Selfies

 I got carsick on the bus today and had to buy a sprite from school to calm my stomach down. I've blanked out what I ate before instutute today, I think it was bread and butter and milk, but there was something else I think. Anyway, I was so glad to get off that bus and I walked it off before institute.

Today at Instutute they were giving away free cereal. I chose Marshmallow Maties and that Captain Crunch cereal that has the colorful bits in it. I forgot what that is called, but I mixed them together like a crazy weirdo and ate them with 1% milk. I don't recall what we talked about today in Old Testament 2 sadly because I remember it was interesting. Just more stuff after the reign of king solomon and something about Jezebel getting eaten by dogs or something like that. I remember Elijah was mentioned... oh well. I was in a weird mood and for some reason I really felt like playing around with my camera, so I ended up taking a couple selfies of myself today.

I took a better one later, but I'll get to that...

I forgot to mention last Thursday, but we started a new song! We started singing "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" or something like that. I'm probably botching the title. I didn't have to use the music so I never got to look at it again. haha.

After Instutute I went straight to the mall as usual, this time I went looking for pajamas at Deb, Victoria's Secret, and Dress Barn. I was only there for about an hour, I might have gone to one other store. I'll have to get some pictures of the things I liked next time I am there again. I ended up taking another selfie though. I was in front of a store called Mika Rose, but you can't see it. Oh and also while I was there I got a sample of some kind of chocolate covered hard candy from See's Candies, it was pretty good!

Here is the better picture. :)

I usually hate taking pictures of myself, so you probably won't see this happen very often. I called my mom who was off work and asked her to come get me after this. Panda (our dog if you don't remember) was at home alone and she had to go and get her first. I went into Sports Authority and looked at the running shoes and yoga clothing while I was waiting.

When she got to the mall we went back to Good Earth to pick up something, and I was left alone with the dog in the car. Panda hates the car, she cries and howls, we think she is getting more used to it though because her reactions are becoming less and less frequent every time she rides with us. Mom had some trouble getting her to move over to the passenger seat (I was sitting in the back) and she had to move her herself, it was kind of cute. I can only say kind of right now because I'm still feeling a bit aprehensive to having a dog still. I think I am starting to get used to it though. These things take time for me though. We went to the bank after this and she had the same reaction, it was funny.

I kind of regret not going to the gym today, but I suppose I'll have plenty of opportunities in the future. I started Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai (season 2) today. The second season of the anime really explains a lot of the scary and horrific things that happen in season 1. I'm really looking forward to seeing everything get resolved. I'm glad I didn't stop at season 1 now, that would have left too many things up in the air.

I found the last of the fudge brownies today and finished them off. I have a feeling I'll be seeing more dessert tomorrow though, I just have to have some restraint I guess.

I guess that is all for tonight, i might do some job hunting before I go to sleep. I'm thinking of applying for Costco, but I'm not sure yet. I'm also going to apply for Dairy Queen and Maceys again probably. We'll see I guess.

We are a third of the way through winter! JUST 2/3 TO GO!!! :)

Anime List

I finished off the first season of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni today and also saw my personal trainer at the gym tonight as well. I actually almost forgot because I was so into what I was doing at the time. I forgot to mention it yesterday, but I've ben on myanimelist.net since Saturday putting together my list of anime that I've watched, am going to watch, are on hold, that I have dropped, etc. I'm currently going through their whole anime index and right now I'm only on the "E" anime. Anyway, so I was doing that tonight and I went to go get some spaghetti from upstairs. I was going to eat it while I watched Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, but I got a text around 6:43 from my personal trainer reminding me of my appointment.

I wolfed down my spaghetti because I only had 15 minutes and got ready. I got a ride to the gym from dad, though everything seemed so sloooooow tonight and I was 3 minutes late for my appointment. Here is what he gave me this time.

After we were done I just stayed there until 9:30 when my mom got off work. I did some cardio, stretching and weights while I was there, nothing too intense tonight.

When I got home I just ate a little bit of the fudge brownies from yesterday. The rest I don't even need to mention. :)

Chocolate Overload

Sunday's are the only day of the week the whole family gets to really do stuff together. Dad's 60th birthday is on Wednesday, but we went ahead and celebrated it tonight instead. We had brownies and ice cream with home made fudge sauce and we went ahead and sang Happy Birthday to him. No one knows what will happen on Wednesday so it's a good thing we got to do it today. Mom also made home made french bread today, and we had spaghetti for dinner as well!

Nothing much happened today besides church. We had a really great lesson on prayer in relief society!

Saturday night I just started watching this really scary anime called Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. I wouldn't recommend watching it on Sunday if you are religious. It's a horror anime and I don't really understand it much right now, but I'm enjoying it. Apparently there is more to the plot than meets the eye, I'll just have to wait and see though.

