11/29/20

Whenever I'm at home and Adam knows I'm visiting he will bring me home a giant Wendy's strawberry lemonade and it's the best thing. I love him so much.

Also today I went to Em's house and hung out with her and Josh and then Abbey texted me asking for some homework help so I left early and grabbed some Crumbl cookies on my way out and ate them with Abbey while we did some math stuff and it was just so fun actually! I just love my siblings. SO MUCH!

11/26/20

 This Thanksgiving was seriously lowkey. A lot of things this year have been super lowkey but I think it's been a good thing. It's helped to really focus on family. It's such a cliché statement but the tough times have really helped to hone in and focus on what is most important and I'm grateful for that. Especially with President Nelson's challenge to #GiveThanks I've been able to really reflect on the people in my life that make my life so much better and it's honestly warmed my heart to realize what phenomenal people I've been blessed with. 

11/25/20

 The day started out a little rough but ended really really good! I drove home today and before leaving I was going to donate plasma and there was a bonus on your second donation since it's Thanksgiving week. But I ended up eating breakfast way late because I'd gone to tutoring early only to discover they were actually closed so I figured I would just wait ten minutes at the MC and then get Chick-Fil-A when they opened at ten but then I realized a little too late that they weren't actually going to open today so I booked it to TacoTime and got some crisp meat burritos and literally inhaled them on my way to the plasma center. Then I couldn't even donate because my protein levels were low so that wasn't ideal. Once I finally started driving I accidentally took a wrong turn that forced me to drive in the opposite direction for about twenty minutes before I could turn around and drive another twenty minutes back to where I was supposed to turn and there was just a series of unfortunate events (in all reality it was actually just a series of minor inconveniences that I was not in the mood to deal with.) 

The good part though: I met up with Douglas Proctor again! We planned to meet up but didn't have a specific place yet and my internet connection has been having issues lately and so when I tried to message him on messenger it wouldn't go through and I ended up having to call my dad ask him to sign into my facebook and send him a message explaining that it wasn't working and that I'd actually need him to text me. I had my dad send my phone number over to him and it ended up all working out well. 

We met up at a park but I had accidentally parked on the opposite side so he just walked across the park to meet up with me. We didn't have much of a plan in place. He said he had originally planned to bring a frisbee but he left it in Logan and that worked out because the only shoes I had were heels. He threw out some ideas and one of them was the Living Planet Aquarium and I got really excited since I hadn't been there for a while so we went!

This is turning out to be a long post but it was a long day so we're just gonna go with it. Anyway, we drove in my car to the aquarium, which wasn't too far from the park. And holy cow I had so much fun. There was only an hour and a half until they closed so we semi sped walked through each of the areas and made jokes about fish being named "least chub" and I commented on how mesmerizing jellyfish were. We barely made it through everything before they closed. Afterwards I was just going to drop him off at his car but before we got there he asked if I wanted to go an get some pretzel bites at the mall nearby. So we diverted to the mall and got some pretzel bites and drove back to the park and ate them and talked in my car for another little while until finally he had to go if he wanted to have enough time to finish his homework. I had a lot of fun and it was definitely a great way to end off a day that had started not the greatest. 

11/14/20

 Wedding dress shopping day! I actually spent the night Friday since Derity's first appointment was early this morning. Not too early though because we ended up having time to go to an estate sale and I have learned that I'm not a huge fan of those. They sound kind of cool but I felt so intrusive like I was invading the life of this person who had passed away and that made me a particularly odd type of uncomfortable. The wedding dress shopping was fun though! Derity had three appointments set up for today and she found the dress she wanted at her second appointment so she let me try on wedding dresses at the third one and I lowkey felt like a princess and it was great. Here is a photo of the one she chose and also a video of me walking around looking dope in a wedding dress and also a photo of me in a wedding dress because why not?

11/12/20

 So. DERITY IS ENGAGED. She just texted me about it today! Apparently they have been planning it for a while now so she actually already has appointments for wedding dress shopping this weekend so that's what I'll be doing all day Saturday! I'm super excited! And Derity seems really happy so I'm excited for her! I'll make sure to include a photo of whatever she ends up getting on Saturday!

Also Macy filmed a slo-mo video of me letting my hair fall loose and it's so funny so I'm including it here:

11/09/20

 I drove back to Idaho today. I actually stopped in Logan to go out to lunch with an Elder from my mission, Elder Proctor. Except he isn't an Elder anymore so I can't really call him that. But it still seems weird to call him by his first name. Anyway, we got sushi! And it was like ridiculously good sushi. We met up at the sushi place but they didn't have dine in so we got in Douglas's car (see, that just felt strange to type out) and drove to a nearby park to eat the sushi. By the time we were done though I was absolutely freezing so I asked if we could sit in his car instead. So we did and it was fun. We chatted for a long while. I say 'we' but I worry I maybe talked a little too much haha. He told me this story about the nightmare of him and his brother trying to get home from a trip to Japan and I'm still laughing about it a little bit. I don't think anybody could be the amount of terrible layovers he had to endure. I swear it could have been one of Lemony Snicket's books because the whole thing was just a series of unfortunate events haha!

11/07/20

 Today I went out with Em and Josh! We got some food at Culvers and then all went back to Em's place and chatted a little. It was fun! I genuinely enjoy spending time with them. It's nice because they're very good at making me not feel third wheeled and I feel like I'm actually friends with both of them, not just with Em. He's really good for her and I'm so glad they found each other. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they got married next year.

Also: I took a calculus test today and did super bad so that was fun. 

11/05/20

 We drove back home today. We went to a fancy hotel across the street (which Mom and Dad want to try and stay in next time since it's actually very similar pricing) and played some mini golf there. Then we stopped at the University Mall in Provo and ate lunch in their food court. (Most of us got Chick Fil A) Megan needed to get her braces looked at since a wire was poking out so she and Mom went and did that while the rest of us stayed in the mall and looked around. It was a pretty chill day and overall a very fun trip. I'm grateful I got to be a part of it!

11/04/20

 We got to tour a dairy farm and it was actually really fun and really cool! Dad totally geeked out about it. With all the technological advances there are 3 people primarily in charge of 500 cows. They have these automatic milking robots that gather and collect data and then do some predictive analysis (which I actually thought was super legit.) They also have artificial insemination and selective breeding in order to get the best cows. There's this whole algorithm that takes info about all the cows and tells you which bull sperm to use to inseminate which cow in order to get the traits you want. It's legit wild. We also got to play with some calves and I let one suck on my fingers and it felt so strange and was super slobbery but still fun haha! I caught this gem on camera of a cow trying to lick me: 

11/03/20

 We got to go swimming in the crater at the Homestead tonight! I've wanted to do that for such a long time now so it was so fun to get to do it! The whole family went except for Alicia because she got freaked out that there would be sharks in it haha. Afterwards we went to the actual swimming pool and Mom and I left after everybody else and so we walked around together for a little while and just talked. It was really really nice.

11/02/20

 We started our trip today! We got to the Homestead and had a few issues with some bugs haha! There were quite a few in the hotel room and all the girls freaked out about it. Megan even asked to switch sides on the bed in order to be further from the window (where several bugs were found.) We also went shopping at the Park City Outlets and I paired up with Rachel and we both are super meticulous about making sure we buy things we really want so we took forever. We still hadn't spent anything by the time everybody else was finished spending everything. We ended up each getting a pair of high waisted jeans from American Eagle. I also ended up getting two sweaters from Old Navy (go figure haha) and some face masks from Old Navy as well to use for work. It was a pretty good day overall!