pretty pictures and captions

I finished my painting today! and i finished my final in drawing! { This means the only class i have stuff left in is Photo 2!!} here they are-

i'm pretty sure i want to make wallpaper out of this. I'm pretty stoked about how it turned out.

this is a close up of the design i made for the background on each color of square.

color palette for the sunflower painting.

final painting.

close up so you can see how thick the paint is.

This is how i paint. i take over the whole table and have to get in the zone. And then i paint so much i lose track of time. It's bizarre. i never thought that would happen to me with painting. I mean when i go on photo shoots i always lose track of the time, but it's weird that it happened with painting too. Never has happened with drawing. I am hyper aware of time with drawing. i HATE drawing.

this is my first drawing, first day of college.

this person {who i am still unsure if it was a guy or girl... but leaning toward guy...} knew every song of sean's and recorded himself singing ever song. I had more fun watching him than the actual concert. It was pretty darn entertaining. haha. and lauren was crepin' on him.

those two ladies were my favorite. it was hilarious! they were waaaay older than the average person there and they were borderline obsessed with mr k.

pet peeve- when people try to be funny in the picture you're taking.

I really like this one of us. {ash, me, betsy, tara}

and then there were random fireworks..... sorry for the cruddy picture.

i don't think that the concert was worth the money that the university paid for it. the only part that was good was the "fire burnin" song.

i'm sorry i am on the dull side today.

someone please press the play button on the hallelujah chorus!

I have moved up in the world! I no longer will ever have to go to a drawing or painting class again! I am on to much bigger and better things {i.e. photography and graphics} :D :D This is where it's at. I had no idea that i had it in me to get through them, but i did it! Who knew that i cold draw like Degas and paint like Van Gogh???..... well sorta.... i could barely draw a stick figure in a dress before and now i can draw/paint things that look normal to life! if i can dig up my drawing from my first day of college i will post it so you can see how cruddy i was compared to my "averageness" now.

this is my Van Gogh painting. {i'm not done, but pretty close}

i think it resembles the original-

remember that i'm not done yet....

i have to move in 9 days... :'( i am going to miss school and logan and my apartment and friends SOOOOO much! i want August to be here already.....and May hasn't even started yet.... this is worse than my senioritis was last year.

so i was going to put the title of my blog as "Idgit" {or a simpler definition would be-boys} in honor of Melissa. haha. We decided that each of the roommates have things that we always say and we kind of have stolen from each other. Mine is "Rude" {betsy says that i say it uhRUDE! [or i guess aaaarude] with a little uh or something like that before it haha} and Betsy's is "seriously" or "it's fine". and Ashley's is "i like it!" {but she says it, "iiiiiiaaaaalikeit!" all in one syllable. haha} and since Anna was a roommate too hers was, "i'm in a weird mood". we're kind of legit roomies. I'm gonna miss them.....like a dog. haha. we have a note on the fridge that anna left that says, "i miss you! (like a dog)" inside joke :)

here is a fabulous picture that lauren put up on FB today that was from forever ago. and i think we are all babes in it

they were war head pops so they were sour! I'm currently debating whether to put this as my profile picture or not.......yeah? no? i love these two. I have the world's best friends.

So i've noticed that my journal entries have gotten seriously shorter in length since i started blogging more often..... This is not good. My journal probably thinks i hate it. So i A-need to stop blogging so i can write better in my journal for my posterity or something like that, or B-need to print out my blog posts and tape them into my journal with a cool color of duct tape because my grandma taught me that there was no other tape than duct tape. i'll let you know how my endeavors go.

Annnnnyways. i'm going to bed. gotta get me some more dark room time in tomorrow morning before the sean kingston concert here at USU. be jealous, cause i know ya'll are. :D

your favorite Brianna,

Brianna.

Countdown from dead week, drawing, college

so it's definitely not identical, but for me, it's pretty good.

i sent a picture to my brother. he asked, "sweet! is it a Roman gladiator?". i said, "no, a ballerina." he replied, "oh, that would have been my next guess." what a dork!

