I'll tell the violins, it's time to sink or swim.

Funny quotes I've heard recently.

"Boyfriends are like dishes, you don't want your roommates to do them!"
"BYU is like a field of roses, where you can just pick any and all of them up. Here is like a field of grass. In the winter. (in reference to Alaska.)"
"I'm cold, I'm hungry, and I'm thinking about an ex-girlfriend. This is like a really bad dream."
"I don't wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy, I wake up feeling tired."
"I blame Nicholas Sparks for my high expectations of guys."
"I hate it when I can't find the cheese grater so I have to use my abs."
"Whoever loads the dishwasher like this is an idiot."
"Finish all your sentences with the words 'in accordance with prophecy.'"
"Their definition of a perfect student is like... Jesus."
"She's a quintuple huss - that is one away from a slut."
"Yeah, my hickeys were so bad it looked like my boyfriend beat me."
"LICK HER FACE!!!"
"Today I saw a hobo who's sign said, 'I'll bet a dollar that you read this sign.' Best. Hobo. Ever."
"Today on my chemistry test my teacher added a little joke, like he usually does for fun. This one said "Old chemists never die, they just reach equilibrium." I wrote back, 'True, but you still have to barium.'"
"I'm so depressed I've worn the same outfit twice this week."
"I just realized Prince Charming is in two movies: Cinderella and Snow White. What a playa."
"Today I realized Avatar is just Pocahontas with blue people. I guess they thought fifteen years later we wouldn't notice. And we didn't."
"Last year my history professor took off a week from school because he hurt his shoulder. How? By pirouetting to answer the telephone. Such good role models."
"Today my boyfriend spontaneously told me he loved me more than Dora loves maps. I am now worried about what he does in his spare time."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy marshmallows, which is really the same thing."

Hope they made you laugh like they make me laugh :)

Book 11.

Meet Your Match, by Stephanie Fowers.

Basically this book was hilarious. It just made fun of BYU the whole time. I loved it. It was about a girl who lives in BYU approved housing and the stories of being a poor college student living away from home. It was soooo funny. And the relief society president in this book was pretty much EXACTLY like my first relief society president at BYU. Needless to say, I laughed a lot. Not my favorite book, but if you just want an easy read and a good laugh, go for it.

What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?

Well... here's my summer so far.

To start off with.... I've been doing a lot of this.



And this.



And luckily this.



Sometimes I get to do fun stuff like this. AKA make a giant kidney out of playdough with flowers growing out of it, symbolizing good health of course, for a get well present for a friend with an ill kidney.



Or this. AKA lose at giant chess to Parker.



Shot my first gun. Beauty ain't she?



Missing her. And this.



Going on fun dates with sweet boys that give me flowers :) Sorry I don't have a picture of the date... I wish I was better at taking pictures this summer!



I've been lucky to be able to see him. He's too tall for the camera.



And her. Despite what the picture looks like :)



I have to get one once every summer.



Getting together with the girls. We're not very girly girls, but I guess if it takes a make up party to get us all together we'll go through with it.



Trying to figure out how to unlock the secrets of life.



Having lots of adventures watching these kids for 2 weeks...



They're cute though, so its okay!



And of course, goofing off.



Soooo... It's been fun. I'm excited for more adventures. And I'll try to take more exciting pictures. Love.

Book 10.

A Hatred for Tulips, by Richard Lourie.

“People who don’t have secrets imagine them as dark and hidden. It’s just the opposite. Secrets are bright. They light you up. Like the bare lightbulb left on in a cell day and night, they give you no rest.”

This book was really really cool. It was a fictional story about the boy who turned in Anne Frank and her family to the Nazi's. The main character, Joop, had some very interesting point of views and ideas. The title of the book comes because food was so scarce during the war in Holland that Joop and his family were forced to eat tulip bulbs to stay alive. It was very interesting to see a book from the point of view of someone who was neither a Jew nor a Nazi during World War II, but simply a family who didn't take sides in the war but was sucked into it. I really liked this book and would highly suggest it.

Book 9.

Dreams for Stones, by Ann Warner.

"'So how did you know Dennis was the one?'
Jade put her pizza down, looking thoughtful. 'Before I met Dennis, I was engaged to someone else. I took him home and asked mom what she thought. She said what mattered was what I thought, and if I had to consult her to figure that out, he wasn't the one for me. Then I met Dennis, and I didn't need to ask mom or anyone else their opinion."

This book was really neat. It was really sad as well though. I haven't really read a love story yet, so I figured I should read one haha. It was about a girl who just broke off an engagement because her fiance was cheating on her and a man who is grieving because he takes responsibility for his wife's death. Of course through strange means they meet and go through drama and eventually fall in love. There were a lot of sad things in the book, but the overall moral was reaching beyond yourself to help others will help you realize your problems aren't as bad as you think they are, but helping others will in turn help you heal. Twas cute :)

Book 8.

Have a Little Faith, by Mitch Albom.

"'Mitch,' he said, 'faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."

"He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it. Maybe this was his gift to the job. Or maybe it was the job's gift to him."

"When you come to the end, that's where God begins."

"Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Paxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions more are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma; just 'general depression' or 'anxiety,' as if sadness were as treatable as the common cold. I knew depression was real, and in many cases required medical attention. I also knew we overused the word. Much of what we called 'depression' was really dissaatisfaction... If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied - before working some more."

There are tons of other good quotes in this book too, these are just a few I like a lot. This guy is the same guy who wrote Tuesday With Morrie. This book is about a man who has left his religion behind, but one day is asked by his pastor if he will give his eulogy at his funeral. Mitch decides he needs to get to know his pastor better as a person before he gives his eulogy. Over the next eight years after he is asked to do this, he grows to love and appreciate this man. This was a great book and really made me reflect on life. It was really really neat, posing great questions about God and life and such. I would definitely recommend this book, it was very touching.

Book 7.

Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman.

This book... Let's see. I really really like how the author writes. There were sooo many different literary techniques and different writing styles in this book, and it was really neat and fun to see those different kinds of writing. But overall, this book swore SOOO much. I wouldn't recommend it just because of how much it swears. But yes, it was really cool how the author used so many different types of writing. My two favorite chapters were 1. A chapter where it was a conversation between two people and it went like this: what she said.... what she really meant... what he said... what he really meant... it was so funny, and so true! 2. A chapter where the teacher asks each of the students to think about the book they are reading and then it says: what was really on each student's mind... and proceeds to list off what each of the 27 students were thinking about, none of which was the book. It was so funny. Interesting book, but I wouldn't recommend it.