Its Over!!

This semester is finally over. I cant believe how fast it went by. This last semester has definatly been my favorite so far though I think. I loved my roomates and I dont think I have ever laughed more than I have in the last few months. Me, Jackie, Julie and Missy got along really well and did everything together. We were lucky enough to have 4 girls who rarely got sick of eachother, although we had our times they were limited. The last few weeks were really fun. Again we waited till the very end to make new friends and actually hang out, but it was really fun. We lost our beloved Taylor. He was like our 7th roomate. He was constantly at our house and although we hated him a good 50% of the time, it wouldnt have been nearly as much fun without him.

(Taylor drew himself in our picture...)

The weekend before finals we went to California for the weekend to pick up Missy's dads FJ Cruiser so she could get all her stuff back home. We went to Laguna Beach that night and went looking for "LC's house". Missy and Julie were sick the whole time so it wasnt to fun for them. Me and Jackie made it all the way home after sharing beds with them and spending a good 2 days in the car with them without getting sick. We were so proud. Monday night after we got back I felt it coming on. That night we decided to burn our couch. It was deemed the scorpion couch after Jackie was bit by a scorp and had to be rushed to the ER. True story I might add. It was a good time, the turnout was better than expected although we didnt really know any of the people that came.

I dont know if I ever talked about our neighbors. They were hard core rednecks. But we liked them, they were very helpful with whatever we needed. There were 3 of them in the beginning but they had a few friends move in over the year. They were often found in the front yard drinking with their friends tryin to talk to us girls. They were a good time. They gave us some fireworks one night and Jackie had a ball with them. She got way more than anyone else.

Finals went well. I think. My english class was my favorite. Our teacher was in the high council and has got to be one of the funniest weirdest people I've ever met. Me Jackie and Missy all had that class together and I think we were definatly his favorite. Jackie found out he had a son going to school there so she always joked that she was going to date him so she could get an A. So one day in class I told him that Jackie liked his son and although he made fun of it alot Im pretty sure he liked the idea of it. He would always talk about it. And then the night of our final when Jackie handed in her paper, he wrote down his sons number and gave it to her. It was so funny!

Since I've been home Ive come to realize how nasty we must have smelled. Our apartment smelt like a nasty motel room and it didnt seem to bad after a little while. I guess we just grew accoustomed to it because when I got home the smell made me so sick. My truck smells like smokey hooker and so do all my clothes. I just hope it wasnt that bad at school. No wonder we didnt have friends lol.

Its good to be gone but at the same time my life is so much more boring. I miss all the girls and all our jokes. Its hard to bring Beau and Bailey in on my jokes since most of them dont make sense to other people and their not "age appropriate". Although they were saying DWAM today. My mom didnt like that one to much...
Well like I said we had some good times and I cant wait to have some more.

It's A Long One

Wow. Im going to be 20 in a couple months. I cannot believe it. From what I hear it only goes downhill from here haha. But really, thats what i've been told. Anyways, I was thinking about the past few years and this is where im at in my thinking process...
-I graduated from high school 2 years ago! I have nothing to show for it.
- Im about to make my 2 year school a 3 year school.
-I have no idea what to do with my life. I want to do so much but dont know how I could.
- I cant decide if leaving EA not married is an epic fail, or a success?
- Should I move to Utah? I have no "family" up there. Could I handle being away from my parents?
- What am I supposed to do in my life. Do I want to go on a mission?
- P.S. Im failing my math class, did I mention its the second lowest math class they offer?

I've been talking with my roomates alot lately (not that we dont talk). But for the most part were all kind of scattered on what to do with our lives. Its freakin hard! Missy has decided to move back home to California to be closer to family and start over. I dont know what im supposed to do without her! Missy was my first best friend in college. I love her to death, we've had our moments just like everyone else but here we are still friends!
Jackie is just as lost as me! She's more vocal about it but were definantly in the same boat. She has a little more motivation than me though, she is going to Pennslyvania this summer to teach little jewish kids how to dance. But she's not quite sure of what she should do when she gets back. Does she want to come back? Does she want to move home? Should she stay east coast?
I dont even know what I would do if I didnt come back. Where do I go. Im sure I could move back to Tucson, perhaps sleep on the couch at home for a few months but I dont really know if I want to move back to Tucson. I like going home for the weekends and hanging out with my family but would it be the same if I made it permanent? It would be hard to come back here without the girls I live with. Im not to friendly I guess. I dont really try to make new friends so coming back without everyone would be a shocker. It wouldnt even be the same, so would I like it here even if it was different? I dont know that I would. Were more homebodies then anything so going out and doing things with different people is a foreign concept to me! So maybe it would be a good thing.

