plethora.

this blog has no definitive title,

on account of it doesn't have a definitive subject. 

awhile ago i wrote a 50 things post

and people seemed to really like that,

so i figured i would do another one!

but then i only got to 25.

and then other things happened. 

SO. if you are unwilling to follow random trains of thought,

then you can just look at this cat.

have a nice day.

but if you are still here, enjoy the rest of this ridiculous post.

THIS GIRL:

got called to the seattle washington spanish speaking mission today!!

is it ok to say i miss her already?

too late. i already did. 

THIS GIRL:

got called to the madagascar africa french speaking mission today!!

pag was the only thing that kept me sane this semester in american foundations, she was also my counselor as i poured my whole life on her everyday. oops.

whatta champion.

THIS BOY:

gets home in like 4 months!!!!!

i cannot wait to have one of my very best friends back.

shenanigans to the max!

THIS BOY:

has been out 7 months! (tomorrow... i like to round.)

17 left? piece of cake.

THESE PEOPLE:

i am really sad to not see again this semester. 

this was our roommate gift exchange. (i got spiderman and an adorable necklace)- THANK YOU HAYBAY.)

ignore sydney and i's homeless look.

now lets get random!

25 things that you never needed to know about me.

1-    if left alone in my house I turn up my music to unholy decibels and dance like an escape patient from a mental ward.

2-    I get sprite at every restaurant I go to, but if I am on a plane I have to get ginger ale.

3-    My mother affectionately calls me ‘linus’ because I never go anywhere without a blanket.

4-    When I was like 7 years old I really wanted glasses so I lied on all of the eye tests the doctors gave me. I wore the glasses they gave me like a champion even though I was legally blind with them on.

5-    I would always wake up before my friends when I was at a sleepover so I would purposefully make a ridiculous amount of noise so that other people would wake up and then act really sorry when they woke up, but be secretly super happy.

6-    When I was 3 I lived close to a girl named Sydney. Sydney was the worst, but she had one of those tiny cars that you could charge and then drive around. I was only nice to Sydney so that I could drive her car.

7-    If you cut me open I would bleed fruit snacks.

8-    I wrote a book in Kindergarten. I dedicated it to myself.

9-    I have to check the locks on the doors like 3 times every night before I go to bed like a paranoid grandmother.

10-When I get cold I shake like a one of those purse dogs.

11-In the fourth grade I ordered a Nintendo Gameboy SP off of ebay and faked being sick the day it got delivered to my house so that I could stay home and play it all day.

12-I will NEVER wear matching socks.

13-I am a packrat. If you gave me a note in the second grade I probably still have it.

14-I sleep with a bear and a unicorn every night like a four year old.

15-I creep on blogs like there is no tomorrow. If you have a blog… I have probably creeped on it.

16-I have never solved a rubik’s cube.

17-When I was at stake dances if a weird guy asked me to dance, I would make up a whole new persona and name and go with it for the whole dance.

18-I have a seriously unhealthy obsession with teen mom.

19-…and dance moms.

20-People constantly think I am absurdly younger than I am… and it is probably my biggest gripe.

21-My life’s goal is to eat cheese and not get sick. DREAM BIG.

22-I always have a song that I am currently obsessed with. I listen to it on a loop for like a week and then hate it for the next six months because I listened to it so much. My current song is this one. (thanks syd!)

23-I recently discovered the joy of sunny side up eggs. WHO KNEW??

24-If something has an Eiffel tower on it, I have a weird sudden need to have it. I recently had to restrain myself from buying a pink sparkly Eiffel tower bank.  

25-I recently went against everything I know to be true and bought… jeggings. And I have yet to go a day without wearing them. (fricken things are so comfortable and yet so publicly acceptable.) Please. Hold your ridicule to a minimum.

woof. 

if you are still here reading... i sincerely apologize. 

should these have been two separate posts?

yes.

are they?

