I am single...

Those who know my current dating situation have been telling me to kick him out of my life for about 6+ months. Today it happened. I dumped his sorry butt today. It was hard, but it is done. I'm officially single and I have no prospects. Nor do I want any.

Apartment to Myself...OH! And a Job!!!

First things first. Living alone is AMAZING! Don't tell my roommates I said that, but it's so true. It's nice to have everything exactly where you want it and to not have to worry about who's dirty dishes are sitting out. THEY ARE YOURS! HA!

This week is Spring Break. Yes, Spring Break and I'm spending it alone. My roommates are all gone. One is only an hour and a half away. One in Colorado. Two in Washington (one of which I've never met). And one in St. Louis! But yes. This is my first living alone. It's nice. I can just do whatever. Watch whatever. Walk around naked (If I so choose. I don't think I'm quite at that stage yet. It was just funny to say. HA!). Anyway...I wish BYU-Idaho would let people live by themselves. It would be FABULOUS!

Now, onto the reason I am alone during Spring Break. I HAVE A JOB! Yes...a JOB! J-O-B. Can you tell I'm excited? It's because I am. I have not had a job since my senior year of high school. I know...I'm such a mooch. I have amazing, AMAZING parents who have been supporting me while in school, but I need to not depend on them so much. I got a job during finals week of all times. I know what you're thinking. "Well that was dumb!" And it kinda was. Nothing to too bad. Just a little bit more stressful. Luckily I was very well prepared for my finals so I didn't really worry. It was more of a time issue than anything. My last day of classes before finals went something like this...back to back. Class, homework, class, work, study group, test, study, sleep. Starting at 9 in the morning and finishing at 9 at night. Time crunch! Oh well. I obviously made it through! No harm done.

Now, you are probably wondering what I'm doing for this mystery job. (And if you're not, I'm telling you anyway, so HA!) I work at a daycare! The kids are great! I work with 3-4 year old kids. They are, usually, well behaved. I only have a problem with a couple on a regular basis. The rest of the time they are great. I have 12 of them in my classroom. This job has also made me realize I DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, want to teach 1st grade or higher. They are so much harder to deal with! And they are so incredibly sassy! I actually got told today that "adults don't understand." It was shocking to me! I've never been the lame adult who just classifies kids as kids and then ignores them, but today I was. Sad huh? I'm only 20! Oh well. They were acting younger than my normal class. If they had bedrooms, I would've sent them each to separate rooms so I wouldn't have to hear them cry. They were both in elementary school! Ah! Anyway, that's my job. I love it. I'm learning what to do in the baby room tomorrow! I'm excited. My baby withdrawal is going to be cured through this job. I just know it.

Now you're all updated. (For the at most 5 people that read my blog!)
Love you all!

New Hair!

I have new hair! Yes, it's true. I have gone away from my usual hair cut of just getting layers! I now have swoopy bangs! Here are some pictures. I wanted to get my hair cut shorter after it was done, but she said it would be harder to do that since it was all dry.

*Note: For my family, I apologize because I am not smiling. I hate my fake smile! But I did put a semi-smile-ish one up.

I've Done Something New!

I went rock climbing last night for the first time ever. No pictures sadly...but hopefully I will be going again soon and I will definitely take some! I got all the way to the top and I rang the bell. I tried doing a harder course about a half hour later, but I apparently have no upper body strength. Next time I'll make it to the top though...next time...

Nothing Happening!

Depressing...right? I know, I know. I'm sure there is more happening in my life, but it's not blog worthy. I'm currently on campus working on homework. I really am, I promise. I'm listening to NPR about Sayyid Qutb for my Middle East class. It's a really interesting class, but I'm not sure what I'm listening to. I think I'll understand more tomorrow when I get into class. So see...you can blog and do homework all at the same time! haha.

