- Howl -

Does anyone else spend way too much time looking through their blog and reminiscing? I hope so or else that's really embarrassing that I just admitted it.

Just came across a post that included tons of pictures from freshman year and it reminded me that Halloween is just around the corner! [Almost a month away is around the corner.]


I need to figure out what to be or I'll end up throwing an outfit together day of, and that's never fun. I also need to figure out what I'm doing that weekend. Do I stay at school or go to grandma's? It's such a hard decision!

- We Have A Really Good Looking Ward.. -

I really love being in a young single adult ward. Really. It's so nice to be able to take the sacrament in silence and not hear screaming babies the whole time. Testimony meeting is usually really great too [since we're all young, we don't the regulars who get up and talk about their children] though we do still have the occasional awkward and/or shocking, but still hilarious, comment.

Today's examples:

1. Girl ends her testimony with "We have a really good looking ward, and I'm really grateful for that." HA. Sho funny.

2. Guy gets up and bears his testimony on the priesthood. Really great, right? The story relating had to do with him giving his good friend a blessing, reason being that she had to get immediate surgery around her "bum area" and was waddling around but needed to be better by her marathon that weekend. .. . ..He said "bum area". TMI, man! On a scale of 1-10, uncomfortable level was around 14.

- Stillness Is The Move -

- True Love Will Find You In The End -

Danced it up at Mates of State again on the 17th. [For free this time! Yahoo!] I can't even express to you how much I love them. Talk about the most ridiculously cute and amazing couple ever.

Oh, how I admire them..

A few months ago I decided I would no longer download music. WHOA, right? Well, it's been a strange challenge but I'm glad to see my CD collection grow. Since I work all the time and my life is rather dull, I'm allowing myself the privilege of buying 1 new album/paycheck. What a deal!

Any recommendations?

- Ceo -

- Is That Just All The Change From Your Cup-Holder? -

The most peculiar thing just happened to me..

With my parking pass, my car is covered for 2 hours in the school's lot. Unfortunately, I was parked there for 2.5 hours so when it was time for me to pull out, I owed money and here's the payment process went:

Box Girl: "That'll be $1."

Me: "Man, I wasn't planning on being here this long so hopefully I've got some change." Counts out 7 dimes, 5 pennies, 1 quarter. "Oookkaaayyyyy.."Reaches hand of change out the window.

Box Girl: "Um.."Looks disapprovingly at change. "Do you have a card? Or a checkbook?"

Me: " Uh..no."

What kind of crazy questions are those?
A) I would not be paying in ridiculous variations of change if I had my card and

B) no person in their right mind writes a check for $1.

Box Girl: "Is that just all the change from your cupholder?"

Woman, why would I hand you all the change from my cup-holder?

Me: "Uhh.. no. It's a dollar." Just like you asked for..

Box Girl: Stares at me.

Me: "You can count it yourself."

Box Girl: Counts change. "Okay! Have a great day!"

What?

- We Will Never Forget -

I've been looking through articles and remembering the unity, humility, terror, sadness, and frustration the events of September 11 brought upon us nearly a decade ago. It's strange it's been so long, for I'm sure each one of us remembers it like it was yesterday.

The terrorist attacks marking that horrific day did not harm anyone I knew, but as an American they will effect me for as long as I live, and as a country they will effect us forever.

Work starts in an hour and I know once the river of chaos sweeps me away, the spirit and love I feel in memory of today will unintentionally depart from me. So as I sit here in silence and calm, my thoughts are immersed in remembrance of those who were effected by the tragedy. 9 years later, my heart still goes out to those who have lost loved ones due to the attacks and/or it's aftermath.

I will never forget.

I love this country and I am both humbled by and thankful for those who have given up all they have to protect it.

Please take time today to remember those affected by 9/11 and to remember who we are as people and who we are as a country. Take the time to say the pledge of allegiance and thank our Heavenly Father for the blessings of freedom which we have had our whole lives.

- Interpersonal Goals -

A month or so ago I told my dad that after I get married I want move out to the middle of nowhere with my husband, have a little garden, and live in beautiful, calm, isolation. I have now decided I would hate that because that's how life with my roommates is [mostly just the isolation part]. They're home = their doors are closed. They're gone = their doors are closed. So I never know if they're even here! And it's driving me crazy not to have someone to talk to all the time.

I've been trying to find somewhere I can take refuge and escape from the silence but the only people who keep in contact with me are the friends and family I have an hour and a half away, and truly it's starting to get me down. Every relationship I have here at school is being held together by my texts or phone calls. Every. Single. One. And those texts and phone calls don't even get answered or replied to 75% of the time. UHG.

Interpersonal communication is such an interesting thing. In class yesterday we had a discussion about how every single exchange of communication we make has a goal behind it. Thinking of my communication goals, most of them are relational. I care about how my friends are doing. I try to get together with friends because I enjoy spending time with them. I'm starting to wonder what everyone else's goals are..

- Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! -

Sorry my blog was on lock down. Indicators have shown there is a serious creep on the loose and he's reading my blog. I just assume it's a he because the creeps are usually 'he's'.

ANYWAYS-

There is someone reading my blog way too often, and it's making me very nervous. So, blog went away for a short time, and if stalker comes back- blog might become private. Which is a bummer. We'll see though.

Hoping everyone had a great Labor Day,

Amanda

- Miley Vs. Dre -

I've probably put this on blog before..
All I know is it's the best mash up of 2010.

- My Room -

Sunshine- I love it so much and am way excited to have an east side window in my room. It definitely makes up for the lack of decorations. Maybe I should invest in a poster of some sort. Maybe of Sufjan Stevens, Flash Dance, or Breakfast at Tiffany's.