THE FINAL BLOG POST (haha get it? final and it’s finals…)

Well, I am so close to being done. One week from now I will be as free as a bird! Yessss! Oh, I cannot wait. Right now I am trapped in the Tanner because I am watching a girl’s stuff and she hasn’t come back for it. She went to talk to a professor about an hour ago and said it wouldn’t be a super long meeting…guess she underestimated how much professors can talk, especially when you have lots to do. This will be my last required blog post…hopefully I will be able to keep up the posting for your pleasure.

Nummer et (Danish)

So one day, I was sitting in the Tanner and I was watching this girls stuff. Little did she know that she was going to be gone so long, and that I needed to print a paper and turn it in by 4:37 on a different floor of the Tanner. I worked on this paper all afternoon and finished about an hour and a half after she left me with her stuff. Earlier, a young gent at a table next to mine asked me to watch his stuff while he went away for a second. I watched it as I sat there, and he came back very quickly. Then, it was my turn. I was now watching this girl’s stuff and I needed to turn in my paper. Since this girl knew the young gent, I just asked him to watch our stuff. I ran up and down the stairs trying to find a working printer. I came back with my report as quickly as possible and the young gent had packed up all his things and was just waiting for me to return so he could leave. Oh, I felt terrible! I apologized, and he said, “I don’t mind waitin for a pretty girl like you.” Hahaha, I did all I could to not roll on the ground with laughter. It was just so funny and he was so sincere! We had a little conversation and then off he went and I had to find another person to watch my things and this girl’s stuff while I went and turned the paper in. Man, who knew it would ever be such a big deal. Thank heavens I am at Cougar College where most people are honest and good.

I hope you have enjoyed this simple story and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Peace out.

-the tall girl

Something Nice for the Stressed Ones

A weekend assignment is to find someone more stressed than I am and do something nice for them and write about it. So, I have been looking and searching for an opportunity since Wednesday. I came upon two today.

This morning after I played ball, I knew that Homey and Bernard wanted to eat food and all of us needed to eat food. I also knew they were tired, and probably stressed about things. I have a relatively low stress level right now, so I think their level was higher. After I got to my apartment, I decided to see if they wanted breakfast. I almost talked myself out of it, but then I said, no, I am going to put myself out there, the worst they could say is no. So, I texted them, and they came over and helped me make waffles and we all enjoyed them. They were super funny and so kind to help me bake. Homey pitched in a little more, which was nice and I didn’t have to make the waffle dough all by myself. Bernard did do the dishes, and that was awesome. We have a symbiotic relationship.

Then, this afternoon I was at the grocery store and Hawaii tells me that Comp needs to talk to me. I immediately know something is up. I run over to her apartment as soon as I get home and she tells me that Tiny needs a ride to Urgent Care. Comp is super stressed she did a lot for Tiny yesterday and so she was overwhelmed today even more. I settled her fears quickly and told her I would take care of all that Tiny needed. I took Tiny to Urgent Care and we were there for about an hour. She was able to get everything taken care of and we headed home. It wasn’t at all what I was planning to do this afternoon, but I am grateful I was able to serve Tiny and Comp. Both needed my assistance.

Those were some really simple things and I realized I should be looking outward more often. We should all be looking for others who may need us. Sometimes we are the only ones who can help.

Do something good today. Peace out.

-the tall girl

Barney got a TURKEY!!!!

This week has been a little crazy, and I am so excited for the semester to come to a complete end. One great thing is that I nailed my last business law exam! Woohoo! I studied hard for it, and even studied with the professor. I wish he would do that with the final, but I don’t think I will be that lucky. This morning I played basketball with nine men, full-court, for two hours. It was fantastic! I am physically dead right now, but it was worth it. I will now tell my funny story and I hope that you think it is as funny as I think it is.

