another survey

What is your ideal wake-up time in the morning? 8:00 to have a productive morning
What are some of your favorite movies? Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice (masterpiece theater), You've Got Mail,
What is your favorite TV show? the office, What not to wear, Flip that House
What is your favorite breakfast? Chocolate Chip pancakes with Strawberries and cool-whip
What is your favorite cuisine? classic bbq
What foods do you dislike? sushi, mushrooms, peppers, coconut.

What are your top 5 favorite candy bars? Toblerone, Milky Way, 100 Grand, Hershey bar, Reeses
What is your favorite music group? Dashboard Confessional
Favorite sandwich? Grilled Cheese, tuna, and tomato on Sourdough
What do you wear most often? jeans, t-shirt, flip flops
If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? cruising anywhere warm. (I'm cold right now and sitting at my desk)
Favorite item of clothing? shoes, definitely
Where would you want to retire to? Probably California
Favorite time of day? Late night
Place you were born? Henderson, Nevada

Favorite Sports to watch? BYU Football, college volleyball
Person who will respond first to this blog? Beth. She usually is the first.
Are you a morning person or night owl? Definitely a night owl, unless I didn't sleep much the night before.
Favorite animal? I've only ever had a pet fish; Mr. Bingley is his name. He's kind of boring though.
Any news you'd like to share with everyone? I just drove to and from Vegas the whole way for the first time. Go me.
What did you want to be when you were little? A 3rd grade teacher. (post 3rd grade, obviously)
In regards to parenting, children are : Opposition or blessing? I'm not a parent?

What are some of your favorite things to do in your free time? take a nap, read, blog/facebook, write missionaries
Favorite flavor of ice cream? Ben & Jerry's Half Baked (heaven in a pint, I swear it)
If you could make one wish? To suddenly be able to understand everything I need to know to graduate from college successfully and then have amazing motivation to get strait a's.
Favorite baked good? oh man... chocolate caramel brownies
Favorite season? Fall, hands down (except for the fact that it brings school with it. But that won't be such a huge deal in a couple years. or maybe it will.)
Favorite cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory? Dulce de Leche
Ever done something you could've been arrested for? Uuumm, if I have it would have probably been with Kenny Harmer and/or Kirby Okuda...
Favorite color? green, black. But in a classy way. Not like all gothicy.
favorite sport/ activity to play? volleyball
Favorite flower? Gerber daisies
Favorite fast food restaurant? I really don't like much fast food; maybe panda express.
How many times did you take your drivers test? once. I'm a champion.
Favorite grocery store? Maceys, SO cheaper than Albertsons.
How many tattoos do you have? twenty seven (

Who sent this to you and what is something you love about them? Andrea Lemmon; My sister, she's pretty dang great. She motivates me to be more organized and productive and has never made me feel like she doesn't have time for me even when she's crazy busy ALL the time. She always has a couch for me to crash on.
What materialistic thing would you ask for if you had one wish to make? A full-tuition scholarship
pizza or hamburgers? pizza
Mr. Darcy or Mr. Knightley? Mr. Knightley
Snacking: sweet or salty? Sweet most definately
Who's worse: Stephen A. Smith or Charles Barkley (sports broadcasting)? I don't know about either. I'm so uncultured, I know.
Beverage of Choice? A&W rootbeer, Water
Favorite Disney Cartoon? Hercules
book you want to read? Lord of the Rings, Anything byC.S. Lewis; I've heard his books are amazing.
banana split or rootbeer float? rootbeer float; bananas only ever roll solo for me.

my valentines day

So, I awoke this morning to the doorbell at 8:03 am. Casey Jo was already up/showered/dressed, so she answered the door. I proceeded to make my bed. IN walks Casey Jo with yellow roses from my dad. He's pretty great. I love him lots.

Here is an example... He got a new camera for Christmas, I got a new Camera for Christmas.

I'm his favorite. I'm not supposed to tell anyone about it, but I couldn't hold it in any longer. But seriously. I am.