Countdown till first year is over. :'( / :D

• 12 days
• 5 classes
• one poster presentation
• one painting
• one photoshop drawing
• 4 more dark room prints {one of which is a 16x20}
• one photo history final
• one real weekend of fun in Logan
• a LONG list of clean check stuff
• Packing. BOOOOO!

AH! so so so much to do!

I'm having a hard time balancing fun and homework right now because i don't want to miss anything in the time that i have left in Logan before i have to go back to Orem to work. boo. It is so worth going to school for 4 years, being poor, working really hard, etc to be able to do what i love. There is nothing that reminds me of this better than going back to an hourly job at a grocery store. Although it's not an awful place to work, i'd never be able to do it full time for the rest of my life. I don't understand how people can. I very very thankful for the opportunity i have to attend College. I also grateful that i love it so much! It's like i've been waiting for this moment {college} to happen for years! I hated all the useless classes i had to take in high school, but because i did most of them concurrently i don't have to take nearly as many generals in college. Killing 2 birds with one stone is the way to go. Moral of the story-find something you love, go to school to be able to do what you love, then do what you love to do for the rest of your working years. SOOOOO much better than the alternative. {i should be the spokeswoman for furthering education. :P}

i'm now going to go read my photo hist text book. wish me some luck with not zoning out.

-Bri-to-the-Anna

'Tis Easter- the day of dying eggs, good meals, and spirituality.

Today was the chillest Easter ever.

as promised, here are some pictures of little sexy dexy.

love this one!

betsy freaking out about it pooping on her hand.

it's temporary home. now it lives in an old fish tank.

Alright so here's what i did today-

went to church-{see below}, read 20 pages in my photo history text book. Made a cake

Chocolate butterscotch with dark chocolate and Butterfinger on top.

and also rice made with chicken broth, gravy, and red potatoes and rosemary chicken. YUM!

and then we dyed easter eggs.

Betsy and Ashley are hot sexy mamas!

{Did i mention that i'm a member of the mermaid club again?? yeah, i need to find a new hair style. If you have any good ideas, i'd LOVE to hear them. Leave me a comment!}

and my home teacher, cade came over. he brought me a cute little easter egg snickers bar. and then my super super super super sweet visiting teachers, kim and cami jo, came over! they brought me a cute easter egg card and a bag of my favorite Mini Cadbury Eggs. Seriously though, i am so blessed! I have had the best college experience and it has mostly to do with the amazing people that i have met and love!

sorry, it's a skosh dark....

it's not like i'm a photo major or anything. ;)

and here is my blurb about my beliefs {it is Easter after all :D}-

College wards look like the black plague hit on holidays. They are SO small. it was still really good though. I love Easter. How everything is focused on Christ and his atonement. Makes me remember the real important things in my life and what matters most. i am grateful to be able to be forgiven of my sins. there is such a hope given to me each sunday and i'm grateful for the knowledge that i have that i can return to my Father in heaven one day.

I've been thinking a lot about How Heavenly Mother isn't mentioned a lot. I honestly cannot wait to meet her one day. I mean, my earthly mother is amazing so my heavenly mother must also be! About a month ago was the relief society birthday party in my ward. one of the members of the bishopric spoke. He talked about how his wife's mom had died a few years ago and to see how hard it was on her to not have her mom with her. He told us that daughters should not be left on Earth without their mothers. This got me thinking about my Heavenly Mother. I've heard that nothing compares to a mother's love for her children. i don't fully understand this yet, for i do not have children of my own. I can only Imagine the love that she has for all of her children. I can't wait for one day to learn more about her and to meet her again. I'm sure that she is just as concerned about me and loves me just as much as my Heavenly Father does.

exactly one year ago today, i was excepted into the art department of USU. {read about it here} One year later, here i am fully immersed in art classes and now, accepted into my dream major and feeling extremely blessed. i am SO excited to be doing what i love. Everyone keeps telling me {and has told me for quite some time} that i'll change my major several times before i'm done..... i can honestly say that i doubt it. I have a plan and i plan on following through with this plan. :D

My camera future drawing, the pros of next year, and yellow frosting.