So, a few days ago, I got a text from Barney. He is a kid from home, well Thatcher. He is also my fifth grade teacher’s son. We don’t really know each other, but we pretend that we do. I always ask him who is going home for Christmas, or vice versa. He wanted to know if I was going home after finals for a while. I told him we didn’t really have room because Mum and Pops are only bringing the small car…it would be a tight squeeze. I didn’t hear from him until yesterday at about 10 in the morning. He sent me a text saying, “hey random question, are you dating anyone?” I responded, “haha no I’m not.” He then asked, “do you have class right now?” I again responded no. So, in my head I am thinking, well, he is either asking me out, or setting me up. Since Mum had asked me just the day before if Barney was engaged, I didn’t really know what to think. Sooo…soon enough he called me and said, hey do you want to go bowling tonight? I said sure and he told me that it was going to be no big deal and there were doing a group date and he needed a date. Haha, it was just so random that he called me up in the first place, and just the whole back stories behind it. For example, I think at my first young women’s dance ever and he was the tallest guy there. His hair was longer and curlier…and I wanted to dance with him. Finally, towards the end of the dance, he asked me if I would dance. I nervously agreed, and as we were dancing, it was super hard to hear what he was asking. I remember him asking me how old I was. I knew he was older, but I wasn’t sure how much. When I said 12, his jaw dropped. Haha, I think he might have been sixteen at the time….and therefore he could not believe he was dancing with a twelve year old. Hehehe. I can still see his face, it was priceless. Now, I am about the same height as him, or possibly a bit taller.

I have been laughing all day because I think it is funny, so I hope you have enjoyed this short entry.

Peace out.

-the tall girl

p.s. he really did get a turkey and beat me in both bowling games. 

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!

I am writing my first blog post as a 21 year old! Woohoo! I am gettin up there in the years ;) This week has been full of adventures and excitement and some funny things. To begin, Frisbee got married!!!!! YEAHHHHH!!! You could see the joy on his face and Gma's and everyone's who was there. It was a glorious day! I went shopping with Ma for my birthday too. I found a cute maxi dress, a couple skirts, sandals, and a pair of flats. Hopefully all this stuff I will be able to wear for my internship. It was fun to have Ma here and be able to do things with her. She even got to see us play basketball!!!! Woot woot! We are now in the quarter finals of tournament! I WANT A T-SHIRT SO STINKIN BAD!!!!! 

Well, I turned twenty one on Tuesday, so you should probably hear the story because it's pretty epic and multiple people told me that my face made it totally worth it....soooo, here it is:

Hawaii wanted to take me to get dessert for my birthday celebration. That sounded fun and all, but honestly, I kind of wanted a party. I told Karrah that and she said I should just go along with what Hawaii plans. I ate lunch with Karrah and HerMan, and Karrah told me that she thought the dessert was just going to be a girl thing, so I went a long with it. Wouldn't you? Hawaii kept telling me how we could do something on the weekend, like broomball and I just agreed even though I didn't really care for the idea...anyways, after dinner group, I leave with Hawaii, Karrah, and Leese to go to Sammy's for pie shakes. MMMMMMM, I got a delicious shake and was almost to the bottom and Hawaii says we have to go back to the apartment to get a textbook for a girl in her class. She received a phone call and said we'd be there in about five minutes. Karrah seemed pretty disgusted that we had to leave to get a stinkin textbook. I agreed with her dismay. We start walking up to my apartment and we plan what to do the rest of the evening. We get to the top and a neighbor comes out and wishes me a happy birthday. I say thank you and we continue to the door. Hawaii had put her key in and dropped her water bottle and so I just decided to open the door since she was probably looking for her friend. I opened the door and SURPRISE!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!  I screamed and jumped back out of the door frame! There were probably at least thirty of my friends in my apartment shouting happy birthday. Bama had set herself in the perfect location for pics but then I jumped back so she missed the surprised look...her pic shows an empty doorway. Haha, my heart was pounding. They had scared me so bad that I didn't even know what to say. The lit the candles and I blew all twenty one of the out. :) Much better than on Sunday when I couldn't even blow ten out. We continued to party all night long and we had two cakes, ice cream, chips, dip, pretzels, licorice...all sorts of yummy food. I have wonderful roommates who fake phone calls and texts and amazingly didn't spill the beans before the party. I had absolutely no idea. I am impressed with all who kept it secret. I was literally scared and surprised when I opened that door. Homey was there taking pictures and so I thought he might have gotten some good ones, but he said he was laughing so hard they are mostly pictures of my legs. Hhaha, I think my surprised look will be a mystery to me forever but a legend to all who saw it. I am glad I could make some people happy, they made me happy, that is for sure. 

