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.