5/14/18

Started my packing tonight. Stuff’s gettin’ real.

I listened to a lot of T-Swizz today in prep for my next eighteen months being Taylor Swift deprived.

5/12/18

The amount of exhaustion I currently feel is inhumane.

5/11/18

I’m having a “sleepover” with Megan meaning that we watched a movie together and now she’s asleep on a futon on my bedroom floor.

I made cookies! :)

5/10/18

Good news: I only stayed up until 11:30 reading, which is significantly better than the previous 3:00 am ish.

Today I was getting a few things from Walmart and ran into Kassidy who is going to my same mission but Spanish speaking and will be there only two months after me!

I watched Abbey’s full run through dress rehearsal of her play because I won’t be able to watch their opening night due to the fact that it’s the day after I enter the MTC. She’s just so gorgeous and talented and is so at peace on a stage. I love her lots.

5/9/18

By now we should all know that I’m a sucker for a good book right? So I stayed up until now to finish one. But the author decided to be a total jerk and kill off my favorite character and I actually cried a little and then the next chapter was like “Just kidding! He’s actually alive because he was saved in some complicated way. Sorry not sorry that you just cried your guts out.” I’m still a little shaken up if we’re gonna be honest.

5/8/18

Today Rachael briefly thought that Peru was located in Mexico. Also we got to ride around in the back of a truck at 9:30ish at night. I felt like a cool kid in a movie. (Rachael tried to jump off from the wheel and ended up falling onto the road which was super funny.)

5/7/18

I know I just talked about naps but I honestly want to take them more and more with every day.

5/6/18

If I had to pick a super power that doesn’t affect anyone else in any way, I would choose to be able to freeze time. However the only thing I can do when time is frozen is take a nap.

5/5/18

I had crepes for breakfast and soup for dinner and I got to hold puppies in between. So an overall good day.

5/4/18

Liz and I got through baptism at the temple in like forty minutes today and it was awesome.

Rachel, Mary, Meg, and I watched Penelope at Mary's house tonight because I leave so soon and it will be quite a while before we can all hang out again.

5/2/18

I have a serious addiction to books. If I get roped into one I will stay up till dawn to finish it. I make it worse for myself though by checking out Series. So the first book ends in a cliffhanger and I can’t help but start the next book that’s right there on the edge of my bed waiting for me to read it. My mother would be so disappointed if she knew I stayed up until 3:00 to finish the first book and then get over a hundred pages through the second book. Hopefully she never reads this and thus will never know.

5/1/18

Today I spent pretty much all day with my mom. We went shopping all over Provo to try and find outfits for everyone for family photos and I may be bias, but our color scheme is awesome and we are all gonna look great. My dresses for my mission were finally finished today so we got to pick those up.

We ate dinner at this place called Tsunami and we just bought edamame, gyoza, and rice because we were both feeling gyoza but neither of us were feeling sushi. (Just so you know, the gyoza tastes better at Nori.) Then we saw The Labyrinth in theatres because it’s came back for three nights only and it’s my favorite movie of all time so OBVIOUSLY I bought tickets as soon as I heard about it. (We actually ended up sitting two seats down from the seats I’d bought specifically because they were smack dab in the middle. Some other people sat in our seats and my mom decided to let them stay there so by the time I’d walked in it was already decided.) I’m still just really happy though.

They had this story clip at the beginning (sorta like a pixar short but longer.) It was about this guy who owned a glass that, when he held it up to a person, he could see Death in. If Death was going to claim the soul, he would stay in the glass. If not, he would walk away. One day he finds out that the Tzar is dying. Death doesn’t leave the glass, so the guy tells Death to take him in exchange for the Tzar. We skip to the guy lying in a bed, looking through the glass and seeing Death looking back. He then pulls out a sack and manages to trap Death. He hides Death away and is at first a hero because now nobody can die. But the years go on and groups of old and weary souls gather outside his house, begging for him to free Death so that they may move on. Unable to bear seeing their pain, he takes the sack from where he hid it and opens it so that Death may return. He tells Death that he can now take his life to fulfill the exchange for the Tzar. But Death has become terrified of him and refuses to take him. He is condemned to a life full of watching others grow old and die but never being able to do so himself. After decades and decades he finds his way to Hell and begs them to take him, but upon seeing the sack they refuse. He tells them that he will not leave until they give him a map to heaven and two hundred souls to present at the pearly white gates. He finally gets there, and is still turned away despite his giving Heaven two hundred souls. In the end, the man still roams the Earth wishing for Death to come to him.