NOPE.

have a wonderful day, ladies and gents. 

paris.

is really far away i am coming to understand...
woof.

sometimes this is as close as you can get,
but knowing it is worth it makes it easier.
my heart will wait.
528 more days.

rough.

what's rough anne?

life is, world.

life is rough. 

warning:

this is a long, slightly grumpy rant. 

proceed with caution.

this semester has not gone the way i hoped it would at all,

in fact it's gone the complete opposite.

i have not gotten the grades i wanted,

i have been sick really often,
my love life has been... horrendously awful, to say the least. 

i have learned living with five other girls is really hard...

especially coming from living with two boys.

plus many other things that i will spare you from.

anyways... 

it's because of all of these things that i have made the decision to move home.

i originally got the track fall/spring. 

well i decided i would show byu-idaho and go for fall and take night classes during the winter,

and go home during the spring and take an online class to keep my enrollment!

well, those sneaky devils knew what they were doing. 

a combination of the worst semester ever and not getting into the night classes i wanted to take have helped me make the hard decision to move home and work take online classes there. 

what am i doing after that?

NO IDEA.

you'll probably figure out my life before i do.

so, now the good part of this post.

even though this semester has been heinous beyond belief,

two good things have come out of it.

those two things are two people.

one person is someone that i rekindled a friendship with,

and the other was a roommate that has very quickly become one of my best friends.

this is amy. we have been best friends since 7th grade. we have been through so much together and i don't think she will ever know how much she means to me. while i have been up here at byu-idaho she has seriously been a rock for me. she was there for me every time i needed someone to listen to me rant and give me a little part of home. she is one of the kindest, most genuine people i know, and we can talk for hours without one minute of silence. she is an incredible inspiration to me and i cannot believe that it has been almost a year and a half since she got baptized! 

this is sydney. notice the matching in this picture? UNPLANNED. we have been asked several times if we are sisters and two people have seriously asked if we are twins. i wish. sydney and i have always been cool with each other, nothing really special. one night sydney and i started talking. this talk did not end until 5:30 in the am and ever since then we have kinda been inseparable. we have only been like this for about 2 weeks but i am already dreading leaving her and we are already planning skype sessions. 

anne, why are you telling me about these incredible people?

because they are incredible.

i'm learning to focus on the good things in the midst of a bad situation.

and it's starting with reminding myself that i have some amazing people in my life,

and they are huge blessings to me, and i am so grateful for them.

sometimes...

sometimes...
i don't blog in a long time and i have to catch up.

sometimes...
my roommates and i decide to go to a haunted corn maze...

and we joke about being scared...

but it turns out to be the scariest thing EVER.
at one point a man with a chainsaw ran towards me.
i tried to run the other way but promptly fell...
on my face.
and cried.
a lot.
note to self:
you are scared of everything.
don't go to a haunted straw maze.

sometimes...
my roommates and i buy footy pajamas.

and we wear them everywhere, including out to get frozen yogurt.
when getting said frozen yogurt the manager offered us 50% off if we would dance in the middle of the store in our footies.
i don't think i have ever danced so much
or enjoyed any yogurt more.

sometimes...
i CANNOT wait to have a sister!
oh the shenanigans that i cannot wait to pull.

sometimes...
my mom sends me the best package ever!!!!

and it makes me miss her ten times more.

sometimes...
i realize that i have the cutest missionary on the planet, and that i am super duper blessed.

sometimes...
people (jared) leave their google account open on my computer...
and i create a blog for them.
www.jaredthinks.blogspot.com

sometimes...
i write really mushy long blogs.
and i commend you for reading all of it.
consider yourself commended.

learning.

obviously while at the fine institution of byu-idaho i have learned many things about myself.

so i thought i would share some of them.

1- i thought i hated fake glasses before i came here.

loathe entirely would be more appropriate now.

get them off your face, people.

2- i am the world's worst sharer. hands down.
if something is mine and you take it, we will have a problem. 

3- left to my own resources, 

i find and eat the fattiest foods known to man. 

4- i love colorado a hecka lot more 

than i did when i lived there.

