I should probably be studying for finals, cleaning my room, feeding my body, thinking of Christmas presents, thinking of wedding presents [JAKE GETS MARRIED ON FRIDAY!], getting a blanket to warm my toes, going to bed.. All those things and probably more. But, I'm not. I find list blogging is a good way to relieve stress. Not really. But I'd like to do it anyway.

List of my favorite things from last week/this week:

• Surprise visiting my sisters at midnight
• Celebrating Christmas with my besties
• Fishing with macky
• My clothes finally being dry after hanging all over my room for 3 days
  
• Getting work off yesterday
• The finger marks I left in the butter on the counter [Didn't have time to use a utensil. HA.]
  
• Going down to Salt Lake [on a school night! (:]

• Attending the Horse Feathers concert

• Buying super thinly sliced smoked turkey from Smith's deli
• Seeing mass amounts of ridiculously tacky inflatable Christmas decorations
• Having no more class for a month-ish
• Dancing my heart, might, mind, and strength out with Carli [Side note: I will forever ever, ever, ever love dance parties. And I will also forever ever, ever, ever love the fact that Carli and I end up the last ones dancing at every single dance party we go to. TRUE DANCERS WE ARE.]
• Eating donuts every morning, drinking herbal tea every night, and making lots and lots of banana bread
  
• Watching the pebble and the penguin with my roommates
• Getting an A on my paper (:
• Eating pizza my home teachers delivered to me while I was at work [What besties!]
  
• My 14 minute phone call with Benjamin that ended in him saying, "Well, I better let you get back to blogging, so you can get A's on your finals."
• Shuffle picking Only at Christmas Time by Sufjan Stevens while I was driving home in the snow
• Making best friends with the ladies at the calendar and Western Nut kiosk's
• Working out with Elicia and Emily

• Getting a 24 inch Jedi wrap in my 6 inch long hair.

- Prime Year -

I was going to title this post 'Good Year', but then I felt like it would have to be written about tires or something so... I changed it.

Horse Feathers
is coming to concert..

For $10??

I'm ultimately excited for this! Last time they came, I bailed and went to Megan's BBQ instead. Which I don't regret, but just am a little sad about sometimes. SO, I'm way glad they're coming again! Too glad maybe!

It's been a great year of concerts!! Can my 5 followers believe the visits we've had? 50% of the best ones being free? And the other 50% being really cheap?

Mates of State [2]
Modest Mouse
Girl Talk
The New Pornographers*
The Avett Brothers*
Vampire Weekend*
fun.
Sleigh Bells**
Born Ruffians**
Sufjan Stevens [!!!]
Horse Feathers* [2]
and so many others..

SO PRIME. (:

Ps. All the girls at work are getting baby hungry and I'm having a hard time understanding it. How could working with children possibly make someone WANT one? Haa. Little terrors. I AM getting puppy hungry though. I saw the cutest Dalmatian/something mix on campus a few days ago and the only thing that stopped me from going out and buying one is my apartment contract. Maybe I'll have to buy a book about dogs for temporary treatment.

*Did not attend.
** Not allowed to attend because of age. BLECK.

- 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?

- All I Know Of Love -

Wahooo!!!
Sufjan Stevens is coming to UTAH!
No doubt I've been waiting my whole existence for this to happen.
Best day of my life, really. I love him.

- Tis The Season To Be Jolly -

The Twilight Concert Series is finally upon us. As the 2 of you that read my blog already know, I've been waiting for these Thursday night free-bee's ever since last years events ended.


Modest Mouse was last night's joy. I was hoping they'd play Paper Thin Walls, and Satin in a Coffin. And they did. .. . ... (:



I listened to a sampler of the opening band before the show, and Kerri lead me to their funky music video ^. So good. And even better live. Avi Buffalo, you came into my life, and stay you will.

- Happy Birthday -

Nothing says 'Welcome to your 20th year!' better than:

a good breakfast in bed
church? ..hah
a ticket to MATES OF STATE
my favorite dinner
[^roast beef, corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls]
home made apple pie
[AND]
home made vanilla icecream
[WITH]
friends and family
board games
a letter from Levi
a nice visit from Levi's mom
a prime MATES OF STATE performance

and more..

Point is- I had a really good birthday/ day after [that's when the letter from Levi arrived and the Mates of State concert took place.] And it really made up for all the crumby events leading up to my birthday:

mowing farm lawn for 5+ hours
sleeping in a 90 degree bedroom
[^miserable]
pulled over for the first time
[^registration expired]
rock chipped my windshield on the way home
from receiving the ticket
thinking about how expensive everything is
being completely broke

and more..

Hah.

Man, I hate being broke!

I had Jake B. take some Mates of State pictures, so hopefully I'll have them up soon- and hopefully they'll be better than the morning picture I put at the top of this post. Ha ha..

Thanks to everyone who called, messaged, and visited on the 27th
to help make my birthday a special one!

LOVE YOU ALL!

- On A Highway -

Um:

My favorite song this month is definitely Thistled Spring by Horse Feathers:

.. So beautiful.

Growing my hair out is going to be the worst. I'm already getting a little bothered with the length of my hair and it's not even to that obnoxious 'not short but not long' length yet.

The cat has disappeared.

