Can I Just say . . .

How excited I am that this guy made it to the Top 12 for American Idol?



Basically, I'm already in love with him and he's probably my top choice. I don't care that there is still two more weeks before the top 12 is complete . . . Can't argue matters of the heart, right? he he. Seriously though, I thought he had a really great voice and is very talented. I'm really excited about the people who made it into the Top 12 thus far. Though I am somewhat disappointed that this guy didn't get through. haha. He was hilarious.


And is it just me, or does Adam Lambert look like he could fit in with the Jonas Brothers?

Listen to the Prophet!

So I was reading around on some blogs today, and I came across this post: http://segullah.org/small-epiphanies/pharoahs-dream/ . I can't help but post the link because it was so fascinating to me.

After reading that I realized even more how important it is to listen to the Prophet. And now that I look back on conference from last October, I remember how there were so many messages of hope. Nothing really about preparation anymore. I believe it is because the time toprepare has passed...We are in the last days. It's kind of scary, but so exciting at the same time. Little things like this jsut strengthen my testimony of the Prophet even more. Man, I love the Church! Anyways, here's the part from the site that was so amazing. Read on!

"Most likely, you remember this talk of President Hinckley’s, it was just weeks after September 11th, 2001 and given in the Sunday morning session– the session where the prophet speaks to the world. We had a renewed hunger for prophetic counsel that fall and waited eagerly in our homes and halls for his comfort and guidance.

As always, President Hinckley spoke boldly and yet with grandfatherly intimacy. His words echoed our sorrows on the tragedies we’d witnessed and our trepidation of the war to come. And then he said this:

“I do not know what the future holds. I do not wish to sound negative, but I wish to remind you of the warnings of scripture and the teachings of the prophets which we have had constantly before us.

I cannot forget the great lesson of Pharaoh’s dream of the fat and lean kine and of the full and withered stalks of corn.”

You’ll recall Joseph’s interpretation of Pharoah’s dream– 7 years of prosperity in the land followed by 7 years of famine. . . .

Now, you’ll also recall last October– exactly seven years from President Hinckley’s talk– when the stock market suffered it’s largest fall since the Great Depression.

Seven years. To the day.

Now, like President Hinckley, I do not wish to sound negative. I have great confidence in our leaders and in our nation– but I’ll keep my food storage stocked.

And I wonder, as I reflect on President Hinckley’s words, if I take prophetic counsel a bit too casually. Unlike the bellowing doomsayers of the past, our prophets are gentle, kind, even avuncular in their manner. Perhaps I’ve regarded their words as friendly advice rather than divine instruction?"

If you ever doubted my coolness, read on.

Shouldn't I be the spokesperson for Snuggies? If this isn't coverstar . . . I honestly don't know what is. I think I might make an informercial, thoughts?




Not only does it provide warmth and comfort . . . But it helps to soothe the aching heart. Head on over to http://www.snuggiesite.com/x.jytf/x.mjyy/cfrp.html to get yours now. And now, as a limited time offer, you can get TWO for the price of one, plus a handy dandy reading light.

Just as a side note--I wasn't actually crying. This was all part of a scheme we were planning on doing. Unfortunately, it didn't work out, but the picture is priceless!

Thanks Dad for the best present ever!

Going into the REAL world

By the way this is my 100th post. Tomorrow (or the next day) I will totally write 100 random awesome things/memories/pictures. Don't even worry about it. I wouldn't let a momentous day like this pass by.