Then, because it was a holiday, (and at the beginning of this lent thing we decided that we'd skip birthdays and holidays) I made CHOCOLATE CHIP pancakes for breakfast. I just about died they were so good. It's only been a week, but I haven't had any chocolate at all... While eating breakfast, my roommates and I watched Pride and Prejudice, in honor of the day. At about 11, I showered and got ready for the day, then did homework, then walked up to campus with Hannah for my 1:00 class. That was great and wonderful and whatnot... When I got home, Sarah was watching Return to me (with Minnie Driver, Bonnie Hunt, David Duchovny) so of course, I dropped right down on the couch to join her. Somewhere I fell asleep, woke up, went to my bed and set my alarm for an hour later. Ah, naps. I rarely get one. As in, even rarely on sundays... When I woke up, I made no bakes, because everyone wanted some, and then I got ready for work. At work, I was sure to wish the basketball teams a happy valentines day during pre-game, and they all seemed much more pleasant. I wish every day was a holiday so the teams would be nice. Some kid made some comment like, "aren't you glad you get to spend your V-day evening with 10 guys..." Smart. Also, during the 7:00 game, I felt the ramifications of a week without chocolate and then a day entirely comprised of ONLY chocolate. Headache for sure. Anyways, after work, I rushed over to the Provo Town center mall theater to meet my roommates. I was about 20 minutes late to the chickflick (of course, hello, what else are 4 single girls gonna do on v-day evening?) but I got the general gist of it and enjoyed it. When I got home, I ate a couple more no bakes, watched a video with songs and pictures of Casey Jo and her missionary, then came into my room to blog. Let me just say, after a day of eating nothing but Chocolate Chip pancakes and no bakes, I FEEL like I never want Chocolate again. Luckily, my head knows better and after I pick up lent for a few more days, I'll be set and ready for Casey Jo's birthday (feb. 21st).

Tomorrow, come rain, snow, hail, lightning, WHATEVER, I AM coming home! I haven't seen my baby yet (Ryan and Kacy's baby) and I want to! Really, the justification of the drive is that I have to renew my drivers license. So bring on the Dr. Pepper (caffeinated beverage of choice), cuz I'm in for a long drive that I have not yet made on my own. ugh! I'm ready for a snow-less town, it's been a while. K, well I have to get my sleep if I'm gonna drive for 6 hours, so for now, this is it.

Saturday is a special day.

At least, today was special. But 100% ordinary at the same time. hmm...
I woke up at 7:30, my favorite thing to do on Saturday morning, (oh wait, just kidding) showered and got ready for work. Work today was actually really good. I enjoyed all four hours of games, and the two officials I worked with, Kyle and Steven, were really fun to work with. I was laughing every time I talked to them. When I got home, I went to a bridal shower for Christina McLaws, a girl who lived across the hall from me in the dorms last year. When I came home, I ate some food, then went back to my room, put my ipod on shuffle and turned the volume up preeety loud. I looked out the window/slept/woke up and looked out the window again for about an hour. Then, I went back out to the front room and talked to Casey about her missionary for a bit. After eating some dinner, I decided I was bored and so I made cards. Like I have nothing better to do. Anyways, here are the evening's results.

I started with this black/white/silver theme going on, then I decided that those weren't very practical because I'm probably never going to use them. So I moved on to green and yellow.
Then, Sarah and Tate (her boyfriend) came back to the apartment and Tate said, "so, are you sending out black valentines?" I totally forgot about valentines day, so, I made more for V-day.
Anyways. I feel like it was a good day's work. I don't do scrapbook-y type stuff very often, but when I do, I really get into it. huh. I don't think I could have the patience to scrapbook my life. holy cow. That would take a lot of time. SERIOUS props to scrapbookers.

LENT!

It starts tomorrow you know. And before today, I never knew what Fat Tuesday was or that it had anything to do with Mardigras or Lent... Talk about cultured... I had originally decided to give up Chocolate, but then Jacey and Natalie told me they were giving up baked goods. So, I decided to add a poll for the next week or so, see what I can come up with. I needed more than two options so I added facebook up there, cuz I'm on that a lot. I think giving up Chocolate would be more beneficial, but at the same time, more difficult to accomplish. Baked goods would be good to give up too, but part of me is thinking, that's mostly chocolate anyways. Any opinions? Well, back to Fat Tuesday. Since I was going to be giving up Chocolate, I had to down my Cocoo Roos (cheap, non-brand-name Cocoa Puffs) and my Chocolate covered Cinnamon bears. When all of that got old and I started feeling sick, I gave them to my roommates, who downed them real quick.
I tell you what, my roommates are like vultures (in the best way possible) when it comes to good left over food. My mom was up here for the weekend and she took Andrea, Karalyn and I to Olive Garden and as soon as I got home, my roommates looked at me with that, "are you gonna eat that?" look on their faces. So of course, being the oh-so-generous person that I am, offered it to them, and they downed it faster than I could have imagined.
But I now know the meaning of Fat Tuesday. And why Lent is the next day. Well, I don't know all about it, I just know that you eat a lot of whatever you won't be able to eat because you're giving it up for Lent. Something like that. Maybe I'm not as cultured as I thought.

more stuff.

