Happy New Year

It doesn't even feel like New Years now. Time is a funny illusion and it plays tricks on our minds sometimes. It's a little weird that it is 2012 now, and it feels weird, but it doesn't feel like it is actually a new year to me. I don't know about anyone else but today felt like it was just a normal day.  Since this is January 1^st I am taking the opportunity to start my blogging fresh again. Last year I had a resolution that I would write something every day. Everyone that knows about my blog probably knows that did not happen as I planned.  I am going to try to do this this year however. I will fill in the blank spaces on my blog eventually, but I don't want to be in a hurry because I tend to get lazy when I do that.

 I have had a minor cold for the past few days. Everyone else in my family caught the flu except for me which I am really glad for. I'm not glad that they caught it, but that I didn't catch it. Most of you are familiar with the common cold, my cold isn't anything special. It's just a little cough, a runny / stuffy nose, and I've slightly lost my voice. It hasn't been that bad at all, I've had a lot worse colds than this so I don't mind it very much. It's better than having the flu anyway. 

 Nothing that exciting happened today, at least from my point of view. My family has been playing games all day and watching movies I think. I have been downstairs most of the time just playing Mario Party 3 and Minecraft on my computer, doing stuff on my phone, and reading. One would probably argue that I should have been playing games with my family, but the thing about that is that I can never really seem to get into it for some reason. A lot of board games are difficult for me because of my bad vision and I tend to get confused when it comes to card games. I don't like to slow people down, it makes it so it's not very fun for me. I am also not the kind of person that likes to sit doing the same thing for a long time unless if it benefits me in some way. If I do play a board game, or a card game I usually bring my phone with me so I can listen to music, or do something on top of it.  Sometimes it is nice to play, but most of the time I would rather be doing something else. I'm not really the kind of person that likes to be around a lot of people for extended amounts of time. I really value my alone time, it is precious to me in a lot of ways.

 I am used to being in my own world, where I can do stuff on my own, when I feel independent I am the happiest.

 Besides the things I have already talked about I just went to church. Usually the first week of the month is where we fast and have a testimony meeting in sacrament meeting but since today was New Years they moved it forward 1 week. So, testimony meeting is next week instead of this week.  Church was normal today, the same as usual except for it's at 1pm now and instead of having Sacrament meeting first, then Sunday school, then Relief Society and priesthood it was reversed. I am not to fond of having church late, but the reversal of the church blocks is kind of nice. This is how we used to have it before we switched church buildings and the Young Single Adults were put into their own stakes and wards.

 I felt kind of bad for going to my Young Single Adult ward today. Even though my cold is not very bad at all I didn't want anyone to catch it. I almost didn't text anyone for a ride, but ended up doing it. I was careful not to cough while in the car and I tried to sound as clear as I could. I have to admit that I did not tell my ride I had a cold. I just blamed it on the dust and stuff we have been kicking up during the remodeling of our house. I did not want to make her nervous. Part of me wishes I had just gone to my home ward. I don't like it when I feel like I have to avoid people it makes me feel unsettled.  I stayed out of class for part of the time, about half of Sunday School I stayed in the foyer of the church. Pardon me if I spelled foyer wrong I do not know how to spell it.  I was coughing a little and clearing my throat because I was trying to keep the stuff out of my throat. I did not want to make noise and I did not want to disturb anyone or distract from anything so I just left until sacrament meeting started. 

 When I was in the foyer, I just listened to peaceful music on my phone and looked at random parts of the scriptures while I was waiting. 

 I was careful not to cough a lot in Sacrament meeting, or make a lot of noise. I was glad when it was over because I really didn't want to be around anyone today.  My ride had to do something else so I got a different ride. I was glad when I got home and could get on my computer.

 I was hoping to see Darik and Dylan today but I found out later that they are in Vegas. I really like seeing them at church, I like seeing them in general, if you haven't already guessed that from my other entries.  Part of me is glad they weren't here today, because I wouldn't have wanted to get them sick on accident.  I don't think that would have happened, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

 I don't have an internet connection on my computer right now so by the time you see this it will probably be a few days past New Years. I am looking forward to a new year of blogging. I really enjoy blogging, even though I get lazy sometimes. I will try to fix that this year though.

 I guess that is all for today.

Holiday Parties... and fires.

So there is this old Tabernacle around where I live. Anyway, something went wrong yesterday morning and it caught on fire. This building is like 70 or more years old and it was quite treasured by the people around here. Even in my family it held a lot of memories. My parents have performed in various choirs in this tabernacle. The whole structure looked classic, it was pretty neat. The fire lasted pretty long and destroyed most of the tabernacle. It was burning all day yesterday and firemen were there all day trying to put it out. I went with my mom and dad yesterday and went to go see the fire. They had the area taped off on all sides, but you could still get close enough to really see what was happening.  The fire was still going by midnight, that is when we went to see it. I got a lot of pictures and stuff since this is actually a pretty historic event over here.  It was lightly snowing and my face was frozen it was so cold.  Over all it was a pretty interesting experience for me to see it burned down.  I even have a few memories in that tabernacle.