I hope you enjoyed this story. It was a very happy birthday! I even got to talk with all of my family. The best!!!!! 

Well, peace out.

-the tall girl

p.s. watch general conference : lds.org/generalconference

With 11 Seconds to Spare

What a fantastic week this has been! I got a letter from Dillydog and and email from Alps. Both were awesome letters. Alps gave me the biggest confidence boost ever and Dillydog gave me a great contact that I can talk to. This contact is doing exactly what I want to do when I grow up....train leaders of businesses. Saweet! Both of these two men brought big smiles to my face. I have a couple funny stories, but I am going to keep them short because I need to get to bed.

Nummer Een (that's Dutch)

This story actually happens to me about every day. In the TNRB on campus, they have electric sinks in the bathrooms. You just put your hands in and water comes out...amazing right?...This is a problem though. Now, every time I walk into a restroom I stick my hands under the faucet and I just stand there. It takes me a couple seconds to realize oh, this isn't automatic...oops. I hope I make the people who see me do this laugh, I laugh at myself. 

Nummer Twee

So, Hawaii and I got a couple Redbox movies this past week. She wanted me to celebrate doing well on an exam, so I agreed to watch the movie. I had never been to a Redbox before and I just watched like a little kid and learned how it worked. So, the day came for us to return it. It had to be returned by 9 PM. It was about 8:53 PM. Hawaii and I jump into the car and she says, we'll just go to the corner market because it is faster. As we are rushing over there, I ask for instructions on how to return it. She tells me the Redbox is to the right as you enter the door and you just put the movie back where it comes out. So, we pull up and it is 8:59 on my cellular device. I hopped out of the car, ran inside and turned to the right. That is where it was supposed to be! But, I just see the cashier. I look at her with probably a look of desperation and gasp, where is the Redbox???? She says, around the corner by the Subway. I run/shuffle over there. I am wearing shoes that don't have very much traction...kind of scary to be running on tile. I run around the corner and of course there are people. I hurriedly squeeze by and weave in and out of them and arrive at the Redbox. I start trying to shove the movie into the little box! It will not go!! So, I keep pushing...and it still will not go. I start looking at the screen as I am pushing and I see a return button! I quickly press it and start shoving the DVD back into the receiver. Of course it took time to register the whole thing and I finally got it into the machine. PHew! I was hoping it would say Congratulations! Or something to tell me that I made it back on time, but I had no idea. I calmly and innocently walked back to the car and proceeded to tell Hawaii about my mishaps. She was basically rolling with laughter. I think the picturing of me doing it was just too funny. We got back to the flat and she looked up online to see if it had charged her for an extra day. The time said 9:00:49. I had 11 seconds to spare before it turned 9:01:00 and charged her for another day! YEah! :)

So, those are my adventures of the week. I hope you enjoy them.

Peace out.

-the tall girl

p.s. we won our first round of bball 60-17...no big deal...

The Star Stretch

Another week has flown by! I can hardly believe how fast time is flying. On Monday it felt like summer, and right now as I am typing, snow is falling from the sky! I knew the beautiful weather was too good to be true. It was a nice break from the cold though. Well, I have quite a few funny stories, so you better put your seat-belt on so you can enjoy the ride.

Numbero Uno - the star stretch

On Sunday, we had a Priesthood/RS dinner. They beat us in HTeaching stats, so we had to make them dinner. They brought dessert, and we enjoyed chatting. Eventually, they started to put the chairs and tables away. I was enjoying sitting and admiring the happenings. Hawaii and I decided we didn't want to leave, so we sat in our chairs until everyone had finally left. Many times they asked if they could take our chairs, but we didn't really want them to...we were capable of putting them away. 

