finger waves

yesterday, my most amazing friend, emily, asked if i could do her hair for a murder mystery dinner she and her roommates are having at their house tonight. because i love doing hair, i agreed. the only problem was that she is supposed to be a '20s lounge singer sort of person and i've never done that style of hair before.

so last night around midnight i decided that i should look up how to do it and practice on my hair such that i would know how to do it on hers. the look she wanted was the classic 'finger wave' look. and after a little practice, i think i got it down. now i just have to copy it onto emily's head tonight. eech.

power!

our power went out yesterday. yay. wait, i mean ew.

on the plus side i learned how to identify my shampoo and conditioner in the dark (when you turn them both upside-down, the shampoo runs to the top faster) and that if i open the window at night it's pretty comfortable in my apartment.

on the minus side, there was no way to keep the food in the fridge cold or to heat it up for dinner.

on the other plus side, it gave me a really good excuse to go to dinner with jorgen, eden, clint, flynn and eden and clint's friend cynthia. we went to chili's and then made some plans so that i can get home this weekend to play with our visitors.

on the other minus side, i was seriously hoping that the power would be back on when i got back to my apartment, but no such luck.

this morning, amber called the apartment manager whose immediate response was to ask if we had called our hometeachers (amber's immediate thought was, 'what, are they going to bless the apartment?') and if we had flipped the switches in the breaker box. but i totally did that yesterday while i was on the phone with her. apparently, we need our hometeachers to do this in future, because it isn't good enough when i do.

anyway, amber figured out today that the contract was up from the old tenants (ashley totally thought that might have been the case, kudos to her) and so she had to put it in her name. they'll be turning it back on at some time today. i'm excited to shower in the light. :)

new place

so long, casa dea!

hello, timpanogas gateway!
amber and i moved in today and i'm so excited. but still exhausted. oi.

amber got to the new place while i was still at work and so she got to check the whole place out and let me know how cool it was. apparently, i and our thusfar anonymous new roommate both have ceiling fans in our rooms. amber doesn't. also, my room is the largest of the three. i'm still not sure why that is, but considering that i have the most crap of all of us (assuming the new roommate doesn't have as much as me) it makes sense.



I also have a walk-in closet....which i immediately walked into so i could take a picture. and here's what the rest of the room looks like:

i'm really excited to live here! if only moving weren't such a great black hole, sucking all the fun out of life.

moving along

i'm all packed. finished this morning freakishly early. here's the evidence:

i think i have too much stuff : /

nevermind

okay, amy didn't come to stay. i didn't really expect her to since i'm moving and both of our contracts are over in about two weeks. but yesterday when i got home from work amy was having a hard time. our hometeacher came and gave her a blessing by the end of which amy had decided to go home. it wasn't that it felt wrong to be in utah, but however right it felt to be here, it is more right for her to be home.

so we left last night around 8 to take her back up to idaho falls. got there about 11.30. slept. got up around 9 (i was hoping to leave by 8) and then we had to get all of her things out of the car and get her music off my itunes on the lappy. and then around 11.30 this morning i left. we hugged goodbye in the living room of her parents' house while her nephew told his grandma that we weren't letting go. and then i drove home.

i stopped once for gas and once for food (they don't have jack in the box here) and got to work around 3. after a few bouts of tears, i felt sufficiently sane to write a blog post. now, aren't you all glad of that?

amy, i love you and miss you, but i really feel that you were right in going home. i want only what is best for you. keep in touch.

she's baaaaaaack

amy came home on friday. i was not there because my mom needed a ride to the airport on saturday and so she took me to ogden where i did laundry and then drove her to catch her plane. and then on saturday i went with amber to her brother's house to play guitar hero while we "housesat."

so when i finally got back to my apartment on sunday, i was so excited to see her. i walked in and immediately went to give her a big hug. she'd had a really hard day, but it was still wonderful to see her. we're not sure how long she'll be here, she still needs to find a job and a place to live once our contracts at casa dea are over. eech!

and we got to have scripture study and prayer together which is something we've never done before, but i want to keep doing. it was really nice to read together about peace (alma 32, i think) and then finish it all up with a prayer.

we also went to ward prayer afterward, but that wasn't as fun. apparently, while i've not been going they've been changing things. there are now two prayers, opening and closing, as well as opening and closing hymns. all. four. verses. now, i'm all for singing and stuff, but that's a little ridiculous. i'm not gonna lie. and then we have announcements and spotlights. for the love, people! ward prayer should be short and sweet.

anyway, i'm really glad she's back.

eugork racecar krogue

it's a palendrome.

so this morning my alarm went off at 7. i was glad for that, but when i stumbled across the room to turn it off before climbing back in bed, i discovered a little surprise...

inge had her baby at about 5.30 this morning.

after discovering the news i was too excited to go back to sleep so i got to take a shower this morning. thanks, inge.

i'm still hoping for his name to be eugork, but i think he might get teased. hopefully they pick something else.