No need to write any more now. :)

EDIT: Sorry guys I was going to post pictures, but I forgot to pull them off of snapchat before they disappeared. :(

Cat VS Alligator

Today wasn't a very busy day, I had a bosy day yesterday so I decided to just take it easy. I am thinking of starting to go to the gym in the mornings and evenings, that is what Darik does. I think splitting it like he does is a really smart thing. It's been a while since I've been to the gym in the mornings, and I kind of miss doing that. I think my metabolism moves faster when I go in the mornings and I lose more weight.

I've beenl listening to The Birthday Massacre's new album "Superstition" a lot today. It's a pretty good album as usual.

Since today was so uneventful, here are more videos.

Blurry, But Still Glorious

today was a good day! I got started off a bit late and missed like half of my Old Testament institute class where we were talking about the end of the days of King Solomon, but it was still a great start. We had Subway today for Lunch bunch. I didn't put any mayo, mustard, ranch or anything really fancy on mine, I just ate what they gave me. I think my sandwich had lettuce, turkey, tomato, and maybe cheese. I wasn't paying attention to what was inside of it because I was busy listening in class. I also ate a bag of ranch Doritos, a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie and drank a Capri Sun. After that and choir (which is still steadily sounding nicer every time) I just went to the mall as usual. I went to See's Candies for the first time in a while, I think it was last year since I went there or something. I don't remember if I went earlier this month or not... Anyway, so I got a sample and made a stop at Deb because I'm trying to decide what I want to buy next month before they close.

Besides my usual stuff at the mall I went to Farr's and got some Mango Paech Tart frozen yogurt. I'm pretty low on money right now, so I knew it had to be something cheap, so I chose ice cream

I headed over to the Gym after this, I really needed to work out today. I've been kind of lazy this month and I'm just now getting back on track. I did the elliptical, stair stepper, a little bit on the treadmill and the bike, and I even attended 30 minutes of the afternoon cycling class. I knew I would be there for a while tonight because of mom and dad being at choir, so I did a little bit of everything besides swimming. I was probably there tonight for around 4 and a half hours or so, probably 5. It was packed, something that is normal at the beginning of the year at the gym, it kind of tapers off a little as the year goes on. I didn't get to as many of the weight machines tonight as I was hoping to, I did get a good amount of arm workouts in though, especially with the free weights.

Hands down the highlight of the night happened around 8:30, when I was placing the amount of weight I wanted for the assisted pullup machine and Darik walked by, also a few minutes after that when I was heading towards the turf area and i ran into both Darik and Dylan. I was also kind of startled and caught off guard by it though too, so my brain started zipping away really fast. I saw the slam balls next to me and just took the 10lb one off of the top holder it was on and decided right there that I was going to do some overhead slam ball walking lunges. I did those all the way across the turf area and then quite honestly as an excuse to be near the both of them I switched to 10lb kettle bells (might have been 15 I wasn't paying attention) and did the lunches again, but this time holding the kettle bells an either side of my body. I get really distracted when those two are around, so I made sure to keep myself busy. I did some bosu ball push ups and situps some arm workouts with dumbbells and other stuff that doesn't come to mind right now.

I didn't want to distract them, and I was feeling really energetic, so I just kept on doing my thing. I did some pull ups on the assisted pull up machine and also did some ab workouts on the TRX straps. At some point since I had my phone with me I decided to get a little bold and I started playing around trying to take pictures of Darik without him noticing. I managed to take a short video with snapchat of him doing pull ups, but ended up scrapping it because the lighting messed up. I was just fooling around for fun like this for a couple of minutes and then decided I would just be better off just seeing if he would let me take a picture of him. I knew it was really random and out of nowhere, but my train of thought and action had already been triggered and I wanted to follow through with it while I had the courage to do it.

He turned out a bit blurry because my hand was kind of shaking, but he still looks awesome in this photo. :) 

I've always wanted to catch Darik and Dylan in my camera lens, because I love taking photos of things, places and people that I love. It turns out that Darik was totally cool with me taking pictures of him, this is something I'll keep in mind and make sure not to go overboard with. I would love to have more photo memories of him, even if it is just a few. Both Darik and Dylan are important friends to me. Sadly I didn't get a picture of Dylan because Dylan had already left by this time. Darik was talking to some people and so I just took the chance while I could and I'm glad that I did.

Anyway, I started doing the weight machines in the front of the gym and watched him and Cara leave. I'm hoping I will see them again soon! I'm hoping I'll get to see Cara more too because I really don't know much about her, but I want to fix that because the stuff I have learned so far is interesting. She seems like someone I could become good friends with. I don't say that about very many people.

