Plane Tickets, a Mission, and much more!

I've been meaning to write a post all week, and somehow it just hasn't happened.  A lot's been going on, but whenever I think about blogging I haven't been in the mood to actually write, so I didn't.  I'm not entirely in a mood to write now, or at least about what I'd really like to write about, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

For FHE on Monday we made balloon animals, which was hilarious.  Needless to say, I'm not blessed with a talent for balloon animals.

I had a lovely physiology test on Thursday. I think it went okay, but I don't have my score back yet :(

WE HAVE PLANE TICKETS TO CONNECTICUT!!! For the past two weeks I've been looking at flight prices everyday.  Usually they were $400 - $500, which is higher than we wanted to pay.  Then on Thursday after my test I decided to check prices before going to work, and I found them for $326 including taxes and fees! I was so excited! It ended up being $74 cheaper to stay a day longer, so now we'll be back east from June 27th to July 6th. We're going to spend 3 days in NYC and got to Boston for the 4th of July :) I'm so stinkin' excited!

Wednesday Steph, Rachelle, Rachel, Heidi and I went to El Toro for dinner.  Everything was awesome.  They have the best chips and salsa ever, but it can actually be quite dangerous.  Steph broke one of her chips in half, but a small piece flew and landed on her eye.  She freaked out until Heidi got it out for her, which was quite hysterical to watch.

OH!  I can't believe I haven't said this yet, but Jordan got his mission call!!!! Little Jordan! I swear he's not old enough!  Jordan has been called to serve in the West Virginia Charleston Mission. He leaves June 1st! It's so crazy! He's way excited, and I know it's going to be so good for him.

Jordan and I when he was two days old.  When did we all get so grown up?

Friday was a pretty eventful day.  That afternoon I helped Heidi make hair pieces for her dance class, and then we went swimming in the hyper.  Mark, Cody, Stephanie, Rachel, Caleb, Daniel, Kathy, Andrew and I all went.  It was tons of fun.  After swimming we ate dinner at Arctic Circle.  We then met up with three of Mark's friends, and went to play sardines at the FAC.  IT was so much fun, but very tiring.  Steph, Rachelle, and Rachel wanted to leave earlier, but Steph needed to take Cody with her.  Instead of making him leave, he ended up sleeping over at M4, which I'm sure was an adventure :)

When we got back to the apartment we were greeted with a ridiculously loud dance party going on in the p-lounge.  You could practically feel it in our apartment.  It was 12:30 am, and there was no way we were going to be able to sleep with the noise.  The party didn't have great music either, and the feeling wasn't particularly great.  Asking them to turn down or off the music didn't stand a chance of working, so I jokingly said we should go flip the breaker.  "Hey, Stacy knows how to do that!" Rachelle said, so we called Stacy.  She told us how to flip it, and we decided it would be worth it.  We ran over to the breaker, and Rachelle actually flipped it! The music shut off instantly, people screamed and complained, and we ran back really fast :) Amazingly they didn't turn the music back on! VICTORY!!! We felt very accomplished.

Saturday morning I had breakfast with Cody, Mark, and Daniel.  We made waffles and bacon, and then went to choir practice.  I then did a lot of random things while procrastinating my homework.  That evening we made a trip to Wal*Mart and then went out to my house.  We made the best three pizzas ever.  Seriously, we should open a pizza parlor.  We then played pool and had chocolate strawberry shakes.  After that we watched Harry Potter 7, which was a lot slower and longer than I remembered.  Mark, Adam, Preston, Steph, Kathy, Todd, Daniel, and Caleb were all there.  My dad commented that the girls were greatly outnumbered.  I'm failing to see why this is a bad thing :)

Today Church was really good.  In Sacrament meeting five guys with their mission calls all spoke, and they all did an awesome job.  They're seriously going to make amazing missionaries.  We also had a linger which is always fun.  Next Sunday is Easter, and I get the opportunity to speak in church . . . I should really start on my talk now instead of procrastinating as usual.

So the guy I kind of wrote on his mission (he's also the guy I've been on the most dates with ever) got engaged this week. He's been at school for a total of one semester.  It doesn't bother me that he's engaged, I decided months ago that I don't like him like that, but it's just weird.  It's weird because he's younger than me, and it all seemed to happen so fast.  I swear, everyone's getting married and having kids, and I'm just chillin' here by myself.

So, there are three weeks left of school, and that's including finals week. Where in the world did the semester go?  I love my ward, my roommates, my classes, and my friends sooooo much, it makes me want to cry thinking it's all going to be over.  I know I'll still have my friends, but it's never going to be the same.  I'm not ready to leave behind everything that I have right now.  I don't want things to change.  I really feel like everything is rushing past me and I'm still just standing here, and all I want to do is just make it slow down for just a second - like everyone else is moving forward, and I'm still here, trying to catch up and breathe again.  When I think about it it's overwhelming, and I feel like I just need to anchor myself to something . . . I don't know what's going to happen next, and it scares me to death.

I have a lot of other thoughts running through my head right now, but none of which I really feel like publishing on the Internet for anyone to see.  I should really have a good girl chat. (*hint - Kaylee, that's for you!*)