Well,

Despite a week-long stint of strep, I kicked my finals in the butt. 

IN THE BUTT. Yeah.

It felt good.

And then all too soon, life went from this, 

to this,

 to this,

to this, my new room across the street.

 And now I get to party for two weeks; no classes, no stress,

just friends and sunshine until my family gets here so we can watch my

cousin get hitched in SLC and then it's back to the 425.  

Finals week is

- Eating cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner for three days straight once you realize your milk's been expired for over a week. I don't care it makes me sick, I spent good money on that business and I'm gonna use it!
- Putting your bowl in the fridge and your applesauce in the pantry and not realizing it till your roommate starts laughing.
- Completely blanking during your botany final and having to BS the third reason that plants bear fruit. ("To make delicious pies. Obviously!" And somehow I still swung an A...)
- Trying to say "schnitzel" for your German-speaking roommate and ending up swearing.
- Finding your cottage cheese in the pantry. And being unable to remember the last time you would have eaten the stuff.
- Being forced to lean over and ask your study buddy how to spell "won't." Cause... you forgot.
- Sucking up clothes while vacuuming the living room and all getting high on the resulting smoke/fumes. Like, it was bad. But mostly really hilarious.

Because.

Just so I can tell my family I finally posted on this thing.

Current distraction/obsession:

Mutemath, Explosions in the Sky, and Mae.

My iTunes account is blowing up.

Current iphone background: 

I giggle like a crazy person every time I turn my phone on.

Current happy thought when I'm stressin:

Last weekend. It was five days of wonderfulness. I love my mom.

Current favorite flick: 

War Horse.  It probably helped that I was with three of my most favorite people in the world. 

And that it's about a horse... And that the score is beyond beautiful. I dunno, I like it a lot. 

Current source of... just weirdness:

In the middle of Walmart.

Will I ever get used to this????

 Currently coveting:

 

Who the heck at BYU has cash enough to throw around and buy an R8.

He'd better be a professor or something.

Current good news:

90% on my New Testament midterm this morning. 

Plus the weather was absolutely perfect today and will be for the rest of the entire week!

Currently in love with:

 Sundance.

And my man Sherlock Holmes. 

Thank you Barnes & Noble sale. And Momma's wallet.

Currently looking forward to:

Skiing tomorrow!

29 days till freedom.

And the amazing adventure that will be this weekend.

Life is good.

I don't ever want this to end

I HAVE NEVER HAD SO MUCH FUN IN MY ENTIRE LIIIIFE!!!!!!!!!!
I love college.

And thus commences the epic adventure of Buckley's Mine.

Staggeringly high viewpoints, being eye-to-eye with beautifully rippling anticlines and sinclines, a hike straight up the wall of Rock Canyon, beautiful Utah Valley laid out at our feet, climbing, crawling, and exploring tunnels inside a MOUNTAIN, fossils, so, so, so many cool rocks, bats, rickety ladders that make your stomach drop, an excuse to wear backpacking clothes, awesome friends. A day well spent.

Resolutions

I have six of them for this year. One of them is to stop blogging for a lil bit. I have lots of reasons, and I've been thinking about doing it for awhile. Mostly it was a talk by one of our church leaders given in the most recent General Conference; this one, to be exact. It hit home for me. Every time I listen to it I learn something new about how I want to change the ways I'm treating and using my time - my life! {Plus, his accent is awesome. I could listen to him say "tweets and texts" a million times over.} I want to work on simplifying my life and the places I put my time. Happy, productive new year!

In which there's lots of random news of the positive sort.

1) I'm narrowing down my major options. It makes me excited. I know Environmental Science and Geology are going to be the two main competitors.
2) I finally got my hair chopped and I love it. Goodbye annoying long hair that is not conducive to my lifestyle.

3) This girl goes home the second day of finals week. Yes, yes, YES. Thank youu BYU for giving me an incredibly easy finals schedule.
4) I 92%-ed my first final exam last night.
5) The South Denver Colorado mission finally decided to give back one of my best friends, and this morning I got to see his face for the first time in two years. Skype is a wonderful thing.

The end.

Supermassive update via pictures

My life in a nutshell:

The end!

You know you're homesick when

you creepishly stalk your own house on Google Earth. [:

This Washington girl misses her trees.

The definition of tragedy

When your FAVORITE PEN RUNS OUT OF INK. ): 

For me, seeing this is like a combination of homeless kittens and the day you found out Santa 

wasn't real. Thank goodness I've set aside a portion of my monthly budget for my pens. [: 

{Before you judge me: It's really not that weird if you think about it. Other girls do it for makeup or shoes or some 

other guilty pleasure. I do it for pens, okay? It's cool, trust me.}