Springtime is so colorful!

So, I FINALLY have some photos for you guys! I'll start with DanceSport:

Doing the "voltas", probably one of my favorite steps. :D

Doing our "samba walks".

My partner, Travis and I doing a sweet "whisk".

I also have some fabulous photos from the Festival of Colors! This is a ceremony called Holi that they held at the local Hare Krishna temple. It was a lot of fun... really crazy, but a lot of fun. Basically, at one point during the ceremony, everyone throws this colored powder (we think it was flour or corn starch). This is the result:

This is us walking up to the Hare Krishna temple.

Jason tried to save me from the colors... obviously to no avail. 

It took about 4 washes to get that stuff out of my hair!

So, overall, it's been a good weekend. I've got a few tests this week, which makes me a little stressed, but what-ev. I shall prevail as always.

Ciao!

I am so hardcore...

It's already been a great day today and it's only 9:00 am! For anyone who knows me, knows this statement is shocking. LOL Let's be honest. But, for whatever reason, when I rolled over this morning, only semi-conscious, I looked at my phone and saw it was 7:30 and some new, foreign entity in my brain said, "Hey Alex! Good Morning! Let's go to the gym!" So we did! I mean... I did. So, needless to say, I'm kind  of super excited about the rest of my day just because the beginning of it started off so unexpectedly well.

Anyway, the last few days have been really good. The all-nighter that Lauren and I pulled proved to be super productive and I did almost my entire ad file! (Which is about 70 different types of ads that I had to find in various magazines and newspapers etc.) The weather has been pretty nice all week which has of course had a very positive effect on my mood. And some really wonderful things have been happening to my friends lately, so that has made me SUPER happy.

Oh, so totally random, but I thought you guys might appreciate this. My friend Jenna is seeing this new guy and last night they were on the phone and he asked her if she knew how to cut hair. She said no, but she'd ask who all was in the room if they could. Of the three girls in the room, I volunteered, having buzzed a guy's hair once before and having cut many girl's hair. So,  he came over and having NEVER met me before handed me a buzzer and gave me free reign over his head. (I think after we started talking and he got to know me a little bit he realized what a mistake he had made, just kidding) Overall, it turned out pretty well... it was no up-town fade, and I'm definitely not running to apply at my local Paul Mitchell school anytime soon, but I felt very accomplished... especially considering what it looked like BEFORE! LOL

I guess that's about all the news from Provo right now. This weekend is looking to be super exciting if I can live through today. Thursdays are my worst class days with my 2-hour Newswriting lab. Ugh. But, today will be a fabulous day... I can feel it in my toes.

Ciao!

Caffeine, please...

I would just like you all to know that it is just about 2 am here in Provo and Lauren and I are sprawled out on her living room floor doing homework, surviving on soda, candy, and sappy Mandy Moore music. Don't ever say I'm not dedicated.

Ciao!

Thursdays can be fun?

Yesterday was actually a good day! After a bit of a drag through the beginning of the day, I got in the shower and got ready for the rest  of the day. I came out to find an Easter package from my parents! My mom really knows how to make me smile. There was an edible cross-eyed chicken and a duck on a tricycle among other things. LOL When I went outside it turns out the sun had come out in all her glory!!! So I got to play outside for a while with some of my most favoritest people! :D After that, I made one of my favorite recipes for dinner and invited Lauren over to share with me and we had a great dinner and a wonderful chat. I love that girl. I am so thankful for her friendship especially because her and I connect on a level that a lot of other people here don't understand. She's so fun too. After dinner I putzed around for a little while and then went to go chat with some of my girls. We sat around talking for awhile until we took it outside and wound up marching up and down the street in a single file line laughing our heads off! We are so strange!!! I then got locked out of my apartment for like 10 minutes, but Kiley woke up and let me in. LOL Today is looking good so far. I have therapy in an hour and then I'm going to work on Erica's baby shower invites, and then it's Friday night, so I'm sure I'll find something amusing to do. :D OH! And my friend Thomas is coming into town! I met him in 2004 when I was here at BYU for Summer Scholars, and he just got back from his mission in Guam in January. So he and his brother are making a trip to Utah this weekend and hopefully I'll get to see him! Hooray!! Well, I guess that's it for now. I'm gonna go look human before I leave the house again. hehehe

Ciao!

Ridiculous...

Last night was a series of unfortunate events for me. I was feeling sluggish all day and was less-than-productive. But I finally convinced myself to go to the gym. As soon as I started working out, I felt sick to my stomach, but ignored it and finished my workout. I came home and took a shower only to get the most horrendous headache! One of those nasties that comes behind your eyes and the whole front of your head and makes it impossible to function. So I tried to get rid of it and rested for awhile, but finally decided that I should just go to bed. But in between getting up from the couch and going to bed, my headache had disappeared! So I started working on the baby shower invitations for my friend Erica. After I had finished the demo invitation, Lauren called and I haven't seen her since Sunday morning, so I ran upstairs to go see her. But, here's the kicker: on my way up the concrete stairs that lead to her door, I tripped and jammed my 'ring' toe on my left foot. I shook it off and proceeded inside to chat with her, about halfway through said conversation, I realized that my toe was bleed profusely and that my toenail was no longer attached to my toe! I about passed out from the sight of it and pain that shot straight through my body. After cleaning it up and getting a band-aid on it, I decided that I really should go to bed because I have 3 dance tests and their going to be hard enough with this toe issue. Well, after about a half hour and being almost completely asleep, I hear my roommate Mary come home and things do not sound good. So I went to find out what was going on and I find her sobbing in the kitchen--Ben dumped her. Let's preface that by saying that Ben was a total douche bag and didn't treat Mary nearly the way she should have been treated, but she was so hurt. So I stayed up with her and the roommates for awhile, trying to convince her that he's going to die a terrible, horrible death and that her prince charming would come soon enough.

So overall, I went from going to bed at 10 to actually going to bed at about 2... and my toe feels like it had a machete taken to it. But that's all for now.

Ciao!

Start me up...

So I decided to start a blog today. Not that my life is incredibly interesting, or worth reading about. But I've realized how slack I am about keeping in touch with people, and while this does not excuse my behavior, at least they can feel like they know what's going on in my life. Things in Provo have been pretty good lately. I'm still catching up in my school work, but who isn't? I just competed in DanceSport this past weekend and placed in the TOP 10 SEMIFINALS for the Bronze Latin Samba!! (pictures to be coming soon) DanceSport is something I look forward to all year, so to have my hard work really pay off like that feels amazing. I'm excited to only have a month left of this semester so that I can start up on the Spring... the best time of year. I'm so excited to get a job, go to General Conference, take a dip in the pool, and lay out until I get melanoma. (Not really, but you get the point.) Easter is this week, which makes me super happy, but at the same time makes me really sad. Easter is the one time of the year when I miss my family more than ever. But, fortunately I'll get to go home during the summer, so I know I'll see them soon enough. I think that's all I have for right now, but if my homework becomes too daunting I might update later.

Ciao!