road trip!

This weekend I had THE BEST roadtrip with my two darling friends Whitney and Merrie. We drove up to Chubbuck Idaho Friday after school after stocking up on SO much junk food. I have never seen that much crap all in one place. This is not even all of it.

We stayed with my aunt and uncle John and Sherri, who are so awesome. They fed us food from their wonderful bakery and let us stay in their extra room in the basement.

We had some unexpected car trouble right as we got to Chubbuck so John let us use his van for the rest of the trip which was a HUGE blessing. We drove to Rexburg on Saturday and walked around campus and looked at apartments! Then we went to the temple which was a really cool experience. We actually had wanted to tour another apartment before we went, but we couldn't find it so we just went to the temple instead, and the workers told us that if we had been any later they wouldn't have let us in because they close it really early. So that was an awesome experience, and it was so great to go to the Rexburg temple. I've never been anywhere else besides Timpanogos.

After the temple, we drove the hour back to John and Sherri's and got ice cream and watched a chick flick. :) then we went to put gas in the car so we could take it home today and it completely died. It just stopped working. So we drove the van home and the car is still in Idaho and my awesome uncle is going to take it to a shop for me.

Even though we had some terrible car trouble, it was very clear that we were being watched over the entire trip. We kept saying things like "what if we had been on the freeway when this happened," "what if we had been staying in a hotel and didn't have anyone to help us?" etc. and I was just completely overwhelmed with gratitude that nothing horrific happened because it TOTALLY could have. And I'm SO grateful to my wonderful aunt and uncle. John and Sherri, I love you guys so much! They were so awesome about everything and let us invade their house and eat their food and use their car. I love them so much!

I am SO excited for college. This trip just reestablished that!

oh high school..

What can I say? I'm ready to be done with high school. I know where I'm going to college and I'm excited for that upcoming time in my life. Thankfully there are a few fun things that high school still has to offer. I love the school dances, I've loved every one that I've ever been to. And I'm very excited to go to sweater swing next week with one of my very best friends. I hope Todd has fun too!

Thank you Whitney darling for coming with me!

The car was FULL of balloons

When he got home there was a sign on his door that said "I'd be flying high if you went to sweater swing with me!" I know I am totally unoriginal, what can I say? The letters in my name were bolded and underlined....hooray for dances!

good for me.

The last few days have been incredibly stressful. I've been working so hard on this blasted research paper for English! I tallied up the hours i've spent typing it up, not even including all of the hours of research, and it took me 10 hours to finish. And technically I'm not done editing. Just done enough not to feel like I'm going to panic. Last night I worked on it for almost 3 hours, and got 5 pages done. Then I accidently deleted the last two pages. GRRR. It was so bad. But, thankfully, I was able to work really hard today and now it is done!
Another good thing happened today when I ran 3 miles on the treadmill at the rec center. It was a REALLY good run. I've never had that good of a run on the treadmill. I know that 3 miles is practically nothing, but it's more than I've run in months so, kudos to me!
Now I plan on enjoying the rest of my weekend.

so much

I have a 10 page research paper about Debussy due on Monday.
And then on Tuesday I have a calculus test.

And I took an AP music test yesterday.

And on Friday I have a Wuthering Heights project due.
It doesn't seem like that much I guess. But trust me. It is.

running relates to life in so many ways...

I'm running the Utah Valley Half Marathon in June and I'm very excited about it. I just started training this week, so it's been slow and hard but it feels good to be doing something again. I bought a pass to the rec. center and i've already seen Aunt Frances there. :) I ran up the "temple hill" this morning which is a hill that most people avoid. I used to do it all the time when I was in shape. It was really hard today, but very very worth it. When I run I think about so many ways that it applies to life. It's kind of crazy. For one example, the hills that may or may not come up during a run are like the trials in life. There are some hills that you can avoid by taking a different route, but some you can't escape from. And when you get to those points in your run, you can either choose to stop trying, turn around, or walk, or you can push harder and get over the hill.

Just some things I think about.

some things that make me happy of late.

new hair cut--thank you Ruthie!
chamber songs like twa tanbou, sleep, my spirit sang all day,
valegrams!
singing in assemblies.
playing the piano spur of the moment,
Debussy. what a genius.
a rec center pass and work out on the bike.
awesome hair. did i already mention that?
LOST.
which i'm going to watch right now.

i know. i fail.

i know it's been an eternity since i've posted. for the last month and a half or so my schedule has been as follows:
get up, go to school, do homework during lunch. after school rehearsal. get home at 7 finish up any homework, go to bed.
and the week of the show was even more crazy. i got to go home after school, and i would do homework, or sleep then go back to school at 5:30, the show would start at 7 and i wouldn't get home until at least 10 then i'd go to sleep.
it was really really hard to live on so little sleep because i am not used to it at all. but the whole experience was just incredible. i can't believe i have never been in a play! it's the best experience anyone could ever have! i got to meet some of the neatest people and become close friends with them. it was just so much fun and so uniting and awesome! and to be in les miserables was amazing. it's a wonderful show.
here are a few pictures that people posted on facebook and the two onstage are ones my mom took. enjoy!

one very important truth i learned from this play is summed up in the epilouge:

"To love another person is to see the face of God."