Anyway, I just took it easy after 9:30 and just stretched and played games on my phone until mom and dad picked me up around 10:30. The rest isn't really that important. Well, I did talk to Darik and Dylan just a bit, I suppose that was important. :) I just listened to The Birthday Massacre for a bit after and now I'm going to bed because I am super tired. :)

Pretzel Maker

I slept in today, but wanted to do SOMETHING so I made a short 2 hour trip to the mall. I tried out Pretzel Maker today. I am quite fond of their pretzel bites now. I ate them with cheese, and then got a ride home. Since I don't have much to write about today, here is another Savage Chickens comic, along with a music video.

By Doug Savage
Dog Commands

Savage Chickens music video!

Forever Midnight

 You know the drill, I went to inistitute tday, we started talking about the events leading up to the time of King Solomon in Old Testament class. More guys also showed up to choir today, the director was happy. They were giving out free peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches (I chose honey instead) today again. I saw there was crunchy peanut butter, so I naturally chose that since it is my favorite.

So besides my usual shenanigans at institute, today I found out when I got to the mall that Deb, one of my favorite stores is closing! My favorite black bag that has pink and silver stars, my current jacket and boots, a few of my colors of nail polish, and all of my pants are from there! I'm going to have a hard time replacing Deb, I shop there so much. I also noticed today when I went on Twitter that a lot of people feel the same as me. 


Besides freaking out about one of my favorite stores closing, I went back to Journey's and looked at their shoes again. I remembered to get a picture of the socks I want that I mentioned sometime this month in another blog.

Some shoes at Journey's that I really want very badly. I love space and space related things.

I made a trip to Bath & Body Works and learned that they were having a 75% off sale. One of the things that was 75% off was my favorite line of products, which is also one of their two signature lines of product as well. I kind of figured since they had been removing the Forever Midnight products that something like this was going to happen soon. I don't have a ton of money right now, so I could only choose one thing to buy. I chose to get the fragrance mist. I have wanted it for a while now. It was $20, but I got it for $5 and I'm very happy.
I went to Solver Loft and looked at some chains for my star necklace when I was done. My necklace has a pretty good chain, but I want something a little thicker.

After I was done browsing the mall, I headed over to Barnes & Noble. I felt like going home by now, so I called my mom for a ride and she said she would be there soon. While I was waiting I ordered a peppermint hot chocolate, an orange cranberry scone and an issue of Otaku magazine. For those of you who don't know about it it is a magazine for Japanese anime and manga lovers. My mom was taking a long time, so after I finished what I was eating I looked through the Japanese manga section and the scifi section and I found this hilarious set of books. I want to buy all of them, because who wouldn't want to read a Shakespear Star Wars book?! I was cracking up just reading the first page.


So after a while of browsing manga again, my mom called me and asked where I waas, and I told her again that I was at Barnes & Noble looking through books. It turns out that she misheard me and thought I was at Bed Bath & Beyond. Lucky for the both of us that it is super close, so that wasn't much of an issue.

When I got home I got onto Yelp and did a few reviews. I also finished Ghost in the Shell season 2, watched some Ergo Proxy, and some other random stuff that isn't really worth mentioning.

Cheesecake

Tonight we had a dessert party at FHE. We had donuts, cookies with blue frosting, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, cheesecake, and someone brought a vegetable plate. It was funny how out of place it looked. The party was pretty simple, we just pretty much ate and talked.

Cute Animals

You know the drill, nothing much usually happens on Sunday's and I don't feel like writing a lot today so here are some cute videos instead!

No Bonus (Savage Chickens)

Nothing much happened today, so here is today's Savage Chicken's Comic.

By Doug Savage
No Bonus

Back to the Gym

Today was one of those days where I just can't seem to sleep in as much as I want to. I woke up at 7am and couldn't go back to sleep. I decided to just give in and start my day. I ended up leaving the house around 9am. I walked around UVU for a while and spent some time in the school store and the ice cream store to kill time. Institute today was just the usual, we are pretty close to the part of the Old Testament where king Solomon builds the temple and stuff. Choir was the same as usual, we practiced "A Child's Prayer" and "Have I Done Any Good?". There are more and more people coming every time we have class, so it's getting exciting.

After institute I went to Walmart and looked at their fitness stuff, well mostly yoga stuff. I've been meaning to finish my collection of yoga stuff, and so today I decided it was the right day. I also want to get some yoga stuff for Natalie, but not yet. I did think about doing that instead today, but I changed my mind. After I decided not to buy anything from walmart I headed over to the mall. I wasn't there for very long though because I remembered Barnes & Noble has some yoga accessories. I walked over there and took a look, but I wasn't sure at the moment, so I headed back to the mall and went to sports Authority to look at their yoga stuff. I ended up buying a purple yoga mat bag, and a purple towel. Sadly, they didn't have any purple yoga blocks, so I had to walk back to Barnes and Noble and get one there.