Well..as real world as Provo gets..and lets be honest, Provo is a bubble. But it's okay. I enjoy this perfect little world where everything is clean and wholesome. I find myself being shocked by things like immodesty, language, etc. moreso than I ever did back home...haha. Anyways, today I signed a lease for off-campus housing next year! As wonderful as on-campus is..with all the great freshman boys..cough..I'm definitely ready to live in the "big kid apartments". Ha ha. I've had several people tell me that they think I'm better suited for off-campus..I'm not really sure how to take that, but I guess we'll see. This housing thing has been quite the ordeal, and I'm just so glad to have everything set in stone. I really am so excited. I'll be living with Cortney, and our long-time friend Rachael, as well as another girl from our stake back home, and two girls from their floor this year, Hilary and Stephanie. I met them and I already think they are awesome :). I'm sad that I won't be really near my roommates from this year, but I know we'll all still be close :) Some friendships are too good to let go of. Anyways, I am going to be living in the Riviera. It's really close to campus..and it's cheap :-) It's kind of Ghetto, but as I told Cortney, we are both pretty Ghetto. I mean, we reside from the Lea-hood..and honestly, does it get any more ghetto than that?! Ha ha. I went over and checked out the apartments with Rachael and the other girls...I asked some random guy if we could see his apartment (okay, he was really cute and I just wanted to talk to him more), and he very graciously showed us his apartment. They are hugeeeee. Much bigger than the Heritage Prison. He he. It'll be really great though. I'm totally excited for this next "chapter" and I know that I'm only in for lots of exciting times and memories. And for all you blog creepers like myself, you'll be SO excited to hear that my future roommies have already begun a blog for all our exciting adventures. I can't tell you how excited I was when they informed me of this. I'll post that link later. But for reals..I can't wait :)

Megan Comes to Provo!

This last weekend my friend Megan came down to Provo to visit. Megan is one of my very best friends, but I haven't seen her since probably like June of last year. It was kind of ridiculous. She is currently going to school at the lesser BYU (Idaho)..just kidding. But really. This last Tuesday she came down to take her brother to the MTC, so she asked if she could stay the night with me! So of course I said yes. I was so excited to see her again!.




Megan and I have been friends since 9th grade or so...It's kind of funny how we first met. I believe it was either the end of 7th or 8th grade, and for some reason, Megan had me sign her yearbook. I can't even remember if I had ever talked to her, or even realized she was Mormon or anything, but I wrote a generic "Hey! I hope you have a great summer. Call me sometime and we'll hang out" and I wrote my number. And for reals, whoever actually calls the numbers? No one..or so I thought. About half way through the summer, I get a call. It was from Megan. Now that I look back, I seem to remember not really even knowing who she was when she called. Anyways, she invited me over, and we hung out. It was odd. We made jam with her mom. When her mom took me home, I tripped out of their van and fell flat on my face outside my house. Haha. I don't think we talked again that summer. Freshman year, when we first started seminary, we became friends. Seminary was definitely interesteing that year (heh...let's just say I'm not an morning person...stories from that year are for another time haha), but we became good friends, and we've been really good friends ever since! From making faces at each other during choir and singing the wrong notes on purpose, late night musical practices, and eating lunch in my car during junior year while listening to the Oldies Stations, to being loud in the library and her deisigning my wedding/bridesmaid dresses, it's been fun. Even though we haven't even seen each other for a long time, we talk pretty much every night and have come to realize we basically live parallel lives. It's great. Needless to say, I was excited for her to come down! I just thought you should all know the background on my amazingly wonderful friend before I wrote about her ngiht down here..On to the point of this.

Meggers came over to Daniel's apartment about 9. It took forever for them to find it, and me and Daniel about froze to death outside waiting for her. After she got here, we hung out with Daniel, Jared, and James (two of daniel's roommates), and eventually went over to the Stadium Terrace Club House. There, we were forced (I mean, invited) to say some barbershop tags with Daniel and his roommates. Last time this was attempted, I was intimidated almost to the point of death, and pretty much refuseed to sing at all. Fortunately this time, Megan was here, so I had a bit more courage. It was pretty fun though. Afterwards we came back to my apartment.

Meggers, Andrea, and I went to the creamery to eat "brocolli", and had a great time. This couple in front front of us (actually, I'm not entirerly sure they were a couple), were talking about making out right in the lne. Actually, it was the guy that said that. The girl was entirerly embarassed. I laughed. It was highly entertaining. The "brocolli" sure was delicious.