As for what im doing right now, Im trying to decide on what to do. I really want to do nursing but at the same time I've hit a rough patch with it. I really like the "idea" of being a nurse but I dont know if I really want to be a nurse. I also like the "idea" of becoming a pastry chief or a cosmetologist, but Im to scared to try it out. Although im only 20 (almost) I feel like I should be close to being done. If I were at where im supposed to be I would almost be done with my 1st year of nursing school, which means that when I graduated in another year it would put me at the ripe old age of 21 making $75,000 a year as an RN. It makes me anxious thinking about where I could be if I had done things different. Im scared of trying out nursing or applying for the program because im scared I'll fail. I really think that when and if I do decide to do that its going to be secretive. Ill be the only one who knows I applied that way if I fail Im the only one who knows about it, which you might think is dumb but its a dang good plan from my point of view.
I wish that I was secretly kinda rich. We all know im broke about 98% of the time. I wish it was all an act, and that I really had thousands in the bank so I could move around. I want to be a drifter in life. Just a step above a bum, floating from place to place living only on what I really need. I wish I could travel from 3rd world country to 3rd world country building schools for orphans. All the while Im wearing crazy clothes and no make-up. I want to move to Africa for a year and just hang out. I dont know why there but I would love it! Its funny that I wouldnt have a problem moving to Africa, living in a hut in the some village, but moving to Utah scares the crap out of me. Someone teach me how to be a drifter!

Well here are some pictures of the last semesters. I havent posted any in forever!

Julie and me on one of our epic hikes.

This is Landon. My boss. he loves me

We played scum everyday for hours for like 2 months straight.

Again an "epic" hike.

Jackie and me in the firetruck

These are our poker faces. Obviously its a good thing I dont play...

Literally this is what my life has consisted of for the most part over the last few months. Scum, hikes, long drives, more scum, work, and occasionaly school :]

Oh How I've Missed You

Dear Summer,

Oh how I have missed your warm embrace.

I have been thinking about you for months now wondering when I would feel your warmth on my skin again.

I cannot wait to bask in your glory for the next 8 months.

I'll love you forever.

Love Always,

Me

Say It Ain't So!!

This weekend was good. I went home....again. I might as well drop out and move back. Thats what I feel like doing anyways. But I left Friday afternoon and went and met my parents in the ghetto on the corner of the street where we met Clay who gave us our new puppy :] He is an american bulldog and is 6 weeks old. He is all white minus the patch over his eye and a spot on his ear. We named him Cooper. He was a present for Beau and Baileys birthdays. When Bailey saw him she cried. It was precious. Anyways I had puppy dudy the first two nights. He woke up every two hours and I had to get up and take him outside to pee and poop. By 5:45 am he was awake for good and was a rude little puppy from then on. If he is anything like a child I dont want one. I am not a morning person by any means and a whiney baby does not sound appealing haha. But he is cute and I love him.
Saturday night Caitlin invited me to go to The UofA vs. ASU hockey game. It was alot of fun. We went with a few friends and had alot of fun. After going into overtime and having TWO 3 man shoot offs UofA prevailed and beat the scum devils. I really liked hockey alot, I like the fights the most I think. We would have had some pictures had Caitlin used her camera. But she didnt so I dont. Maybe next game.
Sunday was the same as usual. I went to church but left early to take care of my ailing mother. She got her tonsils removed last Tuesday and hasnt quite gotten over it. From what I hear its pretty vicous. She's got some nasty holes in her throat now, everyone should ask to see them.

