february in a nutshell...

i'm a slacker. end of story. but i've still been doing new things every day so here is the majority of the month of february:

2/1: today i ate at the utah state dairy for the first time.

2/2: today i wrote a love poem using a handful of conversation hearts as my inspiration. here it is.. )the red words are the ones from the converation hearts):

you are kind,
oh one i love
in a fog my soul
exsists for you.
kiss me
in a fog, and
the wild life, that once
was led is left behind.
real love is not a dream;
cloud nine does not
exist. but when
you are far and my heart
longs for sincere words, and
promises kept, melt my heart
with i love you's;
never let me forget
how much i miss you.

2/3: today i did some serious reflection on my life...wrote in my journal...and printed up some pictures of Marjorie Hinckley to put on my wall. she was such an amazing person and everything i hope to be. :)
2/4: today i ate a meatball sandwich. it was the first and last one i'll ever eat...just as i thought it would be it was completely disgusting.

2/5: today cortni and i walked backwards from the fine arts building to the bus stop. it was neat.

2/6: all of these new things are memorable...but there are just some days that are more so than others...today was one of them. five words: tofu, bamboo, and bob marleys birthday party. tofu is squishy and sick. bamboo tastes like cat food smells. bob marley is the coolest. cortni and i were the only white people at the party and we were offered all kinds of substances but we came out of it alive. haha. we also ended the night stranded at the field house, painting our nails in the locker room. what a night... :)

2/7: today i ate a combination of peanut butter and m&ms. sooo good. like peanut butter m&ms only more fresh.

2/8: today i rehearsed for monster concert for a good 7 hours. so crazy but really fun. 20-40 kids all playing the piano together on one stage and sounding good is nothing but exhilirating.

2/9: today i went to the little coffee shop, citrus and sage and enjoyed some live jazz and delicious italian sodas. it was bliss.

2/10: today i wore flip flops. not that i've never done that before....just never done that before in februdary while living in a completely arctic climate. :) it made me even more thirsty for summer than i already am...unfortunately. :(

2/11: today i went to this ward dance...for family home evening. it was kinda weird. kinda fun. still not sure what i think of it.

2/12: today i celebrated the national pancake celebration with ihop and a stack of competely free pancakes. so good.

2/13: today i recieved a package from home full of sugar cookies and chocolate....pre valentine's day...from my amazing mother. i've never recieved a valentine's package sent with that much love in my life:)

2/14: today i gave professor amano a valentine. everyone told me i was crazy. but he needs some love too. he gave me a very sincere thank you note that everyone was jealous of in return. it's amazing what can happen when you just love people regardless of who they are. :)

2/15: today i corralled a gerbil for the first time. it was so hilarious. my poor dad has had to catch rodents so many times he has a whole system down....it was crazy and by the end it had my entire family crawling under a little twin bed trying to catch little pinkleberry the gerbil...one of those memories that will stay in my mind forever :) ps after about an hour our mission was accomplished and pinkleberry made it home safe:)

2/16: today i went to a utah symphony concert for the first time in a long time, and hear the grieg piano concerto in a minor for the first time. it was amazng! so gorgeous! i am in love...

2/17: today i woke up at the literal crack of dawn and went with josh to the music and the spoken word...he plays with the orchestra at temple square so i got to go in the secret tunnels and stuff...it was pretty sweet.

2/18: today i ate sushi for the first time. josh was an excellent sushi coach. and i actually really liked some of it... :) enough that i'd definitely eat it again :) i know...it's a shock...miracles do happen sometimes.

2/19: today, on a regular old school day, i woke up, went to theory, went home, and slept the rest of the day...well till practicum at 6. i've never done that before. just been so exhausted that i sleep a whole day. not on a week day at least. it was so nice.

2/20: so i keep track of my new things on post-its so i won't forget before i can post them...well on this day my handwriting was especially bad so i have no idea what i did...it looks like painter gay or painter guy...haha but i have no idea what that means....i know i did something new...but i guess this one will have to forever be a mystery... :)

2/21: today i jammed with my friends easy c and kablamo for the first time:) and tried a reeses whopper for the first time while jamming with them. i'm not a fan of whoppers so it wasn't so great. but jamming with them was fun. they are cool guys. so chill and so funny. :)

2/22: today...while driving home for the weekend...cortni and i began the hunt for a mannequin head to give josh for his birthday. we found some crazy laboratory...kind of scary. but eventually found slcc...and the beauty school there and came up with a wild story when we were asked why we wanted their left over heads. they were very skeptical and i'm sure they thought we were creeps.. but we walked away with two amazing heads. we have josh the girl..mary kin....and kept the boy...magnum for ourselves. :)

2/23: today i went to walmart to print up a ton of pictures..some to give josh for his birthday..some for me...long story short there was probably 40 dollars worth of pictures there when i was finished but i really needed them so i just printed them regardless of my lack of money. well when i took them up to the desk the guy working totally put a no charge sticker on my little package and walked away....oh the joys of being a single, almost 20 year old girl... ;)

2/24: today was josh's 19th birthday...so i visited him and gave him all his amazing birthday presents. then i stopped by tyler's to say hello and he showed me his new zune. i'd never seen one in real life...it was pretty cool, but i still prefer ipods. later on cortni and i drove back to logan. she had a lot of stuff to carry up to her dorm and needed some help, and there were no close parking spots, so we just turned the hazards on and left my van sitting there in the middle of the road. i've never done that before and it was probably slightly illegal..but hey. you do what you gotta do sometimes. :)