Last night i went to bed at 10:30! I haven't gone to bed that early since..... probably December. i honestly can't remember. I woke up at 10 am. :D I feel waaaaaay good today! And guess what else? i sluffed my science class {and test today}. Because i didn't have to take it.

So i did this-

on photoshop. i have to draw it now. boo!! It'll be better than drawing something else though. Bring on the sharpies. :D

2 weeks from tonight i will be done with my first year of college! why i am excited about this-

• Not being the smallest fish in the HUGE pond.
• when a guy asks what year i am i don't have to hear the "....ohhhhhhh........." comment when i say freshmen. Even though sometimes i "semi-lie" and say sophomore. Because credit wise i am......
• living on the old side of old farm
• being in my major!!!
• not having painting and drawing classes. :D:D
• possibly meeting my future eternal companion in western swing dancing class. Because where else am i supposed to find a cowboy?? none of them take art classes. unless they're the "broke back" kind of cowboys. And then that wouldn't work either. what an "unfortunosity". {as Betsy would say}
• sharing 1 bathroom with six girls {okay not looking forward to it. mainly i just like imagining all the hilarious problems this could cause.}
• if i think of more i'll let you know..... bucause as you know, using bullet points is my all-time favorite way to blog! :D

So a couple weeks ago i saw a newspaper article title that said, "Book of mormon the musical." i was in a hurry and never looked at it but then today, my past manager/boss/teacher/advisor {have no idea what to call her} from my internship at Fotogenix, Tiffany {who is pretty fetchin' awesome!}, had a link on her facebook to this article. I read it and it's a good article. So then i did a little research on the "musical" and it sounds pretty awfully wrong. When i hear "book of mormon the musical" i think of the animated movies that all the malls in Utah sell at the kiosk things. Anyways if you want to read the Book of Mormon, the book {not musical} leave me a comment and i'll get you one for free. And then if you want it to be a musical you can put a CD in of the primary songs or the Hymns while you read it. I'm pretty brilliant when it comes to good ideas. :)

I'm headed to my 3rd to last painting and drawing 2 class in apx 45 minutes. *claps hands excitedly* i have 2 drawings left (one above) and i have to try and copy this one-

it's by Edgar DeGas. it looks simpler to me than others. and when it comes to Brianna+drawing, simple is the best possible scenario.

and 1.5 paintings left.

this is the one that is half done. i am doing it from a picture i took a year ago.

and then my master painting-

i am so not looking forward to it.

favorite thing said yesterday- "She didn't lock the door!! So she came in!" "Tell her she will have to live with her consequences and entertain her!" haha.

And i made a chocolate cake yesterday. And died the butter cream frosting {made from Melissa's cupcake calendar of wonderfulness} yellow in honor of hoping spring will come. it was great. But then it hailed today, so i don't think my cake worked. :'( But there's still some left, so come over and grab a piece if you're in Logan. :D

my day consisted of....

ART

I drew-

• the eiffel tower
• my great grandma's necklace
• a lady walking a dog
• a couple holding hands
• a lady riding a bike
• a cloud
• a tree
• a shrub

And painted-

• a yellow flower
• a leaf
• a metal railing thing.

hours spent-

over 12. TWELVE!!!!!!! it was death.

you should have seen my hands. I think they are permanently stained.

i'm sorry. i'm really boring today. I'm still recovering from no sleep two nights ago.

but on the bright side i at least have a good youtube video for you. My brother showed this to me like 6 months ago and i just remembered it.

p.s. you guys should all follow my photo blog. I have another engagement session tomorrow. :D

loves, hugs, and lollipop kisses too,

Brianna

creepers and lots of numbers.

So my friend Lauren dubbed the first week of April as "Creeper week."