I spent a good part of the day at first just listening to music, watching movies, videos, reading blogs, and looking at various pictures. That seems to take up a lot of my time.  Yesterday was the 2nd Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, the 2nd day. Tonight is the last official concert and then something is going to happen tomorrow but I don't know what. Probably some special broadcast or something.  My parents were gone most of the time the last 3 or so days. Well actually longer than that. They have been practicing with the choir for weeks.  I should see more of them next week with it being Christmas and all though. It's been a crazy week this week with the birth of my new niece and all.

Yesterday after my parents went to the 2nd concert I was alone for a while. My ward was having a christmas party that evening. I just hung around and did the usual, but almost forgot to charge my phone. it was at 28% by that time. I plugged it into the charger soon after that and got ready or the party.  I let myself be a little late because I didn't want to unplug my phone before it got to at LEAST 60% on the battery.

Anyway, I couldn't find a ride so I just walked over to the church. I won't lie it was a little creepy. The ground was lightly covered with frost and everything looked eerie. I almost turned back once or twice. I made it there though it wasn't to far away.  I was glad to get inside by then it was freezing outside.  I walked into the gym of the church and they had ights strung on the cealing and stuff it was pretty cool. I think there should have been more lights though because it was sort of dark a little. I could still see thankfully.

there were tables with white, table cloth, and some sort of red decoration on it, they also put greenery on the tables and scattered Hershey's kisses all over the tables. It was pretty cute.

For dinner we had enchelatas and this rice stuff I don't know what i was. There was also fruit punch, that was pretty good. I love fruit punch a lot. Anyway, after I ate I just sat there at one of the tables and just talked with people. After a while of talking and eating Erin ( the person that arranged and planned the party) told us about the various things near the back of the gym that people had gotten for this one family that is having a hard time. We decided to sub for santa or this family. All of us worked for a while wrapping the presents for the family. I actually left most of it to the others and just walked around helping with various random things.

After we finished that we did the white elephant game. Each of us had a cheap or used present that we bought or no longer wanted, Erin read a story that had a seried of "lefts and rights" in it. Whenever she said right or left we would pass the present each direction. At the end of the story we opened our random presents. I got something really crappy that made me want to throw up.  I got canned chillies which I think is just so gross really. I could hardly stand to look at the can. I am non fond of canned veggies, and stuff like that I prefer it to be fresh.  I thought it was funny though and none the less  got a good laugh out of it anyway.

After that we were told a few stories by some people in the ward they were pretty good.

One of my friends, amber kept on asking me if either Darik or Dylan texted me back the whole time I was there. I didn't mind but she makes me laugh sometimes.  I did text me but Darik didn't text me back until about an hour after the party ended.   I'm getting off subject here ha ha.

Anyway, the party was pretty much over after the stories. I hung around for a while and just helped with various things. I got a ride home with one of my neighbors after that. 

After I got home I just decided to kic back and relax and read various blogs, and fan fictions of a random sort until my parents came home. :)

Anyway, that was my day yesterday, it was pretty interesting. I wish i could have gone to the concert again though ha ha.

Music and Christmas Cheer!

So pretty much yesterday was awesome. Yesterday was a dress rehearsal for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. David Archuleta is the guest singer for the next 3 days, he sounds like an angel!

Anyway, so my day began pretty normal yesterday. I did the usual, updating twitter, checking facebook, looking at pictures, listening to music. Stuff like that takes up a lot of my day usually. Around 30 minutes to noon I started getting ready for the concert. I washed my hair and stuff, got dressed, then I decided since I was sort of still tired and only got about 6 hours of sleep I would take a nap before the concert.

I took the nap with my towel still on it was a little weird but I slept for about 45 minutes before I took it off and then went back to sleep for another 30 minutes. My hair was still wet when I woke up but it was really funny because it was all over the place. It has a tendency to do that when it's wet and not brushed.  It was about 3pm by this time. I blow dried my hair and did my bangs, and got my jewelry together. it was about 3:30pm by then. I just sort of hung out while I was waiting for my dad to get back and got some other stuff together like my glasses and my monocular.

We left at about 4pm and drove up to Salt Lake. We stopped at subway on the way there and ate dinner. All 7 of us were packed into our 6 passenger car it was pretty cramped. I was listening to pandora radio on my phone the whole entire time we were driving, and snacking on roasted almonds.  My brother brought a date, she was pretty nice. The car drive wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. My nieces were pretty noisy though, but not to noisy.

There was a lot of traffic, we got there at about 5:15 or 5:30 I think. The city was pretty busy that day, it took us forever to park. Lucky for us both my parents are in the choir and they have a place to park just for choir members. Otherwise it would have been harder for us to find parking... a lot harder.

So after we parked, we just made sure everything was in order and then we went our seperate ways. My mom and dad went to go get dressed for the concert and we went to get in line.