5- the term "raised by wolves" has found a whole new meaning to me.
(flossing your teeth in the middle of class is not appropriate people.)
6- people are incredibly forward here.
carly rae jepson was talking about rexburg when she wrote her hit song.
only here, it goes a little something like
"hey, i just met you and this is completely normal please marry me."
and i am for reals appalled at how many girls accept.
7- i think i would rather be exiled to siberia
than go to the testing center.
not only is is a morbidly depressing place,
it is insanely weird to think that there are cameras in the plants.
they're watching...
8- WHY does wind exist.
i hate wind.
9- some people just really... are not bright.
example.
i have a purple plastic case on my mac.
a girl came up to me and asked me the other day
"where in the world did you get a purple mac!!!! i want oneeee!!!!!"
i worry about this girl.
10- it is insanely weird hearing about church in my classes.
"you divide x by 4 and get 79 so the church is true."
pause what.
i agree with you mr math teacher,
the church is true.
but in no way was that relevant.

i'm pretty convinced that rexburg isn't a real place.
we're all in a secret fairytale story.
(i'm still trying to figure out who i will be when the curse breaks and we all figure out who we are in the real world...)

grumble.

something happened yesterday.
and it made me super grumpy.
naturally i figured that the whole world should hear about it.

so i was in my science foundations class last thursday when a girl came and sat down next to me.
this girl happened to have a quite a bit of makeup on.
she also happened to have very long, very fake and very pink sparkly nails on.
not my personal favorite things, but whatever.
well every class we have a one-question open note quiz over the reading that we were supposed to do the night before.
since i am just a wonderful student, i had done the reading and taken notes.
i found out the girl next to me hadn't when she leaned over and CHEATED off of my notes.
i was ticked, but i just let it go.

fast forward to yesterday.
i come to class early and sit down and OH,
who should sit next to me?
sparkly nails girl.
i got a little miffed, but waived it off.
well we had another quiz.
and i had taken notes again.
and this girl cheated off of me AGAIN.
oh wait. it gets worse. 
i had read the question incorrectly, so i put down the wrong answer.
when i realized what i had done i tried to change my answer but it was too late, the teacher had already closed the portal.

...

let me sum this up for you.
i do the hard work and read and take notes.
the girl next to me does nothing, cheats off of me and gets the right answer.
i get the wrong answer.
WHAAAAAAT.
i hope karma hits hard.


on a separate note,
i really miss these people.

rain.

"if it's ever gonna get any better, it's gotta get worse for a day."

this song is playing on repeat on my ipod right now,
for good reason.
if you haven't heard it,
educate yourself.

wish.

i started packing today for college...

which i leave for in 3 days,

and which i am heinously nervous for.

while packing for college i have started wishing

that i was starting my first day of kindergarten again, 

instead of my first day of college. 

i should probably start looking for a giant sandpit that comes alive

that has a magic lamp inside that houses a blue genie.

(a magic carpet wouldn't hurt either.)

but for now, i will just have to go to college. 

although i think you'll agree i was much cuter when i was starting kindergarten.

well.

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
first, the worst.

i went to the dentist recently,
(no cavities, thank you very much!)
and my dentist told me that i should get a mouthwash that had fluoride in it
as my teeth are not very strong.
easy enough, right?
right.
well i went to the store to get said mouthwash.
there are an appalling number of mouthwashes!
there seriously is a whole isle devoted to the stuff.
well after looking at the ridiculous amounts of mouthwash for quite some time i found the perfect mouthwash.

this mouthwash had fluoride and it was going to make my teeth white at the same time!

bingo.

i excitedly went home to try out my new mouthwash, only to find out that oh i don't know,

it's the worst.

BEWARE:

if you use this mouthwash your mouth will taste like sludge for the next 24 hours 

and you will foam at the mouth like a rabid dog for 20 minutes.

well,

sorry dentist.

i tried.

what is the good part of this post?

oh i don't know...

anne, whatever do you have in your hands?

oh nothing...

JUST MY VERY FIRST LETTER FROM FRANCE.

i'd say my good heavily outweighs the bad.

sharing.

it has been proven time and time again that i am the world's worst sharer.
but today i found a gem...
a gem that had to be shared.

whilst reading one of my old journals i found something.
i am not sure if it is a poem or a song, but it is priceless.

"see you hurt" by the 10 year-old anne trent-

i heard the word
i was scared as ever
you are away but not the kind like a trip to florida,
but somewhere you never wanna be
cuz i see you hurt

you were banged up like an old trash can
lookin' at me like never before
but it doesn't matter cause i see you hurt...

and that hurts me.


