My Birthday!

My 19th birthday was yesterday so happy birthday to me! It was a fun time because I celebrated my birthday THREE times this year! If that's not fun idk what is folks lol. The first time was at my house like 2 weeks ago and I had delicious spaghetti and strawberry spinach salad. I also made homemade cupcakes with cloud frosting. Then on the 3rd my parents took me out to eat and bought me groceries and this cool running tank top. Then yesterday on my actual birthday me and my roommates had a party with burgers and a birthday cake because it was chandler's birthday last week. Also Curtis was there to. That's my cousin Holly's friend boy ;) and it was his birthday on the 3rd so we all blew out candles and stuff. BUT stupid Brian, Connor, and Landon came over for burgers and then just left. Like seriously just came for food. Didn't even know we were celebrating anybodies birthday at all even though we told those incredibly idiotic young men about it last week. So yeah no more making food for them because they suck. Also our toilet got clogged and the water ran over the top and got nasty water all over the bathroom floor TWICE. Isn't that a great thing to wake up to at 6:30 in the morning? Finally got the manager over here and he just used our plunger and fixed it in two seconds. What. The. Heck. Also I have washed towels like 5 times today. My bath towel to be exact because that is what that mess got mopped up with. Disgusting. Well I guess being 19 comes with a whole new set of plumbing related struggles lol.

First Week of School!!!

So yeah first week of school what's up with that? I will tell you what is up people. I LOVE this year. My roommates are so great. I have five other people in my apartment beside myself. List time!

Hannah Fjord: She is from Texas but she doesn't really have that much of a southern "drawl" she does however say y'all a lot. She has short brown hair and was sort of prickly at first but once you get to know her she is really sweet and a lot of fun. Plus she always invites football players over because her older brother is on the football team ;) BONUS!!

Chandler Herold: She is from San Diego. She is really easy going and just as easy to talk to. She has long straight blonde hair. (classic cali girl, sooo lucky) she is really fun to hang out with. And pretty dang good at beach volleyball too! (Beach volleyball is serious business folks)

Holly Hillstead: Holly is actually my cousin and my roommate and we are best friends so we are always cracking up about something. She is always ready for an adventure (unless it's after 10:00 we get tired). She is not shy at all and is always 100% herself no matter who she is around. We have the best adventures like trying to find her friend boy's cabin in the wilderness in Cedar. Finding  a bunch of trailers instead of the cabin. Staying up late (so like before 10:00 haha), swapping hilarious stories, and not making waffles because we don't have a waffle iron yet.

Krisha Montgomery: She is really nice and has the most long, luscious, shiny, beautiful, thick hair I have ever seen in my life! She has way cute clothes and laughs at my jokes so in my book that's a total plus lol. She is gone a lot so we don't get to talk very often but she is pretty rad from what I do know of her.

Marissa Robbins: She plays on the SUU girls basketball team! How cool is that?? She is pretty shy and quiet but once you get her talking she is hilarious. Her friend boy off the football team named Gordon is over at our house with her a lot too. He is really funny. I like them both a lot. She makes really good fajitas too!

Those are all my roommates. They are great. We take turns making dinner. So everyone gets some food. Sometimes we even feed the man cave! (the man cave is the boys apartment. They include our friends Brian, Connor, Landon, and Gavin.) They are fun. They taught me how to throw a rugby ball. They play beach volleyball with us. They come hot tubbing with us sometimes. Sometimes the night watch people come hot tubbing with us too. We are really good friends with the night watch guys needless to say. However they do not have tasers. I asked lol. Also sometimes when you are playing in the parking lot you meet REALLY cute guys. And the best news is....no snow yet!!!!! Life is great :)

Books

I love summer because I get to read books just for fun! Not for a college class or assignment where I have to over-analyze everything and don't get to just enjoy the story. That's garbage. I just read a new book that I got yesterday (yes I read all 359 pages in a day and a half don't judge!) but it is a book that has really made me think about the future. Like my family and my future kids and husband. What is it going to be like? Will I say and do the right things? I mean I do not want to be a perfectionist robot but I want to make sure my family has values and that they understand the importance of the values I teach them. I know that I will make mistakes and that they will too, because that is just what happens, but I want them to understand that just because that's who you were yesterday doesn't mean that's who you have to be today. So often I just feel stuck when I make mistakes like there is no coming back from them. I was having a deep discussion about this with one of my best friends and she was like "I feel like I used to be such a good girl and that things would never come to this. But now that I am fixing everything and everything has been forgiven the only person that still judges me is myself. I have to keep reminding myself I am still a good girl whether I make mistakes or not." Mistakes don't change who we truly are they are just a quick detour on the road. Some people just never make it back on the road. And it's thoughts like these that help me to feel better because I really want my kids to be able to look up to me and be able to count on me in the future. 

