remember Ben?

Sometimes I forget how funny this kid is. Amber, Jacie, Nicole, I know you'll appreciate this because you know his sense of humor the way I do.

I got an email from him yesterday. Here's a little snip of it:

"Willi!I'm sorry for the chain of illnesses that came your way. I would become a doctor but I'm far to squeamish, or girly as you would say. Speaking of that, I saw myself in the mirror a few days ago and I look way different. My body that is. I have a chest the size of Donkey Kong's. It caught me off guard. I'm most definitely not fat. Just bigger. And not fat bigger. Just bigger. Speaking of that... Yesterday, I decided that I would iron part of my shirt while wearing it because it got wrinkly from wearing a blanket over my clothes during studies and I was in a hurry. It would have been successful but it steam blasted me and now I have blisters and burn marks on my stomach. It hurt. And I'm stupid haha."

This email reminded me that Ben is a real person... in another country right now. Weird.

Anywhere but here

One thing I've learned in the last few years: if life isn't happy where you are, go somewhere happier. You don't have to run away forever, just for a weekend or two.

Go to the people who love you

To the people who make you laugh

To see your friends make life changing choices

And renew friendships

To smash faces

To reminisce

To smile like you mean it

Go to congratulate

To distract yourself with sheer joy

Go places you've never been

And pretend you went somewhere even better

Turn the heads of strangers

Pretend you know where and what you're doing

And if all else fails, squeeze the world's cutest nephew

Viva Las Vegas, and happy wedding Ashley and Scott :) I love you!

You've got to be kidding me

Sick. Again. With the stomach flu, or influenza. Whatever it is I'm not happy! However, I am certainly loved. Teddy came over and cleaned my entire disgustingly messy room, did all of my laundry, carried a ridiculously heavy TV into my room so I could watch movies, and slept here to keep me company. Megan and Andrew insisted on bringing me 7up, which I was oh so grateful for. Poor Jake listened to me puke before he went home. Evan came and talked on the phone to his friend for hours in my house, because he knew all of my roommates were out of town. And my lovely FHE brothers came over and gave me a blessing. What great friends and family I have :)

Gentlemen only Ladies forbidden

I went to the driving range in South Jordan on Monday and taught Jake a thing or two about golfing.
















Side note; is there a single girl in the world who doesn't love getting flowers? I don't think so.

does this look like the face of a criminal?

On Saturday I took Teddy shopping in Salt Lake for her birthday. It was all fun and games till I got pulled over for going 85 in a 65. Thank goodness I was wearing my sunhat though because I'm pretty sure that was the reason he only marked me down for going 10 over.
Best part: my ticket says "Ethnicity: U"


U stands for unknown. God bless America

Uncanny

How is it that I was thinking about paying rent, utilities, my Vegas trip, and Arizona trip, and wondering how I could make all of it work, when I got home to find this.

Again? This time I really don't know who it is. Before I had my suspicions but now I have no idea. If it is someone who knows me well, they obviously know that I have a hard time accepting big gestures from people. And if I knew who it was, I would send it back instead of keep it. But since there is no way for me to know where this mystery money came from, Thank You. You are too kind, and I'm grateful :)

insomnia

It's getting out of hand.
Last week, sleep from 3 to 6 on Monday.
Tuesday 4:30 to 7
Wednesday- no sleep. Study until time for school.
Thursday sleep from 4-5
Friday 5:30-8:30
Saturday 4-8:30.
So every night when I should look like this:I really look like this:
And I am angry because I'm exhausted and neeeeed sleep.

I wanna scream! But don't worry, when you are studying and taking pictures of yourself at 5 in the morning everything seems:

AO

K

I just took some sleeping pills and am praying they kick in any minute