We were in line for about 45 minutes, during that time my little niece had to go to the bathroom and it was funny because she tried to hold it but couldn't. we eventually got her in to the building somehow with the help of some guards and she got to go. We were standing in line for  45 minutes or so like I said before. It was pretty cold, but I had a good coat on. I showed my brother's girlfriend some pictures of the guy I like (Sam), and talked about some of my other friends.  I also texted Darik a few times while I was waiting. He texted me back which made me really quite happy.

They opened the doors to the conference center at about 6:30 or 6:35. We were all pretty excited to go inside. They checked our purses, and our tickets and we went through the metal detector. After that we went inside and found our seats. I sent a picture to Darik when I was in my seat, he thought it was pretty cool, and he wished he could go. I wanted to give him tickets, but we didn't have any extras to my memory, I did ask my mom later though just in case but she said she didn't have any more. :(

The concert started at about 8pm it was so nice. David Archuleta sent chills up my spine with his angelic singing, and the choir too! Everything about it was magical. There were dancers and the lighting and stuff was so pretty!  We had pretty great seats as well on top of that.

My niece Kayla was a little noisy at first and a person behind us actually scolded her once for bothering them. I made it a point for the whole rest of the concert to not let that happen again and made sure she payed attention to what she was supposed to be paying attention to.  She was pretty good after a while. She is only 7 so we were a bit worried how she would behave, she was pretty good though.

I brought my glasses and my monocular so I could see better and wouldn't miss anything.

The concert lasted about an hour and a half, after t was finished we just sat in our seats and waited for the choir members to leave, then we went to find the car.

We encountered a bit of trouble with that though and decided to just wait until my dad found us in the parking so he could help us find the car. My mom came too after a few minutes and we went to the car after that.

We weren't stuck in traffic as long as I thought we would be. We actually got out fairly quickly.

We just drove home and talked about family stuff, memories and some other things.  I was just listening to music the whole entire time again. I was really worn out by the time I got home. Crowds really tire me out sometimes.

I just go on the computer and watched anime for a while and then went to bed after that.

It was a pretty fun day yesterday! :)

Its Christmas Eve!! And I'm Back on Xanga!!

Yes, I'm back on xanga after a long absence. Merry Christmas everyone!! I can't believe that tomorrow is Christmas its gone by so fast! I can't believe its almost 2010!

I didn't ask for much this year, just batteries for my camera, some silver bracelets, and hair stuff. I didn't really feel like asking for anything else plus my family is having financial problems so I couldn't ask for much anyway ha ha. 

My mom is making food today, like orange rolls, pies, brownies, etc. All of it is for tomorrow's dinner I'm sure it'll be very good.

Anyway, if anything happens today I'll update this.

It's Christmas Eve and...

People at the dinner table are talking about the government. HAH! I just wish it would just stop. They were talking about how the government is collapsing and all these conspiracies and stuff.

I don't care. I don't even know why I was listening. Probably because I find it so laughable that we think that the government controls us.

Here is a fact that everyone needs to know right now.

WE ARE IN CHARGE 300 MILLION TO A  COUPLE THOUSAND GOVERNMENT PEOPLE1
IF WE REALLY WANTED TO CHANGE WE COULD EASILY DO IT OUR SELF.
THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT IN CONTROL OF US WE CONTROL IT1

People seem to have that backward and its really getting on my nerves. We have become so caught up in our illusion so deceived that we think that the government will take care of us without us having to do something first. That is wrong we are seeing that right now. We live in a time when we have to force our government to meet our needs. We have to MAKE them do what WE WANT.  No one seems to have enough courage to do it. We're all turning into or are already a bunch of mindless pancakes. you are going to have to wake up someday so it might as well be now. Believe it or not we do have the power, the brain power, the mind power to take this into our own hands and correct all these problems ourselves. If I could do it alone you would see me our there changing the world right now.

We are so messed up THIS IS CHRISTMAS EVE!! Another year wasted.

I don't give a damn about the government because I know who is i control ME and YOU!!

Anyway now that I have that our of my system now I'm going to enjoy my Christmas Eve and go do something with my family.

We don't really have to worry about the government at all as long as we know that we have the power to change it.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas List Hold Up!

hahaha...ha...
For the first time in my life I don't know what I want for Christmas!!
I only have like 3 things on my list and they aren't that much or anything.
so far I've only been able to think up these three things.

Bejeweled Twist (new Bejeweled Game) 

Magna Sketch  (the hop pink sketch pads you can draw on  with fa fake pen and you peel up the pink stuff to make it erase) I love those!

Ultra Fractal (the coolest fractal maker that I know of, I want it soooooo bad!)

I'm not a very (WANTY) person I hardly want anything at all. Its just frustrating because this is the one time of year that I can ask for everything I want. Everything I want I know I won't get because we are not rich. Let me give you THAT list

Photoshop
macbookPro
Digital Camera (with SOUND) unlike the one I have now that doesn't have it!
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Wii
lots of new clothes!
a new bed with a new bed set 
CARPET on my floor!!! its so cold!!

that's all I can think up right now but I think you see what I mean. All this stuff is really expensive! 

Anyway I know I'll figure it out eventually.