...
WHAT!

i hope my sharing has made you feel better about your ten year-old self.

forfeit.

i mentioned in my 50 things post that i was not going to cut my hair this summer.
well...

i forfeited.

purple whaaat!

purple HAIR.

anyone that knows me knows that i love everything purple.
anyone that knows me very well knows that i have wanted purple in my hair since i was like 13.
my mom has said no to this every time i brought it up.
UNTIL!
my mom met my brother's girlfriend, and loved her.
this girl happened to have a blue streak in her hair.
my mother caved.
(hats off to you, cam cam.)

so, this past week my friend sam and i decided that we were finally going to do it!
and we did!














i realize that you cannot see my purple hair very well in this picture. i was wearing a purple shirt at the time i took it, and have been sick since i took it. (no one wants a picture of that.)

so there is my one and only rebellious thing that i will ever do.

50.

i know that all of my devoted readers are just dying to hear more about my riveting life.

problem. when i went to write a blog today i realized that i didn't have anything to write about, as my life has not been very interesting lately.

but! if you wanted to know 50 very random things about myself then it is your lucky day!

here we go...

1-   every summer I go through a phase of hating my long hair so I chop it all off, and then I hate my short hair even more than I hated my long hair. So this summer I am breaking my own tradition and keeping my hair long. We’ll see how long it lasts.

2-  My back teeth don’t touch. I can still chew and jazz, but they don’t touch.

3-   I am going to byu-idaho in the fall. I am… a little less than excited but we will see what happens.

4-    My immune system is that of a small fetus.

5-   In third grade we had a store where you could buy things with fake money that you earned from being good. The very first time we went to the store I saw a scissor kit (that might be a lie, I’m still not sure what it was) and immediately wanted it ridiculously bad, but it was $100. So I saved my fake money all semester until at the last week of the semester I had $98. I told my teacher this, and being the awesome teacher that she was, she slipped me two dollars. Sweet mercy I had enough money! While waiting for my turn to go into the store, I saw someone buy my precious scissor kit, and who was it? My arch nemesis. Unbridled rage. I still want that scissor kit.

6-   I have wanted to go to paris, france since I was about 10. My room is paris themed, I have a giant Eiffel tower on my wall and I took French in high school so that when I finally got there I would have some idea of what people were saying. Which is weird because…

7-    -The most important boy to me was called to paris for the next two years on his mission for the church of jesus Christ of latter-day saints. He will return in may of 2014. I miss him more than anything, but I am so proud of him for choosing to serve the Lord.

8-    -I am not an outdoorsy person. I’d rather not hike or camp or any of that jazz. That being said… if I am going to camp I am going to do it all out. I will not going to shower, do my hair or my makeup while camping.  That’s ridiculous.

9-   -I am heinously judgmental. I’m working on it.

10-I am a member of the church of jesus Christ of latter-day saints and I love it more than anything.

11- All of my freshman and sophomore years everytime it turned 11:11 I had to close my eyes and make a wish.

12- I am not athletic. At all. And it used to bug me so bad that I wasn’t, because I felt like I wasn’t good at anything. Until…

13- I realized that my talent is to be with children. It probably helps that I am still 5 at heart.

14- I couldn’t eat chic fil a  for like 6 years after I threw it up. To make it better I had the pink lemonade with that chic fil a so it was bright pink chicken chunks coming back up! Yum. But I love it now!

15-I love rainy overcast days. If I could move to Washington, I would.

16-I am insanely sarcastic.

17-I wear glasses. And they are trifocals. I am an old woman.

18- I love fortune cookies! First, they taste wonderful. Second, those ridiculous fortunes inside are seriously the best. When I grow up I want to write the fortunes inside of fortune cookies. My all-time favorite fortune- “if you are bored, get a cat.”

19-I hate cats. It doesn’t help that I am allergic to them. So no, chinese philosopher, I will not be investing in a cat when I am bored.

20- I cannot for the life of me get a friggen tan. Unbridled rage.

21-When I was little I would practice modeling in the mirror for hours. Then I grew up and realized the fact that I was 5 feet tall totally shafted that dream over.

22-I genuinely love super hero movies, but can I just rant about green lantern? It  was HEINOUS.

23-I have toddler hands. Seriously, they are ridiculously small.

24-I have a huge mouth. Like literally, it is large.

25-If you are around me for very long, you will start to say things that I say. ‘good gravy’ ‘mother of pearl’ and ‘heinous’ are a few favorites in my vocabulary.

26-I did not get the Martha stewart gene. I am not crafty.

