completely random facts

This is probably stuff you already knew...

My favorite animal is a llama.

I go through weird food phases where I like to eat the same thing every day for a few weeks. At one time it was hamburgers, and then pancakes, then waffles... Lately I've been obsessed with honey nut cheerios.

Amber is my best friend forever forever ever and she understands me better than anyone right now.

I love dancing. And I want to be a dance teacher.

I also want to be a high school English teacher.

I'm afraid to try to do either of those things because I don't handle rejection well. I usually win and/or succeed at everything I try. But applying for those two majors is bigger than anything else in my life. And I don't want to fail at it. What if I don't get accepted into either program? What do I do then?

My favorite thing to do is make cookies. And I want to own my own bakery some day.

I love snakes.

I have arachnophobia. Wistie has good stories about me. PS- panic attacks in the middle of chemistry class because your teacher had a huge picture of a Brown Recluse in the lecture = no fun.

I love it when I make people laugh. Laughter is the best compliment ever.

My favorite color is purple. And it is perfectly complimented with the color red.

I talk to my electronic devices. And I name them.

I don't hate doing laundry but I hate folding my clothes and putting them away.

I love talking to my mom on the phone. She and Ty are the only two people I truly enjoy talking to on the phone and can talk to for forever. Otherwise, I hate talking on the phone.

I daydream thoroughly too much and at inappropriate times. Like in Sunday School, or during stats lecture.

I'm always cold. Always.

I actually like public speaking.

Dance is my biggest passion in life.

Love is the most important thing in my life, and always will be.

I'm an extremely hopeless romantic, and I love it when guys ride in on a white steed and do chivalrous acts for me.

Halloween is my favorite holiday. And that's because I get to dress up in an awesome costume and wear it in public. And I get to eat all the candy I want guilt free.

I don't really like soda. But I do like Diet Coke on the rocks.

I want to learn how to mix drinks like a pro. Non-alcoholic, of course.

I want to travel. I want to live in London, vacation in Paris, and see everywhere else on the globe.

I want to sign fluently so Amber and I can communicate together without speaking.

I love peanut butter. And I love chocolate. The two put together is absolute Heaven.

I'm never late, and I never cancel plans on people. When either of these events occur, it's only for a really good reason.

I love to cook for other people, and I love to bake things and give them away.

I have a list of 101 things in my life that I want to complete before I die.

I still sleep with a stuffed animal every night.

I love to read. And I would love to write a book some day.

I'm afraid of the dark.

The only movies that have ever scared me are The Ring and The Mummy.

I love my hair.

I love wearing dresses and heels. I love any excuse to get all dressed up.

My favorite boys names are Carter, Ethan, Landon, Emmett, Jude, and Jackson. My favorite girls names are Alexia, Isabelle, Sophie, Juliette, Rosalie, and June.

I am so excited and can't wait to get married one day, but I know I'm not ready yet.

I love God.

Anyone who says that The Beatles are not the greatest band of all time is a liar.

I love to sing even though I'm not very good at it.

I love to sew costumes.

I used to love acting, but I think that I have retired from my acting career. I wasn't that good anyway.

I used to think diamonds were plain, but now they are my favorite.

Best movies ever: Moulin Rouge, Across the Universe, The Phantom of the Opera, She's the Man, V for Vendetta, Waitress, and Equilibrium.

I can recite the whole dialogue from She's the Man verbatim.

I really want to be a good listener. That's what I'm working on the most right now. I've got a ways to go. So be patient with me. I learned the right strategies in my Family Processes class, now I'm just working on applying them.

When I get nervous, I get really, really shy. Especially when I'm around a boy that I like. Either that or I'll talk about myself thoroughly too much... Which is why I'm working on the listening skills.

I want to have really pretty cursive handwriting.

I won't lie. I love having my picture taken. I hope that isn't arrogant.

I love getting mail, but I never get any.

I love playing hostess and planning parties.

I like being a leader- even though it frustrates me.

I just discovered I really like salmon.

I can't be mean to people. So when I really dislike someone I just don't speak to them.

I'm very tolerant. And open-minded. I really try to let people explain things and see their side of situations before I make a judgment.

I love it when people ask for my help, or accept it when I offer it.

Manners are most important to me. Boys I date must have nice manners. And I like it when they plan it all. Not because I'm lazy, but that's how courting is supposed to be. I like the days of old courtship.

I like being called Allie better than Allison.

I'm a pretty trusting person. People start out having my trust, and then have to lose it. I like it that way, even though it hurts me more than if they'd have to earn my trust.