Then we came back to my apartment. Where the real fun began. Megan and Andrea stole my computer, attempted to ruin my life, but fortunately, I don't think too much harm was done. During the process, megan wrote/sang some beautiful songs on my guitar, but because of the content of these songs (don't worry, it's not innappropriate in the least. I'm just protecting my image and avoiding embarrasing situations), I will not be posting these.  We were definitely way hyper..and it was great. While going through my door, we found two boxes of bottle caps. I had already eaten the only colors I like (red and orange), so I shared em with my roommates and megan. it was pretty great. Lets see...Just had some fun times..HEre are some pictures. unfortunately I did not take any pictures of me and megan..but my excuse for that is because my camera's battery died pretty early on and i discovered I had lost my charger. Sad, I know. 

No..I really wasn't eating them. haha. Like I mentioned..all the good ones were gone

She, on the other hand, inhalled all the nasty brown ones. 
She's basically famous. No joke. 
Oh Lindsay, you're beautiful. 
I only wish I knew how to play the guitar well. So far the only thing I have been able to do well is the saints go marching in. My talent ends there. 

Ruining my life, yes? 
Megan actually knew how to play a few songs. 

McKenzie is just too cute.

Megan and I stayed up til about 4:00. we watched "I eat 30,000 calories a day" and the primordial dwarf show. It was awesome. I think the last 20 minutes of our conversation was pretty much a bunch of mumbles. 

Megan is great. I'm glad she came down to visit and I can't wait to see her again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool Website!

So awhile back I came across this cool website called Big Oven. It's this recipe generator thing, where you put in up to three ingredients you have in your pantry/fridge/etc. and it comes up with recipes you could make with them! I've used it a couple of times and it usually comes up with some pretty yummy recipes! Daniel made this really good Mexican chicken casserole with a recipe from there, and it definitely turned out good! It also has an option to type in leftovers you have to create a new recipe :) Also, as I was searching through some random recipe blogs today, I came acorss this one: http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/ . There's only a few pages of recipes, but this is one of the first recipe blogs I've come across that I really like all the recipes, and they seem relatively easy. I'm definitely planning on making this sometime this week! If anyone knows of any good recipe blogs, let me know. I like finding new recipes.

An Update

So even though it's a month in the semester, I have no exciting stories to tell. No pictures either. Weird, I know. I need to whip out my camera more often..haha. I'm still working on a blog from Christmas (I know you have all been religiously checking back every day for it). Let's see. Since I always like to illustrate my posts with pictures..Here's a description of my life the past few weeks. (Obviously, none of these pictures are too recent..well, not recent within the past few weeks. I thought they represented my life well though. )


You've seen this picture before on a blog..but it's the only legitimate picture I have of me sleeping. Weird, I know, who doesn't have thousands of pictures of them sleeping? haha. i sleep. Well, when I can. I wish I could do it more. For a dreamer...sleeps the only time of day..haha just kidding. I think that's from a song.



American Idol. Need I say more? Probably. LOVE it. My brother lets me watch it at his apartment, and he gives me good food. It's a great deal. About the only social experience I've had the past few weeks..haha.
No, this isn't me. But this is pretty much what I look like when I'm at work. Except I'm smiling. Smilings my favorite! (name the movie!) And my desk is much cooler than this. but yes. 15 hours a week, this is what I do. Love it.
Those of you who went to/go to BYU will recognize this place...The testing center. last week i went there far too many times. I decided I should boycott testing for the rest of the semester. Good idea right? That'll teach all my professors not to give out tests!
This kind of goes along with the American Idol. Daniel makes good food. Then sometimes I make good food (even if some people thinks it looks nasty). I love to cook. Yay. (Shouldn't this picture be on the cover of some food network show? I think so. mainly cuz i like my hair)
I call my mom lots. I'm cool, I know.

And I bake cookies/bread. Unfortunately since I'm trying to avoid sweets this month, I haven't been able to make cookies like the one in this picture. I made bread though. Do you think Banana bread counts as a sweet? I don't think so. Because the bananas cancel out all the bad stuff. Thats how i justfied eating pineapple cookies. Fruit makes everything better.