So, for my MFHD 221 class, we were assigned to create a "symbol-gram" which could basically be anything that told a bit about ourselves so that we could create a community of caring (or something to that effect) within our class. That's not really an every day type situation for college courses, in case we forgot, but whatever, sure, I'll do an easy A assignment if you'd like. I decided to tell something about myself using each of the letters of my name. Here's what I came up with.

Julina; I was named after Julina Lambson Smith. She was the wife of Joseph F. Smith and the mother of Joseph Fielding Smith.
Ultra-soft skin. Basically the next best "u" option was "ugly" voted by Casey jo. nice. There really aren't a lot of positive "u" words out there. I do freak out with dry skin though.
Letters. I spend a lot of my time writing letters to missionaries.
Intramurals. I work for the BYU intramural sports program as a supervisor.
Nineteen will soon be the number of people in my immediate family once Loralee has her baby in 3 weeks!
Autumn is my favorite season!

Harry Potter; I've read them all several times. I've debated all possible aspects of horocruxes... I cried when Fred died...
A&W Rootbeer. I really like it.
Shoes; my favorite accessory. If I could afford to splurge, I would.
Toblerone. my favorite candybar
Incapable of going anywhere without Chapstick. It’s true.
Normal? really, at this point, I was lacking in ideas.
Green is my favorite color.
Sudoku; my choice for passing the time.

I liked the idea so much that I did the same for Mike's name and put it in the letter I sent off today. I highly recommend the idea to everyone who is lacking in ideas of things to post.

So, I finally got the pictures from our family photo shoot scanned into my computer.

Here's the siblings.
Nate, Ryan
Karalyn, Me, Loralee, Andrea


And add the parents

And the in-laws and grandkids.
Taylor, Loralee, Mom, Dad, Kacy, Ryan
Karalyn, Brooklyn, Kyle, Andrea, Karalee Jo, Holly, Liz, Nate, Sydney, and Me.More later!

MLKjr. Day!

I woke up from a dream filled with acts of youth delinquency to a window full of snow. Basically. That's the short of it and the long version isn't worth telling. But my roommates and I decided to go out and play in the snow. We made snow angels and a snow man. But remember Harriet? I don't remember if I put a picture of her on here before, but here's the story. My mom was in Provo around Halloween time and got this "candy bowl" type thing that looks like a witch's head. Whenever someone would leave an article of clothing, we would add it to Harriet.



Well today, we decided to make a snowman. It was a perfect snowman and it took it a long time to get that way. When it came to making the head, Casey Jo suggested we bring out Harriet. So we did. Here she is!





So she's kind of creepy, right? Well, she is in the dark when you forget she's there and you drive into the parking lot and see her reflecting eyes by the lights of your car.

Also, we had another FHE photo shoot because we switched up FHE groups at semester. The boys didn't participate much, but that didn't matter since my apartment really gets into those anyways. We brought props this time, so it was way more intense. I'll post some as soon as we get the cd copies. Great, bye!

Pessimistic in Provo

I'm sitting at my desk in Provo. It's Saturday afternoon and I am not in Las Vegas as I had previously planned. Hannah has been called as the new Relief Society Secretary and as such has training tomorrow afternoon. Even when she couldn't come, my sister Andrea said she'd come with me as long as she could be back in Provo on Monday for her birthday. Kyle took work off so he could spend the day with her. Well, she and my mom got to talking about the weather (which, as of this morning, is probably as nice as Provo weather could ever get at this time of year) and they decided that if it did snow, we didn't want to get stuck in it. So Andrea decided against coming with me. So here I sit.

And I'm kind of in a crappy mood. Firstly, there are some roommate issues going on that I wish were resolved but not everyone is here, so that has to be postponed. It's putting a huge "distancing void" in our apartment. Does that even make sense? Secondly, I feel like there should be things for me to do, but I can't think of any. At least, any that sound appealing right now. Thirdly, I bought/put together a binder for all of Mike's letters and emails. (Let me say, that boy doesn't capitalize a single thing when he types.) I've spent the past few days doing that/reading them again and that's kind of put me in a "missing the crap out of Mike" mood. I just want to talk to him. Fourthly, I keep thinking that a lot of these issues would not be issues if I were in Vegas. My dad just got out of a rough trial yesterday and has called me a lot yesterday and today and I'm thinking it's because he has all this free time now. Great! I love talking to my dad. Except that it's making me really homesick since I should be there and not here right now. And last, I had the weirdest dream last night and so I just woke up in a weird mood... as in not good. I dunno. I think I'm going to read a book. Maybe that might help to cheer me up.