27-When I start getting grumpy and sad I listen to spoon’s ‘don’t let it get you down.’ If you have not heard that song, listen to it here. (please ignore the footage from the random people, it was the only decent copy youtube had of the song.)

28-I sing obnoxiously loud in the car.

29-I wish I was really good at photography. I have a theory that if I get a really nice camera I will get really good and want to take pictures all the time. We will see.

30-I used to be really cool in elementary school. I had my posse and we always sat at the peanut butter tables (meant for children with peanut butter to eat away from those with allergies) even though none of us ever had any peanut butter. REBELS.

31-There was a really cool girl that I really wanted to impress in the seventh grade. Her name was Rachel. One day I was hangin around at the park by my house when lo and behold Rachel showed up! I got up the courage to go over and talk to her and we started talking about gymnastics. I told her that I could do a bridge and she asked me to show her. Well I laid down on the grass and then pushed up into a bridge. I got up to find out I had laid down in the largest pile of dog poop known to man. Rachel and I did not end up becoming friends.

32-On the first day of sixth grade I wore a velvet jumpsuit. It started out really dark pink at the bottom and faded to really light pink at the top. I was, in fact, the bomb diggity.

33-In fifth grade I got a love letter from… an interesting fellow. It read: “you are the apple of my eye, you are the biggest diamond in the treasure chest, you are all I think about. Do you like me back?” and there was a ‘yes’ box, a ‘maybe’ box and a ‘no’ box for me to check. Not wanting to hurt said fellow’s feelings I wrote in underneath “my mom won’t let me like anyone until I am 16.” Bold faced lie. Sorry, Sheldon.

34-I love pickles.

35-My mom made me give away my polly pocket collection for a young women’s garage that raised money for camp. A little bit of me died.

36-My hairband just broke. Blast.

37- I love music and I have very diverse tastes. I will completely own up to having backstreet boys on my ipod as well as the beatles, young the giant, wilco and spoon.

38-I rear ended one of my really good friends about nine months ago. (sorry again casey.) it was really icy so I could not stop. Anyways, every time I drive now I stop way behind other people because I’m terrified of getting in another accident.

39-I hate auto correct.

40-Anytime I say anyways (with an s), which is always, my missionary, dallin, just about has a fit of rage because apparently it isn’t proper. Pshhh.

41-There was a really cute boy in kindergarten named zack. Boy did I have my eye on him! That is, until my best friend tackled to the ground and proceeded to SMOOCH him. Oh the rage.

42-I always use burts bees chapstick.

43-I secretly always wanted a furby.

44-I played the French horn all throughout middle school. I quit after realizing that I would have to march with a flugle horn- those things are huge.

45-I love long car drives- but they have to be with the right people.

46-I no longer have an appendix.

47-Or wisdom teeth.

48-Or a middle name. OH WAIT. I never had that. Thanks, mom and dad.

49-I love whales. I think this stems from my brothers calling me a ‘beached whale’ for a very long time. After a while I just started to like whales and feel bad when they were beeched.

50-I got a C one quarter in the fourth grade in social studies because I couldn’t memorize all of the states and their capitals. My memory is non-existent.  

wow.
that was a lot.
if you are still reading this, i applaud you.
well, there it is.
that is a little bit of anne.

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why not?

while going through my old cds today i found a gem. radio disney ultimate jams. of course upon finding this, i immediately popped it into my cd player. the very first song to play was the horrendous 'why not?' by the even more horrendous hilary duff. i quickly changed the cd to the next song, 'dig it' from the movie holes- which i can rap to surprisingly well. if you haven't heard the song why not, listen to it here.

if you listen to the song you will find hilary duff's voice echoing in your head the rest of the day (sorry, should have forewarned you). as i spent the day trying to fill my head with better music her voice kept coming back to me asking me 'why not?' and i started to think about a lot of things that i had never done and soon i was asking myself why i hadn't done most of those things. i had legitimate reasons for not doing most of the things i want to do- for instance, i do not have the funds to get my own personal spider-man outfit made. one day though... one day.

one thing that i have always wanted to do was start a blog. i love reading other people's blogs but always thought that i had nothing interesting to put in a blog, and i probably still don't, (later blog posts will be much more interesting- promise) but here i am starting a blog.

why not?