I love you!

simply

I... had a really good night. A really, really good night. That's all :)


Quotes of the Day:

Me and Wistie: "5... 4... 3... 2... 1... BABY!"

and

Me: "No! I don't want an ugly baby!"
Amanda: "It's Japanese!"

and

Me: "I wanna have a baby with you, Wistie."

and

Me: "I'm going to get a gecko. And name it llama."
Amber: "Then you can say, 'Hey, I got a pet llama at the store today!"

and

Dan: "This movie is saturated with ambiguous threats."

and

Dan: "So, you're wanna-be alcoholics?"

and

Me: "What, don't you talk about the eating habits of hippogriffs in every day conversation?"

weekend update

My goodness. Weekend full of fun! So much went on that I don't know how to write about it all! How about a general outline?

Pizza
Divine Comedy with glowsticks and peanut butter crackers. It was hilarious!!
Brownie sundae
More pizza
Christmas Around the World
Ice skating, dancing, and cookie decorating!

Too bad I have to get back to the grindstone! Four more days of class, a three day weekend, then FINALS!!!

Dun, dun, dun!!!


Quotes of the Day:

Brian's nephew: "Can we have a ghetto booty dance party?"

and

Me: "She must have had a coach to tell her to sing like that."
Brian: "She must just sing like crap."

pie

Merry Christmas! I wanted to do a special Holiday themed background for my blog. I had quite a bit of fun putting it together.

As I was picking out Christmas music (my favorite part!), I remembered a certain song. I can never listen to it the same way again. Story:

Christmas 2007- I was driving to the airport with my cousins Rachel, Colin, and Jay. We had Christmas music playing in the car of course, because we were all flying out to see family for Christmas! Then, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee came on the mix CD. Jay just said, "Wow, she really likes pie."

I was so confused. I turned to him and said, "What are you talking about?" He had Rachel start the song over and told me to listen to the lyrics. I heard, "Rockin' around the Christmas tree, let the Christmas spirit ring. Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling." And I told him that's what she said. Then he countered, "That is not what she's saying. Listen again." Rachel once again rewound the song and we listened closely.

He then proceeded to tell us something that his older brother, Isaac (my favorite cousin and a HUGE jokester), said about the lyrics. "Rockin around the Christmas tree, let the Christmas spirit ring. Later we'll have some f****** pie..."

Oh, Jay. He still swears that's what she's saying. He still claims that she just really likes her f-ing pie.

Now you'll never hear that song the same way again, will you? Go ahead. It's playing right now as you're reading this. Go start it over and listen to it.

:D

Merry Christmas!

ephiphany

I had an epiphany!!!!!!!!

I want to be a dance teacher.

I decided... okay here we go.

I do still want to be a school psychologist. But I have a few options here.

I will major in English Education and minor in dance. So, then when I graduate, I can be able to teach English, or my passion, dance! Then, I can still be on the right track toward becoming a school psychologist, since I have background in education.

Now I just have a few options :)

I really want to be a dance teacher in high schools. Not Utah. I want to start my own somewhere. Teach ballroom dance in high school. I would be so happy!


Quote of the Day:

Professor Smith: "That's what I do with my spare time. I torture animals."

and

Me: "Did you just jetté into the barre?"

for some must push and some must pull

Cow...

Reno...

Dead stuff...

Winnemucca...

More dead stuff...

Dying tree...

Elko...

Funky house with sculptures...

Desert...

OOH Deeth Starr exit sign! Aaaaand excitement's over...

Even more dead stuff...

The bend in the road...

Wendover...

Casino... Utah border...

Salt...

Salt...

Salt...

...

Salt...

More salt?

Salty lake...

Salt Lake city!

Provo!!!

That was a recount of my whole day on Sunday. I know. Intense. Now you don't have to drive it yourself. Imagine looking at that for nine hours. Even worse, imagine the pioneers having to cross it. That would suck major. Nothing to look at for months. Man, I love technology.


Quotes of the Day:

Amanda: "One thing I will say about Hannah Montana is that she sounds the same on her CD as she does live."
Me: "She sounds crappy on the CD, she sounds crappy live."

and

Amanda: "Do you want some sugar free candy?"
Me: "Sure."
Eats a bite
Me: "Man, that's nasty stuff. I like it."
Amanda: "Wait, what? You like it but it's nasty?"
Me: "Sure."

and

Jordan: "I'm pretty sure that one's screwed."

gobble gobble

Basically, I'm home, I'm with my whole family (Dad, Mom, Drew, Christina, Tyler, Tristan, Grandma, Grandpa, and me), I'm getting home cooked meals, and I'm sleeping in the best, cushiest bed ever, and watching lots of movies and playing the piano. What else is there to say?