One thing that has happened...I went to Boise, ID this Valentines weekend. It was way fun! I went and saw one of my best friends, Lance. He's living at his parents right now until the spring semester starts in April. Anyway, I got there right as they were about to do chores. "Chores?" you may ask. Yes, chores. His parents own a bunch of cattle and so they take about 6 hours a day taking care of them. I was supposedly getting Lance out of chores, but that didn't happen. I got to help though! It was actually kinda fun! I was driving around on a 4-wheeler helping. And I was holding Lance's little brother (6 months old) while we were riding around as well. I was so scared I was going to drop him or something, but I didn't. I held the baby while Lance drove and everything worked out fine! It was a lot of fun, and BONUS! I got out of Rexburg for 2 days.

The semester is halfway over! Can you believe it? I feel like I just got here. I'm kinda glad that it's halfway over. One roommate is driving CRAZY! AH! Other than that though, things are great. I'll try and take pictures of things going on here at school. No worries. But, here's one!

College food gets old. Hotpockets, taquitos, and such, so I threw this together one night after one of my friends yelled at me for not eating well and taking care of myself. Turned out well. I was impressed with myself.

And this is my lovely roommate singing. She says she gets bored when she showers...so she sings. Sometimes rather loud....haha. Hopefully she doesn't find out I posted this...she'd kill me.

2 More Days Until I'm Free!

I love Rexburg. Don't get me wrong. It's one of my favorite places. And having a car this semester has helped tremendously with the feeling of not wanting to be here, but...yes there is a but. I have been going crazy. Why is it that I have more drama here at college than I did in high school? Is that really how it is supposed to be? I was always under the impression that high school was the drama infested stage of life. Apparently not. I'm excited to leave and get out.

As for what I'm doing. Hmm. It's new and exciting! I'm not going to Utah for Thanksgiving like I did last year. I'm going to Washington! In Tacoma to be exact. It's right outside Seattle apparently. I don't know. I've never been there.


Two of my roommates are from there and my twin, Katie (below), invited me to go home with her for Thanksgiving. I'm way excited! I've never been farther west than Rexburg, so it will be fun. We'll be leaving on Friday at 1 after our classes. We're planning on driving straight through which would land us there at about 1am. This is only if the passes are clear and safe enough to drive through at night. It could get kind of dangerous because no one else will be up there at that time of night. Hopefully cellphones will work up there. We are bringing lots of blankets just in case something does happen and we end up breaking down or something.



So now in case you're wondering why I called Katie my twin. There are a few different reasons.
1. We have the same name. We both go by "Kate" and "Katie".
2. On top of that, we have the exact same initials. KEW.
3. We, obviously by the picture, have the same sort of personality.
4. We both say a lot of the same things...and if we didn't, we have picked up on sayings that each other say.
5. We have the same temperment. Kind of amusing actually.
and...
6. We both say really stupid things quite often. We're both on the quote wall for many of these occurances.

While we're at her house, things will get kind of confusing. Here at school she goes by Katie while I go by Kate. At home, however, she goes by Kate. So there will be Kate and Kate. ha. I'm excited. It will be fun.

We will document the road trip, hopefully I'll put pictures up. If not, check my facebook. They will get there sooner than on here.

Have a good Turkey Day! Gobble Gobble!

Halloween!

Halloween...oh what a fun day! Friday night we carved pumpkins. Ours was the best. I don't have a picture of Amanda and Brent's pumpkin, but just know ours was amazing. It was supposed to be Pumpkin Frankinstein. It didn't turn out like that, but it still looked pretty cool.

Katie with our pumpkin

Rolando w/ our pumpkin

A normal picture

Katie and I with our pumpkin representing the fish ladies (We decided not to be cat ladies. Too much fur to clean up, haha.)

On Halloween, I spent part of it at my apartment watching NCIS and then I finally got up the energy to go to the library to do my homework. You all would be proud. I've been working really hard at not doing homework on Sunday's (my Religion class doesn't count...it's religion on Sunday...that's how it should be) so I've been going to the library so my amazingly fun, yet distracting roommates won't be able to distract me. After that, we went to dinner, kinda in a triple date, and then went to a Haunted House. It was fun. I got scared, screamed often, and had a blast. When we got home, we played games. It was fun.