I put the stuff I bough in my backpack and decided that this was a great time to go to the gym. My phone was at 1% by the time I got there and so I had to go into the little room where women have their own little private part of the gym that they can use if they want to. It has weight machines and stuff in it. I spent the next hour and a half doing stuff on my phone, lifting weights, using the aerobic step thing, and just hanging out waiting for my phone to charge. The rest of the night was just like usual. I did some cardio, weights, etc. No need for me to go into detail. When I went home I had a burrito because I was hungry.

Sorry if today seems a little rushed, I'm trying to get better at not making my entries really really long. It's kind of a work in progress. :)

Starting Yoga Again

There honestly isn't much to tell today. I decided to stay home and take it easy. Tomorrow I am planning on going to the gym and getting myself in gear again. Today I decided that I'm going to start yoga again. I'll probably get the rest of the accessories I'm missing tomorrow. Today I had chicken and potatoes for breakfast, I guess leftovers can sometimes be great. Anyway, so today mom also told us that she is quitting work soon, I forgot to ask her exactly when her last day is though. I started watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex season 1 and got distracted for most of the day.

Nothing much other than this to tell. I guess I'll just end here.

Peanut Butter Bar

Today I finally decided to take a couple of institute classes. I tried signing up online, but ended actually going to the institute building to sign up for choir and Old Testament 2. I missed the first class because I slept in. I did go to choir though! We started practicing "A Child's Prayer" and "Have I Done Any Good". There aren't very many people in the choir yet, but this is the non audition choir, so it's common for it to grow as things go along. I've been a part of it a couple of times. Not everyone in the choir can actually sing, but I've never minded because it makes it more interesting. I sat in the front in the soprano section. There was a girl on my right that had brought her really cute Pomeranian chihuahua mix. It was a really well behaved dog and is in training to be a service dog. It was just a great experience. I would love to be a part of the audition choir (LDC) but I'm not ready yet. They are amazing, and sometimes get to sing in conference. Someday I'll get there, but not yet.

After choir i was hungry, they were doing peanut butter and jelly out in the foyer, but I didn't feel like it today. Instead I walked to the UVU food court and got a peanut butter bar instead as a traditional beginning of the school year treat. I'm not in school right now, but institute can count! After I ate I headed over to walmart and I looked at bedding, specifically sheets. I've been thinking of just getting some sheets, but I haven't decided yet. I ended up not buying anything though today and just took the bus to the mall instead. After looking around the stores in the mall, espcially Hot Topic I decided I wanted to go to the gym.

I guess I just wasn't in the mood today, so i ended up leaving after a half an hour. I got some cardio and a little bit of weight lifting in today though. I just felt like going home today I guess, and so I rode the bus to Harmon's and after hanging out there for about 10 minutes I called my dad to come pick me up. By cooincidence though Laura was going to come to get some milk anyway, so I ended up getting a ride from her.

Nothing much other than this to talk about. I just watched youtube videos like Ocarina of Time playthroughs and stuff.

Cherry Sundae

Today I was feeling bored, but didn't feel like going to the mall. I just decided to go to Harmon's and look around the store. I thought about buying some Chex oatmeal variety packs, but I ended up not buying anything. I probably looked through the whole store including the magazines in the front and the fresh salsa, fruit bowls, hummus and veritable bowls in the back. I looked at the ice cream, cookies, Nutella, and got a bread sample from the bakery. Today the people gave me a whole slice of white chocolate pecan bread!



I went out to Dairy Queen right after I was done at the store. I got a $5 lunch. I got the chicken wrap lunch. It came with two wraps, fries, a drink, and I chose the cherry sundae. I usually don't eat fast food, but it's good every once in a while.




I was going to go to FHE ( family home evening) tonight, but I accidentally fell asleep watching some videos on YouTube. Today was simple, but it was fun. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do tomorrow, I am thinking of starting institute though!

Late Church

Nothing much to say today, church is at 1:30pm now. While I love being able to sleep in, I also find it kind of weird that when church is over the sun is almost setting. I can't wait until winter ends. It also makes Fast Sunday's harder because I have to go longer without eating. That particular challenge I don't mind though. I actually really love fast Sunday now!

I didn't do much today or yesterday, after Friday I just decided to take it easy and do random stuff like read manga and listen to music. There really isn't much to tell I'm trying to decide what anime and other TV shows I should watch next.

Anyway, tomorrow definitely will be more interesting. Hopefully it'll be warmer too, it's been freezing.