What this entails-

• stalking people on Facebook and then memorizing their birthday and hometown and random info about them and then telling them you know it.
• read their life story on blogger
• follow them around campus
• text them non stop and say creepy things to them
• ask lauren for others, she could tell you.

"why is there a creeper week?" i have absolutely no idea! i still haven't done anything creepy yet.... But lauren is freakin' good at it. And she has already gotten like 5 dates out of it too! What a woman.

anyways. There is this video that her friend posted on her wall in honor of Creeper week. Lauren isn't this creepy, but she might be by the end of the week. you can view it in all of it's glory here and less of a funny one here.

here is my favorite creeper line from a movie, "I see you through your window,..... when i'm standing in a tree outside!"

name that movie!

In honor of creeper week they were giving out free pizza at the TSC. Just kidding, it wasn't in honor of creeper week. But Lauren and i decided that it should have been. It was in honor of "unpluggled" week. Which i kinda thought meant like unplugging your stuffy nose or unplug your cell phone, or even un plug your straightener or toaster week, but apparently that wasn't it. It's "unplugging" from social media {AKA facebook, blogger, twitter, and what other else things there are} I for one would prefer my choices. wouldn't it be more fun to see people with healthy noses, not talking on the phone with frizzy hair that are hungry? It'd be a whole lot funnier than not getting to read clever status updates and you guys not being able to read my blog! :D

Anyways, i'll keep you posted if i do anything creeper ish this week.

here's the count-

25 days till i am moving back to utah county for summer

14 class days.

1 test

1 final {to all you suckers who have to take finals in all your classes!! bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. okay i'm done now. the joy of being an art major}

1 poster presentation

3 paintings and a master painting

2 drawing and a master drawing

1 15 piece photography portfolio
2 days till Taylor comes!

fall class registration

find another part time job to go with the one i have/ full time job {preferable}

buy a car. {does anyone know of a good car with good gas mileage that's around 2-3000 dollars? this would be helpful} :D

yes mom, my liver is fine.

so i know i did this to a couple posts ago, but i really can't help being bored while all of my dark room pictures are in their bubble bath slot things.

i selenium toned ALLLLLLL the prints i've done this year so far. It took forever! and it was a killer.

but literally. Because selenium is BAD for you. I had to wear rubber gloves and not breathe it into my lungs/body/brains because it can cause liver cancer...... but guess what?

I still breathed some in and some still got onto my arm. :'( grrrreat.

It's okay though. at least i won't get mono from it. (bahahahhahha! sorry- this a funny between my sister and I. and i still think it's funny)

anyways i thought my professor told us once that selenium burns through your skin and makes you ignite into flames.... or something to that extreme. so i was getting all excited because nothing exciting ever happens and then......none of the above even slightly happened.

so after waiting for ten minutes (10 seconds more than likely) i just rinsed my arm off.

as for my liver- i think it's doing fine. Let me go ask it real quick.........

Yep, it's hunky doory still.

it must have been a different chemical that does that....

(yes mother, i'm fine)

So here's Brianna's latest bad news. so the next 3 semesters i will be taking 15 credits each. {not bad} but here's the kicker-- there are tons of photo classes that are only offered every 2 years. and all of them have pre reqs. and guess what? two of those only every 2 year classes are offered this coming fall. And guess who hasn't taken the pre req of color 1 yet. ME! so guess what else?- i have to stay in school a dumb year longer so i can take those classes. So my last 3 semesters i only have to take 3 credits each. seriously????? BOO!!

and guess what else. i could do it in two but because of how the BFA shin dig thing works i have to graduate in the spring. not the fall. so i have to stick around even one more semester doing nothing useful. yay....... sometimes {okay lets be hhhonest- nearly all the time} the art department is ridiculous. no offense. i mean... you people should be offended and offer them every year!

so the weather outside is NOT frightful! :D :D :D :D! it is so loverly i could kiss it! it snowed this week- and i bundled all up and froze. But then yesterday it was nearly 60!!! and today it is about the same! so naturally i whip out my capris and summer shirts and flip flops and head to school with no jacket. hehehehehe.

and in honor of spring i am going to roast marshmallows tonight over an open fire up logan canyon. And hopefully get starbursts too. And maybe eggo waffles as well. (no i'm not weird! haven't you ever tried that?!?! okay i haven't either but I HAVE seen someone do it!)