When everyone had gone, I decided to show Hawaii the star stretch. You lay on your back and you spread your feet and arms out. It relaxes basically every muscle in your body. So, she hopped down with me and we were laughing and we thought it would be super funny if someone walked in and saw us. Welllll....my thoughts came turned to real life. In walked Bishop. Yep, he came in and saw us, and we all busted up laughing. He had come to see if there was any food left and he just found Hawaii and I lying on the floor. We all laughed, I think it made his day. 

Numbero Dos

In my iSYS class, I sit by Clark. We have a grandeo time by talking and laughing throughout the class. One day he looked at me and asked, "So, what is your real name?...Catherine..." I said, no it is Kitt or you can call me Kittrisha. He laughed and said, "What, are your parents black?" Hahaha, no, no they are not...

Numbero Tres

Finally, Wednesday night, I had just finished drinking some chocolate milk. We were just chillin after institute. Hawaii came up behind me and and put her arms around me. I raised my arm to put it around her, but my cup tipped and there was still a little bit of chocolate milk in it...slash...onto her glasses and forehead. Oops. Laughter continued and I felt terrible, but it was hilarious. Good times my friend, good times.

Well, that is about it from here at Cougar College. Livin life and lovin it.

Peace out.

-the tall girl

Everyone's Hopes and Dreams for Me

I got an internship!!!!! Woohoo! I am so excited, and I will begin work in May and then continue through November. It is going to be great. I was working through a lot of the logistics today and every time I complete one thing I get excited all over again. That is a very good sign. We lost our waterpolo game this week, so we are out :( Luckily, I still have a chance at winning basketball! Woo! I don't know when our first game is, but I am excited. We are in the middle division so I think we have a good chance. Well, on to the funny stories because that's what is fun for me to write and you to read. 

This first story is more or less just look at this picture: 

Here you see my notes for business law. Is it a question that I am not doing well in the class? ;) Just kidding, this was just one little part of one day. I was falling asleep as I was writing, and you can see it kind of becomes unclear what I am actually trying to write down so I can remember....that's a problem when you begin to read over notes to study for exams.

NEXT!!! 

At institute a couple weeks ago, Vanceypoo attended. Oh, it was so glorious to see him! I was so excited when I got there, I gave him a big hug and throughout the lesson we made side comments and he put his arm around me...like any loving cousin would do. I chatted with him afterwards and enjoyed the refreshments as well. I was so happy I got to spend some time with him. 

On Sunday, BroWall came up to me and asked with a little twinkle in his eye, "Who was that you were with at institute?" I replied with a laugh and an explanation describing Vanceypoo as my awesome cousin. BroWall was so disappointed! He told me that he had gone home and told SisWall that I had a boyfriend and they were both SOOOOO excited! (Here is where the title of my post comes in). He was sure upset that I wasn't dating anyone, he claims me to be his favorite person. Don't we all wish haha. He was mostly embarrassed because he had to go home and tell SisWall that it was just my cousin.

Last one for the week:

To conclude, I will just give a little follow up the visit to the G-Parents. G-ma is a little overwhelmed with her new computer. I think it is actually a little terrifying for her. We tried to turn off the touch pad, and that wouldn't work. It is Windows 8 so S-Dog had to help her understand that. UDee bought a super intense printer instead of just purchasing a simple one...so that confused and overwhelmed G-ma too. We woke up Sunday morning and G-ma says to us, "I don't know what I did, but I pressed a button and the printer just started printing colored pages!" She was referring to the print head alignment pages. Oh, that made me laugh so hard. Of course she really has no idea what she pushed, so we just had to laugh and basically she shouldn't every press anything unless she is printing an envelope. Oh dear. S-Dog might have gotten a lot of calls this week for service.

Well, that wraps everything up. I hope you get a giggle or two from this. 

Peace out.

-the tall girl