My mom, sisters and I were driving home from my cousins bridal shower and we saw a flaming car on the side of the freeway between N. SLC and Bountiful. I looked at my mom, asking if we should call the police and she said, "This is when you would call the police- but we don't need to because I'm sure others have already called." And, you know what I said? "What?! No! You have to take action! Because everyone thinks that everyone else calls- and no one really does!" [ .. Could be considered a little bit of an overreaction, I guess, Ha.] Anyways.. I called 911 and it was my first time ever! [Besides when I was little, of course.] Courageous, right?

Beyond excited for this:

Yay: Modest Mouse, Girl Talk, and The New Pornographers.

I was so truly sad I missed Girl Talk at the U last year.
So, I'm super glad they're coming again.

My extended family is throwing 3 weddings in June! .. That's a lot.

Learned how to play "Bang!" tonight. Group decision is that the french should never create another cowboy game. And if they do, they should not sell it in the United States unless someone with a proper understanding of the English language proofreads the directions first.

We're having swedish pancakes for breakfast tomorrow morning. It may be the best Sunday of my life.

- Chores -

Only two weeks of school left.
Moving home--> :( but Twilight Concert Series--> :)
So excited!

- Nice Things That Look Good -

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Last night's house show was
greatly enjoyed and appreciated.

Fictionist played at the gathering and naturally- having never heard them before- I came out of the show with both an album and a band supporting t-shirt [I should hold back- but I just can't sometimes]. Pretty great. I just really love music. So much. So much. So much. (:

- I Love Iron And Wine So Much -

I am seriously getting worse and worse at this bloggin thing.

Let me just first say that.. my blog looks the way it does because I deleted my original everything and now it's just.. major league under construction and I don't know what to do with it yet.

Next-

I moved into my apt on Monday. That is something I've been anticipating for the last 15 weeks so.. I'm super glad it finally happened.

Remember how I said I'm documenting things with my phone? Well, I've got more pictures from such events as- elementary school cleaning, the Davis County Fair, desk finishing, Iron and Wine concert, the pie afterwards.. and I think that's all. Here they are:

^Awww.. Elementary.
^Doing the garbage rounds. Don't know what happened in this portable but.. their pink framed mirror was smashed all up. While I was walking around with this, I kept getting '7 years of bad luck' jokes. "Hellooooo, I didn't break it."
^They had a really neat petting zoo at the County Fair this year. I touched this cows massive amount of neck flab sickness.
^And I also touched this little buffalo.
^And I touched this mammoth.
^And I got eaten by an alligator while having a mini body and wearing a shirt that says I love Davis County?
^I had to move my desk onto the grass before I painted it purple because I got white all over our cement. .. And I'm supposed to scrub it off but, how.

^Purpleeeeeeeee.
^The finished work of the worst desk painting job the world ever saw.
^Moving up to school. :)
^Delicious strawberries and raspberries I picked to eat during my first few days back at USU.
^I saw this shirt at Walmart in Logan when I went there to get a shower curtain. Notice the little green sticker on the tag? It's discounted. Maybe because we have the worst football team in the nation.
^Notice this kids name. Beto. :) HAa.
^That tiny, tiny glowing dot in the middle of this picture is Samuel Beam, A.K.A. Iron and Wine. :)
^Here is our 23'' pizza from The Pie. Those last seven pieces were gone within minutes of this picture being taken.
^BFF Tomas and me at The Pie.

I'M SO BORING. THE END.

- Sonic Youth -

I went to the Sonic Youth concert with Jake Burch, Tammie, and Mike tonight. It was umm.. a lot of standing. I'd have to say the best part about the whole thing was just being around people and seeing familiar faces I have not seen in a long while.. like Rory Jensen (Cael's brother) and Carter Nelson.

Here's a list of a few things I can't wait for:
1) My hair cut tomorrow
2) Free Iron and Wine concert
3) Imogen Heaps new album
4) Utah State
5) fun. concert
6) Sleep

Goodnight

- Sleeping On The Roof -

I have decided, from now on, to include appropriate punctuation in my blogs. For the sake of the reader.

I attended Bishop Allen last night, it was SUPER awesome. .. I loved it. :)

- Dokkoise House (With Face Covered) -

I took a poly sci test today and woke up five minutes before it.. that was definitely a a scary experience. Good thing my clock was fast and I got there just as tests were being passed out. The whole time I smelt really bad because last night I went to a concert then I didn't shower. Ha. I was planning on it! But I woke up too late. So I came home after that one class and showered and I've been home ever since.
Levi is getting surgery today on his knee in like.. an hour or something. that's pretty sucky for him. I feel bad because he can't pole vault anymore and he loves that. Speaking of Levi-
yesterday was pretty eventful for him..
He got his mission call to the San Fernando California Spanish speaking mission. So that's neat.
Yeah..
Levi and I also got in a "fight".. so that's neat too I guess.

Last night I went to the free Love You Long Time concert on campus. I was only there for 30+ minutes but it was still a nice break from attempting to study. Ha. Yeah that's what it's called.

I got a 33 out of 30 on my abstract bee project. :) Whoo.



^ I can't decide if this picture of Jake is creepy or attractive.

^ Alonzo!!

^ Nothing but a party all the time.