So i was waiting for my class to start yesterday morning and was talking to this guy. his major was agriculture business. {so obviously} I asked him if he was a cowboy. (betsy thought this was a dumb question.. i don't see how...) and he asked, "define cowboy." ya know- boot wearin, horse trainin', bull ridin', pasture manure in', hunk a burnin' gentlemen. (only i said it much differently.. but honestly how does he not know what a cowboy is????) and he replied back- "i don't like boots all that much (yeah, so NOT a cowboy) and i like to think my self a gentlemen....". well hopefully you are a gentlemen but why are you going into agriculture business if you don't even wear boots???!

man, my hopes and dreams of ever marrying a cowboy are getting slimmer and slimmer as the seconds pass by.

okay i'm going to make a more realistic dream that i'd still be happy with- I just want to go on a couple dates with a perfect cowboy. sigh.

tatafornow my friends.

can we say RANDOM?!

long time no blog......

Ashleigh is married!!!!

is we not a cute two?

in other news- my boogers are no longer purple. repeat- NO LONGER purple. :D

from the festival of colors ya psycho paths! i wouldn't normally post about purple boogers.... okay i probably would..... :P

and now you know why i would mention this. right? next year we are buying the real indian chalk because it is much brighter. :D When you are in the middle of the crowd during a power throw you can a- hardly breathe. b-can't see even 2 feet in front of your face. c- get claustrophobic. d- have the time of your little life! :D

it's fine i just felt like i was running down the streets of new york after 9/11 happened. that's kinda the best analogy i can come up with. except... that probably wouldn't be fun.

nest item of ward business- my BFA (bachelor of fine art) photography review is TUESDAY!!!! nope, not the end of April like my professor originally told me. so i come to class on monday (late because i felt like letting my body rest an extra 45 minutes) {i looked like a man. don't worry about it} and there are big signs all over the art building telling me that it is tuesday!!!! as if i don't have enough to worry about right now.

So i ordered my digital prints from all the shoots i've done this semester. And now i am in the process of moving my bed into the wet dark room. Because i'm living there. (in fact right now i am waiting for my prints to be done getting their archival bubble bath. :D)

But because i have to get so much of my portfolio done for the review i will have much less to do for the final portfolio due the first monday of May. :D

i took my second midterm for early photo history today. and good news- i'm pretty sure i got at least a b+. but i'm not gonna say that because then i'll fail. So i'm gonna use reverse psychology and say i failed. (and i should end up with an A) RIGHT?!

bahahahhahaha!!!! so the maintenance guy (he's hispanic) is singing really loudly to his mariachi music while sweeping the photo lab floor. I love life.

Next item stake (because it doesn't involve me) business- my dear friend Laurenita Leigh is applying to the interior design program and her application and stuffs are due on friday. and pretty dang certain that she will get in. Even though it is ridiculously hard. Like probably harder than getting into the photo program. GO LAURENITA!!!!

okay i'm bored of this. Actually my prints are just done so bye bye. :D

just for your enjoyment. cause i love you. all two of you that read this. :P

waiting for my gesso to dry

I have been painting for way way too long. but good news! I'm done with another one!

her 'tis.

