Locks of Love! <3

I wanted to cut my hair and donate it again to Lock of Love. I decided I'd cut my hair either when I got married or after I'd been home from Russia for a year...whichever came first. I especially decided against cuttin' my hair before/during the winter time. It seems like everyone cuts their hair at this time...and it seems illogical to me because winter time is cold...and you need more hair during the colder time. But after a discussion with Marta...we agreed that children needed hair for the winter time...and since I had two-feet to spare...I could at least donate a foot. So...randomly...while in the mall looking at new cellphones (my battery always died...so I never carried my phone with me...and would find that I had 14 messages in my voicemail, etc.) I spontaneiously decided that I should get my hair cut. So we went...and I didn't even have a style picked out. I decided to put full trust in the stylist...I explained that I had thin, oily hair...that I essentially NEVER do...so I needed something simple yet cute. And it turned out fabulously!

David Archuletta Cornmaze

This post is somewhat outdated...but back around Halloween Time-ish...Marta and I went to the David Archuletta Cornmaze at Thanksgiving Point. It was stinkin' cold that night...so we snooped around tryin' to kill time before going through the haunted cornmaze. I really wanted to go...but the longer the line, the later it got...and more whiny I became...
After we had eaten grilled corn on the cob and deep-friend corn dogs...Marta started to get sick anyway...so we caught a ride home without going through the maze. :( Maybe next year...

Suspicion of Bulimia

What makes someone want to initiate an eating disorder? What do you do if you suspect someone of an eating disorder...specifically bulimia? I already picked up information on eating disorders at Women's Studies in the Wilk. But if I hear throwing up once more without the slightest hint of sickness...I'm approaching the person. If I don't, I feel that his/her health is on my hands.

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

I turned twenty-four years old on Thursday. How have I almost lived a quarter of a century? I'm not exactly sure. Either way... the reality is still the same. I am normally not very consumeristic when it comes down to it. (unless food is involved) But I saw an ad that the BYU Bookstore was selling wax and seals for letters. I splurged and treated myself for my birthday. Perhaps this will give me the incentive to write people in Russia!

Marta, my ex-roommate, busted into the office (where we all TA) and presented me with a cheesecake. Then came Kelli with blueberry muffins! I ate four slices of cheesecake, six (mini) muffins...and later that night I attended a lecture and had four HONKIN' chewy, chocolate chip cookies. While everyone was delictable while eating...after allowing that sugar to sit for awhile...I realized how irrational I had been in the day's consumption.
Also, the Whites have five children. Their oldest, Courtney, is the same age as me. She was born around 2:30 a.m. Utah time...and I was born at 3:30 a.m. Louisiana time. Also, their youngest, Sophia turned twelve on the 11th. So on Friday, 13 February...we had a birthday celebration. We had a buffet. Sophie requested lasagna and salad, Courtney wanted stuffed peppers, and I insisted upon fried chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy. We topped off the meal with a strawberries and whipped cream angel food cake.
Gift giving this year was especially fun because BYU was doing a "canning" for Valentine's Day. You purchase gifts and candy...and put them in a can...and they seal the can for you like food storage. haha. It was great fun! No opportunities for peaking. :) And you must use a can-opener to "unwrap" your gift! Hurray!
Courtney got for me a Jesus Calendar (actually two: one gianormous one and the other a small one) and a necklace with a mustard seed in it. It's really cute! Megan got me a gift card to some apparently super cool second hand store! Yippee!! I love second-hand! And the White family as a whole gifted me a box of honey buns! (my favorite present yet!), a gift card to Borders (a bookstore), and a gift card to Jamba Juice...which I already know what I'm getting (my favorite smoothie has orange, pineapple, and banana!) Besides all the gifts...the best thing I got on my birthday was a letter from Feriya! Sister Delgertsetseg and I found her one day while serving together! Sister Pilipchak and I continued to work with Feriya and her children when I was transferred back to Samara. They were baptized on -Sunday- 06 April 2008g. Feriya wrote to inform me that her husband, Sasha, had also gotten baptized before the New Year! Enclosed was a picture from the baptism!

