Gibble Monsters

Don't let the title deceive you. I'm technically not in paradise. Quite a while ago I made it to a little town called Rexburg. It's home to MY university, which is the fabulous, BYU-Idaho. Oh, happy days! I have been here about a month ans so far I absolutely love it.

Back to the whole paradise idea, when you picture paradise, it's usually at a warm sunny beach with dolphins and sea turtles. That's where I was living. Now I am living in a little land-locked town  that is quaint and very friendly. It snows, it's windy, and it's cold. Let me explain the frustration now. I am not used to being back into the college life. I'm not adjusting quickly to it either. Homework and time consuming activities aren't really getting to me. I think it maybe the whole "balancing my time" act. For the past week I have felt behind, but not completely stressed. I did well enough on all my tests so it didn't really scare me to bad.

I don't think I entirely know what my frustrations are. I am happy to be here. I am happy to be learning. I also felt like blogging a bit. I'm going to share one quick story about my time here in Rexburg.


One morning, my ward decided to do morning baptisms. None of my roommates wanted to go because we started at 5:30 in the morning. I had my mind set that I was going to go to the temple in the morning. I knew I should. The next morning, I was up and out of bed at around 4am. I was fully ready to go to the temple. I am the complete opposite of a morning person, so being up and dressed before 5am, was absolutely unreal to me. The funny thing about the temple. From where I live it's about a mile.... Uphill. It was a colder morning and the sun hadn't risen yet. So, I'm bundled making my way up to the temple. I felt really great walking the whole way up. I can't even begin to explain the warmth I felt when I got to the temple. The numbness from my ears and nose went away instantly. Surprisingly, I was the first one there. Not much happened after that.  Needless to say, it was an amazing morning. I remember enjoying that entire day. 

Lately I have not been able to sleep. It's a natural thing for me, I go through these long nights, then sleep all day. I think it's referred to as "nocturnal." Anyways, I have been extremely grumpy lately. I yell a lot, and living in a very enclosed apartment complex, let me tell you, everyone gets to hear why I am mad. It's a bit ridiculous, I know. But hey, everyone gets grumpy if they wake up not having any energy (or a whole ten minutes of sleep.) I have become a monster since I moved! It is an outlet for entertainment, I just feel bad for whoever is at the receiving end of this anger. It's relentless. Mind you, I can only laugh about it at three o' clock in the morning when I am absolutely delirious from not sleeping. . .    


Here is the story for why I am not planning on sleeping tonight. I live on the first story of a four story apartment complex. I also live in the front of the apartment. My window faces out into basically a hallway. The complex is more or less designed to let voices travel. I guess it's like a concrete tunnel. A loud concrete tunnel. Long story short, noise is an issue with me. I can't sleep if it's loud.Then there happens to be a party going on on the second story of this complex. A drunken party with a lot of "woohoo" sounds. A drunken party in a loud concrete tunnel equals no sleep. It doesn't end there. Oh no. The suckers who live next door to me on the first story think it's me partying the night way. They started knocking on my bedroom wall, telling me to shush and junk. When in reality I'm focusing on sleep (and blocking out screaming drunks.) Thanks for waking me up everyone!














I promise that I'm not an angry person. Sleep is just precious to me, I like being awake during the day time, not all hours of the night. I hope many people can sympathize with this predicament. At the same time, you should laugh, this is happening to me and not to you. After this post, I promise, there will never-EVER-Ever another post this late at night, or this early in the morning. How ever you want to look at it. 

It's definitely been awhile since I have been able to do a blog post. A lot of things have happened in the past few months. Good and bad things. Mostly awesomely terrific things. My thoughts may be a little jumbled but I'll try to get through them as smoothly as I possibly can. I'll start a list with the good things.

1. I finally achieved my dreams of being a student at BYU-Idaho. I leave this coming January to pursue a major that I have still yet to declare. I cried when I saw their decision to offer me admissions into their school. Great day.

2. I got called to be on institute council. It is the best calling ever. Haha. All the people on the Council are such amazing people and can make anyone's day just so amazing. They are an awesome group of people.

3. My friend Aubrey took me to baseball games. We won, of course, I just never got my free tacos out of it.

4. I have realized how blessed I am with all my friends. I have met quite a few new people whom I already love dearly.

5. I cut my hair. I am now referred to as Justin Bieber. Which is a lie, I look nothing like him. My hair just happens to be awesome, more so then his.

I feel like I am making a crazy speech. Anyways, I guess it's time for the bad news. I am moving away from Mesa! I have decided to go to California with my parents to spend the next four months with them and enjoy their company until I have to go to Idaho. Even though I'm really sad about giving up my calling and taking a semester off of school. I know I'll have super awesome times in California. I'll try to do more doodles for my blog but I can't promise anything. Haha. That's all I have for today.

PEACE!

Dream

Reality

I have a big ambition to keep up with this blog. But most likely it won't work, it never does. Haha. So, here's a blog post about whatever I feel is awesome enough to write about in between my wisdom teeth coming out and.... Now!

That's me and my little cousin Kailey. We were playing that stupid water game. The whole point it to.... Actually I don't know the point. It's something like, give the game host money and maybe you'll win the cheap stuffed animals they decide to give out that day. But this day, they were giving big, fluffy, cute fake Angry Birds. (which is totally awesome.) I decided I wanted one of these little things because I apparently still love stuffed animals... and guess what!

I won!!! (after spending no less that $20.) My prize~

A yellow bird! It's sooo cute and fluffy. It made me happy. I was really mad when my brother  got a hold of it, and actually made it fly. . . We were on the eighth story of a hotel. . . With a balcony. Luckily, he did not abuse that power of eight stories. Instead, he chucked it down some 3 flights of stairs. Overall, it ended up being a really great trip. Filled with fake Angry Birds being hurled down some stairs and lots of really good food. Also, my parents ended up finding their perfect place for them to live. Which is great, I'm so happy for them.  We were productive and fed well. Great vacation accomplished!

I honestly don't know how to solve this problem besides wearing earmuffs, but it's hot and it's hard to get comfortable with earmuffs rubbing your face while you sleep. It's like fluffy bunny tails against your face, I feel sorry for the poor soul that has to wear bunny tails on their ears...

Now I am still tired and slightly grumpy from being woke up. I can't yell because my gums hurt and I don't want to move because it wastes my precious stores of energy will be gone. I'm sure I mentioned that I am still tired, so this is a post posted in my sleepiness sleepy. 

I'm also out of my amazing bunny tracks ice cream. Oh how I love bunny tracks ice cream...

What's a better way to start a blog than the story of my wisdom teeth. I am in and out of consciousness while I am blogging this. My gums are also swollen, I think, and part of my lip is still numb. I miss the sweet laughing gas bliss of yesterday. I even created an awesome video of my adventure home yesterday. It was a pain, especially today since I'm not handling the pain killers very well.