My Ugly Un-Uggs

It's that time of year again!  The time of slush and snow and puddles and more slush and snow!  Since it's getting colder, I will be transitioning from wearing skirts and dresses to work to dress pants.  Sadly, my dress pants are a little long so I practically have to wear heels everyday and they still get soaked.  Just in case you are unaware, heels are not practical to wear in the puddles, slush and snow.  So....I have a solution!  I wear the lovely boots (picture below taken earlier today) and just tuck my pants into them so they don't get all wet on the bottom.  Then, when I get to work/ class, I take out my real shoes and wear those.  I probably look like a certified freak, but at least I am 1) warm and 2) comfortable.  You can't convince me to change my ways.  I've been doing this far too many semesters...

A Homemade Pile of Leaves

I've already blogged about fall being my favorite season.  I actually really like to rake leaves and it's one thing I miss a lot being in Idaho.  The other night we had some visitors come to the apartment and bring a bag full of shredded newspaper to play with.  It was surprisingly fun!  I had never met these boys before and them coming over was completely unplanned.  I was beyond confused when they said they had a present in the bag for us and this is not at all what I expected.  If I'm ever forced to live somewhere where leaves don't fall in the fall, I am going to remember this.

Woah, Snow.

Fall is my absolute favorite season.  No doubt about it.  The perfect weather, for me, is being able to wear jeans and a sweatshirt and not be hot or cold.  I love the leaves changing colors and a slight cool breeze.  I love wearing cardigans and long sleeved shirts.  It's too bad I haven't had a real fall season in three years.  Idaho gets maybe a week of "fall" weather (and the seven days are spread over the course of two or three weeks...).  It's just summer and then snow.  Like yesterday, for example, it snowed for 24 hours.  About an inch stuck.  But it still snowed...and it will be 70* on Monday.  

What a Loverly Day for a Nap!

Today was beautiful outside and my class got out 20 minutes early.  The logical thing to do?  Take a nap!  Now, this could not be just any nap.  I didn't have time to go home so I found a quiet little spot in the gardens and sprawled right out on the grass.  It was quite refreshing!!

I even had my camera with me so I documented my new nap spot and will never forget it!  The sun was beating on my legs and, for the record, I resisted the urge to roll up my pants and get some sun on their pale whiteness.  I can honestly say I abide by the honor code...even during nap time!!

My Umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh

Good deals make me happy.  Especially when it was something that I was planning on getting anyways!

BYUI had its Lost and Found sale this week and Alexis and I stopped by.  We got there 10 minutes early and there was already a line all the way down the hall.  You have to get in first to get the good stuff I guess.  We finally got in the doors around 2:10 and there wasn't a ton of stuff left.  I really just wanted a pair of sunglasses but not too many people lose them in the winter months...weird.  

Then I saw it.  It was $2.  My umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh.  Now I'm under my umbrella.  Well I'll be under it as soon as it rains....

You should watch...

 GLEE's "Singing in the Rain/ Umbrella"

and...

the original "Singing in the Rain"

Times and Seasons

The time has come.  Rexburg finally remembered it's supposed to snow.  I'm glad it forgot for a while though, and let us have a nice long "fall".  It was a good fall for Rexburg, I suppose, but I actually missed having a Wisconsin/ Ohio fall where I can wear jeans and a sweatshirt and be perfectly comfortable, where the leaves turn all sorts of colors and slowly fall to the ground, and where the slight breeze blows your hair in your face.  I should have gone to a strangers house and just raked leaves for them.  I love raking leaves!  And this time last year I also remember feeling deprived of my leaf raking.  Fall's my favorite season so when it's not absolutely perfect I feel slightly cheated.  There were a few days of "real fall" but that's the best it got.  Anyways it snowed.  And I was not prepared.  It was raining in the morning so my natural thought process was "if it's warm enough to rain, I don't need gloves!"  Halfway to my first class it turned to slush-snow and continued on until that evening.  I walked into work at noon with clear sidewalks and walked out three hours later with over an inch of slush and snow on the ground.  Heels were not the best choice that morning.

Walking between classes with a cheap, purple umbrella that kept whipping inside out and utterly embarrassing me, I wondered why the heck I was choosing to stay here in the winter when I technically don't have school.  Not like Ohio is much warmer but at least there I have a car...well half of a car...wait, Eli has his license now so a third of a car...and it's being held together by duct tape, packing tape and staples and I don't think the heat works...so basically, I have a third of a box on wheels.  Whitney begged me to come to AZ with her but I'm not quite sure I want to spend my break shelving books at an elementary school library and opening ketchup packets during lunch with flu-stricken children while she teaches all day.  But it would be warm and sunny!  

I can't believe the semester is more than half over.  Well actually I can.  It's been a long semester.  I'm ready for some of my classes (okay, ALL of my classes) to be over but I'll admit I get a little teary eyed thinking Whitney is going to be leaving.  And who knows when I'll see her next.  I guess college is all about friends coming and going and it's her time to venture into the world and make a difference.  We've had a lot of fun times though and we're going to make every day count until the very end!!  Next week we're performing in the ward talent show...basically our talent is being awesome roommates.  If it turns out good then maybe I'll let the cyber-world have a little sneak peak at why we're so fantastic...and if not, then you'll have to use your imagination to make up something even more fantastic!!!

I guess I should give a shout out to some other people as well....Shout out to Alexis who has let me sleep with Steve the last two nights!!  To Cali for having the brains to know that she doesn't know how to drive in snow...yet.  To McKenna for putting up with some really crazy roommates her first semester.  To Lexi for being able to sleep through anything and for her adorable arm squeezes.  To Jamie, Kadi, and Audra because I love and miss them.  To the Demings and little Jaden for being the cutest family ever!  To Hillary for having a talent show to humor Whitney and I.  To my Relief Society for being the best girls EVER.  And to (insert your name here) for reading my blog and being awesome!

Life is definitely good :)