Today I woke up at 6 am. This is big for me, I honestly cant recall the last time I was up that early. But I had to leave by 7 in order to get home in time to take my microbiology test. So im driving home barley awake just listening to the pod when I suddenly realize I FORGOT MY BACKPACK with everything in it! I was already in Wilcox and couldnt turn around. I was supposed to turn in my lab reports but they're in my bag as well. So I got to school and told Dr. Butler about it. He looked at me and was like "well its going to be hard to study for the test without them." I was like uh what test? And he was like we have a test in lab today. So I was like uh whatever what is it over ill just use someone elses book. He tells me "its pretty much everything we've learned so far, kinda like a midterm". WHAT THE HECK MAN!! How did I not know about this test you may ask? Im not really sure. I feel like I kinda knew about it, but I dont remember it being a BIG test! Im screwed. My friend Whitney said I could borrow hers in like an hour to look over everything so Im kinda ok...maybe. Usually his tests are short essay answers not multiple choice! So im hoping it will be different this time, if not who knows whats gonna happen. Wish me luck!

Happy New Year!!!

2009 is here and I cant believe it! Christmas break was really good. I sat at home the entire time. I think I hung out with people like twice. It was nice being home with my parents just hanging out. Christmas was good as well we got Wii fit, lets just say that took up alot of my time! Also in this blissful year I will be 20 and it blows my mind. This year I have big plans... I cant put them all on here because there is the definant possibility I will fail and that would just be embarrasing. But the one I will NOT lose is our family's biggest loser. My mom and dad, me, possibly my uncle and aunt are having a little competition to see who can shape up the best. Just like the show but a little different, were playing with our own rules along with a big prize for the winner. (that hasnt been decided yet.) I would just like to throw out that I have already lost a billion pounds and am going to win. ha. Along with 2009 comes a new semester. This semester seems like it should be a good one. I got a good feeling about it. Although the year did start with the largest oil explosion known to man happening in my truck and followed shortly by the death of our eel. But today is a new day and I wont let that get me down. Straight A's from here on out :] haha 4th times a charm right? But really lets hope it goes well. Heck maybe Ill even get a husband hahahaha. Well I hope everyone has a swell year filled with lots of fun.Here's a couple pictures...

Me and Bailey

Me and Mom after we fell down the mountain

Me schooling Beau in DDR

Overall Grade: D-

We'll start this one back about a year and a half ago right before I leave for college. My dad is Mr. Safety with everything! Everything is locked turned off and anything else you can do to ensure safety. Its about a million degrees outside and Dad tells me its time that I learn how to change a tire. First thing he tells me "Danni get some shoes on were changing your tire." "Dad its freakin hot outside and I dont wear shoes." "Do you think that your only going to get a flat in the dark, your going to be wishing you had shoes on when your getting burned on the side of the highway." "Ah whatever. I'll just have someone else change it." So I go get ready come outside and dads got everything put out on the driveway. He gets down and shows me how to take off the hubcap, then shows me how to losen the bolts in the star shape before I jack the truck up. We proceed to jack it up and get the tire off and all along im standing there burning up while he's asking, "did you see what I just did? Would you be able to find that?, Do you know where to put that?" And of course im like "yup, saw that dad, oh I could do that easy." Anyways after he shows me what to do he goes in the garage gets a chair and says "your turn". I was like what are you kidding me. So I start doing everything, he's still telling me what I need to do, I obviously didnt learn a thing. About 6 hours later I get done and Im like Im not worried I'll never have to do that!
Back to yesterday. Im on my way to Sierra Vista as im doing my moms run. Im driving down the highway and I go to pass this truck thats going slow so I go to the left lane. As I attempt to pass him he speeds up. Were going a little over 80 mph and as I look behind me I see the grandma and grandpa I passed a while ago who were going no faster than 50 mph impatiently swerving behind me and then the truck I was attempting to pass. He seemed aggitated by our litte "mexican road block" we had going on. Grandpa couldnt calm down enough for me to slow down to get back over so as soon as he got back behind me, I quickly slowed down and got right back behind the truck. As the sweet old couple pass me grandma looks at me and flips me off. "Merry Christmas to you too old hag!" Im pretty sure I said something "along those lines" right back to her. But as I look forward again A piece of metal had fallen off the truck and I was aimed right towards it. Before I could do anything I hit it dead on with my front tire! I yelled out a "sshhhiiiiioooooot" or something like that and pulled off immediatly. I knew right away I was screwed. I tried calling my dad but he didnt answer so I called my mom and first words out of her mouth are " You know your dads going to give you so much crap about this right?" Thanks mom. Anywho I waited for about 45 min to an hour waiting for my dad to come while in the meantime almost getting hit by some crazy mexican driving down the shoulder of the highway going like 60 mph. But my dad comes and we drive down the shoulder for a while till we get to the exit and get to gas city. Dad changes my tire in his dress clothes after I offer to do it. After its all done he's looking at me and was like "Im pretty sure you failed the test." "1. You couldnt have changed your tire without me. *true. 2. The flashlight you brought me was dead. The whites of my eyes were brighter than that! *true again. 3. Your wearing flip flops. I can see you running away from the creep that tries to help you. At least you can kick back in shoes. *true. 4. The one thing you did good at was pulling off far enough and not going after the hubcap. (The hubcap literally flew through the air after we hit.) So your overall grade is a D-.
On a funny note...My dad also got a flat tire that day after work. He sure is a trooper! 1 new tire and 1 new rim later were ready to do it again.

