Rain. Enough said.

So on Monday night we had a ward activity. And it rained that night. And my hair got all wet and weird. Sooooooo...it turned into editing picture time. :P

I should be studying for finals. But I'm not. Today's been fun though. Lots of hanging out and picture taking with roommates. :P I still have a broken computer but this awesome kid named Hudson brought me a new keyboard. So I'm not typing using my computer screen anymore. Good news. :) I finally am enjoying the semester. Good news. :)

11 Days to Florida

Outside my window: Some beautiful springtime. :D

Just Keep Swimming...

So I'm wondering what kind of person puts an empty ice cube tray in the freezer. I got back from a wonderful run and went to get a nice cup of water and as I pulled out the ice tray...empty. Silly roommate, whoever you are. I still love you. :D

I'm sitting here, waiting for Economics to start, so excited that I only have to come one more time that I could probably write a song about it. The only bad thing would be if I possibly don't pass this class and I have to retake it. That would be death. I might even shed tears. *gasp* My reading days will be almost entirely devoted to economics. And it will probably be the death of me. Luckily this is the only final that I'm extremely concerned about. Other than this class and possibly Biology I have some pretty solid grades. I just have to keep going and stick it out for 3 more days of class and a week of finals...almost done, almost done...just..keep..swimming...

They keep changing the names of all of the classes I'm taking, or at least the numbers. I'm taking a 100 level religion class and then all of my other classes are 300 classes. So I kind of skipped the 200s somewhere in there. I'll go from first-year freshman to sophomore, junior, and senior within 4 semesters. Crazy. But oh so exciting. :) I'm getting old I've decided, and it's weird, but like my roommate said today, "it's like life is finally starting!" or something along those lines. We stayed up talking way too late last night and I was in bed for over 2 hours before I finally fell asleep. I was planning on getting to sleep early but that didn't happen because I couldn't fall asleep and so I gave up and started talking. And then I still couldn't sleep so I had this weird idea that maybe if I flipped around it'd help. So I took my bedding and flipped it around and put my head where my feet typically go and I was out in 5 minutes...? Don't really know why but it was pretty cool. And I had some really interesting dreams about being chased and running into some really attractive guy...:P

I had such a productive day with my Beff today. (In case anybody hasn't heard it about 6billion times, her brother is getting married.) Love you Beth. :P We got a lot of fabulous things for our condo in the fall. And jamba juice because ColdStone wasn't open. I will miss shopping and ColdStone with my dear friend..there aren't too many downsides to this summer, but that is definitely one of them. But - once I get back it means we will be out of the dorms, only cramming food for 4 in the fridge and larger supply of cupboard space, and there will be 2 bathrooms. Oh how I can't wait until this semester is over.

It is finally getting nice outside. Give me weather about 5 degrees warmer and take away the wind and I'd be in heaven right about now. And it's been so nice this week because I've had a car. Unfortunately that leaves today as I drive by myself to the airport to pick up my daddy and then lose the car when he drops me back off. Oh well. I'm actually kind of looking forward to the drive..I like long drives and the chance to just think and listen to music. :) 

I've been so lucky with parking this week. I've gone to park my car and there have been no parking spots every time I try to find one. So I always go park either somewhere illegal while I drop stuff off or in the 15- or 30-minute parking areas and then come back to move it and every time I have gone back right as a close spot has opened up. It has been amazing. Gotta love those little mercies that can make your mood so much better. :)

17 days to Florida

Outside my window there is some beautiful sunshine and through the trees some off-campus housing that is looking so good right about now..

Blogger? Me? We Shall See..

Once upon a time I was a journal writer--and I very good one. I wrote for over 3 years straight. As far as I can remember there isn't a single missing day from July 14, 2006 through December 17, 2009. Then I figured out that I hated remembering every single thing because I would write it down..so I stopped. I write every once in a while--like once a month maybe. Some people say I should've just kept going because it was cool but I think I'm liking it better without at this point. But me and a few of my friends decided we're all going to blog over the summer so we can keep track of each other so here I am.