Last night was a blast! Logan got 18 inches of snow in the last 2 days!

so Lauren and Betsy and i went to Old main Hill and went sledding on cookie sheets and we also found some broken abandon sleds. So of course we used them. (We're thrifty poor college children!) :D So here is a list of the pros and cons of sledding from last night

pros-

• it was a blizzard and the snow was like the best powder known to Logankind.
• we made snow angels
• betsy built a jump, "give us a break! How are we supposed to know how to build jumps? we come from one brother families! some of us don't have a million little brothers!" - lauren and I
• We watched some guys tire tube pop right under him. and then betsy flirted with him.. and we didn't even have to bribe her with money this time!
• when Betsy came down the hill once Lauren and I through cookie sheets of snow at her. and then she tried to chase us and then she kept slipping. :D
• And Betsy slips more than the average person does.
• We saw people mattress surfing down Old Main!
• The temple looked really pretty in the snow
• i got this one phone call.... :D
• Betsy flirt texted. haha... i might have too.... okay i totally did. :D
• we got into snow past our knees. It was funny to watch in.
• by the time we got home we had two inches of snow on top of our heads!
• we watched the A team after.
• We made homemade potato chips!

cons-

• i lost my keys in the snow. :'(
• We went to look for them but there was no such luck
• since we didn't have keys we had to break into our house. good thing betsy is so good at being a burglar...
• Our back ends froze.
• My legs have never been so red in all my life.
• and the warm shower i took after (it was barely warm water) hurt so bad!
• our entry way looks like a tornado hit from all our wet snow gear.
• Lauren's mascara was running down her face from the snow. (funny though!)
• i got zero amount of homework done....
• we stayed up waaaay too late!

So i think my gesso is dried now.

until we meet again.

It's a rough life.

Have you ever had one of those weeks where nothing seems to go your way?....

I sure was hoping for everything to work out with my classes but they haven't.

first off. I found out that the shuttle to take me to my 2 brigham city classes has been canceled. Thanks, shuttle people, for thinking about us poor art students that don't have cars. 'preciate it.

second, first class (photo 2) find out that even though i had bought my film camera and a new lens that there was even MORE that i had to buy. I'm now well over a thousand dollars for this class and i have only gone 2 times. joy. to. the. world. I must really love photography or else i would have dropped out of life this week.

next. i get my list of items i needed for painting and drawing. so being on top of things like i try to be, i go to the art store to get the stuff i know what it is early. just to get to class and find out that the cad medium red hue oil paint that is 6 bucks for an itty bitty tube is the wrong kind. it can't have hue at the end. so now i have to go back to the dang art store, pray that they will return the "hue" colors i bought and buy cad medium red in the same size but 3x as expensive. why? I'm wondering the same thing.

and i still have yet to find the non odor spirit thing and mat medium ground for acrylic....

next- my package comes but ya know how i had to buy the "bulk loader" shinanigan. well that is coming in a separate box. so now i can't use the film i bought for this weeks assignment. so i had to go buy a roll from the store thing for nearly 4 dollars. which they didn't have in the ISO i needed. great. thank you B&H photo.com.

and last (knock on wood) i go to use my 400 ISO (which i hate 400 iso) film today in my Nikon F100 that i have never used before and bad news- the camera is FILTHY inside. like you can barely see through the lens. i thought it might be the lens. so i took it off and nope, it's the camera. so, i called inkly's camera (the only camera repair place in Logan) and they said "oh, your camera is too old for us to clean." it's 11 years old. one of the newest film cameras. they don't make film cameras anymore! stupid! so they said, "let me call corporate in seattle and see if they can do it." ring ring. hour later inkly's guy calls back and says, "good news! they can do it!" (thinking to myself what a relief!) "it'll be about 250 dollars." all excitement disappears. I didn't even spend that much money on the camera! AHHHHH. so by this point i'm practically (okay i really was) crying. i already ruined a whole roll of film because it is going to have spots all over it from the dust inside. then the cost to get it cleaned and the time and ah! so then i decided that there is no way that i was paying that much money. i finally thought of KEWS camera in provo. this is the place i've taken my DSLR camera to get cleaned in the past. I talk to the owner guy and ask him and he was SO nice. and so helpful. he told me that it sounded like an easy fix and that he'd do it over night. relief! ah! so i shipped that bad boy right after that and i (cross my fingers) hope it'll be back by next thursday.

so then i ate some chocolate. So life is good.

so now i'm going to relax.

here, how about you just take my whole wallet.

i picked the most expensive major. great. i should have been born rich.

here is the list of supplies i need for painting class.

oh, and this is just for the beginning of the semester says my professor....

