The Joys of Being a Girl

So last night I stopped by the bookstore and bought the following: pads, concealer, and Double Stuff Oreos. I could practically hear the girl at the register thinking, "Well someone started her period this morning." And she would be right. Talk about a crappy day yesterday. BUT! I'm going home tomorrow!!! And that is making everything else bearable.

Let's talk about me

Today is kind of a 'me' day. I've been in a funk for a few days: not sleeping well, just feeling off and unmotivated, and really upset about my crazy roommate. So, I'm just going to talk about happy things, about myself, and about love (of course).

I found a new background for my screens at work:

It fills up the whole screen (both of them hehehe) and it just looks beautiful and is making me very happy.

I got to wear my hair down today for the first time in a while. It is all curly and red and sensual; and I love the feeling of it blowing all around my head as I walk from class to class in the windy weather.

My thoughtful brother bought me a lovely red rose for Valentine's Day :) Our papa taught him well!

I love elevators. I take the one at work every chance I get even though I'm usually only going one floor one way or the other and could take the stairs. I love the moment when your stomach catches and kind of floats up and you feel like your head is getting squeezed by the air. I'm not sure why, but it's just wonderful! Also, it's one of my secret fantasies to kiss someone in an elevator...preferably an old fashioned elevator like this:

I'm pretty sure I just got hit on by the guy in the bookstore who sold me my new red headphones :) He was looking at my ID when I paid and said "What part of Colorado are you from?" "Aurora," I told him. "Do you know what Aurora means in Spanish?" he asked with a flirty smile. "Ummm 'sunlight?'" I shrugged. "It means 'halo.' But you're right, it has to do with light in both languages." Hahaha kinda cheesy but way cute! I was flattered. And bonus, he was really cute.

I get to go home next week!! My best friend Matt is in a play and has a pretty big part, so I'm going home to support him. I'm so excited to see him and my mommy...I have missed them both so much.

Final thought: I'd really like to go back to New York.

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

I actually hate that Jack Johnson song that I got my title from, but it was an appropriate title, so for those of you who like that song, Happy Valentine's Day :)

Sitting-- I'm sitting in the big open window of Omar's Rawtopia Living Cuisine, where my beautiful sister Melanie works, listening to John Mayer very loudly and enjoying the sunshine. The restaurant is closed on Sundays but Mel has to be here while the repair man does his thing, so here we sit. I have also done a lot of sitting on buses and trains on my way here to Salt Lake from Provo, and can I just say, I love trains. (well, we're talking light-rail kind of train here) I love speeding through the country-side, watching the houses and landscapes change as we hurtle along. Yesterday, instead of sitting, Melanie and I walked what felt like about 7 miles in total with all the different places we went, and we missed the last bus home by 4 minutes so at about 10pm we walked 20 blocks home. With my laptop in my backpack it was not the most comfortable walk ever, but I would walk forever just to spend time with my sister :)

Waiting--I seem to be in a constant state of waiting: waiting for letters from Robert, for checks to go through, for a good time to call someone back, for a certain someone to ask me on a date...I'm always waiting for something. I'd like to learn to get out of that, to really and truly enjoy the moment I'm in. I feel like I do this fairly well, but I'd like to do it better.

Wishing-- "A dream is a wish your heart makes..." "When you wish upon a star..." "I'm wishing...for the one I love...to find me...today!" (Name all those Disney quotes!) All those songs are easy ones for me to get stuck in my head. I wish for a lot of things, like that my crazy roommate would just go away, that I understood God's purpose in making me be alone for over a year, that there were more hours in the day, or that airplane tickets were cheaper. But wishing never really does anyone any good.

Sorry it took me til Monday to post this, since I wrote it on Sunday, but I hope you enjoy :)

Winter Wonderland

It was a very slippery walk to work this morning, and I was freezing. For those of you who don't know, I am always cold, and walking about a mile at 7:30am in Provo in February is not pleasant. So for the walk to work I wear a thin jacket, my big coat, gloves, and a thick scarf wrapped around my head with my hood up...I look like quite the little Eskimo.

The highlight of this morning's walk to work was seeing a couple holding hands as they trudged through the muck. She was wearing pink gloves, and he was wearing black ones; for some reason I just really loved that combination, their black and pink fingers intertwined.

A little love sighting before Valentine's :)