Later on the night of the 13th I attended a "Sisters' Sleepover" in Sandy, Utah at Chelsea Wrathall's house. Also in attendance were: Rachel Atwood, Emily Wheeler, Kalia Kuligowski, Marta Anaya, and Jennifer Perkins (obviously Chelsea Wrathall, too, seein's as it WAS her house!) :) It was pleasant to see some of the sisters from my mission. But their reminiscence was not all that amuzing for me because I never served with any of these girls while in the field. And they all served in areas that I never served in. So I didn't know the places, the people, etc. concerning their stories. But...I did get to sleep on a HONKIN' pillow by a fireplace! :) Pictures are pending...

Я - Тётя!

My little brother, Brandon, and his finance, Chariti gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on Saturday, 31 January 2009g. His name is Landen Lee Prince. He is precious! Now I kinda want one...

Church Attendance?

A little while ago I stepped into my bathroom and the floor was about an inch deep in water. It took me a minute to notice since I was wearing my house shoes. I evacuate the premises and approach my roommate. "Do you know why the bathroom is flooded?" She replies that she had just gotten out of the shower... While the shower is a plausible explanation for water covering our bathroom floor...I'd argue that she had to be showering without a curtain. But to my dismay...the curtain was still strung over the bathtub. So I towel up the flood and proceed to run myself a bubble bath. (yea!!!)
I bring all my gear into the bathroom while the water is runnin'...I use the toilet then relax myself in what seemed to be heaven. Then I hear it--a trickling of water... I rip the curtain back and see that the back of the toilet is leakin' from the tank and the flusher hole. Decisively I shove the trashcan under the major leak. Seven seconds of heaven was temporarily ruined. I finished my time of relaxation to find myself AGAIN toweling up a flood of water. This time a comparatively smaller flood.
I approach my roommate a second time to explain the situation. I insist that we use our neighboring roommate's bathroom until the landlord can have a look-see at our problem.
(This transition is ridged. For that I apologize...but hopefully the pictures are worth a thousand words of explanation)!
As a sociology major, I am very interested in studying people. I love it...and I'm pretty darn good at it. :) This semester I am enrolled in a "Sociology of LDS Church and Peoples" class. The thing about religion and measuring one's religiosity is somewhat ambiguous. I do not believe that you can quantify how religious or faithful a person is...especially not by categories such as 'Church Attendance.' There are a plethora of people who attend church for reasons other than religious. And there are numerous individuals and families which do not attend church that are marginally religious and faithful. Nevertheless, quantoid sociologists persist in trying to objectify religiosity. As a more liberal, postmodern sociologist in training...I would like to ask according to the following photographs: Do you consider yourself faithful/religious? Do you attend "church" religiously? :)
haha! So my neighboring roommate's toilet that we started using has a seat that is apparently of the name brand: "Church!" I thought it was very cute and entertaining! haha!

Winter Mormonland

This semester I've been TA'ing for Michael in Soc111. He put up this really awesome picture he took by the duck pond one day to illustrate the "sexual charge" of BYU atmosphere. It was a picture of two snowpeople embraced and makin' out. I will get that posted soon. But here is another student creation. I saw this snowhorse a block north of my apartment complex on my way to school the other day. The next day I saw that someone had dumped some hot chocolate on his butt to make it look like poo. haha! I wanted to take a picture but on my way home that afternoon...it had already started to melt.

For a while there I thought spring was upon us...but alas, Mother Nature has more winter in store...at least for the time being.

Дом для Отпуска

I went home for the Holidays. It had to be the greatest time I've had in a L-O-N-G time. I was a little concerned because these were the first holidays that I will have celebrated since my mission. I loved missionary holidays because the season is about Christ and service. I did not want to be wrapped up in consumeristic holidays. So I tried to plan a little festive fun. We baked and decorated cookies (for Santa and for each other)! We constructed a little gingerbread house. Mom and I caroled together...neither of us can carry a tune (in a bucket or otherwise)! I made a Christmas dinner which consisted of borsh.
Being at home in Louisiana I also had to partake of the sweet goodness that Utah fails to offer.
My Momma got me addicted to the teenage soap opera "One Tree Hill." I managed to watch all five available seasons on DVD. Season six is currently on air.
And we did "girls' night" face masks and foot massages! :)