reminiscing.

so while rummaging around in my closet at my parents' house, i found my senior prom dress. i find really funny things in this closet.

so i tried on my dress. it still fits.


so i still love my dress. i still never want to go back to high school.

aah i'm prom queen all over again!
barf.

december.

i've tried to block out the first half of december from my mind as much as possible, because in all honesty the last two weeks of school are terrible because teachers think it's really cute and fun to tack on all sorts of projects and papers before the semester ends, and then tell you to go study for your finals after you kill yourself trying to turn it all in. i swear, even though i go to BYU, i wonder sometimes if these professors have contracts with satan.

however, in the midst of all this weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, there was time for some fun. my roommate lindsay's birthday was on the 5th, so we let her pick anything she wanted to do...and then we did it. this included eating at a taiwanese restaurant where grace and i tried out the only two phrases we know in chinese (taught to us by lindsay, tried out on the restaurant owner): "hey there handsome!" and "i love you." both of which got slightly confused (but i think secretly pleased) reactions from the man.

lindsay+brother sean
exhibit a: amy and matthew, nicely posing for a picture.

exhibit b: grace and phil, not.


in an attempt to bring some christmas spirit into our apartment, amandine and i borrowed a...rather THE christmas tree from our apartment complex's common room and put it in our living room. look how we glow with christmas cheer!

we eventually returned it. mostly because we were forced. bahhumbug.

then grace, amandine, and i gave each other presents.


yay christmas!

november.

so...i haven't posted since i had kidney stones. perhaps you all thought i was dead. i'm not, i'm just a terrible blogger. so here you go: recap of november.

1. THANKSGIVING: while the journey started out extremely traumatizing (i.e. my car broke down on the freeway, cue frantic calling, hysterical laughter, and eventual return to provo), we eventually got a rental car and recommenced the journey. we being myself and my roommate Amandine who is from FRANCE! i wanted to give her the experience of an authentic american thanksgiving. i had to explain that car failure was not typically part of the tradition.

thanksgiving mainly consisted of two things: turkey, and baby zoey.

she usually wears clothes, but obviously prefers nudity.

did i mention that in the car confusion, my make-up bag and curling iron got left in provo? thanksgiving au natural!

the turkey weekend also including what i like to call "introducing amandine to nature's wonders extravagaaaanzaaaa!" a little long, but accurate in its description. my dad took us girls out into the desert for a day of geocaching. and amandine met cactus.



then we took her to shoot guns. the french girl. who has never touched a gun in her anti-gun french life.

she likes it, mikey!

just look at that hyperextension.

we then had to bid farewell to the beautiful arizona sun and sky (and my family), and head back to provo for two and a half weeks of cruel and unusual punishment.