I curl my hair. And unlike some people coughchristiecough, I just do it because I like how it looks, not because I'm trying to impress a boy ;-) hehe just kidding coughChristiecough

I talk to my friend Megan. haha. She's in Idaho so it's sad. But she is coming down Tuesday!!!! Yay!!1

(and yes, i talk to other friends too. Despite contrary belief, I DO have friends! haha)

I don't feel like putting up anymore pictures, mainly cuz I'm lazy, but yep. That's my life.

oh yeah. I go to classes too. And have recently realized how much I love teddy grahams. Nilla and teddy graham parties are the best!

OOH. Just in case anyone wants a good show to watch, Lie to Me on Fox is soo good. I defintiely recommend it :) it's on wednesdays at 8!

The End.

Some people dream of being a Super Hero

I, on the other hand, have another secret ambition in life. Today in Relief Society, our wonderful President, Cali, asked anyone who wanted to share some kind of goal or ambition that they want. It could be anything silly or serious, but it was interesting to hear some people. One girl who I think is absolutely hilarious, said that she wished she could be a dinosaur (kind of like my elephant phase!), but when she realized she couldn't be, she changed her goal to a race car driver. I didn't raise my hand, because I didn't really have anything to share, but just as soon as that part of the lesson was over, I realized what I should have said.


I want to go to Culinary School.

And after succeeding there, go on to compete on one of my favorite shows: Win it.
And get my own cooking show on the Food Network.
For reals. How cool would that be? Cooking is one of those things that I really love and think I'm at least relatively decent at. What would be cooler than having a cooking show, where I don't have to pay for ANY of the ingredients, and get to work in an incredibly awesome kitchen?

Yes. This is pretty far-fetched. Like I will ever even go to culinary school. Maybe someday when I'm old. Until then, I'll just keep experimenting..Heck, I honestly would love to have a catering business someday, for like weddings. Maybe that'll happen!

As for right now...

I totally found this awesome free online culinary school. haha

http://freeculinaryschool.com/

I'm doing it.

And also, I realized this too late, but BYU periodically offers cake decorating classes. Umm..yes! I'm too late to sign up this time, but I think next time it is offered, I totally am doing it.

Wow. I"m such a nerd.

But yep. That's my secret desire.

To be Food Network's Next Star.

Kelsey Nixon..THe girl on it from last year who attended BYU? Basically my idol.

NOt really, but seriously, she's so lucky. She got to have her own cooking show at BYU. I want that! Here's her website with some of the braodcasts she did: http://www.kelseyskitchen.com/

So for awhile this afternoon, I googled awesome kitchens. In my house one day, I will have one of those amazing kitchens. Seriously, I don't care what the rest of my house looks like..as long as I have a really cool kitchen. Whenever I go to Kohls or Target or anything, my favorite section is the cooking section..all the gadgets, tools, cookbooks, decorations..I love it! I could literally spend hours there. Nerdy, yes. But there is some really cool stuff there! One day though..you'll see..I'll have a great kitchen :-D

Well, on another note. Andrea and I have decided to designate February (cept for Valentines Day..Her boyfriend will be visiting and they will likely get some kind of desert..and Me..Well, I'll be wallowing in self pity because I have no one to love, so I'll probably go by a bunch of candy and ice cream and sugary goodness like that. Nothing makes a person feel better than Chocolate..However, anyone out there who secretly admires me, feel free to send me flowers and chocolate, telling me how much you love me--wow, holy tangent there), as "No-Sweets February". Hardest. Thing. EVER. And it's only the first day of the month. Especialy those yummy cookies that are on the counter that I made yesterday (good recipe--I just posted it on my cooking blog, along with Kristalyn's yummy Pesto Pizza recipe!. German Chocolate Cake Mix, chocolate chips, andes mints, and butterscotch chips..yum!) are just calling my name. But I've been strong. I ended up making some of my yummy wheat bread and putting jam on it, just so I could have something that had a little smidgen of yummy goodness on it. Haha. Wish me luck!