wouldn't want to help make these costumes

in case you were unaware that is me as snooki in the middle

up close look of that makeup and poof

I bought my caramel for caramel apples! My roommates were dumb dumbs and didn't believe ange that it was all caramel (it was 30 pounds) ;)

I have been getting to spend some good 'ol quality time with the homies:

Upcoming news:

I am going to St. George next weekend, and then back to the greatest state ever for Thanksgiving so that I can grub.

The semester is almost over, thank goodness.

Oh I will admit probably my most embarrassing moment: now that it has been friggin cold in Utah, I hate it. Anyways I was walking to school this morning and there was a patch of ice on top of the stairs, and whaddayaknow I fell. Luckily no one saw me from the front so I stood up shook it off and did NOT turn around. First fall on campus ice at BYU. ew

Sometimes I think of all of the good memories I have with people, and wish we could relive them or just and reminisce until we die from laughter, but then I remember, I just have way too many good memories.

Clearly these are just a few of my fantastic memories, but lets be honest, who wouldn't want to be my friend- look how much fun I have (and how awesome ALL my friends are)

All smiles

So this one time I turned 20. And I didn't look like a fat chipmunk! And I have amazing people in my life. So this is how the day started...

Wake up for 8 o clock class....blah

Come home early since I didn't have to go to math review

take a nap

Check the mail and find this:

Momma sent me Georgetown cupcakes....from the show DC cupcakes on TLC....remember the first time I tried them

Then I got 2 cards in the mail one from mom and pops and macky poo and one from grandma

I got a text from a boy asking what color banana hammock I would want him to wear that night

Then I got to go to CPK with some amazing friends where one boy even took his shirt off

I obviously did not choose this picture because I think I look hott.... it just perfectly describes my amigos.

Caleb decided we needed to dance in the middle of the street and tell everyone we were in love

The waiter Coby, ( the white version of Kobe) gave everything to me before anyone else and did this super awkward "Birthday girl" song whenever he brought my food.

Then I got to skype with Suhrena. She be awesome.

Then I ate one of these:

Superbly delish

So I would totally post a picture of my 3 bdays at college...but who am I kidding I am not about to put a picture of last year up- although many people would like to see caleb and gavin pretty much naked

But here is freshmen year:

I don't think I have changed much except the hair....and I am now 20!!!!!

Except Mac tells me I look like I am 14 -_-

Anyways as you can tell I had a fabulous birthday and am grateful for those who came and made my night soo much more enjoyable!

I Luv YOU!!

Do you know a tool?

I have decided to come up with a list of signs that you or someone you know is a tool. It can sometimes be a disease, and if you do know someone like this-please help them:

They wear tank tops:

Now there are exceptions as to when this attire is acceptable: gym and beach. Please don't rock them as a fashion accessory. I understand you want to show off your bulging muscles but, the cons outweigh the pros.

They carry jugs of water as if it is a water bottle:

I understand you wanted to stay hydrated before and after your 3 hour gym sesh's, but really across campus? You look like a fool.

3 in diameter faced watches:

I am not dissing a male who wears a watch, quite frankly I think it's hot. But if it is big enough for me to read the time from across the room, its time to downsize. We all know the purpose of your ownership is to show how much money you have....we aren't dumb.

Wearing these:

Now I don't have a problem if you wear these, but when you wear them with mid length socks and basketball shorts/sweats.....really? It screams "yeah I'm too cool for real shoes"

You're not.

Sunglasses inside:

It does not make you cool. Just because you have a deep down desire to be Mike "the Situation" please don't profess it to the world. Are you too cool to make eye contact with everyone else in the room?

These are just a few physical signs. These are usually the first to be noticed. So if you or someone you know do several of these toolish qualities, I beg you change or help someone else change, for the betterment of society!

Work....bleh

Yesterday I worked the football game selling concessions. It was my second game working. The first game was a little hectic, my stand leader was really unsure of what was going on and two of us were new. As you can imagine some things went not so smoothly. Fast forward to Friday- I am working the same stand and I noticed a different stand leader and a different second from last week. As soon as I get there the other girl leans over and says, " I am so glad you showed up, I am going to kill him" I soon felt the same way. I had worked the same stand last week so I kind of knew what worked best, he tried doing things the other way until he realized I was right- of which he told me I was right at least 4 times. Faces were made several times behind his back *ahem brittany,* his hovering really pushed my nerves, and many other things. I soon felt bad for the judgments I made of poor J man, because I realized he is the only boy with 4 girls, and we all know that girls are ALWAYS right. I ended up having to stay and count inventory, in which I had to count the popcorn boxes TWICE, he made me lose count -_-. At the end of it all, I felt bad for being so mean behind his back- I mean he has a sweet spirit! Oh and we won the game! and a friend from my ward was the security guard near my area so I got to chat with him every once in awhile!! I wonder what next Friday will bring us!

Not creative title post

Ok um school is crazy, which is why I have been so lazy!! Well I am an FHE mom, so I am super excited about that. My co-chair on the other hand, is uh not so enthusiastic. Hopefully I can change that about him. Kylee and Alex got married on Saturday and it was sooo much fun!! I was so sore in the morning, and today. I am a superior swimmer according to my swim class timed evaluation. Hmm not much else too exciting. I love running into people on campus, it makes me feel rather popular, and now that I don't look like a fat chipmunk I am not so embarrassed to say hey whats up? OH this boy in my FHE group has an amazing voice. He just sang Michael Buble, Josh Groban, and a ton of other songs in my living room for us. Fabulous.