"LeRoy" My hero :]

Fun Facts

Lately Ive been thinking about myself. Not in an overly obsessed way, but Ive been thinking about how I am compared to other people around me and Ive come to realize I think im a little odd. Here's 15 little "fun facts" about me...


- Im a little "anti-social". Ive been thinking alot about this one lately and ive realized im perfectly fine sitting at home just hanging out or watching a movie. I dont need to be around large quantities of people. I actually hate that. I get annoyed really easy, espicially by idiotic people.


- Im a major hypochondriac. Ask my mother. I have had any and every major disease you can think of. I think im slowly getting a little better though. Taking my CNA class really freaked me out at first, espicially when we first talked about MRSA. I have never been more sure that Iwas going to die as I was that day. I really almost started crying in class.


- I think im funny. Is that bad? I hear people say that when you think your funny your really not, but I think im an exception to that rule. Maybe im more of a rude funny. Lets just say Im extremly sarcastic.


-I hate hate hate the cold. More than anything in the whole world I hate coldness. It gets me like no other. I hate snow, other than looking at it, it serves no purpose.
*Actually there is one thing I like about the cold and thats what it does to the day. It gives it this look and feel that you dont get at anyother time. You can look outside and just tell by looking at the cloudless sky that its gonna be a chilly one.


- Im a creature of the night. I love night time. It has an opposite affect on me, during the day is usually when im tired. I can think about going to bed all day long and when the time comes to actually go to sleep, I cant. I wish I was more of a morning person. There's something about the mornings that I love. I wished I loved it enough to get up and enjoy it!


- I chew 2 pieces of gum. Always. I think it all started with my grandma when I was young, she would always let me chew as many as I had wanted and it just stuck with me. Chewing 1 piece just doesnt work out. I think I go through a pack a day...seriously. Hey at least im not a smoker right!


-I absolutley despise a boy called Joe Nathan. There is a boy and his name is Jonathon but he tells everyone its Joe Nathan. I can not express how much I despise him. I have never been so close to hating someone as much as him. He is so annoying and rude and he always has to say something dumb to me whenever I see him. Its ridiculous.


-Im addicted to Dr. Pepper. I could drink only it for the rest of my life and it probably wouldnt be enough. I have however controlled it to only drinking 1 (or maybe 2) a day. It was getting a little outrageous so I had to do something about it.

-I wear flip-flops constantly. I really cant remember the last time I wore shoes during the day. I wear them to work only because I have to. And I only wear rainbow flip-flops...not rainbow colored ones, the brand. Its they way they fit. I cant find it in any other brand.

-Im a people watcher. I could sit and observe people forever. I love watching people. creepy?...maybe a little bit.

-I like everything big. I like big bags, sunglasses, you name it I like it big, I dont know why.

-I like Britney Spears. Say what you want about her but I will love her forever. She had her crazy times but she has come back and will be better than ever!

-I hate glass cups. They get all scratchy after you wash them and the way they feel is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me! I cant stand it.

-I HATE napkins. If theres one thing I hate more than Joe Nathan and glass cups its napkins. Espicially when other people use them. Its the feel and noise they make when its rubbed together. It drives me nuts and makes me cringe all over! I will never use them.

-I love the piano. If I could be amazing at anything, it would be the piano. I really love it when guys can play its instant love!