Reason #219

There are probably a zillion reasons why I am a terrible person. I am too sarcastic to children is probably the   number one reason for sure but I just can't help it. If a three year old insists on asking "Ehrin, What's your name?" fifty times in the space of five minutes. I just can't help it, the sarcasm just flows like an uncontrolled tidal wave. I am also skeptical of so many people. The things they say!! It's like yeah I am just going to go ahead and call BS on that right now. Or people that say they will do things it's like yeah that will happen when pigs sprout wings and take of into a cumulus clouds, do barrel rolls, and then land in my back yard. I am also skeptical of love. I wish I wasn't because it is a real mood killer I have noticed. Like when people are like "oh man I miss my boyfriend I am counting down the days till he gets back from his mission" (this is not referring to Lennyx and Ryan fyi I seriously hope that works out lol.) I just think it probably won't work out. Or people who say they like being single but then throw a big ol' pity party for themselves when dates don't happen. If you were really ok with being single then you wouldn't talk about your dating woes. Because you wouldn't care. It is just hard for me to get excited and care about love and junk when I don't feel that way about anybody. Also I hid healthy things in my families food without their knowledge. I am making them healthy without their consent. If my 2% milk drinking, sugar swilling, butter loving family knew this I am sure they would be horrified but hey that's what terrible people do right?

Accidents!

I feel like my latest blog posts have been seriously un-hilarious in nature and that is highly abnormal for me so sorry! But anyway back to the theme of this post I think I may have accidentally had a mid-life crisis today not that I am in the middle of my life or anything (I hope to live past the age of 36) but I don't know what else to call it so accidental mid-life crisis it is. Let me set the scene for you guys. It is approximately 2:00 in the afternoon it's cloudy outside and I am watching the movie "The Last Song" in our brown la-z-boy chair. AND ACTION!! So the movie was at the part where the kids know the dad is sick with cancer and the little boy is trying to finish the stained glass window before his dad dies because they had been working on it together all summer. And cue the crying lol. Then I got my crisis because I was like I want my dad to last forever! Because I am not finished with this guy yet! And life is so unpredictable and then I started to think what if I never find THE one and die alone and sad! What if. What if. What if. It accidentally  plagues my thoughts sometimes.

Makes Life Harder

So I babysitt this super cute little three year old and her parents are not together and the dad is pretty much a dead beat. Poor little girl huh? The mom doesn't like the dad because he was never there when she was a baby and does pretty much nothing for her. Sure she hangs out with him every once in a while but that's it. He gets to be the "fun parent" every so often then move on with his life. The mom on the other hand works her butt of for this little girl and is working on going back to school so she can better care for her. The dad tells the little girl that her mom is terrible and all this jazz and you can tell it has affected her because she used to run around and love to be busy and play and now she just wants to sit on the porch and wait all day for her mom to get home. Which is really different from the little girl who could hardly sit still last week. I really hope that she takes his buns to court and gets all the rights because seriously who tries to turn a little kid against their mom when you have never been there for her? A psycho. That's who. Lesson learned her peeps get married THEN have kids so you don't have to deal with all this.

Kiddos

Yesterday I taught the 9-10 primary class and they were awful. Like wouldn't listen kept having side conversations and running around the room and playing with their gum. It was horrible. Which is weird because all the kids in the class I know their parents and they definitely should have been better behaved than that. I was talking to my mom about it and my dad and come to find out that every teacher they have had has trouble with them because they simply can't handle doing activities without taking things over the top and being silly.So my dad said he would come with me next week and sit in there if I wanted them. My dad is not some huge guy he is pretty average and skinny and really nice but please believe he can be formidable when he wants to be. But I was stressing about it and said like a zillion prayers last night in my bed because I was really worried and stressing out about it because I need to 1. Get these kids under control because they can't keep running around the room. You can't do that when you get older. 2. They need to learn their scripture stories. I just want to say that if I were their age I would beat them up lol. However I am 18 and I refuse to let these kids get the better of me. I am going to show Ethan Leavitt who is boss because nobody else in his life seems to be able to do so. Stay tuned. I still have 4 more weeks of this business.