We all cut our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving day up in the mountains. It was a lot of fun and went faster than previous years. We just found the perfect tree right away. It was fantastic. We also took family pictures up there. Oh and guess what. I cut about four inches off my hair. I love it! I also got bangs. We'll see how much I like them this time around.


That afternoon all of us, minus my mom, went shooting.


Then that night we had our feast. Mmm turkey. But my favorite was the orange glazed yams. I demanded the orange yams. It's not Thanksgiving without them, and I said I wasn't coming home unless my mom made the yams. Of course she did, and I was happy.

Man... Gardnerville, cutting down a tree in the woods, shooting guns, then eating a huge turkey... how much more hick can you get?


Quotes of the Day:

Amber: "I closed my eyes and it was like a disco."

and

Me: "I apologize for the near-death experience, but we have arrived at our destination."

and

Christina: "Confucious is so much deader than him!"

and

Me: Cleaning up Apples to Apples "You're missing some green cards."
Mom: "Some Mexicans must have taken them."
Pause
Me: "Oh! Haha."
Mom: "Took you long enough."

and

Mom: "Well, we sure are a quiet bunch."
Me: "I'm talking to people that aren't here."

and

Me: "Isn't The Shining a book, too?"
Mom: "Yep, by Stephen King."
Tristan: "Who else would be able to come up with all this crap?"

and

Amber: "I'm jealous. I've never shot a gun. Okay, I lied. I shot a BB gun once and killed a squirrel."

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DanceSport Fall 2008

I can't believe how well I ended up doing! Especially in waltz! I thought Ty and I had no chance of making it past the first round. We were intermediate students competing up against the advanced dancers for Heaven's sake! We ended going all the way to finals, and won 6th place! I got a gorgeous pink ribbon to hang next to my cha-cha trophy from last winter. I was psyched! I guess we looked better than we thought.

It meant so much to me to have my brother and Tristan there to watch. And I was so excited to have Rachel there, too. She was up on the balcony, and when I'd make it to the next round I'd give her the thumbs up and she'd beam back at me. It was so much fun.



As for triple swing, we did pretty well considering, but I was still disappointed in myself. We made it to semifinals, which is the top 12. Then five couples moved on to finals. Without us :( It's definitely the hardest on you when you get eliminated right before finals. You go all that way, make it through five previous rounds, only to get cut right before the big one- the important one. We did have a lot of fun, though! We knew that triple swing wasn't our best dance, so I guess for the most challenging dance semis is pretty good. Amanda went and watched me. I felt so good having her there for me all day! She even hung out with me for the few hours of downtime between the prelims and semis. We had such a great time :)


I can't wait until the next DanceSport! The big national one in the Marriott Center. That one is so much bigger and more fun. Only four months! I think I'll start a countdown. I live for DanceSport. My schedule revolves around it. "This paper is due after Dancesport." "I get to go home for Thansgiving after Dancesport." Basically, I use it as a base to compare everything else in my schedule. And I totally take advantage of it when it comes around. In the 48 hours that it was going on, I spend 22 hours there. And it was fantastic!!!


Quote of the Day:

Me: "Amber has the car of pleasure."

prep interrupted

BYU DanceSport starts tomorrow! I know. Breathe, breathe. I'm actually not that nervous. Which is bad. I've been so worried about my classes and things I had to do all week that I didn't have time to hype up for DanceSport. Which is bad. Very, very bad. At the same time I took a test, finished a project involving a few assignments and a paper, and another paper for Biology. Eh. I'd rather have spent that time freaking myself out so I could dance better.

From experience I know that when I'm not flipping-out-about-to-faint-and-have-a-seizure nervous I don't do as well. For my past shows when I wasn't as nervous I forgot things, or didn't have the same composure on stage. Let's hope that I get super extremely pee my pants nervous tomorrow so I can do my best. I haven't been myself all around lately so I'm not really expecting anything.

Tomorrow I'm competing in the Gold American class. My partner and I are dancing up a level to do waltz! I know we won't win but I'm excited to try anyway. We think we could get pretty far. I'm not expecting finals, but it'll just be fun anyway.

And on Saturday morning I'm doing my level, Silver American. That's triple swing. Both Ty (yes, Ty. I must have a thing for Tys) and I agree that this is not our best dance. But we watched us dance on a video tape in class, and we look better than we thought. So I hope we stand a chance! This isn't a run away, no competition event like last Winter with cha-cha. So I'm not sure if I'll do as well.

This was the week from Hell. I'm glad that it's over. Never again do I want to spend 8 hours in the library every day. Now the fun can begin!


Quotes of the Day:

Amanda: "Should I put on pants?"
Me: "No."
Amanda: "Stay in my PJs?"
Me: "No. Go pantless."