I'm going to start by explaining the web address to this blog. "Callmekirk." My middle name is Kirksel and my best friend/roommate, Beth, can't get herself to call me "linds," a typical nickname for Lindsay. She's never been able to call me linds, ever. And probably never will. But she wanted a nickname for me. So sometime she just decided to call me "kirk." I've had a few people call me variations of "Kirksel" but Beth calls me Kirk more than Lindsay now. And in the fall we're going to see how many people we can get to start calling me Kirk. So, call me Kirk. :)

This past weekend was great. I spent Saturday with my bff, Beth. We watched conference and then went up to Salt Lake for the afternoon session--so great. I think every person needs to hear Elder Holland's talk and take it to heart--I wish he would've given it 3 years ago. :) Then we raced out of conference and hopped on Trax to meet my daddy. My sister and her boy went to Moab for the weekend and the rest of the fam went to Washington to visit my mom's family. So he picked us up and we dropped him off at my grandma's house, changed clothes, and left. Where were we going? Good question. This wonderful place off of Highland drive called Tru Talent Management. Story:

Friday, March 26. Target. American Fork. There we were, my Beth and I, looking at purses on clearance. Here comes these two random girls. "K, two questions. First, where did you get your shoes!?" (White, peep-toed pumps with about 5 inches of heel..my mom hates them.) Me: "Uh..Charlotte Russe.." Girl: "Well I love them. Second, are you a model?" "Uh...no.." She then went on to try and recruit me as a model/actress to be represented by TruTalent Management. Not so much my thing at this point but whatever, gave her my number and didn't really think anything of it after that. Until they called me the next day. Great. They wanted me to come in for an audition but I never called them back and figured that was the end. Oh no, they called again the next week. I explained that I'll be moving to Florida so there wasn't really a point. They still insisted I come in. Not sure why they wanted me to audition so bad but it didn't cost anything and would make a funny story so I dragged Beth along with me. I figured if I went in maybe they'd stop bugging me when they realized I really didn't do the whole acting/modeling thing. We get to this place and I fill out this form that I don't even know half of the answers too and just didn't fill out half of it. After a little while they called us back and I met with this guy named James. He was a funny guy. Very honest, very blunt, very interesting guy. But definitely very legit and serious about what he did. And, as Beth will confirm, his furniture was cool but so dusty and nasty. Gross. I really had no idea what I was doing there and he couldn't really figure out why I was there either since I had little experience, didn't really know what I wanted to do, and was leaving. But he had me do a cold read to see if I had any acting ability at all (he was very surprised I guess and threw up his hands and said "wow, you can act!") and then started talking to me about all this stuff from Glee to Budweiser girl. And kept saying that they want to represent me so I would make money and he could sit on his butt and make money. Weird? Yes. It ended pretty quick as he said, "Well, you're an actress and look like a model so call me when you get back from Florida." Uh...ok? He gave me his card. And we left.

So after that lovely experience we hung out at my grandma's house where we tried to watch a movie but ended up being attacked by a number of little boys and gave up. I'm still angry that Duke won. I hope Butler pulls off the win. We'll see. We then went to a lovely ice cream party at Mike Lee's house--my dad is his communications director for his campaign so we went and admired their lovely kitchen while a crew of people tried to figure out the WiFi password which was about 27 letters long..yeah they never got it. One thing I've found with those events..all of the guys are either way too young or way too old...it's a problem. After we dropped Beth off we went home and it was weird with only me and my dad at the house. But I enjoyed having ESPN rather than the limited, not-so-great channels we get on lovely BYU cable. For Easter we made roast and potatoes and oh it was such a great dinner. And with there only being two of us, there was a lot of leftovers meaning food for me to take home. :) I took my daddy to the airport and then drove back to Provo.

Last night I stayed up trying to figure out and register for my classes for the fall. It is the most miserable, frustrating process. I don't know why BYU doesn't get smarter and change it. But I went to bed with the awful thought that starting August 30 I will have class from 9:30am to 7pm every Monday. Did someone say miserable? I think I just did. Luckily there will be no science or economics in that schedule.

Last full week of class. I can do it.

21 days to Florida.

Outside my window: way too much snow on the mountains for it to be April. But between the clouds, a little bit of promising blue sky..