Boring generic update on my thrilling life

It's been a good 10 days since I last blogged so I figured everybody was probably itching to catch up with me on what's been going on and who am I to deprive you?
Here's what I've accomplished in the past week and a half:

• Got 83% on my financial management test
• Got 76% on my D&C test (Trust me, it should've been worse)
• Did roughly 35 hours of hard pruning. My job now=my social life
• Multiplied my amount of grocery shopping experience by 3
• Converted Ryan to The Bachelorette

That's about it. I currently have no photographic evidence to support these claims, but it honestly wouldn't have been any more interesting than the blank screen anyway.
I will leave you with this little treasure of a video blogger. Beware of some vulgar language and sexual references.
Also, allow me to refer you to my friend, Celeste's blog for enlightenment on introverts (example: me).
Aaaaand... 2 1/2 more weeks of school for me me mee and then I'm off to Colorado for two months! WOOWOOWOOOWO!

Hey guys! Need an idea for your next date?

Invite a girl over for dinner. When she gets there, show her around and then say, "Now here's the kitchen. Why don't you get started and let me know when it's ready."

I just know I would like that.

Fun Fun Fun Fun

As always, nothing stimulates my blogging quite like the urge to procrastinate. If you read my blogs regularly, you may be noticing a trend. I have some homework for one of my religion classes to do before I go for a leisurely evening jog but I'm not quite ready to make myself read 16 pages so I think I'll put it off just a liiiiittle longer.

It's been a pretty social weekend for me. Friday night I went on a date and had a few firsts: first time frisbee golfing, first time watching The Ring 2, and first time watching Madagascar 2. Not the first time I didn't know what to say when asked what my favorite movie is, what my favorite band is, and what I like to do for fun. It's starting to look like I'm a really narrow, boring person. Also, DEFINITELY not my first time embarrassing myself. This is to be expected. I've embraced it. Still, I had an excellent time.

Saturday my friend and former neighbor, Tim, drove up to hang out with me in Provo. We had a full day of errands and trying to decide what to do. I made him take me to the grocery store where I had my first real personal grocery shopping experience. I was pretty much throwing anything that looked good to me into my basket and then when I got to the checkout, it turned out I had $80 worth of food. Which was a lot to spend on what was supposed to be only a week or two of food and I probably wouldn't get around to eating most of it. (OK, I probably would..) So I had them put a bunch of it back. Which I felt kind of bad about. But I got over it. Then we went to Blockbuster to pick a movie. Being that we are both go-with-the-flow kind of people, making a decision took literally about an hour and a half. One of the guys who worked there finally came up to us and asked if we needed any help. (He wasn't any help.) We decided on The Black Swan. I still don't know how I feel about it. We also watched He's Just Not That Into You, one of the three movies in my DVD collection. Then we went and roasted marshmallows with his brother, Robbie. It was a good time but I got zero homework done. But as you can see, I'm making a real effort to use my time wisely to get caught up on it.

Anyway, that about sums it up. I apologize for my lack of interesting visual aid to go with my stories today. The only documentation I have of mine and Tim's adventures are a picture of Tim wearing my sweatshirt while making an offensive joke:

"You should tell Sammey she should watch this"

and an anticlimactic video of an unaware Amber trying to figure out how to make the most of her meal at Panda Express.

Instead, enjoy this:

Adventures of BYU Grounds Crew

This morning when I woke up, I for the first time since I started spring term wished that working, going to class, studying, and running weren't the only things my days have consisted of for the last two weeks because I really wanted to post a new blog but didn't feel like I had anything to talk about.
As of about 3 hours ago, all that has changed. Allow me to share with the group.

I opened the door of the van to join my colleagues on the BYU Grounds pruning crew for the ride to our work location, and what should greet me but my coworker, Quinn, cutting my other coworker, Max's hair with a pair of office scissors, using a bowl as a guideline for the shape.

Apparently our foreman, Jared, promised Max 3 cake donuts to let Quinn cut his hair in the moving vehicle, and I guess Max couldn't turn down $1.50 worth of donuts. So now the floor of the van is covered in nappy man hair and Max's head looks like this:

I took a video of the actual event, but I guess the file was corrupted. The video of Max's initial reaction to his new haircut is almost as good, though.