Oil colors in 37 ml tubes

Cadmium red medium

Cadmium yellow medium

Ultramarine blue

Raw Umber (does anyone even know what this is?.....)

Titanium white (in 200 ml tube)

Walnut Alkyd Medium or linseed oil

Odorless mineral spirits (i have to buy spirits?...)

Brush cleaning jar

Small cheap containers w/lid for medium

Brushes:

Large (10 ish), medium (6 ish), and small (2 ish) filberts

Medium round

Large and small flat (or bright)

2-inch house brush

Palette knife

Palette paper

Palette paper holder

Paper towels

Q-tips

Masking tape

Rags

Surface of my (o goody! i get too choose!) choice (canvas pad, canvas boards, gessoed panel/paper), 9x12 – 16x20

Big masonite board to tape canvapaper or paper onto

Gesso

Supply case

Smock

here is for drawing 2... luckily i already have about a fourth of this stuff.

Graphite pencils, 2B, 8B, Ebony

Graphite sticks, 6B

Graphite powder

Charcoal sticks, 6B

Charcoal pencils, 4B or softer

Kneaded eraser

Pink pet, vinyl, or gum eraser

Chamois.... (which is pronounced shameeeeeeeee)

Paper towels

Gesso

Golden’s acrylic ground for pastels

18 x 24 sketch pad

18 x 24 bristol pad

Drawing board

Fixative

Carrying case

Old clothes or smock

so if you ever wonder why i say no, i can't go to that movie you can blame it on the art materials. k?

love,

Brianna :D

I could practically be a doctor now. And also a very bad art historian.

FINALS

the word dreaded by all college students everywhere.

for me (being an art major and all) my 2 studio classes i didn't have finals in. Just a final project. which is much less stressful than studying my guts out all week long like i did for art history and biology.... but mainly art history.

this is how i feel about Art history- i cringe at the sight.

I don't think i did awful on the test though. so that's a plus.

Good news! I got an 88 on my biology final! Which means i'll have an a in the class overall! woohooo! This means that i am ready for med school..... :P

In my drawing class we have to turn in all of our work (from the entire semester! boo!) which is like a bajillion and a half papers. this is probably an understatement. It's actually more like 2.75 cajillion (this is more than a bajillion cause it starts with a c) :P

But i'm done organizing it so don't even worry about it.

So i kinda sorta have a blind date tonight. Anna set ashley and i up. i texted the kid on saturday night for a bit and good news again!!! wait for it. wait for it....

HE'S A COWBOY!

Woot!

we'll see how it goes. He seems really nice though. I've never been on a blind date before.... that i can remember at least. hmmmm.

good news #3- my bishopric (who are like the coolest people in all the world) is giving us all pizza tonight! Why? because they are cool and would rather us study than cook on finals monday night.... which i don't have to study anymore cause i'm DONE!

I just love the end of the semester

Funny fact- over the last 3 days i've lost my point and shoot camera about 15 times. But i've always found it. My name is in it so if i ever really really lose it for real i would hope it would get returned to me. So i'm losing my mind 'cause of finals and then Betsy thought it would be hilarious to hide my camera from me to make me think i lost it. I have one thing to say about this: Good One.

that's all.

Happy Finals Week everyone!

my list for Santa

First off i would die and go to heaven if I could have this camera- the Nikon d700. no big deal. it's just like thousands of dollars.

second i want a couple new lenses. like these two....



once again no big deal.

and then i would like this jeep. only in orange.


okay since i know i won't be getting any of the above here is my reasonable list....

a can of shortening. so i don't have to use my roommate Melissa's.


some nice snow gear.



some oil paints for my painting class.


maybe some cute earmuffs.


BOOTS. these are a must! i wear my ugly boots everyday even though they match absolutely nothing.


and maybe a couple romance books. but then again, i have no time to read.

anyways. i'm not really sure what i want. i just don't need or want much.
:D