Then we stopped at a stoplight which coincidentally was swarming with bees.

Yeah.

Bees.

I don't know if someone smashed a hive or what, but there were bees everywhere smacking against all the windows. Luckily we had unknowingly exchanged our open windows for air conditioning only minutes prior. We were, in Jared's words, "in the middle of an incredible bee storm."

Anyway. I kind of like my job.

Excuses.

Being officially done with my freshman year, I had to move to a new residency for spring term. Enter: me crammed in the back seat of my car with all of my stuff, being careful to avoid getting skewerd by my motley array of hangers.

Judging by my first day of spring classes, it seems that my life is about to get really busy. Therefore I figure I had better update my blog now because I don't think I'm going to have a chance to do it later.
But mostly I just don't feel like going for my run just yet. So instead I'm going to tell you about my schedule.
I deliberately scheduled late afternoon/evening classes so that I could work during the day. I wake up at 7 every morning and go to work until 3. Then I have class from 3 until 7 every night. Once things pick up I will then have to do homework either before or after I go for a run. And that's my day. Every day. Except Fridays. I don't have class on Friday. So I'll just work all day. NO big deal.

I'm actually not complaining though. I'd rather be busy; it helps me feel productive while simultaneously allowing me to avoid things I don't want to think about. I just hope no one expects me to have a social life.

My roommate has still not arrived. I'll give her until this weekend before I take her bed and her drawer space. Also I'm getting a new laptop this week! I'm stoked to finally be able to skype. And open recent documents on a non-ancient computer. And watch DVDs. Not that I'm gonna have time for that, as we have already previously discussed. :)

Let them eat cake

I just got home from my cousin Jenna's wedding reception. It was perfect.

Their cake (which my talented, tireless aunt made) was so cute. Love birds. Agh so clever.

 

I didn't take any more pictures cause I don't like to be quite that open about how much of a stalker I actually am. Just know that the entire event was very well put together and very beautiful, and seeing the two of them so happy was inspiring. They are very much each other's complement.

Now I'm not trying to get married anytime soon or anything, but naturally, witnessing this made me think about my own future. They say you should marry someone with whom you can be "equally yoked." In church, at least once a year since I turned 12, they would make us girls write a list of qualities we wanted in our future husbands. Then they'd say something like, "now read that list, and ask yourself if you possess those qualities, because it's not fair to expect that of someone if you're not working on those things also." I've been thinking about that sort of thing recently more than ever. Up to this point, I haven't been behaving the way I ought to in order to be deserving of the kind of man I want to end up with. I believe everyone deserves to be happy regardless of the mistakes they have made, myself included. However, I know I have a long journey ahead of me and a lot of big changes to make before I can attain the kind of happiness I really want, and I have every intention of doing so, because ultimately I get what I want. I have a tendency of procrastinating the things I need to do, and this is no different. But like always, I will do what needs to be done. Better late than never. I may lose a lot of battles, but I make sure to win the war.

P.S. Here's a pic of me before I left for the wedding. I feel like I haven't put up any flattering pictures of me lately and I just wanted to remind everyone that I don't always look awful.

By the way, happy Easter tomorrow everyone!

The Last Hoorah

My Thursday and Friday, reading days before finals next week, were spent in Deer Valley with my Caroline, Hailey, and Megan. As promised, here's a recap of some of the tomfoolery that went on there.

We stuffed ourselves into the dryers..

Prepared and ate delicious meals such as this one..

Sunbathed on the deck, resulting in this..

 Oh, the usual..

And during one of our late night group binge sessions that we innocently referred to as a pow wow, Caroline wiped whipped cream on my face so I retaliated by throwing a whipped cream-topped giant marshmallow at her, which escalated into a food fight..

..after which we ran downstairs and jumped in the pool.

Not only was the trip a lot of fun, but it was a really good opportunity to look back on freshman year and see how much we all have grown. I'm gonna miss my friends this summer, but I'm so excited to see what comes next.